{"id":1586,"date":"2012-08-26T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2012-08-26T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:05:03","slug":"august-video-challenge-marianne-faithfull-ballad-of-lucy-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/08\/26\/august-video-challenge-marianne-faithfull-ballad-of-lucy-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"August Video Challenge: Marianne Faithfull, Ballad of Lucy Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Ballad of Lucy Jordan<\/i>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk\/NEWS.HTML\">Marianne Faithfull<\/a>, brought to you, in a roundabout way, by a labeled but track-list-less mixtape I found in my tape box this weekend. I had to listen to it to find out what was on it, and this song was both the end of Side A and, then, because it got cut off, the start of Side B.<\/p>\n<p>The mixtape was made in the fall of 1996 by one of my professors, as part of a class project. The first time I listened to it was probably the first time I heard this song. I was 21, and 37 seemed very far away. I read it as a cautionary tale. A warning, left by others: <i>watch out, danger, here be quicksand<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I <i>am<\/i> 37, and, while Lucy Jordan&#8217;s despair is definitely not mine, the weight of it feels different. Heavier, I think; more real. 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