[ti:The Ouija Board] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ouija Board (Remastered) - Laurie Anderson [00:06.62]Written by:Laurie Anderson [00:13.24]In 1978 I spent some time in California in the fall [00:19.02]Looking for a quiet place to live [00:22.87]I finally found what seemed to be the perfect apartment [00:26.62]But the night after I moved in [00:29.05]I heard a tremendous pounding sound [00:33.35]As it turned out I had moved in right above [00:36.84]A Hawaiian hallow log drum school [00:41.23]Every other night it was converted into a hula school [00:45.79]With a live band of six Hawaiian guitars [00:51.99]I decided to soundproof my place [00:54.78]But I didn't hang the door very well and all the sounds kept drifting in [01:02.81]About this time like a lot of New Yorkers [01:06.35]Who find themselves on the West Coast [01:10.04]I got interested in various aspects of California's versions of the occult [01:19.03]We would sit around at night [01:21.71]When the Santa Anna winds howled outside [01:26.66]And ask questions to the ouija board [01:32.42]I found out a lot of information on my past 9 361 human lives on this planet [01:41.12]My first life was as a raccoon [01:47.71]And then you were a cow [01:54.40]And then you were a bird [02:00.93]And then you were a hat spelled the ouija [02:06.89]We said “a hat ” [02:09.24]We couldn't figure it out [02:11.37]Finally we guessed that [02:13.42]The feathers from the bird had been made into a hat [02:17.32]Is this true [02:19.27]Yes spelled the ouija Hat counts as half life [02:29.20]And then [02:33.93]Hundreds and hundreds of rave eyes [02:43.07]Now this is apparently my first life as a woman [02:47.51]Which should explain quite a few things [02:51.72]Eventually though the ouija's written words [02:55.86]Seemed to take a kind of personality a kind of a voice [03:01.36]Finally we began to ask the board [03:03.99]If the ouija would be willing to appear to us in some other form [03:10.39]Forget it forget it forget it forget it forget it forget it [03:13.47]The ouija seemed like it was about to crash [03:15.50]Please please what can we do now [03:18.80]So you will show yourself to us in some other manifestation [03:26.45]You should lurk You should L U R K Lurk [03:40.23]No I never really figured out how to lurk in my own place [03:45.56]Even though it was only a rented place [03:49.42]But I did find myself looking over my shoulder a lot [03:54.20]And every sound that drifted in [03:57.83]Seemed to be a version of this phantom voice [04:01.50]Whispering in a code that I could never crack