Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia

Wouldn't have hurt to put on a bit of SLAP. She looked like she'd stayed awake ALL WEEK figuring out how to shoehorn AFRICA into her Scottish family tree.
 
I love her and I think she has a unique voice but I obviously wasn't paying much attention to this navel-gazing tour de force so I am not sure if she implied right at the end that she has always cared about social causes because of the rough upbringing of her ancestors which she knew NOTHING ABOUT until this programme? :D She is ONE OF A KIND.
 
Oh shit.

I missed this!

Can someone please tell me, from whose ancestry Annie splurged forth from?

I hope there was pain, suffering and redemption (and HIV in Africa).

Because that's what Our Anne is all about.

Mungbeans for anyone?
 
Christmas Statement 2012: Annie Lennox

'Listen... the silence...the emptiness... the desolation... the THROB of a female force responding. As a woman I have oft-betides felt adrift. But yestermorn I cried 'no more'.

Listen to my throb. Understand your menopause. Why am I being overcome by the HIV positive Sahara desert?

I hope you understand me.

HIV positively yours

Annie
 
My personal favourite was

Commotion said:
Listen to my throb. Understand your menopause. Why am I being overcome by the HIV positive Sahara desert?
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Annie Lennox responds:

'Though you may laugh, a child also dies.

As an effervescent force of female fertility, I always distrusted the motives of man.No more I love yous. HIV in Africa bothers me so much that I am wearing this awful t-shirt that my offspring were jailed for.

I hope you understand me,

HIV positively yours
Annie'
 
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If she'd been asked why she wore that t-shirt she'd probably have replied 'My point is that as a renegade woman on the cusp of the autumn of my femininity, I relate to the isolation caused by my fading fecundity. Menopausal woman, life force draining! HIV positive African orphan. We are sisters under the skin. I hope you uncerstand me!'
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Best post on Moopy EVER. :D
 
She's doing my UNIVERSITY'S GRADUATION CEREMONY :D

"Today represents one step in the journey of thousands...Walk it well...Engage in it fully...Let all your kites fly high in the wind, and may all your boats sail smoothly!"
Our Honorary Graduate Annie Lennox inspired us all, received a standing ovation and brought tears to some of our eyes. We hope our graduates will be energised by her speech!
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I still am a bit taken aback when I see that I started this thread. The self-righteous bitch hasn't done anything to my interest bar Diva.
 
Statement by Annie Lennox OBE, PhD

Today represents one step in the journey of thousands of white oppressors of Africa..Walk it well - but barefoot...Engage in it, fully aware that the loneliness of the female warrior nurturing her little bird will find no nourishment, no solace, no comfort in this desolate planet that MALES have destroyed...Let all your kites fly high in the wind before your dreams are crushed by rapist man, and may all your boats sail smoothly as you transport mungbeans to Africa - my children set sail on a boat they made themselves 4 months ago - I wonder where they are now? Sadly for womankind the soles of your feet will be callused and torn, shredded by the injustice of HIV.
I hope you understand me
Love Annie
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Oh I love it... and Commotion's hateration of her. I also can't forgive her for that "one of these people does not have HIV" shit. I mean is she totally clueless.
 
The Cheese Grater and the Little Brown Jug.. Sounds like the perfect title for the type of children's stories you used to read in the 50's.. I haven't read any children's books recently. As a child I used to love Edwardian children's books..usually involving dark tangled forests.. Witches, crones, ancient hags, little straw thatched cottages.. abandoned orphans, and hunters...If the cheese grater and the jug could talk to each other.. I wonder what tale they'd tell?

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If the cheese grater and the jug could talk to each other.. I wonder what tale they'd tell?
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Annie Lennox responds:

I thank you for asking.

The little brown jug represents femaleness, symbolising plenitude and nourishment, a vessel for my breastmilk which will nurture and sustain the starving mouths of Africa. When my children reached the age of 8 years old I decided that it was finally time to wean them from my teat onto solid food. Bereft, I felt - my inner core as a woman and mother violated by the passage of time and the passage of my children from babies to pre-teens in 1 fell swoop. Desolate in my heart I realised that the little brown jug could be a vessel in which to dissolve HIV meds with the nectar of hope - Le Jus d'Annie. Each morn as I massage my mounds of femininity to produce the milk of life to suckle the HIV warrior children I feel fulfilled as a source of hope, a farming visionary, at once both a glittering star and earth mother to Africa.

The cheese grater is the flipside of the female reverie - jagged, serrated, dangerous, steely, cold and slicing., It represents the male. The plenitude of woman cut and sliced by the corrugated metal and discordant edge of man's lust to rape, suppress and annihilate the essence of woman. To shatter the nirvanic harmony of the communal female experience.

To put it simply the little brown jug and the cheese grater have NOTHING to say or tell to each other.

I am woman, hear my call.

I hope this makes sense to you.
 
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As a part time observer of Moopy, I can honestly say Moopy is NEVER better than when La Lennox makes an appearance.

Penelope; did you get to meet the grand dame? Did she have the moulding HIV+ T-shirt underneath the ceremonial gown? Did she attack you, as a male, for the patriarchal rape and violation of womankind?
 
I was GUTTED to discover she was only doing Tuesday's graduation ceremonies :( Instead we just got the guy who came up with the John Lewis Christmas advert with the little boy.
 
Hurrah

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London: Annie Lennox opens new centre for HIV and sexual health

Singer and HIV campaigner Annie Lennox has opened a new HIV and sexual health centre in east London.
The Clifden Centre/Jonathan Mann Clinic at Homerton Hospital is the culmination of the “Positive Lives” initiative which, over a number of years, has raised more than £2 million.
Lennox, who is an HIV Ambassador for the Mayor of London, toured the centre which she described as a “beautiful space”, and spent time talking to staff and patients.
“As a passionate activist, and as the Mayor of London’s HIV Ambassador, I have been touched by the countless stories of men, women and children who have been affected by HIV,” the Eurythmics star said. “For many people, these are no longer stories of despair, but are stories of hope. Advances in treatment mean that HIV is no longer a death sentence.
“People on effective treatment are living healthy, fulfilling and long lives. This new clinic at Homerton is a fantastic facility that will help more people get the world-class treatment that they need.”
The guests included the Mayor of Hackney and Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney and Labour’s Shadow Public Health Minister. They heard from a patient of the centre who praised the new development, describing her own experiences of the care received whilst dealing with HIV.
Lennox formally declared the centre open by cutting a red ribbon last week.
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She's also MOANING about YOU KNOW WHAT

I have to say that I'm disturbed and dismayed by the recent spate of overtly sexualised performances and videos. You know the ones I'm talking about. It seems obvious that certain record companies are peddling highly styled pornography with musical accompaniment …

It's depressing to see how these performers are so eager to push this new level of low. Their assumption seems to be that misogyny – utilised and displayed through oneself – is totally fine, as long as you are the one creating it. As if it's all justified by how many millions of dollars and YouTube hits you get from behaving like pimp and prostitute at the same time. It's a glorified and monetised form of self harm."
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It's like when MORRISSEY called MARGE 'ORGANISED PROSTITUTION' back in the day

Plus ça change ETC
 
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Hmm. I wonder what cutting that red ribbon might have represented.
 
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To be fair, Annie is talking about record companies rather than individuals and she has a spotless record when it comes to the whole selling sex/pop music conundrum. I will excuse this ridiculous woman pretty much anything.
 
Statement by Annie Lennox OBE:

This morn as the bleak winds of January blow through the desolate vales of my withered heart, I ask you to ponder. It is time of teaching, learning, sharing, refection so I feel compelled by forces to reveal; that this was a result of the female energy of the Western African Diaspora punishing you all - for your celebration of the Africa-raping, HIV spreading, christian festival of Christmas. A shameful festival denying the essence of distaff pagan communion. When my children were released from their 'Understanding the concept of hunger and HIV positivity' course (location - my basement), I felt it was time for them to finally give something back, to repay their warrior mother for the countless mungbean casseroles and hessian sacks they have received from me over the years. While the looks of disappointment, resignation and confusion I used to see on their faces each Lullay Lullay Christmas morn was the evidence I needed that I was fulfilling my destiny as a nurturing mother; I felt it it was time now to wean them to adulthood - giving them a 5 minute headstart before the ravenous bloodhounds were put on their trail, their mission was clear - take this website down. Not to halt the inexorable progess of the machines; not to halt the raping heart of technology, but to bestow upon the readers of this site the gift of darkness; of hollowness; of silence. Happy Kwanzaa; may the only blood you shed be the fertile blood of afterbirth - a key ingredient in the soup recipe for my upcoming cookbook - 'The Domestic Mungbean'. I hope this makes sense to you.

HIV positively yours

Annie
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If you hadn't put Moopy in the 2nd sentence, I would totally have fell for that.
 
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