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Coming to college, I brought with me a long list of things to do, few of which had to do with academics. These were ambitions sparing in their creativity, the sort of thing that you giggle over into your fingers, wondering what your mama would say if she found out. There were societal strictures to be broken, and by god, I was going to hellblast my way though them. Just like any repressed and docile good Asian daughter would...
...Like a cliche. But the heaviest chain strapping down my thought was shattered only after sophomore year, and not at college. It was coming home to the motherland, and presenting the new me to Mama...
...finally my mama who initiated the momentous discussion. Although I must have given her enough signals to disturb an already uneasy maternal sense. One of the first things I did upon my return was to toss at her, unopened, the box of condoms she had sent me (doubtless as some coded test), but I also peroxided my hair and dropped barbed criticisms about what was once our common favorite political party...
...Wait sets the tone. The horns have the bright feel of afternoon sunlight; the guitars and percussion are uncomplicated and snappy. Hepcat is a big ensemble--there are nine members--but the band's sound is light on its feet. Ballads such as Goodbye Street and Mama Used to Say breeze by, carefree and easy but never insubstantial. The band shows off its versatility in several jazzy instrumental numbers, including Pharoah's Dreams, a jaunty track adorned with a lovely, liquid trumpet solo...
...time religion and neo-paganism. Delia, the prodigal mother, returns to the fold, but only after parading her suffering before the righteous. Born in California's stupefying sunshine, Cissy finds inspiration exploring Georgia's inky caverns: a "confrontation with God in the imagined body of a woman, the mama-core...