Recommendation: The Origin of Love

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The Origin of Love — Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Song.

Just take a listen to the lyrics. It describes three sexes — the children of the sun (“that looked like two men glued up back to back”), the children of the earth (“looked like two girls rolled up in one”), and the children of the moon (“they was part sun, part Earth, part daughter, part son”). It’s something of a sad song, but so beautiful.

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Posted by on October 20th, 2010 at 04:00 pm

Category: movies, recommendations 13 comments »

13 Responses to “Recommendation: The Origin of Love”

  1. Janus
    October 20th, 2010 at 4:08 pm |

    This is a pretty cool myth. If anybody is interested in the whole thing, you can read it in “Symposium” by Plato.

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  2. AgentRusco
    October 20th, 2010 at 6:17 pm |

    I just watched this film and was thinking that this song or the movie itself needed to be recommended here.

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  3. Jay
    October 20th, 2010 at 7:02 pm |

    That is seriously the most beautiful song I’ve heard in a long, long time.

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  4. Anonymous
    October 20th, 2010 at 7:55 pm |

    Aw, this has been one of my favorite songs and films for years! So glad it got posted on here! <3

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  5. A
    October 20th, 2010 at 9:43 pm |

    O_O I did not expect to see anything I recommended on here! Best day ever! =DDD

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  6. kendall
    October 20th, 2010 at 11:51 pm |

    the rufus wainwright cover is fun

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  7. Popinjay
    October 21st, 2010 at 8:12 am |

    This is one of my favourite songs ever. It’s so damn beautiful. <3 The film is also amazing. And so is the rest of the soundtrack, which I was listening to when I saw this was posted on here. Freaky! Bah, I love this film and song so much! <3

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  8. Brinna
    October 21st, 2010 at 11:11 am |

    I loooove this film and the song!

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  9. Skye
    October 21st, 2010 at 5:55 pm |

    I love this more than words can say. : )

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  10. Jean
    October 22nd, 2010 at 8:32 am |

    absolutely adore that film <3

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  11. Shana
    October 24th, 2010 at 7:10 am |

    LOVE this. <3

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  12. Simim
    December 15th, 2010 at 10:49 am |

    This is basically the Speech of Aristophanes out of Plato’s Symposium. Pretty sweet.

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  13. Erin
    December 15th, 2010 at 3:26 pm |

    John Cameron Mitchell is a God among men (and women)!

    I saw this movie as a confused teenager and it still holds it’s place on my top ten films of all time list.

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