On repeated listens, the record reveals itself as a veiled narrative about the struggle to create, the desire for achievement and validation, the temptation to exist.
Her mother: "You mean your lesbian cartoons?... what if someone sees your name?" "Are You My Mother?" is among many other things a nuanced, sophisticated investigation of the impulse to write or create, the desire, shame, guilt, excitement and shadiness of the process.
"We wanted to create the desire to go to the airport early, not because you need to get to the airport early but because you think, 'I'll get there early, plug my laptop in, get a glass of wine and relax before my flight,' " Mr. Blatstein said.
Funny, but true; maybe if the show were titled "Those Girls" or (with apologies to the Stones) "Some Girls" or "The Lena Dunham Show," attention would (appropriately) be set on the desire to create, the desire to succeed, the desire to live, the desire to (in a particular, decisive way) exist.
It's the games, after all, that create the desire to spunk any amount of money on new-fangled tech.
The head of Iran's National Security Council claimed Wednesday that the country had prevented dozens of terrorist plots in recent years, and the attacks this week will likely only embolden ISIS and create the desire for more counterterrorism measures.
