Musicians Pay Tribute to Don Henley
PUSSS...@aol.com
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Mayer and the Dixie Chicks helped guide Don
Henley on a trip through his musical memories that left the singer-
songwriter feeling "very strange." They joined Henley's Eagles
bandmate Timothy B. Schmit, Sam Moore, Keb Mo, Trisha Yearwood,
Michael McDonald, Shawn Colvin and Seal in launching Grammy weekend by
honoring the 59-year-old Henley as MusiCares Person of the Year on
Friday night.
Surrounded by his wife, three daughters and son, Henley listened as
the biggest hits of his career with the Eagles and as a solo artist
were interpreted in the city where the band formed in the early 1970s.
His favorite? "The End of the Innocence," performed in drawn-out
fashion by Colvin.
Seal offered up his take on the Eagles hit "Best of My Love." Later,
Henley told the crowd, "I used to hate that song and now I like it
again."
Mayer's guitar work highlighted "Dirty Laundry," Henley's scathing
indictment of television news. Moore, half of the 1960s duo Sam and
Dave, did a soulful version of the Eagles' hit "The Long Run."
The opening chords of the songs, a soundtrack of the 1970s and '80s,
triggered cheers, including "Desperado," by the Dixie Chicks, who like
Henley, are from Texas.
"It's a very strange sort of out-of-body experience," Henley told more
than 2,000 people at the Los Angeles Convention Center. "I feel like
I'm at my own memorial service. It would be nice to have a funeral
like this. I actually started to like some of these songs again."
Bernie Taupin, Elton John's longtime lyricist, noted Henley's
reputation as a "bit of a curmudgeon."
And the outspoken Henley lived up to it, taking shots at record labels
Columbia, EMI Capitol, Warner Brothers and executives Doug Morris of
Universal Music Group and Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records.
"Thank you for contributing to this fund for indigent record
executives," he told the crowd. "You didn't think I was going to get
up here and be nice."
It was a working evening for Henley, who joined his band to sing "The
Boys of Summer," "Wasted Time," "Life in the Fast Lane," and "Hotel
California," the classic Eagles tune that featured a trumpet intro.
Taupin complimented Henley for putting a literary slant on his work.
"Songwriters are basically a seething mass of respect and jealousy,"
Taupin said. "He's written so many things I wish I had."
Henley responded, "I wish I'd had your catalog. I could quit
tomorrow."
Instead, Henley and the Eagles are in the studio finishing up their
first album of all-new music since 1979. They plan to tour later this
year and into 2008.
Henley was honored for his achievements as a musician and for his
philanthropic work benefiting environmental issues and musicians'
rights and concerns.
Friday's dinner and auction raised $4.2 million for MusiCares, the
highest grossing evening in the tribute's 14-year history, Recording
Academy president Neil Portnow said.
MusiCares, run by the Recording Academy, provides financial assistance
to individuals in the music industry during times of need.
"The main thing is we raised all this money," Henley said.
Grammy Awards: http://www.grammy.com/musicares/
Don Henley: http://www.donhenley.com/
Buttercup
> By BETH HARRIS
> Associated Press Writer
> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Mayer and the Dixie Chicks helped guide Don
> Henley on a trip through his musical memories that left the singer-
> songwriter feeling "very strange." They joined Henley's Eagles
> bandmate Timothy B. Schmit, Sam Moore, Keb Mo, Trisha Yearwood,
> Michael McDonald, Shawn Colvin and Seal in launching Grammy weekend by
> honoring the 59-year-old Henley as MusiCares Person of the Year on
> Friday night.
>
Wow! He aint even dead yet!
Messalina
More the pity. A more miserable prick you could never hope to meet.
An awful, wretched excuse for a human being.
Mez
Agent Smith
news:1171132442....@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
What did he do to make you mad at him?
Hell Toupee
>
> By BETH HARRIS
> Associated Press Writer
> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- John Mayer and the Dixie Chicks helped guide Don
> Henley on a trip through his musical memories that left the singer-
> songwriter feeling "very strange." They joined Henley's Eagles
> bandmate Timothy B. Schmit, Sam Moore, Keb Mo, Trisha Yearwood,
> Michael McDonald, Shawn Colvin and Seal in launching Grammy weekend by
> honoring the 59-year-old Henley as MusiCares Person of the Year on
> Friday night.
They shoulda invited Mojo Nixon, who immortalized the man in 'Don
Henley Must Die':
He's a tortured artist, used to be in the Eagles
Now he whines like a wounded beagle
Poet of despair! Pumped up with hot air!
He's serious, pretentious, and I - just don't care!
Don Henley must die
Don't let him get back together with Glenn Frey
Don Henley must die!
Turned on the TV and what did I see?
This bloated hairy thing winning a Grammy <spit>
"Best Rock Vocalist!?" Compared to WHAT!?
It's a pseudo-serious crafty Satanic plot!
Don Henley must die
Put a sharp stick in his eye!
Don Henley must die!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm only kidding -- can't you tell?
I love his sensitive music, idiot poetry, swell
You and your kind are killing rock and roll!
It's not because you're O-L-D,
It's 'cause you ain't got no soul!
Don't be afraid of fun, loosen up your ponytail
Be wild, young, free and dumb
Get your head out of your tail!
Don Henley must die!
Don't let him get back together with Glenn Frey
Don Henley must die!
Put him in the electric chair
Watch him fry!
Don Henley must die!
Don Henley must die!
No Eagles reunion!!!!
The same goes for YOU, too, Sting!
Agent Smith
news:45CE53DC...@n0tmein.com:
That is so fuckin' funny, and absolutely true. These guys are has-beens
and dinosaurs, and Van Morrisson is the only classic rocker left whose
career isn't dead beyond resuscitation. I still like the old studio
recordings from the 70's, but their careers have been dead for how many
decades!? Get a fuckin' job!
Messalina
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I used to work on his music licensing. He was a misery to deal with.
Made it his business to be demanding and nasty. Anything Glenn Frey
wanted to do he would refuse to do, just because he hated him.
Mez
Font of All Important Info
compelled by mysterious forces to say:
>x-no-archive: yes
>"Hell Toupee" <my...@n0tmein.com> wrote in message
>news:45CE53DC...@n0tmein.com...
>I hope that sounds better than it reads. Reads very jealous and bitter.
it's hilarious! Mojo writes stuff like that all the time. he r00lz!
--dez ("Debbie Gibson is pregnant with my two-headed love child!")
...a pistol-hot cup of Dez...
"Chef of chicanery, your buns are mine!"
--the Tick
Agent Smith
news:1171157556.3...@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
Why do you suppose he's so angry? Would he chew you out over petty
shit, like Russell Crowe?
Messalina
left.com> wrote:
She don't lie, she don't lie, she don 't lie....
Would he chew you out over petty
> shit, like Russell Crowe?
He didn't tend to chew me out since my function involed getting money
to him, but he'd be snotty attorneys and he was horrible to my boss'
secretary. He'd be nasty if she had to put him on hold, and once
called the boss to tell him how incompetent she was because there was
a typo in a letter he'd received.
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Mez
Messalina
<brandy...@kittylitternewsguy.com> wrote:
> Messalina<destruction....@gmail.com> wrote in
> alt.gossip.celebrities:
Isn't that always the way with assholes?
Mez
Agent Smith
Agent Smith
news:1171161878.0...@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:
"I wanna man who cares about my feeeeeelings. <snivel>"
Reality Check
<agent...@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> wrote:
>"Messalina" <destruc...@gmail.com> wrote in
>news:1171161713.8...@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:
>
>> On Feb 10, 5:44 pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
>> left.com> wrote:
>>> "Messalina" <destruction....@gmail.com> wrote
>>> innews:1171157556.3...@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>> > I used to work on his music licensing. He was a misery to deal
>>> > with. Made it his business to be demanding and nasty. Anything
>>> > Glenn Frey wanted to do he would refuse to do, just because he
>>> > hated him.
>>>
>>> Why do you suppose he's so angry?
>>
>> She don't lie, she don't lie, she don 't lie....
>
>What?
Think Eric Clapton circa 1977 (hint: it's a song on "Slowhand")
Agent Smith
news:53cus2590o5eb1qhu...@4ax.com:
How does cocaine make a person angry, and if so, why isn't everybody in
Hollywood and the music biz a rageoholic?
Messalina
left.com> wrote:
> Reality Check <t...@archives.c0m> wrote innews:53cus2590o5eb1qhu...@4ax.com:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:16:12 GMT, Agent Smith
>
> >>"Messalina" <destruction....@gmail.com> wrote in
> >>news:1171161713.8...@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com:
>
> >>> On Feb 10, 5:44 pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
> >>> left.com> wrote:
> >>>> "Messalina" <destruction....@gmail.com> wrote
> >>>> innews:1171157556.3...@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>
> >>>> > I used to work on his music licensing. He was a misery to deal
> >>>> > with. Made it his business to be demanding and nasty. Anything
> >>>> > Glenn Frey wanted to do he would refuse to do, just because he
> >>>> > hated him.
>
> >>>> Why do you suppose he's so angry?
>
> >>> She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie....
>
> >> What?
>
> > Think Eric Clapton circa 1977 (hint: it's a song on "Slowhand")
>
> How does cocaine make a person angry, and if so, why isn't everybody in
>
Simple. Not everyone in Hollywood and the music biz uses it. But
many do, and many are blazing assholes.
Mez
Messalina
left.com> wrote:
>
The one I married cares about my feelings AND is dynamite in the
sack. A nailable asshole gets one turn on the track, if that.
Here's the deal, kid. Assholes have confidence. Confidence is
attractive to women. It is not the assholery, but the confidence that
attracts the women.
Mez
Fatwa Dakkash
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>"Hell Toupee" <my...@n0tmein.com> wrote in message
>news:45CE53DC...@n0tmein.com...
>I hope that sounds better than it reads. Reads very jealous and bitter.
>
It's a light-hearted tune (as it sounds), even with the lyrics. IIRC
it's just a smidge tongue-in-cheek as well.
I thought it was funny when I heard it. I think Mojo has a song about
Michael J. Fox also.
Agent Smith
2nz Communes
left.com> wrote:
> Hell Toupee <m...@n0tmein.com> wrote innews:45CE53DC...@n0tmein.com:
Van Morrison was one of the first artists dropped by Warner Bros when
they were "cleaning house" in the early 80s..
His numbers weren't up to their expectations.
I always thought that was insane.
Imagine CBS dropping Dylan because he didn't top the charts.
Agent Smith
news:1171234927.6...@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
> On Feb 10, 4:58�pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
Van Morrisson has had a very interesting career, which evolved somewhat
differently than the old classic rockers. Instead of exploding onto the
scene, quickly releasing a number of classic albums and top 40 hits, and
then flaming out and disappearing, he has been quietly but methodically
productive over the decades.
He seems to disappear for ten years at a time, no doubt working
steadily, and then suddenly reappear with another excellent album. Thus
he has produced less total work, but spread it out over more years, for
a total of four decades of productivity. This is a lot more like the
behavior of a reliable career man, than some immature flash in the pan.
Not that I support their decision, but I can see how a big record label
might decide to dump him, since he has a knack for staying under the
radar. Fortune 500 companies are notorious for eliminating projects
that won't pay-off immediately, and they're also notorious for not
having the vaguest idea of how to nurture creativity. Thus they
routinely mistreat their best artists.
It's a wonder that this misbehavior didn't long ago kill the artistic
geese that lay their golden eggs. Their professional judgment is so
miserable that, if it weren't for their corrupt market manipulation,
they would have gone out of business twenty years ago. File sharing is
finally giving them a dose of their own medicine, which means that
they're either going to have to get their acts together or start
preparing their cemetary plots.
BoShango
I don't know of a whole song about Fox(though there may be one), but
he calls MJF the 'Anti-Elvis' in 'Elvis is Everywhere'.
BoShango
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons
necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect
as much and laugh at the inevitable" -The Marquis De Sade
Agent Smith
news:0qbvs29mbk8365m6j...@4ax.com:
Can you be more specific? That sounds interesting, but I can't see what
he's saying.
Mojo sounds like a fairly witty character, and I dearly love wiseacres
who flay sacred goats. I've also been disappointed by the classic rock
geezers for a long, long time, because their star set 25 years ago, and
they've just been lounging on the beach ever since. It's about time
somebody ridiculed them for their eight year careers and their thirty
year retirements. They were once great artists, but they've long since
let all their fans down, and we carried the torch for a loong time.
Even the great Bruce Springsteen has spectacularly dropped the ball. I
mean folk rock, come on! He once wrote the anthem of an entire
generation, and now he's doing somthing so thoroughly marginal. He's
still got that old Springsteen energy, but what the hell is he
thinking?!
Font of All Important Info
<agent...@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> felt compelled by mysterious
forces to say:
>BoShango <n...@needed.net> wrote in
>news:0qbvs29mbk8365m6j...@4ax.com:=20
>
>> I don't know of a whole song about Fox(though there may be one), but
>> he calls MJF the 'Anti-Elvis' in 'Elvis is Everywhere'.
>
>Can you be more specific? That sounds interesting, but I can't see what
>he's saying. =20
"Elvis is Everywhere"
When I look out into your eyes out there,=20
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Lemme tell ya...
Weeeeeeeeeellllllll...
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He's in everything.
He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody.
He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them!
Everybody except one person that is...
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis.
The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em,
lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
And Elvis is in Joan Rivers
but he's trying to get out, man!
He's trying to get out!
Listen up Joanie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is.
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock.
They don't look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It's really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
That's right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Elvis, heal me!"
"Save me, Elvis!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Elvis light"
That's right!
You've got that Elvis inside of ya
and he's talkin to ya
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody's got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either
Everybody!
Yeah, we're rockin now!
Elvis is with us.
He's with us and he's speaking to us.
He says "Peoples!"
"Peoples!"
"Everybody!"
"Everybody got to sing!"
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis!
<snip>
>Even the great Bruce Springsteen has spectacularly dropped the ball. I
>mean folk rock, come on! He once wrote the anthem of an entire
>generation, and now he's doing somthing so thoroughly marginal. He's
>still got that old Springsteen energy, but what the hell is he
>thinking?!=20
i love that album and the tour was very fun. Springsteen looked like
he was really enjoying himself, especially with all those folk
musicians he had on stage with him.
--dez
Agent Smith
news:nhhvs2dsiso98jc36...@4ax.com:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:59:28 GMT, Agent Smith
> <agent...@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> felt compelled by mysterious
> forces to say:
>
>>BoShango <n...@needed.net> wrote in
>>news:0qbvs29mbk8365m6j...@4ax.com:=20
>>
>>> I don't know of a whole song about Fox(though there may be one), but
>>> he calls MJF the 'Anti-Elvis' in 'Elvis is Everywhere'.
>>
>>Can you be more specific? That sounds interesting, but I can't see
>>what he's saying. =20
>
> "Elvis is Everywhere"
>
> When I look out into your eyes out there,
Man, this guy's a poetic genius. I can't quite figure out what he's
saying, but I can see that it's fuckin' brilliant. When he mentioned
cheesburgers and nuttie buddies, I thought I knew where he was going,
but when he got the the pyramids, Stonehenge, the Bermuda Triangle and
Allah, my interpretation didn't work any more.
What do you suppose he's saying here? Elvis is obviously a symbol of
something abstract and important, but what?
Every Strangers Eyes
Sums the old cunt up perfectly.
Every Strangers Eyes
He's white, Jim..."
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Am I really that bad?
HE'S BAD, HE'S BAD
HE'S BAD, HE'S BAD
"I thing you're a jerk! I'm moving from you!"
"Make me a sandwich."
"I'm moving back to Venice."
"I'll be black."
"He's still white, Jim..."
I hate my mother
I hate my father
I hate my sister
And Jermaine is a negro!
A NEGRO! A NEGRO!
A NEGRO! A NEGRO!
"I thought he looked good -- what happened to you?"
"Please read this pamphlet."
"I'm so BAD!"
You take the monkey, I'll take the llama,
We'll have a party: get me a Pepsi --
Michael is Janet, Janet is Michael --
I'm so confused now --
Who is Diana?
He's oxygenated
His nose is deflated
And he thinks he looks good to you
And he thinks he looks good to you
BoShango
<agent...@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> wrote:
>BoShango <n...@needed.net> wrote in
>news:0qbvs29mbk8365m6j...@4ax.com:
>> I don't know of a whole song about Fox(though there may be one), but
>> he calls MJF the 'Anti-Elvis' in 'Elvis is Everywhere'.
>
>Can you be more specific? That sounds interesting, but I can't see what
>he's saying.
Sure can! 'Elvis is Everywhere' actually got a lot of airplay on MTV
way back in the days that I actually watched any MTV (ancient
history).
Lyrics Follow:
End Quote
Agent Smith
news:0bGdnUsuMNFZcFLY...@bt.com:
As usual, Zappa was ten years ahead of his time, but what do you suppose
he means by "Please read this pamphlet"? That sounds like a Scientology
reference, but AFAIK, the SciFi-entologists have nothing to do with
Whacko.
And he also should have rhymed "He's overmedicated" with "He's
oxygenated."
Agent Smith
news:1ervs21b48uonhqrh...@4ax.com:
Yah, somebody already posted that, and we've moved on to the question of
trying to figure out what it means.
FragileWarrior
news:Xns98D518A1CE73Aag...@207.115.17.102:
Jehovah Witness. Watchtower. *knock knock* Who's there? Some
religious people invading your life and home to push their whacky
religion down your throat.
thehungr...@yahoo.com
Can't believe anyone else remembers this song. "Broadway the Hard Way"
is a great album.
BoShango
Oh, sorry, never saw it! When the song came out, sometime in the 80's
(IIRC), Fox had been typecast as an uptight, nerdy adolescent/yuppie.
He was doing pretty well with it, too. He was one of the biggest draws
in Hollywood. I think Nixon was just having a small dig at Fox's
recurrent onscreen persona (example: Back to the Future), comparing
Fox's characters with the image of Elvis as a hip 'man of the world'.
I never saw it as anything personal, and even at the time I figured
Fox probably got a kick out of it.
The first time I heard it, I actually laughed out loud, but it kinda
loses it's punch without it's social context.
Asstro_Nut
Half of them are. Out of all the celebrities I've met or worked with,
they're either very nice and very humble and accomodating, or horrible
crazed conceited maniacs. There appears to be no middle ground.
Asstro_Nut
its the MONEY and the FAME.
Agent Smith
news:fr21t2d66rctndlas...@4ax.com:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:30:12 GMT, Agent Smith
> <agent...@two-blocks-on-your-left.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Yah, somebody already posted that, and we've moved on to the question
>>of trying to figure out what it means.
>
>
>
> Oh, sorry, never saw it! When the song came out, sometime in the 80's
> (IIRC), Fox had been typecast as an uptight, nerdy adolescent/yuppie.
> He was doing pretty well with it, too. He was one of the biggest draws
> in Hollywood. I think Nixon was just having a small dig at Fox's
> recurrent onscreen persona (example: Back to the Future), comparing
> Fox's characters with the image of Elvis as a hip 'man of the world'.
> I never saw it as anything personal, and even at the time I figured
> Fox probably got a kick out of it.
>
> The first time I heard it, I actually laughed out loud, but it kinda
> loses it's punch without it's social context.
Got any theories about the rest of the song? I wouldn't really call
cheeseburgers or nutty buddies "hip" or appropriate for "men of the
world." When I got to those lines I though "Aha, it's about American
mass culture." But at the time, Michael J. Fox was a huge icon of
American mass culture, so if my theory were true, Nixon would have had
to have been deceived by his image.
Likewise for the pyramids and Allah, neither of which is part of
American mass culture, or certainly any mass culture that I'm familiar
with. If Nixon is black, his outlook on Allah may be different.
Stonehenge and the Bermuda Triangle also don't seem to fit, but you can
argue both ways, especially in the case of the Bermuda Triangle, which
used to be such a huge icon of the modern Velikovskian scientific
superstition, although now it's dropped off the front pages. Stonehenge
may be a friggin tourist trap, and I know for sure that the pyramids
are.
So is my theory true then? Is Mojo using Elvis as a symbol for the
ubiquity of pop culture? If so, you could take Anna Nichole as the same
symbol and say "Anna Nichole is everywhere." Two days ago, that was
definitely true. Today the furor is starting to die down. Today we're
talking about the Grammies.
BoShango
Okay, I understand where your coming from. I'm seeing this thread in
AMM-J, by the way, so I have apparently missed a lot of the
conversation.
It might help to know that the song is a rockabilly tune and that at
the time Mojo sported an Elvis look (he might to this day, AFAIK). The
song is a bit simpler to diagram, though. It's a parody of religion
and the Elvis 'cult' that survives to this day which Mojo is a big
part of ( and which also sometimes generates live sightings). He's
simply replacing the god of X-ian mythology, and replacing him with
Elvis, taking a small poke at fundy religion and his own rockabilly
roots at the same time. And sure, he takes a stab at 80's pop culture,
using MJF as a symbol of how much difference there was between the
80's superstars and the Elvis, the icon of his times.
At least, that's the way I see it. But then again, I thought OJ was
gonna be living in the Greybar Hotel, so you may wanna take my
ruminations with a grain of salt.
Agent Smith
news:7vf1t2hnqh08efdtg...@4ax.com:
I think that's a very incisive analysis, and I guess that by extension
through Elvis, he is making a parallel between pop culture and "pagan"
religions. Pop culturists seem to exclusively worship graven images,
and now you have given me new insight into the meaning of graven imagery
in the ancient world. They didn't have mass entertainment devices like
tv's, so they had to settle for still images, created with whatever
technology was available at the time. Perhaps it even extends to the
cave paintings of ancient France. You really have made an intelligent
insight.
The one thing missing from the analysis seems to be Greco-Roman
Paganism, and one of my current fads is to find analogies to Greek
mythology in modern life. For instance, the people here in agc are
comparing Anna Nichole's tragic life to a soap opera, but I think it's
much more primal than that. Put me down for a Greek tragedy, thank you,
and Elvis too, now that you mention it.
So you could argue that Mojo has put the cart before the horse, and said
that Greek tragedy is Elvis, when in fact it's the other way around.
But the analogy is still archetypal, in spite of that little flaw.
Greek mythology is inaccessible to the average person, so why not turn
it on its head and say "Elvis," which is much more friendly to joe
six-pack, and you don't need a fancy education in the classics, to
decipher the meaning.
I knew that I recognized a deeply profound poem when I saw it. IMO,
modern poetry died with the Andy Warhol's avant garde' movement in the
late 60's, because those vainglorious, lazy assholes made the beginner's
mistake of discarding musical devices. But great poetry still thrives
in the music business, where they actually know how to write rhythmic
lyrics that rhyme, tell a story and have important themes.
It's also interesting to note how the death of poetry corresponded to
the explosion in rock music. If you're posting from afmj, that explains
why you know so much about music. My bard still is, and probably always
will be Springsteen. To this day, I still get choked up by "Thunder
Road" and "Backstreets," and of course, "Born to Run" was the anthem of
my generation. And one of these days, I'm thinking that the record
company, Rosie, will give me a big advance.
Ah Bruce, we hardly knew ya. <bittersweet sigh>
Messalina
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We were talking about assholes in general, not Don Henley in
particular. Try to keep up.
Mez
Cujo DeSockpuppet
@a34g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
It's all part of his last tour which is issued over several albums. MAJNH
is my personal favorite from the tour.
Asstro_Nut
Its a celebrity gossip group. The reason why all the male celebrities
listed are always surrounded by women who throw themselves at them, is
money and fame. Henley may be an asshole, but thats beside the point.
Try to keep up. Now lets see your big floppy tits.
Messalina
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Well excuse me for assuming that you piped up just to sound like a
bitter little dick without anything interesting to contribute.
Oh wait...
Mez
Asstro_Nut
You can always ignore me, your highness. You sound exactly like Nimue.
Thats not a compliment.
Agent Smith
news:Xns98D8B6...@207.14.116.130:
> FragileWarrior <FragileWarrior@f'loonsmustdie.com> wrote in
> news:eqplkj $967$1...@blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
> I'm always polite to those idiots and pose them the question:
>
> "Would you change your religion for any reason whatsoever?"
>
> They always look pained and answer "No, never".
>
> That's my cue to say "Well, don't expect me to, either. Thank you,
> have a nice day". Close door gently.
>
> I heard another good way too. When they knock, yell through the door
> "I'm naked, want me to open up?". They always say no for some reason
> :-)
SneakyP
news:Xns98D8B6...@207.14.116.130:
> FragileWarrior <FragileWarrior@f'loonsmustdie.com> wrote in
> news:eqplkj $967$1...@blackhelicopter.databasix.com:
>
> I'm always polite to those idiots and pose them the question:
>
> "Would you change your religion for any reason whatsoever?"
>
> They always look pained and answer "No, never".
>
> That's my cue to say "Well, don't expect me to, either. Thank you,
> have a nice day". Close door gently.
>
> I heard another good way too. When they knock, yell through the door
> "I'm naked, want me to open up?". They always say no for some reason
> :-)
>
The flag works as well. I say they must pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States - BEFORE I'll listen to what they have to say.
Works every time.
--
SneakyP
What's posted in ng stays in ng.
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