What are you Listening/Reading recently?...
crazytimes
type threads?)...
Listening this last week:
The Pentacle - Basket of Light...
Bert Jansch/John Renbourn - Bert & John...
Beneath the Planet of the Apes - soundtrack...
The Kinks - Soap Opera...
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bare Wires...
Spectrum - Forever Alien...
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds...
Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet...
Reading:
Legendary Sessions: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (gift)...
Armageddon - WWII nonfiction...
The Hysterical Bride
> What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> type threads?)...
>
WWII nonfiction...
****
http://www.untilourlastbreath.com/
This is WWII nonfiction.
This is my cousin. This is my family. This is our story.
crazytimes
Interesting cite...
The Hysterical Bride
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I've never read it. (lol)
(I am the last one on line at this end of the family for the book,
making it's way around. I plan to put it on my shelf. lol)
The Hysterical Bride
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DAMN APOSTROPHE!!!!!!!!!
The Hysterical Bride
The Hysterical Bride
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I don't even know what you mean by that.
Did you open the link?
The Hysterical Bride
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Were you baiting me or something? I'm not a grammatolatrist.
The Hysterical Bride
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I mean I've never read the book. I've looked at the site.
Why did you say "cite?"
I can't tell if you are being obnoxious or what.
I'm sitting here thinking maybe you are a Nazi or something.
WTF?
I think you are being terribly rude. (can't say I may lay any claim on
proper behavior either. Nevertheless...)
J Buck
marie
"crazytimes" <crazyt...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The Mutts Little Big Book by Patrick McDonnell.
If you want to simplify your life, this is the book for you.
:)
The Hysterical Bride
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Is cite a noun? (I find no evidence of that) Are you using it as a
transitive verb? I don't really understand that. I can find no
evidence of the word in a dictionary as you are using it here.
I'm really confused.
Martin
> What are you listening to recently?
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes. 'He Doesn't Know Why' is a fantastic song
She & Him - Volume One
Whiskeytown - Faithless Street
Beck - Modern Guilt (this is good, but I've been listening every day
to a boot of one of his unplugged shows from '02, which features an
amazing version of Big Star's 'Kangaroo')
The other day I had delivery of a record collection - which I'd agreed
to sell - and kept the Pixies LPs as part of my commission. I'd
forgotten how good they were, not having had them for years
> or reading?
I was finishing my Bukowski books, until someone lent me Double Whammy
by Carl Hiaasen a couple of months ago. Since then, I've only been
reading Car; Hiaasen. He's better than literiture. I'm currently on
my 4th - Native Tongue
Gemini Jackson
<crazyt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
>type threads?)...
>
>Listening this last week:
>
Rust Never Sleeps
Sam's Town
Warpaint
Lots of Beethoven (driving music)
Old 97's
>
>Reading:
>
Re-reading the Art of War - Lao Tzu
Trying to finish Gorky Park.
~GJ~
Babs
Listening to:
The Bagatelle – 11 P.M. Saturday
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Gene Clark -- Roadmaster
Jakob Dylan – Seeing Things
Bill Fay – Time of the Last Persecution
Hindu Love Gods – Hindu Love Gods
The Mountain Goats – Tallahassee
Odetta – Lookin’ For A Home
Whiskeytown – Faithless Street
Yusef Islam – Live on KCRW 12-21-06
Re-reading my James M. Cain paperbacks:
Mildred Pierce
Serenade
The Butterfly
Love's Lovely Counterfeit
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Just Walkin'
Reading:
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card, Just re-read after 20 years (at son's
insistence)
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism - Angela Davis, Best blues book I
ever read (over-rules Paul Oliver)
Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon (almost as good as his last
one)
Second Chance - Zbigniew Brzezinski, Checking in on state of the art
aristocratic misanthropy (just in case)
Listening:
Jubilee - Charlie Parr, Local boy makes good (music)
Beethoven Symphonic Cycle - Osmo Vanskaa, Another local boy makes good
(music)
Seeing Things - Jakob Dylan, Father's Day present
Theme Time Radio Hour - Various, Another Father's Day present
Super Black Market Clash - The Clash
Stax 50th Anniversary - Various
PGPear...@aol.com
Seeing Things - Jakob D.
Life Death Love and Freedom - John Mellencamp
Dylan b/l live 2/23/08 - Dallas, TX
Dylan b/l live '76 - RTR - Oklahoma City, OK
Reading:
The Kind One - Tom Epperson
Current:
Moscow Rules - Daniel Silva
In the bullpen:
Streets of Fire - Troy Soos
Executive Privilege - Phillip Margolin
Swan Peak - James Lee Burke
======================================
Paul Pearson
Janice
wrote:
>. . .
> In the bullpen:
>. . .
> Swan Peak - James Lee Burke
Is this new? In paperback?
Listening:
Songs We Taught Your Mother - Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegemin,
Victoria Spivey
Zorba the Greek - Miki Theodorakis
Greates Hits of the Kali Yoga - Krishna Das
So Much - Ron Davis/Lori Cullen
Inedits 1970 & Jacques - Jacques Higelin
Dub Side of the Moon - Easy Star All-Stars
Catching up on TTRH2 - Hello, Classic Rock, California, Young & Old,
Dreams, Head-to-Toe (so far)
Reading:
Just finished A Traitor to Memory & just started Missing Joseph
(catching up on Elizabeth George)
No Man is An Island - Thomas Merton
Re-reading Our Town - Thornton Wilder
~`~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dave B
Fleet Foxes s/t + pitchfork fest recording
Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
Ry Cooder - I. Flathead
New Sigur Ros
Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The National - Virginia EP
Reading
Philip Davis - Bernard Malamud: A Life
Walter Mosley - Killing Johnny Fry (warning - it's pretty dire)
David Peace - 1977
Various recent Daredevil graphic novel
Martin
CurrentOccupant_dudley
> What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> type threads?)...
>
(I sure do.)
Listening:
At Random (my neighbour down the hill)'s behest, i'm cataloging my
illicit music collection, so i've been listening mostly to snippets
from that.
Some of them i've recently uploaded & linked to from here.
Some more of them, if time allows, i'll upload soon.
Reading:
Recently finished, Kurt Vonnegut "Player Piano" and "Galapagos". As
i've noted before, Mr Vonnegut said that young people like him because
he writes simple sentences without semicolons. There is some
legerdemain going on there, dependent on how we define "simple".
Currently, Dashiell Hammett "The Maltese Falcon". It's great to read a
book & to hear the character's voices so clearly.
Mr. Hammett, in my estimation, wrote straightforward sentences; he
did, however, employ semicolons.
Also of note, as many of us know, he presciently stole from bob dylan
"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble", Empire Burlesque's
"Seeing the Real You at Last". ( http://members.aol.com/dylanfilm/ ;
thanks mr. linWood)
Nextly, this Saturday i'll return the falcon & checkout "A Hemingway
Reader", mostly for our trip down the Shore.
I'm interested in the study of sentence structure, and these gentlemen
have garnered a reputation of being able to write sentences. I'm
trying to learn from them, in hopes of communicating more clearly.
So far i've gathered that a sentence contains at least a noun and a
verb; e.g., "Jesus wept." (John 11:35 KJV)
For the record (FTR), i do read wimmens authors, but not since Willa
Cather's "Song of the Lark", which i enjoyed and to whom i'll return.
Of course, when we go down the shore i'll likely find something
inneresting at a local bookseller, probably deeply discounted.
Last year it was Bill Morgan's "I Celebrate Myself", a life of Allen
Ginsberg. We'll see.
Sincerely,
Robert dudley Dickinson
___
"Don't forget. Support your local library."
bobDylan, 18jun00
Red Strange
Red Detachment of Women by the China Ballet and Opera Company
Manifesto by Victor Jara
IckyThump by The White Stripes
NuFunk Mafia
Friends of Chile Benefit downloaded from a link I found on this site!
>
> or reading?... (Remember these type threads?)...
The Culture Struggle by Michael Parenti
Away With All Gods by Bob Avakian - should be required in all schools
The Next Fifty Years by Lyndon LaRouche - with a grain of salt
White Noise by Dom Delillo - second funniest book ever written
Looking for suggestions what to start next...
CurrentOccupant_dudley
wrote:
> Away With All Gods by Bob Avakian - should be required in all schools
Dear Red,
hi hello how are ya?
I think i know you well enough from these environs to know that you're
self-independent.
As to Avakian tho', the Revolution bookstore that features his books
recently moved from 19th street (no doubt due to capitalistic
landlordian lease increase) to just near me where i work.
I do believe that Bob Avakian is a kind of cultist figure; that is,
only his Brand of Communism is correct.
I may be mistaken; it wdn't be the first time.
I do remember when the local branch of Revolution BookStore opened,
they passed out a flyer/brochure. In it, among other things, they held
out a hand for donations to purchase an espresso machine for the
store.
Currently in their storefront window is a sign that suggests we are
all Sean Bell.
There's another display item featuring Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
1500 bonus points to anyone who can identify either of them without
googling; 100x to anyone who can explain why one has a left black
glove and one a right black glove, googled or no.
I've likely made this too easy.
>
> Looking for suggestions what to start next...
>
"Five Acres and Independence" M.G. Kains
"Letters from the Earth" Mark Twain
"Trout Fishing in America" Richard Brautigan
I used to smoke
I used to drink
I used to smoke, drink
& dance the hootchie-koo
dudley
Babs
Listening:
Well, Martin, you got me back into The Pixies. Just finished listening
to Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. Next it will be Come On Pilgrim and
Trompe Le Monde. I can't seem to find the other one I have by them,
but I know it will turn up eventually,
Reading:
Great day at the library:
Steve Martin's Born Standing Up (Have been wanting to read this for a
while)
Eric Clapton's The Autobiography (I'm a sucker for these
autobiographies and biographies)
And in the elevator:
I rode up in the elevator with a woman who lives in my building. I've
seen her in the laundry room, but I don't know her. She saw my books
and almost pulled me off the elevator and into her apartment. She's a
reader and, happily for me, a reader who likes to share her books. She
raved about the latest two books she'd read, pasted her "this book
belongs to" stickers in them and placed them in my arms. She said she
never remembers the people she lends books to but she was sure I would
remember. Good feeling to be trusted. Anyway the books are:
Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses
Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire
PGPear...@aol.com
> On Jul 23, 9:36�pm, "PGPearson1...@aol.com" <PGPearson1...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >. . .
> > In the bullpen:
> >. . .
> > Swan Peak - James Lee Burke
>
> Is this new? �In paperback?
>
NEW this month - Hardcover
Paul Pearson
crazytimes
> Reading:
> Recently finished, Kurt Vonnegut "Player Piano" and "Galapagos". As
> i've noted before, Mr Vonnegut said that young people like him because
> he writes simple sentences without semicolons. There is some
> legerdemain going on there, dependent on how we define "simple".
Have you read Bluebeard?... I think that's the last one I re-read...
Just Walkin'
Five business days may be enough of a wait to realize that no one is
going for those bonus points.
Yet the world around these parts may need to know, or at least be
reminded, of what great athletes are all about so here goes:
Tommie Smith and John Carlos were African-American medalists in track
at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. When they received their medals,
Tommie wore a black glove on his right fist to signify power and John
wore a black glove on his left fist to signify unity. Together, their
gesture formed an arc, inspiring further an entire generation despite
the media slander. They also mounted the dais shoeless in stocking
feet to signify the poverty of their people. I wonder what they're
doing these days?
As for those bonus points, please pass them along to that poor boy on
the street to whom Bob gave his seat when he decided that tonight he
was staying here with us...
khematite
Bickering about who came up the glove idea.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-forty8-2008jul08,0,4469008.story
Red Strange
>
> Bickering about who came up the glove idea.
>
You know why black US athletes brought black gloves with them to the
'68 Olympic games in the first place? To wear just in case any of them
medaled and they were forced to shake the hand of proto-fascist head
of the IOC, Avery Brundage, Hitler's pal and racist extraordinaire...
I am sure his Francoist replacement Sammaranch made sure that the egos
of athletes everywhere were stoked to a fever pitch assuring that
friction and competitiveness would prevail over both power and unity.
Must have worked. Now all we have is bling...and Etan Thomas.
Current_Occupant you still there?
I've just spent the last 12 months taking a thorough look at all the
presidential campaign from the inside. Little did anyone know,
especially those guys with the flag lapel pins, that I read R on a
regular basis as I do WV, PWW, WW, SA, SA and SA not to mention all
the other alphabet soup guys as well. Some are pro-Bob, some are anti-
Bob, some don't even know who the heck in the hee-haw Bob is. Dylna
that is. But they're all fun to read. Educational too. In fact one of
those SAs ran a sardonic essay by FC about BO that had me in stitches.
Better than a Morth Sahl run-up...
You hear that the City of Berserkely has an official Avakian Day? Is
that after the music mogul or the revcom leader?
CurrentOccupant_dudley
>
>
> > There's another display item featuring Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
>
> > 1500 bonus points to anyone who can identify either of them without
> > googling; 100x to anyone who can explain why one has a left black
> > glove and one a right black glove, googled or no.
>
>
>
> Five business days may be enough of a wait to realize that no one is
> going for those bonus points.
>
> Yet the world around these parts may need to know, or at least be
> reminded, of what great athletes are all about so here goes:
>
> Tommie Smith and John Carlos were African-American medalists in track
> at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. When they received their medals,
> Tommie wore a black glove on his right fist to signify power and John
> wore a black glove on his left fist to signify unity. Together, their
> gesture formed an arc, inspiring further an entire generation despite
> the media slander. They also mounted the dais shoeless in stocking
> feet to signify the poverty of their people. I wonder what they're
> doing these days?
>
> As for those bonus points, please pass them along to that poor boy on
> the street to whom Bob gave his seat when he decided that tonight he
> was staying here with us...
Dear Mr. Walkin',
Nice try, but afraid i can award you only the 1500 bonusPoints, to
disperse as you will.
Not the 100x regarding "Signifyin' ".
Mr. Smith (gold medalist) wore the right glove. Mr. Carlos (bronze
medalist) wore the left glove.
The explanation you proffer is ex post facto along the lines of
mythMaking, even horseHockey.
The True Significance?
Tommie Smith's wife went out that morning in Mexico City 1968 looking
to buy black gloves.
In all of Mexico City, she found only one pair.
Hence the LeftRight imagery.
What would we think had she found two pairs (if the gloves fit)?
}
An interesting side note to the protest was that the 200m silver
medallist in 1968, Peter Norman of Australia (who is white),
participated in the protest that evening by wearing a OPHR badge.
{
OPHR = Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Hope that doesn't politicise the '08 Olympics. Not that there's any
amateurs left. Or right.
Here's a pic, hope it works:
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/writers/dave_zirin/09/27/carlos/carlos.jpg
Peace out or in,
dudley
Just Walkin'
Dear Dudley,
You explanation sounds plausible.
But this also suggests that Zirin's tale via Red Strange post of black
athletes bringing gloves in advance so as not to have to shake Avery
Brundages hand without protection is "ex post facto along the lines of
mythMaking, even horseHockey" as well.
Interesting, though, according to Zirin, Peter Norman (RIP) traveled
from his native Australia to attend the unveiling of a statue of the
two that he wasn't even represented in, though he won the silver and
wore the badge that you mentioned. He didn't even grouse about it
afterwards, in fact, he commended it. To me, that badge wearing
gesture was equally as important as any dramatic power statement that
could have been made at the time. It was a true testimony to unity
from a truly humble human being.
Or so it seems...
CurrentOccupant_dudley
> Current_Occupant you still there?
>
I sure am. Not there but here. now.
> I've just spent the last 12 months taking a thorough look at all the
> presidential campaign from the inside. Little did anyone know,
> especially those guys with the flag lapel pins, that I read R on a
> regular basis as I do WV, PWW, WW, SA, SA and SA not to mention all
> the other alphabet soup guys as well. Some are pro-Bob, some are anti-
> Bob, some don't even know who the heck in the hee-haw Bob is. Dylna
> that is. But they're all fun to read. Educational too. In fact one of
> those SAs ran a sardonic essay by FC about BO that had me in stitches.
> Better than a Morth Sahl run-up...
>
Good on ya. Glad to see folks getting involved, tho' yr alphabet stuff
baffles me.
MuhSelf i find between Pete Seeger's
)
My outlook? "There's no hope but maybe I am wrong." People think that
I made it up, but it's from Robert Fulghum, author of the book All I
Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. He got it from some guy
in Seattle about twenty, years ago.
(
I've been looking for Harry S(for nothing) Truman's quote in Merle
Miller's "Plain Speaking" where he suggests that there are always
people who will try to stir up a fuss, and how to deal with that.
Lacking that, here's a few quotes from HST:
}
The President of the United States represents 154,000,000 people. Most
of them have no lobby and no special representation. The President
must represent all the people. Therefore, the President must be a sort
of super-public relations man. His powers are great, but he must know
how to make people get along together... Some people think that public
relations should be based on polls. That is nonsense. I wonder how far
Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would
Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of
Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had
taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment
that counts. It is right and wrong, and leadership -- men with
fortitude, honesty and a belief in the right that make epochs in the
history of the world.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses
his job, it's a depression when you lose
your own.
We should resolve now that the health of
this nation is a national concern; that
financial barriers in the way of attaining health
shall be removed; that the health of all it's
citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
I never gave them hell, I just tell the
truth and they think it's hell.
The only thing new in the world is the history you
don't know.
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full
measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy
good health. Millions do not now have protection
or security against the economic effects of
sickness. And the time has now arrived for
action to help them attain that opportunity and
to help them get that protection.
If we don't have the proper fundamental moral background, we will
finally wind up
with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for
anybody
Richard Nixon is a no good , lying bastard.
He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the
same time, and if he ever caught himself
telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong
-- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his
mouth, then all Americans are in peril
I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for
granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to
the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
{
& lastly (apologies to Ann Coulter):
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I
repeat myself."
'K so my missus just suggested i should get some sleep. I'll hit this
button letting the devil take the hindmost
Yrs avakianly,
dudley
Treadleson
>
> > What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> > type threads?)...
>
> (I sure do.)
>
> Listening:
> At Random (my neighbour down the hill)'s behest, i'm cataloging my
> illicit music collection, so i've been listening mostly to snippets
> from that.
>
> Some of them i've recently uploaded & linked to from here.
>
> Some more of them, if time allows, i'll upload soon.
>
> Reading:
.....
> Recently finished, Kurt Vonnegut "Player Piano" and "Galapagos".
Galapagos is funny. (The fact that Darwin's cousin Sir (!) Francis
Galton was a leading figure in eugenics and even came up with the word
Eugenics is even funnier.)
Watching:
-A Guy Thing (hilarious in parts). Selma Blair and Julia Stiles are
great, especially Blair.
The NIght of the Following Day. Obscure Brando but good. French
kidnapping goes very wrong.
-Magnificent Obsession (the Irene Dunne, Robt Taylor version).
Wonderful.
-The Brave One. Jodie Foster. The serial killer hunter has become a
serial killer. But you like her.
-Heat. DeNiro & Pacino. No point. b/w Ronin. No point. Unless car
chases are your thing.
-Pi--Hasidim and investment bankers are both after a drug addled math
maniac around Canal Street. Not bad at all.
-One Eyed Jacks. Never saw it before. The only western set on a
beach. A slowed down horse opera, but good stuff between Brando and
Malden. Sad to find out that the lovely, very talented Pina Pellicer--
Brando's love interest in the movie and in real life--killed herself
two years later.
-First Spaceship On Venus. Early 60's E. German sci fi about multi-
ethnic rocket crew who discover that the Venutians always had it in
for us and were overly nuke happy. Lesson: Nukes kill. (Story by
Stanis. Lem.)
--The Wire. Corrupt police dept. vs. drug lords in Baluhmore. Hands
down the best TV cop series ever. Maybe the best series ever? Almost
perfect (and the first Englishman I've seen doing a totally believable
American accent). Sensational acting and script. (Steve Earle has
brief role.) I also like that the Blind Boys Of Alabama do Tom Waits'
Down In the Hole as the show theme song.
Listening: Guided by Voices: Hot Freaks/Echoes Myron (Bee Thousand)
> As
> i've noted before, Mr Vonnegut said that young people like him because
> he writes simple sentences without semicolons. There is some
> legerdemain going on there, dependent on how we define "simple".
>
> Currently, Dashiell Hammett "The Maltese Falcon". It's great to read a
> book & to hear the character's voices so clearly.
>
> Mr. Hammett, in my estimation, wrote straightforward sentences; he
> did, however, employ semicolons.
>
> Also of note, as many of us know, he presciently stole from bob dylan
> "I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble", Empire Burlesque's
> "Seeing the Real You at Last". (http://members.aol.com/dylanfilm/;
Babs
> What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> type threads?)...
>
>
> The Pentacle - Basket of Light...
> Bert Jansch/John Renbourn - Bert & John...
> Beneath the Planet of the Apes - soundtrack...
> The Kinks - Soap Opera...
> John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bare Wires...
> Spectrum - Forever Alien...
> Beach Boys - Pet Sounds...
> Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet...
>
> Reading:
>
> Legendary Sessions: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (gift)...
> Armageddon - WWII nonfiction...
I've been reading Eric Clapton's autobiography (Clapton: The
Autobiography) and listening to some of his 1974 shows.
St. Annie
Listening to Irish music -- John Spillane, Mundy, and Sharon Shannon's
great new cd Galway Girl (with tracks like the title tune with Steve
Earle, "Man of Constant Sorrow" with Jackson Browne, "Libertango" with
Kirsty McCall). Reading Netherland, finally, and still trying to get
it/get into it. Also rereading lots of Yeats poems. Avoiding reading
the paper, as everything in it from war in Russia to cheesy John
Edwards (and we always knew, really, didn't we, that he was cheesy)
makes me bone tired.
Tif -Taf
> What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> type threads?)...
>
> Listening this last week:
>
> The Pentacle - Basket of Light...
> Bert Jansch/John Renbourn - Bert & John...
> Beneath the Planet of the Apes - soundtrack...
> The Kinks - Soap Opera...
> John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bare Wires...
> Spectrum - Forever Alien...
> Beach Boys - Pet Sounds...
> Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet...
>
> Reading:
>
> Legendary Sessions: Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (gift)...
> Armageddon - WWII nonfiction...
This morning I reread a page or two from
The Way of Inspiration - Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Tif -Taf
also read the paragraphs related to "The Monkey" in Oracles 2013
-
David Carson
Tif -Taf
My mistake : The title is Oracle 2013, not Oracles 2013.
David Carson wrote the book with a co-author whose name I may not
remember correctly. Possibly the name is Nina Simmons.
As for the name of the person who did the illustrations and cards,
sorry to say it completely escapes me this moment.
Janice
Walter Trout - Live - Vol. 2
I Shall Be Released - When Alvin Toffler envisioned The Third Wave of
the future, he imagined that when the Boomer generation finally
inherited political power (by attrition) they would all stand on the
steps of the Capitol building (or White House, I can't remember which)
and sing an anthem to freedom . . . I believe this is the anthem he
had in mind. This is such an excellent version.
I love that the song Finally Gotten Over You has a nifty little
Gershwinesque riff at the end.
Reading:
W. Somerset Maugham's "The Painted Veil" and consequently Goldsmith's
"Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog":
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Good people all, of every sort,
Give ear unto my song;
And if you find it wondrous short,
It cannot hold you long.
In Islington there was a man,
Of whom the world might say
That still a godly race he ran,
Whene'er he went to pray.
A kind and gentle heart he had,
To comfort friends and foes;
The naked every day he clad,
When he put on his clothes.
And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound,
And curs of low degree.
This dog and man at first were friends;
But when a pique began,
The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad and bit the man.
Around from all the neighbouring streets
The wondering neighbours ran,
And swore the dog had lost his wits,
To bite so good a man.
The wound it seemed both sore and sad
To every Christian eye;
And while they swore the dog was mad,
They swore the man would die.
But soon a wonder came to light,
That showed the rogues they lied:
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
~`~
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gemini jackson
<jan...@dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
>Listening:
Biograph.
>Reading:
Just finished re-reading Old man and the Sea. Back to drudging
through Gorky Park. Must...finish...it...!
-GJ
Martin
> Just finished re-reading Old man and the Sea
The shark in that story is a Shortfin Mako. My son bought the jaw of
one from a flea market in Brussels (that's a market that sells all
sorts of things, not specifically fleas, although I'm sure there are
some fleas there too). It was a short lived habit of collecting shark
products for inclusion in his natural history collection, before we
realised that buying shark jaws isn't the best way to preserve sharks
J Buck
Hemmler, Larry A. Johnson, and Eric R. Simonson
listening to: Colin Cowherd on Espn radio on the morning commute to
work, and the first inning, inning and a half of the Red Sox game on the
way home.
Janice
Kamikaze Ground Crew - The Scenic Route
(which seems to be the perfect accompaniment to...)
Reading:
Chronicles by Bob Dylan, for the first (but not the last) time.
The conversational tone took me by surprise.
I'm already looking forward to reading it again. It is dense, full of
observations and information and self-revelation. So far, the word
that comes to mind is "delicious."
I am trying to read it slowly, there is much to absorb. I
rediscovered Gregory Corso on page 47, and found his poetry online:
http://www.terebess.hu/english/corso.html
Corso wrote his own epitaph, which is carved on his headstone:
Spirit
is Life
It flows thru
the death of me
endlessly
like a river
unafraid
of becoming
the sea
But more poignant than ever is his poem The American Way.
(Excerpted). . .
The American Way that sad mad process
is not run by any one man or organization
It is a monster born of itself existing of its self
The men who are employed by this monster
are employed unknowingly
They reside in the higher echelons of intelligence
They are the educators the psychiatrists the ministers
the writers the politicians the communicators
the rich the entertainment world
And some follow and sing the Way because they sincerely
believe it to be good
And some believe it holy and become minutemen in it
Some are in it simply to be in
And most are in it for gold
They do not see the Way as monster
They see it as the "Good Life"
What is the Way?
The Way was born out of the American Dream a
nightmare—
The state of Americans today compared to the Americans
of the 18th century proves the nightmare—
Not Franklin not Jefferson who speaks for America today
but strange red-necked men of industry
and the goofs of show business
Bizarre! Frightening! The Mickey Mouse sits on the throne
and Hollywood has a vast supply—
. . .
How strange is nature's play on America
Surely were Lincoln alive today
he could never be voted President not with his
looks—
. . .
God how close to science fiction it all seems!
As if some power from another planet
incorporated itself in the minds of us all
It could well be
For as I live I swear America does not seem like America
to me
Americans are a great people
I ask for some great and wondrous event
that will free them from the Way
and make them a glorious purposeful people once
again
I do not know if that event is due deserved
or even possible
I can only hold that man is the victory of life
And I hold firm to American man
I see standing on the skin of the Way
America to be as proud and victorious as St.
Michael on the neck of the fallen Lucifer—
Also reading:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan
and die by plan."
~`~
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The Hysterical Bride
snip
>
> Also reading:
> The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
> "Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan
> and die by plan."
>
> ~`~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
i read this and immediately made up a poem. LOL! (it's so stupid)
read it slowly.
accident and plan
are only words
we use
to think
we understand
Janice
> On Oct 20, 12:33 am, Janice <jan...@dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
>. . .
> > Also reading:
> > The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
> > "Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan
> > and die by plan."
>
> i read this and immediately made up a poem. LOL! (it's so stupid)
>
> read it slowly.
>
> accident and plan
> are only words
> we use
> to think
> we understand
Very nice.
~`~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Hysterical Bride
>
> - Show quoted text -
"A thing of beauty needs no commentary." (snicker)
The Hysterical Bride
>
> - Show quoted text -
OK, never mind.
Thanks for the compliment. :(
Janice
> On Oct 20, 6:02 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Oct 20, 4:05 pm, Janice <jan...@dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Oct 20, 6:59 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Oct 20, 12:33 am, Janice <jan...@dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
> > > >. . .
> > > > > Also reading:
> > > > > The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
> > > > > "Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan
> > > > > and die by plan."
>
> > > > i read this and immediately made up a poem. LOL! (it's so stupid)
>
> > > > read it slowly.
>
> > > > accident and plan
> > > > are only words
> > > > we use
> > > > to think
> > > > we understand
>
> > > Very nice.
>
> > "A thing of beauty needs no commentary." (snicker)
>
> OK, never mind.
> Thanks for the compliment. :(
Trust yourself, Rachel. The poem said exactly what you meant it to
say, and it did it elegantly and simply.
~`~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Hysterical Bride
>
> - Show quoted text -
I have no idea how I did it.
I must be channeling Jesus or something.
(lol, joke)
P.S. I laughed when I read "Trust yourself" because the first time I
heard the song, I was focusing on the lyrics, and I thought it was
really stupid. (It was in San Francisco, '94, after I met/encountered
YKW) However, in your case, it worked, and the economy was
appreciated. (I know that sounds a little awkward. Well, you know what
I mean, I think.)
P.P.S. "I didn't used to be a tadpole. I is what I is." (lol. from the
movie Borat) La la la la mu so la. lol.
crazytimes
After the Gold Rush...
Live At Massey Hall...
A Perfect Echo...
Awaiting the live Canterbury '68 release later this Nov....
Reading:
In between books... mostly news...
Jumbo
Listening to
Best of Cat Stevens, a Keith Jarrett standards comp from ECM, Tell
Tale Signs vol1-3, a Best of bobdylan.com downloads home-burnt comp,
Jewels and Binoculars that Babs gave me a link to way back, the
instrumental extras on the end of the remastered Aoxomoxoa (sp?), The
Clash singles comp, Elvis 70s masters.
Reading Dharma Bums, Ralph Steadman's memoir of Hunter Thompson, Notes
of a Dirty Old Man (Bukowsky), Songs of the Doomed (Thompson reader
vol.3).
Babs
I've been on a Neil Young kick recently too.
I'm about to start Stephen King's Duma Key. While reading a review of
his new book of short stories today, this book was mentioned. It came
out in January, and I hadn't heard a peep about it. Has anyone read it?
Janice
Listening to:
Mission by Tim Howe, covers of both I Shall Be Released and Dehlia
(emusic spelling). Dehlia (live) is especially nice. An original
Baby Blue vibrates organs (in a good way). La Drang is a trip.
This version released in 2005 by Orchard. Genre listed as Rock/Pop,
Prog Rock, Commercial Alternative. I can't find anything about him,
anybody have info? PR?
Reading:
You Suck - A Love Story, Christopher Moore -- Strangely touching,
considering the frozen turkey bowling and a shaved cat named Chet.
Not as joyously wicked as Blood Sucking Fiends, but a good sequel.
I'll read (and love) anything by Christopher Moore.
~`~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You people?
What do you mean, "You people"?
Treadleson
> Listening to:
>
> Mission by Tim Howe, covers of both I Shall Be Released and Dehlia
> (emusic spelling). Dehlia (live) is especially nice. An original
> Baby Blue vibrates organs (in a good way). La Drang is a trip.
>
> This version released in 2005 by Orchard. Genre listed as Rock/Pop,
> Prog Rock, Commercial Alternative. I can't find anything about him,
> anybody have info? PR?
> Reading:
>
> You Suck - A Love Story, Christopher Moore -- Strangely touching,
> considering the frozen turkey bowling and a shaved cat named Chet.
> Not as joyously wicked as Blood Sucking Fiends, but a good sequel.
> I'll read (and love) anything by Christopher Moore.
Looking at this amazing b+ w couture photograph:
http://couturecarrie.blogspot.com/2008/10/runway-costume-inspirations.html
Janice
> On Nov 6, 8:24 pm, Janice <jan...@dixoncreekstudio.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Listening to:
>
> > Mission by Tim Howe, covers of both I Shall Be Released and Dehlia
> > (emusic spelling). Dehlia (live) is especially nice. An original
> > Baby Blue vibrates organs (in a good way). La Drang is a trip.
>
> > This version released in 2005 by Orchard. Genre listed as Rock/Pop,
> > Prog Rock, Commercial Alternative. I can't find anything about him,
> > anybody have info? PR?
> ......
> > Reading:
>
> > You Suck - A Love Story, Christopher Moore -- Strangely touching,
> > considering the frozen turkey bowling and a shaved cat named Chet.
> > Not as joyously wicked as Blood Sucking Fiends, but a good sequel.
> > I'll read (and love) anything by Christopher Moore.
>
> Looking at this amazing b+ w couture photograph:
>
> http://couturecarrie.blogspot.com/2008/10/runway-costume-inspirations...
Did I just get punk'd?
(Lovin' Junya Watanabe's Chiquita Banana)
Treadleson
> On Nov 5, 12:10 pm, crazytimes <crazytime...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Listening to a lot of Neil Young this week...
>
> > After the Gold Rush...
> > Live At Massey Hall...
> > A Perfect Echo...
> > Awaiting the live Canterbury '68 release later this Nov....
>
> > Reading:
>
> > In between books... mostly news...
>
> I've been on a Neil Young kick recently too.
> I'm about to start Stephen King's Duma Key. While reading a review of
> his new book of short stories today, this book was mentioned. It came
> out in January, and I hadn't heard a peep about it. Has anyone read it?
It sounds pretty good. This idea of painting a painting that makes
the events in the painting happen for real reminds me of his fun
story, Word Processor Of the Gods. But this new book goes way beyond
that into Lovecraft territory (and intimations of Rime Of the Ancient
Mariner?). I hope you enjoy it and have good things to report.
Just Walkin'
These days...
Listening:
Tell Tale Signs - Great music to watch history by
Jubilee, Charlie Parr - Great music to listen to Tell Tale Signs by.
Reading:
The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank
How Race Survived US History by David Roediger
Tuned In by Craig Stull
Faulkner
Stuff about roads and intersections
The Hysterical Bride
(I don't know how to reply to my last post higher up in this thread.
"reply" is no longer an option.)
On Jul 22, 3:34 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@aol.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 22, 3:24 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@aol.com> wrote:
> > On Jul 22, 3:08 pm, crazytimes <crazytime...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > On Jul 22, 6:05 pm, The Hysterical Bride <rache...@aol.com> wrote:
> > > > On Jul 22, 2:46 pm, crazytimes <crazytime...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > What are you listening to recently or reading?... (Remember these
> > > > > type threads?)...
> > > > > Reading:
> > > > WWII nonfiction...
> > > > ****
> > > >http://www.untilourlastbreath.com/
> > > > This is WWII nonfiction.
> > > > This is my cousin. This is my family. This is our story.
> > > Interesting cite...- Hide quoted text -
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> > I don't even know what you mean by that.
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Is cite a noun? (I find no evidence of that) Are you using it as a
transitive verb? I don't really understand that. I can find no
evidence of the word in a dictionary as you are using it here.
I'm really confused.
*****
(my new post:)
I've finally found my answer, but I'm still a little unsure. I was
corresponding with my friend Ben, who is an ABD, and he used the word
"cite." I grabbed the opportunity and wrote the following:
I am asking this for a very specific reason. This is VERY important to
me, because somebody used the same word, and I freaked out, because I
didn't know what it meant, and I looked it up. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY
"CITE?" CITE IS A TRANSITIVE VERB!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T YOU MEAN "SITE?"
WHY WOULD YOU SAY "CITE?????????" And if this is new Internet Lingo,
why can't I find it in GOOGLE? Please answer!!!!!!!!!
His response was as follows:
Cite is short for citation. So whenever you are referencing the
location of where you got some information, you can refer to it as a
cite.
***
However, I think crazytimes was merely referring to the link. I don't
think s/he actually opened the link.
I really want to get upset that s/he was f*cking with me, but then I
think to myself, "you don't really know this person, who s/he is, so
it's not worth it."
And then I realize, it doesn't MATTER who s/he is.
I don't give a fuck.
If you want to be an asshole, crazytimes, I'm not taking it
personally. That's on you.
I honestly don't give a fuck if some people don't like me. All I care
about are people who are nice.
That makes me wonder about Dylan.
I guess that just makes me sad, because I want him to like me.
But if he's an asshole, and he hates me, there's really nothing I can
do about it, but I don't really care. What I mean is, I don't think
it's my fault.
And I'm not going to stop liking myself just because some people hate
me.
The Hysterical Bride
little late, but who's counting, except the Master) I say...
Gee, thanks.
The Hysterical Bride
Now I'm actually wondering if I'm incorrect, because Ben said a place
where you got some information, not a place of information itself,
meaning the link. It's still iffy. I can see it either way. I mean,
there is information in the link. (the title)
maybe crazytimes opened the link. (almost lol)
i'm sorry crazytimes.
i just don't understand why you wouldn't explain yourself to me.
maybe you are paranoid, like Bob Dylan. lol!
what a quirky bunch we all are.
i love rmd. :) (now that i am unsure about if he opened it or not
again, i don't quite love rmd so much.)
i wish we could all just get along. what's my problem? relationships
are so overwhelming. it's probably all my fault. i wish i were a
better person. i don't even want children, even if i could have them.
i'm too lazy. i am so fucking lazy, it's unbelievable. something's
wrong with me. secretly, i am glad i am mentally ill, because it's a
good excuse to not go out, and not have to socialize. i get to stay
home and isolate and watch tv and play on the computer. but i am
getting so bored with tv. i prefer people, but rmd is so hard. there
used to be so many people here. but i got so much abuse. people called
me stupid. it was so traumatic and devastating, that i even have
dreams about being stupid. i also was watching the cosby show the
other day, and they said something, which made me wonder if i have
that, too. "performance anxiety." (not in the sexual sense.) but when
theo's teacher made him go up to the blackboard, and he had to perform
in front of a mature adult (a very strict teacher, female, who scared
him), he froze, and couldn't do the problem, and was at the board for
the duration of the entire period/class. maybe i am intimidated by Bob
Dylan. MAYBE? (shaking my head) (want to cry). I don't know how to
behave. He's old enough to be my great great great grandfather. (lol)
and I want to have sex with him. I'm a total pervert. (lol) How could
I think I would be enough. I would bore him to tears. I would be a
total burden. I am boring, and I ramble on and on and on, I'm
surprised anybody reads anything I write.
Well, anyway, I forgot what I was talking about, I have to go back and
read.
Ok, I did.
That's enough.
Bye for now.
The Hysterical Bride
I wrote Ben and asked him. Is the cite the LINK, or the page where he
got the information, the page to which the cite is linked.
I'm not sure.
That's because my I.Q. is one point higher than Sarah Palin's,
according to something I saw on the Internet. (However, on the very
same page, I have seen cites (ha ha) of people's I.Q.s, and the same
person is there twice, with two different I.Q.s, so who really knows.
I think I lost my mind after Bob Dylan knocked on his guitar, and I
got brainwashed by the Kabbalists. (fer sure!)
p.s. I'm pretty sure it's the link, but we'll see.
crazytimes
UK equivalent is 'Most Haunted'... also on tonight...
'Oh, my god!!!'...
The Hysterical Bride
hi crazytimes. thanks for reminding me that i never followed up with
this.
the reason i didn't, is because my friend, the ABD professor, said he
wasn't sure, about whether cite referred to the link, or the website,
and that it was splitting hairs.
not a good enough answer for me to come to a conclusion.
ch...@cupolagallery.com
Listening to The Black Swan by Bert Jansch, especially the impossibly
beautiful, haunting title track. (Getting to read the lyrics spoils it
a bit, but... I've forgotten them already, just hear what I think it's
about...) ... Song of the Sirens, by This Mortal Coil ... The Stolen
Child by The Waterboys ... Are You Lonesome Tonight, by Elvis ... Hot
Burritos 1 and 2 ... etc.
Reading a book on the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell.
Babs
> It sounds pretty good. This idea of painting a painting that makes
> the events in the painting happen for real reminds me of his fun
> story, Word Processor Of the Gods. But this new book goes way beyond
> that into Lovecraft territory (and intimations of Rime Of the Ancient
> Mariner?). I hope you enjoy it and have good things to report.
It is pretty good -- especially when the artist has no control over
what he's painting and when it's his missing arm that gets the itch to
paint. Not a bad commentary on the artistic process at that.
I'm funny about Stephen King books. I've always read them. I always
will. But I prefer his earlier shorter ones -- "Christine" being
forever my favorite. I feel a generational kinship to King -- less so
now than in the past. His references were (and sometimes still are) my
references, so it's like sitting down with a friend when I pick up his
books. I think he's a good and engaging writer. Often he writes an
interesting story with little supernatural touches thrown in. The
supernatural touches build gradually until the last part of the book
has them exploding every which way. I think the average reader really
gets into this last part, while I find myself skimming and rushing
through it.
gemini jackson
wrote:
>I'm funny about Stephen King books. I've always read them. I always
>will. But I prefer his earlier shorter ones -- "Christine" being
>forever my favorite. I feel a generational kinship to King -- less so
>now than in the past.
I have this love/hate thing with King. I did like Christine, but I
read it when it came out. Hands down though will always be The
Shining (the book, not the movie). I recall actually stopping reading
to walk around the house because *I heard something*. The majority of
the book you're only dealing with 3 characters and you start feeling
the madness with them. And I've called martinis 'Martians' ever
since.
-GJ
Olompali
Reading: Zot!/Scott McCloud
Viewing: Beckett/Burton & O'Toole
ch...@cupolagallery.com
Ah, Zot! Never read that. Always meant to.
Babs
Reading Dennis Lehane's "The Given Day"
Earlier this evening, I was on a Lou Reed kick and listened to Berlin,
Transformer, Set The Twilight Reeling and Magic And Loss.
President_dudley
Listening: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1st inaugural address
Fearing nothing but fear,
Slats Grobnick
Jumbo Portion
Which one sounded best? Or, I mean, was the biggest surprise?
Babs
No surprises really. Three very different albums. I chose Berlin and
Set The Twilight Reeling just because they'd been discussed on
Spectacle. I picked Transformer because I was in the mood for it, just
as now I'm in the mood for Rock n Roll Animal. "Sweet Jane" is
blasting away here.
crazytimes
The Lou boots I've heard from '72-'73 are great for the most part...
There's is a marked difference in '74, though, where he sounds totally
downed and drugged out... very sloooow-motion, underwater, barely can
remember the words or where he is...
Babs
>
> The Lou boots I've heard from '72-'73 are great for the most part...
> There's is a marked difference in '74, though, where he sounds totally
> downed and drugged out... very sloooow-motion, underwater, barely can
> remember the words or where he is...
I've heard some of those underwater ones too. It was hit or miss with
him for awhile. Good performances were sporadic. I do have a '74 boot
that I like pretty much though. It's at Charlton Athletic Football
Club (May 18, 1974). The quality of the recording isn't great, but
Lou is.
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/charlton74-recordings.html
I give Lou, and anyone who helped him, credit for making it through
the dark times. I get such pleasure seeing him today, regarded as one
of music's respected elder statesmen.