8/23/15
When I first heard this chorus on the Tragically Hip tune
Poets, I stated aloud that's it. I'll have more as time stumbles on.
On the street and the epitome of vague Don't tell me how the universe is altered When you find out how he gets paid
8/26/15
this one gets to the point:
Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri
“A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
8/27/15
I found some comments from Professor Ermath, my mentor on George Eliot @ UMBC circa 1980, but prefer this Woolf comment on George Eliot aka
Mary Ann Evans .
link
she has little “verbal felicity.”
8/29/15
Enjoyed this quote whether it's true or not not:
In 1969, while submitting work to Paloma Picasso, Charles Bukowski remarks that
William S. Burroughs’s “cutups and tape arrangements are just ghetto bored flip of a safe and secure man.”
9/13/15
I think
rotten Johnny has Greenday's #
The blancmange that is Green Day, where you have a Johnny Rotten first verse, a Billy Idol chorus and a Sham 69 second verse. Preposterous!
10/24/15
John O'Hara, the author of Butterfield 8,etc, wasn't shy and definitely aware of being a Mick. I'm guessing this was about critics:
Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?
11/15/15
Some easy guesses on Neil's targets . From Hippie Dream
And the wooden ships are a hippie dream capsized in excess
11/21/15
Faulkner's "Sound & Fury infuriates me and probably others because you need a flow chart to keep track of the characters.
12/23/15
an oldie but goodie for the season:
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Henny Youngman
3/6/16
The biodoc, Regarding Susan Sontag, stirred some mixed feelings such as an appreciation for her solid quips and a dislike for her late 1960's visit to North Vietnam during that war.
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
4/2/16
Bowie from his song Andy Warhol:
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen Can't tell them apart at all
4/13/16
Thomas Jefferson was born on this date in 1743. I'm buying his quote:
“I cannot live without books.”
5/8/16
another THip line keeps bouncing around my skull. This one from 100th Meridian:
"It would seem to me I remember every single fucking thing I know"
7/16/16
Bukowski in 1959: "
I do not feel it is pedantic or ignoble to demand freedom from the opiate of clannishness and leech-brotherhood that dominates many of our so-called avant-garde publications"
7/29/16
back to kerouac:
“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.” Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard
8/19/16
Keeping it light this morning-from Paul McCartney: Yoko Ono and I are 'mates'
8/21/16
The late #JoeStrummer and I share a birthday today so I'm snipping a lyric from the Clash to keep upbeat today.
"I'm all lost in the supermarket.......I came in here for that special offer"
9/24/16
This resonates more now than ever. #Saul Bellow : "Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated."
10/2/16
No reason in particular but here's a quote from the seedy #Celine 's book North:
“whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off"
10/14/16
the late #gilscottheron wrote these lyrics in the song "B Movie" about Reagan's presidential victory, and I'll dare to spin them forward . View them through your political "frames"
"Before the free press went down before full-court press
And were reluctant to review the menu
Because they knew the only thing available was ... Crow"
10/29/16
It's the height of the political season in the USA so I'll turn to Hemingway's opinion on the poet #EzraPound who went off the rails for Mussolini and Hitler .
"He should not be hanged and he should not be made a martyr of…. It is impossible to believe that anyone in his right mind could utter the vile, absolutely idiotic drivel he has broadcast"
11/3/16
Johnny "Rotten" Lydon once called #Bono- Bozo. Wonder what he thinks of this
"Bono named on #Glamour magazine's Women of the Year list"
11/11/16
RIP #LeonardCohen. These two lines from #JenniferWarnes cover of Cohen's "first we take manhattan" still reverberate.
"I don't like your fashion business, mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin"
11/24/16
from #iggypop: " What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen."
11/29/16
Appropriate reaction or stoking more interest in the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols debut single?
#JoeCorre (48), the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, torched about 6M worth punk memorabilia s in the middle of the River Thames claiming punk wasn't intended to be nostalgic.
12/31/16
Ending the year with a #Bowie line or two from the song Blackout with a touch of pretense:
"Oh you, you walk on past
Your lips cut a smile on your face"
2/18/17
This #Bukowski line nabbed me this morning
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
2/25/17
Most of her books are worth reading so why not share her opinion on writing
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
—Joan Didion
4/1/17
No foolin, one of the straighter lines from the late #gilscottheron about Guns:
"When other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine."
4/29/17
PFurs lyrics from "it goes on"
"Where they put on wigs and stuff
So they can be themselves"
5/28/17
After a cool conversation with an old friend, I went looking for some poems by #FrankOhara and enjoyed this line on Impressionists research from Having a Coke with you.
" when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank"
6/9/17
I wonder about this quote but find #mickeyspillane 's jab amusing.
"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents"
6/21/17
#gorddownie of #tragicallyhip appointed Order of Canada. I've always considered it an oddity for rock and rollers to get government medals.
7/29/17
weather related lyrics from Tom Verlaine's tune "kingdome Come"
"Well, I walked in the pouring rain And I heard the voice that cries "it's all in vain"
8/3/17
Yuh never know with "Rotten Johnny" Lydon. On meeting #newtgingrich some time ago"
"I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care!"
8/25/17
"and he's hearing something she never said" from when the weight comes down by #TragicallyHip.
10/22/17
moving through an Mp3 playlist of THip- mourning #GordDownie and starting with the first line from "The Luxury" "
Zoo Lion sobers up and starts to scream and shout"
10/28/17
#georgeclinton , the funkster, co-opted this fast food ad line in 1986. "do fries go with that shake" Today, the PC police would arrest him.
11/9/17
#kurtweill "song of the white cheese" with lyrics by Günther Weisenbom has been found in the archives of Berlin Free University. The lyrics lampoon a Weimar-era religious leader who laid cottage cheese on eyes in attempts to heal blindness.
11/25/17
I watched a 1992 #GeorgeCarlin HBO special last night in which everyone from enviromentalists to fundamentalists was fair game and thought his bitterness made him less funny.
1/14/18
#Shitholes is the word of the week, but I'll mention the late #gorddownie 's words from the song Little Bones:
"Baby eat this chicken slow
It's full of all them little bones."
1/25/18
RIP #NicanorParra, the chilean poet, died at the age of 103. He once told poets to come down from Mt Olympus
2/14/18
Memo from Joy Division on Valentines Day : "Love will tear us apart...again " 😉
3/4/18: comedian #stephenwright amusing line on crossing into Canada "they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?”
4/1/18
Easter 2018 pondering how stunned and amused I was in 1978 by #JohnDonne 's poems and the tales of his transition from a rake, womanizer and hellraiser, to a cleric in the Church Of England. Time to spin #vanmorrison 's tune : Rave on John Donne
4/30/18
In these days of if you don't share my politics, I aint buying your products or listening to you, I watched a good portion of the #SteveEarle interview on the PBS Speakeasy series this weekend and learned enough to not the switch the channel.
5/12/18
Reacting to the headlines this morning with a line from This Corrossion by Sisters of Mercy
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
5/20/18
My response to all the celebrity lectures, #metoo crowd, etc. #menot
7/7/18
"and he's hearing something she never said" a line from the #tragicallyhip song - when the wieght comes down. Will it be #maxinewaters new campaign slogan ?
9/15/18
#bertoltbrecht tune Mack the Knife has beeen covered by a ton of artists from Bobby Darin to the PFurs and with a new movie version of ThreePenny Opera opening in Germany , I read that Brecht provided his actors with whistles to drown out boos from the audience at the world premiere of The Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on August 31, 1928.
9/30/18
The late #charlesbukowski probably didn't consider this line from his book #pulp offensive in the 1990s, but it's likely deemed offensive by today's snow angels. “-Look, barkeeper, I'm a peaceful man. Fairly normal. I don't sniff armpits or wear ladies' underwear."
11/17/18
In a #steveearle listening mood this morning and this line from "Other Kind" resonates for no particular reason: "Ah - but leave it up to me to say something wrong and hurt someone before I'm done"
12/08/18
#tragicallyhip song "the Luxury" digging this line : "Melancholy wine-soaked tenderness"
1/23/19
Iran's Culture Ministry announced a suspension of the upcoming "Poland's Film
Week," in #Tehran. Probably only four or five films would have passed their strict codes.
3/9/19
I'm using this line from THip's "Nautical Disaster"song to describe #IlhanOmar self-absorption this week. " I had this dream where I relished the fray"
3/24/19
"Instinct is the common lawyer--A million years won't erase"
Echo & The Bunnymen - All That Jazz
5/23/19
#Spillers music store in Wales has stopped stocking #Morrissey 's releases because of his endorsement of British political party For
Britain. Intolerance grows!
6/12/19
Rather than pay ransom, #Radiohead makes stolen tracks available online at Bandcamp with proceeds to help 'Extinction Rebellion' , a climate change group. That's one way to deal with hackers!
6/22/19
“If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?”
―
Graham Greene,
The End of the Affair
After watching a biopic on Greene yesterday, I'm still shaking my head at his loyalty to #Philby and his embraces of various Communist countries and causes.
7/12/19
In an attempt to keep current I found this quote from #jermainedupri, producer and owner of the So So Def record label, " today’s women rappers sound like strippers.”
8/9/19
"A smile is like a blush, it is a response, not an
expression per se, and so it can neither be easily maintained nor easily
recorded." #nicholasjeeves on why smiles are so rare in painted portraits.
9/20/19
"You pay for this, but they give you that" #neilyoung from Hey, Hey, My my
9/22/19
#thomyorke of #Radiohead on being a climate change campaigner and needing air travel to tour.
"I totally agree I'm a hypocrite but... what do you want to do about it?"
Hey Thom: STFU
10/16/19
" Bad artists always admire each others' work." #Oscar Wilde born Oct 16, 1854
11/1/19
#VanMorrison sings about politicians on the song "nobody in Charge" : 'waffling endlessly' .... "getting paid too much for screwin' up". Some think this about Stormont being inactive in NI, but it could be applied to many politicians.
11/26/19
This BBC headline gave me a chuckle. Coldplay joins the fossils at museum gig
12/18/19
"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." #georgecarlin
12/24/19
Rev #JohnDonne lines from his poem Nativity
"Stars and wise men will travel to prevent
The effect of Herod’s jealous general doom"
2/2/20
#iggypop received a lifetime Grammy. Maybe he should've performed his song, "I won't crap out."
2/9/20
Jasper and Jinx, their original names, became Tom and Jerry in 1940 and turned 80 this weekend. A career that included some production time in Prague in the early 1960s.
2/22/20
#Andre Bazin , a film critic, wrote this in 1967 :"The cinema owes virtually nothing to the scientific spirit," ..... The
fathers of film are not scholars, but rather "monomaniacs, men driven
by an impulse, do it-yourself men or at best ingenious industrialists."
Is this back-handed compliment, complete bullshit, jealousy, or all of the above?
3/12/20
#Nadasurf played two shows in the same day to beat virus restrictions of 1000 people in avenue by playing Paris show twice, one at 1900 and then at 2115 . #vanmorrison did a similar thing in a different Paris venue. #coronavirus .
3/21/20
digging #johnnyrotten 's comment on Occupy Wall St movement which he liked for awhile but " it always ends with some hippie playing a flute"
4/18/20
"A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side." George Eliot aka
Mary Ann Evans
4/29/20
Some candor from a famous 84 year-old actress #JulieAndrews: I'm 'old and crotchety' for a ‘Princess Diaries 3,’ but would do it for Anne Hathaway
6/13/20
A little bit of Bowie from "up the hill backwards"
More idols then realities
I'm okay, you're so so
7/16/20
Oh no, more Hitler stories but this may be worth reading:
#HansPosse , Hitler's favorite museum man in Germany, documented a vast criminal enterprise in looted art in minute detail
in his travel diaries which are now available online .
7/24/20
I was listening to "Everytime you go" by the Tragically Hip and remain amused by the lyric "pissin bliss" penned by the late Gord Downie.
8/23/20
#johncleese on dealing with political correctness: comedians “have to set the bar according to what we are told by the most
touchy, most emotionally unstable, and fragile and least stoic people in
the country.”
9/30/20
Years ago David Bowie sang ,Is there life on Mars? Italian scientists reported that a network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars’ South Pole
alongside a large underground lake, which raises the possibility of tiny,
swimming Martian life.
11/14/20
I saw a video clip of #OrsonWelles discussing Hemingway and eventually found my way to this quote about #Hemingway's suicide from #johnhuston : "Hemingway wouldn’t have done it had it been cancer. But he was on his way to imbecility."
12/12/20
#markknopler from the song Lady Writer: "you talked to me when you felt like it " I'm sure you know the feeling.
12/15/20
The life of former British PM Tony Blair will be the subject of a rock opera to be performed in London in 2021. I wonder if Pete Townsend will be involved in the project.
1/17/20
“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.” George Eliot (Mary Evans)
02/27/21
"Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl." Jackie Gleason
03/27/21
I watched old video clips of David Bowie and John Lennon separately discussing their collaborations on the song Fame which were mostly positive, and then got a chuckle from Lennon's response to a question about his chats with Bowie while working on Bowie's cover of the Lennon-McCartney tune, across the universe. I paraphrase: which David, you never know which one you're talking to?
04/10/21
Over the years Rotten Johnny's comments about British royalty have changed so I bet he utters kinder words about the death of Prince Philip than Harry and Meghan do from California today.
05/22/21
Rotten Johnny, the ex SexPistol, shoots from the hip again on the woke brigade defacing a statue of Churchill last summer.. Churchill "saved Britain" and added that "whatever he got up to in South Africa or India beforehand is utterly irrelevant" to the current issues of today.
JUNE 11, 2021
Sir Van Morrison took to the stage at the Europa Hotel in Belfast last night to hit out at Health Minister Robin Swann. for the last minute forced cancellation of his concerts
North Antrim MP Ian Paisley joined him on stage.
July 29, 2021
Getting a chuckle out of John Mayer's new album title, "Sob Rock"
Aug 10, 2021
Director Tsai Ming-liang's documentary "The Night" and Chung Mong-hong's drama "The Falls" were submitted under the name Taiwan, but Venice Film Festival organizers listed the two films as being from "Chinese Taipei". Communist China wields its influence everywhere.
Aug 18, 2021
Elton John interviewed on partying with John Lennon. They were doing rails in a hotel room and someone knocked on the door. EJ said it's Warhol and Lennon said ,No. . EJ said ,why. Lennon: "He always carries a camera."
Sept 5, 2021
#davidspade on cancel culture survival : "I just turned into Marlon Blando"
Nov 9, 2021
Northern Ireland’s health minister #robinswann is suing Van Morrison after the singer accused him of being “very dangerous” over his handling of Covid restrictions. Also, there are allegations that Van called Swann a fraud in a print interview.
Nov 20, 2021
I tend to give the music industry a hard time for some of its political stances, but props for Homeland and Life, a Cuban protest anthem against the Commies that won a Latin Grammy for song of the year. Hopefully, Maykel Osorbo, one of the songwriters, won't die in a Cuban prison.
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