Timing is everything. You posted this and I read it about 1/2-an-hr after realizing that this is the 50th anniversary of the best piece of work I ever did winning a silver One Show award. It's been mostly down hill ever since. Comparative scorekeeping...
We disagree re: Booker's 25 hr talkathon. The Dems don't need to talk, they have to actually do something. People complaining about Trump/Musk/MAGA/GOP need to shut up and do something. Me included. I made my living writing and earned a small reputation as a poet and imo, words are cheap and easy. Action costs more and is more difficult. Talk won't beat the bastards, action has a 50/50 chance depending on how many gripers do something.
This is the best read I’ve had all year! I laughed and saw the wisdom with your very special brand of humor! I am sending to A bunch of people ok? Just my friends!
Well that was a lovely non-drug-induced trip. I listened to "Jupiter" to see if I could approximate your transcendent theater experience, while seated on my sofa beside a sleeping Catahoula-Beagle. Here's a selective recreation of my thoughts (voices in my head) which resembles metaphorically what happens when a random sky diety inadvertently knocks over a case of pingpong balls into a pack of hounds. The chase is on!
What a beautiful...
I wonder what Muppet I am? Probably a cross between Grover... frantic, anxious, joyful yep, & the hippie girl Muppet. What's her name? What about Animal? Nah, more like the old lady Muppet whose head blows up in the ballroom scene. Oh yeah, that's it. How come two of my Muppets are nameless? I don't know... (internal sigh)
This song is great. I'm definitely gonna add it to my "Never Enough Space" playlist. Maybe after "13430" [a BTS song about Pluto being abandoned, nameless, & reduced to a number]. That IS a great playlist: BTS, Manhattan Transfer, Age Of Aquarius, Love Walks In... Did you know it's a song about... Yes, yes, we KNOW it's a song about an alien abduction! Seriously STOP listing all your playlist. But it's a great playlist! WE KNOW! Someday, I'm going make a playlist about RAIN! Uh-oh, here it comes... Don't you dare say "Smoky Mountain..." Oh shit.
[Moments of silence, voices in head all listening...]
Ooo, I like this majestic part, it reminds me of a Disney movie soundtrack. Which movie? ALL orchestra music reminds you of Disney. Thanks, Disney. Seriously they take over everything. What's that word? Appropriation. Oh yes, that's it.
Maybe this song or my Space playlist will be enough to get "Smoky Mountain... DON'T SAY IT!
I do really like this song. Maybe Don R. could recommend a song in every post, that would be cool! Don't ask him. Yeah, rude! Ok. I bet this WAS awesome in a theater...
Theater?! It was fun going to the movie theater last night. Even though we spent $58 on popcorn, Diet Coke & bottled water. Still. It was an experience. A year ago I thought I would never be able to eat popcorn again. Yeah. Esophagus Stretching. What was the name of that procedure? Whatever. I'm glad we went to the theater. Your daughter asks you to see "A Minecraft Movie" on opening night, that's what you do! You're only going to have her [at home] for 2 1/2 more years... STOP!
[Remembering/conflating last night "at the theater" but it's actually today, listening to your song.]
Omg. Her perfume. Ugh, Lady! Yes, hello, hi very nice lady. What IS that perfume? Not Pink Sugar, not Vanderbilt, not Pure Grace... Are we gonna get Covid again? We vax to the max, mama! [WTF?!] Nice reclining seats though, adequately spaced. Shut. up. Just enjoy the the fucking movie! Omg, Jack Black. Dude, you need a larger shirt, seriously. Ok, it's funny. Nostalgia sells. But all his songs sound like he makes them up as he goes along. He does! That's his thing, his schtick. Really?! I don't know.
Remember all the hours she [my daughter, who LOVES this movie & is laughing out loud repeatedly, which really means something from an angsty, emo teenager] spent playing Minecraft? With her Dad [my engineer husband], remember all those intricate buildings he built? Remember the one time YOU tried to play Minecraft? You ended up accidentally setting your flower garden & house on fire, & then you couldn't stop the water trying to put it out, so you ended up stuck in the sea or something? Trying to see underwater with your light stick. It's A Torch! Fine. And you said, "I just set my world on fire, & then the water kept coming, so now it's dark underwater & I can't see how to get out. Which way is up?" Yes I remember! Just enjoy the fucking movie!
This song is really lovely. How much time is left? I wonder what K-pop song he listened to? BTS has changed my life. Isn't that overstating it? Hmm. No, they've actually changed my life, kept me interested in learning something new & kept me sane. True. First obsessed with The Beach Boys. Then Dirty Loops. Now BTS. What about Freddie? Oh yes, & Freddy. If you like him so much, why do you always forget & try to spell his name with a "y?" I know. Because you're an idiot, that's why. I know. I'm an idiot. Ok then. SHUT UP! She's losing it...
Like I said, nice trip. Thank you. I was going to listen the flea song, but I'm going to wait til tomorrow. I can only take so much internal reprimanding in one day.
I'm gonna skip the politics discussion today. I don't want to ruin my trip, while I'm still experiencing the residual "Good Vibrations" of the movie theater. "Oh hey, Brian Wilson, ya good man?"
"I, I love the colorful clothes she wears & the way the sunlight plays upon her hair. Aaaaaye....". Is this song about the hippie girl muppet?
Note: The auto-absurd auto correction for "non-drug-induced" was "monarchy" twice, & "non-merit" once. What does that even mean?! [Old Lady Muppet head blowing up in 3, 2, 1...]
Well, I gave it a listen & I actually liked the music, but the lyrics are not my cup of slug juice. Probably because they could have been used as the soundtrack of my creepy ass childhood. Or Dahmer’s.
To distract myself, I ended up thinking about the guy in “Silence Of The Lambs” making a woman suit out of flesh, which segued into Dahmer killing animals when he was a kid. This reminded me of Trump ranting, “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats!” Now there’s a voice in my head that sounds like the cook in Mary Poppins, shouting, “Man yer stations! Roit, I reckon s’not the cheeriest bit a music I ‘erd, but they ain’t all knee-slappers, guvner!”
The Beach Boys have a Manson connection as well. Dennis Wilson picked up some of Charlie’s girls, took them back to the ranch & stayed awhile, & became friends with Charlie. (Dennis was notorious for making bad decisions, including the one that caused his death:
“On December 28, 1983, Dennis drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.”)
Anyway, Charlie thought of himself as a musician & saw Dennis as his big time connection. Charlie wrote “Cease To Exist” which TBB recorded with different lyrics & a different title & he was pissed.
Also there’s some connection about the house where Sharon Tate was murdered. It was formerly owned by Terry Melcher, a record producer (who knew & later worked with TBB), who had recently moved. There’s speculation that Charlie sent Tex & his girls to the house, to off Melcher, because Melcher didn’t get Charlie a deal. Charlie supposedly said he knew he had moved, but who knows.
I’m tellin’ ya, in LA, instead of Kevin Bacon, it’s “Six degrees to The Beach Boys.” To paraphrase their famous song, “They got around.” 😎
Timing is everything. You posted this and I read it about 1/2-an-hr after realizing that this is the 50th anniversary of the best piece of work I ever did winning a silver One Show award. It's been mostly down hill ever since. Comparative scorekeeping...
We disagree re: Booker's 25 hr talkathon. The Dems don't need to talk, they have to actually do something. People complaining about Trump/Musk/MAGA/GOP need to shut up and do something. Me included. I made my living writing and earned a small reputation as a poet and imo, words are cheap and easy. Action costs more and is more difficult. Talk won't beat the bastards, action has a 50/50 chance depending on how many gripers do something.
All just imo of course.
Bro...have a totally kick-ass week.
This is the best read I’ve had all year! I laughed and saw the wisdom with your very special brand of humor! I am sending to A bunch of people ok? Just my friends!
When my stepson graduated from Leeds conservatoire in 2022, Jupiter was played as we paraded out, his mother and I brimming with pride and tears.
Well that was a lovely non-drug-induced trip. I listened to "Jupiter" to see if I could approximate your transcendent theater experience, while seated on my sofa beside a sleeping Catahoula-Beagle. Here's a selective recreation of my thoughts (voices in my head) which resembles metaphorically what happens when a random sky diety inadvertently knocks over a case of pingpong balls into a pack of hounds. The chase is on!
What a beautiful...
I wonder what Muppet I am? Probably a cross between Grover... frantic, anxious, joyful yep, & the hippie girl Muppet. What's her name? What about Animal? Nah, more like the old lady Muppet whose head blows up in the ballroom scene. Oh yeah, that's it. How come two of my Muppets are nameless? I don't know... (internal sigh)
This song is great. I'm definitely gonna add it to my "Never Enough Space" playlist. Maybe after "13430" [a BTS song about Pluto being abandoned, nameless, & reduced to a number]. That IS a great playlist: BTS, Manhattan Transfer, Age Of Aquarius, Love Walks In... Did you know it's a song about... Yes, yes, we KNOW it's a song about an alien abduction! Seriously STOP listing all your playlist. But it's a great playlist! WE KNOW! Someday, I'm going make a playlist about RAIN! Uh-oh, here it comes... Don't you dare say "Smoky Mountain..." Oh shit.
[Moments of silence, voices in head all listening...]
Ooo, I like this majestic part, it reminds me of a Disney movie soundtrack. Which movie? ALL orchestra music reminds you of Disney. Thanks, Disney. Seriously they take over everything. What's that word? Appropriation. Oh yes, that's it.
Maybe this song or my Space playlist will be enough to get "Smoky Mountain... DON'T SAY IT!
I do really like this song. Maybe Don R. could recommend a song in every post, that would be cool! Don't ask him. Yeah, rude! Ok. I bet this WAS awesome in a theater...
Theater?! It was fun going to the movie theater last night. Even though we spent $58 on popcorn, Diet Coke & bottled water. Still. It was an experience. A year ago I thought I would never be able to eat popcorn again. Yeah. Esophagus Stretching. What was the name of that procedure? Whatever. I'm glad we went to the theater. Your daughter asks you to see "A Minecraft Movie" on opening night, that's what you do! You're only going to have her [at home] for 2 1/2 more years... STOP!
[Remembering/conflating last night "at the theater" but it's actually today, listening to your song.]
Omg. Her perfume. Ugh, Lady! Yes, hello, hi very nice lady. What IS that perfume? Not Pink Sugar, not Vanderbilt, not Pure Grace... Are we gonna get Covid again? We vax to the max, mama! [WTF?!] Nice reclining seats though, adequately spaced. Shut. up. Just enjoy the the fucking movie! Omg, Jack Black. Dude, you need a larger shirt, seriously. Ok, it's funny. Nostalgia sells. But all his songs sound like he makes them up as he goes along. He does! That's his thing, his schtick. Really?! I don't know.
Remember all the hours she [my daughter, who LOVES this movie & is laughing out loud repeatedly, which really means something from an angsty, emo teenager] spent playing Minecraft? With her Dad [my engineer husband], remember all those intricate buildings he built? Remember the one time YOU tried to play Minecraft? You ended up accidentally setting your flower garden & house on fire, & then you couldn't stop the water trying to put it out, so you ended up stuck in the sea or something? Trying to see underwater with your light stick. It's A Torch! Fine. And you said, "I just set my world on fire, & then the water kept coming, so now it's dark underwater & I can't see how to get out. Which way is up?" Yes I remember! Just enjoy the fucking movie!
This song is really lovely. How much time is left? I wonder what K-pop song he listened to? BTS has changed my life. Isn't that overstating it? Hmm. No, they've actually changed my life, kept me interested in learning something new & kept me sane. True. First obsessed with The Beach Boys. Then Dirty Loops. Now BTS. What about Freddie? Oh yes, & Freddy. If you like him so much, why do you always forget & try to spell his name with a "y?" I know. Because you're an idiot, that's why. I know. I'm an idiot. Ok then. SHUT UP! She's losing it...
Like I said, nice trip. Thank you. I was going to listen the flea song, but I'm going to wait til tomorrow. I can only take so much internal reprimanding in one day.
I'm gonna skip the politics discussion today. I don't want to ruin my trip, while I'm still experiencing the residual "Good Vibrations" of the movie theater. "Oh hey, Brian Wilson, ya good man?"
"I, I love the colorful clothes she wears & the way the sunlight plays upon her hair. Aaaaaye....". Is this song about the hippie girl muppet?
Note: The auto-absurd auto correction for "non-drug-induced" was "monarchy" twice, & "non-merit" once. What does that even mean?! [Old Lady Muppet head blowing up in 3, 2, 1...]
I recommend balancing the Beach Boy's 'Good Vibrations' with Throbbing Gristle's 'Slug Bait' for the Newark Experience...
Well, I gave it a listen & I actually liked the music, but the lyrics are not my cup of slug juice. Probably because they could have been used as the soundtrack of my creepy ass childhood. Or Dahmer’s.
To distract myself, I ended up thinking about the guy in “Silence Of The Lambs” making a woman suit out of flesh, which segued into Dahmer killing animals when he was a kid. This reminded me of Trump ranting, “They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats!” Now there’s a voice in my head that sounds like the cook in Mary Poppins, shouting, “Man yer stations! Roit, I reckon s’not the cheeriest bit a music I ‘erd, but they ain’t all knee-slappers, guvner!”
When your train of thought goes:
Childhood
Silence Of The Lambs
Dahmer
Trump
Mary Poppins
Wtf does that mean?!🤨
LOL
It means you're a 21st Century Woman!
Btw: the lyric are Manson-inspired.
Throbbing Gristle is a longtime favorite group of mine.
Manson makes sense.
The Beach Boys have a Manson connection as well. Dennis Wilson picked up some of Charlie’s girls, took them back to the ranch & stayed awhile, & became friends with Charlie. (Dennis was notorious for making bad decisions, including the one that caused his death:
“On December 28, 1983, Dennis drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce.”)
Anyway, Charlie thought of himself as a musician & saw Dennis as his big time connection. Charlie wrote “Cease To Exist” which TBB recorded with different lyrics & a different title & he was pissed.
Also there’s some connection about the house where Sharon Tate was murdered. It was formerly owned by Terry Melcher, a record producer (who knew & later worked with TBB), who had recently moved. There’s speculation that Charlie sent Tex & his girls to the house, to off Melcher, because Melcher didn’t get Charlie a deal. Charlie supposedly said he knew he had moved, but who knows.
I’m tellin’ ya, in LA, instead of Kevin Bacon, it’s “Six degrees to The Beach Boys.” To paraphrase their famous song, “They got around.” 😎
Read 'The Family' by Ed Sanders (of Fugs fame) for a very different take on Manson from Bugliosi's...
Will do! I’ll have a listen this evening & get back to you. Best in class award for squeamiesht band name! (Hey, I made up a word!)