The Hugh Laurie post I was mentioning before will just have to wait. Am a little apprehensive about going straight into some maniacal raving of how much I love the guy after just one other post. Might be a little freaky on this shiny new blog. At least it can wait another day.
Much more interesting was the following bit of ramblings that I had just had to stop doing what I was doing to ticky tap type out:
"Man, listening to the Dec 1970 Rolling Stone interview with John Lennon is a trip. Not the stoned stupid kind of trip but the taking a moment to shake your head gently from side to side kind of trip. Its a completely honest portrait, which is expected of Lennon and his mouth but before this, I'd always sort of gotten the honesty in little digestible pieces. Little snippets here blah blah quote there but this was a whole 'nother thing. About 3 and 1/2 hours worth of insight with a whole new level of truth I'd never experienced before into the mind of the legend, his relationship with Yoko, the Beatles as a myth and also as a very real band. I must admit, the pretty monument of fun and magic embodying the Beatles myth really gets a bit crumbly after this interview which is very much a downer but on the other hand my admiration for John grows w/ his courage to just say what it was, for what it was worth.
He might have felt differently a few days later maybe even a few hours after the interview and he even acknowledged that incongruity and he said it anyway, but thats what John was like wasn't he? Just to say what he felt in that moment. The contradictions and delicate relationships w/ the people in his life. The Beatles as individuals really became "real" people after this interview, full of complications and dark shadowy corners. In all honesty, he wasn't just shitting on everyone like the public was making this interview out to be when it was released a few months ago. In one breath, he could be very condeming but in another full of admiration. The people he described were warm, smart, termpermental, jealous, hurt, etc etc or in other words - people all going through their own from of trauma with what the Beatles experience was."
Am reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Passage that stuck out:
"I wanted to cry but I didn't cry, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room, ending our suffering, they would have found us floating face-down in two thousand white pages, or buried under the salt of my evaporated tears..." pg124
Recommended Tunes For Today:
+ John Lennon - Rolling Stone interview December 1970 with Jann S. Wenner
(Actually free on iTunes podcasts!!)
Not a musical tune but its kind of expected that I'd pick these tracks
+ Mississippi Fred McDowell - Baby Please Don't Go
(He's so FUCKING cool!!! I love the little speaking intro: "And I do not play no rock n' roll y'all [...] the only way you can rock Fred, you gotta put him in a rocking chair, or ya can lay me down, you understands meh [a phlegmy cackle] thas my type of rocking [cackle]. Hah Ha!)
+ Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
(For some reason I kept avoiding this band for quite a long time because I mixed them up with Dashboard Confessionals who I am totally unimpressed with. Its probably because they both have the automobile thing going and the D's and C's. Anyhow, I've now been converted after my sis forced me to download the album)
+ Staples Singers - Wade In The Water
(Now how cooool are they! Just the right balance of soul and gospel)
+ John Doe - Dyin' To Get Home
(Totally love this guy. I'm proud to say I've met him after a long period of intense admiration and he was not the least bit disappointing as one might expect when you meet someone you admire. No indeedy not. The opposite I would say. Totally sexy in that rough, anglo, classic punk kind of way. Even my sister said his voice is nice. Major victory if you knew my sister's interest in music I like.)
Are all the extra images clueing you in to how much I like this guy??
+ Happy Mondays - Stinkin' Thinkin'
(Its slightly annoying now, But its catchy. I'm disappointed that I still like this song after hearing it so many times, but yet....)
+ BRAT - Papa Was In Nine Inch Nails (BRAT mix of NIN and The Temptations)
(Mash Up)
+ Psoma - Walk Away
(Probably some obscure not quite one hit wonder band. One song that is good in their whole careers. Makes you wonder what stars were aligned that day to enable an otherwise talent-less band to birth one good melody)
okay, just because I'm not writing about Laurie doesn't mean we can't enjoy another fabulous pic of the man. Gah, he's so gorgeous and sexy!
Much more interesting was the following bit of ramblings that I had just had to stop doing what I was doing to ticky tap type out:
"Man, listening to the Dec 1970 Rolling Stone interview with John Lennon is a trip. Not the stoned stupid kind of trip but the taking a moment to shake your head gently from side to side kind of trip. Its a completely honest portrait, which is expected of Lennon and his mouth but before this, I'd always sort of gotten the honesty in little digestible pieces. Little snippets here blah blah quote there but this was a whole 'nother thing. About 3 and 1/2 hours worth of insight with a whole new level of truth I'd never experienced before into the mind of the legend, his relationship with Yoko, the Beatles as a myth and also as a very real band. I must admit, the pretty monument of fun and magic embodying the Beatles myth really gets a bit crumbly after this interview which is very much a downer but on the other hand my admiration for John grows w/ his courage to just say what it was, for what it was worth.
He might have felt differently a few days later maybe even a few hours after the interview and he even acknowledged that incongruity and he said it anyway, but thats what John was like wasn't he? Just to say what he felt in that moment. The contradictions and delicate relationships w/ the people in his life. The Beatles as individuals really became "real" people after this interview, full of complications and dark shadowy corners. In all honesty, he wasn't just shitting on everyone like the public was making this interview out to be when it was released a few months ago. In one breath, he could be very condeming but in another full of admiration. The people he described were warm, smart, termpermental, jealous, hurt, etc etc or in other words - people all going through their own from of trauma with what the Beatles experience was."
Am reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Passage that stuck out:
"I wanted to cry but I didn't cry, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room, ending our suffering, they would have found us floating face-down in two thousand white pages, or buried under the salt of my evaporated tears..." pg124
Recommended Tunes For Today:
+ John Lennon - Rolling Stone interview December 1970 with Jann S. Wenner
(Actually free on iTunes podcasts!!)
Not a musical tune but its kind of expected that I'd pick these tracks
+ Mississippi Fred McDowell - Baby Please Don't Go
(He's so FUCKING cool!!! I love the little speaking intro: "And I do not play no rock n' roll y'all [...] the only way you can rock Fred, you gotta put him in a rocking chair, or ya can lay me down, you understands meh [a phlegmy cackle] thas my type of rocking [cackle]. Hah Ha!)
+ Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
(For some reason I kept avoiding this band for quite a long time because I mixed them up with Dashboard Confessionals who I am totally unimpressed with. Its probably because they both have the automobile thing going and the D's and C's. Anyhow, I've now been converted after my sis forced me to download the album)
+ Staples Singers - Wade In The Water
(Now how cooool are they! Just the right balance of soul and gospel)
+ John Doe - Dyin' To Get Home
(Totally love this guy. I'm proud to say I've met him after a long period of intense admiration and he was not the least bit disappointing as one might expect when you meet someone you admire. No indeedy not. The opposite I would say. Totally sexy in that rough, anglo, classic punk kind of way. Even my sister said his voice is nice. Major victory if you knew my sister's interest in music I like.)
Are all the extra images clueing you in to how much I like this guy??
+ Happy Mondays - Stinkin' Thinkin'
(Its slightly annoying now, But its catchy. I'm disappointed that I still like this song after hearing it so many times, but yet....)
+ BRAT - Papa Was In Nine Inch Nails (BRAT mix of NIN and The Temptations)
(Mash Up)
+ Psoma - Walk Away
(Probably some obscure not quite one hit wonder band. One song that is good in their whole careers. Makes you wonder what stars were aligned that day to enable an otherwise talent-less band to birth one good melody)
okay, just because I'm not writing about Laurie doesn't mean we can't enjoy another fabulous pic of the man. Gah, he's so gorgeous and sexy!
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