Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
Friday, January 22, 2021
Sensitivity Runs Amok Dept. - Tom Paxton
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In other news, it's been a shitstorm of spam comments while youse bums bin' sleepin' what I had to clean up. If perchance I accidentally removed in error a comment of yours by mistake and you have trouble commenting on account I fucked up, use another alias. I theng kew!
ReplyDeleteWhat Did You Learn in School Today?
ReplyDeleteA wet bird never flies at night.
DeleteI see we're both fans of the existentialist: Sig Sakowitz
DeleteI think I stole that from comic: Jackie Vernon.
DeleteTesting, testig.... Buehler, Buehler....
ReplyDelete"sincerity, social conscience, gentle satire, and collegiate romanticism"...
ReplyDeletey e a h... plus, uhm a cobra snake for a necktie, and a brand new house on the roadside made from rattlesnake hide with a brand new chimney on top
made out of a human skull....
I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin', when I was about 9 or 10 his acoustic version of "Who Do You Love" on a VA record my mom had got my attention
not too mention his tombstone hand and graveyard mind and he was just 22 but didn't mind dying and who knows in that dark alley what he seen
ReplyDeleteThis from the woman who loved the Beatles but thought the Stones were rough (so you know where I had to come down). My father the jazz and blues (and classical trumpet music, what?) guy thought they were all posers...He also took me to see James Brown at Southern University when I was like 11 and I thought his act at the end was real and the dude was lit-er-ally dying...
Smart man, your father.
Delete"The Father of Vanadium Chemistry"--very confusing when you're a small child.
Delete“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song”
ReplyDeleteLouis Armstrong or Big Bill Broonzy?
Yogi Berra, perhaps?
He obviously listened to the wrong damn horses all his life.
DeleteHmm. I thought that was Chester Burnett, a/k/a Howlin' Wolf.
DeleteAs Abraham Lincoln said in 1864:
Delete"The problem with internet quotes is that you can't always depend on their accuracy"
Sam Clemens?
Delete"There are only two kinds of music: bad and good."
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Also used by Louis Armstrong just the other night on a repeat airing of Ken Burns' "Jazz."
"I never even said half the things I said."
- Yogi Berra
the joys of being an academic geek--I have on occasion spent days trying to track down "quotes" that turn out to be apocryphal...
Delete"History is bunk" - P.T. Barnum (I said that)
DeleteApocryphal. My favorite ice cream flavor! Or was it soda...?
DeleteIt may be a cliché but, say that one ten times fast... S
Sheesh, I have a hard enough time keeping tabs on just WHAT is the big diff between an oxymoron, an axiom, an idiom and ... and ... and ... (Don't ax this oxyidjit...
Woody Guthrie, I think: "folk music is music for folks"
ReplyDeleteAh, Tom Paxton. "The Last Thing On My Mind", here's a modern standard for you that in the early 70s seemingly everyone got their hands on.
ReplyDeleteNice write=up, who knew you had it in you? Have you been replaced?!
ReplyDeleteReplicants need not apply liberal doses, lather rinse, repeat.
Delete...NO New POTUS comments...
(Talk about a new HAIR to the throne...?)
Likewise I'm sure, tcw3, for those kind words! Yes, this jewel-like piece of writing is indeed my own. Unfortunately, pieces of this calibre are not well liked by the monobrowed slobs, cheap grifters, and gurning merryandrews who litter the pure sands of th' Isle O' Foam©! They come for the tits n' laffs, and it is my tragic fate to supply them. My dedication to High Art has, alas, led me into the fleshless arms of Penury. Two fine novels remain unsold, such are the times we live in! However, I do urge you to read the entire fucking blog - it's not like you have anything better to do - because you will find several pieces of like quality, slipped between the tits n' laffs in a vain attempt to lift the readers' bloodshot eye from the gutter to the Heavens.
DeleteFrom The Gutter To The Heavens.
DeleteMy favorite rock doc.
Or issit my favorite non-denominational, non-dimensional, quasi-religulous gathering place what's where I like to be at each Sunday morning. Wait. I never awake on a Sunday morning.
These are also my two favorite Paxton LPs.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Phillip K. Dick, I also am adjusting to the new reality here in the US.
Speaking of Phillip K. Dick, I hope you noted the final lines of the Scanner Darkly movie? Just snuck in there - they turn the whole movie around - it's not the bleak, hopeless ending it appears. He's won, not lost.
DeleteNobody wants these elpees for shame? Speak up or they join Slayer in th' Dumpster O' Foam™.
ReplyDeleteThey an't 'zactly the "the "The Compleat Tom Paxton" See-Dee set from Rhino Handjob, but, what the hey, run 'em up the Isle flagpole & see if anyone salutes 'em.
Delete(Was that asking nicely enough...?)
Er ... not really. Uploading files is boring, and I'll wait until somebody wants to hear them, when I'll be pleased to be bored.
DeleteOops. I typed & hyped too soon.
DeleteThe folkloric, er, storybook of my so-life...
That '71 joint, "The Compleat T.P." was..... (gasp, choke, kiss of death for purists!) "Recorded Live"!
Here is a suitable starter course for Tom peepers, er, people who want to Czech it out at their nearest ill+eagle Chai-Knees downloadage site...:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2467054-I-Cant-Help-But-Wonder-Where-Im-Bound-The-Best-Of-Tom-Paxton/images
Dig the vintage logo (like the one on my Joseph Spence ElPee...!)
Don't feel bad. I would want them if I'd not already got TP's LPs on the shelf, where they nestle between a couple of Pavlov's Dog records to the left and Danny Peck to the right.
ReplyDeleteI always find the left / right bedfellows of any given record to be quite interesting, sad fellow that I am.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Ooh, I don't feel bad! I feel good that most of th' 4/5 Guys already have them.
DeleteWhen I had shelves groaning with elpees, I used to enjoy the spinal synchronicity, too.
I don't have more than a couple of Tam's tunes on comp's, so I would like them, whenever you're in the mood for some boredom.
ReplyDeleteI was in County Cork a few years back, learning to breathe from a follower of Prof. Buteyko, and got quite chummy with the fella that ran the local shop. "My father had this shop before me, and was renowned as a teller of traditional tales", he told me proudly. "Most of which he'd made up himself".
A pleasure. Revisiting TTINN, it strikes me as a very fine piece of work.
DeleteStealth Link HERE!
Thanks Farq.
DeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteYou're right. TTINN is a fine piece of work. The first thing I did after listening to it was listen to it again. Doesn't often happen. I hear what you mean about the full production and beautiful songwriting. His voice is fine, by me, and all of the songs are new to me. Just listening to The Iron Man, again.
DeleteToodles.
That's what I did too, after dusting it off. It asks to be played again - exactly the right length, beautifully sequenced, a lot going on in The Iron Man, and finishing with the achingly lovely All Night Long.
DeleteThe terms "underrated" and "due for reassessment" spring to mind.
It`s Sunday so it must be The Rev.
ReplyDeleteAs unlikely as it may seem, my brother, Ian Hunt (who, without bias, is an amazing guitarist & singer) played with Mr.Paxton for a couple of years (in the 70`s or 80`s).
Mr. Paxton even allowed him a solo spot during the concert (there was a televised special which I`ve never seen.
Mr.Paxton`s genorosity was not reciprocated by mon frere as he told mehe was a name dropping, pretentious poseur (& not a very good guitarist). Ingrate indeed. He gave my brother some platters he obtained from the record co. Three of these I still have, two volumes of The Tribute To Woody with his Bobness & The Band delivering Dear Mrs Roosevelt, one of my fave Bob performances (you could say I am a fan of Mr.Dylan as I have approx.300 cds of his) & Paul Seibel, who became a cult figure for awile.
Unfortunately, I don`t think that Mr.Paxton once owning these discs will add to their value. Any offers? Apologies if that`s breaking the rules.
Step into the light.
The Rev.Dr.Baz
Well, yeah, he was how he was, but here on the blessed, sea-girt isle of our dreams we're less concerned with how people are (people, basically) than what they do. Which is much more interesting.
DeletePlease use the comments section to offload any old chattels you have in the crawl space, but remember to send me a cut of the profits.
Thanks for the moldy oldies but what I'm really looking for is some best quality Yorkshire puppies -- anybody know where to get some? I'm especially interested in some beautiful adorable teacup Yorkie puppies; but then again, ain't we all? That's the reason I'm here anyway
ReplyDeleteAs it happens I have the A Scanner Darkly DVD and will check on that last lines. My memory is that it was more or less verbatim from Dick's ending, but I'll check and comment later.
ReplyDeleteI meant dose last lines...............
DeleteFarq, you're right. There's a note of defiance and persistence there that's different in tone than PKD's text.
DeleteThere's a line in the script - something about Thanksgiving? - that shows he hasn't lost his mind, he remembers, and he's going to get out. It's a while since I showed it at th' Foam-O-Rama© surf-in theater, I'll dig it out. But the hidden twist is in the words he says, not his attitude.
DeleteRight - just checked it out. About five minutes from the end, he sees the blue flowers. The bad guys show up, and he tells them "they're gone" - he can't see them. The bad guy is happy at this. But he's lying - when the bad guys leave, he crouches down again and *picks the flower*. "A present for my friends - at Thanksgiving." You can hear the change in his tone of voice - when he's talking to the bad guys, he sounds like a retard. When he delivers this monolog, he's speaking with conviction and intelligence (the note of defiance you picked up). Then - the act of a rebel - he carefully hides the flower in his boot and moves on. He's going to see his friends again, at Thanksgiving. And he has what he came for, what he went through everything to get - proof. He's won. He's okay.
DeleteAt first viewing it looks like a downer ending - he's a mindless, brainwashed slave, but his last line turns everything around.
Not my favorite PKD novel (that would be UBIK), but an excellent film adaptation.
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