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.
just like Trigger's broom...
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DeleteA buddy of mine sold me George Washington's ax (that cut that tree down). He had replaced the head cuz it was chipped, and I had to replace the handle cuz it was rotting, but now I own George's famous ax!
ReplyDeleteOver thirty years ago I had the front of my house re-pointed, the person who did the work used new metric sized bricks to replace some old crumbling bricks. The job needs doing again, and the guy who will be doing the work has insisted he will replace the ‘new’ metric sized bricks with the correct ‘old’ size bricks. This is slightly off topic but I think you’ll understand, and those ‘new’ bricks did look wrong.
ReplyDeleteTell him that the immutable intention is the living essence of the design and does he want six sugars?
DeleteHe's done work for me before and it's no sugars(!).
DeleteA very poetic allusion to the various replacement parts(eg clip-on todger) Farq has been buying off Temu as the Mekong Meths takes its toll.
ReplyDeleteToday's special offer on Temu was Temu - you could buy the whole company for the equivalent of thirteen bucks Canadian. I think it's still in my cart.
DeleteSo, like the Sugababes, then?
ReplyDeleteWhich reminds me, Push The Button is a great little pop song, as is, in the same vein, S-Club 7's Don't Stop Movin'. They are most assuredly not gulity pleasures, but unashamedly brilliant, little golden pop nuggets. So bite me.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me (no foolin') of the debate over remixing or remastering older multitrack recordings (or old mono stuff for that matter). The essence is untouched; only decay and the shortcomings of old technology are being removed.
ReplyDelete... restoring Old Master paintings by Beethoven and Shakespeare an' stuff has long been accepted as the right thing to do. Audio nuts having panic attacks at the thought of removing "artifacts" are doing the equivalent of claiming nicotine-stained and patina'd and faded artworks are the "real" thing. I always ax meself what the musicians would have wanted - some fantastic-sounding music, or the sound of the inadequate and obsolete recording process? Audio nuts is nuts.
DeleteI'm an audio nut (of sorts) but I understand and agree with your analysis.
DeleteHere here, where where??...Carry on
DeleteI forget the numbers, but at a certain point in our lives not a single cell remains of who we were as kids - we are not who we were. And yet we never question our identity. We are the temple and the broom, forever renewed. "Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost". Where have we seen that before?
ReplyDeleteShip of Theseus, Mr. Throckmorton³. Locally, we have "Jack London's log cabin" in Oakland's Jack London Square. Sort of, of course, because it can't be that easy. In the mid-60s, someone tracked down London's cabin in the Yukon, authenticated by his carving his name into one of the logs. Well, it wasn't doing anyone any good out in the wilderness, so they broke it down into a pile of logs, split it into two piles, and built smaller replica cabins in Dawson City, Yukon, and Oakland, California. Which is the real cabin? Neither, and both.
ReplyDeleteYessss!
DeleteCertain bands qualify for the everlasting idea category: Little Feat, par exemple. Strike Up The Band features "Bill Payne ... the sole original, but bassist Kenny Gradney and Clayton remain from the expanded 70s lineup. They are joined by veteran sideman Fred Tackett... along with recent additions Scott Sharrard (guitar), and Tony Leone (drums/percussion)."
ReplyDelete@320, like it makes a diff:
https://workupload.com/file/e9BgQv9hxFn
The Drifters are on tour this summer. So is the County Basie Band. But they're lazy laggards compared to the Cory Band, which was founded in 1884.
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