tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post4636639579167286014..comments2024-03-28T00:06:43.735-07:00Comments on Tillalala Chronicles: The Right Place At The Right TimeJohn Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-14672203805213087712011-09-15T13:59:51.889-07:002011-09-15T13:59:51.889-07:00once again, thank you.
James P. Cannon said (I th...once again, thank you.<br /><br />James P. Cannon said (I think in his 60th birthday speech)<br /><br />"Youth is the age of virtue. Or, more correctly, it is the age of courage, which is the first virtue. Every man's younger self is his better self. Youth is when your ideals and values seem to be, as they really are, more important than anything else...<br />I've been lucky... "<br /><br />*<br /><br />oh, maybe I shouldn't, but I will...<br />it is... oh, it is just so easy to look at the modern music industry, or any industry, or any other person, but oh let us look in the mirror -- and sincerely calculate there what we have defended and what we have given up...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-19976764760788574012011-09-02T09:40:22.318-07:002011-09-02T09:40:22.318-07:00"black-turtlenecked on the Left Bank," a..."black-turtlenecked on the Left Bank," absolutely. Ginsberg visited Celine on one of his excursions to Paris. He also performed with The Clash. The Hippie ethos of tolerance and sexual openness masked a lot of neurotic, passive agressive behavior. The "back to the garden" effort to regain innocence at all cost proved fatal. It resulted in a lot of dishonesty. And Jesus Christ Superstar. <br /><br />The whorishness I see in performers like Madonna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, and so on, hasn't much to do with sex at all. It is the garish, dime-store trashiness and lack of aesthetic integrity that is so off-putting. By contrast, singer song-writer Adele is fantastic, a hugely talented musician. I love that video for "Rolling In The Deep."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-65669605201641900502011-09-02T06:25:59.119-07:002011-09-02T06:25:59.119-07:00No offense to sex workers, right. I think prostitu...No offense to sex workers, right. I think prostitution, drugs, and other things--e.g., victimless crimes--should be legal. And I didn't object to Madonna's whorishness. She just wasn't my type. I didn't think she was a very nice person. Couldn't understand what a smart, cool guy like Sean Penn saw in her. And I didn't like her voice, melodies, lyrics, or synthy instrumentation. I wanted either folky orchestration or plugged-in blues rock à la Hendrix and Zepp. <br /><br />"I never understood the connection with the beats and the hippies, Kerouac especially." Right. To me, Kerouac and Burroughs especially. Maybe even Ginsberg. It's easier for me to imagine those guys black-turtlenecked on the Left Bank than flower-haired in the Haight-Ashbury. I associate the Beats with punkdom. I have a temperamental affinity to punkers. I respect a good hippie, but I couldn't be one, not exactly.David Grovehttp://www.eye-grotto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-77086941390665363172011-09-01T19:21:26.182-07:002011-09-01T19:21:26.182-07:00I haven't listened to Laura Nyro since my frie...I haven't listened to Laura Nyro since my friend David played her for me, in 1968. Madonna has always seemed to me a younger version of Ethel Merman, whose singing voice I could not stand. I could never figure out why people liked her singing. Maybe because it was so quintessentially American. Brassy, ballsy, vulgar, harsh, martial, imperial. Madonna put an erotic spin on it, but it wasn't the Eros of the beats or hippies, which was joyful, but the Eros of the marketplace, i.e. whore (no offense to sex workers).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-76870942505597466692011-09-01T17:50:24.791-07:002011-09-01T17:50:24.791-07:00The passage about Nyro dovetails with my image of ...The passage about Nyro dovetails with my image of her as a sensitive, soulful person. Ethereal in a blue-collar, Bronxy way. <br /><br />I'm a Laura Nyro fan. I have about half a dozen of her LPs. I just tried to post one of my favorites from New York Tendaberry, but youtube wouldn't let me. <br /><br />When I was young, Madonna was hugely popular; but I wouldn't have crossed the street to see her for free, and I found her about as attractive as a leprous octegenarian. <br /><br />I wouldn't know a Lady Gaga song if I heard one.David Grovehttp://www.eye-grotto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com