It could be watching your family Diced up in slow-motion By a madman with a machete, Or the time your brother let you down. It might be when you are wrongfully accused Or the night you rat out a friend Whether they figure it out or not. Maybe you discover your wife is sleeping With her Yoga teacher Or remember the time your parents Let you cry yourself to sleep. It could be your motorcycle accident Or the time you saw your Uncle naked. Under a bad moon It can all leave you scarred for life. ---o0o---
Years ago, while filming Evita in Hungary, Madonna[1] sat for an interview with an interpreter with the Budapest newspaper Blikk. USA Today later offered the interview translated into English, more or less, with improbably hilarious results. The translation originally appeared in USA Today, the favorite newspaper of bad hotels in North America.
Blikk: Madonna, Budapest says hello with arms that are spread-eagled. Did you have a visit here that was agreeable? Are you in good odor?
Madonna: Thank you for saying these compliments (holds up hands). Please stop with taking sensationalist photographs until I have removed my garments for all to see (laughs). This is a joke I have made.
Blikk: Madonna, let's cut toward the hunt: Are you a bold hussy-woman that feasts on men who are tops?
Madonna: Yes, yes, this is certainly something that brings to the surface my longings. In America, it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.
Blikk: Is this how you met Carlos, your love-servant who is reputed?... Were you dating many other people in your bed at the same time?
Madonna: No, he was the only one I was dating in my bed then, so it is a scientific fact that the baby was made in my womb using him. But as regards these questions, enough! I am a woman and not a test-mouse!
Blikk: OK, here's a question from left space: What was your book Slut about?
Madonna: It was called Sex, my book.
Blikk: Not in Hungary. Here it was called Slut...
[1] Madonna, (Louise Veronica Ciccone) is a 50-year old American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. ---o0o---
When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness your foresight will become a nimble vagrant.
[Gary Busey is driving crazy and Adam is in the passenger seat] Adam: Have you ever driven in a movie before? Gary Busey: Yeah! In 'Lethal Weapon'! Adam: 'Lethal Weapon'? You were crashing into everything in that movie!
Men are failed women at birth.
Drinking your own blood is the paradigm of recycling.
Your imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
Friends are just enemies in reverse.
Fear is the dark room where the devil develops his negatives.
[Gary is coaching Adam on a date] Ask her if she's ever played "Name that Smell." ---o0o---
Here we are, looking forward to another round of Democratic primaries--in Kentucky, and in Oregon. And it will be another split: Oregon for Obama, and Kentucky for Portland.
It's no wonder we have that "not so fresh feeling." It's frustrating on both ends: that Obama can't close the deal in the last two weeks, and that Hillary, the energizer bunny, keeps on keeping on despite running on empty, the odds, and the excoriations and pleas of Dems and the pundits. ---o0o---
The use of the word Shadoobie is one of my favorite Rolling Stones vocal bits, almost right up there with the Woo-woos from Sympathy For The Devil...
Shattered
Shattered, shattered Love and hope and sex and dreams Are still surviving on the street Look at me, Im in tatters! Im a shattered Shattered
Friends are so alarming My lovers never charming Lifes just a cocktail party on the street Big apple People dressed in plastic bags Directing traffic Some kind of fashion Shattered
Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex Look at me, Im in tatters Im a shattered Shattered
All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I cant give it away on 7th avenue This towns been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered) Work and work for love and sex Aint you hungry for success, success, success, success Does it matter? (shattered) does it matter? Im shattered. Shattered
Ahhh, look at me, Im a shattered Im a shattered Look at me- Im a shattered, yeah
Pride and joy and greed and sex Thats what makes our town the best Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street And look at me, Im in tatters, yeah Ive been battered, what does it matter Does it matter, uh-huh Does it matter, uh-huh, Im a shattered
Dont you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough! You got rats on the west side Bed bugs uptown What a mess this towns in tatters Ive been shattered My brains been battered, splattered all over manhattan
Uh-huh, this towns full of money grabbers Go ahead, bite the big apple, dont mind the maggots, huh Shadoobie, my brains been battered My friends they come around they Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter Pile it up, pile it high on the platter ---o0o---
A short film--a video performance of Neal Cassady's famous sex letter to Jack Kerouac. It is quite a letter. If you want to read it, pick up Neal's amazing autobiography The First Third, published by City Light books...
This is a pretty cool video...starting off with Bird watching Coleman Hawkins play and then Coleman watching Bird play. This is followed by various other luminaries like Ray Brown, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, and Phil Harris dropping in and out, and ending with the whole band and Ella taking a couple of choruses to scat sing. I have to admit, also, that Phil Harris's trombone is spectacular...
Here is the rough rundown of who appears when and with whom:
Charlie Parker - Saxophone Coleman Hawkins - Tenor saxophone Hank Jones - Piano Ray Brown - Double bass Buddy Rich - Drums Bill Harris - Trombone Lester Young - Tenor saxophone Harry Edison - Trumpet Flip Phillips - Tenor saxophone Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals, Scatting
The Lineup(s):
0:18 - Coleman Hawkins, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
2:53 - Charlie Parker, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
5:15 - Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
7:12 - Bill Harris, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
10:43 - Flip Philips, Harry Edison, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Harris, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie play Dexterity on film. Bird has been my favorite saxaphone player since I first heard him when I was about 19. He doesn't disappoint in this filmed snippet.
Jack (and Jill) Jack Albertson Jack Bauer Jack Benny Jack Black Jack Brummet Jack Daniels Jack Dempsey Jack Haley Jack Kennedy Jack Kerouac Jack Kevorkian (a/k/a Dr. Death) Jack Klugman Jack LaLane Jack Lemmon Jack London Jack Lord Jack Nicholson Jack Nicklaus Jack Osborne Jack Paar Jack Palance
Jack Ruby Jack Sparrow Jack Straw Jack The Ripper Jack Warner Jack Webb Jack White Little Jack Horner The Union Jack ---o0o---
As Bob Dylan once wrote, "Sometimes The President of the United States has to stand naked." Allie's Creations took that literally, and offer a dress-up naked George Bush magnet set for sale here. ---o0o---
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), joined the flood of Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel:
“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.” — Senator Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee
Speaking at the Knesset, The President said “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Barack Obama joined in, accusing President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned against appeasing terrorists.
Speaker of the House Pelosi tore into the President, saying Thursday that Bush's remarks were "beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation" at the celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary.
Even Senator Hillary Clinton took the time to lambaste POTUS: "President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy. This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address and certainly to use an important moment like the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel to make a political point seems terribly misplaced. Unfortunately, this is what we’ve come to expect from President Bush." ---o0o---
Dave Kolpack of the Associated Press reported today that a disgruntled flight attendant--Eder Rojas, 19--smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and started a fire in a bathroom, forcing an emergency landing. Rojas was angry because he had been assigned to routes he didn't like. The Compass Airlines flight carrying 72 passengers and four crew members landed safely in Fargo, N.D. on May 7 after smoke filled the back. No injuries were reported. Read the entire sordid story here. ---o0o---
