tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post8869825152594075124..comments2023-10-07T07:26:29.746-07:00Comments on Growing Tomatoes From Seed: columbiannian whoregateDavid Marlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-10508460926273758522012-04-22T19:57:58.692-07:002012-04-22T19:57:58.692-07:00Best line I read all week: The Secret Service is g...Best line I read all week: The Secret Service is going to be on Ted Nugent like a cheap Colombian hooker. <br />It was alcohol, imo, that took down the SS in Cartagena. If the agent hadn't been so drunk, perhaps he would have sought out an interpreter. Or simply paid his bill. I can imagine his hangover. <br />This guy, http://eindpunt.blogspot.com/2012/04/colombia-conspiracy-of-whores.html , has some insight.<br /><br />I don't know much about poets. I know a little about alcohol and the ism that goes with it.<br />I drank because I am addicted to alcohol. I love that shit. At least I convinced myself I did. do. wutevr~<br />Four years, a few months, and some days now. Who'da thunk it.<br />Yay, We!<br /><br />Writing poetry. Hmmm...DragonTat2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04112161329986711431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-76920537744815360072012-04-18T23:36:58.575-07:002012-04-18T23:36:58.575-07:00I have no idea. Maybe his self-image gave him the ...I have no idea. Maybe his self-image gave him the right. It seems transgressive or subversive of an ungovernable self -- his only way of coming to grips with his genius. Hart Crane, the better poet in every regard, had the same self-destructive streak, if you add in a violent temperament. I'm entitled because it's me and I'm the best: Babe Ruth, Georgie Best, John Belushi, etc. <br /><br />Re Copeland/Bernstein, one sees a similar dichotomy between, say, Eliot and Yeats, or Heaney & Plath: the latter poets always cast the spell, while Eliot and Heaney never do.Penal-Colonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04578228230659521795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-16116296179460790542012-04-18T19:21:17.758-07:002012-04-18T19:21:17.758-07:00you know, john, something just occurred to me that...you know, john, something just occurred to me that i'd never thought about with regard to poets reading their own poems. it's this, if you can follow me: when copeland conducted his own music, it was almost without exception not as good as we all would've hoped, if you know what i mean; but when lenny conducted his own music, it was as if you were afraid to move for fear of breaking some kind of musical spell.David Marlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-36360402376764009762012-04-18T19:08:10.436-07:002012-04-18T19:08:10.436-07:00oh, and i hate to admit it, but dicky burt for me ...oh, and i hate to admit it, but dicky burt for me has always been kind of a Chewin McScenery type. even, or especially, in the Albee plays.David Marlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-88686984203665079352012-04-18T18:40:54.366-07:002012-04-18T18:40:54.366-07:00man. do you know why he drank? and why he drank so...man. do you know why he drank? and why he drank so much?David Marlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-34886434027528024292012-04-18T12:11:05.444-07:002012-04-18T12:11:05.444-07:00I used to think Richard Burton rendered Thomas bes...I used to think Richard Burton rendered Thomas best until I heard Thomas himself <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377" rel="nofollow">recite</a>. Burton rushes through <i>Under Milk Wood</i>, [the actor's showy prerogative, I guess], but Thomas knew the precise measure. It's hard to think of The Beats without him, especially Corso, but by the time his voice faded in Ginsberg's gob it became little more than empty, sonorous noise, mere declamation for its own sake, and no substance.<br /><br />You are correct, 'waste' is the wrong word. I don't believe there was any way to save Thomas from himself, the path was chosen. He never matured as a poet, and that's the greatest loss. Plus, he probably didn't really heed his own counsel either.Penal-Colonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04578228230659521795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-69965952255644254732012-04-17T20:12:34.429-07:002012-04-17T20:12:34.429-07:00wow. i said "knew" for "new". ...wow. i said "knew" for "new". what does that mean? also, he really liked his dad, and he was a young man. waste doesn't seem to do it justice.David Marlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-59944926781740501772012-04-17T19:45:17.151-07:002012-04-17T19:45:17.151-07:00Yeah, he took his own counsel and did not go gentl...Yeah, he took his own counsel and did not go gently, but what a waste, and loss.Penal-Colonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04578228230659521795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-75041807885229265842012-04-17T17:25:32.088-07:002012-04-17T17:25:32.088-07:00well he has been known to characterize the w years...well he has been known to characterize the w years as an out-of-control swarm of anal raping sodomy demons.<br /><br />john, i've been meaning to ask you about something i may have heard on npr about a year ago. it concerned dylan thomas and how he died. the legend was that he drank something like 32 shots of whiskey after which he was rushed to the hospital where he was told that he had done 32 shots of whiskey, to which he responded, "i believe that to be my knew personal record." then he died a week later in the hospital. note: i was very drunk when i allegedly heard that, but it made me gravely sad.David Marlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691690666085909966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-10886341027825730872012-04-17T15:07:39.228-07:002012-04-17T15:07:39.228-07:00Give Jesus the Lunch Power<a href="http://youtu.be/NcUPLbTfQms" rel="nofollow"> Give Jesus the Lunch Power </a>Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04253196269498737011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540249376013484103.post-38370006644509085662012-04-17T07:45:43.412-07:002012-04-17T07:45:43.412-07:00Same ole, same ole -- politics as perishable.
Wh...Same ole, same ole -- politics as perishable. <br /><br />What has no sell-by date is your delivery.Penal-Colonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04578228230659521795noreply@blogger.com