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1:46 pm
September 25, 2013
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I read the first two at least. I'm just not into fiction, but enlightenment I could use. My reading stack this week includes Heather McDonald's 'The War on Cops' plus a religious book somebody "wanted me to read" and a music book to be read during the boss' appointments. Remember, I majored in math because nobody got hurt and nobody died. There was no jealousy or competition. We just moved symbols around in celestial bliss.
I was thinking Justin was reading peeps like C.S. Lewis or T.S. Elliott - except he surely has read them through by now. He also liked books by women as I recall, but I probably wouldn't. Another stupid story: In high-school humanities, I reviewed a fictional book set in Medieval times. I can't remember hardly a thing about it except that I wasn't getting into it. I think I was doing something like standing on my head in the basement trying to see if that would help it sink in. Anyway, I decided to write my review saying as much. The teacher was not happy. As it turns out, the teacher herself was a novelist of no small repute, specializing in romances. She never gave her nom de plume, but I always suspected that was one of her works. (She was too young to be early 20c, though.)
In my mess of articles last week, I got to do one on a rock slide. I was so happy. I could relate to earth science. It was a joy to research.
Incidentally, the nonpaying boss - for whom I passive-aggressively quit last month thinking I told him it is against my religion to make an public ensample of transgressors - sent me a stack of articles TBD a couple days ago, and in them, of course, were a few to put a big picture of some sinner in the newspaper and make a bad name for him. That big face will surely be mine someday. I was so burnt out on giving myself mini-strokes fighting it, I just quickly obeyed. I'm so awful, I expect bosses to be delighted to be rid of me.
Speaking of Oz, as I make the ADD community look laser-focused, do you remember when some company put "Oz heads" in laundry detergent boxes? They had a characteristic smell, which would cause me to think "Oz heads" whenever I smelled it. I smelled it yesterday, but after putting my nose in several flowers, I could not tell whence it came.
5:35 pm
September 25, 2013
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I misspelled Eliot.
7:10 pm
September 25, 2013
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Never heard of Oz heads.
There is absolutely no telling what Justin is reading even with the hints and things he drops. Highly individualized stuff.... over on FB I follow several authors, and am on a reading group for my favorite author, and I'm amazed at the stuff THEY like which does nothing for me... yet my favorite author (Heinlein) actually loved Oz books, as I did as a child (very inspirational to me and him as well) yet I was so shocked to find so few Heinlein readers knew about L. Frank Baum.
CS Lewis will drive you nuts sometimes... I read a story by him I was looking forward to, about Cupid and Psyche, yet it had no real resolution... it petered out like a stream in a desert. The point went over my head, whatever it was. I love the Narnia books of course. I like some of his essays tho. He takes concentration.
I do better with research myself... fact chasing. I'm chasing some relatives through Quebec in my family tree for example. I think some people write "too intellectual" sometimes, and if it's obscure, it impresses others. In high school I know often books were picked out for us to read, and they were real doggies (Across Five Aprils and A Separate Peace come to mind.... what DULL books. My brother had to read Mill on the River Floss, said it sucked, and he wrote his final essay saying as much as I recall, and at least passed the class.)
A "good reader" is relative... and like I say, highly individual. Justin DID recommend The Songlines, and that was VERY good, but that was the last recommend that has been worth a toot IMHO .... he has his own tastes. Manon de Sources was a good movie too. So was Three Men and a Leg (very funny)
9:40 pm
September 25, 2013
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I missed 'The Songlines' recommendation. I remember, back when I was still a Michigander, him saying he liked Nigel Barley. I recall going to the university library on my days off and reading from their collection 'Not a Hazardous Sport.' It cracked me up. I'm sitting here laughing as I recall him talking about the Asians bursting into the room saying, "The pleasure cooker is broken!"
On movies, I think twice he's said 'Dr. Strangelove' was a favorite. Alas! I shall never see that one because its rating is too high, but from childhood I enjoyed Blake Edwards/Peter Sellers movies. I normally am immune to canned humor, but 'The Party' was side-splitting, the kind of thing where one will be sitting at work years later and an image from the movie will flashback across the mind and one will try not to laugh outloud.
I need an Essay Writer. My English is not good today.
8:56 pm
September 25, 2013
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Nigel Barley yes was the "favorite author" listed in a bio. I zeroed in on The Songlines because of the "song" part.
(shocked tone) you've never seen Dr. Strangelove? Baahhahaha It's almost like a satire on Memphis Belle, these guys in this mad bomber going in for the strike... Sellers plays Dr. Strangelove, a nervous nerd, and dang what was the third part??? It's so English... totally deadpan humor. Stanley Kubrick was the master of timing and the non verbal gags. I still scream my head off at the end.... when the bomb drops. If you haven't seen it, I won't spoil it for you.
Slim PIckens is the skipper of the bomber... dang forgot the name of the General... was it General Jack Ripper?? (I think so) James Earl Jones is one of the crew members (he's an outstanding actor) etc.
It should have been rated PG-13 IMHO. Just some cussing and some gun fire. Basically it was a sky going modern "western" .... Kubrick's nod to the western genre. Cowboy diplomacy at it's finest.
11:55 pm
September 25, 2013
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I'm too ADD to sit through movies, so I read (most of) the Wikipedia review. Now, I can't get this song out of my mind.
Speaking of Vera-ing back on topic: Justin's social media person posted on a Saturday, a practice often, but not necessarily, attributed to unpaid humans.
11:46 am
September 25, 2013
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Justin on Twitter July 14, 2018:
Q: What's behind the title of your last album "All The Way"?
A: Udo Wolf thought of it in the car after a gig one night and it sounded right to me. I think it sums up a journey of a compilation album - I wish I could explain better, but I can't.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4-Jz9Mb0Zg
[the Raspberries song was used in Guardians of the Galaxy and Dark Shadows both]
2:14 pm
September 25, 2013
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That was a nice poem, and I love the Raspberry's song. I've been thinking about it a lot the last couple days, now I know why. I can't say I understand the meaning of "the journey of a compilation album," though. In the same Q&A, we read about hitting the notes in the middle and taking the album all the way. Depending on who's doing what and distances involved, this could mean the notes are left behind.
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