Alice in Wonderland
David Dasinger
bodkota at cyberramp.net
Tue Jul 15 18:14:06 CDT 1997
Alan Westrope wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, David Dasinger wrote:
>
> >C. Mingus
> >..."Well Charles, that certainly was a personal expression"
>
> Well, to be pedantic and off-topic again (hey, what else is new?),
Sorry, but M&D contains some imagery that I consider to be reminiscent
of "Alice", and I listen to Mingus alot, Joni recorded a
Mingus album, so...
> this is actually what *Ellington* said *to* Mingus while firing him
> over the Juan Tizol episode, nicht wahr?
Although he credits "Dr. Wallach" with the quote, you are probably
correct, since it comes from his autobiography, which contains
alot of "bullschitt".
from "Beneath the Underdog":
"...Oh damn it all blues. Screwed to the melting frozen walk of
dared-to-embrace stone, concrete hard, imagined soft only to overdue
erections of lonliness that turned feminine and speaks back wet,
warm tears, not too far removed from it's common denominator,
iced urine melting at dared hot death that clings to life for
love at thought of some response, be it only the clay, dirt or
pavement I behold in my drunken search for a true woman's groin,
wanting me as I want her, to never hate me because we found refuge
of satisfaction as two drunken stones warmed themselves side by side,
in outside our guttered ideas of oppisite sides fucking.
Do you understand that poem, Doctor Wallach?"
"Weird Nightmare", a Mingus tribute, has Robbie Robertson reading this
piece as well as appearances by Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello,
Henry Rollins and Diamanda Galas. I thought it made excellent back-
ground music for reading GR. (or V.)
Anybody Know if Pynchon is a Mingus fan?
DD
(who needs to get back to work and quit daydreaming about Joni
Mitchell and octuple gloucesters)
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