Interlude: If James Wood Supposes...

[Michael Bailey]

robinlandseadel wrote:
> After À la recherche du temps perdu, all other novels look like miniatures,
> AtD included.

I liked the end quote you shared; I suppose it's aberrant and uncalled-for
to admit that the picture of the aging people up on towers of time
made me think of War of the Worlds...

> AtD has the best drug sequences of TRPV's corpus.

yeahp (some more of that hikuli, please...)

> Pink Floyd sucks.

But, Grantchester Meadows?  Careful With that Ax, Eugene?
Grooving with a Pict (my absolute favorite by them)?

>Sex Pistols rule.
meh... I read that _Lipstick Traces_ but so help me, cannot
develop any fondness for them.  It just seems like they are
unwitting shills for Maggie Thatcher.
I like Lydon post-Pistol, though.  And Sid's heartbreaking "My Way"

> Rod did his best stuff as a soloist for Mercury---Never a Dull Moment, usw. . .

I will grant you that Gasoline Alley was worth the vinyl.
And once in awhile he scores a decent ballad. (Handbags & Gladrags
wasn't bad)

"The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoes,
they wouldn't give you the time of day
But the slant-eyed lady knocked me off my feet"
Is that a lyric or a parody of cliched racism-sexism?

And Wake Up Maggie -
He blows off this ladyfriend at the beginning and then
expects her to listen to his soliloquy of what he might do next?
And be all moved that he loves her?
Or if he's not actually breaking up, then it's a chronicle
of how whipped he is....either way, it's bad!

> Bush's 2st term unmatched in evil accomplishments by any other
> presidential term in office [writ of Habeas Corpus R.I..P.]

pales in comparison to 9-11 (which on some level everybody
knows his people did, or were involved in, or let happen,
or at the very very least, misinterpreted, exploited,
failed to investigate thoroughly, and in general, took wicked
advantage of)  (http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/)

which in turn pales next to starting 2 wars
and botching them worse than the robbery in Reservoir Dogs

and even trying to kill Habeas Corpus (which will not stand)
isn't as bad as Bush v Gore ("counting the votes might
interfere with my victory" - he should have been fined and imprisoned
for even bringing that suit, or at least pimp-slapped)

Military Commissions Act is just a special case of the
transcendentally evil Patriot Act...


> Sviatoslav Richter's recordings of Beethoven's late piano sonatas
> kicks Artur Schnabel's to the curb.
>

Hmm, will check that out...

> Miles Davis was a much better musician in his radical electric phase.

Miles may have played a bad note sometimes, but I've never heard one.
Electric was great, cool jazz was fine, I'm not gonna argue that his
hot-jazz phase was his best (but it's my fave)