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PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
I'm sure they get easily insulted too.
mjp
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If I had a hammer
https://thisisnotatest.com/if-i-had-a-hammer/
I come fully prepared to talk about supper clubs, The Hat Pack, the futility of it all, professional locksmiths, unprofessional landlords, professional "contractors," ladders, distinctive tape measures, flashlights and sticky fingers, flying buttresses, Appalachia, apes painting window trim, you and your stereo and how great you are, whether or not it's socially acceptable to call someone a mental case, red plastic shopping bags, what a $250,000 house in Los Angeles looks like, shoes dropping, best case scenarios, water water everywhere, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and what the hell is a U.S. territory anyway?
https://thisisnotatest.com/if-i-had-a-hammer/
I come fully prepared to talk about supper clubs, The Hat Pack, the futility of it all, professional locksmiths, unprofessional landlords, professional "contractors," ladders, distinctive tape measures, flashlights and sticky fingers, flying buttresses, Appalachia, apes painting window trim, you and your stereo and how great you are, whether or not it's socially acceptable to call someone a mental case, red plastic shopping bags, what a $250,000 house in Los Angeles looks like, shoes dropping, best case scenarios, water water everywhere, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and what the hell is a U.S. territory anyway?
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Great podcast. I listened while shopping in Target and it had me laughing my ass off. People were staring for good reason this time. You gotta watch out for those ladder weilding fuckers named Dave who try to fix things. I have been known to weild a ladder but have never stolen a tape measure. I have on occasion pretended to be able to fix something but not in someone else's home.
mjp
Founding member
Well that's the difference, isn't is - the someone else's home part...
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
mjp
Founding member
A restless wind inside a letter box
https://thisisnotatest.com/a-restless-wind-inside-a-letter-box/
Getting an email from Gene Simmons, why young boys must rock, spending fifty thousand dollars on a collection of outtakes, getting onto a cruise ship with really old rock stars, spending $250 on a collection that is basically The Beatles dicking around while being filmed, Ektachrome 500, the miracle of HAP (again), metadata, When The Saints Go Marching In, tediously listing things like some kind of idiot, Beatle harmonies, the Wailers, little record stores in little lake towns, and a few thousand other words or debatable wisdom.
https://thisisnotatest.com/a-restless-wind-inside-a-letter-box/
Getting an email from Gene Simmons, why young boys must rock, spending fifty thousand dollars on a collection of outtakes, getting onto a cruise ship with really old rock stars, spending $250 on a collection that is basically The Beatles dicking around while being filmed, Ektachrome 500, the miracle of HAP (again), metadata, When The Saints Go Marching In, tediously listing things like some kind of idiot, Beatle harmonies, the Wailers, little record stores in little lake towns, and a few thousand other words or debatable wisdom.
Johannes
Founding member
The Gene Simmons shit is incredible :D ... wasn't aware and at first thought this MUST BE satire, but nope: http://www.genesimmonsvault.com
What. in. the. Fuck.
Probably the result of finally having been peer pressured to get married after decades of resistance. That's what marriage does to a man. You know you'll need the money :D
What. in. the. Fuck.
Probably the result of finally having been peer pressured to get married after decades of resistance. That's what marriage does to a man. You know you'll need the money :D
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Songs that don't even make it on a KISS record? "Ouch!"
Listened to most of it at lunch. Bravo (said in my most British of voices).
Listened to most of it at lunch. Bravo (said in my most British of voices).
mjp
Founding member
This episode won't be released until next Saturday, but since it's Bukowski-themed, I thought I'd let you have it early, here in this special and sacred space that we share together.
A Trip to Bukowski’s House
https://thisisnotatest.com/a-trip-to-bukowskis-house/
Over the river and through the woods, to Bukowski's house we go. This is just me talking about what it was like there, and how I wound up there. It's a brief tale that I thought you'd like to hear. But don't let it inspire you to go to Bukowski's house uninvited. That wouldn't be cool. Don't be that person. In California you can shoot someone through your front door and never see the inside of a police station for doing it, keep that in mind as you go about your day. It's probably a good thing to keep in mind in general, as a rule for a happy life.
A Trip to Bukowski’s House
https://thisisnotatest.com/a-trip-to-bukowskis-house/
Over the river and through the woods, to Bukowski's house we go. This is just me talking about what it was like there, and how I wound up there. It's a brief tale that I thought you'd like to hear. But don't let it inspire you to go to Bukowski's house uninvited. That wouldn't be cool. Don't be that person. In California you can shoot someone through your front door and never see the inside of a police station for doing it, keep that in mind as you go about your day. It's probably a good thing to keep in mind in general, as a rule for a happy life.
Johannes
Founding member
Yeah. Couldn't listen to the audio from where I was.
I mean it, tho. It's touching to hear about the condition of Bukowskis writing room, even after all this years. Also great to hear that Linda and mjp buried the beef they had, tho it appears to have been a misunderstanding from the beginning.
Thanks for sharing!
I mean it, tho. It's touching to hear about the condition of Bukowskis writing room, even after all this years. Also great to hear that Linda and mjp buried the beef they had, tho it appears to have been a misunderstanding from the beginning.
Thanks for sharing!
Well, that was great...after a long week that was needed.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Thanks mjp. That was really exceptional & told so well. And you were respectful. Glad to hear there's no nonsense between you & Linda too.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Agreed.
That'll teach ya to understand the fans that are wanting to visit all the places in L.A. where he's been. (yeah, sure, I know, the whole area there has changed, but still...)
yeah, that's been a strong impression to me too. This endless, thick line of lights from the cars, like a big worm or a slow snake. I could imagine Hank standing there on that balcony and watching.
mjp
Founding member
Oh, I understand that. I went to Paisley Park in October, and I'm glad I did that. Even as a tourist.
As opposed to what I felt at Bukowski's house, I did feel the Prince ghost everywhere in Paisley Park. Maybe not surprising as his ashes are there. It's one of the first things they show you when you walk in. "Look up there, those are Prince's ashes."
I would have liked to go into the control room in the main studio, we only got to see it from the other side of the glass. But like Bukowski's typewriter, the battered old Hohner telecaster guitar was there, all those fruity swirly, curly-cue guitars, pages of his hand-written notes and lyrics. His clothes. Lots of his fruity, swirly, curly-cue clothes.
Just no Prince. Unless you count the ashes, which - well I don't think they could lay down a proper bass part, so I say they don't count.
I should have talked about Paisley Park a little bit in this "Bukowski's house" episode, but what can you do. The mind wanders. Especially at my age.
Lucky you. The only time I've been in that room, there was a lot missing, since the Huntington-exhibition was just running.
No typer there or the radio or the wine-glass with dryed-in stains from him - they've all been at the exhibition. Of course I did see them there. But it cut something from the athmosphere in his room, I guess.
Still, What an experience!
I know EXACTLY what you talk about here (at least I think I do). And I don't mean Prince or Bukowski, but a very different thing. A feeling. A strange mixture of presence And absence of a beloved person or a situation or a memory. Or an immortal poet.
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
reading storm and thought of Roni's lines
and Jan's life too
from congrats, Chinaski...
I have piled myself with a mass of
grand abuse, been
careless toward myself
almost to the point of
madness,
I am still here
leaning toward this machine
in this smoke-filled room,
this large blue trashcan to my
left
full of empty
containers.
the doctors have no answers
and the gods are
silent.
congratulations, death,
on your patience.
I have helped you all that
I can.
now one more poem
and a walk out on the balcony,
such a fine night there
I am dressed in shorts and stockings,
gently scratch my old
belly,
look out there
where dark meets dark
it's been on hell of a crazy
ball game.
C.B.
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Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Sorry,
piled myself and not pilled, although not entirely different :wb:
piled myself and not pilled, although not entirely different :wb:
mjp
Founding member
Walk through Paisley Park, and keep on movin'
https://thisisnotatest.com/walk-through-paisley-park-and-keep-on-movin/
This episode is two days late for reasons which may reveal themselves when you listen. And who wouldn't want to listen to a scintillating discussion about deviled ham, touring Prince's home and recording studio Paisley Park - a cotton candy Barbie dream condo if ever there was one, landlords, looking for a new job, minimalism, money, security as a trap, pots and pans and music, and remaining civilized.
https://thisisnotatest.com/walk-through-paisley-park-and-keep-on-movin/
This episode is two days late for reasons which may reveal themselves when you listen. And who wouldn't want to listen to a scintillating discussion about deviled ham, touring Prince's home and recording studio Paisley Park - a cotton candy Barbie dream condo if ever there was one, landlords, looking for a new job, minimalism, money, security as a trap, pots and pans and music, and remaining civilized.
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Remaining civilized?! Hmmm. Novel concept. What's mjp's take? I'm compelled to listen. I'm investigating every opinion & theory on the matter because I'm slowing losing my ability to remain civilized.
don't envy you on the move thing. HATED moving, even though i barely owned anything til i got married (and had a kid).
re accumulating shit - we got so fed up last year we rented a dumpster and FILLED the fucking thing with crap.
after they took it away the company mysteriously disappeared and we lost our deposit.
re accumulating shit - we got so fed up last year we rented a dumpster and FILLED the fucking thing with crap.
after they took it away the company mysteriously disappeared and we lost our deposit.
mjp
Founding member
You can make a statement, but keep it brief
https://thisisnotatest.com/can-make-statement-keep-brief/
Oh Canada, the San Gabriel Valley, LSD, white bread, the Oscar race (pretty sure he's white - har har), the wonderful and marvelous (and now dead) Joe Frank, the proximity effect, Craigslist again because apparently I'm a masochist, and last but not least on this abbreviated episode for an abbreviated month: how I became a Bitcoin millionaire!
https://thisisnotatest.com/can-make-statement-keep-brief/
Oh Canada, the San Gabriel Valley, LSD, white bread, the Oscar race (pretty sure he's white - har har), the wonderful and marvelous (and now dead) Joe Frank, the proximity effect, Craigslist again because apparently I'm a masochist, and last but not least on this abbreviated episode for an abbreviated month: how I became a Bitcoin millionaire!
PhillyDave
“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
"I love you but I'd rather be sleeping." a quality brief statement.