John Cage on I've Got a Secret

Broadcast and the Focus Group - "I See, So I See So"

Here is a new video from the Broadcast/Focus Group collaboration mini album (ep?), "Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age". Which on paper would appear to be chocolate & peanut butter for somebody w/ my musical predilections. Sadly it didn't turn out to be the case, I found the album as a whole to be too same-y. But like when I finally got my hands on some Focus Group albums a few years ago and was somewhat underwhelmed by them (at first) it may turn out to be a matter of how I listen to this album, that it will improve greatly by being listened to in a more casual way? I'll have to try that out.

That said I do enjoy the above video and song(?) it reminds me a little of The Wickerman which I finally saw a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed, this video though is very much cut from the same cloth. And speaking of the same cloth I just got a DVD of the cut-up movies William Burroughs w/ Antony Balch et al. made in the sixties and early seventies. My thoughts on those wonderful movies shall be left for another post (which I'll probably never write?) But . . .

I think I smell another post of screencap madness in the near future?

Chicky

Soft Kitty

Warm Kitty

Little Ball of Fur.

Happy Kitty,

Sleepy Kitty,

Purr,

Purr,

Purr.

Requiescat in pace Baboo

Catholic Architecture

Catholic Architecture

A white house with a folly
A tower attached.
On the side
A hand painted saint
(Lovingly painted)
Peeps over a high wall
Which surrounds the white house.
His loving gaze
Is interrupted
By a line of broken glass
Cemented
On top of the high wall.
The saint
Lovingly dares
The outsider,
Or the stray cat,
To intrude
And recieve his loving blessing
In loving lacerated
Hands.

I guess I had meant to post this awhile ago, slipped my mind? I know I saw the Youtube clip sometime ago? Why I'm posting this now, no reason what-so-ever other than stumbling over the clip again.

The song "Catholic Architecture" is off of Robert Wyatt's classic album "Dondestan". Which I believe is the first album where he started taking his wife Alfreda Benge's poetry and setting it to music as he did w/ this song.

. . . In other news, I'm about to start intensive studies (at least that's the plan?) into the great anglo/irish comedian Spike Milligan. I'm grabbing the audiobook version of the seven volumes of his WWII memoirs which are read by the man himself and also most of the Goon show that are available.

The other day I almost did a Samhain inspired post about Spike Milligan's epitaph but I guess now I'm doing a post-Samhainian post about his epitaph? Anyway, his tombstone might be my second favorite tombstone (the 1st favorite honors go to Mr. Ozu). If you click on the picture of it below you will see the phrase "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", which is Irish for "I Told You I was Ill"!

My All Time Favorite Joke . . .

Q.: What's the difference b/n Simply Red and a bull?

A.: A bull has it's horns in the front.

My very favorite (probably apocryphal pretty conclusively apocryphal) anecdote UPDATE*

Luckily royals are used to rescuing such people from their embarrassing situations. Once, as the famed French President General Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne were having dinner at Windsor shortly before the end of his tenure, somebody asked Madame de Gaulle what she was most looking forward to after her retirement. Madame de Gaulle answered, in a strong French accent: “A penis!” Blank stares. Until the Queen rescued the situation by translating: “Ah, happiness.”

At the end of a long and probably very boring meal (at a formal dinner), (British Prime Minister) Macmillan turned to Madame de Gaulle and asked politely what she was looking forward to in her retirement. Quick as a flash the elderly lady replied: "A penis." Macmillan had been trained all his life never to appear shocked, but even he was a bit taken aback. After drawling out a series of polite platitudes, - "Well, I can see your point of view, don't have much time for that sort of thing nowadays" - it gradually dawned on him to his intense relief that what the old girl had actually said was "happiness."

. . . And for good measure a Cut-up:

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* Take it away Snopes

Pure Products of America . . . I mean, is that under some hedge of choke-cherry or viburnum— which they cannot express— or what?

This group of images from the past were found stuffed under a drawer of a second hand dresser bought by a friend. And for some reason (maybe b/c I was just reading it?) they really bring to my mind William Carlos Williams' "To Elsie". There are supposed to be about five more found negative that I can not wait to see.

Some interesting photos of Beat writers (I hadn't seen before)*

And on the William Burroughs tip, A new book just came out titled "The Road to Interzone: Reading William Burroughs Reading". I'm actually pretty excited about this b/c it falls in the category of books I wish someone would write. This book is an (partially) annotated bibliography of books William Burroughs read, which on the surface sounds boring as piss (and I'm sure it will be). But his being such a literary magpie, when reading his writing I'm always wondering where certain passages came from. Now I just wish somebody would digitize the Nova Trilogy, then I'd be in business.

* Stumbled over while putting together

a recent silly Mr Whatever post

Ozu Screencap Maddness 3 (Or The Dance of the Sapporo Beer & Soy Sauce bottles)

Bounty Shmounty

More squashes, I think these guys are going to be soup, creamy w/ fennel and chicken and maybe lemon.

And the other day I found this guy in amongst the tomatoes. It's funny b/c just the night before I was on the back porch doing what I do best and this huge moth flew in and was hanging out by the light. Which is a pretty common occurrence but this moth was way bigger than they usually are about the size of a humming bird but still not that odd so I forgot about it. Until the next day when I looked up that crazy looking caterpillar, it's a tobacco hornworm (often confused w/ the tomato hornworm) and saw that those type of caterpillars produce the moth that I had seen.

The business on it's back are the cocoons of parasitic wasps ouch! So I guess that's a good thing for our tomatoes?

I really need to post more pictures of the whole garden, I keep taking them but never feel like editing them down and putting them up. Maybe this week?