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7788. jayackroyd - 6/2/2005 6:48:18 PM The Max Ernst show at the Met may be more interesting. I enjoyed that more than I expected to. 7789. wonkers2 - 6/8/2005 5:57:46 PM Class Divisions in American Literature Here 7790. Macnas - 6/9/2005 4:49:53 PM "He'll rekindle all the dreams
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever coming back
He's a god, he's a man,
he's a ghost, he's a guru"
Name the song and the singer..
7791. wabbit - 6/9/2005 5:32:41 PM Been watching Hellboy, Mac?
"You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen..." 7792. Ms. No - 6/9/2005 5:53:10 PM Mac,
Nick Cave: Red Right Hand
Awesome tune! 7793. Ms. No - 6/9/2005 5:59:24 PM Wabz,
They put it on a compliation disc of X-Files music as well -- which is how I originally heard it. RRH and Down in the Park by the Foo Fighters were my favorite cuts off that compilation album. Most of it was kind of lame if I remember correctly, but it was worth it for those two songs alone. 7794. Macnas - 6/10/2005 8:16:12 AM Wabbit & Ms.No,
I never knew that tune was on the soundtrack, but it seems entirely appropriate!
Well done the both of you, and yes, it is a cracking song.
All together now: "People just ain't no good...." 7795. Macnas - 6/10/2005 3:45:46 PM Try these for size:
1. "In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey"
2. "The money feels good, and your life you like it well, but surely your time will come, as in heaven, as in hell"
3. "Last night I felt, real arms around me, no hope, no harm
just another false alarm" 7796. PelleNilsson - 6/23/2005 5:18:59 PM Jean-Paul Sartre would gave been 100 this year. I saw a short article about him. There is an interesting little discussion of Sartre's views on structuralism versus individualism (or, if you want, social determinism versus free will), but what caught my eye was the author's claim that "Sartre became [...] the most hated man in France. Can that really be true? Do the French, not some French, but the French in general really hate a philosopher? In particular a Nobel laureate who stuck by his principles and told the Swedish Academians to shove their prize up their collective ass? In find that hard to believe. He passed away in 1980, well before the -68 winds had died down. 7797. alistairConnor - 6/23/2005 11:19:23 PM It's an odd thing, Pelle : he is deeply unfashionable, especially on the left.
Who is the major French philosopher of the last 50 years? The answer, almost unanimous : Foucault. (I think I agree)
There is a certain amount of re-evaluation going on. I think he suffered a great deal (somewhat unfairly) from the backlash against Communism in the 90s.
7798. alistairconnor - 7/7/2005 11:29:25 AM Quite a cultural summer so far.
Working backwards :
Last night : Blues night at the Vienne Jazz festival. The lineup:
Big James Montgomery and the Chicago Playboys
Taj Mahal Trio
BB King
Big James : I like Chicago blues, but these guys are showmen. It was a good show, but didn't quite connect with me.
 Taj Mahal : I've been meaning to catch up with this guy for at least a decade. It was worth the wait. You can't fake the blues in a trio format... From a strictly blues point of view, he was the hero of the evening. I'll be buying some records.
 BB King : For thirty years, I've recognised him as the elder statesman of the blues... I feared he might be in a twilight zone, but no, he is master of his guitar, his band, his music. He wouldn't be doing this at his age (79, he claims, but only his mother knows for sure) unless he enjoyed it... well so did we. Excellent tight, creative eight-piece band.
7799. alistairconnor - 7/7/2005 11:30:04 AM ah feck. Looked OK in preview... 7800. anomie - 7/23/2005 10:09:13 PM Where else to ask this...
Anyone hear of the Rasmus? 7801. anomie - 7/23/2005 10:12:59 PM ..Anyway, I thought they were a teenybopper Swedish group taking the Danish teens by storm...
They're really good. 7802. arkymalarky - 7/23/2005 10:47:35 PM I really like what little I've seen of them. Aren't they Finns? 7803. judithathome - 8/11/2005 5:23:11 PM I heard an interview on NPR yesterday with a German jazz group called Quadro Nuevo and I went straight to Amazon and ordered their CD. They play all sorts of instruments and a demo on the program played a tango and the theme from Pulp Fiction...very slow "Wipeout" with odd instruments, very jazzy sounds.
I misread the price and ended up paying almost $20 with shipping...I hope I like the damned thing. 7804. Ulgine Barrows - 8/13/2005 8:16:53 AM Are you happy with your purchase? 7805. judithathome - 8/13/2005 11:59:18 PM I won't know til it arrives. 7806. Ms. No - 8/15/2005 5:13:33 PM Goot Gott! Sorry to have dropped off so completely there, Mac. I've no idea what happened.
#1's a blank, #2's the Clash, I think, but I couldn't tell you the title. #3 sounds like The Smiths/Morrissey but I wouldn't bet big money on it.
I've discovered a lovely little internet radio station for all things 80's without the American Hair Bands. Most of the 80's stations here play way too much Madonna and Go-Go's and you'd think Depeche Mode and the Human League were the only British bands they'd ever heard of.
Anyway, Radio Nigel has quite a good little selection of "tunes I like to listen to". I'd post a link, but I can't figure out how to extract it from my WinAmp queue.
7807. Macnas - 8/15/2005 5:17:42 PM I was looking at your post for a few seconds before I remembered what it was about!
1. Beck, Loser
2. The Clash, Guns Of Brixton
3. The Smiths, Last Night I dreamt Somebody Loved Me.
Well done you, they were tough.
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