So, yes, things were getting a little too serious around here. For me, at least. The serious stuff was making my head bog down, and when that happens it’s time to go grab for the light smile. After all, there are a few of you now. I mean, an audience, who’s decided to follow for a […]
Do not play what’s there; play what’s not there. Miles Davis
via tsutpen.blogspot.com Joe Strummer pays a visit to William Burroughs. It’s Clash-era Joe, in the late 70’s, probably sitting with Burroughs in his writer’s den on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Here’s the irony: Burroughs was an essential embodiment of nihilism and destructive violence. He lived the psychic quandry of Satre’s Stranger: unfiltered pragmatism […]
A performance with John Cale in 1972 and with Pete Townshend in 2007 of Waiting for The Man. Watch both and reflect on what changes with age and what stays the same.