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Tag Archives: The Band
expression of the soul
… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading
blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance
The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bob Dylan, Edward Bernays, frank the tank, greil marcus old weird america, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, howard stern, jennifer aniston, kid rock pabst blue ribbon, limp bizkit, metropoulous brothers, old milwaukee advertising, pabst blue ribbon marketing, Richard Brautigan, Robert Crumb, Sigmund Freud, The Band, will ferrell
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the w.s. walcott election show
Get involved. Donate now. Are you in? Want to buy some cool looking swag? A bobble head doll of our glorious leader? Is their clairvoyancy in politics? Should we care? As the Canadian election yawns into the back nine with … Continue reading
REMEMBER: ECHOES and MEMORIES
In his Rolling Stone interview,John Lennon said that it was pain which had made the great artists what they were. Memory, oh memory, what you do to me? /Today is all I really need to know. /Why do you have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.R. Orage, Andy Warhol, Bernie Taupin, Bob Dylan, David katz, Denardo Coleman, Dr. Arthur Janov, Eliot Mintz, Elliott Landy, Elton John, Gary Tillery, J.G. Bennett, Janis Joplin, Jesse Dylan, John Lennon, John Pohl, LENNONYC American Masters Documentary, Levon Helm, Ornette Coleman, Ouspensky, P.D. Ouspensky, Peter van Schie, Rolling Stone Magazine, Tennessee Williams, The Band, Tim Buckley, Timothy Leary, Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, Yoko Ono
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CHRISTMAS: IT'S IN THE MIND'S EYE
Christmas. Undoubtedly the holiday with the greatest inclination to bring out the fruitcake in all of us. Is Christmas really any worse than other times of the year and do the Christmas blues really exist? Carl Jung differentiated himself from … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Beccafumi, Carl Jung, Chris Brooke, Daily Mail, Dave Thomson, Fellini, Frederico Fellini, Freud, Hieronymous Bosch, Jung, Kafka, Mark Chironna, Mark Twain, Michael Billig, New Statesman, Oliver James, Peter Paul Rubens, R.D. Laing, Rev. Tim Jones, Rubens, Samuel Clemens, Sigmund Freud, The Band, The Nutcracker Suite, The Nutcraker Ballet, Tim Burton, Tim Jones
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Blake & The Invisible Republic
What musicologist and culture critic Griel Marcus termed ”the old weird America” , an invisible republic that lingers in the background and is interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. Bob Dylan and The Band’s ‘‘The Basement Tapes” was recorded, … Continue reading
Painting from Big Pink
The cover art of The Band’s ”Music From Big Pink” album has always intrigued me and I discovered it was actually painted by Bob Dylan himself.The style of painting meshed seamlessly with the music, kind of not in harmony but … Continue reading