tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.comments2023-03-24T08:32:52.116+00:00My Failure At Modern LivingNoyushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16821042807593222169noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-58927358075874378292017-12-31T22:10:33.902+00:002017-12-31T22:10:33.902+00:00YesYesLiverpool_Fihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06861066556572321448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-37383761930695667222017-06-14T20:18:42.489+01:002017-06-14T20:18:42.489+01:00Just finished it. Like you, I'm shocked that a...Just finished it. Like you, I'm shocked that anyone can think it's a romantic (small r) novel. I was surprised at how relentless and general the emotional and physical abuse is. The scene where Heathcliff shoves a knife down Nelly's throat for example. All the incest and sharing of names made it hard to track wtf was going on at times. The gothicness of the setting was very good. Everyone always terrified of an open window. And it reminded me of Poe a bit in its portrayal of obsessive delusion.<br /><br />Gor bless poor Nelly though; it's amusing how she is constantly being persuaded or inveigled into doing things against her better judgment! The other comedy mostly comes from Joseph, surely one of the original curmudgeons of the canon, with his scripture and incomprehensible argot. Weedy Linton Jr is another fun archetype, like a kid from an Edward Gorey tale.<br /><br />Very glad I read it. 1000x better than Deronda.zungghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589765282573457784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-28579863010383804632017-04-15T15:31:23.078+01:002017-04-15T15:31:23.078+01:00That took me back Noise - haven't read that si...That took me back Noise - haven't read that since the first year of uni. If I remember rightly, it was the subject of my first proper essay too. No doubt a cringe-worthy festival of pretension now - I might dig it out for giggles.<br /><br />Notably, Breton and the Surrealists held up Wuthering Heights as a key text - a perfect example of amour fou, which was one of the driving impulses of the movement. Bunuel actually made a film of it in the 50s - <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046675/" rel="nofollow">Abismos de Pasion</a>. You might find it closer to capturing the psychological disturbance you detect in the book than most film versions, which usually miss the mark completely. I've got it on DVD actually; I'll have to sling it your way!Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00883652938068686404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-7380776844106719452017-03-30T17:27:23.820+01:002017-03-30T17:27:23.820+01:00Caro!Caro!Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824401113801295302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-61113930489077650912017-03-30T17:26:53.839+01:002017-03-30T17:26:53.839+01:00Fascinating stuff - may book-on-tape it. Finding i...Fascinating stuff - may book-on-tape it. Finding it harder to get into fiction as I get older. All about Robert Carl's Lyndon Johnson bio for me at the moment. Now that's interminable, but brilliant.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824401113801295302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-50968819618119838932017-03-28T23:11:28.092+01:002017-03-28T23:11:28.092+01:00I've never read it, but will make it my next o...I've never read it, but will make it my next out of copyright ebook if I ever finish the interminable Daniel Deronda. zungghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589765282573457784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-10440041101298884272016-10-02T09:38:38.507+01:002016-10-02T09:38:38.507+01:00Out of morbid curiosity, I googled woman shouting ...Out of morbid curiosity, I googled woman shouting at war memorial but came up with <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3798328/Woman-urinated-war-memorial-jailed-seven-months.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> instead - naturally reported by The Daily Fail, or should I say Fail Online, for those guardians of public decency have transferred their lynch law into cyberspace.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00883652938068686404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-23084345065441299022016-02-25T05:01:48.516+00:002016-02-25T05:01:48.516+00:00Dear whoever wrote this: I'm not sure if you w...Dear whoever wrote this: I'm not sure if you will ever see this comment, but I wanted to say that I feel exactly the same way about pretty much everything you wrote and am grateful to not be alone. I particularly appreciated this: "have always kind of done my own thing, in my own quiet way. I’ve always met received wisdom with a [skeptical] coolness, recoiled from what strikes me as tediously ‘normal’, and indulged my scattershot interests. Given this, I was never going to have a straight-forward time of it..." b/c it's true -- I've always chosen my own path, been steadfast in what I want, loyal only to my independence, and taken chances on my deepest fulfillment, at the expense of my presumed security... To expect any different outcomes from myself would be rather silly, as you've pointed out. I guess there will always be we who are different -- who have achieved only episodic success and are no closer to the things that society equates with adulthood (property, family, children, stable career) than we were at 23... But as you point, some people see this from the outside and feel envy -- the feel imprisoned by the "stable" things they've chosen and admire people who take more chances... I guess the most important thing is to look at our choices as simply one type of path, rather than flawed, simply b/c it's outside the bell curve of "normal." I guess the big question is, can we support our needs? Do we have fulfilling activities and relationships (of any sort) in our lives? Is there something that gives our lives any sense of deeper meaning? If so, then I suppose we're fulfilling all the intentions of human life and can't really expect more of ourselves. Maybe the answer is to lower our expectations :)Emily at The New Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962815830544614111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-32615465098323121542016-01-06T20:04:15.349+00:002016-01-06T20:04:15.349+00:00I downloaded a Monk collection about 8 years ago, ...I downloaded a Monk collection about 8 years ago, during my last musical expansionist phase when I was getting into classical. I really liked the Monk but for some reason never followed it up. I peeked into the box of delights you're describing and then just wandered off. Likewise with Sidney Bechet, I bought a 3-CD set of him yonks ago and it's given me great pleasure over the years but I've never gone further - perhaps because so much of the jazz I've been incidentally exposed to (mostly while cruising radio) has conformed to the stereotype of impenetrability. Charlie Parker I tried, didn't really see what was so amazing. Mingus too. But it's probably time to try again.zungghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09589765282573457784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-30928755303222045142016-01-06T16:57:10.287+00:002016-01-06T16:57:10.287+00:00And K doing Ali G Impressions to sloane toffs walk...And K doing Ali G Impressions to sloane toffs walkin by...The Ledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07707433050643841003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-34571235606737987082016-01-06T16:53:51.770+00:002016-01-06T16:53:51.770+00:00And K doing Ali G Impressions to sloane toffs walk...And K doing Ali G Impressions to sloane toffs walkin by...The Ledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07707433050643841003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-21602834205264832812016-01-06T16:51:16.040+00:002016-01-06T16:51:16.040+00:00And christmas tree night. Think they stopped us th...And christmas tree night. Think they stopped us three times...The Ledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07707433050643841003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-4936658157506783562016-01-06T16:33:47.725+00:002016-01-06T16:33:47.725+00:00I remember noise desperatae to releive himself 200...I remember noise desperatae to releive himself 2000 night (no piddle pots around n too many folk) I have a photo of him squat in a puddle. Its the only position he could attain that was tolerable I think.lots of smashed bottles on roads, roafblocks screaming women in crushes. Thon we went to eds n watched naked lunch.The Ledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07707433050643841003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-84485328118676276922016-01-06T15:44:46.881+00:002016-01-06T15:44:46.881+00:00And now your 38! Whoops.And now your 38! Whoops.baultyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256383499934682141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-48347912854373170492016-01-06T15:41:18.804+00:002016-01-06T15:41:18.804+00:00Also the hanley tree incident, just became about g...Also the hanley tree incident, just became about getting the tree home no matter what cost as we had all decided it wasnt illegal to carry a christmas tree back, and we had purchased it legitimately. We were outraged that the police were trying to imply we were some sort of trouble makers. We were all prepared to go to jail that night for our cause. hahabaultyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256383499934682141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-57845148236246293902016-01-06T15:25:28.084+00:002016-01-06T15:25:28.084+00:00two classic new year nights i was happy to be a pa...two classic new year nights i was happy to be a part of , good memories indeed. I dont remember finding the club either. I do however remember buying some crisps in a local jimmy shop at 3am, and a smiling man saying the original price, pausing, then laughed, and stated 'sorry, millenium' and then charged me double.baultyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16256383499934682141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-31000086689407120932016-01-06T10:56:39.663+00:002016-01-06T10:56:39.663+00:00Well I love Jazz, I know full well that being a Ha...Well I love Jazz, I know full well that being a Hardcore Jazzbore is my destiny.Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300578485755712212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-65158990218462767562016-01-05T00:01:21.842+00:002016-01-05T00:01:21.842+00:00Sorry Anna (that is you isn't it?) I'm lat...Sorry Anna (that is you isn't it?) I'm late to THIS party (comment) having neglected my own blog for a few months (as I regularly do). "An adult life of crashing disappointments that I haven't made any momentous contribution to society" due to an inflated sense of my own uniqueness is a good way to put it and a large part of it. I'm arrogant enough to still cling to an idea that I indeed am reasonably talented in some unusual ways, but basically have failed to use those talents to any great effect which is a bit of an ongoing rankle - but then, who doesn't feel that? One of the big revelations of the past few years has been that there are good reasons for this which are also rooted in am personality - While I've pottered about endlessly I haven't really gone all out to push anything I've done out there. I've been lazy on that count and a chronic procrastinator, imbued with a comfort-junkie's aversion to risk and a cripplingly self-effacing aversion to self-publicity... and it's a deep rooted part of who I am, I don't really think I was ever going to be any different. "Success" in the world is not just about being talented or bright, it's as much about being savvy and pushy and singe-minded and relentlessly persevering... so I've only got myself to blame. But a lot of me is actually fine with that, if I'm honest... Noyushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821042807593222169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-78578047615698644342016-01-04T23:34:40.214+00:002016-01-04T23:34:40.214+00:00See, three months in and I'm already capable o...See, three months in and I'm already capable of being a jazz bore.Noyushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821042807593222169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-60842276703962930292016-01-04T23:34:04.768+00:002016-01-04T23:34:04.768+00:00The albums "Monk's Dream" and "...The albums "Monk's Dream" and "Straight, No Chaser" (both containing versions of those numbers) were what did it - though I've had a Best of the Blue Note Years (really early versions of some of his classics) since, well, Uni days, which I was always intrigued with, hence plumping for Monk on my whim. I've kind of stuck to post-bop and the late 50's/60s avant garde explosion so far, but expect I will work my way back. Ellington is on my radar. EVERYONE loves Ellington, and half of them worked in his big band at some point...<br /><br />Dolphy was a genuine discovery for me cos I had no idea who he was when I saw him on a Mingus live TV thing and immediately thought "F me! Who's that?!" The first thing I read was that he died just months after what I was watching, which I assumed meant he never really made it past a promising young side man. What a shame, I thought... before I quickly discovered he was considered one of the leading lights of avant garde jazz alongside Ornette and Trane (but rather than crazy free blowing his stuff tends to sound more deliberately odd and angular) - he pops up everywhere, extensively with Mingus, a bit with Trane, but with dozens of others, and yes, he did a bunch of albums as band leader too, mostly starting with the word "Out" (Outward Bound, Out There, Out to Lunch!). This is him with Mingus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimpUKVAbY8 Noyushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16821042807593222169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-61942906506084460982016-01-04T12:30:43.960+00:002016-01-04T12:30:43.960+00:00I'm sure you've listened to it if you'...I'm sure you've listened to it if you've been hitting the Monk, but 'Monk's Dream' is one of my favourite of his.<br /><br />I've never heard of Eric Dolphy though.. some recommendations?<br /><br />And lastly, though he may not be quirky enough for you, Ellington is the composer supreme in my view.<br /><br />Blues In Orbit and Ellington Indigos are just joyous listens.Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300578485755712212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-78082601158415163832015-08-13T20:39:19.242+01:002015-08-13T20:39:19.242+01:00I'm a bit late to this party. And what a party...I'm a bit late to this party. And what a party! Woo hoo. Good job I brought my dancing shoes.<br /><br />Seriously though... It's a good piece and lots of bells ringing, and it deserves comments, where are the comments maaaan?<br /><br />I think you could be suffering with Fuckimnotspecial Syndrome. I know I am. A combination of introspection and the urgent need to understand how not to fuck up my own children has lead me to thinking a lot about this stuff. Being given the impression as a wee un that I was a bit clever (and that this was the the best & most important thing one can be), a bit different, 'had promise', didn't give me wings - as I'm sure my lovely family and teachers intended - it's given me an adult life of crashing disappointments that I haven't made any momentous contribution to society. The hyped up expectations I had for myself, and the reality that I'm soul-suckingly average in every respect, has been more than disappointing, it's well and truly buggered my sense of self.<br /><br />You may have achieved nothing of note (yet?) tinkering by yourself but at least you've developed your talents. I'm still running around like a beheaded chicken looking for mine, and it's looking very much like there's not a lot to be found. In fact what I've found is that I was right all along (infuriating! The only time I didn't want to be right!): my talent is the ability to give the impression of having talent. I can't pretend it hasn't been useful, but it's not what you'd call... fulfilling. So, off on the road to acceptance now. Maybe see you there?<br /><br />And your African fella would be right if 'happiness' was predicted by external factors, but I think the evidence says it's not (it just alters how trifling - or not - the piff puffs are)SpannerWallyDorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153424281141545213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-23570341057223248582015-07-21T19:54:34.154+01:002015-07-21T19:54:34.154+01:00Nah, blogs are cool :-)Nah, blogs are cool :-)Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00883652938068686404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-49029068797196326952015-07-21T17:45:13.656+01:002015-07-21T17:45:13.656+01:00Blogs? ;-)Blogs? ;-)Alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300578485755712212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671716277266041804.post-23443699473592911222015-07-21T17:35:34.947+01:002015-07-21T17:35:34.947+01:00Anime avatars on forums. Particularly ones relatin...Anime avatars on forums. Particularly ones relating to some obscure OVA - sure sign the poster is a know-nothing-yet-think-they-know-everything kid.<br />Forums. What a load of opinionated tossers.<br />Opinions. And the jocular reminder of why they're so plentiful.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00883652938068686404noreply@blogger.com