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“When I was in college, I once blew off two days of classes and watched ‘Pink Oz’ like, seventeen times in a continuous loop. Which would have been a total consciousness raising experience, I think, had I not ruined it by eating thirty-five Taco Bell chalupas and a entire family size bag of Bugles.”*
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Jeeze, Jeff – what, are you wielding a firehose of traffic like the puppy blender now? The Tucson Comrade is not responding. I blame the innernuts!
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
SB: forces
beyond human comprehension
You want a mind blowing experience? Get a copy of Styx’s “Kilroy Was Here” and play it while watching Tron on mute. Start it when Kevin Flynn gets deconstructed.
You will never be the same.
One does not tarnish Styx with cheap gimmickry, Johnny.
Styx is to be listened to while enjoying a pipe and wearing a Heffner-esque smoking jacket / low-rise briefs combo.
And yes, Tommy Shaw IS dreamy.
Sad about Barrett.
Well, I thought that went without saying.
so, uh, singing “Show me the Way” at church camp, was that blasphemous? (my pastor made me do it…. okay, he asked very nicely and i’m a ham.)
What about a young Barbi Benton, Jeff? To hell with the damn smoking jacket, know what I’m sayin?
If I didn’t love you already, Jeff (in the agape way, not the cheap lusty slutty way), I would after your defense of Styx.
Sigh. Those were the days.
What time is it? Nobody knows, and the clock isn’t tocking.
I always thought alternating between Styx and Patti Page was the SuXoR….I seem to be wired a little differently… Podjors, a pith helmet, and a good silver handled riding crop, makes a nice relaxation ensemble….
TW: The minutes turn into weeks…..
Wish you were still here.
– That kind of wild tock is going to get you in trouble one of these days McGehee….
No more shining for the crazy diamond. Sad.
Its sad and all.
But now I’m TOTALY got that guitar part of “How I wish, How I Wish you Were Hear” stuck in my head for all the rest of today, I just know it. Thanks for nothing.
(doot-dootle-doot-doooooo….)
TW: Have to admit, it was a good one strum and sing for sority womyn on the back porch of college.
Sounds like this fellow, Barrett, spent most of his life comfortably numb.
BBH, stop reciting your wingnut tocking points.
No wonder that clock has developed a tic
Count Clockula.
– I’d kill for a bag of dripping White Castles, and a Iced Pitcher of A&W right now… A true life altering experience… In a quiet setting you can actually hear your arteries slamming shut with each bite…..
Jeff, been meaning to ask: Is “Protein Wisdom” a reference to Jorn Barger’s old “Robot Wisdom Weblog”?
Jorn’s been blogging since before “weblogs” got contracted to “blogs”. His stuff used to be entertaining, interesting, quirky, weird, and readable.
Sadly, several years ago he chose to venture into the fever swamps of Judaeophobia and Israel-hatred, and his blog became nothing more than a collection of “cool links from today’s compulsive websurfing”. Search the site for “Jew” or “Israel” for evidence that his obsession still grips.
Pity. The guy was once mentioned in the New Yorker, no less, as having one of the most interesting sites on the web. If you want to observe him going off the rails, you can check out this old discussion forum, in which he first asked the question “Is Judaism simply a religion of lawless racists?” and then, getting the to-be-expected angry response to the poke-in-the-face premise of the “debate”, followed up by changing it to “Are Jews incapable of polite discourse?”
Anyway, just wondering. Protein Wisdom, in my book, is preferable to the robotic simulacrum any day.
TW: History, as in “this post is about ancient…”
Talk about synchronicity (or fairly close to it). I bought “Ummagumma” a few months ago and just last weekend made my 20-yo daughter listen to it while we were on a road trip. She liked the “live” side better, but “SSoSFAGTiaCaGWap” is still one my all-time favorites.
It is too bad about Barrett, although I don’t think I’ve really listened to any PF while he was in it. I wonder how they would have sounded if he hadn’t lost his mind and David Gilmour hadn’t stepped in.
cardeblu–
Probably a lot like Modern English, is my guess.
Please go give a big thumb up to this insightful comment:
33. Comment by David N. (#5626)  July 11,2006 @ 11:19AM
Rating: 3 Thumbs Up
I guess I’ll never make it as a typist or proof-reader, I meant #18, not #1 =)
http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/comments/index.php?id=137374
Maybe they’ll begin to understand this place a little better.
What with losing Syd Barrett today, this one’s a lovely post.
Of course, SSoSA was Roger Waters, not Syd. Gnome references might be more to the point.
But I liked it anyway.
Damn. And the just released DVD of Pulse is going to arrive from Amazon.com today.
Ah yes the DeYoung brothers, brings back memories. And how I hate being stuck on the third page!!!!
Podjors, a pith helmet, and a good silver handled riding crop, makes a nice relaxation ensemble….
Oh yes, but how did you know what I was wearing?
ps. I don’t like the divide-comments-into-pages
thing much. I preferred the at-a-glance.
I suspect it’s an attempt to keep the trolls from being able to follow the discussion.
Either that or to keep page sizes small to reduce load on the server.
The times, they are a-changing
Expect to see more and more of this, as more idols of the Boomer generation get older and older.
I was watching the Beatles in “Help!” on cable the other day, and it was with a shock I realized that of the 4 young mop-top kids, 2 of them were dead, and the other 2 were in their 60s.
I guess this is how our parents felt when Sinatra, Crosby, Hope, etc. died.
Do NOT google “count cockula”.
Emily tries but misunderstands. She’s often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams until tomorrow.
So nice to see a conservative quote Syd. Odd but nice. Odder still, LSD wasn’t just for those who wanted everyone to think exactly the same. What’s really happened to the anti-war/Viet Nam left? NOT ENOUGH LSD! Too much time being way too serious. I’m sure that’s it. They can’t even giggle anymore. Hell, Frisch and P.J. O’Rourke are walking proof!
SarahW – A woman who obviously knows her casual chez’la chic’ fashion points….
I’m haunted by marching hammers.
T/W The audience gasped when I shaved off my nipple.
nate – check and make sure you didn’t accidently load “Beaty and the Beast” in the Tivo….
Make that “Beauty”….. Those Disney film effects can be hell on the psyche…..
One of these days I’m going to cut a toddler into little pieces.
Not cool.
BBH,
I think you nailed it the first try. Warren Beat(t)y also scares the shit out of me.
Ned Beatty, not so much.
T/W You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
Gawddamnit!!!!!
I leave PW for just a few days and find out it has raised an army, gone to war and quashed the infidel.
Gawddamnit!
Well, good job, Jeff. You did take the high ground and gave all of us (who aren’t regular Kos readers) a look at the actual, honest-to-god meltdown of a nut case.
Except for the threats to your son, that’s better than pie.
Hmm. The crazy diamond is gone, eh? Or is he?
A fitting little tribute Jeff.
Presumably the clock had that particular moment of awakening at 4:20.
This will make it harder to pretend Robyn Hitchcock is him.
“Emily tries but misunderstands. She’s often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams until tomorrow.
So nice to see a conservative quote Syd. Odd but nice. Odder still, LSD wasn’t just for those who wanted everyone to think exactly the same. What’s really happened to the anti-war/Viet Nam left? NOT ENOUGH LSD! Too much time being way too serious. I’m sure that’s it. They can’t even giggle anymore. Hell, Frisch and P.J. O’Rourke are walking proof!”
Man, I love the fact that socialist think they are the only people in the world that listen to music or that have ever done drugs. I now claim all rock bands of any signifigance are now only listenable to by right wing war pigs.
PS. I bet my record collection AND my black light poster collection is WAY bigger than yours!
Cato: Small world. I used to work with Barger. He was a pretentious douchebag who thought that by continually channeling James Joyce, he thereby inherited some of Joyce’s intellectual glamour.
Make no mistake Jorn was smart–just not as smart as he believed himself to be. (Reminds me of a Noel Coward quip about ‘wearing Proust like a conversational hairnet.’
One thing Barger does deserve credit for is running the original weblog. When he was hot, he was very hot, and he certainly deserves a place in history for being a visionary in that regard. Even a broken clock is accurate twice a day.
I know nothing of his anti-semitism. Knowing him, I’d say he spends too much time alone.
Okay, I’m complaining. I don’t care for the multi-page format and this is the second time I’ve picked up a smiley by merely typing a right parenthesis. I got rid of one previously because I used preview, but I didn’t preview this time and a smiley rode in on my deathless prose. I don’t so smileys. Hate ‘em.
So, my other complaint is ‘why the hell are smileys being evoked by the parenthese character?’ Maybe it’s something in the new Expression Engine setup.
best regards, &etc..
Wow, this came as a great shock to me.
I thought Sid died 30 years ago.
<blockquote>PS. I bet my record collection AND my black light poster collection is WAY bigger than yours!
You win on the black light posters. Records? Yours may be bigger but mine is larger.
Is Bob Dylan a conservative? Will his new album, Modern Times, (due August 29) jump on the Anti- Bush bandwagon. I’ve got a Franklin that says, no.
I actually got verklempt at the news of Barrett’s death this morning.
What a colossal talent —and waste.
And, now, I will go and play The Madcap Laughs as loud as I should.
Ahem:
Woo-ooo, six degrees of separation kicks in yet again!
That’s pretty amazing, actually. Because the impression I got was he pretty much spent all his time alone. In fact the one thoroughgoing article on him I read during his 15 mins. of MSM time described him sitting on his bed with an ancient Mac, avoiding his Chicago roommates and bloggin all day long.
Glad that’s not meeeee! /shudder
And that he had colleagues – who knew? Were you in the A.I. world with him? He seemed to have some, er, issues there…
For a while he went dark, and people were actually worried he’d gone and done sumpin’ stoopid. Turned up in New Mex., having decided to take a break from the world. (?!?) At that point I was only following him around the net to see how far down the tunnel he would get with his Joomania. Seems like it’s still a mild to medium obsession, but it’s hard to tell as he never writes anything of his own anymore, just links.
The original blogger – and the original net addict?
Some of his resource material – on Joyce (that’s how I first found him, I’m a longtime Stephen Dedalus fan), on music (obscure seventies groups like “The Incredible String Band”), on books (“Damascus Gate” by Robert Stone) – are tremendous, but they’re all pretty much in a state of “good start, when are you gonna finish?”
So, is PW a backhanded salute to robotwisdom.com, or don’t you know?
TW: plane, as in “existence”
post-preview TW: based, as in “reality”
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Best Album Title Ever
Interstellar Overdrive
Best Song Title Ever
No, it’s a term from a piece Jeff wrote once upon a time. There’s a source for it around here somewhere, though I don’t have it in me to unearth it at the moment. But it’s original, not derivative.
Well, it being a term from one of Jeff’s writings doesn’t exclude the idea that he might have gotten the notion from robotwisdom.
Still curious, it’s an old Joycean thing…
TW: couple, as in “one shouldn’t couple unrelated terms”
post-preview TW: either, as in “it’s not an either/or proposition”
Nope. Just a line from a piece of fiction where the protagonist was really tripping and trying to keep his thoughts centered.
The bit the line comes from had to do with the idea of genetic memory, like one finds in the Monarch butterly, for instance.
I had never heard of Robot Wisdom when I wrote it (which is when I was living in Bologna Italy, as a matter of fact. Hell, I had to have an Italian show me the IMDB!)
Ah, well then, I guess this could have been an instance (if I hadn’t heard it from the author himself) of “intentionalisme” vs. “interpretationes”! !
Bologna rocks, and that ain’t no baloney.
PW: point, as in some get it…
“And the wind cried ‘Marion’.”
(which is a nice trick if you can do it)