So we were watching The Buena Vista Social Club the other night streaming across Netflix and the question came up what musical group did Ry Cooder (the producer of the movie) start with. So I went and looked it up on the Internet. That would have been with Captain Beefheart and then about ten minutes later I read a notice that the Captain had just died. Uh?
Mechanisms of power in general have never been much studied by history. History has studied those who held power – Michel Foucault – Power/Knowledge, 1979 p51
A debunker has no responsibility for proposing any alternatives, his only responsibility is to point out that the emperor has no clothes, which as it turns out may be (that he has not clothes on ) be perfectly acceptable to his subjects.
And these moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them forward the future… towards a future which has itself become the past – drawing us along in their train – Marcel Proust – The Fugitive p76
She’s a cowgirl
She’s my big girl
I’m her gorilla
She’s my chinchilla
I’m such a squirrel
I’m in peril
Girl, you’re a pearl
In the continual pursuit of pleasure men lose both cheerfulness and clarity; there will be small hilarity, but much malice – John Ruskin – The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from his writings, 1963 p209
Get into debt
Acquire property
Be a regular guy
Use your get out
Of jail card
Pay your taxes
Be responsible
Start a 401K
Give the kids
A good education
Good graciouis
And
Work, work, work
Until you die
And don't forget
To mow the lawn
Sometimes when I’ve had enough to drink – just exactly enough – I feel as if I were given to understand that which I may not understand again. And sometimes then – but rarely – I have an urge to speak out – Lillian Hellman – The Autumn Garden
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