[lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short digression
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:08:54 +0000 (GMT)
I understand your business and importance, but one of the palindromes (with the
rat) is fairly well known, and others have the obvious shape and structure of a
simple palindrome. The truth may be you simply weren't palindromically alert
when you watched. But as said, I think the use of the palindrome is a clever
satiric device in this case. Have another look when you are less busy.
Donal
--- On Wed, 23/4/08, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short digression
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 23 April, 2008, 1:27 PM
> No, I had not realized the lyrics were palindromes. I had
> thought the
> lyrics were strange, but I'm a busy person, you see,
> and important, I don't
> have time to think about such things. Maybe, if I have
> time and nothing to
> do, I go back and watch it again. Hmmm.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donal McEvoy"
> <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:38 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short
> digression
>
>
> Everybody understood I hope that the joke of the song is
> that every line is
> a palindrome? It's a pretty clever basis for a parody
> because it is not so
> much satirising Dylan at all for bad lyrics (I suspect
> Weird Al is a big
> fan, but we haven't spoken since the fifties) but those
> who miss the point
> of his lyrics or read into them what is not there, and
> Weird Al would surely
> be delighted if someone actually read the words as trying
> to be profound -
> they are just playing a linguistic game.
>
> Hence I signed
> Donallanod
>
> It's really just Donal.
>
> Donal
>
>
> --- On Wed, 23/4/08, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short
> digression
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Wednesday, 23 April, 2008, 6:30 AM
> > Weird Al Yankovic is a parodist and satirist of pop
> music
> > and its stars. He's quite often very fnnny. I
> > didn't find Donal's selection particularly
> funny, a
> > bit, yes, but not up to Al's best work. Ak was
> paroding
> > a famous scene from Pennebacker's documentary film
> > "Don't Look Back" -- I once had a dog I
> > named 'Don't Look Back', but he not only
> > didn't look back, he didn't look both ways
> before
> > crossing the street and ended up as ground beef. The
> song
> > Weird Al was paroding was Dylan's
> "Subterranean
> > Homesick Blues" -- (see below) and Weird Al's
> cue
> > cards were a parody of Dylan's tossed aside lyric
> cue
> > cards in the film. That was the funniest thing about
> the
> > parody -- that and the Ginsberg looking character in
> the
> > background.
> >
> > SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
> > Johnny's in the basement
> > Mixing up the medicine
> > I'm on the pavement
> > Thinking about the government
> > The man in the trench coat
> > Badge out, laid off
> > Says he's got a bad cough
> > Wants to get it paid off
> > Look out kid
> > It's somethin' you did
> > God knows when
> > But you're doin' it again
> > You better duck down the alley way
> > Lookin' for a new friend
> > The man in the coon-skin cap
> > In the big pen
> > Wants eleven dollar bills
> > You only got ten
> >
> > Maggie comes fleet foot
> > Face full of black soot
> > Talkin' that the heat put
> > Plants in the bed but
> > The phone's tapped anyway
> > Maggie says that many say
> > They must bust in early May
> > Orders from the D. A.
> > Look out kid
> > Don't matter what you did
> > Walk on your tip toes
> > Don't try "No Doz"
> > Better stay away from those
> > That carry around a fire hose
> > Keep a clean nose
> > Watch the plain clothes
> > You don't need a weather man
> > To know which way the wind blows
> >
> > Get sick, get well
> > Hang around a ink well
> > Ring bell, hard to tell
> > If anything is goin' to sell
> > Try hard, get barred
> > Get back, write braille
> > Get jailed, jump bail
> > Join the army, if you fail
> > Look out. kid,
> > You're gonna get hit
> > But users, cheaters
> > Six-time losers
> > Hang around the theaters
> > Girl by the whirlpool
> > Lookin' for a new fool
> > Don't follow leaders
> > Watch the parkin' meters
> >
> > Ah get born, keep warm
> > Short pants, romance, learn to dance
> > Get dressed, get blessed
> > Try to be a success
> > Please her, please him, buy gifts
> > Don't steal, don't lift
> > Twenty years of schoolin'
> > And they put you on the day shift
> > Look out kid
> > They keep it all hid
> > Better jump down a manhole
> > Light yourself a candle
> > Don't wear sandals
> > Try to avoid the scandals
> > Don't wanna be a bum
> > You better chew gum
> > The pump don't work
> > 'Cause the vandals took the handles
> >
> > *****
> >
> > Those lyrics are quite different from Weird Al's
> parody
> > lyrics.
> > Mike Geary
> > Memphis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy" <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:31 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Bolcom and Morris - a short
> > digression
> >
> >
> > >I heard of Weird Al but I'm pretty clueless.
> > I'll
> > > check him out. Just wondering, what specifically
> do
> > > you disagree with that I said about Dylan? That
> I
> > > used to think that he was a low life? That was
> based
> > > on a comment I heard him say way back which I
> > won't go
> > > into. Over the years I've learned to feel
> sorry
> > for
> > > people who do/say lowlife things because I
> understand
> > > that when people do/say low life things it's
> > because
> > > they're hurting. So, forgive and forget and
> I now
> > see
> > > how good his music is. I actually like Dylan. I
> said
> > > he was magic.
> > >
> > > I like all kinds of music, except today's
> music.
> > I
> > > have tried, yes I have tried to learn to like it
> but I
> > > absolutely can't stand it for more than a
> minute.
> > > Maybe I just need someone to walk me through it
> or
> > > something. Somewhere along the line I did the
> old
> > > bumper sticker thing which is I stopped the world
> and
> > > got off and now can't or don't want to
> get
> > back on.
> > > Part of it is that I much prefer interviews and I
> > > hardly ever listen to music, not even when
> driving,
> > > except maybe for exercise and my collection is
> not
> > > extensive and I'm getting tired of it.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I'm surprised that you don't
> stand up
> > for
> > > Elvis. He's in the pantheon somewhere too,
> toward
> > the
> > > top of the list somewhere. The Beatles are now
> > > cliches, that's the only thing that's
> wrong
> > with them.
> > > They really did some brilliant things later on
> after
> > > they got past the I want to hold your hand junk.
> > I'm
> > > inclined to think that all this non-narrative
> type
> > > music has to be a trickle down from the earlier
> > > disjointed art and everything from the moderns.
> I
> > > don't know where I'm going with that.
> Maybe
> > later.
> > > And maybe not. That's it. Gotta go.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Irene, you do know who Weird Al Yankovic is,
> > don't
> > >> you?
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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