tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3571558931155155753..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Susan Kay Anderson: O.K., Who Gets To Be Jim Morrison?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26408995051404959182012-07-19T05:24:11.525-07:002012-07-19T05:24:11.525-07:00This visit to the dollhouse in the desert puts one...This visit to the dollhouse in the desert puts one in a dusty rummage-sale sort of mood.<br /><br />Just the time to try on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQUsMjcevOs" rel="nofollow">Jim Morrison's Sunglasses</a>.<br /><br />And thinking a bit more about the two questions put me in mind of Jim's lucid coeval from the desert.<br /><br />Ah, those were the days.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREnvJRkif0&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Charles Manson's Epic Question</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oZWpqtNi4&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Charles Manson's Epic Answer</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71658695842881690502012-07-19T01:07:18.445-07:002012-07-19T01:07:18.445-07:00People are strange
In Yermo
And not just there.People are strange<br />In Yermo<br /><br />And not just there.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87333721994819875972012-07-18T19:56:39.113-07:002012-07-18T19:56:39.113-07:00The dolls are safest
behind the fence
there...The dolls are safest<br /> behind the fence<br /><br /> there in Yermo<br /> the wind brushes<br /> their creosote hair<br /><br />from Calico Man--<br />his tools<br />(golfing visor<br /> t-shirt)<br />laid out for spectators<br />of seemingly endless<br />desert pageantry<br />endless<br />dimension<br />less <br />dimensionSusan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2973072730561531922012-07-18T16:55:34.203-07:002012-07-18T16:55:34.203-07:00"if indeed by the point of approaching apogee..."if indeed by the point of approaching apogee in the trajectory of the iconic charismatic rockstar fame rocket to the stars, any feeling remained at all. After all that false adulation, the conversion of your life into consumable product, the ubiquitous groupies & c., how to begin digging out of the ruins, to become a person again, and let your eyes be seen, revealing the vulnerability of your actual human expression? Your fear?"<br /><br />As good an explanation I've ever seen of why JM ended up a bloated, depressed shut-in in Paris before he died. Thanks, Tom, as alwaysVINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38502860439081185392012-07-18T16:13:46.948-07:002012-07-18T16:13:46.948-07:00thank you tom clark blog for enriching my soul. am...thank you tom clark blog for enriching my soul. am sitting under an umbrella in a rainstorm reading this loving being transported to the dusty hot images.barkstryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07802148418666645365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54694190497972689952012-07-18T13:53:26.125-07:002012-07-18T13:53:26.125-07:00then the ghost town is an apt location, maybe...then the ghost town is an apt location, maybe...Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34838941817492951462012-07-18T11:36:26.959-07:002012-07-18T11:36:26.959-07:00I´d love to see those fantasy dolls!I´d love to see those fantasy dolls!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53405107514482876182012-07-18T10:34:56.965-07:002012-07-18T10:34:56.965-07:00WB,
I too like the active uncertainty prompted by...WB,<br /><br />I too like the active uncertainty prompted by those two questions, coming at what seems to be a crucial moment of (self) recognition.<br /><br />The first question seems a self-interrogation, with a hint of self-mockery.<br /><br />The rock star Jim Morrison could always be seeming to be cool behind the dark glasses, though in fact there was no coolness, merely the masking of feeling -- if indeed by the point of approaching apogee in the trajectory of the iconic charismatic rockstar fame rocket to the stars, any feeling remained at all. After all that false adulation, the conversion of your life into consumable product, the ubiquitous groupies & c., how to begin digging out of the ruins, to become a person again, and let your eyes be seen, revealing the vulnerability of your actual human expression? Your fear?<br /><br />The speaker's initial gesture then, to implicitly volunteer to share in the sense of inauthenticity Jim Morrison should have felt over his pretense of impassivity and coolness.<br /><br />But the narrator's generous falling-on-the-rhetorical sword, there, taking up the onus of inauthenticity when we are soon enough to discover the identity of the actual joker in this pack, to whom that onus properly belongs -- the neutralized visor wearer whose body as well as his eyes wins our sympathy for her, falling over to be more than fair to him like that.<br /><br />He's sick of the relationship. He's a self-absorbed jerk. Yet not a word is said against him. It would bounce right off the mask, the visor, the shield of his steady stream of meaningless conversation.<br /><br />He has already receded into the past, into the fragile busy waste of the desert, by the time we come to see that the facial muscles, which might reveal the truth, are complicit in the false-relationship lie for which his presence in this poem, which is really a kind of absence, stands as the distinguishing sign.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42079250196502142322012-07-18T09:22:01.404-07:002012-07-18T09:22:01.404-07:00"...him with his t-shirt and golfing visor/ n..."...him with his t-shirt and golfing visor/ neutralizing his body"<br />A brash and shining image. <br /><br />I like those two questions, perfectly placed, that won't be answered. <br /><br />These two sorts that you can't get a fix on: the first subject with the sunglasses put aside; the second with the T shirt and that golfing visor.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com