tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8746163108999449224..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Harvey Pekar: The Epiphany of the EverydayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70115084085749622732010-07-14T07:48:08.322-07:002010-07-14T07:48:08.322-07:00Tom,
Thanks for this, obituaries for both Harvey ...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for this, obituaries for both Harvey and Tuli in yesterday's NYTimes. . . . <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/arts/design/13pekar.html?scp=2&sq=harvey%20pekar&st=cse <br /> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/arts/music/13kupferberg.htmlscp=1&sq=tuli%20kupferberg&st=cseSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18890318904612527782010-07-14T02:45:01.579-07:002010-07-14T02:45:01.579-07:00Marilynn,
Thank you. I hope your son finds it int...Marilynn,<br /><br />Thank you. I hope your son finds it interesting.<br /><br />Our daughter, who's done some work in the area of comic art herself, grew up being a Harvey Pekar fan.<br /><br /><br />Curtis,<br /><br />Yes, an odd coincidence, I too, during our Dover Beach sojourn, had sifted through those clips of Tuli and Ed... in fact it was the very sincerity of their presentation, ironically, which detained me from posting the links. (The animated voiceover version I did post, which seemed a brilliant if unintended exercise in what I guess was once called deconstruction, was I guess just the ultimate impossible act to follow.)<br /><br />The Fugs had an ongoing nightly gig in the village that went on, as I recall, for the better part of a year. They were like the house band. I lived on the Lower East Side at 14th and B and Ed was just around the corner at Tenth & A. Tuli was everywhere about. During that period Ed had his great shaggy beaming head on the cover of Life magazine.<br /><br />At that point in history it almost seemed as though anything might be possible.<br /><br />Alas anything wasn't, but what a wonderfully brave and crazy attempt to catch the naked moonbeams and wild starlight of freedom and poetry. <br /><br /><br />Cristián,<br /><br />I understand your sense of disappointment.<br /><br />I had gone to school for a while in the 1950s in Harvey's part of Cleveland, so those lovingly detailed urban landscapes of his always rang especially true for me, having seen the real thing. <br /><br />Though of course the magic Harvey put into the place probably had more of Harvey in it than of the place, anyway.<br /> <br />When a true creator goes out of the world, the wind goes out of the sails of the soul for a while.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49068733607333413662010-07-13T22:13:25.433-07:002010-07-13T22:13:25.433-07:00Is incredible painful to hear the news about Pekar...Is incredible painful to hear the news about Pekar. I´m just moving to Cleveland, and I was just planning to pay him a visit.<br /><br />Bad day, <br /><br />Cristián Gómez O.baudelaire3https://www.blogger.com/profile/18425342581204994137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44757122427327614362010-07-13T18:16:24.351-07:002010-07-13T18:16:24.351-07:00I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Tuli K...I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Tuli Kupferberg audioclip you linked to your post. Performance, in any context or art form, is a funny thing. Either you "have it" or you don't. It's unfakeable. Anyway, as I see it through my narrow lens: no Fugs = no Stooges = no Ramones = less me. I know there are other, different, possibly wider (and more accurate) lenses. I've always considered "I Couldn't Get High" to be a touchstone work.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50502559554840188552010-07-13T16:53:45.837-07:002010-07-13T16:53:45.837-07:00Tom - I'm forwarding your post to my son who ...Tom - I'm forwarding your post to my son who will find his knowledge expanded by your review. I will look into links mentioned in the comments.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66024810062965626182010-07-13T13:38:10.845-07:002010-07-13T13:38:10.845-07:00I was very moved by your review of Harvey Pekar...I was very moved by your review of Harvey Pekar's work and then surprised and saddened to learn of Tuli Kupferberg's passing. I think I mentioned that after you posted Matthew Arnold's On Dover Beach and the link to the "virtual" Arnold recitation, I watched and enjoyed videos of Tuli and Ed Sanders (separately) performing versions of the poem. I think the first time I saw Tuli was on the old David Susskind Open End tv show in the 1960s when Susskind had The Fugs on as guests. That opened my eyes a bit. I always enjoyed the humorous, pointed letters he wrote to the Village Voice, which were unique and irreplaceable.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25295390482451662032010-07-13T11:26:45.779-07:002010-07-13T11:26:45.779-07:00Tom,
Oi and double oi. I had not known.
Our frie...Tom,<br /><br />Oi and double oi. I had not known.<br /><br />Our friend Tom Raworth refers to the sad fact that another American genius and great storyteller (a man of the people who actually had a lot in common with Harvey Pekar) has also just died.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/arts/music/13kupferberg.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">Tuli Kupferberg</a>.<br /><br />I knew Tuli pretty well once upon a time, back in the early glory days of <a href="http://www.thefugs.com/" rel="nofollow">The Fugs</a>. Those times will not soon come again.<br /><br />Ed Sanders' note on Tuli's passing as well as a clip of Tuli singing his most famous anthem of the Lower East Side can be found at <a href="http://tomraworth.com/notes/?p=1208" rel="nofollow">Tom's post</a>.<br /><br />Thanks, Tom, and love from here. Memories....TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57152212603795486452010-07-13T10:43:36.256-07:002010-07-13T10:43:36.256-07:00Nice, Tom. Harvey and Tuli....
love, TomNice, Tom. Harvey and Tuli....<br />love, TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079162136503550734noreply@blogger.com