tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7198358935070662975..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Giuseppe Ungaretti: SunsetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69493671628600967352013-10-13T08:45:21.956-07:002013-10-13T08:45:21.956-07:00"in the religious darkness of the thyutuh&quo..."in the religious darkness of the thyutuh"<br /><br />and yes. yes. yes.<br />and her name was Anita/Devi and she wore a pink fuzzy sweater and sweet-red lipstick and she was barely 16 and sweet and it didn't matter why mov i.e. was on the Queenstown Drive-In's screen and the erotic was NEVER vulgar<br />then<br /> all poems and art are erotic and<br />it is the (in the darkk and in the light<br />the erotic love and innocence that makes life worth living....<br /><br />then the awareness of<br /><br />as<br /><br />awareness and mind are not same thing ?<br /><br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51187841148410879422013-10-13T08:02:11.462-07:002013-10-13T08:02:11.462-07:00Ed,
Darn right, and yeah, that crazy theme song -...Ed,<br /><br />Darn right, and yeah, that crazy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkunqvDT4kY" rel="nofollow">theme song</a> -- is that what's known as iconic, or what?<br /><br />The Whistler, there, I believe, was Victor Young, buoyed along (not) on Dmitri Tiomkin's rockin' beats.<br /><br />Ah, weren't those the days of hot buttered popcorn spilt on the magical second-date lap in the religious darkness of the thyutuh?<br /><br />Still... thinking on the meaning of the high and the mighty (what's that you say?), and what with the government doing its current brilliant imitation of a chicken laying an egg in an iron lung, it did occur to someone around here that maybe what the good old USA needs right now is what this particular legislative body seems to have had piped in directly to its august chambers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJQoxdSFTJ0" rel="nofollow">nitrous oxide</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69473644889459927552013-10-13T07:25:49.532-07:002013-10-13T07:25:49.532-07:00wasn't that John Wayne movie
The High and the ...wasn't that John Wayne movie<br />The High and the Mighty ?<br /><br />as I recall<br />the theme song of the movie was good.<br /><br />and<br />you can really tell that Wayne wasn't doing the whistling...<br /><br />just like everything else he did..... after those 1930's cowboy movies<br /><br />he ws phony-bologne !<br /><br />while he was whistling Georgia Tech's 'fight' song<br /><br />I was singing Georgia on My Mind with The Rayman<br />and<br />doing Red Sails in the Sunset with The Fat Man (Fats Domino)Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22188865508689272802013-10-13T07:20:45.028-07:002013-10-13T07:20:45.028-07:00So here's the ticket, Ed -- when the goin'...So here's the ticket, Ed -- when the goin' gets tough, just <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2njKC5Iix8" rel="nofollow">whistle "Ramblin' Wreck"</a>...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34908674054829691562013-10-13T06:54:14.235-07:002013-10-13T06:54:14.235-07:00pretty sooner or even maybe
later
we will all look...pretty sooner or even maybe<br />later<br />we will all look back on this<br />as we-ALL be merely <br /><br /><br />...... wavelengths emanating ?<br /><br />{ without (paper) newspapers<br />just<br />what will I use to get my wood-fire going<br />so's I can get warm, cook my beans and burn my 120,000 pieces of variuousnesses and sundries ?<br /><br />and<br />now that there are no longer any telephone books<br />what paper will I use to practice my brush (sumo-e) work ?<br /><br />I guess that it is an absolute advantage..... being ignored.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38064550077764372742013-10-13T05:09:34.674-07:002013-10-13T05:09:34.674-07:00Curtis, so now it can be revealed: all received op...Curtis, so now it can be revealed: all received opinion on the planet can be traced back to something somebody heard that somebody said in the New York Times.<br /><br />(It can't be anybody actually reads the thing, I mean no, it's simply not possible.)<br /><br />But speaking of wreck... <br /><br />In my salad years (as they say) my most prized phonograph recording (78 rpm naturally) was an album of college football "fight songs". I was maybe six years old at the time of which I speak, and possessed of only an approximate understanding of the universe. (Well, nothing's changed much in that respect.) So I wasn't altogether sure exactly what "Georgia Tech" was, or what its students actually studied, or did, etc. But theirs was my hands-down favourite fight song of all time:<br /><br />I'm a Rambling Wreck<br />From Georgia Tech<br />And a hell of an engineer...<br /><br />I suppose I imagined the place as a sort of top-drawer railroading academy, which seemed perfectly sensible to me. I couldn't, at the time, think of anything more worthy of study. Than trains, that is. Nobody had yet informed me about girls. <br /><br />Thank God Miley Cyrus did not yet exist back then.<br /><br />Not to belabour the anecdote unduly but... as this is blogging, personal revelations are de rigueur, and so... what was it we were talking about, again?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38053363067585496392013-10-13T04:31:01.225-07:002013-10-13T04:31:01.225-07:00Regarding your own last comment, I don't think...Regarding your own last comment, I don't think that the Great Wreck spends a lot of time involved in meaningful self-reflection, either coming or going. I spent yesterday evening in the company of two people (sisters) I know pretty well. The older one holds an important position at one of the major financial institutions in New York. She doesn't make policy, per se, but her job is to ensure that their corporate ship of state sails evenly in all weather. The younger sister is a senior administrator at a good private school. They're as nice as can be, but embody what's derided these days as the "low information" mentality. I'm sure their jobs are highly involving and they're mothers of teenage girls (also highly involving and stressful), but they know absolutely nothing about anything. They wouldn't know or believe that the world ended unless someone told them that the NY Times had said so. Since newspapers are now out of style and going out of business, that would be an unlikely event. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85823475595014594222013-10-13T03:29:44.628-07:002013-10-13T03:29:44.628-07:00"The horrors of this industrial slaughter...&..."The horrors of this industrial slaughter..."<br /><br />Of course, war has always been colossally good business -- apart from the necessary blood and guts, it's all machine-made, like that wrecking ball the poor undernourished Americanski girl puts her wee sad all into tonguing on her latest video. <br /><br />But where is the enemy now, and what happens when the Rambling Wreck looks into the crack'd mirror and sees next Tuesday's office party in the Sheremetyevo transit lounge all done up in last year's burnt out Christmas lights?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62010580968221169722013-10-12T13:03:04.886-07:002013-10-12T13:03:04.886-07:00hey... try this and some of the links:
http://ant...hey... try this and some of the links:<br /><br />http://antiwar.com/casualties/<br /><br />what we-the-people get is just<br /><br />"All the News that's Fit to Print" we care more about Miley Cyrus and her tiny tiddies than what counts !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91628653541759852162013-10-12T12:29:34.094-07:002013-10-12T12:29:34.094-07:00to say nothing of the 60,000 + body bags we sent o...to say nothing of the 60,000 + body bags we sent over to Iraq.... remember that ?<br /><br />you don't have to go all the way back to 1914.... just go back a few years....<br />http://www.boston.com/news/packages/iraq/globe_stories/012491_women.htmEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78053892069043385952013-10-12T11:14:23.519-07:002013-10-12T11:14:23.519-07:00The twentieth century had hardly begun when humans...The twentieth century had hardly begun when humans began to apply economies of scale to warfare and death. Mass murder had been a slow, labor-intensive process before then. At the battle of the Somme fifty thousand men could die in one day, and there were other days equally horrific. That’s not casualties, but killed. The wounded were another obscene number. We know that the wound is to the mind as well as the body. The horrors of this industrial slaughter are many, and the fact that it’s all calculated seems not the least of them . . . as in mathematicians who design munitions to explode with maximum lethality. <br /><br />One day on the streets of St. Petersburg Ouspensky saw wagonloads of crutches that the Russian military was shipping to the front in 1914, in preparation for the mass maiming that was to come—and that rational minds had anticipated. He found a cynical efficiency in the planning and forethought given to carnage.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54096013566615011822013-10-11T12:26:31.919-07:002013-10-11T12:26:31.919-07:00A good few of them in the photos little more than ...A good few of them in the photos little more than boys.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35553345846356074332013-10-11T05:23:32.117-07:002013-10-11T05:23:32.117-07:00Ungaretti's horrific, ecstatic war-poetry diar...Ungaretti's horrific, ecstatic war-poetry diary manages to capture its moments without respect to any possible tomorrows -- of which, in fact, it didn't appear there were going to be any.<br /><br />The word-choices, in these exquisite small poems, deliver more weight than might have been expected. For example, the choice of "carnato" takes on all its invested meaning when one looks at the photo I've placed beneath the poem here.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50008797963357062912013-10-11T03:47:20.479-07:002013-10-11T03:47:20.479-07:00Feeling quite a bit of pressure recently (and at t...Feeling quite a bit of pressure recently (and at the moment), at first I thought: "Why can't Tom just give us the beautiful three line poem and the upper photo? Why the rest of this, which looks quite depressing?" Then I read on and am very glad I did. I've been up for quite a while in a hotel room in Boston where we're visiting for the weekend -- some pre-college previewing for Jane and then a China adoption group reunion. I just finished reading a series of articles and a collection of pseudonymous (for that is the way) "comment sewer" entries from my own college newspaper regarding the latest series of discourtesies and inconveniences on campus. What a bunch of crybabies. God bless Ettore Serra. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27151998724298457822013-10-10T14:27:57.588-07:002013-10-10T14:27:57.588-07:00try this recently produced WW l two-hours piece
...try this recently produced WW l two-hours piece<br />especially interesting ( to me) the last hour...<br />from about the E.E.Cummings part and the Harlem Hell Fighters and the et ceteras:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb3j6Ps44c<br /><br />(and ignore the stupid comments that are attached at the bottom....<br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43837392452781006972013-10-10T09:24:10.068-07:002013-10-10T09:24:10.068-07:00The sky's chaste flesh
In a world so wholly f...The sky's chaste flesh<br /><br />In a world so wholly fucked it must be something to catch sight of such a sunset.<br /><br />The Rosi clip: comical and inhuman.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49395846857065969682013-10-10T05:50:23.517-07:002013-10-10T05:50:23.517-07:00The Isonzo front, 1915-1918
Francesco Rosi: Uomin...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBvRFCOIKA" rel="nofollow">The Isonzo front, 1915-1918</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5FPHZmmN9I" rel="nofollow">Francesco Rosi: Uomini Contro (1970)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com