Well it ain’t Catcher in the Rye, but really, any story told by this guy is a pretty fun ride.
This is yer basic JD’s zany east coast family and its (now a universal standard) zany east coast family hijinks. Just like movies with the kid from Rushmore. I dig all of them pretty well but Salinger has something beyond. Or deeper. I can’t tell. Prolly it just comes down to the fact that Salinger has one of the greatest voices in the history of written language.
Anyway, these are both short so pick it up if you see a copy.
Here’s an interesting person whom I’d never heard of before recently. Emma Goldman. Thought you might dig on her tendency toward saying these kinds of things:
“Here, then, are my answers: I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.
As to killing rulers, it depends entirely on the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian Czar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. If the ruler is as ineffectual as an American President, it is hardly worth the effort. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.”
What a rebel. It seems that she also may have coined the phrase “free love” sometime around the turn of the century. I haven’t read her whole wiki, but in a couple of the things I’ve read of her she was defending that phrase as though it were her own.
The Dandy Warhols announce tour support for Australia comes in the form of The New Pollution in Perth, and Los Huevos in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Tickets for all Australian shows can be had here.
It gets off to a rough start but please hang in there because it’s important to be reminded how absolutely disgusting it felt to be an American travelling abroad from 2000 thru 2008 and why.
The English do such a good job on their royalty movies like this, the Queen, George II, and even that other little politician get this high and tight, quality treatment and I like it every time.
Check out this video that me and my friend Vern made for 1776 last week. It was a “wham-bam let’s bang out a video right now cuz I drank a lot of wine with dinner and I’m all fired up” kind of night.
I think it turned out far better than had we planned and scheduled one out. I love it. Can’t stop watching it actually. This band is amazing.
