Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Art imitates strife
Police Terror #1: in my neck of the empire, traffic stops are now apparently made with two police cars (this may be a ‘two officers’ thing, as cars now only operate with one cop). I wonder why this is. Seeing two cars behind someone who likely did 45 in a 35 looks paranoid, though passersby do pay closer attention and this may curb spontaneous violence.
Police Terror #2: Have you seen the prices of the Police reunion tour tickets? They should break up with several US dates left, then gather themselves for a few Euro gigs. (Lookout, Keir! They’re coming to AmDam.)
In movie news, the PBS documentary “Jonestown” is now at Netflix. It was so powerful I wondered how it got on PBS.
My review of “Sicko” remains at the end of Monday’s posts.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 07/18 at 08:43 AMHello Expendables...from a rainy, rainy, rainy Astoria.
Zen: As the say these days: #### tha Police
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/18 at 09:11 AMMICKEY-MITES—P O L I C E ----how bout McRUFF ruff THE CRIMEDOG.......CAN ANYONE BESIDES MICKEY Z ACTUALLY TAKE HIM?? let’s watch == http://tinyurl.com/2ocet9 == THE POLICE == A GREAT VIDEO ABOUT LOVE - NOT WAR == http://tinyurl.com/37nb2c == and finally....the cop’s cop.....SHERIFF DEADEYE BUFORD—JACKIE GLEASON - CHASES BURT REYNOLDS—HIS WIFE SALLY FIELDS—AND THE C O O R S BEER TRUCK.. AS JERRY REED CROONS == http://tinyurl.com/2u7xh2 —so much for real life C O P S ==smile
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers 07/18 at 02:10 PMGood morning everyone...Art Imitates Strife…
I know people who say they like listening to ‘Blues’
Yet, they don’t want to hear an African American, crudely strumming an acoustic guitar and singing, crying over his life’s experience??? These same people feel Led Zeppelin does it better?
Some people would prefer a TV documentary about hunger over listening to their next door neighbor talk about their depression, hunger.
Art entertains some people, while others feel more deeply connected to the artist, feel and perhaps relate to the experience of the artist.
Is art that represents the plight of all life, the sadness, the joy, the beauty, is this objective art or does it really matter if it is or not?
I’m touched more by what is generally referred to as Nature more than most man created expressions, though I’m deeply moved by that which seems to touch on a universal theme. I think the varied art forms can have more or less impact on individuals...hearing, seeing, touching and the ways people sense and perceive their life experiences. Conscious or unconscious
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/18 at 02:12 PMHELLO Joe, Mickey, Zen == great review Zen—muggy - now raining—in ASTORIA???? I checked the Burroughs weather archive—and hey—that use to happen 75 years ago before Al Gore created his Power Point and was the darling of CANNES.. Art imitate life??? When Rush Limbaugh and Al Gore are both up for the Nobel Prize in the same year—there has got to be something fishy at Price-Waterhouse == duh !!!!! .. “ah’ must a just got into town off the turnip truck”...... JOE—great thoughts as usual....... == http://tinyurl.com/2wvofz == a lil’ ROBERT JOHNSON ORIGINAL CROSSROADS ..... w/ great visual .. now and period visuals...enjoy!
Posted by Richie on from st cloud / n ft myers 07/18 at 02:41 PMI wasn’t going to comment today because I don’t have anything profound to say, but reading the other comments about “art” made me think back to the very first time that I heard Erroll Garner. I had grown up in a rural coal mining area where there was very little exposure to “culture”. The only musical instrument anyone ever saw was an accordion. Shortly after I moved to Schenectady, while listening to the radio one night, I heard sounds unlike anything I had ever heard before. I was instantly hooked. No one here will understand this - but even now, many years later, every time that I (the sort-of-Agnostic) hear Garner play, it makes me believe in God. No one, especially one who never had any musical training could play like that unless there was Divine Intervention. Garner never had any musical training and never did learn to read or write music but he went on to compose some of the best.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/18 at 03:56 PMRMJ..6 RMJ...I have never believed in gods...your commentary, to me is Art. Thank You
Posted by joe of maine on from 07/18 at 04:30 PM-
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/18 at 04:55 PM
Hello everyone. Like the blog, guys and girls. The chat between Mickey and Alison was good yesterday. Creative people need all the encouragement they can get. My friend wrote an essay for Counterpunch and then was asked by the editor to put the essay in a book. The friend agreed and was told there would be payment later. The book sold okay on amazon sales rank but the friend never even got a ten dollars or more payment. She stopped contributing writing there. She didn’t want to make a fuss as she liked their politics and all. Alison’s joke about WalMart seems spot on. Hopefully the editors might start sending out ten dollar payments for stories published in book format. Then my friend could buy a CD or something. WOW!!!
Posted by Bob on from New York 07/18 at 04:58 PMHi Bob…
Mickey #8...my mother was a fan of your Art. She liked the part when he talked to children - “Kids say the darndest things”, I think it was called.
joe #7...Thank YOU, an atheist might say that art is the result of neurotransmitters, ahh but to a poet “art” is a lot more.It’s so cold and dreary here and all of this talk about art is making want to read “The Raven”.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 07/18 at 05:27 PMMickey...8...Thanks for the Robert Johnson video...and let us not forget...Art-hur Godrey. Yes I always wanted to be like Arthur Godrey...bore people to death with witless comments, play a ukelale poorly...yes...he’s my idol. [how the hell do you spell ukalale]
Posted by Joe of Maine on from 07/18 at 09:36 PM-
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/19 at 04:36 AM
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