I always remember the first time I saw this play. Lakeside, CA 1969, Cathy Fogerty and I team teaching and deciding that there was much to be learned from Beckett's play. But I hadn't seen the play, I had just the synopsis from Cathy and she seemed to think it had merit. So it starts. Oh, did I mention we were watching it via a video taped copy from KPBS? And it starts, and starts and starts again. And we are all like waiting, you know, for something to happen.
I think I read Joseph Heller's, Something Happened, at about this same time period. Anyway, nothing much occured. Just us, waiting for some dude named Godot (pronounced Goh-Do) never comes. Kinda' like the end of this fucking war in Iraqistan.
Which reminds me of what was said, "The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener."
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yes it seems habit is a form of "brain washing" since we know nothing good ever comes from war.i didn't catch the play but recently started reading bio Thelonios Monk(first book in years)i have some ?'s too pic w you.so, hows your little life? me too(Harold and Maude)by the by,AHBray
Wow, I don't believe you could really be Harold and you're too young to be Maude, but a great movie anyway.
Meanwhile, ? away but remember I like to think about the condition our condition is in more than remiserate about the old past.
Read around my various blogs and you'll see what I have been about and still . . .
QUYyeah,no it so happens that thats the way the book starts out in fact i was looking for a music muse not realising that a bio includes early before birth history of thelonios i'm just in third chapter an only a bit of his m genius,the attention span is still quite short for reading so bare with me. ihad checked some of your blogs back in november but had misplaced the names confused about musrd name i then suddenly thought oh jfdance..A
Speaking of music and muses, I have been putting some thought into how I could share some music myself. Maybe we could work something out.
Meanwhile, about the Monk, I can only take jazz improvisations for so long and then my soul needs a melody to tie things together. I had a great friend at OU that was half mad but had a great jazz collection. He actually turned me onto things in the music that I had not been aware of. Though at he time I really loved Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan and the wonderful Ella. And of course, Miles.
well for me any more when listening its constant conversation sometimes only with say a single layer within a tune lately the funk-tion(bassist)after recently(two years)backtracking the study of acoustic guitar i came across a fretless electric bass a direct exposer do the interest that brought me from monks left hand. ella yes,and recent late discover Esperanza Spalding ;eperanza cd has some really nice stories.
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