tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298465500127698362024-03-05T22:24:02.770-05:00RiCK SAUNDERS BREAKS HiS SiLENCERiCK SAUNDERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10157789471880620453noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-429846550012769836.post-17503075249012134022021-09-15T08:30:00.006-04:002021-09-15T08:33:07.668-04:00CURRENTLY LiSTENiNG: RED MOUTH - iN QUARANTiNE (2021)<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/red_mouth_/" target="_blank">INSTA</a> // <a href="https://www.facebook.com/redmouthmusic/" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> // <a href="https://redmouth.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">BANDCAMP</a> // <br /><span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: #dbd7d0; background-color: #121415; color: #e2dfd9; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-border-bottom="" data-darkreader-inline-border-left="" data-darkreader-inline-border-right="" data-darkreader-inline-border-top="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-darkreader-inline-outline="" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/currentlylistening?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZVkrZb7YxAoUL9XsmqY_V18kQ8wtlRhfeG41oD7rv20FwHlk51YZp834y_SmU_9uNz49M6yEiyTJaDPs_AUNrG5uvC9BkabMMfdMalTSw8_0di0dmfRw6giyzSw1iHrvjc&__tn__=*NK-R" role="link" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: transparent; --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: initial; --darkreader-inline-border-left: initial; --darkreader-inline-border-right: initial; --darkreader-inline-border-top: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-text--accent); --darkreader-inline-outline: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--darkreader-text--accent); cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#currentlylistening</a></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: #dbd7d0; background-color: #121415; color: #e2dfd9; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> to the terrific new 10" 45 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_%22Red_Mouth%22_Gebhardt">Red Mouth</a>.
<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: #dbd7d0; background-color: #121415; color: #e2dfd9; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">(Almost) All I can say is Wow! The quote from Scott Lesley on the hype sticker nails it much harder than I could but I'll give it a shot: </span></span></span></p><p><span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: #dbd7d0; background-color: #121415; color: #e2dfd9; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">
Whispers of Bowie, Iggy, Beefheart, Love, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHc-SQYt6UA" target="_blank">Johnny</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhoL0-pI6e0&list=PL3gEk1_RfjOwjZeae5YTsPjYHiFcALtP2&index=23" target="_blank">Dowd</a>, maybe Jim White and so much more but filtered thru the night air of Alabama, but really it's all straight-up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_%22Red_Mouth%22_Gebhardt" target="_blank">Red Mouth</a> and his band doing their thing better than always. </span></span></span></p><p><span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: #dbd7d0; background-color: #121415; color: #e2dfd9; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At 5 songs (shhh! Actually 6!) It's just the right length because I'm left wanting so much more. And I can't wait. Till </span><span color="var(--darkreader-inline-color)" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #040506; --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color); background-color: #121415; font-family: helvetica;">then I'll be satisfied flipping this record over and over and over...</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I read a book I take a blank sheet of paper and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">fold it into quarters then use that as a bookmark. Then i'll make notes on the bookmark of words I don't know or that I like, or that I want to know more about. Sometimes the mark comes up empty, sometimes I'll fill it across all four sides and the back. I found a bunch stashed in a desk drawer. In most cases I have no idea what books </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">they're from but I thought I'd post them for your entertainment. Assuming you exist, of course.<br /><br /><b>Bookmark # 8 -<br />From <i>Bunny Berigan - Elusive Legend of Jazz</i>, and <i>Pops - Paul Whiteman, The King of Jazz.</i></b><br /><br />Art Hickman<br />Deems Taylor<br />Carleton Coons<br />Vincent Lopez<br />Harry Yerkes & his Syncopating Symphonists<br />Movie: The King of Jazz<br />Zez Confrey<br />Robison/Whiteman- Peaceful Valley<br />Charles Strickfaden<br />Leo Sowerby - Monotony<br />William Grant Still - composer<br />Texas Guinan<br />Edwin Snowball Harris<br />Jean Goldkette<br />Harry Barris w/Bing Crosby - Rhythm Boys<br />Margaret Livingston - Innocents of Paris<br />Thomas Ince<br />All Quiet on The Western Fron (1930)<br />Jane Froman<br />Weber & Fields - Comics<br />Proscenium<br />Wingy Manone<br />Noble Sissel<br />Fourage- Colonel Stoopnagle & Bud<br />Oscar Levant<br />Billy Rose<br />Fletcher Henderson<br />Benny Goodman story? Film?<br />Eddie Farley & Mike Riley<br />Saturday Night Swing Club<br />Axel Stordahl<br />Jimmy Dorsey<br />Bama Warwick<br />Roosevelt Hotel - Jacksonville, FL<br />Rex Stewart - Black Cornetist<br />Film: Syncopation w/Jackie Cooper, Adolph Menjou, Bunny Berigan<br />Wingy Manone - Old Squareface<br />Lee Wiley<br />Red Allen<br />Ruby Braff<br />Al Jolson w/Paul Whiteman<br />Irene Taylor<br />Durelle Alexander<br />Movie: Thanks a million<br />Movie; Jumbo<br />Boswell Sisters<br />Ken Darby<br />Major Bowes<br />Ritz Brothers<br />Sweet music- Wayne King, Guy Lombardo, Jan Garber<br />Maxine Sullivan<br />Paul Pingitore<br />Film: Strike up the band<br />Film: 42nd Street<br />Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse - Cow Cow Boogie<br />Thelma Carpenter<br />Film: Rhapsody In Blue (1945)<br />Film: Atlantic City (1944)<br />Evelyn Knight<br />Kay Armen<br />Harry Cool<br />Glen Gray<br />Radio show- Paul Whiteman Club<br />Ida James<br />Film: The Lambertville Story<br />The Goodyear Revue<br />Fifi D' Orsay<br />Skinnay Ennis<br /><br /><b>Bookmark # 7 -<br />No idea what this book was.</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/widow's%20cruse" target="_blank">Widows cruse</a><br /><a href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Fortunatus'+purse" target="_blank">Fortunata's Purse</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/countenance" target="_blank">Countenance</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaltern" target="_blank">Subaltern</a><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TTvCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=General+Belmont+believed+in+the+divine+right+of+white+men&source=bl&ots=Ni_8bk4UoN&sig=psjn1yMLIXDVlv0hENOz336UtdI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjquZnihu_KAhVB5yYKHanmDbsQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=General%20Belmont%20believed%20in%20the%20divine%20right%20of%20white%20men&f=false" target="_blank">General Belmont believed in the divine right of white men</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bed_of_Procrustes" target="_blank">Bed of procrustes</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aut%20Caesar%20aut%20nullus" target="_blank">Aut Caesar, art null us.</a><br />"<a href="http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/a_memory_of_june.html" target="_blank">When June comes dancing on the death of May</a>"<br /><br /><br /><b>Bookmark #6 -<br />I have no idea what book this is from, but I bet it was good.</b><br /><a href="http://www.nstperfume.com/2005/10/31/perfume-of-the-day-caron-narcisse-noir/" target="_blank">The scent of Black Narcissus</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ne%20plus%20ultra" target="_blank">Ne plus ultra</a><br /><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/apple-knocker" target="_blank">Apple Knocker</a><br />Chick Webb - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SPqDNaY0xA" target="_blank">Sweet Sue</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sinecure" target="_blank">Sinecure</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunabula_(disambiguation)" target="_blank">Incunabula</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F4lRbrk6yo" target="_blank">The Happiness boys - Billy Jones and Ernie Hare</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_gKxft9Akk" target="_blank">The Silver Masked Tenor</a> = Joseph White<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB3gTiwl7p4" target="_blank">Nellie</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFxhieW3zw" target="_blank">Melba</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tSig1FD8w" target="_blank">Riley</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP72VOGweqw" target="_blank">Puckett</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jenkins" target="_blank">Rev</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJjG-t9HIE" target="_blank">Andy</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvp0J1sxZo" target="_blank">Jenkins</a><br /><a href="http://beiderbecke.typepad.com/tba/2015/08/meet-abbe-niles-the-voice-of-bix-beiderbecke.html" target="_blank">Edward Abbe Niles</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzlenkESktY" target="_blank">Boyd</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzzHO7UT0oA&feature=youtu.be&t=8s" target="_blank">Senter</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjD8rJLhy9Q" target="_blank">and</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8blX-IBTlw0" target="_blank">The</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86FcU6e2nM" target="_blank">Senterpedes</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w-_xbBmXJ4" target="_blank">Gene</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey1xAK9HRtc" target="_blank">Austin</a><br /><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simoleon" target="_blank">Simoleans</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCTOiDllHQ" target="_blank">Bill</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zvsKp1ZtM" target="_blank">Bruner</a><br />Joe Hanks aka Fine Arts<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Hart" target="_blank">William</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8a1pXVJjO4" target="_blank">S</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-OaE_ZVBWE" target="_blank">Hart</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVCRk_2_68" target="_blank">Hoot</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lr8vveAhYo" target="_blank">Gibson</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47Ecopu6yk" target="_blank">Ben</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tlvRUJz9wg" target="_blank">Turpin</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XpDJNlS-E" target="_blank">The Pullman Porters</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zWzhg-_MyI" target="_blank">The</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ihCHhLENg" target="_blank">Two</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB3rOGubBCQ" target="_blank">Black</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDKd24gAf7g" target="_blank">Crows</a><br />Hiram & Hezekiah<br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6" target="_blank">Romans:6</a><br />Bindle-stiff Ballads<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apwCpkBSsc" target="_blank">Last Songs</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_zyW_6aUFo" target="_blank">Old love letters</a><br /><br /><b>Bookmark #5 - <br />This is from reading George Orwell's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London" target="_blank">Down and Out in Paris and London</a></b><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashing" target="_blank">Plongeurs</a><br /><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foutre" target="_blank">Foutre</a><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PN2SAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=suzanne+may+prostitute&source=bl&ots=xiVHm7_DUk&sig=nUPtPNLh4RnLKyujGdKhJ8jgNz0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj09aGryPHKAhVHeSYKHYNCAecQ6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=suzanne%20may%20prostitute&f=false" target="_blank">Suzanne May</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besom" target="_blank">Besom</a><br /><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boulot" target="_blank">Boulot</a><br /><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_orientale" target="_blank">Danse De Ventre</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muzhik" target="_blank">Moujik</a><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etiolate" target="_blank">Etiolated</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billycan" target="_blank">Tin billy</a><br /><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nancy+boy" target="_blank">Nancy boys</a> - London<br /><a href="http://www.messynessychic.com/2011/04/08/the-parisian-street-gangs-that-dabbled-with-dandyism/" target="_blank">Apache boys</a> - Paris<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_painting" target="_blank">Screever</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navvy" target="_blank">Navvy</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang#Examples" target="_blank">Cockney</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVVCbXmYJo" target="_blank">rhyming</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fRY6J6lD7k" target="_blank">slang</a><br /><a href="http://www.workhouses.org.uk/vagrants/index.shtml" target="_blank">Tramp major</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Durward" target="_blank">Quentin Durward</a><br /><br /><b>BOOKMARK # 4</b> - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I'm guessing this was part of the Paris Review box set of interviews that I had. I loved reading that set, and I think I read most of the interviews within. It's where I discovered Eugene Walter via his delightful <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4911/the-art-of-fiction-no-14-isak-dinesen" target="_blank">interview with</a> Isak Dinesen.</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuEkW-1oPk" target="_blank">Maryanne Moore</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rjRYSfCJvM" target="_blank">Philip Larkin</a><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=piBn_gnZimsC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=Jamesian+Parenthesis&source=bl&ots=cuS9XWF07b&sig=HB8MCFsqIP7TfqK0G04wlQt2ox4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY8pXmivTKAhUG6iYKHe-GDZoQ6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=Jamesian%20Parenthesis&f=false" target="_blank">Jamesian</a> <a href="http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/parenthterm.htm" target="_blank">Parenthesis</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis" target="_blank">Wyndham</a> <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewis-indian-dance-n06257" target="_blank">Lewis</a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+40" target="_blank">Isiah 40</a><br /><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/18-19.htm" target="_blank">Summary of prayer</a>: <b><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/54-2.htm" target="_blank">Oh God pay attention to me!</a> </b>-Robert Frost via Ezra Pound<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticism" target="_blank">Vorticist</a> <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/vorticism" target="_blank">Movement</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cantos" target="_blank">Ezra Pound</a> - <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241042" target="_blank">Cantos</a><br /><a href="http://splitsider.com/2010/10/where-have-all-the-humorists-gone-part-2/" target="_blank">When did we lose the appelation of humorist</a>?<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolcott_Gibbs" target="_blank">Wolcott Gibbe</a><br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/russell-maloney" target="_blank">Russel Maloney</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Day" target="_blank">Clarence Day</a><br /><br />"<b>Your blue eyes are closed, the world can rest.</b>"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=the+grotesques+of+childhood&espv=2&biw=1067&bih=621&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVkImhn4jLAhVHWh4KHZhlDwgQ_AUIBigB" target="_blank">The grotesques of childhood</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html" target="_blank">Yeats - Gyre</a><br />Lucas Myers<br /><a href="http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/thought-fox" target="_blank">Ted Hughes - the thought fox</a><br /><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/6371" target="_blank">What is Ars Poetica?</a><br /><br /><b>"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished man of letters, I talk like an idiot.</b>" - Nabakov<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_O%27Hagan" target="_blank">Andrew O' Hagan</a><br /><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3394/the-art-of-fiction-no-73-john-gardner" target="_blank">John Gardner - Interview</a><br /><a class="" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leitmotif" target="_blank">Leimotif</a><br /><a href="http://uncpressblog.com/2011/11/30/interview-donald-goodman-on-the-legacy-of-eugene-walter/" target="_blank">Eugene Walter</a><br /><br />Jean Rhys-<br />"<b>A room is, after all a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.</b>"<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade%27s_End" target="_blank">Ford Maddox Ford - Parade's End</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Seldes" target="_blank">George Seldes</a> - <a href="http://amzn.to/1VUwnvo" target="_blank">Witness to a century</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rhys" target="_blank">Jean Rhys</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea" target="_blank">Wide Sargasso SeaSucriants</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b>Roscoe Arbuckle in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AD8___Aq4" target="_blank">The Butcher Boy</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpo090iQ9Zo" target="_blank">Alice Lake</a><br /><a href="https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-constance-talmadge-and-norma-talmadge/" target="_blank">Talmadge</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vC1JtuhxzI" target="_blank">Sisters</a><br /><a href="http://i.ebayimg.com/images/a/T2eC16dHJHEE9ny2sr(GBQYQcU6sIw~~/s-l300.jpg" target="_blank">Walter Hiers</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Thomas" target="_blank">Olive</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4N7kxtjaf4" target="_blank">Thomas</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Reid" target="_blank">Wallace</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oHpm_A3LrM" target="_blank">Reed</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Serra_Cary" target="_blank">Baby</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzGPeMgvOLU" target="_blank">Peggy</a><br /><a href="http://busterkeaton.com/Arbucklemania/Delmont.jpg" target="_blank">Maude Delmont</a><br />Professional Correspondent<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hanneford_Circus" target="_blank">Poodles</a> <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70898278" target="_blank">Hanneford</a><br />Snaggs Maroone & His Highnote Highlanders<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_St._John" target="_blank">Al</a> <a href="http://www.b-westerns.com/pals-asj.htm" target="_blank">St</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpkgGYI7JQg" target="_blank">John</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/masquersclub/info/?tab=page_info" target="_blank">The Masquers</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Vidor" target="_blank">King Vidor</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />Bookmark #1 (Posted sometime in 2015)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Emory+Martin+one+armed+banjo&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=kxJ2UeWXGKaS0QHOoIFw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=980&bih=622" target="_blank">Emory Martin</a> the one-armed banjo player</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rudy Favard, 17, cradled Sammy Parker, 8, as he carried him upstairs. (Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Tuesday night, Patty and Rick Parker were in their cramped kitchen with their 8-year-old son Ben. Dinner was over. Bedtime was near.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ben’s twin brother, Sammy, lay on a cot in the narrow hallway just outside the kitchen. Unable to see or speak or control his limbs, he coughed or let out a little moan every now and then. Rick and Patty took turns feeding Sammy, who has cerebral palsy, through a stomach tube. He cooed when they kissed his face or stroked his cheek, and when they cooed back, he opened his mouth into a wide, joyful O.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Until recently, Rick carried Sammy up those 14 stairs to his bedroom each night. But a few months ago, Rick had major surgery for a life-threatening heart condition, and now he can’t lift much at all, let alone a 75-pound child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“We thought Rick was going to die, and we were terrified,’’ Patty recalled. “We knew right away he had to stop carrying Sam.’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Patty couldn’t carry him, either. Desperate, she called her pediatrician, who put her in touch with Elizabeth Paquette, the nurse at Malden Catholic High School. Paquette said she’d take care of it. The boys at Malden Catholic are taught to embrace service: She’d find plenty of students to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rudy Favard was the first kid Paquette came across after that call. At Malden Catholic on a partial scholarship from the Catholic Schools Foundation, this son of Haitian immigrants was one of Paquette’s treasures. The linebacker, cocaptain of the football team and honor roll student was always willing to lend a hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The nurse had barely begun telling Rudy about the Parkers before he said he’d help. Another boy would fill in for Rudy on game nights. And a third boy was on standby in case neither of the others could make it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Paquette brought the boys to meet the family for the first time, the Parkers cried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Just to see this outpouring of people,’’ Rick Parker began, his eyes welling at the memory. “To see that these people were willing to put their hands and feet to what they believed. . .’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is profoundly isolating to have a child as severely disabled as Sammy. It’s hard even for well-meaning friends to understand the immense strain of his all-consuming needs. Patty and Rick — who tried for 8 years to get pregnant before Ben and Sam were born — grieve for one son’s lost potential every day, even as they struggle to give the other as normal a life as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the few months the Parkers have known him, Rudy has become not just a help with Sammy, but a salve for their pain. He and Rick talk about football. Patty quizzes him on girls. Ben usually parks himself as close to Rudy as possible, looking up at him adoringly. And most nights, Sam will tremble with excitement as Rudy picks him up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“It’s like family,’’ said the shy senior. It goes both ways: The Parkers were on the field with Rudy’s mother the night Malden Catholic honored its senior football players.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And so Rudy had barely knocked on the door Tuesday night before Ben was at it, jumping up and down, yelling, “Rudy is here! Rudy is here!’’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He greeted the Parkers, and went over to Sammy, gently lifting the boy’s left arm and sliding his hands under his back, the way Rudy’s father, a professional caregiver, had shown him. He lifted Sammy and held him close to his chest, and as the boy made his joyful O, Rudy carefully maneuvered him around the corners on the narrow stairway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You couldn’t help but be struck by the painful contrast between the two boys: The robust athlete cradling the pale, helpless child; the young man preparing to go out into the world carrying someone who never will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Can I ask you something?’’ he said, sitting in the Parkers’ living room after Sammy was asleep. “Is it OK if this article is more about Sam than me?’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“He’s done more for me than I’ve done for him,’’ Rudy said. “There are times when I don’t want to go to practice, and then I look at Sam. By God’s grace, I can do what I’m doing, so I should keep it up. I’ve never been one to complain a lot, but just seeing Sam reaffirms everything, you know?’’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Parkers won’t have Rudy for long. He’s already been accepted at four colleges, and others are courting him. Where he goes depends on financial aid and football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Parkers hope to be out of this cramped house and into a bigger one — with no stairs — before Rudy leaves town in search of his degree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Until then, Rudy will bound up to the modest, pale green house on Fairmount Street. He’ll carry Sammy up to his cozy room. Then, for a little while, he’ll carry the Parkers somewhere better, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="mailto:abraham@globe.com">abraham@globe.com</a> </i><img alt="" border="0" class="storyend" src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/dingbat_story_end_icon.gif" height="8" width="6" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" class="ml-smartlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_transportation">means of transportation</a>. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. This passenger might be someone who needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself. So I walked to the door and knocked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Oh, I don't mind," she said. "I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a low building, like a small <a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" class="ml-smartlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convalescent_home">convalescent home</a>, with a driveway that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her. I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"You gave an old woman a little moment of joy," she said. "Thank you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I squeezed her hand, then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheDeltaBell?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Delta Bell </a>is the AKA of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheDeltaBell?fref=ts" target="_blank">Kate Gerrard</a>, a Norfolkman living in Brighton, England. She has an excellent new single out called <i>Wasted </i>b/w <i>The Back Of Your Mind</i> (<a href="http://www.randomactsofvinyl.co.uk/" target="_blank">RandomActsOfV</a>inyl 7") that I was turned on to by the records producer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paul.pascoe.73">Paul</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/paul-pascoe">Pascoe</a> of the bands <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MudlowUK?fref=ts">Mudlow</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fireeyesband?fref=ts">Fire Eyes</a>.<br />
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It's a refreshing sound, both country and not, British and not, but literate and well-crafted all around. I think it's fantastic. I wanted to find out more so Kate consented to an interview via Facebook message:<br />
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Rick Saunders (RS) :: You've got a cool voice for...country music? I want to call it country but is it? Listeners can decide, but would you agree that what you do is at least a hybrid of country music? I hate to say alt-country, as that seems a dead or unnecessary sub-genre now. Your music, filtered by an english voice, makes your sound instantly familiar, a sweet nostalgic twinge and whisper of old-timey music. I don't want to suggest that you play english country or old-timey music in the strict sense, but there seems to be a strong element of that.<br />
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Kate Gerrard (KG) :: Yes definitely, I love country music, mostly 60s/70s artists like Flying Burrito Brothers, Skeeter Davis, Townes Van Zandt, CCR. I love the honesty of country music, and that songwriting as an art is at the centre of it. That's how I write songs. Country's such a wide genre that one person's country might be very different from another's. When I talk about country, I mean those great songwriters who were singing and playing from the heart.<br />
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(KG) Thanks. I take a lot of care with all the aspects of my music – arrangements, lyrics, through to photos and artwork. To me, it’s all art and deserves time and thought and consideration. I’ve been playing music since I was a kid, and I started on the guitar when I was about 13, so I’ve been playing for nearly 20 years. I started writing songs about then too. I’ve been in various bands over the last ten years or so, tried to get various things started. But I got to the point a couple of years ago when that got a bit frustrating, so I decided just to record my songs, and I got people to come and play on them – drums, pedal steel, strings, backing vocals, flugelhorn. I’m lucky to be in Brighton where there are a lot of great musicians around. I like the freedom of doing it like that, you don’t feel compelled to include an instrument just because you’ve got someone in your band who plays it. That being said, since recording the album I now have a five piece band – including Andrew Blake, who played the pedal steel on Wasted - and they're all great musicians, so I’m looking forward to bringing the songs to life, and I think future recordings will have more of a band feel.<br />
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(RS) The care you've taken in your presentation via the videos and graphics for the single, the overall sound of the production, plus the fact that you didn't just dump an album on the world all at once...it shows care, and thoughtfulness...and style.</div>
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I want to ask you about the album <i>Bow Out Of The Fading Light</i> but first I want to ask you about the single you did for the wonderful Random Acts Of Vinyl label. I've loved all the stuff I've heard from that label, particularly the single by your friends Paul Pascoe of Mudlow and his friend the great Sally Megee, And of course the Mudlow single. How'd that come about?</div>
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(KG) Yeah and I really enjoy crafting it, and thinking it through. And there’s no imperative to do things quickly, I’d rather let something come to fruition when it’s ready. Although that’s not to say it doesn't get frustrating now and again! Ah the wonderful Random Acts Of Vinyl! They’ve got/are some great bands – Palm Springs, Fire Eyes, Beat Hotel. I think the upcoming Fire Eyes single will be their 15th release, so they’ve got a good back catalogue too. My involvement came about because Davey (Pinnington, who runs the label with Jon Russo) saw my previous band at a night he was co-running at the time. He liked it and wanted to do a release. That was about two years ago, just when I’d started this set of recordings, and the band I was in was coming to an end, so it ended up being what became The Delta Bell. Davey and Jon have both been really supportive and encouraging. It was Davey who suggested doing the mixing and mastering with Paul Pascoe, which I’m so glad I did – he just got what I was doing, and took the extra time to master the songs onto tape which just gave it that extra warmth and magic. It feels very communal, and we’re all involved in each other’s music somehow – the great Sally Megee sang on one of my songs, I ended up playing piano for Palm Springs and doing some background vocals, that kind of thing. It shouldn’t be underestimated how fun it is doing it that way, there are a lot of good times in the RAOV world!<br />
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(KG) I was at a photography exhibition in London, and there were some photographs by William Eggleston. I love his work, it totally draws me in. There were a couple of photos next to each other, one was of a car in front of a food stall, and the sign said Delta Kreme. I liked the sound of Delta Kreme, but not wanting to sound like a donut vendor, I wrote some other words down. The next photo along had the ‘something bell’ on it - I can’t remember what exactly – so one of the ones I wrote was The Delta Bell. I still liked it a few weeks later so I kept it.<br />
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I’m not really sure where the album title came from, it’s just one of those phrases that I had knocking about in a notebook and it seemed to fit that collection of songs. I guess when I thought of it, it was at a time when there were a lot of changes in my life, so to me it’s kind of like closing the door on the past, not in a traumatic way, but just stepping aside from it all and starting anew. Kind of laying ghosts to rest, and moving on.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> (KG): Ha, yes it was fun. I love playing it. I had part of the chorus knocking about for a while, and then the rest of it kind of tumbled out one evening. I think there’s that point when you’ve broken up with someone and you’ve done all the crying and drinking, and then you’re kind of left with this empty cynicism and just not wanting to have to bother thinking about it anymore. It was fun writing a song that was intended to be delivered so drily, and I always wanted to play it as if I couldn’t be bothered. That’s quite hard to do as it turns out, so it bounces a bit more than it did in my head! Favourite writers change a bit, but I always love Christopher Isherwood. He's a neutral observer, and I love that he lets you come to your own conclusions about characters. I also like it because I'm a bit of a history nerd, so I especially love the Berlin novels. My other 'release' this year is a chapter I've written on East German punk for a book on alternative music behind the Iron Curtain. So yeah, that's something you didn't know about The Delta Bell!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first became intrigued with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" target="_blank">Miss</a> <a href="http://tallulahbankhead.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Bankhead</a> while reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0609605941?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=0609605941&linkCode=shr&tag=ricksaundersw-20&linkId=BKRBVPXA7ZSEV4HP&qid=1400906836&sr=8-2&keywords=eugene+walter" target="_blank"><i>Milking The Moon</i></a>, a bio of Eugene Walter. Here's the story of their first meeting recounted by Paste Magazine writer <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/the-booky-man-eugene-walter-a-man-you-dont-meet-ev.html" target="_blank">Charles McNair</a>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<i>He claimed as a friend Tallulah Bankhead. Ms. Bankhead bestowed her friendship on Eugene after he suggested a stage prop in one of her shows be given to “the state of Alabama because we ought to make a shrine over that like they made over Buddha’s tooth in Ceylon.” According to Eugene, Ms. Bankhead rewarded him with three of her pubic hairs for his suggestion … two of which he swapped for books or other treasures, and one of which he kept in a Chinese porcelain box until the day he died.</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I read a book I use a 4x11" folded piece of paper as a bookmark. I use that to make note of things I know nothing about, and things I want to know more about. <br /><br />Here's what I learned from Tallulah Bankhead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1578066352?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=1578066352&linkCode=shr&tag=ricksaundersw-20&linkId=QM4PV56SDFQYDISB&=books&qid=1400907623&sr=1-1&keywords=tallulah+bankhead+biography" target="_blank">Tallulah - My Autobiography</a><br />062015 - Updated via Tallulah Bankhead - A Scandalous Life<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1940/3/7/tallulah-bankhead-reveals-hatred-of-communist/">Andre Ratoucheff</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia's_Canadian_Light_Infantry#History">Princess Patricia regiment</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Geva">Tamara Geva</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.artofdrink.com/recipes/soda/ammonia-coke/">Ammonia Coke</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Winwood#Personal_life">Estelle Winwood</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee">Canada Lee</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caresse_Crosby">Caresse Crosby</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newsarama.com/18635-barnaby-the-greatest-comic-strip-youve-never-read.html">Barnaby</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_(comics)">comic strip</a><br /><br />film:: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BwyzbF7E4">The House On 92nd Street</a><br />film:: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbEb3hg1ws">A Royal Scandal</a><br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english-thesaurus/traducer" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Traducer</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Young" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Young" target="_blank">Stark Young</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Guinan" target="_blank">Texas</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFSf5tZSSU" target="_blank">Guinan</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Talmadge" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Talmadge" target="_blank">The</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJrik3pgzPQ" target="_blank">Talmadge</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaTrT0yRo4s" target="_blank">Sisters</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurette_Taylor" target="_blank">Laurette</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xV2Y-5tXfE" target="_blank">Taylor</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Belasco" target="_blank">David</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgCNQKiF2O8" target="_blank">Belasco</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobyna_Howland" target="_blank">Jobyna</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umcWAlaWIA" target="_blank">Howland</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Case" target="_blank">Margaret Case Harriman</a> &<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7549918-the-vicious-circle-the-story-of-the-algonquin-round-table" target="_blank"> The Vicious Circle</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6611115" target="_blank">Beardley Rumi</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninon_de_l'Enclos" target="_blank">Ninon D' Enclos</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Montez" target="_blank">Lola Montez</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Collier,_Jr." target="_blank">Willie</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-dV-6lAxzw" target="_blank">Collier</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman" target="_blank">The Hottentot</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Barrymore" target="_blank">Ethel Barrymore</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d%C3%A9class%C3%A9" target="_blank">Declasse</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Crothers" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Crothers" target="_blank">Rachel Crothers</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Mack" target="_blank">Willard Mack</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toper" target="_blank">Toper</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosspot" target="_blank">Tosspot</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costermonger" target="_blank">Costermonger</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" target="_blank">Madam Blavatsky</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dastard" target="_blank">Dastard</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poltroon" target="_blank">Poltroon</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda_Gray" target="_blank">Gilda</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxDnMjgdij4" target="_blank">Gray</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_%22Chic%22_Sale" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_%22Chic%22_Sale" target="_blank">Chic Sale</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Whittington_and_His_Cat" target="_blank">Dick Wittington</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenterhook" target="_blank">Tenterhooks</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surcease" target="_blank">Surcease</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/welkin" target="_blank">Welkin</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/toff" target="_blank">Toffs</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohengrin" target="_blank"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohengrin" target="_blank">Lohengrin</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%22Bricktop%22_Smith" target="_blank">Bricktop</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Thompson" target="_blank">Sadie</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtW_RqSwAk" target="_blank">Thompson</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin-de-fer" target="_blank">Chemin de fir</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tidler's_Ground" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tom Tiddler's Ground</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://babylonwales.blogspot.com/2006/11/augustus-johns-portrait-of-tallulah.html" target="_blank">Augustus John</a> (<a href="http://www.robert-temple.com/images/nostalgia_imgs/tallulah2.jpg" target="_blank">painting of Tallulah</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://p2.la-img.com/1247/45110/20211727_1_m.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sculpter Dobson</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Gainsborough+-+Perdita&es_sm=119&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=piyAU_7tNuaosAT-rIHgCQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1066&bih=593" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gainesborough - Perdita</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_McEvoy" target="_blank">Ambrose McEvoy</a> (<a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~tgrillo/miniatureA.jpg" target="_blank">Portraint of Tallulah</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonweal" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Common Weal</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://questgarden.com/164/64/5/131210104307/images/ThurberDisenchanted.jpg" target="_blank">James Thurber cartoon</a> that <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YDbxoUYQy0gC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=james%20thurber%20cartoon%20tallulah%20bankhead&source=bl&ots=bIaTeB5Ytd&sig=zFNDZydC19sBc8-VI4W-Mt5CtcU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TCqAU6nPD-3jsAS214CYCQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=james%20thurber%20cartoon%20tallulah%20bankhead&f=false" target="_blank">Tallulah</a> owned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planter's_Punch" target="_blank">Planter's</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chn_T1H-jWU" target="_blank">Punch</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Villon" target="_blank">Francois Villon</a>: "<a href="https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/O%C3%B9%20sont%20les%20Neiges%20d'antan%3F" target="_blank">Ou' sant les neiges d'antan?</a>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_List" target="_blank">Sgt</a>.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrrtTIPf9Bw" target="_blank"> Eugene</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8cBGRiQwlU" target="_blank">List</a><br /><br /><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/addle-pate" target="_blank">Addlepate</a><br /><br /><a href="http://freefactfinder.com/definition/Haridan.html" target="_blank">Haridan</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Winwood" target="_blank">Estelle</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iug9mxn1xCg" target="_blank">Winwood</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.original-political-cartoon.com/gallery/artist/jenkins-jr-burris-1897-1966_106.html" target="_blank">Burris Jenkins</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_%22Bugs%22_Baer" target="_blank">Bugs</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwokfAe3WMs" target="_blank">Baer</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I read a book I use a </span>bookmark made out of a </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sheet of paper folded to about four by eleven. I use it to take notes about things I want to know more about, or don't know about at all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Here's the list from <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nolan-porterfield/last-cavalier/" target="_blank">Nolan</a> <a href="http://www.jimmierodgerssaga.com/nolan_poterfield.htm" target="_blank">Porterfield</a>'s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/025206268X?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=025206268X&linkCode=shr&tag=ricksaundersw-20&refRID=06W0PZ29D8RF48JA45TJ%20via%20@amazon" target="_blank">JIMMIE RODGERS - LIFE & TIME: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler</a>::</span><br />
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<i>"Serves you right to suffer baby. </i><br />
<i>Serves you right. </i><br />
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Is J. Geils Band <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvm1_WrF3ns" target="_blank">LiVE Full House</a></i> the greatest live rock album of all time? For me that'd be a two-way tie...maybe three-way. The tie is with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZk39ifLTlQ" target="_blank">the live side of ZZ Top's <i>Fandango</i></a>. So, tie and a half maybe. Third? Rush- All The Worlds a Stage. Bite me. I'm no big Rush fan (anymore ;0) but I do respect the hell out of them. More about that later*.<br />
Why J.Geils <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvm1_WrF3ns" target="_blank"><i>Full House</i></a>? About all I can say is you have to hear it. It's made loud to be played loud. The band is as tight as if they were all breathing from the same lung. Their set is filled with hard soul boogie and seriousass deep blues. Peter Wolf is one of the best post-Jagger leadmen in the history of rock. Magic Dick is a harmonica player who is tasteful and plays with the band and augments the band and knows when to wail and when to shut the hell up. Rare in a harp player. The whole album is only about forty minutes long and that's all J. Geils needs to kill and bury you. Trust me. This is one album that no collection is complete without. I bought my first copy on vinyl in 1972 when I was twelve after my brother told me he'd just blown his tweeters after repeated listens to <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASF5CpqP6HY" target="_blank">Whammer Jammer</a></i>. I got it and stretched my woofers from endlessly playing J. Geils cover of Hooker's <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRdRLnKhZlg" target="_blank">Serves You Right </a></i>to Suffer. That song helped make me the man I am today. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>*</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Here's the deal with Rush- <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYYxtkMAd8U&list=PL1AD642AD8B772C96" target="_blank">All The Worlds a Stage</a></i>: As a kid I had a hand me down stereo I got from my older brother. It was one of those old jobs where the speakers are attached to the side and you could fold them back and flip the turntable up and it had a handle on the top which made the thing portable. One day I was listening to something as loud as that ol' stereo would go when all of a sudden it started smoking and one of the channels went out. I was crushed. I kept using the thing as a mono rig and didn't bother to buy any more records because I knew they'd sound like crap. But then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeSm8hCROI4&list=PL1AD642AD8B772C96" target="_blank"><i>All The Worlds a Stage</i></a> came out and I had to get it. When down to the record store and picked it up. Put it on and it sounded like crap. At first. But but then that old stereo started smokin' again and the speaker started working again. The power of Rush repaired my stereo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Paddy McAloon:<br /><br />"Name me one little thing, you'll be wanting to keep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As you give up the ghost as you sink into sleep.</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Maybe her face in the morning, maybe his in the evening?</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Maybe words never spoken, aren't they the ones worth hearin'?"</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Pablo Neruda-<br /><br />XX<br /><br />Tonight I can write the saddest lines.<br /><br />Write for example, 'The night is shattered<br />and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'<br /><br />The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.<br /><br />Tonight I can write the saddest lines.<br />I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.<br /><br />Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.<br />I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.<br /><br />She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.<br />How could one not have loved her great still eyes.<br /><br />Tonight I can write the saddest lines.<br />To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.<br /><br />To hear immense night, still more immense without her.<br />And the verse falls to the soul like dew to a pasture.<br /><br />What does it matter that my love could not keep her.<br />The night is shattered and she is not with me.<br /><br />This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.<br />My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.<br /><br />My sight searches for her as though to go to her.<br />My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.<br /><br />The same night whitening the same trees.<br />We, of that time, are no longer the same.<br /><br />I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.<br />My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.<br /><br />Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.<br />Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.<br /><br />I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.<br />Love is short, forgetting is so long.<br /><br />Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms<br />my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.<br /><br />Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer<br />and these the last verses that I write for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Philip Larkin:<br /><br />Love, we must part now: do not let it be <br />Calamitious and bitter. In the past <br />There has been too much moonlight and self-pity:<br />Let us have done with it: for now at last <br />Never has sun more boldly paced the sky, <br />Never were hearts more eager to be free, <br />To kick down worlds, lash forests; you and I <br />No longer hold them; we are husks, that see <br />The grain going forward to a different use. <br /><br />There is regret. Always, there is regret.<br />But it is better that our lives unloose, <br />As two tall ships, wind-mastered, wet with light, <br />Break from an estuary with their courses set, <br />And waving part, and waving drop from sight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />Unhappy Catullus, stop playing the fool,<br />and let end that which you know leads you to ruin.<br />Once, bright days shone for you,<br />when you were often drawn to that girl,<br />loved as no other will be loved by you.<br />Then there were many pleasures with her,<br />that you wanted, and the girl did not mind;<br />truly the bright days shone for you.<br />And now she no longer wants you: and you<br />weak man, should be unwilling to chase what flees,<br />or else live in misery: be strong-minded, stand firm.<br />Goodbye girl, now Catullus endures,<br />he will not search for you, won’t ask for you unwillingly.<br />Instead you will grieve, when nobody comes calling.<br />Woe to you, wicked girl, what life is left for you?<br />Who will submit to you now? Who will see your beauty?<br />Who now will you love? Whose will they say you’ll be?<br />Who will you kiss? Whose lips will you bite?<br />But you, Catullus, be resolved and be firm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />There comes an end to summer,<br />To spring showers and hoar rime;<br />His mumming to each mummer<br />Has somewhere end in time,<br />And since life ends and laughter,<br />And leaves fall and tears dry,<br />Who shall call love immortal,<br />When all that is must die ?<br /><br />Nay, sweet, let’s leave unspoken<br />The vows the fates gainsay,<br />For all vows made are broken,<br />We love but while we may.<br />Let’s kiss when kissing pleases,<br />And part when kisses pall,<br />Perchance, this time to-morrow,<br />We shall not love at all.<br /><br />You ask my love completest,<br />As strong next year as now,<br />The devil take you, sweetest,<br />Ere I make aught such vow.<br />Life is a masque that changes,<br />A fig for constancy!<br />No love at all were better,<br />Than love which is not free.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Desire as a self-figured creature who changes her own mind."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How can I be as olde as I am and have never heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Clark_(singer)" target="_blank">Chris Clark</a>? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That ain't right. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't make <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFA0t2eqduo" target="_blank">the</a> same mistake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Chris Clark (born February 1, 1946 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California">Santa Cruz, California</a>) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music">soul</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing">singer</a>who recorded for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motown_Records">Motown Records</a>. Clark became famous in England as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_British">white</a>Negress" (a nickname meant as a compliment), because the six-foot <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum_blonde">platinum blonde</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-eyed_soul">blue-eyed soul</a> singer toured with fellow Motown artists who were predominantly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American">black</a>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(may God bless his sweet soul). </span><br />
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