Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Open Thread


Michael Murphy - Wildfire

16 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...
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Chip Ahoy said...

This song opens up a hole in my heart that sucks in my entire being into its darkened space where I feel vast emptiness all around and a powerful longing to hasten an unknown future, its genesis right at the edges, right around the corner of my below-ground level hovel, my first apartment, well before any sensible person should be leaving the security of home like that, and also leaving the

boo-shit !

What is with that chickenshit outfit riding my ass all the time? I'm outta that.

Finally.

With only a stereo, and oh, this song is filled with sadness for something gone and my sadness is not knowing what next, because it certainly is not this.

Don't ever do that again. Don't ever --

Get a below-ground level apartment.

chickelit said...

Michael Murphy pegged the sensitivity meters of teenaged girls with those lyrics and that look too!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I liked this from the minute I first heard it, sometime back in the 80s.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Michael Murphey songs tend to have an easy listening musak quality to them on first listen, but as you start to absorb them you realize they are really good songs. They sneak up on you.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I can't tell you that I understand what the song means, but I think it's about getting above the hard times. I've had people tell me they wish they could ride that mystical horse and get away from their hard times, whatever they are. I also think a lot of it is wrapped up in my Christian upbringing.

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William said...

The saying is that you can't step in the same river twice. Well, ok, but sometimes we change more than the river. I think one of the reasons the Star Wars prequel sucked so much was because it played to an older, wiser audience (and because it sucked).......I wonder what the five new Salinger novels will do to his legacy. When I was young, I read his books repeatedly, especially The Nine Stories. I was about the same age as many of the characters. I thought the narrators had wisdom and great moral lessons to impart......Maybe this time around, the prose will seem mannered, and the zen wisdom a higher form of banality. Can you look forward to being disappointed?

Anonymous said...

There's a solution to Michael Cross:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk_VszbZa_s

(Skip the ad ASAP and play it LOUD.)

My boyfriend is dumb, he smokes and he's drunk
My boyfriend is dumb, more than Powers Austin
I told him get out, I need a new boy
I thought and I know he must be like Putin.

He must be like Putin, that to begin
He must be like Putin, then I'll give in
You must be like Putin, there's just one way
You must be like Putin, you'll not run away.

--One Like Putin

Takogo Kak Putin!

Synova said...

I put up a post about my sci-fi convention, Bubonicon, weekend. I didn't think it was really quite right for Comment Home but maybe someone will enjoy it.

The Pen That George Used.

Synova said...

Oh no... I almost clicked on that song.

I'd have to hunt y'all down if that happened. What were you thinking!

Anonymous said...

When I was young, I read his books repeatedly, especially The Nine Stories. I was about the same age as many of the characters. I thought the narrators had wisdom and great moral lessons to impart......Maybe this time around, the prose will seem mannered, and the zen wisdom a higher form of banality. Can you look forward to being disappointed?

William: Tell it, brother!

I've rather obsessively read the memoirs of his daughter, Margaret, and his seventies lover, Joyce Maynard. Salinger is a deeply flawed human being, though not irredeemably so. He's much like Woody Allen -- a far better artist than teacher, though they both posture as such.

Revenant said...

Because I already knew what the term "killing frost" meant when I first heard this song, it has always made me giggle.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...
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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

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ndspinelli said...

When are we doing that meth intervention on Chip Ahoy?

chickelit said...

Revenant said...
Because I already knew what the term "killing frost" meant when I first heard this song, it has always made me giggle.

I saw what you did there, revenant.