Monday, September 5, 2016

Cage Mercury





Farrokh Bulsara, born 70 years ago today. Reminder: Queen stole Live Aid. I would like to thank Mark Bowman, Tom Atkins, the Musser brothers, Vince and Jeff Tequila (Landru or Elric, help me out, what was those two assholes last name? UPDATE! Taquinto?) and all the other jackasses at the basketball court in Duvall Park who gave me grief when I was 14 for liking the faggot band Queen (and multiple other symptoms of non-conformity), I would not be the person I am today without their assholosity. Fine metaphors abound. And no, I can't find the version of (Brian May's) Tie Your Mother Down I want, though love to *udrey *artman, wherever you are.

UPDATE! By request:







UPDATE! By request:







John Cage, born 104 years ago today.

Once O’Hara returned to New York after finishing graduate school at the University of Michigan, the two attended John Cage’s 1952 New Year’s Day concert put on by the Living Theater. Cage played “Music of Changes,” an atonal, rhythmless work for solo piano.“I was completely taken by surprise,” Mr. Ashbery said. “It was just arbitrary bangs on the piano over quite a long period of time. And long pauses. I had been in a drought with my writing. I felt I hadn’t written anything good in almost a year. It really gave me ideas about how to write poetry again.


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  1. I have sinned dear father, father I have sinned Try and help me father Won't you let me in ? Liar Oh nobody believes me - Liar Ooh, why don't you leave me alone ? Sire I have stolen, stolen many times Raised my voice in anger When I know I never should Liar - oh everybody deceives me Liar - ooh, why don't you leave me alone ? Liar - I have sailed the seas Liar - from Mars to Mercury Liar - I have drunk the wine Liar - Time after time Liar - You're lying to me Liar - You're lying to me Father please forgive me You know you'll never leave me Please will you direct me in the right way Liar liar liar liar Liar that's what they keep calling me Liar liar liar Ooh, let me go Listen, are you gonna listen ? Mama I'm gonna be your slave All day long Mama I'm gonna try behave All day long Mama I'm gonna be your slave All day long I'm gonna serve you till your dying day All day long I'm gonna keep you till your dying day All day long I'm gonna kneel down by your side and pray All day long and pray All day long and pray All day long and pray All day long, wow, all day long, wow All day long, all day long, all day long Yes, all day long, all day long, all day long, all day long, yeah All day long, we have lift off, ow All day long, all day long, all day long Liar liar they never ever let you win Liar liar everything you do is sin Liar nobody believes you Liar they bring you down before you begin Ooh, now let me tell you this So now you know you could be dead before they let you, aah

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  2. i like lake street dive's "bohemian rhapsody" especially the cat angle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEiWN44L3M

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