tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post5521671122123825955..comments2024-03-27T07:30:21.457-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: He Had a Dream Last Night You'd Want to Hear About and Remembers the Words to SongsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-83537954594089515212014-11-18T11:21:25.123-05:002014-11-18T11:21:25.123-05:00C.S. sounds awfully familiar to me. I wonder if h...C.S. sounds awfully familiar to me. I wonder if he went to Lafayette Elementary School?<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-89112815855220112014-11-18T10:47:21.635-05:002014-11-18T10:47:21.635-05:00from our friends at wikipedia
Legend behind Minto...<i>from our friends at wikipedia</i><br /><br />Legend behind Minton's Willow china pattern<br /><br />In order to promote sales of Minton's Willow pattern, various stories were invented based on the elements of the design. The most famous story usually runs as described below. The story is English in origin, and has no links to China.<br /><br />The Romantic Fable: Once there was a wealthy Mandarin, who had a beautiful daughter (Koong-se). She had fallen in love with her father's humble accounting assistant (Chang), angering her father. (It was inappropriate for them to marry due to their difference in social class.) He dismissed the young man and built a high fence around his house to keep the lovers apart. The Mandarin was planning for his daughter to marry a powerful Duke. The Duke arrived by boat to claim his bride, bearing a box of jewels as a gift. The wedding was to take place on the day the blossom fell from the willow tree.<br /><br />On the eve of the daughter's wedding to the Duke, the young accountant, disguised as a servant, slipped into the palace unnoticed. As the lovers escaped with the jewels, the alarm was raised. They ran over a bridge, chased by the Mandarin, whip in hand. They eventually escaped on the Duke's ship to the safety of a secluded island, where they lived happily for years. But one day, the Duke learned of their refuge. Hungry for revenge, he sent soldiers, who captured the lovers and put them to death. The gods, moved by their plight, transformed the lovers into a pair of doves (possibly a later addition to the tale, since the birds do not appear on the earliest willow pattern plates).<br /><br />Cultural impact of the story: The story of the willow pattern was turned into a comic opera in 1901 called The Willow Pattern. It was also told in a 1914 silent film called Story of the Willow Pattern. Robert van Gulik also used some of the idea in his Chinese detective novel The Willow Pattern. In 1992, Barry Purves made a short animated film relating the story, transplanted to Japan and entitled Screen Play.<br /><br />The old poem: Two birds flying high,<br />A Chinese vessel, sailing by.<br />A bridge with three men, sometimes four,<br />A willow tree, hanging o'er.<br />A Chinese temple, there it stands,<br />Built upon the river sands.<br />An apple tree, with apples on,<br />A crooked fence to end my song.mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-47540684141449807852014-11-18T10:47:01.099-05:002014-11-18T10:47:01.099-05:00I don't agree with all of Sartwell's takes...I don't agree with all of Sartwell's takes but I always find them provocative - and this is where I first heard of the controversy he's writing about which is why I posted the link. Also too: you allude to something I was thinking about when reading Sartwell - there is a cry wolf element built into their - and all propagandists' bullshit: Fox may very well be right and righteous over this story (I don't know enough about the story to judge) but because they spew bullshit (it's their - and all's) mission statement, real outrages get lost in all the bullshit.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-18979249691284132542014-11-18T10:42:17.685-05:002014-11-18T10:42:17.685-05:00among the songs on the best of u2 1980-1990 b side...among the songs on the best of u2 1980-1990 b sides is<br /><br />Trash, Trampoline And The Party Girlmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-51349873126564864272014-11-18T10:37:21.663-05:002014-11-18T10:37:21.663-05:00Me and U2 - the first Psychedelic Furs and first U...Me and U2 - the first Psychedelic Furs and first U2 album were released if not the same week than very close to each other. I remember buying both at Sights and Sounds on the same day. I bought every Psychedelic Furs album through World Outside, I never bought another U2 album. Saw the Furs countless times, never saw U2. It was never music hate - it's true that hate came when Bono turned clown and that's not about the music - I just never dug their sound.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-49794102069766328252014-11-18T10:36:10.684-05:002014-11-18T10:36:10.684-05:00i am telling you that you must watch some fox duri...<i>i am telling you that you must watch some fox during a democratic administration</i><br /><br />Nope. Obama has critics on the left whom I trust.<br /><br />FAUX lies 24/7. if they accidentally tell a truth in <a href="http://crunchpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/funny-zoo-signs-10.jpg" rel="nofollow">during shitstorm</a>:, it's not worth waiting for.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-5934225986617782982014-11-18T10:26:41.411-05:002014-11-18T10:26:41.411-05:00U2 suffers from the same fate you mentioned yester...U2 suffers from the same fate you mentioned yesterday, to wit: a great band that started to suck when everybody discovered them and, additionally, when it went to their head and they became celebrity "rock stars". At first, they lit up college, left-of-the-dial radio and couldn't buy mainstream airtime. Then, again, maybe "I Will Follow" just is their greatest hits.<br /><br />In this order (from most need to see to least): Swervedriver, Vaselines, His Name...Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com