Friday, May 2, 2025

Feeling Good Ain't Bein' Happy (No No No No No No No Yeah)



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Bamster from Heltsville, Happy Birthday! 


3 comments:

  1. 0.5/i believed something that wasn't true - an example

    1/in midapril spouse and self attended a concert in annapolis - songs written by burt bacharach - the tour titled "what the world needs now..."

    2/reading more about the composer i learned that his collaboration with his long-time lyricist fell apart as a consequence of disagreements they had while writing songs for a 1973 remake of the 1937 film lost horizon

    3/although my local library does not have the remake, it does have the approximately-fully-restored original film, which i once again checked out and watched with missus charley - i find it touching, although slightly ridiculous in its eurocentrism - which the main character in fact does remark on in the dialogue

    3.2/there is a half-hour youtube video of the songs of the 1973 version which i just discovered while writing this comment

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

    4/as we watched the film again, i once again remarked, as i had the last time we saw this film together earlier in the 21st century, that the female lead - jane wyatt - was ronald reagan's first wife - missus charley, who grew up in a place and time different from myself, knew of her as the wife and mother from long-running tv show father knows best - she asked to know more about jane's marriage to reagan - dates, any children, etc

    5/and in looking this up i found that i had been mistaken for decades - it was jane wyman, not jane wyatt, who was reagan's first wife

    6/during the twentieth century, in the capacious library of the state university of new york at buffalo, i would browse through the stacks - i came across an 1874 book Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor one section is titled Affurisms: Sollum Thoughts, where i read on page 286

    I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.







    7/one could find a link to the lyrics, or a youtube track, of todd rundgren's 1985 song lost horizon - todd was the headlining vocalist in the bacharach tribute tour - that song includes the phrase "things as they might have been"

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  2. What does it say about [fill in your favorite aspect of the slugging-rats-in-the-gutter, all-pervasive Pathos of human living, here] when you find yourself remembering oh yeah, it's gonna be anniversary / high holy day on someone else's blog that doesn't have a fucking thing to do with you ?

    Anyway, all good things to you and yours. "I'm not yelling at you," as Bill Burr says. "I'm just yelling".

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    1. I can add that the 1973 version of the Lost Horizon film currently is available for your viewing and/or yelling pleasure on YouTube

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