Saturday, August 25, 2012

TODAY LIVERPOOL, TOMORROW DER WELT!!


During the initial years of the first wave of Beatlemania in America it became commonplace for the band to be derided as amoral, homosexual, or even worse, Communist by the more stuffed shirted of this country's 'right' commentators. All of this looks past the far more insidious truth which has slipped by the collective awareness somehow  unnoticed for several decades--that the Fab Four- JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE & RINGO, had sympathies far less concerned with Marxist demagoguery and far more obsessed with Master Race World Domination. With significant stretches of their early career spent in Hamburg and surrounding cities, it is hardly surprising that they fell sway to prevalent radical ideologies.



Skeptical? Well take a gander at the proof. First, sample this recording of one of their biggest hits, I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND, remade with a new vocal track retranslated  to better please the Hit Parader Youth:






But this wasn't the only of their hits remodeled to better please the Deutschlander fans- try this anthem on for size, which even managed to crack the charts on this side of the Atlantic, thanks no doubt to it's nearly profane phoneticisms to red white & blue ears. Sample as well the accompanying footage of the lads merrily romping around the beloved 'Vaterland.' "Ja,ja,ja," indeed:







And as if this all didn't make it plain enough, consider this telling footage of their reaction to a gigantic mob assembled to greet their 1964 tour to Australia (The unfamiliar fifth member is JIMMY NICOL, brought in to temporarily fill in for an ailing RINGO):







But lest one thinks that this leaves STARR off the hook, gaze upon the final footage of this clip, where he greets a crowd from his hotel widow once having rejoined the band after returning to good health:








Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence speaks for itself.




Saturday, August 18, 2012

ELVIS BUKOWSKI







August 16th. CHARLES BUKOWSKI's birthday in 1920. ELVIS PRESLEY's death day in 1977. Please note "Elvis Lives" from THE LAST NIGHT OF THE EARTH POEMS, one of his very best books. Read here: (CHARLES BUKOWSKI--ELVIS LIVES.) For now, I offer this comparative consideration:



1. "Hound Dog"...........................................................................LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL


2. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"....YOU GET SO ALONE THAT AT TIMES IT JUST MAKES SENSE


3. "Return to Sender".............................................................................................POST OFFICE


4. "I Was Born 10,000 Years Ago".........................................................................Dinosauria, We


5. G.I. BLUES..............................................................................................WAR ALL THE TIME


6. "Heartbreak Hotel"............................................................THE ROOMINGHOUSE MADRIGALS


7. VIVA LAS VEGAS................................................LONGSHOT POMES FOR BROKE PLAYERS


8. JAILHOUSE ROCK..............................................................Doing Time With Public Enemy #1


9. GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS! ...........................................................................WOMEN


10. 50,000,000 ELVIS FANS CAN'T BE WRONG.......................................The Genius of the Crowd




Happy drinking, be it mournful or celebratory.




Saturday, August 4, 2012

Imitation is the Most Sincere Form of...Holy SHIT!! Get My Lawyer on the Phone!!-- #1 in a Series



The climax of HAROLD & MAUDE (1971)--







The end of QUADROPHENIA (1979)--





That both Harold and Jimmy survive, having purged their aesthetic morbidity and empty mod restrictiveness respectively, makes the plagiarism of such a significant plot device all the more galling. (In QUADROPHENIA Jimmy is shown walking away in the opening scene.)


Mind you, that these are both films of significant merit and weight. The level of thievery & borrowing that surely occurs within the dreck manufactured by hollywood hacks could be safely assumed to be staggering.