Friday Musings 2-17-2006

By lex

Posted on February 17, 2006

I don’t know whether Janis Joplin, if she was alive today, would make much of an impression on the music world.

I was toodling home today when her “Me and Bobby McGee” came on, a song I’ve loved I think since I was a mere nobbut. Something about “feeling near as faded as my jeans,” and “windshield wipers schlappin’ time” were the first words that ever spoke to me of imagery. And imagery of course, is the soul of poetry.

Notwithstanding meter and rhyme, which are only, when properly deconstructed, mnemonic devices.

Did you know that her final album containing Bobby McGee and “Mercedes Benz” only came out after her overdose? I didn’t.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex