Stop Making Sense?
One of my fave films on most days of my life
I'd just look silly in that big suit otherwise I'd want it
L
On 21 November 2014 16:26, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Love those names, Lawrence.
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> And there I forgot Talking Heads, yes, & one of the best films of a
> performance ever...
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> Doug
> On Nov 21, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > My current enthusiasm for a group name is Folding, Flexing & Stitch
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> > which is the methodology my colleague Guy Begbie proposes we adopt to
> make
> > a particular imagined bookwork. I have better names to aspire to, but
> > there's something mid century and BBC about it
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> > That was Elsie and Doris Waters; and now Folding, Flexing & Stitch
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> > Anyone who doesnt understand what I just said should count themselves
> lucky
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> > For years I wanted to be in The Cooperative Strawberries, which name I
> read
> > one summer on a sign outside my local coop
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> > Last year with an almost audible sigh Jeff Cloke said he was willing to
> > perform under that name for 1 night; and so we did at Arch1 in London, an
> > electro acoustic sound poem about the trucks going to Auschwitz; worked
> > well with our group name
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> > I thought highly of Tim's post yesterday.
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> > There was more of what I what I want to be going on in The Doors than in
> > The Stones. I don't know what it is.
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> > And then there were was were Talking Heads
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> > They interest me
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> > But I don't hear much pop rock stuff nowadays. Not by design.
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> > Is it tea time, nurse?
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> > On 21 November 2014 15:20, Tim Allen <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> Bill, good name for a new band - The Store Drones.
> >>
> >> On 21 Nov 2014, at 02:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Tim, I am intrigued by your comments on the difference between The
> >> Stones and The Doors. (Gee, I nearly typed The Stores and The Drones
> then.)
> >> It is true that Morrison approached performance as drama whereas Jagger
> is
> >> more a posturer (a damned fine one mind you).
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> that we are only
> as we find out we are
>
> Charles Olson
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