Surely Derek and Clive must have released something that was illegal under
the old blasphemy laws. Or were they satisfied merely with transcending
every law of taste and morality?
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kasper, Ivor Cutler looks very interesting. I like the two that you've
> given, especially Local Natural Sounds. It reminded me of a character from
> one of Auden's more troubling "shorts" who, "unable to find a neighbour to
> glare at, went in and beat his wife". It goes something like that.
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:52 AM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Tom Lehrer is a favourite of mine. I know most of his songs by heart.
>>
>> a scottish comic performer in a similar, but way more abstract, vein
>> is a bespectacled auld gentleman called Ivor Cutler, in whose wacky
>> storytelling rhythms & musical vignettes I partook already as a
>> youngster, urged by my father. he wrote 'poems' too, wonderful little
>> things.:
>>
>> LOCAL NATURAL SOUNDS
>>
>> A man laid his ear to Ben Nevis to hear what a mountain sounded like.
>> But his ear was too small so he heard only local natural sounds. The
>> mountain was there yet it eluded him.
>>
>> He went home and put his ear to his consort. She grew incensed and put
>> her brogue to his kilt.
>>
>> The next time he passed Ben Nevis he spat, but it fell short.
>>
>>
>> FREE WOOD
>>
>> I hate wood.
>> Wood is wood.
>> I hate it.
>> I hate shape.
>> Wood has a shape.
>> Oh! I hate that wooden shape.
>> Shape is round the wood to give it shape.
>> Air surrounds the shapes and presses it in.
>> I will suck the air away,
>> set the shape free and
>> let the wood run wild.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> KS
>>
>> 2008/5/25 Martin Dolan <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > 'Every Sperm Is Sacred' from Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life' does
>> it
>> > for me.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Yes, wonderful! I just found it
>> >> here<http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/VaticanRag.htm>
>> >> .
>> >> This is a good lyric:
>> >>
>> >> "Two, four, six, eight
>> >> Time to transubstantiate"
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Tom Lehrer's The Vatican Rag does it for me
>> >>> --
>> >>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> >>> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>> >>> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>> >>> The Go-Betweens
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
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>> >>
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