At 16/06/98 18:23:45, "Ernest Slyman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
# Interesting topic. Boredom is rather proving the negative. Though in all
# candor I would imagine an awful lot of us are bored with certain poets
and
# specific works.
Pitt-Kethley. Some book called "Sky-ray lolly" or somesuch. I go to
Secondhand bookshops in the hope of palming it off but they've already got
a copy. It's available for sale at a reasonable price. Nice cover.
# In the modern vein, most of Bukowski bores me. Then there's the darlings
of
# the pop culture Rod McKuen and Maya Angellou.
maya angelou. Saw her perform at some festival - watching her was like
drinking a pint of syrup after a mars bars main course.
Is poor Rod still on the pop radar? He should make a comeback. Rod Mckuen
meet...
Murray Lachlan-Young, my current non-favourite. A million pound advance
from EMI, and some (unmemorable) TV ads for a sound system. So much for his
"Shakespeare-on-acid" routine. Now there's a hate-figure for you.
# And how does one know one is being bored? Rhetorical question little
doubt.
# For me, my skin crawls. Soporific is my state, eventually, and of
course,
# the usual scent of stale cigarettes in the air.
I tend to start flicking thru the channels, reading comics, yesterday's
papers etc, considering the whiteness of my knuckles.
Roger
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