Re: Goddamit
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:40 +1000
You bananafish are going to end up hating us Aussies. It's just like when
we're overseas - we're so grateful to see another person who knows how to
spell GOGGO MOBILE (ONLY an Australian would get that one). So please
excuse us while we indulge ourselves.
> Goddamit Camille! Can't you turn your goddam emoticons around the right
> way? You have to rotate it ANTI-clockwise. To the left! You sure are
> giving us vegemite-faced Australians a bad name (only kidding). You
> wouldn't see little Alfie Langer throwing a dummy to the sideline would
> ya? Camille, haven't you noticed a hell of a lot of Unskilled Laughter
> on Good News Week lately? It really gets to me. McDermott says '3
> points!' and the audience chokes in hysterics.
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Happy ? Whatever happened to individuality ???
I actually missed Good News Week last week because I was reading all my
mail from the bananafish listserv! :) :) :) and in case you missed it :)
(Who said they had to be that direction anyway?) What's the deal with his
big
corny singing career ? That version of `Throw Your Arms Around Me' (RIP
Hunnas) on the New Years Eve shoe was downright embarrasing! I kept waiting
for the ironic bit!
> Here in Papua New Guinea I have no choice but to catch a festering
> starved dog to school. I say 'catch' because our canine transportation
> rarely actually stops for us and we must thrust out a stray hand in the
> hope of grabbing the beast by the bollocks and clinging tenaciously to
> his love spuds all the way to school. Because of the dominance of pot
> holes, the journey is not so much an attempt to avoid pot-holes as an
> attempt to avoid the occassional bitchumen plateaus that once
> constituted a road. Then our adventure is not unlike the ride at
> Dreamworld, the river raft one, where that bloody elephant tries to spit
> water in you face, and you try to avoid it but you haven't quite
> recovered from Nessie in that cave so you just sit there. Here, we dodge
> spitoons of beetlenet - a sticky, red mouth-cancer-inspiring substance
> that looks strangely like blood when it inevitably splatters across the
> front of your school uniform, which has been meticulously tailored from
> the finest tent off-cuts money doesn't buy. What I wouldn't give for the
> old familiar lift to school on a Kangaroo, bounding down the road to the
> pleasing roar of the Kookaburra in the trees, the kookaburra that laughs
> hysterically at the Messerschmitt Magpie attempts to relieve your eye
> sockets of their much over-rated burden.
I stand humbled. All I have to contend with is the occasional dead kangaroo
on the side of the road.
> I can't help but agree with Holden on the Romeo and Juliet thing. I hate
> the bastards. Mercutio is the only one that deserves any consideration.
> Screw the rest of 'em. It should be called 'The Mercutio of Verona' or
> something similar. Mercutio is just such a Legend.
Funny you should mention that. I was once in a production of `Romeo and
Juliet' myself (a whole book could be written on that experience) and the
guy who played Mercutio wrote this play called `Mercky Lives!!!' It had all
the really unpopular characters with minor roles in R&J as the main
characters (the performers of which had formed a secret society called the
Velvet Underground, AKA the V.U. - detractors thought it stood for `Virgins
United' - of which more another day) It was all about how Mercutio had only
faked his death cause it occurs offstage, it's a big conspiracy with
Benvolio. He thought he was a bit of a Legend too.
>
> The Catcher in the Rye The Movie.
I reckon we should get Baz Luhrmann to direct it !
> >> [Salinger] who permeates our little community with a kind of ethereal
> > >> presence, who we all look towards for a sign of redemption (the
> publication
> >> of Hapworth, perhaps?), who we sometimes feel is looking over our
> shoulder,
> >> and who has been known to Move in Mysterious Ways
>
> Spot on! But the Zen student who looks to his Master for redemption will
> Fall in an Even Mysteriousyier Way. You see, I've been studying. I'm
> quite sure that I don't understand Zen now,
I guess that's the whole point of Zen, really - trying to understand Zen.
> which probably means that I
> am well on the way to becoming a proper student. Thanks for the
> answer-dodging encouragement everyone! I hope that I can return the
> favour some day, maybe inspire a banana or two.
>
> How is it that Seymour's happiness got in the way of his journey? Isn't
> it part of the goal? What exactly was the goal? Why did Seymour concede
> to marrying Muriel, despite his acknowledgement of the the intolerable
> Happiness of it all? It was a small Western picket-fence concession
> wasn't it? Muriels' Father's Uncle, or whatever, the little cigar dude,
> he was happy and he didn't redecorate his hotel room. Why not? Was he
> already Home? Speaking of Home Base, but in a different context, I once
> drew a slight and still unconsidered parallel between Mary Hudson's
> positions on the baseball field and that American slang thing with the
> bases and stages of sexual progression. You know the one - "Did you get
> to Home Base with her?" I'm not exactly sure what each of the bases are,
> but if anybody knows, are they in anyway relevant to Mary Hudson and the
> Chief? I don't think they are. Incidentally, why is she always 'Mary
> Hudson'? Not 'Mary' or 'Ms. Hudson'?
In my experience a ten base rather than four base analogy was used, of
which there was several different versions. But I also remember the four
base system as 1)Kissing 2)Fondling over clothes 3)Fondling under clothes
4) Home base!!! A great observation, anyway. I also think of it in relation
to a Koan I heard once (was it in Salinger?) that went `What was your
original face, the one you had before the one your parents gave you ?'
> Could somebody please tell me who Cartman's real Dad is? Not Without My
> Anus. That kills me.
Perhaps it's Barbra Streisand. If you find the answer, I'll ro-sham-bo you
for it !!!
I couldn't look at poor Sidney Poiter in the Academy Awards Family Photo
thingo without thinking `... but I will NEVER stick a foreign object up my
arse!'
>
> >>> (At the same time, perhaps I may point out - defensively -
> that there are still quite a lot of people in these parts who
> treat
> Salinger's characters as if they were living acquaintances
> poised
> afresh each day on the edge of their individual dramas. From
> *my* point of view, the heat & anxiety aroused on their behalf
> looks as involving as any `professional reader' could possibly
> >>> wish.)
>
> Maybe this is me? Is it a good thing, or is it one of those attributes
> that eventually leaves you in a bell tower with a .22 rifle waiting for
> a clear shot?
>
> If somebody should play Holden, I wouldn't accept anybody but the Man
> Himself. Without any make-up or 'Digital Enhancement', J.D. would play
> our beloved adolescent without any changes whatsoever to his present
> appearance or state of mind. That's the only way you'll get me to watch
> it. It would be perfect.
Did you ever hear about how in the 50's J.D. Salinger wanted to do a play
of TCIR and play Holden himself? Now that would have been interesting! Elia
Kazan wanted to do a movie of it, which I guess out of all the directors
back then would probably have been one of the better choices. He wouldn't
have turned it into a musical or whatever. It's kind of scary to think that
today he could possibly play old Spencer. Nah. He never could. Get Karl
Malden or someone to play him instead!
>
> Why 'J.D. Salinger' or 'A.A Milne'? What is it that makes a writer
> initialise his first two names? Could somebody please tell me?
a) Makes you mysterious
b) Good if you hate your name(s)
c) Your parents can still tell their friends you're a travel agent (until
you get famous of course)
Honestly, I don't know! If I ever get published I want everyone to know
about it!
I should've known you were an Aussie, Godot ! I should have known!
CE Scaysbrook (sound good ?)
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