Sunday, March 28, 2004
Finally, Channel 7 shows a good late Saturday night movie: Rebel Rousers, a 1969 biker flick with Cameron Mitchell, Diane Ladd, Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton, & the comedy relief of a fat sweaty chicano police deputy. The players seem to be improvising the dialogue. Dern is Eddie Haskell grown up. Jack is especially perverse. They're all a little too clean cut to pass as Hell's Angels. Even the Harleys look rented. The beach looks remarkably like the one frequented by Frankie & Annette. The soundtrack music leans heavily on outdated jazzy fifties 77 Sunset Strip style, plus some circa '63 surf instrumental stuff. . After Cameron Mitchell gets the shit kicked out of him, the tuff boys play motorcycle jousts to decide who gets to rape a pregnant Cheryl Ladd. It's a really great terrible movie
The new Rahway library opened up last week. Cafe. river view. Perfectly fucked up timing. It's absurd to take it personally, still I'm a Scorpio, so I felt like I'd gotten the finger & a collective "nyah nyah suckface" from the mayor, council, chamber of commerce & my landlord, with a parting, "& don't slam the door on your way out, & be sure to vote straight ticket in 2004, ya dumbass naive poet." I think in the future I might have to refer to Rahway in writing & on radio like Clinton did to Monica, as "That town." After 13 years I have only made acquaintances here. I've realized my local "community" in Jersey is WFMU = a secret cult west of the Hackensack River - & it will be my community until I land in one of the places I really want to live; where I imagine - better than that - know what I'll be seeing & doing each day; & the affection I already feel for the character of these places; & how it is literally impossible for those towns to wreck their fundamental appeal. I find this sort of quality in the letters & poems Bruce Longstreet sends from California - that he's not in a perfect place, but it's worth the sacrifices he makes to be there. Twisting Twain, nothing helps ham & eggs like scenery.
1. Don't do anything for free on behalf of people who are getting rich. 2. Babbitt is alive & well. 3. Poets shouldn't be "yellow dog" Democrats for political machines; we gotta stay loose enough to support the good causes when & where they are fought, win or lose. I took a calculated political cop-out not long after I moved into "that town" for which I have never fully forgiven myself. I will not do something like that again.
I picked UConn & Duke for Final Four. So did 90% of everyone else. That was the no brainer half. Big East was less plucky than expected. A tip of the hat to Xavier, they nearly won without Myles in the game at the end. At least I didn't go with Stanford, Gonzaga, Kentucky, St. Joe's. & Rutgers in the NIT Final Four - plenty respectable.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
The new Rahway library opened up last week. Cafe. river view. Perfectly fucked up timing. It's absurd to take it personally, still I'm a Scorpio, so I felt like I'd gotten the finger & a collective "nyah nyah suckface" from the mayor, council, chamber of commerce & my landlord, with a parting, "& don't slam the door on your way out, & be sure to vote straight ticket in 2004, ya dumbass naive poet." I think in the future I might have to refer to Rahway in writing & on radio like Clinton did to Monica, as "That town." After 13 years I have only made acquaintances here. I've realized my local "community" in Jersey is WFMU = a secret cult west of the Hackensack River - & it will be my community until I land in one of the places I really want to live; where I imagine - better than that - know what I'll be seeing & doing each day; & the affection I already feel for the character of these places; & how it is literally impossible for those towns to wreck their fundamental appeal. I find this sort of quality in the letters & poems Bruce Longstreet sends from California - that he's not in a perfect place, but it's worth the sacrifices he makes to be there. Twisting Twain, nothing helps ham & eggs like scenery.
1. Don't do anything for free on behalf of people who are getting rich. 2. Babbitt is alive & well. 3. Poets shouldn't be "yellow dog" Democrats for political machines; we gotta stay loose enough to support the good causes when & where they are fought, win or lose. I took a calculated political cop-out not long after I moved into "that town" for which I have never fully forgiven myself. I will not do something like that again.
I picked UConn & Duke for Final Four. So did 90% of everyone else. That was the no brainer half. Big East was less plucky than expected. A tip of the hat to Xavier, they nearly won without Myles in the game at the end. At least I didn't go with Stanford, Gonzaga, Kentucky, St. Joe's. & Rutgers in the NIT Final Four - plenty respectable.
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