“Glad To Be Unhappy” Look at yourself, if you had a sense of humorYou would laugh to beat the bandLook at yourself, do you still believe the rumorThat romance is simply grand? Since you took it right on the chinYou have lost that bright toothpaste grinMy mental state is all a-jumbleI sit around and sadly… Continue reading Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
There’s no prayer like desire. — Tom Waits, from “Black Market Baby,” Mule Variations. (1999)
‘T ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones. — Tom Waits, from “T’aint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones),” The Black Rider. Original Release Date: October 25, 1993. Island Records.
So many books, so little time. ―
The History of Bop Bop began with jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940 Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking down past a men’s clothing store on 42nd street or south main in L.A. when from a loudspeaker they heard a wild and possible mistake in jazz… Continue reading Jack Kerouac
In order to exist I hide behind stacks of red and blue poems And open little sensuous parasols — Bob Kaufman, from “Afterwards They Shall Dance,” Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness. (New Directions, January 17, 1965)
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain. —Billie Holiday
The Vale of Soul-Making 