tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post7893103619590121405..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Issa's Sunday Service, #168Issa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-24815778753904619652013-06-26T06:59:15.092-04:002013-06-26T06:59:15.092-04:00didn't get as far as you did in what I was via...didn't get as far as you did in what I was via GOOGLE reading.... more meanings in my mind via (coincidental) intertextualities..... as those<br />pieces of <br />glass<br />also<br />what WCW saw and wrote down-about in the courtyard of that hospital....<br /><br />I also came across a neat Yeats' quote ...or 12:<br /><br />Be secret and exult<br />because of all things known<br />that is most difficult.<br /><br />people shouldn't explain their work... their motives, methods, etc.<br /><br />: everything depends.... so let it ?<br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-31054620143392488692013-06-26T06:42:15.699-04:002013-06-26T06:42:15.699-04:00Ed:
Thanks for the note - perhaps this is what yo...Ed:<br /><br />Thanks for the note - perhaps this is what you (and the Feds) found when you googled ... a quote from Ms. Mitchell:<br /><br />"In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mitchell explained: "I wrote that in Philadelphia after some girls who worked in this club where I was playing found all this colored slag glass in an alley. We collected a lot of it and built these glass mobiles with copper wire and coat hangers. I took mine back to New York and put them in my window on West 16th Street in the Chelsea District. The sun would hit the mobile and send these moving colors all around the room. As a young girl, I found that to be a thing of beauty. There's even a reference to the mobile in the song. It was a very young and lovely time... before I had a record deal. I think it's a very sweet song, but I don't think of it as part of my best work. To me, most of those early songs seem like the work of an ingenue." (from Songfacts)<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-91643212246017992692013-06-25T07:29:58.518-04:002013-06-25T07:29:58.518-04:00I think that you are right..... Chelsea New York ...I think that you are right..... Chelsea New York City.<br />( I googled the song.... and I hope that the Feds aren't tracking my searches and emails about all of this.... & other "stuff" !)<br /><br />my "take" on the song just coincidence that I was in London and staying on a boat on the Chelsea Embankment when she was playing in London.<br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-7636042224439015052013-06-25T06:58:36.319-04:002013-06-25T06:58:36.319-04:00Ed:
Thanks for a couple of more notes to the tune...Ed:<br /><br />Thanks for a couple of more notes to the tune to give us a broader view of The Song. Of course, I always thought of Chelsea as Manhattan so this is a different take, indeed.<br /><br />Thanks ... for the magic.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-71755684222609412742013-06-24T17:52:11.006-04:002013-06-24T17:52:11.006-04:00this coupling.... pure magic &
wasn't it Y...this coupling.... pure magic &<br />wasn't it Yeats who said:<br /><br />"don't be a magician, be magic" ?<br /><br />yes it was.... they are both entirely "in it"<br />for the music, words, poetry<br /><br />nice to revisit her Chelsea Morning & the others.<br /><br />"and he played real good for free"<br /><br />" he had never been on tv<br />so they passed his music by."<br /><br />(I bet that she is speaking of James Taylor and that it is Chelsea (maybe the Embankment) in London, say 1968 or so ?<br /><br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-74748409328612602002013-06-24T08:26:46.306-04:002013-06-24T08:26:46.306-04:00Cheers, Nate.
I think the 'mere anarchy' ...Cheers, Nate.<br /><br />I think the 'mere anarchy' was a tad hyperbolic.<br /><br />Of course, he could have gone for humor, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/arts/15iht-bookmon.1.6153303.html" rel="nofollow">as in this</a> ...<br /><br />D.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-86002039908990670382013-06-24T08:18:10.905-04:002013-06-24T08:18:10.905-04:00A ... so glad you liked it ... and the god of pove...A ... so glad you liked it ... and the god of poverty was new to me to, though I've skirted his environs many a year. Don<br />Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-43569417486808159602013-06-23T14:49:06.252-04:002013-06-23T14:49:06.252-04:00Truly monumental, although the crack about "m...Truly monumental, although the crack about "mere anarchy" always stuck in my craw. & it's worth saying that his wife Georgie channeled the "unknown instructors" he credits for all his best visionary stuff (including this one). Anyhow, thanks for nudging my mind towards Yeats (& Joni & Bimbo-Gami) this fine Sunday.Nathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-57829859983024578522013-06-23T14:25:46.684-04:002013-06-23T14:25:46.684-04:00Outstanding post, today. Yeats poem is so powerful...Outstanding post, today. Yeats poem is so powerful, not a word wasted...and Issa is wonderful. The god of poverty is new to me, thank you for the information, too. Always good stuff! Thank you...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com