The Explanation
(for those who require one)
And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
15 comments:
Is Moose and Squirrel!
Hokey Smokes!
...now appearing as Marlon Branflake in A Trolley Named Tallulah!
"Hey Rocky..Watch me pull a Rabbit outta my Hat!"
"Here's something we hope you'll really like."
And to think it only took until the second installment for me to understand the heading . . .
Bullwinkle: Humble, that's me... Mr. Modesty. When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest.
I'm hoping to see Fred Flintstone in this series, though that may not be limited enough!
Fred had his limits...mind you, he was no Clutch Cargo.
I only watched these for Fractured Fairy Tales and Peabody and Sherman..I was never a big R&B fan..even tho i'd watch any cartoon as a kid..
Rocky & Bullwinkle made me the man I am
today, I reckon.
that was Jimi Hendrix' favorite cartoon, BTW.
This 'un and "Roger Ramjet" were the high points of TV animation for me.
In the late 1960s, in front of Jay Ward Studios, where they made R&B, was a 10 foot tall rotating statue of Bullwinkle posed on one foot wearing a red and white striped costume. Directly across Sunset Blvd., on top of a billboard, was a rotating statue of a Vegas showgirl, in exactly the same pose and costume as Bullwinkle.
The Sunset Blvd statue of Bullwinkle holding Rocky was still there in 1990, clearly visible from the Chateau Marmont balconies.
They changed the statue:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/bullwinkle-statue-update.html
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