Comments on: Burnt Hendrix Auction

By: Hello in There : clusterflock

Hello in There : clusterflock — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:38:48 +0000

[...] found a link to the Midler piece I http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/07/burnt-hendrix-auction.html#comments “> referenced in my comment on c’flock. It wasn’t until I [...]

By: Kathy Hilen-Smith

Kathy Hilen-Smith — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:01:24 +0000

Rick, YOU are fucking wonderful!

By: Deron Bauman

Deron Bauman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:43:27 +0000

Rick, that’s fucking gorgeous.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:49:23 +0000

Rick, that was apt. And it struck the right tone.

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:06:16 +0000

Nearly everything I say is a quotation (albeit paraphrased) from something. In a serious conversation I once had with a psychologist, after I’d come out of the closet. After I’d lain on the couch at my parents for nearly two weeks crying and contemplating ways to “do myself in.” After Mom convinced me to “see the doctor” and he’d sent me to the Northeast Arkansas Services Center “to see someone.” After I’d confessed that I’d had thoughts of doing myself in to this young woman who came my way. I “performed,” Bette Midler’s “Fried Egg” story, a bit of show between songs from her self-titled, live album, circa, oh, I-don’t-know, 1979 or somewhere thereabouts, it was on 8-track.

I won’t try to re-create it here and I don’t see a link anywhere for it. Still, it starts with Bette walking down the street and seeing a woman walking toward her, “in a house-dress all peckered all over with daisies,” wearing a fried egg on her forehead. Bette saying, “I said to myself, real fast, I said, Oh, God! Don’t let me wake up in the morning and want to put a fried egg on my head. And then I said real fast I said, Oh, God, if I do wake up in the morning and want to put a fried egg on my head, don’t let anybody notice.” And then something like, “Oh God, if I do wake up in the morning and want to put a fried egg on my head and they notice, please don’t let them say anything where I can hear. Because here’s the thing about fried eggs, some people wear them on the outside. And some people, some people wear them on the inside.”

In my memory, I rendered it nearly perfectly.

The shrink said, “Pack your stuff, get back to Kansas City and get to work.”

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:58:20 +0000

Dear Clusterflock,

Is it lame to quote movies in serious contexts?

It all depends . . .

This from one who lives in a household in which quotations fly daily. And frequently. High-brow. Low-brow. Familiar. Obscure. The only criteria: “Is it apt? Did you strike the right tone?”

By: Garrison Reid

Garrison Reid — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:44:25 +0000

Hey-o.

If you’ve got somewhere between £80,000 and £100,000, it’s not too late to see the writing of “a drunken buffoon posing as a poet” go up in flames.

Dear Clusterflock,
Is it lame to quote movies in serious contexts?