I am in here.
What I’m watching right now.. Memorable Quotes from War Lover, The (1962) Captain Buzz Rickson: What’s the matter Bolland, afraid to die? 1st Lt Ed Bolland: Damn right I am. But you’re scared to live. Buzz Rickson, in this movie, is played by Steve McQueen. His character also gives the brand name to the Buzz … Continue reading qotd, etc.
“Are you ready for Christmas?” they ask me. No, I’m not hiding the fact that I’m converting to Judaism, but I am not buying billboard space either. “Are you ready for Christmas?” is replacing “Hello.” I always say “No.” How can you be, even if you do celebrate the day? The fluffy women’s magazines are … Continue reading Are you ready to rumble?
We have snow here in Cincinnati, a nice blanket of snow a couple of inches thick. It’s the “nice” sort of snow which does not cling very tightly to the roads, melts from them fairly quickly, but leaves the rest of the land looking like an old Currier & Ives etching. If it lasts, my … Continue reading dreaming of a White Hanukkah
Following a rather short adolescence, I became an ordinary young man, tolerable but no more. At that moment in my life I began to think and to write music. Oh yes. Wretched idea!… very wretched idea! It certainly was, for I lost no time in developing an unpleasant (original) originality, irrelevant, anti-French, unnatural, etc… Then … Continue reading qotd
