shocking discovery
cleaning up the goat-shed where sam lives, he stumbled across a box of what was thought to belong-gone -- namely, the 1977 two-sided 45 rpm recording of Mirabeau Bridge with Marg Davey on harmonies and Tom Duffin's backing band.
The flip-side has a rocker of Curly Hair.
This recording has been selling at a specialty store in London, England, for twenty pounds a shot, for a number of years now.
Where they obtained their supply is unknown.
Anyway, if you want one (there have been a few hundred requests over the years -- sorry I didn't keep your contact info) these should go to good homes for 5 bucks each for postage and bottle of pop.
Just write doctorsamlarkin@yahoo.com if you want one.
If not, then you don't need to write.
P.S. Also found some more of the original self-titled cassette. Has some things on it that aren't on Ransom -- such as Belladonna and Voices Forever. These go for a ten.
Site launched March 2, 2002.
All material © Sam Larkin.
"Some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine,
But the music there." -- Big Al Pope (1688-1744)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Wild Al Einstein
"The secondhandedness of the learned world is the secret
of its mediocrity. "
-- Al North Southhead (1861-1947)
"Lyric poetry is nothing more than a huge, centuries-old effort to introduce our immortal souls to our genital organs." -- Charles Simic, poet
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Southhead (1861-1947)
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What power there is in songs, what
greatest happiness that can make bearable this short narrow channel of life!" -- Sophocles
Canadians much smart and nicely stupid --
TAR SANDS CASTLES
Canadians very real proud of so cool environmental record. And it's a don't forget Greenpeace originate in Canada, also is such great the David Suzuki Foundation.
Hownever, Canadians (excuse me but a bit stupid) mostly don't have much the clue the environmental devastation it's take place near Fort McMurray, Alberta. Here is report by local type literate type elk --
Alberta's bitumen is a vast energy storehouse that attracted the attention of Herman Kahn (the military strategist who was reportedly one of the models for Dr. Strangelove) during the 1973 oil embargo. Pierre Trudeau -- Canada's last prime minister with a brain -- refused Kahn's exploitative offers, realizing that a conntinental energy policy would be disastrous for Canadian independence. Still, 35 years later, crude oil extracts are now sent south while Canada imports foreign oil at wildly fluctuating world prices in order to meet its domestic needs.
But this is only the beginning of the madness. To become America's top energy supplier, Canada is falling short of its Kyoto emissions targets while burning through its natural gas reserves to creat the "steam-assisted gravity drainage" (SAGD) essential to bitumen extraction. YEARS of fairly clean energy rescources, in other words, are being exhausted to supply MONTHS of dirty energy for America. Moreover, all this is being done at discount prices: the extracted crude goes to American refining facilities who reap the rewards. What stays in Canada are a host of boom-and-bust social problems and vast lakes of toxic sludge (at 60 square kms. the world's largest impoundments of poisonous mining waste) that line both sides of the Athabasca River, a tributary of the Mackenzie River Basin, and a major source of Canadian fresh water.
Canadian tar sands are an embarrassing demonstration of exploited naivety. And a ludicrous example of the contortions required to sustain the world's obsolescent oil-based economy into the 21st century.
It is generally accepted that Candians are a bunch of true geniuses -- but they have a few problems, not the least of which is the killer-culture directly to the south of us (fried Iraqi, anyone?).
this here must be the most useles website around.
there's nothing about shooting people, nothing about changing people's minds with a flamethrower,
nothing about dirty Iranian women --- there's fuck all here, really.
Judge: And what is your profession, in general?
Brodsky: I am a poet and a literary translator.
Judge: Who recognizes you as a poet? Who enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
Brodsky: No one. Who enrolled me in the ranks of humankind?
Judge: Did you study this?
Brodsky: This?
Judge: How to become a poet. You did not even try to finish high school where they prepare, where they teach?
Brodsky: I didn’t think you could get this from school.
Judge: How then?
Brodsky: I think that it ... comes from God.
(the late Joseph Brodsky is a Nobel Laureate)
Write as you will
In whatever style you like
Too much blood has run under the bridge
To go on believing
That only one road is right.
In poetry everything is permitted.
With only this condition of course,
You have to improve the blank page.
-- Nicanor Parra
Urgent message to LTG – It has been learned that this Friday and Saturday, unlike the same, previously scheduled, is not Monday and Tuesday, respectively, but will follow Thursday as Friday and Saturday. The first Monday and Tuesday of this session were omitted from the charted plan since the first week of the last chart was omitted and made up through the session. Monday through Fridday were made up this way but Wednesday and Saturday were left out to make room for Tuesday and Thursday. Therefore Monday and Tuesday, from the beginning of the session, will be left off and not Friday and Saturday. Also, snake number 5 has escaped.
Here's
the shocking truth, peoples
-- This ghastly website has not been updated in over 4 years.
Everything's at the new place.
Cheers,
sam
t
doctorsamlarkin
@yahoo.com
WHY POETS IS NICE GUYS
Lord Byron: womanizer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: drug fiend
John Keats: smackhead
Rudyard Kipling: imperialist
T. S. Eliot: wrote lines that could be construed as racist
Dylan Thomas: drank like a drain, begged and stole from friends
