The Meat Puppets Were My Allman Brothers

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:33 pm

I caught this while reading the "Letters" section in the new issue of Paste.

THE MEAT PUPPETS WERE MY ALLMAN BROTHERS

The Meat Puppets were my Allman Brothers
The Minutemen were my Mingus
Ronald Dahl was my Robert Louis Stevenson
Vaughan Oliver was my David Carson
Lou Reed was my Bruce Springsteen
Athens Georgia was my Greenwich Village
Entropy8.com was my jodi.org
Neil Young was my Walt Whitman
Lester Bangs was my Thoreau
Bosch was my Dali
The Stooges were my Grateful Dead
Arvo Part was my John Cage
Captain Beefheart was my Duke Ellington
The Secret Garden was my Paradise Lost
Terry Gilliam was my Fellini
Emily Dickinson was my Ferlinghetti
Augustine was my Derrida
Henry Rollins was my Nietzsche
Radiohead was my Sartre
Coltrane was my Coltrane
I had no Yoko Ono

-Curt Cloninger

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:54 pm

The Meat Puppets were my Doobie Brothers.

seriously...I smoked a joint with them at a party one time.

funky poem, following along those lines I think Barney Fife was my Wyatt Earp and Seka was my Mother Theresa.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:24 pm

Yeah, but who's "Ronald Dahl"...author of "Charnley and the Chocolate Factory"?

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:26 pm

That's how it was spelled in the piece and I resisted the urge to correct it in my original post.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:40 pm

Vez, are you saying you like the poem or you don't like the poem? Because I think it is very bad.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:44 pm

I'm not sure what I think. It got my attention and I felt compelled to share it with the board but outside of that.....I do not know.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:19 pm

the thread title certainly caught my attention.

SoLikeCandy · Post by **SoLikeCandy** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:54 pm

I don't know how I feel about it, either...I mean, Rollins is cool and all, but I doubt very seriously that Nietzsche aspired to have big muscles and a Dudley Dooright chin...what a lovely bunch of weirdness.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:23 pm

SoLikeCandy wrote:I don't know how I feel about it, either...I mean, Rollins is cool and all, but I doubt very seriously that Nietzsche aspired to have big muscles and a Dudley Dooright chin...what a lovely bunch of weirdness.

August Strindberg would have probably liked it if Nietzsche looked like Buff McLargehuge. He once wrote that he was "like a bitch in heat" for The Man Who Would Be Hot Animal Machine.

I haven't been able to keep a straight face during a performance of Dance of Death or Miss Julie ever since discovering that quote in undergrad.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:44 am

Speaking of August Strindberg:

http://www.strindbergandhelium.com

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:14 am

Do you have the Helium thong?

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:49 pm

I was going to pm El Vez - but I'll throw this out to everyone -

The Meat Puppets, "Up On The Sun" is a great great album. Ryko re-released it a couple of years ago and I can't recommend it enough. Acid Country Punk....Curt Kirkwood is phenomenal guitar player.

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:09 pm

Neil Young=Walt Whitman
Captain Beefheart= Duke
Radiohead=Sartre
Lester Bangs=Thoreau
Rollins=Nietzsche

Bad things, very bad things!!

Augustine=Derrida
Bosch=Dali
Dickinson=Ferlinghetti

Good things, very good things!!

No Yoko, a very, very, very good thing!!!