5/18/2005
Ask David Berman, Week 4 and a half, and personal updates.
We took one week off. David was given a paid vacation for his efforts thus far. Spent the time in the Cayman Islands. So this week we have two questions. Actually one question, following this KENNY CHESNEY UPDATE from David, since we pressured him for comments because fellow Nashvillian Kenny has been in the news lately:
"One time around 1999, I saw someone had written 'Kenny Chesney is a pussy' above
a urinal at Brown's Diner. Later I saw the same handwriting and same message at the
Sherlock Holmes's. Both places got painted over and I missed staring at the little five-word saying so much I wrote them back into place. About once a year, they'd paint, and I'd rewrite until i went to rehab."
Now here's the question for DCB:
Can self-congratulatory oppositional work actually provoke the power structures (from thought to State) to self-destruct or at least realign in subtleties too precious for a quotidian consciousness?
DAVID'S ANSWER If by "self-congratulatory oppositional work" you mean "the Flaming Lips," and if by, "provoke the power structures," you mean "Will not go away,"
and if "subltelties too precious" stands for "Why won't they go the fuck away?"-then yes.
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I like the Flaming Lips. Both they and David have, for a number of years graciously tolerated my idiotic schemes and ideas, and I am eternally grateful. But you do not read these dispatches for my fucking opinions. They appear all over every other post here.
Kenny Chesney will not remove his cowboy hat, because, as evidenced in this week's Star magazine, he looks like a lawyer for Eukanuba dog food when the hat is removed. Maybe that is why people think he's a pussy. My dream scenario is that he somehow incorporates Jennifer Wilbanks into his new marriage.
The only thing I will leave you with is a run through my answering machine at home revealed a message from someone (a bill collector who tried to be all covert) who simply left a toll free number and then said, "You will call me back upon receiving this message."
Oh and this. Email me if you can make ten -twenty t-shirts for me for fairly cheap if I send you a Jpeg I want screened onto it.
"One time around 1999, I saw someone had written 'Kenny Chesney is a pussy' above
a urinal at Brown's Diner. Later I saw the same handwriting and same message at the
Sherlock Holmes's. Both places got painted over and I missed staring at the little five-word saying so much I wrote them back into place. About once a year, they'd paint, and I'd rewrite until i went to rehab."
Now here's the question for DCB:
Can self-congratulatory oppositional work actually provoke the power structures (from thought to State) to self-destruct or at least realign in subtleties too precious for a quotidian consciousness?
DAVID'S ANSWER If by "self-congratulatory oppositional work" you mean "the Flaming Lips," and if by, "provoke the power structures," you mean "Will not go away,"
and if "subltelties too precious" stands for "Why won't they go the fuck away?"-then yes.
________________________________
I like the Flaming Lips. Both they and David have, for a number of years graciously tolerated my idiotic schemes and ideas, and I am eternally grateful. But you do not read these dispatches for my fucking opinions. They appear all over every other post here.
Kenny Chesney will not remove his cowboy hat, because, as evidenced in this week's Star magazine, he looks like a lawyer for Eukanuba dog food when the hat is removed. Maybe that is why people think he's a pussy. My dream scenario is that he somehow incorporates Jennifer Wilbanks into his new marriage.
The only thing I will leave you with is a run through my answering machine at home revealed a message from someone (a bill collector who tried to be all covert) who simply left a toll free number and then said, "You will call me back upon receiving this message."
Oh and this. Email me if you can make ten -twenty t-shirts for me for fairly cheap if I send you a Jpeg I want screened onto it.
