Wisdom (and sometimes the cereal guy)

8.8.22

... and now there's Olivia all over EVERYTHING ...

Solid G: Olivia Newton-John dead.

b1-66er: ¡BAD ONE!

SG: Her grandfather was the great physicist Max Born

b1: Of yeah, well her greatest performance was this one...

https://youtu.be/cLi8fTlDEag

SG: It really is as if she's the new lead singer of ELO

b1: In my heart she will ALWAYS be the lead singer of ELO.

•••

Sheridonian: I saw Xanadu in the theater with Kathy the night John Lennon was killed.

We got out of the theater and I dropped her off at her home. Then I went over to my friend Paul's house and we called our friend Bruce, who was going to school at the University of Nebraska. While we were on the phone with him, somebody told him that John Lennon was dead. Paul and I rushed to turn on the radio, and every station we turned to was playing Imagine. "That's not good,"we thought.

•••

Suttonhoo: Yeah. Like I said: Disco was hard on my family 🤣

That guy looks so much like Andy Gibb! But he isn't 😞

Listening to the Grease soundtrack tho

•••

D4rw1n: That is one of my first big pop-culture crushes dead. It hits you differently when they used to live on your bedroom wall

b1: I respect your loss...

... Now we are HERE.

Special K: When I was little, my brother told me Olivia Newton-John was married to Elton John. Of course I believed him.

D4rw1n: Haha great.

Catherine Zeta Jones was married to Tom Jones

Margaret Bourke white was married to the Supreme Court Justice Byron 'Whizzer' White...

...Who was previously married to Lord Byron

Also it is a little-known fact that boxer Roberto Duran was father of Duran Duran

Julia Louis Dreyfus, wife of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (but not involved in the eponymous affair)

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is married to noted conquistador Hernan Cortez

And in a weird naming twist, Paula Abdul was married to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a short time

<editor addendum from http://www.outofthepastblog.com/2019/08/xanadu.html?m=1

Very little of <Xanadu> makes sense and the only reasons you should be watching it are for Gene Kelly, Olivia Newton-John, music by the Electric Light Orchestra, a couple of the musical numbers and to take a time travel trip back to 1980's SoCal.

As if you need any more reasons.>

Pyramidal Rationale

b1-66er: 1st sleep dream

I'm at some sort of an outdoor party in a park.

A guy is being super aggressive so I take a long tubular sponge like object and shoot him with a projectile (maybe a bean?). It makes no sound.

Him. Belligerently. "I don't feel a thing!"

"You will."

I shoot him again and two black spots slowly appear in his chest as he "bleeds." Very motor oil-like.

He collapses on the curb, leaking a large puddle of black liquid.

I look at the brick work on the sidewalk and think, 'that'll be almost impossible to clean up.'

2nd

I'm sitting at a picnic table with The Accomplice and she has a plastic bottle of diet Pepsi sitting in front of her conical shaped-like a coffee filter.

The brand label is floating IN the fluid.

"Those things are rare," I say.

She picks up the bottle. It's leaking slightly.

I think, "that's why those things got recalled."

D4rw1n: You are a nightmare Syfy assassin with a keen eye for collectibles

And morally defensible in all states

•••

The Dear Hunter: Hmmm.

U might as well cancel Netflix.

5.8.22

Wooly yarns

b1-66er: <Wombo>

D4rw1n: Alien space sheep

Alien space spider sheep

30.7.22

The sounds of finance

b1-66er: "I just don't want to get shot while I'm on vacation, cause that doesn't sound fun to me."

AMP: logical

being shot at home sounds more relaxing

The seed of creepiness

Former Meat Man: Cicada/Locust skin on our sunflower plant

Used by permission.)

29.7.22

Krazy Kat's eye view

Special K: I think there's some kind of party going on in my neighborhood. Very unusual.

Used by permission.

That 808 State

The birdhead: It's been a few years since I watched "808" so I purloined a copy and put it on. I'm amazed by the variety of artists they interview. I can understand that most of them are retired now and bored and willing to do documentaries, but how do you get Pharrell Williams to take your call (in 2014-15)?

b1-66er: Yeah yeah!

bh: Also, gotta love Afrika Bambaataa. Every time I see him interviewed, he's in some ridiculous outfit that goes past stylish, past farce, and somehow wraps back around to stylish.

b1: Yeah. That's him.

Style is a globe.

Keep going west.

Keep going.

No one navigates accurately.

Spin enough, you'll get to a pole.

That's were all the cool is.

bh: Quick story: two guys from New Order are interviewed in 808. Their song Blue Monday has a huge drum track that everybody alive in the 1980's recognizes...but it's not from a 808. It's from a LinnDrum. According to bass player Peter Hook, they'd programmed the entire song's drum part on the thing and had moved on to instrumental parts when somebody tripped over the power cord and the LinnDrum's memory was lost. They spent another day re-programming it, of course, but Hook says the replacement part isn't quite the same.