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Re: muses

my muse would be (and for the coffeehouse facade it
would HAVE to be the likeness on "Soul of the Age" for
poetic effect) Hermann Hesse.  i mean, anybody who, in
mental diress (arguably) chased jung's analytical butt
up to Switzerland to renounce (obviously, at the time)
really lame German citizenship anyway gets the power
of a guru in my world.  add to that, he's a mystic and
(as I am still such a child) a great storyteller.
--- Gilhamilton at aol_com wrote:
> 
>  I'll
>  >reccomend one of my more well known top muses:
>  
>  >Frederick Buechner
>  
>  >I'm loving his devotional, "Listen to your Life". 
> It really speaks to me.
>  
> 
> Yea, that has some great bits in it.  I gave a copy
> of it to my sister in law 
> for Christmas in an effort to wean her off of those
> dratted *soup for the...* 
> books and into  reading something a bit more
> substantial but apparently it 
> didn't work. She got a Soup book at the same time
> and has gobbled that up 
> leaving Buechner to just gobble up dust.  If you
> haven't' read them I'd 
> highly recommend in his non-fic *the hungering dark*
> and *the alphabet of 
> grace* If you're into Terry Taylor you'll also get
> the pleasant suprise of 
> seeing where he came up with a few tune idea's in
> the latter. 
> 
> 
>  >a few other possibles for the wall -
>  >Sam Phillips/T-bone together, Are they ever
> together outside of "Martinis 
>  >and Bikinis"?  (Only Sam I own, cause the other
> material sounded to 
>  >"keyboardy".)
>  
> He does produce all her discs and usually plays a
> bit on each.  Don't think 
> he played on Omnipop but IIRC he does, at least a
> bit, on all the others.  
> You can really hear his guitar work on The Turning. 
> But, being married and 
> such a groovy looking couple it'd be nice to have
> them together.  Check out 
> Cruel Inventions!  Very much not keyboard driven,
> mostly guitar driven by 
> Sam, T-bone, Marc Ribot and Elvis Costello. 
> Actually not a lot of her stuff 
> is keyboardy IIRC, you must've heard a few
> exceptions.
>  
> Mark Heard (who cares if noone
>  >knows him, he looks cool and would incite
> conversation)
>  
>  >Sadly, all I have is the collection "High Noon".
> :-(
>  
> Well, that's a pretty good start.  I'd recommend
> getting his last three from 
> which the tunes on that one were culled: Dry Bones
> Dance, Second Hand, and 
> Satellite Sky.  ___Some of the best songwriting
> that's ever been done IMO.
> 
>  ... Harry Potter -
>  >gotta have a fictional character
>  
> > Really?  Why?  Kevin, aren't you cheezed-off that
> this character is a 
>  rip-off of Neil Gaiman's creation Timothy Hunter,
> star of "The Books of 
>  Magic"?  
> 
> Hmm, didn't know that.  I'm a Gaiman fan myself but
> that's one of the few 
> works of his that I haven't read...yet.  A hidden
> world parallel to the real 
> one, complete with hidden doorways through walls,
> secret places under London, 
> etc., kinda did have a Neverwhere feel to me now ya
> mention it. I'm sure 
> there are many precedants to Mr. Gaiman as for that
> idea though -- placing 
> the supra in the midst of the natural rather than in
> a completly seperate 
> other world -- though it hasn't been rehashed near
> as much. Williams did it, 
> Delint, J Carroll, O'neils Land Under England, are a
> couple that spring to 
> mind.  Ah well, there is a fine line between rip-off
> and inspiration.  
> Everyone gets their idea's from somewhere.  Can't
> imagine a better place to 
> mine from than Gaimanland.  Depends on how much she
> ripped off I'd say.  She 
> did spin it into a very nice 1500 plus page story
> and counting....  Looks 
> like I'll have to finally get around to reading
> Books of Magic now.  Been 
> wanting to anyway.
> 
> 
> >>The esoteric nature of the original creation vs.
> his prose 
>  counterpart serves up more proof of how far comics
> have to go to become 
>  accepted as literature...  (That and the fact that,
> in winning the World 
>  Fantasy Award for "Sandman," Gaiman's masterwork
> forced the awards committee 
>  to amend the rules to prevent such an
> "embarrassment" from ever occurring 
>  again.)
>  
> Yea, either that or comic writers are just finally
> starting to mine some of 
> the same treasure ground that novelists have been
> for years so we're starting 
> to see them overlap more.  'Til around what, 15
> years ago?,  comics were 
> mostly kinda like short graphic adaptions of real
> novels or short stories 
> when they went beyond straight superhero fare
> weren't they?  That coupled 
> with fact that there currently are a few comic
> writers out there of the 
> caliber of Gaiman so we're seeing some nice in depth
> storytelling going on.  
> I knew of the WFA thing, doesn't it bite!  Now that
> shows there is still a 
> lot of prejudice to comics as a true storyteller art
> form out there.
> 
>  
>  Pee-Wee Herman - if you
>  >dare! --lol.---------------
>  
>  >If you were to dare, I'd venture to say that you
> don't know jack!
>  
> 
> LOL, I gotta admit my inclusion of him was more a
> joke than anything.  Just 
> mixing him into such grand company seemed so
> outrageous.  Still, he did take 
> the idea of a kiddie show to a whole other level and
> deserves some credit for 
> doing so. If others would have carried on where he
> left off.......I don't 
> really know where we'd be...;-)
>  
>  peace,
> kevin
> 
> Against the ruin of the world, there is only one
> defence--the creative act.
> --Kenneth Rexroth



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