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 Moonlight and Jonah riders in the big clouds.  Harsh mountains.  Talking: the occultist and the British museumist.  The gods of Hollywood Egypt still live in these hills.  While back in the tent, the spell words are spoken.  The dead eyes of Mummy Karloff: glisten.

 

Delaunay-Terk and Blaise Cendrars, a modernist poet, called this “the first simultaneous book.” This reference to Simultanism, a new movement that the artist and her husband Robert Delaunay were pioneering in Paris, connected the work’s visual impact to the thrilling simultaneity of modern life—the fast-paced, consciousness-altering dynamism brought about by innovations in transportation and communication. But  Delaunay-Terknot ain't not what I am here to speak about. I wanna talk about  Cendrars. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/273447 LISTEN TO >>> Jack Vaughan Reading Blaise Blaise Cendrars' West  I fancied myself pretty familiar with Surrealist Poetry – but I didn’t know anything about Blaise Cendrars. It has been great latish in life, but not too late, to say I found Blaise Cendrar. Great to be able to discover him. He has the basic feel of 20 th Century Modernist poetry. Aware and inspired by camera and film. But he has embedded a joy. Always unique i...

 

The Moon Traveller Head site is honored to feature this remembrance of the maestro! Our great friend Mike Brusha headed off to Italy many years ago and found the truest home of his heart.  He was an American sandlot youth baseball pitcher, late in the kitchen Hegel and Marx debater, and Friday night adventure compatriot. A key event, a big part of the magic that drew him to the old country: An encounter with great director Federico Fellini. It is described here. Brusha meets the maestro as he prepares for filming of Armacord. - Jack Vaughan  This true story took place in Bologna, Italy, year 1972   By Michael Brusha This true story took place in Bologna, Italy, year 1972. At that time I was completing my senior year of college. Participating in the Student Abroad program through the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I still live in Bologna, married to a beautiful Bolognese woman, Maria. We have one son, Daniele. Age 36. Allow me to provide useful background information....

It is another great Observatory Night. And I get my weighty question answered. Seriously, the important thing is to track back to the start, Jack, cause this lecture is very heavy but actually understandable. Be ready, in case the kid asks "Where does gold come from?"

DYLAN: When I first received this Nobel Prize for Literature, I got to wondering exactly how my songs related to literature. I wanted to reflect on it and see where the connection was. I’m going to try to articulate that to you. And most likely it will go in a roundabout way, but I hope what I say will be worthwhile and purposeful. If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly. Buddy died when I was about eighteen and he was twenty-two. From the moment I first heard him, I felt akin. I felt related, like he was an older brother. I even thought I resembled him. Buddy played the music that I loved – the music I grew up on: country western, rock ‘n’ roll, and rhythm and blues. Three separate strands of music that he intertwined and infused into one genre. One brand. And Buddy wrote songs – songs that had beautiful melodies and imaginative verses. And he sang great – sang in more than a few voices. He was the archetype. Everything I wasn’t and wan...