Take a load off, Mary (click to listen)
I changed the first verse and chorus of the Band’s “The Weight” to tell the birth of Jesus from Joseph’s perspective. I always liked Robbie Robertson’s reference to Nazareth, a city in Pennsylvania and also a biblical town. Bethlehem is also a city in Pennsylvania.
The title is a reference to a fictional bureaucratic stipulation which embodies multiple forms of illogical and immoral reasoning. That the catch is named exposes the high level of absurdity in the novel, where bureaucratic nonsense has risen to a level at which even the catches are codified with numbers.
A magazine excerpt from the novel was originally published as Catch-18, but Heller’s agent, Candida Donadio, requested that it change the title of the novel so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris‘s Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means life in Gematria) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.[14]
The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but because of the release of the 1960 movie Ocean’s Eleven this was also rejected. Catch-17 was also rejected, so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as well as Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a “funny number“. Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel.[14]
A 1950s/early 1960s anthology of war stories included a short version as “Catch-17″.[15]
Neighbor Nelson, Dylan
Bob Dylan is known for his chimera-like ability to adopt disguises. “I’m Not There,” the first biography ever approved by Dylan, is a stylized portrait with six actors portraying six personas of the music legend. The movie’s title takes it’s name from ”I’m Not There (1956)” the eerie song from Dylan’s “Basement Tapes” with dummy lyrics that always seem on the verge of making sense before dissolving.
Matt rated I’m Not There 4 out of 5 Stars. · Comment ·
He had striking features: an elongated neck, abridged nose, wide set cat eyes framed by a highly-arched brow. I placed the movie poster on top of his mugshot, rotated it counter-clockwise a single degree, and it fit like the final piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
Matt rated Avatar 4 out of 5 Stars.
We found them early developing a keen sensitivity to experience. Like all of us their first encounters with the world are made up of original discoveries and invention, but long into life, they retain the capacity for childlike wonder.
With every experience they reinvent themselves. Travel becomes especially a way for the child in them to roam disguised as adults.
What's important to them is what they think of themselves, so they're unconventional, often discontented, not always virtuous, and they have a hard time explaining themselves. They work hard, and day and night are the same to them: no more time-bound are they than their imagination is earth-bound. They take risks and are either lucky or bold enough to seize chance when it appears. But almost always, at some crucial moment in their lives, someone else reaches out and says: 'Here...take my hand.'" Bill Moyers
"Analyzing for Stabilization Time Remaining : About 4 minutes"
Cats Can Cross America in a Minor Key about 2 days ago Another song Bob wrote about Suze Rotolo. 4 incomplete songs about a week ago: 1. Cats <3 Comps 2.As the Winter Recedes 3. How to make money as an artist, and 4. JFK song. When the first third starts to end and you start to look around at all your friends and see a whole lot of disfunction, ask yourself "Are they having fun? Am I having fun" Watch good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. All we can do is laugh at everyone, sit in the sun and die. But when I see your face again, I will not sit in place again. Just laugh at everyone. What else do I have for that song? Does he like me? Does she like me? Is he like me. You think we might be more than just friends. Just laugh at everyone. I don't need your person to say " I don't need your permission" I don't need your permission or your disfunction to say You married the wrong wife you're living the wrong life. I'm talking to you. Yea you. When I see her face again I will not sit in place again. Just make fun of everyone, be a good son and die. I think we might be more than just friends. HAHAHAHAHAHAH the1st3rd about 2 days ago god is a concept by which we measure our pain I don't believe in magic I don't believe in Jesus I don't believe in Bible I don't believe in Obama I don't believe in movies I don't believe in lennon I don't believe in mccartney I don't believe in TV I don't believe in parents I don't believe in holidays I don't believe in America I don't believe in countries I just believe in me that's reality god about 3 hours ago. like the wind, you can't see it, but when it passes the trees bend, and that's what we do Well we are singing "Why would you kill an artist?" about 30 years ago w/ a little help from my friends 4 months ago about 34 years ago lennon song 1 day ago about 30 years ago. unlikely japan 1 day ago about 69 years ago "Though my face has changed, the name's the same as it ever was" popped in my head and then I pressed record. Everything else was improvised. A Classic Would You Rather Blunder About 7 hours ago. 4 the woman I met last night 1 day ago. 1 AM trying 2 break your <3 4 days ago Another cover of Knock Yourself Out 5 frets up (featuring Lavender Hour as background noise) About 1 day ago Sorry, I wont be able to make it to your destination wedding.Motion Pictures (4 Joe) about 5 days ago Cat1 tried to stop me from recording this great Christmas song for children off the top of my head: xmasblues(why are we lying to our children?) About 15 hours ago Around the 5:53 mark of this video, and in the still frame below, I notice my own reflection in the glass facade at UCONN (Stamford) and have what can only be described as an out of body experience, where I watched myself for the rest of the song. About 4 days ago, practicing 4 3/16. MARCH16Practice1 About 1 hour ago after a phone call about not coming "home" 4 xmas. ifacatcanxUSA About 14 hours ago while watching the movie "Who is Harry Nilsson (and why is everyone talking about him?" leyleidylay444 About 17 hours ago I made up the words as I went along to this chord sequence that's been in my head while watching in treatment. The end of the song is Ash trying to meet up for Thanksgiving dinner at an Indian restaurant followed by some crows outside my window who were determined to make their way into the recording. thewaiting1 This one goes out to Dick Cheney... matters of war ...and this one's 4 W: lets arrest georgew Knock yourself out "He begins by singing to comfort someone else finds himself weighing his own feelings in the process. If the song is about self-worth and self-consolation in the face of hardship, the vocal performance itself conveys much of the journey...and finally, in the repeated refrains that nurture his own approbation, he comes to believe in himself." Hey Matt (Hey Jude at 120 BPM) This one goes out to George W. Bush too. (I'm allowed to dedicate more than 1 song to a person. working class hero my f---ing brother Matt The harvest moon is themoon at or about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox. This one goes out to the Chilean Miners <33 of gold http://matt4n.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/33-of-gold.mp3 The Nostrils and the Damage Done Art 21I woke up today, looked in the mirror, and asked myself do you like what you see? 2 months ago She appeared in his dream (Hummingbird 9/12) Waitin 4 a Hurricane (Hurricane Earl Medley)http://matt4n.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/waitin4ahurricane-hurricane-earl-medley.mp3 when x r tough 2 (and times are rough) Created January 25, 2010 12:09 PM Modified August 18, 2010 2:31 PMnice to meet you 2 (walt/waltz) 12510 Salesman is a 1969 direct cinema documentary that follows 4 salesmen as they travel across the country trying to sell expensive Bibles door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods. theme for Wednesday august 25 2 I've almost died 4x Matt Foran's 4th Near Death Experience8.24.10 Jtown Massacre821.10 Next Year let's make it different (MASSACREOF1983)81710
This song slipped off the top my head, I make up the words as I go along. andthemoonslippedoutmymind.mp381610
http://matt4n.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/when-the-end-of-my-life-comes-all-i-will-hope-people-will-say-oh-he-was-a-lawyer.mp3
stam4dnonemergency 7410
nelsoncall 7410
matt4n.com theme (1234) 6110
bm a e with intro
g loop
bm-a loop
I was never good at all these things
everything that rises must fall
honest abe
according to my records
digerido2
em7 fast track
onaleathercouch 42110
a d at the 7th fret
ido2
twasmarch16th&ididntherefromu(31608)
youre dead where you are(3108)
it’s a new year (howd he do)
it’s a banjo tuning (61708)
listen to with headphones
when-things-start-to-fall-apart-in-a-scary-drunken-way
Covering wilco's war on war mashed up with audio from war made easy.
war on war made easy
imagine43110
theunderdog
my-sweet-lordsbuddha-vishnu-dalai-lama-jesus-christ-dionysus-odysseus.mp3
exitmusic4afilmin2tackyentrancemusic.mp3
the xra Δing
(somisunderstood((wilco)theband))
call-you-on-sunday-morning-mothers-day
thislandwasmade4uandme.mp3
ashesofamerican-flagsjt
Slackers:
lennon-song
goodxpt2
john-lennon-interview-1969
ebertfestsynechdocheQandA
retainer retainer
fantastic mr fox
sky blue sky to me
greenwich village blues
the blood
chronicles of the sweet life
