WORKING MAN BLUES

'OF MICE AND MEN...'

SOME PEOPLE THINK SHAKESPEARE WROTE THAT..IN 'HAMLET'..
HE DIDN'T..IT WAS ROBERT BURNS.[POEM TO A MOUSE,1786]

THAT'S WHAT ASSUMPTIONS DO...THEY BECOME INCORRECT FIXATIONS.

THE PUBLIC FACE OR 'PERSONA'OF ACTORS IS VERY MISLEADING.

WHAT YOU SEE ON STAGE IS AN ILLUSION...THE ACTOR'S TRADE OF NECESSITY,
REQUIRES TRICKERY AND DECEIT...BUT THE ACTOR ALL,ALONE, HAS TO FACE
THE LONELINESS THAT SELF DECEPTION, ALWAYS BRINGS...

THE ACTOR MUST USE EVERYTHING AT HIS DISPOSAL, TO CREATE HIS CHARACTERS,
LIFE EXPERIENCES, HOPES, FEARS,COMEDIC MOMENTS, AND MOMENTS OF ECSTACY..

MUSIC PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE,IN MEMORY.

ROBERT JOHNSON THE BLUESMAN SANG ABOUT 'CROSSROADS'[SEEN IN COENS, 'O'BROTHER', ETC]...
'HELLHOUND ON MY TRAIL' ETC ETC...THESE BLUES TUNES KEEP REPEATING..
BECAUSE I SUSPECT CANNABIS INFLUENCED THE WRITERS..

GUITAR PLAYERS HAVE THEIR FAVOURITES...

YOU CAN PERHAPS SEE HOW GETTING YOUR  'JOHNSON',[cocaine reefer] CUT OFF, CAN IN FACT BE INTERPRETED AS NOT  BEING ABLE TO HEAR,[listen] ANYMORE...
IE, DEAFNESS AS A FEAR.

[A 'JOHNSON' IS A STREET TERM FOR A CANNABIS/COCAINE MIX- REEFER]

JEFF BRIDGES PROBABLY HAS A DAMAGED EAR,[ AS SEEN IN HIS VIDEO YOUTUBE ETC AT HIS, OSCAR AWARD CEREMONY]


THE SCENE WHERE A 'NIHILIST'[JUNGIAN THERAPIST],GETS HIS EAR CHEWED,BY, SOBCHAK, IN THE CAR PARK..IS SYMBOLIC.
IT IS SYMBOLIC, OF AN 'ALPHA MALE DOG' KEEPING HIS PACK IN SUBMISSION.
DOGS BITE EARS OF PUPS TO KEEP THEM IN ORDER.

I READ SOMEPLACE THAT JEFF BRIDGES HAD A 'RHODIE' RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, HUNTING DOG, FAMED FOR THEIR FEARLESSNESS IN HUNTING LIONS,
ETC...BUT HIS MISSUS HAS, OR HAD, A YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
BOTH THESE BREEDS ARE FINE DOGS, BUT THE YORKIE IS THE SMARTEST  NO QUESTION. THE RHODIES ARE GREAT DOGS, A GUY ACROSS, THE STREET FROM ME HAD ONE,AND IT WAS GENTLE AND GREAT WITH KIDS..
THE THING IS DOGS NEED, EXCERCISE, OR THEY BECOMEVERY ANTISOCIAL.

THE 'POMERANIAN', [MUTT], IS CARRIED BY SOBCHAK...BUT ANYONE, WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT  DOGS CAN PLAINLY SEE THAT 
IT IS NOT A  PEDIGREE POMERANIAN, IT IS A  MONGREL MUTT.

SOBCHAK, HAS BEEN 'SOLD A PUP', BY HIS EX...THE BIG DUMB SAP.

BUT WRITERS? ..ARE THEY FREE, TO CREATE?..OR IS THE WRITING,
REALLY CREATING THE WRITER?..THIS IS A PHILOSOPHIC POSTULATE.

PSYCHOLOGISTS SEE THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY...WE MUST MAKE NO ASSUMPTIONS AS WE DELVE BEHIND THE PERSONA..TO FIND THE ROOT,
OF ANY POSSIBLEPROBLEM....

 

GREAT MOVIE.

[BRADLEY COOPER, PLAYS WALTER SOBCHAK]

 

HARRY BRIDGES,UNION ACTIVIST.

             TWO LLOYD'S, ON A DUDE RANCH...'HART' TO 'HART?'...DEER?

                                             WILD HORSES?..DUDE?..CUTTERS WAY? 

WAY OUT WEST IN PENDLETON, OREGON USA, IS A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY [PRISON]..DUDE..

AND FOR 4 DOLLARS, MAYBE 5, YOU CAN CHECK ONLINE LOCAL POLICE RECORDS..

        
                                   

mmmm......

"WORK, IS, THE CURSE, OF,THE DRINKING CLASSES...." [OSCAR WILDE]

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

(2012, on success in Hollywood) Well, I spent many, many years unemployed. I was 20 when I moved to Los Angeles. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them. I went through the Groundlings. Everyone there had agents but me, and it was a ridiculously amazing group. I was there with Melissa McCarthy, who was nominated for an Oscar; Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar; Tate Taylor, who directed The Help. Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there's an element of talent you should probably possess, but if you stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen, you know?

(2012, on his wild party years) I just loved to get fucked up -- drinking, cocaine, opiates, marijuana, diet pills, pain pills, everything. Mostly my love was Jack Daniel's and cocaine. I was famous for going out on Thursday night to have a couple of beers, and that just led all the way to Saturday night. I would meet people here and there, and then I'd be in a hotel room with four strangers. Oh, they're tapping out? Well, someone new showed up. Well, what's your name? Yeah, I'd love to go dancing. I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail...My nose is completely sideways from a drunken altercation. I'm missing a knuckle because of a drunken altercation. Somehow I was usually able to get sober for work. I got sober for my first movie, Without a Paddle, but then I was fucked-up. I got sober for Idiocracy, but then I was fucked-up for three months. Then, right before I started Zathura, I knew I would get sober for that, so I went to Hawaii to relax, and that's when things went from bad to worse. I ended up in a car accident with a local on the way to get coke, which didn't stop us from going to get coke. Then it wasn't coke, it was crystal meth, but I did it anyway.

(2012) It's so weird when you turn 18 and are released into the world and then just start piling on terrible habits. From 18 to 29 I was a heavy smoker, heavy drinker, drug addict, terrible eater and philanderer. The past eight years, since I got sober, have honestly been about trying to peel back each of those habits, to get back to the 12-year-old kid inside who was tremendously excited about life.

(2012) I'm from Detroit, and my life has been driving cars. In high school it was drag racing. Then I worked for GM because my mother had a company that put on big car shows for journalists. We'd rent out Michigan International Speedway, and I got tons and tons of seat time in these crazy cars that a 16-year-old should never be allowed to drive. I fucking love cars.

(2012, on if success is what he thought it would be) Oh God no, but it's impossible to know until you've had success that it doesn't alter your daily struggles. When I was a struggling Groundling, I thought if I had the life I have now I wouldn't have to brush my teeth anymore and could eat cupcakes all day. In fact, I have to do the same shit I've always had to do to not feel miserable, which is work out, journal, eat well, do something for somebody other than myself at some point every day-even if it's just the dogs, those little fuckers.
[thanks to IMDB ]

DAX SHEPHERD -ACTOR.

I WATCHED,'HIT AND RUN',MOVIE[2012].WRITTEN BY DAX, AND WAS AMUSED,
TO NOTE OLD VEGAN HAM,-BEAU BRIDGES,PLAYING HIS
'YUL PERKINS?,CHARACTER'S FATHER...[GREAT NAME,DAX]
HA HAH, OLD BEAU IS 74,NOW AND STILLWORKING...
TAKE IT EASY, BEAU...NOBODY REMEMBERS THE SECRET SINS OF THE FATHER..

NICE TO SEE THAT DAX HAS CLEANED UP HIS ACT FOR HIS TWO DAUGHTERS,
BECAUSE DUDE...GOOD WRITERS,ARE NOT EASY TO FIND..

BRAD'S SHADES AND RASTA HAIRSTYLE?..COCAINE AND MARIJUANA? DAX?.

AND A BIG BLACK LINCOLN? BEAU?..PRESIDENT ABE, SMOKED POT TOO...DUDE.

YUL BRYNNER? THE ACTOR DIED IN 1985 PROBABLY BEST REMEMBERED FOR PLAYING RAMESES 11,

[YULS REAL NAME WAS  BRINER, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX.]

CARL PERKINS, ROCKABILLY LEGEND, CAMPAIGNER AGAINST CHILD ABUSE...

GREW UP IN,? A BUTCHER'S SHOP!...

MAYBE, PAUL MCCARTNEY,.....QUOTE,

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

KNEW ,SOMETHING?,BEAU?..PAUL LIKED TO CRITICIZE....THE DALAI LAMA,

FOR EATING MEAT...

[ITS A SCOUSE THING THIS 'SIXTH SENSE' THE DALAI LAMA WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA]

BUT DID HE CRITICIZE CARL'S MUM, FOR FEEDING HER

CHILD THE ONLY WAY  SHE KNEW HOW?..

MACCA SAID,WITHOUT CARL PERKINS, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO BEATLES?.

WHAT YOU SEE, IS NOT ALWAYS WHATYOU, THINK IT IS.

MEN IN WHITE COATS?..WITH, 'JOINTS?'.....

LENNON ,SHOWING HIS RING?......

THESE MEATHEADS FROM LIVER-POOL...ARE NOT KIDDING ANYONE ANYMORE.

LENNON AND HIS COWBOY BOOTS,IN HAMBURG,INTRIGUED ME..

JUST WHY? WOULD HE WEAR THEM?...IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST AN INVITATION
FOR TROUBLE,IN LIVERPOOL, IN  THE EARLY 50'S....IT WOULD ALMOST GUARANTEE,
SOME SMARTASS,PICKING A FIGHT...

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTED OLD JOHNNY MOONDOG...THE COWBOY INFLUENCE AND EARLY BLACK LEATHER OUTFITS WERE DIRECTLY FROM CINEMATIC INFLUENCE IN MY OPINION.

HIS TROUBLED CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED...HIS WIFE,CYNTHIA,
WAS REPLACED, BY YOKO....HIS MUM, WAS A BANJO PLAYING,'AVANT-GARDE',
PERSONALITY...

IMAGINE NO POSSESSIONS?...OR,'PROPERTY IS THEFT?'...MR MARX.

I, DON'T BUY THE, 'GIVE PEACE A CHANCE,..HAIR-PEACE,BULL'...

LENNON,WAS TAKING,THE PISS..ONLY A FELLOW,LIVERPUDLIAN, COULD SEE THROUGH HIS CHARADE..

HOW DO YOU FIND AMERICA JOHN?..HE WAS ASKED ONE TIME.. 

'TURN LEFT AT GREENLAND', WAS HIS COMICAL REPLY?...AMERICAN TEENS LAPPED IT UP AND THE PRESS WENT INTO OVERDRIVE TO HYPE THE PUBLICITY

OR HIS CYNICAL AND ACERBIC OBSERVATIONS, THAT CANNABIS WAS, SWEEPING
THROUGH, A NEW GENERATION, OF IDIOT AMERICANS...
JUST,AS, IT, HAD, SWEPT, THROUGH, HIM....

PRIVATE GRIPWEED, OF 'HOW I  WON THE WAR'[MOVIE]..ETC...

MUSICIANS AND DRUG USAGE HAS BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME...

BLACK MUSIC, GOSPEL ETC,WAS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND MOST EARLY BEATLES, SONGS,BECAUSE
THAT WAS THE ONLY MUSIC AVAILABLE IN THE PORT, OF, BOMBED OUT LIVERPOOL.

ANYONE WITH A GUITAR SOON FOUND FRIENDS.

ALL THE  LATER 'MAHESH-GURU', NONSENSE WAS ORCHESTRATED BY JEWISH PUBLICITY AGENTS..
LENNON ,SOLD HIS SOUL...HE WAS THEIR PUPPET...

BRIAN EPSTEIN,THE HOMOSEXUAL,JEWISH,MANAGER, LIKED HIS 'ROUGH TRADE'...

LENNON OF COURSE, WAS ANOTHER SUCKER..A HEROIN USER..

A SMACKHEAD.

MACCARTNEY WAS TRANSFIXED BY LENNON'S CHARISMA AND PERCEIVED 'PACK LEADER' MENTALITY...BUT ALL THE BEATLES,
KNEW THAT LENNON HAD A VIOLENT STREAK...

LENNON PROMISED THEM THEY WOULD,'GET TO THE VERY TOP'...[HELTER SKELTER]

THEN,WHEN THEY EVENTUALLY MET, BOB 'DYLAN' ZIMMERMAN...HE SAW THROUGH LENNON IMMEDIATELY..BECAUSE HE TOO, HAD SOLD HIS SOUL...CHANGED HIS NAME,
AND BECOME SERVANT, OF MAMMON.

 LENNON,MURDERED OUTSIDE THE DAKOTA BUILDINGS, IN HIS ADOPTED NYC HOME,
NEVER TRULY UNDERSTOOD, THE REAL AMERICA...

THEY GOT TO THE VERY TOP,AS JOHNNY MOONDOG SAID THEY WOULD, BUT

HE NEVER TOLD THEM THAT HE WOULD GET TO THE VERY BOTTOM TOO.

                                                        NO-ONE GETS OUT ALIVE

I HAVE GUIDED AMERICANS AROUND MANY BEATLES-RELATED, SIGHTS, FOR YEARS..
SMILED AS RINGO 'RICHIE' STARKEY WALKED PAST MY CAB ONE TIME IN WHITECHAPEL..HE THOUGHT HE WAS, 'INCOGNITO'...DURING A BREAK,FROM
REHEARSING HIS PERFORMANCE ON THE ROOFTOP OF ST GEORGES HALL..
MOST OF THE KIDS IN LIVERPOOL HAVEN'T A CLUE ABOUT THE BEATLES ANYMORE..
BUT THEIR MUSIC,-LIVES ON..

MAYBE RINGO WILL POP INTO THE 5 GUYS BURGER JOINT NEXT TO THE TAXIRANK, IN WHITECHAPEL,NEXT TIME HE'S IN, TOWN...?

I'LL BUY HIM OR PAUL MACCA, A NICE, JUICY, MEAT BURGER ....

VEGETARIAN? NO, JUST MEAT, SAME AS HIS MUM AND ALL THE OTHER MUMS,
FED THEIR HUNGRY, KIDS WITH....GEORGE HARRISON WAS SENT ON ERRANDS TO A BUTCHER'S SHOP,ACROSS THE STREET FROM A CINEMA IN WAVERTREE HIGH ST
AT AN EARLY AGE...

WERE THEY WRONG?....WE ALL GOTTA EAT..DUDE.