Art.
I will tell you what, you gang here, you all are the greatest collection of grumpy locals, anti-depressive quit-litters, open thread comment livers on this whole dang planet and regularly put a tear in my eye. Last week, as you may or may not know, my fourth book was loosed into the world. Blessed are the Bank Robbers tells the story of my Cousin Danny, all the banks he robbed, the one time he tried to hide from the law in a hippie commune, the other time he escaped from prison only to be run down by San Diego State track stars and various other peeks into the outlaw life.
Well, Bruce from Austin, Texas, a BeachGrit regular, decided to head into the studio and record an homage. It very well may be the second musical homage to literature in history, after Metallica’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, and certainly the greatest country rockabilly song inspired by the work of a surf journalist ever recorded.
You can listen above and then, if you so desire, to David Lee Scales and me discussing other finer points of the surfing life. SurfAds even calls in to discuss serious matters of the head.
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I’m on it! Surely you’ve seen Skunk and Kip Lennon playing together on youtube?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
If I play it backwards what happens?
Chas, and you knock Dora for some credit card scams and other misdemeanor scams, and your cousin is a friggin bank-robber.
But ‘you’ can make some ‘bucks’ off your cousins ‘crimes’–go figure.
I think you are the bigger scammer than both of them.
It’s been a while and it’s awful goes nowhere.
They couldn’t get enuff real callers, so probly on Daves dime
Hmm, reminds me a little of Slim Jim Phantom on the drums, maybe some Charlie Feathers influence with a little Texas Tornadoes to boot. Solid!
OK just listened to the sticker section.
Delighted they finally arrived.
Chas / Dave, those are for you and yours. Please rock them on your cars or coolers.
Just to be clear, Hurluley was inspired by the legal threat that BG received a couple years ago when posting up the rumour that Julian Wilson was to move from Hurley to Lululemon.
The AI sticker is based on the dumb joke that I insisted on pushing onto Wiggs (miss you dude) about us being in a laundry shop. I have no idea why.
I have about 70 of each left from the run that I ordered.
Please email me here at this burner, for your sticker packs:
sammichjammich AT gmail.com
To clear up any misapprehensions; I really don’t have any interest whatsoever in blowing-out peeps’ anonymity.
As long as the mailing address you give me works, then I can send you something.
Any real names you give me are up to you, but they certainly won’t make it back to BG.
Would love to get some out to regular commenters.
I’m into Bruce’s song.
This album, inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s, Blood Meridian, is very good.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Could anyone that knows how to write proper tell me if that comma after Cormac McCarthy’s was used correctly. I’m questioning everything I ever knew about punctuation, which granted, is not a lot.
Lose that comma. The other two are perfect.
Agreed, CB, but he got the apostrophe in correctly, so all is forgiven.
Fuck the commies , ops sorry wrong web page.
https://www.writerswrite.co…
Famous Songs Inspired By Literature
Famous Songs Inspired By Literature
Song: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds‘ by The Beatles
Inspired by: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Popular Lyric: “Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
Song: ‘Moon Over Bourbon Street‘ by Sting
Inspired by Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Popular Lyric: “Now I can never show my face at noon/And you’ll only see me walking by the light of the moon/The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast/I’ve the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest/Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet/While there’s a moon over bourbon street.”
Song: ‘Wuthering Heights‘ by Kate Bush
Inspired by: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Popular Lyric: “Bad dreams in the night. They told me I was going to lose the fight, Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering Wuthering Heights.”
Song: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ by Queen
Inspired by: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Popular Lyric: “Mama I just killed a man, Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead. Mama, life had just begun, But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away.”
Song: ‘Frankenstein‘ by Lenny Kravitz
Inspired by: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Popular Lyric: “But I need love/Sister, I need love/You say that I’m your baby/But I feel like Frankenstein/I need love.”
Song: ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road‘ by Elton John
Inspired by: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Popular Lyric: ‘So goodbye yellow brick road/Where the dogs of society howl/You can’t plant me in your penthouse/I’m going back to my plough.’
Song: ‘Frankenstein’ by Iced Earth
Inspired by: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Popular Lyric: “The Doctor’s work is now obsession/What is life? What’s beyond?/He wants to know what it’s like to be God/Creating life with his own hands.”
Song: ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me‘ by The Police
Inspired by: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Popular Lyric: “It’s no use he sees her He starts to shake and cough Just like the old man in That book by Nabokov.”
Song: ‘Clocks‘ by Coldplay
Inspired by: William Tell by Friedrich von Schiller
Popular Lyric: “Singin’, come out if things aren’t said Shoot an apple off my head And a, trouble that can’t be named Tigers waitin’ to be tamed”
Song: ‘Catcher In The Rye‘ by Guns N’ Roses
Inspired by: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Popular Lyric: “Oooh, the Catcher In The Rye Again Won’t let ya get away from him (Tomorrow never comes) It’s just another day… Like today”
Song: ‘All Along the Watchtower‘ by Bob Dylan
Inspired by: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Popular Lyric: “No reason to get excited The thief, he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke”
Album: ‘Animals‘ by Pink Floyd
Inspired by: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Popular Lyric: “With your head down in the pig bin, Saying ‘Keep on digging.’ Pig stain on your fat chin. What do you hope to find. When you’re down in the pig mine.”
Song: ‘Golden Slumbers‘ by The Beatles
Inspired by: The poem Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker from his play Patient Grissel
Popular Lyric: “Golden slumbers fill your eyes Smiles awake you when you rise Sleep pretty darling do not cry And I will sing a lullabye”
Song: ‘All I Wanna Do‘ by Sheryl Crow
Inspired by: The poem Fun by Wyn Cooper
Popular Lyric: “‘All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,’ Says the man next to me out of nowhere It’s apropos Of nothing”
Album: ‘Ramble On‘ by Led Zeppelin
Inspired by: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Popular Lyric: “Twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up And slipped away with her.”
Song:‘White Rabbit‘ by Jefferson Airplane
Inspired by: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Popular Lyric: “And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall/Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call/And call Alice, when she was just small.”
Song:‘Brave New World‘ by Iron Maiden
Inspired by: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Popular Lyric:”Dragon kings dying queens, where is salvation now/Lost my life lost my dreams, rip the bones from my flesh/Silent screams laughing here, dying to tell you the truth/You are planned and you are damned in this brave new world.”
Song: ‘Rivendell‘ by Rush
Inspired by: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Popular Lyric: “Elfin songs and endless nights/Sweet wine and soft relaxing lights/Time will never touch you/Here in this enchanted place.”
Song: ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls‘ by Metallica
Inspired by For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Popular Lyric: “Take a look to the sky just before you die/It is the last time you will/Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky/Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry.”
Song: ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’ by Bruce Springsteen
Inspired by The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Popular Lyric: “The highway is alive tonight/But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes/I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light/Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad.”
Song: ‘Tales of Brave Ulysses‘ by Cream
Inspired by: The Odyssey by Homer
Popular Lyric: “Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,/ And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands/With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured/By the sirens sweetly singing.”
Song: ‘Blood and Thunder‘ by Mastodon
Inspired by: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Popular lyric: “This ivory leg is what propels me/Harpoons thrust in the sky/Aim directly for his crooked brow/And look him straight in the eye.”
anything by oasis, inspired by the “where is Wally” series
Maybe cut the WSL gets it wrong talk from 36 mins to 12 secs.
Heresy
Thanks for the fast turnaround on the response, less than 24 hrs since I called. Quicker than seeing a specialist! Ironically after copping the bill for my international call to the Grit listener line I prob won’t be able to afford a doctor anyway, so will await further advice from you and the brains trust.
My advice, try Dolly doctor.
FFS go see a doctor. Seriously. You’ve got kids to watch grow up.
where is wiggs? he would clear it up.
Glad ya enjoyed it, Chas. Look forward to writing another one about the Ballet in the future! Cheers from Austin \m/
My vote is for a song about the Ashton table jump incident
Hurluley will commission your to write a corporate theme song once we float our IPO and leverage our synergy.
(Seriously though that was damn fine work)
Killing An Arab by the Cure may be worth a mention
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner -Iron Maiden
We have to set some standards
I haven’t heard that one. Who’s it by? Can you hum a few bars?
Haven’t heard that one in a bit,
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Rick Wakeman’s War of the Worlds has got to be up there.