No, not what you think.
I am looking for Issue 1 of The Believer (March 2003). If you happen to have it, would you drop me a pm or email? TIA.
If you don’t know what The Believer is, chances are you don’t have the issue I’m looking for. But thanks anyway!
You looking for the Monkees version or the Neil Diamond?
Dale
May 9, 2005, 7:33pm
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Great magazine which I regret to say I only discovered about 6 months ago.
You interested in the portable planer or the songs of Oblivion?
Power tools and oblivion are dangerous bedfellows.
Slan,
No, the review of Badlands .
Yes! That’s it. Very cool.
Thank you!
Jim Shepard in The Believer:
But the aspect of the Western hero that may hold the most appeal for Kit [the main character in Badlands], and for America, may be his essential inarticulateness. The Western hero doesn’t trust words. What’s he say when asked why he does what he does? That a man has to do what a man has to do. Well, thanks. John Wayne’s character in Stagecoach, the Ringo Kid, is an outlaw. How’d that happen, anyway, to such an apparently decent guy? Well, here’s his explanation for it: “Well, I used to be a good cowhand,” he explains to Dallas, the fallen woman who thinks he’s swell, “but … things happen.” “Yeah,” Dallas agrees, by all appearances thinking about her own apparently inexplicable situation. “That’s it. Things happen.”
For how many years now in our national consciousness has John Wayne been pretty much the gold standard when it comes to images of easygoing and self-assured masculinity? And what was he selling, exactly?
Partly, at least, the way real men turn can’t explain into won’t explain. The way real men disdain explanations. Explanations are for schoolteachers, shopkeepers, the emasculated. Check out Donald Rumsfeld’s face, in his next press conference, when he’s asked to pursue the logic of one of his statements.
How did you find that online?
Glad to be of service.
I owed you one for the tip about the Corey Harris / Henry Butler album - Vu-Du Menz.
Wonderful album, gets a lot of playing here in Chez Dubhlinn
Luck of the Irish..
JS1
May 9, 2005, 10:54pm
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Not to swerve the thread too far away, but that Harris / Butler cd really is nice. I like Harris’ “Greens from the Garden” too.
