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COLUMN
SIXTY-THREE, SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
(Copyright © 2001 Al Aronowitz)
ABOUT LAMANTIA’S POEM
Subject:
Re: Philip Lamantia
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:26:19 EDT
From: StevenFama@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Dear
Al,
I
just reading again your essay "The Seers" I noticed that there's an
error in your quotation, near the very start of the essay, of Philip's poem that
beings "What gift to bring . . ."
(its a shaped poem, with a cross on top of a dome).
In
your essay, the word of the poem immediately after the line "gift to
bring" is "not" (it runs vertically on the page). The correct words for that, as the poem was printed in
Ekstasis, are "now out". Those
words run vertically, just where the word "not" now appears in the
poem as printed in your essay.
More
directly, to have the poem correct, you should take out the word "not"
and substitute in "now out" (running those words vertically the way
you have done with the word "not").
I
hope you do not mind me bringing this to your attention, and that you can fix it
-- it's such a great poem.
Thanks,
Steven
Fama
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CAN ANYONE HELP SHELI?
Subject:
Please respond
Date: 22 May 2001 14:03:19 -0700
From: Sheli Pritchard <Sheli@esserdesign.com>
To: <Address:info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
Hi.
I'm writing this because my boyfriend's mother told us that Jimi Hendrix
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INDIANA SONG WRITER
Subject:
Keep on keepin on
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:20:44 -0500
From: "Tom Riggs" <triggs@seidata.com>
To: <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
Hey
Man, I probably read a lot of your work over the last 30 yrs and didn't know it
because you were invisible. Thanks for puttin it out on the web it is great. I
am a singer/songwriter I got kinda a late start because I spent to much time
playin bass in a Rock and Roll band on the west coast.
I
live on a farm in Indiana now and its been very conducive to songwriting of
course the locals think were hear for them to stare at, 2001 and the long hair
thing still freaks them out, but in a way its kinda nice living in a time warp.
Anyway just wanted to say thanks for not stoppin. Check out the egotistical
website that my agent put together for me, I am slowly changing it, soon we will
have some sound bites
http://www.thomasfloydsongs.com/
Take care... Tom ##
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FROM A BEATLES FAN
Subject:
J. Lennon: listen to this...
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:50:28 +0000
From: "G Evans" <bryte2@hotmail.com>
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Hello
Al,
I
happily stumbled onto your web site several months ago and I must say it has
been a delight and a mind blower from the start, my favorite of all occurrences
of online serendipity.
Got
time for a curious little antic dote? It must be as a deep appreciator of the
Beatles and John Lennon in particular your name Al Aronowitz managed to trigger
a distant subliminal tinge when I chanced upon it, returned inadvertently as it
were during an unrelated web search. Al Aronowitz, Al
It
hit me at once upon checking out your page, the beatle connection. But it was
only tonight it clicked and I remembered specifically. It was some
unintelligible cryptic utterances I'd heard John make when I was but a young lad
over a quarter century ago. While "D.J.ing" ie hawking his new album
Surely
he was buzzed up and having a great if nearly hysterical time. It seemed he just
liked to hear it roll rapid fire off of his tongue; Al
Was
Al Aronowitz a real person? Maybe it was another baffling concoction like his
recently minted and that morning oft alluded moniker for himself,
Interspersed
amongst all this manic Al Aronowitz mumbo jumbo John would suddenly whisper
blurt or mutter listen, Listen, LISTEN! To what, Al Aronowitz? Eventually it
became a bit clearer that he was thus obliquely plugging the album in so doing.
The central promo concept/mantra it turned out was "listen to this...
album, radio spot, billboard, etc for you guessed it, his new album "Walls
and Bridges".
If
not for J. L.'s mysterious histrionics that long ago L.A. morning I would never
have squinted at your name when it appeared in my search results for Dylan song
lyrics. Al Aronowitz... So perplexed yet intrigued was I in 1974 that it all
slipped way back into a slot in my brain completely unrecalled until your name
popped up on my PC screen in 2001! Now how's that for an offbeat means of an
introduction? All I can say is I am delighted it led me to your page, insights
and reflections. Thanks John, thanks Al!
peas
n carrots,
G
Evans
PS
I actually have some bits of the broadcast I taped somewhere here abouts. If I
manage to unearth same I will web cast them for your ears.
##
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A THANK YOU
Subject:
thanks Al
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:58:41 -0400
From: "John Dorfner" <jdorfner@nc.rr.com>
To: <Address:info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
Al:
enjoyed
the article. hope you're feeling
better.
john
j dorfner ##
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THERE WAS ANOTHER KEROUAC
INTERVIEW
Subject:
Re: [AGALIST] BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:01:16 -0400
From: "paul O'Keefe" <p6pablo6@hotmail.com>
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Dear
Al:
Thanks
for the info. I just wanted to point out there was a print interview
Paul
From:
al aronowitz <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
To: "paul O'Keefe" <p6pablo6@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AGALIST] BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:38:08 -0400
PAUL:
How did the PR interview compare with my interview? --Al
Subject:
Re: [AGALIST] BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 15:06:20 -0400
From: "paul O'Keefe" <p6pablo6@hotmail.com>
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
To
be honest, I have not checked yours yet except to skim it. As I recall it, the
PR interviewer had the door slammed in his face by JK's wife, who thought he was
a drinking buddy. When finally let in, she searched the room for bottles and
pills before leaving him alone with Jack. Then JK started pulling out hidden
pills, eating them and popping Haiku off the top of his head in perfect meter.
It sounds funny, but only to those who never had such a person to care for
around the house. I've had personal friends go that route, and found the
interview tragic. The entire Paris review series of author interviews is
excellent. They stick to questions about writing and creating. They try to leave
out extraneous nonsense, but such things pop in anyway with a few. Evelyn Waugh,
for example, got into his pajamas and under bedcovers before letting the PR
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ALL ABOUT DAVE RAVE
Subject:
Re: The Return of the Rave
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:00:19 EDT
From: PIGPROD@aol.com
To: info@blacklistedjournalist.com
Hi,
Al !
Dave
Rave is a dear old friend of mine from Canada. Along with such people as Daniel
Lanois, I produced his first solo album in 1989. (up til then, Dave was best
known in the Great Wide North for his work with the platinum-selling Teenage
Head combo ..."the Ramones of Canada" ;-)
anyways,
as soon as recording (at Lanois' home studio in Hamilton, Ontario) was
completed, a friend of a friend offered me a (cheap!) (fully furnished!!)
illegal sublet on East 89th and York. I
grabbed it, invited Dave along, we started gigging around the Village, a talent
scout from Melodiya Records, I kid you not, spotted us, and signed us. And the rest is Indie Rock History I'm told.
Just
another night on Fourth Street, I guess!
Hope
you're doing well at that end; I am off to L.A. again soon on some Masticators
bizness, but Doreen and I are Loving It here in the City of Jersey!
Talk
to you later then?(and have you heard anything from, or about, George Harrison
recently??)
<A
HREF="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bbkuw6j417190~C">All
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FROM ISRAEL
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:39:57 +0200
From: "Barry Rosenfeld" <barry@kinneret.co.il>
To: "al
aronowitz" <info@blacklistedjournalist.com>
I
was watching a documentary on Bob Dylan and the 60s on cable and think you
best
regards
Barry
Rosenfeld
Yavneel
Israel ##
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