I can't help thinking 'Succession'is written by a group of Freudian psychoanalysts with all of the constant sexual insults and dialogue in the series.
I'm not a fan of Freud's work, although I do think there is a baby in the bathwater there, as long as it doesn't want to f#ck its mother and kill its father;-)
I'm more a fan of Jung's theories than Freud's, although I don't think Jung had all the answers either.
On a personal synchronicity, the anniversary of Freud's death, falls on my birthday each year, so I should probably smoke a cigar to mark the occasion?-)
Gordon White at the Rune Soup Blog has uploaded a "new"Terence McKennarecording, so if you're into TM, click on the link below with Terence cuddling a koala, to go to the Rune Soup page and hear it for yourself ... it starts at about the 17-minute mark if you want to cut to the chase.
April Stevens, who was born and died inApril, passes away60 years after her biggest selling single'Deep Purple'hit #1 in 1963, the Year of the Water Rabbit and this year is 2023, the Year of the Water Rabbit?
Donnie and Marie had a hit with the same song in 1975, the Year of the Rabbit?
And it was even a hit in 1939, the Year of the Rabbit? The Britishrock band Deep Purple got their name fromPete De Rose's hit, as it was the favourite song of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother; she would also play the song on piano. Pete De Rosedied inApril, 1953 andRitchie Blackmorewas born inApril, 1945.
However, the band never recorded or performed the song.
The Tempo/Stevens version was intended as the B-side of a song called "I've Been Carrying a Torch for You So Long That It Burned a Great Big Hole in My Heart".
However, radio stations preferred "Deep Purple".
"I've Been Carrying a Torch..." held the distinction of having the longest title, at 67 letters, of a flipside of a Billboard number-one record. The B-side of Prince's 1984 number-one hit "When Doves Cry", titled "17 Days (the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose, if U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose)", is now the longest such flipside title, with 85 letters and numbers.
Ironically, Prince passed away in April, also ... and we all know how much he loved purple.
I stumbled across'The Bling Ring' DVD in a thrift shop recently and bought it, as I have not ever watched the movie, although I have had the book sitting on my bookshelf yet to finish reading, since I bought it on a 2016 road trip -
I bought the book because I was interested in why Sofia Coppola wanted to make a movie about young real-life criminals breaking into celebrities' homes to rob them ... and why someone like Emma Watson would want to play one of the crims in the movie.
I just happened to be listening to a Jungiananthology podcastabout the chrysalisanology and reading 'The Bling Ring' when I saw the newspaper article about Emma turning 33 and saying how she came out of her Covid Cocoon:-)
One of the first books I ever bought and read from 'The Circle Bookstore' (a New-Agey type spiritual bookshop in theBrisbane CBD ... long since closed) when I was about 15 years old was Frank Waters1963'Book of the Hopi', for no reason other than I had grabbed the bookshop's book catalogue and decided I would work my way through the list of categories in alphabetical order, and this book was listed in the 'American Indian'category, which was at the top of the list.
That book is just over a year older than I am, and Frank Waters has long since left this mortal coil.
I remember catching the bus to the city and buying the book and then catching the train to the Eagle Farm racetrack to meet my father before the first horse race of the day started and reading the first few chapters in the grandstand while I was waiting for my father to show up.
I read the rest of the book over the next few days after that, not really knowing what to make of it, so it will be good reading the book in 2023, now that so much water has passed under the bridge:-)
Framed heART for sale on 'The Burrow' wall behind me
The funny thing was the day I was giving away my'Far from the Madding Crowd' DVD and various other books and DVDs there was a framed heart behind my head on the wall of 'The Burrow'and I couldn't help thinking of how Thomas Hardy's heartwas removed from his body when he died and placed in the grave of his two dead wives, while his body was placed inPoets Corner.
I found a book of poetry by Cecil Day Lewison my bookshelf I forgot I had purchased secondhand from Amazon over the internet years ago and was surprised to find a poem of Lewis' dedicated to Thomas Hardy and one dedicated to Emily Bronte.
Going by the bookmark I found in the book I must have got it from Mary Ward Books.
"Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald last month, Humphries said he had been in “agony” since the initial incident occurred. “It was the most ridiculous thing, like all domestic incidents are. I was reaching for a book, my foot got caught on a rug or something, and down I went,” Humphries said. Ford told Sunrise viewers Humphries’ family had “serious concerns” about the entertainer’s health."
"The Red Room(Swedish:Röda rummet) is aSwedishnovel by August Strindbergthat was first published in1879. A satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In this novel, Strindberg reflects his own experiences of living in poverty while writing this novel during February to November 1879. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where Strindberg was hailed as a genius."
