PJ Song of the Week Analysis: Brain of JFK

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  • In the historical context, you can yield to new ideas without becoming communist or whatever people were scared of in the 60's. In the personal context, it means you can give a little, still be you and change at the same time.

    Embracing new ideas and realizing that the current way of life isn't the only way.

    For example (and I don't want to start a serious conflict debate): We, as humans, can survive without certain luxuries, but we continue to use and waste things. Primarily, because we think we're the end-all and we can do as we please.

    Ishmael really had a profound impact on me...sorry

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • Embracing new ideas and realizing that the current way of life isn't the only way.

    For example (and I don't want to start a serious conflict debate): We, as humans, can survive without certain luxuries, but we continue to use and waste things. Primarily, because we think we're the end-all and we can do as we please.

    Ishmael really had a profound impact on me...sorry

    PBM
    PMB, dont worry. This isnt the Moving Train.....:)
    I gotta read this book. You reference it often and it sounds like it has a large part in the mood of Yield.
    All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    Ishmael really had a profound impact on me...sorry

    PBM


    I loved Ishmael. It reinforced what I already thought, but it was nice to get reinforcement.
    The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals. Ghandi
  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    PMB, dont worry. This isnt the Moving Train.....:)
    I gotta read this book. You reference it often and it sounds like it has a large part in the mood of Yield.


    Read it! It is great. I loaned my copy to a friend and never got it back. I think I will have to buy it again.
    The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals. Ghandi
  • what is it? MY NAME IS ISHMAEL or just ISHMAEL?
    All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
  • Riverrunner, I think I believed everything in the book before I read it, it just help cement certain beliefs.

    There are three by Quinn worth checking out (although I've only read 1 and part of a second):

    Ishmael
    My Ishmael
    Story of B

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • Quinn also has a book called After Dachau which is sick and disturbing, but very interesting. Not like Ishmael at all.

    Speaking of Yield literature...Bukowski is also someone to read.
    As is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

    All these belong to the great Yield literary tradition.

    In fact, I wrote an article about it, supposedly appearing on Two Feet Thick in the near future.

    Back to Brain of J.
    So we're convinved this is an intro to the theme of the record and not just an outlier or something that got placed up front becuase it rawks?
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • Who got next? PBM? Riverrunner? Pilate? anyone...???
    All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STARTING THIS THREAD!! I've been totally into this song OMG!!! Amazing...
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • Who got next? PBM? Riverrunner? Pilate? anyone...???

    Who ever gets here first on Monday...go for it.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

    Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    on a more serious note..

    i think most of his brains were splattered about the limo. and on jackie's dress. and on the street. it was brutal.
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • olderman wrote:
    on a more serious note..

    i think most of his brains were splattered about the limo. and on jackie's dress. and on the street. it was brutal.
    I wonder why this was the last post in the thread...
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    I wonder why this was the last post in the thread...

    because the truth is disturbing. my bad.
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
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