(TV) Blake-ian LJJ

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Thanks Keith, I couldn't have given a better response 
to the Iggy nonsense than yours---ooops, I mean 
Verlaine's.  :>)

This Verlaine quote is remarkable because he very rarely 
gives out any information (esp. this detailed!) in regards 
to interpreting his songs (except when he's putting the 
interviewer on), but instead prefers to leave it  
open-ended.  

There's even an interview in which he angrily tells 
the interviewer that he doesn't ever discuss such 
things---he says something along the lines of: 
talking about it destroys his creative process or 
imagination, and circumscribes art. 

When TV played LJJ recently in Boston he relocated 
Johnny's reveries from an airport to a train yard.

Another exception would be his discussion [short] of 
"1880 Or So".  

Any others that come to mind?

	Leo

PS:  "art implies a personal, unanalyzable creative power"
----Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com On Behalf Of Keith Allison
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:21 PM
To: tv@obbard.com Subject: Re: (TV) Scotsman review

>Nah, I've heard the one before too. Lazy journalism if you ask me. Oh, I
>get it - his name's James - close enough!

"Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then,
when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get
through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to
decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what
work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer
state, and that's what my music is looking for...
... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the
same kinda guy." (Verlaine)

Never heard Iggy identified with Blake before.
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