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Fever Dreaming
In Everything Else
Fever Dreaming
In Everything Else
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Feb 25, 2019
Hey Matt, doll, I LOVED the 'tude! "and now for something completely different" *always* good. :-) I hope it doesn't ruin the perceptiveness of your dream to say that Social Psych was one of my academic specialities in grad school and Walter couldn’t get enough of it--- I ended up holding symposiums for him fer christsake. He had a superior natural understanding of the concepts of course but most uniquely, he could follow and accept and work with the empirical constraints of experimental psych (which is the type I practiced)...something even the top students resist or don't get for a long time. He was right there. That’s hard.!! Man, he was Schmat!! But above all, I believe the icing for him were the figures /personalities of Social Psych themselves. Trained as i was in the classic Stanford Model, great research is certainly populated by towering mythic figures about whom every student, from generations back, have stories and tales. These individuals stamped their particular creativity on research and so made great strides, and tried to teach us the same, He loved hearing about some of the old guys especially…many of them having fled Nazi Germany (thereby essentially establishing modern American social psyc.) He also like the Harlow Cloth Monkey stuff...no surprise there. (Dr Harlow appears on walterbecker.com btw) …but for all I know about his interest….i t is still a fundamental mystery what he was on about. Like so much of him; essentially and at the very center…. a mystery anyway he loved that shit. He would have been equally enraged at that doubter on your behalf!!!! He would have snapped his little pencil dick in half! (hey, just trying t get with the vibe of the dream….<-} )
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WB quote of the week?
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Feb 14
In Rarities & Unreleased
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Feb 14, 2019
This Is It? Walter Becker© 2011, 2018 Walter Carl Becker. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. b: this is it? g: this is it. What do you think? b: well, let me see - “Wing’s Chicken Bucket - 22 generations, same location” - I guess we’re having lunch, then, is that it? g: we will be having lunch, correct, but that is not it. b: I see. In that case. dear cousin, I find myself wondering - in what way would this rickety old bench, standing by this little lunch wagon, situated in the midst of the busiest square of the busiest city in the world, in what way could this be the “secret place’ you mentioned? And, if I may be so bold, for what reason have we come here today? g: a secret place - well let me give you an example. You are aware of the fact that I am the family historian in this current generation, right? b: I am indeed. g: And this is why I am able to tell you now, for example, that in the year 1746, your maternal cousin Siu Li sat in this very place and informed your maternal cousin Siu Mao, on the eve of his departure for the mandatory 5 years of service in the warlord So Miao’s army, that the child she was expecting was not her husband’s - but was his, Siu Mao’s instead, and that no matter what happened, he would always be the love of her young life. b: Very romantic. And what did happen? g: Siu Mao was killed in battle, they never saw one another again. Or, for instance, I might tell you that it was at this place that your great grandfather Chu Lian’s proposal of marriage to your great grandmother Mei Liao was categorically rejected by her - b: Siu Mao was not my great grandfather, he was my great uncle. g: ....although she did agree to spend the remainder of the afternoon with him at a nearby inn, Inn of The Silent Dragon, the afternoon of the day before she announced her engagement to Chu’s brother Chu Lao.. b: How do you know all this? g: ...and it was on this long afternoon that your father, Mei Liao’s only child, was engendered, of which fact I am aware because it is my job to know these things, these secrets which have been passed down by the women of our family for many generations, so that the past may be understood in its proper sense, despite the occasional improprieties that may have occurred from time to time. b: just so, dearest cousin. g: exactly so. and it is also the case that it was here, in precisely this spot, that most of these intimate secrets of our family’s true and, may I say, most romantic history, were passed along to me by your ostensible paternal grandmother - b: Ostensible paternal grandmother - you mean to tell me - g: I mean, dearest cousin, that you and I are not related in precisely the way you have imagined - but rather in a different and much more intimate way. b: so that my father... g: is actually your uncle, who is ostensibly my father, but b: your father is my father? g: yes, but he is not mine b: so we are brother and sister? g: Imbecile. My actual father was a drinking buddy of your actual father’s, he met my mother at the munitions factory’s New Year’s festival 21 years ago. where he had her in a loft not far from the main hall where toasts were being made. Evidently she was the heir to the legendary first night fertility so characteristic of the women in our clan. So we are not related at all, in actual point of fact, but in name only. b: So tell me if this is the truth, dear cousin, or whatever you are, tell me if this is what you want me to understand: this most public place is a “secret place” in the sense that it is here that the great secrets of our ancestors have been passed along, it is here that the true history of our families have been recorded.. g: and here that this history has been made, the secret history of love and tenderness that has ultimately brought us to this place on this day - b: At which time you are now going to import to me, your ostensible cousin - what? g: only this: the fact that I have loved you for as long and with as much, if not more fervor, than your great grandmother loved your actual great grandfather, and for as long and with as much if not more passion - b: than I have loved you, beautiful and beloved stranger? g: that, my soon-to-be lover, is it, in a nutshell. And one more thing - b: yes? g: the Inn of the Silent Dragon, Under New Management (Since 1854), has relocated.... b: my love! g: ...to a quiet tree-lined street not far from here. Come, let me show you the way.
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Rock & Roll?
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Moderator: D-Mod
Feb 11, 2019
Rock? (wb)? actually, plenty!! Project # 485 is to use an app like "Music Buddy" to scan and make a pdf library of Walter's CD collection (re-i tunes; that will be collected some other way), Once things slow a bit here Ill post some examples.((hoping to do the same with with his books. He had an awesome library. Nobody will take books as donations anymore. Anybody out there have a little in-town or gown library with space that could use a little "Becker Reading Nook" ?? I’d screen out the dirty stuff first :-)) Actually, re-reading your Q I now see you’ve asked specifically about Rock. Hm...yeah he listened to some rock I guess. But mainly to lots of alt and eclectic stuff you might not have predicted. We'll get to that soon, promise! (Hey Matt, have you grown those extra 4 pair of arms and 6 brain lobes yet? Me neither). Meanwhile and apropos of nothing, here’s something just for fun. Walter Becker Play's Along with Sly & the Family Stone's Hot Fun in the Summertime Why is the film so short? do you notice something subtle happen about sec 10? Right-o; he noticed me filming. (it always made my little black heart go pitter pat to see his “personal private performance” thing kick in:- Hey Walter baby…do you think you could come back, just for a little bit? Just for a minute or two? Sure would appreciate it. The films are great, but “aint “nothin’ like the real thing baby..”.)/ Anyway, we had agreed ages ago that me filming was not conducive for the purpose of him messing around for his own pleasure…and we agreed to keep ‘those clips short. [Ed: didn't have the same problem just being listened to --- but not surprisingly, being filmed activated more self-awareness than was helpful for thr purposes of 'just messing around'] ---and those of you who saw WB in concert a lot, you can 'prolly guess why I stopped filming just exactly when I did. right? Right? _____ C'mon show pros.... it's subtle; but I know you "see" it for sure. "-) (Hey Ulrich, can you find that piece of shit buzz bassamp, get a homeless dude to piss on it, then toss it off the B-Bridge please?)
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Your ideas for 2019
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Feb 09, 2019
just another walter becker...
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