See a Log24 search for "Her wallet's filled with pictures."
A link from Grammy Night, 2003 in the search leads to
Today in Music: A Look Back at Pop Music
by United Press International, Feb. 23, 2003 :
Today's musical quiz:
Name the 1970s Sweet tune
that was featured in the 1992 movie
"Wayne's World."
Answer: "Ballroom Blitz."
In memory of singer-songwriter Lesley Gore,
May 2, 1946 – February 16, 2015
“Her wall is filled with pictures…”
— Sweet Little Sixteen
Two posts from Gore’s birthday last year:
“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.” — Lesley Gore
Google celebrates its 16th birthday today.
Here are some family values found with its help.
The father-in-law of the late Thomas A. Tombrello
(previous post) was sociologist Robert K. Merton.
See a tribute to Merton by his daughter Stephanie,
Tombrello's widow. See also a Log24 post mentioning
Merton from Oct. 19, 2005. That post leads to a
post from the date of Merton's death, Feb. 23, 2003.
From that 2003 post:
“Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets ‘em one by one.”
— “Sweet Little Sixteen,” by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
Blackboard Jungle , 1955
"We are going to keep doing this
until we get it right." — June 15, 2007
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
she gets 'em one by one" — Chuck Berry
See too a more advanced geometry lesson
that also uses the diagram pictured above.
A note on the image in this evening's previous post —
This journal on April 24, 2006 —
Her wallet's filled with pictures …
"… and the girl in the corner
is everyone's mourner…."
The Priest quotation appeared here
on Grammy Night 2003 with
another musical meditation:
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen,"
by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
Words and Music
Words:
In the Details
"It was only in retrospect
that the silliness became profound.
The players were becoming possessors
of 'a truth with implicit powers
of good and evil,' Gino Segrè writes
in Faust in Copenhagen…
And 'the devil… was in the details.'"
— George Johnson of
The New York Times,
quoted in Log24 on 6/23.
Music:
A Black Berry
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
she gets 'em one by one…."
Chuck Berry, quoted
in Log24 on 2/13.
Related material:
Yesterday's Log24 entry…
In honor of Scarlett Johansson's recent London films "Match Point" and "Scoop," here is a link to an entry of Women's History Month, 2006, with a discussion of an exhibition of the works of artist Liza Lou at London's White Cube Gallery. That entry includes the following illustrations:
This work might aptly be
retitled "Brick Shithouse."
Related material:
See also this morning's entry —
"She's a brick… house…
The lady's stacked
and that's a fact,
Ain't holdin' nothin' back."
— and last year's entry
on this date:
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
The bricks and "white cube"
above and in this morning's entry
may be contrasted with the
bricks of Diamonds and Whirls
and the cube of On Beauty.
Poetic allusions such as these
may help provide
entertainment in the afterlife
for Beavis, Butt-Head, and
other inmates of Plato's Cave:
"The Garden of Eden is behind us
and there is no road back to innocence;
we can only go forward."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Earth Shine, p. xii
"Modern Times, his first album since Love and Theft, debuted at No. 1
on the US pop charts last September. At 65, Dylan became the oldest
living person to achieve this feat." –New Zealand Herald, Feb. 12
|
"Each epoch has its singer."
"Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it…."
"You said you'd never compromise |
In today's meditation for
the Church of Peter Gabriel,
Dennis Overbye plays
the role of Jack Horner.
(See Overbye on Sagan in today's
New York Times, Sagan on Pi,
and Pi Day at Harvard.)
For more on Jack Horner, see
The Rise and Fall
of Popular Music,
by Donald Clarke,
Chapter One.
For two contrasting approaches
to popular music, see two artists
whose birthdays are today:
In other Grammy news–
At the end of Sunday's awards,
"Scarlett Johansson and Don Henley
put themselves in the pole position
to star in a remake of 'Adam's Rib'
with the following exchange:
Henley: So you're recording
your first album?
Johansson: Yeah. Do you
have any advice for me?
Henley: No."
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
she gets 'em one by one…."
continued from
Saturday, April 22
Finis
Opus
Sweet Little Sixteen
She's just got to have
About half a million
Famed autographs…
www.davidgregharth.com/press/article_38.html
Her wallet's filled with pictures
She gets 'em one by one
— After Chuck Berry, 1958
"We are all Paris Hilton now."
— Ana Marie Cox,
Sweet 16 and Spoiled Rotten,
in TIME Magazine,
the April 24 Opus Dei issue
Related material
in the Harvard Crimson:
The $500,000 sophomore’s
debut novel is on the shelf…
But is it a gift or a curse?
Publisher 'Certain' of
'Literal Copying' in
Sophomore's Novel
See the essay
by Ana Marie Cox
on the final page
of this week's
TIME magazine.
Related material:
Jung and the Imago Dei,
Log24 entries of Feb. 20, 2004,
Space, Time, and Scarlett, and
Crystal's Sweet Sixteen
(Saturday Night Live sketch
starring Scarlett Johansson–
also featured as the clerk in
"Once in a Lifetime Jewelers"–
broadcast on Jan. 14, 2006.)
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
11:07:16
"Serious numbers
will always be heard."
— Paul Simon (64 on Oct. 13)
"Her wall is filled with pictures."
— Chuck Berry (79 today)
Collegiate Church of
St. Mary Magdalene,
Atrani, Amalfi Coast, Italy:
"An interior made exterior"
— Wallace Stevens
Grammy Night
Today's musical birthday: bassist Steven Priest of Sweet.
Today's back-to-the-future trip: See the article "Sweet Tunes…." on Chuck Berry at the top of today's New York Times website.
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen," by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
Click on the above for the context.
"Are you ready, Steve? Aha….
And the girl in the corner is ev'ryone's mourner.
She could kill you with a wink of her eye."
— "Ballroom Blitz," by Sweet
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