Saxophonist David Sanborn reportedly died Sunday at 78.
He appears in this journal in a search for "Tequila."
* For a Hollywood version of this name, see the May 6 post
"Game for a Language Animal."
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Tequila for Yanolo*
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Annals of Plot Mechanism: Braided Revelations
"We all know the song . . ."
— Neil Diamond, "Love on the Rocks"
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From "The Case Against the Trauma Plot" by Parul Sehgal, "With the trauma plot, the logic goes: Evoke the wound and we will believe that a body, a person, has borne it. Such belief can be difficult to sustain. The invocation of trauma promises access to some well-guarded bloody chamber; increasingly, though, we feel as if we have entered a rather generic motel room, with all the signs of heavy turnover. The second-season revelation of Ted Lasso’s childhood trauma only reduces him; his peculiar, almost sinister buoyancy is revealed to be merely a coping mechanism. He opens up about his past to his therapist just as another character does to her mother—their scenes are intercut—and it happens that both of their traumatic incidents occurred on the same day. The braided revelations make familiar points about fathers (fallible), secrecy (bad), and banked resentments (also bad), but mostly expose the creakiness of a plot mechanism." |
In context —
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Midnight Requiem
"Remarkable in the collection–and indeed in contemporary short fiction–
is the title story, whose tequila-sodden and heart-heavy protagonist,
Bernard Corunna Coote, is a lapsed Ulster Protestant seeking traces of
a lost Celtic civilization in South America."
— Publishers Weekly on Death of a Chieftain by John Montague
See as well a related obituary.
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Otro Idioma
See as well this journal on the above Sundance photo date —
“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns . . . .”
— Wallace Stevens, quoted in posts tagged Portal1937
Update of 12:35 PM ET the same day —
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
A Beverage for Asimov
See also Asimov + Tequila in this journal.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Corpse Express
See Malcolm Lowry's "A corpse will be transported by express!" in this journal.
"When Plato regards geometry as the prerequisite to
philosophical knowledge, it is because geometry alone
renders accessible the realm of things eternal;
tou gar aei ontos he geometrike gnosis estin."
— Ernst Cassirer, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Volume V, Number 1, September, 1944.
Maybe.
June 23, Midsummer Eve, was the date of death for Colonel Michael Cobb.
Cobb, who died aged 93, was "a regular Army officer who in retirement produced
the definitive historical atlas of the railways of Great Britain." — Telegraph.co.uk, July 19
As for geometry, railways, and things eternal, see parallel lines converging
in Tequila Mockingbird and Bedlam Songs.
The Rock Island Line’s namesake depot
in Rock Island, Illinois
See also Wallace Stevens on "the giant of nothingness"
in "A Primitive Like an Orb" and in Midsummer Eve's Dream—
At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave
And prodigious person, patron of origins.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Wednesday May 28, 2008
Tequila
Mockingbird
Mockingbird
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CelebritySexNews.com
on Kylie Minogue:
From a web page on
you gotta ride it like you find it. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line. in Rock Island, Illinois |
Related material:
Twenty-First Century Fox
(10/6/02)
Back to You, Kylie
(11/5/02)
Time, Eternity, and Grace
(11/22/02)
That Old Devil Moon
(1/1/03) and
The Shanghai Gesture
(1/3/03)
Whirligig
(1/5/03)
Harrowing
(4/19/03)
Temptation
(4/22/03)
Temptation
(4/9/04)
Tribute,
Train of Thought,
Drunk Bird, and
From Here to Eternity
(8/17/04-8/18/04)
Heaven and Earth
(9/2/04)
Habeas Corpus
(11/24/04)
X, continued
(12/4/04)
Birth and Death
(5/28/05)
Time Travel
(5/28/06)
Timeagain and
Two-Bar Hook
(8/9/06)
Echoes
(8/11/06)
Phantasmagoria
and Tequila!
(9/23/06)
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Saturday September 23, 2006
Tequila!
for Kylie
"Time disappears
with tequila.
It goes elastic,
then vanishes."
From today's AP
"Obituaries in the News"–
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Danny Flores HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Danny Flores, who played the saxophone and shouted the word ''tequila!'' in the 1950s hit song ''Tequila!'', died Tuesday [Sept. 19, 2006]. He was 77. Flores, who lived in Westminster, died at Huntington Beach Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Kathleen Curran. He died of complications from pneumonia, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported. The man sometimes called the ''godfather of Latin rock'' was born in Santa Paula but grew up in Long Beach. By age 5, he was playing guitar in church and at 14 he was a member of a trio that performed Mexican music. In 1957, Flores was in a group that recorded some work with rockabilly singer Dave Burgess. One of the songs was based on a nameless riff Flores had written. He played the ''dirty'' saxophone part and repeatedly growled the single-word lyric: ''Tequila!'' ''Tequila!'' went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart and won a Grammy in 1959 for best rhythm and blues performance. Flores continued to play it for the next 40 years. |
Related material:
"Echoes (Aug. 11)" —
— and
Two-Bar Hook
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Friday, August 11, 2006
Friday August 11, 2006
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Log24 on
Wednesday, 8/9/06: Absinthe makes the
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“The arrest was Related material: “Not the sound — Abraham Mezrich,
See also…
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Wednesday August 9, 2006
Timeagain:
3:57 Revisited
Question
3:57 Revisited
Question
(NBC Nightly News
this evening)
Who is minding the
Internet liquor store?
Answer
The Green Fairy:
Kylie Minogue
in “Moulin Rouge”
Online news today at 3:57 PM:
Williams’s most recent
film is “The Night Listener.”
Related material —
For Your Listening Pleasure
(Log24, 9/2/05 at 3:57 PM),
“Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.”
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Wednesday August 9, 2006
Two-Bar Hook
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:
Wikipedia on Mel Gibson:
"The arrest was supported by…
an open container… 75% full,
labeled 'Cazador [sic] tequila'
(a strong type of mezcal)."
Refined Tequilas,
Meant to be Savored:
Photo by Lars Klove for
The New York Times
— Essay by Eric Asimov,
"Spirits of the Times"
"Remember that we deal with
Herb Alpert–
First album, 1962
cunning, baffling, and powerful."
(Adapted from Chapter 5
of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Related Material:
"Tequila,"
by The Champs
(1958)
The Spirituality of
Addiction and Recovery
"Turns out she's a party girl
who loves Tequila:
'Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.'"
Yvonne returns to the Bella Vista
in Under the Volcano:
"… a glass partition
that divided the room
(from yet another bar,
she remembered now,
giving on a side street)"
David Sanborn
(a reply to Alpert's
Lonely Bull ):
"Just listen to how he attacks the two-bar hook of 'Tequila.' After planting it firmly in our brains, he finds new ending notes for each measure; then he drops half a bar by an octave; then he substitutes a new melodic detour for the first bar, retaining the second; then he inverts that approach. He keeps twisting the phrase into new melodic shapes, but he never obscures the original motif and he never loses the beat."
— Review of Sanborn's album "Timeagain"
by Geoffrey Himes in Jazz Times,
June 2003
Update of 3:57 PM:
Robin Williams in Rehab
Robin Williams in Rehab
"It may be that Kylie is,
in her own way, an artist…
with a 357."
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Wednesday August 18, 2004
Drunk Bird
T. Charles Erickson
Shizuo Kakutani
in the 1980’s
“A drunk man will find his way home, but a drunk bird may get lost forever.”
— Shizuo Kakutani, quoted by J. Chang in Stochastic Processes (ps), p. 1-19. Chang says the quote is from an R. Durrett book on probability.
Meaning:
A random walk in d dimensions is recurrent if d = 1 or d = 2, but transient if d is greater than or equal to 3.
From a web page on Kylie Minogue:
Turns out she’s a party girl
who loves Tequila:
“Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.”
Kylie sings
“Locomotion”
From a web page on Malcolm Lowry’s classic novel Under the Volcano:
The day begins with Yvonne’s arrival at the Bella Vista bar in Quauhnahuac. From outside she hears Geoffrey’s familiar voice shouting a drunken lecture this time on the topic of the rule of the Mexican railway that requires that “A corpse will be transported by express!” (Lowry, Volcano, p. 43).
For further literary details in memory of Shizuo Kakutani, Yale mathematician and father of book reviewer Michiko Kakutani, see
Of course, Kakutani himself would probably prefer the anti-Santa, Michael Shermer. For a refutation of Santa by this high priest of Scientism, see
(Scientific American, July 26, 2004).
Friday, August 1, 2003
Friday August 1, 2003
Jack of Diamonds
KHYI plays the Jack of Diamonds again (see yesterday’s entry, Killer Radio):
“I knew a man with money in his hand.
He’d look that Jack of Diamonds in the eye….”
For another version of the Jack, see The Cube Paradigm.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2003
Wednesday January 1, 2003
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From The New York Times, Wed., Jan. 1, 2003:
Richard Horner, 82,
Broadway Producer, Is DeadRichard Horner, a Broadway theater owner and producer who won a Tony Award for the 1974 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," died on Saturday [December 28, 2002] at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 82.
According to one source, the O'Neill revival opened on December 28, 1973 — the same date on which the life of one of its producers was later to close.
From a CurtainUp review:
The revival at the Morosco was dubbed by its company "The Resurrection Play" since Jason Robards undertook the part just after a near fatal car accident and its legendary director José Quintero had just given up drinking.
According to the Internet Broadway Database, this revival, or resurrection, took place officially not on December 28 — the date of Horner's death — but, appropriately, a day later.
At any rate, O'Neill's title, along with my weblog entry of December 28, 2002,
"On This Date," featuring Kylie Minogue,
suggests the following mini-exhibit of artistic efforts:
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Curtain Up!
July 2000
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Under the Volcano: A painting based on Malcolm Lowry's classic novel. Having played tennis, Dr. Vigil and M. Laruelle talk about the events a year earlier. The view is of Cuernavaca from the Casino de la Selva hotel.
Painting by
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For further details on Kylie, Mexico, tequila, and
Under the Volcano,
see my entry of November 5, 2002.
For today's site music, click "Old Devil Moon" here.
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Addendum of 9:30 pm 1/1/03:
For a politically correct view
For a more perceptive analysis,
If there is a devil here,
J. D. Salinger (Nine Stories),
Frazer might appreciate the remarks in
Not amused: Charlotte Raven
Raven, take a bough.
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Friday, November 22, 2002
Friday November 22, 2002
In memory of Arthur T. Winfree:
Time, Eternity, and Grace
Professor Arthur T. Winfree died on November 5, 2002.
He was the author of “The Geometry of Biological Time.”
- Charles Small (see the earlier entry “Hope of Heaven,” November 21):
“I’ve always been enthralled by the notion that Time is an illusion, a trick our minds play in an attempt to keep things separate, without any reality of its own. My experience suggests that this is literally true….”
- Kylie Minogue in my November 5 entry:
“Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.”
- Octavio Paz on his childhood in Mexico
(Nobel Prize lecture):
“All time, past or future, real or imaginary, was pure presence.”
- A colleague on Professor Winfree:
“He just wanted to get to the truth.”
- Octavio Paz, condensed and translated
“Gracias.”
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Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Tuesday November 5, 2002
Kylie on Tequila
From a web page on Kylie Minogue:
Turns out she’s a party girl who loves Tequila:
“Time disappears with Tequila.
It goes elastic, then vanishes.”
From a web page on Malcolm Lowry’s classic novel
Under the Volcano:
The day begins with Yvonne’s arrival at the Bella Vista bar in Quauhnahuac. From outside she hears Geoffrey’s familiar voice shouting a drunken lecture this time on the topic of the rule of the Mexican railway that requires that “A corpse will be transported by express!” (Lowry, Volcano, p. 43).
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you gotta ride it like you find it.
Get your ticket at the station
of the Rock Island Line.
in Rock Island, Illinois
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