June 27, 2020

Please don't keep asking.

17 comments:

tim maguire said...

Don’t tweet what you won’t defend.

mezzrow said...

Some people must grok
Some people grok not
But they'll explain and explain and explain and explain and explain...

Jeff Brokaw said...

It’s a good point even though Boy George said it.

Ann Althouse said...

Some people want everything explained. If the artist's style has to do with enigma, subtlety, ambiguity, and humor, these people are stepping on his act. If you like the artist, and you can't understand, you need to value the opportunity to think, including to think your own thoughts. If you don't do that, you're showing him that you don't belong there. You're like Dylan's Mr. Jones.

Kai Akker said...

Mr. Jones is a concept
by which
Dylan measures
his pain

DrSquid said...

What an amazing post. I am humbled, enriched and embiggened by this.

h said...

Bob Dylan is a master at appearing to be a deep thinker by expressing himself in a way that is unclear and subject to various interpretations. Perhaps that does work in music lyrics or poetry. It does not work in legal briefs or opinions. "There are times for being purple; there are times for being green. There are men who live like princes; there are men who live like queens. There are roads that can't be taken; there are lives that can't be seen." (No that's not Dylan, I just made that up. But you see how easy it is?)

Ken B said...

Mr Beethoven, will you explain your sonata?

JaimeRoberto said...

Something tells me you identify with that.

Etienne said...

"For the purpose of this debate, I am neither male or female. I am pure presence."

What's to explain. I think it's funny. You don't have to explain comedy!

Howard said...

Kubrick encouraged people to explore their own interpretations of the film, and refused to offer an explanation of "what really happened" in the movie, preferring instead to let audiences embrace their own ideas and theories.

TerriW said...

The "(boomer)" is hilarious.

mikee said...

"Don't tweet what you won't defend."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH (deep breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Wipes tears of laughter from eyes. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

If people only tweeteed the defensible, the world of twitter would be an arid wasteland, rather than the seething leftist echo chamber it has become. Let them tweet the indefensible, and not defend it, because the world needs the laughs.

Pugsley the Pug said...

I have been waiting for 37 years for Boy George to explain Boy George. Oh, well - on to more important things...

Wince said...

"Please don't keep asking me to explain everything I tweet. I don't have to!"

Do you really want to "cancel" me?

Give me time to realize my crime
Let me Tweet and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real

Do you really want to cancel me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses words that burn me
Tweeters never ask you why

In my heart the fire is burning
Choose my color find a star
Twitter people always tell me
That's a step a step too far

Do you really want to cancel me
Do you really want to make me cry

Words are few
I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow, words are token
Tweet inside and catch my tears
You've been talking but believe me
If it's true you do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I'm prepared to let you go
If it's love you want from me
Then take it away…

Yancey Ward said...

Jeez, imagine how David Lynch feels.

ken in tx said...

Back in the 80s, I read an interview in Rolling Stone, (I don't remember who, and it doesn't matter anyway)in which a song writer admitted that he wrote lyrics of ambiguous non-sense, because it drew attention to his songs and and led more people to talk about them. It made them more popular.