Johnny Cash's handwritten to-do list was sold for $6,400 in 2010.
#2. Kiss June#3. Not kiss anyone else
June Carter Cash did keep an eye out to assure Johnny Cash did, indeed, walk the line. One incident that comes to mind is the episode of The Johnny Cash Show in which Linda Ronstadt planned to appear sans panties. June's reaction follows:
“At rehearsal, June [Carter Cash] noticed that Linda didn’t have any panties on, so she came running back to the dressing room, [saying], ‘Somebody get down the street and buy her some bloomers, she’s out there showing herself!’,” Lane claims. “When Linda was told she would have to wear underwear, she was very upset. She said, ‘I sing better bare-butted.’” June’s response at the time? “Not in front of my Johnny!”
From More Cash, Fewer Panties; photos and more information at link)
Credit Due Department: Found at Conquering the To-Do List By Sue Shellenbarger (Wall Street Journal, Dec 28, 2011)
#33. Wake Up And Fight
Credit Due Department: Found at BoingBoing
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more
Erica Jong. From Willie, Waylon, Jerry Lewis, Julie, And Me
Find what you like and let it kill you.
Willie Nelson’s advice to Kinky Friedman
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley, from Willie, Waylon, Jerry Lewis, Julie, And Me
…then I did the simplest thing in the world.
I leaned down… and kissed him.
And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille. From The First Of A Million Kisses
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
From Cohen Concert Comportment
There have been only three geniuses in fine art since 1900: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. All art praxis flows from them. Picasso freed artists from perspective and representation; Duchamp made the concept rather than the visual the purpose of art; Warhol merged art with modern culture. In Western Art genius is associated with radical transformation of art-making by one individual artist. Leonardo introduced technology, Michelangelo added naturalism, Caravaggio brought in the beauty of the lower classes, Rembrandt introduced art images to the common home, Manet eliminated the mythological basis of art and reified “street” experience, Monet revolutionized the portrayal of light and Van Gogh did the same for color. Genius is the transformation of collective experience by one individual for the common good. It must be, by definition, the antithesis of evil, although evil may be one of its subjects. Postmodernism precludes genius because it assumes that artistic creation is a constant recycling of previous work, so that someone like David Foster Wallace could not be labeled a genius because modern Western culture denies the role. Postmodernism, indeed, adjudges genius as fundamentally reactionary, because the domination of culture by one individual denies the historical power of the collective. Postmodernism is a deadly vise which restricts creative people from transcending it, yet the challenge of artists and writers today remains to crush the postmodern paradigm. Hasn’t yet been done.
Charlie Finch, columnist for Artnet.com, quoted in How we use and abuse the word genius. - By Ron Rosenbaum
Do you not know that King Kong was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray’s belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he’d be a happy man!
Peter O’Toole, as Eli Cross, in The Stunt Man (1980) The Stunt Man – Mulitple Realities & Illusions
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