Some remarks about some things
notes, investigations, digressions galore
Ted Burke
- Location
- San Diego, California,
- Birthday
- July 15
- Title
- Bookseller, writer, musician
- Bio
- Bookseller, musician, writer and poet living and working in San Diego, California. His writing has appeared in the San Diego Reader, Kicks, San Diego Door, Roadwork, Revolt in Style,and City Works.His poems have been included in the anthologies Small Rain: 8 poets from San Diego (1996,DG Wills Books),Ocean Hiway: eight poets in San Diego (1981,Wild Mustard Press) , and is the author of many chapbooks, including Hand Grenade, Open Every Window,No One Home and City Times,limited editions published by his own Old House Press.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Dolly wants to kill you
May 29, 2012 11:15PM - Fuhgeddaboutit - Oy vey! -
Salon.com
May 28, 2012 06:29PM - You can say that again, but
louder
May 27, 2012 10:35AM - On Longwindness
May 25, 2012 10:07PM - A poem about baseball in
Detroit, yay!
May 25, 2012 10:39AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Rand was smitten by
Monroe's persona no less than
any other
star struck kid and
p…”
March 08, 2012 06:46PM - “@George Hoffman:
Actually, Mailer didn't refer
to himself
as
"Aquarius"…”
January 01, 2012 07:12PM - “Mailer's meditation on
violence and evil will not be
every
one's idea of a good
n…”
January 01, 2012 07:07PM - “@Miguella: His
contradictions were what made
his brilliance
exasperating; I
sup…”
December 17, 2011 10:40AM - “Thanks wendy. It's not
that I'm against subjecting a
work to
critical
examination…”
August 14, 2011 06:44PM
Ted Burke's Links
- New list
- Salon
- New York Times
- Slate.com
- The Nation
- Like it or not
DECEMBER 8, 2011 12:26AM
Paul Butterfield and Muddy Waters
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Graphic by Alex M.BustilloThe 70's were made a lot
easier to take due to two albums I owned, both from blues harmonica
genius Paul Butterfield,
It All Comes Back and
Better Days. I spent dozens of hours breaking down
and learning his harmonica work on "Broke My Baby's Heart" and "New
Walking/…
DECEMBER 5, 2011 4:18PM
On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore . . . . | Nicholas Payton
On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore . . . . |
Nicholas Payton:
Nicholas Payton is a grumpy man with some spiky opinions geared to get readers to first read and then decide which side of the polarized divide they want to pitch their temps as regards agreeing or disagreeing with
… Read full post »
DECEMBER 5, 2011 9:58AM
All you have
is your face
after your name
appears in letters
that arrive from
machines you don't recall
meeting or speaking to
in any dialing tone of voice.
Your face
on t-shirts
and billboards
and internet banner ads
that sell you the idea
that all you
have is is your face
until gravity
reveals itself
in the mor…
is your face
after your name
appears in letters
that arrive from
machines you don't recall
meeting or speaking to
in any dialing tone of voice.
Your face
on t-shirts
and billboards
and internet banner ads
that sell you the idea
that all you
have is is your face
until gravity
reveals itself
in the mor…
DECEMBER 4, 2011 10:28AM
David Cronenberg: It's as if my old movies don't exist - Movies - Salon.com
David Cronenberg: It's as if my old movies don't exist - Movies -
Salon.com:
David Cronenberg may insist that his old movies don't exist, metaphorically, as he seeks to be taken seriously by mainstream critics, but his previous horror films are a stain on his resume that will not come out:/…
David Cronenberg may insist that his old movies don't exist, metaphorically, as he seeks to be taken seriously by mainstream critics, but his previous horror films are a stain on his resume that will not come out:/…
DECEMBER 3, 2011 3:45PM
Lawn Sprinkler
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THE BEAUTIFUL LAWN SPRINKLER
by Howard NemerovWhat gives it power makes it change its mindAt each extreme,… Read full post »
DECEMBER 3, 2011 10:26AM
TONIGHT!
NOVEMBER 30, 2011 4:29PM
NEW CHAP BOOK available as FREE DOWNLOAD
I
have a PDF of a new chapbook of poems, and it can be downloaded
free at
Google Docs,
If
the link doesn't work, just send an email to tburke4@san.rr.com and
I will get one to you straight away.
NOVEMBER 30, 2011 12:26AM
notes on Quentin Tarantino
Quinten
Tarantino, like Brian De Palma, likes to dress up inthe old clothes
of directors he admires; unlike De Palma, this cut and pastestyle
has for Tarantino, resulted in occasional brilliance and one
legitimatemasterpiece, Pulp Fiction. The energy and playfulness,
however, has becomewearisome as t… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 29, 2011 7:27PM
Calming down
Time was, not
so long ago, when I that poems that didn'thave "dirt under the
fingernails" were without value. I insisted thatlife as it's lived
by working men and women in America were more interesting ,more
complex and more important than the dense, academic poems one was
made toread in contemporary… Read full post »
The only thing wrong with Frank O'Hara's The Collected
Poems is that so many of them are virtually perfect as they
are, as I think he had a number of styles he could muster up with
ease to get across the energy and inspiration the city could
provide. His was…
NOVEMBER 27, 2011 10:26AM
Several shy poets rent a room
Who are these scribes and pens, coughing up balls of
dust each time a floor board creaks underfoot or a cat on the porch
meows and scratches doors, looking for a family to move in with?
Handwriting is a trail of tears and terror under the singing
springs, there… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 25, 2011 1:29PM
Guitar chords
Nice feedback shower he thought, choice choice of major chord and
amp settings mused further, his head bowed and his hands raised as
if hold a guitar, the musician on the precipiece of either genius
or calamity. It was the Who's "Happy Jack" coming from the
speakers, a positive keranggggg of…
NOVEMBER 23, 2011 10:27PM
Quadrophenia
The Who's
Quadrophenia One of the dullest albums everreleased by a
major rock band. Where the previous double album, the
rock-opera Tommy was bouyant, rocking and
didn't want for guitar hooks or the riffs, Quadrophenia
got as serious as a ditch withsongs that were were
blo/… Read full post »
D.G.WILLS BOOKS
7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla
(858)456-1800www.dgwillsbooks.com
Bert Turetzky, Emeritus
Professor of Music at UCSD, has been a distinguished clinician and
pedagogue for over three decades, giving master classes, seminars,
and workshops nationally and internationally. He has
bee/… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 22, 2011 11:00PM
The Man Who Was Not There
As usual with Coen Brothers
films, The Man Who Wasn't There is visually stunning, and
has it's share of odd touches and sublime moments that set the film
makers from the rest of the herd, but I thought it was the least
interesting of their films.
The varying elements of a… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 21, 2011 1:51PM
Why American novelists don’t deserve the Nobel Prize - Salon.com
Why American novelists don’t deserve the Nobel
Prize - Salon.com: "The basic problem is that there is only
Nobel Prize for literature and there many thousands of published
writers who fancy themselves suitable and deserving of the award.
It's not unlike the billions (and billions) of sperm swimming/…
NOVEMBER 17, 2011 10:23AM
Gawker suggests Lindsay Lohan should die and cash in
It's tragic enough that some parts of the media make a profit
following the downward movement of the hapless Lindsay Lohan, but
it is morally criminal, I think, for a publication even as
ethically freelance as the Gawker to infer that Lohan ought to kill
herself as a means of reviving…
NOVEMBER 15, 2011 1:39AM
linda's donuts
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Barry Alfonso This is the home of the WARM HAND-OFF...November 2 at 5:51am · -
Ted Burke There's a HOT ONE with name on on it waiting for you to rest your dogs inside
November 2 at 6:36pm ·
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NOVEMBER 14, 2011 6:34PM
Take this and thrive, Pal.
NOVEMBER 11, 2011 10:29AM
"Flea Circus" by Tomás Q. Morin -
Tomas Morin seems to be going for
a dreamscape here, situated primarily in a circus context, a bad
dream where apocalypse , grotesque distraction , deformations
physical and emotional weave and curve through the narrator's
attempt to unburden himself of deeply buried traumas that compel
him to speak… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 6, 2011 6:17PM
Tommy Emmanuel - Guitar Boogie - YouTube
There is no denying that Tommy Emmanuel is one hell of good
guitar player and that he gives a good show as he tears apart the
acoustic guitars he tortures nightly with his clawhammering
virtuosity. He is a crowd pleaser, the sort of flashy musician that
gets audiences with only a… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 5, 2011 10:04AM
MTV loses its weenie
NOVEMBER 5, 2011 9:45AM
Obiter Dicta
Talking to people about their problems makes for frequent miscues
of speech and grammar, a habit stemming from something no more
profound than that most of us don't know how to talk about
ourselves and our personal problems to another human being. Hence,
we come to the habit of trying to…
NOVEMBER 4, 2011 3:50PM
Homepage - Slate Magazine
Homepage - Slate Magazine:
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
This is some recent nonsense from Slate, which , besides
trying to be the most current and genuinely contrarian magazine on
the we, slavishly goes after the celebrity gristle that the low
brow, porn addicted knuckle busters in their readership seek and
consu… Read full post »
Verbal Remedy AKA Denise
John Hughes
Dorinda D.
Paul Levinson
Joan Walsh
Karen Templer
Salon.com