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georgia o keefe now she had it sussed could definitely paint a flower or two unfolding petals none quite the same carnations marigolds tulips narcissi roses rosebud immortalised in citizen kane but lilies mostly lilies which reminds me of the time we were all up at anto's for a meeting well didn't he have this vase of lilies the large white ones on show and dette in one of those raunchy moods says will you look at them shameless and pointing at the protruding pistil thrusts out her hips and says here i am take me

on a visit to new york mc cartney calls on paul simon to hear his unreleased album and when it's over all sixteen numbers simon says what do you think and mc cartney says i liked the number that went and he whistles an entire intro riff note perfect anything else asks simon and paul the second proceeds to whistle his top eight preferences leaving paul the first gobsmacked at such a phenomenal memory but what about the ones you didn't like probes simon to which mc cartney replies well the one that starts like this whistling the tune is missing a bridge and on he goes to critique the other eight reproducing each in turn can you believe it

where was I oh yeah that programme where they bring pictures into the surgeon cutouts from playboy magazine or men only and say i want mine to look like this like the time maura creaven painted this portrait of a lovely thirtysomething and the flftysomething matron comes up to her at the exhibition and says i want you to do me like that

melody comes first for mc cartney almost always starts a new song a
capella amazing the way he uses nonsense words like he might start with scrambled eggs scrambled eggs lilt a tune scrambled eggs develop a riff scrambled eggs strum a chord scrambled eggs and only when the melody is firmed up will he work on the lyric and then scrambled eggs becomes yesterday holy shit

vaginas imagine women unhappy with vaginas breasts okay i mean they're in your face all day every day what with boob tubes low necklines and all the rest of it you're constantly looking at them but vaginas for godsake for a start they're hard to get a glimpse but that's maybe because the general perception if there is one is that a vagina refers to the entrance the sheath go on the hole not the whole business reminds me of the professor telling his students for your assignment tonight i want you to look up poetics aristotle and the organic whole

it's the old question of which comes first lyric or melody now me I have always started with lyric first for words come easy but melody jesus christ where do you begin take sean he says if you can whistle a tune after you hear it then you're on to something its memorable okay for sean to talk he's cut from the same cloth as mc cartney

it's always held as being so mysterious that's probably because it's out of view or is it something more i mean consider shiela na gigs statues of women in pagan times legs splayed displaying all but the publicity low-key unlike the blahdeblah the phallus gets with phallic symbols in your face everywhere brought to attention by freud who for the record admitted that woman was a foreign country to him i wonder how men experience it though
the visual spectacle do they only sense the pleasure or is it a mixture of pleasure and revulsion ugly i mean the epithet fat cow must have originated somewhere or beautiful

i'm more chords driven when it comes to devising a melody but the
danger of relying on playing chords is that you can end up with cliché so you need to move away from chords better to go the keyboard route now i don't know shit from shanola where the piano is concerned but i'm learning and the truth is it's more conducive to coming up with a good melody and less likely to end up with the same old dingdong

they complain of protruding labias and want the lips closed at rest the method of treatment lasercutting a skill now so perfected it allows for a natural curlique edge they can close hymens tighten entrances fix looseness after childbirth nothing a problem as long as cash is not a problem he’s got such lovely arms just look at him conducting the air

the trouble with sean is he’s too focussed on melody not enough of
himself in his songs now don’t get me wrong he’s a very good musician second to none when it comes to melody well second probably to paul the first and paul the second but those aside and another thing he has no time for the simple tune it must be complex but many a good song has emerged from a three chord trick a horse with no name was a hit for neil young wannabees america and only two chords in it so you can’t be prescriptive

is amazing when you think about it that the clitoris has no other function except pleasure with eight thousand nerve endings twice the number of nerve ending in the penis can you believe it twice the number which probably accounts for the phenomenon of female multiple orgasms and i’m sure there’s an evolutionary explanation

it’s so hard to come up with a world class song i mean if there was a
formula it would be easy but there’s not and crass as it seems the thought has occurred to me to write a country number for it looks so easy it would be tempting to just rattle off a tune that might have some chance of hitting the charts for listen to any of those country songs and you say to yourself sure i could do that but that would be to seriously underestimate the effort involved in coming up with that class of horseshit for i’m telling you the people who do live sleep and breathe hillbilly nothing is ever as easy as it seems

o keefe’s lilies dewdrops suspended on leaves dripping onto petals flesh peachy ripe pistils ready stamens plunging to the vortex penetrating such beautiful arms

now in contrast paul simon says that rhythm comes first starts with a
rhythm samba rock waltz bossanova or whatever and from there moves to melody to lyric different strokes for different folks currahzy but i’m losing you what were you thinking about

sex

holy shit i could get into that