Morrissey and Taxis

[CrystalGeezer]

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Anyway, I hate to use the same song twice since all of his work tells a facet of the story, but this one is seminal. What you have to know is that "the fountain" is an imaginary place and Morrissey says "let it be real around the fountain" and it never is despite how desperately he hopes and dreams it will be so. So sometimes God can be an asshole and says to Morrissey, "You have to stay trapped in this mythical fountain place and I'm not going to tell you why but I will continue to lead you to believe that perhaps right around the corner, you'll be free and it will be real." So he goes on stage and sings the songs, ask his soul mate to sing her life so that he can have some sort of clue of where to find her, constantly searching and pining and waiting all the while she's in a coma to herself but not to him and Morrissey works and works and works and God says "keep going back to the fountain" untiil finally she wakes up. Actually, Taxi wakes her up. Then Morrissey says to the fountain, this mythical place, "I'm outta here." He's indebted to Taxi for waking her up, but first he has some business to take care of.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Here his soulmate's soul does sing her life, and his as well since they are one. Always driving. Her name is Alice (in a cup.)

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[CrystalGeezer]

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And so, "ess gonna be okay" eventually becomes a reality with new drivers because Taxi will peacefully enjoy the countyside from the backseat. You know there is such a thing as backseat drivers so it's not like he's out of business. Ahem. (worrywart)

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Stupid tags.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Anyway, I digress.

But Silke, to answer the question you deleted about the fall and work or some such thing, it's related to the KCRW clip I posted last. The thing that Morrissey is doing that may not make sense to TROLLS WHO POST IN TAGS who are too pussy to ask questions is that what Morrissey is doing or trapped doing in a fishtank fountain is this mystical weird convulted takes-many-years-to-learn process of reckoning and the language to read this work is something he understands which is why he's so damn cryptic himself. However he's still a man and had a man's needs and it's that passion, the fact he is a man stuck in this fountain, that has given us all the songs we love and relate to. His music, the words he's collected and reassembled into song set the tone for a transformation of truth, uncovering deceit. It's just that it takes a "crazy person" to piece it together and so, well, that's what I'm doing.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

And when I say deceit, it's like a cosmic deceit, nothing that would directly affect a person in their day to day life but in the long run you'll notice a change. It's like God said, "Okay, I'm gonna send down this guy and frustrate him and he's going to write some songs that'll come from a place of love and in time those songs will uncover certain truths for many, many, many years because his words are from a pure source." Does that make sense? All his suffering created a body of truth. And keep in mind I'm not a religious nut. I've just been trained in these things though my own pain that strangely parallels his.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

He knows he's inept and that these things take time. Doesn't make it any easier.

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[yesitis]

 

[CrystalGeezer]

And as his career unfolds his hopefulness to match his soul to a body turns to a sense of betrayal and remorse. But the words are still pure and designed by big G to be keys that unlock truths that mostly mucky muck secret people are interested in but truths that nontheless will affect us all.

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[yesitis]

 

[CrystalGeezer]

yesitis, my favorite hi-jacker, you'd be interested to know in this little tidbit.

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And then OMG ECONOMIC COLLAPSE! Why? For the push to watch the kids in the hall. Dudes, book a flight to Egypt, let's get our economy back in order so people can work. Truculent maybe, but not devious, just telling the truth.

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[sarahT]

Okay but you have to let me entertain my crazy mind babies. For instance, you're convinced it's about foreskin. In the end of the windowsill video the young man writes a secret we can't read in a moleskein journal. Subtrct to skin part and you have "formal." Tuxedos are formal attire invovling bow ties. If you eye the boat you're on the shore and about to set sail.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

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[CrystalGeezer]

 

[CrystalGeezer]

It's a german shepard.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

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12 gates. And asshole, she's still alive...yet.

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Okay guys, I gotta go now. The people in white coats are here, I gotta go make some christmas cards. Send loving thoughts to Morrissey during his tour, wish him well and quit bitching about the setlists. I'll drop in the next time I'm at the library.

Love, CG

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[CrystalGeezer]

One more thing. Last night my friends and I watched perhaps the worst movie ever made (an entertaining two hours of life to waste actually,) called The Room and it got me to thinking how many ginormous gaps there are in my little string of thoughts here. I’d like you to know that is due in part to the fact I experience extreme pain in my chest and head after posting, so I slow down and stop making connections. There is one thing I want to make clear though, a leap I failed to communicate. You may ask yourself “If “Taxis” are Morrissey’s foe, then why does the motion of them excite him?” Because Morrissey has transformed the original Taxi into a bird who has risen from the ashes of the Hollywood Bowl, so to speak. It’s a long and extremely cool story, and I wanted to use “Broken Household Appliance National Forest” by Grandaddy to explain it, but nobody’s youtubed it yet. Anyway,take a look at these videos is you have time. And thank you David Tseng for allowing the wind to blow on your awesome website. Okay now I’ll leave. I might be back but I’ll try not to.

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[CrystalGeezer]

Everyone should watch the movie Bowfinger. It’s about this crooked director who makes a movie but can’t afford the actor so hires his blind twin brother to ineptly do scenes and fakes out the real actor into also doing scenes while scaring the shit out of him in the process. The funny thing (haha) about it is that Eddie Murphy geniusly plays the parts of both the blind unknowing brother and the rich scared actor. Now moving away from the movie there’s this little story about a God named Osiris who’s the father of Horus who is cut into 14 pieces by another angry God named Set. Death Cab For Cutie sings a song about it.

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Eventually Osiris’ lover Isis comes along and collects all the pieces and puts Osiris back together again (while simultaneously also being the one who chops him up which is a whole nuther story), but it’s a never ending cycle, a movie that’s fun to make for everyone except for Osiris and Isis. It doesn’t have to be this way. As for Bowfinger, he tricks Eddie Murphy’s characters into thinking they’re making important movies, but it’s a trick. I say f*** his movie and start your real movie. There is nothing to be afraid of because you and your twin are real and the rest is fake.

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Something more interesting to end on than fake. Guitarists in sync.

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[jilla]

you could write a book about morrissey's attempt to connect where his mind is at to where is body is at through song...one of the reasons i'm a fan, i struggle with similar issues of intimacy...see my new thread about king leer and Driving