Re: (TV) Maurice the wordsmith/Q's for list

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 3:48 PM -0500 12/14/00, Casey, Leo J wrote:
> You are quite the wordsmith (no pun intended).... Your juxtaposition 
> of the ideas/words of rock-dinosaur fossils [in a quarry] with too 
> alive for a reliquary, is either positively brilliant or I'm just 
> drunk on Television-reunionism (or both!)

Thanks!  Glad you liked it.  On seeing it again, it looked to me like 
a candidate for the New Yorker's "Block that Metaphor" fillers.  But 
I do think it's true--I mean, look who _is_ getting inducted.  We 
could probably argue for days over this or that person still 
producing vital work, but the innovations for most of them are over.

> Some Questions for anyone:

I'll second the first two questions--any wild speculations, anyone?

> 3)I used to kid my friends years ago that about the only silver 
> linings of Television's lack of commercial success was that you 
> never had to worry about Tom's solo tours in 80s or and Television's 
> live shows in 90s ever being sold out.  Do you think that propostion 
> still holds?

I dunno, but it won't if they follow some of Michael's suggestions 
from earlier today.

> 4)Have you ever heard of a band called, Television?  Telewho?

I thought this was the Marquee Mark list...

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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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