Re: (TV) ceci n'est pas un sammy hagar.

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

Me thinketh thou hast not read my message too closely and thou suffereth
from heroeth worshipeth a bit mucheth....
-Russeth

On 5/4/07, edi, forever & anon, redux & thanx [for what i do not know]. <
the_postmodern_closet@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>     or une myspace, either, for that matter--
>
>     --as a person who largely, as per here, goes by the anonymous
> moniker of lurkerette, before i return to my den of greyed out existence
> i find myself oddly, yet compellingly, called upon upon to yell the only
> too obvious from what may be the nadir of the pinnacle pointing the top
> of the mountain today called NeedsComment.
>
>     richard lloyd is no sammy hagar.
>
>     the name richard lloyd does not belong in the same sentence w/ the
> name sammy hagar.
>
>     it would be difficult to conceive of anyone the others could hire
> who would give the same /je ne sais quoi/ to television as did the shot
> in the arm by one mr. hagar to van halen. this, of course, is all for
> the better.
>
>     i suppose i am a bit punchy just before six this morning. after
> having been put in the position once again of having to write my
> broker's secretary, a person certainly  unfamiliar w/ television, tom
> verlaine, richard lloyd, sammy hagar or even, how can it be?, david lee
> roth &., quite possibly, van halen. & it may be a smidgen of delayed
> reaction to my living situation, one which entails hearing about the
> daily lives of at least one if not several members of the newly
> semi-reunited van halen nearly every day [true], & this from the most
> mundane perspective [housekeepers, cars, parties, rehab, etc & ect]. i
> cannot say i prefer hearing about this to hearing about running into
> gene simmons at rite-aid-- then again, these are the slings & arrows of
> living ones life attached to a musician in los angeles. better, think i,
> than being attached to my broker-- if, of course, w/ not as much
> consistent cash. but i digress.
>
>     it may be that lately i have heard too much of the demi-traitorous
> sammy hagar. still, the idea of a sammy-like replacement in television
> is not only even more inappropriate than it was in van halen, whether or
> not they made oodles more cash on sammy than david-- how could such a
> thing even be effected? who would be SO bad yet SO bizarrely appealing,
> w/ an appeal only appreciable to someone who knows nothing--? who that
> listens to television knows nothing? this is not fathomable.
>
>     falling asleep i think it was just the juxtaposition that got me. as
> someone somewhere must say, we are all either old or dead but i have
> seen sammy hagar & i have seen richard lloyd &, unlike apparently sammy
> hagar, he isnt handelling timeshares to the starstruck masses, just a
> few dozen miles away from wabo cabo, give or take, oh, i dont know,
> whatever it is that appeals to sammy hagar to take or give. /to
> handel/-- yiddish. look it up. works not particularly well for me, looks
> like it works pretty well for sammy.
>
>     a propos of very little i am also reminded that we who made up the
> very last people who made up what it means to be cool [disaffected,
> alien & alienated, apart & this on purpose, dark & gloriously so,
> outside & moving further away, elite, elitist, elusive] --we who were &
> remain not as others-- why should we have any truck whatsoever w/
> myspace? ninety million people canNOT be cool. it is antithetical. when
> i think that we are either old or dead i can remember that, either way,
> at least most of us are not on myspace. always i feel an affinity;
> specifically in the way of his having no control over this, sometimes i
> also feel sorry for peter laughner.
>
>     or darby crash, for that matter, who gets it once again in june.
> perhaps pat would be the only possible fourth tv guitarist? but when i
> think of sammy hagar, i feel instead forced to think of the van halen of
> not the mid-late 70s gazarris but the mid-late 70s whisky a gogo. this
> would be the weasels, & i dare anyone else here to remember "beat her w/
> a rake." pat would, i would, i would bet w/ certainly so would any & all
> of van halen. richard lloyd would not but, seeing as he has taken some
> sort of-- something, he can laugh along in silence w/ the rest of us,
> one of which has now re-hung the "gone lurking" sign, beyond that-- who
> knows where we be. the riddle, more bu w/ a bit of ju than su, i
> believe, hath already been told & solved in its telling. au revoir.
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