Comments on: New Interview: My Eschatology http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/2009/12/08/new-interview-my-eschatology/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: RW Hedges http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/2009/12/08/new-interview-my-eschatology/comment-page-1/#comment-34 RW Hedges Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:27:22 +0000 http://www.theamericanbookofthedead.com/?p=270#comment-34 Very interesting!! I had no Idea Henry was witness to the two tower nightmare. I myself was about to be sacked from HMV(Greater London) for taping the bonus tracks at the end of the La's album. As the towers collapsed I felt bowel movement and the end of a world as Henry puts it. Un-real. Like Hollywood!! What Henry talks about here in terms of self publishing and being outside of the bubble of tawdry western popular culture rings so true in the arts in general and we English are victim to it also. "Maybe if you had the ears for me now, I would be having a melody drought" Its a line I wrote yesterday (not great) but its trying to say that there is a hidden strength behind self publishing, self belief and being in control of your own art and destiny.You actually end up the better artist for it! We forget that Kafka slaved away in an office and Philip Larkin plodded around a Library whilst Miller had to steal to keep his dream alive. Henry(Baum), to me is a Norman Mailer, with his first two books, that deals a solid belly blow to that American dream of dreams. His voice grates with our world because to fit here you have to be horrid and vapid (in my eyes) and a coward to accept it..... As a songwriter I feel it is the same boat we take. Thats why being an agnostic and keeping an open view of these esoteric, afterlife possibilities are so interesting to those of us who live outside of the coca caca day to day lie.... The symbols on the cover of Henrys new book remind me of Carl Jungs "Man and his Symbols" and I think Henry is tapping into the things that really make us tick inside, which is an heroic feat that he deserves giant praise for(Ok i'm yet to read the book but his other works blew my mind and inspired no end)...... Very filmic too so dont be surprised if we see Baum movies in the future. They would be a great part of the deconstruction of the Hollywood we so long to lose over the one we'd like back. RW Hedges Very interesting!!
I had no Idea Henry was witness to the two tower nightmare. I myself was about to be sacked from HMV(Greater London) for taping the bonus tracks at the end of the La’s album. As the towers collapsed I felt bowel movement and the end of a world as Henry puts it. Un-real. Like Hollywood!!
What Henry talks about here in terms of self publishing and being outside of the bubble of tawdry western popular culture rings so true in the arts in general and we English are victim to it also.
“Maybe if you had the ears for me now, I would be having a melody drought”
Its a line I wrote yesterday (not great) but its trying to say that there is a hidden strength behind self publishing, self belief and being in control of your own art and destiny.You actually end up the better artist for it! We forget that Kafka slaved away in an office and Philip Larkin plodded around a Library whilst Miller had to steal to keep his dream alive. Henry(Baum), to me is a Norman Mailer, with his first two books, that deals a solid belly blow to that American dream of dreams. His voice grates with our world because to fit here you have to be horrid and vapid (in my eyes) and a coward to accept it….. As a songwriter I feel it is the same boat we take. Thats why being an agnostic and keeping an open view of these esoteric, afterlife possibilities are so interesting to those of us who live outside of the coca caca day to day lie….
The symbols on the cover of Henrys new book remind me of Carl Jungs “Man and his Symbols” and I think Henry is tapping into the things that really make us tick inside, which is an heroic feat that he deserves giant praise for(Ok i’m yet to read the book but his other works blew my mind and inspired no end)……
Very filmic too so dont be surprised if we see Baum movies in the future. They would be a great part of the deconstruction of the Hollywood we so long to lose over the one we’d like back.
RW Hedges

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