Comments on: 'Meet you all the way, Rosanna yeah'

By: An Open Letter To David Cronenberg « thejamminjabber

An Open Letter To David Cronenberg « thejamminjabber — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:37:52 +0000

[...] many years you’ve got left there, David. So do us all a favor- unless it is going to contain sex with scars, exploding heads, or Jeff Goldblum- don’t make this [...]

By: Melbpsy

Melbpsy — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:40:03 +0000

It’s not the speed, shock and horror that worry me, it’s the faux-disgust and outrage. We need more honesty, for moral thugs lie behind every corner.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:08:12 +0000

Ooh, I just found out that the Toto song “Rosanna”, the lyrics of which this post takes its title from (as I mentioned a few comments back), was actually written about Rosanna Arquette! Apparently she used to bring the band food while they were in the studio. I had no idea, that song just came to mind when writing the post. So there you go: the image of James Spader playing Rosanna’s leg brace like a guitar while singing “Rosanna” is chillingly accurate. As Ballard might say, “Deep assignments run through our lives — there are no coincidences.”

By: Crashman

Crashman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:01:40 +0000

What’s wrong with speed, shock and horror? Nothing at all; it’s good for you. But the dosage has to be continuous, like an IV infusion, so tolerance can develop. Then and only then, one can progress.

By: Melbpsy

Melbpsy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:29:24 +0000

I can’t imagine Ballard gives a solitary fuck, but I don’t think it does to be all intellectually nonchalant about this and live in an ivory tower. This was reported in the MX, a popular free Melbourne newspaper and I think it is worth noting that a lot of people will read this and no doubt take it at face value, vaguelly agreeing. Sadly more people will listen to Heather Mills than read this site and I consider mass opinion worth observing and commenting on. I think Ballard does too, although he may remain blissfully unaware of this episode. Did he not, for all his glee in their disapproval, describe the Mail anti-Crash articles as a shameful event in British culture? He undestands that these types of media are incredibly popular and feels this worth engaging with. He could not have written Kingdom Come if he’d been satisfied to sit smugly with his copy of The Guardian in a Hamstead retreat. This is part of what is so compelling about Ballard. And so yes, I do think it was worth commenting on.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:40:39 +0000

JGB, as far as I can tell, doesn’t give a crap. After all, when Alexander Walker walked out of a Cannes screening of Crash, Ballard declared that little hissy fit to be a ‘total artistic success’. He has an excellent point: when these bastions of moral values (oh alright, Jack…’pinheads’) are on your side, you know you’re batting for the wrong team.

By: jack heron

jack heron — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:32:32 +0000

Let’s face it, would you pull the staff of Maxim, Heather Mills, Alexander Walker or Christopher Tookey from a burning car? I’m surprised you give these pinheads the credence of responding to their inane blather… although the irony would probably amuse JGB.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:52:54 +0000

One thing that is very resonating for me is how Tookey is so ruffled by the brutal truth of Crash that he desperately tries to push it off on Joyriding Youths.

Growing up in the UK, the cult of auto-eroticism was in all stratas of society. Visiting my dad in the summers I came into contact with classic sports car owning, London satellite village dwelling business types – blasting the country lanes, drunk and reckless.

This local pub down there in Kent had a classic car Sunday. The men would line their classic cars and inspect them, all the time using rich suggestive language.

I used to make myself laugh out loud thinking that the next natural step out to be the guys engaging in burning passionate sex at the wheel and dying together in glorious high speed impacts/orgasm.

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:01:27 +0000

In fact, he looks like he’s playing the lead break to Toto’s ‘Rosanna’, the lyrics of which this post takes its title from.

By: Bosse de Nage

Bosse de Nage — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:16:18 +0000

James Spader looks like he’s playing a hair-metal riff in that photo.

By: Melbpsy

Melbpsy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:52:41 +0000

Indeed she did, Fat Tony style. She endorses The Federation of Rodent Cheesemakers.
http://deedah.org/cheese/facts.html

By: Simon Sellars

Simon Sellars — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:42:19 +0000

She certainly has a way with words and imagery. Didn’t she tell us all to drink rats’ milk recently?

By: Melbpsy

Melbpsy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:23:14 +0000

I was unaware of the McCartney story.

I remember a hideous interview with Heather Mills where she launched her George Best tribute single ‘My Amazing Feat’ with Colin Hay.

http://www.heathermillsmccartney.com/media_best.php

She first declared that although she wasn’t a fan of Men at Work she was a big fan of Hay’s solo work (who’s she trying to kid??) before spending an awkward amount of time over-explaining the pun in the title: “You see he achieved an amazing feat, and he had amazing feet, because he was such a great footballer, so it works both ways you see?”

More sickening than anything Ballard could ever imagine.