DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS
My Fellow Americans, Life is actually just a microscopic, deluded moment in time, so let's cut to the freakin' chase. One look at our impending election debacle can solidify my case. It has been my contention since birth, that the answer to every difficulty we encounter on this sacred yet demented Stone, can be revealed with ultimate clarity through the ultra neurotic engagements of Music, Art, Literature, Film, Poetry and a good Pastrami sandwich. Why would any sane human spend so must time on a film set (Do you know how long you gotta wait until your 8 second deliverance of an edited beyond repair line gets a chance to become a professional embarrassment etched in time forever? ) or expend so much energy in a recording studio, piecing together another ode to a man or woman who could not care less how much love existed within your digestive tract? It's all about hymns and prayers and a quest for mercy and forgiveness and silence and faith. We were blessed with Charles Bukowski, Gene Chandler, Lenny Bruce, Mitch Ryder and a legion of creative explorers whose influences provided the air we breathe. So Let's Dance! This site shall explore the reaper, find a way to disarm the stench of injustice, discover some true loves and talk it all over before it's all over. So what's the worst that our desires could produce? Failure? So sue me. I'm going to require your assistance in making as much trouble for the grown-ups as possible. Let the record show that my childish heart yearns to disrupt the madness. Join me Ladies and Germs!
With Gratitude For Gena Rowlands, Nancy Sinatra, Jerry Quarry, Leo Gorcey, Arthur Alexander and Joey Heatherton, Your Splendid Bohemian, Rich Buckland.
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "THE BEAT GOES ON"- EPISODE 3- JACK KEROUAC-"SUBTERRANEAN HOMEGROWN BLUES"- THIS NEW SERIES CAPTURES A LITERARY MOVEMENT GUIDED BY INDIVIDUALISM, LUNACY, INGENUITY AND THE SWITCHBLADE OF BE BOP NOTION
THE KEROUAC PROJECT: https://www.kerouacproject.org/JACK KEROUAC SCHOOL OF DISEMBODIED POETICS:
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BONUS EPISODE! OBLIQUE STRATEGIES: 3 SONGS BY BILL MESNIK, CREATED IN RESPONSE TO BRIAN ENO’S DECK OF CARDS.
To spur my songwriting juices, I got this deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards, created by Brian Eno, designed to prompt creativity. Here are a few examples. INSIDE / OUTSIDE (Oblique Strategy: “THINK - Inside t...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - HARMONIC CONVERGENCE: ROBERT PLANT, ALISON KRAUSS, AND THE LOUVIN BROTHERS. "DOUBLE DOWN!!"
There is something that happens when two particular voices blend together that transcends all understanding or logic. And, when those voices share the same DNA, the magnetic pull is such that they become one voice. We’ve heard that family blend...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND" EPISODE #4. OUR DIARIST REVISITS 2022: PASSING THE ONE YEAR MARK OF MY WIFE'S DEATH.
2021 was a hell of a year: My wife, Chemayne, passes in December of 2020, during the height of the pandemic; The following year is spent stumbling in a maze of confusion - (to be honest, the smoke is just starting to cle...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "THE BEAT GOES ON"- EPISODE 2- " WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS-"THE NAKED PUNCH AND OTHER LEFT HOOKS"- THIS NEW SERIES CAPTURES A LITERARY MOVEMENT GUIDED BY INDIVIDUALISM, LUNACY, INGENUITY AND THE SWITCHBLADE OF BE BOP NOTIONS
THE QUEER AWAKENINGS OF A WILD BOY PURSUING THE NOVA EXPRESSOn September 6, 1951, William Burroughs killed his wife, Beat legend Joan Vollmer. At a friend’s apartment, she balanced a glass on her head, a...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - GODDESSES OF OBSCURITY: JUDEE SILL AND LINDA PERHACS. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Dead or alive? Today, we feature one of each: two exquisite female singer-songwriters from the 70’s - one a heroin casualty, and the other a remarkable example of patience rewarded. Judee Sill could have been a Laurel Canyon diva on the order o...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND" EPISODE #3. OUR DIARIST REVISITS 2015: BELL'S PALSY, COURT ORDERED CUSTODY OF MY NEPHEW, THE I CHING, AND OF COURSE, THE DREAMS....
What a year 2014 was! That's what motivated me to start this diary, which is now going on year 10. It was such a hairy time, in fact, that as a way to process it all, I hit upon the idea of creating a musical diary...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - SCOTT WALKER AND SERGE GAINSBOURG: TWO TRANSMISSIONS FROM OUT ON THE EDGE. DOUBLE DOWN!!
What we’re offering today is something completely different: two outlier artists (although one is a French icon) who created off-kilter, out of the box, almost unintelligible nuggets of artistic brilliance. These cuts are linked, not only by th...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "THE BEAT GOES ON"- EPISODE 1-THE ROSY DRAMA OF HENRY MILLER -THIS NEW SERIES CAPTURES A LITERARY MOVEMENT GUIDED BY INDIVIDUALISM, LUNACY, INGENUITY AND THE BE BOP NOTIONS THAT ALTERED THOUGHT, VERSE, AND SELF EXPRESSION
Welcome to our new series, “The Beat Goes On,” where we will celebrate the work and enduring influence of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and the other writers whom we identify as “The Beats.” - that crop of artists who worked ...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE." THE VIRTUES OF CYNICISM AS DEMONSTRATED BY MARSHALL CRENSHAW AND THE ORLONS. DOUBLE DOWN!!
Today we live in a cynical world. It’s pervasive, this debilitating disbelief in our institutions, our once assured tenets of groundedness. Now we doubt, not only what we see, but what we hear, and even our own thoughts. Are they indeed our own...
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A DIG THIS SPECIAL PRESENTATION- CHARLES BUKOWSKI- THE HOME CASSETTE RECORDINGS- LOUISIANA, 1970- HIS PROLIFIC WORK REFLECTED AN UNDERGROUND DRAPED IN A VELVET CLOTH SIMILAR TO THAT OF LOU REED & KURT COBAIN - BUKOWSKI SPOKE TO THE DOWNTRODDEN OF AMERICA
BUKOWSKI SPEAKS!!!!!Cause and Effect -For Kurt Cobain"the best often die by their own handjust to get away,and those left behindcan never quite understandwhy anybodywould ev...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND" EPISODE #2. THE DIARIST REVISITS A PASSAGE FROM HIS DREAM JOURNAL, WRITTEN IN 2019, IN WHICH HE DESCRIBES HIS STRUGGLE TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL PLAY FOR STUDENTS ENTITLED "TOXIC SHOCKS!"
THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESSI've been keeping a diary and dream journal for ten years. Recently, I hit upon the idea of revisiting and recording passages of the diary in a quest to understand myself better by connec...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - 12 BARS AND THE TRUTH WITH HARVEY MANDEL AND J.B. HUTTO. DOUBLE DOWN!
It seems as though the 12 bar blues structure is an immovable object, an obelisk of sacred, ritualistic, totemic authority. But the form contains multitudes of variety. Here are two examples of the plasticity of that container, which holds the ...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT BILL MESNIK'S NEW PILOT PROJECT: "CALL ME UP IN DREAMLAND," IN WHICH OUR INTREPID NAVEL GAZER TRIPS THE LIGHT FANTASTIC DOWN THE CORRIDORS OF HIS DREAM JOURNAL AND DIARY. (FIRST EPISODE: AUGUST, 2024.)
In 2005, while visiting the gift shop at the downtown Los Angeles MOCA museum, I came upon a blank journal with a cover fashioned from a salvaged vinyl album by The Allman Brothers. It had the pink Capricorn label. As a lover of vinyl I grabbed...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE:" THE BENEFITS OF VERSATILITY WITH DANNY KAYE. DOUBLE DOWN!!
DANNY KAYE: THE BENEFITS OF VERSATILITYDavid Daniel Kaminsky (1911-1987), known to the world as Danny Kaye, was an entertainer that could do it all. He was as adept at pathos as he was at antic comedy, and he captivated audiences through...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING NOVEL: TWO MANIFESTATIONS OF GIDDY STRANGENESS FROM JERRY BLAVAT AND LARRY GROCE. DOUBLE DOWN!!
The “Novelty” song has deep roots in popular culture. Masters of the form, like Weird Al Yankovic, Warren Zevon, Tom Lehrer, Spike Jones, and Allen Sherman have illuminated our consciousness and tickled our sense of the absurd. How much WAS tha...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE." MYSTERIOUS, SWINGIN’ RHYTHMS CONJURED BY BENNY GOODMAN AND LITTLE JOEY AND THE FLIPS, DOUBLE DOWN!!
What is it about a swing rhythm that sets hearts a flutter? It’s a universal truth. It may have started as an African secret formula, but it was co-opted and catapulted into white western culture by some hip caucasian standard bearers.He...
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THE BOHEMIA FILES- ROKY ERICKSON- "THE REVEREND OF KARMIC YOUTH"-THE THIN LINE BETWEEN ECSTASY AND NIGHTMARES- A COIN OF MADNESS AND THOUGHTFUL THUNDER- THIS WILL LEAVE YOU STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF LOVE AND FATE
THE REVEREND OF KARMIC YOUTH-1The Interpreter2Starry Eyes3For You4Bloody Hammer5The Wind And More6Night Of The Vampire7You're Gonna Miss Me8I Walked With A Zombie9Stand For The Fire Demon10 ...
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THE BOHEMIA FILES- CHARLES MANSON- "THE WHITE ALBUM"- WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CHIPMUNKS CHRISTMAS ALBUM, THESE TRACKS COMPRISE THE FEEL GOOD, BAD & UGLY ALBUM OF ANY SEASON- THE ENTIRE 28 TRACK CATALOG OF DENNIS WILSON'S WORST INSTINCTS
'69 AND THE CRIME ETCHED IN TIME -"When I Was 17, It was not a very good year"Rich BucklandWell. Here is something I've yet to get over in all the years since I first read ...
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THE BOHEMIA FILES- "IN THE BEGINNING"- RICH BUCKLAND'S 2009 TEST EPISODE FOR WHAT WOULD LATER BECOME THE PODCAST SERIES THE WORLD COULD EASILY LIVE WITHOUT- OR CAN IT? WITH WILLY DEVILLE, LENNY BRUCE AND OUR SPECIAL GUEST CHARLES MANSON-DIG THIS!
SPLENDOR OF BOHEMIA PRESENTS- "IN THE BEGINNING"- RICH BUCKLAND'S 2009 TEST EPISODE FOR WHAT WOULD LATER BECOME THE PODCAST SERIES THE WORLD COULD EASILY LIVE WITHOUT- OR CAN IT? WI...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE." A HEX AND THE CURSE OF LOVE CONJURED BY COCK ROBIN AND OLIVIA RODRIGO. DOUBLE DOWN!
Ok, folks, we’ve got an unlikely pairing of unrequited torch anthems with an almost 40 year time span between them, featuring points of view which diverge 180 degrees. The first, from Cock Robin, showcases synthesized sounds which seem like the...
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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES BY BILL EVANS AND TONY BENNETT (FANTASY, 1975) EPISODE #94
Here is a “Sunny Song”, wherein the fleeting sunlight is a dappled reminder of the evanescence of existence. They’re all gone now: Bill Evans (piano), Tony Bennett (vocals), Henry Mancini (Composer), and Johnny Mercer (Lyricist), but their beau...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" DOUBLE STANDARD: A CHEATER’S PURGATORY - A LANDSCAPE OF DECEPTION DELINEATED BY DON COVAY, MASTER OF MUSICAL PAIN AND PRIDE. FEATURING DON COVAY AND PETER WOLF. DOUBLE DOWN!
When it comes to infidelity: can we have our cake and eat it too? In the following two songs, written by the incomparable Don Covay, this theme is explored. The two men narrating these tales of inconstancy are in turmoil - one cheat...
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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" -NEW SERIES! WITH PETER COOK, DUDLEY MOORE, JAN BERRY, AND DEAN TORRANCE. TWO PAIRS OF ODD-FELLOWS, CAVORTING FOR OUR PLEASURE - DOUBLE DOWN!
Right here, squaring off, from opposite sides of the Atlantic, we present: Dueling tag-teams of zaniness — wearing fanciful disguises, winking at traditional forms, and tweeting in a birdlike falsetto… Good stuff!BEDAZZLEDThe Faus...
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BILL MESNIK'S SUNNY SIDE OF MY STREET PRESENTS: BIG BAD BILL (IS SWEET WILLIAM NOW) BY RY COODER, (REPRISE, 1978) EPISODE #93
From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobat...
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