@mjp: I'm truly surprised by the vicious tone of your post
That's because you're an idiot.
I'm not offended by your amusing comparison of me to a feminine hygiene appliance; I've been insulted before by people of slighty above-average intelligence who use hackneyed phrases from second-rate action movies, believing that tearing down others makes them rise in stature.
Douchebag.
Or perhaps you simply enjoy coming here anonymously to adopt a faux-Bukowski persona.
That must be it.
In any case, I've provided no profile information, so you're speaking from ignorance
You call it ignorance, I call it experience. Douchebag.
I am, however disappointed, that your mind seems completely closed to the possibility that someone could do a good job.
You're too stupid to understand the underlying point, so I suggest that you
go piss up a rope and pray for enlightenment.
Is my project any better than the Vehar/Ruminski "art songs"? I certainly hope so!
Hope is a beautiful and ultimately tragic thing.
I wanted to avoid anything like that, and from the beginning I've worked with a singer who is, to say the least, completely different, a reknowned composer and jazz pianist with extensive experience singing rock & roll.
Ooh!
Rock & roll! It's going to be even shittier than I'd imagined!
The "baritone" label means only that the range descends that low (down to a low D in fact), and has nothing to do with the vocal style.
Thanks Professor Douchebag.
If it doesn't work, it wouldn't prove your point that it's impossible, only that I'm inept, or else that I simply failed this time around.
And that you're a douchebag. Don't forget that.
I heard melodies jumping off the pages of his books, and I wanted to write them down.
You are an unbelievably pretentious bag of stale donkey piss. A really large, unwieldy bag of stale donkey piss that takes four grown men to empty.
I've tried to remain faithful to his work, not changing the words or the implied tone, as I heard it.
Covering his work with your shit is not "faithful," it's destruction. You don't understand that because you are an idiot.
Douchebag.
Of course I understand irony.
Jesus christ, you're not finished yet?
That's exactly why I placed that hilarious poem right in the middle, the only one spoken (by me), as a way of poking fun of myself and clearing the air. Geez...
What the fuck are you talking about, Goober?
I'm curious, since you apparently believe that any attempts at poetic interpretation are, ipso facto, pretentious and doomed to failure, how do you feel about others reading Buk's words aloud?
I'm curious; have you always been a douchebag?
Is Harry Dean Stanton also on your intellectual enemies list?
Is a portrait of Judy Garland tattooed on your ass cheek?
But in
this post here you say they are deep. Which can only lead one to believe,
ipso facto, that you are a liar as well as a douchebag.
the piece will sit on the shelf until the copyrights expire, ~2060, when my grandchildren can dust it off.
Your grandchildren will throw it into a big dumpster along with the rest of your shit the day after they bury you, you delusional cocksucker. Then they will have a big party and spend all the money you leave to them on a keg of beer and two pizzas.
Yes, I have seen your future. I am an oracle. I am cool water for your thirsty soul. Yet you reject me. I weep. I weep.