Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

A good song from Bob Dylan. I've missed the two last periods because of illness, but by reading all our blogs I'm trying to keep up as best I can. If I remember right, he wrote this around the time of the 2001 presidential elections because of the fact that he thought that Bush and Gore were so closely alike, they became a sort of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. He didn't want to vote in that election for this reason. Connecting this with the current race, it surely would be interesting to see if he voted for Obama this time, the man of "change". Although I find the song to have little relevance to the actual work that we have been reading, this is quite wonderful when you look at it from a politcal view and where we are now in 2008 :

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
They're throwing knives into the tree
Two big bags of dead man's bones
Got their noses to the grindstones

Living in the Land of Nod
Trustin' their fate to the Hands of God
They pass by so silently
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee

Well, they're going to the country, they're gonna retire
They're taking a streetcar named Desire
Looking in the window at the pecan pie
Lot of things they'd like they would never buy

Neither one gonna turn and run
They're making a voyage to the sun
"His Master's voice is calling me,"
Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee

Tweedle-dee Dee and Tweedle-dee Dum
All that and more and then some
They walk among the stately trees
They know the secrets of the breeze

Tweedle-dee Dum said to Tweedle-dee Dee
"Your presence is obnoxious to me."
They're like babies sittin' on a woman's knee
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee

Well, the rain beating down on my windowpane
I got love for you and it's all in vain
Brains in the pot, they're beginning to boil
They're dripping with garlic and olive oil

Tweedle-dee Dee - he's on his hands and his knees
Saying, "Throw me somethin', Mister, please."
"What's good for you is good for me,"
Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee

Well, they're living in a happy harmony
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
They're one day older and a dollar short
They've got a parade permit and a police escort

They're lying low and they're makin' hay
They seem determined to go all the way
They run a brick and tile company
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee

Well a childish dream is a deathless need
And a noble truth is a sacred creed
My pretty baby, she's lookin' around
She's wearin' a multi-thousand dollar gown

Tweedle-dee Dee is a lowdown, sorry old man
Tweedle-dee Dum, he'll stab you where you stand
"I've had too much of your company,"
Says, Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee

Curiouser & Curiouser - Connections On Top of Connections

View my other post at operoper.blogspot.com to get a better explanation of what's going on here. To say the least, this is a defense written by Percy Shelley (quite beautiful if you've never read it before) that we went over in English 300 that just happened to have a big connection to this class. Can you find it? (Hint: Can you hear it?)

Alice Videos

The quality of these is not the best, but here you'll get a taste of what the Dreamchild experience is like, plus get to see the classic "White Rabbit" sung at the greatest rock fest of all time! Let me know what you think.

Dreamchild - (1985) Alice at Tea

Dreamchild - (1985) Alice and The Caterpillar

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Live at Woodstock!

My Term Paper Topic

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."

-T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding, pt. 5