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This piece has a number of influences, but I think the meta-commentary that would encompass nearly all of it is that it speaks to the unique stew of thoughts, memories, wistfulness and regret that someone of my generation (myself, but also not necessarily myself), might be feeling as we faintly hope that we might finally be glimpsing the tail-end of Midlife Crisis, even in this new time of The Plague. (Even Leonard Cohen knew as far back as 1988 that it was coming, and coming fast… Just like his naked man and woman, that’s just a shining artifact of the past)
Now, everybody knows… That’s how it goes.
There is also some further inspiration from the unique phenomenon of Kenny Rogers, and how children born after his ‘First Edition’ days can barely conceive of a Kenny that was not a post-Midlife Crisis silver fox crooning about wild-west Gamblers, and Caribbean-Caresses Hemingway imagery to Dolly Parton. Edit: As of this morning (21 March 2019) the news broke that Kenny Rogers had passed at age 81, so this piece now takes on some additional meaning as a memorial to his musical legacy...
It was this earlier, almost alien Kenny Rogers that sang about the state that his condition was in, and which was later used for The Dude’s dream sequence in The Big Lebowski.
There is also mention of the novelty song “Lesbian Seagull” that was crooned by Engelbert Humperdinck for that guilty-pleasure dummy-humour 1996 movie “Beavis & Butthead Do America”; “Lesbian Seagull” itself paying back-handed homage to an early Seventies classic of Pop Psychology twaddle, namely Richard Bach’s 1970 book: “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
(Robert Stack voice): “Full body-cavity searches!”
Now, everybody knows… That’s how it goes.
There is also some further inspiration from the unique phenomenon of Kenny Rogers, and how children born after his ‘First Edition’ days can barely conceive of a Kenny that was not a post-Midlife Crisis silver fox crooning about wild-west Gamblers, and Caribbean-Caresses Hemingway imagery to Dolly Parton. Edit: As of this morning (21 March 2019) the news broke that Kenny Rogers had passed at age 81, so this piece now takes on some additional meaning as a memorial to his musical legacy...
It was this earlier, almost alien Kenny Rogers that sang about the state that his condition was in, and which was later used for The Dude’s dream sequence in The Big Lebowski.
There is also mention of the novelty song “Lesbian Seagull” that was crooned by Engelbert Humperdinck for that guilty-pleasure dummy-humour 1996 movie “Beavis & Butthead Do America”; “Lesbian Seagull” itself paying back-handed homage to an early Seventies classic of Pop Psychology twaddle, namely Richard Bach’s 1970 book: “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
(Robert Stack voice): “Full body-cavity searches!”
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