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California is a dead man's town; I learned that from the angel tooth embedded in my brain.

As always, Rulin and Amjad

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Travis McKeown

I'm sitting my white ass down to listen!

recovering.slothrop

Hey Michael, Not very on point, but I was wondering what are your top punk bands? Do you listen to any of it of your own volition? Has it intluenced you in your art in any way? My personal favorites are Fugazi.

Madra na Móna

"Apropos of the bicycle: "Actually one should not deceive oneself about the real purpose of the fashionable new mount, which a poet the other day referred to as the horse of the Apocalypse." L'Illustration, June 12, 1869, cited in Vendredi, October 9, 1936 (Louis Cheronnet., " Le Coin des vieux")."

NYCM&AHole

I always associated automats with Dark City. That movie was crazy.

Nathan

Lmfao @ your rendition of Take Five. Makes me realize how perfect that song is for the scene where Dougie Jones is acting oafish while his wife is scrambling to make breakfast in their awful cookie-cutter suburban neighborhood

Willump the Yeti

as someone who is not musically inclined in any way and in general just a dumbass i always wonder what you would say about my music taste. anyways great episode going down a world wide wes rabbit hole now

This is Pharmacist

I agree Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue is cocaine dipped as fuck but also extremely awful music rot. Standard fare for what the record industry was shitting out in 1977, you know what else came out in 1977? Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville, Styx: Come Sail Away, Queen: We Will Rock You. Also incidentally the year Sex Pistols hit the charts, take that as you will... Other tangent: Dennis Wilson using Charles Manson's song Cease to Exist is a song by Charles Manson rewritten as Never Learn not to Love by the Beach Boys with the lyrics changed from Cease to Exist to Cease to Resist (I won't go into a second rant about this but I sooooo could). Also a point of contention for Manson that they snubbed him and changed the lyrics as he thought he was on to big things as a Musical Artist in his hobnobbing with Dennis Wilson often considered his rejected artist turned murderer trajectory if you believe in that sort of thing (hate counterfactuals so woulda coulda shoulda, cue the lights Mr.Tarantino) . Both songs if you read all the lyrics are equally unsettling not to mention the kept and title-bearing lyric "never learn not to love you" which despite the Beach Boys upbeat happy go lucky quality, details a creepy vibe of persuasion, coercion and submission.

NYCM&AHole

So unrelated to this episode I just bought a Rivera Silent Sister iso cab and I’m soooo fucking excited for it.

A Horse In A Man Costume

I'm early-20s and have spent the last decade and change feeling very lost and gone and unknown (for a long long time). I'm tragically very new to Brian Wilson but I can't stop thinking about him and I've been listening to Smile all week. Just... idk man. Excellent episode as always, take care of yourself and thank you <3

Jaime Christley

Have you seen any of that documentary series with Rick Rubin and Paul McCartney? I haven't but I've reliably been told almost all of it goes something like this: McCartney: [succinctly explains something he did on/with/to a track with superhuman recall 50-60 years after the fact] Rubin: wow

Hemlock

I have to admit I have no idea what you're talking about but I'm glad you're talking about it and I feel my neural networks reconfiguring

Jaime Christley

This is barely a footnote but I see that in the Brian Wilson biopic (the one with Paul Dano as BW the younger, John Cusack the older), Murry Wilson is played by Bill Camp. All I'm contributing here is to say that Bill Camp is one of the number one guys aka That Guys aka character actors in contemporary US cinema. His specialty seems to be, with 1-2 scene arcs, casually running away with well-appointed mediocrities such as 2 consecutive Best Picture winners - 12 Years a Slave, Birdman - the boring high-stakes poker drama Molly's Game, the vaguely sadistic but also sanctimonious indie drama Compliance, the fitfully amusing lesbian road comedy Drive-Away Dolls, and many more. Ok this has been Actor's Corner with Jaime N. Christley aka Rohmer Simpson, thank you for your attention in this matter!

28/5 :

Mike… u da man

ersatzennui w/ george quartz

I don’t know how factual the film is, but in Love and Mercy, the older Brian(played by John Cusack) says that the my were beaten by the father and that he lost 90% of his hearing from being hit by Murray. The movie very indicates very clearly the three main antagonists as Landy, Murray and fucking Mike Love, which I guess never ended: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-wilson-responds-to-beach-boys-trump-fundraiser-set/ Brian Wilson responds to Beach Boys' Trump fundraiser set

Mike S

The best part of that Walk Hard Smile parody is Van Dyke Parks wrote the lyrics for that too

Jaime Christley

I made a point of putting on Smile again today - it's been several years, but I retained so much of it. I love "Surf's Up" most of all but I also love that 58-second "Barnyard", the "Wonderful"/"Song for Children"/"Child is Father of the Man" triptych leading into "Surf's Up"; of course "Heroes and Villains" and "Roll Plymoth Rock". And how could I not mention "On a Holiday" and "Vege-Tables". It's "Cabin Essence" that led me to Smile without knowing I was looking for it: beforehand I had the big choral/hammers part way down deep in my brain, not able to remember where I'd heard it before. I'm in the middle of rewatching/studying THERE WILL BE BLOOD - I don't know when PTA put down the coke but he'd definitely picked up Pynchon by this point. Any kinship between TWBB and Smile is, of course, circumstantial, but I was making associations anyway. Who can look at an oil derrick after GR without thinking of "from death to death-transfigured"? Also the first movement of Greenwood's score - those terrifying strings as we fade in on the hills of New Mexico primeval, there's some brief moment on one of those Smile tracks that that resembles*. Daniel Plainview: Mr. Oil Slick * It's the final seconds of "You Are My Sunshine"

No

Thinking of slothrop being sold, ever read the Child Buyer by John Hersey? Just found it in a little library

Court Hansen

I wish I was on hand to help clarify any BB-BW facts you are unsure of, I don’t have anything else going on

Court Hansen

I just remembered a couple of interesting facts about Murry Wilson that I think help flesh out the story a little bit. 1. When Murry was a kid, he used to have to physically fight off HIS father in order to protect his mother and sisters. 2. Someone, I believe it was Brian’s mother Audree, said that Murry also reported hearing voices in his head and spent long depressive spells confined to his bed (possibly referenced in the lyrics to Break Away-ghost written with Brian under the name “Reggie Dunbar”) Obviously neither of these things absolve him of his behavior toward his sons, but they do help explain it.

poblano pepper union

Surprised that you didn't bring up the Manson connection with Dennis and how that relates to the what Skip the bicycle rider represents. Great series so far

Jonas Weir

Not to be a know-it-all, but the true story of Dennis Wilson’s drowning is far sadder and more poignant: “On December 28, 1983, Dennis drowned at Marina Del Rey after drinking all day and then diving in the afternoon to recover his ex-wife's belongings, previously thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years earlier amidst their divorce. On January 4, 1984, Dennis's body was buried at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard, off the California coast. Dennis's widow, Shawn Love, reported that Dennis had wanted a burial at sea, and his brothers Carl and Brian did not want Dennis cremated. At the time, only veterans of the Coast Guard and Navy were allowed to be buried in US waters without being first cremated. However, Dennis's burial at sea was made possible by the intervention of President Ronald Reagan.” There’s a great contemporary article about his death in Rolling Stone called the Beach Boy Who Went Overboard.