chupe666 said:
Oh man....Have you listened to any of Jean Shepherd's radio stuff? So amazing. I have a CD - "Will failure spoil Jean Shepherd?" - Good stuff.
"Look.....just beyond this curtain here...just beyond Sheridan square...just out there in the darkness beyond the river....that dark old river...and on the other side of the river is Hackensack. Teaneck, Burgen, Jersey City, all those other soreneck cities just hangin out there....And then, just on the other side of those cities, it begins. There's a great big country out there. GREAT big fantastic country that's flat and dark, at this hour, and it slants away, ind of tilts down....waaay waaaay until it reaches...the Pacific Ocean. A
gigantic country, just clinging to this little island here. All those people you see out there....Chicago think New York is a plot. A basic plot. Against
Chicago! All that U.N. crap...."We got the best newspaper in the world! The
Tribune. Match
that one, New York."
New York never notices.
Stands out there looking out to sea.
And all the while these guys are out here surfin around, there's millions of em out there. And they're all tryin' to figure out...."I've done everything...I've got an MG! I get
Playboy every month. Still isn't happening! They go into the drugstore and knock down a Coke, shoot some snooker. "If I could get to the Village, it'd swing. I gotta get to the Village! Yeah..." These guys are reading Kerouac, getting sensitive with Salinger. It's getting to the point where guys listening to Thelonius Monk records think
they're talented. For listening! It's creative sitting! The got the
Village Voice. "If I could only get to the Village...."
Well here we are.
Isn't it awful to know that this is all there is?