![]() Well, there is stuff like Pride & Prejudice with Zombies but that's just silly. The idea is that you put in a few jazz chords, take out that tiresome riff and add a new one, get rid of the sub plot about the neighbour's wife's suspicions that her son was a rent boy - good god, that was terrible - increase the bpm by a little bit not too much. Yeah? Yeah! But why can't someone else come along & write their version of your story? This is what Kathy Acker was revolutionalistically suggesting by rewriting very badly Great Expectations. You touch my book, I slap you with a writ. Somebody writes a novel and it's supposed to be theirs & theirs alone. ![]() ![]() Yet in the world of fiction, this does not happen. That's few years back now.Īnyway, is it not true that if a songwriter writes something like Hallelujah or I Will Always Love You-oo a whole lot of people rush to record it and sometimes do really interesting & different versions - and some versions are better than the original, Jeff Buckley takes over Hallelujah completely just as Elvis took over Hound Dog and Big Mama Thornton was left looking askance. ![]() ![]() I read this way back when, when when was only just becoming when. ![]()
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