Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 02:09 PM

Barney!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: bankley
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 12:43 PM

so, Sev., who is the real purple-trator ?

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 06:06 PM

Next comes a duet album with Bobbie Magenta-ry, who'll probably end up owing far more to Bruce than she ever owed to Billie Joe. But that's all something or other under the bridge by now......

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 01:07 AM

Why, they even STILL ask?

Because it got him on the cover of both Purpular Mechanics AND Purpular Science.

Because he's purpular to contrary opinion!

Because he's a one-man Purpulation Explosion! There'll now be more purple people purple-capita!

Because he's perfected a Purple-petual Motion and we've seconded it!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 07:34 PM

Poiple.....

poiple who need poiple.....

i think bob dylan said the that

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 07:00 PM

.....And Ken and Barbie ask the band to play "Waltzing Mattel-da"

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 06:19 PM

...as, in the background, Jay Ungar and molly Mason play the "Ashcan Farewell" and all on the thread begin to waltz......










"It's waltz time!
Take it, Walt!......"

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: GUEST,Peace
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 06:12 PM

Ditto that, Azizi.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 05:48 PM

This is a follow-up of my 26 Jul 08 - 10:19 AM post to this thread:

I just received my copies of John Weldon's "Ashcan Alley" comic books.

John, your sense of humor {excuse me, "humour"} is totally wacked. And I love it!

To paraphrase a character in John's first edition, these comics "are a work of depth and brillance". I chuckled reading every page.

There is even one character in these comics who "does portraits, landscapes, apes, grapes, and fire escapes",{at least she did until she found her calling painting crying musical instruments}.

{I added the italics added for emphasis}

If you haven't contacted John to get your very own copies of "Ashcan Alley", do it.

They're great!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: bankley
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 09:03 PM

nah, we just gettin' warmed up...

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 08:40 PM

Severn, I wasn't trying to put you on the spot and I don't think quokka was either when we praised your wit and suggested that you should write professionally.

When the time is ripe, I'm sure that you will do whatever you are supposed to do.

And Severn, if and when you do publish a book or an article featuring your witticism, one of us-your cyperspace friends-would enthusiastically host a thread like this one where we can show our support, and our appreciation for you and for the product of your talent & skill.

And, if and when you do publish a book or an article showcasing your witticism, we Mudcatters would join you in celebrating your good fortune & we would enjoy ourselves with good spirited humour/similar to the way we are doing on this thread with Bruce.

**

Now here's a question for you and for others-is this thread plum tuckered out? Or is there more humour [humor], repartee, wit and puns to be shared?

If so, as Bruce wrote "GO FOR IT!"

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: KenM
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 07:15 PM

Emma:

Amen, sister, amen!!

Ken

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Emma B
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 06:53 PM

Might I also add Severn is every bit as modest as Bruce is too and I love his humour as much as I love the CD.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 06:49 PM

"I'm just having some fun on it, not trying to hijack it or grab someone else's glory."

Having someone like you as a friend is pretty much glory enough for me, Severn. You jus' keep on writing and so will others. I don't think of this as my thread but rather as one for my friends to do as they choose--and do it well.

I love humour, repartee, wit and puns. GO FOR IT!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 05:52 PM

Hi Kids:            

Well it's the same, old thong,
The one you been wearin',
Since we been goin' on....

NEVER buy your girlfriend lingerie for her birthday...Or, comment on any of her "attributes". She will think you are the animal you know you are...

bob

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 04:59 PM

I don't write professionally and Severn's my real first name.

A lot of what I write is in the context of reacting to others, and I wouldn't begin to know how to properly frame it. Thanks for the praise, but this is Bruce's thread, and I'm just having some fun on it, not trying to hijack it or grab someone else's glory.

I suppose if you click the name Severn atop one of my posts, you can view several thousand of them and with a few more clicks, put them in each one's individual context. However, Mudcat Taverns and foodfights and unsung cartoon heroes and such involve me interacting with some world class accomplices who are putting out stuff just as good inspred by what everybody else is doing and it all builds as a community thing. It would be hard to isolate from other contributors and to explain a lot of interCat in-jokes, and launch myself on an ego trip I don't seek to pick out and edit a "best of Severn", the precedent of Van Morrison once having produced his own Tribute Album notwithstanding.

Sorry folks, but I don't feel I'm publisher ready yet, by any stretch....


But there IS this Magenta gent out there who actually copyrights things and, thinking that purple is the color of royalties, tries to make money from his hidden talents (and rather obvious hue). And ironically enough, the more you people try to cover his works, the more you'll end up exposing them to the public.

After all, the definition of a singer-songwriter is:

One who risks being called a Communist for excercising the freedom of speech guaranteed by a Democracy to defy the Dictatorship* of popular tastes with the end goal of achieving and perpetuating Royalties.


......and if that's not Capitalism, then what is?






*And a Facist IS someone who has decided for everybody else what's in fashion, isn't it?

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 10:45 AM

quokka, I think that's a berry berry good idea about Severen publishing a book of his witticism, not just from this thread but other threads or wherever for what reason he wrote them.

And, since it seems that he plays off of other people's comments, I guess that some of us piddling play on worders would have to give Severn permission to use some of our posts. But I can't imagine why anyone would refuse that permission.

Okay, Severn, the ball {or should I say the plum?} is in your court.

Maybe you already are a famous writer who wants to remain anonymous on this forum, but if you're not publishing this type of writing, you should be.

Seriously, Mudcat has so many talented members. I'm honored to "post" in your midst.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 08:43 AM

As everybody knows....

It's the slinger,
not the thong!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 08:31 AM

"Thong slung purple,
everybody knows one..."

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: bankley
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 08:28 AM

that's it !... his thong is too tight... and his head's about to fly away too....

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: quokka
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 08:18 AM

I hope Severn writes other stuff, you know, for a public audience? He's so good at the fun stuff,...I mean the pun stuff! Stuff it, He's a bloody good writer, full stop. Sorry, you guys probably know the LAST PHRASE as 'period'. That means somethin else to us in OZ... sort of like 'thong' means something else...to us a thong is footwear. Yeah I know this is a shock to you Americans etc...

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: rumanci
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 07:56 AM

LOL Severn
methinks the gripes of wrath'll never really win round here !

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 07:49 AM

WLD, I hope you can find an okay chorale to sing your song.

I'd turn Purple if I were berried alive, as well. It was a proper berrial, I'd hope.

This wasn't out on the lone pray-ree, was it?

Famed Irish Rebel Kevin probably turned as purple as berry-harvest time in Dingle, when they hung him. But I guess that made him more of a Dangle-Barry.

Does "I'm not dead yet!" qualify as an elder-bury whine?

Though I myself am not purple, there, but for the Grapes of God.....

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 05:24 AM

In Tombstone they whisper, d'you think Wyatt Earp'll
Change his face like Bruce to purple
And what will Doc and the Clanton boys all think
They say they wouldn't mind (though I'm not not sure)
If his face were crimson or azure
Or if he came out like a man in purest pink.

But lifes much duller
If you don't change colour
And purple is a very pleasant hue
Like Ancient Britons wearing woad
Bruce Murdoch, the way has surely showed
Perhaps now it will catch on,
With me and you.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:55 PM

A-HA!!!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Beer
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:53 PM

It's the Blueberry pies he has been eating staying at our home.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: ragdall
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:53 PM

eanjay,
I like that photo by Andrew Gryn, too. Also the one below it on the brucemurdoch.com website.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:55 AM

I don't know about purple face but I like the rugged look on youtube.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 07:06 AM

Thanks for that AND thanks for the address, Severn. Will be in the mail in about two hours.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:26 AM

I went downstairs and played the record. Here 'tis:


"They say roses are red and violets are purple
Sugar's sweet and so's maple surple
I'm the seventh out of seven sons
My daddy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun...."







No, boy, your face is kinda magenta.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 12:06 AM

Roger Miller, "Dang me"

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:27 PM

I have had a chance to read this thread at last. All the crazy people I have come to love in one place at one time.

Thank you sincerely.

Severn: if you get a chance to see this, PLEASE re-send me your address via PM. You have a very rare courage that is not afforded too many people, and I want to get this CD to you asap. Ever since your illness--the one that didn't extend to your mind--I have been in awe of you: your humour, your wit. It continues to show itself in your posts. And your puns.

The man who took that photo is Andrew Gryn. He is a truly gifted and inspired photographer. The shot was taken in his 'den', a room where he stores thousands of vinyl records--rarities that make me pray turntables come back once again. He can use a camera to capture mood/feeling. He's also one heckuva cook. He was kind enough to take that shot and allow me to use it for a poster prior to playing a gig in Montreal last winter. He wanted something to make folks look twice at the poster. I do not understand how the minds of photographers work, but if I could be half the writer that he is a photographer, then I will have accomplished something with the work I've done in the past few years.

I am very touched by the kindness of people here and I thank you for it. Sometimes I think we all do things just to have fun. This thread is an example of that. And if my purple face helped spark that then I am happy.

BM

PS Wasn't there a song in which purple and surple were rhymed? If so, what song and by who? I should know the answer to that. (Boy, is MY face red!)

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 10:07 PM

The purple face? Folks, two tokes will do that to a guy . . . .

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 10:06 PM

"John Weldon returns to his comic roots
Bill Brownstein, The Gazette
Published: Friday, July 25 [2008]"

The Ashcan Alley comics are great. I was the proud recipient of three from John himself--and of a DVD which I cannot wait to view. John Weldon is a phenomenal thinker and wonderful guy. Meeting him was a thrill. He's got class and IMO he's a great lateral thinker. I still owe him a scotch. (He seemed disgusted that I'd consider putting milk in it.)

John, thank you ever so much.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Beer
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 10:13 PM

Ken,
Have you tried clicking on the word English? Or next to it French? It should bring you to the inside page. If not just type in Apple Hollow Music Fest .Org.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: KenM
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 07:25 PM

Adrien:

Unless I'm missing something, my friend, you can't get to any pictures from this link.

Ken

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Beer
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:57 PM

You can view a few pictures from the Apple Hollow web site if you wish
Adrien

http://www.applehollowmusicfest.org

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: KenM
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:44 PM

I thought I knew most of the lyrics to Bob Dylan's songs but these ones escape me!!

A year or so ago I had my picture taken with Hillary Clinton in her office in DC and I sent it to all my Republican friends with the caption, "I had my picture taken with the next President of the United States and you didn't".

That's not going to happen but I do have a picture of me with an Oscar winner and a future Grammy/Juno winner.......God works in wondrous ways.........

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 01:22 PM

Yonder comes my baby dressed in purple
Hey there baby! really love your nipples

Cocaine!
All around my brain!

(as sung by Bob Dylan)

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: KenM
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 12:34 PM

Yikes....I didn't know I was having my picture taken between two such talented artists...John Weldon and Bruce Murdoch!! Hey....some guys are just lucky!! :-)

Good for you, John.

Ken

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 10:19 AM

Speaking of Canadian artists, check this out:

John Weldon returns to his comic roots
Bill Brownstein, The Gazette
Published: Friday, July 25 [2008]

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=c86aaeae-e743-43bc-a8fa-4615e4c60479&p=1


Here's an excerpt of that article:

John Weldon has come full circle. The Oscar-winning Montreal animator has returned to his artistic roots: the comic book.

Weldon still ranks as one of the National Film Board of Canada's most celebrated and respected animators. Among his two dozen creations are the cult favourite Log Drivers' Waltz and Special Delivery, which earned Weldon a trip to the Oscar podium in 1979 to pick up the statuette for Best Animated Short...

The comic-book thrill stayed with him throughout his tenure at the NFB. Rather than spend his retirement years tooling around the garden, he started drawing again with a vengeance and created a new comic book series, Ashcan Alley, which revisits some older themes and characters"...

-snip-

I don't think John has a purple character, but he does have a blue one:

"In the last copy of Ashcan Alley, there's a telling frame featuring two of Weldon's favourite characters, Father Blueberry, a defrocked priest who has lost his religion, and Andromeda Vanguard, a lovably scattered artist. After checking out Vanguard's latest canvas, a mystified Blueberry laments to Vanguard: "I don't get it!" To which the artist replies: "You're not supposed to get it. It's ART!"

This is a not-so-subtle shot at the pretensions of the art world. "Let's just say I've run into a lot of art in my life," Weldon says with a sigh. "Much of it has been incomprehensible, even when it's my friends who have done it."

-snip-

[my bold font for emphasis]


Here's the blue clicky to the Mudcat thread about John:
thread.cfm?threadid=113021&messages=8
BS: John Weldon   

**
That thread has contact information to purchase your very own copies of John's comic books.

Congratulations, John!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:01 AM

or Bruce "Murdoch" even.

:o)

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 05:59 AM

And if folks don't 'get' what the fire references have to do with Bruce Murdooch, they can ask the Hinton, Alberta, Canada Fire Department.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 05:42 AM

or "purple" even.

Bruce puts the "p" "u" "r" "ple" in "purple"

and that spells "great"!

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Azizi
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 05:24 AM

Fir sure, you're right about that Severn.

But there's nothin wrong with me or any other folks being fired up about Bruce Murdoch songs.

And it's nothin wrong with me pineing for my Bruce Murdoch CD to hurry up home to me.

And I also wanna be berry clear that there's nothin wrong with me sayin that that new photo of Bruce on his website is hot-even if he's not putple in it.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: Severn
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 02:12 AM

Root Dehydration?

He's been well wrote of by his rooters, but had we thought we'd arid in some conifer way as to not supply enough moisture whenever the needle occur enough to cause him to pine away and balsam and turn from an evergreen to an everpurple fir lack of H2O, we'd have chosen an alternate root and provided him the next draft of the stuff rather than the next draught that caused him to Ale and and made Canada Dry.

So water the boys in the back room having?

The last thing Bruce would want to be is a fire hazard.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: GUEST,Bassman
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 12:25 AM

I believe his purple condition was due to "Root Dehydration" He had suffered a hot and very dry spell, He almost changed his name to "Spruce" Murdock!!!.

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: bankley
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 05:22 PM

yep, some fine music down there... et-toi, hey la bas... looking fwd to going back again....

I've been to a couple of Folk Alliance Conferences... played at one in Cleveland a few years back before they relocated to Memphis... met and heard some really good people...plus the resource opportunities are huge...

as far as 'coordinating the promotion efforts'... B.M. is the best person to speak with.. I know that he has some solid ideas... things will start to shape up soon, I suspect.... main thing is... he has a fine CD to work with now... and another one developing for next year... so it's been a very productive period so far... I don't expect that to change... I'm happy to see it starting to roll along... and the interest that it's generating.... I'm not really surprised... this is the vision I had when I managed to kidnap him and lock him in a recording studio on a snowy Montreal week-end 7 months ago....even if his face turned purple... it's been an interesting and rewarding ride so far...glad I got onboard and shovelled some coal into the fire-box... I knew that the old boiler could still get up a lot of steam....

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: KenM
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 03:49 PM

You're right, Ron......those parishes around Lafayette and cajun country are something to be experienced. I lived in Baton Rouge for eight years. I still miss the people, the food, and the music. However, when the state you're living in is 49th on virtually every social indicator of well-being (rate of poverty, amount of adult illiteracy, rate of infant mortality, etc., etc.), it wears on you! Repeating to yourself, "Thank God for Mississippi or we would be dead last" got tiresome. LOL

Back to the subject of promoting "Matters of the Heart", I know the artist himself needs to weigh in on this but in a previous posting (could have been on the thread dedicated to the cd), I suggested that Jim Frum at Folk Alley (the internet station at Kent State University dedicated to acoustic and world music) should be sent a copy and someone needs to post a review with Dirty Linen, the folk and world music magazine out of Baltimore, MD. Finally, I think we need to encourage some exp[osure of both the cd and Bruce himself at the International Folk Alliance Conference, 2009 in Memphis, TN., February 18 -22, 2009. Hey....maybe we could arrange a private tour of Graceland just for Mudcatters! Anyway, is someone coordinating these promotion efforts?

Subject: RE: Why does Bruce Have a Purple Face?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 03:00 PM

I know, I know, Brucie's got that Poorfeery thingy........