| Author | Message | ||
     Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 20 Registered: 06-2005 |
Am I the only one who never realized until today that the cover of "Danger in the Past" is a recreation of this photo of James Joyce? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SAcgzWAS93c/TF NL1Wg0GfI/AAAAAAAAAEE/Rl-t2ojjrrE/s1600/ JJ_1915.jpg | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, I think so - but thanks for the reminder and link anyway. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3800 Registered: 05-2005 |
I never saw it before Greg. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 625 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm man enough to stride confidently forward and announce to my fellow posters "Um. I never realised that" Thanks Greg ! And I have to ask, how did you make that link ? Just by chance ? | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 21 Registered: 06-2005 |
I randomly ran across the image online and saw the similarity. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2088 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mark me down as one who never realised that as well. I take it that Robert was a devotee of JJ's writtings? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3801 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think Robert is a fan of Irish writing in general, eg. in The House That Jack Kerouac Built someone is reading him "poetry that's Irish and so black". I believe there is also a Beckett influence in his choice of haircuts over the years. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2601 Registered: 03-2005 |
He did mention James Joyce in his list of authors in "Karen." I just assumed fsh was being a smart aleck with his response. I've never seen that photo of James Joyce. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 238 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey man, I didn't ask the question, I just responded to it. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1554 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'd seen it before, too - I think it's actually on the cover of some Joyce collection I have. I always got a kick out of Robert's appropriation of it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 420 Registered: 10-2006 |
fsh being a smart aleck? Perish the thought! | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 254 Registered: 02-2005 |
I knew the photo was a reenactment of "something." I might have read that it was a photo of James Joyce in the days before Google Image Search, and had forgotten about it. I enjoyed seeing that. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2152 Registered: 10-2004 |
I assumed everyone here knew about that! Funny! I discovered it when a local book shop had a poster in its window with the original James Joyce image. I did a double-take. This was back in the 90s, I think. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2153 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig, I don't think I've ever seen Robert with a Beckett style haircut. Honestly, has anyone seen him with hair like this? http://www.cambridge.org/uk/literature/b eckett/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3803 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's Robert's next haircut Jeff. If it isn't I'll buy you a drink in Bus Stop on Union Street. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2091 Registered: 01-2005 |
If not Robert's, then certainly Lyle Lovett's. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2155 Registered: 10-2004 |
Or David Lynch's. | ||
| Dave Dooley Member Username: Aztec Post Number: 9 Registered: 12-2006 |
Never knew about the Jimmy Joyce photo. Makes it an even cooler album cover for me now knowing this! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 515 Registered: 05-2005 |
The two images are so alike, I can't even be certain I haven't seen the original. I could see Robert with a Beckett "Do". Maybe not for another 20 years though... | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 239 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did any of you Celtic cubs emigrate from this land of fog and gloom yet? I was going to go to Australia but I thought I might find it a bit cramped there. Anyone notice that most of Ireland's greatest writers left their 'homeland' and went somewhere else. I got a feeling Queensland is going to be full of Irish construction workers soon (adverts in papers last week). In my experience they're not great writers by and large. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 69 Registered: 01-2007 |
"In my experience they're not great writers by and large." Who???? Construction workers???? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 423 Registered: 10-2006 |
Joist and Girder, perhaps? | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 54 Registered: 08-2006 |
I didn't know. Very nice. Will listen to album now, in tribute to the discovery. All Music Guide: "(...)the cover photo (...)looks like it could have been taken somewhere in rural America circa 1920." |