Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You could really be a Beau Brummell, baby, if you just give it half a chance.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dystalgic, or perhaps, Distalgic.

I keep trying to tease out the interplay of cultural reference making and nostalgia, to define dystalgia as a critical tool in assessing what value a given cultural reference has.

However, this post is a stumper. I'm not readily familiar with it's references, or understanding the sum of it's parts (Henry Miller + Rimbaud + Beau Brummel = ?), but I'm hugely intrigued, and enjoying the process of figuring it out.

To further muddy these waters... Maybe this post introduces a new spelling: distalgia, which would be a kind of discursive nostaliga.

Anonymous said...

Billy Joel?