Who is Next?
God stop it all ready, if there is a God and I believe there is! Don’t take anymore of my favorites, please. It was hard enough to lose Tim Russert, and now George Carlin. Give me a break!
Whether you liked his Comedic material or not, George Carlin was a gifted writer and performer with a particular talent for language. Just like Tim Russert, George had a great love of language, and a great gift for language.
Humor has three rhythms or vibes of life: Flying, Flowing and Molding. The way George Carlin revealed his humor was flying (staccato). Not only in his wonderful staccato delivery, but also in his understanding of the symbols of words, so we could have a better take on life.
He made us think with his brilliant linguistic dissection of the symbols of words… George said, “I have a talent to amuse and I have a way of finding the joke, a way of expressing things through exaggeration, interesting images.”
In his final in-depth interview with, Psychology Today Senior Editor, Jay Dixit interviewed Carlin by phone. Carlin called it “the most complete interview I’ve ever done.” So here is my homage to George.
Words are the ”Actors For Real’s” Greatest Tools
For me words have color, character; they have pouts, faces, manners, and gesticulations. They have moods, humor, eccentricities; they have tints, tones and personalities…
Because people cannot see the color of words, the tint of words, the secret ghostly motions of words…
Because they cannot hear the whispering of words, the rustling of the procession of letters, the dream-flutes and dream-drums which are thinly and weirdly played by words…
Because they cannot perceive the pouting of words, the raging of and the racketing of words…
Because they are insensible to the phosphorescing of words, the fragrance of words, the tenderness or hardness; the dryness or juiciness of words…the inter-change of values in gold, silver and the copper of words…
Is that any reason why we should not try to make them hear or to make them see or to make them feel?
Thanks George for makeing us hear, see and feel.
Be Bop!
Thom
