Some Sexy Nouvelle Vague … Making Plans for Nigel.
Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that “plagiarism” farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernal, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances’— is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men — but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly smail portion of it is his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington’s battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
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| — | Mark Twain — Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903) |
Please Come Back To Me - Jimmy Ether - Five Naked Notes
I played a little songwriters night at the local Atlanta Brewing Company on November 11th, 2009. After the show, I came back to Headphone Treats, still quite tipsy from the ABC Porter and Blond, to record audio and video of the same set.
The audio has been released as an EP called “Five Naked Notes”. Go to jimmyether.bandcamp.com to download the high res audio (up to lossless) for whatever you want to pay. Even free.
No Fair Touching - Jimmy Ether - Five Naked Notes
I played a little songwriters night at the local Atlanta Brewing Company on November 11th, 2009. After the show, I came back to Headphone Treats, still quite tipsy from the ABC Porter and Blond, to record audio and video of the same set.
The audio has been released as an EP called “Five Naked Notes”. Go to jimmyether.bandcamp.com to download the high res audio (up to lossless) for whatever you want to pay. Even free.
Temporary - Jimmy Ether - Five Naked Notes
I played a little songwriters night at the local Atlanta Brewing Company on November 11th, 2009. After the show, I came back to Headphone Treats, still quite tipsy from the ABC Porter and Blond, to record audio and video of the same set.
The audio has been released as an EP called “Five Naked Notes”. Go to jimmyether.bandcamp.com to download the high res audio (up to lossless) for whatever you want to pay. Even free.
Temporary - Jimmy Ether - Five Naked Notes
I played a little songwriters night at the local Atlanta Brewing Company on November 11th, 2009. After the show, I came back to Headphone Treats, still quite tipsy from the ABC Porter and Blond, to record audio and video of the same set.
The audio has been released as an EP called “Five Naked Notes”. Go to jimmyether.bandcamp.com to download the high res audio (up to lossless) for whatever you want to pay. Even free.
Stephanie’s Shoes - Jimmy Ether - Five Naked Notes
I played a little songwriters night at the local Atlanta Brewing Company on November 11th, 2009. After the show, I came back to Headphone Treats, still quite tipsy from the ABC Porter and Blond, to record audio and video of the same set.
The audio has been released as an EP called “Five Naked Notes”. Go to jimmyether.bandcamp.com to download the high res audio (up to lossless) for whatever you want to pay. Even free.
ANTM Fantasy League... in the name of comedy.
andreakremer: @jimmyether You should join my ANTM fantasy league so we have that much more to discuss on PerpXTalk.
jimmyether: @andreakremer What's perpXtalk?
andreakremer: @jimmyether OUCH.
jimmyether: @andreakremer ... I kid. You know, I banned ANTM from this house two seasons ago. Are you seriously going to make me lift it FOR COMEDY?!
andreakremer: @jimmyether I thought there was nothing you wouldn't do for comedy...
jimmyether: @andreakremer I won't streak at a football game for comedy. Not because of body shame (which I have). I don't want to encourage football.
andreakremer: @jimmyether I promise never to encourage you to encourage football in the name of comedy even if it means forgoing a chance to see your butt
