Down the Rabbit's Hole
Just don't do it.64 total reviews
Comment from Margaret Snowdon
How impressive, Dean - so much to take in that
I had to read it again - what an imagination..
and great presentation - but then, you never
disappoint.
You should have a website of your own to collect
your work on.
Margaret
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How impressive, Dean - so much to take in that
I had to read it again - what an imagination..
and great presentation - but then, you never
disappoint.
You should have a website of your own to collect
your work on.
Margaret
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from gypsycaravan
Wow, Dean. What a wealth of information. I think I missed this entire era because it was when I was busy producing baby after baby five times. Any other sounds, like music, were too much. I didn't start listening to music again for years. I loved the rhythm and sounds of your poetry (lots of fun to recite) and the wealth of research at the end.
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Wow, Dean. What a wealth of information. I think I missed this entire era because it was when I was busy producing baby after baby five times. Any other sounds, like music, were too much. I didn't start listening to music again for years. I loved the rhythm and sounds of your poetry (lots of fun to recite) and the wealth of research at the end.
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from adewpearl
I love the "upgraded" site - upgraded to what is what I keep asking LOL
great list of songs you reference :-)
excellent use of internal rhyme
good alliteration in phrases like wonders why our world's
You're speaking my language :-) Brooke
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I love the "upgraded" site - upgraded to what is what I keep asking LOL
great list of songs you reference :-)
excellent use of internal rhyme
good alliteration in phrases like wonders why our world's
You're speaking my language :-) Brooke
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from Domino 2
Hi, Deano - you know me and notes, but I did brush through them and found it interesting those songs had drug themes, though of course I realise how much drugs were available and used in the old rock music world.
The only song I knew was drugs related was 'Puff the magic dragon', and I certainly didn't realise it at the time.
Apart from the very occasional joint, I've never indulged in drugs, but I'm sure some of the most interesting songs were written whilst under the influence - though I'm sure not condoning that. Shit - I get enough writing 'influence' from alcohol at times.
Fun made up use of 'bazooms' to meet the rhyme.
You brilliantly incorporate all these titles into a flowing story in a poem, and that must have taken ages to get right - I VERY rarely have that patience.
Another of your wonderfully presented posts.
Being the wonderful and UN-irritating guy I am, LOL, I'll overlook the few un-metered lines and just say this is a BRILLIANT poem, and well worth my sixer!
Cheers, Ray.
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Hi, Deano - you know me and notes, but I did brush through them and found it interesting those songs had drug themes, though of course I realise how much drugs were available and used in the old rock music world.
The only song I knew was drugs related was 'Puff the magic dragon', and I certainly didn't realise it at the time.
Apart from the very occasional joint, I've never indulged in drugs, but I'm sure some of the most interesting songs were written whilst under the influence - though I'm sure not condoning that. Shit - I get enough writing 'influence' from alcohol at times.
Fun made up use of 'bazooms' to meet the rhyme.
You brilliantly incorporate all these titles into a flowing story in a poem, and that must have taken ages to get right - I VERY rarely have that patience.
Another of your wonderfully presented posts.
Being the wonderful and UN-irritating guy I am, LOL, I'll overlook the few un-metered lines and just say this is a BRILLIANT poem, and well worth my sixer!
Cheers, Ray.
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from JanetRussek
Hello Dean. Being my age, I fully understood the piece you wrote. I grew up with the bands you referenced in your notes. I've only recently become interested in the heavy metal of today. Not sure I understand this new bunch at all. But, I'm old.
Warm Regards,
Janet
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Hello Dean. Being my age, I fully understood the piece you wrote. I grew up with the bands you referenced in your notes. I've only recently become interested in the heavy metal of today. Not sure I understand this new bunch at all. But, I'm old.
Warm Regards,
Janet
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from mfowler
I was having fun picking out the references from my era's great music as I read this incredibly clever poem. Choosing 'Alice in Wonderland's' tumbling down the hole theme is so apt. Your use of all those 'eng' words in sequence really gave the poem a sense of turbulence and mystical magical touring. I was such an innocent back then that I imagined the drugs just made them happy and creative, but as you note Jimmy didn't end up creative. Your allusion to what's possible without drugs is a fine ending:
Your innovation doesn't need man-made chemicals to take seed.
Creativity isn't dead -- it lives, lies dormant in our head.
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I was having fun picking out the references from my era's great music as I read this incredibly clever poem. Choosing 'Alice in Wonderland's' tumbling down the hole theme is so apt. Your use of all those 'eng' words in sequence really gave the poem a sense of turbulence and mystical magical touring. I was such an innocent back then that I imagined the drugs just made them happy and creative, but as you note Jimmy didn't end up creative. Your allusion to what's possible without drugs is a fine ending:
Your innovation doesn't need man-made chemicals to take seed.
Creativity isn't dead -- it lives, lies dormant in our head.
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from Walu Feral
G'day Dean. Fuck me! I am stuck for words for the first time in my life mate. Never before have I seen a work as deep and powerful as this one buddy! Many have written with song titles etc. in them but this one mate is just WOW! Yes Sir, it has the WOW factor. Cheers Fez
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G'day Dean. Fuck me! I am stuck for words for the first time in my life mate. Never before have I seen a work as deep and powerful as this one buddy! Many have written with song titles etc. in them but this one mate is just WOW! Yes Sir, it has the WOW factor. Cheers Fez
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from Phyllis Stewart
You did a terrific job on this. I didn't need the notes to know what it was about. I wonder if the Alice in Wonderland series were first published today with no mention of it being a children's story if everyone would just assume the story is about an LSD trip. Probably. For that matter, who knows what Lewis Carroll may have had access to in his day. :)
reply by the author on 11-Jan-2015
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You did a terrific job on this. I didn't need the notes to know what it was about. I wonder if the Alice in Wonderland series were first published today with no mention of it being a children's story if everyone would just assume the story is about an LSD trip. Probably. For that matter, who knows what Lewis Carroll may have had access to in his day. :)
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
reply by the author on 11-Jan-2015
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Thank you very much, Phyllis. I really appreciate you taking the time to read and review this for me.
It's been tossed around in various forums that Caroll may have been on some kind of drug when he wrote Alice in Wonderland, I don't think that's true. However, I do believe he had strong hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences.
It's very doubtful he would have had access to most of the hallucinogenic drugs that we have access to today (although there were some pretty thought-provoking cough mixtures around at the time), but none of his biographers ever suggested that he experimented with drugs. The sorts of changes in body size and orientation that he describes - growing, shrinking, falling uncontrollably, etc. - that Alice experiences are very typical of what's called hypnagogic and/or hypnopompic experiences. These are phenomena that some people experience when they're dropping off to sleep or when waking up sometimes. Some people experience this a great deal, almost to the point where they dread the business of going to sleep. I'm one of those people, and that's where the idea for this poem originated from -- that falling feeling just prior to sleep.
Anyhow, thanks again! ~Dean
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Gives new meaning to "falling asleep" doesn't it? Unless that's the expression came from. I've never heard of that condition. Have you seen doctors about it? They have new drugs all the time.
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Yes, and they prescribed one for me, along with about ten different ones for my heart condition. I take so many meds that I only need to eat one meal a day 'cause I'm already so full, ha-ha!
Comment from giraffmang
Hi Dean,
This is another great piece of work and again brilliantly presented. It is odd how work on both sites is difficult to reconcile!
The subject matter is very interesting as indeed are the author's notes and this is definitely not a condoning taking drugs. I was not aware of some of the songs referenced being about drugs but many I was. Not sure about Puff the Magic Dragon though! People listen to songs a lot without hearing the lyrics.
Although not about drugs, one of the rudest songs if you listen to the actual lyrics is Diana Ross' 'Chain Reaction' which is basically about one woman reaching orgasm during a single night of sex! Nice for a kids pop tune!
Anyway. Excellent work as usual.
All the best
Gareth
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Hi Dean,
This is another great piece of work and again brilliantly presented. It is odd how work on both sites is difficult to reconcile!
The subject matter is very interesting as indeed are the author's notes and this is definitely not a condoning taking drugs. I was not aware of some of the songs referenced being about drugs but many I was. Not sure about Puff the Magic Dragon though! People listen to songs a lot without hearing the lyrics.
Although not about drugs, one of the rudest songs if you listen to the actual lyrics is Diana Ross' 'Chain Reaction' which is basically about one woman reaching orgasm during a single night of sex! Nice for a kids pop tune!
Anyway. Excellent work as usual.
All the best
Gareth
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015
Comment from tw4fun
Love the images and slick moving Rhythm and Rhyme... You have a splendid way of creating amusing pictures as the poetry progresses. I like the line greasy goons with red billion's and ghost white rabbits with bad habits-- Excellent video to accompany your masterpiece
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Love the images and slick moving Rhythm and Rhyme... You have a splendid way of creating amusing pictures as the poetry progresses. I like the line greasy goons with red billion's and ghost white rabbits with bad habits-- Excellent video to accompany your masterpiece
Comment Written 11-Jan-2015