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dougMy journal has of late been rather filled with fairly serious and/or child-focused stuff.
So here's a bit of highbrow silliness.
I riffed with a friend on the potential confusion between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the songsmith Irving Berlin. (I should fess up that this was in fact a genuine confusion in my mind at one point.) What sort of polymathic genius could produce both the analytical power of White Christmas and the timeless crowd-pleaser The Hedgehog and The Fox? To say nothing of his syncretic meisterwerk, Top Hat, White Tie and Two Concepts of Liberty?
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steer has observed, never one to knowingly underuse a joke, here's an incomplete list of philosophers and musicians who are frequently confused or conflated. Or perhaps should be.
Isaiah Berlin / Irving Berlin
William James Brown
Dewey Lewis and the News
Wittgenstein / Rammstein
Friedrich "Freddie" Nietzsche and the Dreamers
Whitehead / Whitesnake
Immannuel Kant / Brian Cant
Plato / Placebo
Rene Descartes and Renata
Jacques Derrida / Crazy Frog
Baudrillard / Bo Diddley
Foucault / Foo Fighters
Seneca / Sinitta
Aristotle / 'Arry Secombe
David Hume / David Gray
Peter, Paul and Mary Warnock
Crosby, Stills and John Nash [fn1]
Kierkegaard / Kiri Te Kanawa
Eddie Husserl / Eddie van Halen [fn2]
Baudrillard / Bo Diddley
John Locke / Jon Bon Jovi
Gottfried Leibniz / Godley and Creme
Celine Di Beauvoir
Paul Simon de Beauvoir [fn3]
Little Richard Rorty
Black Eyed Piagets
Gnarls Berkeley
Sammy Davis, Bruner
Descartes / Des O'Connor
Robbie Williams of Occam
Peter Abba-lard
Rolf Harristotle
Machiavelli / Mantovani
Thomas Ackerbilkuinas
Bill Haley and his Camus
Elton John-Jacques Rousseau
Spinozsa-zsa Gabor [fn4]
S(in)artre
Any more for any more? Or suggestions for works produced by these composite creators?
[fn1] What do you mean he's not a philosopher? Game Theory is surely in the philosopher's C20th Top 40.
[fn2] It's a little known fact that his given name is Edmund Lodewijk van Halen.
[fn3] I did say 'never one to knowingly underuse a joke'.
[fn4] What do you mean she's not a musician? She did a tiny bit of singing at the start of her career. And I couldn't let a red hot pun like that pass un-logged.
So here's a bit of highbrow silliness.
I riffed with a friend on the potential confusion between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the songsmith Irving Berlin. (I should fess up that this was in fact a genuine confusion in my mind at one point.) What sort of polymathic genius could produce both the analytical power of White Christmas and the timeless crowd-pleaser The Hedgehog and The Fox? To say nothing of his syncretic meisterwerk, Top Hat, White Tie and Two Concepts of Liberty?
Since I am, as
steer has observed, never one to knowingly underuse a joke, here's an incomplete list of philosophers and musicians who are frequently confused or conflated. Or perhaps should be.Isaiah Berlin / Irving Berlin
William James Brown
Dewey Lewis and the News
Wittgenstein / Rammstein
Friedrich "Freddie" Nietzsche and the Dreamers
Whitehead / Whitesnake
Immannuel Kant / Brian Cant
Plato / Placebo
Rene Descartes and Renata
Jacques Derrida / Crazy Frog
Baudrillard / Bo Diddley
Foucault / Foo Fighters
Seneca / Sinitta
Aristotle / 'Arry Secombe
David Hume / David Gray
Peter, Paul and Mary Warnock
Crosby, Stills and John Nash [fn1]
Kierkegaard / Kiri Te Kanawa
Eddie Husserl / Eddie van Halen [fn2]
Baudrillard / Bo Diddley
John Locke / Jon Bon Jovi
Gottfried Leibniz / Godley and Creme
Celine Di Beauvoir
Paul Simon de Beauvoir [fn3]
Little Richard Rorty
Black Eyed Piagets
Gnarls Berkeley
Sammy Davis, Bruner
Descartes / Des O'Connor
Robbie Williams of Occam
Peter Abba-lard
Rolf Harristotle
Machiavelli / Mantovani
Thomas Ackerbilkuinas
Bill Haley and his Camus
Elton John-Jacques Rousseau
Spinozsa-zsa Gabor [fn4]
S(in)artre
Any more for any more? Or suggestions for works produced by these composite creators?
[fn1] What do you mean he's not a philosopher? Game Theory is surely in the philosopher's C20th Top 40.
[fn2] It's a little known fact that his given name is Edmund Lodewijk van Halen.
[fn3] I did say 'never one to knowingly underuse a joke'.
[fn4] What do you mean she's not a musician? She did a tiny bit of singing at the start of her career. And I couldn't let a red hot pun like that pass un-logged.
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:11 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:30 am (UTC)I do like David Human League - it somehow seems very appropriate, both ways.
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:15 am (UTC)This is easily the best thing on my entire Flist this morning. Closely followed by 'Seneca/Sinitta'.
I wish to god I remembered enough philosophy from my mostly abysmal A level therein to join in, but I wanted to firmly register my OH MY GOD I JUST NOTICED 'Bill Haley and his Camus', I THINK HAVE DIED OF JOY :D
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 10:33 am (UTC)It was 'Seneca/Sinitta' that convinced me that it was better to change from my first attempts ('Seneca and Sinitta' or 'Seneca vs Sinitta') in favour of the slash version
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:18 am (UTC)Or not.
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 10:33 am (UTC)The Crazy World Of Arthur Koestler (youngsters: Arthur Brown was the first, and possibly last, person to appear on stage [and Top Of The Pops] with a flaming headdress)
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:40 am (UTC)Koestler would so appreciate being the God Of Hellfire!
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Date: 2009-07-06 10:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-06 11:24 am (UTC)Not forgetting William's wife; Mary Wollstone-Kraftwerk?
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Date: 2009-07-06 12:47 pm (UTC)(Especially fab given that they're two of my minor heroes.)
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Date: 2009-07-06 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-06 11:15 am (UTC)an unusual skill-set, certainly :-D
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Date: 2009-07-06 02:15 pm (UTC)The joke only works if they are not the same person really.
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Date: 2009-07-06 07:40 pm (UTC)(Although in fairness, Derrida died in 2004 and that ringtone didn't appear until 2005.)
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Date: 2009-07-06 04:21 pm (UTC)Of course there's also the 3rd Earl Hines of Russell if we're generous enough to count Jazz as music rather than merely disordered irksome sounds.
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Date: 2009-07-07 07:19 am (UTC)