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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2006
Some Insights
"That's Me" may be literally autobiographical. Bought a biography online. Will read it when it arrives, and then will know.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2006
Precising "Everything About It"
I've read the Simon biography. He has several honorary degrees, so "picking up a bogus degree" is autobiographical. Which confirms my suspicion about "That's Me" being autobiographical. Sort of.
"I should have been a musician. / I love the piano. / ... well, that's me." (From "Darling Lorraine" on You're the One.) Piano was Simon's first instrument and he quickly abandoned it in favor of the guitar. He is a musician, of course. So it would be a mistake to think that "That's me" rules out the possibility that a Simon-created character, not Simon himself, is speaking
FRIDAY, JANUARY 05, 2006
"That's Me"
Two more songs with no cracking: "That's Me" and "How Can You Live in the Northeast?". The latter is very complex, to say the least. The former is autobiographical and doesn't take much cracking, though I do have some comments.
Penetrating insights, I hope. Maybe. Madman's musings, maybe. Even some uncracked confusion. Whatever, that will have to wait a moment. The radio's playing "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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