Charles Bronson Is My Life Force
(after Josh Bayer)
Or Neil Young. Neil Young is actually my life force. Marianne Faithfull is my id. Or Marianne Faithfull is my celebrity guardian angel. Think of her on your shoulder, talking to you in that voice all day. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is my other celebrity guardian angel. Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter is my ego. Allen Ginsberg is my superego. My superego, Allen Ginsberg, tells me to take things more seriously and also to lighten up. So I pray every day at an altar to that woman from Dancing with the Stars. The blonde one. And why not? “If you have prayed at an altar to that woman from Dancing with the Stars, you have done it for me.” That’s in the Bible.
I was just thinking about Charles Bronson the other day. Someone gave me the autobiography of one of the Dalton gang members, and the illustration on the front looks like Bronson . . . and maybe a little bit of Tom Skerritt. But I can't claim either of them as a life force, no-siree.
ReplyDeleteHa. Charles Bronson isn't really my life force, either. It was just a funny thing my friend Josh said when he picked his five favorite actors on Facebook. Patrick Stewart was his superego. My main association with Charles Bronson is that my German step-grandmother once said he looked like a Monchichi. (or that Monchichis looked like Charles Bronson?)
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