Passion = Truth? How Jeffrey James Francis Ircink Sees The World? I love when people are passionate about something. That surging of emotion is the one honest measure of what truth is. It's a truthful display of how a person really feels about something or someone at that particular moment. That passion IS truth.



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Ex-producer of THE REALLY FUNNY HORNY GOAT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, playwright, actor, singer, outdoorsman, blogger, amateur photog, observer & bitcher, Beach Boys groupie, Brett Favre fanatic, lover of everything Celtic and forever a member in the Tribe of HAIR. Spent most of my life in the Village of Waterford, a small town just outside of the Milwaukee suburbs. After 12 years in North Hollywood, Bel Air and Culver City, Cali, I moved back to Wisconsin in September 2009. No regrets - of moving to LA OR moving back to WI. Have traveled to Belfast, Ireland, Dayton (OH), Manhattan, Seattle, Cedar Rapids, New York, Miami and Sydney, Australia with my plays. Moved back into the Village of Greendale where I was born. Life is good.

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Saturday, February 28, 2009

TGISaturday! presents...Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe".

Love this song. Haunting. What do the lyrics mean? No one can seem to agree - not even Gentry.

It's said that Bob Dylan hated this song and wrote, "Clothesline Saga" (track nine of the Basement Tapes album), in an attempt to create a sarcastic parody of "Ode". His thought was that "Ode" was a go-nowhere song about nothing containing dull converation.

I disagree. AND - at least one can understand what Gentry is singing. Unlike the venerable Mr. Dylan.

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