U. Utah Phillips - 4 - Funniest Story Ever!?

[boxcarro]

Meters with three-syllable feet are ANAPESTIC (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still DACTYLIC (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl)

Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls or anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and o ctameter (8).

[MikeJomara]

@boxcarro i don't care what you learned in english class. i'm talking about self expression. the human spirit does not manifest itself in either a spondee or a dactyl.

[boxcarro]

@MikeJomara You are STILL a FOOL. The Spirit DOES MANIFEST DIVINE BEAUTY, my GRIPE (As YOU-IDIOT-Fail To Grasp, ) is CALLING TRASH "POETRY" to CREATE "MARKETS" for PUBLISHING TRASH, under the FALSE IMPRESSION that TRASH is ART. I Also have a STRIDENT DISDAIN of TELEVISION EVANGELISM, "The School of P.T. BARNHAM: there's a SUCKER "Born Again" Every Minute, WE ARE GOING TO GET THEIR CA$H!" YOU, idiot, OBVIOUSLY "think" WITHIN the Marshall McLuhan: "The Medium is the Message"

[boxcarro]

Mike. I am actually 62 years aged / a person who knew Utah. And a active Jazz guitarist in San Francisco ,U R A TROLL.

[MrStylus88]

shit

[boxcarro]

The sad thing, is, Charlie Goodnight & Oliver Loving are people of Texas Lore from the Greatest Days of America. I am 62 Years old, and find that 100% of the Young People "Totally Culturally Idiotic" They KNOW NOTHING, the Schools teach then NOTHING. I grew up Reading Books. BOTKIN: The Anthrology of AMERICAN FOLKLORE, Every Elizebethian Poet, up to EA POE, I passed LITERATURE with a CITATION. What passes for Poetry now-a-days is TRASH. No meter, no rhyme- just GOOBLE-DAY-GOCK.

[boxcarro]

@boxcarro It DISGUSTS ME that the POET GUILD has lowered the acceptation of "trash mudbeldy goop" as Poetry, FOR CA$H. To encourage FOOLS into Poetry Clubs to SPEND CA$H...they call schizophreniac word salad and long silly siloquietys POEMS. Poetry is NOT FOUND in Poetry Clubs anymore. (Hot Springs, Arkansas, We heard young females talking about and to their Vaganias....Oh GOD!) Keep that thing in your SKIRTS! Out of your MOUTH! It has no HextraMetre. It is DISAMBULIOUSLY DEFRAGGIDOCIOUSLY

[MikeJomara]

@boxcarro though i suspect by now that you are just trolling and probably around 13 years old, i thought i might address your qualms with modern poetry. Though I can see why you think that young people are culturally idiotic, I ask you to consider this: is it the youth or the culture? The culture is certainly idiotic in some respects, but who among us isn't a product of our culture, of our environment? Also, poetry is about self expression and knows no imaginary parameters like rhyme and meter.

[boxcarro]

English poetry has five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. The meters are iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests and dactyls. In this document the stressed syllables marked in bold type rather the tradition ." Each unit of rhythm is called a "foot" of poetry. IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

[togderi]

DEATH BEFORE EMPLOYMENT !!!

[68dharmabum]

If reincarnation exists what do you suppose Utah Philips will come back as? Nothing, because he isn't really dead. His energy is alive and his spirit lives on just like Joe Hill. As long as there are people who are suffering under the yolk of some state or boss, Utah Philips lives on. Thanks for the stories Utah!

[TheGuerrillaPoet]

This man sure was a national treasure....

[Dumbiestest]

I'll tell u the funniest story i ever hear in my life-

Flat-out full boar overhead cam cord wild wheel no old bark funniest story I ever heard in my live.

Huh?

[OpakeArawra2]

@Dumbiestest no holds barred. does it make sense to you now? jeeeez...i thought that i was slow...

[bulbheadmyass]

That was a great story, as only U Utah could tell it. Hard to beat moose turd pie, but I think it does. Good song too. Thanks for this great post.

[edgeyp12]

A wonderful man.

[Tsagiglalal]

I met Utah the first time at the Worlds Fair in Spokane WA in 1974. I saw him almost everyday for six months, striking up a friendship of sorts. After the fair he settled in Spokane for a number of years. Our friendship continued and we crossed paths about town, ie. performances, my house once and his a couple of times. He became a source of knowledge and support for those years. We shared a railroad past. 34 years. He is sorely missed, every day of my life.

[redgyro1]

I heard him many times on the radio, but never got to see him in person. This was a treat! Thank you--

[canopyroad]

@redgyro1 xx

[canopyroad]

@canopyroad sorry, that last post was an accident. great video!

[realzoomy]

Brilliant.

Wonderful, honest, funny man.

I love him!

[nosowisewoman]

his activism will be missed... he spoke volumes..

[obeasebaby]

holy shit

[willysunday]

One his favorite stories, one my favorite songs. NO one like him. Should have been compulsory for evry American to see him. I was lucky enough to do once and it will remain a sweet memory.

I think of all he meant to so many people. I hold his courage to "buck" against anything that made cents - but not sense- was among his strongest attributes. Amazing wit!

thanks for the post,

thank God for U.Bruce Phillips.

willy

[spooninspoon]

Folk and Blues music is the First form of true American music ever! is all I have to say. So Thankyou Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson and everybody else who was/is part of it .The list goes on for miles. You can say what you want about other areas of culture but when it comes to music America did it better than ANYONE (not now of course). Any genre of music is some how branched to an american style. Fuck lables, we did it better and with more honesty even if you do consider music dead

[spooninspoon]

THE BEST OF THE REST, Britain: Beatles invented pop.Sex Pistols re-invented anarchy. Pink floyd were/are the british FOLK MUSIC , and The Rolling Stones were just a mix of The Beatles,Sex pistols and Pink Floyd ALL rolled up into one! Thats where Britain is right now. Music just sucks nowadays and the good shit is underground. ALL EXCEPT FOR a guy named Bob Dylan,he did it all. BOB DYLAN is his own Genre' he is the most dynamic musician ever. There is nowhere in music that this guy hasen't been.

[AcornFox]

The sex pistols were an advertisement laid down by corporate media to sell the punk aesthetic to people who knew nothing of anarchy. They are almost single-handedly responsible for the stigmatization of the word! People think anarchy means chaos and it means nothing of the sort. Anarchy is only chaos to people incapable of governing themselves. Central government makes things like the sex pistols to convince us we need them.

That said, Hail Utah!

[mowgli2071]

Also, the corporate media doesn't like to acknowledge the difference between anarchy and anocracy. As i write, even mozilla firefox's automatic spellcheck hasn't heard of it.

[wid85]

@AcornFox

Whilst I mainly agree, it's important to note that there's a very long history of demonising anarchists. Every government since the begining has done it. Even Bronze Age records bear witness to this (e.g. official Middle Kingdom descriptions of the first intermediate period in Egypt). And as modern anarchism emerged in the 19th century massive propoganda effeorts were made to ensure ordinary people didn't know what anarchists stood for. Novelists, newspapers and so on on took part.

[bdyken]

as an activist musician, utah phillips was a personal hero of mine...had the honor to perform with him at concerts, festivals and actions such as the anniversary of the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki in livermore california where the bombs are made...he sat on our bus and shared stories...he was a sweet man and an important voice, i never missed a chance to see him if he was around..especially love his work with ani...

[guyglowmore1]

we opened up for utah when he came to our town in the eighties. he attracted quite a wonderful crowd and memorable experiences. your name calling arguments are amusing

[thekidde63]

I am amazed at EscapeNewJersey's idiocy. I knew Utah when I was attending the University of Utah and joined the Intermountain Folk Music Council. Rosalie and Utah were the main course, but all played, sang and talked about life. Utah was a humanist, a socially conscious man of the world. Jersey you show a distinct lack of intelligence and a vast amount of ignorance in spite of your claim to "gettin' ejumicated". Sorry you're such an ass - Utah would have had a bit of fun with your foolishness.

[lickmynose]

I loved his stories, damn I wished there were more time he could've shared on this planet.

[5ken7]

i want that guild guitar!

[liamrdavidson]

what a wonderfull man

[EscapeNewJersey]

He is a communist - don't be fooled!

[danenhod]

sounds like you were the one fooled, by propaganda and the public school system.

[EscapeNewJersey]

The public scool system is run by a bunch of communist also!

[lickmynose]

Ha ha!!! Good one! I bet you are right.

[kirstenk14]

actually he was an anarchist and a pacifist and a wobbly, but never a communist.

[EscapeNewJersey]

Ya, that makes him better!

[Stonegolem42]

Ah . . . yes.

Yes, actually, it does.

[publiclandowner]

Communist? Which cult leader told you that, brother? If you don't understand Phillips, you should try manual labor to make a living, do a couple of tours in Iraq, or volunteer at a soup kitchen for a while. Utah Phillips was of the most creative thinkers I have ever had the opportunity to hear. The body of work that he left behind is an amazing tribute to the real America by a great American.

[EscapeNewJersey]

I have done manual labor and worked my way through two college degrees and paid cash for my house with no help from my parents. Don't lecture me you pussy communist loser! Utah Phillips sings a bunch of stupid songs and you think he is God. The same lame brain thinking is behind the idiots that follow Obama!

[publiclandowner]

...and still apparently learned very little about rational discourse, politics, history, the labor movement, managing financial assets or magical belief systems. Please grace us with an original interesting story. Producing a creative, non-plagerized, non-copyright-infringing piece with no hate speech for youtube would be nice. Utah was a great historian and storyteller. I really enjoyed Loafers Glory. One of my favorite stories was the one about living next to the skinheads in Hayden Lake.

[EscapeNewJersey]

LOL "rational discourse" - typical code word of a communist pussy! Hitler also was a great speaker and told interesting stories! Why sould I be impressed with a story teller. I'm more impressed with doers and not talkers! If I want a listen to a talker I can walk into any barber shop!

[publiclandowner]

Interesting - you come to this place to disparage Utah Phillips, a great story teller and hero of the working class, by casting the lablel of Communist on his life. Then you compare him to Hitler. You must not have been paying attention to Utah Phillip's stories or you would know he disliked organizations- Government, business or social, that support the bosses and corporations by taking from the working man. The key to learning is listening, not dismissing the experience of your fellow human.

[boxcarro]

@publiclandowner Haveing MET UTAH in the FLESH- I speak of MySelf- He (UTAH) Was Living in a TENT up on MOUNT SHASTA, I was LIVING in a CAVE! It was FROM HIS LIPS that I LEARNED of MOOSE TURD PIE. (I had NO IDEA\ Whom He WAS (This was DURING the DESERT WAR-2000.) (AS a MATTER in FACT- I didn't even KNOW we-ins was INNA WAR!) UTAH Phillips COULD SPEAK to my SCHIZOPHRENIACK "Chi" BECAWSE "I AM THE HOBO JAZZ GUITAR FREIGHT TRAIN HOPPER" KNOWEN AS "BOXCARRO" He was NOT a COMMIE, HE IS GOD'S TRAMP!

[boxcarro]

@publiclandowner !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OLD HOBOES NEVER DIE----->WE JUST SMELL THAT-A-WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was playing JAZZ by "DOWN HOME MUSIC" in BERKELEY on the DAY UTAH DIED, I runed up CEDAR STREET to FAT DAWGS "SUBWAY GUITARS" to WEEP AND CRY with OTHER FOLKIES of LIKE MINDED-NESS! WE ALSO LOST "BO-DIDDLEY" about the SAME TIME!!!! I WAS THE JAZZ GUITARIST that PASSED OUT ARTICLES about POOR PEOPLE in HATI forced to EAT DIRT! (Before the EARTH QUAKE!)

[kazearaki]

@publiclandowner

Utah was never a Commie.

He is an Anarchist, not some Stalinist's minions.

Long Live The Union.

Long Live the Anarchists.

RIP Utah Phillips.

[EscapeNewJersey]

publiclandowner, you are also a religious bigot! Therefore, you are the lowest of the low!

[publiclandowner]

Wow, you really are a troll.

[EscapeNewJersey]

And you are a liberal ass communist!

[brainiac123]

If only I had seen him perform whilst he was among us. A real regret. May he be remembered forever.

[flatted5th]

right on Bon! tell it like it is......

[SF0gtown]

This man can sure tell a story. Wish I would have found him long ago...but better now than never. His spirit & humor will live on & on.....Bonnie

[frustratedfarmer1]

"Is that the moon I see,

Over there in the west?

Or just the headlight's beam,

C&O Express,

I know she's gone,

Whatever I say,

Still it won't be long,

'Till I make up my mind,

And go away." --U. Utah Phillips

Adios, old friend. We will miss the likes of you.

[rjwinz]

Heres to you Utah. May you forever see starlight on the rails.

[SirPrizeSirPrize]

I saw Utah more times than I can count. He was always willing to talk.

Please consider making a donation in his honor to the Hospitality House of Western Nevada County that Utah was one of the founders of. Every dollar helps make Utah live on!

Utah Phillips will NEVER rest in Peace...I know he will be busy organizing in Heaven!

[hangmansbridge]

Chat with you many many times... missed your voice missed the conversations!

LOVE YOU

[kcdriftr]

Utah will live on forever! His presence was a gift to anyone who ever crossed his path...

[joshiesmum]

I'll miss you U.

[catinger]

Wonderful! Wonderful!

[crocoteeth]

Rest in peace, my grandpa. Love ur songs and ur stories

[tannisroot75]

Oh, Utah. Im so grateful i found you.

Thank you so very much.

[AdamHeilbrun]

Bruce - my sorrow at your passing is far outweighted by my delight at your having lived.

Be seeing you!

Adam

[ArkRed1]

One of my hobo heroes. Utah Phillips. The other being hobo-singer Goebel Reeves who wrote Hobo's Lullaby. What a wonderful legacy of songs and stories they left us. RIP gentlemen.

[Casadh]

You'll be missed. Glad that I came acrosss your path -- even if it was just once.

[dragontruck]

To a life well-lived. RIP Utah.

[mylifeisought]

R.I.P., Utah

[heathcliffhuxtable]

Thanks, Bruce. We'll miss you and your warm humor.

[bennyboy420]

RIP Utah.  A life well lived.

[signjay]

Utah Phillips passed away last night, 5/24/08 in his sleep.

[signjay]

I heard from Bruce Brackney just minutes ago. Utah Phillips passed away last night in his sleep. May the songs of this incredible troubadour never be forgotten. He's bequeathed to us a treasure that must not be squandered. -Jay Peterson, Sedgwick, Maine

[CitizenJain666]

A national treasure, absolutely...

[phkaplan]

As of February 3, Utah is in San Francisco undergoing evaluation for a heart transplant. His health is deteriorating. In addition to the stress of his illness, Phillips has financial concerns too. He's been deprived of his livelihood just as his expenses have skyrocketed. Send him a card and/or a check at: Utah Phillips PO BOX 1235 Nevada City, CA 95959

[OldWines]

Could someone please post "Moose Turd Pie"? Many thanks, ~~""

[USERCRITIC]

I am so happy to see him again in great health. I will tell you that Mr. Phillips is without a doubt the greatest man I have ever met. He is a great humanitarian and his wife is a truly wonderful woman. Love ya Utah.

[Paaaaaaaaaaap]

So happy to know Utah is back performing again indeed, alive and kicking !!!!

[markdougherty50]

If any living Americans are to be regarded as national treasures, this man is surely one. First joke I ever hears Utah tell: "What's invisible and smells like worms? Bird farts!"

[Jessiqua42]

Ohh. That voice.

[Jessiqua42]

I love this man. He is a hero of mine.

(But could someone explain the whole sits-on-fish thing to me?)

Peace.Jess.

[Koogz406]

i think you got it...and yes he hes the best

[bookletbook2000]

One Mr. Tom Waits used to talk about this guy.... and that trail....

[5393c]

So glad to know Utah is back performing again. It's been many years since he's been to Kalamazoo,Lansing and Benton Harbor Michigan. Thanks for the video; it is great

[hippolord94]

I was there!

[omgimtoocool]

he reminded me of when arlo guthrie played. it was great.

i love strawberry!!

[wethen]

Yes... this IS the funniest story ever. We found on a trip to Texas that the Goodnight-Loving Trail was a real thing, makes this yarn even funnier. Thanks so much for the post. Glad we where there.