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Art Garfunkel calls Paul Simon a 'monster with a Napoleon complex'
Toronto Sun ^ | May 25, 2015 | wenn.com

Posted on 05/25/2015 3:35:19 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: SkyPilot
hope your son gets to work for a better person next time.

No, No; working well with "difficult people" is recognized as a positive attribute on your resume. If you're going to work in the media, at any level, you have to learn how to handle "difficult people." Or leave.

61 posted on 05/25/2015 4:48:12 PM PDT by Ace's Dad (Proud grandpa of a "Brit Chick" named Poppy Loucks (Call sign "Popsickle").)
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To: yarddog
RE: S&G - Great music, don't want to hang out with them, don't place any value at all in their political opinions. Shut up and sing.

RE: Film vs Digital - You can still buy film and get it processed through many of the big mail order webstores (B&H, Adarama, etc). For that matter, I can travel 10 or so miles from my house and take a $700 course in wet plate photography. I can also re-create the look of virtually any film or process in Photoshop, no muss, no fuss. With film you had the choice of shooting fine-grained but slow ( ISO 25) or fast & grainy (ISO 400)). Cost per image over a dollar each by the time all is said and done. Back in the 50’s I'm told that an 8x10 dye transfer print could be more than a few hundred dollars with a high degree of uncertainty of success in processing.
Today you can shoot a few hundred images in an afternoon and get a passable image at ISO 800 and even ISO 1600 and get gallery quality 16x20 prints at Sam's Club for under $7.00 each. IMHO we live in a golden age of photography with wonders yet to come (computational imaging for one)!

62 posted on 05/25/2015 4:51:15 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: rickmichaels
For some reason, Art Garfunkel always reminded me of Richard Simmons.

Must be the hair.

63 posted on 05/25/2015 4:53:07 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: 9thLife

“When I look back on all the cr^p I learned in High School” quite fitting for Highland High school, Albuquerque NM, which I believe Paul attended; also the butt of many Beavis & Butthead scenarios.


64 posted on 05/25/2015 4:57:05 PM PDT by cqnc (Don't Blame ME, I voted for the American!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear; rickmichaels
Thank you, fardels. I thought, when I read the original British story earlier today, that it was the WRITER who suggested it and drug Garfunkel into agreeing. That's what you do when you're a hired PR type writing a press release, but this isn't PR, it's supposed to be real journalism. Kinda low of the writer. And the headline is downright false.

Let Garfunkel in peace and enjoy 'em both, because both Simon and Garfunkel made pretty nice things to listen to. Music does have the power to soothe the soul; these guys knew how to make it do that.

I know the words to many, many Paul Simon songs. In his younger days at least, he was one of the only poets whose work I've ever enjoyed. "It's carbon and monoxide, that ol' Detroit perfume. It hangs on the highways in the morning, and lays you down by noon. Ah, Papa Hobo, you can see that I'm dressed like a schoolboy, but I feel like a clown -- it's a natural reaction I learned in this basketball town."

65 posted on 05/25/2015 4:58:41 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: 9thLife

Exactly! The guy wasn’t a reporter, he was a rabble-rouser, an aggravator, aiming to vex the subject. Maybe in political reporting that’s a good thing, but this seems just kinda petty and small on the part of the interviewer. It’s like a betrayal of confidence.


66 posted on 05/25/2015 5:08:41 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Calvin Locke

Oh yes...such a high ASA combined with brilliant snow would definitely be a problem.

I see your point and agree.


67 posted on 05/25/2015 5:12:45 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: yarddog

I got my Nikon DSLR at a yard sale for 40 bucks. When i got it home and put some batteries in it, the menu was in Spanish! I got the maintenance man at my apt complex to change it to Ingles and now i have a beautiful, like-new camera. Gosh...I love Yard sales!


68 posted on 05/25/2015 5:19:48 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: ErnBatavia

I got me some of that too, on my FXR.


69 posted on 05/25/2015 5:20:24 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: CaptainMorgantown
The author clearly had an agenda to print snarky things about Paul Simon, but Garfunkel obliged.

That's true, but a skilled, driven, and/or devious interviewer can do just about anything with people in interviews, especially an artless, credible kind of guy (no pun intended) of the type Garfunkel may very well be. Sure, Art should have been smart enough to see the trap, but then again, we don't know how that interview really went and how far apart in time those quotes transpired in the actual conversation.

It's perfectly believable, to me, that Garfunkel was a sitting duck for a manipulative melodramatic writer/interviewer. I came away with contempt for the "reporter," not for Garfunkel.

70 posted on 05/25/2015 5:20:36 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I loved my old Pentax K1000. Totally manual.


71 posted on 05/25/2015 5:21:36 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Odd that he would give them the free advertising, if that was the case!


72 posted on 05/25/2015 5:24:56 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I have a Lumix “point and shoot”

and a Nikon Coolpix L1000 that I got at a yard sale.

When I was a little girl (9) I used to load my dad’s Speed Graphic plates (huge negatives) and stack them in a carrying case for weddings.

Then he would shoot the wedding, and we would unload and develope the negatives, print up a set of proofs, and the bride would make her selection. Then we would print them up as 8 x 10s, assemble the albums together and Dad’s weekend job (added to his “day job” at the phone company, helped support us (6 kids).

I really MISS the smell of the chemicals. Digital just isn’t the same.


73 posted on 05/25/2015 5:31:35 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

I developed many rolls of Ektachrome in my kitchen sink in the early 80s. Kodachrome had to be sent off to a lab.


74 posted on 05/25/2015 5:31:42 PM PDT by Walmartian (Not Responding)
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To: left that other site

I took twenty years off...re photography.

DIgital smells so much better...


75 posted on 05/25/2015 5:40:45 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Photographic chemicals DO have a funky smell, but they remind me of my dad!

The really nasty stuff was stop bath....especially before diluting!


76 posted on 05/25/2015 5:42:45 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Walmartian

I hope you covered up the windows real good! :-)


77 posted on 05/25/2015 5:43:57 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Benito Cereno

You are right on the mark regarding where the talent was in that duo. I totally agree that although Garfunkel has a great voice, better than Simon’s, Arthur would not have hit it big without Paul.

I give him credit for beautiful singing on his cover of ‘I Only Have Eyes for You’, but airing this dirty laundry publicly betrays some deep jealousy. It reminds me of his character in the movie Carnal Knowledge, with Jack Nicholson. I think his character envied the coolness of Nicholson. Good movie.

And comparing his situation with Simon to George Harrison and Paul McCartney doesn’t hold up well, either. Harrison had a magnificent career for years on his own after the Beatles. Garfunkel on his own, not so much.


78 posted on 05/25/2015 5:44:59 PM PDT by untwist (One Bad-Assed Mistake, America!)
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To: Walmartian

Dad and i used to go to the “Lab” for special stuff. It was in a really bad area of Boston, now totally gentrified!


79 posted on 05/25/2015 5:45:10 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: left that other site

My dad too had a darkroom.... down in the basement... when I was a kid, and I remember “growing up “ with that smell.

he claimed that the chemicals had stunted his ability to smell anything,,,


80 posted on 05/25/2015 5:56:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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