House of Paine

arbuckle to brando

   so
   the bloated hulk
   of the once 
    stanley kowalski 
   is dead 

   big fuckin deal 

   o' kay
   so
    a  star  is dead 

   well fuck him

   long live
    the star system 
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     last week marlin
   moved on  
      to the big     shoot
   in the sky  

     just the
   joy  juice of him 
   that is 

     leaving 
   all 2 million
   dead ass  pounds 
   of final person  
   lying 
   in a hospital bed 
   some where 
   in LA 

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   hollywood may slobber 
   on the way
    to the rerun 
   gold rush

   but 


   hey big guy

   where ever you be 

   listen up

   inside our heads 
   we in the biz 

   we're all  sayin 
  the same thing
    
   ya done 
    right by uz

at long last
you done right by uz

   it was time 
past time 

   i'm mean really 

   fact on fact
   what ygood 
  you done 
   for any of uz lately
   fatso ?
       
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  folks let me help you understand this...

    here in tinsel city 

   uz        inside guys
   
  we  bestow laurels 
   on each other
   strictly 
    for you  rubes

   real reverence
   for stardom 
    
fuck 
  you can forget that crap 

   this place today 
    is 
   about
   to star  worship 
   what  
   the vatican
   was to sainthood 
   say under 
   pope   alexander the fourth 

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  and why fucking  not

if you    look in to it at all
   
   you see 
   star laurels
           are pure sucker bait  bunk

   and dried laurels
  once that lost the magic?
 
   shit

   nothin but dust
    pure dust

   ya walk 
   on dust
   don't ya 
   and 
brush it off your boots 

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   sure i know 
my host here at the house
        pinky exstein

   loved the fat  bastard

   but pinky's 
    livin'  in the out house
   
   so
          it all looks golden  to him 

   come inside 
   and stay a while

 like i have 

 then 
    well.....
    
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  sure sure sure

brando had a moment or two 

  a moment or two 
     of what 
   i don't know

  call it 
         a flash  forward 
   into  undiscovered continents 

   ya 
   the fuck gave humanity 
   that   awesome flash
      in" street car"


 
     so did elvis 
   on one 45 

   but after that .....

   what was the ham 
 
   a series of cheap gimmicks 

   cracker jack box
    surprises 

   performances
   side tracked by 
   hoaky make up 
  and  strained prepostrous accents
   
     clown car  costumes 
  and ad libs best left 
on the cutting room floor

   in the end 
the cornballery consumed him
or he consumed it 
either way 
  he ended up a mound 
of    blubber waving 
   improvised  props 


   fatty brando's slap stick circus 
                                       
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   sure i'm a cassius 
i know it 
and i'm proud of it 

   so what ass holes


   fuck you but isn't 
   a spade
 still a spade

  your fond little 
   tinker belle wishes
   not withstanding 

    get it thru your thick skulls  boobs
 
   hollywood eats art 
   for breakfast  
not lunch and supper


   cause 
     guess what 
  as it is 
   art  produces 
    barely enough
    smeer for  
   one bagel in fifty 

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   ya 
okay so there was 
"the second life'

   the god father come back

   fine
   big deal 

   come backs
    are a 
   show biz regular 


   joan crawford
   for christ sakes 
  she  had 6 come backs 

    each one more hideously
       frightening 
   then the last 

   (by the way
   I've been told
   by intimates of hers  
    after her death
   they found out 

   not only
   wasn't she 
   a  female 

   she was hung
    better then 
    robert taylor 
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    besides

   ' by the end "

   only one word
    remained stuck
    to all that blubber

   "controversy"

   sure i know

contreversy 

   bring it on 

 ya  controversy 
   can 
   be great box office  

   look at woody's draw 
 after
   he dicked his daughter

   but
most times 
   controversy
   is best  
looked at 
over the shoulder

   when its maker 's
   safely dead 
    

   if your a fading star 
still kicking
  best you  end it fast and clean 
   like cato the younger


  cause  your best reward 
   comes 
   only when 
your not around to collect it
  when  
   all your curly cue  deeds
   are finally over

   when there can be 
    no more
   surprises

   look at the Hudson thing for christ's  sake 

   worked out fine
but only by a nose 
  coulda ended different
  
imagine  
   the gayzoid bomb
    goes off before he's dead...

but it didn't 
  now he's d gone 
   so what if he infected half of 
   the dancers on the tv show fame  

but if he were still quakin somewhere

   right
 thank the lord 
         rock 
   everything's over

   all of it

   the good the bad 
   and the ugly

    sealed up
    for once and ever
    in a can

   ready 
   for rental 

   thats how we like it
   out here 

   the mummy state
   is the best state  
   for stars
    
   especially 
    controversial types

   like our 

present mister 
   " tubby tub so "
    here 
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   if ya 
   want reverence
   maybe hit up 
   Cooperstown 
   or some other
   boo hoo 
    bromo eagle scout
     farce factory 

    here in movie country
   where the  screens
   never sleep 

   we need 

   a steady draw 

   a gate buster  

  and brother 
  
 dead titans draw

   and  

    living stinking whale flesh


     only stinks 

   stinks 
   and
 lives on

     maybe
     to sin again 

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   sure when
   your screen face
   begins to  rot 
    you can hide

   garbo hid 
   but she was freaky

  in fact
   most  hams
    hide badly 

   when
   they think 
   their public
   might be on the road
   to forgetting .....

   to them
   its like being
    buried alive 

   so what can you expect 
   they throw off 
    the cloak of invisibility 

   and let me tell you 

   if they have to 
   they'll 
   take 
a great  big  shit 
   right under 
   the klieg lites 

   and  hey 

   that can hurt
    box offices 
   every where

  so it's   always 
   better thet get 
       to be dead
as quickly as possible

    just ' hid out" 
don't get it done  

  no chances to come back 
and fuck it all up
wreck your pull 
your appeal 

   after all in the end
after all the uncertainty 
  god makes it easy 
  for uz guys 
   planning
to  cash in your legacy 
   
  when your dead 
   you stay dead
   whether you want to or not 
   that is 
   unless 
   your jerry lewis  of course 

   so axiom of the biz 

   hid out  ain't enough

   if bums  not dead 
     he's  not yet gold

so buyer beware !

   example :

    bobby fuckin blake
   gonzo right 
but has a body of decent work

   forgotten
but not in trouble 
 then...
 fucko bucko 

   and now 
   one dead 
   cuntmailer later 

   heres red riders pony boy
    crumped under  
    a  fatty arbuckle thing 
   

   now and maybe forever
he's pure 
   ticket booth poison

   david lynch
   can't even use him

   poison poison poison 
     
              forever poison 

   see 
   you never know

   take
   arbuckle himself

    bigger then gleason for heavans sake

   before
   that cheap painted tart
    busted open
    under him

  or pee wee herman 
but thats another story....
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   maybe
   if brando 
had  lived on

   next time

   who knows

   maybe  
   marlin the mgnifico
    gets a fresh 15   
  by his own hand
   
 next time 
maybe 
  it  wouldn't
    be a son
    doin the blasting

   maybe next time
    marlin
   himself  
    just might
    be the shooter

     
   say he catches
   some  aged 
   male retainer
   of his 
    dunking  
   the wrong pool boy ...


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    ps 
   next post
   (very tied in )


       what its like to be
   a prize winning 
     tv producer-director

    dead in hollywood 
   but 
   still very much 
    alive
    in palm springs
      
        till then
           i'm   yours effortlessly  
            don diego    meat