From: will.dockery@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 4:03:07 PM UTC-4, K. Hematite wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 6 August 2023 at 14:18:09 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:    
   > > K, is that Peter Orlovsky driving across country with John Goodman in the   
   back seat, or is this a generic Beat Generation guy?   
   > Afraid that I'm not in any position to provide a definitive answer to that   
   question. The character Johnny Five does, out of the blue, suddenly announce   
   to the car passengers "Clean Asshole Poems--Orlovsky," although whether this   
   constitutes a claim of    
   authorship or is merely a reference is far from clear. Later, at a roadside   
   restaurant, Johnny Five seems to be reading--from what looks to me like a   
   manuscript, not a published book--the poem "My Bed Is Covered Yellow" by   
   Orlovsky. That could suggest    
   that he was indeed intended to be taken as some version of Orlovsky.    
   >    
   > On the other hand, Johnny Five does tell Llewyn Davis that he acted for a   
   while, appearing in the early 1960s play "The Brig," but that the police   
   closed the show. I can't find anything that connects Orlovsky to "The Brig,"   
   although he did act in    
   several films. I checked out the original cast listing for "The Brig" and   
   Orlovsky wasn't in it.    
   >    
   > So, I'd say that the Johnny Five character probably inhabits the range   
   between Orlovsky himself and some more generic representation of a Beat Era   
   poet. Tangentially, a year before "Inside Llewyn Davis," Garrett Hedlund, who   
   played Johnny Five, had the    
   part of Dean Moriarty in "On the Road."    
   >    
   > My Bed is Covered Yellow by Peter Orlovsky    
   >    
   > My bed is covered yellow - Oh Sun, I sit on you    
   > Oh golden field I lay on you    
   > Oh money I dream of you    
   > More, More, cried the bed - talk to me more -    
   > Oh bed that taked the weight of the world -    
   > all the lost dreams laid on you    
   > Oh bed that grows no hair, that cannot be fucked    
   > or can be fucked    
   > Oh bed crumbs of all ages spiled on you    
   > Oh yellow bed march to the sun whear yr journey will be done    
   > Oh 50 lbs. of bed that takes 400 more lbs-    
   > how strong you are    
   > Oh bed, only for man & not for animals    
   > yellow bed when will the animals have equal rights?    
   > Oh 4 legged bed off the floor forever built    
   > Oh yellow bed all the news of the world    
   > lay on you at one time or another    
   >    
   > 1957, Paris   
      
   Thanks, yes, probably a Coen Brothers alternate universe person, as Llewyn   
   Davis himself is.   
      
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