Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: Ski Patrol

The cocaine connection is obvious on Ski Patrol, b...

2008-03-14T12:34:00.000-04:00

The cocaine connection is obvious on Ski Patrol, but there's never any really plausible innuendo. I dunno. I thought Cale's real "cocaine period" started after Helen of Troy, anyway? I guess Helen of Troy does sound like a coke album, so perhaps he was already snowblind at this time.

Fully agreed on cocaine songs (though Cale never wrote a song called "Cocaine"), but heroin songs... many of Cale's and Reed's best songs are heroin songs! "Fear", "Sister Ray", "Heroin", "Waiting for the Man", etc. etc. etc.

Ugh. You know, it's not like heroin songs are so m...

2008-03-06T13:55:00.000-05:00

Ugh. You know, it's not like heroin songs are so much better, but Jesus—cocaine songs are just the worst.

Just. The. Worst.

It's a drug song. A sweet, fat, lazy, locked in y...

2008-03-04T17:19:00.000-05:00

It's a drug song. A sweet, fat, lazy, locked in your chalet, world-go-away-till-the-bag-runs-out, drug song. The snowdrifts piling up outside are the mountains of cocaine our Mr.Cale was variously reported to be doing in those days, and he's admonishing himself for his "heavy snowfall" while at the same time luxuriating in it. He's snowbound in his own head, and yet he knows someone will save him from himself : the "Ski Patrol." Just like the "Last Detail," right? "I AM the fucking Shore Patrol!" Well, Cale IS the Ski Patrol. So who better to rescue him than himself? Meanwhile - oh, the fun of being lost!

headbangsThose were people who DIED DIEDThose we...

2008-02-28T13:12:00.000-05:00

*headbangs*
Those were people who DIED DIED
Those were people who DIED DIED
Those were people who DIED DIED
They were all my friends, and they DIED

Wanna write it up? ;)

I have an irritating Cale recording stuck in my he...

2008-02-28T10:39:00.000-05:00