Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmmm

It might be that Cage said that on the documentary, Vitor, but Andrew's
right—the person who actually said it was Shizuko Yamamoto, in response to a
question Cage asked on whether he had to be strict about observing the
macrobiotic diet. Cage can be forgiven for forgetting who said what in 1990
(which is when I believe that documentary was made).
Rob

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have not seen the Greenaway doc in years so I don't recall the scene. But
> it might have been a slip on his part, or he was saying Shizuko.
>
> In any case, I heard the story several times over the years, and the story
> is about Yamamoto.
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vitor Rua <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:48:15
> To: Andrew Culver<[email protected]>
> Cc: john saylor<[email protected]>; Silence<[email protected]>
> Subject: [silence] Re: Re: Re: Hmmmm
>
> hello,
>
> he said (John cage) that it was suzuki his master that said:  "when
> you're with friends, you can have
> >
> >> a potato." it´s on the peter greenway documentary...
>
> best
> vítor rua
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Andrew Culver wrote:
>
> > Hi John
> >
> > I believe the potato quote paraphrases Shizuko Yamamoto
> >
> > On 29-Aug-11, at 10:47 AM, john saylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 19:05, Andrew Culver <
> [email protected]
> >> > wrote:
> >>> Birth of Jesse James (possibly the most famous outlaw in American
> >>> history):
> >>> Sept. 5, 1847
> >>> 65 years to the day before our friend.
> >>
> >> and 65 after:
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazr_Mohammed
> >>
> >> and ...
> >>
> >> --
> >> \js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : "when you're with friends, you can
> >> have
> >> a potato." -j.cage paraphrasing y.ono
> >>
> >
>
>
>


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