Tuesday, May 19, 2009

True cool? Fact-finding mission.

Dig....

This is just a weird little notion rocking around my brain but I was trying to think of who, after experiencing the junkyard cool that is Tom Waits, who is or was the epitome of the coolness, and not some kind of popularity cool or new cool, but...an eternal cool. A cool so blue that it transcends.

Your suggestions are welcome. No answer is right or wrong. Unless you say "Kool and the Gang." Here's my Top 10, in ascending order, but 10 could 1 and one could be 10, etc. Naturally, no names are necessary.

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(And granted, if you have to ask what's cool, as Louis Armstrong said about jazz, you'll probably never know.)

Below is a simple comparison and contrast of what is and what is not cool:
cool/not cool

2 comments:

The Wizard of Odd said...

Just found your post, one of a few great finds on my true cool quest.
A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Patterson.

Steve Patterson said...

Likewise, Mr. Wizard. May your search be smooth and blue as Arctic ice....

S