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    William Shatner Turning into Nutty Beat Poet

    By Kyle | December 23, 2009

    From my friend and sci-fi tutor Todd Seavey, who is forever educating me on topics I can never hope to appreciate such as “Star Trek,” an excerpt from an interview with the Shat, whose (only) great accomplishment to my mind is the cover of “Common People” he recorded with Ben Folds and Joe Jackson and ecstatically performed on the Tonight Show. William Shatner is sounding very 1963 coffeehouse and quite pleasingly mad:

    “I believe that when things happen, they happen with a PURPOSE,” Shatner declares. “You can’t change them. I have been accused of never saying no. I am INDISCREET, it is said, is it not? With my roles. With my endorsements. With my books. With all that I am involved in. But I am not a big believer in No. What if I had tried to renege on that horse? I’d only have embarrassed myself. A flaky actor pretending at being a cowboy. No, I ACCEPTED it. I moved with it. I believe in MOTION. I believe in CHAOS. I believe in taking what happens as inevitable. Lightning STRIKES. It RAINS. You get ILL. You get NOMINATED. The photon SHATTERS the molecule, the electrons SHOOT OFF in all directions, and I BEHOLD the mineral around me!”

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    3 Responses to “William Shatner Turning into Nutty Beat Poet”

    1. Jeff Gee Says:
      December 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am

      There are hilarious excerpts from the interview on the GQ website. When he’s talking about “Rocket Man” it sounds like he’s scarfing down a meatball sub the size of Guam.

    2. KS Says:
      December 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am

      The parts of Shatner’s autobiography that Sarah Palin read on the Tonight Show were pretty funny, too.

    3. bobsmith Says:
      December 24th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

      Yeah, Palin made Shatner look just as silly as he made her. Then again, he’s neither a political leader nor a candidate for president.

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