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That sounds good. Dyou have Zepp CDs? Seriously, I don't even have my mix tapes of them anymore. Need "No Quarter" from the film. Fuggin killer organ n gtr.

FERRIGNO!

Hmm, thought the studio "No Quarter" was lacking, as a teen. Still think that? I dunno. My fave long-studio Zepp was "In My Time of Dying," a song stolen by Spacemen3 in "Come Down Easy" (totally diff rhythm/ pacing though) which will likely go on my trade CD... never got into "Carouselambra" or "Thank You" or errr the live versions of "Moby Dick" or "Whole Lotta Love," which seem to go on for daze. "Dazed & Confused" does to, but at least has the bowing bit.

I remember watching The Song Remains the Same on A&E; they took two commercial breaks during "Dazed and ".

That BBC live stuff is hip. "Stairway" sounds much more majestic with pipe organs than friggin recorders (but I guess they did IV is some rotten Welsh shack, so... no pipe organ.

Man...isn't that guy outta the spotlight yet?
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I've been forgetting to tell you for 2 days now:

1) yeah, I formatted the Richie Warhol, but

2) I just cut & pasted a pre-existing color-in pic of Lionel that someone put on a Thread; apparently, the Knoxville News-Sentinel included it as a tribute to black history month.

You know- Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, and uhhh the guy who wrote "Penny Lover."

Good point. I have yet to see one who can really pass that off...who'd want to?

As for the music? The beatmaking genius is in Sacto. I just recorded the vocals in S.D.
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Look on the bright side-- at least Coach K is too classy to go to the Lakers!

omg lol! that makes me laff s0 much!!! LMAO! ROFFLMFAO~~~!!!!!.,.,.,.,.,.,.

Gah...



Running is a joy thing. Change your focus, sweetboy.

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Right now getting ready to leave nj with car to see Ninanna

Started to write you last night and my computer did the blue screen dance. Don't you feel special?

Took it as a sign. Unplugged literally and figuratively.

As for the opposite of love is love thing, I think you nailed it. Whether or not you agree w/it though, that's a different story. Such is the beauty of free will and free floating opinion/s.

Maybe I was trying to be more Zen about it...they just see the "is" of everything. Maybe I'm using the idea of love as shorthand for that "isness" deal. Never had too much acquaintance with hardcore Zen texts, but listened to and read quite a bit of Alan Watts' stuff. His ideas and balance and acceptance amaze me. I am sure he tripped up and/or tripped out sometimes, that's what we do. Just the idea of the practice enthralls me, and seeing/noting/noticing the actual progress, not only just talking about it.

As for complaining, I was trying to say that people who complain may not know that they can have more/have things be the way they want to, and get stuck in that tape loop. At least that was the case for me when I used to do it hardcore. I think my cycle used to be complain-prone talk/behavior...then I had a complete shut-down. I've found now, though, that I am opening up again I don't complain so much as I've broken that habit, but still have those "can't have/don't deserve" lies I have to change. WANT to change. It's been interesting to think about (or as Zen-kids might say "observe").

You asked "Are you sure "love" is what you mean? Or am I on the wrong track entirely?" Maybe love is too strong a word. It's a trigger word and it has a zillion meanings. My Sense about it might not be someone else's. Hm...

Novel take on the poem front. And thanks for explaining it to me, Luv.
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Aerosmith's book is very in-depth and no-BS. You realize how bad their drug use was from the very beginning. I thought they "got into trouble" around Draw the Line... they mention injecting LSD as teens in the 1960s! Tyler even got busted by a narc in high school, I think... for the details, you'd have to read the book.
Yes, I meant Crazy from the Heat.
Zappa's book, I feel like it was just short; short on bio, short on road-stories and idiot-stories, I dunno it seemed to go by fast. I did like the thing about payola (or however you wanna call it, the radio blacklists) from Cerphe. Cerphe has been a local DJ here for freakin' ever... granted, he punks out a bit, but he does spill some to Zappa, and he'd never have worked again if he tried to take on idiocy in radio (which is ingrained, from what I hear about radio).

Please forgive me if I don't give Nikki Six more airtime.

Wow. Props to SF Weekly! Amazing cajones.

You wrote, "So you're saying that love is all encompassing. Therefore, there isn't anything that isn't love. Therefore, if an opposite exists, it too is love?"

You are going to slap me, however my answer is "yes." It's only my sense impression. The world has an infinite amount of 'em.

Complainers are just trying to get more, find satisfaction, and either don't think they can, don't think they deserve, or don't know that's what they're doing. (See paragraph above where it reads..."It's only..." and continue on...)

I enjoyed your poem. Is your poem about poetry/writing? (Hope I haven't embarrassed myself)...do tell.

All across the map. And PURCHASES, no less.

Attitude shift, YES. Basically that's been me. I am having to downshift and get realistic about...well, everything. Life. Living it instead of just inhaling and exhaling.

These thoughts aren't gonna flow so much, I just realized. Anywh00...

The love thing goes like this. Love is expansive, so its opposite is only...love. Kinda like...the universe....there's no opposite, it continually evolves and unfolds. I was still dancing in that schema that there was an opposite. I'd heard a girl read a poem talking about that concept.

Corny. Thinking about it though, makes me feel good. More comfy in my skin. In this life. So, if that's the case, I'll take corny, happily.

The Darkness strikes me as forced fun, but I wouldn't say I hated them as much as I can't get into it.
I used to like Poison a lot. In high school, I'd pretend to not like them around metal people, just to provoke them into saying mean things about them (I thought it was funny that metalheads cared; I didn't think Poison was any sillier than thrash/ satan metal... but they wore a lotta makeup, girlier makeup than Kiss or Ratt, which was very threatening to high school metal boys).

I don't think I'd like Poison as much now... but then, I don't think I'd like Onslaught, Nuclear Assault, or Slayer as much either.

The metal I never got sick of was Ozzy's Sabbath, and early Motorhead. That's pretty much my favorite. I still like a couple of Maiden and Priest things a lot.

What...you're not diggin' Myers' foray into kiddie flicks w/cheeky humor and grown-up flicks with childish humor? Good God, man...what kind of a fil are you?

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Are you for Schwarzenneggar or against him?

Do you know how to spell Schwarzeneggar?

Well, those are all standard albums, except umm Jet is new and I don't know them well... and the Frampton holdonholdonholdon, before you assume I'm gonna go off on him... I think the three hits are good. I just can't get into the rest of it. And the Stones cover is just a -why?- moment.