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Although I love the ring cycle (and Parsifal even more), not everyone here shares my views. I have the habit of playing one part repeatedly as a way of immersing myself in the lugubrious darkness that is Wagner... one day I was playing part of Gotterdamerung while splitting wood... my beloved dog, Sam, accompanied me as usual, but after a while he got up, wandered over to the boombox, lifted his leg and expressed his opinion of Wagner. After I got the thing more or less dried out, I played only the blues or 60s rock n roll while in his company.

... and thanks for your comments on my blog! I had a fancy reel-to-reel that I could dub myself on - it was my first major purchase as a working sod (in high school). I worked in the basement of a college doing data transfers onto punch cards and no radio waves could get into the room - so I recorded pop music and fm underground stations to keep me awake those many long years ago.

and yes, I was one of those fully outside the mainstream, not by choice but by nature - as my profession (astrologer) and other things later proved... but it was a hard path to walk in the early sixties - so those of us who were freaks necessarily banded together despite our personal differences.

<<My favorite line from "Freak Out" : Who are the Brain Police ?
A question we would all do well to consider.>>

indeed! today, I'd say it is the news media, starting with CNN and working to the right...

How's the weather down in Bend today? It's utter shite up here on the north end of the PNW.