Tonight between our long meditation and class we were talking about concerts that really rocked.
Number one for me was in 1968 when Janis Joplin was double-billed with Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Janis was already breaking up with Big Brother, who really didn't give a shit about her or the concert. It was so bad that during a "drum solo" the drummer from Paul Butterfield's...
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Number one for me was in 1968 when Janis Joplin was double-billed with Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Janis was already breaking up with Big Brother, who really didn't give a shit about her or the concert. It was so bad that during a "drum solo" the drummer from Paul Butterfield's...
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veronika:
This is a late response but I wanted to thank you for the support on my last blog. It was appreciated!
_holden_:
Thanks. I always enjoy reading your insightful and thoughtful comments on my blog. It truly is appreciated. 
my addiction for the rest of the week - my wife and I hardly sleep for these next few days... a warmup to the 24 hours @datona.
http://bjaa.globalmediaservices.tv/
also on Speed channel!
http://bjaa.globalmediaservices.tv/
also on Speed channel!
mrsted_stryker:
LOL have fun!!!!
For the New Year:
Prologues To What Is Possible Wallace Stevens
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There was an ease of mind that was like being alone in a boat at sea,
A boat carried forward by waves resembling the bright backs of rowers,
Gripping their oars, as if they were sure of the way to their destination,
Bending over and pulling themselves erect on the wooden handles,
Wet...
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Prologues To What Is Possible Wallace Stevens
I
There was an ease of mind that was like being alone in a boat at sea,
A boat carried forward by waves resembling the bright backs of rowers,
Gripping their oars, as if they were sure of the way to their destination,
Bending over and pulling themselves erect on the wooden handles,
Wet...
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prussia:
wow, your comment on was something wonderfull!
thanks, It really made my day knowing that someone pays so much attention!
thank u!
I read it twice
thanks, It really made my day knowing that someone pays so much attention!
thank u!
I read it twice
so I've been thinking about the holidays and trying to think of a Christmas that was fun. This one surely won't be that great: my mom is due to have thyroid surgery in a couple of weeks--she's 85 and it's probably cancer. I can't get out there because my pancreas has busted, which may put me in the hospital soon, and my sister can't get...
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bob:
I think, for those who had BBC America it aired, but not on SciFi.
Tennant's officially stepping down as Doctor.
He's only got 4 "special holiday" episodes before he departs at the end of next year.
And, his back problems caused film delays ad forced him to step down as Hamlet.
Tennant's officially stepping down as Doctor.
He's only got 4 "special holiday" episodes before he departs at the end of next year.
And, his back problems caused film delays ad forced him to step down as Hamlet.
mrsted_stryker:
Happy New Year!
So sometime in about 19::cough::65 some folks found a huge chunk of land - 200 acres - which we bought for about $10k. It had neither electricity nor water, but did have a big cabin. We made that into a communal kitchen and music room. We built our own yurts scattered over the acreage and eventually built ourselves a barn, meditation teepee and all the...
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annalee:
Oh I hope so too! I really like your journals about your life, do you live in any similar way to that now?
thora:
Your comment meant a lot. Happy holy daze, my friend!
PS There's a theory that the Finnish have alien DNA.
PS There's a theory that the Finnish have alien DNA.
two moments from yesterday: tears on Jesse Jackson's face, tears in the eyes of the black CNN commentator. reminding me of what I'll never know, costs beyond any mortals reckoning, all simplified to the ease with which a dignified man walked across an open air stage to greet his - and perhaps - our destiny...
when I was a child, just awakening to the greater...
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anarchie:
Thank you, you are very right about marriage. It's certainly a learning process.
jena:
Never heard of this one.
So I've been thinking about initiations lately: structured, unstructured, spontaneous, planned, ceremonial; some are into life, into an instinct (losing virginity, or the really big one, buying a house), into society or out of it, into a "spiritual" identity, or into a real moment of awareness... It seems once I start considering them all, like love, the word becomes meaningless in itself. So what does...
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s_eldorado:
That's a fantastic story. Well written - what a great life!
morgan:
I'd learn Parseltongue. Just so I could watch out for evil.
So where did it all begin for me? Really with the first Beatles album in a way. I remember buying that album, along with Herb Alpert and Stan Getz albums and realizing that the world was about to change. That summer I hooked up with a very strange group of people - we're talking 1965 - (I was in junior high) and things started to...
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lison:
hello! 
lison:
Actually, my set was shot very far away from NYC. But that's funny, that you found it looked alike!
Thank you very much for your comment by the way!
I like your blog!
Thank you very much for your comment by the way!
I like your blog!
so I saw "Across the Universe". Having lived through the sixties (yes, I'm THAT old), I was quite taken by this movie. A lot of films have been made about - or even during - the 60's but only three really resonate with my experiences: The Cockettes (which captures the commune energy (I lived in one back in the day)); Apocalypse Now (duh, Vietnam), and...
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peyote:
Funny you found my blog after you wrote this huh?
I would LOVE to know more! Do you have amazing stories? I drool over that amazing and liberal decade. Why did things have to change so drastically? We will never see a time like that again!
You are an astrologer? What exactly does that entail? Do you write books?
I'm not sure if you ever got to see France during the 1960's, but another great movie is called "The Dreamers"
and even though some of the subject matter is questionable (such as instestual and sexual acts) I really really think you'd enjoy it! It's by Bernardo Bertellucci!
I would LOVE to know more! Do you have amazing stories? I drool over that amazing and liberal decade. Why did things have to change so drastically? We will never see a time like that again!
You are an astrologer? What exactly does that entail? Do you write books?
I'm not sure if you ever got to see France during the 1960's, but another great movie is called "The Dreamers"
and even though some of the subject matter is questionable (such as instestual and sexual acts) I really really think you'd enjoy it! It's by Bernardo Bertellucci!
maxi:
this blog or my other blog?
so we had our end-of-summer astrology class last night, preceded by a super-fine Italian veggie meal and vegan lavender-chocolate cake. We've been working on planetary groups and the sequence of planets in a chart - techniques I use to help people deconstruct complexes -- a paper on this is forthcoming, I hope. We'll continue practicing on this for the fall semester, and then I hope...
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