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"Make one tuna fish sandwich and eat."
— Yoko Ono
And so I will.
And after lunch I will cut down the last of the overgrown vines by the back house so I can walk the pathway around it again.
Cheerio! |
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| SEQUENCE DAY |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|02:29 am] |
Forgot to mention yesterday, but it was Sequence Day in the U.S.A.:
07-08-09
Those of you in countries influenced by the conventions of the British Empire will have to wait until August 7 for your Sequence Day. |
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| WHAT THE MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|10:52 am] |
What the Mystics Have Taught
"We are a point in Universal Consciousness, which is God, and God is our Life, Spirit, Mind and Intelligence. We are not separated from Life, neither is It separated from us, but we are separate entities in It—individualized centers of God Consciousness. ...
"We are guided daily by Divine Intelligence into paths of peace, wherein the soul recognizes its Source and meets It in joyful union, in complete At-One-Ment. ...
"There is a Universal nature of Man, inherent within him, which causes the manifestation of his personality. The Spirit of God. We have now discovered a unity with the Whole on the three sides of life, or from all three modes of expression. We are one with the body of the physical world; One with the Creative Law of the Universe in the mental world; and One with the Spirit of God in the conscious world. ...
"All of the great mystics have taught practically the same thing. They have all agreed that the soul is on the pathway of experience, that is, of self-discovery; that it is on its way back to its Father's House; and that every soul will ultimately reach its heavenly home. ...
"They have told us that man's destiny is Divine and sure; and that creation is complete and perfect now. The great mystics have all agreed that man's life is his to do with as he chooses, but that when he turns to the One, he will always receive inspiration from on High. ...
"Furthermore, the mystics have taught the ultimate salvation of all people and the immortality of every soul. Indeed, they have taught that IMMORTALITY IS HERE AND NOW, IF WE WOULD BUT AWAKE TO THE FACT. ... Damnation has been as foreign to the thought of the mystic as any concept of evil must be to the Mind of God."
— Ernest Holmes,
founder of the Religious Science pholosophy/movement/religion
(emphases are Holmes's)
(Excerpted from "The Science of Mind" book, pages 331, 333 and 335) |
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| YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RINGO!!!! |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|04:42 pm] |
Ringo is the oldest Beatle and he turns 69 today, born July 7, 1940. Imagine, in one year the first 70-year-old Beatle. We couldn't imagine them even being 30 back in the days when the Fabs ruled the rock music roost.
He's oldest Beatle, but was the last to join the group; in order of age: Ringo, John, Paul, George.
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| SOLAR ECLIPSE 1963 |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|10:08 pm] |
I've had this stuck in my mind for some time ...
Confirmed with a search on the New York Times website:
Eclipse of the Sun on July 20 To Pass Over North America; Expeditions From Abroad Join U.S. and Canadian Observers for Studies Along Path From Maine to Aleutians Jets in Pursuit Expeditions on Way Einstein ExperimentBy WALTER SULLIVAN June 30, 1963, Sunday Page 48, 1544 words
The total eclipse of the sun on July 20, two weeks from next Saturday, is to be the occasion for a sicentific experiment carried out on a scale as grand as the eclipse itself.
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(Beyond this point I had to pay $3.95 fo the full article or be a subscriber to the paper. I'm not going to pay for the article when I can probably look up the whole page with the article on microfilm at the library and print it.)
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I was 11 then. This was a major deal to me. I was visiting my Aunt Minnie in Oregon on Saturday, July 20, 1963, standing outside in the afternoon trying to use a makeshift device to project the eclipse onto paper or the ground or something so I could view it safely. I didn't have much success so I stole a few quick glances skyward to see if I could see the Moon's bite out of the Sun. Sort of, but it was a little too bright. The Moon covered only about 43% or 34% of the Sun, as I recall. (Short of reading the full article, I have to guess on the coverage in Oregon. I know the eclipse wasn't total in my part of the country.)
The July 20 date has stuck all these years in large part, I believe, because exactly six years later, at 1:17 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, on Sunday, July 20, 1969, the first humans landed on the Moon, and approximately six hours and 40 minutes later they took the first steps on the lunar surface.
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| ART VIEWING FOR FREE |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|03:40 pm] |
I'm off to the shower now and then off to the Seattle Asian Art Museum on Capitol Hill. It's free first Thursday today and the museum is open until 9 p.m.
Was going to ride the bus to SAM downtown -- that's the main museum -- but I like the quieter atmosphere at SAAM. Contemplative scroll paintings and Buddhist art. Very "spiritual" atmosphere. Downtown museum feels a little sterile. Great works of art on display, but the building design and atmosphere feel more like Art the Business. Art in cubicles. I feel in a meditative mood today and the Asian museum is where I can move in the flow of the Tao energy. The SAAM building is the original SAM, built in the 1930s. Classic art deco design. The building is a work of art itself. |
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| MEMORIES IN MAGNIFICENT MONOPHONIC! |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|02:33 pm] |
About two hours ago I finished my latest mix tape, tentatively titled "Memories in Magnificent Mono" or may it will be "Magnificent Monophonic Memories" -- I'm still decidiing. I compiled 90 minutes of easy listening, country and folk music from about 1955 to 1966 from my collection of old, scratchy 45 RPM records. Almost all of them are the originals. I used a couple of "greatest hits" singles and one cut from an album because because my copy of the single turned into mush at the end. Most were records I heard on the radio when I was about 10-15. A couple were "junk" records I got from Jeff Upson, an older kid up the street who had a fake radio station. Record companies sent him hundreds of free "promo" singles a year. A few others were 45s from that era that I picked up over the years, often sight unheard.
I've been on this nostalgia kick for several months, going through my 45s and using the scratchy, sometimes fuzzy, originals rather than copying cleaner cuts from albums and CDs. Feels more intimate to the memories of growing up. I've been mixing up easy listening, pop, country and some rock and roll as suits my mood at the time. That was the state of Top 40 radio in the mid 60s: Inside of an hour you might hear rockers by The Beatles and Rolling Stones, ballads by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, and something folky by Peter, Paul and Mary.
Side one of my new tape starts with Dean Martin from the 50s singing "Memories Are Made of This." Other songs include a record called "Ringo" (1964) about an outlaw gunfighter, followed by "The Other Ringo" ('64 or '65), a tribute to Ringo Starr, followed by "Act Naturally" by The Beatles (sung by Ringo Starr). My favorite song on side one is "Everything's OK on the LBJ" (1964), a rollicking country/western tribute to President Lyndon Johnson's ranch in Texas. (I was easily entertained.)
Side two starts with "Tom Thumb's Theme" (1965-ish) sung by Russ Tamblyn, who starred in "West Side Story" and later on "Twin Peaks" as Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, a quirky shrink who wore glasses with red and blue lenses. It's a very childlike-sounding record, which when played backwards sounds very LSD-trippy and almost demonic. (Come to think of, the backwards version would have fit in well on "Twin Peaks.") Other faves on side two are a funny Rod McKuen record called "Advice to Folksingers" -- an actual talking blues-style folk song, before started making his syrupy, greeting cardish poetry. And there's the funny, folky "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Outback" (1965) by Billy Edd Wheeler. (Recorded live!) Yes, it's a tribute to an outhouse and yes it was a hit. It's a perfect song for "The Red Green Show." I find it oddly touching, though, because it reminds me of weekend family visits to Aunt Minnie at her house in the country in Oregon. The house had no indoor plumbing so we used an outouse during the day and chamber pots at night. Minnie was my favorite aunt. My mom recently told me Minnie was my surrogate grandmother. Mom is right. Aunt Minnie was a like a grandmother. I saw her more often than any other relative not of the immediate family. My regular grandma (my mom's mom) died when I was 9 and I got to see her only in summers when we'd spend a week in Colorado.
I absolutely love collecting records. (The kid with the fake radio station got me hooked.) Collecting is the Big Magic Thing for me. I will go into a store looking for one specific title and often leave with treasures I'd forgotten about or gems that I'd never heard (but I likedthe artwork or the title sounded interesting) or an obscure album that I never expected to find, but whose title I remember printed on the equally obscure original 45 decades ago. By teh time I left home for college in 1975, I'd compiled some 900 to 1,000 45s, mostly from the 60s and mostly trades with Jeff. I donated most of the 45s to Goodwill when I left home. But over the years I started collecting 45s again. Today I guess I've got close to 2,000. (I've lost track.) When I was a kid I owned very few albums. As an adult I starteed collectiing mainly albums, a lot of titles to fill in musical gaps that I couldn't afford during my junior high and high school years in the late 60s. I've got at least 1,500 albums. Lately, though, I've been digging through the 45s. Sure, they're scratchy and sometimes worn to fuzziness, but I feel more connected to the songs and the childhood memories than when I hear the super-high-fidelity versions on CDs.
I got so many records from Jeff because I'd trade him one hit record I bought or got as a present for 30 or 40 of his "junk" records. My Mom was always telling me, "You should go for quality, not quantity." Yes, but when I pull out some of those junky "Jeff" records I did not donate to Goodwill, I'm grateful I was exposed to so many styles of American music when I was young. If nothing else, they are great historical documents. |
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| Ed, Farrah and Michael, and Elvis, R., I., and P. |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|01:15 pm] |
Weird, isn't it, how deaths of majorly famous people come in threes within a week of each other. This week, a couple of days.
Tuesday it was Ed McMahon, yesterday Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.
Just watch. We'll have at least one more trio of dead famous people before the year is out.
I remember regularly watching Johnny Carson on "Who Do You Trust?" before he got "The Tonight Show" gig. It was a game show in the afternoons and it came on after I got home from elementary school. But I didn't know Ed McMahon was his announcer on that show until a few years ago; probably read it in a Carson obituary.
I didn't follow Farrah Fawcett's career much. I vaguely remember her from "Charlie's Angels" but I barely saw the show (and much other television back then because I was in college busy with other projects). Kate Jackson always was my favorite angel because she looked and acted so "normal."-- like most people I knew. The others came across too beauty-pagenty back then. I know I saw the famous Farrah poster back in the late 70s, probably in stores rather than on anyone's wall. I remember the buzz about "The Burning Bed" at the time and I think I saw part of it years later. Weird thing about my Farrah memories is that what stands out most is her either on Johnny Carson on in Playboy magazine talking about abstract paintings she made by using her butt and other body parts to apply the paint. I also saw her on a rerun of "Get Smart" about five years ago when she was 21 or 22. She was in a party scene.
I liked Michael Jackson's music for the most part, but it wasn't my favorite style of pop music. I have several of his singles from the latter 1980s, mainly because I worked for a small radio station and we received extra copies. Some of the songs didn't fit our format -- too loud and "rock-y" for "adult contemporary" format so I took the records home. I stopped following him in the early 1990s. The Michael Jackson memory that stands out is from early 1990: Mrs. Beeee!!!! and I were shopping for a new television and a "making of" program about a new Jackson video was on some of the store's demo sets. In the video Jackson demanded, in effect, to be left alone and for the tabloid press and judgmental public to stop hounding him.
Jackson's death reminded me of the day Elvis Presley died. I was standing on the corner of Second and Pine in downtown Seattle and I heard a young woman say, "Oh, no!" as she looked at a Seattle Times in a newspaper rack (The Times was an afternoon paper then). That's all I heard her say. I didn't hear what else she said to the older woman with her (who I assumed was her mother) and I didn't learn until later that Elvis had died. She was looking at a brief one-column story on the front page announcing his death. With Jackson, yesterday Ron Reagan on his talk show mentioned something about a big story about Michael Jackson. And I said out loud, "What, is he dead?" (or something close to that) Then the news came on at the top of the hour. Yep, dead all right.
My other oddball Elvis-is-dead memory is the front page of an Everett Herald that showed a man with his huge collection of Elvis records and in the accompanying story he talked about his memories of Elvis and his collection. I recognized the man immediately because he worked in a store in downtown Seattle where I regularly out-of-state newspapers. (Back then people still avidly bought and read newspapers and stores carried a dozen or more papers from all over the country.)
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I am waiting for the day Jimmy Carter goes. Two memories stand out. The first is covering his arrival at Boeing Field in 1976 for a campaign stop in Seattle and my friend John almost hyperventilating after Carter shook hands with him: "Jiiiim, (giddy pause) I just met (pause) the next president (pause) of the United States!!!!!!" We were outside, but had there been a ceiling above us John would have floated through it. (Four years later he switched his allegiance to Ronald Reagan and has been a staunch conservative ever since.) I also remember that Carter carried a copy of "Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan" ** in his left hand. He was using a Carter for president bumper sticker for a bookmark. (His book had a purple cover. The cover of my copy is pink.) The second memory is standing between thousands of angry, booing military veterans behind me and Carter alone on stage the next day at the Seattle Coliseum when Carter pledged to pardon all Vietnam War draft resisters who fled to Canada. (He did shortly after he took office.) This was only one year after the Communists overran Saigon and we officially "lost" the Vietnam War. A few days later Bob Dole, then the Republican candidate for vice president, spoke to the veterans and blamed the Democrats for all those wars the U.S. fought in during the 20th century.
Some things never change. To some righties Obama and Clinton are the Antichrist (or very close to it) and lefties equate Bush Jr. with Hitler.
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** The Dylan book was a compilation of his song lyrics through 1971. Years later it was retitled and updated with songs through 1985. The books included abstract sketches by Dylan illustrating some of his songs. Great reference works, if you can find them in a used bookstore.
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| This that and the other on the slide to autumn |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|07:37 pm] |
I let my domain name expire on Saturday. Did not bother renewing it. Don't know if I will ever regregister that one or ever register a new name. No interest in starting up another Web site. I had some kind of Web site since 2001 until last summer, first a primitive experimental page through AOL, then my own site using decent (for the time) page creation software. But I am not into self-promoton right now.
I really don't like to spend much time online anymore, unless it's to check e-mal or my meager bank balance or the schedule of services at my church. I check my friends list here occasionally, but mainly to see what a local friend, whom I know personally, is up to.
That is all. Te sun sort o came out again in Seattle. Happy summer. The days are getting shorter now. Next stop, the autumnal equinox. |
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| STOP THE INSANITY! |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|02:13 pm] |
What is it with this idiodic obsession to blame Jews for everything that goes wrong?
The alleged shooter in the Holocaust Museum killing yesterday, James von Brunn, is a hate-filled, Hitler-loving, white-supremacist extremist who blames everything on conspiring Jews and "Negroes". (http://www.holywesternempire.org/page2.html) (but his Web site "holywesternempire.org," which I looked at yesterday, apparently is now shut down.)
Now today comes President Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, blaming "them Jews" for keeping him from talking to Obama.
I found a footnoted pasage in a book last year that said Jews comprise 0.23 percent of the world population. Less than a quarter on one percent of 6 billion-plus! Maybe they are "God's Chosen People" after all. How else to explain all the Jew bashing? People ought to look in the mirror for the source of their problems
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| Does misrepresenting yourself as a bank violate any law? |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|10:27 am] |
FOUND THIS GEM IN MY SPAM BOX -- TWICE! -- RIIIIIGHT! WHOM DO THEY TAKE ME FOR?
(Maybe it's because Bank of America now owns the loans of Countrywde Mortgage and is now the recipient of our house payments, but, um, I've never had an account with Bank of America so why would I try to log on?) (I took out the link from this copy.)
Dear clientYour account has been temporarily disabled due to too many attempts to sign in to your account with an incorrect password. In order to reactivate your account please click the link below, log in with the correct password and update your account details :
If you choose not to complete the request, you give us no choice but to suspend your account temporarily. If you received this notice and you are not the authorized account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of Bank of America policy to represent oneself as an other Bank of America user. Such action may also be in violation of local, national, and/or international law. Bank of America is committed to assist law enforcement with any inquires related attempts to misappropriate personal information with the intent to commit fraud or theft. Information will be provided at the request or law enforcement agencies to ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Bank of America Account Review Department. |
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| MAY 35TH |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|04:03 am] |
Random notes:
Is this the era of the Giant Talk Show Hosts? Mrs. Beeee!!!! and I watched parts of Conan's, Letterman's and Craig Ferguson's late nighters last night and we noticed that the hosts towered over their guests. Very odd. Conan interviewed Ryan Seacrest and Letterman interviewed the jockey who won the first two Triple Crown races. Both guests are short, which made the hosts look disproportionally large. But Ferguson's guest was regular height but still was looking up to Ferguson. I wonder if the guest chairs are deliberately placed a little lower to make the hosts look better.
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According to Rachel Maddow on her show (live at 9 p.m. Eastern, MSNBC) Thursday, part of China's attempt to prevent 20th anniversary commemorations of the Tienanmen Square massacre was to pretend June 4th didn't exist. In China on June 4th it was officially May 35th, Rachel noted.
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My domain name (jimmiebeeee.com) expires June 20. I'm 99 percent certain I will let it expire. I let the Web site ride into the sunset a year ago after my hosting service decided to get out of the business (he had all of two customers because it was a sideline for him). I don't feel a need for a Web site.
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I was going to go to bed 2 hours ago because I felt very tired. Then I drank a litle water and it perked me up and here I am at 20 past 4 a.m., typing, wide awake. Now, however, I am about to sign off.
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| Is Barack Obama a Christian? |
[Jun. 6th, 2009|03:08 am] |
The evangelist Bob Larson asks that question in his current newsletter. "Is Barack Obama a Christian?" reads like bullcrap on so many levels that I am not sure what is true and what is from Larson's vivid imagination and what simply repeats the irrational, anti-Obama hysteria of the far right (Christian or otherwise). All the enemies are there: socialism, abortion, gay people
Of course it's also the title of a new Larson DVD. I haven't seen it but I can guarantee his premise is, no he isn't. Larson is a hardcore evangelical who goes after Satanic demons (as in exorcisms) like Joe McCarthy went after Communists in the 50s.
It's a monthly newsletter, so eventually the link above will be out of date, but I saved the text of this newsletter below. I tried to put it behind an LJ Cut, but it refused to work right. Cut worked when clicked on, but the text still showed without it. Followed the insructions in the FAQ section exactly. It's not worth spending 30 minutes on this. Fuck it. Anyway, here's old hyperventilating Bob at work:
I have never seen Christians in America in greater danger!
If we treasure our liberties and religious freedoms, we must wage spiritual warfare as never before! We must stand up now or see our way of life destroyed! In the first few weeks of his Presidency, Barack Obama has made more drastic anti-Christian decisions than any President in living memory. To start, he issued an executive order providing taxpayer-funded abortions without restrictions. (Remember when he told Pastor Rick Warren that determining when life begins was "above his pay scale?" - That's ridiculous! The Bible teaches that life begins at conception!) In fact, President Obama is on record approving of the hideous, murderous practice of partial-birth abortion. He has even said he'd approve of his own daughter having an abortion rather than to burden her with an unwanted child.
President Obama has also placed extreme, left-wing socialists in government positions. (Socialism puts man at the center of all things and denies God a role in human affairs.) He appointed an Attorney General, Eric Holder, who believes that the 2nd Amendment doesn't give Americans the right to bear arms. Holder has also called God-fearing Americans who fight racial injustice "cowards." President Obama also invited the homosexual Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson to give the Invocation at the Opening Event of Inaugural Week.
Do these actions sound like a born-again Christian? How can we genuinely know if someone is born-again? During these difficult times, perhaps the most important question facing the future of America is this: Is President Barack Obama a Christian? On the campaign trail he emphasized his Christian faith. He impressed many born-again Christians. Without their voting for him, Mr. Obama wouldn't be President today.
That's why I've made a DVD entitled IS BARACK OBAMA A CHRISTIAN? We need to know how to pray for President Obama. If he claims to be a Christian, is he truly following the leading of Christ? To whom is he spiritually accountable? He has broken off with the outrageous Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but to whom does he answer now? If he is saved, then who is his spiritual covering and who is his religious mentor? These questions deserve a direct answer!
I don't know where President Obama is going to spend eternity. But I do know what it takes to be saved by the blood of Jesus! That's why I made certain that almost all of this DVD presents the Bible's Plan of Salvation. You'll want this DVD to share with unsaved friends. I debunk the errors that keep people from being truly saved, such as their confidence in good works, trusting in baptism, believing that church membership can save anyone. IS BARACK OBAMA A CHRISTIAN? also compares Christianity to Buddhism, Hinduism, Humanism and other false religions. The DVD ends with a confession of faith that leads souls to Christ. If I could, I'd send this DVD to you free. In today's economy, I can't do that, but if you'll cover our expenses, I'll rush it immediately. For your gift of ONLY $15 or more (please include $4.95 for postage and handling) I'll send you this DVD as quickly as possible. Obviously, with giving to our ministry down nearly 80% during recent months, we desperately need larger gift as God leads - $1,000, $110, $50, even $25.
Pray for our President and his family. I genuinely rejoice with my African-American brothers in Christ regarding the racial significance of President Obama's election. That's why we must pray for God to change his heart before we go further down the road to socialism and moral collapse. In the meantime we must let the world know that true salvation is based on the Holy Word of God! Use this DVD as a soul-winning tool to reach the lost before it's too late.
Doing What Jesus Did, Pastor Bob Larson P.S. Pray for our President every day that America will turn back from this slippery slope to socialism and humanism. By making the DVD IS BARACK OBAMA A CHRISTIAN? available for just $15 we can get out the truth about real salvations. Thank you for your financial faithfulness standing by this ministry during these difficult times. |
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| WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN ... |
[May. 27th, 2009|11:41 pm] |
... SPINNING WHEEL GOT TO GO 'ROUND ...
I was going through my 45 RPM records early this morning looking for a particular record, which I couldn't find and apparently no longer have (thought I did; I have so many 45s, I lose track). In the row close to where the record would have been I saw my original promo copy of "Spinning Wheel" by Blood,Sweat and Tears. I noticed the date stamped on it: May 27, 1969. What a coincidence: 40 years ago to the day.
That's the date Jeff Upson, my record collecting mentor in the 1960s, checked it in to his collection. Jeff had a fake radio station in his basement back then and was on the mailing lists for most of the major record companies. He date stamped each of his records as he received them. He gave me "Spinning Wheel" probably within a month of his receiving it. One of the few hits that Jeff gave me. He was feeling generous that day.
So, upon noting that I pulled it off my shelf 40 years to the day, I played it. Still sounds mighty fine.
It's funny, but when I saw the date stamp and aIso played the record, I hazily saw myself in his house the day he gave me the record: walking to the back door off the kitchen, by the garage. It was a sunny day. I remember heading out that back door with the record.
That same time of year in 1969 I bought the mixing board from his radio station, which he shut down because he went off to college two years earlier. I used it at home for my own fake radio station setup until I left home for college in 1975.
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| Notes on spring |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|01:09 am] |
I just noticed that I hadn't posted since February 24th. So here's a post for March.
Three days after another slushy snowstorm in Seattle, the I-don't-know-what-kind-of-tree-it-is tree in my front yard declared spring nine days early and started popping open blossom buds. First two, then up to nine the next day. Two days later it snowed again briefly. Defiant tree shook off the slush and started pushing more blossoms out, some far enough to make out details.
So there, winter.
With spring three days old, blossoms are blossoming beautifully on the I-don't-know-what-kind-of-tree-it-is tree.
Yesterday afternoon I saw my first robin of spring sitting on th tippy top of my roof, surveying he scene.
One day last week I saw the bearded face of God in passing clouds. As I watched them, God morphed into Darwin. |
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| Dory Previn on CD! Yay! |
[Feb. 24th, 2009|02:35 am] |
Nice to know I can finally buy the albums of Dory Previn on CD. Three CDs (four albums total) available from Barnes and Noble: music.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.asp and Amazon dot com carries these plu a double CD of the albums "Reflections in A Mud Puddle" and "Mythical Kings and Iguanas."
Previn, married for a time in the 1960s to the composer Andre Previn, recorded these albums about 1970-75.
First record of hers I heard was a song suite called "Taps, Tremors and Time Steps (One Last Dance for My Father)" in 1971 -- totally loved it. You can go over to Amazon and look it up on "Reflections in a Mud Puddle" and you'll probably find an excerpt.
My other "must-have-on-CD" vinyl treasure is the very obscure "One Voice Many by Michelangelo. Came out in 1970 It is addictive. One sister borrowed my original copy and wore t out. I thik if you hold it up to a light you can see through it now. I managed to fnd two sealed copies in a cutout bin in 1976 (one is still sealed). I've seen copies for as much as $40 in used record stores. Worth every penny. Angel the hippie-lloking autoharpist/sometimes lead vocalist, reminded me of a girl from my high school class who later became Miss Tri-Ciies.
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I m going to bed soon, but I am in the middle of making a "spiritual" mix tape from "secular" pop/rock/folky records in my collection. I've got the first 28 minutes down, on my way to 45. I think I'll try to finish that first.
Good night. |
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[Feb. 24th, 2009|01:54 am] |
| [ | When I wrote this I felt like ... |
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| [ | Song playing in my head ... |
| | "Creation" | The Incredible String Band | ] |
I AM AN 8-YEAR-OLD
(RAINCHILD POEM, FIRST DRAFT)
Seattle rain washes out
mental crud from consciousness.
I breathe in February air
and my mind converts it to
quiet Octobers & Novembers
of desert country childhood
200 miles southeast of here.
Later, driving in the dark,
I see a boy running up the street,
arms pinwheeling with joy
— and my mind sees me at age 8
in one of my goofy, giddy moods.
— Feb. 23, 2009
(© 2009, Jim Bacon)
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| On the one hand ..... on the other hand .... |
[Feb. 9th, 2009|06:57 pm] |
The latest from Evangelist Bob Larson's Newsletter to supporters (excerpts):
ON THE ONE HAND:
"A NEW YEAR AND
A NEW ANOINTING!
"This year 2009 is off to a great start - and it's going to get better! There is a new anointing on this ministry, and I want you to share in the blessing.
"In 2009 you and I are going to crush Satan under the feet of Jesus! Curses lasting thousands of years will be annulled. The addictions of drugs will be broken. The powers of Fear and Depression and Infirmity will be shattered. Those in religious cults like the Mormons and Mason will be set free.
"(Be sure to read to the end of this letter for information about my new DVD concerning breaking the curses of secret cults like Mormons and Masons -- and my controversial DVD about President Obama.)
"I know what you're thinking: "Bob, look at the economy. Don't you know the banking system is frozen and millions of home mortgages are risking default? Haven't you read the unemployment statistics?"
"My focus isn't on the government. My hope for change doesn't rest with President Obama. The Federal Reserve is not my source of comfort. My eyes are on what God is doing, and I've never seen a time when the power of God has been more evident."
ON THE OTHER HAND:
"OUR SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE and you are our only BAIL OUT!
President Obama isn't going to help us. The Federal Reserve won't bail us out. No megachurch will take up an offering. We depend solely on the Lord and YOU."
This is the guy who claims to expose and expel satanic demons. He hunts down demons like Joe McCarthy looked under every rock for Communists in the 1950s.
But he's funny because for all his talk of "annointing" he's been playing the crisis card, the dire straits game about his ministry for at least 25 years.
But it's good entertainment for a skeptic ike me.
Oh, and he's written a book called "Is President Obama a Christian?" uh-huh, and if John McCain were president, he would not be questioning the faith of the Commander in Chief.
Everyone has an agenda, no matter how balance and unbiased they may appear on the surface. |
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| Talk about covering an obscure record! |
[Feb. 8th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
Last week I heard a thumpy, hardish-rocking cover of an obscure lightweight pop song from October 1967 called "I Want Some More" by Jon & Robin. I say obscure because I don't recall ever hearing it on the radio. So I was quite surprised to hear a cover version. But there it was, on a station where I'd expect expect to hear obsucre covers, KEXP in Seattle (90.3 and the WWW). I thought, this sounds awfully familiar. Yep, that song!
I got my 45 of the Jon & Robin version free from Jeff Upson, our paperboy, in 1967. I've still got it. Jeff ran a fake radio station in his parents' basement all through the 1960s and he got dozens of free records from record companies each week. Every few weks I would take a hit single to Jeff that I'd grown tired of and he would trade me for 30 or 40 "junk" singles. My mom kept telling me, "You should go for quality, not quantity," but all those stacks of junk wax exposed me to a wide variety of great musical styles I might never have discovered. Everything from Top 40 to country, to easy listening to reggae (then called Jamaica ska). I think I amassed close to 900 singles between 1962 and 1975, about half of them from Jeff. Sometimes I regret donating my Jeff records to Goodwill just before I moved away from my childhood home. A lot of musical history was in those records, hits or not.
Anyway, so Jeff gave me the Jon & Robin record. It was pressed on yellow semi-transparent vinyl. Below are links to short samples of each version. There's a "listen" button somewhere on the Auerbach page that you have to click. The other link starts playing right away but there's a button to play it again (because it is such a cool song).
by Dan Auerbach:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001R0CZTG/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk2?ie=UTF8&qid=1234161663&sr=1-1
and the original by Jon & Robin and the In Crowd:
http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/mediaplayer.asp?ean=090771116529&track=6&disc=1
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| A DeCaDe |
[Jan. 18th, 2009|03:21 am] |
The only reason I am posting this is so I can say I've posted something in each ofthe last 10 years. I have now posted on Live Journal in
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
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Started June 15, 2000 at 1:43 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time. Wrote it from my computer at work.
It took six years to receive a comment to that first post.
So there you go. 9-5/12=10
So does 9-1.25/3
STOP. READING. NOW. |
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