R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

I've,been ,on,a downer, lately...need a change of scene

Mozart Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466 (1) by Mariaclara Monetti

about mozart and minor modes: the minor mode in relation to the major is less stable as it is not as naturally based upon the harmonic series as the major. As a result, it creates more motion.


I,WISH,I,COULD,PLAY, THE PIANO

I'M,JUST, A JEALOUS GUY,

I,GUESS

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

Tell her I'll be waiting
In the usual place
With the tired and weary
And there's no escape

To need a women
You've got to know
How the strong get weak
And the rich get poor

Slave to love
Oh, oh, slave to love

You're running with me
Don't touch the ground
We're the restless hearted
Not the chained and bound

The sky is burning
A sea of flame
Though your world is changing
I will be the same

Gustav Holst, The Planets - VII. Neptune, The Mystic

Mozart - Requiem

forgive,them,oh,Lord..for, They, know, not,what, they, do..

Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' (1969)

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

WALT WHITMAN

SIXTIES MOTOWN - JUNIOR WALKER - MY GIRL ANNIE

Some Eastern Thing..

"What is man's life for? What pleasure is there in it? Is it for beauty and riches? Is it for sound and colour? But there comes a time when beauty and riches no longer answer the needs of the heart, and when a surfeit of sound and colour becomes a weariness to the eyes and a ringing in the ears.
"The men of old knew that life comes without warning, and as suddenly goes. They denied none of their natural inclinations, and repressed none of their bodily desires. They never felt the spur of fame. They sauntered through life gathering its pleasures as the impulse moved them. Since they cared nothing for fame after death, they were beyond the law. For name and praise, sooner or later, a long life or short one, they cared not at all."

Yang Chu (4th century B.C.)
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/lao.html

[now,I'm,no expert, but,I'd say, this Guy,suffered,from, depression..]

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You [Lyrics]

Aérotrain

The Aérotrain was a hovertrain developed in France from 1965 to 1977. The lead engineer was Jean Bertin.

The goal of the Aérotrain was similar to that of the magnetic levitation train: to suspend the train above the tracks so the only resistance is that of air resistance. Consequently, the Aérotrain could travel at very high speeds without the technical complexity and expensive tracks of magnetic levitation.

This project was abandoned in 1977 due to lack of funding, the death of Jean Bertin, and the adoption of TGV by the French government as its high-speed ground transport solution.

[wikipedia]

[makes the 'Batmobile',seem,a little dated?..]

Andre Williams- A Good Day To Feel Bad (Hoods and Shades)

weird dream last night..I ,was, in, mediaeval Jerusalem..

Epicurus

Epicurus

An influential thinker named Epicurus established his own school of philosophy in Athens around 310 BC. Epicurus believed that everything in the universe has a natural explanation. His philosophy grew to become one of the most popular beliefs in the Greek and Roman empires, and it remained popular for centuries.

According to Epicurus, the universe is infinite and eternal, and everything in the universe is made up of fundamental atomic particles. Even living things are made up of particles, and it should be possible to explain the mind and its senses through the interactions between these particles.

Everything happens according to the laws of nature, and not because of the divine will of any gods. Epicurus did not deny the existence of gods, because nature seems to have planted the idea of them firmly in the minds of men. But there is no divine intervention or any other act of God, and there is no divine purpose or any other religious objective. We have no other significance beyond that which we give ourselves.

He said that if the gods listened to the prayers of men, then all of humankind would quickly perish, because people seem to be eager pray for each other’s destruction.

Epicurus said that there was no life after death. People are made up of atoms that are dispersed into nature when they die. When the body dies, so does the mind. This is the only life that we have, so we must try to live it as happily as possible.

All that is needed for happiness is a life among friends, a body free from pain, and a peaceful mind. Living honestly brings the greatest peace of mind, and a correct understanding of nature can help free a person from needless fears and anxieties.

He said that happiness can be gained by pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. But always consider the consequences of pursuing pleasure, because some forms of pleasure result in a pain which is many times greater than any pleasure to be gained. And all things are best enjoyed in moderation.

He said that it was wrong to think that just because life had no meaning that people would have no price to pay for the things they did. People are called to account throughout their lives by the judgements of others, or by the fear of being found out.

In the centuries following the death of Epicurus, some of his followers began to preach self-indulgence. They believed that we should abandon our restraints and live for the moment. The word ‘Epicurean’ came to describe someone who lived only for pleasure.

As the Greek Empire declined and the Roman Empire expanded, Epicureanism was gradually replaced by Stoicism as the most influential philosophy in the region.

http://www.evolutionary-metaphysics.net/ancient_greek_philosophy.html

BILL HALEY & THE COMETS - Razzle Dazzle

Wanna Dance? Baby?..See You Later?...

Steve Winwood - Valerie (1987 Remix)

Mark,!. 'Twain'..

The Liverpool Institute in Mount Street may be best known as the school where Paul McCartney and George Harrison attended in the 1950s, but eight decades earlier it was the venue for three lectures by American author and humourist Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
http://liverpoolhiddenhistory.co.uk/mark-twain-at-the-institute/

Woody Pines Hobo and His Bride

the video,is, just, as good,as,the Music..
pure class..

The Young New Mexican Puppeteer - Sir Tom Jones/1972

Fatboy Slim - The Rockerfeller Skank

you've,come, a long way, baby...

ME

the elegants - little star

Working My Way Back to You- Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

SLAVE

“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated you in a friendly way, though they already had their weapons ready and were only waiting for some sort of sign; you remember how cleverly you finally deceived them, hid from them; then you realize that they know your whole deception by heart and merely do not show you that they know where you are hiding; but you are clever and deceive them again—all that you remember clearly. 

But why at the same time could your reason be reconciled with such obvious absurdities and impossibilities, with which, among other things, your dream was filled?

Before your eyes, one of your murderers turned into a woman, and from a woman into a clever, nasty little dwarf—and all that you allowed at once, as an accomplished fact, almost without the least perplexity, and precisely at the moment when, on the other hand, your reason was strained to the utmost, displaying extraordinary force, cleverness, keenness, logic? 

Why, also, on awakening from your dream and entering fully into reality, do you feel almost every time, and occasionally with an extraordinary force of impressions, that along with the dream you are leaving behind something you have failed to fathom? 

You smile at the absurdity of your dream and feel at the same time that the tissue of those absurdities contains some thought, but a thought that is real, something that belongs to your true life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart; it is as if your dream has told you something new, prophetic, awaited; your impression is strong, it is joyful or tormenting, but what it is and what has been told you—all that you can neither comprehend nor recall.” 

 
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot


Dostoyevsky writes about how the Psyche, 'operates', ie,all of the figures in above passage,
are well known in Jungian Psychology.
the writer is 'soul searching', to express in words, his feelings.




“It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.” 
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Johnny Cash - 'Hurt"

What's on?,in,Liverpool..

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/events/displayevent.aspx?EventID=21313

MAYAN EXHIBITION,MUSEUM OF LIFE.

HUGH GRANT,AND, MERYL STREEP, FILMING,IN,LIVERPOOL...

AND, A HUMP BACK WHALE,SPOTTED, IN,MERSEY BAY....

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-36000-kg-beast-causes-tidal-9461114

SEEMS,LIKE, A GOOD TIME, TO,VISIT,US..?.

Adamski

so,you,want, to,be, free?.

“And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

The Melodians - Sweet Sensation

nice..chilled..nice..

JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ - "I JUST CAN'T GET HER OUT OF MY MIND" (1975)

Zoe - Sunshine On A Rainy Day (Original 1991 version)

Pirates Vs. Ninjas

aaaargh..

Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam

Turns out,Adam,is,Bi-Polar..interesting,to re-listen, to, this, I,never, realised, there,were two Drummers,on this,track.

This, Music,wasn't really,My style, in, the '80's, but,I, have, to admit..

the 'Piratey/Indian', look, is, pretty, neat..

Dion - Runaround Sue (HD)

CLASSIC,ENOUGH SAID.

Sunshine Girl - Dandy Livingstone

Try, to sit,perfectly still..and,listen, to this...
...bet, You, can't, resist,tapping, those, feet!..

Native-American,Indians,in,Liverpool?..

http://www.academia.edu/5500747/A_Port_to_the_World_Native_American_Collections_at_the_Liverpool_Museum

JOHN LENNON,PLAYED, THE,'CASBAH CLUB',WEST DERBY,LIVERPOOL,12.

THE CEILINGS,OF,THIS,BUILDING,ARE,COVERED, WITH,ORIGINAL,ARTWORKS..

'NATIVE -AMERICAN, ARTWORK',;BY,JOHN LENNON.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186337-d2048718-i55564057-Casbah_Coffee_Club-Liverpool_Merseyside_England.html

MAYBE,MR LENNON, REMEMBERED,HIS,'TRIP, TO,THE,LIVERPOOL, MUSEUM'...IN,CHILDHOOD?..

WHO KNOWS?..BUT,ANYONE,FROM,OUR,TRIBE..WILL,ALWAYS,KNOW..
WHERE,THEY,WILL,FIND,THEIR, REAL,MEDICINE,MAN...AND,IT,ISN'T, IN, A BOTTLE.
OR,A, SMOKEY JOINT..

WE,ARE,SOMETIMES,OUTSPOKEN.

BUT,OUR, HEARTS, ARE,IN, THE RIGHT,PLACE.

Ry Cooder - It's All Over Now

Johnny Cash - Daddy sang bass with lyrics

There's A Beer For That

Enjoy Beer Responsibly...Don'tmake, a Pig ,out, of, Your-Self..
If, You, are, an, Alcoholic, have, a Non-Alcohol, Beer, Couldn't, be, more,Simple...

J. S. Bach: BWV 998 Prelude

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.” 
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

Woody Pines - Satisfied- English Garden Shed Session

Marty Robbins Singing Beyond The Reef

Liverpool,River Festival, on...Today...

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/mersey-river-festival-2015-live-9398520

Johnny Cash - Tennessee flat top box with lyrics

More Pics

The body is the Bodhi tree,                                       Bodhi by nature is no tree,

The mind is like a mirror.                            The mirror is inherently formless.

Every now and then dust and polish it,  

There is originally nothing,

And let no dust settle on it.                                       On what, then, can the dust settle?

(Two Zen Classics 160-1)

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/poems.htm

Faithless

No sleep, for, the wicked..hah ha ha..!.

Imagine ...never...sleeping...that,must, be,    Hell,   ..  indeed..

I,sleep, like, a Baby..

Great News,! Liverpool,Pirate Fest, returns, in, September!..AAAAARGH!

http://liverpoolpiratebrethren.org.uk/?page_id=654

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/liverpool-pirate-festival-return-albert-9374327

Wenches,always, welcome!..aargh,hahha!...




as,is, StevethePirate...[Watch, that, clip, carefully, now! look, what's, written, on, the Treasure Chest!-
'DEUS EX MACHINA'.].mmm, very, 'DESCARTESIAN', Dude...
but, then, again, the ,whole, Movie, is, just, a, Cannabis Promotion...and, a 'Descartesian Vortex'..
is, something,I, know, a little about..[rofl!]...
[see; My, earlier Post, 'DESCARTES AND THE PINEAL GLAND', ETC]
..but, 'Dodgeball'..well, it's, just,
the,same, old, Story...'Brown Leatherjackets',[Fly Larvae, or, 'The 'Fonz'..Hey!!!!],
a supposed, 'Ex-Flyer',Wheelchairs,Marmots, Sado-Masochists, and,
'White Supremacy', cobbled,together, to, make, a Promo...even, the Acting, is, dubious...
but, 'StevethePirate'...I, have, to admit, is, a good, Portrayal...
same,can't,be, said, of,Vince Vaughn...Who, does, He, think, He, is?.
a Louisiana,version, of,.Bighead,Jeff Bridges?..
What, a, rip-off,pathetic, sad, Story..

AAARGH!...

Taken Today...

A Couple, of ,Pics, taken, just 20 Mins ago..

Summer's, on, it's, Way!..

Mardi Gras

At sunrise, we stood upon the beach.

Babbalanja thus:—"My voyage is ended. Not because what we sought is found; but that I now possess all which may be had of what I sought in Mardi. Here, tarry to grow wiser still:—then I am Alma's and the world's. Taji! for Yillah thou wilt hunt in vain; she is a phantom that but mocks thee; and while for her thou madly huntest, the sin thou didst cries out, and its avengers still will follow. But here they may not come: nor those, who, tempting, track thy path. Wise counsel take. Within our hearts is all we seek: though in that search many need a prompter. Him I have found in blessed Alma. Then rove no more. Gain now, in flush of youth, that last wise thought, too often purchased, by a life of woe. Be wise: be wise.

Mardi/Volume II/Chapter LXXXV

[Herman Melville]

Bacon! mmmm...Tasty!.hahaha!

All I Have To Do Is Dream

Even though it has only come to the attention of the general public in the last few decades, lucid dreaming is not a modern discovery. Lucid dreaming is the Western term used to denote a practice similar to Yoga nidra. The distinguishing difference is the degree to which one remains cognizant of the actual physical environment as opposed to a dream environment. In lucid dreaming, we are only (or mainly) cognizant of the dream environment, and have little or no awareness of our actual environment.^[53] The concept of Yoga nidra is very ancient in Indian traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Krishna is often associated with Yoga nidra in epic Mahabharata. Similarly, many yogis and rishis are supposed to have experienced Yoga nidra throughout their life. In modern times, Yoga nidra was experienced by Swami Satyananda Saraswati when he was living with his guru Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh. He began studying the tantric scriptures and, after practice, constructed a system of relaxation, which he began popularizing in the mid 20th century.^[54] He explained yoga nidra as a state of mind between wakefulness and sleep that opened deep phases of the mind, suggesting a connection with the ancient tantric practice called nyasa, whereby Sanskrit mantras are mentally placed within specific body parts, while meditating on each part (of the bodymind). The form of practice taught by Swami Satyananda includes eight stages (Internalisation, Sankalpa, Rotation of Consciousness, Breath Awareness, Manifestation of Opposites, Creative Visualization and Externalisation).
[wikipedia]

"We are asleep. Our life is a dream. But we wake up, sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Yawn...Ever ,wonder ,Why?..We, Yawn?..

Andre Williams - I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair Of Pajamas

[this Monkey, always, speaks, His, mind..]

Joe Walsh- Rocky Mountain Way

Sandia Mountains, Albuquerque, N. Mex.....the beginning of the Rocky Mountain Way

let's start this week off,with,some class Music..

For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and  Eddie Cantor in blackface which were within the confines of ethnic minicry, and part of a longer tradition which began with the Civil War.  At the same time, the appropriation intensified a sense of alienation and emphasized gap and distance.Part of what writer Greil Marcus has termed ” the old weird America”.

http://madamepickwickartblog.com/2009/11/confidence-menmasquerade-myth-and-art/