more coming soon!
Astro-physics/Cosmology (To quote Richard Farina...Nothing twisted Einstein's HEAD as much as where it all ENDS , and it just might, thank you...);
Ecology...how the earth got be "live" - I don't subscribe to the bishop Pike explanation, BTW; inner space & outerspace...it's all, like, in your mind!
Busking4FREEDOM ! (This is my own site...) Besides my own, here's one that is international in scope... Busker Central ! (You'll find audio/visual representation of singers, tuba players, sword swallowers, jugglers, and many uncategorizable!)
Music recorded before I was born...it took me until I was nearly forty to appreciate the early jazz masters, and I live where Hoagy Carmichael grew up and is buried...music I can dance to...means lots of stuff by Stevie Wonder, most reggae rhythms...almost anything by the Grateful Dead...and, YEAH! Heavy, and a loaf of bread! I have lived to see Dylan dance to his own music as he played on stage!
TIME and its quirks...great painting and sculpture...from ALL OVER, not just Europe & America...the tradition of the patchwork ROBE * as it turns up in Ch'an Buddhism
AND the writing of SUFI poet RUMI...The wit & wisdom of Mark Twain...
* Here are 2 more references for PATCHWORK ROBE
Fellow "darners of the patch-work ROBE"
If this phrase above whets your curiosity, feel free to contact me...PEOPLE who can spy another dancer on the floor and dance the dance of life with him/her (like that wonderful lady with whom this occured at a Mickey Hart concert a few years back...) then leave without feeling as if you even need to SAY anything, let alone exchange phone numbers...(I MIGHT EVEN start a group dedicated to this blissful activity here)
Here's a word to the wise...I have no interest in your "charge by the minute web-cam peek-a-boo-zaganda" if THAT is the only reason you want me to look...YET, if those of you who provide such links are curious about WHY I am here, you ARE invited to check out this page and it's links in the times you are "off-cam" - so to speak...
To my growing list of mySpace friends - I am happy to know those of you whom I have actually met/worked/sung/danced with...to the others who appear here...I do hope you enjoy your time spent on my pages or in my groups at mySpace...CHEERS!
Anyone who is "young at heart" despite being over 40 is welcome here...(not to discriminate against those under 40 who are already "older" than me...LOL!!!)
Is the bread of life for me...kneading the dough, watching it rise! I don't know what it's like to be only a listener, since I've been able to pick up on the melody and lyrics of a song I like - sometimes by the third chorus - for as long as I can remember...FOR THE RECORD, the first radio song I remember singing was QUE SERA (SERA) as rendered by Doris Day, when I was all of 9 years old.
I will link to web-sites asap, wherever possible...HERE is a streaming player of my own SONGS (SCROLL to the bottom of the page...ENJOY, it's thinker than WE sooned!)
Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael (There's a bulletin board there, for you who wish to connect with other lovers of HOAGY's music), Fats Waller , "Cab" Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ma Rainey , Billie Holliday, Django Reinhardt , Blind Willie mcTell, Lightning Hopkins, Bukka White, Yank Rachell ,
Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, "Honeyboy" Edwards, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Joad Guthrie, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommie Flanagan , U Utah Phillips, Bob Dylan, Will Davey Satterfield, The BYRDS, The Band, Leon Russell, Tom Rush , Phil Ochs , Richard & Mimi Farina, Fred Neil, Richie Havens , Mark Bingham, Michelle Shocked , Strawberry Alarm Clock, Mose Allison , BUZZY Linhart, Stacey Samuels (Banjo man!), Dharma Bums (The band, not the Keroac book), ZEN Tricksters , more added soon!
Mostly old classic stuff...a few fave raves for now: KING OF HEARTS - (LE Teatre Du MONDE indeed); The Ruling CLASS - ("Keep a stiff upper lip, and NEVER voluntee-ah!"); M.A.S.H. - I am born on "HAWKEYE" Sutherland's 11th birthday; Dr. Strangelove; Hard Day's Night
Oh the promise of it...if only the networks were like THIS ...(NOTE...you'll need high-speed download...)
I am currently reading The EMPIRE OF TIME by Anthony Aveni (SO, you think you know what TIME is?), AND RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE by Zane Grey (in the cheap DOVER paperback edition...). W.C. Fields, his follies & fortunes By Robert Lewis Taylor...his prodigious memory gives us a glimpse of being a son of an immigrant produce cart peddler (think: 'Desmond has a Barrow in the Market place...') in the Philadephia of the 1880ies...WOW!!! Like something right out of Dickens...no wonder he suffered pompous fools so INgloriously...ANYTHING by Alan WATTS including this: THIS ...animated by the SOUTH PARK GUYS
To paraphrase Dylan: I surely ain't no hero, I ain't no hero's SON, I'm just a long time coming, gonna be a long TIME GONE...
For me, they are TOO numerous to list, so I will simply say, ALL those nameless folks who died saving somebody else's life, sometimes even the life of a RANK stranger...