Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Folks,

I just ran across a couple of real old favorites. Both somehow relate to me today. Don't read to much into it. They just happened to stay relevant, and it's nice to pass 'em on.

S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omdd_Kz1LgI (Prisoner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlZz7mTmquc&feature=related (The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty)

Saint Stephen…

Folks,


All this is borrowed and stolen. Blame dumb ol' Garcia and that bum, Hunter. I had nothin' to do with the swindle, but to show up at the right or wrong time. Anyhow, you don't even have to bother with the Youtube recording of this remarkably weird jig; well, unless you're the curious type.





http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/stephen.html

I must give credit to Dr. Dodd, the brilliant and generous scholar for the many links contained in the annotated lyrics. There is a feast for the spirit and mind in there.

S

Reaching for Heaven…

Here the Old Man lays it down, and reaches for Heaven with a fragile voice and nine fingers plucking the harp unstrung. Meanwhile, dumb ol' Lesh seems to be enjoying himself.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcvng9u7REE



S

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Well, this old tune sort'a suits when I'm feeling pretty desperate and lonely. There's one other, but that will come along as the Wheel rolls round

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVjd1fJMME

S

Fed Up w/FB?

Well, if you're about fed up with the virality and porosity of Facebook, the machine using you more than you can make use of it, keep an eye on Diaspora.

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26904/page1/http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26904/page1/

S

Monday, December 13, 2010

Everything Ever Published…

Folks,

Okay, here we go from the basics; this from the dude, Brewster Kahle, that invented the search engine (WAIS), well before there was a WWW.

http://www.archive.org/details/BrewsterKahleEgConference2007-TedConference

Enjoy and Think,

S

Memories in and above the clouds…

Folks,

Now and again, I sort thru my old, saved emails stored on my local machine. That happens only every year or so. I'm not such a good housekeeper for my supplementary memory. But, every time I do, I experience a renewed wonder at the collection of notions that I, being Human and a collector by nature, value. There's all the business stuff, which is interesting in its way. There are scraps of half finished books and lyrics that I  figured I might someday get back to working on. Of course, there are the letters to past and current friends, infatuations, true loves, and the one of my seven or eight wives who happened to fall into my clutches shortly after the advent of the 'Net.

I also rediscovered the following links to a now defunct web site, fortunately still preserved in The Cloud via Archive.org (a splendid service). They contain the lyrics that I wrote for a little song cycle. I began writing them on September 24th, 2000. Between midnight and four on that morning, I had had a quite solid, informative, mind and life changing experience. The entire cycle poured out of me in about two days, thereafter. Those of you that know something of secrets that simply cannot be told, already have the key to the puzzle within my words. You'll know to look to the heavens, at this time of year, to apprehend it. Otherwise, understanding a bit of the Greek Mystery Rites, might slake your curiosity, if any is aroused. Regardless, checking into that highest development of the Perennial Philosophy, as Aldous Huxley termed it, behooves any spiritually inclined individual.

You can blame The Altered Statesmen for the music in this mystical nonsense; mainly, Johnny Cannonball Stevens, and Tony Perino, abetted by some of the finest chronic unemployables on the planet. Of course, there was a woman involved, but I'll let the words and music speak for themselves, as she knows who she is and is presently content remaining above the clouds.

Hic Finis Est

S

http://www.interactiveguild.com/jt/1StarryQueen.mp3

http://www.interactiveguild.com/jt/2MysticLine.mp3

http://www.interactiveguild.com/jt/3SunshineBlues.mp3

http://www.interactiveguild.com/jt/4UB.mp3

http://www.interactiveguild.com/jt/5GoldenLaurel.mp3