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April 7, 2017
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Van Gogh and Maxfield Parrish were two popular artists in the 60s.... got into them both long ago. Yes in my spare time some day, need to read up on Van Gogh. I'm sure some things were lost in the movie.

April 7, 2017
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Yes, a very sensitive soul. Identified very much with the poor and the downtrodden, the common man. That's why his portraits are of the people he knew in his daily life. Very deep guy. The book is well worth reading. I loaned mine to someone and then we lost touch. One day I will get another and finish it.

April 8, 2017
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I'll be honest. I've been glued to CNN this past couple of weeks. Been cat sitting for friends, rather - the cats have been sitting on me...

Nevertheless there's not been a whole lot else to do. So knowing I should be updated on what's happening, here we are. WW III looming on the horizon, climate change, the threat of a pandemic that could wipe out millions, chemical and traditional warfare being waged on the helpless innocents trapped in a world not of their own making, random terrorist incidents around the world.

So, here I sit, helpless too. But with a smartphone and a yearning to say... What?

Years ago I fell in love with the Indigo girls too. Moody Blues, Indigo Girls. What's up with that? Maybe it's a color thing... LOL ?

I digress again. Love the Indigo Girls music. Especially their first, self titled album. And when this world gets me down I sometimes listen to that album, especially one certain song, which is really a war cry to my own declaration of independence from this fallen world. It's called Prince of Darkness.

But alas, I have come to class unprepared. Again. I don't have the link. Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it. And that's true of both the bigger things in life and the smaller ones as well.

Off I go on a mission. Of madness or mercy? You be the judge.

And I will not be a pawn of the Prince Of Darkness any longer.

Seriously, its almost like they saw it coming, too. But how could they?

April 8, 2017
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And speaking of CNN, they are bringing in a new mini series called Soundtrack - songs that have defined history. Looks like it will be really good. Think it starts later this month.

April 8, 2017
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Oh I don't think we'll be doing WWIII, not unless the Russians have really lost their minds. And they haven't tho I wonder about their leader sometimes. North Korea has been scaring our pants off since I was in the Navy and I left THERE back in 1998. I was gratified to see the Saudis and Turkey both supported our action, and they never agree on ANYTHING. We're living in strange times.

Cats can be very stubborn. Mine moved into my bed the first day I got them and things haven't changed. Sophie has a disturbing habit of trying to sleep ON me, then on the side between me and the bathroom, and finally I'm starting to get it through her head there is a nice blankey and pillow for her against the wall, where her son Fritz sleeps. I wake up and this fuzzy little body is cuddled up to my back, snoring. It's sorta sweet.

Well if the North Koreans nuke us, I'll be the first one to go here in Seattle. If they do it quick, I don't mind... we all gotta go sometime! Instant vaporization... there are worse ways to go. Laugh

April 8, 2017
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We had a kitten who would drape himself over your head like a hat. You'd wake up to that in the morning. ?

Nobody knows quite what is going to happen I grant you that, but there are worse things than immediate obliteration. The world has witnessed them in graphic detail this week, once again. Its got to stop somehow. And soon.

April 8, 2017
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The most important thing to realize and understand is, we are not in control. Sometimes this is phrased as "It's in God's hands" or "It's God's will" but the bottom line is the same. We can't always predict or control the future, no matter what. Once one embraces that, things get much easier to deal with. In the Navy we used to have a saying. "Since I gave up hope I feel much better"........... one can always hope, but sometimes there IS no answer. We just do what we can, and have faith it will be ok.

My Manx kitty Moe, years ago, used to come stare at you at 4 am, like clockwork. Solid black too, it gave you the willies. HE got up at 4 am, so he felt everyone else should too. The two cats I have now, Schnikelfritz and Sophie M'am, are much more irregular in their sleep habits. Once in a great while we all wake up together, but usually about dawn, they get up to use the facilities and look for food... once they eat their dinner left overs, they come in my room and make pocking noises by digging their claws into the carpet and walking around. If it's my day off, I lock them out until I'm good and ready to get up. Thankfully they are not night prowlers. Some cats are. (some people are) Moe would also sleep on my hair... sorta annoying. Fritz thankfully prefers dirty clothing.

The wind blew so much last night I couldn't sleep, so I read until about 1 am. Kiss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bulwl46vz9s

April 8, 2017
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Pets are pretty cool, regardless of their nocturnal habits. I used to babysit an older Yorkie, who slept burrowed under the covers but would resurface every so often to stare at me with two little button eyes. A little disconcerting at 3 am to say the least.
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Good advice too about leaving it all in God's hands. You are right in saying we don't really have control. Maybe in small decisions in the moment but certainly not in the longterm. Takes a lifetime to figure that out sometimes though.

April 9, 2017
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Apparently it's Muddy Waters birthday, or was recently... so the Doors put this up in celebration. We all need a little soul once in a while. Ah Los Angeles....

April 9, 2017
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I'm still hung up on Andy and Marie. Occasionally, I'll branch out to Olivia and think, "I want to be her." Now, consider this. I just got my haircut. I told the girl I wanted to look like an '80s David Bowie or Wham! She gave me a haircut just like Olivia wears hers now.

April 10, 2017
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You won't be you without your long hair leslee.

I need to do something else with my hair too. Not sure what.

I learned to sing it in four part harmony once upon a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dyl0j3WU6Y

April 10, 2017
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1) I wanted to be somebody else so Mr. Stalker could go 'way.
2) I've never been able to sing more than one part, if that.

April 10, 2017
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I was typing that post and blubbering about how I so madly wanted to interfere in other peoples' business when Marie came on the TV and said, "This is your moment."

April 10, 2017
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Can we settle for what I'm seeing now? I just saw the bands on my progressive lenses. I always wondered how they made them. However, I was staring at my hand - because I don't have anything better to do, and there were all these lines. I rotated my hand, and the lines stayed put. I thought maybe I'd been staring at the computer too long and this was an after-image. Then I figured it out. Way cool. It's like the time the light shone through the bathroom window just right and I could see each droplet of steam in suspension. I told my landlords about it that day, as it was a birthday and we were celebrating together. That alone made a happy birthday, but they thought I was talking about some kind of visionary experience. No! I protested. I actually saw the droplets! Ri-i-i-i-ight.

April 11, 2017
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sunlight shining on mist from the shower.... sorta cool. What a nice visualization.

You're going to find.... if you didn't already.... that 1) people are very square 2) if you say something outside their narrow ken, they think you're nuts 3) if you act sorta weird normally this will reinforce it.

Me I smile a lot, and listen to the boring babble of shallow people in the teacher's lounge, smile and take my hot lunch elsewhere as soon as the microwave is finished with it. They think I'm a stuck up then... but I don't care.... it's quieter in the classroom.

"Better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" --- possibly Poor Richard's Almanac.

April 11, 2017
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Those landlords were the best, though. When I first met them, answering an ad, I knew I wasn't going to find anything better. When they moved, they took me with them. Then, they transferred to Washington, DC. I loved them - my landlord, landlady, and landbaby - but I didn't think I could survive the diesel fuel; so we parted. They were all right, and it was probably a compliment that they supposed I waxed poetic and visionary now that I think about it.

And speaking of how I waft snobbily in rarefied air - back when I worked in public schools, peeps smoked in the teachers' lounge. I was great for the morning classes, but in the afternoon, I sort of brayed like a donkey sometimes fighting the congestion - contact lenses all red - those were the days.

Actually, I'm happy to be a fool, seeing how insightful the fools who preceded me have been. How many times does Justin say he's a fool in his songs? Gotta love fools if only for that. Then, there are so many beautiful songs about fools; for example, "Fool on the Hill," "Only a Fool Would Say That," "Crazy on a Ship of Fools," and this one:

Gotta love Guy Chambers on the keys.

April 13, 2017
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Ah to be young and still feel rage against the machine. Nice beat and song! Thanks for that.

"There was supposed to be an Earth shattering Ka boom! I must blow up the Earth, it's obstructing my view of Venus!" --Marvin the Martian

April 14, 2017
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I don't recall ever seeing film of Jim Morrison. As I've said before, he had a very nice voice, like Perry Como, but his life was too tragic for me to touch. I watched the video you shared, and things looked worse than I would have suspected, in terms of being wasted in at least two senses of the term. I'll post this one. I think I loved it the first time I heard it. Solamente un tonto lo diciera.

April 14, 2017
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April 15, 2017
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heheh liked the end on the Steely Dan piece... something about "tonto" which means "stupid".... Laugh Thanks I needed that. All those Steely Dan tracks have such beautiful clear sound. I really need to get my sound system put back together and upgraded (etc) this summer.... get out my old vinyls and spin them again.

Right now I'm hearing the sound of the washing machine finishing up my blankets....

Yea poor Jim.... when you look into the history of the Doors, you realize that Morrison really didn't like performing.... but it was good cash flow, so he'd get drunk and get out there, hop around and do nutty things, which the audiences loved. My brother saw them at the Hollywood Bowl.... said Jim belched into the mike because they were rudely interrupting his poetry... my brother about fell out of his chair laughing. No one DID that back then! Those were strange days indeed.... I still love the Doors tho, they really opened the door for me as far as poetic rock is concerned... then right behind them came the Moody Blues. The Doors were more pagan, the Moodies more formal. Both very surreal and enjoyable to my teenage ears.

Thus yea, Morrison used himself up. In later years the other band members said they didn't realize how bad it was, or they would have gotten Jim into AA or something. They were all drunk with him, only he took it to extremes. I've see a fair share of it (Navy, friends family etc.... I tend to gravitate to the party hounds socially) usually they don't live past 50. If that long.

I just put it up to illustrate that protest songs aren't anything new, that's for sure.

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