Displaying 2,701 To 2,730 Of 3,373 Comments Wow, Javaz! Thank you for considering. I’d like to be in touch by email but would not want to give it out here. I’ll ask Kalima or one of the honchos here to put us in touch. Will that be all right? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 7:28 pm Thank you, Q. I am honored, though it works the other way around, I can assure you! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:40 pm Of course! What else would they be drinking? » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:40 pm Thanks, Cher! It’s morning here in Tokyo and you just made mine. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:38 pm I don’t think those are options at the Tea Party… » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:33 pm T is for » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:32 pm Thanks, Javaz! Oh, we’ll cook up something together for sure. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 6:31 pm Then it’s an absolute promise, and only laryngitis will prevent it! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 3:05 am yep, yep. And since you’ve got a line to the Divine, maybe our next one could be a sort of Holy Trinity! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 2:39 am In any case, I promise to sing it for you as a (you know what) present, fellow Tokyoite! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 2:35 am Thanks, AdLib! I’m feeling the itch to do another collaboration with you, fellow wordsmith! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 2:29 am hence the beautiful contrast in your gravatar, no doubt! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 2:28 am Thanks, KQ! Not really MY little ditty, that credit goes to Bert Kaemphert (music) and Milt Gabler (lyrics to L-O-V-E). Just down a shot of scotch, and then croon it in your best Nat King Cole impression. I may just have to do a recording of it myself. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 2:27 am Waterfalls! Especially when the have rainbows shining on them. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 23, 2010 @ 1:33 am This is such a good article, Cher. We live in a world of such technical wizardry that authenticity seems to be bleeding out of our society to the point where we may never even notice it when it’s gone. Think about what movies are able to do now. It’s mind blowing. Then go back to the stunts that Chaplin and Keaton used to pull. There is one of Buster Keaton on the front of a locomotive that stands out for me. No blue backgrounds, no stunt doubles. The risks those guys took was amazing! As was the art they were able to create. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 21, 2010 @ 5:02 am Somehow I don’t think that’s Joni Mitchell, but most definitely apropos:) » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 20, 2010 @ 4:03 am We are stardust, we are golden » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 20, 2010 @ 3:01 am Are You Biased Even Though You Do Not Know It? I did the test to see which is more annoying, taking tests like this or walking around all day wearing somebody else’s eyeglasses and shoes, and it came out about even. So I think it’s pretty accurate. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 18, 2010 @ 5:50 pm No Compassion – the American Terrorist still lives I read that last year! I think it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever read online. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 17, 2010 @ 2:12 am There is a great book, “Gaviotas” about a group of scientists, architects, educators and artists building a sustainable community in an area of Colombia run by drug lords, and actually developing a botanical system that reclaims rain forest lands in a way that mimics how they first developed. I don’t know if such things are even possible on the scale of a whole nation, though. Cities are so big, and they have come to function (actually disfunction) without every person being involved. We have “extra people”, frankly. That is one of the great tragedies of our times. We have reached such a level of technological progress that each member of our cities is not essential to the life of the city as a whole. People need to know where they fit into their communities, and if they don’t, they lose something very precious, the awareness of themselves as contributors. When that goes, all sorts of unpleasantness is likely to follow. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 16, 2010 @ 4:11 pm Thank you, Kesmarn, and allow me to laud your eloquence and intelligence as well! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 16, 2010 @ 3:36 pm An excellent article, coming at a disquieting time as a solemn and ominous date approaches. The world is so confusing and big, and filled with so many horrible things, that it is mostly a coping mechanism that we attempt to go the narcissist route, to believe that only we matter. Too many victims, too many natural disasters, too much need and hunger and suffering. The easiest way to make it go away is to flip John Donne the bird and imagine that we are our own islands, with nothing but ourselves to concern ourselves with. I think part of the reason so many people are denying their own humanity and abandoning caring is the sheer overload of suffering taking place upon this fallen world. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 16, 2010 @ 6:23 am Tea Party Ingredients: Old Hateful White Males on Social Security With Viagrahate, you can take both your love life AND your country back! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 15, 2010 @ 11:17 pm Nice one! Maybe it should be called Viaggravate. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 15, 2010 @ 10:35 pm (sorry) » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 15, 2010 @ 10:34 pm hahahahahahahaha! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 15, 2010 @ 10:33 pm There’s nothing we can do that isn’t dumb All We Have is Hate da da da de da All We Have is Hate da da da de da (all together now!) » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 15, 2010 @ 9:51 pm Maybe the adage should be changed to “Hell is War”. I think we humans have outdone any celestial beings in terms of inflicting misery on our fellows. » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 13, 2010 @ 2:59 pm At Huffington Post, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog ferret says hi too » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 14, 2010 @ 6:06 am Hello, fellow woodland critter! Spring has come to the forest and Bambi has lost his fawn spots! » Posted By whatsthatsound On April 13, 2010 @ 1:57 amComments Posted By whatsthatsound
I think that song was the first one to bump the Beatles out of their #1 roost after their Ed Sullivan appearance.
Maybe that’s what persuaded them to incorporate the word “Love” in so many of their songs afterward…?
Thanks!
And yes, artist/illustrator is one of the hats I wear.
We can see where all this is going, too. Virtual reality devices that enable our spouses to “look like” Jessica Alba or Johnny Depp. We’ve come full circle perhaps. 500 years ago it was a rare occasion to even look at ones image in a mirror, and now we’ve become so obsessed we are moving toward “mirrors” that only show us exactly what we want to see (Mirror Mirror on the wall, make me the fairest of them all!)
It reminds me of those old radio ads for Buick. The only thing missing is YOU!
we are billion year old carbon
and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden
I am sorry to hear about your friend, and I think this situation is not uncommon. A little esoterica can be a dangerous thing. People latching onto, and then marketing, ideas that they don’t fully understand and that traditionally take years of disciplined study and practice to even begin to start sharing with others. You see it all over the New Age: people still in their twenties and thirties, novices by more traditional standards, giving seminars, “certifying” others to give same seminars (those certifications get progressively more expensive in some cases), and frankly dealing with energy that can do damage to people who aren’t equipped to handle it. I have some personal stories in this regard that I could share, but they are called “personal” for a reason, suffice it to say that I jumped, all starry eyed, into the New Age scene, and have come to see it from both sides now, its excellence and its excesses.
I met a guy who talked about “The Secret”, saying how he no longer feels sympathy for people in tough circumstances because he realizes that through some choice they made or are making, they asked for the circumstances, and did so for their own purposes, ultimately. “All is in perfect order, the universe is unfolding as it should”. His beatific smile annoyed me, but I realized we were on such an entirely different wavelength that there was no point in arguing. It DID occur to me, however, that had I punched him in the face, he would have been hard pressed to accept that he “called it to himself for some purpose” and thank me!
nothing we can think, our minds are numb
no one we can trust who doesn’t look and talk like me
it’s easy
All We Have is Hate da da da de da
All We Have is Hate, Hate
Hate is All We Are
All We Have is Hate da da da de da (everybaaaa-dy)
All We Have is Hate, Hate
Hate is All We Are
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