--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > I wasn't thinking. My apologies to all of those
> > whose daily cheap thrill comes from FFL. :-)
> > 
> > And what is so bad about a cheap thrill?
> 
> Well, Frank Zappa wrote about Cheap Thrills,
> and now he's dead. Be warned.
> 
> From that incredibly *happy* album "Ruben 
> and the Jets" --
> 
> Cheap thrills in the back of my car
> Cheap thrills, how fine they are
> Cheap thrills up and down my spine
> I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine now
> 
> Cheap thrills all over the seat
> Cheap thrills, your kind of lovin' can't be beat
> Cheap thrills up and down my spine
> I need it, I need it, 'cause it feels so fine now...

Ah, memories...  :-)

Hearing that song in my mind reminds me of
my last days in the TM movement, living at
the National Center in Pacific Palisades.
I'd wake up and realize that ahead of me
was another long day of TM movement crap
and interacting with people who (at least
in that era) had lost the ability to smile
and be funny. So to prepare myself for the
day I'd put on "Ruben and the Jets" or 
Warren Zevon's "Werewolves Of London" and
dance around the room for a few minutes.
It never failed to inspire me and put a
smile on my face, one that in most cases
would last through the stuff I was being
asked to do, like fire some girl because
she had invited her boyfriend to stay over
in her room, and her neighbors on either
side had reported hearing the unauthorized
sounds of...ick...SEX coming through the
walls.

After all these years, the memories of what
a once-inspired spiritual movement had
degenerated into make me shake my head
and wonder. But the music still makes me
smile. I think I'll put some on right now
and dance around the room...

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada 
at Trader Vic's
And his hair was perfect
Ah oooooo....werewolves of London




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