Thanks for having my back Turq. The funny thing is that I know Jim was trying hard to be a dick (that came out weird) and get under may skin as punishment for goofing on that MMY quote. But giving me a soap box to talk about the music I have devoted my life to is probably not the best hater strategy. By the time he put Bonnie Raitt in the penalty box with me I was sporting wood!
You would have really appreciated the Wedding yesterday, Bi-racial lesbian, with about 90% black at the service. What was interesting for me is that they had very dramatic gender roles with the white groom wearing a tux and the bride in a typical "little girl's dream" white dress. They were ready for the first dance, very beautiful and dramatic, (yes plenty of dips) cutting up the rug to the delight of the 100 or so who were watching. The groom was stocky with short hair and the bride was thin and gorgeous with long hair, so you had trouble even detecting that they shared genders. I had heard that their first DJ canceled at the last minute when he heard it was two women so they had to get another DJ, who came on after me, in a scramble. It took no stretch of liberal virtue to appreciate the love they shared as they danced. They were completely unselfconscious and lost in each other's eyes. Their love was not "gay love" it was human love. Their dance worked because they had worked out their roles of leading and following gracefully, and their sense of humor should serve them well. I was totally swept up in the humanistic beauty of two people in love enjoying the "we are the world" vibe and "we are all the same", until a guy went to the piano and played Elton John. Nothing says "gay" wedding like Elton sung live! (I am down with gay culture up to, but not including, Elton John ballads, that's where I draw the line!) Oh yeah, and when I performed, none of my songs had any "whining and moaning"! --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim wrote, obviously hoping to wound: > > > "Just something to think about the next time you're > > > whining and moaning musically about how hard life > > > is on the planet for a rich white kid. Singing the > > > blues? LOL!:-)" > > Curtis replies, first calmly and precisely, 'splainin' > to the white boy what the blues are really about, and > then segueing back to his characteristic good humor: > > > > Defining blues as "whining and moaning musically" demeans the > > artists who described the human condition with such artistic > > precision, that we hear the echoes of their musical genius > > every time we turn on the radio and hear country music, rock > > or hip hop. Thinking of blues artists as only expressing their > > own cultural and racial realities of their time is a limited > > understanding of their artistic achievement, > > which has completely transcended their time and place and permeates > > all modern music. Far from being treated "like dogs" they were the > > rock stars of their day and earned more in a Saturday night then the > > farmers who tipped them earned all week in the fields. > > > > I played for a wedding today that was 90% black. They gave me a > > note giving me permission to play blues if I am ever challenged > > by any ignorant white boy. I'll send you a copy. > > There really couldn't possibly *be* any better example > of the difference between Jim Flanegin and Curtis Blues. > > Jim believes that the things he posts *hurt* the people > he's aiming them at, keep them up at night, "rile them > up." And Curtis just laughs -- at Jim, at life, and at > those who have become legends in their own minds. > > One of these people is a strong TM practitioner, and in > fact one who claims to be self realized, enlightened. > The other is someone who stopped practicing TM or any > other spiritual techniques years ago, and makes his > living playing music for other people's enjoyment, and > his own. > > If you were to make a decision to pursue one of these > paths in life, based solely on how happy and able to > have fun with life, and based solely on these two > examples of their "paths," which would it be? > > As I've said so many times before, the amazing thing > about the folks who believe that in "defending" TM and > Maharishi compulsively they are providing an "example" > to others is that they seem to have no clue about > *what* they are providing an example *of*. > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is by far my favorite post of the week and surpasses my meager > > > > offerings by infinity. > > > > > > > > Favorite phrase, MMY as Borat: > > > > > > > > "great engineer-lady" > > > > > > > > Favorite fantasy/carrot on stick line: > > > > > > > > "And the time will > > > > > definitely come soon, when I will find space for you one by one." > > > > > > > > Favorite incongruity instruction with a dash of WTF?: > > > > > > > > "Second, I am surrounded by CIA and > > > > > Communist-Security people to a very high extend. Do not worry too > > > > > much about it. > > > > > > > > Favorite tell that this quote passed through a few too many hands > > > on > > > > its way to FFL: > > > > > > > > "But we have to keep the movement in a ridiculous > > > > > outfit, that will make our enemies believe that we are harmless > > > and > > > > > stupid as to eradicate ourselves from within." > > > > > > > > Favorite bottom line, don't worry your pretty little heads > > > children: > > > > > > > > "So now go ahead and continue your task." > > > > > > > > > > > > Well played Maharishi, well played. You are definitely the master > > > of > > > > something. > > > > > > > I can appreciate you seeing Maharishi in a humorously negative light > > > for whatever reason. > > > > > > However, you may want to also consider what some may think of a > > > white boy like yourself, born into the top one percent of the rich > > > in the entire world, get this...*singing the blues*!? What is that > > > about? You and that other rich white kid-- bonnie somebody... > > > > > > You, who had everything handed to you on a silver platter, no > > > worries about food, clothing, shelter, and certainly never facing > > > the discrimination, being treated like a dog, as your blues heroes > > > were. And what do you do about this exalted birth? > > > > > > You sing songs about pain, and whine about lost love and how hard > > > life is. Get real dude. Some may think you are a much bigger joke > > > than anything you could manufacture about Maharishi. Just something > > > to think about the next time you're whining and moaning musically > > > about how hard life is on the planet for a rich white kid. Singing > > > the blues? LOL!:-) > > > > > >
