[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome... Just you wait. Heh heh. :-) ...but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) As much as I like tits, it's not just the tits. :-) Spartacus has some of the best villains I have ever seen onscreen, and some of the most nefarious plotting. Not to mention a depth of characterization I had absolutely no reason to suspect was coming in the first couple of episodes. I have gone beyond being an apologetic fan and have become an unapologetic fan. I think that -- for good or ill -- it defines the future of television. I expect there to be six knockoff copycat series within a year. None of them will be as good, but all of them will use the violence porn metaphor. The first thing I watched in HD on Instant Play was was a quirky psychological thriller which could easily make the weird film list called Order of Chaos. I have a download of this, but haven't watched it yet. I had stumbled across the movie looking at the Alan Watt http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com site as they used a couple of Alan's Internet radio raps in the movie and he had put a link to Amazon's listing there. Those not familiar with Alan is he is a Scotsman living in Canada doing historical conspiracy podcasts. I can somehow see why this would be your cuppa tea. :-) You can find these on his site and they can be very entertaining. One interesting thing is he claims that TM was an attempt by the Freemason's to create a new religion using Maharishi. That's just silly. The Freemasons I've met were much smarter than that. :-) I suspect that Alan may have at one time practiced TM or was even a teacher. The movie was interesting enough that I had Netflix send me the DVD so that I could listen to the commentary and see what was behind the making of the movie. Let me guess: The making of money? :-) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1159721/ Between Netflix, Vudu, Redbox and Amazon's service I might ditch most of my cable bill. Cable companies are so yesterday. I find it difficult to even conceive of why I'd need cable or a satellite hookup. The only rationale I see for them is if you're a sports fan or, in the case of many UK ex-pats living here, lonely for British TV shows from home. I am neither, and live in a country that wisely sees nothing wrong with downloading media for private viewing, so I don't see myself ever needing to hook up to a media tit other than the Internet ever again.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. I appreciate the attempt to scientifically validate the elevation of Curtis to the post of Prognosticator General, and thus contributed one tick mark in column #3, hopefully not contributing to column #2, and staving off a tick mark in column #1. Me, I predict that this week on Fairfield Life will be pretty much like every other week on Fairfield Life, but that some will not only view the rehash of the same old same old as new, but newly worth their attention and their feigned outrage. Leave your payment in the big golden bowl near the exit, and don't let the door hit you in the ass as you go. Namaste, Jai and away, and all that other stuff that New Age celebrities have to say when signing off, Turqananda
[FairfieldLife] Re: Atlantis Priestesses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.arthit.ru/fantasy-art/0052/0052-fantasy-paintings-7.html What's with the horns? I don't remember Atlantean priestesses being all that horny. But this perception may be because back when I was an Atlantean priest I was short and had a bad case of acne. The only way I could get laid was to use the olde end of the world line in priest bars: Hey, I've had a vision of the whole continent sinking into the sea. Wanna have some fun before that happens? Who knew that it was a real vision? :-)
[FairfieldLife] The Tragedy of Dog Cults
On the other hand, deprogramming them later can usually be accomplished using dog biscuits... [http://i.imgur.com/IdwUQ.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Bill Maher: A Text Message For Republicans
A classic. Equally applicable as a message to some here. Facebook version (probably only visible to members): http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEwNTBxzg58JAx/VIHpOOLPOH3cLO Movieweb version: http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEwNTBxzg58JAx/VIHpOOLPOH3cLO
[FairfieldLife] How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, Jan. 19, 2010, Raj Patel
http://vimeo.com/9901585
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jerry Jarvis Coming St. Paul, MN May 1!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: I just got a letter in the mail from the Minneapolis TM center suggesting that I might like to announce Jerry's lecture on my blog. If this is not a joke, and they really did ask you to announce it on FFL, then how things have changed in the TMO. Humongous change. Would never have happened if MMY were alive. Rick, I predict you get your dome badge back, with an apology. And once you are on the Oprah channel, with your own show, the TMO will positively fawn all over you!!! Get ready for it. I predict that Rick will in due time reveal himself as Maitreya. funniest post of the week!! I hear Rick would need to speak with a stutter to qualify as Maitreya, so that title for Rick is probably out. Have you checked any of nabby's posts on the Patel author/sociologist? How strange is that - people pinning the Maitreya label on a guy who has no interest in the whole B Creme crowd or viewpoint. How do you know Raj has no interest ? Quite the contrary, he fully supports Cremes vision of the future of this Planet and Maitreya's priorities. Anyway, Mr. Creme never ever even hinted that Raj Patel is Maitreya. Your're just twisting this story to fit into your little boxed vision of the world. You have to laugh at it - it's wild, except Patel probalby has had to get security guards and protection at this point.
[FairfieldLife] We don't need a messiah (and anyway, it isn't me) - Raj Patel
For Wayback71 We don't need a messiah (and anyway, it isn't me) Coincidence led to my being hailed as a prince of peace. But change will come from our own hard work, not a deity * [Digg it] http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ftheguardia\ n%2F2010%2Fapr%2F11%2Freligion-peace-social-justice-messiahtitle=We+don\ %27t+need+a+messiah+%28and+anyway%2C+it+isn%27t+me%29+%7C+Raj+Patel * [Buzz up] http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=the_guardian665targetUrl=ht\ tp://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/apr/11/religion-peace-social-ju\ stice-messiahsummary=%3Cp%3E%3Cstrong%3ERaj+Patel%3A%3C%2Fstrong%3E+Coi\ ncidence+led+to+my+being+hailed+as+a+prince+of+peace.+But+change+will+co\ me+from+our+own+hard+work%2C+not+a+deity%3C%2Fp%3Eheadline=We don't need a messiah (and anyway, it isn't me) | Raj Patel |Comment is free |The Guardian * [Share on facebook] (114) http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Ft\ heguardian%2F2010%2Fapr%2F11%2Freligion-peace-social-justice-messiah * Tweet this http://twitter.com/home?status=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fthegua\ rdian%2F2010%2Fapr%2F11%2Freligion-peace-social-justice-messiah (43) http://topsy.com/tb/www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/apr/11/religion\ -peace-social-justice-messiah * Comments (91) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/apr/11/religion-peace-social\ -justice-messiah#start-of-comments * [Raj Patel] http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/rajpatel * * Raj Patel http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/rajpatel * guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/ , Sunday 11 April 2010 19.00 BST * Article history http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/apr/11/religion-peace-social\ -justice-messiah#history-link-box Firstborn sons of British Asian families aren't so much raised as feted, and as a child I became quite comfortable being a little prince. At seven years old, I wanted the privileges of primogeniture to carry on forever. When people asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I responded with the full spectrum of acceptable answers: Accountant! Dentist! Quantity Surveyor! Secretly, though, I wanted to be full-time royalty. From what I saw of the British monarchy and I have yet to be disabused of this view it seemed that if you were born in the right place and time, you could enjoy almost permanent adulation, free money and long hours of indolence. I mention this first because earlier this year a trickle, and then a flood, of email asked whether I was, in fact a prince. Specifically, people asked whether I was Maitreya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya The World Teacher a prince of peace, the leader of a movement that might be able to save the planet from itself. Others wrote to ask whether I was the antichrist, the Prince of Darkness. As the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/09/patel-not-messiah-naughty-bo\ y reported, the deluge began after a number of coincidences seemed to match me up with the man foretold by followers of a group called Share International http://www.share-international.org/ , founded by Scottish mystic Benjamin Crème. I'd done little to earn the title of Maitreya, though I admit some parallels between my life and that described in the prophecy. Have I lived in London? Yes. Am I interested in social justice and sharing the world's resources? Indeed I am. Do I care about feeding the world? Certainly. Was I on American television soon before Crème announced the arrival of Maitreya? Sort of. On 12 January, I appeared on a spoof rightwing talk show called the Colbert Report http://fxuk.com/shows/the-colbert-report . I'd also been on BBC World, CNN, Democracy Now and al-Jazeera before then, but it seems you can't be a deity unless you do Comedy Central. So what, according to Share International, does Maitreya do? Through a doctrine of sharing, fraternity, social justice and co-operation, he (and it does seem to be a he, not a she) brings humanity back from economic and ecological collapse through new forms of spiritual community. As it happens, I do think that sharing, fraternity, justice and co-operation are terrific things. I also think that prioritising the needs of the poor, hungry and oppressed is a non-negotiable part of a sustainable future. Unfortunately, I think that's where the resemblances end. It frustrates me only a little less than it might disappoint those looking for Maitreya that, in fact, I'm just an ordinary bloke. Not that my protests of not-being-the-messiah have been heeded. I wrote a short piece on my blog suggesting that, like the hero of Life of Brian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/ , I was the victim of a case of mistaken identity, and that you've got to work it out for yourselves. This didn't fly. I was reminded by my correspondents that the Maitreya would deny divinity. And when I suggested that I wasn't the messiah, but a very naughty boy, others pointed out that this was
[FairfieldLife] You've all got to work it out for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzhJarU_0cfeature=related http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1266705214468RA68
[FairfieldLife] Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
My brother just Skype'd me from Torino, where he stood in line with the other seekers last night to see the only-once-every-ten-years showing of the Shroud of Turin. He described waiting to see it in terms of Castaneda's controlled folly, in that although you are pre-assigned a 15-minute window in which to see it, being an Italian system it didn't always work out quite as imagined. The Shroud itself is encased in a climate-controlled bullet- proof glass enclosure that rises up from an altar, and then descends back into it when the viewings are over. He actually enjoyed some of the sidebar exhibitions more than the Shroud itself, especially the one that takes advantage of the fact that the image on the Shroud is essentially a photo negative and turns it into a projected, 3D image of the positive. In other words, you are looking at a 3D hologram of Christ, reconstructed from the 2D negative image on the Shroud. Eeriely lifelike, were I think the words he used. The Vibe Report. He definitely got a hit off of it. Now you have to bear in mind that my brother actually has a thing for Jesus, and reveres him in ways that I do not. And that he has just flown several thousand miles on a whim to see the guy's *possible* image on a sheet. But he definitely got a hit off it. He described it as -- for him -- Emanating white light. At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. If that happens, the Shroud Museum might think of opening its own travel agency to compete with Orbitz and Expedia. Fly Jeezpedia...we'll get you there even despite Acts Of God, because we've got an 'in.' :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
Well I guess every family deserves a *white sheep*. --- On Sat, 4/17/10, TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet) To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 12:18 PM My brother just Skype'd me from Torino, where he stood in line with the other seekers last night to see the only-once-every- ten-years showing of the Shroud of Turin. He described waiting to see it in terms of Castaneda's controlled folly, in that although you are pre-assigned a 15-minute window in which to see it, being an Italian system it didn't always work out quite as imagined. The Shroud itself is encased in a climate-controlled bullet- proof glass enclosure that rises up from an altar, and then descends back into it when the viewings are over. He actually enjoyed some of the sidebar exhibitions more than the Shroud itself, especially the one that takes advantage of the fact that the image on the Shroud is essentially a photo negative and turns it into a projected, 3D image of the positive. In other words, you are looking at a 3D hologram of Christ, reconstructed from the 2D negative image on the Shroud. Eeriely lifelike, were I think the words he used. The Vibe Report. He definitely got a hit off of it. Now you have to bear in mind that my brother actually has a thing for Jesus, and reveres him in ways that I do not. And that he has just flown several thousand miles on a whim to see the guy's *possible* image on a sheet. But he definitely got a hit off it. He described it as -- for him -- Emanating white light. At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. If that happens, the Shroud Museum might think of opening its own travel agency to compete with Orbitz and Expedia. Fly Jeezpedia... we'll get you there even despite Acts Of God, because we've got an 'in.' :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. If that happens, the Shroud Museum might think of opening its own travel agency to compete with Orbitz and Expedia. Fly Jeezpedia...we'll get you there even despite Acts Of God, because we've got an 'in.' :-) While I know this is a light-hearted post, it does illuminate perhaps a similar theme played out in various religions, new-age groups and woo woo circuses. The chain seems to be: 1) If I am pious (or faithful in my program, do some yagyas, see holy people, get darshan, feel the silence, pray five times a day,) then 2) I , Me , will get My Own F'ing way, be Special, and rise above the masses because I am better and more faithful than those ordinary f'ing heathens. Sort of conditional faithfulness, it it helps me get MY Way, I am a believer and faithful, practioneer .. in contrast to: 1) I do my practice, and I find a vibrant silence growing within, I feel more connected to people and things, my heart is full, and then 2) life is an adventure, wonderful things happen that I don't plan or force to happen, through a lot of unplanned detours and these unexpected events and challenges have left my life far richer ... and I have mingled with the masses, flowed with the crowd, and felt enlivened to be part of this magnificent whole. I know which group of practicioneers I would prefer to hang with.
[FairfieldLife] Re: We don't need a messiah (and anyway, it isn't me) - Raj Patel
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: For Wayback71 We don't need a messiah (and anyway, it isn't me) Coincidence led to my being hailed as a prince of peace. But change will come from our own hard work, not a deity This set up could be an interesting theme for a book or film. Shades of Be Here Now combined with the song What if God Were One of Us -- just a slob like one of us. The plot has people seeing God in others, and treating them like Gods, though the God-target has no pretense at being God, and yet their simple mundane utterances are seen as scripture. And then poor slobs everywhere start to wake up to the reality that they Are God -- inside, but no one recognizes it. And slowly, with much mistaken identities going on in various ways -- to great humor -- everyone begins to see God within themselves,to be Gods, and to see everyone else as Gods. And then fade to black. Did it really happen or was it just a dream some of us had.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@... wrote: Well I guess every family deserves a *white sheep*. LOL. My brother would laugh, too. It is with *extreme* pleasure that I see his propensity to get a wild hair up his ass and take a last-minute Road Trip (otherwise known as a spiritual pilgrimage) like this, on a whim. My bro often doth not come across as That Kinda Whimprone Person. So good on him. And good on his innocence while approaching and assessing the religious artifact that he hath journeyed thousands of miles to see. I tried my best to report his report as reported, although I cop to spinning some of it avterwards for humor purposes. I would not be able to approach such a religious artifact with as much innocence as he does. I know all too well the ability of the seeker to project that which he doth seek to such an extent that it casteth doubt on the reality of that which he doth perceive in that which he doth seek. I know *firsthand* one's ability to project into a situation that which one wants to find in it. I have WAY been there, done that, and know that this ability coloreth one's subjective experience of what one finds. I don't think my bro is in exactly the same place. Thus I would not -- and have not -- shit in his punchbowl. I have merely listened to -- and reported as accurately as possible here -- his own impressions of the experience. As for the white sheep thang, it's not as if I don't make pilgrimages myself. One of the ways that I amuse myself *is* by journeying to Places Of Power here in Europe. It's one of the things I do for fun. While *at* one of these Places Of Power, what I find my self doing is Juggling A Lot. I mentally juggle my subjective impressions of the place. One side of that self is busy trying to map it to its sales brochure. The sales brochure may describe it as a notable place of pilgrimage, a place where seekers have been coming for centuries to heal what ails 'em. I am -- hard as you may find to believe it -- open to that. However, *at the same time*, another side of my self is open to the mind's seemingly infinite ability to project onto its subjective experience of a place and its power the subsubjective pre-impression of that place that has been programmed into it as a result of reading the place's sales brochure. Me, I just enjoy the time there and then assess any possible difference between the sales brochure impres- sion of the place and my own impression of the place afterwards, and then make my own Overall Vibe Assessment. My subjective Overall Vibe Assessment of many Christian- oriented supposed Places Of Power in Europe is that they are WAY overhyped, and that they...uh...desereth not the hype. On the other hand, quite a few of the older, pre-Christian sites are WAY happening. But that might just be me... --- On Sat, 4/17/10, TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet) To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 12:18 PM Â My brother just Skype'd me from Torino, where he stood in line with the other seekers last night to see the only-once-every- ten-years showing of the Shroud of Turin. He described waiting to see it in terms of Castaneda's controlled folly, in that although you are pre-assigned a 15-minute window in which to see it, being an Italian system it didn't always work out quite as imagined. The Shroud itself is encased in a climate-controlled bullet- proof glass enclosure that rises up from an altar, and then descends back into it when the viewings are over. He actually enjoyed some of the sidebar exhibitions more than the Shroud itself, especially the one that takes advantage of the fact that the image on the Shroud is essentially a photo negative and turns it into a projected, 3D image of the positive. In other words, you are looking at a 3D hologram of Christ, reconstructed from the 2D negative image on the Shroud. Eeriely lifelike, were I think the words he used. The Vibe Report. He definitely got a hit off of it. Now you have to bear in mind that my brother actually has a thing for Jesus, and reveres him in ways that I do not. And that he has just flown several thousand miles on a whim to see the guy's *possible* image on a sheet. But he definitely got a hit off it. He described it as -- for him -- Emanating white light. At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During that time a new way of living will be introduced to humanity via other advanced races that will create a whole new model of economics, healthcare, science and other areas of life. As always keep praying and meditating and sending as much love as you can into the Earth as Earth Day approaches us on April 22, 2010 humanity will be having deep conversations on how we can bring a more intimate relationship to ourselves and our beautiful planet we call Earth. Go to Astrological Varieties http://www.yogavisionaries.com/ for more information. Love and Light, Lou Valentino If you would like to be taken off mailing list reply with âTake off Listâ. Thank you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bill Maher: A Text Message For Republicans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: A classic. Equally applicable as a message to some here. Facebook version (probably only visible to members): http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEwNTBxzg58JAx/VIHpOOLPOH3cLO Movieweb version: http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEwNTBxzg58JAx/VIHpOOLPOH3cLO Maher's material almost writes itself. As if it was already laying on the ground and he just picked it up. A compliment -- in that the material is not a forced, or a manipulated laugh, as say Leno might be, but rather simply highlighting, punctuating, via his delivery, a big chunk of reality, like picking up a large rock, or tree branch found on a walk. And his delivery has a cadence that I find infectious -- as if he has tapped into some common root of the earth. Earthy, punchy, but the rhythym and cadence, the flow, is like something -- again -- found out in nature on a walk -- like capturing the cadence of a river, with some thunderstorm bolts, and a gusty wind, that also becomes a soothing breeze. Or perhaps capturing a natural cadence of the brain -- common to all. As evidenced from my posts, the riff and cadence of this that and whatever, punctuated by Have you been to (LA, fill in appropriate city) lately!!?? is either imprinted on my brain, or his routines have simply unlocked and made accessable, a natural rhythym already pulsing in my brain. I vote/endorse Bill to be White House Chief of Staff to knock heads and kick butt to get people thinking clearly. Or as secretary of state -- that could liven up foreign relations. Or maybe a new cabinet position, Reality-Grounder in Chief. Carte Blanche to roam the halls of government and politico apparatus, slapping sense into jaded hacks, kicking butt of entrenched policy-wonks, and knocking heads of the inane and simply f'ed up politicos -- but you know in a very green, hip and peace-loving way.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During that time a new way of living will be introduced to humanity via other advanced races that will create a whole new model of economics, healthcare, science and other areas of life. As always keep praying and meditating and sending as much love as you can into the Earth as Earth Day approaches us on April 22, 2010 humanity will be having deep conversations on how we can bring a more intimate relationship to ourselves and our beautiful planet we call Earth. Go to Astrological Varieties http://www.yogavisionaries.com/ for more information. Love and Light, Lou Valentino If you would like to be taken off mailing list reply with âTake off Listâ. Thank you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During that time a new way of living will be introduced to humanity via other advanced races that will create a whole new model of economics, healthcare, science and other areas of life. As always keep praying and meditating and sending as much love as you can into the Earth as Earth Day approaches us on April 22, 2010 humanity will be having deep conversations on how we can bring a more intimate relationship to ourselves and our beautiful planet we call Earth. Go to Astrological Varieties http://www.yogavisionaries.com/ for more information. Love and Light, Lou Valentino If you would like to be taken off mailing list reply with âTake off Listâ. Thank you.
[FairfieldLife] Idly, Dosa,uttapam food obsession update
Since this is the only site I can think of where there might be someone who cares... I wrote before about cracking the code of these batters using a controlled sourdough culture. Ever the scientist (when it suits me) I went back to the traditional style of natural fermentation. The batter puffed up with enthusiasm but smelled vaguely of old socks. When cooked this funk remained, not horrible, a touch of Camembert cheese perhaps. It is just the random bacteria in the air at the time with the natural yeast in my area. It was a long way from great which is what I get when I introduce my own sourdough cultures. I am working through all my sourdough cultures to find the best one for Idly. San Francisco was great, I am using one of the two strains I have from Napoli, Italy and it has a great flavor but more modest rise. So this is why some places are famed to have the best idly etc. in India, it is the bacteria yeast in that area just like sourdough bread. The ingredients are too simple for them to be the secret. I can't believe it has taken me 25 years to crack this code but I will make up for it by consuming large quantities of this manna for the rest of my life. You can become a mad scientist yourself by getting your cultures here: www.sourdo.com This guy is my kind of saint, went all over the world to capture the best Fred and Ginger bacteria and wild yeasts for us to enjoy. (Important safety tip when at parties and have consumed a bourbon or three and have a sweet young thing cornered. Do NOT go through all the strains of sourdough you have in your refrigerator listing the pros and cons. Although she might start with a genuine interest that you are a dude who cooks after the third culture's merits and demerits her eyes will glaze over and your chances for voluntary sex that night are zero. Fortunately for me I always have my plan B, duct tape, in my pocket.) Dosa update:My next challenge was to master the dosa which I have always had mixed results in frying pans. The reason is the lack of uniform heat. I got an electric griddle ($20 Walmart special, special thanks to the Chinese children who built it) and could obsessively move through all the temps to find the magic one. So far 350F is the winner. I have spent decades going back in restaurant dosa kitchens when they would let me and watching water dance on the griddle to try to figure out the temp. Now I can set it and forget it (hey that's catchy!) The other variable is that the batter has to be very thinned down and you have to work on the motion of spreading it thin and then thinning it further with the bottom of your ladle. After if cooks for a minute or two spay some oil at the edges and a little on top. I like to flip mine over and cook a little on the other side. Loosen the edges with your spatula first before you try to get to the center to flip it. I have always used urid dal 1 part, course ground rice flour two parts but have recently seen some recipes calling for the addition of both channa dahl (bengal gram) and fenugreek. If I can find the dahl flour I will try it. I love the taste of fenugreek and the channa should make the dosa more yellow. Reports to follow. For anyone who wants to see me make a few dosas I made a short clip. It came out kind of underexposed so don't be alarmed at my dark skin! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56UFhVUEbhMfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. Excellent rap! The subtlety of this routine makes me want to re-think my own most successful opening line: Get in the trunk. At first it would seem to save time over his method but once you add in the jail time it pretty much evens out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During that time a new way of living will be introduced to humanity via other advanced races that will create a whole new model of economics, healthcare, science and other areas of life. As always
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Well, with all the intense fascination about homo-erotic religious art, bros hugging -- but chastising each other just a little too much to keep your hands off my ass, grand but hollow boasts about penis size, contemplations on mysterious shrouds -- that imply a naked man's body somewhere, and the generally totally gay conversations about Oneness, Gas Pumps and art-house films, one has to ask Aren't we all? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During that time a new way of living will be introduced to humanity via other advanced races that will create a whole new model of economics, healthcare, science and other areas of life. As always keep praying and meditating and sending as much love as you can
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
Duveyoung: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Hey, I don't know anything about Lou Valentino, Edg. but, aren't all deviants that molest young boys, homosexuals? Else, they would be molesting young girls, right?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Well, with all the intense fascination about homo-erotic religious art, bros hugging -- but chastising each other just a little too much to keep your hands off my ass, grand but hollow boasts about penis size, contemplations on mysterious shrouds -- that imply a naked man's body somewhere, and the generally totally gay conversations about Oneness, Gas Pumps and art-house films, one has to ask Aren't we all? With all due respect, dude, after the next Group Hug when the question Whose hand is on my ass? comes up, your name is going to pop to the top of the list. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
I'm so glad I stopped regularly posting here. With my talents gone, lookie here lookie here -- into that vacuum struts Beloved Cur and Sour Oblongata! They've step to the fore and give us world class smarm and ha ha's and love wrapped in malevolence and (man o man I can hardly type the words) with dope creative writing skills. I bow. Again and again I bow. Curtis -- what's with this increase in your posting? Are you busking less? Um, um, you've imported a Russian Wife and now it's all you can do to get out of bed? Querying minds want to know. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Well, with all the intense fascination about homo-erotic religious art, bros hugging -- but chastising each other just a little too much to keep your hands off my ass, grand but hollow boasts about penis size, contemplations on mysterious shrouds -- that imply a naked man's body somewhere, and the generally totally gay conversations about Oneness, Gas Pumps and art-house films, one has to ask Aren't we all? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and
[FairfieldLife] Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....
And I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying it. The news is, of course, full of stories of people not being able to go home from holidays etc but they are completely missing the big picture. It's fabulous out there. The sky is so blue it's breathtaking, even with a bit of high altitude volcanic ash the lack of air pollution seeded at 40,000 feet is noticeable already. And the silence is deafening, you only notice the hundreds of planes that fly over your house every day when they aren't there. We've been selling ourselves *way* short with air travel, no amount of convenience is worth this environmental destruction. It's like going back in time a century, the high price of oil keeps most cars off the road so us cyclists are having a super time, and on a straw poll of folks I bumped into in cafes and walking the street EVERYONE wants air travel banned permanently as it's *so* nice here at the moment. I'm hoping mount Eyjafjallajokull (will we ever learn how to pronounce that) keeps erupting for a couple of years which will force us to grow more food here and stop hopping to eastern europe to get drunk whenever we feel like it. Sanity will reign again. So far we've discussed a trip to Iceland with a pair of large bellows to stoke the flames of Eyjafjallajokull but then I thought a yagya to Ragnarok might do the trick, but then remembered we'll be running out of oil in 5 years so maybe we should let nature take it's course.It'll be worth the wait. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/16/volcanic-ash-air-travel-europe
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Well, with all the intense fascination about homo-erotic religious art, bros hugging -- but chastising each other just a little too much to keep your hands off my ass, grand but hollow boasts about penis size, contemplations on mysterious shrouds -- that imply a naked man's body somewhere, and the generally totally gay conversations about Oneness, Gas Pumps and art-house films, one has to ask Aren't we all? You are on a roll brother! Homer Simpson says it best: http://www.kweer.com/homer/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature and the Earth is going to react in some way as Pluto goes very deep into areas of the Earth that we are not aware of in retrograde motion along with Saturn in deep retrograde motion till it turns direct at the end of May So far April has brought about an earthquake in Western China and now we have a volcano eruption in Iceland that has shut down air travel to and from America to Europe and other eastern countries. The Earth is in labor and is ready to give birth to a new age. Ask any women who has had a child and she will tell you it is no picnic to carry all of the weight around and then go through labor pains but when the baby is delivered the joy of being co-creator is beyond words. Therefore, we can say that the labor pains for planet Earth will last over the next two yearâs or so and finally give birth to a more civilized humanity. As I have written in my e-book âFull Moon Messages from the Pleiadiansâ the preparation phase which starts 2012 will last till 2026. During
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_re...@... wrote: I'm so glad I stopped regularly posting here. With my talents gone, lookie here lookie here -- into that vacuum struts Beloved Cur and Sour Oblongata! They've step to the fore and give us world class smarm and ha ha's and love wrapped in malevolence and (man o man I can hardly type the words) with dope creative writing skills. I bow. Again and again I bow. Curtis -- what's with this increase in your posting? Are you busking less? Um, um, you've imported a Russian Wife and now it's all you can do to get out of bed? Querying minds want to know. Edg I heading out right now Edg thanks for asking. I dropped out of Facebook for a while so that may be the reason I am posting more here lately. I gotta so somewhere with my drivel! I go with the weather and the people flow. Weather here has been dicey lately. But this has been my best busking season start ever so I expect a great Summer. Hope you are out triking yourself silly brother! I hope you try my dosa idly tip. It is the holy grail for South Indian foodies! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote: Willy's reply: So, your friend is 5% homo? Well, with all the intense fascination about homo-erotic religious art, bros hugging -- but chastising each other just a little too much to keep your hands off my ass, grand but hollow boasts about penis size, contemplations on mysterious shrouds -- that imply a naked man's body somewhere, and the generally totally gay conversations about Oneness, Gas Pumps and art-house films, one has to ask Aren't we all? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really like his job. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: My favorite line: the Earth is going to react in some way I am s getting into this biz. I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies (particularly that retrograde, reprobate, retard Pluto) some people on earth are going to react in some way. Stay tuned for my circling the bulls-eye when it happens! man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, I predict that because of the planetary juxtaposition and the angles of incidence of the heavenly bodies 1) 146,376 people in the word, TOMORROW, are going to die, due to the death of the old age of greed and hucksterism. 2) However, given that we are witnessing the birth of a new age of peace and free love, there will be 351,236 births tomorrow. 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Dear astrological clients and spiritual family, In my April monthly forecast I wrote the following predictions: Earthquake activity also remains an issue because of the Pluto, Saturn and Uranus combination of this new Moon. Tornado activity could also increase because of the Taurus signature
[FairfieldLife] Re: Lou Valentino: Astrological Predictions for April 2010 come true................
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. Excellent rap! The subtlety of this routine makes me want to re-think my own most successful opening line: Get in the trunk. Which is sort of ironic in that, rumor has it, you prefer women (well, politely I will limit it to that) with some junk in the trunk -- but on the street the debate is if thats a natural inclination, or simple part of your excursion into exploring the black roots of the blues. And do they get into the trunk, or are you getting into the trunk? Its sort of a confusing image for us sexual illiterates. And does the trunk have chains? Air compression equipment for fixing a flat tire? Flashlights for probing dark places? Does it sort of reek of mold? Is it full of other garbage? Do other cars try to, or inadvertently rear-end it? Or is a old VW with the trunk in the front? At first it would seem to save time over his method but once you add in the jail time Jail time for the abduction? Or the 16 yr old thing? Tell me, does the judge add these various things up, or sort of its an OR not an AND -- and you only get the time as if it were one offense? And I hope you behave and don't start wondering about the judge and whats under his shroud -- and projecting 3-D images. Which brings to mind -- 3-D porn. Isn't it bad enough we have to listen to our date (from the survey thing) exclaim, emphatically See! Not all men are 4 inches like you tried to tell me! but now we have to see our inferiority jutting out over the horizon -- as evening spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table - limp and cold from the night breeze, having to listen to the women as they come and go, comparing us the the rock hard statues of Michaelangelo. And do you consider your junk escapades your right for being pious and faithful? A gift from God? Or do you hold that you are the gift from God to -- well, Ashleys of the world? And does she scream Oh God, The Lord has Come or The Age of Awakening is here! at the appropriate moment? -- or Oh Shit -- which brings us back to the junk in the trunk thing. And does the world, for you, end with a bang or a whimper. And does that bang knock out or wake up the Walter Mittey in you? Do you imagine your self making fantastic, crowd roaring arial feats on that swing over your bed? Or is it all in your head? Or is it a Benjamin Button thing where you start out wrinkly and feeble, and then progress to your a smaller wrinkly and feeble state? Thor, who is currently roaring and exploding in delight, sends his best. But he warns you to stay away form those icelandic, finnish and norwegian blonde ashely's. They are far too pure for you -- and he's protecting them, Ya thats the ticket -- protecting them. Please clarify. The world is awaiting for a new Prince of Piece - to govern the dawning age (yes, back to the 16 yr olds) of enlightenment and rockhard willpower over nature. days it pretty much evens out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: man, you need far more measurable predictions. For example, Snip 3) 1.365,876,059 people will fornicate tomorrow. How are you going to measure this? Wait a second, are you the guy who has been disappearing behind the bushes when I go to pull my bedroom curtains at night? Just put me down for a yes and stay out of my yard! I am glad you asked! You see, I have this um, friend, ya thats the ticket, a friend, ya see, who spends his weekends at hip gathering spots -- nature haunts, coffee-houses, and the tofu rack at Whole Foods, randomly (ya thats the ticket -- sciencey types love that word random) randomly asking people (odd that 95% are women), Ashley's so to speak, I am with the Holistic Whole-Earth Lifestyles Institute, may I ask you a few survey questions for our study on making the world a better place to live -- for us, and our children's sake? After the obvious yes, ok my friend asks, Are you planning to fornicate today? After the obvious yes,, then. with one or multiple partners? ... Do you have your partners picked out, or are you sort of lookin' etc. My friend seems to really
[FairfieldLife] Obama Slams GOP Obstruction of Finance Reform
Obama in his weekly address calls out the Finance Reform lies from GOP leadership as he fights for: -strong consumer financial protections -transparency, accountability and oversight to Big Bank and Wall Street financial dealings -closing the loopholes that have allowed recklessness and irresponsibility and allowed executives to take risks that not only endangered their companies, but also our entire economy -new rules so that Big Banks and financial institutions will pay for the bad decisions they make - not taxpayers -no more taxpayer bailouts Watch: http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address MEANWHILE... ~~ Senate Republicans Band Together in Opposing Financial Bill ALL 41 Senate Republicans have signed a letter urging the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, to adopt a more bipartisan approach in developing legislation to tighten regulation of the nation's financial system. The letter enraged Democrats, who noted that Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the banking committee, had spent months working with Republicans and trying to get their cooperation on the bill. The Republicans' letter did not explicitly threaten to block the bill from coming to the floor for debate, but senior Republican aides said that was the underlying message. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/senate-republicans-band-together-in-opposing-financial-bill/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obscene crucifix shocks parishioners.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: There used to be a company that licensed Hi Res great art from the top museums of the world --for use on HD TVs and PCs. often in slide show format, but you could stop and gaze. But they went out of business. Is anyone aware of great art web sites, and/or subscription services. Or DVDs with just art? Do a search for +CD-ROM +paintings for available CDs (the DVDs are documentaries; all I could quickly find with stills for slide-type shows are on CD, so probably not HD). Here's three: http://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?sid=1271520879-396102subject=16category=5143 http://tinyurl.com/y2an22n Here's the complete catalog of paintings in the British National Gallery on CD: http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/shop/Art-DVDs-CDs/CDs/300810 Oh, here are two DVDs for slide shows, one on Impressionism and one on Da Vinci: http://www.plasmawindow.com/index4.html Probably more of you scratch around. You'd think somebody would put together a good series covering each period for art history students. By searching Google on an artist, you can get a lot of their work under Image. but its often limited res. I find WiKi often has quite high res art on an artists page -- but only a few (you need to click around to get the hi res option) We need a napster of art. Interesting thought. Do you look for stuff on Wikimedia Commons? (I imagine an image search on Google or Yahoo would turn up what it has for a particular artist or art subject or artwork, but it's faster just to start with Wikimedia.) As on Wikipedia, some images are available in hi-res, but most aren't, although a good portion of them are an OK size for most purposes. http://www.commons.wikimedia.org I took all three of the images in my Noli me tangere post from Wikimedia Commons; they're all available in large versions, but they aren't all that sharp in the large sizes. Here's the large size of the Titian (2,024 x 2,494), for example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Tizian_050.jpg The original is about 43 x 36 inches, so that's, oh, about 2/3 life-size on my 17 laptop screen, 1280 x 800. I assume it would be sharper on a higher-res monitor, but I'm not sure how that stuff works.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) The first thing I watched in HD on Instant Play I recently suspended my membership -- lack of time -- but when I was active, I was disappointed in many of the instant plays. First, many were edited to 4:3 format -- losing 2/3's of the actual picture. i have refused to watch that format for years. (sort like using a 1/2 inch thick condom.) Second, the resolution was mediocre on many (better on some). I have a 25 MB connection so I assumed they hwouldhave the throttle opend up a bit on their side -- maybe 6-10 MG which would enable HD streaming. Have they changed and upped their output speeds? Third, selection was primarily old cable fodder -- though still a lot of old art house films. No, they now have a pretty good selection but they like Redbox are getting delayed releases from the studios. Folks on the home theater forums say that Netflix HD offerings have recently increased dramatically. Except for the episodes of Spartacus which look more like they are WMV streams what I've watched has been 720p streams. You only need about 2.5 to 3 mbps for those. Vudu's HDX which 1080p requires about 4.5 mbps but I have 6 mbps DSL and so it works fine. Vudu has the best selection and current films including some of the IFC also in theaters stuff. What I also like is a lot of older films which are also available in HD. Vudu's encoding is excellent but the company was founded by HD geeks. Walmart just bought them and I hope leaves them alone. Amazon's service is the one with current TV series from FX and Syfy. Redbox is talking about a $4 a month streaming service. VOD is the future. I can't stand 4:3 on an HD set. I even noticed that 1930's movies seemed to be filmed by cinematographers who were used to shooting photography in a landscape widescreen format as there is often dead space on the top and bottom of the 4:3 frame (even with Citizen Kane). Widescreen has been around since the beginning of film as that is what the French Lumiere brothers shot in just using the 5x3 post card film stock. It may have been the studios were having the 30's films done that way for European audiences where 5:3 was used. I have a couple Kino DVDs of those early films. Warner developed widescreen in the late 1920s. There was one western shot in 70mm widescreen back then and recently released on DVD (mabye Bluray). The studios introduced it again in the 1950s as an extra to get people to go to theaters after the introduction of TV. For instance I have This Island Earth which was filmed in 4:3 but framed for Cinemascope which was what I saw it in originally. Between Netflix, Vudu, Redbox and Amazon's service I might ditch most of my cable bill. Cable companies are so yesterday. I cancelled my subscription. A lot of stuff I watch is on hulu or you tube -- at least the best parts. For some reason NBC doesn't want people to watch Hulu on their sets though one can do it just using a computer with component or HDMI output. I tried PlayOn but my Samsung player said it couldn't play the Hulu stream. Boxee was told by Hulu to remove their support though there is supposedly a work around. I might try that. The weekend my 53 set was out I watched TV and Hulu on my laptop using a networked HD tuner.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome... Just you wait. Heh heh. :-) The second episode was better. There is an interesting subtext going on which is almost more about current affairs than life in Rome. ...but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) As much as I like tits, it's not just the tits. :-) Spartacus has some of the best villains I have ever seen onscreen, and some of the most nefarious plotting. Not to mention a depth of characterization I had absolutely no reason to suspect was coming in the first couple of episodes. I have gone beyond being an apologetic fan and have become an unapologetic fan. I think that -- for good or ill -- it defines the future of television. I expect there to be six knockoff copycat series within a year. None of them will be as good, but all of them will use the violence porn metaphor. Unfortunately that is the way that horror has gone especially since the Saw and Hostel successes. The first thing I watched in HD on Instant Play was was a quirky psychological thriller which could easily make the weird film list called Order of Chaos. I have a download of this, but haven't watched it yet. I had stumbled across the movie looking at the Alan Watt http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com site as they used a couple of Alan's Internet radio raps in the movie and he had put a link to Amazon's listing there. Those not familiar with Alan is he is a Scotsman living in Canada doing historical conspiracy podcasts. I can somehow see why this would be your cuppa tea. :-) I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! Well writing it was one thing the politics of the record industry is another. You can find these on his site and they can be very entertaining. One interesting thing is he claims that TM was an attempt by the Freemason's to create a new religion using Maharishi. That's just silly. The Freemasons I've met were much smarter than that. :-) I'm thinking he was into TM and went to Charlie's lectures and derived it from that. I suspect that Alan may have at one time practiced TM or was even a teacher. The movie was interesting enough that I had Netflix send me the DVD so that I could listen to the commentary and see what was behind the making of the movie. Let me guess: The making of money? :-) Or losing it. I was reading a commentary in THR this morning on companies looking to make money in Hollywood and winding up losing instead. No, what I'm interested in is how he came up with the story line. The DVD arrives today. How you write for money is to make the story compelling enough that people want to back its production. Before the 1986 tax laws the losing of money was also profitable. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1159721/ Between Netflix, Vudu, Redbox and Amazon's service I might ditch most of my cable bill. Cable companies are so yesterday. I find it difficult to even conceive of why I'd need cable or a satellite hookup. The only rationale I see for them is if you're a sports fan or, in the case of many UK ex-pats living here, lonely for British TV shows from home. I am neither, and live in a country that wisely sees nothing wrong with downloading media for private viewing, so I don't see myself ever needing to hook up to a media tit other than the Internet ever again. Well they are finally waking up to VOD as the way. Sort of a if you can't beat them join them attitude though the software industry saw the Internet
[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome... Just you wait. Heh heh. :-) The second episode was better. There is an interesting subtext going on which is almost more about current affairs than life in Rome. If you perceive a modern subtext in the series, I suspect it is more due to projecting it there than the producers intending it there. It's a remarkably factual portrayal of the Roman society of the time. If there is a resemblance to modern times, that's probably due more to Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it than to artistic intent IMO. ...but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) As much as I like tits, it's not just the tits. :-) Spartacus has some of the best villains I have ever seen onscreen, and some of the most nefarious plotting. Not to mention a depth of characterization I had absolutely no reason to suspect was coming in the first couple of episodes. I have gone beyond being an apologetic fan and have become an unapologetic fan. I think that -- for good or ill -- it defines the future of television. I expect there to be six knockoff copycat series within a year. None of them will be as good, but all of them will use the violence porn metaphor. Unfortunately that is the way that horror has gone especially since the Saw and Hostel successes. Not entirely. The latest episode of Bones was a delight- ful spoof of the horror genre, going so far as to co-star Robert Englund (Freddie Krueger). It was a hoot.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome... Just you wait. Heh heh. :-) The second episode was better. There is an interesting subtext going on which is almost more about current affairs than life in Rome. ...but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) As much as I like tits, it's not just the tits. :-) Spartacus has some of the best villains I have ever seen onscreen, and some of the most nefarious plotting. Not to mention a depth of characterization I had absolutely no reason to suspect was coming in the first couple of episodes. I have gone beyond being an apologetic fan and have become an unapologetic fan. I think that -- for good or ill -- it defines the future of television. I expect there to be six knockoff copycat series within a year. None of them will be as good, but all of them will use the violence porn metaphor. Unfortunately that is the way that horror has gone especially since the Saw and Hostel successes. The first thing I watched in HD on Instant Play was was a quirky psychological thriller which could easily make the weird film list called Order of Chaos. I have a download of this, but haven't watched it yet. I had stumbled across the movie looking at the Alan Watt http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com site as they used a couple of Alan's Internet radio raps in the movie and he had put a link to Amazon's listing there. Those not familiar with Alan is he is a Scotsman living in Canada doing historical conspiracy podcasts. I can somehow see why this would be your cuppa tea. :-) I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! With all due respect to John Cage -- he broke a lot of boundaries, but the John Cage concert I went to -- was about 1000 record players each playing a different song, symphony opera, nature sound world music or spoken narrative. And John was there, but no visibly present. Probably walking around the audience -- who were walking among the record players. Or perhaps hiding behind a stage curtain -- I could have written that in my sleep. In fact I think I have a few times. Did you know Emil Richards and his cosmic micro tonal band? Paul Horn's friend. And a meditator of course. The Grateful Dead seemed to be sort of micro tonal -- tuning their guitars to some out there scale. And particularly QuickSilver live -- who I used to tell friends they played like you know, 100 dissonate notes and chords per second Or maybe they were just to far tripping to tune their guitars by standard means. And thanks for the Digital video insights writing it was one thing the politics of the record industry is another. You can find these on his site and they can be very entertaining. One interesting thing is he claims that TM was an attempt by the Freemason's to create a new religion using Maharishi. That's just silly. The Freemasons I've met were much smarter than that. :-) I'm thinking he was into TM and went to Charlie's lectures and derived it from that. I suspect that Alan may have at one time practiced TM or was even a teacher. The movie was interesting enough that I had Netflix send me the DVD so that I could listen to the commentary and see what was behind the making of the movie. Let me guess: The making of money? :-) Or losing it. I was reading a commentary in THR this morning on
[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: I'm hoping mount Eyjafjallajokull (will we ever learn how to pronounce that) http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/pronounce-eyjafjallajokull-10392613 I replayed the pronunciation repeatedly, and I *still* can't pronounce it.
[FairfieldLife] Robes of Silk, Feet of Clay/Judith Bourque
For many years, Judith Bourque has claimed that she would only publish the memoir of her affair with MMY after he passed. The book is about to be released: http://www.robesofsilkfeetofclay.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:18 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. Barry, hasn't carbon dating pretty much confirmed this as a fake? Then again, if he gets something out of it, fake or not, good for him. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! With all due respect to John Cage -- he broke a lot of boundaries, but the John Cage concert I went to -- was about 1000 record players each playing a different song, symphony opera, nature sound world music or spoken narrative. And John was there, but no visibly present. Probably walking around the audience -- who were walking among the record players. Or perhaps hiding behind a stage curtain -- I could have written that in my sleep. In fact I think I have a few times. Did you know Emil Richards and his cosmic micro tonal band? Paul Horn's friend. And a meditator of course. The Grateful Dead seemed to be sort of micro tonal -- tuning their guitars to some out there scale. And particularly QuickSilver live -- who I used to tell friends they played like you know, 100 dissonate notes and chords per second Or maybe they were just to far tripping to tune their guitars by standard means. And thanks for the Digital video insights I didn't know Emil Richards but did know Paul Horn. I knew the Quicksilver guys too. Lived next door to John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins (who also played on a lot of the Beatles cuts as well as in The Rolling Stones). We used to have some wild poker parties. John is another case in point as his parents were also professional musicians. Nicky was the black sheep of a banker's family who decided to take up music instead and had a lot of classical and jazz chops. I often found Tibetan Gamelan music good to listen to then switch to western music and here in an entirely different way as if it were Gamelan music too.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: With the local Hollywood Video going out of business and a new Samsung networked Bluray player I decided to sign up again for Netflix. As I've mentioned before I used Netflix over 10 years ago when DVD first came out because few if any of the local stores had DVDs to rent. Then they began getting them and I stopped using Netflix. So upon Turq's recommendation I put Starz's Spartacus: Blood and Sand in my Instant Watch list. Last night I watched the first half of the first episode. Interesting series though nowhere as well produced as HBO's Rome... Just you wait. Heh heh. :-) The second episode was better. There is an interesting subtext going on which is almost more about current affairs than life in Rome. If you perceive a modern subtext in the series, I suspect it is more due to projecting it there than the producers intending it there. It's a remarkably factual portrayal of the Roman society of the time. If there is a resemblance to modern times, that's probably due more to Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it than to artistic intent IMO. I have to disagree with you there knowing how screen writers work. No projection, just observation. Bet they talk about it in the commentaries. ...but quite interesting how they put green screen and CG to work to create the episode. Not sure if it's my cup of tea as I found plenty to fill the queue otherwise. Of course I've seen enough to see why Turq liked it. ;-) As much as I like tits, it's not just the tits. :-) Spartacus has some of the best villains I have ever seen onscreen, and some of the most nefarious plotting. Not to mention a depth of characterization I had absolutely no reason to suspect was coming in the first couple of episodes. I have gone beyond being an apologetic fan and have become an unapologetic fan. I think that -- for good or ill -- it defines the future of television. I expect there to be six knockoff copycat series within a year. None of them will be as good, but all of them will use the violence porn metaphor. Unfortunately that is the way that horror has gone especially since the Saw and Hostel successes. Not entirely. The latest episode of Bones was a delight- ful spoof of the horror genre, going so far as to co-star Robert Englund (Freddie Krueger). It was a hoot. Bones is a TV series and so formula I found it difficult to watch. The Freddie remake is coming out so he was product placement. I'm talking about much of films being made especially ones in the After Dark Horrorfest 4 which I'm winding my way through. They're all on Vudu in HD except for the 8th one which each year is the winner and gets some theater bookings before going to video. I guess it's hard to scare audiences anymore. Just stepping outside your door in the US maybe more horrifying than any horror movie. Forgot to mention that I watched Defendor on DVD last night. You will be pleased to know that Redbox listed the genre correctly. But I think I would have enjoyed it more on Vudu where it was available in HD. Fun little film. I was reminded of some of the people downtown I've talked too that were equally out there.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:18 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. Barry, hasn't carbon dating pretty much confirmed this as a fake? My bro is more than aware of the carbon-dating, but quotes the TB's argument on it without claim- ing to believe it one way or another. That is, some time ago a small fragment of the Shroud was snipped and taken away for carbon dating and tested to have come from the 12th century. However, the backing of the Shroud is admittedly from the 16th century or something like that, and the Shroud itself has been patched numerous times over the years. So if a Shroudie TB wanted to keep believing, all they would have to say is, They carbon dated part of a 12th-century patch, not the material of the actual Shroud itself. Ya can't argue with that. At least I can't. Then again, if he gets something out of it, fake or not, good for him. My feelings exactly.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
It seems the swath of fabric carbon tested, was from the patched material. Carbon dating on the same kind of fabric, linen, found in Egyptian tombs, have been *off* by seven hundred years or more due to contamination by bacteria or something growing over time on the linen. Because of this, the carbon 14 dating is considered inconclusive by many. --- On Sat, 4/17/10, TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet) To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010, 6:20 PM --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ ... wrote: On Apr 17, 2010, at 7:18 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: At this point the Big Test of the Shroud's Woo Woo Quotient and the lasting value of its textile darshan will be whether he can actually get home. The Cloud (as opposed to the Shroud) emanating from Iceland and covering Europe has now closed Italian airspace as well, and none of the airlines are answering their 800 numbers. If he gets home tomorrow as planned, consider that a big win for those who believe in the value of visiting holy relics. Barry, hasn't carbon dating pretty much confirmed this as a fake? My bro is more than aware of the carbon-dating, but quotes the TB's argument on it without claim- ing to believe it one way or another. That is, some time ago a small fragment of the Shroud was snipped and taken away for carbon dating and tested to have come from the 12th century. However, the backing of the Shroud is admittedly from the 16th century or something like that, and the Shroud itself has been patched numerous times over the years. So if a Shroudie TB wanted to keep believing, all they would have to say is, They carbon dated part of a 12th-century patch, not the material of the actual Shroud itself. Ya can't argue with that. At least I can't. Then again, if he gets something out of it, fake or not, good for him. My feelings exactly.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: I'm hoping mount Eyjafjallajokull (will we ever learn how to pronounce that) My wild guess: ~ ey-yah-fyal-lah-yir [for 'jö'] -cool :D That's at least how that'd approx. be pronounced in Swedish...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! With all due respect to John Cage -- he broke a lot of boundaries, but the John Cage concert I went to -- was about 1000 record players each playing a different song, symphony opera, nature sound world music or spoken narrative. And John was there, but no visibly present. Probably walking around the audience -- who were walking among the record players. Or perhaps hiding behind a stage curtain -- I could have written that in my sleep. In fact I think I have a few times. Did you know Emil Richards and his cosmic micro tonal band? Paul Horn's friend. And a meditator of course. The Grateful Dead seemed to be sort of micro tonal -- tuning their guitars to some out there scale. And particularly QuickSilver live -- who I used to tell friends they played like you know, 100 dissonate notes and chords per second Or maybe they were just to far tripping to tune their guitars by standard means. And thanks for the Digital video insights I didn't know Emil Richards but did know Paul Horn. I knew the Quicksilver guys too. Lived next door to John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins (who also played on a lot of the Beatles cuts as well as in The Rolling Stones). I like the breadth of Nicky Hopkins -- he was everywhere. I remember him from the Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart -- when he was good :), Ronny Wood and of course Jeff Beck. And later with Jefferson Airplane -- and about everybody else. John Cipollina was amazing to watch live. And had the look of the archetypal hippie -- when the term was new and fresh -- tall, thin, long stringy hair, intense gaunt look, good and interesting guitarist. QS's Who Do You Love -- the greatest rock song ever recorded -- or played live. To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one of a kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb with two 12-inch speakers and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns. His style was highly melodic and expressive. Cipollina's classical past no doubt influenced his guitar style, which was miles beyond the usual pentatonic blues-scale work of many of the other psychedelic-era guitarists. His work on fellow dueling guitarist Gary Duncan's electric arrangement/adaption of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, retitled Gold and Silver, which appears on the self-titled first album of Quicksilver, is an excellent example of how Cipollina took rock to places it usually didn't dare to venture. You didn't live next door to them in Mill Valley did you? If so -- did you hang with Clover? Sons of Champlain? (And who was The Girl from Mill Valley that Hopkins composed a song for on Beckola?) We used to have some wild poker parties. John is another case in point as his parents were also professional musicians. Nicky was the black sheep of a banker's family who decided to take up music instead and had a lot of classical and jazz chops. I often found Tibetan Gamelan music good to listen to then switch to western music and here in an entirely different way as if it were Gamelan music too.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Father Len Dubi: How TM enriches my religious life
Ahh..on the baseball scorecard. Thanks for the explanation. Yah, I'm no foreigner to cyber-boards. I've too often seen folks jump to conclusions on a few texts w/out much knowledge regarding the author of the post(s). I've had my share of being falsely accused. I'm learning (hopefully) how to better handle those type dialogs. No, I wasn't involved with a Univeralist (Unitarian or Christian) in the past. I was involved with a type of Biblical fundamentalism. I was a loyal follower/true believer with The Way International. http://en.allexperts.com/e/t/th/the_way_international.htmI was involved for 28 years, from 1977-2005. Prior to The Way, I was involved in various spiritual-seeking. One of those was the TMO for about 1-1/2 years. I took SCI and volunteered at the TM Center and was considering MIU at the time. I received my mantra when I was 16 and hung my share of Mahesh posters at the high school. Ha! ;-D My interest in Christian Universalism was peaking in 2007. I was familiar with Unitarian Universalism but never Christian Universalism(CU). IF I decide (in the long run) to continue with some sort of Christianity, I'd lean toward CU. How 'bout you Judy...or at least I think you must be Judy from the contexts of some of the posts here? Were you ever a TBer in TM or other affiliation(s)? Btw, if interested I have a narrative of my story online. It's kind of long so I divided it into 3 parts. There is a part 4, which is separate and conveys part of my story regarding my health. I got sick after my fourth year of involvement with The Way. Following are links to the narrative and my health story. [I totally understand if you never read them. :-) ]Seeking: Life Along The Way http://tossandripple.blogspot.com/2009/04/seeking-life-along-way.html Beyond Survival http://poetrypages.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13t=50569#ten46 On of my items on my wish-to-write-it-at-some-point list, is a comparison of benefits The Way propounds(ed) and the benefits the TMO propounds(ed). I realize other 'all-or-nothing' groups often propound the same benefits, but I have personal experience with the TMO The Way. And yes, sometimes I miss my 'true believer' days. I miss them less and less, but the first few years out of the cocoon were quite diffi-cult. [pun! ;-) ] Cheers!~carol ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Carol jchwelch@ wrote: Hi again authfriend, Sometimes I'm dense and I'm not even blonde; though I do carry some gray. ;-) I still don't get the player/scorecard thingee It's an old baseball phrase. Vendors would run around the stands selling scorecards, which listed all the players, their numbers, their stats, etc., so you'd know who each guy was when you watched the game. The vendors used to call out, Scorecards, scorecards, can't tell the players without a scorecard! The equivalent on an electronic forum would be a list of the participants, their interests and backgrounds, etc. On FFL, it would say whether they're current or former TMers; whether the current TMers are movement TBs or just independent meditators; whether the former TMers were currently engaged in some other spiritual practice; whether they were virulently anti-TM/TMO or indifferent to it; what the participants' beliefs were; and maybe a characterization of their posting history. Since we don't have such a scorecard, it just means it's a good idea to observe for awhile until you know who's who, before you say anything *about* a participant. (You said you weren't referring to me, so it doesn't apply in this case anyway!) snip Michael Shermer is pretty well known. He is the founder of Sceptic Magazine. Urk. I'm sort of automatically suspicious of professional skeptics. They tend, in my experience, not to be quite as even-handed as they would like folks to think they are. But maybe he's different... I've only read part of one of his books, and am enjoying it. I get the impression from the book that he leans toward agnostism, yet I've also heard he's an atheist. Doesn't matter much to me. I like his approach in the book I'm reading which is How We Believe https://www.skeptic.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PRODStore_Code=\ \SSProduct_Code=b063PB I'm interested in cultures and how they develop and how people relate, thus his studies in that field I find interesting along with the psychology.That's about my extent on Shermer. He's one of the guys that recently (with Sam Harris) debated Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston. Tom Talbott is a retired philosophy professor and a Christian Universalist. I'm more familiar with Talbott than I am with Shermer, simply because of where I've come from in the belief category. From the Universalists? We had a Unitarian/Universalist here awhile back, *very* smart guy name of Lawson. Unfortunately, he left. Maybe
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! With all due respect to John Cage -- he broke a lot of boundaries, but the John Cage concert I went to -- was about 1000 record players each playing a different song, symphony opera, nature sound world music or spoken narrative. And John was there, but no visibly present. Probably walking around the audience -- who were walking among the record players. Or perhaps hiding behind a stage curtain -- I could have written that in my sleep. In fact I think I have a few times. Did you know Emil Richards and his cosmic micro tonal band? Paul Horn's friend. And a meditator of course. The Grateful Dead seemed to be sort of micro tonal -- tuning their guitars to some out there scale. And particularly QuickSilver live -- who I used to tell friends they played like you know, 100 dissonate notes and chords per second Or maybe they were just to far tripping to tune their guitars by standard means. And thanks for the Digital video insights I didn't know Emil Richards but did know Paul Horn. I knew the Quicksilver guys too. Lived next door to John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins (who also played on a lot of the Beatles cuts as well as in The Rolling Stones). I like the breadth of Nicky Hopkins -- he was everywhere. I remember him from the Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart -- when he was good :), Ronny Wood and of course Jeff Beck. And later with Jefferson Airplane -- and about everybody else. John Cipollina was amazing to watch live. And had the look of the archetypal hippie -- when the term was new and fresh -- tall, thin, long stringy hair, intense gaunt look, good and interesting guitarist. QS's Who Do You Love -- the greatest rock song ever recorded -- or played live. To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one of a kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb with two 12-inch speakers and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns. His style was highly melodic and expressive. Cipollina's classical past no doubt influenced his guitar style, which was miles beyond the usual pentatonic blues-scale work of many of the other psychedelic-era guitarists. His work on fellow dueling guitarist Gary Duncan's electric arrangement/adaption of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, retitled Gold and Silver, which appears on the self-titled first album of Quicksilver, is an excellent example of how Cipollina took rock to places it usually didn't dare to venture. You didn't live next door to them in Mill Valley did you? If so -- did you hang with Clover? Sons of Champlain? (And who was The Girl from Mill Valley that Hopkins composed a song for on Beckola?) Yup, it was Mill Valley with George and Marsha Lucas living across the street. Nick Gravenites hung out there frequently. Didn't know the Son of Champlain but hitched a ride with the father once. Don't know who the girl was. Played in another band which had a house in San Anselmo where a little redhead girl would come over and belt out some blues (Bonnie Raitt). John was always working on his guitars doing custom things.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obscene crucifix shocks parishioners.
Thanks. I had forgotten about Wiki commons -- a natural home for hi res art. But few are 1900 x 1200 -- hi def resolution. Some are getting there.More is available than when I put a collection together several years ago. Hopefully world museums and collectors will ban together and gift the world the art of the ages in digital form. if anything, it will increase their traffic -- the more one gets hooked on great art -- the more one will go out of the way to see. Martin Scorsese is doing a wonderful thing with art films http://www.theauteurs.com/dashboard Its amazing as digital collections of all sorts mature. The totality of world art, music, film, architecture, literature, poetry, video, -- in HD, all at ones fingertips instantly -- anywhere anytime. What would kings 300 years ago have paid for this power? That combined with the liberal dream of the later 19th century that with industrialization, human kind would have the leisure hours to pursue fine things -- the arts, humanities, spiritual and mystical practices, science ... .. but even post-industrial most people are more interested in getting a better model lexus, a new granite kitchen counter top, and to watch ancient sexual-violence rituals on HD (-- massive brute force to capture the enemies territory and if successful, a long,fully erect, kicking leg, high in the air -- to place a ball in between the outstretched widespread and wanting (in the insipid projections of the conquerors) legs of the conquored motherland goal posts -- a pagan ritual of violence, death, rape and pillage.) It would be eye opening to have national and economic progress reported with better differentiation: a rising 5 billion clicks on great art last month, and a declining 2 billion clicks on football games -- tremendous progress for the world. But now, a trillion football game clicks is seen as much an advancement as a trillion great art and music clicks. Thats maya, pure maya. Massive delusion and illusion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: There used to be a company that licensed Hi Res great art from the top museums of the world --for use on HD TVs and PCs. often in slide show format, but you could stop and gaze. But they went out of business. Is anyone aware of great art web sites, and/or subscription services. Or DVDs with just art? Do a search for +CD-ROM +paintings for available CDs (the DVDs are documentaries; all I could quickly find with stills for slide-type shows are on CD, so probably not HD). Here's three: http://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?sid=1271520879-396102subject=16category=5143 http://tinyurl.com/y2an22n Here's the complete catalog of paintings in the British National Gallery on CD: http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/shop/Art-DVDs-CDs/CDs/300810 Oh, here are two DVDs for slide shows, one on Impressionism and one on Da Vinci: http://www.plasmawindow.com/index4.html Probably more of you scratch around. You'd think somebody would put together a good series covering each period for art history students. By searching Google on an artist, you can get a lot of their work under Image. but its often limited res. I find WiKi often has quite high res art on an artists page -- but only a few (you need to click around to get the hi res option) We need a napster of art. Interesting thought. Do you look for stuff on Wikimedia Commons? (I imagine an image search on Google or Yahoo would turn up what it has for a particular artist or art subject or artwork, but it's faster just to start with Wikimedia.) As on Wikipedia, some images are available in hi-res, but most aren't, although a good portion of them are an OK size for most purposes. http://www.commons.wikimedia.org I took all three of the images in my Noli me tangere post from Wikimedia Commons; they're all available in large versions, but they aren't all that sharp in the large sizes. Here's the large size of the Titian (2,024 x 2,494), for example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Tizian_050.jpg The original is about 43 x 36 inches, so that's, oh, about 2/3 life-size on my 17 laptop screen, 1280 x 800. I assume it would be sharper on a higher-res monitor, but I'm not sure how that stuff works.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
Cippolina was a real master, way ahead of his time. Is he still around? Those Quicksilver concerts when they were a quartet with Gary Duncan, were incredible! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: tartbrain wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I had some email exchanges with Alan a few years back. He had claimed on his podcast that rock musicians of the 1960s didn't know that much about music (he claims to be a former profession songwriter). Au contraire, even people like Graham Parson had jazz backgrounds. Brian Wilson was also into jazz and composition. So were many of the well known rock stars I met and we used to compare notes. I particularly remember siting with some of the guys from the Greatful Dead at my house listening to John Cage. We were all music students that looked at the rock scene and thought hey we can write that stuff in our sleep! With all due respect to John Cage -- he broke a lot of boundaries, but the John Cage concert I went to -- was about 1000 record players each playing a different song, symphony opera, nature sound world music or spoken narrative. And John was there, but no visibly present. Probably walking around the audience -- who were walking among the record players. Or perhaps hiding behind a stage curtain -- I could have written that in my sleep. In fact I think I have a few times. Did you know Emil Richards and his cosmic micro tonal band? Paul Horn's friend. And a meditator of course. The Grateful Dead seemed to be sort of micro tonal -- tuning their guitars to some out there scale. And particularly QuickSilver live -- who I used to tell friends they played like you know, 100 dissonate notes and chords per second Or maybe they were just to far tripping to tune their guitars by standard means. And thanks for the Digital video insights I didn't know Emil Richards but did know Paul Horn. I knew the Quicksilver guys too. Lived next door to John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins (who also played on a lot of the Beatles cuts as well as in The Rolling Stones). I like the breadth of Nicky Hopkins -- he was everywhere. I remember him from the Jeff Beck Group (with Rod Stewart -- when he was good :), Ronny Wood and of course Jeff Beck. And later with Jefferson Airplane -- and about everybody else. John Cipollina was amazing to watch live. And had the look of the archetypal hippie -- when the term was new and fresh -- tall, thin, long stringy hair, intense gaunt look, good and interesting guitarist. QS's Who Do You Love -- the greatest rock song ever recorded -- or played live. To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one of a kind amplifier stack. His Gibson SG guitars had two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers. The treble pickups fed two Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb with two 12-inch speakers and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns. His style was highly melodic and expressive. Cipollina's classical past no doubt influenced his guitar style, which was miles beyond the usual pentatonic blues-scale work of many of the other psychedelic-era guitarists. His work on fellow dueling guitarist Gary Duncan's electric arrangement/adaption of Dave Brubeck's Take Five, retitled Gold and Silver, which appears on the self-titled first album of Quicksilver, is an excellent example of how Cipollina took rock to places it usually didn't dare to venture. You didn't live next door to them in Mill Valley did you? If so -- did you hang with Clover? Sons of Champlain? (And who was The Girl from Mill Valley that Hopkins composed a song for on Beckola?) Yup, it was Mill Valley with George and Marsha Lucas living across the street. Nick Gravenites hung out there frequently. Didn't know the Son of Champlain but hitched a ride with the father once. Don't know who the girl was. Played in another band which had a house in San Anselmo where a little redhead girl would come over and belt out some blues (Bonnie Raitt). John was always working on his guitars doing custom things.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Starz's Spartacus
No, he died of emphysema in 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_Messenger_Service Joe wrote: Cippolina was a real master, way ahead of his time. Is he still around? Those Quicksilver concerts when they were a quartet with Gary Duncan, were incredible!
[FairfieldLife] Gas Pump Blues
I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. Perhaps an unfair parallel, but the energy, tone, insights, vibrancy, love for the universe, cascading love for others was not there. It was as if I could have been listening to a show on people who found Jesus. They may have had and are having a transformational experience. But its not apparent how it has really affected their lives in deep and profound ways. I came away thinking, I wouldn't spend much time on what ever they are doing -- the value is not manifesting in their lives. Similar to my impressions of those testifying for Jesus. They may be having profound experiences -- being he center of the universe and all. These experiences may actually be real -- though there is a large distance in establishing that -- for themselves and for any listeners. Not that they have to prove anything. But I have friends who experienced the same with psychedelics -- center of the universe, egoless states and all. I am not sure that was real, not sure that it wasn't. But they did not do much with the experience. It may have shifted them in good ways. The experienced of egolessness is profound and can be lasting. But it was not transformational in the sense of some blazing persons I know or have been with. But these Pump people, have little of the -- and this is hard to articulate -- vibrancy of life, humor, quickness of mind, flowing insights, shakti, glow, spontenaity that others I know, have seen, have. For the latter, I am inspired by them to obtain what they have. From the Pump people, I have no aspiration to obtain what they have -- from what I have heard thus far. And these things I listed are outer things, perhaps superficial, and meaningless with regards to inner states. however, I know the THING -- it may be weak and transitory -- but I think we all know the clarity, energy, clearness that can come from that THING. and I have seen the THING ripely manifest in others. And I don't see it much in these people. And the yahoo group -- I read a 20 or so posts. The posters are way into their heads -- it would appear from their posts. Dry expositions. While a small sample, i don't see the energy, vibrancy, life surging from their words.
[FairfieldLife] New Predictions
Since predictions are in the air, I will make a real one. Its not based on Pluto -- Plato or Purusha. Rather its what appears to be the obvious. But what is obvious is not always apparent. Predictions on the economy are easier measured than other areas so I will stick to that. Prediction April 17, 2010: In the next month there will be a major correction in the stock market of at least 10%. Before the end of 2010, the correction will be over 20%. And before the end of 2010 the economy will enter a double dip recession, unemployment will rise at least 4%, and housing prices will drop another 10-15% nationally. The Euro will tank, dropping at least 15% against the dollar by the end of 2010. And two Euro countries will default on their debt prior to March 2011. Goldman Sachs will be greatly weakened by class action suits, government penalties, and tarnished reputation. Their stock will fall by at least 40% by the end of the year. They may not survive through June of 2011, but thats maybe a 20% chance. Oh one more. Two more Tiger mistresses will emerge before September. But thats like saying the sun will rise tomorrow.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: I find a vibrant silence growing within, I feel more connected to people and things, my heart is full, and then 2) life is an adventure, wonderful things happen that I don't plan or force to happen, through a lot of unplanned detours and these unexpected events and challenges have left my life far richer ... and I have mingled with the masses, flowed with the crowd, and felt enlivened to be part of this magnificent whole. Nice to hear what I experience mirrored by another. On the other hand, I don't really care to pass judgment on the path others have chosen. Wouldn't that sort of imply some lingering resentment, or even some elitist sentiment?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Volcanic ash keeps flights across Europe grounded.....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: It's like going back in time a century, the high price of oil keeps most cars off the road so us cyclists are having a super time, and on a straw poll of folks I bumped into in cafes and walking the street EVERYONE wants air travel banned permanently as it's *so* nice here at the moment. Likely except when THEY want the convenience. This strikes me as pretty stupid and elitist. Why don't they, and you stop using your computer. Are you aware of how much energy is consumed with one search. Why are you even posting? You are causing your own environmental damage every time you click, aren't you?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_re...@... wrote: And the yahoo group -- I read a 20 or so posts. The posters are way into their heads -- it would appear from their posts. Dry expositions. While a small sample, i don't see the energy, vibrancy, life surging from their words. Hard to strike gold twice. FFL with all it's problems has some good edg (edge) and gets into some interesting discussions. But I think you've pretty well nailed this Buddha at the Gas Pump. And those interviews-I've only listened to the Foster's piece, but there wasn't much there to make me want to push on. Then again, I don't have time to do a lot of speculative exploring.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Gas Pump Blues
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:22 PM, tartbrain no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: I started to watch the 4 videos on you tube -- an then sampled the audios on the blog -- listening to segments of about 10 contributors. While all nice people, there was not much compelling material in the hour of so I listened. Certainly there could be great gems hidden in the material I passed over. But I got bored with most. Perhaps an unfair parallel, but the energy, tone, insights, vibrancy, love for the universe, cascading love for others was not there. It was as if I could have been listening to a show on people who found Jesus. They may have had and are having a transformational experience. But its not apparent how it has really affected their lives in deep and profound ways. I came away thinking, I wouldn't spend much time on what ever they are doing -- the value is not manifesting in their lives. Similar to my impressions of those testifying for Jesus. They may be having profound experiences -- being he center of the universe and all. These experiences may actually be real -- though there is a large distance in establishing that -- for themselves and for any listeners. Not that they have to prove anything. But I have friends who experienced the same with psychedelics -- center of the universe, egoless states and all. I am not sure that was real, not sure that it wasn't. But they did not do much with the experience. It may have shifted them in good ways. The experienced of egolessness is profound and can be lasting. But it was not transformational in the sense of some blazing persons I know or have been with. But these Pump people, have little of the -- and this is hard to articulate -- vibrancy of life, humor, quickness of mind, flowing insights, shakti, glow, spontenaity that others I know, have seen, have. For the latter, I am inspired by them to obtain what they have. From the Pump people, I have no aspiration to obtain what they have -- from what I have heard thus far. And these things I listed are outer things, perhaps superficial, and meaningless with regards to inner states. however, I know the THING -- it may be weak and transitory -- but I think we all know the clarity, energy, clearness that can come from that THING. and I have seen the THING ripely manifest in others. And I don't see it much in these people. And the yahoo group -- I read a 20 or so posts. The posters are way into their heads -- it would appear from their posts. Dry expositions. While a small sample, i don't see the energy, vibrancy, life surging from their words. I am ever the naysayer so I listened, had the same response, but didn't post because, well, I feel so much like the one person in the group who heard the words but didn't get the joke. I have been reading, every so painfully, the first few sentences, even the first paragraph of posts here. Very tortuous reading. Indeed, it's all in the head. I know that this groups is not about TM, but when I visit Fairfield and Vedic City, and I visit often, I am drawn to the common, average working day person there. The people who run the spectrum of scoffing at TMers to tolerating them else they'd lose their jobs at the Hy-Vee or the dry cleaners if they didn't since ru's make up so much of the customer base. Those people, unless they speak about finding Jesus, are authentic while the others I meet set off the b.s. detector in me. This group and what I listen to set off the b.s. detector in me. Not b.s. because the experience might not be real, but b.s. because I don't see the experiences they describe radiating out of them as I expect a transformational experience would. I suffer in the restaurants in Fairfield people who share their feelings with others. I sense no emotions are being shared. All I sense is that they are making my lunch or dinner difficult because they are many decibels louder than the other restaurant guests in their self-indulgence. I concur with the observations of tartbrain.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Shroud of Turin Report (or, When the Fans Hit the Sheet)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000 steve.sun...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain no_reply@ wrote: I find a vibrant silence growing within, I feel more connected to people and things, my heart is full, and then 2) life is an adventure, wonderful things happen that I don't plan or force to happen, through a lot of unplanned detours and these unexpected events and challenges have left my life far richer ... and I have mingled with the masses, flowed with the crowd, and felt enlivened to be part of this magnificent whole. Nice to hear what I experience mirrored by another. On the other hand, I don't really care to pass judgment on the path others have chosen. Wouldn't that sort of imply some lingering resentment, or even some elitist sentiment? I was characterizing two different types of groups -- and expressing a preference with hanging out with one over the other. I am not sure where the elitism or resentment is in that. I prefer to hang with rational people over tea-partiers (at least a subset that i have seen) I certainly don't resent the tea partiers -- in the sense of envy or they have something I want. As far as elitism, I don't see how a personal preference for being with one group is elitist -- any more than someone who likes to watch films compared to another group that likes to hack strongly secured data centers. Is the film buff elitist? Can I feel comfortable and at home with film buffs, computer hackers and tea partiers? I would treat all with respect. Probably enjoy a lot of people in all the groups. That doesn't change my preference for hanging more with one. For example I enjoy the company of a number of people. Some, to pick activities that I would not run to sign up for, go hunting, some go to mass, some go to a lot of baseball games. Not my cup of tea. It doesn't mean I feel superior to them. Elitism is an interesting theme though. Many into politics seem elitist to me. I would venture to say many of the progressives on this forum feel some elitism over conservative republicans. I haven't sense much mutual respect here or in the larger political realm. Do people living in upscale neighborhoods feel elitist compared to working class neighborhoods? Gang neighborhoods? The homeless shelter? Some appear to me to be so. Others not. On this forum there appears to be a lot of one-upmanship. Is that elitism? And when did elite become a dirty word? I consider (subsets at least) of highly learned, talented, successful people, with good hearts and minds, as an elite group. As in top notch. But elitism in terms of having a superiority complex seems counter to unity, to liberation, to awakening. How can you feel haughty and superior to your neighbor -- or fellow poster -- and expect to be at one with the universe? Its not going to happen. People who feel a growing sense of underlying oneness and unity with all people are friendlier with all people. And feeling a sense of oneness with nature makes one want to protect nature from abuse -- because one is a part of it, we all breath the same breath, nature included, we of are of the same sap so to speak.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gas Pump Blues
The center of the universe thing -- the experience several mentioned -- sort of casually, is interesting. Do they mean that poetically like someone might say their heart felt like the ocean? I sense they mean I more literally. If that is the case, i think some respectful, considerate probing might be in order. First, if really really literal, truly experiencing the center of the universe would be of immense interest to scientists of many ilk. And the story would be saturating all science journals if not popular press. Live on the Today Show -- the amazing woman who experienced, and actually IS the center of the universe. Being the center of the universe, do they bring back any special insights -- other than its like really big. Did they find a pot of gold, the Ved, the Akashic Records, the kingdom of heaven, a black hole (and how in the heck did they get out of the black hole? !!), Goldman Sachs, the cosmic yoni, shiva, christ, emptiness? Do they have some new special insights on the time space continuum, string theory, unified field theory, who is going to win the Oscars next year? How has been to the center of, or actually being the center of the universe improved their lives. I guess a genuine benefit is being able to suck any distracting or annoying people into a black hole. Has it helped their dating life? You know, after my job as an accountant ends at 5, I go to my real job, being the center of the universe. Wann a come up to my flat and see my etchings of the first moments of creation? I am all for such experiences. The only reason for my gentle mocking is to provide a tiny bit of grounding here. If meant figuratively -- and especially if you can express the sense of being the center of the universe in art, music, your life's work, etc then fantastic. I am there for you. But if you mean it literally -- really deeply literally, I hear the voice of Ricky Ricardo echoing in my head You gots lot of s'plaaaining to do
