[FairfieldLife] Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[emilymaenot]

Gotta *love* the video: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4
 
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> 167 posts for Richard and his brother Richard J.
>
> And the reason ...? "Because I could".
>
> This is what happens when someone posts to validate themselves.

Very perceptive comment, Empty. That seems to be the whole issue.

There are people on this forum who seem to live only for the
*reflection* of themselves they "get back" from other people. They "use"
the replies they get as a form of self-validation.

Such people tend to fawn all over anyone who compliments them, to argue
incessantly with those who "reflect" back images of themselves they
don't like, and to go batshit crazy when people ignore them.

So much easier IMO to just post shit and not bloody CARE whether anyone
replies, or what they reply. I don't know about anyone else here, but my
self image does not depend on what *anyone* here thinks of me, so I get
to post just for fun.

After all, what is there to "validate" when one has no fixed self?  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Great Rock Artists

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> I agree the Dead has the energy of the "live" band sound; bluegrass
jams are often like that - they are sooo goood in person and just don't
translate as well to albums.

Why I think many people "missed" the Grateful Dead and don't understand
them is that 1) they're musically naive, and think only in terms of "pop
songs" that are so simplistic that they can comprehend and appreciate
them, and 2) they missed the dynamic of what I call "seven people
soloing at the same time."

Lesser bands -- and I would certainly class Eric Clapton and many of the
others named in a previous post in that category -- were easier for some
people to "get" because their music was simpler, and written to a
formula. Simple time signature, simple melody, a bass line that rarely
changes, and then occasionally one person "takes a solo." Not to mention
the songs themselves being "songs," by which I mean they fit into the
radio format, being short and not requiring much of an attention span.

The Dead weren't like that. At their best -- and I am the first person
to admit that they were *not* always at their best -- it really wasn't
one person "taking a solo." It was all 7 or 8 of them soloing at the
same time, each of them riffing off of each others' thoughts and ideas
as if they were in some sort of psychic mind-meld.

Phil Lesh was the most classically trained musician in the group, and
there are those who class him as possibly the best bassist that rock has
ever seen. He wasn't limited to the dumb, repetitive (but memorable,
which is what the rabble seem to look for) bass lines that proliferate
in rock 'n roll. Phil played entire melody lines in counterpoint to
Jerry and Bob's guitars. And the two guitarists didn't have to "step
back" and allow the other to "take the solo." That was too simplistic
for them. One would take off and "go somewhere," and the other would
just intuitively "get" it and start a counterpoint solo and melody that
just weaved in and out of and meshed *perfectly* with the other's.

There were times when it was as if you were literally watching and
listening to One Mind onstage, all soloing at once, each of them in
their own "musical space," but at the same time acutely aware of "each
other's space," and completely in synch with what they were playing and
where they were "going" musically. If you can get into that sorta thing,
The Dead were a magical group to see performing live.

Bringing in the issue of "Well, they only had one or two 'hits' on the
charts" is completely irrelevant. First, the "charts" appeal only to the
lowest-common-denominator masses. Second, did Miles Davis or John
Coltrane ever have a 'hit' on the "charts?" Did it ever concern either
of those latter two guys for an *instant* that they never had a 'hit' on
the charts? Don't be ridiculous. They were musicians. At their best, the
Grateful Dead were, too.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[cardemaister]

First measures around 86 bpm -- last ones about 110 bpm!
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Great RSA Animate talk by Barbara Ehrenreich -- Smile Or Die

[TurquoiseB]

Finally! From now on, whenever I run into one of those insufferable
idiots -- whether in business or politics or the New Age -- who believe
in "the power of positive thinking" or "The Secret" or that "We create
our reality," I won't have to interact with them as if they were sane.
I'll just sit them down and show them this ten-minute video, and dare
them to rebut it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[Share Long]

Thanks, Seraphita, I found your comment compassionate and even tempered. 
Richard, I'll stand in the overposting corner with you. I guess I missed living 
with my Mom more than I realized after spending Thanksgiving, etc. with her. Go 
figure (-:




On Friday, December 13, 2013 9:55 PM, "s3raph...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  
This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week bemuses 
me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a thumbs up 
to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying "Absolutely!" or 
"Well said!" in a real-life conversation.  With post limits in place everyone 
will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in response to someone's 
comment. Let's keep it natural.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

[Share Long]

Yay, Emily and Judy, these kind of exchanges are like a mini music appreciation 
class for me. Now I have somewhat of an idea of how to listen to classical 
music, what to listen for. Thanks.





On Saturday, December 14, 2013 1:39 AM, "emilymae...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  



Judy, comments inserted below (I hope).  Tonight was more listening pleasure.  
Thank you.  







---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:


Thank you! I hope he's still in good health.

I've never quite understood Pollini's reputation in some circles for 
"coolness." I like his straightforwardness and lack of sentimentality. He lets 
you dig the music on your--and its--own terms without, as it were, telling you 
how to feel about it, but his brilliant technique brings out everything the 
composer put into it. (IMHO.)

Change of pace, a movement from a simple Bach keyboard piece that never fails 
to lift my spirits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM


Yep, I've bookmarked it. 

Schubert's last piano sonata, composed shortly before his death. This (the 
first movement) takes me places:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY


Faboulous, and I love the video of Alfred Brendal playing it - view from the 
side; he is so immersed *in* the piece.  From Wikipedia on Schubert [which you 
probably know, I'm guessing :)]

"The works of his last two years reveal a composer increasingly meditating on 
the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships, and with a deeper 
sense of spiritual awareness and conception of the 'beyond'." 

Beethoven's "Waldstein" piano sonata (Pollini again):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0


My father used to play this at home (or try to play it; he was a talented 
amateur, but this is a tough piece--he enjoyed the challenge, would practice it 
for hours).


Love that - what a dad.  Yes, this is some piece. Pollini! The feeling that 
comes through the intensity and precision of what he plays is astounding.  I 
just re-read the article; this is what I am trying to say: "his uncanny ability 
to manipulate dynamics, as well as a deft rhythmic sense - Mr. Pollini thinks a 
lot about sound." He does bring out the "inner quality" of the music. I liked 
what Pollini said here:

"Certainly I'm not for a cool approach to music. This would limit the power of 
a musical creation. Objectivity I can understand in a certain way. I want the 
music to speak for itself, but music played coolly is not enough. It would be 
wrong to be detached."
Interestingly, compare how Gilels interprets/plays this.  This is part 3 and 
corresponds to 16 minutes into the link you posted. Tonight, I like Pollini's 
version better.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og

In my stash of some classical CD's inherited from my grandparents, I found 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his faithful accompanist, Hartmut Holl.  I am 
going to listen to them all; it is time. Accompanists don't get the credit they 
deserve.  This transports me too. Smile.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc

“In the early 1980s Holl was taken on as official accompanist for the famous 
baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the most recorded singer in history, with 
over one thousand LP-length recordings to his credit. For 14 years, Holl 
accompanied Fischer-Dieskau in what many see now as an Indian summer of 
Fischer-Dieskau’s long career. He was sometimes tempted to perform and record 
with pianists who were not full masters of the accompanist’s art, like Alfred 
Brendel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and most disastrously Vladimir Horowitz. But for 
the most part, it was Holl’s combination of musical sensitivity with a capacity 
for drama and spiky originality when the song called for it, that grace the 
baritone’s last recordings.” - Valerie Kampmeier






Emily wrote:


<< Thank you Judy.  This is a good article on Pollini in the WSJ, April 2013.  
>>

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316

[FairfieldLife] Ghosts speaking (in Finnish)??

[cardemaister]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrIZhZElY-w 
 

 From 12:00 onwards
 

 One of the ghosts: Hei (Hi)
 

 The "Interviewer": Is there anybody here?
 

 G: Mitä (what)
 

 G: Poissa (away)
 

 I: I came here to talk with you
 

 G: Sopii (fits: it's OK). Terve (Salute). Apua (help)
 

 I: Should the museum of Hame return?
 

 G: Ehdottomasti (absolutely)
 

 I: Should I go away for a while to walk? G: juoksu (run[ning])
 

 I: Is this (running) connected with the (violent) history (of this building)?
 

 G: Ei (no)
 

 And so on and on and on...Many reasonable replies to various questions!
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Great RSA Animate talk by Barbara Ehrenreich -- Smile Or Die

[Share Long]

Similarly, in Quiet: The Power of Introverts, Susan Cain cites How To Win 
Friends and Influence People and its popularity in the corporate world, with 
people coming to believe that one has to be an extrovert in order to succeed. 
I'd add that being extroverted has come to be equated with being cheerful and a 
cheerleader, upbeat all the time.

I like Ehrenreich's idea that we "close in on something" meaning that we might 
not arrive at Truth, but that we can still act on the best info that we have at 
the time.





On Saturday, December 14, 2013 5:08 AM, TurquoiseB  wrote:
 
  
Finally! From now on, whenever I run into one of those insufferable idiots -- 
whether in business or politics or the New Age -- who believe in "the power of 
positive thinking" or "The Secret" or that "We create our reality," I won't 
have to interact with them as if they were sane. I'll just sit them down and 
show them this ten-minute video, and dare them to rebut it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Unanswered question

[dhamiltony2k5]

Monotonous Plan? That was before we had Transcendental Meditation and the 
Spiritual Regeneration Movement. Seize the day, we Know a lot more today. Make 
use of your time while you're here, the doors open at 7am for group meditation 
in the Domes everyday.
 -Buck 
 
 
 
 He said: “Ours is an age in which everything is based on the premise that it 
is best to live as long as possible. The average life span has become the 
longest in history, and a monotonous plan for humanity unrolls before us.”   
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Re "The average lifespan in the Middle Ages was 30, meaning that fewer than 
half the humans born reached that age." :

 

 Average lifespans are a dodgy statistic as in older societies with their very 
high infant-mortality rates that can badly skew the figures.
 

 Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima always looked back with nostalgia to the Roman 
period when most people died young - that way, he claimed,  life was always 
lived at an ecstatic pitch. Mishima was turned on by the thought of gladiator 
fights so he may not be a good guide! 
 

 He said: “Ours is an age in which everything is based on the premise that it 
is best to live as long as possible. The average life span has become the 
longest in history, and a monotonous plan for humanity unrolls before us.”  
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[emptybill]

When we start ascending towards 200 posts per week per person, we should no 
longer call it FFL "ad astra" but corn-field compost. 

Others might call the majority of it "thoughtless drivel" - which is apparently 
what is passed off for claims of yogic, high samâdhi. 

Patanjali proly had a sutra defining it but maybe it's in the Rg Veda under the 
Sanskrit name for "cow pie". 
 

 

[FairfieldLife] Living Lightly

[dhamiltony2k5]

“The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is 
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of 
consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't 
get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.” -Maharishi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Living Lightly

[TurquoiseB]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> "The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of
consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that
goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours."
-Maharishi

No wonder so many TMers are so fucked up. They actually believed this
shit.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Space and Time Not Real?

[Jason]

Gravity is basicaly the warping of space-time around a
massive object.  In that sense it's more of a mechanical
force rather than a fundamental force. It's space trying to
bounce back into shape.

Some scientists say that time also has three dimensions,
just as space has three dimensions.  IOW, three temporal
dimensions along with three spatial dimensions might explain
the quantum world better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions


http://paradigm-update.blogspot.in/2012/07/three-dimensional
-tme-in-twelve.html


http://multisenserealism.com/2013/02/11/three-dimensions-of-
time/



---   wrote:
>
> 1. Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that
dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and
challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of
reality.
>
>
>
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of\
-quantum-physics/
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of\
-quantum-physics/
>
>
>  2. In publishing a story regarding work reported by Japanese
physicists last month, Nature News has set off a bit of a tabloid
firestorm by describing an obscure bit of physics theory as "the
clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big
projection." In two papers uploaded to the preprint server arXiv,
Yoshifumi Hyakutake and colleagues from Ibaraki University in Japan
offer evidence that supports a theory that suggests that a universe as
we conceive of it could actually be a hologram of another
two-dimensional space.
>
>
>  http://phys.org/news/2013-12-credence-theory-universe-hologram.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-12-credence-theory-universe-hologram.html
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Ghosts speaking (in Finnish)??

[cardemaister]

The whole video with English subtitles:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upv5TzlVhDY

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[awoelflebater]

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> "The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is 
> significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of 
> consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. 
> Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours." -Maharishi

 No wonder so many TMers are so fucked up. They actually believed this shit.
 

 No wonder I see you as so dumb Barry; you could have stated this with so much 
more intelligence, sensitivity and even included reasons why you think this may 
be so. Instead, you write like some really simple-minded, uneducated, shallow 
negative twit too lazy to explain himself or make any attempt to critically 
justify your stance (if you can call it that). I think you're trying to pass 
this kind of comment off as "I am too advanced to give a shit and who the fuck 
cares anyway?" But you just end up looking like the complete cretin you are.



 

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[awoelflebater]

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> I agree the Dead has the energy of the "live" band sound; bluegrass jams are 
> often like that - they are sooo goood in person and just don't translate as 
> well to albums.

 Why I think many people "missed" the Grateful Dead and don't understand them 
is that 1) they're musically naive, and think only in terms of "pop songs" that 
are so simplistic that they can comprehend and appreciate them, and 2) they 
missed the dynamic of what I call "seven people soloing at the same time." 
 

 And I think you're wrong. You forget the audience you're talking to here (not 
that you ever consider it anyway). The majority of those participating here are 
not under the age of 50 let alone 60 and were not raised with nor do they 
appear to be of the "pop music" loving variety. Many of them outclass you in 
music knowledge and sophistication and their tastes run to the far more complex 
classical or symphonic works not toward stoner hillbilly-type string pluckers 
and off-key singers. You like to think of yourself as some erudite music critic 
but like most subjects you comment on, anything useful you might have to say is 
lost in your need to belittle others and talk down to everyone. Just give us 
the facts, not your ill-mannered subjectivity liberally sprinkled with 
derision. It makes me want to stop reading after the first paragraph.

Lesser bands -- and I would certainly class Eric Clapton and many of the others 
named in a previous post in that category -- were easier for some people to 
"get" because their music was simpler, and written to a formula. Simple time 
signature, simple melody, a bass line that rarely changes, and then 
occasionally one person "takes a solo." Not to mention the songs themselves 
being "songs," by which I mean they fit into the radio format, being short and 
not requiring much of an attention span. 

The Dead weren't like that. At their best -- and I am the first person to admit 
that they were *not* always at their best -- it really wasn't one person 
"taking a solo." It was all 7 or 8 of them soloing at the same time, each of 
them riffing off of each others' thoughts and ideas as if they were in some 
sort of psychic mind-meld. 

Phil Lesh was the most classically trained musician in the group, and there are 
those who class him as possibly the best bassist that rock has ever seen. He 
wasn't limited to the dumb, repetitive (but memorable, which is what the rabble 
seem to look for) bass lines that proliferate in rock 'n roll. Phil played 
entire melody lines in counterpoint to Jerry and Bob's guitars. And the two 
guitarists didn't have to "step back" and allow the other to "take the solo." 
That was too simplistic for them. One would take off and "go somewhere," and 
the other would just intuitively "get" it and start a counterpoint solo and 
melody that just weaved in and out of and meshed *perfectly* with the other's. 

There were times when it was as if you were literally watching and listening to 
One Mind onstage, all soloing at once, each of them in their own "musical 
space," but at the same time acutely aware of "each other's space," and 
completely in synch with what they were playing and where they were "going" 
musically. If you can get into that sorta thing, The Dead were a magical group 
to see performing live. 

Bringing in the issue of "Well, they only had one or two 'hits' on the charts" 
is completely irrelevant. First, the "charts" appeal only to the 
lowest-common-denominator masses. Second, did Miles Davis or John Coltrane ever 
have a 'hit' on the "charts?" Did it ever concern either of those latter two 
guys for an *instant* that they never had a 'hit' on the charts? Don't be 
ridiculous. They were musicians. At their best, the Grateful Dead were, too.



 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[Richard Williams]

Further Notes on the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead's claim to fame was it's extended musical live jams and
long instrumental improvisations. The Dead are well known for their "Wall
of Sound" sound system produced by Owsley Stanley. Their forte was live
performances. I saw them perform twice, once at the Avalon Ballroom and
once at the Family Dog in San Francisco.

[image: Inline image 1]

Skeletons from the Closet The Best of the Early Grateful Dead - Full Album
http://youtu.be/z6Nm72QQVC0

According to Kaye, the band "touches on ground that most other groups don't
even know exists." They were not a Top 100 band geared toward the average
AM MOR radio listener. According to Lesh, he was a self-trained bass
player, but he was musically trained on the trumpet.

The Grateful Dead produced twenty-two vinyl albums from 1965 - 1995 with
maybe a hundred tape recordings. They had one hit record played on MTV in
1987, the only song to reach the Top 40: "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) –
5:47 min.

Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey (Music Video)
http://youtu.be/8YSTeJOxiaw

The first two albums, in my opinion are not real works of art, so to me
they're not worth the space on the shelf to collect them. However, the
album "Aoxomoxoa", 1969 was selected as the eighth best album cover of all
time with art by Rick Griffin.

[image: Inline image 2]

As a record collector I own three of their albums - "Skeletons from the
Closet", "American Beauty", and "In the Dark", that I bought new (I've
still got a working record turntable).

"Workingman's Dead",1970, was ranked number 262 on Rolling Stone magazine's
list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It contains the song "Casey
Jones" which is a pretty good song. "American Beauty", was the Dead's sixth
album and contains a good song, "Truckin" which peaked at No. 64 on the Pop
Singles chart. This album is viewd by some as a studio masterpiece. In
1991, Rolling Stone ranked American Beauty's album cover as the 57th best
album art of all time.

"Shakedown Street", The tenth Dead album, features album cover art by
underground comics artist Gilbert Shelton, the author of The Fabulous Furry
Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog. I first met Gilbert
in Austin in 1965 when he was the art director of The Vulcan Gas Company.
We met up again in San Francisco in 1968 at the Ripp Off Press, which he
co-founded.

[image: Inline image 3]

Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Shelton

Works cited:

'The Grateful Dead – Live/Dead'
by Lenny Kaye
Rolling Stone Magazine

'Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead'
by Phil Lesh


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

> The Grateful Dead
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Cover art by Mouse
>
> Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey 1987
> http://youtu.be/wOaXTg3nAuY
>
> Rolling Stone ranked them 57th in the list of the "Greatest Artists of all
> Time." I attended several Dead performances in San Francisco in 1966 at the
> Fillmore Auditorium and at the Avalon Ballroom along with Owsley Stanley.
> The Dead are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as performing the
> most rock concerts - 2,318 concerts. Founding members: Jerry Garcia -
> guitar, vocals; Bob Weir - guitar, vocals; Ron "Pigpen" McKernan -
> keyboards, harmonica, vocals; Phil Lesh -bass, vocals; and Bill Kreutzmann
> - drums.
>
> Read more:
>
> 'Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll'
> by Ed Ward, Geoffrey Stokes and Ken Tucker
> Rolling Stone Press
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
>> Heart
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> Heart - Crazy On You (live 1977) HQ
>> http://youtu.be/V44HiAX91Hs
>>
>> One of the greatest rock bands of all time, Ann and Nancy Wilson. Number
>> 57 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". They performed at the
>> first Texxas Jam on the July 4 weekend in 1978 in Dallas, Texas, and at the
>> Cotton Bowl in front of 100,000 people, along with Aerosmith, Van Halen,
>> Ted Nugent, Journey, Frank Marino, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Head East, and
>> Walter Egan. "Heart is among the most commercially enduring hard rock bands
>> in history. This span of over four decades gives them the longest span of
>> Top 10 albums by a female fronted band."
>>
>> Read more:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Doug Sahm
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About A Mover
>>> http://youtu.be/XboE3_7KZ3Y
>>>
>>> Taking advantage of the British invasion! This song has a unique,
>>> haunting sound - a credit to Augie Meyers' signature playing on a Vox organ
>>> that I had to lug around in a U-Haul for two months in 1965.
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>>
>>> Back in 1964 I met Doug Sahm at the Blue Note Lounge in San Antonio,
>>> Texas back in 1964. Sahm was a child prodigy in country music - he first
>>> sang on the radio at the age of five. Sahm became a significant figure in

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[doctordumbass]

Speaking of pop music, in eighth grade, I remember there was this coffee shop 
on a golf course in the mountains of Luzon (Philippines), that had a jukebox, 
so my brother and I must have played, "Winchester Cathedral", at least fifty 
times - my first experience of purgatory.:-)

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[doctordumbass]

The thing I always appreciated about the things Maharishi said, as opposed to 
statements by other spiritual teachers, is that I always had the TMSP to use as 
a laboratory for research, so that I could own the knowledge, as understood by 
my own experience. 

What Maharishi says in this expression about enlightenment is as much 
prescription, as it is description - and of course, like any other earthbound 
desire, there is a HUGE caveat: 
A person has to be dedicated to enlightenment, until the goal is reached - 
therefore it can take much of a person's life, with them not really knowing, 
until they do, whether or not all those years of dedication were worth it, and 
how "enlightenment" translates into living.

So, what he says is absolutely true, but it takes nearly a lifetime to find 
out. Thanks for posting this.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 100 Great Rock Artists

[doctordumbass]

Yep - they did some good stuff, but not center aisle stuff, imo. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

[dhamiltony2k5]

Raised and groomed in the school of megalomania, how could the North Korean kid 
know differently. Bush was right, we got an axis of un-spiritual and ignorant 
evil there.
 
 -Buck in the Dome
 


 “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, 
arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass 
destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide 
these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They 
could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of 
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.” -President 
Bush II  
 


 North Korea announced on Thursday that it had executed Chang Song-thaek, the 
uncle of leader Kim Jong-un, for "acts of treachery".
 The move has raised concerns of instability in the secretive and repressive 
nuclear-armed country.
 

 A Platform for World Peace-making: 
 “One of the now disputed areas is a submerged rock on which a South Korean 
maritime research base is perched”
 

 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
 

 
 
 Come to a group Mediation Meditation for Peace near you. Join with the 
widespread deployment of groups in meditation near you for peace now.
 -Buck in the Dome
   
 
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> With reference to DEFENCE, Heaven on Earth will be characterized by 'victory 
> before war' -lack of the need to prepare for defense, because everything and 
> everyone will be on the path of evolution, and as a result, coherence in 
> every country will be so strong that invincibility will be a natural feature 
> of national life -no negativity will arise, and no enemy will be born for any 
> nation. 

 Let's hear it for Heaven On Earth. 

I know it's difficult in our times to conceive of a world so perfect that 
negativity and violence and war cannot arise. That's why we look to the holy 
scriptures for inspiration, because they portray life as it was in more pure, 
more holy times. So go read your Bhagavad-Gita for a glimpse of such "no 
violence can arise" times. 

Ignore the part about it all taking place on a battlefield during a war, and 
the personification of God telling the lead character to go out and waste as 
many of his fellow human beings as possible, and that that's his "dharma." :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

[dhamiltony2k5]

“States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, 
arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass 
destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide 
these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They 
could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of 
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.” -President 
Bush II  
 


 North Korea announced on Thursday that it had executed Chang Song-thaek, the 
uncle of leader Kim Jong-un, for "acts of treachery".
 The move has raised concerns of instability in the secretive and repressive 
nuclear-armed country.
 

 A Platform for World Peace-making: 
 “One of the now disputed areas is a submerged rock on which a South Korean 
maritime research base is perched”
 

 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
 

 
 
 Come to a group Mediation Meditation for Peace near you. Join with the 
widespread deployment of groups in meditation near you for peace now.
 -Buck in the Dome
   
 
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> With reference to DEFENCE, Heaven on Earth will be characterized by 'victory 
> before war' -lack of the need to prepare for defense, because everything and 
> everyone will be on the path of evolution, and as a result, coherence in 
> every country will be so strong that invincibility will be a natural feature 
> of national life -no negativity will arise, and no enemy will be born for any 
> nation. 

 Let's hear it for Heaven On Earth. 

I know it's difficult in our times to conceive of a world so perfect that 
negativity and violence and war cannot arise. That's why we look to the holy 
scriptures for inspiration, because they portray life as it was in more pure, 
more holy times. So go read your Bhagavad-Gita for a glimpse of such "no 
violence can arise" times. 

Ignore the part about it all taking place on a battlefield during a war, and 
the personification of God telling the lead character to go out and waste as 
many of his fellow human beings as possible, and that that's his "dharma." :-)

[FairfieldLife] Music for Yoga and Meditation

[Richard Williams]

 Riley Lee

[image: Inline image 2]

Satori - Riley Lee and Gabriel Lee (Satori)
http://youtu.be/lP6Xd86uaOw

Riley Lee is the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan
(grand master) in the shakuhachi tradition. Lee holds a BA and MA from the
University of Hawaii, and he received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the
University of Sydney. We attended a Lee performance in San Antonio in 2003.
Lee is from Plainview,Texas.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[Richard J. Williams]

On 12/13/2013 11:09 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
> Almost as interesting as playing the same bill with the Airplane at a 
> couple of concerts and hanging out with them
We listen to all kinds of music, recorded and live. Around here, there's 
music of some kind all the time: folk music, jazz, rock, classical, 
experimental, zydeco and tejano. A few months ago Morton Subotnick was 
in town. We really got a kick out seeing Weird Al perform at the 
Majestic Theater last year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Subotnick

A couple of years ago I saw Riley Lee perform on the shakuhachi. Lee is 
the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai Shihan (grand 
master) in the shakuhachi tradition. Riley Lee was born in Plainview, Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_Lee

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[Richard J. Williams]

You can do a lot better than this to keep the conversation going - 
you're starting to sound JELLOS. I'm thinking about putting all your 
messages in the "ankle-biting" folder. It won't take up very much space. 
Go figure.


 - On 12/14/2013 6:55 AM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


When we start ascending towards 200 posts per week per person, we 
should no longer call it FFL "ad astra" but corn-field compost.


Others might call the majority of it "thoughtless drivel" - which is 
apparently what is passed off for claims of yogic, high samâdhi.


Patanjali proly had a sutra defining it but maybe it's in the Rg Veda 
under the Sanskrit name for "cow pie".

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[authfriend]

Barry postures:
 

 So much easier IMO to just post shit and not bloody CARE whether anyone 
replies, or what they reply. I don't know about anyone else here, but my self 
image does not depend on what *anyone* here thinks of me, so I get to post just 
for fun.

 

 Horse puckey. Obviously you DO bloody care what folks here think of you, or 
you wouldn't feel the need to keep telling us you don't, over and over again. 
You are clearly desperately afraid that we might think you care; your repeated 
claim that you don't contradicts itself.
 

 Nobody believes you don't care.
 

 You don't post "just for fun." More than anyone else here, your posts revolve 
around compulsively promoting your self-image to the rest of us. You do so both 
by exalting yourself and by putting others down as less than yourself (as 
you've done in this very post).
 

 Almost all of us do this to some extent. You're no different than anyone else 
here in that respect, except that for you it's much more urgent that you put 
across your self-image as superior, and you're significantly more arrogant 
about it.
 

 Ann and DoctorDumbass are quite right, you aren't nearly as smart and 
perceptive as you think you are, or you'd see how revealing what you say about 
yourself is of how badly you need others to be convinced of it.
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Living Lightly

[Richard J. Williams]

I am fer sure moving all your messages into the "ankle-biting" folder. 
They don't call you a "TB" fer nothing. LoL!


On 12/14/2013 7:09 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> "The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is 
significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of 
consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that 
goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours." 
-Maharishi


*/No wonder so many TMers are so fucked up. They actually believed 
this shit.



/*

[FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[authfriend]

Actually only one poster (out of 35 this past week) has come anywhere near 200 
posts, so I guess we can wait awhile.
 
empty blustered:

 << When we start ascending towards 200 posts per week per person, we should no 
longer call it FFL "ad astra" but corn-field compost. >>
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[anartaxius]

Is there an exalted state of consciousness?
 

 For Nisargadatta, the self is not one super-entity which knows independently, 
regardless of things; there is no such super-entity, no creator with infinite 
intellect. God does not exist independently from creation. What does exist is 
the 'total acting' (or functioning) of the ultimate or absolute reality along 
the infinite varying forms in manifestation.
 

 U. G. Krishnamurti, was an Indian thinker who questioned enlightenment. 
Although necessary for day to day functioning of the individual, in terms of 
the ultimate reality or truth, he rejected the very basis of 'thought' and in 
doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge in reference to it: 'Tell 
them that there is nothing to understand'. Although many considered him an 
'enlightened' person, Krishnamurti often referred to his state of being as the 
'natural state'. He claimed that the demand for enlightenment was the only 
thing standing in the way of enlightenment itself, if enlightenment existed at 
all.
 

 Adyashanti, trained in Zen, has mentioned that there are dangers in following 
a guru. He said: 'Don't get hooked on me, I'm very addictive. I should have 
come with one of those warning labels on my head'.
 

 What Maharishi said are the advertisements for enlightenment. The actual thing 
is, well, maybe it never is to become because it is not something one is going 
to find later on. There is a natural state. People look for it even though they 
already have it. The natural state is much much less than what people expect it 
to be because while they have it, they have all this stuff going on in their 
heads that leads them to think they do not have it, and then they seek it. The 
purpose of advertising enlightenment is to start the process of taking out that 
trash. When enough of the trash is gone, the natural state is experienced. The 
problem is spiritual disciplines often result in an accumulation of more trash. 
 

 One measure of how much you are living the natural state is how you react to 
what others say. The more you react, the less the natural state is shining 
through. The more opinions you have, that you believe are actually true, the 
less the natural state is shining through. In Maharishi's statement that Buck 
posted, the word that misleads is 'exalted'. This is ad copy designed to incite 
desire. There is nothing exalted about the natural state, it is just plain 
ordinary. 
 

 But, boy, what you have to go through to be just plain ordinary, because 
instead we want to be exalted, invulnerable, immortal. We want to be gods, we 
want to be the ruler of the gods, we want to be the god of gods. That is pretty 
heady ambition. But all one really needs to have the natural state is to take 
out the trash. The path of enlightenment is basically a garbage collection 
route. When the truck rolls by you may notice it smells, really bad. So instead 
of reacting to the smell and complaining about it, here is a chance to load 
something onto the truck and lighten your load. Then you have a chance for 
'living lightly'.
 

 Dr. Dumbass' comment, which was posted after yours Ann, is also a good 
description of that passage Buck posted. It may seem different from what I 
posted here, but not really. Even Barry's statement is not different, because 
in believing, you lock up the lid of your garbage can, and cannot remove it. A 
healthy dose of doubt is necessary to navigate the spiritual minefield, because 
compared to the result, the 'path' to it is a crock of shit. Once the path is 
left, when it runs out, it's time to take a shower and begin to live life as an 
ordinary person, who, inside, really is not there at all. There is just life. 
It is a burden to live in life. Life itself is automatic.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[authfriend]

A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to feel that 
a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without adding much else, 
that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at least somewhat selective.
 

 In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the current 
situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely out of control, 
really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so many of his posts are 
meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as "natural," IMHO.
 

 Seraphita wrote:

 << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week 
bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a 
thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying 
"Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation.  With post limits in 
place everyone will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in 
response to someone's comment. Let's keep it natural. >>
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[TurquoiseB]

In other words, "Even though I made only 14 fewer posts than Richard,
*he* is out of control, and I'm not. You should censor *him* and not me.
Because I say so."  :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
>
> A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to
feel that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without
adding much else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at
least somewhat selective.
>
>  In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the
current situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely
out of control, really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so
many of his posts are meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as
"natural," IMHO.
>
>
>  Seraphita wrote:
>
>  << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a
week bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want
to give a thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's
like saying "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation. 
With post limits in place everyone will keep their powder dry for a
lengthy dissertation in response to someone's comment. Let's keep it
natural. >>
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[authfriend]

"Essence of..." The Ur-blues. The rest is commentary.
 
Emily wrote:

 << Gotta *love* the video: >> 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVF-0JKLnd4
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[Share Long]

Judy, I don't think anyone *needs* a thumbs up reply. I express appreciation as 
I feel it and often have nothing further to say. As for being selective, I'm 
exactly the right amount of selective for me, and you're the right amount of 
selective for you.

As I've said before, I like the buffet that is FFL, both in terms of content 
and style and amount of participation. I wish Xeno posted more. But I'm also 
glad that he has his own unique voice, that there is only one of him, just as 
I'm glad there's only one of me and you and noozguru and John, etc.





On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:26 AM, "authfri...@yahoo.com" 
 wrote:
 
  
A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to feel that 
a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without adding much else, 
that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at least somewhat selective.

In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the current 
situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely out of control, 
really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so many of his posts are 
meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as "natural," IMHO.

Seraphita wrote:


<< This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week 
bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a 
thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying 
"Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation.  With post limits in 
place everyone will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in 
response to someone's comment. Let's keep it natural. >>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[authfriend]

Oooopsie...yet another Barryfail:
 

 Fairfield Life Post Counter
 ===
 Start Date (UTC): 12/07/13 00:00:00
 End Date (UTC): 12/14/13 00:00:00
 958 messages as of (UTC) 12/13/13 23:38:57
 

 128 Richard J. Williams 
 113 authfriend

 39 Richard Williams

 

 128 + 39 = 167 - 113 = 54
 

 Barry fumbled:.
 
 << In other words, "Even though I made only 14 fewer posts than Richard, *he* 
is out of control, and I'm not. You should censor *him* and not me. Because I 
say so."  :-)  >>
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to feel 
> that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without adding much 
> else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at least somewhat 
> selective. 
> 
> In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the current 
> situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely out of control, 
> really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so many of his posts are 
> meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as "natural," IMHO. 
> 
> 
> Seraphita wrote: 
> 
> << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week 
> bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a 
> thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying 
> "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation. With post limits 
> in place everyone will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in 
> response to someone's comment. Let's keep it natural. >>
>
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[TurquoiseB]

Ooopsie. :-) I didn't scroll down far enough down the list. Richard
posts under two IDs, so he had more. Then again, *effectively* Judy
posts as both authfriend and awfulbater, so she actually wound up making
more posts than Richard.  :-)

Bottom line is that *anyone* making over a hundred posts a week is out
of control.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB"  wrote:
>
> In other words, "Even though I made only 14 fewer posts than Richard,
> *he* is out of control, and I'm not. You should censor *him* and not
me.
> Because I say so."  :-)
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
> >
> > A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to
> feel that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without
> adding much else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be
at
> least somewhat selective.
> >
> >  In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the
> current situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely
> out of control, really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when
so
> many of his posts are meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as
> "natural," IMHO.
> >
> >
> >  Seraphita wrote:
> >
> >  << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a
> week bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just
want
> to give a thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's
> like saying "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation.
> With post limits in place everyone will keep their powder dry for a
> lengthy dissertation in response to someone's comment. Let's keep it
> natural. >>
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[awoelflebater]

 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Is there an exalted state of consciousness?
 

 For Nisargadatta, the self is not one super-entity which knows independently, 
regardless of things; there is no such super-entity, no creator with infinite 
intellect. God does not exist independently from creation. What does exist is 
the 'total acting' (or functioning) of the ultimate or absolute reality along 
the infinite varying forms in manifestation.
 

 U. G. Krishnamurti, was an Indian thinker who questioned enlightenment. 
Although necessary for day to day functioning of the individual, in terms of 
the ultimate reality or truth, he rejected the very basis of 'thought' and in 
doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge in reference to it: 'Tell 
them that there is nothing to understand'. Although many considered him an 
'enlightened' person, Krishnamurti often referred to his state of being as the 
'natural state'. He claimed that the demand for enlightenment was the only 
thing standing in the way of enlightenment itself, if enlightenment existed at 
all.
 

 Adyashanti, trained in Zen, has mentioned that there are dangers in following 
a guru. He said: 'Don't get hooked on me, I'm very addictive. I should have 
come with one of those warning labels on my head'.
 

 What Maharishi said are the advertisements for enlightenment. The actual thing 
is, well, maybe it never is to become because it is not something one is going 
to find later on. There is a natural state. People look for it even though they 
already have it. The natural state is much much less than what people expect it 
to be because while they have it, they have all this stuff going on in their 
heads that leads them to think they do not have it, and then they seek it. The 
purpose of advertising enlightenment is to start the process of taking out that 
trash. When enough of the trash is gone, the natural state is experienced. The 
problem is spiritual disciplines often result in an accumulation of more trash. 
 

 One measure of how much you are living the natural state is how you react to 
what others say. The more you react, the less the natural state is shining 
through. The more opinions you have, that you believe are actually true, the 
less the natural state is shining through. In Maharishi's statement that Buck 
posted, the word that misleads is 'exalted'. This is ad copy designed to incite 
desire. There is nothing exalted about the natural state, it is just plain 
ordinary. 
 

 But, boy, what you have to go through to be just plain ordinary, because 
instead we want to be exalted, invulnerable, immortal. We want to be gods, we 
want to be the ruler of the gods, we want to be the god of gods. That is pretty 
heady ambition. But all one really needs to have the natural state is to take 
out the trash. The path of enlightenment is basically a garbage collection 
route. When the truck rolls by you may notice it smells, really bad. So instead 
of reacting to the smell and complaining about it, here is a chance to load 
something onto the truck and lighten your load. Then you have a chance for 
'living lightly'.
 

 Dr. Dumbass' comment, which was posted after yours Ann, is also a good 
description of that passage Buck posted. It may seem different from what I 
posted here, but not really. Even Barry's statement is not different, because 
in believing, you lock up the lid of your garbage can, and cannot remove it. A 
healthy dose of doubt is necessary to navigate the spiritual minefield, because 
compared to the result, the 'path' to it is a crock of shit. Once the path is 
left, when it runs out, it's time to take a shower and begin to live life as an 
ordinary person, who, inside, really is not there at all. There is just life. 
It is a burden to live in life. Life itself is automatic.
 

 Believe me, I have a heavy dose of doubt and wonder and discrimination when it 
comes to this whole enlightenment thing which I believe to be highly overrated, 
if it indeed exists at all as a separate "state". What I was referring to with 
regard to Barry's lazy-ass potty mouth was his attitude, not his beliefs or 
lack of them. This closed attitude of his, this cynical bitter spewing is, to 
me, a real indication of having been disappointed, badly, somewhere along the 
way, and basically shutting down. This makes him deaf, dumb and blind to what 
little ol' life might want him to see.

 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[authfriend]

Share protested:

 
 << Judy, I don't think anyone *needs* a thumbs up reply. >>
 

 Right. The need to post such replies is yours.
 

 << I express appreciation as I feel it and often have nothing further to say. 
>>
 

 We've noticed.
 

 << As for being selective, I'm exactly the right amount of selective for me, 
and you're the right amount of selective for you. >>
 

 You and I aren't the only posters here, Share.
 

 It really isn't necessary to indulge every impulse you have on a public forum. 
Nobody else makes anywhere near as many "thumbs-up" posts as you do, and I 
seriously doubt that's because they appreciate far fewer posts.
 

As I've said before, I like the buffet that is FFL, both in terms of content 
and style and amount of participation. I wish Xeno posted more. But I'm also 
glad that he has his own unique voice, that there is only one of him, just as 
I'm glad there's only one of me and you and noozguru and John, etc.
 

 
 
 On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:26 AM, "authfriend@..."  
wrote:
 
   A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to feel 
that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without adding much 
else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at least somewhat 
selective.
 

 In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the current 
situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely out of control, 
really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so many of his posts are 
meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as "natural," IMHO.
 

 Seraphita wrote:

 << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week 
bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a 
thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying 
"Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation.  With post limits in 
place everyone will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in 
response to someone's comment. Let's keep it natural. >>
 



 
 

 
 



 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[emilymaenot]

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Judy, I don't think anyone *needs* a thumbs up reply. I express appreciation 
as I feel it and often have nothing further to say. As for being selective, I'm 
exactly the right amount of selective for me, and you're the right amount of 
selective for you.
 

 Share, just make sure you don't "overpost", O.K.?  After all, earlier, you 
attributed your many posts, of which a great many reflect your selective choice 
in expressing appreciation, to "missing living with your mother?" 
 

 "Richard, I'll stand in the overposting corner with you. I guess I missed 
living with my Mom more than I realized after spending Thanksgiving, etc. with 
her. Go figure (-:

As I've said before, I like the buffet that is FFL, both in terms of content 
and style and amount of participation. I wish Xeno posted more. But I'm also 
glad that he has his own unique voice, that there is only one of him, just as 
I'm glad there's only one of me and you and noozguru and John, etc.
 

 
 
 On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:26 AM, "authfriend@..."  
wrote:
 
   A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to feel 
that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without adding much 
else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at least somewhat 
selective.
 

 In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the current 
situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely out of control, 
really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so many of his posts are 
meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as "natural," IMHO.
 

 Seraphita wrote:

 << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a week 
bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want to give a 
thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's like saying 
"Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation.  With post limits in 
place everyone will keep their powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in 
response to someone's comment. Let's keep it natural. >>
 



 
 

 
 



 
 
 
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[Bhairitu]

Yes, he was a little bit hard to accompany.  He tended to drop beats 
too. But an experience to work with.


On 12/14/2013 02:40 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:


First measures around 86 bpm -- last ones about 110 bpm!

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[emilymaenot]

I like a lot of this.  Particularly the part about "taking out the garbage" and 
that "we are all ordinary" (the way I am defining ordinary."  But, as usual, I 
do not understand what this (highlighted) means.  *You* do seem to be here, 
attempting to express the reality you live.  
 
 

 "Once the path is left, when it runs out, it's time to take a shower and begin 
to live life as an ordinary person, who, inside, really is not there at all. 
There is just life. It is a burden to live in life. Life itself is automatic."

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Is there an exalted state of consciousness?
 

 For Nisargadatta, the self is not one super-entity which knows independently, 
regardless of things; there is no such super-entity, no creator with infinite 
intellect. God does not exist independently from creation. What does exist is 
the 'total acting' (or functioning) of the ultimate or absolute reality along 
the infinite varying forms in manifestation.
 

 U. G. Krishnamurti, was an Indian thinker who questioned enlightenment. 
Although necessary for day to day functioning of the individual, in terms of 
the ultimate reality or truth, he rejected the very basis of 'thought' and in 
doing so negated all systems of thought and knowledge in reference to it: 'Tell 
them that there is nothing to understand'. Although many considered him an 
'enlightened' person, Krishnamurti often referred to his state of being as the 
'natural state'. He claimed that the demand for enlightenment was the only 
thing standing in the way of enlightenment itself, if enlightenment existed at 
all.
 

 Adyashanti, trained in Zen, has mentioned that there are dangers in following 
a guru. He said: 'Don't get hooked on me, I'm very addictive. I should have 
come with one of those warning labels on my head'.
 

 What Maharishi said are the advertisements for enlightenment. The actual thing 
is, well, maybe it never is to become because it is not something one is going 
to find later on. There is a natural state. People look for it even though they 
already have it. The natural state is much much less than what people expect it 
to be because while they have it, they have all this stuff going on in their 
heads that leads them to think they do not have it, and then they seek it. The 
purpose of advertising enlightenment is to start the process of taking out that 
trash. When enough of the trash is gone, the natural state is experienced. The 
problem is spiritual disciplines often result in an accumulation of more trash. 
 

 One measure of how much you are living the natural state is how you react to 
what others say. The more you react, the less the natural state is shining 
through. The more opinions you have, that you believe are actually true, the 
less the natural state is shining through. In Maharishi's statement that Buck 
posted, the word that misleads is 'exalted'. This is ad copy designed to incite 
desire. There is nothing exalted about the natural state, it is just plain 
ordinary. 
 

 But, boy, what you have to go through to be just plain ordinary, because 
instead we want to be exalted, invulnerable, immortal. We want to be gods, we 
want to be the ruler of the gods, we want to be the god of gods. That is pretty 
heady ambition. But all one really needs to have the natural state is to take 
out the trash. The path of enlightenment is basically a garbage collection 
route. When the truck rolls by you may notice it smells, really bad. So instead 
of reacting to the smell and complaining about it, here is a chance to load 
something onto the truck and lighten your load. Then you have a chance for 
'living lightly'.
 

 Dr. Dumbass' comment, which was posted after yours Ann, is also a good 
description of that passage Buck posted. It may seem different from what I 
posted here, but not really. Even Barry's statement is not different, because 
in believing, you lock up the lid of your garbage can, and cannot remove it. A 
healthy dose of doubt is necessary to navigate the spiritual minefield, because 
compared to the result, the 'path' to it is a crock of shit. Once the path is 
left, when it runs out, it's time to take a shower and begin to live life as an 
ordinary person, who, inside, really is not there at all. There is just life. 
It is a burden to live in life. Life itself is automatic.

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Ice Krispies

[Bhairitu]

Congrats on your new digs.  I'm going to have a big one of those parked 
in front of my house all next week.  A couple of friends who used to 
work at Microsoft will be visited.  They tootle all around the country 
in it.  They will dropping by on their way to Clear Lake.


On 12/13/2013 05:13 PM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:


Thank you! I just got through the two hour orientation, and drove the 
beast home, now parked in the driveway - not as scary as I thought, 
and very solid to drive. Gotta watch low overpasses and gas station 
roofs. Time to "go to school", learning all the subsystems, and then 
continue my meglo-maniacal plan for artistic domination of the solar 
system!

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[Bhairitu]

Thanks.  Here another cut posted by one of our fans.  This one is from 
the Elektra demo session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovhyl_FHI4

Friedman drove the mixing board levels a bit which was something we 
weren't expecting the engineer would let him do.  Click on Eli's channel 
for more (diverse) tunes.  "Nellie was a Lady" was a Stephen Foster song 
that was also popular with fans.


I don't remember Quick Joey Small.  Here's one of your fellow 
countrymen, Ian Whitcomb, who was on the same label as us.  Though I 
never met him I did transcribe a song he wrote for some sheet music that 
Warner Brothers Music published.  Whitcomb spent his summer vacations 
from college playing rock star.  His master's thesis: "After the Ball" I 
highly recommend to anyone seriously interested in the history of pop 
music. It is very detailed.  His hit:

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

The book:
http://www.amazon.com/After-Ball-Pop-Music-Rock/dp/087910063X

(His college major was history).


On 12/13/2013 08:57 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:


Re Bhairitu : I forgot to add that I also liked the Maggie song. This 
is not flattery as I *never* flatter anyone - even to the point of 
rudeness. I don't suppose there is any film footage of your band playing?



Re the Grateful Dead discussion: I've always liked their music (though 
well this side of idolatry). I have friends here who are completely 
devoted fans - and always saw them when they came to the UK. They 
attracted people you wouldn't suspect of being fans - Ann Coulter for 
example! I think they were on the side of the angels - unique, genuine 
and fun. And boy, do we need fun in today's troubled times.



Re "The Bards were more bubble-gum":

I have always loved Sugar, Sugar, one of my favourite jukebox hits. 
And Yummy Yummy Yummy has to make you smile. Do you remember Quick 
Joey Small? I found that a blast but no-one today has heard of it!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OiljaInq4g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[authfriend]

Barry tries to recover, fails again:
 
 Ooopsie. :-) I didn't scroll down far enough down the list. Richard posts 
under two IDs, so he had more. Then again, *effectively* Judy posts as both 
authfriend and awfulbater,
 

 Says the nitwit who boasts about not reading our posts, thus has never managed 
to notice that Ann and I often differ in our opinions. (Not about Barry, 
though, and that's all that counts as far as Barry is concerned.)
 

 << so she actually wound up making more posts than Richard.  :-) >>
 

 Oooopsie #2, in the very same exchange:
 

 128 Richard J. Williams 

 113 authfriend
 44  awoelflebater

 39  Richard Williams

 

 128 + 39 = 167 - 113 - 44 = 10
 


 << Bottom line is that *anyone* making over a hundred posts a week is out of 
control. >>
 

 Ah, yes, Barry is the Authority on the Bottom Line. You see, he's been 
observing carefully, and he has determined that someone making 100 posts is 
under control, but the minute they make that 101st post, KA-BLAMMO! They've 
lost it.
 

 (He made 76 posts this past week, way over the earlier posting limit of 50. 
Back then, he would declare that anyone who needed to make more than 50 posts a 
week was "out of control.")
 

 Plus which, as he knows, of course, I've never suggested anyone be "censored."
 

 You really are a dumb fuck, Barry.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "TurquoiseB" wrote:
>
> In other words, "Even though I made only 14 fewer posts than Richard,
> *he* is out of control, and I'm not. You should censor *him* and not me.
> Because I say so." :-)
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> >
> > A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to
> feel that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without
> adding much else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be at
> least somewhat selective.
> >
> > In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the
> current situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely
> out of control, really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when so
> many of his posts are meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as
> "natural," IMHO.
> >
> >
> > Seraphita wrote:
> >
> > << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a
> week bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just want
> to give a thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. It's
> like saying "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life conversation. 
> With post limits in place everyone will keep their powder dry for a
> lengthy dissertation in response to someone's comment. Let's keep it
> natural. >>
> >
>
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[emilymaenot]

Judy, damn...excellent comment...ha.  This one is a good one.
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orDprwmKmac 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orDprwmKmac

Re: [FairfieldLife] Beneath Yellowstone, a volcano that could wipe out U.S.

[Bhairitu]

Another example that "God" could give a shit about humans and is really 
not a "guy in the sky micromanaging everything."  "God" is more like a 
mathematical formula unfolding itself.  Humans be damned.  Shit 
happens.  Go figure. ;-)


On 12/13/2013 03:00 PM, emptyb...@yahoo.com wrote:


Mere prattle. Refuse to consider it. Don't worry - be happy. Smoke 
another one.


http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/beneath-yellowstone-a-volcano-that-could-wipe-out-u-s/

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[emilymaenot]

Smile.  Barry, maybe you could provide a few additional tips on boiling water?  

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[emilymaenot]

 Correction:  

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Smile.  Barry, maybe you could provide a few additional tips on "how to boil 
water"?  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[doctordumbass]

If I may, your descriptions of "enlightenment" always have a bit of a sour feel 
to them. When the head leads the heart, it often comes out like that - The 
inside blossoms first, because it is closest, but the outside garden is also 
there to enjoy, as much, or more. Enjoy your unfolding and integrating, too, 
not just the pleasure of the crystalline intellect, accompanying CC.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[authfriend]

  
 
Emily wrote:
 << Smile.  Barry, maybe you could provide a few additional tips on "how to 
boil water"?  >>

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[doctordumbass]

I agree - anyone does the same thing in response to pain, past or present - 
shuts down, or distracts away from it. Our defense can be so great, that an 
entire world view can be built around that which we want to avoid. Kind of an 
amazing psychological process, like the body's attempted adaptation to a tumor. 
It causes unpredictable symptoms, though, out of the direct control of the 
subject, making the malady obvious.

signed, Doc* 

(*I am not a doctor, nor did I want to play one, on TV)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

[authfriend]

Oh, shoot, Emily, I loved your comments and was almost finished with a 
response, but I stupidly lost it. I'm not up to recreating it right now; I'll 
tackle it later today or this evening sometime. Grr. HATE it when that 
happens.
 
Emily wrote:
 

 << Judy, comments inserted below (I hope).  Tonight was more listening 
pleasure.  Thank you. >>
 

 

 

 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
wrote:

 Thank you! I hope he's still in good health.
 

 I've never quite understood Pollini's reputation in some circles for 
"coolness." I like his straightforwardness and lack of sentimentality. He lets 
you dig the music on your--and its--own terms without, as it were, telling you 
how to feel about it, but his brilliant technique brings out everything the 
composer put into it. (IMHO.)
 

 Change of pace, a movement from a simple Bach keyboard piece that never fails 
to lift my spirits:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM

 

 Yep, I've bookmarked it. 
 

 Schubert's last piano sonata, composed shortly before his death. This (the 
first movement) takes me places:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY

 

 Faboulous, and I love the video of Alfred Brendal playing it - view from the 
side; he is so immersed *in* the piece.  From Wikipedia on Schubert [which you 
probably know, I'm guessing :)]
 

 "The works of his last two years reveal a composer increasingly meditating on 
the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships, and with a deeper 
sense of spiritual awareness and conception of the 'beyond'." 
 

 Beethoven's "Waldstein" piano sonata (Pollini again):
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0

 

 My father used to play this at home (or try to play it; he was a talented 
amateur, but this is a tough piece--he enjoyed the challenge, would practice it 
for hours).

 

 Love that - what a dad.  Yes, this is some piece. Pollini! The feeling that 
comes through the intensity and precision of what he plays is astounding.  I 
just re-read the article; this is what I am trying to say: "his uncanny ability 
to manipulate dynamics, as well as a deft rhythmic sense - Mr. Pollini thinks a 
lot about sound." He does bring out the "inner quality" of the music. I liked 
what Pollini said here:
 

 "Certainly I'm not for a cool approach to music. This would limit the power of 
a musical creation. Objectivity I can understand in a certain way. I want the 
music to speak for itself, but music played coolly is not enough. It would be 
wrong to be detached."
 Interestingly, compare how Gilels interprets/plays this.  This is part 3 and 
corresponds to 16 minutes into the link you posted. Tonight, I like Pollini's 
version better.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og

 In my stash of some classical CD's inherited from my grandparents, I found 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his faithful accompanist, Hartmut Holl.  I am 
going to listen to them all; it is time. Accompanists don't get the credit they 
deserve.  This transports me too. Smile.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc

 “In the early 1980s Holl was taken on as official accompanist for the famous 
baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the most recorded singer in history, with 
over one thousand LP-length recordings to his credit. For 14 years, Holl 
accompanied Fischer-Dieskau in what many see now as an Indian summer of 
Fischer-Dieskau’s long career. He was sometimes tempted to perform and record 
with pianists who were not full masters of the accompanist’s art, like Alfred 
Brendel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and most disastrously Vladimir Horowitz. But for 
the most part, it was Holl’s combination of musical sensitivity with a capacity 
for drama and spiky originality when the song called for it, that grace the 
baritone’s last recordings.” - Valerie Kampmeier

 

 

 

 

 

 Emily wrote:
 
 << Thank you Judy.  This is a good article on Pollini in the WSJ, April 2013.  
>>
 

 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[authfriend]

Where do you find these? Yes, this one is (understatement) another good one!
 
Emily wrote:

 << Judy, damn...excellent comment...ha.  This one is a good one. >>
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orDprwmKmac 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orDprwmKmac

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

[emilymaenot]

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Oh, shoot, Emily, I loved your comments and was almost finished with a 
response, but I stupidly lost it. I'm not up to recreating it right now; I'll 
tackle it later today or this evening sometime. Grr. HATE it when that 
happens.
 

 
 I hate it when this happens too.  Because I don't get emails any longer, I 
have taken to copying and pasting posts I want to maybe reply to and/or read 
later (like the one between you and Bob) to word documents and then, if 
replying, pasting them back in.  (I did this with my "why am I here" post 
because it was s lng and the likelihood I would "click out" and lose it 
was high, tabs or no tabs.)  Have a good day.
 

 
Emily wrote:
 

 << Judy, comments inserted below (I hope).  Tonight was more listening 
pleasure.  Thank you. >>
 

 

 

 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
wrote:

 Thank you! I hope he's still in good health.
 

 I've never quite understood Pollini's reputation in some circles for 
"coolness." I like his straightforwardness and lack of sentimentality. He lets 
you dig the music on your--and its--own terms without, as it were, telling you 
how to feel about it, but his brilliant technique brings out everything the 
composer put into it. (IMHO.)
 

 Change of pace, a movement from a simple Bach keyboard piece that never fails 
to lift my spirits:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM

 

 Yep, I've bookmarked it. 
 

 Schubert's last piano sonata, composed shortly before his death. This (the 
first movement) takes me places:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY

 

 Faboulous, and I love the video of Alfred Brendal playing it - view from the 
side; he is so immersed *in* the piece.  From Wikipedia on Schubert [which you 
probably know, I'm guessing :)]
 

 "The works of his last two years reveal a composer increasingly meditating on 
the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships, and with a deeper 
sense of spiritual awareness and conception of the 'beyond'." 
 

 Beethoven's "Waldstein" piano sonata (Pollini again):
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0

 

 My father used to play this at home (or try to play it; he was a talented 
amateur, but this is a tough piece--he enjoyed the challenge, would practice it 
for hours).

 

 Love that - what a dad.  Yes, this is some piece. Pollini! The feeling that 
comes through the intensity and precision of what he plays is astounding.  I 
just re-read the article; this is what I am trying to say: "his uncanny ability 
to manipulate dynamics, as well as a deft rhythmic sense - Mr. Pollini thinks a 
lot about sound." He does bring out the "inner quality" of the music. I liked 
what Pollini said here:
 

 "Certainly I'm not for a cool approach to music. This would limit the power of 
a musical creation. Objectivity I can understand in a certain way. I want the 
music to speak for itself, but music played coolly is not enough. It would be 
wrong to be detached."
 Interestingly, compare how Gilels interprets/plays this.  This is part 3 and 
corresponds to 16 minutes into the link you posted. Tonight, I like Pollini's 
version better.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og

 In my stash of some classical CD's inherited from my grandparents, I found 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his faithful accompanist, Hartmut Holl.  I am 
going to listen to them all; it is time. Accompanists don't get the credit they 
deserve.  This transports me too. Smile.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc

 “In the early 1980s Holl was taken on as official accompanist for the famous 
baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the most recorded singer in history, with 
over one thousand LP-length recordings to his credit. For 14 years, Holl 
accompanied Fischer-Dieskau in what many see now as an Indian summer of 
Fischer-Dieskau’s long career. He was sometimes tempted to perform and record 
with pianists who were not full masters of the accompanist’s art, like Alfred 
Brendel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and most disastrously Vladimir Horowitz. But for 
the most part, it was Holl’s combination of musical sensitivity with a capacity 
for drama and spiky originality when the song called for it, that grace the 
baritone’s last recordings.” - Valerie Kampmeier

 

 

 

 

 

 Emily wrote:
 
 << Thank you Judy.  This is a good article on Pollini in the WSJ, April 2013.  
>>
 

 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Road and Dominos

[emilymaenot]

Well, with this, I went into a basement store yesterday (the kind that sells 
vinyl records still and has old cassettes and CD's) to look for a particular 
thing as a gift, and while they didn't have that, they happened to be playing 
some Ur-Blues (smile), so I bought something for me, instead.  
 

 If this post goes twice it is because Yahoo is messing with my "send" again.  

[FairfieldLife] New Generation of Kennedys

[jr_esq]

The grandson of JFK is apparently being groomed to take over legacy of his 
grandfather.  But the children of Arnold S. are also part of this clan.  So, it 
will be interesting to see how their careers will develop. 
 

 
http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/the-new-kennedy-kids-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fthe-new-kennedy-kids-1386962856-slideshow%252Fjack-schlossberg-photo-1386962646855.html
 
http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/the-new-kennedy-kids-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fthe-new-kennedy-kids-1386962856-slideshow%252Fjack-schlossberg-photo-1386962646855.html

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[anartaxius]

Emily who is not emily:
 

 Because there is this body, there is always some sense of a 'me', that is, a 
location within a larger context, but the sense of a 'personal identity' the 
'real' D--, er, emilymaenot is a convenient fiction that describes the 
relationship between the processes that go on inside the body with those that 
go on outside the body. This fiction can seem incredibly real and society 
reinforces it at every step. But spiritual practices will gradually erode it 
away. At some point on a spiritual path, people may balk when they find their 
personal identity beginning to change and disappear because spirituality is 
about the whole of life, not the 'you' within the whole, or even the 
relationship between the whole and you. But this is a process that is difficult 
to visualise until it actually starts.
 

 I think my personal identity was crippled from the start in some way. But many 
people have a taste of an identity-less state if in life they somehow feel that 
their life is somehow a fraud, something is missing, something is not right. 
The reason is not that something is missing, it is that something is there that 
is not real, and that something is one's idea of what one is. Spiritual 
practices aim to take experience away from that idea. For example, 
'transcending', with TM, takes the mind out of the experience of thought, so 
there is the experience of being, without any thought about it at all. There is 
the experience of existence without thought, without consciousness of the body, 
without any idea of what or who you are as a person. In other words, there is 
experience without the 'you', and this conclusively shows by experience that 
whatever it is you might be, it can exist without any idea or thought of a 
personality, or soul, or community, or belief.
 

 There are strong egos, weak egos, but it does not matter what kind you are, 
the idea that you are a special separate something, a personality, a person, a 
soul, a spirit, within the experience of life is the fundamental mistake the 
intellect makes. Spiritual techniques give us various kinds of methods for 
trying to right that mistake. Some fear this because it seems as if you are 
going to die, to not be a 'me'. And that is what happens, it is a death before 
physical death. Outwardly the body looks and acts just like before; inwardly, 
there is no inward, it has been replaced with the whole of life.

[FairfieldLife] RE: Living Lightly

[anartaxius]

dr Dumbass:
 

 Your last messages do not contain information to whom you are replying. If you 
are replying to me, the last time I experienced what would be called CC was 
over three decades ago. Maybe this is indicative of the total failure of TM, or 
maybe TM succeeded, but I do not experience transcending and there is no pure 
consciousness that accompanies some other kind of experience. It has been only 
the last couple of months that what is occurring has become clear, and that is 
all the states of consciousness talked about are just various kinds of pointers 
and they simply do not work any more as a description of life. Life is good. 
But what it is ultimately seems to have no definition whatever.
 

 Here in Putnam county New York we have had our first big snowfall of the 
season, and I am snowed in, and the weather is predicted to get worse later on 
tonight, I have been told freezing rain is predicted tonight, so roads will be 
dangerous tomorrow, so I suppose I have a bit of time on my hands to do 
something useful. So should I spend that time debating in crazyland here, or 
find some home project like doing the dishes?Debating reality tends to be 
strongest in those areas of life where evidence, truth, and good naturedness 
seem to be missing. Spirituality is the ultimate war machine. The troops are 
here. Let the battle continue.
 

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,doctordumbass wrote:

 If I may, your descriptions of "enlightenment" always have a bit of a sour 
feel to them. When the head leads the heart, it often comes out like that - The 
inside blossoms first, because it is closest, but the outside garden is also 
there to enjoy, as much, or more. Enjoy your unfolding and integrating, too, 
not just the pleasure of the crystalline intellect, accompanying CC.


 

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

[anartaxius]

It is really the Neo interface. I lose messages all the time. After you hit 
reply, the Reply button is still there, up at the top, and the Send button down 
at a location near the bottom where it is less likely to be seen, so it is easy 
to accidentally hit Reply and erase the message. After all replying is what one 
is doing. I think the Yahoo team should gray out the reply button after you 
first hit it, or replace it with Send. There are other stupid ways to destroy a 
nice long message such as closing the browser rather than minimising it if you 
want to use another program whose window is open underneath. 
 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Oh, shoot, Emily, I loved your comments and was almost finished with a 
response, but I stupidly lost it. I'm not up to recreating it right now; I'll 
tackle it later today or this evening sometime. Grr. HATE it when that 
happens.
 
Emily wrote:
 

 << Judy, comments inserted below (I hope).  Tonight was more listening 
pleasure.  Thank you. >>
 

 

 

 

 

 

 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
wrote:

 Thank you! I hope he's still in good health.
 

 I've never quite understood Pollini's reputation in some circles for 
"coolness." I like his straightforwardness and lack of sentimentality. He lets 
you dig the music on your--and its--own terms without, as it were, telling you 
how to feel about it, but his brilliant technique brings out everything the 
composer put into it. (IMHO.)
 

 Change of pace, a movement from a simple Bach keyboard piece that never fails 
to lift my spirits:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GnAGwjXnM

 

 Yep, I've bookmarked it. 
 

 Schubert's last piano sonata, composed shortly before his death. This (the 
first movement) takes me places:
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok9tofNmqNY

 

 Faboulous, and I love the video of Alfred Brendal playing it - view from the 
side; he is so immersed *in* the piece.  From Wikipedia on Schubert [which you 
probably know, I'm guessing :)]
 

 "The works of his last two years reveal a composer increasingly meditating on 
the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships, and with a deeper 
sense of spiritual awareness and conception of the 'beyond'." 
 

 Beethoven's "Waldstein" piano sonata (Pollini again):
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OM70p3Jd0

 

 My father used to play this at home (or try to play it; he was a talented 
amateur, but this is a tough piece--he enjoyed the challenge, would practice it 
for hours).

 

 Love that - what a dad.  Yes, this is some piece. Pollini! The feeling that 
comes through the intensity and precision of what he plays is astounding.  I 
just re-read the article; this is what I am trying to say: "his uncanny ability 
to manipulate dynamics, as well as a deft rhythmic sense - Mr. Pollini thinks a 
lot about sound." He does bring out the "inner quality" of the music. I liked 
what Pollini said here:
 

 "Certainly I'm not for a cool approach to music. This would limit the power of 
a musical creation. Objectivity I can understand in a certain way. I want the 
music to speak for itself, but music played coolly is not enough. It would be 
wrong to be detached."
 Interestingly, compare how Gilels interprets/plays this.  This is part 3 and 
corresponds to 16 minutes into the link you posted. Tonight, I like Pollini's 
version better.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Yn96G16Og

 In my stash of some classical CD's inherited from my grandparents, I found 
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and his faithful accompanist, Hartmut Holl.  I am 
going to listen to them all; it is time. Accompanists don't get the credit they 
deserve.  This transports me too. Smile.  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Dw9tFpZAc

 “In the early 1980s Holl was taken on as official accompanist for the famous 
baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the most recorded singer in history, with 
over one thousand LP-length recordings to his credit. For 14 years, Holl 
accompanied Fischer-Dieskau in what many see now as an Indian summer of 
Fischer-Dieskau’s long career. He was sometimes tempted to perform and record 
with pianists who were not full masters of the accompanist’s art, like Alfred 
Brendel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and most disastrously Vladimir Horowitz. But for 
the most part, it was Holl’s combination of musical sensitivity with a capacity 
for drama and spiky originality when the song called for it, that grace the 
baritone’s last recordings.” - Valerie Kampmeier

 

 

 

 

 

 Emily wrote:
 
 << Thank you Judy.  This is a good article on Pollini in the WSJ, April 2013.  
>>
 

 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324874204578440571761520316 
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424

[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

[dhamiltony2k5]

I am feeling Bush II was quite right in his way, we got the vibration of an 
axis of evil going there. Very un-spiritual in excitation. Not much love at 
all. This is coming a time where people now who know better should come back to 
meditation around this.
 -Buck in the Dome  
 


 “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, 
arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass 
destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide 
these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They 
could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of 
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.” -President 
Bush II  
 


 North Korea announced on Thursday that it had executed Chang Song-thaek, the 
uncle of leader Kim Jong-un, for "acts of treachery".
 The move has raised concerns of instability in the secretive and repressive 
nuclear-armed country.
 

 A Platform for World Peace-making: 
 “One of the now disputed areas is a submerged rock on which a South Korean 
maritime research base is perched”
 

 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
 

 
 
 Come to a group Mediation Meditation for Peace near you. Join with the 
widespread deployment of groups in meditation near you for peace now.
 -Buck in the Dome
   
 
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> With reference to DEFENCE, Heaven on Earth will be characterized by 'victory 
> before war' -lack of the need to prepare for defense, because everything and 
> everyone will be on the path of evolution, and as a result, coherence in 
> every country will be so strong that invincibility will be a natural feature 
> of national life -no negativity will arise, and no enemy will be born for any 
> nation. 

 Let's hear it for Heaven On Earth. 

I know it's difficult in our times to conceive of a world so perfect that 
negativity and violence and war cannot arise. That's why we look to the holy 
scriptures for inspiration, because they portray life as it was in more pure, 
more holy times. So go read your Bhagavad-Gita for a glimpse of such "no 
violence can arise" times. 

Ignore the part about it all taking place on a battlefield during a war, and 
the personification of God telling the lead character to go out and waste as 
many of his fellow human beings as possible, and that that's his "dharma." :-)

[FairfieldLife] Marissa apologizes for Yahoo Mail outage

[Bhairitu]

Folks here think Marissa has a lot more splainin' to do other than just 
Yahoo Mail.  I didn't notice the outage but they may handle their 
U-Verse users differently.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10811_3-57615617/yahoos-marissa-mayer-on-mail-outage-we-really-let-you-down/

Re: [FairfieldLife] Ice Krispies

[authfriend]

No, it really wasn't "the Neo interface." If it were, I'd have said so.
 

Re: [FairfieldLife] The Rent is Too Damn High!

[Richard Williams]

Taking care of all these cars can really keep a guy busy. There are
maintenance costs; keeping them garaged; make sure they are clean inside
and out and shiny; paying the State inspections and payments to the tax
assessor; and there's oil and gas to buy. Just keeping the right amount of
air in the tires is a chore.

You used to able to go to your local gas station and they would fill up
your car with gas, check the oil and water, make sure the battery was good
to go, put air in the tires if needed, and wipe the windows clean.

These days, you have to go to a convenience store like an Exxon Tiger Mart
to get air for your tires. If you purchase gas and then walk inside and
have them turn on the air compressor you can get free air for your tires,
and then half of the time, the air unit is out of order. Otherwise, you
have to pay.50 cents for air and be real quick about it. Go figure.

The rent is too damn high!

So, I bought me this handy item tool at Harbor Tool:

[image: Inline image 1]




On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Richard Williams wrote:

> We've been drinking coffee for years. We know a couple that drive all the
> way to the north side to get their beans. They claim that the beans they
> get are fresher, roasted on the spot. And, it's true, the beans they get
> are great, but they cost nearly $10.00. Whenever we're on that side of town
> we get a bag of their beans.
>
> We're also pretty fond of Starbucks French Roast beans, available at
> Starbucks and Target, which are both close by - $9.00. Most of the
> Starbucks have a coupon and we get a free cup of joe when we return the bag
> to Starbucks - a $2.00 value - sweet! And we love the free Wi-Fi and
> reading the New York Times they provide. We also like the 360 beans at
> Whole Foods - $8.00.
>
> We love to drink coffee, but at those prices, we could go broke before we
> even get awake. Go figure. So, I bought a large can of Folgers ground
> coffee for backup at the local grocery store, so we could drink as much
> coffee as we wanted, all day and night, for cheap.
>
> The rent is too damn high!
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Richard J. Williams 
> wrote:
>
>>  Today we went to the grocery store to get a few things and return about
>> a hundred plastic bags. In the parking lot I turned left to find a parking
>> slot and there was this yahoo in a big truck heading toward me, GOING THE
>> WRONG WAY, driving a Ford F-350 with dual wheels on back.
>>
>> At first I said "You **fukin **#@*&^^!!!#@&*%$#%@ SOB!
>>
>> Then, I realized the poor guy was not only real dumb and half blind and
>> confused, but he was probably driving the only vehicle he owned and paying
>> $600 a month in payments, just to go get a six-pack of beer and a carton of
>> cigarettes at the store. Go figure.
>>
>> So then, in the Christmas spirit, I said:  you **fukin
>> **#@*&^^!!!#@&*%$#%@ poor bastard!" and backed up, causing a traffic jam in
>> front of the store.
>>
>> Then, on the way home at a stop light, a guy dressed in overalls with a
>> styrofoam cup in his hand  tried to hit us up for some spare change. So,
>> still in the Christmas spirit, I rolled down the window and said real nice:
>> "We don't have any cash - we're living on credit cards. Sorry we can't
>> donate anything - I know it looks like I'm rich because I'm driving a shiny
>> new car, but this where all our money is going, just so we can get to the
>> store to buy some beer and a few canned goods!" LoL!
>>
>> When we got home, the Salvation Army called on the telephone to ask if we
>> could donate anything and to leave it on the front porch FRIDAY THE 13th.
>> You can't make this stuff up!
>>
>>
>> The rent is too damn high!
>>
>> On 12/6/2013 3:10 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  I used to change the oil myself on my '77 Subaru wagon.  But it is a
>> messy job and required a custom oil filter.  Current oil changes at the
>> local shop up the street who now do my Subaru maintenance is $40.  How much
>> time depends on how busy they are but the longest wait would be about an
>> hour.  I watch the oil to see how dirty it is.  However I have yet to reach
>> the miles they put on the sticker a year ago.  Everything I need is a short
>> trip around here so I don't rack up miles and they always kid me about all
>> the driving I do.
>>
>> I heard a report the other day on why car prices have exceeded inflation
>> over the years and the bottom line was.. you got it... profit.  Adding
>> air bags do not add much to the price though companies use safety features
>> as a reason.  In 1973 I bought a new Datsun wagon for a mere $1800.  I put
>> the figure for my '77 Subaru wagon in an inflation calculator and my $2800
>> '77 should only cost around $11K these days adjusted for inflation.
>>
>> OTOH, the other day I ordered a new keyless remote for the '98 Subaru
>> since the second of the original pair was beginning to fall apart.  A few
>> years back I looked online and found that the price for a remote was a

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: What People Wear

[Richard Williams]

Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.

In many cases, this will mean showing up to the interview in a pirates suit.


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Richard J. Williams
wrote:

>  I've been giving a monthly donation to the United Way for about fifteen
> years - it's too complicated to figure out who to give to - so I just trust
> them to know what to do. I get approached almost every week for spare
> change and I donate cash on a case-by-case basis.
>
> One time I saw an RV parked in the parking lot of a Burger King - the
> owner stepped out and told me his water pump went out and he was stuck
> there with his wife and kids. So, I took him to a nearby Auto Zone and
> bought him a water pump, and when we got back I bought burgers for everyone
> and gave them some cash for gas, so they could get back to Austin.
>
> Anther time a guy asked for some spare change saying he ran out of gas on
> the highway to Poteet. So, I told him I would get some cash out of the ATM
> and meet him on the highway to help him out. After shopping for about
> fifteen minutes I got on the highway to Poteet but a broken down car was
> nowhere to be seen. Go figure.
>
> I'm not real big on giving out cash so people can buy cigarettes, beer or
> wine or drugs. We have a brand-new "Haven for Humanity" shelter on the east
> side of town. It costs millions of dollars to build and operate. Anyone can
> go there to get over night food and shelter in bad weather. And, they have
> a program to help you get well, get training, write a resume, get
> interviews for jobs, and they've even got low-rent apartments for people
> for longer-term stays. Thousands of people have benefited from this program
> in the last five years.
>
> I talked to one homeless guy one time recently - he was in a wheel chair
> downtown with a duffel bag on the back of his chair. He said he liked to be
> out doors, where he felt free, and could do what he wanted to do - he
> didn't like rules and authority. He wasn't crazy either and I could see his
> point.
>
>
>
> On 12/11/2013 9:58 AM, doctordumb...@rocketmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> Don't be hard on them - it is a sin to see homeless people in this country
> - Here, in Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest places on earth, we had
> seven homeless people freeze to death, last week. We have the fifth largest
> homeless population, of any county in the US. I recall helping out the
> beggars who came to our door, in Indonesia, and I never, ever expected to
> see such grinding poverty, here in the US - what a crime.
>  
>
>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

[dhamiltony2k5]

Updating love, the descent of Christmas love can't come fast enough to that 
area. Love needs to be updated fast in that whole East China Sea region right 
now. People everywhere should come to meditation now. Tonite. Tomorrow morning. 
That whole region needs a major download of love as a vector of shakti from the 
Unified Field right now. 
 Sincerely, -Buck  
 


 I am feeling Bush II was quite right in his way, we got the vibration of an 
axis of evil going there. Very un-spiritual in excitation. Not much love at 
all. This is coming a time where people now who know better should come back to 
meditation around this.
 -Buck in the Dome  
 


 “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, 
arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass 
destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide 
these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They 
could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of 
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.” -President 
Bush II  
 


 North Korea announced on Thursday that it had executed Chang Song-thaek, the 
uncle of leader Kim Jong-un, for "acts of treachery".
 The move has raised concerns of instability in the secretive and repressive 
nuclear-armed country.
 

 A Platform for World Peace-making: 
 “One of the now disputed areas is a submerged rock on which a South Korean 
maritime research base is perched”
 

 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25288268 
 

 
 
 Come to a group Mediation Meditation for Peace near you. Join with the 
widespread deployment of groups in meditation near you for peace now.
 -Buck in the Dome
   
 
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
 >
> With reference to DEFENCE, Heaven on Earth will be characterized by 'victory 
> before war' -lack of the need to prepare for defense, because everything and 
> everyone will be on the path of evolution, and as a result, coherence in 
> every country will be so strong that invincibility will be a natural feature 
> of national life -no negativity will arise, and no enemy will be born for any 
> nation. 

 Let's hear it for Heaven On Earth. 

I know it's difficult in our times to conceive of a world so perfect that 
negativity and violence and war cannot arise. That's why we look to the holy 
scriptures for inspiration, because they portray life as it was in more pure, 
more holy times. So go read your Bhagavad-Gita for a glimpse of such "no 
violence can arise" times. 

Ignore the part about it all taking place on a battlefield during a war, and 
the personification of God telling the lead character to go out and waste as 
many of his fellow human beings as possible, and that that's his "dharma." :-)

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[FairfieldLife] RE: Post Count Sun 15-Dec-13 00:15:02 UTC

[doctordumbass]

First!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Great Country Classics

[Richard Williams]

To all you country TMers out there!

[image: Inline image 1]

George Strait, From the album- Ocean Front Property 1987
George Strait, born in Pleasanton, Texas, 32 miles south of San Antonio

All My Ex's Live In Texas
http://youtu.be/RNWF6eJr81k

"All my ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
But all my ex's live in Texas
And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee

Rosanna's down in Texarkana
Wanted me to push her broom
Sweet Eileen's in Abilene
She forgot I hung the moon
And Allison's in Galveston
Somehow lost her sanity
And Dimple's who now lives in Temple's
Got the law looking for me

Chorus

I remember that old Frio River
Where I learned to swim
But it brings to mind another time
Where I wore my welcome thin
By transcendental meditation
I go there each night
But I always come back to myself
Long before daylight

All my ex's live in Texas
And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
But all my ex's live in Texas
Therefore I reside in Tennessee

Some folks think I'm hidin'
It's been rumored that I died
But I'm alive and well in Tennessee"


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

> Ace in the Hole by George Strait
>
> George Strait and his band, all local boys, are known for performing songs
> that sound just like the record album. A very tight band, great voice, and
> simple songs with great lyrics. This is an example of modern country, not
> honky-tonk corn. One of my favorites:
>
> George Strait - Ace In The Hole - Live From Tucson
> http://youtu.be/5bWWGFOYaN4
>
> George Strait - Ace In The Hole Band Introduction - Live in Houston, 1996
> http://youtu.be/DW1SGnsk8Ms
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
>> Marty Robbins
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> Marty Robbins "Devil Woman" 1978 Live in Holland
>> http://youtu.be/_zhHpsMezkA
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Richard Williams 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tear Jerk Song
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>> George Strait - Give It Away
>>> http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds
>>>
>>>  "She was stormin' through the house that day
>>>  And I could tell she was leavin'
>>>  And I thought, 'aw, she'll be back.'
>>>  Until we turned around and pointed at the wall and said
>>>
>>>  That picture from out honeymoon
>>>  That night in 'Frisco Bay
>>>  Just give it away
>>>  She said give it away
>>>
>>>  That big four poster king sized bed
>>>  Where so much love was made
>>>  Just give it away
>>>  She said just give it away
>>>
>>>  [Chorus]
>>>  Just give it away
>>>  There ain't nothing in this house worth fightin' over
>>>  Oh, we're both tired of fightin' anyway
>>>  Just give it away
>>>
>>>  Oh, I tried to move on
>>>  But I found that each woman I held
>>>  Just reminded me of that day
>>>
>>>  When that front door swung wide open
>>>  She flung her diamond ring
>>>  Said, give it away
>>>  Just give it away
>>>
>>>  And I said, now honey
>>>  Don't you even want your half of everything
>>>  She said give it away
>>>  Just give it away
>>>
>>>  [Chorus]
>>>
>>>  So, I'm still right here where she left me
>>>  Along with all the other things that she don't care about anymore
>>>  Hmm
>>>
>>>  Like that picture from our honeymoon
>>>  That night in 'Frisco Bay
>>>  She said give it away
>>>  Well, I can't give it away
>>>  That big four poster king sized bed
>>>  Where all our love was made
>>>  She said give it away
>>>  Well, I can't give it away
>>>
>>>  I've got furnished house
>>>  A diamond ring
>>>  And a lonely, broken heart
>>>  Full of love
>>>  And I can't even give it away"
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Williams >> > wrote:
>>>
 George Strait

 [image: Inline image 1]

 George Strait - Amarillo By Morning (Live From The Houston Astrodome)
 http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4

 One of my favorite Straight songs, "Amarillo by Morning", is regarded
 by many as one of the greatest country songs of all-time. Billboard ranked
 Strait No. 1 in the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years.

 "According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording
 artist in the United States overall, with 60 number one hit singles. Strait
 was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music. He was
 inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy
 award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the
 Year in 1989, 1990 and 2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990."

 Read more:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait

>>>
>>>
>>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

[Richard Williams]

We went to this place today:

[image: Inline image 1]


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Richard Williams wrote:

> Today I went to this place to look for a hat. Paris Hatters in downtown
> San Antonio since 1919 is a very famous place that carries all kinds of
> hats, including Stetson, Resitol, and many others. Apparently George
> Armstrong Custer wore a Stetson hat at The Battle of Little Big Horn. Go
> figure.
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> Read more:
>
> 'Stetson Hats and the John B. Stetson Company 1865–1970'
> by Jeffrey B. Snyder
> Schiffer, 1997
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>
>> We went by this place today. Did I tell you we have the Alamo down here
>> now? Remember I told you so.
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>> David Crockett got killed defending the place. I've been inside several
>> times and I once I saw Mick with Jerry Hall in there - she's from around
>> here. Ozzy Osbourne got arrested there one night for peeing on the Long
>> Barracks wall. Go figure. Phil Collins has been there a number of times and
>> wrote a book about the Alamo - a good read.
>>
>> 'The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey'
>> by Phil Collins
>> State House Press, 2012
>>
>> "What makes this volume especially interesting is that Collins not only
>> studied artifacts and documents from his private collection but excavated
>> land near the Alamo site to unearth more. And they're unveiled to his
>> readers in this book, in which he was assisted by Austin photographer Ben
>> Powell, pen-and-ink Gary Zaboly, with essays by Texas historians Bruce
>> Winders, Don Frazier, and Stephen Hardin." - Steve Goddard, History Wire
>>
>> Amazon reviews:
>> http://tinyurl.com/lg5vkxn
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Yesterday, we went to this place - San Antonio Public Library:
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Richard Williams 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Today, I went to this place to see Manny, Moe, and Jack about an oil
 change for one of my cars.

 [image: Inline image 1]


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Richard Williams 
 wrote:

> Last night we went to this place for a beer:
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Richard Williams <
> pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Alright, I'm back on the discussion board; sorry for the delay but I
>> had to go here::
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
>
>

>>>
>>
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

[awoelflebater]

I think you need to get out into the country more. These strip mall chain 
stores are bad for the soul. I liked seeing those ramshackle houses you were 
posting, they have so much more character. Michael's would have all those 
garlands and wreaths and hobby-making stuff you need at this time of year 
though.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Music for Yoga and Meditation

[Richard Williams]

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

[image: Inline image 1]

Listening to this music neutralizes stress and promotes happiness, harmony,
peace and balance in your life and in the environment.

Maharishi Gandharva Veda (Raga Marwa)
http://youtu.be/HDcUvUfMs-M

The Bamboo flute (bansuri) in both India and Japan is considered to be the
original musical instrument, and is noted for being closest to the human
singing voice. The richness from the fine nuances of pitch is accomplished
by a subtle blowing technique and by partially covering the seven to eight
finger holes. Each flute can only play in one scale.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, born 1938, is an acknoweldged Bansuri master.
In 1981, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music, he was
given the National Indian Award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in New Delhi.
In 1990, Hari Prasad Chaurasia received the Gaurav Puraskar, one of the
most prestigious awards, from the State Government of Maharashtra, India.
He also
received from the President of India, the coveted Padmabhushan award.

Press Reviews:

"...full of life, rhythm and vocal inflections, charged by the spirit of
true improvisation." - Washington Post

"...improvisations that sizzle without ever losing elegance." - The Village
Voice

"Beauty, order and perfection exists at every level of creation.
Ghandharva-Ved Music makes everything fit together in one incredible unity.
The 'Flying Beyond" CD by Hariprasad Chaurasia is a transcendental
experience. Very highly recommended!

Music for deep relaxation and integration of body and mind:
http://www.maharishi-gandharva-veda.de/

Also recommended:

North Indian classical music performed on the bamboo flute.  Rag Malkauns,
a haunting late night raga perfect for meditation and relaxation:

"Flying Beyond"
By Hariprasad Chaurasia
Improvisations on Bansuri
(CD AV-89004)

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Available from 'Eternal Music'
P.O. Box 3612
San Rafael, CA. 94912
http://www.eternalmusic.com/


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Richard Williams wrote:

>  Riley Lee
>
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> Satori - Riley Lee and Gabriel Lee (Satori)
> http://youtu.be/lP6Xd86uaOw
>
> Riley Lee is the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Dai
> Shihan (grand master) in the shakuhachi tradition. Lee holds a BA and MA
> from the University of Hawaii, and he received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology
> from the University of Sydney. We attended a Lee performance in San Antonio
> in 2003. Lee is from Plainview,Texas.
>

[FairfieldLife] RE: New Generation of Kennedys

[s3raphita]

Re "The grandson of JFK is apparently being groomed to take over legacy of his 
grandfather.":

 

 I hate shit like this. You have the Kennedy clan; the Bush family; the 
Clintons . . . this keeping power in the family line is like North Korea. 
 (Yes, we have the Royal Family - but they are symbolic and don't have any 
*real* power.)

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What I Did Today

[Richard Williams]

We looked at this place last year:

[image: Inline image 1]


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 8:33 PM,  wrote:

>
>
> I think you need to get out into the country more. These strip mall chain
> stores are bad for the soul. I liked seeing those ramshackle houses you
> were posting, they have so much more character. Michael's would have all
> those garlands and wreaths and hobby-making stuff you need at this time of
> year though.
>
>  
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[Richard J. Williams]

Plus the fact that there are only two respondents that are addressing 
emptybill, so why is he reading close to 200 posts? I guess he thinks 
we're talking to him. He never gets back to anyone except for a few 
snarks anyway and I've yet to see him post anything very profound or 
even interesting. I'm thinking about moving all his messages into my FFL 
ankle-biting folder. Go figure.


On 12/14/2013 10:03 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


*Actually only one poster (out of 35 this past week) has come anywhere 
near 200 posts, so I guess we can wait awhile.*


*
empty blustered:*

<< When we start ascending towards 200 posts per week per person, we 
should no longer call it FFL "ad astra" but corn-field compost. >>

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Professor Post

[Richard J. Williams]

This is supposed to be a discussion, but there sure is a lot of 
ankle-biting going on. Some people sound down right JELLOS. When someone 
complains about somebody else posting, you know they REALLY have a lot 
of time on their hands. There's nobody forcing anyone to read anything 
here on FFL. Go figure.


On 12/14/2013 10:26 AM, authfri...@yahoo.com wrote:


A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to 
feel that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without 
adding much else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be 
at least somewhat selective.



In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the 
current situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely 
out of control, really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when 
so many of his posts are meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as 
"natural," IMHO.



Seraphita wrote:

<< This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a 
week bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just 
want to give a thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. 
It's like saying "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life 
conversation.  With post limits in place everyone will keep their 
powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in response to someone's 
comment. Let's keep it natural. >>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Professor Post

[Richard J. Williams]

Nobody is forcing anyone to read anything here. Until the owner tells me 
to stop, I'll probably continue to post comments when I feel like it. If 
you don't like it you can leave. I'm not interested in dialoging with 
you anyway, you're a downer - I'm interested in discussing and reading 
about TM with TMers. Go figure.


On 12/14/2013 10:34 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:


*/In other words, "Even though I made only 14 fewer posts than 
Richard, *he* is out of control, and I'm not. You should censor *him* 
and not me. Because I say so."  :-) /*


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
>
> A few "thumbs-up" posts aren't a problem. It's when someone seems to 
feel that a large percentage of the posts need a "thumbs-up," without 
adding much else, that it begins to become tiresome. Folks need to be 
at least somewhat selective.

>
> In any case, while I don't want to go back to posting limits, the 
current situation, in which one particular poster has gone completely 
out of control, really is disruptive and unpleasant, especially when 
so many of his posts are meaningless trolls. That does not qualify as 
"natural," IMHO.

>
>
> Seraphita wrote:
>
> << This worrying about the amount of posts an individual sends in a 
week bemuses me. There are many conversations on FFL when you just 
want to give a thumbs up to show you appreciated a particular comment. 
It's like saying "Absolutely!" or "Well said!" in a real-life 
conversation. With post limits in place everyone will keep their 
powder dry for a lengthy dissertation in response to someone's 
comment. Let's keep it natural. >>

>

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[s3raphita]

Thanks again.
 

 Re "I don't remember Quick Joey Small": 
 That was an American hit but we're talking serious bubblegum here so are 
moving beyond your comfort zone I suspect. I liked the way the fun side of 
bubblegum laid the groundwork for glam rock which was a precursor to some 
aspects of punk/new wave. What I really hated in those days was "prog rock" and 
that whole stadium laser-lightshow crap. This is where we part company, no 
doubt. I want music to be fun and not solemn. I bet you never encountered Sweet 
your side of the Pond (they kick in at the 2:36 mark):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcTm__nQy3I 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcTm__nQy3I

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[emilymaenot]

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:
 

 Seraphita:  Love this - I'm feeling kind of trippy again, but in a good way. 
:)  Sweet, I remember this song from 1978.  Horrors! I like them much better as 
the glam rock band you posted. 
 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlKjO4juCo 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlKjO4juCo

 

 Thanks again.
 

 Re "I don't remember Quick Joey Small": 
 That was an American hit but we're talking serious bubblegum here so are 
moving beyond your comfort zone I suspect. I liked the way the fun side of 
bubblegum laid the groundwork for glam rock which was a precursor to some 
aspects of punk/new wave. What I really hated in those days was "prog rock" and 
that whole stadium laser-lightshow crap. This is where we part company, no 
doubt. I want music to be fun and not solemn. I bet you never encountered Sweet 
your side of the Pond (they kick in at the 2:36 mark):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcTm__nQy3I 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcTm__nQy3I

 

[FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

[awoelflebater]

 Oh dear, if there is something I simply can't stomach it is country. If I had 
to choose I would pick a year of listening to the Dead over any amount of 
country. Geez, I'm strikin' out with on all music fronts with you.

---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 To all you country TMers out there!
 

 
 

 George Strait, From the album- Ocean Front Property 1987
 George Strait, born in Pleasanton, Texas, 32 miles south of San Antonio
 

 All My Ex's Live In Texas
 http://youtu.be/RNWF6eJr81k http://youtu.be/RNWF6eJr81k
 

 "All my ex's live in Texas
 And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
 But all my ex's live in Texas
 And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee
 
 
 Rosanna's down in Texarkana
 Wanted me to push her broom
 Sweet Eileen's in Abilene
 She forgot I hung the moon
 And Allison's in Galveston
 Somehow lost her sanity
 And Dimple's who now lives in Temple's
 Got the law looking for me
 

 Chorus
 

 I remember that old Frio River
 Where I learned to swim
 But it brings to mind another time
 Where I wore my welcome thin
 By transcendental meditation
 I go there each night
 But I always come back to myself
 Long before daylight
 

 All my ex's live in Texas
 And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
 But all my ex's live in Texas
 Therefore I reside in Tennessee
 

 Some folks think I'm hidin'
 It's been rumored that I died
 But I'm alive and well in Tennessee"

 

 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Ace in the Hole by George Strait
 

 George Strait and his band, all local boys, are known for performing songs 
that sound just like the record album. A very tight band, great voice, and 
simple songs with great lyrics. This is an example of modern country, not 
honky-tonk corn. One of my favorites:
 

 George Strait - Ace In The Hole - Live From Tucson 
 http://youtu.be/5bWWGFOYaN4 http://youtu.be/5bWWGFOYaN4
 

 George Strait - Ace In The Hole Band Introduction - Live in Houston, 1996
 http://youtu.be/DW1SGnsk8Ms http://youtu.be/DW1SGnsk8Ms

 

 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Marty Robbins
 

 
 
 

 Marty Robbins "Devil Woman" 1978 Live in Holland
 http://youtu.be/_zhHpsMezkA http://youtu.be/_zhHpsMezkA

 

 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Tear Jerk Song
 

 
 
 

 George Strait - Give It Away
 http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds 
 

  "She was stormin' through the house that day

  And I could tell she was leavin'
  And I thought, 'aw, she'll be back.'
  Until we turned around and pointed at the wall and said
 

  That picture from out honeymoon
  That night in 'Frisco Bay
  Just give it away
  She said give it away
 

  That big four poster king sized bed
  Where so much love was made
  Just give it away
  She said just give it away
 

  [Chorus]
  Just give it away
  There ain't nothing in this house worth fightin' over
  Oh, we're both tired of fightin' anyway
  Just give it away
 

  Oh, I tried to move on
  But I found that each woman I held
  Just reminded me of that day
 

  When that front door swung wide open
  She flung her diamond ring
  Said, give it away
  Just give it away
 

  And I said, now honey
  Don't you even want your half of everything
  She said give it away
  Just give it away
 

  [Chorus]
 

  So, I'm still right here where she left me
  Along with all the other things that she don't care about anymore
  Hmm
 

  Like that picture from our honeymoon
  That night in 'Frisco Bay
  She said give it away
  Well, I can't give it away
  That big four poster king sized bed
  Where all our love was made
  She said give it away
  Well, I can't give it away
 

  I've got furnished house
  A diamond ring
  And a lonely, broken heart
  Full of love
  And I can't even give it away"

 

 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 George Strait

 

 
 
 

 George Strait - Amarillo By Morning (Live From The Houston Astrodome)
 http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4 http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4 
 

 One of my favorite Straight songs, "Amarillo by Morning", is regarded by many 
as one of the greatest country songs of all-time. Billboard ranked Strait No. 1 
in the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years.
 

 "According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist 
in the United States overall, with 60 number one hit singles. Strait was named 
Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music. He was inducted into the 
Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album 
Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 
2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990." 
 

 Read more:
 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait

 


 




 




 




 
 

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[s3raphita]

Re "I like them much better as the glam rock band you posted. ":

 

 Yes - what really appeals is that the band are so obviously enjoying 
themselves (and definitely *not* taking themselves seriously) and that vibe 
gets transmitted to the audience. And what is also funny watching that clip is 
that the guys have obviously put in so much more effort to look glamorous than 
the girls!

[FairfieldLife] RE: New Generation of Kennedys

[jr_esq]

S3,
 

 The Kennedys are like the American version of the British royal family.  The 
son of JFK would have been presidential material for the Democrats.  
Unfortunately, his life was cut short by an airplane tragedy. Nonetheless, the 
grandson of JFK would most likely have the power and charisma of his 
grandfather.  This is shown in the jyotish chart of JFK himself.  I would hope 
that he has a longer life than his uncle and grandfather.
 

 Also, the political parties over here like to select candidates for presidents 
with name recognition to get the votes.  Specifically, there's a nephew of 
George W. Bush who has political ambitions.  The Republicans would probably 
like to see him run for president since he most likely would be able to get 
many of the Hispanic votes.

[FairfieldLife] RE: 100 Great Rock Artists

[emilymaenot]

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 Re "I like them much better as the glam rock band you posted. ":

 

 Yes - what really appeals is that the band are so obviously enjoying 
themselves (and definitely *not* taking themselves seriously) and that vibe 
gets transmitted to the audience. And what is also funny watching that clip is 
that the guys have obviously put in so much more effort to look glamorous than 
the girls!
 

 Yep, they should maybe have stuck with it; they look pretty sad in the 1978 
version of themselves.  Lovin' those girls demurely dancing in the front, 
particularly the one in the turtleneck! :)  

[FairfieldLife] RE: Great Country Classics

[emilymaenot]

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 

 Oh dear, if there is something I simply can't stomach it is country. If I had 
to choose I would pick a year of listening to the Dead over any amount of 
country. Geez, I'm strikin' out with on all music fronts with you.
 

 I think I'd choose country over the Dead - the men are cuter.  

 ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote:

 To all you country TMers out there!
 

 
 

 George Strait, From the album- Ocean Front Property 1987
 George Strait, born in Pleasanton, Texas, 32 miles south of San Antonio
 

 All My Ex's Live In Texas
 http://youtu.be/RNWF6eJr81k http://youtu.be/RNWF6eJr81k
 

 "All my ex's live in Texas
 And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
 But all my ex's live in Texas
 And that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee
 
 
 Rosanna's down in Texarkana
 Wanted me to push her broom
 Sweet Eileen's in Abilene
 She forgot I hung the moon
 And Allison's in Galveston
 Somehow lost her sanity
 And Dimple's who now lives in Temple's
 Got the law looking for me
 

 Chorus
 

 I remember that old Frio River
 Where I learned to swim
 But it brings to mind another time
 Where I wore my welcome thin
 By transcendental meditation
 I go there each night
 But I always come back to myself
 Long before daylight
 

 All my ex's live in Texas
 And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be
 But all my ex's live in Texas
 Therefore I reside in Tennessee
 

 Some folks think I'm hidin'
 It's been rumored that I died
 But I'm alive and well in Tennessee"

 

 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Ace in the Hole by George Strait
 

 George Strait and his band, all local boys, are known for performing songs 
that sound just like the record album. A very tight band, great voice, and 
simple songs with great lyrics. This is an example of modern country, not 
honky-tonk corn. One of my favorites:
 

 George Strait - Ace In The Hole - Live From Tucson 
 http://youtu.be/5bWWGFOYaN4 http://youtu.be/5bWWGFOYaN4
 

 George Strait - Ace In The Hole Band Introduction - Live in Houston, 1996
 http://youtu.be/DW1SGnsk8Ms http://youtu.be/DW1SGnsk8Ms

 

 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Marty Robbins
 

 
 
 

 Marty Robbins "Devil Woman" 1978 Live in Holland
 http://youtu.be/_zhHpsMezkA http://youtu.be/_zhHpsMezkA

 

 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 Tear Jerk Song
 

 
 
 

 George Strait - Give It Away
 http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds http://youtu.be/qYNcR44qKds 
 

  "She was stormin' through the house that day

  And I could tell she was leavin'
  And I thought, 'aw, she'll be back.'
  Until we turned around and pointed at the wall and said
 

  That picture from out honeymoon
  That night in 'Frisco Bay
  Just give it away
  She said give it away
 

  That big four poster king sized bed
  Where so much love was made
  Just give it away
  She said just give it away
 

  [Chorus]
  Just give it away
  There ain't nothing in this house worth fightin' over
  Oh, we're both tired of fightin' anyway
  Just give it away
 

  Oh, I tried to move on
  But I found that each woman I held
  Just reminded me of that day
 

  When that front door swung wide open
  She flung her diamond ring
  Said, give it away
  Just give it away
 

  And I said, now honey
  Don't you even want your half of everything
  She said give it away
  Just give it away
 

  [Chorus]
 

  So, I'm still right here where she left me
  Along with all the other things that she don't care about anymore
  Hmm
 

  Like that picture from our honeymoon
  That night in 'Frisco Bay
  She said give it away
  Well, I can't give it away
  That big four poster king sized bed
  Where all our love was made
  She said give it away
  Well, I can't give it away
 

  I've got furnished house
  A diamond ring
  And a lonely, broken heart
  Full of love
  And I can't even give it away"

 

 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Richard Williams mailto:punditster@...> wrote:
 George Strait

 

 
 
 

 George Strait - Amarillo By Morning (Live From The Houston Astrodome)
 http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4 http://youtu.be/kX_9Go0Z8e4 
 

 One of my favorite Straight songs, "Amarillo by Morning", is regarded by many 
as one of the greatest country songs of all-time. Billboard ranked Strait No. 1 
in the top 25 country artists of the past 25 years.
 

 "According to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist 
in the United States overall, with 60 number one hit singles. Strait was named 
Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music. He was inducted into the 
Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album 
Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 
2013, and ACM Entertainer of the Year in 1990." 
 

 Read more:
 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Strait