[FairfieldLife] Carnival

2013-04-03 Thread Michael Jackson
Lyrics express very well the feelings of someone waking up from the dream of enlightenment enticement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34MfaRn7_XE

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Golddiggers Need Not Apply

2009-02-25 Thread TurquoiseB
The recession/depression has been tough on romance. There are even articles about it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022403925.html?hpid=topnews Well, I've noticed a shift here in Spain, too. As the unemployment figures climb, I've noticed a strange

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Loud, Sustained Booming Noises

2009-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
[ Caveat emptor. These raps are going to be nothing more than a series of in-the-moment, stream-of-consciousness musings about what it's like to be a 40+-year spiritual seeker now living in a beach town whose idea of enlightenment is having the best costume at Carnival. It is liberating in a way

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Loud, Sustained Booming Noises II

2009-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
I mentioned in the previous Carnival Journal entry that I live only kilometers away from some of the largest fireworks factories on the planet. This is true. Does that proximity to loud, sustained booming sounds of another kind give me pause, or cause me to lose sleep? No, these factories are

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: The Children's Parade

2009-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
This Saturday all the roads along the beach have been cleared of parked cars and blocked off with temporary fences to contain the crowds, who will be here watch- ing or participating in the first of the many Carnival parades. The parade going on at the moment opposite the cafe/bar at which I am

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Dollhouse As Philosophy

2009-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
Silly concept. I mean, who would write about a TV series dripping with scantily-clad attractive fembots and shoot-em-up scenes, and created by the guy who made up Buffy The Vampire Slayer as if it were philosophy? I would. I missed a lot of Buffy and Angel, but I've watched Firefly and Serenity

[FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Fairfield Life As Spiritual Bestseller

2009-02-21 Thread TurquoiseB
OK, I'll give you this one. This is even a sillier idea than the one about Dollhouse being philosophy. Blame it on Carnival, and the excellent Irish coffee I just had after lunch in this parade-side cafe. But *is* it such a silly idea? Rick proposed it earlier, that in a way Fairfield Life *is*

Re: [FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Loud, Sustained Booming Noises

2009-02-21 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Feb 21, 2009, at 4:59 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: I have now returned from our walk, and am about to put a cool movie on Repeat on the TV so that the dogs will have that to listen to and not the loud, sustained booming sounds when I go out in a few minutes to join the revelers. It seems the least

Re: [FairfieldLife] Carnival Journal: Dollhouse As Philosophy

2009-02-21 Thread Bhairitu
TurquoiseB wrote: I really don't know whether the series will survive. Philosophically, at least in my humble opinion, it rocks. It's high concept. But concept doth not a successful TV series make. To be successful, a series also has to have a story line that people want to follow, and

[FairfieldLife] Carnival seen as the holiest of holy days

2009-02-10 Thread TurquoiseB
Here in Sitges, we're starting to see the buildup to one of the biggest fiestas and party-down blowouts of the year, Carnival. (Think Carnival in Rio or Mardi Gras in New Orleans, both celebrating the same thing.) It's interesting to think about in terms of recent discussions intiated biliously

[FairfieldLife] Carnival in Sauve

2007-08-24 Thread TurquoiseB
Did any of you folks see the TV series Carnival? It was pretty neat, actually...very occult and Tantric. It was set in a traveling carnival during the Dost Bowl era in America. It was about a guy who could perform siddhis and heal people hiding out in a traveling carnival as they made their way