Astro-physics/Cosmology (To quote Richard Farina...Nothing twisted Einstein's HEAD as much as where it all ENDS, and it just might, thank you...);
Ecology...how the earth got be "live" - I don't subscribe to the bishop Pike explanation, BTW; inner space & outerspace...it's all, like, in your mind!
Busking4FREEDOM! (This is my own site...) Besides my own, here's one that is international in scope...Busker Central! (You'll find audio/visual representation of singers, tuba players, sword swallowers, jugglers, and many uncategorizable!)
Music recorded before I was born...it took me until I was nearly forty to appreciate the early jazz masters, and I live where Hoagy Carmichael grew up and is buried...music I can dance to...means lots of stuff by Stevie Wonder, most reggae rhythms...almost anything by the Grateful Dead...and, YEAH! Heavy, and a loaf of bread! I have lived to see Dylan dance to his own music as he played on stage!
TIME and its quirks...great painting and sculpture...from ALL OVER, not just Europe & America...the tradition of the patchwork ROBE * as it turns up in Ch'an Buddhism
AND the writing of SUFI poet RUMI...The wit & wisdom of Mark Twain...
Is the bread of life for me...kneading the dough, watching it rise! I don't know what it's like to be only a listener, since I've been able to pick up on the melody and lyrics of a song I like - sometimes by the third chorus - for as long as I can remember...FOR THE RECORD, the first radio song I remember singing was QUE SERA (SERA) as rendered by Doris Day, when I was all of 9 years old.
I will link to web-sites asap, wherever possible...HERE is a streaming player of my own SONGS (SCROLL to the bottom of the page...ENJOY, it's thinker than WE sooned!)
Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael (There's a bulletin board there, for you who wish to connect with other lovers of HOAGY's music),Fats Waller, "Cab" Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ma Rainey, Billie Holliday, Django Reinhardt, Blind Willie mcTell, Lightning Hopkins, Bukka White, Yank Rachell,
Memphis Minnie, Memphis Slim, "Honeyboy" Edwards, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Joad Guthrie, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommie Flanagan, U Utah Phillips, Bob Dylan, Will Davey Satterfield, The BYRDS, The Band, Leon Russell, Tom Rush, Phil Ochs, Richard & Mimi Farina, Fred Neil, Richie Havens, (Find out who Essra Mohawk IS) Mark Bingham, Michelle Shocked, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Mose Allison,.. BUZZY Linhart, Stacey Samuels (Banjo man!), Dharma Bums (The band, not the Keroac book),ZEN Tricksters,speaking of whom:
PART ONE
PART TWO
Movies
Mostly old classic stuff...a few fave raves for now: KING OF HEARTS - (LE Teatre Du MONDE indeed); The Ruling CLASS - ("Keep a stiff upper lip, and NEVER voluntee-ah!"); M.A.S.H. - I am born on "HAWKEYE" Sutherland's 11th birthday; Dr. Strangelove; Hard Day's Night
Television
Oh the promise of it...if only the networks were like THIS...(NOTE...you'll need high-speed download...)
Books
I am currently reading The EMPIRE OF TIME by Anthony Aveni (SO, you think you know what TIME is?), AND RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE by Zane Grey (in the cheap DOVER paperback edition...). W.C. Fields, his follies & fortunes By Robert Lewis Taylor...his prodigious memory gives us a glimpse of being a son of an immigrant produce cart peddler (think: 'Desmond has a Barrow in the Market place...') in the Philadephia of the 1880ies...WOW!!! Like something right out of Dickens...no wonder he suffered pompous fools so INgloriously...ANYTHING by Alan WATTS including this: THIS...animated by the SOUTH PARK GUYS
Heroes
To paraphrase Dylan: I surely ain't no hero, I ain't no hero's SON, I'm just a long time coming, gonna be a long TIME GONE...
For me, they are TOO numerous to list, so I will simply say, ALL those nameless folks who died saving somebody else's life, sometimes even the life of a RANK stranger...
About me: Happy to be alive and dancing, singing, jesting, curious enough to be reading every book that interests me...I gave this year - 2006 - LITTLE thought the year I turned 21...July of 1966...which is the year I first saw Bob Dylan at the notorious Forest Hills tennis stadium concert...Since I have spent literally YEARS of my life singing and playing music in public places - parks, sidewalks and benches in front of bars, under awnings, in Lafayette Park across from the White House - I feel it appropriate to dub myself Diogenes Delarue...one, in honor of the guy who told Alexander the Great that the favor he most wanted from a conqueror of the "known world" was to step aside so as not to cast a shadow on this ancient street "DOG" (here is a more "measured" essay on this enigmatic figure...)...two to express my love of performing out in the open...delarue translates as from the street...as I post my blog all my friends here will be amused with each "nick" name I've collected...you'll find more autobiographical stuff HERE.
Who I'd like to meet: Fellow "darners of the patch-work ROBE"
If this phrase above whets your curiosity, feel free to contact me...PEOPLE who can spy another dancer on the floor and dance the dance of life with him/her (like that wonderful lady with whom this occured at a Mickey Hart concert a few years back...) then leave without feeling as if you even need to SAY anything, let alone exchange phone numbers...(I MIGHT EVEN start a group dedicated to this blissful activity here)
Charleton Heston is gone & I don't "DO" seance sessions, so I'd simply like to meet whomever stuck the following sequence in the Omega Man, where Heston plays NEVILLE, the guy in the theatre, watching a movie...
Here's a word to the wise...I have no interest in your "charge by the minute web-cam peek-a-boo-zaganda" if THAT is the only reason you want me to look...YET, if those of you who provide such links are curious about WHY I am here, you ARE invited to check out this page and it's links in the times you are "off-cam" - so to speak...
To my growing list of mySpace friends - I am happy to know those of you whom I have actually met/worked/sung/danced with...to the others who appear here...I do hope you enjoy your time spent on my pages or in my groups at mySpace...CHEERS!
Anyone who is "young at heart" despite being over 40 is welcome here...(not to discriminate against those under 40 who are already "older" than me...LOL!!!)
Others who are ready to F.A.C.E. The Music...
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If ya haven't got something to play with/upon when we meet, we'll improvise...
Pictures would be a blast & if you are ever spending a little time in Rochester I would love to see if I could get you in on a Water Street show so I could hear you preform live ;) Have a beauty~filled & blessed day my friend
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Our 40th anniversary event is planned for Sunday, October 18, 2009 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. We are also doing the Green Zone at this event. Interested vendors and sponsors should contact me at bflyspirit8@aol.com Please also see the producers page at http://www.2b1records.com
Out of the bushes, from under a rock, Away from that dick, and I don't mean a cock! Out of the Bushes, the war and the fear, I'm wishing you'll all have a Hopie New Year!
I have been writing about our vital presidential election for the past year. I have compiled my top ten stories - five praising Obama and five blasting McCain-Palin. If you have not voted, learn why Obama deserves your vote. If you already voted for Barack - these will reinforce the choice you made!!
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