One of these days when I learn how, I'm gonna milk that old bell cow, O' the bell cow, catch her by the tail, O' the bell cow, milk her in the pail, Went to my garden to pick a mess of beans, in come the bell cow chewing on some greens, O' the bell cow
Well I guess I do things backwards, here it goes. I try to be pacient, austere, thourough, curious, shy, and all the Scout Laws trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and most of all reverant. Pacience & Austerity are virtues dear to me................................................................................................................................................................................................................
I am also adding:
Food/Drink: Ayruvedic Vegetarian Vedic/Indian Food:(especially Curry, Sabji, Dahl, Samosa's, Rice, Sagh Paneer and Kichtri ), Irish Soda Bread, Flat Bread, Whole Grain Bread, Cranberry Bread, Blueberries in any form, Yogurt, Apple Pie, Apples in any form, Cookies, Non-Animal Rennett Cheese, Mashed Potatoes, Fiddle Heads, Okra.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Caffiene/Alcohol free drinks:Fresh Mountain Spring Water, Blueberry Milk, Milk (with cookies), Black Tea and Chai Tea with milk and sugar, Root beer, Boylans's Creamy Red Birch Beer from Philly, Cranberry/Orange juice, Apple Cider, Cold Spearimint/Honey/Lemon Tea, Hot Green Tea with honey!....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Music
Old-Time Appalachian, Ozark, Mid-Western, Texas, Deep South , Mississippi and African-American Fiddle/Banjo, Southwest Colonial Spanish fiddle of Arizonia Colorado and New Mexico,Metis and Native-American ( Indian ) Fiddling, all Indian War Whoop tunes, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, Traditional Irish, Scottish/Shetland, Welsh, English, Australian Bush, Breton, German, Austrian, Swiss, Bavarian Yodeling, French,Basque, French/Maritime Canadian, Cape Breton, New England (contra dance), Native-American tribal, Cajun, Spanish, Galician, Astourian, Italian, Scandinavian, Israeli (Jewish), Slavic (Eastern European} Gypsy, Indian Devotional, Indian Classical & Carnatic & Hindustani, Indonesian Gamelon, Punk, Rockabilly, Old Reggae, Old Jazz, Ragtime, Funk, some Hip Hop and Rap, Old school Rap, The Greatful Dead, PHISH, Sonic Youth, the Dead Milkmen, Dinosaur Jr., Mr. Colvin, The Skillett Lickers, Freeny's Barn Dance Band, Marcus Martin, W.E. Claunch, Dick Burnett & Leonard Rutherford, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, Roscoe Holcomb, Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin John Carson, Eck Robertson, Deanta, Skyhook, The Beatons of Mabou, Joe Cormier, The Rhythm Rats, Big Medicine, The Forge Mountain Diggers,The Freight Hoppers, The Rockinghams, Diamond Joe, Big Red, The Orpheus Supertones, The Carolina Chocolate Drops,J.P. Fraley, Benton Flippen, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboy's, Duke Ellington, The Clash, Herbie Mann, KRS 1, A Tribe Called Quest, Run DMC, The Beatles, George Harrison, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Kenny Baker, Early Bluegrass, Folk, Medieval Crumhorn. Drones of any kind, Medieval Crumhorn, Didgeredoo, Alphorn, Shruti Box, Hurdy Gurdy, Hardanger Fiddle, Bagpipes, bagpipes, bagpipes Yodel aye he hoo Check me out playing jaw harp with Jake Krack, Dara Krack and David Wall
at Galax on the Digital Library of Appalachia! Look under Jake Krack at music collections and click on any pictures of the Jaw Harp that you see. Thats me playing. Enjoy the music.
Movies
Being There, Gandhi, Lucho Drome, Time Bandits, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, All the Muppet Movies, Dead Man, My left foot, Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, Shawshank Redemption, The Greenmile, Searching for the one-eyed Jesus, A Beautiful Mind, Oh' brother where art thou, Places in the Heart, Cold Mountain, Winter People, Jeremiah Johnson, The Man from Snowy River, Ned Kelly(Mick Jagger), Song Catcher, The War of the Buttons, The Secret of Roan Inish, Boys and Girl from County Clare, Happy Gilmore, Rushmore,Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Braveheart, Napolean Dynomite, The Ringer, Jackass, 1 and 2, Nacho Libre.
Television
I don't watch much of it. Too buisy doing better things, like performing austerities, clog dancing or playing fiddle, when im not gardening or hiking a mountain that is.
Books
Bhaghavad Gita as it is by A.C. Baktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, The Mahabharata, and of course the Ramayana which I feel a personal connection to. The Holy Bible, Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Robin Hood story The Boy Scout Handbook , Last Nights Fun by John Carty and Music in the Air Somewhere by Erynn Marshall
Heroes
Mom and Dad, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Lord Chaitanya, A.C. Baktivedanta Srila Prabhupada, Tom Anderson, Tony Cuffe, Billy Pigg, Winston Scotty Fitzgerald, Lou Cremo, Johnny Doherty, Henri LaCroix, Tommy Duchesne, Isidore Soucy, Otto Soper, Mellie Dunham,Luther Strong, Ernie Carpenter, Owen Snake Chapman, John Salyer, Melvin Wine, Art Stamper, John Hartford, Cyril Stinnet, Ed Haley, Wilson Douglas, Eck Robertson, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Buddy Thomas, Owen Snake Chapman and all them folks on the Altamont recording that have all passed on since...
About me: Thanks for visiting my site, I enjoy meeting new people. This site is more for friends, but I use another for my music. I play Old Time/Celtic music on fiddle, Leicestershire smallpipe,penny whistle, jaw harp and harmonica. I like to freestyle clog to the music as well. Sometimes you might catch me howling or hollering along to loud drony fiddle music like an Indian War Whoop. My family hosts the annual East Benton Fiddlers Convention/Contest on our cattle farm in Maine. Check out " ................................................................................
www.eastbentonfiddlers.com ............................................................................................
And also check out the Common Ground Country fair at the MOFGA ( Maine Organic Farmers Association's) fair grounds on there experimental farm. September 21-23 2007 Unity, Maine Theres nice music jamming in veggie kitchens to get out of the rain.
I often hike mountains and islands in New England. I also like to make sculptures and dwellings out of snow in the winter and sit in them with a candle. Im a strict vegitarian. Sick of shaving my beard. I love Cows, and Ice Cream. Im crazy about Vedic Vastu Vidya or Feng Shui , Japanese Gardening and creating Hillbilly Bonsai ( a tree growing among moss and rocks in a metal washtub}. Love all plants and animals, especially Cows, Cats, big and small, Wolves, Bears, Racoons, Elephants, Horses, Kangaroos, Monkeys, Rats and Mice, Moss, Spanish Moss, Live Oaks, Oaks, Old Mans Beard, Apple , Hawthorn, Snowgum Eucalyptus and Banyan trees. I love islands, caves, mountains, post-glacial and volcanic geology and landscapes and alpine flora. Staying in secluded free to public mountain cabins/bothies is a favorite pastime. I went to Art school a while back but who cares. Still do Art when the mood is right. Hope to someday play clawhammer banjo. As for politics, I believe in ahimsa (non-violence) and a vegetarian spiritual democratic monarchy society, bow to your vegetarian reverant King and Queen. I do not like onions or garlic and have no need for gambling, but playing cards for fun is fun. I try to be environmentaly friendly and treat humans, animals and plants with tolerance and compassion. Namaste, Hare Krishna
The Old Way-Way General Store, (now closed) Saco, Maine
Vintage unrestored original 1954 Coca-Cola vending machine, in my barn, Saco Maine. Stop by for a pop!
Who I'd like to meet: Like minded folks, Vaishnavas, Hare Krishnas, Hindus, Aryu Vedic Vegitarians, Fiddlers, Flatlanders, Native-American tribal members, Metis, Mainers, New Brunswickers,Prince Edward Islanders, Nova Scotians,Cape Bretoners, Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans, Other Canadians,Australian Bush people,Tazzies, Kiwis, Falkland Islanders, Brits, Welshys,Frenchys, Bretons,Irish folks, Hillbillys, people and cows from the Alps, Eastern Europeans, Scottish Highlanders and Lowlanders, Scandinavians, People who live near Mt. Kiliminjaro in Africa, South East Asian Highlanders and Flatlanders, Indonesians,Malaysians, South Americans, Peoples in the Andes, Ozark, Appalachian, Hymalayian or any Highland/Mountain or Island people for that matter, Cajuns and other swamp people,Texans, Alabamans, Californians, Oregonians, Washingtonians, British Columbians, Alaskans, City folk or Urban dwellers, Clawhammer Tenor banjo Banjo-Ukelele and Sitar pickers, Bagpipers, Jaw harpers, french harpers (harmonicas), Alphorn, Didgeredoo,Hurdy Gurdy, Crumhorn, Shruti Box, Sarangi, Sarod, Veena, Tamboura, Mandolin, Santoor, Murdunga, Tabla, Shehnai, Nadaswaram,Muhkavina, Harmonium, Djembe, Conga, Bongos, Accordian, Gamelon, Bombarde,Shawm , Mouth Bow and Spoon players, Yodelers, Cow lovers, Organic Farmers/Gardeners, Japanese Gardeners, friendly people, hikers, spilunkers(cavers). Basicaly, just about anybody!
Benton Flippen
MySpace can be very slow and has many errors at times on this end. Its very fustrating.
Time to go hitch up the old Oxen and get a plowin my tater patch!
hey you, i hurt my back, and have been in bed since Saterday, the doc said I caould maybe go back to work on Thurs. So I may see you than
Do you have yahoo messenger?
if so add me :)
mavandmill
something new and exciting will happen when you least expect it! hey, justin and i had a baby 3 weeks ago. i'm really tired, but little man nate is sweet. have a good week!
Hood Rat 279 up, 76 down 1. 1. A person (usually a female) who exhibits a trashy or triflin demeanor. Their appearance and hygiene is usually unkempt and they are very promiscuous and often don’t use protected sex. They can be aggresive and are usually found in the “ghetto” (a car wash or park) or other poor environments (usually on the front porch) being unproductive to society living off Gov. aid. These type people are content with how they live and enjoy getting high and drunk on a regular bases. A female hood rat will be dressed wearing: store brought, colored, contact lenses, house shoes or flip flops; a nappy, blond or red weave; tasteless, faded and cut-up short shorts, a revealing top or jersey dress, and plastered with tattoos of baby daddies. A male hood rat will be dressed wearing: a funk that will knock your socks off; an Xtra long white dirty t-shirt big enough to cover a bed mattress; big heavy duty boots or 100 dollar tennis shoes (he probably spent his entire check to buy) and a plaque infested gold grill. Not all black people act like that, neither do people who live in impoverished environments! Some of them want out!
Family cow farm in East Benton Maine, host of the East Benton Fiddlers Convention/Contest
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