Billy is god.
but so are you.

hearing of your travels...
recreating 08...and all.

I have my own beliefs and feelings on things...people can leave whatever they wish for me to read and i make my own conclusions...

Of course the things i want for my kids, I want for everyone...The health care system saddens me, I think EVERYONE should be provided health care...everyone should be able to afford it...it is not fair for those who, can't...Food too, and shelter...there are so many vacant houses...so much food wasted by grocery stores, restaurants etc...

My love for people and life is in MY OWN WAY...I don't expect anyone to understand it...I know my heart, God knows my heart...

Have a nice day...

to YOU...

cause i don't know how to ramble any other way in my rose prose.

maybe i'm an incarnation of margaret fuller and her sidekick ralph waldo (emerson). or a child of their influences. they liked to ramble on too (a unique style), and especially margaret.

drives hemingway-lovers crazy - those who love the "crisp, clipped" masculinist prose of brevity and succinctness.

outspoken or longspoken. so please overlook. words just flow out of me sometimes like an ocean. i can't help it. but i keep trying hard to tame the tides...and the floods....

about the visionary chief-shaman. (i can't remember...wait: what the f*..i mean bleep? )

(and i want to clarify that i wasn't in complete disagreement with your earlier insightful and probing comments about art and music these days - in reference to the pumpkins and rage. i was trying to imagine what it would be like to be in their very different places, in "these times" now: how would one respond to them - depending upon your unique positioning. how much could you say - and how would you say it (and/or "unsay" it).

interesting...that the counter revolutionary mystics (similar to artists now and along the way) who had to often say it by "unsaying it" or say it in very clever ways.

like marquerite porete. they trying to get the message out to people that you didn't need the official "religion" ie. totalitarian fascist authority of the Church- that was in cahoots with the political Empire of the times.

brave folks like porete (only recently rediscovered 'out of the ashes', pun intended) affirmed that you could experience "g0d" or whatever you want to call it on your own. the ecstatic. here now. of course, they would be publicly burned at the stake by the powers that be then if they were found out - and often were. but they kept saying it - in creative "unsaying" ways.

well - the women have that history....others recanted and wouldn't walk the talk. ahem.

have a great weekend.

i do look forward to hearing about your firsthand experience in Colorado later in the month! drawing on the wisdom of the past yet reinventing new responses to our new times NOW.

- and words are just black and white. literal. that's truth.

on "follow the drinking gourd":

- i thought it was about tying one on. that's what the WORDS say! those lazy slaves.

- well, it's actually communicating a deeper message behind the overt message. its a guide - a coded map telling slaves how and when to escape to freedom. similar to "wait in the water, children."

- now that's your OPINION. everyone has an opinion. all opinions are equal. none are right. you can believe what you want. i say its about those drunk slaves. PERIOD. because that's what the WORDS say.

*i was thinking faster than my fingers were moving*

"having read your response about selling in and selling out, i am perplexed about other eras of music and how the artists' messages were often purposefully obscured in ways to communicate different things to different audiences in different ways."

*note that edit is for the younger generation of grammar-spelling nazis who, thanks to standardized testing and rubriCKS) have been programed (i.e. whipped into blind mental obedience) to the point that they care more about a missing modifier more than any overall message communicated and its deeper meanings.

"meaning" and that kind of stuff - kind of got purposefully left out of that programing, particularly any "meaning" of relevance -unless it served the corporate profit line and to further supercapitalism and reify its hegemony.*

i'm hoppin' the black freighter with jenny. YAR!

over the past few decades on corporate controlled scripted curriculum and education which has created the most "literal minded" fundamentalist readers among too many students in america - purposefully depoliticizing consciousness.

so i suppose they wouldn't get the subtle artistic message if you beat them over the head with it. apparently not those coming through art in prior times during the jazz age...

and god help anyone raise a discussion about it... too many students have never done that kind of thinking before particularly as their political histories have been erased through schooling.

and that's been a strategic educational plan, that i can tell you.

having read yours response about selling in and selling out, i am perplexed about other eras of music and how messages often purposefully obscure in ways to communicate to different audiences in different ways.

similar to slave songs - where massah thought they were singing about Z when behind the words they were singing about X. "follow the drinking gourd."

zach has a history of just saying X is X. and can continue to do so. my own style leans more towards this, but that's because of my positioning.

other artists, equally savvy in different ways, have had to be more subtle - and some of their fan base will not always "get it" - and it's not like you can "announce it."

i.e. "Hey. Slaves. The song is about a coded map and some stars to follow that will lead you north, it's not really about drinking. Leave at night during the winter and cross the river when it's frozen. Oh. And keep this secret so massah won't find out. Ooppps."

i am reminded of music during the jazz age - such as the coming around again of mack the knife and three penny opera. the "white audience" didn't know what they hell they were singing about - which was the point. the music was a call for the rising civil rights movement that was coming. but they couldn't really announce it through those channels.

similarly, i am reminded of billie holiday's lament that some of her fans kept wanting her to play that "sexy song" about "swinging" - i.e. "strange fruit" which was about a lynching.

i just wonder is more is going on among many artists than what we hear, read, or sometimes get.

some can be more overt than others, while others are more subtle which doesn't make them any less "artistic."

believe the pumpkins are corporate sellouts?

What king of protests?
I won't be going to any of the shows...at least as of now.
yes those are mi poems.

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