October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Oklahoma Project Woman is a comprehensive regional program for women who, because of financial hardship, may delay seeking medical attention.

Early detection through screening and awareness through education saves lives. Oklahoma Project Woman helps women be survivors instead of statistics.

http://www.oklahomaprojectwoman.org/

Arrested Development

They told me not to get tattooed..  

It's in the bible they said...    

I've found that most people don't read the bible for information... As much as they read it for proof-texts.  (remember when people use to use it to justify slavery?).    

I've found.. they like to tie it all up for you neatly..  And then throw it up on your back...

But I've also noticed (as Jesus said once- Matt.23:4) they seldom lift a finger to help you carry the load.

That said.. I'm not overly concerned about whether my "outside" matches much with anyone'a approval.  And so my latest thing has been tattoos.  

In fact... early in life.. After music... Ink would have been my next stage of evolution.  That's not a punk thing... or a thug thing.  It's an artist thing.

But sadly.. my people didn't believe in evolution.. so I always remained exactly as I was.

Getting inked is like joining a club.. though there's definitely a hierarchy of commitment...

Forearms send you higher up the ladder.

Hands.. Neck...  All higher up the ladder..    

Thoughts are a dangerous thing... especially on the run.  Truth is I should be on my last inches of un-inked skin right now..  But instead.. I'm 41 and trying to prove this isn't just a mid life crisis...

(it is mid life... and a crisis.. but I should be doing it with a body full of ink!!!).

(*See above tab "Ink" for pics of Tattoos).  

Support Local Art: Circle Cinema

Circle Cinema hosts a wide variety of special programs, including the following:
  
     -Opera in Cinema: Presented
       approximately once a month with
       Tulsa Opera and Emerging Pictures.
  
     -National Theatre Live from London:
       Live plays broadcast from London’s
       famous west-end National Theatre.
  
     -Midnight Movies: Cult classic films
       presented the last weekend of every
       month, Friday and Saturday at
       Midnight.

Support Local Cinema.  Support Local Art
http://www.circlecinema.com/

The Weight

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.
Take a load off Annie,
take a load for free;
Take a load off Annie,
And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.The Weight (#41 on the list)
The Band


According to songwriter Robbie Robertson, (of the band "the band") "The Weight" was inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, about which Robertson once said:

(Buñuel) did so many films on the impossibility of sainthood. People trying to be good in Viridiana and Nazarin, people trying to do their thing. In ‘The Weight’ it’s the same thing. People like Buñuel would make films that had these religious connotations to them but it wasn’t necessarily a religious meaning. In Buñuel there were these people trying to be good and it’s impossible to be "good".[7]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight

Shomer Shabbos!!!

dont watch this if language offends you Are these the Nazis, Walter? No Donnie.. these men are nihilists.  There's nothing to be afraid of.. -Walter The Big Lebowski Artists occasionally color outside the lines...   .. there's no coloring in an evangelical bubble world however....   There's no coloring because there's no color.  Everything in the evangelical world is black and white. In fact..  there's a lot you can't do in a bubble world.  You can't ask too many questions.  You can't drink.. smoke.. or cuss.. (just the top 3 of an ongoing list).... And you sure as Hell can never ever.. for any reason.. ever admit you doubt.         That said.. its hard to be real in a bubble world.  And I've always needed my reality to be more real than what's been allowed.  So thats why I had to go. Don't get me wrong.. It's not that I don't believe in anything.             People who believe in nothing are Nihilists... and while... Nihilists seem cool dropping ferrets in bathwater..  Or pissing on a rug. "Did I urinate on your rug Mr Lebowski?" They've never been a go to group for optimism... Sometimes you gotta break the rules to keep the rules (Zen).  And Underneath the panic and angst.. and the Breaking of rules......rolling on Shabbos has always been about optimism for me... ..driving as if there's something out there is a faith of it's own....

Shomer Shabbos.

The Next Four

61. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" – Jerry Lee Lewis"
62. "Bo Diddley" – Bo Diddley
63. "For What It's Worth" – Buffalo Springfield
64. "She Loves You" – The Beatles

Each week I purchase 4 more songs from the list that I don't already have.  These are the next four.