(non)-Violence: I gave her the gun!

I've always wondered how a group of people who can be so nonviolent when it comes to culture (opposed to violent television.. movies.. video games.. etc.)  can also be so very pro War when it comes to real life and real politics...

(Zen... can there be "real politics?").  

I'm not talking about self defense or even those who struggle between weighing the balance of the "necessary" war with the devestation and destruction that war actually causes... Im talking about those who treat war like it's the Suberbowl..

..Us against them...

..sitting down with popcorn.. in front of the TV watching bombs drop (on other human beings) through night vision.. on HD..

Im talking about making a War to market with it's own catch phrases (Shock and Awe)...

In my van.. There was a soulful distortion coming through the speakers... it was "Hey Joe..." (where you going with that gun in your hand?... Jimi Hendrix.. #198 on the list)... 

When Jimi sang "Hey Joe".. (cover... Not his original song).. it was to an anti-war crowd.. But "Hey Joe's" not an anti-war song... At least not the kind of War between nations... 

Rather... It's about a war between lovers.... a dude going down to "shoot" his "old lady" cause he caught her.. "messin round with another man"... 

disturbing. 

But to an anti war crowd.. in the mind.. it's jumbled and re-imagined..

a dude.. a GI (named Joe).. is going down (to war) to shoot an (ideologically) unfaithful lover.. 

Same words... different setting.. 
..suggesting a similar but different meaning.. (Zen)

Shocking.  

But poignant for it's time.   

Because that's how Art works... 

Local Music FRIDAY!

DECEMBER 9TH
AT THE CRYSTAL PISTOL
STREET LIGHT FIGHT
WITH JOHNNY BADSEED AND THE ROTTEN APPLES

more info
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Also

DECEMBER 9TH
AT MAIN STREET TAVERN (BA)
ACOUSTIC SET WITH KEVIN SAC AND LARON SIMPSON

Hey Joe (#198 in The List)

Released in December 1966, Hendrix's version became a hit in the United Kingdom, entering the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in January 1967 and peaking at #6.[38] The single was released in the United States on May 1, 1967 with the B-side "51st Anniversary" but failed to chart.[39] "Hey Joe", as recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, remains the best known version of the song[6] and is listed as #198 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[40] In 2009 it was named the 22nd greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.[41] "Hey Joe" was the last song Jimi Hendrix performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and as such, it was also the final song of the whole festival. The song was performed after the crowd, comprising the 80,000 who hadn't yet left the festival, cheered for an encore.[42]

For More Info Here's Wiki for What it's Worth:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe

What's in a name?

Another "lost" epistle. I write to you concerning "the name" dear brothers. Some of you.. knowing how incompatible our interests are with his interests.. wish to throw off "the name".

You say you remember him and the disconcerting images...

-40 days of desert sand matted on his malnourished face....

-crawling around on all fours like a shoe salesman.. water bowls.. with filthy feet in front of him and dirty bourgeois-rags... (how unnecessary that all was).

And In the end?... His wallowing and his leaderless Garden cries.

..(he writhed and complained all night long.. but who took care of all
his constituents and his remaining 11 when I left?).

And like you.. I too can hardly believe we all nearly fell for his "way". What results do we have of those who've turned the cheek?... only to have the entire head removed.

(How silly and foolish... What a waist.!).

Agreed!.. the business at hand should be about business.. the economy.. the making of money.. and the taking back of our nation.. legislation.. morality.. the American way etc..!

(not Love). - How Impractical!

Poor leadership indeed. I agree with you brothers. He (the man himself) would never stand up in a general election. And I'm not even sure he could clear the primaries.

The problem however.. with denying the name entirely.. is that it's been around for a very long time. There are generations and generations of donors and constituents who.. though agreeing with us solidly in spirit.. still continue to swear by "the name". (You know how tradition is).. And that.. for us.. poses a problem.

That said.. I believe what appears as weakness can be turned for our strength... should we be smart about it and play it just right.

The beauty of it is that it's almost as if they don't even recognize the discrepancy of it... the absolute antithetical nature of what he said and did with what we're trying to do.

He was never really comfortable trying to force or control or manipulate people into his will.
In fact. How Ironic it is that the man who resisted absolute power at every turn now has tons of followers seemingly Hell Bent on taking over all of society, culture and government.. in his name?

For all practical purposes they're dumb to his wishes.. And that works in our favor.

Of course there are some of them who resist..

insisting on living "counter-cultural" to the ways of the world... missional.. communal.. authentic..

..blah. blah. blah.

But the masses are confident and externally? they tend to question their orthodoxy.. internally? they tend to pity them as dreamers or pie in the sky idealists.

(I call them idiots).

In truth.. it's become entirely "normal" to use the name and yet mean it more generally.. say.. more like "palatable religion".. things that tend to lend themselves to our cause.

No brothers. "Christian" is the name we're stuck with.. We are "Christians".. though.. when we say it.. we dare not mean the old things... like treating people as you wanna be treated.. self sacrifice, mercy, grace, forgiveness, reconciliation, peace, etc.

Rather... we mean.. a "Christian Coalition" to restore "America" to it's original heritage.. (and to Hell with the rest).

Don't give up brothers. Our dream is around the corner. One day we'll feel free to give up the name (and the absurdity will come to an end). But in the mean time keep focus on the things at hand. Watch The polls.. Keep up with public opinion. And above all.. keep them directed to the web sites and the talk shows and the news shows that work so tirelessly on our behalf.

They'll all be rewarded for their faithfulness one day. And remember...

Im with you in spirit.

Kisses
-Judas


day dreaming.. I suddenly awoke sitting at a red light. .. dazed and confused (Zeppelin.. not on the list) and like the wax unstripped and sticky on the base of a theatre porn floor.. I felt dirty. I considered turning east but my blinker pointed west.. and so I stretched myself out as far as east is from west (Zen) but.... I vanished.

So instead I settled on West and turned left down highway 66.. going to California" (Zeppelin not on the list). And in my minds eye.. I could see palm trees in the distance as far as the eye could see.

World Aids Day Tulsa: http://www.okeq.org/2011/11/01/world-aids-day-2/

On World AIDS Day, Circle Cinema will host a special premiere for the documentary We Were Here. The event will include a candlelight vigil, a RAIN Team reunion and performances by the Council Oal Mens Chorale and Sisters in Song.

wewereherefilm.com

This event is sponsered by Tulsa Reaches Out and the Tulsa AIDS Coalition. The film will continue showings from Dec. 1st – 8th at Circle Cinema.

Link to Oklahomans For Equality:
http://www.okeq.org/2011/11/01/world-aids-day-2/

Support Local Aids Organizations: http://www.csctulsa.org/content.php?p=135

The AIDS Coalition of Tulsa was founded in l988 to assist the Tulsa community in developing a coordinated response to AIDS. The Coalition is sponsored by the Community Service Council with support from the Tulsa Area United Way and meets monthly for an educational forum on HIV/AIDS issues.

The Coalition:

he H.O.P.E. Testing Clinic provides free confidential and anonymous testing for HIV infection.

Youth Services of Tulsa provides HIV education, counseling and testing for at risk youth in the Tulsa area.

Morton Health Services’ HIV prevention program targets African Americans and Hispanics, but all Tulsa are residents are welcome to contact Morton for HIV prevention education, counseling and testing.

Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma provides free and confidential HIV prevention education, counseling, and testing at their Clinic office, 1007 South Peoria.

The University of Tulsa Alexander Student Health Services offers HIV/STD education, counseling and testing. Free and confidential OraSure 20 minute HIV tests are also available at the Clinic.

The American Red Cross provides HIV/AIDS educators for schools and other community groups.

The HIV Prevention Program for Incarcerated Men and Women is a nationally recognized award winning program for educating inmates and their family members about HIV prevention.

Tulsa C.A.R.E.S., a United Way agency, provides many HIV care services for low income individuals and their families who are living with HIV/AIDS.

The OSU Internal Medicine Specialty Clinic provides medical care for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Our House II offers a gathering place for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS.

Oklahoma Department of Human Services AIDS Information and Coordination Services is a free service for people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to connect them to HIV care and other supportive services.

St. Joseph Residence is a residential care facility for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Hospice of Green Country, a nonprofit hospice dedicated to serving the critically ill including individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS regardless of the ability to pay.

For Links, and more info check out:
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Phoenix Rising Fundraiser (Support Local Tulsa):

Phoenix Rising Fundraiser Party Extravaganza
When?  Saturday.
Time?  8:00pm until 11:00pm..
Where? 6th & Xanthus (Tulsa Ok).
Donations at the door
Free Food
keg- $5/cup
Silent Auction
... Musical performances by:
*Verse
*Surfacer
*Don't Care Bears
*Music Genius Crew
& Johnny Bad Seeds and the Rotten Apples

Personal Jesus (#377 on The List)

Your own
personal
Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own
personal
Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there



Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiverP
Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith


Your own
personal
Jesus...

Depeche Mode's song Personal Jesus, from their 1990 album Violator, has been interpreted in a variety of ways--from an assault on organized religion to an endorsement of Christianity--and lyricist Martin Gore thinks that's just fine. "He never explains the lyrics at all," says bandmate Andy Fletcher in Jonathan Miller's 2003 book Stripped: Depeche Mode. "I've heard about ten different interpretations of 'Personal Jesus' and that's what Martin really likes. . . The lyrics are very ambiguous, so although it could have been controversial, in fact it turned out not to be at all. Most people thought it was a pro-Christian anthem, which wasn't intended."

As its inclusion in these pages suggests, the inspiration for "Personal Jesus" came from a book, but it's not The New Testament, as one might think. According to Gore--who opened up about the song in an interview with Spin Magazine--the unlikely inspiration was Priscilla Beaulieu Presley's book Elvis and Me, written with Sandra Harmon and published in 1985, which chronicles her relationship with her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley. Gore told Spin:

It's a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It's about how Elvis was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody's heart is like a god in some way. We play these god-like parts for people but no one is perfect, and that's not a very balanced view of someone is it?

In the book, Priscilla Presley writes of Elvis: "Over the years he became my father, husband, and very nearly God."

Stripped: Depeche Mode (Kindle Edition)

(Secondary Source).
http://theclassicsrock.blogspot.com/2010/07/personal-jesusdepeche-mode.html

(s)exploitation

I was hungry

..and out of nowhere came the calming smell of bread... a smell from the factory on the corner.   

As I approached 11th street an 18 wheeler.. white with balloons... primary colors... Turned in front of me north onto the road... and in my minds eye Im inside the factory.  The red white and blue.. dangling from the rafters.

the factory Supervisor... a stern conservative looking man stands on a catwalk above the workers overlooking the Sunday morning process.

He watches it all protectively like a pimp but he raises his hand and makes the sign of the cross like a priest.. and with the hum of mass production..  Loudly he speaks.  

In the name of the Father... et Fìlii, et spiritus sancti.

The workers receive the yeasted ..dough....

It is risen.  The celebrant says.

Indeed.  It is risen.  Comes the response like gears grinding in a machine.. and then the dough..  mixed... now moves onto conveyor where it's chopped.. harshly broken by blades turning like film reels.

The Supervisor raises his hands.. open at shoulder height.

Excelsis..
Deo.

and with the words.. Clasps his hands together with a clap like a thunderous nut cracker.. and then he bows his head to pray...  Robotic.. and in sync to the metal parts around him.

The dough is carried by belt through a riser.. and then baked  Golden Brown.  Tan like freshly burned skin.

Body of Christ...  The celebrant say's  

Amen..  come the workers.

And The bread is moved through a Slicer.  Slicing at 65 loaves a minute.  And then...

it is finished.

What remains are 22 slices of bread per loaf...  Fully leavened.. divided.. and sent out to the world for the highest possible profit..  

Under the flag.. the packaged bread is loaded onto the truck for distribution...

unto all of those in the world..
who have the cash.  

The truck turns on to the street in front of me so that I have to slow down... 

As I near a stop.. I can hear words coming from inside the factory..

Ite Missa est.  Go in peace.  He says... And the truck travels on northward to the highway... like an outlaw heading for deadwood.

The Porn Within

I was hungry..

And suddenly I was Aware.  

My mind fell backwards like I was no longer driving but I was in class.  Not me, but someone like me.. or like them.. or like us.. in another time..

old-fashioned..

A sudden Spaghetti Western with a cowboy-amalgam of us all.. the Roy Rogers of the religious right....sitting in a Sunday school class hearing the pre-class babble of opinions and high pressure politics but under the surface?.. hidden safely from view was my thoughts..

..and I was watching some dude across the room eating the last donut....triggering in me the awful empty feeling of "nothing"... turning over in the gut.... (I was satisfied before that) and thinking how.. in the end.. everything looked and acted (and reacted) just like a machine..

..and how much, despite wanting to love thy neighbor.. I also wanted food like I could kill a man.  Like I could club him over the head with his own partially eaten arm.  Like if I could get a hold of it.. wrestle his beloved blueberry-glazed Sunday School cruller out from his hand.. Black Friday-style.. I'd strip away it's un-edibles (napkins etc) and with someone holding him at bay.. (with the necessities and the rights of war) I would devour it right in front of him.. BIG DOG eats first!.. But not before I held it in my hands like the last life vest on a sinking ship.. groping it like a consumer does STUFF.. a re-Marie Antoinette in an upper room watching them occupy the streets below.. and me?.. with hands clinched tightly like a ravished economy of cake falling carelessly below.. with fevered fervor.. and a confidence as if.. for the good of society.. the market had selected me as CEO for my bulging bank account and my bigger weapon.. a gun barrel of loaded capital... unregulated... untaxed.. and multiplying with excitement at a frenzy as I compounded it quarterly..

But then.. just like that.. I snapped out of it...
"occupy Wall-street"... I heard someone say.. rolled eyes... proud stares.

I was empty.
..my stomach growled and my face flushed red...

"stop bitching and get back to work".. came more words..  and others laughed.  

My palms were sweaty against my will..

Flesh.  I thought.

and now driving faster..  I realized the desperation of being trapped in a body.. and overly attached to my spine.

Support Local Artists

The American Theater Company, Tulsa is a resident professional performing arts theater company celebrating 42 years of live theater.

Check out these shows in December
Good Boys
Dec 2-10
Doenges Theater Tulsa Performing Arts Center

A Christmas Carol
Dec 8-23
Williams Theater Tulsa Performing Arts Center

For More Info
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Sympathy for the Devil (#32 on the List)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

(The Rolling Stones') album before beggars banquet. while containing no direct Satanic references, had been titled Their Satanic Majesties Request, and "Sympathy" (for the Devil) brought these concerns to the fore, provoking media rumours and fears among some religious groups that The Rolling Stones were devil-worshippers and a corrupting influence on youth.[3] The lyrics' focus, however, is on atrocities in the history of mankind, including the trial and death of Jesus Christ where "Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate". Also, including European wars of religion ("I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the Gods they made"), the violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 massacre of the Romanov family ("I stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change, killed the Tsar and his ministers — Anastasia screamed in vain") and World War II ("I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank").[6]

(Keith) Richards said in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, "Before, we were just innocent kids out for a good time, they're saying, 'They're evil, they're evil.' Oh, I'm evil, really? So that makes you start thinking about evil... What is evil? Half of it, I don't know how much people think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer or what? There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody's Lucifer."[9]

wiki for what its worth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Devil

The Hugh Hefner on High

if skimpy bathing suits bother you... don't watch this. 

Strip clubs are one thing.. But Art Lovers have been looking at naked bodies for years.. Somehow the appreciation doesn't translate well in the faith world however.

But there is a middle way.

I've never quite felt comfortable with an anything goes approach to art ie... stuff like child pornography.. (Again.. see Rapha House and Black Box International to help sexually exploited children).. but I've never liked a "bubble-type" definition of what pornography is either.

Again... the Holy Book is filled with graphic and shocking descriptions of all kinds of things.

That said.. Nakedness is not porn. Nakedness is someones Vulnerability becoming something else...

What's the difference between describing a lovers naked body in an Ancient text.. and showing it as a piece of art on canvas.. in a photo.. or on film?..

..(or even the sexuality associated with it for that matter??).

on the other hand... PORNOGRAPHY ISN'T as much an image... As it is a mindset.. or an attitude.

PORNOGRAPHY itself IS MORE LIKE graphically taking a shotgun and blasting someones humanity...

words used to describe what porn looks like are words like..
exploiting
graphically dehumanizing
degrading
obscene
profane
each of those words require strict definition..

it can be confusing at times as some things that appear as porn aren't actually porn at all... and being able to successfully identify porn as porn is sometimes directly proportional to our awareness of our condition

example: the art may be (relatively) shocking but the artists intention may be the absolute opposite of say.. someone who.. for practical purposes.. is in the business of graphically killing people.
again.. pornographers degrade and exploit..... artists (sometimes) shock for a greater purpose.

on the other hand.. other things that seem benign (perhaps because of our callousness) are actually a major offense to human-kind and we never even realize it.

example: The 1915 film "The Birth of A Nation" portrays the KKK as a group of heroes to a Southern culture. It was well received (and artistically respected) as a major motion picture of its day... There is no nakedness or sexually explicit material in the film at all. But does it actually fit the usual porn criteria?...
..Exploitive? Dehumanizing? Profane? Obscene?

Wise people know the difference between literature like Lolita.. and child pornography.

Beyond that though.. only God above... (or the Hugh Hefner on High)... can truly identify pornography.. because pornography happens in the heart..

...and strictly speaking.. for legal purposes.. God doesn't seem to be speaking.

The Next Four

80. "You Really Got Me" – The Kinks

82. "Blueberry Hill" – Fats Domino

84. "Every Breath You Take" – The Police
85. "Crazy" – Patsy Cline

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

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Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center assists 3rd party programs that have been granted assistance for coordination and training of Homeless youth and Runaway's.
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This is what they do.
Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center Coordinates:

-Skill-based training sessions that provide opportunities for hands-on participation, direct observation, and expert feedback
-Distance learning training that focuses on core competencies needed by youth workers; courses are offered online and address topics such as Positive Youth Development, dynamics of runaway and homeless youth, cultural competency, crisis counseling, street culture, conflict resolution, resiliency, asset-based approaches, mental health issues, and staff safety and boundaries

The Runaway and Homeless Youth Technical Assistance Center offers:

-Intensive skill-based technical assistance for newly funded and/or inexperienced grantees
-Program-specific, individualized technical assistance through consultation; consultation may be provided onsite, via telephone, or through a combination of strategies that address and correct programmatic and administrative concerns
-Technical assistance that addresses the grantee’s program-specific needs, as identified by monitoring reports, Runaway and Homeless Youth Management Information Systems data, and corrective action reports
-Information sharing, especially regarding new and emerging information concerning service provision and best practices
-Technical assistance clinics on targeted grantee issues

US Department of Health and Human Services.
Administration for Children and Families

Link:
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Be Naked!

I'm not sure that just because someone can hear music.. it says anything at all about their ability to actually HEAR the music.. (Zen)

Art (like truth) communicates on multiple levels and it happens in ways that simply talking, teaching, etc.. can never do.

For instance, being naked is not always about being unclothed.  Sometimes it's about being real... or open.. or vulnerable..

In the perfect world... vulnerability is sexy.. (sexiness is not always about sex). 

And the title of my blog, "Blue Notes" refers to the blurbs... the words of my spiritual journey... my blog...

But it also refers to the specific musical notes that make the Rock N Roll/Blues tradition unique to any other music in history. Those notes are called "blue notes".

That said... In the metaphor of nudity.... musical notes.. just hearing vibratory sound pass incessantly over the tympanic membrane of my head is a routine mechanical function at best. It's more like dropping clothes for a flash-3-minute-shower on a cold clockwork Monday morning before work. There's no "sexy" in that.. Sometimes with tooth paste (and saliva) running down your face.. you just do what you gotta do.

But hearing the MUSIC.. Blue like it is.. as it swirls real.. lithe and light.. electric like a live-wire in the head... and the bed.

Now... That's like being Naked.

Be Naked!!

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Did you know RSU radio plays local music on Monday Nights? (7pm-9pm)

Local Flavors with David Souter is a radio show dedicated to playing only local music from around the Tulsa Metro Area.

Tune in to 91.3 FM every Monday from 7pm to 9pm for Tulsa's True Alternative.

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Get Up! (Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine) #334 on The List


Are you Ready for some 1970's Retro?

ARE YOU READY FOR THE SUPER BROTHER?

Get up
get on up
get up
Get on up
stay on the scene
get on up
like a Sex Machine.
Get on up
get up

Shake your arm
then use your form.
Stay on the scene
like a Sex Machine.
You gotta have the feeling
sure as you're born.
Get it together
right on
right on

By 1970, most members of James Brown's classic 1960s band had quit his act for other opportunities, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded, with original member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown. Brown and Byrd employed a new band that included future funk greats, such as bassist Bootsy Collins, Collins' guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins and trombonist and musical director Fred Wesley. This new backing band was dubbed "The J.B.'s", and the band made its debut on Brown's 1970 single "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine". Although The J.B.'s went through several lineup changes, with the first change occurring in 1971, the band remained Brown's most familiar backing band.

  (wiki for what it's worth).



 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown#1970s_and_the_J.B..27s

Get On Up!

I was probably gonna get lucky.

that's what I was thinking...

Which worked out well... since we were going to Vegas.  I was thinking about the Champagne waiting in our room

 (an anniversary surprise.. cause I'm that kinda guy).  

But I was also thinking about Sex

(cause I'm that kinda guy too).  

In my van I was leaving midtown but I was entering Motown.

"Sex Machine"... was playing.. James Brown (#334 on the list).. though I don't recall whether it was from my Ipod in the airplane way back then...  Or in the car.... speeding towards 11th street right here and now.

I remembered on the plane.. 2 rows ahead of me.. on the opposite side of the aisle.. I saw a preacher.. or a priest... or a minister of some sort.. (he was wearing a collar).. and suddenly I felt the overwhelming urge to confess.

I didn't do it.

What I would have said to him if I had confessed is "I'm sorry Holy Man.. I'm sorry I didn't believe you."

And in my minds eye the preacher would have said, "You seem troubled son...  Tell me what's on your mind".

And I would have said... You were right Father.  All of you in the 1950's and 60's were right...

Rock N Roll really is about Sex.

But Instead... I just sat there in my airplane seat... thinking about Champagne... and Sex.. And listening to.. "the God Father".. calling "It" up... like an ED add.

Get up!...
Get On Up! (echo)

As the plane taxi'd down the runway...  I imagined the Jet fuel spilling into "the can" for the 1500 degree pay off

(now that's hot)..

and the turbine engine lifted us off the ground.

And in the background.. I could hear him... still singing.

Get Up!
Get on Up! (echo)

And then.. suddenly.. we were gone!

The Next Four

74. "Summertime Blues" – Eddie Cochran
75. "Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin


77. "Mystery Train" – Elvis Presley


79. "Mr. Tambourine Man" – The Byrds

every week I purchase and download 4 more songs that I don't have from the list. Here are the next four.