“there is more going on around us than we know,
both in a physical and a spiritual sense”
No disrespect, but this seems like a statement of the obvious.
If it wasn’t true, it would assume we knew almost everything both physically and spiritually, which seems implausible (at least for the likes of me…)
nice to see the PM version of the OT is coming back.
Ok, so I’m home now and I was going over some of the Beatles discussion we were having,
first thing; my initial statement was correct, Helter Skelter is on the White Album and it is the song where you hear “I’ve got blisters on my fingers” shouted at the end.
Jester was right in saying it was Ringo doing the shouting, although on the video here you can see John mouthing the words at the very end.
As far as the punk aspect that I was going over with slopefarm, after viewing the video and putting my headphones on loud, I have to stick to my assessment that there is a punk vibe in there, perhaps it’s the looseness of George’s guitar or the “wall of sound” dissonance which producer Phil Specter was known for and is evident here or just the way the sound phases out then back in towards the end and culminates in that famous shout. There’s definitely a harder edge here than in so much of their other more melodic works.
How many of you can identify something you actually believe to be a fundamental truth? Along the lines of my earlier “most people are good.” And I’m not talking about anything that can be directly perceived with the five senses (I believe my beer is black, I believe grass is green, etc). And not something relative that can change as facts change (I think low taxes are a good thing, but if we need to raise money to build a massive thing to save the Earth that changes). Something fundamental.
Hey lech. Still here. My first post of the day because I’m finishing a big project. Your last dozen or so posts have me cracking up, so I thank you mucho.
This funny thing happened to me this morning. For no particular reason I set the GPS in the car to language = French a few days ago, and when I got in the car to run an errand this morning (just me, no wife or kids) I forgot that it was still programmed to give me directions to somewhere. True confession: I totally love techno. So there I was blaring techno, driving down State Line Road in Kansas City, and every once in a while the music would dim and a voice would say something like “maintenant tournez au gauche”. Weird thing is that it was kind of talking with the beat of the music and it took me like 10 blocks to figure out that I was rocking to the GPS voice giving me directions as if it was a totally awesome track.
Here I am wondering how I could know more than what is going on around us.
“there is more going on around us than we know,
both in a physical and a spiritual sense”
No disrespect, but this seems like a statement of the obvious.
If it wasn’t true, it would assume we knew almost everything both physically and spiritually, which seems implausible (at least for the likes of me…)
Came back in for a nightcap. Can’t argue with you legion. If you hear it, it’s there. I just hear it differently.
To me Helter Skelter = Louie Louie on steroids. Ramones = Louie Louie on speed. But both primal in their own way.
Given our earlier discussion on CBGB, I may need to put on Marquee Moon, which is, of course, Louie Louie after an excellent session of meditation.
(OK, paying my yoga tax now, here ya go.)
hey lechacal,
nice to see the PM version of the OT is coming back.
Ok, so I’m home now and I was going over some of the Beatles discussion we were having,
first thing; my initial statement was correct, Helter Skelter is on the White Album and it is the song where you hear “I’ve got blisters on my fingers” shouted at the end.
Jester was right in saying it was Ringo doing the shouting, although on the video here you can see John mouthing the words at the very end.
As far as the punk aspect that I was going over with slopefarm, after viewing the video and putting my headphones on loud, I have to stick to my assessment that there is a punk vibe in there, perhaps it’s the looseness of George’s guitar or the “wall of sound” dissonance which producer Phil Specter was known for and is evident here or just the way the sound phases out then back in towards the end and culminates in that famous shout. There’s definitely a harder edge here than in so much of their other more melodic works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfkVGCU_BA
biff, agree with Revolution, awesome.
A fundamental truth:
– there is more going on around us than we know,
both in a physical and a spiritual sense
How many of you can identify something you actually believe to be a fundamental truth? Along the lines of my earlier “most people are good.” And I’m not talking about anything that can be directly perceived with the five senses (I believe my beer is black, I believe grass is green, etc). And not something relative that can change as facts change (I think low taxes are a good thing, but if we need to raise money to build a massive thing to save the Earth that changes). Something fundamental.
“True confession: I totally love techno.”
Me too! But I wouldn’t feel the need to class it as a ‘confession’..
Hey lech. Still here. My first post of the day because I’m finishing a big project. Your last dozen or so posts have me cracking up, so I thank you mucho.
I miss AHH. People totally read and posted really groovy stuff well into the night.
sigh.
Over here everyone drops off the planet at like 5 pm.
This funny thing happened to me this morning. For no particular reason I set the GPS in the car to language = French a few days ago, and when I got in the car to run an errand this morning (just me, no wife or kids) I forgot that it was still programmed to give me directions to somewhere. True confession: I totally love techno. So there I was blaring techno, driving down State Line Road in Kansas City, and every once in a while the music would dim and a voice would say something like “maintenant tournez au gauche”. Weird thing is that it was kind of talking with the beat of the music and it took me like 10 blocks to figure out that I was rocking to the GPS voice giving me directions as if it was a totally awesome track.