Comes a time
when you're driftin'
Comes a time
when you settle down
Comes a light
feelin's liftin'
Lift that baby
right up off the ground.

Oh, this old world
keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees
ain't layin' down
There comes a time.

You and I we were captured
We took our souls
and we flew away
We were right
we were giving
That's how we kept
what we gave away.

Oh, this old world
keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees
ain't layin' down
There comes a time.

- Neil Young 1977

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creative chaos

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Lucky

I'm on a roll,
I'm on a roll this time
I feel my luck could change.

Kill me Sarah,
kill me again with love,
it's gonna be a glorious day.

Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
I'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.

The head of state has called for me by name
but I don't have time for him.
It's gonna be a glorious day!
I feel my luck could change.

Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
I'm your superhero,
we are standing on the edge.
We are standing on the edge.


The Tourist

It barks at no-one else but me,
like it's seen a ghost.
I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowin,
no-one else would know.

Hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.

Sometimes I get overcharged,
that's when you see sparks.
They ask me where the hell I'm going?
At a 1000 feet per second,

hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.

Hey man, slow down, slow down,
idiot, slow down, slow down.




- Radiohead

The Stages of the Alchemical Opus

fUSION Anomaly. Alchemy

nigredo - the beginning

Aftermath

When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aftermath.
Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
Is this harvesting of ours;
Not the upland clover bloom;
But the rowen mixed with weeds,
Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
Where the poppy drops its seeds
In the silence and the gloom.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A pint for the dead, a pint for me...

"When the eagle shall nest in the hollow glen
When mountain and fen shall from mists be free
When the priests shall no longer for gold be seeking
The crow shall be speaking as plain as we"
- Irish verse, author unknown



for Doug for what it's worth

green plastic radiohead "The Complete Reggae Version of Radiohead's OK Computer"

'Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread CD'

Radiodread: Music: Easy Star All-Stars

leading indicator species

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reaffirmation

Singin' in the Rain (1952): While filming the “Singin' in the Rain” number (which was actually shot during the daytime under a black tarpaulin), the technicians lost water pressure in the late afternoon when the residents of Culver City arrived home and turned on their sprinkler systems to water their lawns and gardens. The filming of the number took a day and half, and the on the first day of filming Gene Kelly had a fairly high fever. Years later Leonard Bernstein said, after watching the number for the first time, "That’s a reaffirmation of life."

WOLFMOTHER

Wolfmother
WOLFMOTHER

Ogre Tones

Ogre Tones - King's X
King's X

GIANT SHARK WATCH: "I'm going to need another wetsuit"

Discovery Channel :: Shark Week

Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

King's X

Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cadmus

Cadmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dragonstooth

"Referential to the founders of Thebes, warriors who sprang from the earth when the teeth of a slain dragon were sown by Cadmus."

Sounds and visons: Ong-Bak

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior:
"Mr. Jaa is a gifted athlete, and there's something to be said for a fighter who dances on heads only for the honor of the Buddha."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

"[Jaa] delivers a constant stream of suicidally crazy-legged stunts that would make the Jackass crew reach for their Blue Cross cards."
-- Andrew Wright, THE STRANGER (SEATTLE, WA)

The Thai Warrior "No stunt doubles, no computer images, no strings attached"

Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
If the stories are true - and only a scene or two in "Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior" made me question their authenticity - Tony Jaa is not human.

The stories are that Jaa performed his amazing string of acrobatic stunts in this otherwise-dreadful crime drama without benefit of the usual assists (invisible flying wires, spinnable harnesses, CGI, etc.) found in Asian martial-arts movies.

Nope. This Thai superman can jump over your head, and do three or four somersaults in midair, from a standing position, all powered only by his own muscular agility. He's pretty convincing at this throughout "Ong-Bak." Convinced me he was born on Jupiter, anyway.

Besides making the likes of Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton look arthritic, Jaa is also as fierce a fighter as Bruce Lee was in his prime.

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The movie's strong points are its clever chase sequences, in which Jaa outruns (or levitates over) gangs of murderous baddies through obstacle courses of everyday Bangkok commerce and street traffic. They're like running sociocultural travelogues - guided by a guy from Jupiter, so you never have to worry about getting bored.
-- Los Angeles Daily News

He stretched out his arms and...

“Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871
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"For, you see," said the Illustrated Man, "These Illustrations predict the future."
– Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
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"I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only two inches taller." - Steven Wright
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"A man without tattoos is invisible to the Gods." - Iban Proverb - Mingatt Anak Casa (Akai Basai), Iban Headman on the Sekerang River, Sarawak, Borneo - from The Vanishing Tattoo Documentary
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In the 19th century, Field Marshal Earl Roberts said that "every officer in the British army should be tattooed with his regimental crest. Not only does this encourage esprit de corps but also assists in the identification of casualties."