Flower power Part 2

.....and in continuing with the theme from my last entry......




Thank you Joe Walsh for "Analog Man!"  At least I'm not alone......

Welcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in the fog
everything's digital I'm still analog
when something goes wrong
I don't have a clue
some 10-year-old smart ass has to show me what to do
sign on with high speed you don't have to wait
sit there for days and vegetate
I access my email, read all my spam, I'm an analog man.

the whole world's living in a digital dream
it's not really there
it's all on the screen
makes me forget who I am
I'm an analog man

yeah I'm an analog man in a digital world
I'm gonna get me an analog girl
who loves me for what I am
I'm an analog man

what's wrong with vinyl, I think it sounds great
LPs, 45s, 78s but that's just the way I am
I'm an analog man

turn on the tube, watch until dawn
one hundred channels, nothing is on
endless commercials, endless commercials, endless commercials

the whole world's glued to the cable TV
it looks so real on the big LCD
murder and violence are rated PG, too bad for the children
they are what they see

the whole world's living in a digital dream
it's not really there
it's all on the screen
makes me forget who I am
I'm an analog man

yeah I'm an analog man in a digital world
I'm gonna get me an analog girl
who loves me for what I am
I'm an analog man

yeah I'm an analog man in a digital world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEoWaP4skv8

Flower Power........

Was reading and listening to the band SWEET earlier tonight. I had *totally* forgotten about this song....but it's my THEME: (Well, except for the fact that I'm not a MAN.....lol!)

Sixties Man:

Take me now, I think I'm a simple man
Just need some lovin' and an easy living plan
But everyday now someone pulls my line
Shakes me up and says 'hey you gotta get in time'
Sunny days are over and gone for good
Shape up boy, you ain't working like you should
Well I know now I'm a man out of his place
Don't have a 1980's kind of face

Chorus
'cos I'm a sixties man at last I know it's true
Woodstock nights, oh where are you?
Strawberry Fields and San Francisco too
'cos I'm a sixties man at heart and baby so are you
'cos I'm a sixties man at heart and baby so are you

Flower power you never knew so much pain
Sitting 'round, loving in and loving out again
Oh the seventies I found I hardly knew
They left me high and dry and I know why

Chorus
Cos I'm a sixties man, Bob Dylan where are you?

I'm a sixties man at last I know it's true
A sixties man at heart like you

I'm a sixties man at last I know it's true
A sixties man at heart like you

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9qxbwIuHRM

Seaching for bliss....

I was enlightened to a "truth" yesterday, or at least a point of view that I had never thought of, but that makes  perfect sense to me. We, humans, are spirits in a material body. This earth is a temporary home and we spend our entire lives searching/longing to get back "home" and to once again, have our souls at peace and reside in GODly  bliss. The reason we use alchohol and drugs is part of the search......the eternal quest to reclaim our bliss!! WOW! I had never thought of things this way, but it seems like the perfect answer to so many questions. Might also be the reason that GOD gave us marijuana, peyote and other NATURAL highs: our reminders of where we came from and eventually return.  I think that music (some of it, anyway!) helps to send our minds and souls closer to the Source Joy as well.  My mind is boggled.  Thanks Donovan (via ???) for the gleam. Quite right-ly! :)

karma chameleon

So.....if the karma chameleons are right: I must have been a nasty, nasty person in my last life. My soul must have a LOT to learn from the lessons I'm being subjected to.

Weary...............

Color my world........

Wow! Just learned that Jimmy Pankow wrote "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon" here in Atlanta in 1969!!!! Very cool.......Thanks Kaedy Kiely for the interview snippet with Walt Parazaider!! That news really "made me smile." Ok....bad pun, but it really did!!

Hate that I'm having to miss Chicago (along with another all-time favorite, The Doobie Brothers) live in concert tonight. I think the main thing that I hate about not having money is no longer being able to go see shows. Life is short and should be FILLED with music. I miss those days so much that my heart literally aches. Maybe one day.....

Happy Birthday, Chuck Ruff!

Today would have been my brother-from-another-mother, Chuck Ruff's, 61st birthday. I miss him so very much. A day doesn't go by that I don't think of him and look forward to seeing him again one day. So......celebrated by going to see "Dark Shadows" with my sis. (Depp rules!) Then we watched a cheesy old horror flick, followed by "Pirate Radio." Hey....killer rock music and pirates...... What could be more Chuckles Ruffles than that? Hoisted ore or two in his honor as well. Wish I could be with Moni in Mexico. Maybe next year. (At least I could text her!)

Love and miss you, my brother. Thanks for loving me and changing me!! You are the sunshine......

Rock and roll soul..........

Ran into a former neighbor tonite. He was home to visit his parents with his new wife that I had never met. He introduced me as "the rock chick......into Led Zeppelin and all that sort of thing." I couldn't have been more proud!  If you have to leave a "legacy".......you could do worse, yeah?


We're having a party, yeah, yeah, everybody's invited,
The new generation along with the old.
If you could get with it just a little more, it don't take much
tryin',
You'll find out if you've got some rock & roll soul, baby.

Ain't everybody in the world. So when you know what you got, let
everybody know,
You got some rock & roll soul.
So when you know what you got, let everybody know,
You got some rock & roll soul.

I know it when I'm feelin' groovy,
It's kind of funky like an old-time movie.
I can feel it and it's really something,
It's really something when my heart starts pumpin', yeah.

Tell everybody you know, you got some rock 'n roll soul.

(thanks to Mark Farner and Grand Funk for the lyrics and the song!)