Individual & social emancipation is the only way out. Identification with an ethnic or national community, with a religion, ideology, or any abstraction is nothing but a blood-soaked delusion. There is only one identity: that of men & women with what is most vital & human within them. - R. Vaneigem

Ok so I’ve seen almost every movie musical ever. Usually at least 2x monthly some cable channel’s running ‘em back to back, no continuity except the most basic thing you can say about these films: good, bad or ugly, they’re musical. Sometimes that helps. Sometimes, not so much. #musicsky #moviesky

The idea & reality of aristocracy relies on the nobility of birth. Elitism and nobility by wealth allows even the uncultured, uncouth & craven among us a seemingly divine-given right to tell other folks what to do. Nobility of ANY single human achievement will do that. When that’s your only goal.

To paraphrase #AlanWatts if your happiness is dependent on something you don’t have just yet, it may neither be attainable nor happiness. Because happiness only exists here and now, where you actually live.

The real You can’t be hurt by anyone except You. But you don’t know that either. You get it, but You don’t want the responsibility. I don’t either. So much for the bliss of shattering illusions. Saw that coming. Years of risk management experience. LOL.

Fly by night. Drive by night. Kill by night. So and so on. It’s SO much worse after dark, right? The wee raven hours get such a bad rap. Most of the world doesn’t do those things. They sleep by night. Kinda scary.

If there is a Divine Creator energy out there, it does NOT need any sort of human agency or intermediate to communicate with its creations. Gurus, methods, teachers, all are absolutely unnecessary to direct experience. Which is of course the ONLY actual way to GET experience.

I've always had a lot of respect for the #StraightEdge movement. I just have never been able to navigate completely without medicinal support. YMMV, but having been to the edge, I can confirm it is definitely not very straight. Or all that narrow. LOL.

If my dear #Elphaba has a special drink, it’s probably something like my Sonic Green Apple Jello tea, complete with green apple candy cane! #Wicked

About superhero movies in general: we really don’t like it when they have second thoughts about saving our asses don’t we? There’s not really much we can do to convince them is there? Can’t blame them for trying to get their own shit together first. We never really say thanks anyway. #ILoveSupergirl

You know what the world needs now? Better greeting cards and children's books. You provide the illustrations, I'll write the verses. Nobody will like them. But they'll need them. LOL.

If you poke the bear, somebody's gonna be upset. If you push the envelope, somebody's gonna get unglued. If you blur the line, somebody's gonna get bent. If you're spitting truth, somebody's gonna get wet.

You don't HAVE to be profound. Just keep thinking. Eventually your monkey mind MAY get a chapter or two of War and Peace banged out. Depends on reconciling your keyboard with your mental carpal tunnel syndrome. LOL.

If you say #ShutUpAndPlayYerGuitar #DontGiveMeYourPolitics: ALL Art is political. Whether you like it or not. It either reinforces your small insulated closed system or helps you color outside those lines. It sells the status quo OR questions it. Art IS politics. It ain't never been anything else.

The problem of course is that the lesser of two evils is still evil. And evil is highly contagious. It grows like mold. Like rumor. Like the wind. There is no natural and certainly no herd immunity. When you cross a line, it stays crossed, no matter how fervently you try to backtrack or slide.

Humankind's search for God is the result of an innate desire to ask for something and not get the answer, "It depends." However, since all we know is conditional, the true Infinite is completely beyond our understanding. Or actual need. Because you don't have to "go with the flow." You ARE the Flow.

I'll say it again like I've been saying it for years. It is what it is. Donald J Trump = Damien J Thorn. How obvious does it have to be that MAGA is the mark of the Beast? A nation raised on this shit should be able to see SOMETHING.

You ever get the feeling that you're blind, flying an airplane with broken controls, through a dense cloud bank without lights? In a storm? Did I mention there are no charts? LOL. Life is real jazz. Either it's all improv or none of it is. It's less scripted than reality TV anyway.

After all this time, I'm beginning to think that the Socratic method is just a very clever way to avoid answering a direct question. LOL. Convenient, innit?

According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the median U.S. household income is $83,730. From here, to be considered upper-middle class means that your household earns around $167,460 per year. What's that Uriah Heep song, Set Your Sights? Good lord. I may never see middle class again.

If you just repeat what everyone else says, no one will ever repeat anything you say. That'd be like mimicking a mime. Not much in translation.

I love Ron’s vibe, and Keith’s playing, but there’s a soft spot in my heart for #BrentMydland. Maybe the closet the Dead ever got to having a song sung by Richard Manuel. There is such tenderness here. First heard this song randomly at like 130am coming home on a two hour drive from a gig.

Interdependent. That’s a political party worth supporting.

Honestly. Data centers are like prisons and landfills. Nobody wants them in their town. At the same time, until we turn off, unplug, and shut down, they are essential for the same reasons. We don’t want to improve as people. We don’t want to enforce good behavior. We want the world to come to us.

I wish there was a social media algorithm that suggested people you might WANT to know versus people you MIGHT already know. The horizon is so vast after all. Who wants to color inside the lines all time?

Why do the pigs look so happy on the cracklings shop windows?

New New Orleans word I’m making up today: Illoquent. A way to describe someone who is ig’nant AND not well spoken.

To ward off alienation & gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past & to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present. - #HowardZinn #BookSky #Resist #NonRepublicanLivesMatter

#FrankZappa #BreadAndCircuses #Resist #MothersOfInvention #BLM #MusicSky

In almost every sense of the word, I am not playing any more.

Republicans think everyone (including Republican voters) are complete idiots. That’s why there’s a huge billboard outside of town with just a picture of Mike Johnson and only three words: Faith. Family. Freedom. 1/3

I feel like I've been saying this for years. And I'm a 60-year old white American hetero German-English-Irish guy. On paper certainly. Check this out: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Because of course he WOULD try drinking it. And he probably already has.

There’s always been a certain element, usually vocal, that’s wanted to roll up the Constitution and swat anyone that’s doesn’t look and think like them on the head with it. Just to feel superior. Our government was intended to keep that kind of bullshit at bay, for the greater good…Continue reading

Blade Runner was released 44 years ago today.

If New Orleans teaches you anything, it’s that everyone is always on their way to some kind of parade. The whole of life is a p’rade. We are either building and decorating the float, riding it, throwing something from it, or watching it go by and hoping to catch something.…Continue reading

Thinking today of great bass & drum relationships. Sly & Robbie of course. But Entwistle & Moon. Carter & Williams. Cook & Matlock. Bruce & Baker. Butler & Ward. Jones & Bonham. McCartney & Starr. McVie & Fleetwood. Some great pockets to fill. My best friends in bands r usually the drummers :)

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Yes, these are essentials. But the most important step is the next one: Replace. Once you drain the swamp, you have to put in some seriously well-built pylons to keep your bridge out of the mud. And remember, when you sweep a room, dirt is waiting to come back in.

The world is already dead; that figment of existence that you knew in the past, the places well-remembered, those fond scenes where the history of an ancient folk (all the hungry babies and curious children, rebellious teens and then struggling examples of the working class. #BlueSkyPoets #PoetSky

After a Line in Rumi radicaldruid.com/blog/2004/12...

Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶

I remember back in my younger days when we referred to lying, pedophile, rapist, racist, evil fucks as ass clowns. Whatever happened to that? I know you have to be sensitive of their feelings, especially when they're busy catching an emotion or two, but honestly. They are still ass clowns.

Sometimes, staying motivated is a slippery slope. Well, maybe slippery is not the right word. Often, I feel like Sisyphus. I spend all day pushing an incredibly heavy and unwieldy boulder up the hill, only to find that when I wake up the next morning, I’ve got to do it…Continue reading

Did I actually read somebody talking today about a "Trump Presidential Library"???? WTF is that? The magazine rack next to the toilet?

When we say, “at the end of the day’, to somehow provide justification for whatever decision we just made that some observers might consider extremely selfish, short-sighted, and perhaps even senselessly stupid, do we mean that day, or some other non-specified 24-hour period, either in the near…

Three Sufi proverbs I always carry in my back pocket: never name the well from which you will not drink; never steal a minaret if you don't already have a well to hide it in; and never make friends with an elephant tamer if you don't have room in your house for an elephant.