Yes...In Kansas we are idiots!

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Learn about the Ozark Music Festival, a Midwest version of Woodstock.

Read about skinny dipping, nudity at the festival and sex in general.

Read about extensive use of drugs.

Read about the music of the times.

Patti Smith - So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star

Don’t forget about politics of the time.

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Light one candle - Imbolc

Happy Imbolc

From Wikipedia:
Imbolc is one of the four principal festivals of the Irish calendar, celebrated among Gaelic peoples and some other Celtic cultures either at the beginning of February or at the first local signs of Spring. Most commonly it is celebrated on February 2, since this is the cross-quarter day on the solar calendar, halfway between the Winter Solstice and the Spring

To celebrate, feast on canned or dried foods, burn incense from either sea weed or an ocean fragrance, and light a candle through the night.

I just don’t give a shit!

Έχω είχε μια ημέρα χάλια. Κανείς δεν διάβαζε το ιστολόγιό μου Η τακτική των συνταξιούχων-γιατρός αυτός που μου δίνει valiums Μου έσπασε κεραία τηλεόρασης. Η ζωή μου είναι χάλια. Η δουλειά μου είναι χάλια. Μου είχε πληρώσει ελέγξετε τρόπο πολύ μικρό Και οι άνθρωποι είναι απλώς κατουρήσω μου off. Νιώθω σαν να ταχυδρομικών.

Do I really care if anyone can read this or not?

Die toten Hosen - Carnival in Rio (Punk was)

!!! ♫♫!!!!!

Happy Birthday to me♪♫
Happy Birthday to me♫
In my self indulgent hours
To look a head to a year of shit
To look behind at wasted days and nights
ოშლლ ტნ ჯშთუ ფივ პწზუ ეწ ვშუ
ოშლლ ტნძულთ ფივ პწზუ შ ვშუ
ფ ჯფძეუვ ლშთუ წთ ძპშე
So you say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too man
ថុកិត
សុកិត
Its all the same
And la la la ♫
And bla bla bla♫

Spy vs. Spy

Halo of Flies - Alice Cooper

One of those days

There are those days when I’m in a shitty mood and I just look at all the jerks around me and think to myself “why do I even have to live among these dumb jerk-offs?”

I watched a guy on the TV last night who was afraid he might get laid off and all he could say is “you can’t really blame them if they (the aircraft corporations) are loosing money.”

CAN’T BLAME THEM!!!! You stupid fucking idiot! Are you so lame that you are willing to be cast off refuse to a heartless corporation that sees you as an expendable commodity? Why not lick their butts so they can save on toilet paper? You brown nose mother fucker!

Sometimes I think some people deserve getting robbed. Which is why I like songs like the ones below.

"Banditos" The Refreshments

The holdup - David Bromberg

What is God?

Christianity is one of the few religions left that believe that man can only reach heaven and salvation through a divine personality; Jesus Christ. He is what some of us call, the dying god-man. The idea is that a person is born into this world who is part god, part man, and when this person dies, he becomes a divine personality of god. Of the five main modern world religions, only Christianity, some Buddhist sects and Hinduism have such god-men. Islam and Judaism have no god-men and in Islam it is considered a form of blasphemy.
Does this make sense? The Bible also claims man was made in god’s image and likeness. So how much are we alike? We take up space, we are restricted by time and space. We can’t go backward in time and it is extremely hard for us to change the rate at which we go forward. The theory of relativity tells us we have a scientific speed limit for traveling in space. If there are other universes (as string and M theory claim)[1] we can not get to them.
On the other hand god is an immortal being who is everywhere, has no beginning or end. In other words, has none of the constrictions placed on it as man? It has an intelligence that is able to understand all facets of all universes and everything in them. So how are we alike?
Christianity gives us a creation story, just as many religions do. But what did God do before creation? Another question, if the Universe has a specific size, what does God do with all that other space?
If we except M theory, that there are a number, maybe unlimited number, of universes that we can barely detect and if we accept that these universes are created and die continuously throughout time, then there is a rational explanation for god. But that’s not what religion tells us. And how can such an infinite intelligence possibly connect with a tiny individual that can’t even travel more than 1 percent of the space it has been given? It’s like believing an amoeba can imagine being human or that a human can transform him or herself into such a microbe. It just doesn’t make any logical sense. Jesus is like an amoeba that can think like a human, which really doesn’t make any sense. God is supposed to be infinite and all powerful. He is supposed to be all knowing. In what way is he human? In what way could he be human? How could he take the form of a human? Humans have a brain and intelligence. Amoebas have no real brain and live in a world so small we can’t even see them without a microscope. If I were to believe humans could really be gods, then I might as well believe an amoeba can transform itself into a human, or be able to somehow obtain the knowledge of a human and pass it on to other amoebas. The idea is ludicrous.
` If M theory is true, then it answers two important questions. If god created the universe, what did he do with all that time he had before it? If there is an end to the known universe, what does god do with all that empty space around it? According to M theory, there are countless universes divided by a dimension called a membrane. That means that there is no “end” to existence. Also, universes are born with a big bang and then die out as cold dark ever expending clouds of remnants of matter and energy after the last star and the last atom have deteriorated and died out. So there are no beginnings to existence. There is no beginning of universes. They exist in infinity.
[1] String theory holds that the physics of atomic particles should work in harmony with the physics of large objects, such as galaxies. For this theory to work there must be 6 additional dimensions, beyond the three known dimensions of space and one of time. There is also one more dimension called a membrane. The membrane is a dimension that traps all but gravitons to this universe, leaving other universes invisible to us as they are trapped on separate membranes. These universes are created and die out over time, just as ours. There may be a limitless number of such universes. See “The Elegant Universe,” NOVA, Three parts, “Einstein’s Dream,” Hour 1, “String’s the Thing,” hour 2, both shown on Tuesday, 21 December 2004 from 8 to 10 p.m., “Welcome to the 11th Dimension,” Hour 3, shown on Tuesday 28 December 2004 at 8 p.m., on PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html.

Frank Zappa and the counter-culture

Vintage Frank Zappa and the Mothers were a favorite of the 1970s counter culture.

Here are some more excerpts from Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie:

One weekend when my whole family went out of town I had a party at my house. The same crowd of people who were at Clark’s house came to mine. We all sat around my new pipe, which I had to sit on the blue-carpeted floor, because my folks didn’t have a coffee table in the middle of the room. I had a plate next to my pipe with some of my best pot spread out on it. Everyone crouched around the pipe and sat on the floor.

“How good is this stuff, Mark?” Clark asked.

“It’s some of the best I’ve ever had. It’s Oaxacan.”

As Clark took out a lighter and fired up the pipe, we all began to pass it around. Each person took turns sucking on the black plastic hose that pulled the smoke from the bottle. The bottle filled with smoke so thick we could not see through it.

We smoked so much dope we created a cloud in the bluish colored living room. We had only the kitchen light on and a lone black light was hooked up in the living room. As we got high, the room was both dark and cloudy with an eerie dark violet tint to it. A few of us drank some Coors beer we bought at the local corner bar, Siesta Lounge. It was one of the few places that didn’t check IDs. Some of the guys just smoked dope. I put on one of our favorite albums, Zappa’s “Freak Out.” We listened to “Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet,” an electronic piece with a few vocals and sound effects. The unconventional music, with its bizarre sound effects, was trippy enough to enhance our extremely intoxicated state of mind.

“That music is freaky,” Phil said. “It’s perfect for this party. Look how the black light makes that cloud look blue. That looks awesome.”………

…..The rock groups we listened to were important, not only because of the loud metallic music, but because they often spoke to us through their lyrics. The messages could be political or have a social message. In Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” the band ridiculed generals and leaders for making pawns out of the soldiers and victims of war. The leaders all got the benefits. Yet Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” and “Ballad of Dwight Fry,” by Alice Cooper were examples of the celebration of insanity. The freaks saw political power as an enemy because politicians and narcs were constantly harassing drug users. Drug use distorted reality and the resulting insanity was considered something noble to the freaks.

In Zappa’s first album, The Mothers of Invention’s “Freak Out,” there is a description given for “freaking out” which describes those who want to “cast off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking.” It was generally a positive statement about those called “freaks” by society.

There was the comic book series the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, by Gilbert Shelton, who lampooned the Freaks. The books were fun to read. But many freaks identified with the humor and it was an admission that freaks were a true cultural movement……..

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Frank Zappa -- Brown shoes don't make it