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Dennis writes:

If you are going to argue delusion is brokenness you miss the point.
Delusion is causes/conditions.

It is what it is and isn't what it isn't.

nothin' to fix.

including the wanting to fix . . . .

btw, Just ignoring it will not change that tune, it would be explained as the fraternal silent treatment or something. Well, that's just it about ressentiment , isn't it? Gets you coming or going. I would like to say here, from my own GF afterlife (so to speak :)), how much I have appreciated the ap...

Diebert writes: And yet you've joined . . . 2006 was a 'long' time ago, eh? I, too, recall much more substantive times . . . . Dear, endlessly resuscitating Diebert, I think you would miss it most of all. These founders, I would think, owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. All things must pass. T...

Leyla [from another thread] writes: It's amazing how steeped in everyone's conscousness Alex is. I would be taking a serious look at this the other way around. Seriously. That's how ressentiment works in a climate of 'fraternity terror.' It poses its powerlessness against a fraternity of so-called p...

Wish I knew your other reference, Diebert; you sure as hell got mine . . . .

Ah, The Piano . A movie about a hysterically muted woman who can't get her (voice/)piano moved off a beach because of one man; and can't get to the piano after it's taken hostage by another unless she fucks him. A movie about a woman who won't let anything stand in the way of her music/art, until th...

You guys are killing me softly . . . . but this ol' bohemian still finds Pavarotti at his tingly best in this old hack of an aria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2ck_wgr9Y With Pavarotti, I've always thought, there's nothing left of any note in reserve. He "cracks" each of them as far as...

An elegant spin, Cahoot, and appropriately nostalgic, for music and song are the soundtrack to capital culture now; I think you cite a signature difference in the mythotic past, the mass-mind dreaming of song, story; the meaning of ownership then and now. The fractal pseudo-individualism, and the sp...

Jamesh . . . I just remembered this afternoon that I mentioned this once before years ago, and it was you who provided a story along similar lines about Doris Lessing and her dislike of what comes with notoriety.

Yes, Rickie Lee, Sade sweet. but Tom Waits, now there's a soul-full . . . :) Both Danny's All-star and the Sade tune I was hired for vocals. This is how this early career went - doing solo original things I wanted, then getting hired for vocals by various local groups. That rickielee tune took me al...

also, the piano in a past life, covered both these tunes:

Rickie Lee Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMGH1Xhtc0


Sade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTYDPA-cmRA


(they're too gooey for me now . . . :)

Rickie Lee Jones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkT3p6H4Ws not sure Beverly Sills could do this, the one time I got it all the way more or less perfect, I'd done cocaine. Hadn't done it before, and never did it after, precisely for that reason. The folly of running repeated experiments for corollar...

(cross between Sade and Rickie Lee Jones, I was called . . . :)

okay, also guitaring here, ever since a 14 year old hippie, but strumming-singing shit with very little riffing, original comps, but not that guitar-itself-gently-speaking . . . .

roger that.
glad for the opportunity to wrap some words around it, s'all.

. . . well, I mean, it's no spirituality at all . . . .

Dan writes: I don't think anyone is suggesting that the type of ass kissing being spoken of is an expression of sycophancy, per se. Yeah, no, this isn't the thing I'm trying to get at. There's no need for any individual to throw themselves at the feet of any other, regardless of what you dig about ...

I got that indeed, what you were responding to, Dennis, ta. It was just another opportunity exploited, as with Laird. I'm thinking it's not a kissing-ass thing, per se. It's more like a wide streak of iconoclasm in me. Any tendency to respect for respect's sake, or to hold up for the holding up of a...

...and after years of wrangling with the great thoughts of great thinkers. and gutsing out a career teaching 'wannabe's' the most difficult of thinking ; with a commitment, a constitutional care and patience, in a University... but, Dennis . . . these things aren't needed here, either. All that's n...

I meant to spend this morning's tea time discussing some of these problems with metaphysical essentialism, but overnight developments here steer me otherwise . . . . Laird, on some level, I could appreciate your comments of niceness and god-blessedness toward my demeanor here, but on another, such m...

okay, Kunga, but it's still uck(!) either way :)

Dan, I took a deep breath once a few weeks ago, preparing to go through all the tangles you just went through in an attempt to untangle seeker's entanglement, but a huge wave of fatigue overtook me and I fell short of the task. Taking your time for this is practically a public service :)

gawd, you two. I can hardly think of two more people on this forum who have sweeter or more chocolately middles surrounding their obviously huge and reaching hearts; their tears, their desires, their compassion, their protective prickly anger. In between the skirmishes, each has expressed their best...

Diebert writes: Pye, that weakness and folly is also men's strength or at least history's driver; to launch a thousand ships for a face. Yes, as we're often reminded :) But so, too, your couple-comment. I doubt those ships got launched in a vacuum of helpless maleness; I doubt that females are in a...

(Just to show a sporting side to this dire topic, I have to admit the little chuckle I indulged in when our new "French member" showed up. What has ever been "rational" about the sexual dialectic? It's its own raison d'etre . . . . :)