schristi ([info]schristi) wrote,
@ 2009-06-08 14:19:00
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Current music:"betcha by golly wow" (the Stylistics)

Is there a "Craft Curse"? Vinton is a-wonder
As an Orthodox Jewish teenager living in Chicago in a nonreligious home, Mark Berman became a fanatic Zionist. He left home and traveled to Hebron to fight the Palestinians. He was an armed warrior for God, defiant, proud and self-assured. But one day fellow soldiers shot into a school bus, killing little Palestine girls. They casually dismissed it: "Such things just happen."

But something snapped in Berman. This did not represent the faith of Israel he loved, and he knew that if he remained on that road of violence he would murder whatever sense of humanity his soul possessed. So he returned to America, began studying religion at Columbia University and was eventually ordained a sports reporter at The Roanoke Times.

http://www.roanoke.com/theedge/stories/wb/206940


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[info]growingoldest
2009-06-09 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light

Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Madman drummers bummers,
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin,
the calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground
But she was...
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong,
play the song with the funky break"
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride
But she was...
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night
But mama, that's where the fun is
But mama, that's where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is
Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone,
that's where they expect it least"
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner,
watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone, reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground
But she was...
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light,
revved up like a deuce,
another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin,
the calliope crashed to the ground
Now Scott with a slingshot finially found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddy's within earshot save the buckshot, turn up the band
Some silicone sister with a manager mister told me I go what it takes
She said "I'll turn you on sonny to something strong"

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I can't believe
[info]schristi
2009-06-10 03:44 am UTC (link)
.. what you're finding out, Jeffrey

"The camelion Poet," says Keats, is "every thing and nothing":

HE HAS NO IDENTITY - HE IS CONTINUALLY IN FOR - AND FILLING SOME OTHER BODY ... WHEN I AM IN A ROOM WITH PEOPLE IF I EVER AM FREE FROM SPECULATING ON CREATIONS OF MY OWN BRAIN, THEN NOT MYSELF GOES HOME TO MYSELF: BUT THE IDENTITY OF EVERY ONE IN THE ROOM BEGINS TO PRESS UPON ME THAT I AM IN VERY LITTLE TIME ANNIHILATED -

The receptive poet is in metamorphosis, dissolving into multiple identities. Other beings pass through as if he were a wraith.

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I can believe
[info]growingoldest
2009-06-10 10:42 am UTC (link)
If I'm Jeffrey, you're Sadie, which, now, doesn't seem like such a stretch.

At 1:00 yesterday, in the Bennett Springs district, only 22 people had voted in the Democratic primary.

Tanglewood, it's worth the tangle to get there.

Joyeux Noel to you, ol true/actual/real/no doubt Gemini! Greater twins i've never seen.
One's larger than the other which provides your center with a charming asymmetry.

Cotton eyed 'Jo

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Jun 15th, 2009 at 02:56:12 pm
[info]schristi
2009-06-16 05:55 am UTC (link)
I like how this has turned into a JEFF positivity thread ..

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Re: Jun 15th, 2009 at 02:56:12 pm
[info]growingoldest
2009-06-16 10:18 am UTC (link)
this is a JEFF in the original meaning of the word: peace (bro).

go quietly amid the noise
Boyz

A painted warrior holding a torch of wicker
memory wraps around the clock
and stops

So... Rock around the clock tonight!
Insane laughter

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