posted July 28, 2013 01:29 PM            

I don't mean to be a pain in the mule or an ungrateful wench...and Lord knows I wouldn't want to make any waves in the fish bowl...but I was wondering why this forum is titled "LINDA'S LIFE", instead of "LINDA'S LIVES"? It's just that I find the singular 'LIFE' somewhat perturbing...even kind of embarrassing...implying we are of little faith. I mean, what if she comes back? What if this site is a Beacon for her as she navigates her way back through the River of Forgetfulness? Or both. Although, who would want to admit it for fear of folks thinking you're nuttier than a walnut orchard? (Which isn't so bad in retrospect...it sure beats being burned at the stake.) But personally, I think she could pull it off. Well, why not? The Dali Lama does it all the time, right?

http://dalailama.com/biography/reincarnation

quote:

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A search party was sent to locate the new incarnation when the boy who was to become the 14th was about two years old.[9] It is said that, amongst other omens, the head of the embalmed body of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, at first facing south-east, had mysteriously turned to face the northeast—indicating the direction in which his successor would be found. The Regent, Reting Rinpoche, shortly afterwards had a vision at the sacred lake of Lhamo La-tso indicating Amdo as the region to search—specifically a one-story house with distinctive guttering and tiling. After extensive searching, the Thondup house, with its features resembling those in Reting's vision, was finally found.

Thondup was presented with various relics, including toys, some of which had belonged to the 13th Dalai Lama and some of which had not. It was reported that he had correctly identified all the items owned by the previous Dalai Lama, exclaiming, "That's mine! That's mine!"[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama

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Anyways, if I were Linda and saw LIFE instead of LIVES, I would have to get a little hysterical and rant, "What is wrong with you people? Are you freakin' serious?! It is LIVES, not LIFE!"

"You say you read my books?! Really?! DID YOU MISS THE ENTIRE FREAKIN' CHAPTER I WROTE ON IMMORTALITY?! Am I talking to the wind? Maybe slamming my head against a brick wall would be a more productive use of my time?...... "

*rant over*

And, well, I wouldn't blame her for the hysterics either. Compare...

LINDA'S LIFE
or
LINDA'S LIVES

Oh look at that! The plural version is even more alliterate...more poetic!

(Maybe we could even get a little crazy and add the cute little dots! LINDA'S LIVES...)

On another note. Isn't it interesting there was a search party to find the next incarnation of the Dali Lama? Maybe a search party was held to find Linda too? You just never know...it could have happened. It's a strange world...and strange things happen all the time.

Matthew 8:26
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the Winds and the Sea; and there was a great calm.

posted July 29, 2013 08:19 PM            

I Love you..
Your Light Shines Bright!

LINDA'S LIVES!...

How perfect! ISIS is there...

if you read GOOberz carefully,
you will SEE, that Linda hinted
to many past LIVES...

Isis
Mother Mary and Mary Magdaline
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
and there are more..

Cloud Atlas, which I have not seen..
is a wonderful example..
Do they return in different existing
body temples in that movie?
Have you seen that show dropdead diva?
It happens in that show!

Ggod Stuff!

posted August 01, 2013 05:04 PM            

[Hey kids, like Marlin and Dori in Finding Nemo, it's a good idea to bring a S.C.U.B.A. buddy along if you're going to swim DEEP.]

posted August 01, 2013 09:24 PM            

"...words Bernardo...words. There was a time when I believed in words..."

Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.

BERNARD - Old German. "Brave as a bear."
BENNIE - A nickname for names beginning with "Ben."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtCrHBq7Ds

-BENNIE AND THE JETSssssssssssssss
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

Hey kids! Shake it loose together,
The spotlight’s hitting something
That’s been known to change the weather;
We’ll kill the fatted calf tonight –
So stick around,
You’re gonna hear electric music,
Solid walls of sound.

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet?
Wow, but they’re so spaced out, Bennie and the Jetssssssssssssss –
Oh! But they’re weird and they’re wonderful,
Oh! Bennie, she’s really keen, (peachy keen—hold your horses we haven't got to the peaches yet.)
She’s got electric boots (Pisces), a mohair suit (Capricorn hair),
You know, I read it in a magazine,
Oh! Bennie and the Jetssssssssssssss.

Hey kids! Plug into the faithless,
Maybe they’re blinded,
But Bennie makes them ageless.
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who’s right and who’s wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNl3C0qvKg&list=PLmtnrBPEKVYYlnLS7LFEsNQAlmd1zjukk& index=31

ROCKET MAN (I Think It’s Gonna Be A Long, Long Time)
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

She packed my bags last night
pre-flight,
ZERO hour, nine a.m.
and I’m gonna be high as a kite by then.

I miss the earth so much,
I miss my wife.
It’s lonely out in space
on such a timeless flight.

And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time
till touchdown brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home.
Oh, no, no, no,
I’m a rocket man,
rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone.

MARS ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids,
in fact it’s cold as hell
and there’s no one there to raise them if you did.

And all this science,
I don’t understand.
It’s just my job, five days a week,
a rocket man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhBsYZ5QOJo

LEVON
(Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

Levon wears his war-wound like a Crown,
He calls his child Jesus 'cause he likes the name
And he sends him to the finest school in town.

Levon, Levon likes his money,
He makes a lot they say;
Spend his days counting
In a garage by the motorway.

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day,
When the New York Times
Said, "God is dead, and war's begun,
And Alvin Tostig has a son today."

And he shall be Levon,
And he shall be
A GOODMAN,
And he shall be
Levon,
In tradition with
The family plan,
And he shall be
Levon,
And he shall
Be a GOODMAN,
He shall be
Levon.

Levon sells cartoon BALLOONS in town,
His family business thrives.
Jesus blows up BALLOONS all day,
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly,

And Jesus, he wants to go to VENUS,
Leaving Levon far behind;
Take a BALLOON,
And go sailing,
While Levon -
Levon
Slowly
Dies.

************************************************

A TIME TO CAST AWAY

yes, it is time...
it is time for love
it is time for peace
it is time to heal

a time to renew my forgotten goal
a time to have faith in my own Twin Soul
a time to believe, and a time to know
that we will soon be reunited..and together
we shall strick the powerful positive
into the terror
of the hateful negative on Earth

..those beautiful, peaceful love-dove
flying words of yours
in your letter...

and it is time...
that I must cast away the heavy burden
of unforgettable, unforgivable memories
which has weighed so heavily
oh, so wearily on my heart...and which
has kept my Soul from soaring into the Light

it is time
and so...I've taken all these unforgivable memories
of unforgivable words and unforgettable scenes of unforgivable people
in unforgetable places...all the unforgivable memories
of yesterday, today and TOMORROW

and tossed them together
scrambled them
and mixed them up
then tied them securely
inside a strong canvas bag
shaped like a BALLOON

...
I stood on the front porch
in the cool
with Love and Peace mewing
beside me
looking down over BENNETT AVENUE
~
with MARS twinkling RED at me
from the left
and VENUS twinkling GREEN at me
from the right
~
and threw the heavy burden of that bag
with all my might...far...far out into the night
way out of sight...........
and watched it fly
on a broomstick, through the sky
to orbit around some insignificant fixed star
a billion trillion light years away
Forever
and Ever
and Ever
Amen..Awomen
~
Canto 19
Page 825-828
Gooberz
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Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

posted August 02, 2013 05:48 AM            

Saint Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.

BERNARD - Old German. "Brave as a (sugar)bear."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJSJ7SVIus&list=PLmtnrBPEKVYYlnLS7LFEsNQAlmd1zjukk& index=30

SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy

(Sir Elton St.John/Bernie Taupin)

When I think of those East End lights,
Muggy nights
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs.
Prima Donna lord you really should have been there,
Sitting like a PRINCESS PERCHed in her electric chair.
And it's one more beer,
And I don't hear you anymore.
We've all gone crazy lately,
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor.

And someone saved my life tonight, SUGAR BEAR.
You almost had your HOOKS in me didn't you dear.
You nearly had me roped and tied,
Altar-bound, hypnotized,
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly,
And butterflys are free to fly,
Fly away, high away bye bye.

I never realised the passing hours
Of evening showers,
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams.
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen.
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it!
Listen to me good.
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive.

And I would have walked head on into the DEEP end of the river,
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever.
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home,
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight.
So save your strength and run the field you play alone.

perch
[purch] noun, plural ( especially collectively ) perch ( especially referring to two or more kinds or species ) perch·es.
1. any spiny-finned, freshwater food fish of the genus Perca, as P. flavescens (yellow perch) of the U.S., or P. fluviatilis, of Europe.
2. any of various other related, spiny-finned fishes.
3. any of several embioticid fishes, as Hysterocarpus traski (tule perch) of California.

posted August 02, 2013 05:49 AM            

And back to our Magical Mystery Tour...

(This next song is Crazy Love, Vol. II by Paul Simon...not to be confused with the song Crazy Love by Michael Buble...lol)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kY4Y9gjqw

CRAZY LOVE, VOL. II - SAINT PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND

Fat Charlie the ARCHANGEL
Sloped into the room
He said, “I have no opinion about this
And I have no opinion about that”
Sad as a lonely little wrinkled BALLOON
He said, “Well I don’t claim to be happy about this, boys
And I don’t seem to be happy about that”

I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love.

She says she knows about jokes
This time the joke is on me
Well, I have no opinion about that
And I have no opinion about me

Somebody could walk into this room
And say, “Your life is on fire
It’s all over the evening news
All about the fire in your life
On the evening news”

I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love

Fat Charlie the ARCHANGEL
Files for divorce
He says, “Well this will eat up a year of my life
And then there’s all that weight to be lost”
She says the joke is on me
I say the joke is on her
I said I have no opinion about that
Well, we’ll just have to wait and confer

I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love

I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of your love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love
I don’t want no part of this crazy love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxifRL47r58&list=PLmtnrBPEKVYYlnLS7LFEsNQAlmd1zjukk& index=29

VANILLA SKY - SAINT PAUL MCCARTNEY

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight oh my
Tonight you fly so high up
In the vanilla sky

Your life is fine
It's sweet and sour
Unbearable or great
You gotta love every hour
You must appreciate

This is your time
This is your day
You've got it all
Don't blow it away

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight oh my
Tonight you fly so high up
In the vanilla sky

Melted tea leaves cast your fortune
In a glass of wine
Snail (ha-ha ) or FISH
BALLOON or DOLPHIN
See the silver shine

This is your time
This is your day
You've got it all
Don't blow it away

The chef prepares a special menu
For your delight oh my
Tonight you fly so high up
In the vanilla sky

********************************************

MY BUCKET LIST:
#55. Go to Madagascar.

posted August 02, 2013 09:30 PM            

DIGGING IN THE DIRT - ARCHANGEL PETER GABRIEL

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it's getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can't go on like this too long

[Chorus:]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]

Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt

The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my Head, I feel it in my Toes
I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes

[Chorus]

I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt

Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
[x7]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87bLX7m_o

STEAM - ARCHANGEL PETER GABRIEL

Stand Back!
Stand Back!

What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet
They're on to something, picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat

[Chorus 1:]
Give me steam
And how you feel to make it real
Real as anything you've seen
Get a life with this dreamer's dream

You know your culture from your trash
You know your plastic from your cash
When I lose sight of the track
You know the way back
But I know you

You know your stripper from your paint
You know your sinner from your SAINT
Whenever heaven's doors are shut
You kick them open but
I know you

[Chorus 2:]
Give me steam
And how you feel to make it real
Real as any place you've been
Get a life with the dreamer's dream

Stand back!
Stand back!
Can't you see I've lost control I'm getting indiscreet
You're moving in so close 'til I'm picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat

[Chorus 1]

You know your GREEN from your RED
You know the quick from the dead
So much better than the rest
You think you've been blessed
But I know you

You know your ladder from your Snake
You know the throttle from the brake
You know your straight line from a curve
You've got a lot of nerve
But I know you

[Chorus 2]

Everybody nosedive
Hold your breath, count to five
Backslap, boobytrap,
Cover it up in BUBBLE wrap
Room shake, earthquake
Find a way to stay awake
It's going to blow, it's going to break
This is more than I can take

Oh yeah, I need steam
Feel the steam all around me
Ah you're turning up the heat
When I start to dream aloud
See you move your HANDS (Gemini) and FEET (Pisces)
Won't you step into this cloud of steam
This steam

[Chorus 1]

Help me yeah
Ready to steam out the log jam
Stir crazy from the freezer to the boil
Water's bubbling, it's B..b..b..bubbling
Bubbling
Water's bubbling, it's B..b..b..bubbling
Bubbling
Water's bubbling, it's B..b..b..bubbling
Bubbling
Water's bubbling, it's B..b..b..bubbling
Bubbling
Like it's coming to a boil
Give me steam, lady
Give me steam around me now
Aah coming alive [x2]
Said give me some steam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q

SLEDGHAMMER - ARCHANGEL PETER GABRIEL - SO

You could have a steam train
If you'd just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back

All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need

You could have a Big Dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me round your fruitcage
'cos I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruitcage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm going to be-the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it

Sledge sledge sledgehammer

I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I go dancing in, we go dancing in
Oh won't you show for me
And I will show for you
Show for me, I will show for you
Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
Only you
You've been coming through
Going to build that power
Build, build up that power, hey
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power, build in you
Come on, come on, help me do
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night

© EMI Music Publishing
________________________________________

"Rather than make a traditional covers record, I thought it would be much more fun to create a new type of project in which artists communicated with each other and swapped a song for a song, i.e. you do one of mine and I'll do one of yours, hence the title - Scratch My Back - And I'll Scratch Yours."
Peter Gabriel

Peter will release his 'And I'll Scratch Yours' album project on September 23rd 2013 through Real World. The album is the concluding part of a series of song exchanges in which he and other leading artists reinterpret each other's songs.

'Scratch My Back' was originally released in 2010 and now makes its second coming, this time accompanied by 'And I'll Scratch Yours'. Peter is delighted with how many artists signed up for the project and bearing in mind the calibre and careers of those artists whose songs he selected, it's rather incredible that all but two songwriters were able to reciprocate. (For those uncompleted swaps, Joseph Arthur and Feist willingly entered the fray with their respective versions of Shock The Monkey and Don't Give Up).

A sampling of the track listing for 'And I'll Scratch Yours' includes:
Solsbury Hill - Lou Reed
Biko - Paul Simon

posted August 12, 2013 05:26 AM            

It looks like the video starts off with Archangel Peter Gabriel in a 'bubble'...

posted August 14, 2013 03:59 PM            

Last month I took my kids (even took my 2-year old) to see St. Paul McCartney in Milwaukee on his 'Out There' tour. (Yeah, man, we are way 'out there'...lol.) I had never been to Miller Park. It really is a beautiful venue for a concert...wow! They even allow tailgating before the show. The weather was nice (actually, really hot) so they opened up the stadium roof. The moon & stars were overhead. *twinkle-twinkle* We had awesome seating and security was so kind and let us have a nice big space on the left side of the stage for my baby to dance & run around. It was pretty magical!

Paul has a gig in Canada, today, taking a break, then back 'Out There' in Japan this November.

Got some Scorpio business to take car of today...gotta run...

posted August 16, 2013 06:52 AM            

Elton John is going to be there too!

posted August 16, 2013 11:10 PM            

Personally, I like to call him...Alfred E. Neumonic Device.

Lol...remember that movie, Johnny Mnemonic?

PLOT: A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_8BVWHSU_o

So, anyways, I was reading the Planet Tad blog in Issue #521 June 2013 in Mad magazine and I quote:

quote:

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You know what would suck? If you were a superhero whose power was to press wrinkles out of clothing, and you couldn't use the name Iron Man, because it is already taken. You'd have to be, like, "Hot Steam-Emitting Pants Pressing Guy" or something.

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posted August 17, 2013 02:25 AM            

The word mnemonic is derived from the Ancient Greek word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), meaning "of memory" and is related to Mnemosyne ("remembrance"), the name of the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. Both of these words are derived from μνήμη (mnēmē ), "remembrance, memory". Mnemonics in antiquity were most often considered in the context of what is today known as the Art of Memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

MNEMOSYNE, source of the word mnemonic, was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. The titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus. In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses. Mnemosyne also presides over a pool in Hades, counterpart to the river Lethe, according to a series of 4th century BC Greek funerary inscriptions in dactylic hexameter. Dead souls drank from Lethe so they would not remember their past lives when reincarnated. Initiates were encouraged to drink from the river Mnemosyne when they died, instead of Lethe. Similarly, those who wished to consult the oracle of Trophonius in Boeotia were made to drink alternately from two springs called "Lethe" and "Mnemosyne".