You know Cypher, I'm going to go above your head on this one, so to speak. I'm going to ask she that has no face on this.

Let's see. How does that song go? Yes, I have it.

You are desire beyond desire.
You are form beyond form.
Lead us not to Lesbo's fire.
Heads can sing, but not at morn.

You are snake and twisted trail.
Writhing from beyond the veil.
Daylight fades, your nymphs run free.
Tearing flesh from all they see.

Sword or song. Which one rules?
Speak. I command you.

Posted at July 6, 2008 10:47 AM in response to Nazi professors

Don't make fun of Pete. Singers always count. Remember the good things in his life, and the way his songs raised up so many for what Donner calls the "good fight."

Posted at July 6, 2008 10:32 AM in response to Nazi professors

Cypher, I wish you could hum with me. The eternal sound of the universe is within you. And why do they make me always the last guy to go? Whatever. The three-fold sound chant it is then. Sankrit for the trail. Why not, just one last wave of the ancient Proto-Indo.

Hmm Hmm Hmm

Posted at July 6, 2008 9:50 AM in response to Chimpo Come Home

some I'm a clown

Posted at July 4, 2008 7:55 PM in response to A Tale of Two Bozos

Here's a question for you Drifter, the hobo. Can you get those stories only on the internet or do you have to hop a train? Illegal by the way, as is vagrancy in general.

Posted at July 1, 2008 12:10 PM in response to The Sad Tale of Willie Keil

Where has this guy been in the last months? You should be working this up for a post !

Posted at July 1, 2008 12:08 PM in response to The Sad Tale of Willie Keil

hmmm...hmmm...hmmm..

Posted at July 1, 2008 11:54 AM in response to The Sad Tale of Willie Keil

Well I would say that you have it exactly right.

The great read on that for the relationship between the oral tradition and the exactitude of print is Marshall Mcluhan's "Guttenberg Galaxy. The most important scientist/artist for relieving the terrors of getting things wrong was Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Joseph Campbell has done a fine job in reasserting what was realized by the end of the 19th century in the West, yet had been known by humanity from the beginning- that artists and shamans, because of the ability to sense change and then communicate that change before others were aware, have always predicted what is to come, especially what will terrify.

Posted at July 1, 2008 9:59 AM in response to The Sad Tale of Willie Keil

While history is a matter of getting facts straight, by nature of communication it is also mythic. The most important events are mythic, and the deeper the myth, the greater the chance for doing good or ill.

Before print, myth and history were communicated in song and its fine sister, poetry.

Posted at July 1, 2008 9:19 AM in response to The Sad Tale of Willie Keil

sorry, we don't allow people here who are anon.

Posted at June 28, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Abate and switch - Drudge rocks my world