"Staying Alive" certainly does take a different dimension when sung by these folks than it did back when the Bee Gees sung it.
One can't help but wonder what the story of some of these people is.
Living a story is essential to what it means to be human. There are personal stories and there are grander collective narratives that powerfully influence the individual adventures, and vice-versa. Those stories, they shape or contain and transform one another. Very much like rock and water.
Sometimes, the water stops flowing... Like so many socio/religious/ideological static ponds, stagnant in-group stories do form now and then.
Sometimes the water stops flowing. Sometimes the land gets washed away.
Some plants, such as lotuses, prefer stagnant water, while other prefer flowing water. It's all good.
It doesn't matter in the end.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
14 May 2008 @ 21:01 Just a thought... from another self-described "ego-testical blog about nothing interesting at all":
"It’s all bollocks really isn’t it? Just 6 billion lost souls
wandering around trying to rationalise existence and consciousness
through self inflicted external sources, whatever that might mean."
What do you think?
I don't know... Would that be an ecumenical matter, now?
Maybe it's all about creating meaning as we move along... learning slowly that stopping is not arriving. More >
12 May 2008 @ 23:37
FFF believes that humanity’s bad relationship to sexuality has a lot in common with the destroying of nature. Sexuality is a beautiful part of nature. FFF wants to use this gift to put focus on what is happening to this planet and try to protect it. Their goal is to connect as many open-minded people as possible to create a network of erotic eco lovers.
Support FFF with artistic creativity: Music makers, video/photo people, computer geeks, artists and models. Contact FFF.
Warning; FFF contains material that is adult in nature!More >
12 May 2008 @ 23:13
Mayday 12, 2008
7:50 PM MST
Monday
Planet Earth... or something.
Isabella Rossellini knows her green sex. The Italian model and film star wrote, directed, and starred in "Green Porno," a series of films detailing the sex lives of various bugs, arachnids, and mollusks. They originally debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (and showed at the Berlin Film Festival, amongst others) and are now available, for your viewing pleasure, on Sundance's website.
Enjoy.
Sir Swine More >
So was the industrial revolution misquided and presumptuous?
Born of a lust for power and wealth void or lacking consideration for the cost and Karma to the mother world, Earth, from which it had arose and from which it sought to distance itself from and bend and shape to its cold and unfeeling will. In defiance, denial and escape from that final fate of made Kings, paupers and all. Decieving and deluding its vain mortality with its pretense and illusions wrought all of the ill gotten profits and spoils of a too gennerous soil and sun.
And thus decieved and charmed, espousing and teaching its false virtures and spells unto its kin, condeming them and theirs in turn to these falsehoods, lies and sins in perpetuity. Forgetting, never grasping, the day, the hour, the joy, of hearts and hands reconciled with a simpler lot and value. Values not measured in money, gold and diamonds but by and of the fullness wonder and richness of ones senses, times and the soul.
Is this thus how we fell?
Fell from the grace and bosums of Good Mother Earth and Great Father Sun.
"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a unifying life force that flowed in and through all things--the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks, trees, birds, animals--and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery."
-- Chief Luther Standing Bear, Teton Sioux tribe
15 May 2008 @ 20:48
