Thanks pp@comment48, that was perfect, I hope to see more states blinking green..

As for me, when I read about, http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/10/teens.lynching/index.html

I realize that it is not only the corrupted who suck on the government tit, but that our families and communities are still blindly and currently being instructed in the most hateful ways, ways that even the dumb animals uphold a greater honor in this world.

I think it is awesome to hear someone jam out, and some musicians are fantastic at it, but there is a place for a carefully constructed message too. I think of music as a conversation, and there are many kinds of conversations. Sometimes you are just chatting with your friends, or discussing things with folks you know understand your basic metaphor. Other times you have to really sort of lay a foundation and try to reach out to those who are still finding their way in the darkness. And we're all in need of a little of both at different times.

I try to express my musical ideas in just intonation, it requires a certain amount of patience to analyze things this way but it allows me to correct mistakes that might be nearly impossible to hear, but the resulting clarity is amazing.

Though I appreciate some of the musical works that have come from this formula, as a musician I classify those as 'old school.' With much respect. However I had the opportunity to explore new horizons of musical possibilities during my psychedelic phase, and came to respect the ability of musicians to 'boldly go where none has gone before' even more.

The total right-brained intuitive spontaneous composition of music is a thrilling experience. When you can also compose your lyrics on the spot as well then you are at the apex of the possibilities (from my perspective).

I have found generally speaking, that those musicians who are oriented in the theory find it difficult to be musicly uninhibited enough to step out of well defined structure. In contrast, I have found also generally speaking, that those intuitive 'play by ear' musicians are capable of playing right along with the structured as well as the freestyle.

A lot of the really greatest rock music is/was a combination of the structure and the intutitive together.

It's really a matter of taste and spirit. Music is a tonal vibration that appeals to like vibrations in the observer/participant. That's why we have certain kinds of music for certain kinds of people.

and

http://www.atbeach.com/burgerlink/greenstate.swf

The jpg is ripe for the taking...if you want it.

Aloha.

Anyone wish to fill me in on other states, like those leaning, and I'll update the map.

I've even brought them up here before, so for you to mention them, I don't know what to say!

They moved to Tucson back in the early Seventies, as did I, and then broke up after two great albums that made me fall in love with the lap steel guitar!

These guys were the FIRST I can recall, to take country, bluegrass, rock and put it all together!

Before the Eagles even!

And I'm not a country fan, unless its' Willie, or Neil!

So thanks for the info, both songs you mention are classics that only a few priveliged people know about. Do you know where I could find copies of their two albums Mayan?

We will have to get together someday to go through the history of rock, cannabis, and the roots of the Neo-Con takeover we are currently victims of.

Thanks for your persistence with the 911 info, it WILL come out soon, and bush will eat a pretzel and end it all before justice is done, yet the Universe will take care of biz I'm sure, always does, eventually! Key word!

Congrats to Mary Louise Parker, AND the gay cowbow movie! Now bushie can come OUT OF THE CLOSET!

Guesss what everyones thinking George!

EWWWWWW!

AND Bill Richardson had better not postone the Medical Cannabis bill, when I met him, he looked at me like he could use a big fatty, I guess I look like I use Cannabis, and I had already gotten a big laugh from the audience with my pointed question to him, that you couldn't hear the answer to due to the commotion.

Great moment, and then we were introduced afterwards, and I felt I could read his mind, by the way he read me, (my question was about how the Dems could let bush get this far, and why arent' they doing their job as an opposition party).

I really wanted to hear his answer. but my question made everyone nervous, yet it was the question on everyones mind, that I chose to ask.

Anyway, I never cared for Bill, and after meeting him, I felt differently, yet, he is too Bill Clinton-like for me, too middle of the road, and certainly not outspoken enough for someone with Hispanic and native American blood.

The cannabis question will confirm or change what I think of him, lets project some light towards him, so he gets it!

The Dems in New Mexico are very Republican, conservative and useless, the way bush likes them, and our local gov is total bush wannabes, Democrats in name only. They love the war, and refuse to 'pipe up' about it, as their cousins, sons and nephews, and neices, since we are the poorest state (financially, rich in evey other area) are all in Iraq getting killed for bushes lies, and they supported it!

Just like Di-Fi, Diane Fienstien, loser Dems from Cali, saying she won't vote for Alito, but a filibuster is Wrong!

With people like her representing the American people, you can be sure it is her ties to the Defense Industry, through her husband, that it her bottom line.

Can we throw out ALL of these bums next election? Or will we throw our votes away on electronic, computer theiving Diebold machines.

Bill is behind paper ballots in New Mexico, as he knows how corrupt this state is, both Dems and Repugs, so the only thing that we can look forward to is an epiphany for these guys, through an act of nature, so let's manifest this with our ability to visualize our realities, and make them real, with our minds eye, the third eye, that we we all given to create positive outcomes, as we are all part of God, and thus, all in this together.

The fact that this society has fostered the phenomenon of 'background music' doesn't improve our musical outlook. In fact I stopped playing acoustic years ago because I was tired of the conversation overwhelming the music.

Yes, there are always exceptions to any blanket statements.

Many make them not understanding this.

I do, yet I can see that certain attitudes lend themselves to certain entertainment choices.

"Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys" is a strong statement from a man who sings to that groupthink.

Willie is Willie, as Neil is Neil.

There is no Country song like "American Idiot" that I know of.

BTW, whoever thinks acid didn't have a significant impact on jazz, you haven't listened to Trane of the late 60's - just as one example. That style carried forward into the fusion that most improv artists play today, and the tension/release improvisation strategy derived from it as well, allowing for more freeform and emotionally driven musical messages.

Heroin had quite the influence on jazz too, but using it for inspiration is a deal with the devil to say the least. Heroin claimed the lives of several genius musicians in exchange for the professional benefits they derived from it.

The thing that characterized jazz was its use of blue notes, bent pitches that aren't part of the traditional western musical scale, like a dominant seventh chord with a partially flatted fourth. I can't really explain it well here, but if you are a musician and you are high you know what your chords should sound like, you feel it, and you play it that way, and if you listen then you hear it too.

never saw it either ... what channel is it on?

Nevermind ...

Mary Louise Parker won because she's great ...

Fck Chris Rock ... he probably got a good laugh ...

BTW, the Mutt People probably like Country Music ...

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January 16, 2006

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - There's no need for jealousy on the set of Desperate Housewives. The Golden Globes avoided anointing any of the four leads as best actress Monday in favour of Mary-Louise Parker of Showtime's Weeds.

Parker, who plays a suburban drug dealer on the low-profile premium cable show, competed for the best comic actress award against Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria of TV's top-rated comedy. Hatcher won last year.

"Desperate Housewives is one of the biggest shows on the planet," quipped presenter Chris Rock, "and Weeds is only watched by Snoop Doggy Dogg."

http://www.680news.com/news/entertainment/article.jsp?content=e011659A

I agree about the music. Music that says something no matter what kind is good to me. I have seen it mostly in rock but that is all I have ever really listened too.

In condensing my idea of how music-likes can suggest behavior or thought I know I left out much.

The trail of Cannabis-using artists whose music often lends itself to considerations of life, resistance and many other positive/rebellous attitudes runs from blues to jazz to swing to folk to rock ... and is seldom seen in Country music.

Guess you know what I think about Country, It's true. I actively dislike it.

Hank Williams??? Your Cheatin' Heart.

There's no Country version of the Kottonmouth Kings.

Anyway ... I've said too much, and not enough ... but ...

Enough ... :-)

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Associated Press

Monday, January 16, 2006

SANTA FE — Lawmakers on Monday braced for a 30-day session that promised to be so busy it was giving even boundlessly energetic Gov. Bill Richardson second thoughts.

''I worry that we're already doing too much,'' acknowledged the governor, who was reviewing legislators' requests to add even more items to the extensive agenda he has outlined.

Short sessions in even-numbered years are restricted to budget and financial matters and whatever else the governor decides should be pursued.

On the eve of the session, Richardson was still poring over pleas from legislators and interest groups, including a last-minute request — conveyed in a full-page newspaper ad — to put legalized access to medical marijuana on the list.

Richardson supports the proposal — which has been considered several times — but said he was hesitant to put it on the short session's agenda because it's controversial and time is so limited.

House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, said the issue would be better left for a 60-day session. He asked the governor not to include it this year.

Go Massachusettes!

THE WAY OUT...

ENRON - THE SMOKIN' CANNON OF 9/11? http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd155.htm

Revealed - Pentagon Anti-leak Policy Just Before 9/11: http://rense.com/general69/3nk.htm

180+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' Found in the Mainstream Media: http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.html

However there is one song I'd like to put in Bush's face.

"Power to the People" -John Lennon

Please... More than ever......

PLEASE

"I don't know much about the messages of caring and changing that Country musicians sing about since it hasn't been a part of my life."

...is because it's rare in that genre. I'm irqed if anyone thinks Neil is country. He's never been country. He is so much more.

As observed, Country is generally about the heaven and hell of "love."

It takes folk/rock to produce the wealth of music that makes us consider our place in this world.

Neil can rock, but as FoM says. he's Neil, he's Unique.

Many will disagree, but Country is Beer. Rock is Cannabis.

When I was a teenager in Bakersfield, I used to tube down the Kern river. Our favorite place to start was up in the Kern River Canyon. Merle Haggard (deliberate spelling) bought all the land just at the mouth of the canyon, built a big compound, fenced it with concertina wire, and had armed guards and dogs patrolling it. That in itself was kind of a giveaway. It wouldn't have been so bad, except the SOB put barbed wire across the river at his property line, so that us kids couldn't go tubing past his property.

Now any teenaged kid worth his salt is not going to let a stupid thing like barbed wire get in the way of his adventure, so we all just had to stop, get out and portage our tubes around the blockage.

Aparrently ol Merle had it in for us, because after about the second time, his guards and dogs were waiting for us. They took a couple of our tubes, threatened to call the sheriff, balh, blah, blah blah. Real a**hole.

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The political puzzle of country music

By Jesse Walker

January 16, 2006

The surprise tour of last year—a surprise, that is, to anyone whose worldview froze around 1970—was the series of concerts Bob Dylan did with Merle Haggard. In the last big culture war, Dylan was the guy who sang "You fasten the triggers/For the others to fire/Then you set back and watch/When the death count gets higher." Hag had a snappy number where he "read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fightin'/And I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on bein' free." Put them together, and you get—

Apparently, you get kismet. In Rednecks & Bluenecks, an engaging expedition into the politics of country music, Entertainment Weekly's Chris Willman watches the pair play a date in Los Angeles. When Haggard asks everyone to sing along with his vintage hit for hippie-hating hardhats, "Okie from Muskogee," more than a few fans do, and "the singer reacts with mock alarm: 'This is Bob Dylan's audience! You're not supposed to be smoking—I mean singing—along with that!'"

Even in 1970, Dylan was alienating his fan base with an album filled with pop-country covers; Haggard, meanwhile, had just written "Irma Jackson," an ode to a thwarted interracial romance. But if the singers don't fall on opposite sides of the so-called culture war, it wouldn't be entirely accurate to suggest they're sitting on the same side either. Like most people, they don't really fit into any rigid camp. Dylan has had an uneasy relationship with the left since he moved away from protest songs in the early '60s, and he sounded downright reactionary on 1979's brimstone-filled Slow Train Coming; in the liner notes to one '90s CD, the man who introduced the Beatles to marijuana declared, "give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you'll see the Authentic alternative lifestyle, the Agrarian one." Conservative hero Haggard has a history of singing Guthriesque songs about economic hard times, and more recently he's taken to praising hemp and speaking out against the Iraq war, the Patriot Act, and the Bush administration. (In Rednecks & Bluenecks, he declares the president one of "the top three assholes of all time," right next to Hitler and Nixon.) But he's a populist, not a liberal, and is as hard to pigeonhole as Dylan is: In "Where's All the Freedom," one of two antiwar songs on his most recent album, he includes "can't show the Ten Commandments anymore" in a litany of lost liberties.

I can't walk down the street in very many towns without fearing judgement and harassment because of my looks. Even after all these years, fearful uptight mothers still pull their children away as if I would snatch them up and swallow them or something. It's a phenomenon that is directly associated with a certain fear-based republican/christian attitude of judgement, and self-righteousness, found in church, and practiced in the courts and legislatures.

My guru once said; "When two or more are gathered together in my name (his name is Love) then I will be with you." That statement is the one and only description of 'congregation' that is offered by the Man Himself.

As far as I can tell that is a simple common sense, easy to understand direction to finding fellowship. Following that precept I have found numerous temples of divine worship, on top of mountains, in alpine meadows, by running streams, and in the clear sparkling starkness of the desert. And none of them needed building permits or non-profit tax status.

The 'church' is as much and more (for a much longer period of time) of a corrupted institution as the government. There are more judges in church on sunday then you can find in the entire justice system on any other day.

Too many of our fellows walking around out there are followers of blind guides, a veritable nation of lemmings.

If I were to make a map we'd all have to concentrate real hard on believing; "The glass is half full, the glass is half full."

The senior citizens of this country are just getting a glimpse at the prescription program recently signed into law and they are not too happy with this failure, the vioxx scandal and cover up by the fda and our sterling leaders is another fraud placed upon the backs of the people.

the youth of this country are pretty sharp, they understand more than most of us think, perhaps it will be them who come to the rescue.

as for me, "fed up" just doesn't say how deep my frustration has been since the 60's.