the flaming lips

The Flaming Lips were amazing and beautiful, with Wayne being the wonderful gentleman that he is and a crowd of the happiest folks. With lazers, conffetti, balloons, lights- it looked like "a goddamn circus up there"- all loud with sweat, and inspiration, everyone singing and screaming our lungs to greeting smiles, high pitch! and low-pitch., peace signs and rock signs, plus slow sing-a-longs with piano-toothed faces.

ready-SET-go!:
Ta! Da! - racing! for prizes of blissful grins - tapsmir - the TEST began - all of it RAD and FREE, battling robots TWICE with beautiful Yoshimi, then tracing veins of stars with our own pointed lights, stravinsky?, and hopeful politics (Yeah Yeah Yeah we vented our frustration!), with Taps he rallied our hearts and spirits in somber reflection, but Superman! Pompeii eruptions- reminiscing about loving about Jelly - Then we realized! (everyone) Encore w/ CC II, THE W.A.N.D. motherfuckers! and finally, beautiful delicious spoonfuls of happiness that had us leaving, bodies weighted with tons of hope and
love,
love,
love...


I've never seen a room of happier people, all just rocking out with the nicest dudes this side of the universe- The Flaming Lips.

do something rad!

and check out The People, Yes! - an awesome project that's gonna help people talk, and yell, and whisper, and get their voices Heard - VOTE for it: The People, Yes!

do it man!

(word.)

“I earn my living.
I make enough to get by
And it takes all my time.
If I had more time
I could do more for myself and maybe for others.
I could read and study
And talk things over
And find out about things.
It takes time.
I wish I had the time.”

- Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes"

fortune cookie!

So me and my bros ate at a delish Chinese kitchen during the show last night and the nice folks gave us all sweet fortune cookies, mine reading:

"In life, it’s good not to get too comfortable."

Hey, i like it! it’s good to keep on the move, embrace change, challenge yourself, and constantly view things in a different perspective.

(it’s sort of optimistic isn’t it? almost promising change as change is inevitable)

My guitar teacher (who also happens to be Chinese) encourages us to "worry about not what you like, but what you don’t like", particularly when applied to viewing art, music, literature, film, etc. In other words, don’t get too comfortable with your own tastes, but strive to experience things that make you at least uncomfortable or even cause you to burn with hatred and disgust. And if you don’t like something, give reasons. Keep an open-mind and strive to understand things- "worry about not what you know, but what you don’t know". So i’m going to try and not get too comfortable, take a chance, and keep traveling.

Also:

"Learn Chinese- Baseball = Bang-qiu"
"Lucky Numbers- 40, 28, 33, 1, 41, 9"

“Who makes more money, a ‘Psykeiser’ or a ‘Psychogist’?”

According to my panhandling pal "Stutter Boss" (he’s a professional like Kobe Bryant and a good guy), Psychiatrists are more qualified than Psychologists, as their PhD’s require more schooling, and they can prescribe medication. However, he says, regardless of their educational background, how can anyone say something is wrong with his mind when they didn’t make him? And it’s a very valid point. He argues that if they had made him, like you would make an android or a computer, then he can understand how their diagnosis could be credible. Just like technicians find problems with any sort of machinery that they have created; they can then derive the appropriate diagnosis and apply the proper methods of solution because they know the machine inside and out. Man vs. Machine, you know the drill... So how can they truly say something is wrong with his mind when they know nothing really about the still mysterious and miraculous creation of man? How can anybody really say anything when they know nothing? Yes, even with modern science. But it’s ok, I’ll say all I want, an I hope you do too, just don’t mess with Willie "Stutter Boss", Jr. ‘cause he’s a good guy.

Kerouac's style!

So i’m reading On the Road, and while i’m only about a third of the way through the book, and while there are probably many more interesting insights i could discuss inside and outside of its pages, i can’t help but share my excitement as i read Jack Kerouac’s style:

the way he creates the mind-set -
leaving questions unanswered
leaving nouns undescribed and adjectives floating in yer brain-space
illustrating entire events with short sentences that say nothing but say it all
catching little details and little motions and little moments and movements that seem sparse and scattered in the grand scheme of things, but convey so much!
And the excitement! (and the sadness) of the language! the jargon, the dialect

And All of it so simply and wildly-descriptive, telling the story of what happened- and putting you THERE!