Of course, it's now warm and sunny here, and they've resumed cutting down trees in my neighborhood with the onset of good weather.

Given how nice the weather is on the East Coast, I'd like to ask again, if anyone knows, what happened to that Occupy the Mall thing in DC?

Wasn't it supposed to be in March? This is the only problem with a leaderless movement, threads get picked up, then dropped unless a huge number of people sign on (which is admittedly not a terrible dilemma because frankly, poorly attended actions suck.)

Anyone else have any music they'd like to share?

I wonder if it inspired people to use the phrase!

To a choral version of "Lay Lay Lady."

Cannot say they are part of a Workers of The World Unite! kinda theme,
but even us Wobblies have to have fun sometimes.

http://www.archive.org/details/MarchHangover

There are commercials, but for every five mins of those there is twenty mins of music.

And thanks for the songs you shared, Leopolds Ghost

I was obsessed with this tune. Every time I got down in spirit ..It seems to me a good one for OWS. I know it was said this was just a "9/11" tune...in angst. But, to me it was about life here in the US after "9/11"...Bush Years, Wall Street Crooks Imploding...all of it...the pain and sorrow. I see it as broader than "9/11" but the wars after and now.

Looking it up on You Tube [to post here)...I got obsessed with it once again! 's


My Favorite:

The Gritty Version: (many of you will like this one better...if you are gritty) :-D

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THE LYRICS:
Bruce Springsteen The Rising Lyrics
Can't see nothin' in front of me
Can't see nothin' coming up behind
I make my way through this darkness
I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me
Lost track of how far I've gone
How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
On my back's a sixty pound stone
On my shoulder a half mile line

Come on up for the rising
Com on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Left the house this morning
Bells ringing filled the air
Wearin' the cross of my calling
On wheels of fire I come rollin' down here

Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight

Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

Spirits above and behind me
Faces gone, black eyes burnin' bright
May their precious blood forever bind me
Lord as I stand before your fiery light

Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

I see you Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
There's holy pictures of our children
Dancin' in a sky filled with light
May I feel your arms around me
May I feel your blood mix with mine
A dream of life comes to me
Like a catfish dancin' on the end of the line

Sky of blackness and sorrow (a dream of life)
Sky of love, sky of tears (a dream of life)
Sky of glory and sadness (a dream of life)
Sky of mercy, sky of fear (a dream of life)
Sky of memory and shadow (a dream of life)
Your burnin' wind fills my arms tonight
Sky of longing and emptiness (a dream of life)
Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life (a dream of life)
Come on up for the rising
Come on up, lay your hands in mine
Come on up for the rising
Come on up for the rising tonight


Li,li, li,li,li,li, li,li,li

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bruce+springsteen/the+rising_20025196.html ]

The first two are mastered rough mixes of our CD that is taking forever to finish.

This one is a happy little reggae kind of thing that is still being tweaked with backing vocals and structure changes -

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This next one is finished except for background vocals, kind of a driving reggae rock Rainbow Family-Occupy tune:

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I wrote all the parts and play all guitars on both tunes.

Obviously I didn't write this next one, but I guess you could kind of call it an Occupy song redux.

It's a live version of Somebody To Love that has kind of an interesting past. Last year my brother found this tape of a live outdoor gig in Seattle of a performance with some old friends. Soundguy must have recorded it off the board, (it was the late 80's, I think -- *don't remember much from those days, ya know* )...anyway we digitally mastered it as best we could.

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"When the truth is found...to be lies..."...
...OCCUPY...


Love you all.

Thanks for sharing. Those first two are creative kind of tunes that I would think OWStreeters would get inspiration from. I loved both... The reggae sound seems to fit (imho) with the quiet, steady, inclusive, grassroots OWS movement. Love the message of "Girl Next Door"...(come up with your own idea and do it)..Creative.

And cool to know that you played guitar and wrote first two.

really glad you enjoyed the songs.

I think reggae is a good vibe for ☮ccupy also. I wrote the lyrics to "Girl Next Door" in 20 minutes and the whole song in about an after watching a sweetheart of a 20 yr old girl get totally stoked about the movement. She was walking around in circles talking about how we are going to change the world and she was so unrestrained and excited it inspired me to right the song on the spot.

I bet Bob Marley would have loved ☮ccupy too!

Has a real 'Snuffy' Walden vibe to it. (That's the first thing I thought of, before I saw the second song's title.)



I clicked on the link and I like the guitar riffs on this one: /watch?v=poc-L_lUmaA

Occupy. - Tom Cullen

Great book/movie isn't it? One of my all time favorites.

Thanks, LG, glad you liked my playing.

I wrote all the parts and played the guitars on My Big Fat Gay Wedding also; the hook came from a fortuitous mistake.

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I can't see how it'd be good unless they divvied it up into three movies, like a trilogy.

And it'd be no good unless they hired the following people: (Speaking of Pearl Jam...)



Re: guitar playing for Occupy. You should take your guitar down there and strum for the local occupiers! Yeah, I liked the guitar work on that song, too. But Tom doesn't know about no Big Fat Gay Weddings. There ain't nothing like that in Oklahoma, laws no! Unless you mean them naughty movies, and them all is rated X! M-O-O-N, that spells X.

that's pretty ...along with PROFOUND.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UMtap4jHSeY

OWS...shouldn't forget it's tied to "MANKIND/HUMANKIND."

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How did you get youtube to appear as links? I call hax!

I was looking for a trick to do that if you want it to appear as a link.

Let's see if I can use your trick to link to the video (image contains link):



on edit: trick still works, but the image didn't; relinked.

What you did was interesting..So you posted your image and then did what? (In case I ever want to do that) How did you embed in your graphic?

BTW: The Two Bonnie Swans or Two Sisters...was lovely and the images....but oh my ... Not to listen to on a rainy day.. I Wiki'd it and found out there are versions in many languages and some other interesting stuff about it. fascinating . Thanks.

I.e. (link: http youtube link + "feature=" syntax + pipeline symbol + image url)

Most working youtube links automatically appear as embedded videos on du3, even in PM, so it's a good option to have. Just replace "?watch&v=" with "?feature=player_detailpage&v=" and it appears as a link, apparently.

A remake of The Stand!!! I can't wait!!!


If it is done really well, it could be totally amazing, like the best film ever.

Thanks for the Fugazi, I like it, also love the Blackmore's Night thing that KoKo posted, 2 more artists to listen to, so much great music, so little time.

Yeh, I have played on the street a few times down at Occupy.

My local ongoing Occupy is 100 miles away so I can't get down there anywhere's near as often as I want to.

And Old Tom Cullen, he don't see no difference, everyone's the same to him, lawz yes...

M-O-O-N that spells Love.

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But it is happening.

The writers will sadly not be LOST creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, who are huge Stand fans -- that was CHUD's idea.
See more casting suggestions on their forum/blog.

Or was that just a fun title

in stream of consciousness right after I got out of bed one morning.

I'm lgbt. Honestly, there are a whole lot of trips lgbt folks have to deal with in regard to our relationships to other people and society, individually and on the whole that a lot of non-lgbt folks can't totally fathom. You have to be there to really know it, some folks are pretty empathic and get it pretty well. It's like being any kind of "other" in a dominant society, except that I think it's even harder being lgbt in a way, because very often even those that are also "other" hate lgbt's right along with the dominant culture.

Like, a member of a minority might despise and persecute another member of that same minority simply because that person is lgbt.

When you are almost universally classified as a negative/undesirable/dangerous/weird "other" within the firmly enculturated collective consciousness/subconscious of a long established society/culture, the way you relate to the world naturally causes some serious alternative perception/perspective, and someone seems to have lost the Born LGBT in the Straight World owner's manual a long time ago.

So, the song is meant as kind of a "spiritual" - an ancient song about a people longing for, and their struggle for, freedom, equality, and acceptance.

I believe that it is a good thing to let the listener feel their own meaning of songs; I think what people hear and feel from music is often as valid and meaningful as the conscious intent of an artist's expression, and can actually be a divination of something that an artist is expressing subconsciously and that s/he (the artist) was not aware of in the expression of the work.

It seems to me that music/art/theater/other are multidimensional realms, part talent, part skill, part woo, etc, and honestly I don't know where it all comes from because the pieces that I regard as my most creative and real work usually erupt spontaneously and I am compelled to express them. I can't just sit down and write a song anytime I want, I have trashed every single thing that I have ever tried to write when I'm not in the zone.

Music has to come to me as inspiration or else it doesn't work.

Anyway, LG, I'll leave it to you to interpret from there, but I will say that the title of the song is not a fun one, and there has been no wedding...



no wedding yet...


Occupy!

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Well I can't really claim ("I know what it's like&quot but I kinda sorta understand.

If it's any comfort to you, Lyra and BonBon are fanonically gay and happily married.

I was doing some reading on the whole A nonything and its connection to the origins of occupy,
and found a link to this fascinating Smithsonian Magazine artice on the philosophy of memes and memetic propagation:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Defines-a-Meme.html

In the comments, several people talk about jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard De Chardin and his theory of the noosphere, a field of human consciousness.

On a lighter note, the article also proved what I've always claimed, that Conan O'Brien invented the Chuck Norris myth with his "Walker Texas Ranger Lever".

(Short & Sweet)
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


(TOO LONG for T-SHIRT COPY..but interesting)

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


(TOO CONFUSING)
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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(KIND OF INTERESTING)
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pierreteil120359.html#ixzz1pcdDusLb

Sounds like Spinoza...

We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

Wow, thanks! I totally have been wondering where that quote came from. First saw it 5 years ago, scrawled in bright green day-glo paint on the wall of a broken structure that housed a hot spring at an old hotel that burned down in 1958. I never knew where it came from; I had kind of fantasized that some some sweet kind hippie girl with stars in her eyes and flowers in her hair made it up and wrote it there, sometime around 1967, while experiencing the wonders of peyote.

In the 1920s, the hotel was a "swingin' joint" complete with jazz, Hollywood, and flappers. During Prohibition, L.A. gangsters used the secluded location for drinking and gambling; lookouts were perched atop the long grade leading to the Springs to get a jump on the cops. A fire on Christmas Eve 1958 leveled the hotel and the land eventually reverted to the U.S. Forest Service. It's like 22 miles down this really rugged dirt road...lots of *freaks* (the good kind) have hung out there at times since the early 60's.

So that quote is special for me in more ways than one.

Anyway, the quote was my sig line at DU for awhile. Like LG, I'm going to have to check out more on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, seems like lots to learn there.

It was so interesting reading it.

History here....and it's nice to see it here "context and dialogue," SHARING!

Thank you for posting them.