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Hi Bondi,

Thanks for the compliments. Yes, you may borrow the wet vac...it's my husbands but what's his is mine and what's mine is mine, so consider it yours.

thanks, that will be hard for you to mail, i suppose i will just take my chances with mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqUFbd8aAN0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusPaLec9TE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Remember this anyone? These Boots are made for Walkin'...yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRkovnss ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No5FkAmTaJY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MUSIC

First proposition

Patterns
The brain is a forager of patterns.
It is an ordering biological tool.
The mind is its projection in time/space.

As such it is attracted to patterns and order.
The brain can only comprehend what it can store and analyze.
Storage requires ordering (Cataloguing, Categorizing).
Ordering the confusing or chaotic or complicated demands simplification/generalization.

We create approximations to efficiently act. We understand by finding a pattern and extrapolating the entirety.

Second proposition

Resistance

The path of least resistance implies that repetition lessens resistances creating habituation and experience.
We are drawn to the familiar because a neural pathway, once established, is more easily reused, rather than replaced.
Continuous use makes something familiar and easy.

This attraction to the familiar creates behavioral patterns resulting in thinking, species or culture.

Third Proposition

Energy

Energy is a resonating activity.
It is action/movement manifesting or universal flux.
Matter is resonating energy at a specific tone, making it more or less substantial in relation to our sensual acuity.

Fourth Proposition

Music
Music is a sound exhibiting patterns and repetition.
Otherwise it is called noise.
It is energy made audible.

Conclusion

The familiarity of the pattern makes it attractive.
It awakens remembrance by stimulating neural pathways which might have become forgotten or by harmonizing with our own energies it can imitate our becoming.

This is why music can be emotional and exhibit psychosomatic effects.
We are energy and so the vibrations are intimate to our becoming.

Morpheus wrote:These Boots are made for Walkin'...yeah.

Ta Morph
As its the one of the first two records I ever brought, drove the folks mad.
Although the dads prefered this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qx3fuT ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I wondered why until now.

The other record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Freud'd have a field day if he wasn't bullshit.

oo-er!

THAT'S LIFE
sung by the Chairman of the Board

From the Godmother of Punk

Patti Smith - Because The Night

Jimmy Rodgers, 1930
Muleskinner Blues

The following is not Blue Grass, but American/Scots-Irish traditional folk. I love this song by Iris Dement from the film Songcatcher. She has an incredibly emotional voice - not a pretty voice, but gives me goose bumps. By the way, ignore the 'fiddler' in the film clip as he's only pretending. Obviously the music was superimposed, though Iris' voice is real enough.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ArylRGWME" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The following is not Blue Grass, but American/Scots-Irish traditional folk.

Scottish & Irish are the roots of blue grass.