From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V11 #100 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Friday, June 26 2009 Volume 11 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] O.T: This from a friend [Ari ] [idealcopy] RE: Sky Saxon RIP ["keith a" ] [idealcopy] Sky Saxon RIP ["keith a" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: This from a friend I received this message from my friend from Iran who has asked that I share it with everybody. I have not included his name as I am anxious for his safety, as well as that of others in Iran. ______________ Dear friends, These days our hearts are bleeding, and we can not stop crying for the lives being lost so brutally in this land once again. People you see on the media are risking their lives for the most basic human right, freedom to be. This has been taken away from us in a violent and bloody manner one way or another for the past thirty years. Once you walk with people in protest, it is inevitable to feel the depth of having it suppressed decade after decade. We have lost brothers, sisters, friends, children, students, fellow activists, writers, poets, Sufis, yogis, homosexuals, Kurds, Turks, Baloochis, Jews, Armenians, Muslims, Assyrians, Bahais, and other so called bminoritiesb to this simple quest for the right to be and live as we are in our society. We have been jailed, whipped, and publically humiliated for simple things like listening to music, socializing with the other sex, having parties, wearing jeans, growing hair, not covering our hair and body with the Islamic dark dress code. Our women, not our men, have been stoned to death for having extra-marital affairs. In our legal system women are officially treated as second class citizens, being worth half of a manbs voice when it comes to submitting evidence to a court of law as a witness. They can easily be divorced by men, but can not divorce as easily, and have no right to their children after divorce. They can not leave the country without written permission of their husbands/fathers. Friends, the list is as endless as the degrees we differ from one and other. We have been suffering from this systematic utterly inhuman intolerance being forced at every level of our society down to our own families. No wonder young and old, men and women are out there walking surrounded by heavily armed and aggressive police, hit squads, and snipers on the roof shooting them down at random. We are confronting religious intolerance and fantaicism of its worst kind in this land. Past thirty years tens of thousands have been lost, raped, and jailed for standing tall against this current. Its vibrations of hatred, war, and aggression have reached your home anywhere in the globe. There is no doubt that we are a global family being interrelated to one another closer than we know. This, we have experienced the hard way past few years. I am writing to beg for your attention and assistance in any way possible. An innocent, peaceful, historic momentum, unprecedented in recent history, has come alive in our world that is being brutally put down with violence, lies, and dirty politics for power and riches. You, no matter where you are, have been inflicted by the evil nature of this current going round in our globe. My brothers and sisters, come together in any way you can. Join the arms of our innocent people whose blood is being shed for peace and human rights which you may be blessed with elsewhere. Our hands are stretched out, reaching out for your support from outside. We are confronting a formidable power as ancient and infectious as hatred, tyranny, intolerance, prejudice and racism. We need your help. If your heart prompts, please send this letter to your local newspaper, members of parliament, offices of your countrybs Prime Minister or President. Let it be heard what we are facing and how important it is that we as the human body must shoulder this together. I can not do it alone, but we can do it. We as a nation are pleading desperately to the world that we MUST not recognize this regime legitimate. We need to use all our strength and unity to pressure it to leave the office before our voice is shut down. I hope you join us in prayers and firm peaceful steps towards a global > village where we all can live in peace and harmony. With love to all, ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:54:09 +0100 From: "keith a" Subject: [idealcopy] RE: Sky Saxon RIP And at the risk of sounding like Dr Death, Steven Wells has died as well. http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/in-extremis/Steven-Wells- Says-Goodbye-49054426.html From: keith a [mailto:keith.indoorminer@virgin.net] Sent: 25 June 2009 18:34 To: 'idealcopy@smoe.org' Subject: Sky Saxon RIP I first heard The Seeds c/o Peel circa '78 and loved them. Eventually got the debut a couple of yrs later. Still an all-time fave LP. RIP Sky. From austin360.com : Sky Saxon, founder of the brilliant '60s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David's Hospital. The newly minted Austinite, born Richard Marsh, was hospitalized Monday with what doctors suspected was an infection of the internal organs, but cause of death has not yet been released. Saxon fell ill last Thursday, but performed at Saturday at Antone's with recent Austin collaborators Shapes Have Fangs. Sky's wife Sabrina Saxon posted news of his passing on Facebook this morning: "Sky has passed over and YaHoWha is waiting for him at the gate. He will soon be home with his Father. I'm so sorry I couldn't keep him here with us. More later. I'm sorry." We are sorry as well. Saxon was the founder of the Seeds, one of the all-time great first-wave garage rock bands. If the Rolling Stones was the sound of five British guys trying to imitate Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf and failing in new and strange ways, '60s garage rock was the sound of American kids trying to imitate the Stones and (similarly, brilliantly) missing the mark. The Seeds fell together in 1965 around a core of Saxon and guitarist Jan Savage with keyboardist Daryl Hooper and drummer Rick Andridge. The bands's first couple of singles - 'Can't Seem To Make You Mine' and 'Pushin' Too Hard' - are '60s punk classics, snotty and fuzzy and brief. Check out their first two albums - 'The Seeds' and 'A Web of Sound,' both from that magic rock year 1966 - for perfect examples of proto-psychedelic roar. After a few more records, Saxon broke up the Seeds in 1970, joined the spiritual commune the Source Family, adopted the name Sunlight and played with the Source Family band YaHoWha 13 now and then. He continuted to make albums since with various lineups, distributing his music via the Internet at www.skysaxon.com. He came to Austin in March for the second annual Psych Fest and never really left, according to his publicist, keeping a very low profile until recently. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:57 +0100 From: "keith a" Subject: [idealcopy] Sky Saxon RIP I first heard The Seeds c/o Peel circa '78 and loved them. Eventually got the debut a couple of yrs later. Still an all-time fave LP. RIP Sky. From austin360.com : Sky Saxon, founder of the brilliant '60s garage band the Seeds, died Thursday morning at St. David's Hospital. The newly minted Austinite, born Richard Marsh, was hospitalized Monday with what doctors suspected was an infection of the internal organs, but cause of death has not yet been released. Saxon fell ill last Thursday, but performed at Saturday at Antone's with recent Austin collaborators Shapes Have Fangs. Sky's wife Sabrina Saxon posted news of his passing on Facebook this morning: "Sky has passed over and YaHoWha is waiting for him at the gate. He will soon be home with his Father. I'm so sorry I couldn't keep him here with us. More later. I'm sorry." We are sorry as well. Saxon was the founder of the Seeds, one of the all-time great first-wave garage rock bands. If the Rolling Stones was the sound of five British guys trying to imitate Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf and failing in new and strange ways, '60s garage rock was the sound of American kids trying to imitate the Stones and (similarly, brilliantly) missing the mark. The Seeds fell together in 1965 around a core of Saxon and guitarist Jan Savage with keyboardist Daryl Hooper and drummer Rick Andridge. The bands's first couple of singles - 'Can't Seem To Make You Mine' and 'Pushin' Too Hard' - are '60s punk classics, snotty and fuzzy and brief. Check out their first two albums - 'The Seeds' and 'A Web of Sound,' both from that magic rock year 1966 - for perfect examples of proto-psychedelic roar. After a few more records, Saxon broke up the Seeds in 1970, joined the spiritual commune the Source Family, adopted the name Sunlight and played with the Source Family band YaHoWha 13 now and then. He continuted to make albums since with various lineups, distributing his music via the Internet at www.skysaxon.com. He came to Austin in March for the second annual Psych Fest and never really left, according to his publicist, keeping a very low profile until recently. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V11 #100 ********************************