From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V3 #162 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Friday, September 28 2001 Volume 03 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Fwd: Check out http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/cletus_kennelly.shtml ["" ] [JP] Pork diplomacy and other reactions ["Jay Votel" Subject: [JP] Fwd: Check out http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/cletus_kennelly.shtml - ----- Original Message ----- From: LivePoetry31@aol.com Sent: 9/27/2001 2:46:51 PM To: LivePoetry31@aol.com Subject: Check out http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/cletus_kennelly.shtml > Hi, everyone! Two things. > > First, I want to let you know that I got back from my cross-country "tour" > safe and sound Sunday night. It has been an amazing three months FULL of > beautiful people, poetry, music, art, landscapes, animals, events, and even > some much needed solace. I feel so fortunate to have had this experience. > Thank you to *everyone* for your encouragement, support, and generosity. I > can't wait to see you again. > > Secondly, in response to the recent tragedies in NY, DC, and PA, many of us > have been turning toward creative pursuits to help us heal. (Personally, I > haven't been able to stop writing, sculpting, singing. Haven't even left the > house or unpacked my car! Yikes.) My friend Cletus Kennelly has also > written a song about the events, which I thought you might appreciate. > Please, check it out and PASS IT ALONG. We starving artists need all the > help we can get. And Lord knows we could all use a little healing... > > Since I'm still working on getting my ever-sickly computer up and running, I > haven't actually heard "Looking Up." But if it's as sensitive and lovely as > Cletus's other work, I'm sure you'll want to give it a listen. If you're > interested, please take a few moments to download it from the Washington Post > website (not Cletus's) BY THE END OF THIS WEEK. (If his song gets the most > downloads this week, he'll get lots of extra exposure there.) More info > about/from Cletus below. Take a look at his website for info on local gigs. > > Thanks, everyone. > > Be safe and live well, > xo Greta > > P.S. Also listen to Cletus's song "No Roses." It's one of my favorites. > Story about getting out of an unhealthy relationship situation. > > ** > Greta Ehrig > P.O. Box 5773 > Takoma Park, MD 30913 > ** > > From Cletus: > *************** > Dear Friends, > I just wanted to let everyone know that on my web site > (www.cletuskennelly.com) there is now a quickly-recorded version of my new > song "Looking Up (Three Days in September)", about the day before, of, and > after the terrorist attack. It is also on the Washington Postbs site, but it > does take ten minutes or so for lots of computers to download it. If you have > time, please consider downloading it from the Post site this week, because > the song with the most downloads per week is listed for many months. > (http://mp3.washingtonpost.com/bands/cletus_kennelly.shtml) So if my song > (currently in third place) happens to get the most downloads this week, more > people will be invited to hear the song, then maybe theybll visit my web > site, and so on. This is the way grass-roots efforts work, little by little. Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 2001 15:45:17 EDT From: CONE HEAD-REX Subject: [JP] Re: [My (Cone's)Thoughts] BBrock@pawc.com wrote: > > Oh, is that why I have the sudden need to take over > the world? I will repress people with my totalitarian > regime of kindness, fairness and great music. I will > drop bombs that look surprisingly like bags of food. > The consequences will be appalling, but since I do not > believe in an after life, I will only need to deal > with them for the next 60 or 70 years. > > What other atheists are with me? :) > > Joy Elyse (who really needs to start getting more sleep) > > Me! > Atheists are always getting a bad rap but lets remember they are the ones > not killing abortion doctors, not engaging in systematic genocide, not > defacing Temples and Mosques, not beating up gay people, not flying planes > in to office buildings. . . > I think a lot of time not doing is far more difficult than doing. I'm sittind here listening 2 Arlo Guthrie as I work my way thru a backlog of posts since I haven't been able 2 check my mail 4 several weeks, & I'm realizing how much of a method there is 2 Dobbs' madness... Yeah, I'm just as upset as every1 else & it's quite a challenge finding just the right words 2 Xpress Xactly how I feel. I've been thinking about how the words justice & just us sound Xactly the same, have basically the same phonics, & there4 may mean completely different things 2 different people. Do any of us ever really verify what meaning is intended X the various people who use this term? I mean, what if they mean just us? Methinks there is no justice. So I've held my peace as 2 not offend any1 & I've tried 2 sympathize W/ those who may B easily offended. Please understand it is not my intention 2 make light of dire straights or acts of barbarism, but after much soul searching, I think I've come up W/ an appropriate, non-violent, although highy offensive & effective response 2 the crimes that has consumed so much humanity... Instead of bombs the 'coalition' should drop frozen pork chops & bacon 2 all the poor improverished Afghani people. Day & night, planeloads of frozen pork products 2 every remote village & hamlet thruout the entire country. It's cheaper than bombs, a whole lot safer & humane, W/ a much more long lasting & insidious effect. U C, these folks R hungry, in some cases even starving. Hungry people R not going 2 waste the pork, they R going 2 eat it. Once they aqiure the taste 4 pork chops & bacon they R finished, the war is over. No matter what the fundalmentalists say, the common people will never give up their love of pork & free dietary habits. Pork chops & bacon, that's the ticket. Some of the European farmers who have been hit hard X the hoof&mouth disease could really benefit X supplying the pork. This creates a win/ win situation 4 everybody but the stiffnecked fundamentalists, who would B just pounding sand & foaming @ the mouth. I can't believe 'Chickenhead' George doesn't think of this stuff. He's from Texas, 4 Dobbs' sake! We need a new 'chain of fools' on the bridge here... Some folks who don't take themselves so damn serious... Who can find the silver lining W/O having 2 do surgery. All I M saying is GIVE PORK A CHANCE. After the Islamic fundalmentalists succomb 2 the temptation of the swine, in the interest of fair play, perhaps the Zionist fundalmentalists also could benefit from a little pork behavior modification therapy, since all this shit just creates a self perpetuating cycle of violence. Methinks I just don't like FUNDALMENTALISTS anywhere, wherever they rear their ugly little 'pinion heads'... so, I apologize if I have offended anybody (but a fundalmentalist) but I've been giving this thing a lot of thought. Sometimes I think I think 2 much, & I'm just living from brainstorm 2 brainstorm... Thank Dobbs we didn't lose any1 on the list. All U need is pork. Try it, it tastes better than chicken. "It's not what goes in a man's mouth that defiles him, it's what comes out." 4 the record, I believe in Hermann Hesse's god, whoever the hell that is. C-Head coneh@usa.net Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:02:27 -0400 From: "Jay Votel" Subject: [JP] Pork diplomacy and other reactions Cone's pork diplomacy solution is probably the most creative thought I've encountered in the days since Sept. 11. No one I know was hurt or killed in the attacks here or in New York. My best friend and music partner (Tom in the Winter guitar workshop) was only five blocks from the World Trade Center when it was attacked. He fled with co-workers and friends who were in New York for computer training. He made it home on the train with pictures to share and stories to tell. I'm truly relieved he wasn't hurt. I saw the smoke coming from the Pentagon. But the attacks for me have been, at worst, a mere traffic inconvenience compared to those who were personally touched by tragedy in these attacks. Reagan National Airport is still closed, its control tower I see on my daily commute, rising ironically like a minaret above the landscape, calling the aircraft to prayer. But the planes are gone and the future of the airport is still in question. Like millions of us in America, I wasn't personally stricken by the events. Yet something deep inside me has been affected. I have not partaken of the blind jingoism that seems to have overwhelmed us. In fact, I am disgusted by Corporate America's latching onto the flag for its own personal gain. America is too great to be defined by those who would use patriotic emotions to prey on our wallets. Spare me, please. In response to the thread about solace: I have looked for the answers in music and have found few, really. I am left with the memory of happily hearing "Sunday" on the P.A. system at Dulles as I prepared to leave for Texas less than two weeks before a plane was hijacked there and flown into the Pentagon. That's a shocker, but also a reminder that life will return to normal one day soon. I applaud the Kennedys for staying true to their message of peace and love, realizing that you truly can't kill hope with a gun. We can overcome this dark September if we only remember that life is large -- bigger than terrorism, bigger than Corporate jingoism, bigger than 350 million of us. I also have looked for answers in the scriptures and, although I found what I was looking for, it was a message I wasn't ready to hear -- nor is it the message most of America wants to hear. Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers"; Matthew 5:39 "turn the other cheek"; Matthew 5:44-45, "Love your enemies." I heard a "respected" religious leader blame the attacks on American liberalism and gays. He apologized, but you really can't take back those words. It was appalling -- almost as frightening as the images of tall buildings crumbling -- to think that there are Americans who believe that kind of trash. I've searched my heart and my pacificism is giving way to real anger at those who would attack our innocent people. I hear people question whether America is truly blameless. I feel powerless and vulnerable, but this is nothing new -- we were all just as powerless and vulnerable before Sept. 11. All the events of that day merely brought that message home to us in a tragically, solid way. As Buddha would teach us: What is there to fear in death? You are dead already. Merely being alive guarantees that. I would add that fearing death is truly a waste of one's life. I think Buddha would agree. I returned to the words of Kahlil Gibran which opened up my mind in my adolescence. I think I was looking to get back to a place where I felt safer and more secure, regardless of how illusory those feelings were. The words were a bit more comforting than any of the other philosophy I had been contemplating, religious or secular: "What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink form the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V3 #162 **********************************