Sick of MJ media coverage 24/7? Check out Sky Saxon!
Do celebritys ALWAYS die 3-at-a-time?
Of course…that is a cosmic rule. On 06/25/09 we lost 3 Pop Culture Icons:
.Worse than The Day the Music Died when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper went down in a plane crash. I’m tired…you know how to google. Refs tomorrow…
ABOVE LEFT- Pop Culture Golden Cow Idols spanning 3 decades:
1982 Michael Jackson’s Thriller. CENTER- Farrah Fawcett’s (1976) poster which inspired millions of Baby Boomer boys to beat it. RIGHT- 1960s Sky Saxon, who was the:
.Sky Saxon was all that he claimed to be.
LA was Rock&Roll Heaven when I moved here in 1966 with the Doors, Zappa, Buffalo Springfield, Steppenwolf, Love, etc playing nearly every weekend.
But, my favorite group was the Seeds.Sky Saxon’s songs spoke to Baby Boomer teen boys. Most of us bought electric guitars after watching girls flip out over the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964, but never learned how to play. I owned a classic 1957 Strat and sucked. The Seeds also sucked, but they put on an incredible ultra-energy, raw, teen angst show. Most of their songs used only 2 chords…and power chords at that (utilizing the top two of six strings on the guitar). Hello Garage bands, Heavy Metal and Punk. “I can do that!”
I was blown away when I saw the Seeds perform “You’re Pushing Too Hard”…A week later I formed my own garage band.
By 1969 Rock fans demanded at least 3 chords per song so Sky switched to blues…
Bad move…REAL MUSICIANS in that genre.Sky Saxon dropped out and joined the wacky Source Family Hollywood Hills commune led by YahoWha -
nee Jim Baker…not Jim Bakker, but just as power-crazied insane.
Today kids ask: YahoWTF!…Who is this idiot who gave Saxon the name Sunlight because there were already too many kids named Rainbow, Sky and Love in his group?
Yahoo: 1726- Jonathan Swift invented the word and describes Yahoos as vile and savage creatures, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with “pretty stones” they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain. Hence the term “Yahoo” has become synonymous with “cretin,” “dinosaur,” and/or “Neanderthal.”
Are you on YaHoo! right now? Why did they choose such an evil name?
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JOE JACKSON: “Give me custody of Michael’s so-called childen and I will beat those brats into Superstardom. They own 200 of Michael’s unpublished songs and they need a loving grandpa to whip them to fame. So, Let’s Beat It! In 2 months these little freaks will have an album on my Ranch Records label and a tour…and I will have more hot chicks and bling.”
A Sad Farewell to Michael Jackson
.Neverland? Of course I’ve been there! I am the Guru of Pop Culture.
Poor Little Rich Boys in their own backyard:
Neverland The fabulous fictional estate of Richie Rich pales in comparison to Neverland in its prime. Each year Michael Jackson threw a wonderful party for his employees and their families and friends. I knew the Ranch audio/ visual expert and in 1996 my wife, daughters (9 and 15 at the time) and I jumped down the rabbit hole to Neverland…a magic world created by a real billionaire boy.
.Above: The main house (closed to us) overlooked a beautiful lake…
Statues of children laughing and playing everywhere. The one exception was a statue of Peter Pan (Disney, not English tradional) peering in a window of the main house (Michael’s office or bedroom?). Music blared from rock speakers everywhere on the 500 developed acres of the 1600 acre estate.
Behind the house was a big two-story building (open to us) filled with pinball and virtual reality machines and a jukebox that included the usual plus Muddy Waters, BB King, etc (??!!!).
We then hopped on the train to the amusement park area.
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Above: Does this look familiar? It should…an exact copy of Disneyland’s Main St Station.
Michael’s park was so much better than Disneyland. No lines, unmanned vending carts where you could reach in and grab a free ice cream or bag of candy…a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, zipper, spider, sea dragon, wave swinger, super slide, dragon wagon kiddie roller coaster. My kids rode the Viking Ship over and over again (usually the only ones on board). And then we hopped on the smaller train to the zoo.
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Who could have ever guessed that the theme of Michael Jackson’s zoo was Albino Animals? The line was too long to ride the elephant so my kids fed raw chickens on a pole to the alligator. Great family fun!
Then, back on the train to the twin threater where two kid flicks were playing. Caught a five minute welcome special Michael had shot just for this occasion…and, at the urging of my youngest…off to the bumper cars…The best ever! When it was time to leave I had to drag Alissa kicking and screaming from her car back onto the bus.
The follow summer we did it all over again. Thanks, Michael.
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A Timeline of Iranian History.Ah, yes, as my regulars already know…England occupied and raped Iran of their oil until WWII.
The war kicked the Great British Empire (where the sun never sets) in the balls and they lost control.
Iran became a democracy, held elections, nationalized their oil. Nancy Boy Brits asks for America’s help and we overthrew Iran’s democracy and installed a ruthless (much worse than Saddam) military dictator.
Is it any wonder that Iran doesn’t trust us as Republicans today call for 1953 Deja Vu?
1953 Iranian coup d’état
I am Neda!
Neda SoltanNeda’s murder on YouTube WARNING: Nightmare image…that will change the world.
WOW! Now you must confirm your birthdate to watch. How free is America’s Free Press?
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.Above right- Kent State Massacre. Another image from 1970 that changed the world. 14-year-old
Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over her dead friend Jeffrey Miller after the National Guard opened fire on a peaceful demonstration against the war in Vietnam. YouTube CSNY Ohio link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCV7PobBqZk.
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming/ We’re finally on our own/
This summer I hear the calling/ Four dead in Ohio…”
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Dracula’s Renfield (NRA president) says, “A real sportsman eats his kill!”
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.Boob Tube, Flicks, Rock & Roll and Politics…
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Poster from If You’re Not a Terrorist…Then Stop Asking Questions by Micah Wright
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not its institutions or its office holders.” — Mark Twain
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Dr Samuel Johnson
“Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.” — Oscar Wilde
“A patriot must always defend his country against his government.” — Edward Abbey
“When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.” — Thomas Jefferson
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Poster by Micah Wright
Speak Out by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poets Against the War
Jules Feiffer on Nixon- 1973
Harold Pinter
Gore Vidal on President Jonah
Kurt Vonnegut’s Custodians of Chaos
God Save the Queen by John Cleese- Nov 2004
Will Rogers speaks to me thru a Ouija Board
War Prayer by Mark Twain -1904
Non Sequitur
Or, even better…peaceful, but persistant
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Most Americans are embarrassed by the juvenile behavior of our current leaders. Bush has no respect for our citizens or for the presidency (his first real job), nor Cheney for the vice presidency (“Go F___ yourself!” on the Senate floor) and these clowns deserve no respect in return.
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