Perhaps Akhnaton-Moses, a historical evidence , will take credence as the reality of Tut being Akh's son became accepted as Gospel by the stodgy Egyptologist through something like the way Osmosis works in plants . Oedipus seems more likely to be understood and sooner accepted than the uprooting of Moses from his pedastal. Osman was brilliant at times , then "Out of Egypt " ..and oblivion. Villikovsky's "Akhnaton and Oedipus " was brilliant but "Worlds in Collision" has often been attacked wh...
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The next symbolic act will be to outlaw the American Flag. How far behind this betrayal of half the American men killed in the Civil War is the American Flag for all the things it represents from the point of view of so many who would betray us in the name of being politically correct. History can't be denied but it can be hidden. The repression of history results in psychological problems for entire generations.

     King Tut and all the Amarna Kings were deleted form the egyptian list of Ki...
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You will find a repaired photo of Mhai Scott in my adjusted now called "Justifiable Homicide".composite .Justifiable homicide is what they called the action of the Virginia police who killed a little Chinese woman ,Mhai Scott who had a knife. You have to wonder exactly what kind of training it takes to shoot someone with a knife. I mean a bat might have been a better decision than a bullet.It seems to me that a long broom might be an antidote to a knife , that is the stick could keep a small ...
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    The1st Amendment is a problem to corporate greed so watch out for those that would stifle voices,for instance Ron Paul,the only Republican candidate who has stood against starting another war ,at his own party's nomination event.

     The illegal arrest of the 26 year old former Marine in Virginia who posted remarks on Facebook is another terrible example of the abuse of the 1st Amendment right to free speech.He was set free as there were no legitimate charges there.The question remai...
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 When I see the advertizements for individual gigs from other musician friends on Facebook it only reminds me that we are in a much different era. Professional musicians are papering the house instead of going from town to town entertaining the locals.Yea , yea , there are the shows , those venues of indifferent bigness but that is another illusion that really doesn't support many people for very long.Musicians were traveling across this country long before I ever went to work. Road li...
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I was just tired of looking  up the skirt of "Liberty".The indignity of our current governmental failures is not funny at all . The systemic problems may be too far gone to repair,especially as we continue to wave the flag and salute it as if a metaphor has anything to do with current issues at all.If the flag fails ,maybe some sabre rattling will suffice or introduce an innocuous "Bill" that will go nowhere but get some sound bites on TV for our phony representatives. The Senate member...
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Characterizations are entertaining ,rhetorical fantasies but not realities.Lenin and Stalin were Marxist,Benito Mussolini was a Socialist.The Obama administration is not either of these things.Campaign rhetoric is expensive advertizing paid for by corporate interest and repeated by those swayed by the propaganda.This includes the delegates elected by the citizens of this country as well as the people who are accosted by expensive television ads.What individual citizen can afford to buy televi...
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My response on a Facebook status became so involved that I decided I had better keep it in my notes.I am not sure how cohesive these two entrees are but the subjects became related.I once dissagreed with an author(Robert Feather)I met and wrote back and forth with in a Yahoo Group who had written an entire book about a relationship between Akhnaton and the Essenes .I still do not believe there is an actual tie between the two yet my own writing here brought them together in a way.Mono...
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This is my current desk top. I do change them often.I can't imagine how people can get tattoos that are not changeable ,immovable things.My other sites feature slides of my painting composites,which tend to change and grow.Maintaining sites that have slides and music is an ongoing project . I feel that the image and presentation on line is the art . There is no more . I made them with this presentation in mind .More recent sites are meant to be viewed in full screen. I know that people...
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Peggyann , an on line friend on Facebook ,wrote "I hate the wind" in response to current ,early December weather conditions.There was a response from one of her friends of "Boo for the wind" and both of these phrases caught my eye.Perhaps I haven't really seen this kind of phrase too often but I have been panned in the past,the criticisms stinging me at times.. haha.Some people aren't aware of my past associations or ancient history that is not associated with Akhnaton, the 18th Dynas...
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Have you noticed that it seems like there have been public busts of late of would be terrorist that wouldn't have had a clue if not for the entrapment , the stings that were set up ? The public statement afterword is that the US Government is sending a message to would be terrorist that if you try to bomb us we will get you. Sending messages is frivolous and like Emailing , there isn't always an answer .Generally , it seems like all the terrorist are consorting with the FBI . It makes me wond...
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Messiah, the translation of the Old Testament Hebrew word pronounced maw-shakh ,meaning Anointed One , which when translated into the New Testament Greek is Christos.

The Egyptians saw the king as divine and as early as the Fourth Dynasty (27th century BC) the king was looked upon as the Son of Ra .The king was anointed ,not with oil but with the fat of the holy crocodile. This ancient Egyptian word for crocodile was MeSeH or msh ,as there were no vowels in ancient Egyptian or Hebrew. This wor...
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               There was a hell in ancient Egypt , too , way , way back as far as 8 to ten thousand years BC. We really see their gods as myths now but the main characters (gods) ,Isis, Osiris, and Set were an epic Greek myth-tragedy before there were Greek myths. Osiris was married to Isis and his brother,Set,was jealous.Set seems almost like a character out of an old time movie western with the guy twiddling his mustash and putting the heroine on the railroad track. Set attempted to kill Os...
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Intolerance seems to be built into the first commandment which is a trait of monotheistic religions that followed since Akhnaton ,( the father of Tut),decreed the very same commandment "Thou shalt have no other god before me,"except he substituted the "Aten" in place of all the other gods in the temples of Egypt.He enforced his theocratic monotheism under the threat of death with the might of the Egyptian army of his era.His preoccupation developing a cult that allowed him to do w...

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I don't know why I thought of Danny Gatton this morning . Thinking of Danny made me think of Bruce Swaim .Going to "Club Soda" on a whim to visit Bruce when he happened to be playing with Danny was a surprise deal.Even then, when I drank alcohol,I rarely went out on my nights off. Bruce didn't seem like the kind of guy to play a character in Danny's act with the Fender guitar.On the other hand, he did play gigs with me that weren’t all jazz. I don't know , I can't remember all the gigs but ...
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                 Number one , regulate the banking industry and Wall Street as it was after the Great Depression.If the boat is filling up ,stop the water coming in! Two week ago , regulate the cut off valve , the protection against spills by the companies drilling off the coast . Stop the oil coming in! British Petroleum is working toward raking in the oil, not stopping the flow.Allowing the company to take care of the problem is unacceptable.There is no reason to believe that big capitalist...
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    It has occurred to me that I used to have friends who listened to music . We all liked the "Waltz for Debby" live album from the Vanguard by Bill Evans when it came out . We were crazy about Coltrane and "Favorite Things" was nearly a pop tune to us but "Africa Brass " was just terrific . We didn't get high to listen to them or drink , we just liked it , we all liked it . Most of my friends in high school were older musicians but I did have some friends my own age and they also liked jazz...
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Trusting private enterprise to help the needy brings more corruption and the government seems to make the simplest items much more complicated. So what should we do ?We have just come through another era that will be looked back on as dirty with corruption. Last February instead of throwing billions of dollars to Wall Street and the banking industry , congress should have been re-regulating both Wall Street and US Banking the way that they were regulated after the crash of 1929 produced the g...
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              When I left the band in 1965 and ended up in Texas I had no work for a long time . I took a place on the Colorado River with two other guys . One of the guys was a drummer and professor at the U of Texas, Austin, Sticks Whipple. Sticks was also the fencing champion at the University. Usually he was a quiet kind of guy with a good sense of humor but one night he drank a bit at our "Castle" and got pretty arrogant at a party we had there. Another  friend and me had put together wh...
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    I responded to an article on Wynton Marsalis posted in "Facebook" by one of my "friends" there. I posted the first paragraph and then went back and deleted it . I realized that I don't know the "friend" very well at all. It occurred to me that I hire the man but he probably isn't really a friend ,especially as he posted an article titled"Racism and Greed have Put the Blues on the Back Street" ( or back pages ... I don't recall right now and I refuse to post a link to this bullshit) It was...
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                 Dance music might be an ancient cause of music as well as a church , so we have two origins that have continued. Church music doesn't need the dance in fact as late as the mid- sixties I remember when the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church  decided to allow it's members to dance in social occasions and that didn't include the church .There was a semi-popular movie with Kevin Bacon playing the son of a preacher in the fictional church that brought attention to this very ide...
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                  I know a lot of people who have succumb to the indulgences that were once fun and seemed harmless .Smoking and drinking were perhaps seen ,from the point of a child , as how to appear adult in those years when we used to add a year to our actual age. Remember being fifteen and saying you were sixteen as well as those years before you tuned twenty one . Did you alter your drivers license? Through adulthood we faced many other temptations that , perhaps,were fun at first .Thos...
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It is astounding to me that there is still a discussion about the merits of torture . Now, they are dragging out Sheik what's his name and showing how water boarding helped to make him sing like a "Canary". They didn't mention that he also confessed to being a witch and flying around the world trade center on a broom. There is no defense for torture or the negation of history. Why was the "Spanish Inquisition" stopped ? Was it stopped ? Wasn't this a further persecution of Jews? Why were the ...
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    If you keep looking back while you're going forward , you might bump into something while you're not paying attention.My bad dream is walking into a parking meter but that is a minor mishap compared to the real catastrophes that can happen.Isaac Newton said,"For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction."   Somebody else coined the phrase ,"If you don't pay attention to history , history repeats itself." Thisidea of controlling your life intelligently from an objective point of...
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I had never seen "Madame Butterfly" though I had heard it's haunting song . Vaguely I imagined the story and heard the Mills Brothers singing "Poor Butterfly". I thought that the most popular song was Butterfly's swan song , her ending but I found that the song was one of hopeful joy at the possible return , the return of Butterfly's lover . It is a song that reminds me of the song of "Porgy" in the end of Porgy and Bess called "Oh Lawd , I'm On My Way" as he leaves his friends and North Caro...
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Iran ? What about Kent State? The United States never corrected it's own corruption.Our troops have fired on it's own citizenry, it's own unarmed children .The continued pseudo obsession with false support of people headed for their own versions of pseudo-democracy is as phony as our own election of 2000 . Let's get back to covering Lindsey Lohan's tits where the cable news really is more at home.Furthermore , the current administration has milked the American coffers instead of putting bac...
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  I haven't really bought but a few Cds in the entire time Cds have come into existence . My friend ,Lenny ,copied some sides for me till I had a computer and I could start copying my choices . I put a Cd player in my car and this became the way to go for me , listening to what I chose to listen to and not ever turning on the radio . A few cars back I had an Olds that only had an AM radio and I was bombarded by Rush Limbaugh and never found a De...
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I posted a link on Facebook to a version of Coltrane playing "I Want To Talk About You". I guess I will have to find it again to illustrate my catalyst of this idea I am writing which came from looking at that video . It was taken in Stockholm in 1962 . I don't remember if I saw it before or not . I did get a Cd from my public library recently that featured two separate performances by Trane and it well might have been one of them . The link I posted from Youtube had recording marks on it an...

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The public library used to be a place where reference books and other material was stored . You might find obscure ideas there as well as opinion and directions on ideas one wouldn't necessarily have in you own home . Here in Maryland I was fortunate to be able to check out vinyl records from my library by the late fifties . The jazz and classical sides that I wasn't spending money on unless I thought I just had to have a copy were another luxury item taken for granted especially by me , a de...

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I had a vision , a theatrical vision of a presentation as it might be presented . Thinking about this idea I realized that the occurrence had already happened without the theatrics . In 1972 the New York Free Jazz Festival had "Happenings" at all the major parks where there might be sixty men on the central stage playing at once . The free idea and cacophony were there but there was no direction . As a bassist in the sixties at jazz sessions with tunes that went on for days it seemed , I tho...

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This year I was given a comedy CD called "Teen Comedy Party" which included a cut that I was involved with by singing the part of the character "Tony Rosatoni" in a commercial about his appearance in the econolodge behind the airport . It featured clips from some of his "big tunes" , almost as if it were a commercial that was selling a CD. Listening this morning I remembered playing a place on Long Island called "Foxes and Hounds" where I sold Sinatra songs . It seemed I was thrust into this...

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It is funny to me when I hear the phrase "I'm trippin'" and the people aren't trippin' at all , in fact they are really straight guys using drug codes . It is amazing to me how so much drug and jail vernacular has infiltrated the every day language of the straight folks , the hard workin' Christian folks , as if the rest of the world is just sitting on their thumbs . The politicians have played this phrase so often so, bitterly often , almost like the phrase "The silent majority" which repres...

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Blogs are kind of new to me and I must admit that I don't really write too much unless I am in a bad mood or get off on a tangent on a subject that is hiding in the back of my mind . I think that this also was a lot of my inspiration as a poet or song writer in the sixties . I did write poetry in response to occurrences , most of which were not happy memories like a betrayal , loneliness , or the frustration of those times . I wrote of prejudice ,bigotry, against the current war ( Viet Nam )...

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Recently , I joined "Facebook" . I did apply in August of this year but found that they wanted my license picture or some form of identification and backed out . Last week I decided to take a pic of me holding my license from my camcorder . It came out blurry but they accepted it so I could upload some of my music if I wanted . I did upload music and photos of paintings much as I have on other sites I have built that have no social interaction . In under a week I build a rather complicated s...

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              So many things are taken for granted in our modern world . The warmth of water is so nice . This wasn't always a given item in our world ,this flow of warmth . The Romans could warm their baths but they couldn't warm the water to households . The two thousand years of aqueduct technology flowing into modern plumbing also didn't guarantee warm water to people across America during the Civil War period . The outhouses continued well into the twentieth century without warm water o...

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This morning there is a feeling of reverence yet I can't help getting superstitious thoughts out of my mind . It is the legend , the prophecies of the "Anti-Christ" . Nostradamus be damned , you copycat ." Revelations ", "Daniel" be damned , you pseudo-prophetic fire and brimstone crowd controllers . I am past Christianity , past delusional visions of apocalypse , past the entire conception of divine intervention or planning . No , it isn't that I haven't spent years researching ,studying , a...

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Speaking of cars , I am closer to the republicans on this bail out thing but Kusinich stayed against it as well as Nader . actually more than half of the republicans went with the big deal but I would have rather seen more hold out for a committee investigation where they could bury the entire thing . The quick fix reminded me of waiting in a hallway for the guy to come back with the promised pot . He never comes back . These last days of Bush could sink the entire world for my money . I am g...

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    Gay people don't seem to approach me . I don't think about it very much except television shows seem to have too many white guys that are gay or playing a part that is scatterbrained . I don't care for that nor do I relate to that. I don't really know too much about child molestation . It seems like the women , those teachers of recent years , would have been a lucky situation to bump into when I was a kid . I think I was into my fifth grade teacher but I don't really dwell upon the idea...

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    If one more person says , "What the American people want is..." I think I will blow up . The truth of the matter is that politicians pretend to have clairvoyant abilities and speak from the point of view of being a human being at times like now , during a presidential election , but in reality they are not really human beings at all . They are merely blood sucking opportunist who will go the way of the local lobbyist when the election is over . There is no amount of individual  letters t...

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    Did you find yourself shouting at the TV Last week? I did . Boy, I sure don't have any investments on Wallstreet and I am not an expert on the economy by no means but doesn't it seem like paying for the entire bundle at one time is a mistake . Who pays for their house in one shot? Who buys their car in one shot ? I'll tell you who . Those greedy Wallstreet guys and the current administration that got the entire country into this fix at the opportune time when McCain was losing credibility...

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I wonder what happens to these pages when I'm not looking . Do they play poker together . Do they flirt with Republicans ? I have been opening page after page , site after site with ideas that are supposed to continue unabated and unrestricted . I can't be sure if this is true in reality . I cannot really be that objective about myself other than maintaining the idea that I won't betray myself but even that is a questionable idea . Would I recognise my own betrayal ?

    I have taken the name...
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