"To burn always...."

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went to see a musical group friday evening
memorial day weekend
free
heard they were a rock group
some people are embarrassed by their
rock and roll past
not me

they played rock
jazz
blues
fusion

the namesake of the group
edgar
edgar winter
i had never seen before
never bought any of his albums before
he has been playing rock and roll for almost
half a century
he is rock and roll
he was there for the birthing
honest credentials
and he aint riding on nobodies coat-tails
or resting on no laurels

mr edgar winter has assembled a quartet
of superb musicians
mr jason carpenter ruled the drums
mr koko powell controlled the 5 string bass
and himself
and throw mr doug rappoports name in the hat
for worlds best rock guitarist
he does not just play guitar
he dominates it 
conquers it
makes it perform to his command

mr edgar winter
shows what half a century of
performance can achieve
leadership
musicianship
showmanship
class
mr edgar winter played keyboard
stationary
and dangling from his neck
and saxophone
and drums very well thank you
and his lips larynx tongue and throat
gave an excellent performance

and when all was said and done
you felt like you had made 4 new friends
and the show was a success
and they rocked

"To burn always with the hard gem like flame,
to maintain this ecstasy,  is success." Walter Pater

rock on
mr cayetano

"We are nauseated by the sight..."

fake book
sell the bastard out
are we stupid or what
wothehell

excursion eastward
trails and travails
saltlife
sand life
sunlife
incompetent spies
call in the pros

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
                                                                    Virginia Woolfe   (1925)

and the circus continues
mr cayetano

"This miserable state..."

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trying to make progress in my guitar playing
hired a highly recommended guitar teacher
here he is trying to get me to play the "b" chord
it's too hard for me
when i really need some relief and encouragement
i break out a little ozzie and listen to music made in heaven
no not that ozzie
ozzie kotani hawiian slack string guitar master
i especially like "ku u kika kahiko"  (my old guitar)

i get a hell of a lot of criticism for about every aspect of my life
of course i do  a lot of criticising also
i try to keep from being too distracted by all those who have condemned
me to roast in perdition and i found this description of the
 "stay in line and never talk back champions of mediocrity"
given by Dante
i don't want to only get half-way there

"This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace
and without praise." 
                                       Dante Alighieri-   "Inferno" referring to the souls of the futile

got to go
getting out of line
as much as i can
mr. cayetano

"It is of the highest importance in the art...

the harassment is increasing

supposed to be a law against harassment

and bullying

goes with the whistle blowing

i suppose

been to the fbi

and the us attorney

they just laughed in my face

my room was entered recently

and my property stolen

my vehicle was entered also

and my property was stolen

said it was government employees

goes with the whistle blowing

i suppose

"Government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia

and is likely to be here if we don't take care of ourselves

pretty carefully." Frank Lloyd Wright (1958 T.V. interview)

listening to a report on the radio

concerning an exhibit somewhere

about thomas jefferson

and his slaves

slavery

been around a long time

spartans had 'em

really rough on 'em

greeks had 'em

back when socrates was alive

free gentlemen of color had 'em

in new orleans

back in the 18th & 19 century

irish came over to the usa

as indentured servants

some asians still do

and some europeans

so i was wondering about

people who are in business

you know the successful ones

who allow workers to work for

say $7.25  per hour

and people who allow wait staff

to work for $2.50 per hour

plus gratuities

they will not allow that in europe

i have heard

i wonder if squirmin herman

ever advocated for better wages

for restaurant workers

tough work

but not slavery

by todays definition

 "When you see a situation you can not understand,

look for the financial interest."  Tom L. Johnson

been mostly staying in the swamps

real relaxing mostly

listen to the radio

lots of news and such

dead folks

news seems to be a lot about

dead folks

heard mike mullen say

a while back that

no person who serves in combat

will ever be the same

he should know

heard the commander in chief

say he thinks maybe

four thousand jobs will be

made available to veterans

as policemen and firemen

better reconsider that

chief

i wonder why the government

affords me no help

for my serious problem

with being harassed

they can kiss my ass

"It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital...I would call your attention to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."

"The dog did nothing in the night-time."

"That was the curious incident." 

Arthur Conan Doyle "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"

                                    "Silver Blaze" (1893)

Panem et Circuses (Bread and Circuses) Satires, X Juvenal

mr cayetano

"The use of force alone is but temporary.

   

listened to an interview with the

chief law enforcement officer

for this parish

sometimes known as

the high sheriff

interviewer asked

chief law enforcement officer

 why this area

has the 3rd highest homicide rate

in the nation

drugs

was his reply

drugs

i had just eaten a motrin for back pain

i looked around to see

if i was going to be murdered

or if i might murder someone

apparently not

been reading in a book called

ceremonial chemistry

about

the ritual persecution of drugs,

addicts and pushers

by thomas szasz

he says

...for the facts here, quite simply, are that some

people want to take some drugs which some

others do not want them to take. The drug users-

called "drug abusers" or "drug addicts" by the authorities-

regard their drugs as their allies, and those who try to deprive

them of their drugs as their adversaries; whereas the politicians,

psychiatrists, and ex-addicts- who call themselves

"experts on drug abuse and drug addiction"- regard the prohibited

drugs as their enemies, the persons who use them as their patients

and their own coercive interventions as "treatments".

a fellow asked me for a cigarette this morning

i smugly told him i don't smoke anymore

then i went to the store and bought myself a

jar of instant coffee

for a quick fix

i found this info somewhere

17th century prince of the petty state

of waldeck pays ten thalers to anyone

who denounces a coffee drinker

and this

17th cent. russian czar michael federovitch executes

anyone on whom tobacco is found.

czar alexi mikhailovitch rules that anyone caught

with tobacco should be tortured until he gives

up the name of his supplier.

damn

the chief law enforcement officer says

he has increased

boots on the ground

to help stop the murders

boots on the ground

that's a military term

not a peace officer term

read in the national review

jan. 23, 2012

an article by james lileks

that there are now over

40,000 statutes on the law books

at the state level

he called it the

incremental criminalization

of some element of life

damn

we're screwed

i think the

chief law enforcement officer

only got half of the answer to

the interviewers question

the whole answer would be

drug laws

"Dilige et quod vis fac"

"Love and do what you will." St. Augustine

"The use of force alone is but temporary.

It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."   Burke, Edmund

this place is a circus          looking at the stern of the oil supply boat just before
                                           going back to secure the vessel to the oil rig with a line
                                           all in a days work...unless you get washed overboard!

mr. cayetano

"Death destroys a man:..."

watched another documentary last night

second episode of ascent of man

by j. bronowski

the harvest of the seasons

he spent time with the bakhtiari nomads

from iran

sheepherders living in the mountains

traveling 250 miles twice a year

on foot and donkey and

swimming many cold rivers

with their livestock

and then bronowski spent time in jerico

where agriculturalist were born

he pointed out that nomads don't invent

because they are too busy gettin' a livin'

whereas agriculturalist invent things

because they have some free time

to think

they invent civilization

yeah right

then he mentioned that the mongols

were nomads and they participated

in a co-operative form of theft

from the agriculturalist

that co-operative form of theft thing

seems to have flourished

bronowski pointed out that among the bakhtiari

when the old

could no longer cross the rivers

they stayed behind to die

makes ya think

or should

life is as fragile as milkweed down

death is certain

think i'll watch the new documentary

about the roma tonight

the gypsies

something comforting knowing

there are still nomads on this planet

not inventing civilization

 "Death destroys a man:

the idea of death saves him."

                           E.M. Forster

got to get

back to the circus

mr. cayetano

"He has outsoared the shade..."

i am sitting at a small table in a smokey bar
in new orleans
i clutch a beer bottle in my hand
while the singer in the band sings a few notes
as i chat with a lovely woman across the table from me
 from behind the bar a floozy watches the crowd

a man says cut

the singer stops singing
the water vapor smoke begins to thin
the beer bottle is empty and has been
and i am still 24 years sober
the lovely woman is happily married
but not to me
the floozy behind the bar
is a stunningly beautiful redhead
who breaks the heart of men like me
for a hobby

this is the business of illusion
selling illusion to people
who are already living an illusion
a mirror reflecting a mirror reflecting a mirror

we do it three more times
then the director thanks us
and we walk two blocks back to the
building to get out paperwork signed
then catch the van to the parking lot

i wonder if i have enough gas to get home
and if the 6 bucks i have in cash will help if i don't
my heart hurts a little
but it is not broken
yet



He has outsoared the shade of
 our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and
pain,
And that unrest which men miscall
delight,
Can touch him not and torture not
again;
From the contagion of the worlds slow stain
He is secure, and now can never
mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown
grey in vain."
                       Percy Bysshe Shelly
                                 1792-1822

back to the circus

mr. cayetano