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life on marsthis is all about nothing
and everything,
someone said
taking a long ride
on my seat of Naugahyde
consider a raven landing in a bird bath
in the sun splashed remains
of a gilded cage in Detroit
It's a breakthrough....finally!!!
that someone said
listening to rank and file,
washing dishes
and thinking about life on mars
in the arena of the sky,
all that were present
beheld in quiet shocked disbelief
as the plane arced and flattened out,
ending up in a perfect splash down into the Hudson river
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well this is North beach where the whole Beat scene started on the west coast
so the older Beats from the mid 1950 stayed Beat, guess yes some were the first Beatniks but the younger Beats by say 1964 1965 got psychedelicized and i guess could say they became the first wave of true hippies which beget Punk which beget the ever circling repeat of the whole scene till now you can buy your hippie/punk stuff at a Gap clothing store and be Hippie Punk Skater or whatever one wants to be temporarily until you get bored.
The end came, just no one really saw it. Now it is all fashion and fakery, well except some I have seen in Europe, who in way take it seriously and live the life for real.
But what it all means is anyones guess now.
The cosmic loop waits for the swirl to continue.
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The hippie/punk stuffs are not the same now...all is different...young people are different, mentalities are different...the world is different
I was a teenager in the Punk Period listening The Sex Pistols...The Clash.... during hours and hours (my poor parents..)
I miss that time ...I think it was less pretentious, less tortuous ....we were more free to make what we wanted to do, what we wanted to say....
But it's just my opinion....
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well it;s all melded together,
and more a fashion deal
funny about 2-3 years ago i saw Johnny Rotten in a
Staples, that's a office supply store in Venice down in LA.
I asked him how it was going, a nice guy, but was surprising to find him looking for file folders.
We had a short chat then my dad interrupted us as he wanted to get the hell out of the store. Rotten smiled.
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Next time you see him...don't forget to say "hello from Françoise" (not Hardy).
I can imagine the scene with your dad
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if I ever do
that may have been a one time deal
rather run into the guys from Calexico
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Never say never
maybe you'll see him next week in your supermarket
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I'll be looking out
maybe in the produce aisle
looking for lettuce
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that depends
maybe he is not vegetarian
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Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon being an old Brit punk
I suspect not a veggyman
bangers and mash and a pint or ten fer him i bet
he didn't have great teeth as recall
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I suppose he opened his bottles of beer with his teeth..
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chipped teeth and all
but the myth or reality that Brits have bead teeth
who knows
seen some bad ones down in the Bayou
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I didn't know about their teeth...!
Next time I go there, sure I will look if it's true
Who knows
I suppose they know
In the Bayou it's where you find Zydeco music isn't it?
I do like Zydeco...Clifton Chenier and so on
"Les z'haricots sont pas salΓ©s"
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well it's an old tale
maybe post WW II
and it was bad not bead
killed that whole line of thought
exactly
Louisiana.... down not far from New Orleans
beautiful part of the country,
Chenier is great, used to listen to all that cajun & creole music from down there. not so much anymore
check this out
[link]
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oopsss sorry...my finger slided on the keyboard when I was writing my sentence
"I see that you made a book on the hurricane Katrina "
seems to be interesting .
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Thank you for the link...
Really funny to see the similarity between the languages ( Cafe au Lait - "Ca Fay - Oh - Lay") ( Beignet - "Ben Yeah")....
I see that you m
Louisiana is one of the part of your country that I would like to visit ( and also New York city).
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yes the book was one of those things that had to be done
love that oat of the country
(in my opinion) NYC, here in San Francisco and New Orleans
are the three cities worth the American daydream
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Agree with your opinion
I will begin with NYC
since a long time ago I dream of that
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NYC....NO...SF
but don't let the dream become a fantasy and never do it.
Isn't the Euro kicking Yankee dollar's ass?
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I know that...
I'll go there probably next year...
You see that it could not become a fantasy
My problem is that I am claustrophobic and I don't like flying..
I was in Australia in February...and well, I can say that the flight was terrible (more than 20 hours in a plane .... 
Not easy when you like travelling )
Yes it's interesting for European people to go there
(1EUR +/- 1,43dollar)
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that is a big prob
fear of flying and you like to travel
that is tough
yes...for one Europa wins on the cash deal with the Yankees.
we deserve all this
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Yes it is tough but not really insurmountable
As one of my friends says " no problems...just solutions"
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yea.....a hot one.....if i shoot that church enough, a priest may come out
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