jason_webley flowerock. I want my voice to feel the way his sounds. The accordion and violin, the foot stomping on wood. It's like we're all on a ship on a stormy sea singing and stomping for our sanity. 160619 ... srealismas I have a bad story about him involving a toy gun and him raving about following the lunatic leader. He made a fair point (like he tends to) but the electricity in my brain ripped a tear across the corpus collosum never to be repaired. Or I was already going crazy, uniquely vulnerable somehow, no one will ever know. I thought I might be a victim of a mass shooting! I was by myself in a crowd. True story. But he's talented, insightful, uplifting, and I've spent time as a super fan albeit one who was only trying to repair herself, partially. I YouTube the guy occasionally and self pity since going to concerts by myself can't be a thing, and pull myself from the wreckage of his siren song try not to destroy my own damn children ( who are only pop culture objects, after all ), and remind myself that Warhol loves me. webley's ok. If I HAD to choose a body of water for him to love God knows it would have to be the Indian Ocean, He reminds me of the Maldives.... SALVO. 160620 ... flowerock. That was confusing to read... did he pretend a toy gun was real and have people believe he was going to shoot them? I know he has a story about unknowingly having a gun in a borrowed suitcase on the plan with him from Germany to the US. 160620 ... srealismas after a full concert, he lead the crowd on a procession to nearby park and this was a teaching moment kind of like hey you! this isn't smart to follow me into the park! he waved to toy gun around above his head and somebody in the crowd said something about how it wasn't real and then he was like ok ok and he served carrot cake. i didn't eat that -- having learned my lesson. it was also pretty much across the street from where i lived at the time. pre-9-11 i think. it was one of those moments where you can't believe you just got "hit" so hard. and those moments can cause depression until enough time and life happens and you are able to resolve it. i'm not 100% because it was meant to be a mindfuck and it was but the electrical tear is 10% of what it used to be these days, if i had to give you a number vis-a-vis it. this is a true story. i know it seems like a lie given the extent of mass shootings in our culture now. but it's like an artsy thing. art that makes you uncomfortable. some artists do that but the setting should be safe enough -- this was a miscalculation on his part. or, maybe it was a real gun. maybe he's some crazy Russian ghost. i don't know. maybe he needs to save his country -- by any means necessary like Malcolm X. in that sense it is effective artsiness since you can think many things about it. in the small city outside the big city where i live there was a mural that was a copy of a famous photograph of a lynching -- showing only just the crowd around the lynch victim. this was meant by the artist to provoke thought. only you know a mural in the center of town should have a more positive vibe. there was no explanation no sign or plaque or whatever. recently, somebody noticed that it was a replica of the famous picture, people protested and the city took it down. i mean, duh. but if there were lynchings in the city and people just act like that's normal, then the mural is serving a moral function, but in a surreptitious way which is why that also sucked. artsy people being artsy. the license doesn't apply everywhere and with everything, and everybody. (but, amy, you is taking the fun out of art! well. sorry. i belong to the critic's club, i guess) 160621 ... flowerock. I understand, it can be traumatic to be shocked even briefly like that. Sorry. I think it was probably not meant to be a mean joke but an awareness booster I hope. I'm surprised because while his performances can be high energy and crazy, he seems very reserved and polite, I've been to about 5 of his shows and he's always available for words and such. I offered him a pipe made out of a beet with some pot in it once and he said he can't eat that kind of beet at a show. In any case, I hope your mind heals more. 160621 ... srealismas thanks. good luck, tally ho. more nice sunsets, less strobe lights. who has strobe lights on a pirate ship? it's an anachronism! sorry i can't really talk coherently on this page. sorry if i hijacked it. who says sorry to a pirate? sheesh. it's one endless conundrum after another, obstructing life for me. thx Indian gurus. (one has no choice but to thank them) they probably don't even want me to post this, to make you suffer. i wouldn't put it passed them. this is gobbledegook don't pay attention--- (but it is a true story, i haven't the time for lies, or fictions, too bad for me....) one has to imagine that not every sadhu finds the gurus palatable, so to speak.... one taste what happened to that? ra ra team tibet! you will view me as a child but that ended long ago. 160621 what's it to you? who go blather from