Actually, the cantina scene on the cover of Galaxy was an idea that came out of my dad Horace’s mind — he got several artists working on the concept, and Ernie Emshwiller’s famous Galaxy cover was the result. Read on to see more…
Should I Go To Magic School???
Tamara asked whether she should go to a local magic school, and I told her that if she penetrated the French Drop & Heb Production with a Magic Bead, she’d be able to deduce all the principles of magic from that, provided she did so in front of an audience at least once per day, as well as before the mirror. The whole principle rests on the fact that you have to learn ALL the basics of magic — misdirection, pause, timing, passes — everything, in order to do what I do on-camera here:
http://youtu.be/Uj5AzahyacQ
Save yourself time, money & grief. Don’t enroll in an expensive, time-consuming Magic School, unless you plan to use it as a social networking gig as well.
Get a Magic Bead and Master the French Drop! You can order the beads from me individually — they vary in price, quality and rarity and run anywhere from $5 a bead to $5,000 a bead for a 4,500 year old antiquity with some pedigree papers.
You can also order my DVDs on the French Drop.
You may NOT order the Advanced French Drop until you post a video with your French Drop acceptably performed at least three times in a row before an audience — the deal is, they have to be equally astonished the third time they’ve seen the exact same trick two times beforehand.
You will note that I did NOT reveal the secret, even when showing the television audience the “unsafe” angle! Go thou, and do likewise! This blog, by the way, is an example of the real value of electronic blogs — we did the video just hours ago, it got posted and I wrote the blog just a while after that, and you have the opportunity, if you know to look here, to vew — note that I did NOT say “read”, but “view” — the blog. It has color, sound, movement, immediacy and immersion. You can’t get that on a sheet of paper, at least not yet.
How to Choose a Didgeridoo
The video is a demo of a remarkable piece of playable sculpture. I propose to buy them unpainted and paint, carve, wood-burn and decorate with a variety of beads, feathers and textiles, and then sell on the open market.
Herein is the kind of data I try to give you every day in my blogs — to save you time, energy, money and most of all, dead ends. It’s not at all tricky to find good didges, but selecting one with which to ACTUALLY BOND is like choosing a mate, mate.
What should you be looking for in a didge, especially if you know nothing about them but want one anyway??? Continue reading for more info…
Testing…Testing…
This is a test, to see whether or not you’ve read this blog today or not.
Some folks don’t yet know about this blog site, some don’t know its significance; I spend hours on it every day, making sure there’s something instructive and/or Work useful on there…I’ve missed maybe three days out of 80, when the internet was down or my computer went down or the electric went out, which is fairly frequent in winters here.
The third reason would be “too busy to bother” or “not interested”. Those are okay reasons not to read my blog, but I’d like to know that if you do decide to attend a workshop or take a course or class with me, exactly how far you’ll have to run to catch up with the rest. At the moment, you need to thoroughly examine about 80 blogs, if you’ve missed the past three months. Good luck.
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Invisible Worlds Made Visible
Invisible worlds become visible through the Power of Imagination…which means images. Another way of saying it is to call this Shamanic Essential Skill “Exercising Visualization”, which is quite literally the technique used to create the illusion of the universe, which is what you’re looking at right now.
One way to learn to exercise this visualization skill is to create and dramatize and broadcast radio shows, in which the listener is forced to develop visualization skills in order to follow the storyline.
So we need to understand how old time radio shows were made.
Jack Benny was one of the greatest radio comedians in history. His show ran for about 15 years on NBC radio, and almost as long on CBS radio and television. You’ll notice from this that he was almost always the butt of the jokes. He was also one of the sweetest men who ever lived. No one ever had a bad thing to say about Jack Benny. He was as beloved by his peers as he was by the general public. Recording of the Jack Benny radio show at Camp Haan April 1942, during WW II — the Second World War (not, as many today think, World War Eleven).
There’s more…
On the Way to Festival of Ishtar
Introducing Youn Sun Nah — she is ‘way much more than just your average Bear. Here she is, performing a cover of Tom Waits’ “Jockey Full of Bourbon”. Our Chief MixMan Oz Fritz won two grammies for his work with Tom Waits!!! You will surely want to know more about the wonderful and beautiful Youn Sun Nah, and there’s plenty of video teasers up on youtube.
And you might also appreciate Gritos De Guerra performing Arrinconamela from Tony Gatlif’s “Vengo”..
http://youtu.be/Ur2_A-0IWB0
Okay, that’s it for now — I’m off to breakfast, then I’ll be at the Festival of Ishtar. If you don’t know how to join us there online, go to http://www.justin.tv/gorebaggtv to find out more…
What is Heaven Really Like???
Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die first. Here are a few visions of what it’s like day-to-day in the Big Place. Don’t forget that the real question of how well you did with the life you were given within which to do your Work will come the day after you die; “How well did I do with what I had to work with???” — if you did your Work, you’ll be happy with the answer. Everyone has their own opinion of Daily Life in Heaven. I’ll give you mine at the end of this blog.
Jonathan Winters Ate Here
Musso & Frank’s Grill was right around the corner from my place, and I was there almost every lunchtime and dinner from 1967-1971 when I left Hollywood. Prior to that, from 1964 to 1966, I ate there occasionally, but by 1967, I was working for Chuck at Tiger Beat/Monkee Spec, and I could well afford the best food in L.A., and this was where you could find it. Click to read more, and you’ll see a video that explains it all.
Oriental Jazz, an Overview
Let’s take a look at some of the many forms of Oriental Jazz that have developed over the past half-century or so… Here’s Tunisian jazz composer Anour Brahem’s offering:
http://youtu.be/L_UDEDlJcnQ
You might appreciate The Astounding Eyes of Rita, coming up next…
World’s Worst Pop Albums???
World’s Worst Pop Albums? Easy answer, but each genre has its very own. However, I have a few examples to offer — at the very top of the list is one of my closest friends in 1966-69, Wildman Larry Fischer, who appears with Frank Zappa, his mentor and producer:
And then there was the inimitable and thoroughly “Star Quality” diva of the 1960s,