There is still great music. Rock on

"There is still very great music. There is still fantastic tuneage. Wonderful freaks are making wonderful music right now and forever."

Sorry, you caught me in my new meditation. It is spawned from an ongoing conversation I have with everyone born after 1976, apologizing for the sh--ty music they are expected to get excited about and spend time and money on. And this crap: Adam Levine as "rock star."

I come from a bygone era, fersher, but I miss the days when rock stars were too fringe to be included in People's SMA listage. Ancillary benefit #2 to living in the past: No People magazine, at all.

Namaste, y'all. And remember that there was and is a time when producers and performers of great music didn't coddle up to big business and big media in order to develop their brand. Can you imagine Robert Plant getting this attention forty years ago? No, of course not. He would be out making music and pissing people off. Numbers one and two on any rockers To Do list.

Adam Levine's ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ title sparks online backlash

Adam Levine has garnered the coveted title of People magazine's 2013 "Sexiest Man Alive." But for some, the news came as a bit of a shock and roused suggestions that other men are more fitting for the honor.

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This Plant Is For You

This Plant Is For You

Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.

―Miranda July

"No One Belongs Here More Than You"

Plants talking to each other and listening to us is all around me. Dunna why. 

I think maybe this place is even more cool and amazing than we have been led to believe. Check out these two video segments:

How to talk to a plant.

Nature : What Plants Talk About

Drawing on the right side of the brain.

Now, my path of learning has not included sketching classes with Boston Ferns scratching out nude guys with a piece of charcoal, true. But all these segments ARE about communication and perception, and I challenge you to watch all three and reach your own conclusions.

You may reach the same place I have, and see that what we hear, what we feel, what we think, everything that we perceive about our lives and our existence, are all filtered through how we have LEARNED to see the world. And yes, we can learn a lot from the plants we can not live without.


This Plant Is For You