Monday, May 12, 2008

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

TAKING SCIENCE APART

MOST HUMANS UNDERSTANDING OF MODERN SCIENCE IS THAT IT'S FACTUAL ,NUMERICAL,EXPERT RIPE APPEARENCE DEEMS ALL OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS NULL AND VOID.HOWEVER,THIS IS FAR FROM TRUE.THEORYS OF THE UNIVERSE ALLWAYS SUFFER FROM PROBLEMS-BUT THEY ARE RARELY MENTIONED.
ISSAC NEWTON'S "FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION" IS GREAT SCIENCE-UNTIL YOU ASK-"WHAT STARTED THE FIRST ACTION?"
IF OBJECTS ARE JUST OBJECTS WHAT INATIMATE FORCE WOULD START A MOITION-
ANY MOITION.SO THE GREAT MYSTERY OF ACTION AT A DISTANCE REMAINS UNRESOLVED
IN EINSTIENS GREAT THEORY OF RELITIVITY THE SAME PROBLEM ARISES.
SURE EXTEME SPEEDS MAY ALTER TIME.OBSEVATIONS OF RIGHT NOW MAY VARY
FROM PLACES THAT ARE EXTREMELY FAR AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.BUT SO WHAT.
IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CAUSES AN QBJECT TO HAVE A GREAT VELOCITY OR
WHAT CAUSES PLACES T BE SO DISTANT FROM EACH OTHER THAT THIER TIME IS NOT THE SAME-IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE UNIVERSE EITHER.
ALL UNIVERSE THEORYS HAVE THIS PROBLEM-QUATUM PHYSICS,STRING
THEORY,CHAOS THEORY-NONE CAN EXPLAIN WHAT CAUSES ACTION AT A DISTANCE.{BUT THEY ARE STILL GREAT THEORYS-AS THEORY'S GO}

PETE HOLLY-COPYRIGHT-5/08/2008

Sunday, April 27, 2008

THE ORIGINS OF "LOOK OUT BELOW"

ALL OF THE GREAT STYLES OF AMERICAN MUSIC HAVE HAD SOME
POINT OF REFERANCE THAT WAS THIER INSPIRATION-SOMETIMES
SEVERAL.IT'S DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN 1977-
1978 TO BE PLAYING IN A THREE PIECE GARAGE BAND IN BOISE IDAHO.
BUT THE MOVEMENT THAT ALLOWED "THE LOOKS" AND MYSELF TO
AT LEAST SOME TRACTION WAS THE PUNK SCENE THAT EVOLVED
AT CBGB'S IN N.Y.C..STYLISTICALLY THE MUSIC WE PLAYED WAS
VERY SIMULAR TO THE BANDS OF THAT SCENCE.I GUESS WE WERE
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN "TELEVISION" AND "THE RAMONES".LATER
ON "THE CLASH" BECAME AN INSPIRATION."LOOK OUT BELOW" WAS
A SONG I WROTE IN THAT PERIOD-CLEARLY REFLECTS THE INFLUENCE
OF ALL THREE BANDS AND YOU COULD ADD "THE TALKING HEADS"
AND "DEVO".I KNOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE ALOT OF BANDS TO
INFLUENCE ONE SONG, "LOOK OUT BELOW",BUT I SWEAR THEY
ARE ALL THERE IF YOU LISTEN.THAT WAS SORT OF THE PREMISE
FOR WRITING THE SONG.WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU COMBINED
THE SOUND OF ALL THESE BANDS IN ONE SONG AND WROTE ABOUT
SOMETHING REALLY BIG-WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE NUCLEAR WAR.
W'ELL WHAT HAPPENED WAS "LOOK OUT BELOW".IT ALL CAME TO
ME IN ONE PIECE-VERY QUICKLY.AFTER "THE RAMONES" CAME TO
TOWN WE SPEEDED IT UP A LITTLE;BUT OTHER THAN THAT IT
REMAINS AS WRITTEN.

COPYRIGHT-PETE HOLLY-2008
4/27/2008

Saturday, April 05, 2008

THE GREATIST RECORDINGS OF ALL-TIME

#7.GOD BLESS THE CHILD-BILLIE HOLIDAY

ONCE UPON A TIME IN SMALL CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY BILLIE HOLIDAY
WAS PERFORMING WITH ONE "FRANK SINATRA" IN THE AUDIENCE.A MAN
STARTED HECKLING MS. HOLIDAY AND SUDDENLY FRANK BECAME VERY
UPSET;WALKED OVER TO WHERE THE MAN WAS SITTING AND CONFRONTED
HIM."I'M SORRY MR. SINATRA,I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE HERE" THE MAN
PLEADED."THAT'S O.K. PAL,JUST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND YOU WON'T
GET HURT AND OH BY THE WAY THAT LADY YOU'VE BEEN HECKLING-
IS THE GREATIST SINGER IN THE WORLD-SHE'S A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE
-SO HAVE SOME CLASS AND TREAT HER WITH RESPECT '"."YES MR.
SINATRA,I WILL" THE MAN REPLIED TREMBLING "I DEFINATELY WILL".

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

STRAY CAT STRUT-THE CASE OF THE ORANGE CAT

BY PETE HOLLY-COPYRIGHT-2008



EVERY SPRING FERAL CATS START TO CONGRAGATE AROUND OUR APARTMENT

COMPLEX.YOU USUALLY ONLY SEE 3 OR 4 OF THEM AT A TIME BUT YOU CAN TELL

BY THIER LOOK'S THAT THERE'S ABOUT 20 OR SO DIFFERANT CATS.THEN EVERY FALL THEY DISAPPEAR AND WE GET A NEW BATCH THE NEXT SPRING.THERE IS ONE

CAT WHO IS DIFFERANT.SHE'S ORANGE AND SHE HAD A LITTER OF SIX OR SEVEN

KITTENS IN ONE OF THE PLANTER 2 SUMMERS AGO.SOMEONE CALLED THE ANIMAL

CONTROL PEOPLE AND THEY CAME AND PICKED UP SOME OF THE CATS.BUT SPRING OF LAST YEAR THE ORANGE MOTHER CAT WAS STILL HERE AND SHE STILL HAD TWO OF HER OFFSPRING WHO WERE NOW ALLMOST AS BIG AS SHE.I KNEW SHE HAD

MADE IT ALONE THRU THE WINTER BEFORE THAT-THE ONLY CAT I'VE EVER SEEN DO THAT.SO NOW SHE HAD MADE IT THRU TWO WINTERS AND GOT HER BABIES THRU THE WINTER SOMEHOW TOO.THIS IS ONE SMART CAT.IT'S BELOW,USUALLY

WAY BELOW FREEZING AT NIGHT FOR AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS OUT OF YEAR HERE

IN BOISE-SO FERAL CATS THAT CAN SURVIVE SUCCESIVE WINTERS ARE EXTREMLY

RARE.IN FACT THIS IS THE ONLY ONE I'VE EVER SEEN MAKE IT.SO WHAT WAS HER

SECRET.SHE AND NOW HER BABIIES TOO HIDE IN THE WARM ENGINE COMPARTMENTS OF THE CARS AS PEOPLE ARRIVE HOME AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT.WHEN THE ENGINE THEY ARE ON COOLS OFF THEY SIMPLY MOVE TO A NEWER ARRIVAL WHOSE ENGINE IS STILL NICE AND TOASTY.IF YOU ASK
ME THESE ARE SOME PRETTY DAMN SMART CAT'S-NO WONDER THEY STRUT.

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Friday, February 08, 2008

THE TIMES AND INFLUENCES OF EMILY DICKENSON

"WITHIN' YOU AND WITHOUT YOU"

BY PETE HOLLY-COPYRIGHT-2008

IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THE CONVERGENCES OF IDEAS AND HISTORICAL
EVENTS AND THE EFFECTS THEY HAD ON ARTISTS AND WRITERS OF THIER
TIME.FEW PEOPLE ATTACH THE POETRY OF EMILY DICKENSON TO THE CIVIL
WAR YET IT WAS PRECISELY DURING THE YEARS OF THE WAR THAT DICKEN-
SON WROTE THE LARGEST AMOUNT AND THE BEST OF HER POETRY।
TWO OTHER MOVEMENTS IN ART AND LITERATURE ALSO COINCIDED
WITH DICKENSON'S WORK AND SHE WAS WELL AWARE OF BOTH.FIRST WAS
"THE HUDSON SCHOOL OF PAINTING" LEAD BY THOMAS COLE.THE NATURE
SCENES WEE IDEALIZED AND ROMANTIC YET THE IMAGERY WAS SO STRONG
AND BROUGHT THE RUGGEDNESS OF NATURE SO ALIVE THAT THEY WERE
EMOITIONALLY IMPRESSIVE।SOMEHOW ALL THIS WAS CONNECTED TO
EMERSON,THOREAU'S SELF-RELIANCE AND WALT WHITMANS WILD
FREE FORM POETRY.-ALL REFLECTIONS OF MAN'S RELATION TO UNTAMED
NATURE AND SEEKING A WAY TO LIVE WITH IT ON THIER OWN-WITHOUT
SPOILING THE VIEW-SO TO SPEAK।ALL THESE IDEAS AND EVENTS INFLUENCED EMILY DICKENSON AND YET SHE WAS ABLE TO CREATE HER OWN
ART THAT COULD EASILY STAND ON IT'S OWN MERIT-AND ABOVE ALL THESE
WRITERS AND ARTISTS.INDEED;DICKENSON'S PEN NOT ONLY TOOK EVERYTHING IN BUT IT ALSO GAVE EVERYTHING OUT AS WELL.THIS WAS THE SPECIAL POWER OF HER POETRY
AND WHY IT IS STILL AHEAD OF IT'S TIME OVER 150 YEARS LATER!HER MYTH
LIVES ON IN THE GLORY OF HER WORDS.

SOURCES-A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO EMILY DICKENSON-VIVIAN R. POLLACK
THE LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON-MY WARS ARE LAID AWAY IN BOOK'S
-ALFRED HABEGGAR

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

BORN ON A CAR LOT

GAS MAY SEEM EXPENSIVE AT $100।00 A BARREL{82 GALLONS} OR ABOUT 3.19
A GALLON FOR GASOLINE AT THE PUMP।BUT WHEN YOU COMPARE IT TO THE
OTHER COMMODITIES THAT HAVE UNDERGONE MASSIVE INFLATON FOR MANY
YEARS OIL DOESN'T FARE SO BADLY।CONSIDER THESE CURIOUS FIGURES:

1.COCA-COLA-$119.00 PER BARREL
2.PERRIER WATER-$426.00 PER BARREL
3.BUDWIESER BEER-$410.00 PE BARREL
4.BERTOLLI OLIVE OIL-$1,165.00 PER BARREL
5.STOP AND SHOP DANDRUFF SHAMPOO-1,469.00 PER BARREL
6.JACK DANIELS BLACK LABEL WHISKEY-$4,460.00 PER BARREL
7।MCLLHENNY'S TABASCO SAUCE-$4,542.00 PER BARREL

PETE HOLLY- COPYRIGHT 2007-SOURCE-THE AGE OF OIL-LEONARDO MAUGERI-2006




















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