Be My Eyes by Graeme Edge of The Moody Blues Travellin’ along on a beam of light Lookin’ for friends who will be on my side and tell me no lies. Travellin’ along holdin’ hands with faith Searchin’ out places darker than night skies And, a deeper than love lies So hard to see Will you be my eyes? Travellin’ along with a dream of a voyage I’m hoping to find a lost city and new world that I must see Look here, my friend, see … Continue reading →
The trio consisted of: Keith Emerson (originally from The Nice) keyboards Greg Lake (originally from King Crimson) guitars, bass guitar vocals Carl Palmer (originally from Atomic Rooster)drums, percussion Their first four years were a creatively fertile period. Lake produced their first six albums, starting with Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (1970), which contained the hit “Lucky Man”. Their best known early performance had been a relatively modest show at the August 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, one of the last of the great Woodstock-era festivals. At the end of … Continue reading →
In the sixties (I know I’m in a sixties time warp, ok ?), there was a radio station in New York City, WNEW FM at 102.7 at MHz. It was probably the most famous rock station in the country because of its progressive rock format. For many years, it used the slogan, “where rock lives”. It was probably the first FM rock station to play music from actual albums with no time limit on the song, instead of the usual tired old top 10 songs … Continue reading →
For many years, people have included Sedona, Arizona in their travel plans in order to try to experience what is known as an energy vortex. Sedona is presumably one of the four key energy vortexes in the world. After surfing the web, a definition of a vortex is this: A vortex is a high concentration of energy, a receiving station for direct influences, by definition, a state resembling a whirlpool. According to Richard Sutphen (author), the earth is surrounded by a grid of etheric energy, with … Continue reading →
Jim Morrison-songwriter, poet, lead singer for The Doors-died in 1971. But his legend and his genius have lived on through his records, his music, his lyrics. Wilderness is a comprehensive collection of the writings of Jim Morrison. Wilderness (1988), was an extraordinary body of work, an important event in the history of literature and rock and roll. The events behind this publication are as extraordinary as the material itself. Morrison in a will, left his writings to his wife, Pamela Courson. Pamela died in … Continue reading →
A Room with a View is a 1986 Academy Award-winning feature film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film was directed by James Ivory and produced byIsmail Merchant. The film is based upon the novel, A Room with a View by E.M. Forster and stars Maggie Smith (Charlotte Bartlett), Helena Bonham Carter (Lucy Honeychurch), Denholm Elliott (Mr. Emerson), Julian Sands (George Emerson), Simon Callow (Mr. Beebe), Judi Dench (Miss Eleanor Lavish), Daniel Day-Lewis (Cecil Vyse), and Rupert Graves (Freddy Honeychurch). The film tells … Continue reading →
The Children’s Hour was originally a stage play in 1934 written by Lillian Hellman. It was a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and to avoid being sent back, she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women’s careers, relationships and lives. The play is based on the following incident. In 1810 in Edinburgh, … Continue reading →
Rod Serling (December 25, 1924-June 28, 1975), was one of televisions’s most prolific writers, is best known for his science fiction television series, The Twilight Zone. He believed the role of the writer was to “menace the public conscience.” His real name was Rodman Edward Serling and he was born in Syracuse, New York. The Serlings, a Reform Jewish family, moved in 1926 to Binghamton, New York, where Rod spent the remainder of his childhood. The Serling family was involved in the Binghamton Jewish community, … Continue reading →
The Joy Luck Club was one of my favorite movies of the nineties.After the successful independent features about Chinese-American life DIM SUM and EAT A BOWL OF TEA, director Wayne Wang took on the daunting task of adapting Amy Tan’s sprawling, multigenerational best-seller THE JOY LUCK CLUB. This movie was made in 1993. After her mother’s death, June (Ming-Na Wen) is asked to take her place in a mahjong club. The three other members, like her mother, were all born in China before the 1949 … Continue reading →
Dr. Wayne Dyer is one of my favorite inspirational authors. I would call him the American counterpart of Deepak Chopra. You feel just wonderful after reading one of his books or listening to one of his lectures on PBS. His childhood years were difficult. He spent time in orphanages and foster homes. He obviously had much to overcome. I remember reading somewhere that at least one of his parents was an alcoholic. It’s amazing how people pull through things like this, but they do. In … Continue reading →
