Discipline #15---Discipline #27-II

Ring out the old, ring in the new Ring out the false, ring in the true

Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the false, ring in the true
 

Ring out the false, ring in the true

Ring out the old, ring in the new

 

Yesterday, today was tomorrow

And tomorrow, today will be yesterday

 

Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the false, ring in the true
 

Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the false, ring in the true
 

Ring out the old, ring in the new
Ring out the false, ring in the true

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Bing Crosby on 1942 Decca 78.

God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan's power
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

In Bethlehem, in Israel,
This blessed Babe was born
And laid within a manger
Upon this blessed morn
The which His Mother Mary
Did nothing take in scorn
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

From God our Heavenly Father
A blessed Angel came;
And unto certain Shepherds
Brought tidings of the same:
How that in Bethlehem was born
The Son of God by Name.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

"Fear not then," said the Angel,
"Let nothing you affright,
This day is born a Saviour
Of a pure Virgin bright,
To free all those who trust in Him
From Satan's power and might."
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

The shepherds at those tidings
Rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flocks a-feeding
In tempest, storm and wind:
And went to Bethlehem straightway
The Son of God to find.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

And when they came to Bethlehem
Where our dear Saviour lay,
They found Him in a manger,
Where oxen feed on hay;
His Mother Mary kneeling down,
Unto the Lord did pray.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

Now to the Lord sing praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace;
This holy tide of Christmas
All other doth deface.
O tidings of comfort and joy,
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy

XMAS 1977

XXX MAS

DISAPPEARER

Halcyon Galley - Bob Dylan: Mood Swings (16 Nov 2013 - 25 Jan 2014)

“I’ve been around iron all my life ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country – where you could breathe it and smell it every day. And I’ve always worked with it in one form or another.
Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.”
– Bob Dylan

IT WAS TWNETY YEARS AGO TODAY

Here I am, live on cable access! And you can see why I was never ever allowed on television again.

For Today

The Clear Light Spotspot Kid

TOTALLY BADASS DAVID BOWIE SITE

https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/

And they have The Complete David Bowie by Mr. Pegg listed as one of the sources, so that's a good sign!

THE SEVEN ETERNAL CIRCLES OF BOB DYLAN: RE-BOOTED/NO-LONGER BOOTED RE-VISITED

I, Richard Matthew Michael Joseph Millett IV created the ultimate, final, and above all else, perfect ranking of Bob Dylan's oeuvre a few months back.  Now, you'll remember as you basked in the warmth of my creation, that I said that if the Basement Tapes were ever properly released, I would revise the list.  And I, Richard Millett, am I man of my word!  Behold the newly updated list!

FIRST TIER: PERFECTION AS SMOOTH AS A RHAPSODY
1- The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete- Beyond masterpiece.  Along with Citizen Kane, Warhol's Soup Cans, and a good three or four Miles Davis albums, the greatest art any American created in the Twentieth Century
1a- Blonde On Blonde- Masterpiece (the symphony)
1b- Blood On The Tracks- Masterpiece (the opera)
2- Highway 61 Revisited- Masterpiece (the ultimate in pure get down)
3- John Wesley Harding- Masterpiece (the ultimate in pure owning up)

SECOND TIER: UNFUCKWITHABLE GREATNESS FOR THE AGES
4- Tempest- Goddamn Genius
5- Desire- Perfect
6- Bringing It All Back Home- Perfect
7- Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966, "Royal Albert Hall" Concert- Perfect- but why stop here?
8- “Love and Theft”- Near Perfect
9- Another Side Of Bob Dylan- Perfect
10- The Times They Are a-Changin’- Perfect
11- World Gone Wrong- Perfect
12- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan- Near Perfect
13- Time Out Of Mind- Near Perfect
14- Modern Times- Near Perfect
15- Hard Rain- Those ducklings couldn't see the swan was beautiful
16- Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964- Suspension of disbelief
17- Oh Mercy- Near Perfect, shame about Disease Of Conceit

THIRD TIER: U STILL CAN'T TOUCH THIS
18- Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall- Mask-erading
19- Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991- A comma not a period
20- Street Legal- Startling, Strange, Suffocating
21- New Morning- Placid, Peaceful, Pleasant
22- Together Through Life- BYOB
23- Infidels- Coulda been a contender
24- Planet Waves- Looking back with awe
25- In Concert - Brandeis University 1963- Tougher than nails
26- Biograph- A true musical joyride
27- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II- The Chronicles of its time
28- Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975, Rolling Thunder Revue- 15 discs too short.  Bootlegs ahoy!
29- Before the Flood- The eternal battle of good vs. evil
30- Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare/Unreleased 1989–2006- Studying the stetson
31- Good As I Been To You- Saturdays
32- Slow Train Coming- Sundays
33- Shot Of Love- Monday

FOURTH TIER: U COULD CERTAINLY DO WORSE
34- Bob Dylan- Wheat vs. chafe
35- Nashville Skyline- Mint juleps vs. Michelob
36- Empire Burlesque- Nice cloth vs. bad tailoring
37- The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)- Charmed, I'm sure
38- Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid- Ennio Eno
39- 'The Copyright Extension Collection Vol. I'- The truth shall set you free
40- Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack- This store is sorta cool

FIFTH TIER: ...AND YOU SAY YOUR NAME IS WEBERMAN?
41- Live at the Gaslight 1962- Bootlegs are better
42- Live at Carnegie Hall 1963- Bootlegs are better revisited
43- Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances- Remember this one?
44- Masterpieces- Still necessary after all these years
45- Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (1988)- The Liquid lunch
46- Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 (1990)- The Afternoon Crash
47- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits- It's been done

SIXTH TIER: TOO MUCH MIXED UP CONFUSION
48- Self Portrait- Shit can come out green?
49- Christmas in the Heart- Battery acid Bing
50- Real Live- Um, technically
51- Under The Red Sky- Lite'n'lively'n'scowling
52- MTV Unplugged- I thought that sign read "apple sauce"!
53- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3- Grizzled, chained, drained, and gated (drums)
54- Bob Dylan at Budokan- Diamond Dylan.  As in Neil.
55- 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration- Bob Bored.  Sinead Booed.  Wood Not Good.
56- The Basement Tapes- Now that justice has been done, do you really need The Band outtakes?

SEVENTH TIER: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE
57- Down In The Groove- Gets it over with
58- Saved- Doomed
59- Knocked Out Loaded- Martland's Syndrome
60- The Essential Bob Dylan- Talkin' 60's Fixation Blues
61- Dylan- What about Bob?
62- Blues- Biege
63- Dylan & the Dead- Horse shit vs. Dog shit

SPECIAL HONORARY MENTION PART ONE!
64- The Complete Album Collection Vol. 1- How the heck do you rank this thing?

DOUBLE SPECIAL HONORARY MENTION PART TWO!!
Bob really mangled what could have been three masterpieces- Shot Of Love, Infidels, and Oh Mercy.  Advanced studies of the bootlegs are strongly suggested.

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

I don't know if yr just straight up facebook these days.  But if you're not, Holy Shit!  What do you think of all this???

On The Occasion Of Leo Tolstoy's 186th Birthday

"And a terrible thing is music in general. What is it? Why does it do what it does? They say that music stirs the soul. Nonsense! A lie! It acts, it acts frightfully (I speak for myself), but not in an exalting way. It acts neither in an exalting nor a debasing way, but in an agitating way. How shall I say it? Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I become confounded with his soul, and with him I pass from one condition to another. But why that? I know nothing about it? But he who wrote Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata' knew well why he found himself in a certain condition. That condition led him to certain actions, and for that reason to him had a meaning, but to me none, none whatever. And that is why music provokes an excitement which it does not bring to a conclusion. For instance, a military march is played; the soldier passes to the sound of this march, and the music is finished. A dance is played; I have finished dancing, and the music is finished. A mass is sung; I receive the sacrament, and again the music is finished. But any other music provokes an excitement, and this excitement is not accompanied by the thing that needs properly to be done, and that is why music is so dangerous, and sometimes acts so frightfully. "In China music is under the control of the State, and that is the way it ought to be. Is it admissible that the first comer should hypnotize one or more persons, and then do with them as he likes? And especially that the hypnotizer should be the first immoral individual who happens to come along? It is a frightful power in the hands of any one, no matter whom. For instance, should they be allowed to play this 'Kreutzer Sonata,' the first presto,—and there are many like it,—in parlors, among ladies wearing low necked dresses, or in concerts, then finish the piece, receive the applause, and then begin another piece? These things should be played under certain circumstances, only in cases where it is necessary to incite certain actions corresponding to the music. But to incite an energy of feeling which corresponds to neither the time nor the place, and is expended in nothing, cannot fail to act dangerously."  --Pozdnyshev to the narrator
(The Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy's Short Fiction, Norton Critical Edition, pp.180-81)

NEWSFLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!

Word in Tinseltown is that newly divorced rocker Neil Young who you might know from CSN is currently "producing his own re-boot of Clan Of The Cave Bear" with sexy silver screen siren (or mermaid) Darryl Hannah! Insiders are already calling her the "classic rock Eva Prinz", for some reason, though I don't understand this joke.

Music legend and unlikely voice of reason, David Crosby had this to say to the Idaho Statesman this past Sunday, "And I happen to know that he's hanging out with somebody that's a purely poisonous predator now. And that's karma. He's gonna get hurt. But I understand why it happened. I'm just sad about it. I'm always sad when I see love get tossed in the gutter."

SINGLE CELL ORGANISMS

Coming soon from Fluxlife Inc- the latest release from the Rich Millett Archive Project- Single Cell Organisms- an audio collage/experiment/documentary assembled out of recordings from Dec. '89 - Dec. '91

(kicking and screaming, against our will) we're b-b-b-back!!!