Well, the unthinkable has happened. I finally heard the song “Never Learn Not to Love”, which Manson gave to the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys did a pretty good job of making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear with lots of harmonies and chord progressions and the like. If the time frame is right Dennis communicated with me “in utero” within hours after his death, which occurred Wednesday afternoon, and not at night, which I had always imagined. He was swimming under his yacht looking for keepsakes he’s thrown overboard previously and there was a big box he wanted to bring up. He came up twice, but on his third dive he never surfaced. I like to do underwater “trolling” myself. In terms of Dennis’ drumming contribution, as you know Stu likes Dennis’ style of drumming and has deliberately sought him out to play on recordings. I can tell you pretty much which songs Dennis played on. The Wickipedia seemed to bend over backwards NOT to give Dennis credit for stuff. The last song to hit the radio charts with Dennis on drums was “He’s the man with all the toys” in December 1964. As you know from “Dance, Dance, Dance” onward the Beach Boys got that utility drummer that played on a lot of big tracks from the ‘sixties, notably Sunny and
This is Halloween, October 31, 2011. I have a bad cold and have been coughing and I feel tired and achy all over and my nose has been dripping like a faucet. Eye Witness news is on now. We had meatloaf and much better scalloped potatoes than usual, and green beans with yogurt for desert. We’ve had yogurt much more rarely lately and I don’t know why. I put on coffee and it’s ready. It’s still warm. In fact it can get pretty hot out in the sun which seems to be burning hotter than usual, like being under a heat lamp. The air has been dry. Dr Oz had dieting on. Then I reviewed just about all of the eighteen movies I’ve taken with my camera and also checked one period for deletions because I thought I shot more, but I trust what the camera says. When I returned they were doing a cooking segment. Now it’s cigarette time. Bill and I both should have thought to have at least Donnie for cough medicine. The worst he could do is refuse. Nora was in and out briefly. I definitely will be posting today since I'm doing it now.
We might as well do the rest of the stuff about Dennis. In for a penny, in for a pound, as Captain Piccard says. Like I say it’s a good thing Dennis does not remember his incarnation as a dog. If they were going to do a Rush Limbaugh update song on the era it would be ‘You were always on my mind” translating as “You WEREN”T always on my mind. Anyhow when the dog was euthanized at the pound on Saturday afternoon of October 12, 1985 Dennis immediately transferred to what I call the “Stephen King” incarnation. It was in the body of an eight year old boy known to have “psychological problems”. It was described as a “shady place” with lots of trees and a “dark house” that was kind of like a big square with not enough windows. He had an older brother and the oldest sibling was a sister perhaps eleven or twelve. The mother played the piano and was slowly dying of some cancer like liver of pancreatic. The father was kind of a right wing paranoid years older than the other which has been likened to by Mal Evans as the farmer guy in “Motor-psycho Nightmare” by Dylan, and ended up dying a few years later of a heart attack. But Dennis didn’t stay too long there but Mal Evans cast a spell to land him inside the body of that “in utero” baby of “Nate and Lucy”, which is our current aliases for them. They were friends of all the Bosc members - - with the notable exception of Pete Richards, for which there was a mutual animosity that went both ways. Here is one case where Pete turned out to be right - - because later in the summer of 1987 the couple was talking about this Christian author who wrote a book that I disagreed with virtually every word of. To me the author was a complete asshole but Nate in particular loved him, which has caused me to never view the couple the same again. Dennis has what I would call overly idealized memories of the Bosc house. He seemed not to be aware of the underlying tensions that were growing by late 1985. Mal Evans made a lot of promises to Dennis he couldn’t keep. We now skip to early 1995 maybe February on Sirius A. Dennis had already written a rather re-lyriced grim called “Grab your glass and drink some purple Kool-Aid with me”. Dennis hated living with Nate and Lucy so much he was ready to crawl out of his skin, only in this case it was her skin. Maybe Dennis didn’t like being a female. A few years later Dennis managed to escape. Now in February or so of 1995 Dennis had two more re-lyriced compositions we recorded, meaning me and John Lennon and Stu, with himself on drums. One song was called “So Far Away from
Well now the seven billionth person has been born on planet earth. They say there is a computer web site to see which roster number YOU were when you were born. That’s something everybody always wanted to know. (He said in jest) They say that all seven billion could fit in the state of
Well Herman Cain is in trouble again. This time it’s old sexual harassment chargers from two lady restaurant workers in the 1990’s. It seems that Cain settled with these two women giving both a monetary payment in return for buying their silence. I guess ethically we then shouldn’t even know about all this, and the two women should pay back the money paid under a fraudulent promise. Yeah, that would play real well with the media, wouldn’t it? Well anyhow, I think President Cain’s days are numbered.
Well if President Obama keeps issuing these “executive orders” to make this a better country, then the republicans are going to make an issue of THAT. Apparently the President is in fine physical health keeping his cholesterol down. It would seem that the Republicans really have their shorts in a wad over the idea of defense spending cuts, and will do virtually anything to avoid that, even make a deal with the democrats. To me being the objectivist I say let the axe fall wherever it will. If you were really serious about cutting the deficit you would be unbiased about it. Some commentators are saying that the continued Wall Street protests are gaining favorable press at last in the media as the “message” is starting to sink in to the American people, and now the whole idea of a privileged rich is a common topic of debate. They say that the protest crowds will grow much larger in the spring. My fears of a sudden Newt Gingrich surge may be unfounded because some say that he’s just in it for the money and to increase his lecture circuit speech income. Of course reversible mittens has the quandary of being a crap shoot should you choose to vote for him. Stewart thinks that Romney’s sanity would override his loyalty to the tea party is he ever got elected President. I would hope so.
I’d like to talk about this expending universe thing. Many may point out to me that if you inflate a circle at a constant numeric rate using Pi by deduction any spots on the circle would also always separate at an equal pace, that would not accelerate. The problem is that scientists tell us now that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating- - and therefore the speed of separation of the dots is. Also if you travel only a portion of the Universe that you can “see into” with telescopes, and the receeding rate of the stars is “approaching the speed of light” logically there would come a point where the separation rate would exceed that of the acceleration of light. It takes little imagination to see how this could happen. Some use the argument of “moving space”, which is an argument that is not admissible under Einstein’s special theory of relativity. You don’t have that as an out because “space doesn’t have substance” according to Einstein. I guess I have a bit of a question about “moving ether” myself. According to Einstein two objects that travel the same speed, no matter WHAT that speed is- - will view each other with normal perception measurements and no special distortion. But I’m just one person, and even I can’t have the answer to everything, can I?
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