the altar song... R.I.P. Martin Sharp

Martin Sharp

Monday Monday.
Cant trust that day.
Sometimes you can...
Just found out about the death of Martin Sharp.
A towering figure of the cultural revolution that was absolutely necessary to alter the mindset of the military industrial complex and the authoritarian nature of the 50's that was trying to cement itself as the only way to view the world.
He fought the good fight and did the right things.
Google his obit for the full story.
Fact is better than fiction.
Had to take Star Trek lV back to the shop today.
I get the old card discount  and I watched it over a dozen times last week.
Great to read Jane Bowrons column on  getting old.
Its no fun as the bits start to wear out and you realise that sooner rather than later you gonna go that place in the sky.
Then we shall join him in his grand mansion.
We'll understand it
all by and by.
'Father Along'
The Byrds
Dolly Parton.
Still watching 'down the track' and "festival".
wonderful artefacts from the 60's.
that was the best time no doubt about it.
its all plastic now and the world is going to hell as the increase in population puts more and more and more presuure on resources and all cultrual differences are ironed out and the many pieces of the world become uniform and vapid. i.e. no content. all style and no substance.
Even the articles in the New Scientist are full of speculation and trite cliches with no undersatnding of history or where the science came from in the first place.
Some just want to see their name in lights.
anyway.
Went to Greytown in the weekend.
 A little shop called Arts and Antiques next to the old library has a great selection of Aviation books that have come from someones estate.
Check it out.
In the meantime just plink the old guitar and hope a melody pops out now and then.

later.
Barack Obama
Just checked the mail and USA today and joined the nations conversation.
read the op-ed piece opining that you are no LBJ.
Nobody can be somebody else but was really disturbed by the assertion that America has come to the point where nothing can be changed.
That is frightening.
The right in America is off its head.
They have become rigid fanatics of the worst kind and are prepared to let the ship sink rather than change their view.
America needs another cultural revolution and soon otherwise it will become ossified and unable to change and adapt when necessary.
It seems as if governments all over have become captured by policy wonks and focus groups and leaders are in thrall to them.
I dont believe that.
The people, thats me and the guy down the road want someone to talk to them and not shove some policyspeak down our throats as some already predigested fait accompli.
The world has not changed that much.