Change Is Happening!!!!!!!!

There's definitely something going on today, something big. And it shouldn't be taken lightly. Today is Día de la Bandera en Panamá. That's Flag Day for you people who only speak German or American or whatever. And I ain't talkin' Panama City where idiot college kids ritualistically gather to drink till they puke and/or score with as many sorority chicks as they can. Panamá, fool... i.e. Noriega, U.S. Marine Corp, U.S. Army, public display of the might of the American Armed Forces, Van Halen, some big canal. Yeah, that Panamá. And today's their Flag Day, a National Freakin' Holiday, helping proud Panamanians remember the day Panamá gained independence from those pesky Colombians, November 3, 1903. So Wave That Flag, Wave It Wide And High!

There was also football on today! Real football, none of that American crap. Okay, I actually do like American football but today the real game was on, the beautiful game. Atlético Madrid vs. Liverpool and Liverpool scored the equalizer at about the 4½ minute mark of extra time. Soooooo sweet and what a saviour of a goal for Liverpool. (Since I don't follow European sports closely, only watch when I can, I don't really know what the consequences woulda been for Liverpool had they lost 1-0 at home but IT WAS EXCITING!!!!!!!! Yes, Virginia, soccer can be exciting!!!) Roma vs. Chelsea is up next! Thanks, ESPN!!!

What else? There's something else about today but I'm not sure what it is. Oh, that's right, there's this for all you archaeologists (or former archaeologists) out there or if you just happen to be interested in archaeology or Indiana Jones or... mummies, I guess...

Today in 1922, in Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Hey, Howie, ever hear of "R.I.P."???

And for those interested in the advancement of women in America, two years later on this date, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States. Way to go, Nellie!

One more thing about today, what the heck is it? Oh yeahhhhhhhh...
Change Is Happening!!! And I can taste it!! Literally!!!

You see, today is the very first day (of the season) that Egg Nog is being sold down at ye olde local grocery store. Mmm mmmm, calories!!!

It's beginning to taste a lot like Christmas!!!

<--what I actually bought... I scanned it just for you!

Merry Freakin'
Massive Calorie
Intake Season!!!!!!!!

God, I love Egg Nog... and that's why I went for a...

Tuesday late morning Run: 23 min 51 sec

+ 36 sec

11:20 a.m. - 62°, overcast so not very warm which was beautiful for running!
X ·Oct :: +30 sec· X

October: XX hours XX min September: 3 hours 25 min August: 2 hours 39 min July: 2 hours 11 min June: 1 hour 47 min May: 4 hours 46 min

More disappointment. Sort of. Twas 6 days since my last run. TOO MANY. That's just pathetic. I want to be one of those people who cares about their health. No. Wait. I mean I want to be one of those who people who not only care about their health but actively takes steps to be in good health. Being overweight only leads to problems in life. Why live like that when you can enjoy life better when you're healthier? Makes sense, right?!

But once in six days is better than nothing, right, Ame?

Nice run. Weather is conducive for good runs now. I wanted to add more than half a minute but not having run in six days made me not push it too much. Still I added and with weather like this and runs of this length -- no water or Gatorade needed. Without the heat, dehydration is next to non-existent. Longer runs and yes, I would need some liquid intake. Right now there's just no need. It's okay even being out there for a little over an hour (time to walk to trail, run out, hike back, walk back from the trail = sometimes an hour and ten or twenty minutes.)

Anyway... not bad but in November I've absolutely got to do better.

Tuesday's Running Playlist included most of this album...
	Red Hot Chili Peppers Freaky Styley 1985
Jungle Man Hollywood (Africa) American Ghost Dance If You Want Me To Stay Nevermind Freaky Styley Blackeyed Blonde The Brothers Cup Battle Ship Lovin' And Touchin' Catholic School Girls Rule Sex Rap Thirty Dirty Birds Yertle The Turtle

This was the second Chili Peppers album I owned circa 1988 or so, right after I had their next album (Uplift Mofo Party Plan) I got this one... and then not too long after, that's when their breakthrough album came out: Mother's Milk.

Anyway, been a long, long, long time since I've heard this. It's quite a contrast from their debut album just about one year earlier. That was rough and punkish a whole lot more than this. Freaky Styley is like P-funk and in fact it was produced by none other than George Clinton.

Definitely not even close to the best Chili Peppers, methinks... but still a very cool collection of tunes.

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"Hollywood (Africa)" with George Clinton
August 17, 1985 ~ Rockpalast Open Air Festival
Loreley-Felsen, Sankt Goarshausen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Six Turkey Red Hot Run

Just my run from last night.

Spotted six wild turkeys on the trail. As I made my approach to where I stop to stretch for a few minutes, they saw me headed their way and ducked into the woods.

Next time I bring a shotgun.

If they read this then maybe they'll save their butts.

If not -- "Mmmm, that was a great turkey club sandwich!!"

Monday Evening Run: 17 minutes 34 sec

- :33

6-ish in the p.m. -- around 87° -- hot but not terribly bad
XXXXXXXXXXXX ·Aug? :: +39 sec· XXXXXXXXXXX

August: 2 hours 39 min July: 2 hours 11 min June: 1 hour 47 min May: 4 hrs 46 min

Wanted to run. Didn't want to run. Had the opportunity. Took it. Am glad I did 'cause it was great to be out there. The temp all day had me disgusted at this place called The South ... but thanks to low humidity and the sun sinking below the trees, twasn't too bad out there. Made my time straight through 5 songs without turning around to finish up at my Gatorade like usual. Nope. Kept heading away, away, away then hiked all the way back. Felt good to be out there. A little tired when I got back but totally worth it.

Running Tunes came from Monday's Album of the Day...
	Red Hot Chili Peppers [self-titled debut] 1984
True Men Don't Kill Coyotes Baby Appeal Buckle Down Get Up And Jump Why Don't You Love Me? Green Heaven Mommy, Where's Daddy? Out In L.A. Police Helicopter You Always Sing The Same Grand Pappy du Plenty

Yet again in this life, I've let great music, or, well, a great band go for far too long without listening to any. I've been diggin' the Chili Peppers for quite awhile, goin' way back in time to before they made it big on the national music scene. The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was my first album of theirs... and, okay, maybe that wasn't too far ahead of Mother's Milk but it was before Mother's Milk. Then the Chili Peppers made it big with... Mother's Milk. They've only gotten better since then.

This debut album, though -- eh. It's ancient and at times doesn't even sound like them. Maybe. Maybe not. I've only listened a few times but I'll gonna hang onto it and try to dig it some more.

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"True Men Don't Kill Coyotes" ~ 1984

All Credibility Shot, or Concert By Hypocrites

7/7/07

Hey Al Gore, why this day for these Live Earth concerts? Is there a specific reason for this date? Perhaps there's a better date on the calendar? Oh, I dunno... perhaps, hmmm... let's see here... EARTH DAY!??!??!

In any case, I've been watching through not much of the morning, I mean a concert on TV at 9 a.m.? Yes, I understand how time zones work but I had to sleep! Finally got to watching and pretty good stuff so far.

Duran Duran was cool. Chili Peppers were the best! Ohhhh man. Saw them on Lollapalooza like, awhile ago, on the 2nd ever festival tour and they've remained one of the best (non-Dead) shows I've ever seen!!!

Anyway, liked the keg tops to form the background design for the Wembley stage. Totally cool. (edit: actually, I think they're the tops of 55 gallon oil drums.) And wow, that new stadium is amazing. I remember seeing the old one in Live Aid and this and that and this new one's more like a huge modern stadium. Completely different.

Now we're into live tunage from "Live Earth New York."

Problem. East Rutherford, New Jersey is NOT in New York.

Kevin Bacon, when he came on stage to announce KT Tunstall, yelled, "Hello New Jersey!"

But I thought this was "Live Earth New York." Nice lie. Yes, yes, I know, technically Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands serves as the venue for this event but damn now, come on, is it really bad or wrong or too difficult to say "Live Earth New Jersey"????

Dear New York City, I love you and all but GET YOUR OWN STADIUM for football and concerts. Sheesh.

Who is this band called Kenna? (Is it a band or is that the dude's name, like Prince?) They/he kicked things off and they're/he's great! Lead singer dude reminds me of that kinda crazy politician Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil. (Hmmm... are they playing, or did they play in Sydney today?) Except this Kenna dude said to the crowd, "You guys realize you're a part of history now." How so?

Since it's way early on, I'm not sure who else is gonna be playing except I remember hearing Madonna's name for London and The Police and Bon Jovi, I guess for the Meadowlands. Many more, to be sure.

Here's a problem, though, with this whole deal. Wait, first, Live Earth is a good idea, maybe... if it is able to raise awareness and more people begin to change the way they live in order to benefit the Earth. Somehow I don't think many people are gonna change significantly enough especially to balance out A) below...

Problems: A) musicians that travel around for tours use more fossil fuels in a year, in some cases, than the regular citizen uses in five or ten years! Holy cow. That's amazing. I'm shaking my head at how these are the people advocating for a cleaner Earth. Uhhhh.... so the message is: "Be kind to the Earth, people, but we're still gonna go on being horribly unkind in certain ways." Absolutely hypocritical. I tell ya what, just make your music and not tour more than in your local area and then you can tell people they should help save the Earth, k?!

(Question: why wear a long sleeve shirt and pants in July in New Jersey?!?!?!?

Am I the only one who believes that shorts and a short sleeve shirt is basically mandatory for summer and other times of warm-hot weather? Long sleeves and pants?!?!? No. I'd seriously rather die.

I guess it just goes to show how much of a beach bum I am... but I'm not really anymore since I don't spend time at the beach, but growing up that was life and it hasn't left me. Summer = shorts and short sleeves. No excuses. (Man, I need to move back to NJ, especially the Shore!))

ANYWAY... getting back to the Problem with these concerts...

B) I wasn't planning on this one but I heard on the news yesterday, oh, on Glenn Beck, so not the news, per say, but it was said that the most serious cause of Global Warming is actually animals. And since we, the American people, eat more animals than anywhere on Earth, the demand is so high that so much of the atmosphere is destroyed by, ummm, I'm not sure of the exact specifics but here's one deal -- forests that suck in CO2 get bulldozed in order to plant crops to feed to the animals that people consume. Plus all the oil used by trucks to transport food around and the vehicle emissions by those trucks. The higher the demand for animals for food, the more Global Warming takes place. But at these concerts they're serving meat. DUH!!!!!!!!!! So that's bad.

and C) on the TV screen and in the stadiums on big banners to the right and to the left of the stage, they're promoting a service allowing you to send a Text Message on a cell phone in order to get your name on the TV scroll or on a scrolling message screen above the bands. Fun enough, right. No harm.

No harm?

Earlier the broadcast on Bravo ran a PSA with Holly Hunter listening to an mp3 player (probably one of those evil ipods) and promoting downloading music tracks rather than buying an actual CD. That's cool with me. I mostly download now. In the past ten years, besides new Grateful Dead family stuff, I've purchased about ten CDs, all used. Downloading does save on oil it takes to deliver to stores, to deliver to your home plus packaging. Downloading is good while CDs are bad.

But what about cell phones? Live Earth is telling people to text their name using a cell phone. Can't send your name in through an internet website but you can use a cell phone. Cell phones are made from petroleum. It takes oil to deliver cell phones to stores. One usually uses oil to drive to a store to buy a cell phone. When thrown away they contribute to filling up a landfill. When thrown away they also can harm the environment due to toxic metals contained within.

Now, how much oil is used when a person has a land line and the same regular 10 or 15 year old phone plugged into the wall?????

So, Live Earth and Mr. Lockbox Gore, great idea, huh, the encouraging of people to use cell phones???!!! (i truly hate to criticize people and especially hate to call names but -- whoever came up with the cell phone idea is a moron.)

Awareness is a wonderful thing. Coming from hypocrites really makes me not care about what they're saying and I'll go listen to others for advice and encouragement to be kind to the Earth, thanks.

(great music, though... Keith Urban just fired up the Stones' Gimme Shelter... not bad... with special guest Alicia Keys. Wow, pretty freakin' sweet!!! Marketing himself as Nashville country is quite foolish. He's more Bruce Springsteen than he is George Jones.)

More updates later? Not likely. I'm not gonna watch this all day... I don't know what an Akon is and I'm not sure I care. And speaking of music I don't care about, someone named Ludacris just came on stage. Time to watch some baseball. But later I'll be diggin' a bunch more of today's music... but I'm completely sickened by the hypocrisy.

6:33pm addition -- Dear Melissa Etheridge, did you not get the note that this is not a war protest concert? Ummm, hello? This is for the environment and yes, war affects the environment... but hello?!?! You must not have gotten the memo. Now go away. Wait, I'm sorry, that's mean. Go away, please.

6:50 pm addition -- Sundance Channel is rollin' tonight's Wembley action... Nice! unlike Bravo which is playin' Giants Stadium with a taped highlight during band changes. Foo Fighters playin' a great set now! Sweet! Blows the crap outta that loudmouth in the Meadowlands. So much cooler!!!

7:05 pm -- Dear Alicia Keys, East Rutherford, New Jersey is not in New York City.