My Metaphorical Comfort Drug: Gong and a bit of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah

Hello good people who read this blog
Are you sitting comfortably?
Well before we begin since I don’t have anything specific to urgently talk about let us listen to our first hippie anthem of the day to warm up our cockles on this cold evening ( dancing or waving arms about or playing along with wild [...]

October 29, 2008
Categories: 60s, 70s, BBC News, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, CHANGE, Creative Lunatics, Economic crisis, Eric Idle, Gamelan, Gong, Gorgon Brown ( yes I know he's a bloke..or is he?), Hippie, London, Money, News, Notting Hill, Rizzla Teeth, alcohol, anti-media, cannabis, counterculture, jazz, just ranting really, music, paranoia, politics, psychedelic, self-sufficiency, society, television, the rich, timewarp . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment

A (relatively peaceful) Revolution!

Hello Good people who read this blog.
I am still here, excuse my absence due to hard work, change and constant illness.
Today is both Maggie Thatcher’s birthday ( don’t ask me how I know this) and the death of Thatcher’s vision.
I am not sure of what state of mind or coherence she is in due to [...]

October 13, 2008
Categories: Anti-Materialism, BBC News, Banks, Banks going bust, Behaving stupidly although you should be older and wise, Bullshit Excuses, CHANGE, Climate Change, Coming full circle, Eric Idle, Ethics, Freedom, George Harrison, Greed, Hippie, Hurdy-Gurdy Man, I Ching, London, Money, Revolutions, Rutland Weekend Tv, System 7, Tarot, Thatcherism, The Credit Crunch, The Pirate Song, The Tower, Thin Lizzy, anti-consumerism, counterculture, exploitation, journalists, just ranting really, miquette giraudy, music, politics, self-sufficiency, society, steve hillage . Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Author: born2rant . Comments: Leave a Comment