Captain Beefheart, Dead at 69

Captain Beefheart & Frank Zappa

Don Van Vliet,

 aka Captain Beefheart,

 dead at 69

(AP) – 2 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Musician and artist

 Don Van Vliet, who performed a complex brand 

of experimental rock under the name Captain Beefheart,

 died Friday. He was 69.

Van Vliet was probably best known

 for the album "Trout Mask Replica,"

 which was released in 1969

 by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.

The album's angular, dissonant take on blues rock

 and Van Vliet's growling, surreal lyrics

 put him outside the mainstream,

 but staked his place in rock history.

Rolling Stone magazine recently ranked "Trout Mask Replica"

 number 58 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

 The album was produced by fellow experimental rock pioneer 

Frank Zappa, a high school friend from the desert town of Lancaster,

 Calif.

By shunning commercial success and a more accessible sound,

 Van Vliet became a role model for subsequent generations of musicians.

 His music is cited as an influence on the rise of punk, post-punk

 and new wave.

 Beefheart is also claimed as a kindred spirit by free jazz musicians

 and avant-garde classical composers.

In the 1980s, Van Vliet turned full-time to art.

 He painted in a raw, expressionistic style and showed

 his acclaimed work widely even as he withdrew from the public eye.

He is survived by his wife of more than 40 years.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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On The Way

It's ALOHA Friday

in Hawaii!

"Great events make me quiet and calm,

it is only trifles

that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria

See the little Prince leaving his royal parents and going into the Hawaiian

AfterWorld?

Lobby mural in the Leiopapa a Kamehameha Building (State Office Tower). 

235 South Beretania Street, Honolulu,

  named after little Prince

 Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Leiopapa a Kamehameha;

 Born to King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma

 on May 20, 1858,

 he was only four-years old when he passed away

 due to meningitis on August 27, 1862.

 The spirit of the young prince, affectionately known to the people as

 Ka Haku O Hawai'i "The Lord Of Hawai'i,"

is said to inhabit the building named in his honor to this day:

Leiopapa a Kamehameha translates to"

 "The Flower Of His Father Kamehameha."

Much hope rested on this little boy whose godmother was

Queen Victoria.

Hawaii still loves protocol and pageant.

This is the Brothers Cazimero's Christmas Show

at the historic Hawaii Theatre

"You can become a winner

only if you are willing

to walk over the edge."

Damon Runyon

(for Robert Cazimero)

Iolani Palace by Night.

Electrified by Edison himself, years before the US White House.

Honolulu's citizenry gathered right here

at eve to watch the lights come on all at once,

a bit of magic we take for granted today.

 "Our children

 (and elderly parents! cloudia)

 give us the opportunity

 to become the parents we always wished

 we had."

Louise Hart

By Day

"Morality may consist solely

 in the courage to make a choice."

Leon Blum

In Gingerbread!

"And I had but one penny in the world. 

Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread." 


 William Shakespeare,
 Love’s Labours Lost

"The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound,
 without any power to compare and rank his sensations,
 abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog,
 individualizing everything, generalizing nothing,
 delighted with every new thing,
 lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.


 But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.
 She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame,
 by all these attitudes and exertions /an end of the first importance,
 which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own." 


 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meanwhile. . .

May you delight in everything that comes today.

May the child in you stir

and awake

for a season of Wonder

and radical Hope.

That is my wish for 

YOU.

        What is YOURS?  cloudia

Blue Star Green

Aloha 
                   Visiting Friend!

click on the photos, eh?

"Far from idleness being the root of all evil,

 it is rather the only true good."

   Soren Kierkegaard

"Diplomacy

is the art of saying

'Good Doggy'

until you can find

a rock."

Will Rogers

"Life isn't fair.

It's just fairer than

death,

that's all."

William Goldman

"Do not neglect to show Aloha to strangers.

For thus some have entertained angels

without knowing it."

Hebrews 13:2

{o,o}

l)__)

-"-"-

I may be a clown

but I'm one of those

that pops up again

after being punched.

Resilient buoyancy 

has become my hard-won

'normal.'

Unspoken kindness

is my contribution

to the weather we all

share,

though I'm never sure

that it really 

contributes

significantly.

But this week I had some

'mean reds'

or 'the blues'

or whatever you call them

breaking up my emotional furniture.

It was all I could do

to be 'normal' among others;

I felt 

contagious

and wished for quarantine.

Today I realized

that the mood we carry

really is no small thing.

It has an effect,

hundreds of times

a day.

I will appreciate my amity

when it is mine to share.

Living kind

is the best revenge.

     What do YOU think? cloudia

Hawaii Weather

A L O H A

           to



Y  O  U !

"Nothing is

at last sacred

but the integrity

of your own

mind."

Emerson

The Thunder Bird

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time.

Some people bear three kinds-

all they have had,

all they have now,

and all they expect to have."

Edward Everett Hale 

That face
 

"And she gave birth to her firstborn son

and wrapped him in swaddling cloths

and laid him in a manger,

because there was no place for them

in the inn." 

Luke 2:7 

+

 "(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also),

so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed."

Luke 2:35 

They're trying to tell us something, to spell out. . . ?

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Yes, we have seasons here in the Hawaiian Isles.

They may not be like YOUR seasons-

and when you arrive here in December you'll think:

"Summer"-

(As Twain did)

But we local recognize the patterns,

though it is a shock

when I'm half-listening to the TV and the 

local weather opens

with the word SNOW.

Then I remember:

Oh yeah, the summits of Haleakala and Maunakea.

Maunakea, the "White Mountain"

wears diadems of white telescope domes

and is oft painted pure white by the snow

of demigoddess POLIAHU.

But where was I?

Oh yes, Hawaii Winter weather.

In the winter we have "hot fudge sundae" days of pleasantly warm

SUN

and teasingly breezingly coolingly

TRADE WINDS.

Those are perfect paradise days!

And if they go on for weeks

one can start to become

a bit angelic.

Then our North Pacific High is harshed

by a passing Low

turning off the trades

inviting a Land/Sea breeze regime;

The land heats it's air above, which rises.

Sea air rushes in to fill the void.

(Sea breeze)

At evening the islands cool,

the air above sinks

pushing out the ocean air.

(Land breeze)

Sometimes it goes all KONA up in here.

Southern breezs blow bringing discomfort

and even a brand of island madness.

And it brings da VOG too - volcanic haze from

the Big Island of Snow and Fire.

When it's VOGGY I go stupid.

Storms break up the patterns.

A few years back it rained for 40 days!

But that is extremely rare,

and after a day or two of grey, drizzle and "cooler" temps

(that give us locals a chance to feel cozy,

and to wear our jackets)

 the Sun returns like the Second Coming

Hallelujah! 

Thanks for the gift of YOUR visit!

Your comments

are gifts

glittering

and they always

      'make my day!'  cloudia

Maunakea Snow:

Holiday Rush

A  L  O  H  A !

"Every piece of the universe, 

even the tiniest little snow crystal,

matters somehow.

I have a place in the pattern, and so do you…

Thinking of you this holiday season!"

-- T.A. Barron

"After silence,

that which comes nearest to expressing

the inexpressible

is music.

Music is what feelings sound like."

Aldous Huxley

"Blessed is the season

which engages the whole world

in a conspiracy of love."

Hamilton Wright Mabie



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Whew!

The holidays-

even if your boat-home
has not tried to sink-

are BUSY!



My mom is successfully moved.
Her (expensive!) apartment
has been sold.

My carpets are still damp
and I'm at war with mold
but the skies are blue, and
the Cazimero Christmas show
ROCKED!

Thinking of

YOU

         Fondly. . .

Hows YOUR season going? cloudia