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guitarbuddha

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The Big Ears Club

When I was a child growing up in my village in there were two main factions who controlled our little community.

They were the 'Big Ears Clubs'.

Admission wasn't so difficult, given the correct temperament. One had merely to attend meetings regularly and find the man with the biggest mouth. Then simply kiss his backside publicly. For this you would gain approval for your obvious wisdom and a giant pair of false ears to glue on. Ears which you could never ever take off (not publicly at least)

Despite this apparent ease of joining some of use just couldn't manage it. We lacked the right stuff. We were driven out of town.

We would hide in the bushes as esteemed members walked passed with their giant stick-on ears, either green or red. There we would crouch for fear that we would be chased away or scolded for having only the ears that god gave us.

Then at other times a great row would draw our attention as a group of redears would meet some bluears and the would have a big fight. These were strange affairs indeed as they consisted mostly of the hurling of abuse, and the strangest ululating gibberish it sounded to us.

Now of course this abuse didn't fall on deaf ears, well not quite, it fell on great big foam ears ..... which is completely different.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2013 15:48:01

Richard Jernigan

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

Hang in there. Even the worst of bad trips end eventually. Gotta look out for flashbacks, though.

RNJ

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2013 18:02:14

Leñador

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

Clicking on this thread I felt like when Alice stumbled upon the tea party.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2013 19:41:31

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Leñador)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lenador

Clicking on this thread I felt like when Alice stumbled upon the tea party.

It is true that into any fable,however humble, the reader may incorporate their own subconscious preoccupations. So Richard sees the dying ethos of the sixties generation and Lenador the Tea Party. This is part of the joy of that uniquely human and delightfully fuzzy logic that we call metaphor.

Generally though I prefer a more conscious incorporation of self into a purported analysis. And sometimes,oddly, that means striving for the general. On this foro for example we DID not all live through the sixties and we DO not all live in America.

I guess it is more of a puzzle than I imagined..... just more typically sloppy work from poor old me. Or maybe,at the risk of immodesty, it's more general than I had hoped ?

Either way to be compared to Swift via Lewis Carol or even poor old Tim Leary honours me, I fear, unjustly.

But thanks all the same.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 22 2013 22:06:44

Richard Jernigan

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

You're welcome.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 0:13:01

estebanana

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

John Lilly gave LSD to cetaceans in the late 1960's. Then he tried to telepathically converse with them. Then a book called Dune was written and it had telepathic cetaceans in it.

Coincidence? I think not.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 0:56:04

Ricardo

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

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and we DO not all live in America.

awwwww....I'm sorry.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 3:19:48

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Ricardo)

Sometimes a club member would find our earnakedness so confusing that out of pity and incredulity they would construct for us a fine pair of ears in their minds eye. Thus they could address us in their natural idiom of 'ululating gibberish'.

Much could be learned from their guesses as to the colour, but not about us.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 10:12:21

Ruphus

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

Local fashions often come and go. Thinking of rural friends of mine and their community, I recall years of passionate tafli playing and after that sorts of okkukltism which certainly has long since been exchanged for some other trend.

Just yesterday I was telling a youngster about humans´underemployed brains that spin into irrelevant but sometimes nonetheless seriously taken fashion, when the cognitive potence is neglected by zeitgeist.

Such it seems is how irrational trends rise and run. Probably introduced all the time, sporadically, mostly though vanishing again as flash in the pan.
Only sometimes the spectacle becomes lasting. ( Historically by accident.)

It has happened with craving-for-admiration tricksters and their story weaving followers who got celebrated beyond local public and became the Golden Calf. With now billions of stultified who are instructed to reject the screaming secular on behalf of crass rubbish, resulting into billions of fundamentally uneducated heads who no less are ready to set everything on fire for assumptive and baseless tales.
Just as retarded minds as originally, despite modern world´s culture products, comfort tech and gadgets that one would think should help connect to rational
ground and shake off the Middle Age finally ... but won´t.

Blinding trend phenomenons are not funny at all, and yielding trillions of victims since thousands of years. Every day on all continets.

"Our brains as hardware and cognitive skills are prepared for a high state, but our software has been set back by millenia", me tried to analog yesterday.

There should urgently be put an end to false peity for superstition. The more aggressive the superstition the more rigidly it should be illuminated and dismantled.
Pull off foam ears!

The opposite approach of tolerating violent retardedness is a `generousity´ at expense of innocents sacrifice.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 12:19:38

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Ruphus)

For over a hundred years a man in the west of any social standing was REQUIRED to wear a powdered wig in public....... But my story is ridiculous.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 12:25:47

Miguel de Maria

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

I understand your story. It's an allegory. You see, there are people who like solo flamenco guitar, and there are people who like solo classical guitar. It turns out that if you are in one camp, something happens and you have to hate the other type of music. It is actually impossible to like both. You can't even perceive that top players in the other camp are also incredibly talented, dedicated, and artistic. You have to choose and only like one.

If you are in the CG camp, you have to wear black turtlenecks, talk about Bach a lot, and carry around little pieces of grade 00 sandpaper. You watch foreign films (that means French, British, etc if you are Murican). You don't get many chicks.

If you are in the flamenco camp, you have to start smoking and doing drugs. You start drinking red wine (tinto) and sherry, and change your bedtime to 6 am. You will die early, but you will probably get more chicks.

Even though you play almost precisely the same instrument, using only marginally different technique, and even though you both play Malaguena, you must distance yourself from the other camp as much as possible. Your internet reputation is at stake!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 14:11:50

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Of course as a true 'artist'

I neither confirm or deny your possibly over specific analysis.

I will add the note that not all public expressions of mystification are earnest.

Anyway back to the bushes with you my lad.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 14:34:15

Miguel de Maria

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

All great art is ambiguous, someone said that. I do have to run. Going to grab some tacos with another foro member!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 23 2013 18:09:42

Ricardo

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Ruphus)

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There should urgently be put an end to false peity for superstition.

ok ok, but you are NOT going to post any peteneras are you?

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Oct. 24 2013 6:43:08

edgar884

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

I have real big ears that stick out, this is no fable but a trick that the universe(God) played on me. Ohh and the bad back.

He was sitting there and thought" this Gabriel kid isn't gonna listen and work to hard and play guitar for hours on end in life so lets give him protruding big ears and a bad back".

I cant wait to have a talk with him and my Dad up where souls go, about there sense of humour.

It's humbling to have pain and something wrong with your body, that way you can be more forgiving in your judgments of people.

That was a great story Buddha.

sorry kinda off topic but when you mention ears you get my attention.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2013 0:13:39

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to edgar884)

Hey Edgar you didn't get it so bad, I have a bad back and a big mouth. Big ears would be better for a musician.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2013 9:11:29

edgar884

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

Is it a big mouth for real, because maybe you talk to much **** LOL.

Ever notice how our ailments are linked to our character inadequacies.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2013 12:49:58

guitarbuddha

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to edgar884)

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ORIGINAL: edgar884

Is it a big mouth for real, because maybe you talk to much **** LOL.

Well Edgar I won't deny that there is some truth to that first point. But also I speak to defend an idea or person when it is unfashionable to do so.

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 5 2013 13:27:29

Arash

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

This thread is too classical for my taste. sorry

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 6 2013 3:56:40

mark74

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to Richard Jernigan)

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Even the worst of bad trips end eventually.

Thats what I tell myself everyday, but I'm losing faith

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 6 2013 4:48:34

edgar884

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RE: The Big Ears Club (in reply to guitarbuddha)

SO maybe you have a good mouth, My ears perhaps are just now starting to listen better, just cause there big don't mean they hear.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Dec. 6 2013 12:40:09