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hmmm.... blame me man July 3, 2008, 6:08 pm ---- Well Shadow Screamers fans I have done all I can do.... I recorded the new music T and I did ,I put the demo packages together, I sent them out to perspective independents and am I making the follow up calls..... put that together with keeping up the site and I guess if we don't step up to the next level then I am to blame. This is not by choice but somebody has to step up to give us a chance to be heard and apparently I have all the time in the world to do this so blame me if we fail..........jon therapeutic July 3, 2008, 8:49 am ---- Having The band journal is therapeutic for me and I urge all out fans to try to keep a personal Journal This is often hard to do in a busy world but it's easier for T and me because we made a commitment to our fans to do the Band Journal over five yers ago and counting " if you check the Fan Journal you will see we do have way more than a few fans and they seem to enjoy it" I guess what we do in the Journal is a combination of things poetry, insight, Ideas, information spiritual insight, health tips and in my case from time to time stupidity!but everything in it is from the heart, spontaneous, unscripted and uncut. Occasionally I will look back at myself and wonder What the Hell was I thinking??? but then again I guess that is the purpose of a Journal to not only document but to also look back at what you were thinking at the time....jon limp July 2, 2008, 3:20 pm ---- As I fall from grace I taste the bitter taste of all that was a lie .....don't want to bleed on you so as you move away don't turn around just let me fade into the dark........ I don't want to be...no I don't want to be here.... Ive never felt the comfort of my skin..... locked inside a hole catch a glimpse of daylight..... it was never my intention for who would dream of thoughts that leave a shambles of your mind.......yet I carry on for reasons blind to me now .....limp inside the smile that fades into the dark........jon wow,I always forget how powerful this song is! July 2, 2008, 7:21 am ---- I have to really commend my brother Jon for keeping this site going in the last two weeks.Alot has been going on,that is for sure.What you see up is an epic tune dedicated to Veitnam and all war veterans.It is an extremely emotional tune and every time we play it we get a great response from veterans.When we wrote this tune we really had in mind the complete body/spirit/mind devastation that occurs from warfare.how do we know?a friend asked us to write this tune based on his brothers experience in Veitnam that is tragically no longer with us.we must consider always costs of war.not just what can be accumulated,but the real costs from real lives far away from the White House.this is a piece we are very proud of.we hope that it inspires to continue to advocate peace and harmony throughout the world.peace,T....ps.to the brother of Haida decent-thank you! random thought July 1, 2008, 6:57 pm ---- As I walk away.. I turn to say... things I hide inside... For fear cant breath.... unless you give it wings... by letting go it flies.....I never want to hear.....I don't believe the promise..... no I don't believe...I don't believe at all..I turn to face...things in my mind I hate... but as I shake my head they burrow deep inside dark lies....I can't pretend it's me..... the one you think you're seeing..... no I can't live inside... I can't live inside the lie....So let me be..... just let me slowly bleed here.. and as I wither let me pass into the night....As I walk away.... just let me fade don't pray.... leave your hope for someone....someone who believes....jon Nelson we were there when you were still in jail man June 30, 2008, 8:58 pm ---- I was watching a special Concert for Nelson Mandela it is well deserved and long overdue!... by the way check in the music archives for a little ditty by T and me called "Moonlight Dances" oddly enough they are both related..... funny but what was written long ago when things were ignored by the world and swept under the rug is currently relevant??? talk about a boomerang effect...... yet our voice is yet to be signed ??????? go figure.....noj bottom June 30, 2008, 6:38 pm ---- who ever said it was lonley at the top can kiss my fucking ass because it dont get no lonelier from down here and to think but then again maybe its better to not......think.........jon George Carlin was one of a kind June 30, 2008, 12:21 pm ---- Our condolences to the family of George Carlin the ground breaking comedian who pushed the boundaries exploring in depth this fragile thing called humanity. This comedians comedian was always able to combine comedy with intellect and insight a rare combination in my eyes. It is people like him and John Lennon who "love me or hate me" showed me you can stand and speak out against this hypocrisy that permeates the human race. By the way I am no angel I have fallen from grace more times than I care to remember and will fall again but I will never stop saying what I think..... right or wrong because that is my right and besides somebody has to do it.....Jon What was I thinking??? June 29, 2008, 10:03 am ---- Back in the early eighties I was living in Northern California just down the road from Oakland And Berkley (just a quick note the first time T and I earned money playing music we were at Berkley College ,T was playing harmonica and I was playing guitar we were sitting on campus and as the students passed by coins started piling up in front of us I think we might have made $4.25!! which compared to today's dollar was equal to 25.00 hahaha..... it was a turning point for us)anyway during the years I lived in California I was always amazed by the price of gasoline. After all we had the Alaskan pipe line pumping millions of barrels of oil which was sent a relatively short distance down the coast to California's refineries so in my mind gas should have been much cheaper in Cal. After all we were first in line no shipping necessary?? I came to learn that Japan was getting most of the oil at the time. SAY WAIT A MINUTE??????? I wonder if the current huge spike in gas is a coordinated effort by all parties involved in oil to break middle and lower Americans to the point where we open up every pristine area thought to have oil to exploration??? I have heard and read that Speculators are responsible, then there is the increased demand by China and India and to top it off oil production is on the decline due to the fact world reserves are diminishing. With a minuscule projected 2% of the world's oil reserves Opec does not care what we do they are still in control but the oil companies who are seeing our pitiful reserves dwindle just might want to explore new ground to stay alive with no guarantee we would even get the oil???????nonsense I don't know what came over me after all our environmentally friendly, no lobbying, customer comes first, honest as the day is long Oil Companies would never stoop to such low ground..... what the hell was I thinking?????????????jon Lofty Rhetoric June 28, 2008, 10:30 am ---- These are curious times for America never before in the history of this country has there been a more lethargic majority. I am not talking about lethargic as pertains to working hard trying to eek out a living we are generally a hard working bunch. I am talking about lethargic to the erosion of the quality of life for middle and lower class Americans as well as the continual erosion without representation "by the people for the people " of the constitutional rights this country has spent over 200 years fighting for and trying to live up to. Why????? is it because people just don't have the time? Are we all inundated with so much input we are blindly numb? Are we naive enough to believe the propaganda of the current administration? Or do we just not care? I may sound like I am preaching but for five years this band has been consistent in our protest( in this very Journal check it out in the archives) and open to any and all who will join us to stand up against the current administration which has purposely left so many behind in so many ways. I believe this is the duty of all Americans if are to live up to the lofty rhetoric we preach to the rest of the world.....jon back soon.... June 24, 2008, 6:35 am ---- hi everyone,there is alot going on right now,just wanted to check in and say that we will be back!more music and writing,thank you for your kind feedback!until then please feel free to go back onto our Band Journal-punch in any month and you will find commentary,poetry,short stories,etc.we have been accused of being entertaining,you be the judge....T please call.... June 21, 2008, 2:10 pm ---- Jon can you call me?not sure how to get in touch right now-T My Apologies to the fans June 21, 2008, 7:41 am ---- I apologize for the delay but I am not going to be able to put up the three tunes I promised for Saturday We are sending out to record companies until next Wednesday a personal family matter has come up. I got back home late last night a day early and I am leaving town again this morning. I promise the tunes will be up next Wednesday in the early evening. Thanks for your unending support and your patience.......jon reciprocity.... June 21, 2008, 6:28 am ---- i know i have posted this many times before,but gardening accomplishes many things.first off it allows you to develop a relationship with Mother Earth more intimate than absent-mindedly wandering(believe me,I have done that before).the key here is reciprocity.what we take out,must be replenished.remember that old adage about camping-leave a site better than when you got there?this is true for gardening as well(though one can argue very cogently that Mother Earth was doing just fine before we got there.this is true,but our suggestion today is about eating which we must do,thereby having to raise something to eat!).this means to put on the Earth the nutrients necessary for deeply fecund soil.i go totally organic(a way overused term these days i realize)no pesticides or chemical fertilizers.why?remember reciprocity?if i use chemicals,i am disturbing the soil and the water tables,it becomes an onslaught and more invasive as it kills more beings.does it take more work?sure does,but the thing about it is that i can control exactly what goes in and out of my mouth.this reciprocity also in my mind tastes sweeter.it probably is my imagination but all that blood,sweat,and tears adds up to a mighty fine tasting tomato!the second thing i would like to say this morning is that gardening is very therapuetic.i was involved with the U-MASS study years ago with adult and teen psychiatric patients doing gardening.in fact a good friend of mine was the overseer of this project.what they found was truly extraordinary!folks were happier,calm,more relaxed and showed fewer symptoms of their Mental Illnesses when they were gardening.there were way fewer restraints and the therapuetic milieu was more harmonious.Mother Earth heals,this has been known in the Indigenous populations since the dawn of woman/man.the Chinese say that we stand in a very special relationship between heaven and earth.when we garden we are in that relationship in it's basic organic directness.we absorb the qi of heaven,of earth.as a sidenote,many times i will go barefoot in my garden,so the bubbling well points and the baihai are both exposed to this polarity of Sacred Energy.there is much talk lately about diversity of crops.monoculture was a very bad idea from it's inception.Nature is diversity,a walk through any stretch of open land will tell you so.by artificialy creating crops and the enviornment they live(chemicals)nature by it's own law will try to develop a relationship with this ,'foreign'invader.it will do this in a microbiotic fashion,as well as insects that will eventually,'crack the code'of a class of insectisides.it is not that it is bad,this is how everything on Earth evolved over time.the best way we can work with it is to have a diversity of crops and rotational system that mutually benifits the soil and the said crop for that year.again it is a relationship of give and take.if we come in like an invader as we have done with big agriculture we have lost the sence of reciprocity that all our relationships are based upon from the dawn of humankind and all beings for that matter.we can establish this relationship even in busy cities.there now are communal farms,there is one just up the road from me.people fromthe outlying cities come to the farm and farm together.some cities have this within their boundries-like vacant lots that have been converted for instance.another idea is to have a raised bed ontop of a building.if space is really a problem you can even have a limited taste by window gardens,miniature-it is a good place to start and to devlop the capacity to hear the heart that beats and surrounds us(Mother Earth).finally for today,the garden is a place to get fresh sunshine,enjoy friends,and to see the beauty of outdoors.it is a Sacred Place of relationship.it is a place to really learn and understand reciprocity which must be implicit in a relationship.it is a place to align the heartbeat of your soul with that of the Great Mother that continually supports and nurtures us as she plummets through the cosmos....peace,T REAL DEAL June 18, 2008, 11:15 pm ---- Who says it's a man's world? I saw Laura Logan (Chief foreign correspondent for CBS news) on the John Stewart show last night and she blew me away "if you want a real perspective which apparently is being suppressed by the powers that be" as far as the wars in Iraq and Afghanista go then feel free to check out what she has to say.... go to http://newsbusters.org/people/television/lara-logan this woman is the real deal.......jon bottled water.... June 18, 2008, 6:45 am ---- todays helpful hint;have your water tested.try to get this done so you can see the quality of water,many times it is better quality than the bottled water that you buy.we spend billions of dollars each year on bottled water.if your water is sub-par,talk to a plumber or check on the internet or at the library for a filter that can make your water good quality drinking water.Brita makes some good quality filters and also a gallon container that filters your water from the tap that you can store in the fridge or wherever.this is way cheaper than spending so much on bottled water.demand also asks for more of something.even re-cycling the plastic from the bottles.I am deeply concerned about the amount of plastic out there for this type of consumption.also hold your water in a non plastic container,this will cut down on the emmissions of toxins that plastic produces.you can find them at many stores-a one time investment!peace,T Tom Brokejaw here at the White House June 17, 2008, 9:49 am ---- Tom Brokejaw here interviewing President Bush for one of the last times.....Hello Mr. President thanks for giving me the time....Well Tom you know my time is winding down in office so I seem to have nothing but free time on my hands flying round the world saying good bye to all the friends I've made across the world!!!.... Well Mr. President it would seem that that would be a pretty quick trip for you?..... What do you mean Tom?...... Well Mr. President do you know whether the dignitaries you visit are happy to see you coming or are they happy to know you are going?....Hell Tom what do I care!!!! soon enough I will be back on my big ranch doing what I love at do just being a cowboy with nobody bothering me!......Speaking of Bothering me Mr. President does it bother you that your administration put the Polar Bear on the endangered list less than a month ago yet your administration has just given the green light to explore for gas and oil in the Chukchi Sea giving the Oil companies a free pass and the right to harass Polar bears and move them if they interfere with exploration operations? You have to know that there is a good chance of some bears being harmed or killed??..........Tom I have been assured by my good friends in the industry and Uncle Dick that the oil companies will do everything in their power to keep those cuddly bears safe and did you know I never have to worry bout my family paying for gas!! Besides if we don't start drilling for oil soon gas might go as high as $4.00 a gallon in some parts of the country!!!........First Mr. President the oil companies don't have exactly the best environmental record and by the way did you know that oil is over $4.00 a gallon in most of the country????? You know Tom that is the one thing I love about this job I learn something new every day hell I bet I'm twice as smart as I was eight years ago Hell Tom I even know where some of the foreign countries are on a map!..........Finally Mr. President aren't you worried about the middle and lower class in America falling father behind and being buried by debt just trying to stay alive with the basics???........... Well Tom I made the world a lot safer from the terrorists while I was in Office and I can't do it all!!!!! the next President is gonna have to worry bout them poor people and besides if I can get my tax cuts made permanent then all that money my rich friends will get is gonna trickle down to them poor folks. Our greatest President Ronald Regan came up with that plan and it works every time!! by the way Tom did ya know he was a cowboy too!!!!......Thanks Mr. President this is Tom Brokejaw sending it back to you Abby in the news room I am going for a long walk on a short Pier......jon an appeal to Fathers.... June 15, 2008, 9:29 am ---- i would like to make a special appeal to Fathers today;let us remember the Mother we stand on and honor her deeply(thereby helping our childrens, children through enviornmental concern).let us honor our biological mothers and see in every woman her face(thereby never dis-honoring and treating with respect and dignity all women).let us stand up in the truth of what it is to be a good father,to be a good steward for the future generations of all beings.let us take tough stances when something needs to be said.let us stand up for truth,honesty,and love.let us be deeply humbled by this great gift of being a Father.....peace,T Lost a great one June 14, 2008, 9:35 am ---- My condolences to the family of Tim Russert for his untimely, unexpected passing. He was in my opinion one of the best if not the best political analyst of our generation. By all accounts friend or foe he strived for integrity, honesty and impartiality in his work ( Are you listening FOX NEWS?) yet he was tough enough to ask the tough questions from the president on down the political chain which I think is especially critical in these times. I for one am going to miss not seeing him Sunday Mornings on Meet the press and my heart goes out to his family we lost a great one...jon
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