STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN in reverse

Beware of Satan and his mysterious ways.

Supposedly if you play Led Zeppelin's STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN in reverse on a BizarroWorld Stereo ie backmasking the lyrics of the 5th stanza are transformed into a prayer to Satan;

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

INTO

Oh here's to my sweet Satan.
The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.
He will give those with him 666.
There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.
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Shit I could never remember the lyrics either way.

Full Moon Alert - March 10

Forget about the Economic Collapse of Capitalism.

Tonight celebrate the Virgo Full Moon.

Full Moon
March 10
10:39 pm EST
20:40 Virgo

Let's not be so Western for the next couple of hours, days, weeks, months, years until the end of time in 2012 when begins the Age of Aquarius, although according to the lyrics of THE AGE OF AQUARIUS from the musical HAIR.

"When the Moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars. Then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars."

This alignment occurred on February 14, 2009 – Valentine's Day, so let's get to it, you star-blessed fools.

Quote of the Day

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”

Karl Popper - British Philosopher

Hell on Earth - Tibet

After my youngest brother's demise to AIDS in 1995 I traveled to several of Asia's most holy sites to expiate his sins. Some of mine too. My main destination was Lhasa and I spent two months there drinking beer and walking around the Jokhrang, the Tibetan cathedral to Buddhism. The Chinese presence was noticeable with soldiers posted on the outskirts and undercover police scattered amongst the pilgrims to suppress any mention of the Dalai Lama. The authorities were also engaged in tearing down the old section of the city to put up0 modern quarters, mostly because the Central Bureau understands that order brings power and chaos brings disaster, however few people in the West about the wholesale destruction of Tibetan Culture, especially when their heaven of consumerism is collapsing like a castle of sand.

Only one voice is heard in this desert.

"Tibet has become "hell on earth"." The Dalai Lama said to the public on the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising at his Summer Palace in Lhasa. On that day 300,000 Tibetans gathered around the grounds to prevent the Chinese from arresting their spiritual leader. Militarily their blockade was futile and the Dalai Lama fled over the Himalayas to conduct a campaign of non-violence against the Chinese occupation of his homeland. Fearful of another outbreak against their authority such as the 2008 Losar uprising the Chinese security forces have reinforced the high plateau with hordes of police and soldiers.

No reporters are allowed to travel within the old boundaries of Tibet and all tourists have been refused visas.

Only rumors filter from Tibet and the Dalai Lama continues to promote the Middle Way to contest the Chinese rule.

"I have no doubt that the justice of Tibetan cause will prevail if we continue to tread a path of truth and nonviolence. We have to prepare for the worst. At the same time, we should not give up our hope."

Ireland never gave up hope.

Not for 400 years of British occupation.

I can only pray that Tibet can triumph against the odds.

Tibet go bragh.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN - Gilligan's Island Lyrics / Song of the Day

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by British rockers Led Zeppelin have dominated the Top 1000 Rock Songs for decades. One Tampa Bay DJ expressed his disdain for this tombstone of rock by playing it for 24 hours straight, only to hav e fans request for him to repeat his effort every year. The radio station KZOK still lists the song as #1. They don't have any punk songs and certainly not the classic cover of STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN by Little Rodger and the Goosebumps substituting the lyrics to Gilligan's Island.

To hear this treasure, click on the following URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTCYLbFxTpI


Gilligan's Island was paradise with your choice of Ginger or Mary Anne or Mrs. Howell and of course Gilligan for a secret tryst in the coconut grove.

I really did want Tina Louise but only because she looked like Elke Sommer.

My predilection for blondes has been cured by the pursuit of those heartless harridans, but I still hanker for the redheaded Tina Louise.

Sad to think of her as dust, but it happens to us all except in the mirrors of our mind.

And black/white photos preserve my desire since young people can't visualize images in anything other than color.

Heaven Above - Pattaya / Only a half a World Away

I've been in America almost 10 months. The longest stay in my native land for over 20 years. In that time I've only visited one go-go bar, the dreadful KitKat Klub in West Palm Beach. The dancers at that dubious fleshpot sport 50 long breasts slung over their shoulders like deflated airbags. Their hairstyles dated back to high school graduations in the 1980s. They were that old and I refused their every entreaty for a lap dance, fearing that their gyrations would leave an indelible stain on my clothing.

Beasts and Jamie Parker was more than amused by my tales of this hellhole.

Jamie Parker lives in Pattaya, the last Babylon. Even the most horrible go-go lounge at that tawdry beach resort is better than the KitKat Klub. This week he called after a night on the town with Sam Royalle.

"We went to What's Up and Heaven Above. Drank tequila and groped naked girls." Jamie's voice was slurred by the excess of the evening. "You know Ort is working there now?"

"I haven't spoken to Ort since I left Pattaya." Supporting my wife and mia noi was enough of a burden without taking on the responsibility of a geek, especially since Jamie was smitten with Ort.

"She said she missed you."

"More like she missed my buying her ice." Ort loved having sex on ice. She would lie on her back and murmur, "So good."

"No, she asked if you were good."

"You didn't say anything about my coming back?" My target ETA date was 4/1. I didn't want anyone to know I was in Thailand before I was willing to tell them. I needed a few days of wickedness to get the taint of America out of my system.

"No, but I took her upstairs to the Galaxy Suites. Short time. It was like paradise. Me, her, and a couple of hits of ice."

"Stop." I'd given up all drugs for Lent. "That is more a description of hell than heaven."

"I bet if it was you instead of me in that room with Ort, you wouldn't feel that way."

"I'm not betting anything." I'm saving my money for my trip.

"Good, because you know you would lose. Anyway after we finished, she said she was thinking about you."

"Probably because she knew you would call me." Thai go-go girls have a great sense of intuition, mostly since most men are so predictable. "How she look?"

"Like Satan's little Angel."

"That's our girl."

I hung up with dreams of Hell on Earth so attainable at Heaven Above.

Check out the website www.heavenabovepattaya.com

If only I could click my heels, I'd sell my soul in a heartbeat.

Heaven on Earth

The first three entries on the Google search engine for 'heaven on earth' are a film from an Indian fakir, a PBS documentary about socialism, and a YouTube entry for the Britney Spears song HEAVEN ON EARTH.

None of them answer my perception of 'heaven on earth' so I went www.heavenonearth.org

This website proposed a multilevel approach to reaching a terrestrial nirvana; peace and security, freedom, democracies, prosperity, spiritual harmony, racial harmony, ecological soundness, health, and moral purpose and meaning.

Long lists tend to create dissent since different factions have varied illusions of heaven.

The Hassidim try to recreate their vision of heaven every Shabbath through prayer and devotion to their God. Mormons follow the teachings of Joseph Smith, a distant relative of mine, while the Wahhabist Muslims think of heaven as a garden with 77 virgins. I don't need to be cockteased by the sexually uneducated, worship Yahweh in a temple or marry a multitude of wives. Instead I seek to attain a simpler Eden as prescribed the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

These words were written in Persian over 1000 years ago.

I have traveled around the world. People ask, "What makes you live somewhere?"

"Good food, beautiful women, a nice climate, and cheap wine."

The rest of it; SUVs, MacMansions, Plasma TVs, and fast food, are only delusions.

Heaven is as simple as facing the sun to feel its warmth, but then that's me.

Wine, woman, song, and a view.