Oi! the holidaze! Well something has reopened back up inside me and I have started writing again. 2 poems so far. I've also written 3 new songs since October. Not bad for some one who wasn't writing or playing anything for months. Before I release the poems, I want to announce my adventure that I have planned for Saturday::
Salvation Mountain is Leonard Knight's tribute to "GOD IS LOVE." I am really excited. The construction is hay bales and adobe with some branching structures shown here. "This is Leonard’s art – it is simple, true, and honest."
Salton Sea was started in 1905 as a town of salt works and then turned into some resort town. Now its more of a ghost town and "On 2008 January 24, the California Legislative Analysis Office released a report entitled "Saving the Salton Sea" [12]. The preferred alternative outlined within this draft plan calls for spending a total of almost $9 billion over 25 years and proposes a smaller but more manageable Salton Sea. The amount of water available for use by humans and wildlife would be reduced by 60 percent from 365 square miles (945 square kilometers) to about 147 square miles (381 square kilometers). Fifty two miles (84km) of barrier and perimeter dikes - constructed most likely out of boulders, gravel and stone columns - would be erected along with earthen berms to corral the water into a horseshoe shape along northern shoreline of the sea from San Felipe Creek on the west shore to Bombay Beach on the east shore. The central portion of the sea would be allowed to almost completely evaporate and would serve as a brine sink, while the southern portion of the sea would be constructed into a saline habitat complex. If approved, construction on this project is slated to begin in 2011 and would be completed by 2035"-wikipedia
In conjunction with this, I re watched The Holy Mountain, by Alejandro Jodorowsky. This cult classic was just re released in 2007 and I had the opportunity to watch it and El Topo at Pittsburgh Filmmakers last Jan or Feb. It just blew me away. I prefer Holy Mountain over El Topo but that is never here or there. Holy Mountain is based on "The Ascent of Mt. Carmel" by St. John of the Cross and Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. In reference today's terminology, mount "analogue" versus mount digital lets say, what is real? The mountain in Daumal's story is not completely accessible by humans, specifically the top. Are there parts of the analogue world we are still unable to reach?
