Re: babel-digest V11 #183

["Yvonne Le Fort" <ylefort>]

I have only ever watched  Patti in performance  online ...and I have her CDs
for Trampin' and Horses  ...but this poem captures the essence of this
uniquely charismatic , bohemian  performer, just beautifully.

Patti  is entirely an original...  for me ...absolutely enjoy listening to
her unusual singing voice   ...and she is now  sixty years old and standing
up for what she  believes is  right , absolutely  fearlessly ...what a woman
!

What red-blooded  female would not identify with the lines Seena  just
selected ...plus the NO FEAR sentiment  that comes across so strongly in her
singing of the Declaration of Independence [ DOI }  ...today is the
anniversary of 9/11 ...poignant memory for all of us ...I stayed glued to my
television that morning after a friend called me to  to wake me to turn on
my TV .Incredulously , I  watched   all day as the footage was repeated over
and over again of the two flaming towers imploding and  people fleeing in
panic  , covered in dust  and  the descending debris. Two sadly significant
memories for this Canadian in relationship  to the great  USA  . The other
memory dates from 1963 .

I wept that weekend away...I remember it as a weekend at this moment in time
.... but , I was  running a floor polisher buffing hardwood floors in our
dining room  when the radio announcer said that the president  had been shot
. I continued   , thinking "Oh they will fix him up  with the best of
doctors available"   but. , the solemn voice came at me over the whir of the
machine ....the deathknell  in the next announcement ......"the president
WAS so many years old................!!!!!" Chills    of disvelief ran doen
my spine . I left the  floor polisher standuing in place , rushed  to the
living room , and turned on the TV  to see Walter Cronkite  doing his
darndest to fight back  tears as  he solemnly  conveyed  the tragic  news to
all of us .. My husband looked after all the kids that weekend... I was a
complete  basketcase wreck  as I watched  the state funeral unfold  with
Jackie in veiled grief with Caroline and Jon-Jon alongside ...the black
riderless horse prancing in the mourning  parade behind the US flagged
casket   in the oen for all to see . We had five teenage foster sons ,and a
one year old daughter, and I was  newly aware that I was  on the way to
having my first son ...many reasons to be  completely , sentimentally ,
emotionally   functioning in  woman mode . I adored JFK ...still do not care
how many chicks tucked their slippers under his  couch ...he was magical
with his quirky  wit , his totally male aura as he squired his beautiful
wife through state functions. Yes! ...Camelot most certainly  existed while
John and Jackie  lived at the Whitehouse ! His TV press conferences  just
allowed  journalists to  drill him  and he always managed to reduce each
conference to laughter at least once ...so fast on the draw  that he was
always one step ahead  in anticipating the  snares meant to trip him up in
the  questions being fired at him in quick succession  because those
sessions had a  time limit  on them ..Everybody knows precisely where they
were when they first heard the devastating  news of 9/11 ...and , similarly,
on that fateful day in Novebmer 22, 1963 ,the day of the demise of a
wonderfully alive  young man ,as flawed as any other human  being,   but oh
so very human ;  the youngest   and first RC  leader of the USA ..... now
43 years ago ...like yesterday  in my mind , because  the memory of his
assassination was  so painful at that time .

We feel for all those who lost  loved  ones five years ago,  today . Ground
Zero should be preserved  as a memorial  to that day , in perpetuity . That
painful memory  will never be forgotten  for   all of us who care about this
world . Will we  ever find a way to live in peace ,globally?

Yvonne in Canada

 her voice fears no censure
>   bears no holds by quickened fear
>   she blesses by her presence.
>
>   Once more to dazzle, to break
>   the chains she moves, the grace
>   softly carries her to us she is
>   the Sacred Feminine, the Heroine
>   of Lust, the Voice of the
>   Infinite Deep, the Emptiness Womb
>   the Mother of all awakened sons.
>
>
>



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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:00 AM
Subject: babel-digest V11 #183


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> babel-digest        Monday, September 11 2006        Volume 11 : Number
183
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> In this issue:
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>         AW: Patti at CBGB's....
>         RE: Privilege
>         for Patti
>         Re: for Patti
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> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:07:07 +0200
> From: "Alice" <alice>
> Subject: AW: Patti at CBGB's....
>
> I saw The Dead Kennedys in Austria before the summer, so I guess they're
> still playing.
>
> Alice
>
>
> - -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-babel-list
> [mailto:owner-babel-list] Im Auftrag von Keith
> Gesendet: Samstag, 9. September 2006 18:26
> An: babel-list
> Betreff: Patti at CBGB's....
>
> Well I checked out pollstar.com, Patti's site and CBGB's site and couldn't
> find out anything when she's scheduled to play CB's but it was sometime in
> October from what I remember.    But at the CB's site I did see that
> Flipper's going to play and then later in the week.....The Dead Kennedys.
> I didn't even know either band was still playing together or does anyone
> know if this just might be a one off performance?     Wishin' I was in NYC
> for some of these shows.
>
> Keith
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:17:54 -0400
> From: "Gart, Mitchell" <MGart>
> Subject: RE: Privilege
>
> I have a copy of the song (not the movie) Privilege on tape somewhere.
What's
> amazing is that Patti had the imagination to take such a bad song
(original
> version) and make it so great.
>
> - - Mitch
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-babel-list on behalf of Mimi
> Sent: Sat 9/9/2006 5:13 PM
> To: Phil Grabar
> Cc: Hilary Hodgson; babel-list
> Subject: Re: Privilege
>
>
>
> That's a great site--the only place you can find the so-horrid-it's
> entertaining The Cool Ones, and a lot of other groovy movies.
>
>  was just thinking of getting a copy of Privilege myself!
>
> On 9/9/06, Phil Grabar <pgrabar> wrote:
> >
> > At 12:32 PM 9/9/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > >does anyone know where to get a copy of the movie Privilege (1967) or
> > >the original song Privilege from the movie?
> > >
> > >--
> > >hilary
> > >http://www.myspace.com/rknmama
> > >
> > >Check out:
> > http://www.thevideobeat.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=380
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:41:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Li Lightfoot <li_lightfoot>
> Subject: for Patti
>
> I came seeking a diamond grail
>   the hail of stones to wake the deep
>   conquered sky repels the
>   wave borne of her sole being.
>
>   The Goddess moves upon the stage
>   creates the space she occupies
>   no less the Earth, the hearth
>   the race of mans awakens to her rhythms.
>
>   She unveils her face, the original face
>   escapes her voice fears no censure
>   bears no holds by quickened fear
>   she blesses by her presence.
>
>   Once more to dazzle, to break
>   the chains she moves, the grace
>   softly carries her to us she is
>   the Sacred Feminine, the Heroine
>   of Lust, the Voice of the
>   Infinite Deep, the Emptiness Womb
>   the Mother of all awakened sons.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>       ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~
>   "You have received that holy & spectacular wound which bleeds...
>     poetry." Samuel Delany
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:44:11 EDT
> From: Poemsl1
> Subject: Re: for Patti
>
> she is
> the Sacred Feminine, the Heroine
> of Lust, the  Voice of the
> Infinite Deep, the Emptiness Womb
> the Mother of  all awakened sons.
>
>
> Wonderful.  The whole poem is wonderful.  Thanks!  xxo-  Seena
>
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