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Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Commander Birdsong said:
"there were giants in those days"
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here is something from GIANTS (I got carried away):

Did that skinny kid from Hoboken ever make the big time?

[video=youtube;FW5Ga5sd37M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW5Ga5sd37M&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;ZIXun7tFU_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXun7tFU_4&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;5Euvz1s70iQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Euvz1s70iQ&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;6hjC7KJk1FU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hjC7KJk1FU[/video]

[video=youtube;37bpzk2IBgo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37bpzk2IBgo&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;GTIWO0hdAeU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIWO0hdAeU&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;G3ctQJOqRJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ctQJOqRJI&feature=related[/video]

Who let the Jewish guy in?

If you look at each and everyone of these gods, disguised as humans, you'll see appreciation, granting of beingness, and the rooting on of the other to do well in song and lines. There is no, "I'll be better than you" "I'll make you less." It is a mutual admiration society. That is the core of the Apollo thread also. We do it.
 
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an innocent question

What are the names of the three PCs, who committed suicide, immediately after Pierre Ethier audited them on the Ls at Flag?

(Pierre in drag pictured with DM):

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CC AOLA early 1970s

afaceinthecrowd said:
Scn didn't make that "Scene" at CC...that era and the folks of that era made that "Scene", IMO.

Face :)
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Face,

in the game of life, there are always so many factors converging to create a community.

the guys and dolls of the CC / AOLA community were there because (in no particular order)

because some spot on auditing had given us a "hand up" that life would never have offered.

like attracts like (CC was abuzz with cool creative types) All the cool kids were there.

as a largely "baby boomer" group, we had all been dead from a stupid war, not that long ago

the economy was growing (not like today)

there was a vision that we all could get on board with


(how do you do bullet points on this board???)

Scientology, the superimposed vision.

Scientology, the tech from life repair to Clear was fucking mind blowing life changing.

We could afford it.

It was better than grass or acid, at least until 1976.

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What I'm proposing is eliminating the BS from the CC AOLA experience.

::::::Really finding the "truths" that we really actually want to pass on to our descendants (see the movie with George Clooney).

We had some hot stuff.

My father, who was originally in Patton's tank corp, and later a pilot for Chennault during WWII, sent and received lots of letters from women every Christmas, that he had known through the war. I was a chip off that block. The acorn doesn't fall far from the oak tree.

I want all the accumulated wisdom of my life, my father's, my mother's, my grandparents' , my great grandparents' and on to help my seceding generations run free and create love and prosperity for those after Teri and me.

This thread has a scent of that wisdom. Let us not let that wisdom die.
 
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CarmeloOrchards said:
Face,

:wink2: in the game of life, there are always so many factors converging to create a community.

the guys and dolls of the CC / AOLA community were there because (in no particular order)

:thumbsup: because some spot on auditing had given us a "hand up" that life would never have offered.

:grouphug: like attracts like (CC was abuzz with cool creative types) All the cool kids were there.

:nervous: as a largely "baby boomer" group, we had all been dead from a stupid war, not that long ago

:hifive: the economy was growing (not like today)

:handinhand: there was a vision that we all could get on board with


(how do you do bullet points on this board???)

  • Scientology, the tech from life repair to Clear was fucking mind blowing life changing.
  • We could afford it.
  • It was better than grass or acid, at least until 1976.
Scientology, the superimposed vision.



****************************************************

What I'm proposing is eliminating the BS from the CC AOLA experience. :happydance:

::::::Really finding the "truths" that we really actually want to pass on to our descendants (see the movie with George Clooney).

We had some hot stuff. :thumbsup:

My father, who was originally in Patton's tank corp, and later a pilot for Chennault during WWII, sent and received lots of letters from women every Christmas, that he had known through the war. I was a chip off that block. The acorn doesn't fall far from the oak tree. :clap:

I want all the accumulated wisdom of my life, my father's, my mother's, my grandparents' , my great grandparents' and on to help my seceding generations run free and create love and prosperity for those after Teri and me. :clap: :thumbsup:

This thread has a scent of that wisdom. Let us not let that wisdom die.
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:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
More On Perceptions

What's a win?

I just wondered--briefly--after looking at the "Wins from L-11 Setup" thread, "What the heck is a win?"

To me, it's quite simple: A win is an acceptable change of perception concerning something that was previously bothersome or perceived to be out of reach.

A "big win" produces a change of perception that ends up being a physical relief, mental relief (goes without saying), and can extend to the environment and beings operating (or not) at a distance.

I haven't read the aforementioned thread, but I will comment that after years of wanting and intending and wanting more to get this L-11 auditing--or any auditing for that matter, or anything in life-- and finally getting it, can be a win in of itself. The change of perception is as simple as, "Damn! I'm doing it!" Kind of like when my dad pushed me off riding a two-wheeler. I thought he was going to hold me up until I got the hang of it. In my young mind I had made a big deal of riding a two-wheeler. Nope. He just gave me a big shove then turned and walked away. My perception changed immediately. :dieslaughing:
 
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

CarmeloOrchards said:
here is something from GIANTS (I got carried away):

Did that skinny kid from Hoboken ever make the big time?

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When I tell people I am from New Jersey they often say something like, "You don't talk like you are from there." Really? Some people seem to think that people from NJ say "Youz guys don kno nuttin'. My response is, "Frank Sinatra didn't sound like that, did he?" "Well no."

In a recent discussion elsewhere the subject of Michael Bublé came up because he sings some songs that Sinatra is know for. No comparison, I say. Bublé is nice. He's a fine singer. Yet he lacks Frank's edge. This is the kind of edge a kid acquires growing up on the city streets of NJ or NY. If life pushes you, you push back. It is certainly one of the reasons I continue to post my critique of Hubbard and CoS. It's the NJ in me.

Come Fly With Me

That's Life
 
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CarmeloOrchards said:
When I want to be mellow, I put on the "Velvet Fog"

[video=youtube;h9lpSlo7zHY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9lpSlo7zHY[/video]
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i'm really very grateful for this post carmie as i love it when i find a clue that let me unravel some small mystery.

like this tune

it's really a gawdawful piece of boozhwah cornball kitsch. yeh, yeh, yeh, it has a simple elegant beauty, the imagery is familiar but rich, the melody is undistinguished but fits the lyric the way a little black dress fits jessica simpson. it's a pleasant bit of schlock. the sort of thing hat should make a whacked out lame ass wannabe hipster like me want to strangle kittens. but it doesn't. it has always seemed precious and terribly evocative

and now i know why

that's a very magical little vignette mel gives us...

1945

a hot summer day

some guy going buggy with the muggy wants to think cool thoughts, jots down a few words. his pal shows up, sees the notes and sees some notes rattles the guy's cage and they turn it into a tune just about like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube.

now i know why that tune turns me on, why it always treated with dignity and respect, why it's not belabored like crosby's "white christmas", why you hear "rockin' around the xmas tree" twety times on the radio for every time you hear it.

now i know the zeitgeist of it, what it meant when it was new.

summer of 1945...

VE Day a couple months before and europe disgorging it's tales of belsen-belsen and famished orphans war still raging in the pacific and the end was in sight for only a small coterie of cognoscenti...

the end came soon...

to radio america who had their fears presaged in 1938 by Mercury Theatre's presentation of Wells by Welles, that grand "War of the Worlds" foofaraw that turned into 1939 somber declaration by h. v. kaltenborn "the awful geography lesson continues" as the wehrmacht swept through an alphabet soup of polish towns and led to 1940's stern augustan prose as winston delivered his fierce immortal litanies of defiance while edward r. murrow reported the blitz live his words punctuated by a crescendo of luftwaffe bombs through the lightning rods that bore the bolt that interrupted the contest between the giants and the redskins from the polo grounds the 7th of december 1941...

the radios that in december of 1945 carried mel's tunes into all those homes where people had spent four years transfixed by marconi's marvel. homes where young men had now returned or were soon expected. and to tens of thousands of homes with gold stars hung in front windows...

think about it...

think what that tune meant to them. ho it hung upon the air as if war were not, how it made christmas fresh with it's newness, how pregnant it was with the christmas's they would give their children even as it reflected the christmas's stolen from them...

presque vu is the lesser known cousin of deja vu. it means "almost seen". now i see what i had ever almost seen. that one brief season when mel torme made Big Medicine and poured a soothing balm across a hardscourged nation
 
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

CarmeloOrchards said:
here is something from GIANTS (I got carried away):

Did that skinny kid from Hoboken ever make the big time?



[video=youtube;G3ctQJOqRJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ctQJOqRJI&feature=related[/video]

Who let the Jewish guy in?

If you look at each and everyone of these gods, disguised as humans, you'll see appreciation, granting of beingness, and the rooting on of the other to do well in song and lines. There is no, "I'll be better than you" "I'll make you less." It is a mutual admiration society. That is the core of the Apollo thread also. We do it.
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The Jewish guy was, in my experience, the most amazing performer I ever saw.

I went, with some friends, to one of his big shows in Vegas in the 60's. At the end of the show, it seemed like it all ended too quickly. I turned to my friends and said something about the show being so short....I thought it was about 15 minutes. They said....short? He was onstage for 2 hours. No other performer ever held my attention like that. For me....it was like time stood still while he was performing. I was blown away. He was just incredibly talented. His abilities and his energy fascinated me.
 
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Originally posted by Ted

In a recent discussion elsewhere the subject of Michael Bublé came up because he sings some songs that Sinatra is know for. No comparison, I say. Bublé is nice. He's a fine singer. Yet he lacks Frank's edge. This is the kind of edge a kid acquires growing up on the city streets of NJ or NY. If life pushes you, you push back. It is certainly one of the reasons I continue to post my critique of Hubbard and CoS. It's the NJ in me.
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I was watching a rerun of a documentary of Frank Sinatra's life from a PBS recording two days ago. He had it rough. Later that evening the channel went into the new crooner you mentioned above. No comparison is right.

[video=youtube;sgbYXLZVtbA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sgbYXLZVtbA[/video]

[video=youtube;w2Tef3IEWCM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w2Tef3IEWCM[/video]
 
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The entertainers of yesteryear that were so great grew up spending their time honing their craft and being creative. They cut their teeth in vaudville, on stage with live audiences. They didn't spend their formative years watching TV, surfing the net or talking on cell phones. Maybe that makes a difference?
 
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FoTi said:
The entertainers of yesteryear that were so great grew up spending their time honing their craft and being creative. They cut their teeth in vaudville, on stage with live audiences. They didn't spend their formative years watching TV, surfing the net or talking on cell phones. Maybe that makes a difference?
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They also didn't have any of the fancy equipment to fall back on and dub in and over until their later years. They really had to make a connection with an audience who probably actually parted with their money to see the big band behind the singer.

Today you don't even have to be ALIVE to be in a duet where the sound quality resonanates three times better than before you died.

[video=youtube;bFK5uZxi-Vs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bFK5uZxi-Vs[/video]
 
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Hatshepsut said:
They also didn't have any of the fancy equipment to fall back on and dub in and over until their later years. They really had to make a connection with an audience who probably actually parted with their money to see the big band behind the singer.

Today you don't even have to be ALIVE to be in a duet where the sound quality resonanates three times better than before you died.

[video=youtube;bFK5uZxi-Vs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bFK5uZxi-Vs[/video]
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Yeah. Today a person doesn't even have to carry a tune. Electronics can adjust so the singer is on pitch.

Yet, that duet above is one of my favorites. I wonder what Frank would say about that?
 
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FoTi said:
The entertainers of yesteryear that were so great grew up spending their time honing their craft and being creative. They cut their teeth in vaudville, on stage with live audiences. They didn't spend their formative years watching TV, surfing the net or talking on cell phones. Maybe that makes a difference?
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The Velvet Fog sans electronic aids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpZu-H95p40

Sammy Davis, Jr. near the beginning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6JTHAWDT4&feature=related

Sammy Davis, near the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls33JN395OE
 
Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

Used to love this too.....I used to play this while I was going to sleep when I was in high school. Nat Cole was one of my favorites. To me his music and his singing was dreamy and romantic. So many years ago.....sigh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc&feature=related

I used to put this album on my record player and go to sleep listening to his singing. I also took a gardenia to bed with me which I picked from the gardenia bush outside my bedroom window, that I held near my nose while I was on my way to sleep feeling very romantic and dreaming of the day when I would grow up and be old enough to have my own lover. The dreams of a teenage girl.....who wanted to be in love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5mkbK9r3U
 
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Who can forget the brilliant genius behind the wonderful hits that pulled the strings of our hearts :yes:

Johnny Mercer

[video=youtube;S5KUsToHW_Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=S5KUsToHW_Y[/video]

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Mercertwo.png


[video=youtube;009kRJKf9rg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=009kRJKf9rg[/video]
 
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Re: The old days - Aboard the Apollo - 1973

FoTi said:
Used to love this too.....I used to play this while I was going to sleep when I was in high school. Nat Cole was one of my favorites. To me his music and his singing was dreamy and romantic. So many years ago.....sigh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc&feature=related

I used to put this album on my record player and go to sleep listening to his singing. I also took a gardenia to bed with me which I picked from the gardenia bush outside my bedroom window, that I held near my nose while I was on my way to sleep feeling very romantic and dreaming of the day when I would grow up and be old enough to have my own lover. The dreams of a teenage girl.....who wanted to be in love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk5mkbK9r3U
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Nice!

I have that album. Nate king Cole is still one of my favorites! The album is just a few minutes away on an iTunes download. It's my go-to album when I want to relax while driving in the car.

As a teen I went to sleep with something with a bit more bite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=komfy1BXISA
 
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