--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Can be viewd here : > http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
Having finally had time to watch yesterday's press conference, I'll spend a little time rapping about my impressions of it. I have to say that 1) there is little question that these people are all well- meaning and that their hearts are in the right places, but 2) many of them are *really* not the sharpest pencils in the box. I'd never seen David Lynch speak before. Now I know why, if his quote in the subject line is an indication of *how* he speaks. Ringo was jetlagged and thus rambling and near-incoherent, but he was rambling and near-incoherent nonetheless. Bob Roth looked like he's training in preparation for entering the "Keith Richards Who Can Look The Most Dead While Still Being Technically Alive" contest. Hagelin was comfortable in front of the cameras and a good speaker, but on the whole his schtick reminded me of the TV preachers who raise money while invoking the "poor children." By comparison Russell Simmons struck me as more intelligent. Donovan has *never* been the sharpest pencil in the box, and upheld that tradition masterfully. Paul Horn was cool; it was good to see him again. On the other hand, it wasn't good to see Mike Love, who is still the same near-illiterate asshole I knew and tolerated so many years ago. ("It brought tears to my mind.") Moby was good, except that he outgrew his idea that TM involved ritual animal sacrifice...someone should tell him about the Vedic horse sacrifice :-) He at least can speak without interjecting "Like" every 3 words...uh...like Mike. As always, after trotting out the personalities, then they trotted out the science, introduced again by a surprisingly not-well-spoken Lynch. I now understand my Internet friend's stories about the years she spent as Lynch's secretary and the difficulties she had explaining simple facets of real life to him. The teachers themselves, by comparison, were literate and good presenters. Personally, I watched it hoping to see Sheryl Crow, and was a little disappointed she wasn't there. I like her music, and she's not exactly hard to look at. But nooooo. Anyway, on the whole I thought it was an *effective* press conference, given what it attempted to do (sell TM by getting people emotionally pumped up about the poor "children at risk"). I hope the concert is good and the attendees get their money's worth. The per- formers are all professionals, so I'm pretty sure that the music will be good. As for the program itself, I wish it well. I really do think that kids would benefit from learning a simple form of meditation while still kids. That the form of meditation being proposed is TM I think is problematic because I honestly believe that the way it's taught and explained in followup talks is religously-based and thus inappropriate for American schools given the Constitution and the clear wishes of America's founding fathers. But the courts will decide that. But as for the concert itself, I hope that any lurkers here who are attending enjoy it, and that they come back and give us their first-hand impressions.