--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <mainstream20...@...> wrote: > > Congrats to all for great publicity surrounding the > remaining Beatles' support for TM in the schools. > Here's the Times report on the concert : > > http://tiny.cc/LNCXC
Sounds as if it was a great concert. However ( you knew that was coming, right? :-), the elitist in me who considers the word "songwriter" to be a title that applies to people like Leonard Cohen, Bruce Cockburn, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Dylan and writers who actually deserve to be called writers is rather appalled at Paul's effort from Rishikesh, "Cosmically Conscious" -- C'mon, Be Cosmically Conscious, Cosmically Conscious With Me. C'mon, Be Cosmically Conscious, Cosmically Conscious With Me. Such A Joy, Joy. Such A Joy, Joy. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. I guess you have to be rounding ( and, actually, Rishikesh was "pre-rounding," so they were just meditating for 6-8 hours straight, with no asanas or breaks ) to appreciate the literary and intellectual delights of such a song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMibPI55Ack Betcha Jim loves it. No big words. No concepts to deal with. Dare I say it, "effortless." To paraphrase a better Beatles song, "Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream...it is not mindmush...it is not mindmush..." Something good is happening. I guess. :-) That said, Sheryl Crow is hot. *And*, unlike Paul, a decent songwriter. Now that she's dumped Lance Armstrong, she can warm my bicycle seat any day.
