--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, azgrey <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > "Willy, since fucking prairie dogs or whatever you > > > do with your time doesn't seem to fill enough of it > > > lately..." > > > > Don't you just *hate* those prairie dog fuckers? > > LOL. > > You should post more often, dude.
Perhaps. I tend to just drop by and read, by message view, posts since I was last here. Interesting forum. Tedious at times, but often interesting. I have learned much by following FFL. I look forward to learning more. Your sense > of humor is one of the things that keeps me > around. You are too kind and push my humor buttons every time I visit FFL. I am always grateful for a good spontaneous laugh. Thanks. I just call 'em like I see 'em. Just when I think my odd sense of humor might be sullying the high vibe of a spiritual forum I read a post from one of the monitors about his sexual fantasy involving a former president and a male prostitute in the Oval Office. Go figure. It is a marvel the level of obsessiveness shown by your pair of faux-feminist fans. They must dream about you. > > Just on the off chance your Yahoo profile is > correct, have you ever been to a couple of my > favorite places of power near where you live? > Neither, as it turns out, is what most people > would think of as a "power place," but for me > they really are, FAR more powerful than the > "vortexes" they take the New Age rubes to in > and around Sedona. > > The first is a hotel, the Arizona Biltmore. It > was designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's > students, but with Wright assisting and -- some > say -- doing a lot of the design. Stunning. You > know how gazing at a beautiful vista like the > Grand Canyon inspires and uplifts? Just walking > around in this hotel does the same thing. It's > stunning. > > The second, of course, is Taliesin West. Wright > may have been a bit of a prick in real life, but > he was a genius with a T-square and a sheet of > blank paper. His houses for other people take > your breath away; this one he built for himself. > My profile, brief as it is, is accurate. I am *very* familiar with the "places of power" you mention. I would add Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium to your list and proclaim it as my favorite of the three. Have you been there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Gammage_Memorial_Auditorium http://snipurl.com/t53q5 It has been years since I have visited the Biltmore. Several changes of ownership and at least two major renovations have transpired since I last leisurely absorbed the vibe there. I worked in the neighborhood for over 20 years and it isn't at all far from where I live in Scottsdale. Your post is just the reminder I needed. I will try and correct my absence before the year is up. Taliesin West used to be on a bicycle route I regularly followed. It is, broadly speaking, in my neighborhood. I must admit it has been at least 10 years since I visited. Great spot isn't it? Stories about Wright abound, obviously, in Arizona. He is/was a controversial dude who still inspires parlor gossip even among non-architects. Much of that consists of arguing over his actual contributions to the Biltmore and Grady Gammage. It would take a professional misanthrope on a level of authfiend to dispute his influence on Taliesin West. It is *pure* Frank Lloyd Wright. There are those who feel, quite strongly, that growth and development in the area surrounding Taliesin have greatly reduced the impact of it as a "place of power." The impact of his ability to reflect a "sense of place" is perhaps somewhat muted as the organics of the area have been so altered since his day. When were you last here? Gammage Auditorium suffers the same criticism as the Guggenheim Museum in that it doesn't organically blend into the surrounding area. Pppshaw! That its construction occurred after Wright's death and that it was originally designed to be an opera house in Bagdad adds to its outofplaceness. It has the most outrageous acoustics I have ever heard. Violent Arizona summer storms used to commonly knock out the power for hours at a time. In Gammage they would simply place candles on stage and proceed with an un-amplified show. Maybe I'm easily impressed, but I had goosebumps realizing that crusty old fart had the skill to design so well. On some level it was akin to an experience of the transcendent.
