Prince Buster's Ghost Dance ... in draft

i didn't properly know what Ghost Dance was about, but i've loved this track for DECADES ... so I looked it up ... and with better understanding, so tears came to my eyes ... how badly we miss our friends, and how badly we come to miss even those we never properly knew ... old paintings fade, the colours bleach out, the varnish darkens ... i suppose tears might wash memories clean ... possibly, maybe ?

https://thebluemoment.com/.../09/08/prince-buster-1938-2016/

Ghost Dance lyrics with English Translations

Lyrics Translations

Ghost dance
Dear Keithus, my friend, good dayHoping you're keeping the best of health
How is the music down there in bone yard?I hear that Busby have a sound systemAnd that Nyah Keith is disc-jockeyBut them can't get no Red Stripe beerFi sell in the dance at night
Tell Zacky, the High PriestWho used to lead the toughestOne who could go, baah toughestGive him my regardsTell him Prince Buster says hello

Baah, toughest
And Keith, if you should see RashiYou know Rashi from Back'o'Wall?Give him my regards
And if you should see, the two brothersStinky Pommells and Herbman, we grew togetherTell them Prince Buster says, so long,Sorry they had to go so soon
Since music be the food of love, I'll forever sing onAnd Forresters Hall, we'll soon get back on shape
Baah, toughest
Ghost danceGhost dance
Baah, toughest

MICHELANGELO'S MARBLE CARVING OF THE JEWISH HERO DAVID

 

The Wikipedia article gives a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the original commission, and then what is known of the work itself and its subsequent history.

I'd never thought about HOW & WHY it was carved, only about the finished object and its effect on modern viewers, such as myself.  

Pity my superficial frivolity, if you will.

David (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

THE VERNAL EQUINOX ... the time in Tenby will be 1446 when the sun is crossing the equator from

This morning, I asked ChatGPT about the Vernal Equinox ...

The star charts are from Jamieson's celestial atlas of 1822

https://archive.org/details/celestial-atlas/page/n17/mode/2up

KUNG FU HUSTLE ... directed by Stephen Chow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Chow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeHttmdsZY

Rubens' re-invention of Saint Jerome

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome

just about every painter in the history of christian art depicts jerome as an emaciated and sad-faced ascetic, determinedly translating the scriptures even whilst death approaches ... rubens turns him into hercules ... and gives him two cherubs for company ... jerome famously advocated virginity ... the cherubs are usually agents of love and all of its conjoining forces ( think venus & mars ) ... so i'm guessing rubens was giving jerome's beliefs a light-hearted dismissal ... ( rebuttal ? )