Promise, Loyalty, Truth

Which of these values is most important ? In what order would you choose to prioritise them ? is such an abstract question absurd ?

Today I chose to put Truth first ,Loyalty second and a Promise third

C's in my Conciousness

2011 is Census year in the UK and the branding includes a big "C" . The organisers  have acknowledged they are expecting a signifant number of people to record "Jedi" as their religious affiliation.

Today after a conversation about "Clears" in Scientology I started to experience more   C's on my conciousness which I have blogged about

"The Deep Blue C" (Conciousness) 

Luna C

Hinkley point C - Nuclear reactor

Clear Records - Jedi Knights

C3PO - Star Wars

Cerco

"Clears" "Clear Channel" & The Sea Org - Scientology

C & C Music factory

Mr C

The Christ/Cosmic Conciousness

Yellow Dragons, Lion Dances, White Rabbits, Boomtown Rats & Flying Stars

This week my Tai Chi / Chi Gung / Kung Fu school "Yellow Dragon Fist" were invited to perform a Lion Dance live for the BBC's "Chinese New Year"  (Year of the Rabbit ) edition of their Flagship "One Show". Chinese new year is always a busy time for the school with request to perform Lion Dances and make alterations to clients Feng Shui.  (My Master Simon Wong is  Taoist/Buddhist and a Practioner of Flying Star Feng Shui.)
Despite various obstacles (including the car breaking down) we arrived at Television centre in good time and met Chris Evans dressed as a White Rabbit and Sir Bob Geldof of  the Boomtown Rats before the show. This was my first ever time performing a Lion Dance in public. I usually play the drum or cymbals. But all went well and a link to the performance on The One Show can be found here.

Click the links for more on  Dragons , Dungeons and Dragons , Dragon Dice and Puff the Magic Dragon.

Clowndestine Occurences

This week the darker side of clowns re-entered my consciousness when a work colleague who had been reading Stephen King’s “It” ( featuring the evil clown ”Pennywise” who uses balloons to tempt his child victims) was freaked out by the coincidental appearance of balloons in his back garden. This was followed up by a number of balloon and clown syncs in quick succession. Like one does when bamboozled by synchronicity he shared the experience and of course the meme was passed on. I went home to see an article on T.V about an undercover UK policewoman who infiltrated a non violent direct action environmentalist group called the Clandestine Rebel Clown Army. There’s a lot of stuff on Spy Cops (undercover police work) about in the media at the moment.

The dark side of clowns first entered my consciousness as a kid when my parents used to enter my brothers and I in an annual carnival in my mothers hometown of Hayle (Cornwall) H For the first few years we dressed in cool costumes as; Grenadier guards ,Knights of the round table Snow White and the Seven dwarves and Pirates. The first year I didn't really like the costumes was when we dress as black and white French Peirot clowns. I had always associated the clown with the red nose circus big top variety, typified in the commercial arena by Ronald Mcdonald. I had never thought of a dark side.

In my teens I read “It” watched the film and became aware of the “psycho clown” typified by Penny wise and the Joker of Batman. I even imagined being a pro skateboarder with my own model of skateboard with a killer clown design.

It wasn’t until much later I made the connection with the Court Jester / Joker in the modern deck of playing cardswho is represent by the Fool in the Tarot. My knowledge of the symbolism of "The Fool" is limited but I understand he can represents the querant at the beginning of their journey to enlightenment but also the querant at the end of the journey having achieved enlightenment and a new found playful freedom bringing the querant full circle.

Click the links for more on the trickster / sacred clown  or the Insane Clown Posse

The Jeronimo's - Master and Professor

Over ten years ago I met a famous Brazillian Capoeira Master named Jeroimo who now teaches Capoeira in Australia ,I did a workshop with him and always regretted not buying his book -"Capoeira, A Slave Ritual" .

More recently another Brazillian Capoeira teacher named Jeronimo entered our circle as a blue belt "Professor" I didnt take advantage of his classes as perhaps I could have and now it seems he may be moving on. Is there a pattern repeating here ?

Tarra Xinha - Green Tara

So you know what its like when you go on holiday and a sound track presents itself "Kizoumba" has been on the horizon for a while now (courtesy of Sandra and Aaron) and I'm not sure how close the rythmms of Tarra Xinha are. The Family in Brazil were referring to Tarra Xinha  as a type of  "Forro" , but that category is so wide its meaningless to me. , The production of the cd they were caning ,struck me as having an oriental twang so reminded of me off Green Tara so anyway here's a Tarra Xinha track for your delight.

Click the links for more Taras

First transmissions (Eradication of infectious diseases)

21 MCs ,  Seconds , Taras 

Black Tara

The Fist of the North Star and Glenn Danzig vs the North Side Kings

Today I saw a new blogpost referring to the anime/manga Film "Fist of the North Star". It reminded me of a sync flap I experienced between; 

A) The Graffiti artist "Fist A" who was sent to prison for a number of years, ( which always seemed to me like an over reaction).

B) The Lesbian S&M club "Fist" (which a friend of mine used to attend but never invited me - lol )

C) My Kung Fu school Yellow Dragon Fist

The "Fist of the North Star" sync'd with "The North Side Kings" who had a well publicised fallout with the singer Glenn Danzig. Glenn Danzig originally fronted the Punk band "The Misfits" comprised of Glenn Danzig, Gerry Only , Robbo (also of Black Flag) .. .

 I discovered the Misfits when Metallica covered two their tunes on "The garage days re re visited e.p." I thought were  they were "The Dogs ..." ,they later evolved into Samhain and finally "Danzig", It was during the Danzig era that Glenn Danzig introduced me to "The Nag Hammadi scrolls" and Gnosticism. Glen Danzig was a paradoxical figure and I had always heard stories that he could be an obnoxious twit with a big ego and one of his best songs "London Dungeon" was apparently written after he got into a fight and was arrested during on the Misfits only ever uk tour supporting The Dammed.
Well hero's I guess our heros are fated to disappoint and the now famous "Danzig vs North Side Kings" incident brought everything full circle , in attitude "The North Side Kings" were everything "Danzig" should have been.