A Last Fling With Decadence & Democracy -- Original CD featuring Sex w/ an Angel

Get a signed limited edition copy of the CD Last Fling w/Decadence and Democracy, a compilation work by me, Joe Rossi AKA Deadhead Dylan & The Desolation Doors, backed by a host of excellent musicians, with songs recorded over the last two decades of the last millenium: live tracks, studio, original American music!

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Austin TX 78768-5313

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Joe Rossi: Last Fling w/ Decadence & Democracy

At amazon you can also listen to sound clips of all the songs, read reviews, post reviews etc. The music on the CD is some of the music featured in our YouTube videos, such as Love Her Like The Rain, Rock & Roll Socks, Brainflower, and Freeways & Mirrors. You can also hear some of the tracks at http://myspace.com/mjoerossi or http://myspace.com/electricsol



The first two options are preferred as I have not heard from Orchard, the label selling my CD, in years, even though I know for a fact that they have been selling my CDs. Sooner or later, I will have to hook up with them and see what is going down, but in the meantime the first two options helps us in a much better and more direct way, plus the ones amazon sells won't be signed for obvious reasons.

There's even some used cheap ones out there. I guess! Check it out!

Remember, it's all about L O V E!

Cheers!

Profound Quote re: Eternal Life

One of the better quotes I came across in MySpace said "the trick is not to live forever, but to be able live with yourself forever." I'm paraphrasing.

I always like to use the analogy of the mirror. When you die, you are handed a mirror. You're fate then is to look into that mirror for all eternity. If you were mean, ugly, hateful, angry, dark and loathsome, well that is what you get to watch forever. If on the other hand you were beautiful, loving, happy, light and lovable, well that then is what you get for all eternity.

I think in a nutshell that is what Jesus was trying to teach us, as well as other great masters.

The Metaphorical Versus The Literal

It is important to remember that in mythology, and religion; the stories we believe are not literally true, but rather are metaphorically true. At least that is what I believe. So while a literal hell does not exist then, there is a metaphorical hell. Which might be like the difference between going to a hellish place or just watching a movie about hell.

There can also be reconciliation between the Western ideas of sin, hell and damnation, and the Eastern religious concepts of a life cycle or samsara, and reincarnation, and the effect Karma has on future incarnations.

If we postulate that life is indeed eternal, and indeed it is, than we can assume that consciousness has an endless supply of life cycles in which to reincarnate. And if one's karma is continuously bad, than he or she will continue to reincarnate in forms of life that suffer, inflict suffering and continue to suffer ad infinitum. That sounds hellish to me. On the other hand if one's karma is good, and one's sinful transgressions not so severe, and there is a geunine and self propelled effort to repent, grow, love and forgive, that they progress into a state of heavenly bliss and escape the wheel of life and its constant suffering i.e. heaven.

Some question how life can be eternal. That is not the eternal life of the afterlife that we might imagine, but more rather to the impermanence of life as we know it. The life forces and processes at work here on Earth. What happens when the Sun dies, or supernovas or gets hit by an asteroid. Sure, true enough life here on Earth might or will end. But elsewhere in the known universe in all the known galaxies there are billions upon billions of stars and planets, and somewhere at sometime, perhaps in billions of years from now or maybe only millions, or quite possibly millions of years ago, microscopic life is beginning or began the long series of events that lead a people such as ours to a place where it is now in History.

And I bet this story we're living has been told over and over and ago, eons before this universe came into existence perhaps. And there will always be life in some form somewhere for consciousness to become aware of, and for it to become aware of itself.

UPS: erstwhile Hell on Earth

Honestly, UPS has got to be one of the most miserable places one could be employed. Nobody that works here ever seems happy. All people do all day morning long during work is yell at each other, scream at each other, belittle each other, bag on each other, gripe, scream, complain, bitch & moan.

I almost quit today. Well, I tried to walk out. Clocked out and everything, but my boss stopped me, one of the few people that don't feel the need to scream and yell at me. It's just all the other supervisors, and her boss, and the upper bosses, that bitch and yell at our boss, so he has to bitch and yell at us. What is it they say about shit rolling downhill? No wonder UPS's favorite color is brown.

All I can say is thank God it's Friday.

Hello I Love YOU

Dylan Morrison

No one is really sure when and how Dylan Morrison became myth and enigma; nobody is even sure really where he comes from. One day he just showed up and it seemed like it was an old story, like an oral tradition, that has just been around since time immemorial.

He is a rock and roll legend, some obscure Jack Fate, as he has been before he even went away, into the desert or the woods to study with shamans, to fast in the desert for forty days & nights, wandering the wilderness and so forth, on his own hero’s journey before returning to his village.

More like Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, and is on his restless sojourn to nevernever land; his bad boy image, tousled hair and leather pants, serving him well on his journey into the endless night. Women swoon for this dangerous pirate on the high seas; this Casanova, playing the cards at the all night arcade. Pushing the envelope. Walking the line. On the edge.

Is it fact or fantasy, or a lethal combination of both; the way Jungian archetypes recycle their motifs and dramas, in fresh young faces, courting the public eye, dancing as divine fools, tragic comedians, while spectators living in the shadows are watching, waiting, consuming the flesh of the Eucharist: voyeurs, participants in ritual, myth.

Dylan Morrison knew all this; but still he kept quiet, as he ambled about the town. The kind of shadowy figure that one day walks off into the sunset, a solitary vanishing speck of humanity on a long straight highway, fading into the faraway hills of the gentle desert with the sunset splashing fire red, burnt orange & orgasmic twilight sky blue, never to be seen or heard from again

Sex w/ An Angel

Clinton/Obama 2008

• Clinton/Obama get the Democratic Party Nomination.
• Clinton/Obama clobber two white guys to win the back the Presidency in 2008.
• A woman and an African American, two historic firsts.
• You got Clinton's experience having being married to commander in chief, and a few terms under her belt at the Senate. A career politician no doubt but capable enough, and a woman, and intense, intelligent but green Obama, perhaps putting him in a good position for 2016

Joe Rossi's 2008 Prediction

Clinton/Obama get the Democratic Party Nomination.
Clinton/Obama clobber two white guys to win the back the Presidency in 2008.

Ambient Music Drifting Down the Grand Canyon

Those who have read Double Down, know how much the Southwest and the Grand Canyon figure in the plot. Watch this video of the Grand Canyon, from the YouTube channel Ambient Music. I love this music, the mood & feel as you go soaring down the canyon!

Smooth & cool
Wind in your hair
Sandstone, rocks, moods.

Kozmic Avenues: A Online Tribal Community

This was the site begun by Skye when the Doors shut down their off topic message board, The Severed Garden. Just a growing community of hipsters, classic rock fans, and artist/spiritual types. Come on over and say hello.

Mrs. Atomic US3000 Mystery Science Theater

I'm still not sure what's going on here, but this woman is one of a kind. She spins her stuff on YouTube, but this woman is seriously funny. We mean like: Lucy Ball, Carol Burnett, Tracy Ullman type genius. And those eyes!

Here is I'm Watching You --from Karlaland