Now This Is Clear. This Is Convincing.

This is luculent!

or the Art of Always Looking 

On The Bright Side...^

But that's something for that other blog there...!

Mediate, Alleviate, Deviate...

And Meditate...

Meditate...

ME-DI-TATE! *

Click on the pic for an instructive video! 

It's the luminous... er... the luculent thing to do! 

;-)

Because What Is Not Luminous

 Can Still Be Luculent! Remember?!?

* paraphrasing what a certain band member of INXS used to sing...

Rest In Peace, Michael 

(he didn't meditate enough, see...)

On Wearing White...

... it doesn't make it luculent 

nor luminous. 

AT ALL. 

High Luculence...?

Like, when the luculent factor hits the mark, at high noon...? 

No - not quite that...! 

In this year of Our Lord two-thousand and nineteen (2019 - which means we are really celebrating the Sexy Year; nineteen sixty-nine! Or, if you will, 1969) there are so many 50th anniversaries of note - yes, so many - but none more so than the Woodstock performance of this landmark song - by Grace Slick! 

G.S. was one of the most emancipated, liberated, uninhibited 

(meaning: promiscuous and debauched) women of ROCK 

ever to, er, grace the stage and/or music scene!
All that - and MORE: like an accomplished songwriter
(who wrote them like me: with a melody in her head, but
not written of note sheets whatsoever - not knowing how
to write music per say!)
and what a voice - a true songstress siren-like voice! 

She's inspired MILLIONS - upon millions! 

She's done it all - and she's still ALIVE, in 2019!!! 

Amazing... er... Grace? 

She was high, when she sang this on stage 

 - oh yeah... she was HIGH! 

The (almost?) full set, including the other huge hit
- or timeless tune, as I prefer to phrase it -
that Jefferson Airplane/Starship is remembered for
- never mind their '80s comeback stuff;
even Slick is not too fond of it! -
also from Woodstock '69: 

And the original, official video: 

In an interview on some new cable channel 

desperate for content and viewers 

that had just hired him to do this sort of thing 

- an interview show, duh - 

airhead Howard Stern asked Grace Slick 

this deeply inane question 

regarding WHITE RABBIT: 

"did you know, when you wrote this song, 

that it was going to be a hit?" 

And Grace enlightened the poor schmuck 

(who really should know better) 

"it wasn't like that back then! 

Hits were candy-coated tunes like 

Frankie Avalon used to sing; 

we were not out to write a "hit" 

we just aimed at writing the best possible 

song that we could write!" 

DUH! 

 

AND NOW - IN 2019 - it is so amusing to see 

this marquee song being used on 

CELEBRITY X CRUISES 

commercials... 

... as well as being covered 

- and quite well at that - 

over and over again :

__________

OKAY - not quite that last one there...!!! 

NOT BAD AT ALL; 

FOR A SONG ABOUT DOING DRUGS, 

QUITE BASICALLY... HUH? 

Traveling Luculently...!

The cogent quality of the following tweet -embedded for your convenience- will be instantaneously recognized, we are most certain of it... Zounds, we have a ''Luminous Travel'' playlist over on our YouTube channel -also for your uttermost convenience- and none of the videos handpicked for it have ever stated things so clearly, in such a limpid and pellucid way as this right here:

The Publishing Talk Daily is out! https://t.co/uviSJLS5A7 Stories via @susan_bushell #amwriting #writing

— Publishing Talk (@publishingtalk) July 29, 2018

Oh Yeah - Absolutely! 

Cinco De Mayo...?

Hmm... I don't think I've ever - everrrrrrrrrr - blogged about this, on any blog of mine, throughout the TLB Prime Network and its notorious (if not always luminous) rich history...!

Maybe it is time to atone for that oversight - here and now?  

Alright... Let's go! 

As a luminous history buff, 

I truly have no excuse 

not to have delved into this before...

ESPECIALLY 

given the fact that 

thanks to the deranged creativity 

of Georges and Lucases 

the masses at large are, nowadays, 

totally confused about these things... 

...which leads to terrible hangovers, for the majority, on the next day...

(simply adding up the 14% with the 18% and the 35%...)

Suffice it to state, here -in blog; luculent blog!- it is the .5% 

that is correct: Cinco de Mayo is, very nearly, 

the ''300'' of Mexico! 

(...must have inspired the adaptation of ''Seven Samurai'' 

into ''The Magnificent Seven'' also...

but that is another story!)

And now that is cleared out...

Maybe we can get down to the important stuff, nowadays: 

the reason to party.

One of those bands time has forgotten 

but that I vaguely recalled -always- 

as their tune on the subject seemed to always be on 

whenever the radio would be turned on... 

''Wall of Voodoo'' 

was that band - and their seminal hit, 

a timeless piece of music if there ever was one, 

is called... ''Mexican Radio'' - what else? 

(Never mind that it sounds like some other 

nation and culture completely...!)

We can still chug down tequila to that... no?!?

Then again - I'd sooner skip the tequila 

...skip Sleeping with the Sirens...

Too much tequila can lead to such nightmares...

That was for the voodoo part 

(never mind that it has nothing to do with Mexico...)

now for the WALL part...

(the one Drumpf still dreams of seeing built 

- and the hombres pay for it? 

Yeah... rrrrrright.)

...

Knowledge of Today - New Light of Tomorrow!

My luminous and preferred screensaver, by the way: 

And what can go best with that luminous quote from Mrs Wharton 

other than some equally luminous music from a luminous band: 

Husky Rescue 

is such a great band...

(...was...?)

For 10 years - one's been my motto
And for 10 years - the other, my mantra!
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