"Where I Go - - You Can Come With Me"

"- - - You can ride Next Time - - well, maybe this time"

Jesus in the Gospel of John said, "Where I am going, you cannot follow". I thought I'd turn that around into something positive. I hardly recommend the "Whitmark Tapes" by Bob Dylan which consists of 46 different songs. One of them called "Fare Thee Well" has the sentament in it that "I'll write you letters to tell what I've learned in my travels" and also says "and in them you can travel with me". I happened to wonder about why the singer just didn't take his true love along with him. It could be he was having an affair with some married woman of importance, like the wife of a government official, who could not be seen in public with him. The other is that the lady might have some physical impediment to the sort of traveling Dylan had in mind. Perhaps it was a heart condition. Perhaps she had some other serious medical problem like bad kidneys, and couldn't venture very far from a dialysis machine. Of course sometimes cause and effect gets switched around- - as engrams from the Future pervaid the past. Take for example another letter song of Dylan, "Boots of Spanish Leather". This song is an open refutation of a Dr. Phill program a few years ago. In that show Dr. Phil talks to a man who has a problem and Dr. Phil wants to assure the man he understands the nature of the problem. So after the man tells him, Dr. Phil says "Tell me again. I want you to know for a fact that I really understand". The man tells him again and they repeat this process again and again. And each time the man is puzzled why he's asked to state what he's only stated before. Well the punch line to this story is that it becomes plainly evident a few moments later that Dr. Phil doesn't "get it" still, and were he told a dozen more times he still wouldn't "get it". This is how it is with Boots of Spanish Leather. Another song from that same album is also on "The Whitmark Tapes". This song being "When my ship comes in". Of all the songs Dylan has done, this is the song of most unadulterated Joy. I was going to coment on this real meaning of Joy a few postings ago. Of course my all time favorite song by Dylan lyrically has gotta be "Positively Fourth Street". This song has the lyric I have quoted before of "Do you take me for such a fool to think that I'd make contact with someone who tries what he don't know to begin with". It also contains the closer of "I wish for just one time you could stand inside my shoes- - and just for that one moment I could be you. You'd know what a drag it is to see you". Christianity would be a lot more pallatable if more Christians took this song to heart. Listening to Dana and Craig converse Craig can be heard to say many times "You you're just trying to argue with me again", and I stepped in on Dana's behalf saying "Dana is being straight with you. You are the one who is guilty of what you accuse Dana of". In terms of that opening quotation that is from "Tightrope Ride" from "Other Voices' by the Doors. You know the very first CD I played on my CD player back in December of 1989 could be titled "Other Voices". I speak of Steely Dan's first album. The other album I bought that day I won't tell you the name of it, only that my version does not contain the five bonus tracks that were later added. Of those five the one track I have absolutely never heard before is "You'll be Gone", but yes- - there is a entry for that track in Wickipedia.

Sometimes cause and effect appear to be backwards. For instance as you know "In the Back Seat of My Car" is perhaps my favorite Mc Cartney song of all time. Probably because it reminds me of the first time I had sex. The only thing is, when I first heard this song, I had not had sex yet. So I now impute to the song emotions that were not there at the time. Another instance of "back-formation" is what linguists talk about with such words as "Burgled" evolving from "Burglar" or Burglarized. "Into the Void" is another song where my mental sense of sequence seems in question. I have a clear memory of having that song in mind when I wrote out my suicide note in early May of 1972 - - with the line about "I'll commit suicide as soon as I get enough "Rocket Fuel" (meaning a good pill supply) And yet later that summer I heard this song on the radio, which was "Into The Void, final track on 'Masters of Reality", and began rolling tape and my brother goes "Why do you want to record a Black Sabbath song?" It was new to me. By the way, you-know-who (OK, Leslie) was a Mormon, and that ended up being the thing that ended the relationship. So it gladdened my day today when someone I've been thinking of starting a relationship with basically renounced her beliefs in Mormonism. "But Marcus, weren't you attracted to her because she was a Mormon to begin with?" No. I was attracted to her because she was religious. If you want a name I'll give you a hint- - it's one of those famous women's names in Beatles songs.

I'm sure you are a fan of "Skeletons in the Closet" as you are of all my blogs. Well, as you know on a real early posting on that blog in May of 2006 I listed six Beatle songs that the "fake" John Lennon didn't perform (meaning the Real one did) from February 1965 to February of 1968. Those songs, then as now are as follows, "Help", "Nowhere Man", "In My Life", "You Know My Name" ect. "All You Need Is Love" and "Baby, You're A Rich Man". This is if you don't count the Christmas records. The fake John Lennon wasn't on any of these with the possible exception of the one done for 1965. This was probably the worst track of the seven years. In general the fake John Lennon didn't exhibit the usual Beatle humor. However there was some jocularity for instance in such songs as "Hey Bulldog" and the marijuana induced version of "And Your Bird Can Sing". I've always the psychic impression of certain things that may not be so. For instance the segway at the end of "Listen to what the Man said" I am sure led to a different song from the one they ended up using, which in my mind is a last minute substitution. Another "impression" I have retained that I Want You (She's So Heavy) was a resurrection of an older song, perhaps recorded in late June of 1965 and just missed being on the "Help" album. Now I learn it's almost the oldest song on Abbey Road. Recordings for the song began in February of 1969. As you know it's been my assertion that the lyrics of this song have absolutely nothing to do with Yoco Ono, but instead are about a totally imaginary girl. Then's my views.

And now for the reason I've gathered you all here today. As you know Albert Einstein came forth with the proposition that E = MC squared. (Shall I repeat it three times like Jim Morrison?) Well- - I'm here to tell you that it taint so and I can prove it. Einstein's special theory of relativity as I see it pertains to the propagation of light and gravity waves in ether. If you escape ether, you escape light and gravity. As you know one of the first calculations I did when I got my calculator in December of 1974 was to calculate how long you'd have to accelerate to reach the speed of light. ("I thought it was to calculate how you would break out of prison") Anyway I have re-done the calculations many times since, and each time I have come up with the same answer and that is that it would take a year of One G acceleration to achieve the speed of light, or something pretty darned close to that. Which means I can walk into Dr. Levy's class tomorrow and say "Dr. Levy- - you have achieved 54 times the speed of light. In fact everybody in this room right now has achieved many times the speed of light. And guess what? We're all still here. We haven't all vaporized and turned into energy". You know there is a sound barrier but many may fear something caticlysmic happening when you break the "light barrier". But if this were so, how could I receive messages from the Federation that tell me things like "The only version of Twist and Shout you're allowed to hear is the one by the Isley Brothers, because the Reigel Sixers got the Beatle version banned". Yeah, stuff like that. How can you do inter-planetary communacations with distances over hundreds of light years unless there is a medium that can travel that fast? But Albert Einstein admits it in how own words. You may remember his "elevator" analogy. This one says that Gravity is the SAME asacceleration. There IS no difference. I rest my case. We have spent decades under the influence of 1 G gravity and were we in outer space we would have to be accelerating all this time, and we aren't. It takes a hell of a lot more speed than that to transform our molicules into pure energy.

By the say I was asked by one of you, "Are you fermiliar with the Stones' song "You go- and I'll come with you little baby?" and yes I am. In fact I own the CD. The original of this song I knew in my brief Memphis incarnation from 1951 to 1954, as the "unknown local lad".