Why? What Have You Heard?

introducing the iBug ®

2011-11-08T05:00:00.002-05:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
What, you couldn't see that one coming?
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why i otter...

2011-11-07T05:00:00.001-05:00

Western NC Nature Center Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
What, you couldn't see that one coming?
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summit meeting

2011-11-06T05:00:00.000-05:00

Mt. Mitchell, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
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there wolfe, there castle

2011-11-05T05:00:00.001-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
But as far as I know Thomas Wolfe did not live here either...
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they were quite good

2011-11-04T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
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thomas wolfe did not live here either*

2011-11-03T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
*But he did use this house as the setting for Look Homeward Angel and its owner as a character. For more, check out http://www.lion-rose.com/history
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latest casualty*

2011-11-02T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
* The tallest building in North America with no interior stairs or elevators. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save it from federal regulators who closed the bank on 14 Oct 2011.
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white fang

2011-11-01T05:00:00.000-04:00

Western NC Nature Center Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
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tis the season...

2011-10-31T05:00:00.000-04:00

Not what I was hoping to find, but still...

Beltane
Jethro Tull, Songs From The Wood (Chrysalis Records - 1977)
Have you ever stood in the April wood and called the new year in?
While the phantoms of three thousand years fly as the dead leaves spin?
There's a snap in the grass behind your feet and a tap upon your shoulder.
And the thin wind crawls along your neck it's just the old gods getting older.
And the kestral drops like a fall of shot and the red cloud hanging high
come a Beltane.

Have you ever loved a lover of the old elastic truth?
And doted on the daughter in the ministry of youth?
Thrust your head between the breasts of the fertile innocent.
And taken up the cause of love, for the sake of argument.
Or while the kisses drop like a fall of shot from soft lips in the rain
come a Beltane.

Happy old new year to you and yours.
The sun's up for one more day, to be sure.
Play it out gladly, for your card's marked again.
Have you walked around your parks and towns so knife-edged orderly?
While the fires are burned on the hills upturned in far-off wild country.
And felt the chill on your window-sill as the green man comes around.
With his walking cane of sweet hazel brings it crashing down.
Sends your knuckles white as the thin stick bites. Well, it's just your groaning pains.

Come a Beltane. Come a Beltane.
Come a Beltane. Come a Beltane.
Come a Beltane. Come a Beltane.
Come a Beltane. Come a Beltane.

xii (4383)

2011-10-30T00:00:00.001-04:00

But... Not today.

Used To Get High
John Butler Trio, Grand National (Atlantic Records - 2007)

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so

Super size, large fries, Big Mac, Coca Cola
Go on man, pick your poison
Speed, weed, ecstacy, LSD
Man, it don't bother me cos we're all on something
Caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol
You know I'm clawing at the walls trying to get my fix
Prozac, ADD tablets, coke, smack
Now you know I am turning tricks cos

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that i saw on my TV
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
Yeah, that they sold me

Escape, can't wait all trying to get away
From this place man that we're feeling
Can't deal, can't feel what's real
All trying to conceal all this time we're stealing
No doubt, the route you're on
Can't find the clout that you've been needing
'Til then my friend you must contend
With the monster that you're feeding

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me

I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so

Got links of the Cheney
Getting crazy, getting lazy with their foreign relations
Starting wars, closing doors
Trying to bring about one quicker, man, revelations
Economic rationale calling fouls with the workers
Just trying to make it pay
Cost cutting, head butting
Big business do what they like and you do what they say
What's wrong get along, just prolong all the thoughts
You got going on, on the inside
Appease, stand at ease, just try to please
All the apathy that you're trying to hide
How now brown cow
Did we get from this standing place...
And now we're kneeling
'Til then my friend you must contend
With the monster that you're feeding

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that I saw on my TV
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and I'll tell you so

yeah, i would've bet on episcopal too.*

2011-10-29T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
*Turns out it was Methodist
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jackson building (no relation)

2011-10-28T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
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breakfast is served*

2011-10-27T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
*Not right this minute obviously...
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thomas wolfe did not live here

2011-10-26T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
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because i haven't done a turtle in a while

2011-10-25T05:00:00.000-04:00

Western NC Nature Center Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
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hill house garden

2011-10-24T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
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wish i'd thought of this one

2011-10-23T05:00:00.003-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
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ahem

2011-10-22T05:00:00.002-04:00

Raleigh, NC, USA - October 20, 2011
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spoiler alert*

2011-10-21T05:00:00.005-04:00

Raleigh, NC, USA - October 21, 2011
*We now return you to your regularly scheduled apocalypse, already in progress
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redd foxx

2011-10-20T05:00:00.000-04:00

Western NC Nature Center - Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
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no cougar jokes*

2011-10-19T05:00:00.000-04:00

Western NC Nature Center - Asheville, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
*Not if you know what's good for you anyway.
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basilica of st. laurence

2011-10-18T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 13, 2011
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summit

2011-10-17T05:00:00.000-04:00

Mt. Mitchell, NC, USA - August 15, 2011
Burial site of Elisha Mitchell
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clousseau*

2011-10-16T05:00:00.000-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
*(probably) not his real name
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do this don't do that

2011-10-15T05:00:00.001-04:00

Asheville, NC, USA - August 14, 2011
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