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CHANCYThe Novella just published recently. See: Amazon chancy harper john
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| Harper John the fezzy fuzzy Egyptian... Pharo enough |
Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ The Human Bean, Cobourg, ...8PM
"Rougher than Ruff" ...droll Saturday satire!
Harper John aka John Michael Pocock, historian, live and alive for
9/11 Kabbalah, Nostradamus, Hong Kong, Philippines
& Canadian indie, Dedma and the Lapsap band of menial mental Pope inspired blues:
- now you can vote:
Tsunami is Lapsap!
blues fans ... check out the late Valerie Wellington website!
"Life is just shameless show biz"
Who'll be the next "next" Pope? Find out on DEDMA
Apocalyptic
This production seems to successfully evoke all
the horrors of a time when society has broken down, perhaps after a nuclear catastrophe, a great war or an environmental disaster
- a time, especially, when there is no decent recording equipment to be found.
I would love to hear this song - really
hear it clearly, because it sounds like somebody held a cheap microphone into a rat-infested culvert where this musician was
huddling to escape detection from the nefarious forces of his apocalyptic scenario. All I are can hear are scraps of phrases
like "imagine the terror" and allusions to "passion", "horror" and "jealousy", so I can guess it's pretty heavy stuff.
The
overall melody, chords and song structure sound absolutely excellent, and remind me of early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett.
Or maybe of an alternate universe version of Al Stewart as a dark, despairing doomsaying prophet. It's definitely acoustic,
with a competently-strummed guitar and an undefinable percussive instrument, perhaps someone banging a pipe against a wet
and slime-covered rock.
But I liked it. If I could only pick out all the words and hear the music a bit more clearly
it would be great.
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| The BELCHERS OF HONG KONG witness not MABUS the merciful CD release |
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~MABUS~
The new September 11, 2003 album from
Harper John
aka John Michael Pocock
author of
THE NOSTRADAMUS BIBLE CODE
&
THE NOSTRADAMUS CABALA CODE
BELIEVED TO BE THE WORLDS FIRST BOOK TO MENTION
the Twin Tower, World Trade Centre terrorist
attack on
9/11
Did I say Cabala? Now everybody wants a piece: JAGGER
- even a baby book from Madonna & online cabala.
Bingo, it's just not cricket,
but I fancy the stumps are cabalistic symbols -
life's like that, Harper John even played for Harrods once!
. . . . . . . and so to the
MABUS or the USAma busH
REVELATIONS:
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1. SADO-MASOCHIST: So Gabriel got it
wrong. The wicked EVA of the Cabala was not AVE after all, but Adam was?
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2. HEROINES: To the "Ave Maria" archetypes - the Third
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3. IF YA: EVE, if you're going
down don't take me with you.
4. WALKING WITH FOOLS:
Life's a sage, but talking with fools ain't easy. Ah, but you play the role so well!
5. THE NIGHT I KISSED ANNA: ... an anarchist me.
6. COLD COMFORT: The faceless little and their unknown end (based on the Matthew Arnold poem, West
London.)
7. JAIME: Nostradamus - Mabus, the third anti-Christ, the last hope or Pope?
8. MY FATHER WAS A THINKING MAN: Never sew a boy a uniform; never give a man a gun!
. . . AND THERE ARE NEW REVELATIONS ON THIS "SOUNDCLICK" SITE AS WELL!!
Coming soon from Harper John: "Beating the Blues" and
"Poets Cornered" (some smash Rap from 500 years ago - nice if you can get it - and you soon will)
. . . well that was quick . . .
BEATING THE BLUES is out:
September 25, 2003
all-original as usual - includes some Chinese & Philippine blues of course!! For the low down and downloads wack into >>>
www.soundclick.com/harperjohn/
1.
When I was a young man - yep, I remember all those pretty women
2. Pinatubo blues - when that mean ol' mama mountain in the
Philippines blew her stack so did I.
3. Something left to learn - sometimes men never learn.
4. Lapsap blues - the signature song of the Lapsap Blues Band, first performed at the
Cultural
Center, Hong Kong.
5. Joan that's bugging you - hey man, let's go to the rave-up.
6. Nightshift blues - "if I work the day then I take a cut in pay."
7. Cockfighting in the Philippines - I got the biggest ol' rooster you've ever seen!
Cock-up at IUMA ? Where is Harper John?
Sabong, Sabang if you can, and you can man.
So just punch "cockfighting" into IUMA and get it for free while stocks are shared.
8. Next time - it's gonna be better.
9. Epsi top - soft drink baddies of the Philippines?
10. Land of Sin - slide blues for the pope of hope.
Go on, click the oblong box . .
. and don't forget to vote with your mind
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. . . Don't forget to not to forget!
Do you need a hero? Try
mine - Jose Rizal (a plaque appears deep down below)
Pocock,
John Michael
Prophecies of Jose Rizal About The Philippines
Rizal spoke of the past, his present time and the future events. He described the destiny
of the Philippines, American and Japanese aggression, Marcos, People Power, the power of love, justice and injustice, moral
awakening, mines of gold, economic miracles, globalization.
Bookseller Inventory #ABE-87821099 |
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WHERE TO GET IT, YOU SAY?
OK here's the lowdown ....
.... Abebooks.com - the world's largest online marketplace for books.: Shirley Fish, 3001-062, 4440 Northwest 73rd Avenue, Miami, FL, U.S.A., 33166
Want to get the words from the #1 Master Manchild Rapper in the Philippines?
www.pilipinosuperstore.com/franmaglibof.html
Thanks, mon, for caring and sharing the good times and bad!
Now see "Favorite Links" for Mega Francis M poetry
M is for Meltdown and for Peace on Earth
For lots more Pinoy stuff !!
Hear the LAPSAP BLUES BAND version of "HEROINES" and snatch some other of their rare stuff :
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Harper John - with his all-original
"News and blues of the World"
(( www.overhear.com/opl/11199.php ))
was gigging in Ontario (yep, that's Canada)
in 2003.
Spotted @ the Human Bean, Cobourg or the Supreme Bean,
Warkworth
and elsewhere
. . . while
the coffee and/or world lasted.
GIG SKED
2005
see SIDEBAR "GIG
SKED and STUFF"
THE SUMMER SKED 2003:
(followed somewhat conveniently by the 2004 Sked)
Human Bean - 8pm ...'til ...wry songs and
droll banter:
July 18, 25, ...Aug 1,10,16,22,30...Sept 6,13,20.... Oct
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June 28 - July 1 ... "Harper John Goes Street" - Cobourg
Waterfront Festival
July 4 . . . special guest . . .Colborne Legion swing
jazz nite
July 26 . . .Farmers Market, Cobourg 8-12 AM (bloody late
gig for bluesers)
Sept 27 . . . Cobourg Harvest Festival ... 11 - 1pm
(which turned out to be
a double gig 11- 3pm - some bands don't show up in the
rain it seems!)
October 4, 7 -9 pm - The Supreme Bean, Warkworth - this
is their first
live music - they just opened a few months ago in this
delightful artsy-fartsy
village - yep, and the coffee is very special!
October 9 - Harper John hosts the OPEN MIC at the Supreme
Bean, Warkworth
6.30 - 9 PM - music & poetry - all welcome
October 10 - Live and Alive at the Human Bean, Cobourg
8 - 10 pm
October 11 - News & Blues of the World
- Supreme Bean, Warkworth, 7 - 9PM |
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October 16 and 23 - Harper John hosts
the OPEN MIC at the Supreme Bean, Warkworth 6.30 - 9 PM - music & poetry - all
welcome to come down and perform.
October 17, 8-10 pm - once again
performing at the Human Bean, Cobourg - check out the new material due out on the next album!!
October 23 - Harper John hosts the
OPEN MIC at the Supreme Bean, Warkworth 6.30 - 9 PM - music & poetry - all welcome
to come down and perform.
October 24 : a double-double special at the Human
Bean, Cobourg 8 - 10 PM. Harper John & John Holst team up for STORM - A - BREWIN'
October 25, Human Bean 8- 10 PM - "After-math"
November 1... Human Bean 8 - 10 PM - "Nostradamus
Leafs Prophecies"
November 7 back to the Human Bean 8 - 10.30PM
"PICKIN' CANDY - DATES"
...a mild send-up on the elections ... just mild!
November 14 - Human Bean, Cobourg 8 - 10.30 PM
"Right Charlie"
The Royals and the blue bloods are
in for it tonite ....
Saturday November 22
at the Human Bean 8 -10.30PM
Harper John does some -
Moonlighting
With his:
"Moonlight Assassignation Show"
Saturday November 29 - same place and time but in prophetic
mood -
"DIGGING UP THE FUTURE"
Harper John goes slightly off the rails on a tour de force
to foreign parts:
San Francisco December 8 - jam at the RED ROCK CAFE
in downtown Mountain View.
December 12 - Hopping over the pond to the SAR aka Hong
Kong for rock-piles of Chinese Christian jams on the moral high ground of Mt. Davis.
. . .Yep, and large lumps of research for a new
book . . .coming or going out in 2005.
SKEDOK@2004:2004@2004 SKED@2004
HONG KONG - western new years eve/day ... playing with the Christians on Mount Davis
Hong Kong - Chinese New Year, Mt. Davis: "Have Christians
. . . will play"
San Francisco March
8, 2004 - jam at the RED ROCK CAFE in downtown Mountain View, CA.
April 23 - Human Bean, Cobourg - 8 PM "Back from Eternity East"
MAY 7 - 8pm Human Bean, Cobourg - the anniversary
party -Harper John and others will be doing their stuff at this big bash!
Friday May 28 - Human Bean
8 - 10PM
"Electing the Elect"
- droll music for dull times
May 29 - all day long - one man "apple blossom blues
and jazz bash" at The Royal Rooster Bistro, Colborne's latest fine dining establishment
located right on the square. WOW, check it out !!!
Saturday June 5 2-4PM . . . .
Live on King St W, Cobourg - Harper is sprung into the
"Spring on King" celebration - with part 2 of "ELECTING THE ELECT" - spoilitical satire set afire!!!
June 12, 2004 - Saturday @
The Human Bean, 80,King St. W, Cobourg . . . . . . . . Harper John strips
the truth bare! Barren bone-hard blues for blue babies and brainers.
Canada Day (s) busking about at the Cobourg Harbor front - all day/each day!
July 24, 2004 - Live at The Human Bean, Cobourg 8PM The "No Cover, no covers show"
Update: a new place nearby in Brighton has just opened AND...
Tava's Coffee House, Brighton, Ontario on Saturday July 31st from 7-9 , er, PM ...
but Harper might pop in for an early morning coffee!
AUG 14, 11AM - 3PM - Royal Rooster Bistro, Colborne, Ontario right on the village square.
September 3 , 8 PM ... all originial blues & folk music @ The HUMAN BEAN, King ST. W, Cobourg
Friday, September 10,
8 PM ....................back @ The Human Bean with
"Bean there - done it!"
Friday, September 17
8 PM ....................back again @ The Human Bean
"With or without it"
Saturday, September 25, 2 - 5 PM @ Ginette's Bar & Resturant
(in front of Scotty's Inn, Highway #2 East, Cobourg, ) THIS IS THE BIG ONE, the art show and sale :
" HIDDEN TREASURES by JAX"
come down @ 11 am and meet JAX in person while getting a dose of rare fluid Druid Dedma blues.
www.soundclick.com/dedma/
Friday, October 8 @ The Human Bean 8 - 10 PM Harper John live and "Not
wishing to offend, BUT...."
October 30. 2004 @ The Human Bean
8 PM "Spooky Blues" without lipsync!!!
Friday, November 12 , 8pm , Human Bean
"We should have hired Ashlee!" - Harper John launches his new live @ The Human Bean
out-takes album "We should have hired Ashlee!" Rumour has it that he will flawlessly lipsync, guitarsync
and harpsync all at the same time ... or else sink in the process!
Saturday December 4, On the wings of Harper ... Live @ The Human Bean 8pm ...last Ontario show for
the season ...AND THE BEST!
DECEMBER 13 - Double Blow
Jamming with KLENZE
(The Tiawanese, French, Pakistani, Canadian BANDits) in San Jose , CA
Late nite "Five strings on my finger" ...solo
at The RED ROCK CAFE, Mountain View, CA
Saturday December 18, 9 pm Recycle
Bin production: B.B.B Chinese Xmas in San Jose, CA "Better Red than Dedma"
BETWEEN GIGS?
Harper John is licensed to kick!!!!
As a licensed SOCCER coach has worked with the Toronto elite squad, Rep teams, conducted
soccer camps, played against the Canadian National Team and coached an Asian team to a National Championship.
Clickables ****** CHECK OUT THIS PROPHETIC Nostradamus Bible Code WEBSITE !!
click> www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0968409040/qid=1063924508/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/103-8769261-5874211?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Yep, and according to Harper John Nostradamus
also predicted the honors due Ray Davies of "The Kinks" fame. On page #3 The
Nostradamus Bible Code, speaking of Raymond Douglas Davies says, "In retrospect, perhaps
the premier songwriter of the latter 20th. Century,." A bold statement indeed, yet it was he who
made a CBE by his Queen just a year after this judgement of the stars was pronounced! The same page of The Nostradamus Bible Code also treats of his Xray - something that was viewed
with terror after his shooting in 2004!
. . . and don't forget the historic . . .
the Nostradamus Cabala Code . . .
of 9/11 fame
Tell me you didn't know that:
Nostradamus, Jose Rizal, Juan Luna and Fernando Amorsolo all studied Pigafetta in order
to model their visions of the Philippines. WOW!! |
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*Overheard on Overhear -for Canadians only!!! |
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THE where-is-he-now mystery of Ed Teja solved?
Seems he is busily researching wrecks, both human and machine, in the Bahamas for yet
another round of distant deserted beaches & musical madness . . . . Oh yes, and he is also continuing to pull the
worlds apart from that . . ..
Also overheard this: Dem sites here need to be looked at >>>> |
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Ed Teja
Union City Blues
Chancy ( The Teja adaption of a Harper John original from the past)
For secret code buffs - check these out: | |
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"CHANCY "- RON Anejo's favorite song - Even the WORDS have been BOOKED!
http://www.novelbooksinc.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=NI&Product_Code=1-59105-078-2&Category_Code=
All very CODE - All very, er, MABUS, eh?
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www.geocities.com/johnpocock20002000/
Their CD "Worlds apart from that" contained the historic
Tiny Feet and Painless Tattoo -
David in S. Africa also beats to the same drum!
www.davidnicoll.co.za
Welcome to the junky gin-splattered world
of
HONG KONG LAPSAP:
"Before the end of the nineteenth
century Hong Kong refuse was disposed of by contractors who took it in junks and dumped
it at sea. There could not have been much, probably some 20 to 30 tons per day, but
it is recorded that when weather conditions were not favourable it was to be taken
to Gin Drinkers Bay which soon became known as "Lap Sap Wan"the bay for rubbish and this name appears on charts
which were made at that time. There is on file, Sir, a letter dated 30th June, 1900
addressed to the President of the Sanitary Board complaining that the watchman of
the rubbish dump at Lap Sap Wan was not properly carrying out his duties as he was allowing the rubbish to be tipped into the sea."
WATCH
OUT FOR "SIREN BANG" - four-iron-bars-to-a-beat-without-skipping music inspired by The Gang of Four (si ren bang ; Mao's wife Jiang Qing
and her allies Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen and Zhang Chunqiao )
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Email: For bookings or buying
of de books and CDs direct and other stuff try:
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"Bitter-bitta" poetry:
All my life I've been working for money,
Working for money, but I ain't saved a dime.
It's easy for you to say give up the money,
Born to a rich man and still in your prime.
Michael he tells me to cross o'r the Pasig
Cross o'r the river to Rizal's fair lands,
But mother she's wanting a new coat for Easter
And her dutiful son obeys all her commands.
So I don't think I'll ever,
Ever find the time,
To paint the wild flowers
That grow in my mind.
And as you get older the monsoons get bolder,
The palms of your hands lose a grip of her spans.
Well, I've painted that old iron bridge cross the river,
I've painted that mother near thirty-four times.
And I don't think I'll ever,
Ever find the time,
To paint the wild flowers
That grow in my mind.
If you don't wan't this stuff for free you can buy yourself
one of a thousand 100 year old gramophone records I have
- cylinders, diamond disks, single-sided 78's + early rock collection.
ALSO Numerous antique books I've used for research down the
ages.
Dr. Who Fan? check out this new website dedicated
to the late Carl Forgione, Movie
& TV actor: >> https://harperjohn0.tripod.com/carlforgionesite/
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MY FATHER WAS A THINKING MAN
'TIL HE WENT TO FIGHT IN IRAQ.
MY FATHER FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM
BUT HE NEVER MADE IT BACK.
MY MOTHER WAS A TAILOR,
SHE SEWED THE STRIPES ON HIM.
MY MOTHER WAS A TAILOR,
NOW SHE'S DOWN TO SWIGGING GIN.
SO MOTHERS TELL YOU CHILDREN
NOT TO DO WHAT MY MAMA DONE.
NEVER SEW A BOY A UNIFORM,
NEVER GIVE A MAN A GUN.
ONE FOOT ON THE GANGWAY,
ONE FOOT ON THE PLANE.
HE WENT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
BUT DID NOT COME HOME AGAIN.
AH, IT'S THE RICH THAT GET THE PLEASURES,
THE BURNING BUSH THE FAME,
BUT THE MAN THAT DIES FOR ALL THEIR LIES,
WHY, THEY SHOOT HIM DOWN IN FLAMES.
AH, IT'S THE RICH THAT GET THE PLEASURES
THE BURNING BUSH THE FAME,
BUT THE MAN THAT DIES FOR ALL THEIR LIES,
NEVER SPOKEN OF AGAIN.
YES, IT'S THE RICH THAT GET THE PLEASURES,
THE THINKING MAN THE PAIN.
IT'S THE SAME THE WHOLE WORLD OVER.
. . . AND IT'S ALL A BLOODY GAME.
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MILVUS MIGRANA
http://www.jamesarmstrong.com/.
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- YOU CALL ME AN EAGLE -
You call me an eagle,
Well, I'm flattered you'd say so,
'Cos I'm just an old black kite.
Little better than a crow,
But I'm flattered you know.
Let's meet up again late tonight.
And I'll pluck your eyes out
My sweet meaty morsel,
Just to give you a little insight.
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FLEW ~
aka (e) migrant (e)
I am a bird
and I have bird flu
and I flew to you
never
meant to flu you too
it's just what I do
and I do
Hong Kong, January 27, 2004
PEA GREEN SKIN
I fell in love with a cucumber* delivery girl,
Ah, she carried her encumberances so well,
that you couldn't tell she was dying for a leek.
Overcast and cold day, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong,
Jan 29, 2004, 4.20 to 4.22PM
* "He had been eight years on a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers."
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels -
Voyage to Laputa
The collapse of an old masonry wall
in an estate in Kennedy Town after torrential rain in July 1994 killed five people and seriously injured three, and
also caused the evacuation of more than 2,500 people.
The secret world of Hong Kong walls and slopes coming soon will reveal
almost all!
Drainbrain
Excuse me sir,
you have a hole in the head.
You should wear a cap
to cover that gap
lest people gape
at your mind through the nape.
Better for you that your soul escapes.
Mindless in Hong Kong,
January
32, 2004
Watch out Harper John's Dedma Blues Band is coming to this site
soon! And so is Shameless Tattoo too!
I wrote too soon check our DEDMA and the album Dedma
D'ba?
Check 'em out on Soundclick. http://www.soundclick.com/dedma
DEDMA - dead malice by any other game. Hold back justified emotion with dignified cool.
Dedma: Polite defiant pride, I have overcome, you will not break my spirit, triumphant
contained anger, you can Rizal me but you can’t defeat me, with all your power - even then I will not crack, my mind
is my muscle, I will bow down as a sign that I have not, iron will will see me through ... or maybe it's just the Celtic Dharma of
the ages of the sages?
Why this name?
Dedma is where it's at for nine tenths of the worlds
population
Do you play live?
Do you play live? Yes, but it's more Dedma than .
. .
Band History:
Descended or ascended from the first world to the
seventh and last, making a few unreality checks alone the way.
Do you need a hero? Try
mine - Jose Rizal:
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| The Nostradamus Cabala Code >>>>>>>> |
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| Harper John gets Dave Glover, the Human Bean boss into the act |
| http://www.kabayancentral.com/book/rex/mb2322408.h |
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| Jose Rizal Hong Kong Days |
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| Mike Velarde in Hong Kong 2004 |
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Pocockertree
Yer, but I love the real people of the Sillipines,
'cos they ain't machines,
Full of laughter, wit and dreams.
Foolish my friend,
You always tell me, that's what you sell me,
But I ain't buying, in fact I'm trying
To laugh again, to smile
. . .man it's been a while.
Foolish you tell me, but I ain't buying,
Ain't even trying . . .
like the sari-sari lady who shoos us away,
But buy another bottle and then she's OK
Drinking iced rum till the break of day,
That's paradise, mon, on two bits a day!
Look here brother, full of pain,
At the pill-at-ease American.
"Da-do-Ron-Ron", they do us wrong . . .
Enron and your money's gone:
And SwartSINegger's playing Vegas,
Says he'll be the one to save us?
You got your "stars" and we got ours!
Believe me bro . . .
and the burning Bush is gonna slave us,
aint that so?
We'd better start our own country,
Funky manchild, brother-hood.
We'll constitute in Rap and Blues ...
Have TV anchors weigh the knightly news.
And politicos feel the pain of gain,
So they'll never want to tattoo you again,
. . . Or give the country back to Spain?
Or watch it all go down the drain?
I don't think so!
Rap my knuckles bro, let's go!
POOR MANS PRAYER
God bless the food that we eat,
May the prices not go up next week.
Belcher's fire acomin'
A poem before it's time out of rhyme a
day too soon before the fireman's monsoon came to reign down on the men in black who do not blink
or own a suite nor think of that
More wicked code for incite:
<a href="http://www.the-insight.com/">the-Insight.com</a> - <a href="http://www.the-insight.com/spirituality/numerology">spirituality/numerology</a>
Zappa is
the mother of
invention!!!
The lions and the
tiggers don't
like you when you're old
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