GLASTONBURYOFTHEMIND

> The day I woke up and found out the Godfather was dead I had > contracted my first ever back pain. My wife said it was like the one she had , felt like someone had kicked her in the diagphram > I had later cooked a meal that would taste great but looked all wrong. > For Christmas dinner in 2006. > James Brown - the slide you down the table till you wake up and smell the cofffee entrance. > Always so right on time . > On the money > Make your mark. > James, always looked and sounded so right so now and then 40 years ago. > That shot of simplistic black and mecurial light white dancing on the > cathode ray TAMI show tube, > that impossible poetry in motion. > That JjjjjJayyyyyymes Brown. > The great inevitable > What a challenge he still represents. > Caliban as high art. > The destitute man who forged a life cult. > In actual relaity. bad enough power to humble the Luftwaffe to ki;ll the racist. > James was a sorcherer who understood our hidden power and secret desire. > James was as modern as fuck and tied down deep in the belly and womb > and crotch of earth’s aged bones as God and Satan. > James made me beleive > And for small town boys suffering small town joys the sound of James > sung high and wild and free. > Al around the world. > From Banjul to bangor. > I have had this conversation in Gambia with kids five years younger than me. > James Brown’s sacred message, the real gift of Elvis to the world, the > loosening of the chains on a young man’s back. It was real It Is real. > Fuck sake James could a ended up in the electric chair. > A frieed nobody like so mnay other mothers and brothers mothers in the > hereto and theretofore. > But no. James endured James survived. > James was the wonder of the human spirit multiuplied by all the hairs > on your head, Bonos head and everybody’s head in the fuigging world. > And James was   all the most fantastic mind charging bliss creating > heaven right here right now ecstasy cry in the face aof all manner of > fuckery that you ever heard. > A wake for James. > A wake for James and all the possibilities and wonder and magick he > created for every boy and goirl and every ounce of joy all around this > world…. > Rise up rise up because his this was not limited in the secular or > spiritual or the you cant come in and join the party boy blues sense. > His was then and now and forever.