146 NICE TIMES by Lun Chape: www.sweetdango.typepad.com\ & sweetdango@hotmail.com & www.2012ad.com– click on “beta site”, go to “mofo”

“Indicating”, the idea of it, in acting – not a thing you want to be doing, it’s said by thesps. One site recommends: whatever you are doing, just do it, don’t indicate you’re doing it. Also: “Do not play the result.” And: “In the end, it can’t look like acting.” Reference at this site to “the old man” – must mean good ol’ Stan, Stan Islavski, the famous teacher of “the Method”. I’m not an actor myself, don’t wanna be, but I have found that art very interesting over the years, in movies and on smaller screens.

Monarch Bear Grove – a location in Golden Gate Park – got to thinking of it due to a reference by Melissa Griffin in her Examiner column about Druids doing their thing in the park. I’m somewhat into the druidic/bardic thing, through my interest in Robert “The White Goddess” Graves, so that piqued my curiosity, the Griffin reference, to seek further. I’m at a site with photos – go to the 2012ad site noted in the header to this then to the “Mofo” pages for specific URLs – one Ovate Padraig, a Druid big kahuna, I guess, has a long essay about this grove.

“Higher Consciousness” – like the Wickedpedia entry for it – got to it because the fella who created the site I’m posting the Mofo links on didn’t particularly like my references in a previous posting to a book about prostitutes, their clients, and the police, that three-way dynamic, no pun intended, and also didn’t think a link I posted about dating was appropriate to the higher consciousness theme of our collaborative site. So that got me to thinking. Anyway, I’d recommend this higher consciousness Wickedpedia info – many links embedded for further research, inquiry, thought.

Marc Weinstein, founder of Amoeba Records – filed away an interview with him from the Paste Magazine site – related to the just-passed Record Store Day. Hadn’t heard of this – in fact learned of it first at the site for Aquarius Records, an indie outlet for music on Valencia in San Fashionisco. Tho’ I surely do visit record stores along with indie bookstores I love in the city. Just the other day bought a spoken word disc by William Burroughs at the Haight Ameoba – got a deal, five bucks for it, instead of the usual probably 15, due to slight surface damage that didn’t affect the playing. For sure the record stores are having it tough, in the new digital world. But I like their independent presence and mostly buy from the brick and mortars and not online.

Noni juice – 32 ounces, raw, certified organic, a shade under 28 bucks, down from nearly 37, through Sunfood – online, I might mention. Tho’ Rainbow Grocery probably has it, or something very like it. Something I think would be good to ingest. Was there just yesterday, speaking more of purchases – spent a shade under ten for a shade under a half pound of bulk kelp, four beeswax candles, a little bottle of Rejuvelac – a little, but the right amount – and…a 2-pack of tiny little cupcakes with Guittard chocolate in them, a gift for a friend. So I put my money where my mouth is.

Aquarius Records, speaking of which – get their new arrivals e-mailing – hardly get through any of it, but like having in my e-possession that information. In it the Record Store Day was mentioned. Whoever wrote it, like the apology at the top about the “electronic intrusion” of the e-mail…I really support the store and those like it…currently, am in the market mostly for spoken word CDs – Amoeba Haight has some Tim Leary, Paul Bowles, and more Burroughs I want. Also probably Terence McKenna, and Lenny Bruce, and more…next purchase is likely, from the Last Gasp Warehouse at 777 Florida, a 7 dollar Leary disc, featuring as well an unintentionally humorous BBC segment about LSD, and a reading and interview by Bowles.

“How to Have Presence” – a WikiHow article – read it on my MyTouch smartphone, on the go on the street, got something out of it. Relates to the acting tip about indicating referred to in the first paragraph of this installment of “Nice Times”.

“The Post-Competitive, Comparative Game of a Free City” – Digger Sixties article – see the Mofo set of links for this installment at 2012ad for easy access to that text.