Blue Springs' Manatee: "Love Lounge" as Valentine's Day theater, Music of the Harbin warm pool, Notetaking as Anthropological Rifs

"Love Lounge" was the Valentine's Day theater satire in Harbin's Stonefront Lodge last night. It was a sophisticated, Harbin drama, with residents as actors. It was both hot, clever, and well-worded, and portrayed multiple time periods (e.g. the 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, etc.) vis-a-vis love. Versions may appear on online video, which I'll post, if I find them. One Harbin resident - BuddhaJames 007 - made a recording. This play was great. The Stonefront Lodge living room was packed with mostly Harbin residents, who sat mostly on the floor like the hippies that many are, with Ish (Harbin's founder) right at the front of the pack, lying on his back with his knees bent comfortably, (one old hippie among many?). "She's gorgeous," he said, as he was leaving to head home.


Here's what one person in Facebook, who, dressed in a white suit with red hat, and played "Cupid," said about the show:

"Just had a blast at the harbin love lounge show. I got to play a sleazy cupid/pimpy dude in an awesome show. April Dawn, holy holy smokes! and a thousand other beautiful gems. Thank you Ed, for visions and hard work. Oh and thank you for the money for the beer and wine for the after sausage party that was kajilion laughs. Priceless..."


Love lounge valentine's day as harbin troopbonding - cupid shooting his arrows was an effective stage device - communitas


I think Ish likes drama, and it might even work at Harbin in the same way that it worked in the ancient Greek world, for understanding, and sophisticated ways of getting at common experience.


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What is the music of the Harbin warm pool? - and for a bodymind, interactively, which might then produce a musical sequence of tones?

With the Harbin warm pool's constant, magnificent, body-warm temperature, is it a kind of om? (Is saying 'aum' a practice which can bring constancy to the practicer, like a drone, to his/her bodymind in response to the cacaphony of social and idea-life?). Let's experiment interactively with the music of the warm pool to see what comes up, perhaps by singing in the pools, and making music, if only silently in our own bodyminds ... {and with neural hats for studies?} - and then creating music at home, on our own.

It's the interactive element - feel the water, and experience the pools, then process this in your own bodymind, and then make music - that's fascinating. This idea engages the possibility that bodyminds are like computers - input/output devices with self-generated musical software.


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Each note I take (on my organizer, discretely at Harbin while there) can be a kind of anthropological rif (or motif) - which I later improvise on, and blog about, - raising fascinating questions of memory, objectivity, subjectivity, representation and writing.


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The Harbin pools are a little like a Berkeley sit-in, or a hippie gathering, but without guitar. And there are flowers are all around, in the Harbin pools.


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There's a kind of connectedness among hippies where everyone is in on-the-know - where everyone is hip to what's happening (for example, the in-the-knowness could be about anything, for example, this Harbin ethnography, or something else obscure), - and in the Harbin dressing room of all places, for example.

How does 'hipness' this work? {I think it has to do with 'counterculture' - and cultural inferences}.


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Calistoga, a town which you can pass through at the north end of the Napa Valley in getting to Harbin, is very Western, in 2010, and even touristic, as a kind of context with which to contrast Harbin, (which is more for guests, visitors and residents, than tourists).


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I'm relating here, in this blog, a very pools-centric interpretation of Harbin. There are so many possible interpretations of Harbin which would be fascinating to write, read and learn about - perhaps in wiki form, too - but mine is emerging as pools-centric.


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Omega brain - freedom in all ways at Harbin - sing







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Migrating Manatees:

sit-on-topkayaking.com/Images/Nature/Manatee/infobsaggkws.jpg

neilbartowphotography.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/blue-springs-manatees.jpg





(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/02/blue-springs-manatee-love-lounge-as.html - February 11, 2010)