Sunday, November 6, 2011

Sunday Sermon: No Work, No Play, No Power Makes Citizen an Angry Man

"A belly full, but them hungry;
A hungry mob is an angry mob.
A rain a-fall, but the duty tough;
A pot a-cook, but d' food no 'nough.
A hungry man is an angry man."

- Bob Marley, from "Them Belly Fully (But We Hungry)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Inclusive / Exclusive


Let me tell you people
United we stand, divided we fall
Respect your brothers, sisters and all

- Ken Boothe, from the song "Freedom Street"

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Thomas Nirvana Jefferson

"Every citizen should be a soldier.  
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be the case of all free states."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
The people itself are its only safe depositories."

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, 
and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be."

"Merchants have no country.  
The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an
attachment as that from which they draw their gains."

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.  
When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

 -- All  of the above quotes attributed to Thomas Jefferson

"Load up on guns and bring your friends"
from "Smells Like Teen Spirit," by Nirvana (Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl)

"It's time to re-create our future.  Unfortunately, it appears we must do it the hard way."
--  The Preacher


Thursday, July 7, 2011

The Lord's Enema Has Gone Through: The Tour Is Back On!

GONE THROUGH FOR GOD

The good lord's enema has gone through
All has passed
The good lord's enema has gone through
That was fast
The good lord's enema has gone through
I passed a nut
The good lord's enema has gone through
I wipe my butt

He wipes his butt
He wipes his butt
The nut has passed
The good lord's enema has gone through

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Woodstock, New Brunswick: Deja Vu

Preacher & the Blue Healer's cover Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock"
 
"We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden"

-- Joni Mitchell

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Show at Grand Falls, NB: Through the Water In the Sky

Preacher and the Blue Healers cover Phish's "Water In the Sky"

"Thunder calls through waterfalls
Rising tides and ocean walls
I can hear you when you sigh

Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
Watch them fall and let them lie

I can hear you when you sigh
Through the water in the sky"

-- Trey Anastasio & Tom Marshall


The background of this webcomic is a Corel Painter illustration 
of  Tammy Rioux's photo of Grand Falls found on Wikipedia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Edmundston Show: Let the Sound Take You Away

Preacher & the Blue Healers cover Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride"

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

- Rushton Moreve and John Kay





Friday, June 24, 2011

Tonight: Live in Fort Kent, Maine

The Gospel Truth Presents:
Preacher & the Blue Healer's End 1 Begin 1 North American Summer Tour
Following U.S. Rt. 1 (Detour U.S. Rt. 17)
June 24 through August 8, 2011

Tour Dates:

6.24  Fort Kent, ME
6.25  Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
6.26  Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada
6.27  Caribou, ME
6.28  Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada
6.29  Waite, ME
6.30  Calais, ME
7.1    Bangor/Brewer, ME  
7.2    Camden, ME  
7.3    Portsmouth, NH
7.4    Boston, MA
7.5    Providence, RI
7.6    Mystic, CT
7.7    New York, NY
7.8    Trenton, NJ
7.9    Philadelphia, PA
7.10  Baltimore, MD
7.11  Washington D.C.
7.12  Alexandria, VA
7.13  Charlottesville, VA
7.14  Richmond, VA
7.15  Raleigh/Durham, VA
7.16  Fayetteville, NC
7.17  Wilmington, NC
7.18  Myrtle Beach, NC
7.19  Charlotte, NC
7.20  Asheville, NC
7.21  Flat Rock, NC
7.22  Greenville/Spartanburg, SC
7.23  Columbia, SC
7.24  Mt. Pleasant, SC
7.25  Charleston, SC
7.26  Beaufort, SC
7.27  Hilton Head Island, SC
7.28  Savannah, GA
7.29  Augusta, GA
7.30  Vidalia, GA
7.31  Waycross, GA
8.1    Jacksonville, FL
8.2    St. Augustine, FL
8.3    Daytona Beach, FL
8.4    Cocoa Beach, FL
8.5    Boca Raton, FL
8.6    Ft. Lauderdale, FL
8.7    Miami Beach, FL
8.8    Key West, FL

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

War & Peace In 3-D


"War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, 
and we ought to understand that and not play at war."

- Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace


Friday, June 17, 2011

Congresstein's Monster

"You think that you have killed me.
But I will be with you forever.
I am unbound."

-- The Monster
from Frankenstein Unbound (1990)