Lonesome Liz's Wild West Show

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Kara Clark and Eerie Von, LA Photos by Anthony Scarlatti

Kara Clark is not only playing with Eerie Von, (Misfits/Danzig) but they're getting married! Photos that celebrate both by Anthony Scarlatti.

Kara Clark and Eerie Von, by Anthonly Scarlatti: Kara and Eerie

Kara Clark and Eerie Von, by Anthonly Scarlatti: Eerie

Kara Clark and Eerie Von, by Anthonly Scarlatti: Kara

Kara and Eerie are not only playing badass Outlaw Country tunes together but they're getting married! Astonishing photos celebrating both by Nashville's Anthony Scarlatti.

Kara Clark Music

Friday, July 22, 2011

Waterfalls in Kentucky and Tennessee

I'm back in Kentucky and have been going camping at some of the most magnificent places! Look!

Yahoo Arch

Yahoo Falls

Yahoo Falls, Highest Waterfall in Ky

Yahoo was also the site of a horrible Indian massacre in 1810

This weekend I'm going to Laurel Snow:

Laurel Snow

Other places I've been the past few weeks:

Cumberland Falls Moonbow

One of only two places in the world where you can see moonbows! It was too cloudy when I was there :( Cumberland Falls

Frozen Head

Frozen Head Park, Tennessee

Burgess Falls

Burgess Falls, Tennessee

Devil's Jump Rapids

The Devil's Jump

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

NYC Photos by Kate Black at Hubert Sumlin's March Show and Dr. Sketchy's

Photo by Kate Black

Links to more amazing photos - from the Hotel Chelsea, Dr. Sketchy's on the Bowery, Hubert Sumlin and more:

Lonesome Liz listening to the Howling Wolf Blues at Iridium.

Katelan Foisy possessed by the Blues at Iridium.

Chelsea Hotel stairway with Katelan Foisy.

After Dr. Sketchy's with Katelan on the Bowery.

Follow Kate Black on Flickr.

Kate Black Photography

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

How to Begin Lucid Dreaming

There are 2 essential elements to starting lucid dreaming:

1. Chose a reality check: asking yourself at random, throughout the day if you are dreaming and looking at your hands, a clock, anything you chose, just keep it consistent.

2. It's also extremely helpful to keep a dream journal. This will help you become aware of the landscape of your dreams, (common places, colors, objects etc). The way this helps with lucid dreaming is that it sets visual cues in your mind that you can use to let yourself know you're dreaming. For example, I don't have a horse or a friend with one that I ride, so if I find myself horseback riding I can assume I'm dreaming.

The journal also increases your general awareness of your dreams. As this happens while you're awake, you'll be come more aware of them when you're sleeping too.

The best way to keep a dream journal is to not only include narrative but the following:

* Keywords
* People, places, objects that are central
* Who, what, where
* Mood or tone
* Colors
* Level of lucidity
* Date and a descriptive titile

It can also be useful to:

* Keep the notebook and a pen beside your bed and write down your dreams before getting out of bed.

* Wake up an hour earlier than usual, physically get up for 15 min - an hour, depending on how long you're able to fall back to sleep easily, then go back to bed.

* Look at pictures of things that were in your dream, (a schoolbus, a pink house, a restaurant etc)

* As you fall asleep, tell yourself that you will remember your dreams and that you will be aware you are dreaming

* Focus on the dots at the back of your eyelids, allowing them to form pictures, (these are called hypnogogic images, and sometimes you can go straight from focus on them to a lucid dream).

Next - maintaining lucidity and controlling your dreams so you can dream what you want!

How to Talk To Ghosts With Automatic Writing and Drawing

Automatic writing with a planchette, artist unknown.

Here is a basic overview of automatic writing and drawing from the recent seance workshop in Richmond, Va:

1. You can use either cursive or print.

2. You may chose to look or not look at the page.

3. Some recommend doing something in addition to writing while you

practice to occupy your left brain, (have a conversation, watch t.v.,

etc.)

To practice automatic writing:

Just put pen to paper and, without thinking about it, move your had as if you were writing. Some recommend that you do this as quickly as you can, I've had better result with doing it somewhat slowly or a little slower than normal writing speed, try both ways.

Stop when it feels natural to stop. If you catch yourself losing focus at some point/losing track or flow, choose a letter beforehand to then begin the next sentence with each time that happens. Always use the same letter so that you can identify where you did so later on.

Go back over what you've written and circle words that have formed. It helps to have someone else look at it too. I've also definitely found (usually obvious) words each time I've looked back over it - so def. look at it again.

It's ideal to write the date, time, location and method of automatic writing at the top of the page each time you do it. (Method meaning whether cursive or print, looking or not, doing something else or not etc).

Automatic drawing works the same way, the difference being that you draw rather than write.

You can also do this with a computer keyboard, (for me that works better/it's what I've always done). I've also found that adding bibliomancy, (open a book at random, putting your finger on a word at a time without looking), is extremely effective. Write the words your finger lands on on a different page, noting that that's what you're doing.

After the first few times that you do this/once you've gotten the hang of it, start focusing beforehand on a specific person you would like to talk to. Write ____________ are you here? Then attempt to answer with automatic writing. You can then write a series of questions and seek answers the same way.

It is NORMAL for automatic writing sessions to sometimes be scary/ disturbing. If this happens, think of it as working in a similar way that nightmares do - they can sometimes be completely incredible, made up of images we would normally not even think of. Automatic writing is similar, words are coming from your subconscious to your conscious mind, just as images do in dreams. If you feel uncomfortable stop. The next time you try it, vary the method and see if doing it another way works better for you.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Today in History (According to Sarah Palin), June 4

Sarah Palin

1989 - The Emperor of China fired into a crowd of demonstrators in Red Square, (they changed the name from Yemin Square because so many demonstrators died there). The event led to his being the last Emperor of China.

1942 - The Battle of Midway, which marked the middle of our defeat of the Germans in World War II.

1919 - Senate passed the Womens Suffering Bill.

1917 - The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded by Lily Pulitzer.

1912 - Massachusetts passed the first minimum wage law and there's been no need to increase it since then.

1812- The Louisiana Territory was officially renamed the "Missouri Territory" because no one wanted to credit the Jewish people for Sacajewea's help. Mark Twain was one of the main proponents of the change and later wrote books about it.

1789 - U.S. Constitution went into effect (but they had everything but the gun rights part wrong).

Birthdays:

1738 - King George III, who helped us form the 13 original colonies, mostly by paying taxes and sending us tea and guns.