Sam says that his day has gone completely out of control today.
Can you come in tomorrow at 4pm??
I am William Thacher Dane.
Roofing on the east coast of England for ages.
Humped by Vikings +-1100 AD.
My life gone completely out of control daily.
And you expect me !? ...... at 4pm tomorrow.
Injuries-insults-boohoo's. 
Poor lilbilly.
See ya.
Punctually.

I dont even know how to 'play' the lottery.

But I am lucky.

Berkeley public-schools art-teacher 32 years.

Picture-hunter w/$1600 mo 'pension'.

Way-underpaid Edu-Prof-Wife doin' good-works.

Twins in colleges = loans n joys.

Plus hella-goodies.

Entitled-white-guy still gotta chuckle every time I'm asked to donate.

My Grandfather could - William Larned Thacher = Thacher Gates.

My Thacher-Mother couldn't afford Midland -Grampa's gates got me 2 years free.

Forget Thacher.  Even I said that.

'Poorish'-blacksheep cousin Edith Thacher Dane born at Thacher School in '13.

'Raised' at Thacher.  We got to come up from LA every xmas n summer to play.

Vassar whizz But, "You cant be a doctor, Edie." = WOMAN in the 1930s.

Her fucking favorite uncle-male doctor at Yale dished-up this bile.

She worked at LA County hospital screening cancer-slides.

With doctors always coming around the house & her pants.

A communist-symp & socialist-heart.

Lucky for Pasadena area she then lived off her died-father's leftovers. 

Started HeadStart in black-Pasadena.

Headed the Valley-area EconOppCouncil under LBJ.

Got a cross burned on our lawn for fighting to get jesus outta-town-center at xmas.

There's a dreidel & Star o David there today.

HoHoHo.

! OhOhOh was Midland a huge Gift for me.

Literally saved my-pink-ass.

I went to silly-pasadena-high 12th grade. 

In order to complete my momentary-renaissance.

I needed to physically leave Midland and my past for a billy-tabula rasa.

Relieving myself in public. 

The least of stuff.

Be well.

Bill.

Pasadena, CA. 

Talk about ice-stone-cold racism in the '40s n '50s ... Now.

Immersed !& life-saved by !Mommy's Acts ... little-talk. 

How we even danced-in-awe 9 feet from Nat King Cole.

!? At the Pasadena Civic Aud in '56.

A kind of real.
I put 'new' pictures on Flickr every week.

Bob Dylan.
I use Pandora.
Feels like I could find words that pretty-much-sum-it from each of his '60's + songs.
Being a Baroque n Mozart guy - I've mostly 'listened' to 'sounds'.

Wrote:
I would AdventureRock this:
(I could do mo-betta)  ((Spike)):
The '70's = Leadbelly-JamesB-AC/DC-Hendricks-Joplin-Marley- + -
+ Your,  Et-Al ... 
I listened, +.
Queen was good, w/o, among other ingredients, the-taut-intensity.
but: !No MP&TL-FS.
Today's folks need to have touch-stones,  launching recent mostly-fine-reviews of MajorPowers.
I experience your 'takes'.
!ThankYou.
!&, Oh dear, we're differnt too.
!So:
What I can-do-hear is MP&TL-FS. :
http://lofisymphony.com/music.html
Good luck for all of us.

People.
End of November.
(another)
Beginning of "Bill Dane on the internet.".
Thank You.
Bill & Nick.

(! DeltaDental only covers our front 6 whities.
IE: I have a gap at #7.
Helping to define The 99%.
! And proud of it.)

! MajorPowers live in NorCal:
lofisymphony.com/

Now I will read Toni Morrison's novels.
In the order she wrote them.
See you later.

I finish this "Light In August".
Lightly-stoned on "Lava" from Iceland.
I'll just float here a bit ...

?! R&B in East Pasadena:

Wilson Jr Hi +  '51+.

Listen to Huggie Boy on our radios.   Wolf Man Jack.

Three little whities ride the trolly & bus to LA's Vernon At Central record store.

Buy R&B 45's to bring back  for selves   and 7th grade parties.

We found LittleRichard in mid '50's.

He fucking came to Pasadena in '56.

We got front row. 

All by himself  the Man was explosive  messianic. 

Danced   balanced his piano-chair  up in his mouth.

Seems we imported black R&B to the lil-ole-white-ladies-of-East Pasadena.

Some of their children can still be heard sayin' "Nigger"   if you listen.

Joined the army to get out of town.

Berkeley next.

Now  you sign books & I'm invited.

Stay well Joel Selvin.
And Thank you for this back-in-our-day picture at Vernon and Central.

Wrote:

As some kinda Zizek-commie w/entitled whiteguy-wetsuit cred ... n blah bla bs.

I will remain discombobulated.

Damn right I'll vote for saving more lives with Barack Hussein Obama II.

Human nature will not cease to beget evilites.

? When is it that real 'Evolution' kicks-in.

? Could this be intelligent-design.

! Unholy-Shit.

Wrote:
Capitalism is an evil human nature encourages.

Stage:
We experienced "CHINGLISH".
David Henry Hwang.
A treasure-package.
  My find among the gifts:
      Western romantic-love-life bind 
      vis a vis 
      Respect-commitment-family bind.

Heard:
Oh, he'll always need a sub.

Dream.

I have recurring classroom dreams.

Usually 5-7 AM.

I am frantically rearranging the furniture.

Class starts in minutes.

Wildly I have no plan for the lesson.

This time:

Alone in this big yellowish, off-white room.

High ceiling, bare walls, white tables, no supplies.

People I can't see, "Your father is having an attack."(? Heart-choking-seizure)

My father's severed head is brought in, put on a table in front of me.

They, "The only way to save him, we had to cut off all the rest."

If he's to live, it's understood, I must to give him mouth-to-mouth.

I do it. It's not ghastly. He pukes up some bile. Starts to breath.

Me, "He's not dead."

He does not speak or look at me. The breathing head.

I think, "This won't work. A head can't survive.

? How the fuck does a head do things. ? How can I care for a head.

I can't."

I put the head on it's side and cover it with a cloth.

I see that it tries to stay alive.

I decide not to help ... and wake up.

! Major Powers sold-out the "Bottom Of The Hill" last night.

! Their Vinyl was released.
! BigFun. Thanks Nick-Kevin-Dylan & TheMoonbeamer.

Visit.

The Coup

BootsRiley&TheTeam

"The Magic Clap"

MajorPowers&TheLo-FiSymphony

Review.

I decided to trade My vintage prints for U.S.D. @ 'market-value'.!.

An introduction:
Slavoj Zizek.

Toni Morrison.

..."Beloved"

.....Amazing!.

Next, "Light In August".

Flickr-fellow comments on a picture of mine:

Him:

Very cool yet creepy.

With that said...isn't this just a photo you took of someone else's pic???

A little bit misrepresentative don't you think....

Me:

Thank you.

With that said ...

Oh, dear.

I'm a street photographer-hunter-gatherer.

For fun try: billdane.com

I built it for you.

Him:

Nice website Bill...interesting pics.

Me:

My pleasure.

The evolution from Volume 1 thru 14.

Picture by picture, 1969 - 2012.

No deviant god nor concept me-truckin' hath driven.

Thank the spirits you wrote !

Know that some-persons call persons-like-me names = mini-doodoo.

Try living Black-Palestinian-Jew-Latino-Queer-'Trash'-Commie +.

I am on record as an appropriation-lover and self-defining commie.

Love.

Bill.

YouTube new-stuff.

¿With white-whiny-entitled-gadfly?

Go figure.
I'm tryin'...

I read an email:

"I think Volume 2 scared the shit out of people.

When you went one step further in Volume 3

they had to let go because their tiny shitty little brains

couldn’t deal with the fear.

Whata buncha fuckin seat-belted mannequins."

Volume 14 is in-progress.

"One Hundred Years Of Solitude".

What else would I think about.

Time to at-least chuckle.
?Wry. ?Bemused. !Amazed. !Sad.

Always.

Note to a FlickrContact in Moscow:

I have signed up for your next adventure "_ _".

For 150 years there is no big blood on our USA soil.

You can say, "What do you know Bill".

We kill people in other countries.

We are killed slowly with cars & chemicals & racism & no-healthcare/jobs & Etc.

We 99% are slowly killed by top 1% Goverment/Capitalist Criminals.

It is now International/Global neo-conservative/liberal capitalism ... the 1% rules us all.

Most of us more than some of us !.

I am a very lucky self-defining communist.

Best for you "_ _" and your people.

Love.

Bill.

From my "Flickr Profile":

Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area +.
Still-straight-street picture hunter-gatherer.
Self-defining communist.

Stop neo-conservative/liberal capitalism.
With a Nikon D80 w/28-105 macro ?!

Do what you do.
I don't use photoshop.
With iPhoto I can fiddle like in old-darkroom-days.
Love.
Bill.

My pictures are for sale for 99$ + costs.
No more edition prints.
Any size you choose to 42" by X". Ink-jet.

The Padded-One in Space.

Marc James Leger Les Avenues Cosmiques:

"An Interview with William Thacher Dane Le Boulevard"

unholy-fun.

Coming soon:

The Nick Powers Internet Company.

Sweet-song

Bo Carter

He may have written this when he was 99:

My Pencil Won't Write No More

"a small evolutionary-devolutionary tale continues:"

Please cursor here.

Have not felt this since 1947*

My homie flew back-in

My message on her leg

Ate and flew out-there

Free as a bird

Love

Comrade Bill

http://billdane.com/sales.html

*I have already been reminded

that I've had this feeling since

many times in many contexts.

Wondered over the years

Who would I 'be'

If I were a $picture-star$

Nothing but denims ?

$99. unlimited-editions ?

99%er ?

Evolved into what ?

Thank you Doctor:

"whenever I hear the word entitled

I reach for my manifesto"

He also sent me this direct-hit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RViHHn8RpE

Flickr for us-all:

Until Nick (lofisymphony.com/) and I started building

The Website together in 2007 (and on it goes)

I rarely looked at other's art & pictures.
'69-'71 Atget-Evans-Frank-Diane-Gary-Lee + were 'digested' ?
I set up low-budget homing (ignore my bio-facade) underground.

The goal has always been to have my pictures well-seen.
Mailing picture-cards from day-one = pleasure-filled

But to a way too limited audience.
The amazing internet led to "Bill Dane on the internet."

And then this "Flickr-Photostreaming".
Hot f---in' what I didn't know I was waiting for.

Hello, pleasure-connectors = receptors-reciprocators-comrades.

So! I was lucky to have you pass thru my Flickr & to find yours.

MP&TLFS:

MajorPowers.

Unholy.

I genuflect.

My pleasure.

"Appropriation Art":

I.E., pictures of faces-trees-sunsets-+whatever
Just behind TheGoldenRule-Cleanliness-+
This "Bill Dane on the internet." is full of it !
My Flickr "Photostream" is piled high !
Yakety yak .. don't talk back.

All that matters is size and control

Huge large medium small tiny

The rest is commentary

Hillel 10AD ? 45k years-earlier ? 2012 AD+.

We must know this:

"Capitalism Hits The Fan"

Richard D. Wolff

(U. Mass, Amherst)

Thank You

Norman Lam .welcomes me into his gallery +

This is an amazing adventure pleasure

I loved doing the postcards .bbut now

I can connect pictures with so many people

This feels as egalitarian as possible

Thank You Norman

Good luck to all of us .Bill

Seeing Is Amazing

James Danziger's school:

This Year In Pictures

Miles Davis

American

Thanks to PandoraFreeOnlineRadio

Where you can find your-own:

Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet ... Davis was the son of a dental surgeon, Dr. Miles Dewey Davis, Jr., and a music teacher, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, and thus grew up in the black middle class of east St. Louis ... (He went to) the Institute of Musical Art in New York City (renamed Juilliard) in September 1944. Shortly after his arrival in Manhattan, he was playing in clubs with Parker, and by 1945 he had abandoned his academic studies for a full-time career as a jazz musician ...

In 1955 cousin Surry drives us to San Francisco

Miles Davis is at The Blackhawk (Turk n Hide)

We are 16 ..ffake ID's ..imagine

BreakTime .. Miles comes to beside me at the bar

We drink whiskey and smoke Luckies

"How do you know jazz" (Lil-baby-face-white-boy)

Chance Magic StringTheory Whatever ?

I say things:
Facebook

We can hope that The 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11%ers

Figure out how high-up the 100% pyramid We actually are

And how close to homes this is coming

How can we have a real democracy

When we have to pay to be educated

John Lennon

"Time wounds all heals."

The children of every elected official in the U.S. = city state federal

Must be the first to enlist in our armed-forces

When any new military 'adventure' is begun.

&!

Must attend their local public schools

&!

Higher education must be free for all

&!

Elected officials and their families medical needs

Must be provided by the local hospital where

Citizens without insurance are treated.

&!

Elected officials and their families

Must find housing in their most depressed local neighborhood.

&!

Campaigns for all U.S. elections must be funded by tax-created funds.

Candidates will receive equal amounts from the fund.

No outside/inside money allowed.

&!

Every person living in the U.S.

Must be immediately granted unconditional citizenship.

New immigration policy to be developed.

&!

There must be a national dialogue to create a humane economic system.

&!

A fair tax system.

This is not too much

We have tiny experience

With how most people on our planet survive

We take so much for granted ..

...As our god-given-right

.....Here in our by-chance & by-luck tiny piece of the world

This is what we call the feelings & actions of 'Entitlement'

If there is Sin .. This kind of "Entitlement" is a major qualifier

We are all gonna be guilty often

Carry-on Mose .et al.. Dad

OurOligarchs/OurPlutocrats

Will apparently murder & maim us

Without traceable blood-splatters

Thanks to those who pointed to:

Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" Etc
Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Etc
Breece DJ Pancake "The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake"
Russell Banks "Continental Drift" EtcLeonard Michaels "To Feel These Things" Etc
Heinrich Boll "The Collected Stories" Etc
W.G. Sebald "On The Natural History Of Destruction" Etc

In '07 Monet and Nick suggested-opened-made possibleA huge and inspiring new universe

He created "Bill Dane on the internet."Side-by-side/lightbulb-by-lightbulb with me
"Bill Dane on the internet." is NickTech-by-tech/code-by-code on his own
Forever Thank You Two So Much
Love BillDad
Major Powers:

http://lofisymphony.com/blog5.

9-11

Remedy:

Communities

Local to global

Democratic

Socialist.

Gravity:

One of the essentials

One of my favorites

The Arts

Listening to men singing 100s of arias

My experience. they are way too grounded

Pavarotti can float and fly and land

Experience any art work with gravity 'in-mind'

Human Nature

Grave .

Tomorrow is 9-11 ..G

Still no real Why-news

In our U.S. mainstream media

So much that. goes-without-saying

Must be repeated relentlessly:

I am lucky and entitled.l.like it or not

Those who are not..always know

Themselves and me .

Like it or not

So much good stuff out there:

Blog: We Can Shoot Too

Website: J. Wesley Brown

Blog: This Year in Pictures

Website: Danziger Projects

Thank you both

Wish we all had more time

Very fine human beings +

Katrina Doerner

Mahoney-Suter..Ellen & Lizanne

Help Rebuild The Dream

The American Dream is under siege

But a new movement is rising to fight back

Stand up to say “No” to right-wing attacks

On the middle class

And every class

Even on themselves ...

As they will find

Hopefully asap

Most of we U.S.A.ers are busy cutting off our own body-parts

Real-News ignored mOur media controlled

Corporate congressional-buy-offs

Brainwashed & rinsed we are .BB

By the tippy-toppers & their dupesters

I grew up with 'Villainous Russian & Chinese Press !'

Ohh..to wake up soul-less.in our own land

The Arts:

Find 'em as fast as you can

Acronym for world-sanity:

SHHJED..

Socialism

HealthCare

Housing

Jobs

Education

Democracy

For every person on our small planet

Or bust

TheFan:

You hear it now & since the 1800's

Not just from Taibbi Wolff Krugman Riech et al

Wages & jobs have been in decline since '72

Our money has gone to the tip-top

ThisPlutocraticCapitalistEconShitGottaHitTheFan!

I am sorry ..mostly for those w/o the world over

The Fan:

Matt Taibbi @ Rolling Stone

Pleasure:

Major Powers and the Symphony

First Show

Thirteen Songs

Eleven feet from them

I was struck

http://www.lofisymphony.com/

Found:

The last of my vintage prints

5x7s

&

11x14s

Harvard's Fogg Museum Collection:

My pictures

This Website:

2007:

"lilbilly" .& ."the cobra"

We continually evolved it

2011:

"Bill Dane on the internet.". & ."Major Powers"

4+ years....visions-out ..

Thanks for being here

Our pleasure ..Nick & Bill ..

&

Coming: .

I hope we can publish all Nick's 'construction-code'

It's there behind everything we see on the Website

It'll be fun to hear, "OhMyGod, Nick did that ?!"

Yes! .And we decided form & content ingredients together since day one

You are astounding Nick.LLove Bill

I do take full responsibility for the pictures

He created "Bill Dane on the internet."

Side-by-side + lightbulb-by-lightbulb with me.

Then tech-by-tech = code-by-code on his own !:

Hello. I'm Nick Powers. I taught myself how to play piano when I was 8 and have been writing songs ever since. I cannot read music, but I figured out the complete instrumentation to theDuckTales theme song when I was 13 and tracked it on my Yamaha PSS-790 (BEST. KEYBOARD. EVER.)

I grew up listening to Ray Charles, Beethoven, and Jimmy Cliff. I also absolutely loved the music in West Side Story and Mary Poppins. I never really listened to that much music in my teens, but, through friends, there were a handful of acts who blew my mind: Jets To Brazil, E-40, Superdrag and The Get Up Kids, in particular. I suppose if you crushed all of the above in a trash compactor you'd hear my band. Or maybe I can't tell what my own band sounds like.

I grew up a Dungeons & Dragons nerd on welfare with a single mom in Crockett, CA. My dad was in prison when I was young. My mom was a cleaning lady and worked at one family's house for a whole summer to buy me a real piano. I live in Richmond, CA with my wife and almost-three-year-old daughter.

All I think I'm trying to do with my music is tell a story. I grew up in an out-of-the-way, dying factory town. More people than you realize did the same thing. We all do shitty drugs. We all wear the wrong clothes. We all listen to the wrong music. We all feel a little funny at fancy restaurants. And then, in a fucked up twist, we all feel like we have to act disinterested to protect ourselves from ridicule. In my mind, this is the soundtrack to that shit.

Please visit: MP&TL-FS

See:

The Moses Dulberg Dane Blog

Ride!

Volume 12

It's Here !

My pleasure . Bill

See: 

The Esther Dulberg Dane Shows

"Oxbow School" Napa CA

"Precita Eyes" in The Mission District S.F.

"Esther at Hampshire College" Amherst, Mass

"Hampshire performance piece"

Just found:

Edith ''Edie'' Thacher Dane

Edith "Edie" Thacher Dane, 89, died Sunday, June 23, 2002 at the home of her daughter in San Jose, Calif. She was born May 4, 1913 in Ojai on the campus of The Thacher Preparatory Boys School, where her father, William Larned Thacher, was associate head master and her uncle, Sherman Day Thacher, was head master.
She attended Vassar College in New York, and married and settled in Sierra Madre, Calif., where her mother, Hilda Blumer Thacher, was born. Her maturnal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John George Blumer, were of the original group of residents of Sierra Madre when they arrived in 1886.
Ms. Dane lived in Sierra Madre for more than 60 years and was an active and dedicated volunteer in her community throughout her adult life. She received numerous honors and awards for her service in the areas of early childhood developpment, the "War on Poverty," and a variety of human rights and social justice initiatives. She was active in the Democratic Party and, in her later years, was active in efforts to preserve the hillside of her hometown. As a social activist, she was committed to the health and well-being of all members of society and to her local communities of Sierra Madre, and surrounding Pasadena-area cities.
She is survived by her children, Bill Dane of Albany, Calif., Frank Dane of Forestville, Calif., and Nancy Dane Peña of San Jose, Calif.; Bill's wife, daughter-in-law Nancy Dulberg; seven grandchildren; two great-granddaughters; and several cousins and in-laws.
Memorial services will be held Aug. 16, 2002 in Sierra Madre.
© 2002 The Ojai Valley News

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No mention of socialism:

The political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, exchange, and profit-use be democratically owned, controlled, regulated, and 'board-of-directored' by the workers and the entire community.

In our gross capitalist-plutocracy.. our 'so-called' democracy

We do have people working with intelligence and energy for us all:

Network of Spiritual Progressives

"Don't Fall for the GOP (and Obama) Lie"

by Robert Reich with an introductory reflection by Rabbi Lerner

I know:

This mind-body-chem thing is very amazing

A piece of my chem:

Engaged calm-melancholic-sad-depressed

Engaged calm-pleasured-joyful-ecstatic

Minutes . .days..... years

I asked for a UCSF consult - BiPolar2 ?

"You're fine, Bill. Take your Celexa."