Re: Age-Poll

[peggy cannon <cannon@aone.com>]

Darkhop wrote:
> 
> As I said on another post, I just found this place, so I'm not sure yet
> if I'll be hanging around. But in the interest of demographics....
> 
> Male; 37
> 1st album bought: The Dreaming
> Why: Cool cover. I'd seen The Kick Inside when I worked in a record shop
> in 1979 but didn't make the connection on first glimpse of tD. I was
> interested in dreams at the time & that photo sure looked like one.
> Those drums starting off Sat In Your Lap practically made me a fan right
> there.
> Kate albs I own: all except for Red Shoes (has she made anything since?)
> Top three in order: tD, HoL, NFE
> Top three tunes in order: Get Out of my House, Gaffa, Jig of Life (this
> list would likely change daily)
> 
> I came looking for this group because I'm reading The Night Is Large by
> Martin Gardner, with an essay about the guy that Cloudbusting is
> apparently based on. (And I'm sure someone here has made the connection
> between Cloudbusting and Hawkwind's Orgone Accumulator, right? <g>) What
> a crock! Has Kate ever talked about him? I'm curious about her take on
> this rainmaking machine of his.
> 
> Yers,
> John
> http://www.darkhop.com
> "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." --Hunter S. Thompson


I have always assumed that "Cloudbusting" was a thinly disguised
re-telling of Wilhelm Reich's story -- and his orgone energy machine.

Peg Cannon
cannon@aone.com