Comments on: Mick Jagger tells Larry King it’s just luck http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/ Skafish speaks... in his own words - raw and uncensored... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:25:06 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Guy Arnston http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Guy Arnston Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:50:33 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-732 "Ditch the holiday blues" “Ditch the holiday blues”

]]> By: Skafish http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-639 Skafish Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:30:49 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-639 Mariann! Thanks for your words as well. Your insights of intutiton are appreciated! Jim Mariann! Thanks for your words as well. Your insights of intutiton are appreciated! Jim

]]> By: Mariann Pancoe http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Mariann Pancoe Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:11:45 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-638 Jim, once again I an astonished by your eloquence & insight. Before I got through the first part on the nature of luck, I was thinking to myself "synchronicity at work." Yes, when our lives, attitudes, and spirits are aligned with the natural order of things there are signs all along the way. We call these things coincidences, but actually it is the universe's way of showing us we are in a state of flow and harmony with our surroundings. On of my favorite bits and pieces of wisdom coming from that old word master, Dylan, is "the highway is for gamblers, better use your sense, take what you have gathered from coincidence." I have always had an awareness of that. An intuitive understanding that what people see as coincidence, luck, or the miraculous is once again being in harmony with the unseen world and having that world reveal itself to us. I love your essays, just like I loved your music. As to Mick Jagger's humility, this is a man who has been all over the world, seen many things, and been in the center of what has mostly been a marvelous storm. How could he not see how big and wide the wave has been that has propelled him ever onward? Surely it must be humbling and I am sure he has grown rather wise after spending almost an entire lifetime as a vessel through which the inexpressible has expressed itself. Jim, once again I an astonished by your eloquence & insight. Before I got through the first part on the nature of luck, I was thinking to myself “synchronicity at work.” Yes, when our lives, attitudes, and spirits are aligned with the natural order of things there are signs all along the way. We call these things coincidences, but actually it is the universe’s way of showing us we are in a state of flow and harmony with our surroundings. On of my favorite bits and pieces of wisdom coming from that old word master, Dylan, is “the highway is for gamblers, better use your sense, take what you have gathered from coincidence.” I have always had an awareness of that. An intuitive understanding that what people see as coincidence, luck, or the miraculous is once again being in harmony with the unseen world and having that world reveal itself to us. I love your essays, just like I loved your music. As to Mick Jagger’s humility, this is a man who has been all over the world, seen many things, and been in the center of what has mostly been a marvelous storm. How could he not see how big and wide the wave has been that has propelled him ever onward? Surely it must be humbling and I am sure he has grown rather wise after spending almost an entire lifetime as a vessel through which the inexpressible has expressed itself.

]]> By: Skafish http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Skafish Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:01:38 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-637 David! Great points! My gut level sense of your friend is that he is going against the tide of nature's support and forging a journey that is self-undoing. I don't feel that his bad reinforces your good, but that you're trying to move your life forward and he may not be. I hope he can heal his life, truly! Jim David! Great points! My gut level sense of your friend is that he is going against the tide of nature’s support and forging a journey that is self-undoing.

I don’t feel that his bad reinforces your good, but that you’re trying to move your life forward and he may not be. I hope he can heal his life, truly! Jim

]]> By: David Cooke http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-636 David Cooke Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:41:07 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-636 Hi Jim, David from Liverpool here. :) As someone who in the last few years has become very interested in Quantum Physics and how it has shaped my life, I got what you are saying. A great read as ever my friend. I have a friend whose life has deteriorated over the last 12 years. He has gone from someone with potential to someone on the road to complete and utter ruin. He has made some appalling decisions which have taken him to this point. Does nature support his decisions too? It's just that from my perspective (in my little Quantum world) his bad decisions exist to reinforce my good ones. We learn from his mistakes - the forces of the universe are guiding me through lessons learnt almost vicariously. Awwww, this is too deep for 5.40 in the morning. :) Peace and love, David :) x Hi Jim, David from Liverpool here. :)

As someone who in the last few years has become very interested in Quantum Physics and how it has shaped my life, I got what you are saying. A great read as ever my friend.

I have a friend whose life has deteriorated over the last 12 years. He has gone from someone with potential to someone on the road to complete and utter ruin. He has made some appalling decisions which have taken him to this point. Does nature support his decisions too?

It’s just that from my perspective (in my little Quantum world) his bad decisions exist to reinforce my good ones. We learn from his mistakes – the forces of the universe are guiding me through lessons learnt almost vicariously.

Awwww, this is too deep for 5.40 in the morning. :)

Peace and love,

David
:) x

]]> By: Skafish http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Skafish Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:34:15 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-635 Gregg! Excellent points! I recall hearing Jagger say that if it wasn't for the calculated publicity by Andrew, it would have taken them a lot longer to make it. Jim Gregg! Excellent points! I recall hearing Jagger say that if it wasn’t for the calculated publicity by Andrew, it would have taken them a lot longer to make it. Jim

]]> By: Gregg Orange http://skafishblog.skafish.com/2010/06/01/mick-jagger-tells-larry-king-it%e2%80%99s-just-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Gregg Orange Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:22:07 +0000 http://skafishblog.skafish.com/?p=628#comment-634 Engaging and interesting commentary and analysis on the Stones success, Jim. I think there are a number of factors that made the Stones the superstars that they were and still are. Let's not neglect to mention or underestimate the abilities of former Beatles publicist Andrew Loog Oldham who managed the Stones for years and possessed a natural ability to seize the moment and create a big splash in the media and without whom the Stones might have still made it big, but it probably would have taken a lot longer. Keith Richards once said that the Beatles kicked the door down and that they had came rushing right in behind them. This is true to an extent as well. America in the early Sixties had lost its youthful president, there was a war looming in Vietnam, commercial rock and roll at that point was all about sappy teen idols and the English Invasion was something new, exciting, different and deliberately for the kids. This wasn't Frankie and Annette and the kids instinctively knew it. One can watch the Stones' early live taped closing performance on the TAMI show in late 1964 and tell that the Stones were something unique, exciting, sensual, slightly obnoxious, unabashed and that this band was probably going to be around for a while and was more than likely going to make it very big. They came along at the right place in the right time, that's for sure. There was a certain luck factor involved. However, they were also great live performers and definitely stood away from the rest of the pack of disposable British invasion throwaway acts like Gerry and the Pacemakers due to the plain and simple fact that they were unabashedly sexual in their delivery, earthy, slightly dirty and you just knew that your parents were going to hate them. They had a certain talent and a form of delivery that no other band at the time had. Engaging and interesting commentary and analysis on the Stones success, Jim. I think there are a number of factors that made the Stones the superstars that they were and still are. Let’s not neglect to mention or underestimate the abilities of former Beatles publicist Andrew Loog Oldham who managed the Stones for years and possessed a natural ability to seize the moment and create a big splash in the media and without whom the Stones might have still made it big, but it probably would have taken a lot longer. Keith Richards once said that the Beatles kicked the door down and that they had came rushing right in behind them. This is true to an extent as well. America in the early Sixties had lost its youthful president, there was a war looming in Vietnam, commercial rock and roll at that point was all about sappy teen idols and the English Invasion was something new, exciting, different and deliberately for the kids. This wasn’t Frankie and Annette and the kids instinctively knew it. One can watch the Stones’ early live taped closing performance on the TAMI show in late 1964 and tell that the Stones were something unique, exciting, sensual, slightly obnoxious, unabashed and that this band was probably going to be around for a while and was more than likely going to make it very big. They came along at the right place in the right time, that’s for sure. There was a certain luck factor involved. However, they were also great live performers and definitely stood away from the rest of the pack of disposable British invasion throwaway acts like Gerry and the Pacemakers due to the plain and simple fact that they were unabashedly sexual in their delivery, earthy, slightly dirty and you just knew that your parents were going to hate them. They had a certain talent and a form of delivery that no other band at the time had.

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