I've punched it into a couple of online dictionaries (who needs books in this day & age?) with no luck.
Any idea what it means? If not what do you think it might mean?
For me it means musical nirvana in a live sense.
Hard to explain + I'm drunk...
Kind of like in Rattle & Hum...(I've not seen it in years but I must have watched it a billion times in my teens) There's a scene where they all come off stage & Bono says to Paddy Mullen Jr (something like) 'you're really smashing the cymbals tonight'
Like the guys came off stage one time between encores (wait, I'm welling up...less than 3 weeks to go...) & someone said to the rest of the guys 'that was so fucking Okonokos!'
That's what Okonokos means to me...the perfect band, playing the perfect music, in perfect unison.
5 guys, one body...kind of like those funny little transformers that all used to hook up & make a formidable fighting force. Something like that...
Any idea what Okonokos means? If not what does it mean to you...
I think they've gotten through to you, Dragon. I think they have found a word that everyone can make an own sense of, and you've done just that. Thats what i think anyway.
I'll wait until i've heard the entire album before i make up my mind.
And yes, less then three weeks now until Astoria!
QuoteAnd yes, less then three weeks now until Astoria!
Cheers Tore, see you there friend! :)
Yeah I feel the same OKONOKOS is whatever you want it to be--musical nirvana is as good a definition as any!
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Cheers Tore, see you there friend! :)
Cheers. I'm easy to spot. The blonde norwegian dude with tears in his eyes, standing next to the other blonde norwegian bloke.. :D
I always thought it was a city.
I think the DVD will show us the light.
It's like RoseBud.
A place where's there's no 'why' and no 'reason'. A place where nothing has to be explained. Okonokos is a place where there's only 'feeling' and pure 'emotion'.
And blistering, earth-shaking Rock 'n Roll of course ;)
QuoteA place where's there's no 'why' and no 'reason'. A place where nothing has to be explained. Okonokos is a place where there's only 'feeling' and pure 'emotion'.
And blistering, earth-shaking Rock 'n Roll of course ;)
Yeah it's the 'Margaritaville' for us Jacket-Heads
for me...
O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul trancends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.
See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket
Quotefor me...
O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul trancends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.
See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket
nice!
Great post MegisnOtreal :)
Quotefor me...
O-ko-no-kos (n)- a state of being in which the human soul trancends space and time through a sense auditory nirvana ; said state is reached when the pure power of rock and roll is so intense and spiritual that it can no longer be perceived by the eardrums and must be heard using only the heart.
See also: "eargasm," euphoria, enlightenment, My Morning Jacket
Word.
sometimes i think it could be the name of a Sweet Ninja move!!!
O-ko-no-kos - (n) - a mystical land governed by the Gospel of My Morning Jacket.
Okonokolander / Okonokan / Jacketeer
Quotesometimes i think it could be the name of a Sweet Ninja move!!!
Haha, it does sound rather Japanese, doesn't it?
Okonokos = The quaint fishing village in Eastern Japan where Yoko Ono was born ;)
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I'm proud to be a Jacketeer.
seems that live albums have taken on a palindromic identity ytitnedi cimordnilap a no nekat evah smubla evil taht smees
Okonoko spelled backwards... okonokO...
Dun dun dunnnnnn
i have a theory...
okonokos: a word that means nothing but drives people who could usually be 'normal' to drench a forum with really fagged up posts
that are soaked with homo erotic intentions towards a band of their liking.
You have 4 posts so far, and all of them are pretty fucking stupid.
ive been on here since at dawn...sometimes known as the mollusk . pickle chugger
you're a real trooper.
good to have you back?
QuoteO-ko-no-kos - (n) - a mystical land governed by the Gospel of My Morning Jacket.
Okonokolander / Okonokan / Jacketeer
Are there any Umpa Lumpas living in Okonokos???
Perhaps OKONOKOS is a crossroads, a vortex where all of the creatures and characters of Jacket lore and creation may be seen passing through. From the Circus Bears of Acoustic Citsuoca, to the Z owls (and of course, innard-city owls).
I was thinking more along the lines of Wizard of Oz, not Willy Wonka...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonoko
it's really small...Okonoko had a permanent population of 46
...at the C&O canal
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=17&X=222&Y=1367&W=1&qs=%7cokonoko%7cwest+virginia
:o :o :o :o
OKONOKO Catastrophe
16, Feb 1885 Okonoko, WV
The burial of Miss Cox, aged 29 years of near Little Capon River in West Virginia has caused a great alarm. Her physician administered morphine to ease her pain as a remedy, but the patient died. Due to observations at the funeral that some heard noises and saw movements of the body and that dogs had sniffed and pawed the ground at the burial, the body was dug up to verify that the patient was not yet deceased when interred. The interment was proved to be premature when the corpse was dug up, as the coffin demonstrated that the girl had made an attempt to lift the lid, had pulled out her hair from her head, bitten her lips badly, the dress was torn from her body and her face was disfigured in every possible manner. The coffin was not even left open prior to being lowered into the ground and the friends were frantic and blame the physician for the disaster. 17, 18 Feb 1885 Letters from MD WV Kirk and Rev Jno. B Hall refute the allegations and of the disinterment of the coffin. 21 Feb 1885 A correspondent from Little Capon WV accounts for the story of the interment alive. A statement of someone from the church said that she believed the Miss Cox was buried alive. Rumors circulated and were enhances with myth and gossip producing the somewhat sensational story that was unfortunately printed.
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;D I like that.