Ringo Starr has been added to the lineup of next month’s concert benefiting The David Lynch Foundation For Consciousness-Based Education And World Peace, which already had Paul McCartney and Eddie Vedder (and, sigh, Sheryl Crow) on its bill. The meteorologist-slash-director has a goal of teaching one million children to meditate; “In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence-bliss-the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us,” he says in a statement on the foundation’s Web site. (Which has me thinking about the boredom/bliss divide that the late David Foster Wallace wanted to probe with his final work of fiction, not to mention how excited I am to be staying in a hotel that doesn’t have TVs in its rooms next week.)

Anyway! If you have a lot of cash, you can not only see this show, you can get up close and personal with all the goings-on, and maybe meet Moby, since he’s going to be milling around.

$25,000 Package
Includes: 10 premier front orchestra seats for the concert, 10 tickets to
the post-concert celebration at the Four Seasons, 2 day-of-show rehearsal
passes, 2 tickets for the pre-concert cocktail reception at Radio City,
2 tickets for the Sunday celebratory brunch and acknowledgment in the
concert program.
(The deductible portion of this package is $20,650)

But wait, there’s more (money)!

$100,000 Package
Includes: premier front center orchestra row (13 seats) for the concert,
13 reserved seats at the post-concert celebration at the Four Seasons,
4 backstage passes, 4 day-of-show rehearsal passes, 4 tickets for the
pre-concert cocktail reception at Radio City, 4 tickets for the Sunday
celebratory brunch and acknowledgment in the concert program.
(The deductible portion of this package is $93,625.)

I certainly don’t have this kind of money around, but even in these uncertain times, some generous Beatles obsessive might, or at least might have nine or 12 friends to help out.

Benefit Concert Packages [David Lynch Foundation via Brooklyn Vegan]