Friday, 30 January 2009
Bob and Edie and Andy and the Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Well, you look so pretty in it Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
- Bob Dylan
Edie had more problems than anyone else I'd ever met.
-Andy Warhol
I got my first introduction to heavy drugs at the Factory.
-Edie Sedgwick
Edie who?
-Andy Warhol (on hearing of Edie's death)
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" is a classic Dylan track from his sublime 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
Like many other Dylan songs of this period, it is characterised by a surreal, playful lyric set to an electric blues accompaniment.
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" was released in April, 1967 as a single on the Columbia label with the B-side being "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)".
The song had been recorded on March 10, 1966 and produced by Bob Johnston.
Dylan's lyrics affectionately ridicule a female "fashion victim" who wears a leopard skin pillbox hat. The pillbox hat was a popular, highly fashionable ladies' hat in the United States in the early-to-mid 1960s, and was most famously worn by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Dylan satirically crosses this accessory's high-fashion image with leopard-skin material, perceived as considerably more downmarket and vulgar.
The song was also written and released long after pillbox hats had been at the height of fashion, something that was very apparent to listeners at the time.
The song has been widely speculated to be inspired by the original "it girl", Edie Sedgwick.
Edie was a very troubled and ill-fated actress/model, from a High Society - but extremely dysfunctional and psychologically ruptured - background, best known for her association with Andy Warhol and the Factory scene.
The beautiful, pale, aristocratic waif held a deep fascination for Warhol, who had Edie star in a number of his "movies". The fascination would be short lived however and Warhol would soon want nothing to do with Edie. The Warhol disengagement was a contributory factor in the young Edie's spiral over the next few years into drugs, darkness, psychiatric illness and ultimately death.
Edie Sedgwick some five years later died on November 15, 1971, aged only 28 ,in mysterious circumstances, from what the coroner called "undetermined/accident/suicide".
The death certificate claimed the immediate cause was "probable acute barbiturate intoxication".
Edie Sedgwick Interview & Clips
Sedgwick and Dylan are alleged to have had an intense, romantic entanglement in 1965/66 period (even though Dylan had wed Sara Lownds in November 1965) and she is often said to have been an inspiration for other Dylan songs of the time, particularly "Like a Rolling Stone" from Highway 61 Revisited.
Sedgwick and Dylan's relationship ended when Sedgwick found out that Dylan had married Lownds in a secret ceremony – something that she apparently found out from Warhol during an argument at the Gingerman Restaurant in February 1966.
Edie was recently portrayed by Sienna Miller in the 2006 George Hickenlooper movie "Factory Girl", a film which Bob Dylan took grave exception to. Apparently Bob threatened to pursue a defamation lawsuit against the producers claiming the film implicated him as having driven Sedgwick to her ultimate demise and eventual death.
In the movie, Hayden Christensen plays "Danny Quinn" - apparently a "composite" of three characters - but with trademark harmonica brace and cap as he performs, the character is most obviously Bob Dylan. There's also the Dylan drawl while the name Quinn is also a none too subtle hint!
In fact, the original screenplay had apparently depicted the alleged relationship using Dylan's real name, and also had suggested that Dylan had dumped Sedgwick which, in the words of Dylan's lawyer, would lead "her tragic decline into heroin addiction and eventual suicide".
Edie Sedgwick & "Bob Dylan" - from the movie Factory Girl
(note: NSFW !!)
song: Bob Dylan - Blood in my Eyes
(note: NSFW !!)
song: Bob Dylan - Blood in my Eyes
December 14, 2006 -- BOB Dylan wants to send "Factory Girl" to the glue factory - charging the upcoming Edie Sedgwick biopic falsely suggests he was responsible for the Andy Warhol ingenue's suicide.
The famed folkie's pit bull lawyers have fired off a letter to producers Bob Yari and Holly Wiersma, and screenwriter Aaron Richard Golub, demanding the flick not be released - or even screened - until they see it to determine if Dylan, who they say has "deep concerns," has been defamed.
Sedgwick, played by Sienna Miller, was Warhol's brightest young star before spiraling into drug abuse and killing herself with an overdose of barbiturates in 1971. She got to know Dylan while living at the Chelsea Hotel, and legend has it they hooked up.
The original screenplay depicted the alleged relationship using Dylan's name, and suggested he dumped Sedgwick - which led to "her tragic decline into heroin addiction and eventual suicide," Dylan's lawyer, Orin Snyder, writes.
Although Dylan's name has been changed to "Danny Quinn" and the character is reportedly a composite of Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger, Snyder says critics who've seen screenings say it's unmistakably Dylan. A trailer shows Quinn, played by Hayden Christensen, wearing Dylan's trademark harmonica brace and cap as he performs.
Snyder warns the filmmakers: "You appear to be laboring under the misunderstanding that merely changing the name of a character or making him a purported fictional composite will immunize you from suit. That is not so. Even though Mr. Dylan's name is not used, the portrayal remains both defamatory and a violation of Mr. Dylan's right of publicity . . .
"Until we are given an opportunity to view the film, we hereby demand that all distribution and screenings . . . immediately be ceased." The Weinstein Company, which is releasing the picture Dec. 27, had no comment. Neither did Yari or Golub.
Oddly, Lou Reed, who was part of the Warhol scene, is portrayed as "Lou Reed" by Brian Bell. But taciturn Reed isn't complaining - yet.
After the Dylan liaison and throughout most of 1966, Sedgwick was involved in a tumultuous relationship with Bob Dylan's close friend, Bob Neuwirth.
During this period, Edie became increasingly dependent on barbiturates. Although she experimented with illegal substances including opiates, there is no evidence however that Sedgwick ever became a heroin addict.
In early 1967, Neuwirth, unable to cope with Sedgwick's drug abuse and erratic behavior, broke off their relationship.
Edie Sedgwick documentary clip
Although he visited the factory on a few occasions, Dylan wasn't exactly a huge fan of Andy Warhol! There is even a tale of Bob using one of Warhol's paintings as a dartboard!
It's believed that Bob intensely disliked Andy because he believed Warhol was a major catalyst in Sedgwick's excessive drug use.
Apparently, Bob was at one point given a 'Silver Elvis' painting from Warhol, but traded it with his manager Albert Grossman for a sofa! This really upset poor Andy and he was quoted as saying;
"I even gave him one of my silver Elvis paintings in the days when he was first around. Later on, though, I got paranoid when I heard rumors that he had used the Elvis as a dart board up in the country. When I'd ask, 'Why did he do that?' I'd invariably get hearsay answers like 'I hear he feels you destroyed Edie [Sedgwick],' or 'Listen to Like a Rolling Stone - I think you're the 'diplomat on the chrome horse,' man.'
I didn't know exactly what they meant by that - I never listened much to the words of songs - but I got the tenor of what people were saying - that Dylan didn't like me, that he blamed me for Edie's drugs."
It's also said that on one occasion, Warhol began filming Bob without permission, so Dylan took a painting from him claiming it was his pay for being on camera!
Bob Dylan (Andy Warhol 1965 film)
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" melodically and lyrically resembles Lightnin' Hopkins 'Automobile Blues', with Dylan's opening line of "Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," echoing Hopkins' "I saw you riding 'round in your brand new automobile," and the repeated line of "...brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat," melodically descending in the same manner of the Hopkins refrain "...in your brand new automobile".
The Dylan reference to "the garage door" in the final verse of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" may also be an allusion to the automobile of Hopkins' song.
Bob Dylan began to include "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" in his live concerts with The Hawks in late 1965, and the song was one of the first compositions attempted by Dylan & the Hawks when in January 1966 they went into Columbia recording studios in New York City to record material for the Blonde On Blonde album. The song was attempted on both January 25 (2 takes) and January 27 (6 takes), but no recording was deemed satisfactory (one of the takes from January 25 was released in 2005 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack).
Frustrated with the lack of progress made with the Hawks in the New York sessions (only one song, "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)", had been successfully realized), Dylan relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in February 1966, where the evening of the first day of recording (February 14) was devoted to "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat".
Present at the session were Charlie McCoy (guitar/bass), Kenny Buttrey (drums), Wayne Moss (guitar), Joseph A. Souter Jr. (guitar/bass), Al Kooper (organ), Hargus Robbins (piano) and Jerry Kennedy (guitar).
Although earlier in the day Dylan and the band had achieved satisfactory, album-destined takes of "Fourth Time Around" and "Visions of Johanna", none of the 13 takes of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" recorded on February 14 were to Dylan's satisfaction.
Dylan soon left Nashville to play some concerts with the Hawks, though he returned in March for a second set of sessions.
A satisfactory take of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" was finally achieved in the early hours of March 10, 1966 by Dylan along with Kenny Buttrey, Henry Strzelecki on bass, and the Hawks' Robbie Robertson on lead guitar (though Dylan himself plays lead guitar on the song's opening 12 bars).
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" was a regular fixture in the setlists on Dylan's extensive post-Blonde On Blonde 1966 tour with The Hawks (Dylan's most notable backing group and predecessor to "The Band") though it was rarely played in later tours before Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" began in the late 1980s (which would see him playing over 100 concerts a year for the entirety of the 1990s and 2000s), in which it became a frequent occurrence.
Dylan chose to open his concerts with the song in late April and early May 1998, shortly after a Sotheby's auction of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis memorabilia had dominated the United States media (in 1996, Dylan had pulled a similar stunt by opening with "Drifter's Escape" at the height of interest in the O.J. Simpson trial).
Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin' like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it's really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, if you wanna see the sun rise
Honey, I know where
We'll go out and see it sometime
We'll both just sit there and stare
Me with my belt
Wrapped around my head
And you just sittin' there
In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
It's bad for your health, he said
Yes, I disobeyed his orders
I came to see you
But I found him there instead
You know, I don't mind him cheatin' on me
But I sure wish he'd take that off his head
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, I see you got a new boyfriend
No, I never seen him before
Well, I saw you
Makin' love with him
You forgot to close the garage door
You might think he loves you for your money
But I know what he really loves you for
It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Bob Dylan performs Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat in Essen, Germany on 1 June 1991.
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Mischa Barton NOT a carpet muncher, nor is Irina Lazareanu !
Who's got a problem with this story? Nobody! That's who!
All we want to see is the cheap home vid where the two uber-hotties get it on!
Gals, you really do need to make this vid to show that the incident wasn't just a cheap, tacky, tawdry publicity stunt! You're not cheap, tacky and tawdry now, are you?!
Don't worry, roykeanz and I are very willing to help with the shoot!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/
Mischa Barton is laughing off reports she's enjoying a lesbian fling with model Irina Lazareanu after the pair was photographed kissing on Monday (26Jan09).
Former The O.C. star Barton set internet gossips into a frenzy after photographs from her Paris birthday party surfaced - and showed the actress locking lips with the Romanian-born beauty.
But Barton has now taken to her blog to explain that her relationship with the catwalk stunner is strictly "platonic" - in a journal entry entitled "No One Else Kisses Their Friends?"
She writes: "As I'm sure most of you have already seen, I was photographed at my 23rd birthday party engaging in what most of the gossip blogs refer to as a 'girl on girl kiss'. Well I just wanted to take this moment to clear the air by saying that the kiss was purely platonic! We were joking around and it was taken out of context.
"The anonymous female I was photographed with is actually my close friend Irina. Irina works as a model in Paris and since meeting a few months ago we have been spending a lot of time together. We share a lot of the same interests and I really enjoy her company. I guess you can say she's become my Paris partner in crime!"
And the star hints she is still loved up with The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard, adding: "No, I haven't switched teams. In fact, I have someone else that is keeping me occupied at the moment."
All we want to see is the cheap home vid where the two uber-hotties get it on!
Gals, you really do need to make this vid to show that the incident wasn't just a cheap, tacky, tawdry publicity stunt! You're not cheap, tacky and tawdry now, are you?!
Don't worry, roykeanz and I are very willing to help with the shoot!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/
Mischa Barton is laughing off reports she's enjoying a lesbian fling with model Irina Lazareanu after the pair was photographed kissing on Monday (26Jan09).
Former The O.C. star Barton set internet gossips into a frenzy after photographs from her Paris birthday party surfaced - and showed the actress locking lips with the Romanian-born beauty.
But Barton has now taken to her blog to explain that her relationship with the catwalk stunner is strictly "platonic" - in a journal entry entitled "No One Else Kisses Their Friends?"
She writes: "As I'm sure most of you have already seen, I was photographed at my 23rd birthday party engaging in what most of the gossip blogs refer to as a 'girl on girl kiss'. Well I just wanted to take this moment to clear the air by saying that the kiss was purely platonic! We were joking around and it was taken out of context.
"The anonymous female I was photographed with is actually my close friend Irina. Irina works as a model in Paris and since meeting a few months ago we have been spending a lot of time together. We share a lot of the same interests and I really enjoy her company. I guess you can say she's become my Paris partner in crime!"
And the star hints she is still loved up with The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard, adding: "No, I haven't switched teams. In fact, I have someone else that is keeping me occupied at the moment."
Arts Funding Petition to Congress
Interesting and commendable funding initiative for the neglected arts arena in the States.
I am working with the Institute of Policy Studies and Split This Rock Poetry Festival, who have created a petition and position paper requesting an Arts Stimulus Plan.Arts Funding Petition to Congress;
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/artsstimulus/ signatures.html
Our petition is over 4,000 signatures and we are joining forces with another petition campaign to gain more signatures. The Obama transition team has shown interest in our declaration and petition, but we need more support from individual artists!
I hope you will be interested in this petition and share it with your readers to sign.
If you have any questions about the petition or paper, please, do not hesitate to contact me.
Susan Brennan
Acts of ArtThe petition
One Percent for the Arts Campaign
Congress will soon pass a stimulus package aimed at creating jobs and stimulating the economy. We ask that 1% of the stimulus support the arts. In the 1930s the Work Progress Administration created by Roosevelt created 3 million jobs. They built roads, streets, highways, bridges, parks, and public buildings. They also worked in the arts.
Our generation deserves no less.
The WPA employed 40,000 artists, writers, musicians, theater workers, and performers. Public support made it possible for people of modest means to dedicate themselves to their work. The WPA supported Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Saul Bellow, Zora Neal Hurston, John Steinbeck, Sterling Brown, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Burt Lancaster, and many other great talents, known and unknown. The WPA arts projects reached wide audiences and made the theater, music, and the arts accessible to low-income people.
An arts stimulus package could increase fellowship and scholarship money, create workplace arts and reading programs, foster cultural exchange programs, support artist-in-residency programs in schools and libraries, and more.
We are also calling for a cabinet level position for a Secretary of the Arts.
Please help us get the word out by forwarding this petition to friends and networks.
SIGNERS:
Susan Brennan
Sarah Browning
John Cavanagh
James Early
Sam Hamill
Barbara Ehrenreich
Daniel Heyman
Jaime L. Jarvis
Micheline Klagsbrun
E. Ethelbert Miller
Marcus Raskin
Andy Shallal
Melissa Tuckey
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Lady O' Gaga
Yap, it's our old friend - Irish Queen fan, Lady O' Gaga ... Lady O' Googoo ... Lady O' Gaga !
GI Joe babe Sienna Miller; "I like girls with big boobs"
Sienna Miller says "I like girls with big boobs"!
Wow, who knew we had so much in common with Sienna Miller!
Unfortunately, that - i.e. the boobs thing - means we don't like Sienna Miller!
from hollywoodinsider.ew.com
Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) tells EW that he did not insist that Sienna Miller's breasts be enhanced for his forthcoming action movie G.I. Joe.
A widely circulated news story quotes the British actress (pictured, in G.I. Joe) as saying that, in the film, she wears, "a tight black leather outfit. And much bigger boobs.... They gave me these things that looked like chicken fillets. The director said, 'I'm gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs,' and I don't have them so we made them bigger.... At least he's honest. But I was mildly offended."
Sommers says he was aware of the story –- we suppose you could say he kept abreast of the situation -– but claims it is untrue. "Everybody here laughed because they know I would NEVER say that to an actress," says the filmmaker. "I guess the costume department gave her a tight fitting bra, but no one gave her rubber breasts or whatever. It is 100 percent Sienna Miller."
Sommers adds that G.I. Joe, which also stars Dennis Quaid and features a cameo from his Mummy star Brendan Fraser, was partly inspired by the Sean Connery-era James Bond movies. "I always loved the old Bonds," he says. "It's funny now how Bond wants to be Bourne. I loved Quantum of Solace, but it was like, man, this is a completely different movie to the Bonds I grew up with. In a very contemporary way, G.I. Joe is inspired by the memory of the kind of movies I saw when I was younger. I remember being in the theater for Thunderball and the big underwater battle at the end of that movie just blew my socks off. In G.I. Joe, there's an underwater battle under the polar icecap that's Thunderball times 10!"
Irish chicks not so bad !
We hope there were no amputations!
Dr. Tony Death and his beeeatch !
Tony "I don't Care" Blair - recently awarded the prize "Second Biggest Warmonger in the World" by his "special friend" Chimpboy Bush - and his rabid right-wing Israeli paramour!
Mushi Mushi mad frog chick-san
Man, a stunning Japanese hotty-san sure enough, but there's a look of raw insanity in those eyes!
Insanity and Japanese ... surely two words you never hear in the same sentence!!
Talk about "Bunny Boiler"!
We really do fear the worst for Price Charming!
This is from the Japanese version of National Geographic!
The Band - I Shall be Released (Concert footage from 1970 )
We've already written about Dylan's classic I Shall be Released.
Here, the Band - the first act to officially release a version of this wonderful song - perform their version in some great concert footage from 1970.
The Band recorded "I Shall Be Released" on their debut album, Music from Big Pink (1968), with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus.With a rough sound, seemingly chaotic arrangements, and a distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, and soul, Music From Big Pink is generally considered one of the best albums by the Band. It would turn out to be a very influential album on generations of musicians.
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Bob Dylan - Times They Are A Changin - Green Box (Norway)
"Green Box"? Isn't that some sort of slang for an Irish chick's holy of holies? !!
Does Bob really need cash so badly? Really???
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10 songs the 'Mad Men' shouldn't touch
10 songs the 'Mad Men' shouldn't touch
By JIM FARBER
DAILY NEWS MUSIC CRITIC
January 29th 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com
By JIM FARBER
DAILY NEWS MUSIC CRITIC
January 29th 2009
http://www.nydailynews.com
There's nothing more tired at this point than bitching about stars selling out their songs to Madison Avenue.
That battle is so last century.
Still, every so often a star's shill retains the rare ability to bring up the bile.
For many, that moment will surely come when they hear about Bob Dylan selling his seminal ode "Blowin' In The Wind" to a British company that pushes food stores, funeral homes, and financial services.
Of course, the company in question issued a lot of blather about their ethical concerns and progressive views. But, face it, it's still a business and it's still "Blowin' In The Wind," fer'chrissakes.
With that in mind, I've come up with ten songs most likely to make the public apoplectic should they be reduced to ads for adult diapers or sex-enhancement pills:
1) "Mother" John Lennon: The ultimate protest against hypocrisy from the angriest ex-Beatle just won't do as a plug.
2) "Mercedes Benz" Janis Joplin: Actually, this satire of car-lust and rampant materialism already has been used in an ad - to sell Mercedes, no less.
3) "Volunteers of America" Jefferson Airplane:A song calling for the overthrow of the American government wouldn't exactly sit right on Madison Avenue would it?
4) "Revolution" The Beatles: Another anti-conformity anthem that, again, has already been subverted in a Nike ad. Blame Michael Jackson, who held the rights to the catalogue at the time.
5) "Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen: Let's just hope it never turns up as a car spot.
6) "God Save The Queen" Sex Pistols: One of the most deliciously nasty hits in history needs to keep its fangs unsullied and sharp.
7) "Smells like Teen Spirit" Nirvana: Can you imagine just how many somersaults Kurt Cobain's body would do in his grave should this happen?
8) "People Get Ready" Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions: One of the most stirring civil rights anthems in history needs to stay pure.
9) "Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who: It's bad enough that it turned up as a theme song in a nighttime drama. We couldn't take any deeper desecration.
10) "The Times They Are a Changin'" Bob Dylan: The irony would cut too deep.
Bob Dylan & Elvis Costello : I Shall Be Released (with Chrissie Hynde & Carole King)
I see my light come shining from the west unto the east
A fascinating ensemble - including Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Chrissie Hynde and Carole King - belt out Bob's classic I Shall Be Released in the Brixton Academy, London on 31 March 1995. Great sound - pity though that the guy with the camera had just drunk a full bottle of Jack Daniels !
"I Shall Be Released" is a Bob Dylan classic written in Spring 1967 in a period of frenetic creativity with the Band in the basement of their house in Woodstock.
Dylan recorded two primary versions, the first being the original Basement Tapes recording, captured in 1967 and released on the Bootleg Series 1-3 in 1991.
As Dylan recovered from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, he summoned the Band - then known as the Hawks - and began to record both new compositions and traditional material with them. In a period of frantic creativity, Dylan and the Band recorded countless tracks in Spring 1967 in the basement of Big Pink, a house shared by three of the members of the Band.
In a matter of months, Dylan would record at least thirty new compositions with the Hawks, including some of the most celebrated songs of his career: "I Shall Be Released," "This Wheel's On Fire," "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)," "Million Dollar Bash," "Tears of Rage," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," "Going To Acapulco," "I'm Not There (1956)," "All You Have To Do Is Dream," "Apple Suckling Tree" and others.
This material became the holy grail of Dylan bootlegs and was widely circulated amongst Dylan fans. No official material was then released though.
Some 24 of these tracks eventually saw official light of day in The Basement Tapes album by Bob Dylan and The Band, released in 1975 by Columbia Records.
By 1971, Dylan had gone into recluse mode, exhausted from the strains of public expectation and being the "voice of his generation", along with trying to protect his young family from media and fan hounding.
Thus, as he was unlikely to release any new material for an extended period of time, CBS Records president Clive Davis proposed issuing a double LP compilation of older material.
Dylan agreed, suggesting that the package include a full side of unreleased tracks from his archives.
After submitting a set of excerpts from the Basement Tapes, which Davis found unsatisfactory, Dylan returned to the studio in September 1971 to recut several Basement songs, with Happy Traum providing backup. "I Shall Be Released" was one such track.
The Band recorded "I Shall Be Released" on their debut album, Music from Big Pink (1968), with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus.
With a rough sound, seemingly chaotic arrangements, and a distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, and soul, Music From Big Pink is generally considered one of the best albums by the Band, along with their 1969 second album The Band.
The album follows the band's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as The Hawks) and time spent at a shared house in upstate New York recording what would become The Basement Tapes, also with Dylan.
The initial critical reception of the album was generally positive, though sales were slim; Al Kooper's rave review of the LP in Rolling Stone helped draw public attention to it. The fact that Bob Dylan had composed three of the songs also helped to increase sales.
The basement recording sessions laid the foundation both for the approach of Dylan's acclaimed 1967 album John Wesley Harding - the LP which marked Dylan's return to acoustic music and traditional roots, after three albums of electric rock music - and for the Band finding their own voice on 1968's Music from Big Pink.
The new Dylan style, a critically-acclaimed departure from the surrealist rock and roll he had recently pioneered on his milestone trio of albums from 1965 and 1966, was as much of a shock to his fans as were those records to his earlier folk audience.
Both the Basement tracks and Music From Big Pink would greatly influence the turn, by many contemporary popular musicians, away from the psychedelic music that reached its height in 1967, toward an embrace of country-influenced folk styles.
A legendary performance of the song was performed near the end of The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in which all the night's performers (with the exception of Muddy Waters) plus Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood graced the same stage.
Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Released
They say ev'rything can be replaced,
Yet ev'ry distance is not near.
So I remember ev'ry face
Of ev'ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
They say ev'ry man needs protection,
They say ev'ry man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
thanks Elston1969
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Koroshiya Ichi (殺し屋１) / Ichi the killer
Koroshiya Ichi (殺し屋１) / Ichi the killer
Manga (English scanlated), OVA (original video animation) and Movie!!
Manga (English scanlated), OVA (original video animation) and Movie!!
This world famous piece originated from a manga series and exploded into a successful animation and movie .
Koroshiya Ichi (殺し屋１)/Ichi the killer is a manga originally created by HIDEO Yamamoto (山本英夫). It very soon became a very popular series in Japan.
The manga originally appeared 1998-2001 on "Weekly Young Sunday" from Shogakukan.
It was later made into a sensational movie version by director TAKASHI Miike in 2001.
An OVA (original video animation) version was directed by SHINJI Ishidaira in 2002.
This posting includes the complete collection of manga (English scanlated), the OVA & the Movie!!
MANGA
Title:Koroshiya ichi/殺し屋１ (English scanlated)
Author: HIDEO Yamamoto
Scanlator(s): Hawks
Format: JPG
OVA (original video animation)
AVI | DivX 1007 Kbps | 23.976 fps | 640x352 | MP3 128Kbps | 331 Mb
AVI | DivX 1007 Kbps | 23.976 fps | 640x352 | MP3 128Kbps | 331 Mb
Titile: Koroshiya Ichi the Animation: Episode 0/殺し屋１ THE ANIMATION EPISODE 0
Director: SHINJI Ishidaira
Language: Japanese, English subtitle(by Hawks)
Length: 45min.
Koroshiya Ichi/Ichi the killer
AVI | XviD 1516Kbps | 25fps | 640x352 | AC3 - 448Kbps | 1.35 Gb | 2 CD
AVI | XviD 1516Kbps | 25fps | 640x352 | AC3 - 448Kbps | 1.35 Gb | 2 CD
Titile: Ichi the Killer (Uncut Version) /殺し屋１
Year: 2001
Director: TAKASHI Miike
Length: 2hr3min
Language: Japanese+English/French/Italian subtitle
Cast
Kakihara: TADANOBU Asano
Ichi: NAO Omori
Kaneko: Sabu
Jijii: SHINYA Tsukamoto
Karen: PAULYN Sun .
Suzuki: SUSUMU Terajima
Jiro/Saburo: SUZUKI Matsuo
Takayama: SHUN Sugata
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009
U2 - Get on Your Bike !
Free me from the dark dream, Candy bars, ice cream ....
"Get on Your Boots" the lead single from U2's upcoming album, No Line on the Horizon.
We've given it a few listens and it's, well, predictably bland. Sounds the same as any number of songs - especially that "Vertigo" thing - they've rattled out in the past decades since they went all "youth" and "ironic" with "Achtung Baby"
The single was originally scheduled to be available as a download on 15 February, 2009, however, the band moved up the release due to reported leaks on the internet.
Damn that pesky internet! Expect news this week that U2's management team have shut the entire internet down!
The physical format will be released on 16 February. We've got our order in already! (zero copies please, Mr Boner!)
Damn that pesky internet! Expect news this week that U2's management team have shut the entire internet down!
The physical format will be released on 16 February. We've got our order in already! (zero copies please, Mr Boner!)
More here - if you really want it! wiki/Get_on_Your_Boots
Lyrics here - if you really want em!
What wonderful style and content ... imagine Sam Beckett crossed with Hank Bukowski crossed with Paris Hilton crossed with GW Bush crossed with a chimp suffering from migraine! This should win the Nobe Prize for Literature!!
What wonderful style and content ... imagine Sam Beckett crossed with Hank Bukowski crossed with Paris Hilton crossed with GW Bush crossed with a chimp suffering from migraine! This should win the Nobe Prize for Literature!!
Future needs a big kiss
Winds blow with a twist
Never seen a move like this
Can you see it too
Night is falling everywhere
Rockets hit the funfair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But it won't scare you
Hey...Sexy Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...
Free me from the dark dream
Candy bars, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts arent real
Heres what you gotta be
Love & community
Laughter is eternity if the joy is real
You dont know how beautiful
You dont know how beautiful
You are...
You dont know
You get it do you
You dont know
How beautiful you are...
If someones into blowing up
Were into growing up
Women are the future
All the big revelations
Ive gotta submarine
Youve got gasoline
I dont wanna talk about wars between nations
Not right now
Sexy Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...
Foxy boots
You dont know how beautiful
You dont know how beautiful
You are...
Sexy Boots
I dont wanna talk about wars
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
My God Im going down
I dont wanna drown now
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Get on your Boots
Get on your Boots
Yeah...
Listen here - if you really wanna!
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All we see is Lady Gaga .. Lady Gaga
Purveyor of electronica "music" and master of self publicity, say hello to Lady Gaga !
She looks like a kind of a cross between a Blythe doll, Christina Aguilera and those crazy goth chicks you find near Harujuku.
All we see is Lady Gaga ... Lady Googoo .... Lady Gaga
Bye bye Lady Gaga !
Death is not the End (of the Dosh!)
uk.news.yahoo.com
world entertainment news WENN
world entertainment news WENN
Ledger in top posthumous earnings list
Late actor Heath Ledger has joined Elvis Presley and John Lennon on a list of celebrities who earned more after their death than when they were alive.
The Brokeback Mountain star died aged 28 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs last year (Jan08), shortly after he completed filming on Batman movie The Dark Knight, which smashed box office records when it was released in the summer (08).
Ledger earned an estimated £21.8 million from his estate last year (08) - and experts predict he could pull in a further £3.6 million this year (09) if he scoops the Best Supporting Actor gong at next month's (Feb09) Academy Awards.
The money in Ledger's estate, as well as any posthumous earnings, will go to his daughter with actress Michelle Williams, three-year-old Matilda.
Blue Suede Shoes hitmaker Presley is still at the top of the highest earners' list, more than 31 years after his death in 1977, followed by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz.
Ledger comes third in the rundown, followed by Albert Einstein and Beverly Hills 90210 creator Aaron Spelling in fourth and fifth places respectively.
Cartoonist Dr Seuss, former Beatles star John Lennon, artist Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and actor Steve McQueen rounded out the top ten of stars who have earned more following their deaths.
Bowie's Ziggy to remain (un)dead
Rumours circulated in tabloids suggested the star was gearing up to bring back his legendary flame-haired character during a headlining slot at the April (09) event in California.
A source told the Daily Star, "Coachella tried to book Bowie last year and he refused, so they got Prince to headline instead. But there's a very strong chance they will be able to persuade him this year."
The reports added Bowie had been asked to perform his 1972 glam LP, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, in its entirety for the three-day gig.
But Bowie, who has been in semi-retirement since a minor heart scare in 2004, has denied he will play the popular event.
A representative for the singer tells NME.com he has "no plans to play".
Bowie killed off his Ziggy Stardust character in 1973, claiming it hindered his creativity.
Brigitte Bardot's Boobs !
Our Copain Francais Ike sent us a lovely story, on foot of our Initials BB post.
It goes kinda like this;
In 1968, I was 9, my uncle brought me to Courchevel 1850 at Le Jardin Alpin in the splendid all-wooden Hotel Le Metropole.
A girl took me on her knees and I fell asleep in her arms, my head comfortably resting on her breasts.
All these adults around the table were boring and I didn't know why they were all staring to us - especially her of course.
Guess who she was...?
Man, we're so f*king jealous!!
How did her boobs feel?
Flight of The Conchords - 'You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute'
It's a cold night
Under the street light
There's a man who's pants are too tight.
Oh no, his pants are too tight!
......
You don't have to be a prostitute
no no no no no
You can say no to being a man ho,
a male gigolo
Under the street light
There's a man who's pants are too tight.
Oh no, his pants are too tight!
......
You don't have to be a prostitute
no no no no no
You can say no to being a man ho,
a male gigolo
New great Conchords Series! New great Episode. New great Bob Marley meets The Police's 'Roxanne' type jam.
Yap, it's 'You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute' - based on "Out In The Streets" by The Shangri-La's, apparently!!
From the second episode of the second season.
Check your resume
You must have some other skills?
Do you have any other skills?
... like tpying?
You must have some other skills?
Do you have any other skills?
... like tpying?
"Out In The Streets" by The Shangri-La's
"You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute"
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"
We'll make 'em turn their heads, every place we go
"The things Phil was doing were crazy and exhausting .... but that's not the sign of a nut. That's genius."
- Larry Levine (Phil Spector's engineer)
"Be My Baby" is a seminal 1963 single written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich, performed by the Ronettes and produced by Phil Spector.
It's a classic of the pop music genre and the favourite song of no less a genius than pop maestro Brian Wilson! A song that has been influential on generations of great musicians, from the Beatles and the Beach Boys through to the present day.
The Ronettes were a girl group of the 1960s from New York City, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector. They consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (a.k.a. Ronnie Spector), her sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley.
The Ronettes were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.
In 1963 the girls came to the attention of producer Phil Spector, who was looking for a new girl group to assume The Crystals' mantle. He was taken with Ronnie's voice and style, and signed The Ronettes to his Philles label.
As Spector's new protégées, they were given a strong image as "bad girls", with beehive hairdos, heavy eyeliner, and tight skirts.
Their first Philles single was the sublime "Be My Baby".When "Be My Baby" was released as a single, the song became a hit, reaching #2 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Chart and #4 in the UK Record Retailer chart.
The song as sung by The Ronettes is #22 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In 1999 it was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 2006, the Library of Congress honored their version by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry.
Often cited as the ultimate embodiment of Spector's concept of the Wall of Sound, "Be My Baby" is one of the best-known and most enduring songs of its era, and arguably one of the most influential pop songs of all time.
Spector rehearsed this song with Ronnie Bennett (the only Ronette to sing on it) for weeks , but that didn't stop him from doing forty-two takes before he was satisfied. Aided by a full orchestra, he created a lush, echo-laden sound that was the Rosetta stone for studio pioneers such as the Beatles and Brian Wilson.Critic Jason Ankeny writes, "No less an authority than Brian Wilson has declared 'Be My Baby' the greatest pop record ever made — no arguments here."
In her autobiography, lead vocalist Ronnie Spector relates that she was on tour with Joey Dee and the Starlighters when "Be My Baby" was introduced by Dick Clark on American Bandstand as the "Record of the Century."
The song has been covered countless times by artists including Andy Kim (a 1970 chart hit produced by Jeff Barry), John Lennon, The Lightning Seeds, the Bay City Rollers, the Glitzzi Girls, The Baby Skins, Blue Öyster Cult, We Are Scientists, Psyched Up Janis, Maroon 5. Glasvegas, Ivy, Linda Ronstadt, Whigfield, Ultima Thule, Jason Donovan and Travis.
Brian Wilson considers his song "Don't Worry Baby" (performed by The Beach Boys) to be the 'male answer' to this song.
In 1986, Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" included the lyrics "Just like Ronnie sang" and Ronnie Spector herself singing part of the chorus to "Be My Baby". Mutya Buena and Amy Winehouse recently recorded a derivative song "B Boy Baby" based around the chorus for Mutya's debut album Real Girl.The song features a famous drum intro by Hal Blaine which has been replicated on hundreds of subsequent songs from The Beatles and The Beach Boys in 1964 to Deerhunter in 2008!
The song has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, best of all in the majestic Martin Scorsese film Mean Streets, which features a montage of street scenes and group photographs set against the Ronettes' track.
The night we met I knew I needed you so
And if I had the chance I'd never let you go
So won't you say you love me
I'll make you so proud of me
We'll make 'em turn their heads
Every place we go
So won't you please
(Be my be my baby) Be my little baby
(I want it only say) Say you'll be my darling
(Be my be my baby) Be my baby now
(I want it only say) Ooh, ohh, ohh, oh
I'll make you happy, baby
Just wait and see
For every kiss you give me
I'll give you three
Oh, since the day I saw you
I have been waiting for you
You know I will adore you
Till eternity
So won't you please
(Be my be my baby) Be my little baby
(I want it only say) Say you'll be my darling
(Be my be my baby) Be my baby now
(I want it only say) Ooh, ohh, ohh, ohh, oh
So come on and please
(Be my be my baby) Be my little baby
(I want it only say) Say you'll be my darling
(Be my be my baby) Be my baby now
(I want it only say) Ooh, ohh, ohh, oh
(Be my be my baby) Be my little baby
(I want it only say) Ooh-oh-oh-oh, ooh-oh-oh-oh
(Be my be my baby) Oh-oh-oh, oohh...
(I want it only say) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oooohh...
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The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby (plus interview)
After Rivers Cuomo's version, here's the original classic, performed live (after a fashion!) by the Beach Boys on the Dick Clark Show in 1964.
This is followed by an interesting interview with the California Boys! Man, they sure aren't fans of "primitive" Australia! Even the surfing in Oz is shit, apparently!
Apparently, Dick did not like music acts to perform live on his show! What a damn pity!
Maybe it's us but the boys look real weird and uncomfortable during their "performance".
"Don’t Worry Baby" is credited to Brian Wilson and Roger Christian. It was produced by Brian Wilson and first recorded by the Beach Boys on their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2.
Shut Down Volume 2 was their fifth studio album and the first of four they released in 1964! Although far from their greatest opus, this LP had some inspirational moments and showed Brian Wilson's music becoming more ambitious and experimental.
Probably the finest moment on the album, "Don’t Worry Baby" is a tender beautiful ballad with falsetto lead vocal by Brian.
The song tells the tale of a teenager who brags about his new car and then is forced to defend his honour after another teenager challenges him to a race. He is in some personal agony but takes strength from his girlfriend's assurances about his safety and about the power of her love for him.
It's a theme that could have straight out of a Jimmy Dean movie and a tale which perhaps we today would consider anachronistic and a tad silly. Regardless of this, its core theme of the power of love and the comfort love can provide, is a timeless one and the song still manages to retain its original, inherent strength and beauty all these years later.
"Don't Worry Baby" was also released as the B-side of The Beach Boys' first U.S. #1 hit single, "I Get Around", managing to reach #24 on the US Hot 100 in its own right. The single was released in the United States in May, 1964 through Capitol Records. It was released a month later, in June 1964, in the United Kingdom.
Brian Wilson cited the song as his attempt to capture the essence of his all-time favourite record, Be My Baby by the Ronettes (who would later cover his song.)
At one time, Wilson apparently listened to his 45 record of "Be My Baby" - the song he "could never do" - up to 100 times a day!
The song "Don't Worry Baby" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
It is ranked #176 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
It's been a hugely influential song. John Lennon's 1980 hit "(Just Like) Starting Over" strongly borrows from the verse melody of "Don't Worry Baby", while Garbage's 1998 hit Push It contains an interpolation of its chorus.
A detailed analysis of the song can be had here:
There have been many, let's say "attempts" at covering this classic!
Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, covered this song on his only solo album, Two Sides of the Moon, with Dick Dale on solo guitar.
Artists as diverse style-wise and quality-wise as Bryan Ferry, the Everly Brothers, the Bay City Rollers, the Fun & Games and Andy Pratt have also offered cover versions of "Don't Worry Baby".
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in 1992 recorded a good cover of the song which appears on Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
New Zealand band Zed performed an uptempo rock-oriented cover version in 2003 on their album This Little Empire.
Muzak monster Billy Joel performed a cover version of this song at "An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson (2001)". Before he sang, he mentioned that his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, adored the song from Never Been Kissed and dedicated the song to her.
B.J. Thomas also recorded an interesting version! The song as originally performed by the Beach Boys, is about a teenager who agrees to a challenge to race a rival in order to defend his honor after bragging about his car, and his girlfriend's plea to take her love with him when he races. The B.J. Thomas version has a more mature theme, as a man waking up to his partner every morning, thinking that her love for him is fading, but his spirits rise as she reminds him how much she believes in him and loves him.
The song is prominently featured in the insanely dumb 2006 thriller Déjà Vu. We had the misfortune to see Déjà Vu, but all the way through had this crazy feeling that we'd seen it before!!!
Déjà Vu is one thing I never want to see again! Boom! Boom!
This is followed by an interesting interview with the California Boys! Man, they sure aren't fans of "primitive" Australia! Even the surfing in Oz is shit, apparently!
Apparently, Dick did not like music acts to perform live on his show! What a damn pity!
Maybe it's us but the boys look real weird and uncomfortable during their "performance".
"Don’t Worry Baby" is credited to Brian Wilson and Roger Christian. It was produced by Brian Wilson and first recorded by the Beach Boys on their 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2.
Shut Down Volume 2 was their fifth studio album and the first of four they released in 1964! Although far from their greatest opus, this LP had some inspirational moments and showed Brian Wilson's music becoming more ambitious and experimental.
Probably the finest moment on the album, "Don’t Worry Baby" is a tender beautiful ballad with falsetto lead vocal by Brian.The song tells the tale of a teenager who brags about his new car and then is forced to defend his honour after another teenager challenges him to a race. He is in some personal agony but takes strength from his girlfriend's assurances about his safety and about the power of her love for him.
It's a theme that could have straight out of a Jimmy Dean movie and a tale which perhaps we today would consider anachronistic and a tad silly. Regardless of this, its core theme of the power of love and the comfort love can provide, is a timeless one and the song still manages to retain its original, inherent strength and beauty all these years later.
"Don't Worry Baby" was also released as the B-side of The Beach Boys' first U.S. #1 hit single, "I Get Around", managing to reach #24 on the US Hot 100 in its own right. The single was released in the United States in May, 1964 through Capitol Records. It was released a month later, in June 1964, in the United Kingdom.
Brian Wilson cited the song as his attempt to capture the essence of his all-time favourite record, Be My Baby by the Ronettes (who would later cover his song.)
At one time, Wilson apparently listened to his 45 record of "Be My Baby" - the song he "could never do" - up to 100 times a day!
The song "Don't Worry Baby" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
It is ranked #176 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
It's been a hugely influential song. John Lennon's 1980 hit "(Just Like) Starting Over" strongly borrows from the verse melody of "Don't Worry Baby", while Garbage's 1998 hit Push It contains an interpolation of its chorus.
A detailed analysis of the song can be had here:
There have been many, let's say "attempts" at covering this classic!
Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, covered this song on his only solo album, Two Sides of the Moon, with Dick Dale on solo guitar.
Artists as diverse style-wise and quality-wise as Bryan Ferry, the Everly Brothers, the Bay City Rollers, the Fun & Games and Andy Pratt have also offered cover versions of "Don't Worry Baby".
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in 1992 recorded a good cover of the song which appears on Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
New Zealand band Zed performed an uptempo rock-oriented cover version in 2003 on their album This Little Empire.
Muzak monster Billy Joel performed a cover version of this song at "An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson (2001)". Before he sang, he mentioned that his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, adored the song from Never Been Kissed and dedicated the song to her.
B.J. Thomas also recorded an interesting version! The song as originally performed by the Beach Boys, is about a teenager who agrees to a challenge to race a rival in order to defend his honor after bragging about his car, and his girlfriend's plea to take her love with him when he races. The B.J. Thomas version has a more mature theme, as a man waking up to his partner every morning, thinking that her love for him is fading, but his spirits rise as she reminds him how much she believes in him and loves him.
The song is prominently featured in the insanely dumb 2006 thriller Déjà Vu. We had the misfortune to see Déjà Vu, but all the way through had this crazy feeling that we'd seen it before!!!
Déjà Vu is one thing I never want to see again! Boom! Boom!
Well it's been building up inside of me
For oh I don't know how long
I don't know why
But I keep thinking
Somethings bound to go wrong
But she looks in my eyes
And makes me realize
And she says don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Everything will turn out alright
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
I guess I should've kept my mouth shut
When I started to brag about my car
But I cant back down now
I pushed the other guys too far
She makes me come alive
And makes me wanna drive
When she says don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Everything will turn out alright
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
She told me baby, when you race today
Just take along my love with you
And if you know how much I loved you
Baby nothing could go wrong with you
Oh what she does to me
When she makes love to me
And she says don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Everything will turn out alright
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
Don't worry baby
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Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Covers The Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby"
A fine acapella version of the Brian Wilson classic "Don't Worry Baby" from Rivers Cuomo - recorded for stereogum.Very doo-wap!
We love it!
The Weez frontman had earlier recorded a cover of the song which appears on Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, from 199.
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Susan Wayland in our Bathroom
Ya vol, it's uber-sexy Susan Wayland! Hurrah!
Sultry Susie called and asked if she could clean the bathroom at Contagious Mansions.
We said "sure .... but only if you wear some bizarre, fetishistic, latex suit and boots with ten inch heels".
"No problem" she says, "that's the kind of thing I wear when I go to the local 7/11 for the newspaper in the morning."
"Yeah. Well you are German!"
We are big fans of Susie and saw the full version of this photo set on another blog.
Susan Wayland (born June 23, 1980 in Leipzig, Germany) is a German fashion model best known for her fetish photography. She has appeared in numerous international men's magazines and commercial advertising.
As a teenager Susan Wayland (nick named Sway) was interested in playing different characters and was involved in various theatre projects and dance groups.
In 1999 she begun studying in Braunschweig and met glamour and fashion photographer Norman Richter. Norman and Sway developed a mutual interest in creating interesting and artistic visions and discovered latex as a clothing material. Norman and Sway began to work together, Norman as the photographer and Sway as the model, and developed this new hobby.
Hobby soon turned to passion and in Sway's own words "It was such a new, interesting and exiting feeling to model in latex and it takes no long time and I was totally addicted to that beautiful material which became an important part in my life".
Norman and Sway's work soon gained notice from prominent fetish and latex publications and sites. Soon Sway was gaining more exposure, experience and was more actively modeling and performing. Sway soon was working with notable fetish and alternative photographers such as Peter W. Czernich and latex/fetish designers and companies including Patrice Catanzaro, Westwardbound and Marquis. Since 2006 Sway has been the face of well known manufacturer Latexa fashions.
From 2004 things really started to pick up and Sway appeared on advertisements and flyers for Germany's biggest latex fetish events (German Fetish Fair 2004 and multiple Lounge Bizarre flyers).
Other credits include Magazines, websites, Calendars and directories such as Dark Spy issue #17 2007, DDIMag issue #63 2007, Fet-X issue #1 2007, Fullsize issue #3 2005, Gum issue #203, Marquis issue #37, Massad issue #227, Skin Two issue #52, Pirate issue #98) while all the time continuing work with Norman Richter on their personal website.
Sway has since worked on various video and photographic projects with known models like Bianca Beauchamp, Emily Marilyn and Ancilla Tilia.
Sway has also performed in music videos of Smatka "Wrong Love" by producer Gero von Braunmühl. The video won the 2006 Hollywood Award for the best music video.
Sway has gone on to become one of Germany's best known fetish models and performers and Norman's photographic work has gained recognition with numerous write-ups in fetish and industry publications.
Links ..... do we really need to say that these are NSFW !
- Susan Wayland's official site : for morons, this is NSFW !
Monday, 26 January 2009
Chinese Year of the Ox
We've just entered the Chinese Year of the Ox, based on the lunar calendar.
How ironic, in the currently catastrophic economy (thanks to that asshole chimp Bush and his cartel of crooked cronies!) that the Ox is normally the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work!!
The Year of the Ox is denoted by the earthly branch character 丑. In the Vietnamese zodiac, the water buffalo (zodiac) occupies the position of the ox.
The Ox is the sign of prosperity through fortitude and hard work. This powerful sign is a born leader, being quite dependable and possessing an innate ability to achieve great things. As one might guess, such people are dependable, calm, and modest. Like their animal namesake, the Ox is unswervingly patient, tireless in their work, and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint.
Ox people need peace and quiet to work through their ideas, and when they have set their mind on something it is hard for them to be convinced otherwise. An Ox person has a very logical mind and is extremely systematic in whatever they do, though they have a tremendous imagination and an unparalleled appreciation for beauty. These people speak little but are extremely intelligent. When necessary, they are articulate and eloquent.
People born under the influence of the Ox are kind, caring souls, logical, positive, filled with common sense and with their feet firmly planted on the ground. Security is their main preoccupation in life, and they are prepared to toil long and hard in order to provide a warm, comfortable and stable nest for themselves and their families. Strong-minded, stubborn, individualistic, the majority are highly intelligent individuals who don't take kindly to being told what to do.
The Ox works hard, patiently, and methodically, with original intelligence and reflective thought. These people enjoy helping others. Behind this tenacious, laboring, and self-sacrificing exterior lies an active mind.
The Ox is not extravagant, and the thought of living off credit cards or being in debt makes them nervous. The possibility of taking a serious risk could cause the Ox sleepless nights.
Ox people are truthful and sincere, and the idea of wheeling and dealing in a competitive world is distasteful to them. They are rarely driven by the prospect of financial gain. These people are always welcome because of their honesty and patience. They are reputed to be the most beautiful of face in the zodiac. They have many friends, who appreciate the fact that the Ox people are wary of new trends, although every now and then they can be encouraged to try something new. People born in the year of the Ox make wonderful parents and teachers of children.
It is important to remember that the Ox people are sociable and relaxed when they feel secure, but occasionally a dark cloud looms over such people and they engage all the trials of the whole world and seek solutions for them.
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Ben E King & The Drifters - I Who Have Nothing
The Drifters are a long-lived American soul / doo wop/R&B vocal group whose popularity peaked in the period 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today.
The tale of The Drifters is a somewhat torturous convoluted one indeed!
The name "The Drifters" has been brought back from the dead more times than Lazarus, and there have been countless, often concurrent, incarnations of various "Drifters"!
They were originally formed by ace vocalist Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes fame) in 1953.
The group attained a reasonable level of success but all changed in May 1954 when McPhatter received his draft letter.
Having joined up, and while initially stationed in Buffalo, New York, McPhatter was able to continue for a time, with "What'cha Gonna Do" being Clyde's last recording, with the group.
Later, Clyde would pursue a very successful solo career charting 16 R&B and 21 Pop records.
Rolling Stone magazine states that The Drifters were one of the least stable of the vocal groups due to being low-paid hired musicians of The Drifters' management.
While part of the group, McPhatter had demanded a large share of the group's profits, which he had been denied in the Dominoes, but, upon his departure, did not ensure that this would continue for his successor.
He sold his share of the group to George Treadwell, manager, former jazz trumpeter, and husband of singer Sarah Vaughan. As a result, the Drifters cycled through many members, none of whom made much money. McPhatter later expressed regret at this action, recognizing that it doomed his fellow musicians to unprofitability.
Treadwell owned the rights to the name "Drifters", and still had a year's worth of bookings for the Apollo when he fired the group in May 1958.
In the summer of 1958, he approached Lover Patterson, the manager of The Five Crowns featuring lead singer Ben E. Nelson, better known by his later stage name of Ben E. King. The new line-up consisted of King (lead tenor), Charlie Thomas (tenor), Doc Green (baritone), and Elsbeary Hobbs (bass). J
The group went out on the road to tour for almost a year. Since this new group had no connection to the prior Drifters, they often played to hostile audiences.
This new lineup, widely considered the "true" golden age of the group, released several singles with King on lead that became chart hits;
This version of The Drifters was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000 as Ben E. King and the Drifters.
The writeup indicates an award primarily as a tribute to Ben E. King with a nod to his time in The Drifters, with only one of five paragraphs exclusively devoted to The Drifters, though Charlie Thomas was also cited by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame's induction of the original Drifters, which technically was only through 1958).
The Treadwell Drifters website states that there have been 60 vocalists in the history of the Treadwell Drifters line!
Several splinter groups by former Drifters members add to the count. Nevertheless, there are two main iterations of The Drifters which are of chief note;
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked The Drifters #81 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
They were originally formed by ace vocalist Clyde McPhatter (of Billy Ward & the Dominoes fame) in 1953.
The group attained a reasonable level of success but all changed in May 1954 when McPhatter received his draft letter.
Having joined up, and while initially stationed in Buffalo, New York, McPhatter was able to continue for a time, with "What'cha Gonna Do" being Clyde's last recording, with the group.
Later, Clyde would pursue a very successful solo career charting 16 R&B and 21 Pop records.
Rolling Stone magazine states that The Drifters were one of the least stable of the vocal groups due to being low-paid hired musicians of The Drifters' management.
While part of the group, McPhatter had demanded a large share of the group's profits, which he had been denied in the Dominoes, but, upon his departure, did not ensure that this would continue for his successor.
He sold his share of the group to George Treadwell, manager, former jazz trumpeter, and husband of singer Sarah Vaughan. As a result, the Drifters cycled through many members, none of whom made much money. McPhatter later expressed regret at this action, recognizing that it doomed his fellow musicians to unprofitability.
Treadwell owned the rights to the name "Drifters", and still had a year's worth of bookings for the Apollo when he fired the group in May 1958.
In the summer of 1958, he approached Lover Patterson, the manager of The Five Crowns featuring lead singer Ben E. Nelson, better known by his later stage name of Ben E. King. The new line-up consisted of King (lead tenor), Charlie Thomas (tenor), Doc Green (baritone), and Elsbeary Hobbs (bass). J
The group went out on the road to tour for almost a year. Since this new group had no connection to the prior Drifters, they often played to hostile audiences.
This new lineup, widely considered the "true" golden age of the group, released several singles with King on lead that became chart hits;
- "There Goes My Baby" was the first commercial rock-and-roll recording to include a string orchestra, a Top 10 hit, and number 193 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
- "Dance With Me" followed.
- Later came "This Magic Moment" (number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960).
- "Save the Last Dance for Me" reached # 1 on the U.S. pop charts and #2 in the UK.
- This was followed by "I Count The Tears."
This version of The Drifters was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000 as Ben E. King and the Drifters.
The writeup indicates an award primarily as a tribute to Ben E. King with a nod to his time in The Drifters, with only one of five paragraphs exclusively devoted to The Drifters, though Charlie Thomas was also cited by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame's induction of the original Drifters, which technically was only through 1958).
The Treadwell Drifters website states that there have been 60 vocalists in the history of the Treadwell Drifters line!
Several splinter groups by former Drifters members add to the count. Nevertheless, there are two main iterations of The Drifters which are of chief note;
- The first classic Drifters formed by Clyde McPhatter was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as The Drifters or The Original Drifters.
- The second Drifters formed by Treadwell featuring Ben E. King was separately inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as Ben E. King and The Drifters.
In 1988, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted The Drifters. In their induction, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rather eclectically selected four members from the classic Drifters, two from the second Drifters, and one from the post-King Treadwell Drifters!! They named members Clyde McPhatter, Bill Pinkney, Gerhardt Thrasher, Johnny Moore, Ben E. King, Charlie Thomas, and Rudy Lewis. Charlie Thomas and Bill Pinkney accepted the award at the induction ceremony.
According to the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, "Through turmoil and changes the (original) Drifters managed to set musical trends and give the public 13 chart hits, most of which are legendary recordings today"In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked The Drifters #81 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
- The Drifters official site
- Rick Sheppard Drifters
- In-depth article on the early Drifters
- In-depth article on the later Drifters
- Article on Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters
- Article on the Five Crowns
- Patrick Alan
- Drifters Article - by Dr. Frank Hoffmann
- 'The Original Drifters' Vocal Group Hall of Fame Page
- 'Ben E. King and The Drifters' Vocal Group Hall of Fame Page
I, I who have nothing,
I, I who have no one,
Adore you and want you so.
I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh...
I love you.
He, he buys you diamonds,
Bright, sparkling diamonds.
But, believe me, dear, when I say,
That he can give you the world
but he'll never love the way...
I love you.
He can take you any place he wants,
Fancy clubs and restaurants.
But I can only watch you with,
My nose pressed up against the window pane.
I, I who have nothing,
I, I who have no one,
Must watch you go dancing by,
Wrapped in the arms of somebody else
when, darling, it's I...
Who love you.
- Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller
TTRH3.13 Bob Dylan TTRH Season 3 Ep 13 'Something'
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Original Airdate January 21, 2009
(Streaming Country Pie Vers.)
Mp3 @ 256 kbps/ 136 MB/ RS + ES
Absolute Sound Recorder > Sound Forge 6.0 > FLAC Frontend
Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Non-blank Dreams, Thingy Themes and Something Schemes
I speak because there's got to be something between the records.
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
- George Harrison
Uh-Look-ah there
There she comes
Here comes that girl again
Wanted to date her since I don't know when But she don't notice me
when I pass
She goes with older guys from out of my class
But that can't stop me from-ah thinkin' to myself She's sure fine
lookin' man
She's somethin' else
Hey look-ah there
Across the street
There's a car made just for me
To own that car would be a luxury
But right now I can't afford the gas
A brand new convertible is out of my class
But that can't stop me from-ah thinkin' to myself
That car's fine lookin' man
It's somethin' else
Hey look-ah here
Just wait and see
Workin' hard and savin' my dough
I'll by that car that I've be wanting so Get me that girl and we'll go
ridin' around
The town will be all shocked with my white top down
I'll keep right on and dreamin' and-ah thinkin' to myself When it all
comes true, man
Wow! That's somethin' else
Look-ah here
What's all this?
Never thought I'd do this before
But here I am ah-knockin' on her door My car's out front and it's all
mine Just a '41 Ford not a '59
I got that girl and I'm-ah thinkin' to myself
'She's sure fine lookin' man
Wow! She's somethin else '
- Eddie Cochran
There's somethin' special on my mind.
Last night I met a new girl,
In the neighborhood, whoa yeah.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
She's the kind of girl who's not too shy.
And I can tell I'm her kind of guy.
She danced close to me like I hoped she would.
(She danced with me like I hoped she would.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ahhh,) We only danced for a minute or two,
But then she stuck close to me,
The whole night through.
(Ahhh,) Can I be fallin' in love?
She's everythin' I've been dreamin' of.
(She's everythin' I've been dreamin' of.)
I walked her home and she held my hand.
I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand.
So, I asked to see her next week,
And she told me I could
(I asked to see her and she told me I could.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ahhhh.)
I walked her home and she held my hand.
I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand.
So, I asked to see her next week,
And she told me I could.
(I asked to see her and she told me I could.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
To somethin' good, oh yeah, somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
To somethin' good,
Somethin' good.
Somethin' good.
- Gerry Goffin & Carole King
This week's show is really really something!
Yap, Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues into Season 3 with this great show on the theme of Something!
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics. Starting with Bob's pal, the late great George Harrison and one of his many fine moments , the sublime "Something" from Abbey Road.
Lots of nice words from Bob too about one of his heroes, the great rock pioneer Eddie Cochran, dead at only 21.
Nice words too about Leonard Bernstein and great praise for the class and elegance of Clyde Mc Phatter's amazing vocalisations.
It's wonderful to hear the 'original" version of "I'm Into Something Good" by Earl Jean McCrea. Infinitely better than the vile version from the awful Herman's Hermits! And Bob is vehement in that same opinion too!
Of course also there are a few more obscure tracks such as She's Got Something by Jimmy Ballad, who we'd never heard of before.
Also the fine "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big " by polymath Steve Allen. We didn't know the extent to which he was a musician too!
It was great too to hear "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" by The Velvelettes and weird to hear Dylan make mention of Bananarama - who actually did a rather good cover of this with the Fun Boy Three back in the eighties!
All in all, a wonderful show!! Surely something, indeed!
Next week's show seems to be about pussies or something! We only know somewhat cryptically that TTRH will be "letting the cat out of the bag"!
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/01xdr3
Season 3
Episode 13
Original Airdate January 21, 2009
(Streaming Country Pie Vers.)
Mp3 @ 256 kbps/ 136 MB/ RS + ES
Absolute Sound Recorder > Sound Forge 6.0 > FLAC Frontend
Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Non-blank Dreams, Thingy Themes and Something Schemes
"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something "
- Plato
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
- Johan Cruyff
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
-Bertrand Russell
Turn your radio up because I've got something I want to talk about.
I speak because there's got to be something between the records.
She was robbed .... Four months later Herman and the Hermits covered it and took it to the top of the charts. Four months later? It's like they didn't even give her a chance!
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
Don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
- George Harrison
Nobody sings like that anymore. He just makes it sound effortless, no matter how difficult it really is. I like the elegance of a guy like Clyde Mc Phatter. It's like watching Fred Astaire.
Hey, here's something interesting !!!
You know when I heard Herman's Hermits singing, I thought it was just about having a piece of cake or riding on a ferris wheel. But when I hear Earl Jean singing, I know exactly what she's talking about.
He's the only President you could fit in your pocket.
Uh-Look-ah there
There she comes
Here comes that girl again
Wanted to date her since I don't know when But she don't notice me
when I pass
She goes with older guys from out of my class
But that can't stop me from-ah thinkin' to myself She's sure fine
lookin' man
She's somethin' else
Hey look-ah there
Across the street
There's a car made just for me
To own that car would be a luxury
But right now I can't afford the gas
A brand new convertible is out of my class
But that can't stop me from-ah thinkin' to myself
That car's fine lookin' man
It's somethin' else
Hey look-ah here
Just wait and see
Workin' hard and savin' my dough
I'll by that car that I've be wanting so Get me that girl and we'll go
ridin' around
The town will be all shocked with my white top down
I'll keep right on and dreamin' and-ah thinkin' to myself When it all
comes true, man
Wow! That's somethin' else
Look-ah here
What's all this?
Never thought I'd do this before
But here I am ah-knockin' on her door My car's out front and it's all
mine Just a '41 Ford not a '59
I got that girl and I'm-ah thinkin' to myself
'She's sure fine lookin' man
Wow! She's somethin else '
- Eddie Cochran
Here's his attempt the hit the stratosphere.
There's somethin' special on my mind.
Last night I met a new girl,
In the neighborhood, whoa yeah.
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
She's the kind of girl who's not too shy.
And I can tell I'm her kind of guy.
She danced close to me like I hoped she would.
(She danced with me like I hoped she would.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ahhh,) We only danced for a minute or two,
But then she stuck close to me,
The whole night through.
(Ahhh,) Can I be fallin' in love?
She's everythin' I've been dreamin' of.
(She's everythin' I've been dreamin' of.)
I walked her home and she held my hand.
I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand.
So, I asked to see her next week,
And she told me I could
(I asked to see her and she told me I could.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ahhhh.)
I walked her home and she held my hand.
I knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand.
So, I asked to see her next week,
And she told me I could.
(I asked to see her and she told me I could.)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
Somethin' tells me I'm into somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
To somethin' good, oh yeah, somethin' good.
(somethin' tells me I'm into somethin'...)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.)
To somethin' good,
Somethin' good.
Somethin' good.
- Gerry Goffin & Carole King
I wonder who was across the street from that church.
Something you remember people saying are their last words. If you're going to be quoted, you hope it's something good!
This week's show is really really something!
Yap, Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues into Season 3 with this great show on the theme of Something!
As usual, lots of great info and facts, corny jokes and witticisms.
More great Tom Waits madness. A clutch of nasty yet hilarious Jewish insults!
More great Tom Waits madness. A clutch of nasty yet hilarious Jewish insults!
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics. Starting with Bob's pal, the late great George Harrison and one of his many fine moments , the sublime "Something" from Abbey Road.
Lots of nice words from Bob too about one of his heroes, the great rock pioneer Eddie Cochran, dead at only 21.
Nice words too about Leonard Bernstein and great praise for the class and elegance of Clyde Mc Phatter's amazing vocalisations.
It's wonderful to hear the 'original" version of "I'm Into Something Good" by Earl Jean McCrea. Infinitely better than the vile version from the awful Herman's Hermits! And Bob is vehement in that same opinion too!Of course also there are a few more obscure tracks such as She's Got Something by Jimmy Ballad, who we'd never heard of before.
Also the fine "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big " by polymath Steve Allen. We didn't know the extent to which he was a musician too!
It was great too to hear "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" by The Velvelettes and weird to hear Dylan make mention of Bananarama - who actually did a rather good cover of this with the Fun Boy Three back in the eighties!
Next week's show seems to be about pussies or something! We only know somewhat cryptically that TTRH will be "letting the cat out of the bag"!
We've got to go for another week. But I hate to leave anything undone.
Tracklisting
Intro
Something - The Beatles
I'm Into Something Good - Earl Jean McCrea
Something's Coming - Vic Damone
Do Something For Me - Billy Ward and His Dominoes (Clyde McPhatter: lead vocal)
She's Got Something - Jimmy Ballad
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (Background) - Steve Allen
He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - The Velvelettes
Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran
Something's Goin' On In My Room - Daddy Cleanhead
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Charlie Rich
Something Cool - June Christy with Pete Rugolo
There's Something On Your Mind Part 2 - Bobby Marchan
Something Different - The Carlisles/Jumpin' Bill Carlisle
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Outro
Join us again next week when we let the cat out of the bag!
Intro
Something - The Beatles
I'm Into Something Good - Earl Jean McCrea
Something's Coming - Vic Damone
Do Something For Me - Billy Ward and His Dominoes (Clyde McPhatter: lead vocal)
She's Got Something - Jimmy Ballad
This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (Background) - Steve Allen
He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - The Velvelettes
Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran
Something's Goin' On In My Room - Daddy Cleanhead
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby - Charlie Rich
Something Cool - June Christy with Pete Rugolo
There's Something On Your Mind Part 2 - Bobby Marchan
Something Different - The Carlisles/Jumpin' Bill Carlisle
Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
Outro
Join us again next week when we let the cat out of the bag!
Here she be Dylanite dogs !
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/01xdr3
Various individual show components recorded as individual mp3s;
http://rapidshare.com/files/187608919/3 ... 1-2009.zip
Big thanks to blindwilly / charlespoet!
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Her father didn't like me anyway
The coat she wore still lies upon the bed
The book I gave her that she never
read
She left without a single word to say
Her father didn't like me
anyway
She always wanted more than I could give
She wasn't happy
with the way we lived
I didn't feel like asking her to stay
Her father
didn't like me anyway
Daddy never knew just what she'd seen in me
Daddy didn't like my hair
Perhaps if we had talked he might have seen
something in me
But Daddy didn't even care
To tel the truth I didn't
have the nerve
I know I only got what I deserve
For now she's taken
leave of me today
Her father didn't like me anyway
Daddy never knew
just what she'd seen in me
Daddy didn't like my hair
Perhaps if we had
talked he might have seen something in me
But Daddy didn't even care
The coat she wore still lies upon the bed
The book I gave her that
she never read
She left without a single word to say
Her father didn't
like me anyway
-Gerry Rafferty
Friday, 23 January 2009
Nick Cave - Rainy Night in Soho
There's a light I hold before me and you're the measure of my dreams
Nick Cave does a fine version of one of Shane MacGowan's many great songs, the sublime Rainy Night in Soho.
A song, in the best songwriting traditions, imbued with beautiful poetry and a sumptuous melody. A timeless classic.
This video comes from an episode of the top BBC Music Show "Later with Jools Holland" back in 1992.
Cave of course is a huge fan of Shane's work and they have recorded together a few times."Rainy Night in Soho" was recorded by Cave for the What a Wonderful World EP released in December 1992 on Mute Records.
On this EP, MacGowan also performed a Cave song, "Lucy" .
Both Shane and Nick, rather surreally, duetted on the classic Louis Armstrong hit "What a Wonderful World"!!
"Rainy Night in Soho" was originally included on the Elvis Costello produced Poguetry in Motion EP, by The Pogues which was their first single to make the UK Top 40.A different version can be found on an expanded edition of the group's seminal 1985 release, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.
The song is a huge fan favourite and is commonly performed at Pogues concerts and has been included in their recent setlists since their reformation in 2001.The song has been included on every Greatest Hits album the band has released, and is the first track on their 2001 disc, Ultimate Collection.
Many artists have covered this great song. most recently, a rather good version appeared on Damien Dempsey's fine 2008 album, The Rocky Road, a collection of traditional ballads.
Rainy Night in Soho
I've been loving you a long time
Down all the years, down all the days
And I've cried for all your troubles
Smiled at your funny little ways
We watched our friends grow up together
And we saw them as they fell
Some of them fell into Heaven
Some of them fell into Hell
I took shelter from a shower
And I stepped into your arms
On a rainy night in Soho
The wind was whistling all its charms
I sang you all my sorrows
You told me all your joys
Whatever happened to that old song
To all those little girls and boys
Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
But there's a light I hold before me
And you're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams
Sometimes I wake up in the morning
The gingerlady by my bed
Covered in a cloak of silence
I hear you in my head
I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last
Now the song is nearly over
We may never find out what it means
Still there's a light I hold before me
You're the measure of my dreams
The measure of my dreams
- Shane MacGowan (1991)
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Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue & The Pogues - Death is not the End
A very interesting star studded cover of Bob Dylan's great "Death is not the End", originally from his much maligned, but actually decent 1988 LP Down in the Groove.
'Death Is Not The End' was covered by Nick Cave - an artist who has always been heavily influenced by Bob Dylan - with the Bad Seeds in 1996 on the Murder Ballads LP.
The Cave version featured several vocalists, such as Anita Lane, Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and Shane McGowan, including Nick Cave himself and Bad Seeds drummer Thomas Wydler and guitarist Blixa Bargeld.
They each sing a verse - strangely the only song the only song on Murder Ballads where an actual death does not occur!
Death is not the End
'Death Is Not The End' was covered by Nick Cave - an artist who has always been heavily influenced by Bob Dylan - with the Bad Seeds in 1996 on the Murder Ballads LP.
The Cave version featured several vocalists, such as Anita Lane, Kylie Minogue, PJ Harvey, and Shane McGowan, including Nick Cave himself and Bad Seeds drummer Thomas Wydler and guitarist Blixa Bargeld.They each sing a verse - strangely the only song the only song on Murder Ballads where an actual death does not occur!
Death is not the End
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend
Just remember that death is not the end
And all that you've held sacred, falls down and does not mend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
When you're standing at the crossroads that you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end
And all your dreams have vanished and you don't know what's up the bend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
When the storm clouds gather 'round you, and heavy rains descend
Just remember that death is not the end
And there's no one there to comfort you, with a helpin' hand to lend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
Oh, the tree of life is growing
Where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation shines
In dark and empty skies
When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men
Just remember that death is not the end
And you search in vain to find just one law abiding citizen
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
- Bob Dylan, 1988
Just remember that death is not the end
And all that you've held sacred, falls down and does not mend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
When you're standing at the crossroads that you cannot comprehend
Just remember that death is not the end
And all your dreams have vanished and you don't know what's up the bend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
When the storm clouds gather 'round you, and heavy rains descend
Just remember that death is not the end
And there's no one there to comfort you, with a helpin' hand to lend
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
Oh, the tree of life is growing
Where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation shines
In dark and empty skies
When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men
Just remember that death is not the end
And you search in vain to find just one law abiding citizen
Just remember that death is not the end
Not the end, not the end
Just remember that death is not the end
- Bob Dylan, 1988
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Obama to order Guantanamo closed within a year: official
"The first ray of sunlight in what has been eight long years of darkness."
-ACLU
A wonderful first significant action by Obama. Shutting down this barbaric illegal horrorshow really sends out the message to the world - especially the Moslem world - that the dumb days of Dubya and Dickhead, and the days of America riding roughshod over international laws, are truly past!
However, let's not forget that there are countless undisclosed "Guantanamo"s around the world where the US conducts exactly the same activities. Most of these are in Asia but you get them in Africa too and even in Europe! The same shutdown plan needs to be applied there too.
It may be an difficult process to deal with all aspects of the shutdown properly and also to properly deal with the 245 detainees within one year, but it should be manageable.
What we really hope though is that in this one year window, Dubya and, especially, psychotic Dickhead Cheney get an opportunity to be put through the Waterboarding wringer a few times.
According to those cnuts, waterboarding and its ilk are more like fun & games than horrific, often murderous, medieval torture! Let's see if a few tries themsleves might change their tiny minds! Man, we'd pay a lot to see that comedy show!!
Actually, we always thought that dumb Dubya mistook the term Waterboarding for Snowboarding! That's why his stupid face lit up every time he spoke on the topic!!
Obama to order Guantanamo closed within a year: official
US President Barack Obama will Thursday sign an executive order for the closure of the Guantanamo prison, a symbol of his predecessor's "war on terror" tactics, a White House source said.
Obama had vowed during the 2008 presidential campaign to close the detention camp, and is set to act on the promise within two days of taking office, the source said on condition of anonymity.
"The detention facilities at Guantanamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order," said the draft executive order, posted on the website of the American Civil Liberties Union and confirmed by a White House source.
The draft said "lawful means" should be used to deal with detainees who cannot be transferred to other countries or tried in US courts.
The draft surfaced after Obama acted to suspend war crimes trials at Guantanamo for 120 days pending a review of detention policies and procedures at the offshore US prison.
The camp, and the special tribunals set up to try some inmates, has been condemned as a legal black hole by rights groups and foreign governments.
The ACLU called the draft order "the first ray of sunlight in what has been eight long years of darkness."
And New York-based Human Rights Watch said: "With the stroke of a pen, President Obama will make great progress toward restoring America's moral authority."
"By shutting down a global symbol of abuse, he will deprive terrorists of a powerful recruitment tool," Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
However, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which has defended detainees at Guantanamo, expressed disappointment that the new president's draft order "gave his administration an entire year to sort out its plans."
News of Obama's plans for the camp leaked out as a new CNN poll released Wednesday showed Americans were divided over closing Guantanamo, with 51 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed.
The draft order said it would not be in the US interest to close the prison without first determining "the appropriate dispositions" of the individuals detained there.
"The unusual circumstances associated with detentions at Guantanamo require a comprehensive interagency review," it said.
The attorney general would be charged with leading the review, but the secretaries of state, defense and other departments and agencies would participate, according to the draft.
It said a substantial number of the estimated 245 detainees at Guantanamo might be transferred to other countries but others may have to be prosecuted, possibly in US courts those detainees who cannot be transferred or released.
To handle those who can neither be tried nor transferred or released, the government "shall select lawful means, consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice," the draft said.
It said no one should be held in any detention facility controlled by the United States in conditions that do not conform with Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
Earlier, military judges in Guantanamo suspended war crimes trials of a Canadian detainee and five alleged September 11 co-conspirators in response to a request that was relayed Tuesday from Obama to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"The practical effect is to pronounce this system dead," said Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler, defense attorney for Omar Khadr, the Canadian defendant. "There will certainly be no more military commissions in Guantanamo Bay."
Kuebler said he met with Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier with a hand grenade. "He is anxious and doesn't know what will happen but we're all hopeful," he said.
But Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged September 11 mastermind, and three other co-conspirators -- Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Walid bin Attash and Mustapha al-Hawsawi -- objected during a hearing to their trial's suspension, which thwarts their quest for martyrdom.
Only Ramzi Binalshibh, whose mental competence to stand trial was to be examined this week, did not oppose the ruling.
Charges have been brought against 21 detainees, and 14 of those have appeared before military judges.
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We love Colombia babes
Apparently, Colombialand is not just a land in some faraway continent that produces cocaine, coffee, cartels, criminals and civil war! They also apparently produce truckloads of hotties!
And man, we sure do love those Colombia honies! Well, except "Shakira the Screama", that mad gyrating purveyor of awful screamy muzak!
And man, we sure do love those Colombia honies! Well, except "Shakira the Screama", that mad gyrating purveyor of awful screamy muzak!
These are some chicks getting ready to go to the supermarket as their Saturday chore! Thankfully, gals aren't too fussed about wearing clothes in Colombialand!
Actually, these are some contestants in the Miss Colombia contest!
Actually, these are some contestants in the Miss Colombia contest!
Check here for some more Colombia cuties top-10-colombian-hotties
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The Spinsters' Ball - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
"He beats me up, but I love him!"
- Jane Zantzinger
- Jane Zantzinger
We've already written about bob Dylan's amazing song The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll in the context of the recent death of her killer, racist scumbag William Zantzinger.
Hattie Carroll, a 51 year old black waitress and mother of eleven, was killed on February 9, 1963, at a white tie Ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.
Here's a fascinating early account of the incident from Time Magazine just 13 days later.
Reading the article, it's strange to see what surreal and fucked up lives these landed racist gentry used to lead! Guess some still do to a lesser extent today.
Also, using modern standards, it's strange to see the more overt and open racism then at play, reflected in Time's many usages of the word Negro here!
The Spinsters' Ball
Friday, Feb. 22, 1963
Friday, Feb. 22, 1963
Holly trees arch gracefully over the neat white fences that line the dirt road leading to the brick mansion at West Hatton, the 630-acre Zantzinger farm-estate in southern Maryland. The mansion's colonnaded porch faces the somnolent Wicomico River, which flows past a placid pond and a white summerhouse. Also on the estate is an austere farmhouse from which William Devereux Zantzinger, 24, runs one of the most prosperous tobacco operations in Charles County.
The setting befits William Zantzinger's status as a rural aristocrat. His father, a former member of the Maryland house of delegates and the state planning commission, still lives in the mansion, where he and his wife entertain in convivial country style. William and his attractive wife, Jane, 24, organized the Wicomico Hunt Club, love to halloo after hounds across their fields. William is unlike many a gentleman farmer. His farming success is due not to the efficiency of hired supervisors, but to the long hours of gritty, grubby work he himself does afield. But by last week it was apparent that he can play even harder than he plows.
Whacks, But No Tips. The Zantzingers set out for a gay social evening of dancing at Baltimore's annual Spinsters' Ball, a white-tie affair in which passed-over postdebutantes in their late 20s take another try at meeting the right sort of men. With another couple, the Zantzingers stopped off for preball dinner at downtown Baltimore's Eager House.
As witnesses tell it, Zantzinger downed two fast drinks at the bar, then whacked the restaurant's hostess and its elderly sommelier with a wooden carnival cane that he had picked up somewhere. Coaxed into checking the cane, he lunged at the wine steward's cordial tray, then his neck chain, caught a sharp elbow in the stomach in return. Zantzinger had two double bourbons with his steak; Jane Zantzinger, four double Cutty Sarks with her prime ribs. When the head barman refused to serve more, Jane hopped to another table, sipped from the glasses of its surprised occupants. Zantzinger left no tip for the waitress.
At the ball in the Emerson Hotel, the pace picked up. Zantzinger stung a Negro bellhop's rear with his cane. After a few bourbons and ginger at the open bar, he asked a Negro waitress, Mrs. Ethel Hill, 30, something about a firemen's fund. She said she did not know what he meant. "Don't say no to me, you nigger, say no, sir," said Zantzinger. He flailed her with the cane. She fled to the kitchen.
Too Slow. Minutes later, Zantzinger strode to the bar for another drink. Mrs. Hattie Carroll, 51, a Negro barmaid, did not move fast enough for him. "What's the matter with you, you black son of a bitch, serving my drinks so slow?" he railed. He beat her with his cane. She collapsed and an ambulance was called.
Through it all, the orchestra of Howard Lanin* played on, many of the spinsters missing the commotion—even when Zantzinger turned on his 125-lb. wife, who fell to the floor. More blows flew as two men struggled to calm Zantzinger. A physician felt Mrs. Zantzinger's pulse, decided she would be all right.
"I Love Him." Two policemen arrived to lead Zantzinger away. Jane Zantzinger. much revived, cried: "He beats me up, but I love him!" She jumped down five stairs, knocking both her husband and Patrolman Warren Tood to the floor. Both of the Zantzingers were taken to jail, later released on bail.
The whole wild night could have wound up as just another bender, something with which the Zantzingers might later wow their guests ("What a night!") after riding to hounds. Even the disorderly-conduct and assault charges lodged against Mrs. Zantzinger would only add zest to the tale. But one thing changed all of that. Mrs. Carroll, a mother of eleven and president of a Negro social club, died eight hours after the caning. A medical examiner found that the cause of her death was a brain hemorrhage. The charge against Zantzinger: homicide.
*Brother of Lester Lanin. whose orchestra sometimes entertains at the White House.
Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Ray Charles - New Orleans in 1986
I can play in any damned key you want. Just get me the fuck out of here.
- Ray Charles
The Adios Lounge, has uploaded a fascinating video on YouTube of a rehearsal for a 1986 summit gathering of some of the greats of modern music, Messrs. Domino, Lewis, and Charles! Mr Ron Wood is in tow too!
His description is:
Here's Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Ray Charles at Storyville nightclub in New Orleans in 1986. This isn't the actual released performance, but an interview with bandleader and herder of cats, Paul Shaffer, along with priceless rehearsal footage, all of which puts the historic piano summit into context.
It can't have been too easy for Shaffer to run that rehearsal with all those legends and those giant egos!
Here's the rehearsal for the classic Jambalaya.
thanks 15wrathchild
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Thursday, 22 January 2009
Tiny Thai Totty Thainee
This lovely thai hotty - very wittily called Thainee! - is said to be the smallest chick in porn! She's apparently about 4 foot nothing and weighs about the same as my left arm!
We don't believe she's the smallest chick in porn though! Far from it! Fatfuckfreddy sent us a few very odd DVDs last year from Hong Kong, in one of which some three foot Hispanic midget chick was up to all sorts of nasty mischief with some black guy who looked to be about eight foot tall! Not that we watched the full DVD you understand - that would be an evil sin!
So what we really want to see is a match off between that three foot Hispanic midget chick and this Thai chick Thainee!!
My new girlfriend Mona the Moaner
This has truly been a great few days!
Not only did we experience limitless joy at the demise of the dastardly dumb duo of Dubya and Dickhead and the inauguration of Barack "aka "God" Obama, we've met a beautiful new girlfriend!
Not only that, but the beautiful new girlfriend, called "Mona" (or maybe Moaner!) - as pictured above, apparently - wants to give us shitloads of cash for free!
Life surely is sweet!!
Please don't tell us this is some sort of scam!!!
Not only did we experience limitless joy at the demise of the dastardly dumb duo of Dubya and Dickhead and the inauguration of Barack "aka "God" Obama, we've met a beautiful new girlfriend!
Not only that, but the beautiful new girlfriend, called "Mona" (or maybe Moaner!) - as pictured above, apparently - wants to give us shitloads of cash for free!
Life surely is sweet!!
Please don't tell us this is some sort of scam!!!
Yap, another insane scam. The only difference being that, this time the spammer sends a pic of some exotic chick.
Well, we must admit that, as well as most men, we have been known to be dumbly led by "Stupid Junior" on occasion and are prone to do some crazy shit for the love of lust, but really, thinking that sending a pic of a chick will disguise a scam and make us lose a bundle of cash? C'mon asshole!
Man, these Stupid Simian Scam Scumbags are getting even dumber!
Man, these Stupid Simian Scam Scumbags are getting even dumber!
Anyway, here's a lovely letter from "Mona" the Moaner, my future wife!!
My Dear
Firstly how is life over there in your country? I hope that you are in atmosphere of peace and love? I am very happy to read your mail today, please do not be surprised or get offended for receiving this message from me, It just that I have been obliged to lay a mere trust on you due to my situation here in the refugees camp. Having searched through the internet from where I get your email address I strongly believe in my heart that you must be honest and sincere person for me to disclose my life secrets so that you will render your full help and assistance towards me.
Let me first of all introduce my self to you, and I will require the best of your honesty after you knowing about me and whom that I am, because I will really like us to have a good relationship in-spite of anything because I have this feeling that you must be honest, trusted person and you will not betray me.
I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here in the refugees camp and after reading your mail today I whole-heatedly decided to let you know more and more about me, Who knows? Maybe you will be my savior, from this conditions that I have found myself. My name is Miss Mona Oko, am 23yrs old from origin Liberia, I am the only daughter of Late DR. DONA OkO. The Manager and Chief Executive of (DONA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY LTD), in Monrovia, the capital city of my country years ago. My late father is one of the richest business men in my country, in anything pertaining to gold and diamonds and hwas also personal advicer to the then government under the regin of former presindent Charls Telor, but he was killed by the rebels and the greedy fellows in my country during the war, on his way down to the village.
Therefore I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father. Meanwhile I wanted to escape from Africa to any where in the world but she hides away my international passport and other traveling documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my father’s File which contains important documents. So I decided to run to the refugee’s camp where I am presently seeking asylum under the Private charity organization for the Refugee here in Republic of Senegal.
I wish to contact you personally for a long term relationship that may lead us to somewhere better if we work well on it. Here is the telephone number of the Reverend Father in the refugees camp, (+ 221-77-148-4092 ), please anytime you called just tell him that you want to speak with me so that he will send for me at the women hostels to come and answer your call. In this refugees camp we have about 3 different hostels, we have one for men, for women and for little children’s, all are victims of wars circumstances from all over Africa, honestly Life here in the refugees camp is very lonely but I prays to move out from here as soon as you help me, I have prayed over and over before deciding to disclose all about me to you because I do not know you very well, but my conditions here has made me to speak out or I keep it and die in silence, that is exactly what I am trying to do before I waste my precious life here for nothing.
My late father of blessed memory deposited the sum of amounts $4.123(Four Million one Hundred twenty three Thousand Dollars). in a leading Bank with my name as the next of kin. However, I shall forward you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the money to your bank accounts on my behalf, because I want you to help me in an investment with the money and I will like to complete my studies in your country, because I was in my 1st year as a law student in the university in my country when the crisis started so i have to move out from Liberia to other neighboring countries to avoid brutal attacks from the rebels. After the transfer you will arrange for my trip joining you over there for us to share these feelings face to face. I have tried all my possible best to explain my present conditions here to the bank but they told me that my status here in Senegal as a refugees does not permit me to such transactions, unless I will look for some one to help me.(might be my representative, trusted friends or partners).
Frankly speaking, I prefer disclosing my secrets to a stranger because he/she will not have a mind to cheat me or betray me, and I know that you people in the advanced world have full knowledge, understanding and also God fearing, not to be compared with people here, I am very careful about my life that is why I cannot be able to let anybody here know about my fathers wealth or to assist me, because they might kill me or find a way to betray me, that is why I am placing my sincere trust on you by disclosing everything with all my hearts, because I believes in my hearts that you will keep this confidential for my safety reasons here, I sincerely want to let you know that we will invest the money together, or if you don't intend staying with me then It will be my pleasure to compensate you with 15% of the total money for your efforts and services, then the rest balance shall be my investment capital. This is the reason why I decided to contact you, please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential reasons.
As soon as I received your positive response showing your interest to help me, I will put things into action immediately. I will give you the contacts of the bank so that you will contact them immediately for them to transfer the money to your bank accounts on my behalf, please this is a legitimate money and the bank is also aware that I am the next of kin to the accounts because I have send to them the documents which I collected from my fathers file, the deposit certificate and they have also confirmed it and advise me that I should look for someone to help me facilitate these transfer, since I am still in the refugees camp. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this relationship and transaction sincerely, because I am too young to handle it and also considering my status here as a refugees.
I'm waiting for your urgent and positive reply, please do keep this informations only to your self because is all about my life, my future and my everything. I am on my kneels in the name of God, do not disclose this secrets to anybody till I come over to your country, after the money has been transferred successfully to your bank accounts on my behalf. Meanwhile I want you to call me like I said because I have a lots tell you.
I have attached my picture for you ok. Have a blessed day.
Yours in love,Mona
Sarah Michelle Gellar loves tennis in High Heels
Gellar plays tennis so much she thinks love is nothing!
Watching Obama take the Oath
Today despair was diminished and the most marginalized were vindicated.
A few lovely pieces here from some very diverse US citizens speaking of their feelings when watching Obama take the Oath.
Mr O sure has a hell of a lot of hopes wrapped up in him! Let's all pray he can fulfil some of these hopes!
Mr O sure has a hell of a lot of hopes wrapped up in him! Let's all pray he can fulfil some of these hopes!
From the excellent http://www.bartcop.com/
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
My thoughts during the oath were not about me so much as my kids.
I've had my share of discrimination, as a lesbian, but my four year old twins are Black, (Brown, as they say). They see a president who looks like them. They came home from pre k yesterday squealing - "Mom, we saw a man on TV at school and his name is BARACKOBAMA! and he's President! and we watched!"
That brought tears to my eyes. They are going to remember that event for the rest of their lives.
He's also lived a life a little like theirs will be - raised mostly by people who aren't Black as in their two white moms and their Hispanic, white and racially mixed siblings.
Carol
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
Bart--I didn't stay home and watch President Obama take the Oath because I had something very important to do at work. At 9 AM Pacific Time, I donned a pair of rubber gloves and removed President Asshole and Vice President THE DICK's pictures and replaced them with President Obama and Vice President Biden.
After removing President Asshole picture, I took off the gloves and then I almost broke down and cried when I touched President Obama's picture frame. That was my contribution to this wonderful day!
Joe B
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
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Subject: watching Obama take the oath
When I saw the oath of office taken I felt the knowledge that there will be no turning back. The American People had made a fundamental paradigm shift on race. Today despair was diminished and the most marginalized were vindicated.
I then began thinking of my son. No one ever explained to me the challenge of a single Latina mother raising a son into manhood in a world where a man of color has more challenges than opportunities.
Where a man of color was perceived as inferior and a threat to those in power. I honestly believed that if you worked hard enough you could be anything you wanted to be. Even President of the United States.
At least that's what I told my son.
It's what I told myself when people would marginalize me in my own work. I believed this until the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.
On April 29, 1992 the Rodney King riots had closed schools in the Los Angeles area. When I picked up my 10 year old son from school he was devastated. He wept uncontrollably because, as he explained through gulps of breath, “that he would never see justice because of his skin color”. That he would never be allowed to do anything important because of his skin color. That there would be people that would go out of their way to disparage him. My son and I have had this reality painfully affirmed almost daily until today.
Today after the inauguration, he sent me a text message with absolute delight of what he was witnessing and the implications of an Obama presidency. We both are aware that racism will continue and we both are aware we all will continue to experience it. But when President Obama took the oath of office I felt hope that my children and their children were that much closer to be everything they want to be. This was a future I never expected and I am so very glad that it happened in my life time.
Thanks for all you do Bart.
Eleanor
My thoughts during the oath were not about me so much as my kids.
I've had my share of discrimination, as a lesbian, but my four year old twins are Black, (Brown, as they say). They see a president who looks like them. They came home from pre k yesterday squealing - "Mom, we saw a man on TV at school and his name is BARACKOBAMA! and he's President! and we watched!"
That brought tears to my eyes. They are going to remember that event for the rest of their lives.
He's also lived a life a little like theirs will be - raised mostly by people who aren't Black as in their two white moms and their Hispanic, white and racially mixed siblings.
Carol
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
Bart--I didn't stay home and watch President Obama take the Oath because I had something very important to do at work. At 9 AM Pacific Time, I donned a pair of rubber gloves and removed President Asshole and Vice President THE DICK's pictures and replaced them with President Obama and Vice President Biden.
After removing President Asshole picture, I took off the gloves and then I almost broke down and cried when I touched President Obama's picture frame. That was my contribution to this wonderful day!
Joe B
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
What was watching Obama take the oath like for me? I'll tell you what today was like for me.
A time long ago (1965), in a land far away (South Dakota) I was a member of this country's armed forces doing my part to insure a stalemate in Mutual Assured Destruction. One night while visiting downtown Rapid City, I was sitting there, minding my own business, smoking a cigarette, and I happened to spit on the ground.
All of a sudden there was a knife in my face, and attached to the knife was a great, big, white guy and the big white guy was saying, "You spit at me! I'm gonna cut you, you fuckin' nigger!
I'm not going to lie to you, I was scared shitless. I didn't know what to do. No way to fight, no where to flee when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a tall dark man (Tom Almond, I'll never forget him) appeared wearing a cast on his right arm, that went from his elbow to his fingertips. He proceeded to lay that cast upside my assailant's head knocking him ass over teakettle. Needless to say, I was quite elated.
Yeah, kinda like that. That's how today was for me.
Safe after facing eminent danger. I was quite elated. I still am.
Peace --Joe
A time long ago (1965), in a land far away (South Dakota) I was a member of this country's armed forces doing my part to insure a stalemate in Mutual Assured Destruction. One night while visiting downtown Rapid City, I was sitting there, minding my own business, smoking a cigarette, and I happened to spit on the ground.
All of a sudden there was a knife in my face, and attached to the knife was a great, big, white guy and the big white guy was saying, "You spit at me! I'm gonna cut you, you fuckin' nigger!
I'm not going to lie to you, I was scared shitless. I didn't know what to do. No way to fight, no where to flee when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a tall dark man (Tom Almond, I'll never forget him) appeared wearing a cast on his right arm, that went from his elbow to his fingertips. He proceeded to lay that cast upside my assailant's head knocking him ass over teakettle. Needless to say, I was quite elated.
Yeah, kinda like that. That's how today was for me.
Safe after facing eminent danger. I was quite elated. I still am.
Peace --Joe
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
When I was a kid I grew up around the Karnes City, Texas area. We were migrant workers. When we went to the stores or the Mercantile (as they used to call them) we had to enter through the back doors.
Yes, we were "Mexicans" oh, I mean Hispanics.
Anyway we found ourselves with the Black people at the back doors, sharing the water fountain etc.
During the cotton picking our family usually teamed up with a Black family and I played with their kids. We had a grand old time. Their Grandmother was especially Special. Man she could cook. What is funny, is that I didn't know they were Black.
It wasn't until we moved to San Antonio when I was about 12 that I started seeing the "colors". What we knew is that there were white people who ruled and got the best and then there was "us".
I went to school here and found that the white kids were geared in their education for "college" and whenever the Blacks or the Mexicans asked about it we were usually told that we would better be suited for the vocational classes or the military.
I pray that Obama will do well.
I believe he will and I hope that we can all get this race thing behind us and work as a family for a common goal, the good for all.........
Keep slugging Bart.
Skipper
Yes, we were "Mexicans" oh, I mean Hispanics.
Anyway we found ourselves with the Black people at the back doors, sharing the water fountain etc.
During the cotton picking our family usually teamed up with a Black family and I played with their kids. We had a grand old time. Their Grandmother was especially Special. Man she could cook. What is funny, is that I didn't know they were Black.
It wasn't until we moved to San Antonio when I was about 12 that I started seeing the "colors". What we knew is that there were white people who ruled and got the best and then there was "us".
I went to school here and found that the white kids were geared in their education for "college" and whenever the Blacks or the Mexicans asked about it we were usually told that we would better be suited for the vocational classes or the military.
I pray that Obama will do well.
I believe he will and I hope that we can all get this race thing behind us and work as a family for a common goal, the good for all.........
Keep slugging Bart.
Skipper
Subject: watching Obama take the oath
When I saw the oath of office taken I felt the knowledge that there will be no turning back. The American People had made a fundamental paradigm shift on race. Today despair was diminished and the most marginalized were vindicated.
I then began thinking of my son. No one ever explained to me the challenge of a single Latina mother raising a son into manhood in a world where a man of color has more challenges than opportunities.
Where a man of color was perceived as inferior and a threat to those in power. I honestly believed that if you worked hard enough you could be anything you wanted to be. Even President of the United States.
At least that's what I told my son.
It's what I told myself when people would marginalize me in my own work. I believed this until the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.
On April 29, 1992 the Rodney King riots had closed schools in the Los Angeles area. When I picked up my 10 year old son from school he was devastated. He wept uncontrollably because, as he explained through gulps of breath, “that he would never see justice because of his skin color”. That he would never be allowed to do anything important because of his skin color. That there would be people that would go out of their way to disparage him. My son and I have had this reality painfully affirmed almost daily until today.
Today after the inauguration, he sent me a text message with absolute delight of what he was witnessing and the implications of an Obama presidency. We both are aware that racism will continue and we both are aware we all will continue to experience it. But when President Obama took the oath of office I felt hope that my children and their children were that much closer to be everything they want to be. This was a future I never expected and I am so very glad that it happened in my life time.
Thanks for all you do Bart.
Eleanor
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Frisch weht der Wind
Der Heimat zu.
Mein Irisch Kind,
Wo weilest du?
'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
'They called me the hyacinth girl.'
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Od' und leer das Meer.
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is something he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see. I do not find
The Hanged Man. Fear death by water.
I see crowds of people, walking round in a ring.
Thank you. If you see dear Mrs. Equitone,
Tell her I bring the horoscope myself:
One must be so careful these days.
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying 'Stetson!
'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!'
II. A GAME OF CHESS
THE Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
In which sad light a carvèd dolphin swam.
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
'Jug Jug' to dirty ears.
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
'My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'
I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
'What is that noise?'
The wind under the door.
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Nothing again nothing.
'Do
'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
'Nothing?'
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
'Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?'
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent
'What shall I do now? What shall I do?'
'I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
'With my hair down, so. What shall we do to-morrow?
'What shall we ever do?'
The hot water at ten.
And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said—
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself,
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart.
He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you.
And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,
He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,
And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said.
Oh is there, she said. Something o' that, I said.
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look.
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said.
Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling.
You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique.
(And her only thirty-one.)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said.
(She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.)
The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same.
You are a proper fool, I said.
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want children?
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
III. THE FIRE SERMON
THE river's tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed.
And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors;
Departed, have left no addresses.
By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept...
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
But at my back in a cold blast I hear
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear.
A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
White bodies naked on the low damp ground
And bones cast in a little low dry garret,
Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.
But at my back from time to time I hear
The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring
Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring.
O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter
And on her daughter
They wash their feet in soda water
Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
Twit twit twit
Jug jug jug jug jug jug
So rudely forc'd.
Tereu
Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter noon
Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants
C.i.f. London: documents at sight,
Asked me in demotic French
To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel
Followed by a weekend at the Metropole.
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest—
I too awaited the expected guest.
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom assurance sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence;
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.)
Bestows on final patronising kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit...
She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her departed lover;
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
'Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.'
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
'This music crept by me upon the waters'
And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street.
O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.
The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
Red sails
Wide
To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down Greenwich reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
Elizabeth and Leicester
Beating oars
The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia
Wallala leialala
'Trams and dusty trees.
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.'
'My feet are at Moorgate, and my heart
Under my feet. After the event
He wept. He promised "a new start".
I made no comment. What should I resent?'
'On Margate Sands.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing.
The broken fingernails of dirty hands.
My people humble people who expect
Nothing.'
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest
burning
IV. DEATH BY WATER
PHLEBAS the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
AFTER the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and place and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding above among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains
But red sullen faces sneer and snarl
From doors of mudcracked houses
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?
What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a blackened wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
It has no windows, and the door swings,
Dry bones can harm no one.
Only a cock stood on the rooftree
Co co rico co co rico
In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
Bringing rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
The jungle crouched, humped in silence.
Then spoke the thunder
D A
Datta: what have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider
Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor
In our empty rooms
D A
Dayadhvam: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
D A
Damyata: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
She Soothes Herself With Thought Of A Gun
Sarah Folkman, - She Soothes Herself With Thought Of A Gun
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Barack Obama Inauguration Speech
After the mess up in getting the correct Oath sworn came this typically fine speech from Obama, aka "God".
Straight out of the classic Winston Churchill template with Winny's key "CREAM" elements - Contrast, Repetition, Emphasis, Alliteration and Metaphor - in play.
However excellent it was though, we're not sure it met the very lofty expectations or provided the "perfect" soundbite. Guess it's really too early to say for sure.
OBAMA: My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers ... our found fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)."
America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.
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Homer Simpson loves Obama
This doesn't happen in America. Maybe Ohio. But not in America!
We were wondering where Mc Cain got his 6 votes from!
Al Kooper: A lot like a Rolling Stone
Interesting piece on Al Kooper, who's been involved in some of the great music moments of recent times, none moreso than his seminal contribution to what Rolling Stone magazine voted The Greatest Single of All Time, Bob Dylan’s "Like a Rolling Stone."
Al’s memoir, the wonderfully titled "Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards," was reissued in an updated edition in 2008. If anyone wants to send us this mighty interesting tome, please feel free to contact us!!
Al Kooper: a lot like a Rolling Stone
Al Kooper’s memoir, "Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards," was reissued in an updated edition in 2008; the Zelig of the music world was on hand last night at Book Soup to take questions about his undeniable musical talent and his propensity for being in the right places at the right (and sometimes the very wrong) times.
But first: the story about the organ.
In 1965, the 21 year-old Kooper found himself at the recording session for Bob Dylan’s "Like a Rolling Stone." A number of session men had already been called in, but Kooper, a young Tin Pan Alley songwriter and no session stranger himself, was on the wrong side of the soundproof wall. Producer Tom Wilson invited Kooper to come watch the recordings, but that was it.
When, after running the song a couple of times, Dylan decided that the organ part would be more suited for piano, Kooper saw his chance and jumped in -- even though he didn’t know how to turn the organ on.
The rest is history, or perhaps an eighth note behind history, because Kooper’s tentative organ melody came to be known -- hilariously, to both him and Dylan -- as the defining signature of Dylan’s new rock 'n' roll sound.
Kooper, attired in sunglasses and a swank black jacket, informed the audience that he’d lost 2/3 of his sight, so he would take questions in lieu of reading.
When someone in the audience asked where he got the guts to just hop on to an instrument he didn’t know how to play, Kooper offered, “I didn’t think of it as guts. I thought of it as ambition.”
Kooper’s book tells the ins and outs of his 51-year career in music. Always winking and never self-important, he talks about forming the supergroup Blood Sweat & Tears, only to be summarily kicked out. One night, he saw a promising young band from Atlanta and signed them to MCA, with the only catch being that they’d have to change the spelling of their name to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
In 1980, Kooper faced the mordant task of having to produce a George Harrison session the morning after John Lennon had been shot in New York city. Harrison, who Kooper describes as “visibly shaken,” nonetheless made a full day’s work out of it.
What it was like to play on the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and more, after the jump.
Kooper spoke about playing on the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want." He was supposed to have been on vacation when he got cornered on London's High Street by a very enthusiastic Brian Jones. Kooper caved.
"After we were done recording it," Kooper said, "they pulled up these two trucks full of food. It was like someone was getting married. I was very impressed. I had dinner and dessert."
Asked about his feelings on the record industry's current state, Kooper replied, "It's dying, and I'm enjoying watching it die. I hope that I live long enough to attend each and every record company’s funeral."
His "staff employee" status at Sony Records kept Kooper from making millions of dollars in producer's royalties. This same loophole also bilked George Martin -- the man who produced the Beatles but never saw a dime from it. "You'd think the Beatles would have thrown him something. Maybe they did. It must have been very quiet."
The most interesting story of the night was how, at 12 years old, Kooper met an older boy at summer camp who told him that he should put down the ukulele he'd been strumming and pick up a guitar. "A guitar is much hipper than a ukulele," the boy informed him. Kooper learned the guitar fast ("It’s only got two more strings.") and the two became friends.
The older kid, whose name was Danny Schactman, eventually took an eighth-grade Kooper to a meeting with his musical manager. Yes, his manager. And that was how Kooper soon found himself a new member of the band The Royal Teens. You might have heard their big hit. It was called "Short Shorts."
Of course, as Kooper pointed out, this story, like all the others, "is in the book."
For more on Kooper, check out his 2004 interview on "Fresh Air", and his website, which includes diary postings "South By Southwest Jr. A Slight Return" and "Jagged Little Brill." It's good stuff.
-- George Ducker
Photo: Al Kooper at Book Soup. Credit: George Ducker.
Ringo Starr clamps down on autographs
This is a serious message ....
... I'm warning you ....
.... Peace and Love
Peace and Love
Peace and Love
... I'm warning you ....
.... Peace and Love
Peace and Love
Peace and Love
Back in October, in this short crazy video, Ringo's pissed off and declares that he will no longer sign any autographs dated after October 20, just one week after this announcement and that all future fan mail will be trashed, unread!
All while weirdly flashing the peace sign and suffering some sort of Peace and Love tourettes!!
Peace and Love right back at ya, Ringo - you grumpy old bastard!!
Can we have an autograph please Mr. Ringo?! You're definitely one of our favourite Beatles ever! Well, after George and John! Oh, and after Pete Best, too of course!!
More below from abbeyrd.best.vwh.net
Ringo Starr recently put a video update on his official website asking people not to continue to send fan mail to be signed after October 20. This was in direct response to an inordinate amount of items which have recently appeared for sale on e-bay, and to those that repeatedly send cards and items to be signed.
This message was not aimed at "real fans" and after over 45 yrs of signing we know they will understand. Ringo has always signed items and is in fact the only Beatle to have been doing so.
Ringo also feels strongly that it is a waste of paper and we all should be mindful of our carbon footprint. At the end of the day Ringo wanted to make a message that was clear and to the point and is confident his real fans understand that. That said, the recent response from the media has prompted him to clarify that video.
"How amazed am I to the reaction to my video update. I hope this statement gets as much. Please read this in a mellow way. Peace and love, Ringo."
Update ;
Abbeyrd's Beatles Page has received the answer to our inquiry to Ringo's press representatives about future Ringo signings. They told us the restriction on autographs by mail is pretty clear -- there won't be any. But his press office told us other situations in the future will be evaluated "as they come up when they come up -- such as when he is again on tour or engaged in any promotions." So, to answer the question, Ringo hasn't completely ended all signings, only those by mail. Others are still possible. And, as his press office told us, "He is an extremely charitable human being and that has not changed."
Paul McCartney on 'The Howard Stern Show' -- the dirty details!
Paul McCartney on 'The Howard Stern Show' -- the dirty details!
by Steve Marinucci,
Beatles Examiner
January 14, 2009
by Steve Marinucci,
Beatles Examiner
January 14, 2009
On Wednesday's "The Howard Stern Show," Paul McCartney gave Howard Stern a signed Hofner bass as a present for Stern's 55th birthday, which was Monday. Here's a very rough account of the show (since I didn't hear it) on what happened on the show compiled from notes by HwyCDRev. My transitions here aren't really smooth and some of the information is sketchy, but you get a basic idea of what went on.
We'll revise this as we get more information. (And if you heard it, feel free to add your comments.)
Here we go:
Paul McCartney gave Stern a signed Hofner bass guitar for a birthday gift. Stern said, "Is it yours?" McCartney replied, "No, it's yours."
Stern reminded Paul that he told him to get a pre-nuptial agreement. Paul says he doesn't remember. Denies everything and winks. Stern said it was good McCartney took the high road.
Paul mentioned the East Hamptons concerts and says he didn't date the women he was photographed with. He just said hello and gave them a kiss as the pictures were taken. The names Christie Brinkley, Renée Zelleweger and Rosanne Arquette were mentioned.
Stern said, "Are you happy with this 'broad'? Paul asked, "Who?" Stern said, "The rich one." Artie Lang followed with, "Everyone knew her as Nancy."
Stern asked Paul about the rumor of John Lennon having sex with Brian Epstein that's discussed in Philip Norman's biography, "John Lennon: The Life." Paul says it's an old rumor. "One hint and they write a book."
About the Fireman album, Stern said he liked it, saying, "And when you do a good job, I'll tell you."
Robin Quivers said, "i'm throwing my hat into the ring. I'm a vegan, too. Take me to the inauguration. Kids love me." Stern tells Robin, "Show Paul your breasts." Paul said no. Robin said, "I've been rejected by Paul McCartney." (Paul is apparently in the U.S. to attend the inauguration.)
Stern asked if it was OK to ask about the Beatles. Paul McCartney: "I like the Beatles. They were a good band." Paul then tells the story that the "Abbey Road" album was originally called 'Everest.' He says, "It was a cheap approach." He explained that walking outside (for the "Abbey Road" cover) was cheaper than going to Mount Everest and shooting an album cover.
The subject came around to the Ringo "no autographs by mail" video. Paul said, "Ringo would always say 'p--- off'" in the old days because he had kids." Stern replied he's not that busy. (p.s. Howard, he's working on an album.) On Ringo's "no autographs" video, Paul said, "Ringo can do what he wants" and called Ringo "brave" for doing that video.
Paul replied, "I just signed something outside." Stern said, "Pete Best will sign anything."
About the unreleased song "Carnival of Light," Paul confirmed it was George Harrison, not Yoko Ono, who didn't like it and that he (Paul) wanted it to go on the "Anthology."
Stern: "Did you ever write Pete Best a check?" Paul said, "He got pride!" Paul said Pete was kicked out not because he was good looking, but because Ringo sat in and sounded amazing. Stern said, "Don't miss a day of work!"
Paul said after George Harrison died, "You just remember the good stuff. "Like losing anyone, I don't think of him every day, but you tell a Beatles story and it's tinged with sadness."
And about Dhani Harrison, George's son, McCartney said, "He's really good." Paul also said he and his son James were doing an album together.
Paul McCartney: "I'm an optimist. I've seen Vietnam, Nixon, 9/11. I'm excited about Obama. I'm reading his book."
It's noted that Christie Brinkley got dolled up for Paul McCartney. Paul: "Who can blame her?" Stern said he heard Brinkley was after Paul.
Paul said he loves having a young child. He makes breakfast, drives her to school and talks to mothers of other students. "Very hands on. It's a thrill."
Paul plays the promo single (probably "Sing the Changes"). Paul says, "I like it already." Stern: "You're excited?" Paul: "Why not?" and starts to dance a bit.
On the Fireman album, Paul made up the lyrics as he went along, like "improv." Stern says "Highway" is one of his favorite tracks and says he should have had sex with Renee to that song.
Stern asked if Paul played Guitar Hero. Paul said he didn't, but then added the Beatles were going to have a Guitar Hero game. "I may learn how to be a Beatle," Paul said. Stern also mentions his daughter took a Beatles college course.
The subject turned to drugs. Stern says to Paul, "Cocaine .. everyone knows you were addicted." Paul replied he was not addicted, it was a peer group thing. He says he never took heroin and says he got fed up with cocaine and got out before it was hip. He says he no longer does pot, either.
Paul says he's still a vegetarian, but he doesn't like cruelty to animals. Paul said that some eggs are abandoned by the hens, so it's OK. Stern asked, "Isn't an egg a chicken abortion?" Paul replied it wasn't. "We don't like to think of it like that."
Stern asked why called the album the Fireman? Paul said it's like Sgt. Pepper. Then, referring to the Ruttles, he said, "You are Dirk, you are Barry. "I make trails in the woods with a chainsaw for wood (to get wood for a fire)." And says his dad was a fireman.
Stern played another of his favorite songs from the album "Light From Your Lighthouse." (The other is "Highway.") He says this is like the Frost/Nixon interview. "We need 18 hours."
The interview lasted approximately 40 minutes. Paul was having a great time. He was dancing to his CD when it was played.
After the commercial, Stern said there was lots of pressure over the visit. Paul came in with his entourage and there was a lot of things to do. But Stern said it was fun. Paul was relaxed and had his feet up on the couch.
At the end, Fred Norris added, "Before anyone has a heart attack," the guitar came from Guitar Center.
Photo by Steve Gullick, courtesy MPL Communications Ltd.
The Seven Deadly Sins - Wrath
The Seven Deadly Sins - Wrath
by promis
by promis
Artist's Comments;
Wrath (or anger) may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. These feelings can manifest as vehement denial of the truth, both to others and in the form of self-denial, impatience with the procedure of law, and the desire to seek revenge outside of the workings of the justice system (such as engaging in vigilantism) and generally wishing to do evil or harm to others. The transgressions borne of vengeance are among the most serious, including murder, assault, and in extreme cases, genocide.
Wrath is the only sin not necessarily associated with selfishness or self-interest (although one can of course be wrathful for selfish reasons, such as jealousy, closely related to the sin of envy). Dante described vengeance as "love of justice perverted to revenge and spite". In its original form, the sin of wrath also encompassed anger pointed internally rather than externally. Thus suicide was deemed as the ultimate, albeit tragic, expression of wrath directed inwardly, a final rejection of God's gifts.
Sarah Folkman - Let me show you there's something better
Sarah Folkman - Let me show you there's something better
11.75"H x 8.75"W
oil on maple panel
from sarahfolkman.com
11.75"H x 8.75"W
oil on maple panel
from sarahfolkman.com
BOB DYLAN - SONG AND DANCE MAN
BOB DYLAN - SONG AND DANCE MAN
Classic Bob Talk, Jokes, band intros, announcements, etc in mp3
Classic Bob Talk, Jokes, band intros, announcements, etc in mp3
We recently posted about the comedy stylings of Mr. Bob Dylan and in that vein below are some great audio clips of the Las Vegas comedian in action!
All thanks to 11dollarbills
All thanks to 11dollarbills
"Here's my ex-wife, my next wife, my girlfriend, and my fiancee."
Bob introducing the back-up singers; Tucson, 1975
London, England, March 29, 1995
Band intro
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Oslo, Norway, July 18, 1996
Eric Andersen
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New York City, December 8, 1997
Joan Osborne
...
Eugene, Oregon, June 14, 1999
Honorary Hippie
Chula Vista, California, June 25, 1999
Sleeping Bags
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Duluth, Minnesota, July 3, 1999
Mimi
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Detroit, Michigan, July 6, 1999
Supperman
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Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 1999 (late show)
Slow Horse Fast
... ... ...
The alluring talents of Rachel Aldana
There are at least two great things we love about the lovely Rachel!
Mickey Rourke and Bob Dylan love in !
Well, (Bob)'s not big talking on the phone. Not big talking, period.
Mickey and Bobby - a rather incongruous pairing indeed! But the two great artists have developed a friendship and huge mutual respect, as described in the short amusing below!
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MICKEY ROURKE once received an unexpected midnight phone call from BOB DYLAN - and their ensuing conversation set them on the path to lifelong friendship.
The Wrestler star appeared the folk legend's 2003 film Masked and Anonymous and the pair would often chat about Rourke's character.
But the actor, who describes Dylan as the most interesting person in the world, was shocked to receive a late-night call from the singer.
He says, "I've known him several years and we talk on the phone. Well, he's not big talking on the phone. Not big talking, period. I had a little part in some arty farty movie we did. He called me in the middle of the night and I'd say, 'Who's this?' And he'd say, 'Bob.' And I'd say, 'Bob who?' And he said, 'You know... Bob.' Oh f**k. Bob Dylan.
"He would ask me what he should be doing in a scene when he had no dialogue, and I would say, 'Why not do some activity?' I'd give him some little acting points, and we became friends."
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Barack Obama’s “We Are One Concert” - 18 January 2009
Barack Obama’s “We Are One Concert”
18 January 2009
mp3/ 150mb
18 January 2009
mp3/ 150mb
Some very strange contributors here - what the fuck are the likes of Jack Black and Marisa Tomei doing here? (unless perhaps Marisa did a spot of stripping as in "The Wrestler"!) - and a fair bit of muzak - Garth Brooks et al - but a historic document nonetheless.
Great to hear folk stalwart Pete Seeger perform the classic This Land with Bruce Springsteen, and the Boss perform the best song of the day in "The Rising".
Where's Bob Dylan though? We thought Obama was a big fan!
We never knew Boner and 'Shakira the Screama' were Americans!! They say you learn something new every day. With us, it's once every year!
Man, it sure looked cold there! We hope 'Shakira the Screama' wore her thermal g-string!
Bey: "Are you grabbing my tit there, Brucie?"Tracklisting
01. Various - Concert Intruducion.mp3"
02. Various - The Star Spangled Banner.mp3"
03. Denzel Washington - Speech.mp3"
04. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising.mp3"
05. Laura Linney & Martin Luther King III - Speech.mp3"
06. Mary J. Blige - Lean On Me.mp3"
07. Steve Carell & Jamie Foxx - Speech.mp3"
08. Bettye Lavette And Jon Bon Jovi - Long Time Coming.mp3"
09. Tom Hanks - Speech.mp3"
10. Marisa Tomei - Speech.mp3"
11. James Taylor, John Legend & Jennifer Nettles - Shower The People.mp3"
12. Joe Biden - Speech.mp3"
13. John Mellencamp - Pink Houses.mp3"
14. Queen Latifah - Speech.mp3"
15. Josh Groban & Heather Headley - Freedom Ring.mp3"
16. Kal Penn & George Lopez - Speech.mp3"
17. Herbie Hancock, Will.I.Am & Sheryl Crow - One Love.mp3"
18. Tiger Woods - Speech.mp3"
19. Renee Fleming - Medley.mp3"
20. Jack Black & Rosario Dawson - Speech.mp3"
21. Garth Brooks - American Pie-Shout-We Shall Be Free.mp3"
22. Ashley Judd & Forest Whitaker - Speech.mp3"
23. Usher, Stevie Wonder, & Shakira - Higher Ground.mp3"
24. Samuel L. Jackson - Speech.mp3"
25. U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)-City Of Blinding Lights.mp3"
26. Various - Bald Eagles Presentation.mp3"
27. Barack Obama - Speech.mp3"
28. Pete Seeger With Bruce Springsteen - This Land.mp3"
29. Beyonce & Cast - America The Beautiful.mp3"
30. Various - Concert Credits.mp3"
Beyoncé - America The Beautiful
“We Are One Concert”
“We Are One Concert”
We found a link for this historic bootleg ... that means it's not our link, Internet Nazis!
http://rapidshare.com/files/186346215/O ... .18.09.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/186346215/O ... .18.09.zip
Thanks GG
Note: The poster adds;
My version of Winrar does not like the " in the directory name. To extract it, I manually created a target folder, then in Winrar opened the archive & the il-named folder within. The I selected all and told it to extract to the destination folder. Before clicking OK, I clicked on the Advanced tab and told it "do not extract paths".
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Top 10 Colombian Hotties !
Today, amigos, we bring you a Cartel of Colombian Cuties!
Apparently, Colombia is not just a land in some faraway continent that produces cocaine, coffee, cartels, criminals and civil war! They also apparently produce truckloads of hotties!
So here are ten such hot Combian mamasitas!
We're not at all sure that "Shakira the Screama" - mad gyrating purveyor of awful screamy muzak! - should be in here though!
Apparently, Colombia is not just a land in some faraway continent that produces cocaine, coffee, cartels, criminals and civil war! They also apparently produce truckloads of hotties!
So here are ten such hot Combian mamasitas!
We're not at all sure that "Shakira the Screama" - mad gyrating purveyor of awful screamy muzak! - should be in here though!
1.Andrea Serna
2.Jery Sandoval
3.Vanessa Mendoza
4.Fernanda Mello
5. Shakira
6 Vane Millon
7. Claudia Bahamon
8. Danna García
9. Anasol Escobar
10.Sofia Vergara
2.Jery Sandoval
3.Vanessa Mendoza
4.Fernanda Mello
5. Shakira
6 Vane Millon
7. Claudia Bahamon
8. Danna García
9. Anasol Escobar
10.Sofia Vergara
thanks www.bytcs.com
RIAA Fights Tooth and Nail to Prevent iTV Telecast of Legal Proceeding
A modicum of good news from the Troll Wars with the broadcasting of Thursday's trial where the Muzak Biz, via RIAA, is suing a college kid Joel Tenenbaum for allegedly downloading a few mp3s!
The Muzak Biz bullies had been fighting tooth and nail to keep their random victimisations and ridiculous cases kept totally in private and also maintain a monopoly on information about these cases.
For once though, the victim has some very strong support in the form of of Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and his staff!
We wish Joel and Professor Nesson all the best in their commendable stand against these greedy bullies!
All detailed below in a very interesting piece from Ray Beckerman, a lawyer who makes available information on the countless, and often spurious, cases being taken by the Muzak Biz and who maintains the wonderful blog "Recording Industry vs. The People".
The Muzak Biz bullies had been fighting tooth and nail to keep their random victimisations and ridiculous cases kept totally in private and also maintain a monopoly on information about these cases.
For once though, the victim has some very strong support in the form of of Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and his staff!
We wish Joel and Professor Nesson all the best in their commendable stand against these greedy bullies!
All detailed below in a very interesting piece from Ray Beckerman, a lawyer who makes available information on the countless, and often spurious, cases being taken by the Muzak Biz and who maintains the wonderful blog "Recording Industry vs. The People".
Thanks to iptvevangelist
http://www.iptvevangelist.com/2009/01/riaa_fights_tooth_and_nail_to.html
Special to ipTVe, By Ray Beckerman
Special to ipTVe, By Ray Beckerman
I have been representing defendants in cases brought by the RIAA for 4 years now. The RIAA has consistently done everything it can to try to keep all of the proceedings "confidential", even when there is no legal basis for doing so.
In my opinion, their primary reason for that tactic has been to keep as much of a monopoly as possible on information about the cases. The public availability of transcripts, legal documents, exhibits, and other information about the cases would have driven the defense costs down for other defendants and their attorneys, which is anathema to the RIAA lawyers.
My blog, "Recording Industry vs. The People", was established for the purpose of partially countering that monopoly. Additionally, another "Web 2.0" idea I've had was to reach out to the Slashdot and Groklaw online communities for input into the deposition of the RIAA's expert witness.
The legal team which has recently begun representing a 24-year old graduate student in Boston, Joel Tenenbaum, has taken it a step further, and is really taking the RIAA on, over the secrecy issue. The team, which consists of Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and some of his CyberLaw and Evidence students, has set up a website about the case, sends out press releases, 'tweets' the depositions and court appearances on Twitter, and now has requested - and been granted - permission to stream a January 22nd hearing over ITV. (See "January 22nd oral arguments in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum will be televised over the internet", Recording Industry vs. The People, January 14, 2009.)
In her January 14th order granting permission for the proceeding to be streamed, District Judge Nancy Gertner termed the RIAA's opposition to the televising "curious", since the RIAA's lawyers had persistently represented to her that the aim of the litigation campaign was to "educate the public". She ruled that Courtroom View Network (CVN) would be the sole entity authorized to televise using the Court's own previously installed cameras, the proceeding would be "narrowcast" to Harvard Law School's "Berkman Center for Internet and Society" which would in turn make the broadcast available for all noncommercial uses over its website, and that the broadcast would be "gavel to gavel" with no editing permitted. A copy of the actual order (PDF) is available online.
The RIAA is so vehemently opposed to the televising, that it has gone so far as to file an "extraordinary writ" of prohibition with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, trying to get the order overturned and to block the televising. (See " RIAA Files Writ of "Mandamus or Prohibition" with 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum", Recording Industry vs. The People, January 17, 2009).
As of this writing, the outcome of that proceeding is unknown.
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*Ray Beckerman is a veteran New York City-based business lawyer, with Ray Beckerman, P.C., whose practice includes internet, copyright, software, and other commercial law subjects. He began his career with the well known commercial and entertainment law firm, Phillips Nizer. He has represented defendants targeted by the RIAA and by the MPAA, and is the author of the popular digital online copyright law blog, "Recording Industry vs. The People".
Additional Sites: Facebook Joel Fights Back Against RIAA
Also see: JoelFightsBack.com
Me love Teacher
Man, if my teach had looked like this, I wouldn't have left school aged 13 to fulfill my ambition of becoming a hobo!
Torch Passed
Bob Englehart, Hartford, Connecticut -- The Hartford Courant,
Visit Bob's cartoon archives. E-Mail Bob.
Hey, it's Kate Bush !
Here's a lovely shot of the lovely Kate Bush.
No we don't have a lovely shot of the lovely Kate Bush's Bush!
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Lovely Brittney from the Exorcist
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Morgan Freeman pays for integrated Mississippi prom! Flm made about it
On this momentous day for people of colour in America, for America itself, it can't be forgotten that this type of racial segregation is still going on and racism is still rife in that country!
from Electronic Urban Report
For 11 years, an offer has been on the table from Morgan Freeman to finance a prom at his local high school in Charleston, Miss. that would end its long tradition of holding two separate proms – one for black students, the other for whites.
The Oscar-winning actor heard about the segregated proms in 1997 and promptly offered Charleston High School the money to fund a dance for all races to attend. Film cameras were rolling when the school board finally took him up on the offer in 2008.
Director Paul Saltzman's "Prom Night in Mississippi," which premiered Saturday as part of the world documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the growing pains Charleston went through last year as the community prepared for its first racially integrated senior prom.
The move came 54 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education case that struck down school segregation and more than 30 years after black students began attending Charleston High School, which previously had been all-white.
Freeman said students were willing to go with an integrated prom when he made the offer 11 years ago, but the school board and parents ignored his offer.
"It's kind of disheartening," Freeman told the Associated Press. "In the little town we live in — this is a really small town — I don't know how you can live in such a small place and try to be separate."
Toronto filmmaker Saltzman met Freeman in 2006 on a return visit to Mississippi, where he had worked for a couple of months doing voter registration during the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s. Saltzman later interviewed Freeman for another documentary he's working on about his journey back to the South. Once he learned of Freeman's offer to desegregate Charleston's proms, Saltzman got another idea.
"I said to him without thinking, `Is the offer still good?' And he was a little taken aback, and he went, 'Oh, OK,'" Saltzman said. "I thought, if you're willing to put the offer back on the table and we follow that, it's a story about young people and racial attitudes that hopefully would make other young people walk out of a darkened theater and think about their own attitudes and their own beliefs."
With permission from school officials, Saltzman filmed Freeman as he made the initial pitch to the administration and met with the senior class, which greeted the proposal enthusiastically.
Saltzman and his wife, producer Patricia Aquino, spent about four months filming in Charleston during the buildup to the prom, interviewing students, sitting in on planning meetings and chatting up the handful of parents willing to talk. Many adults refused to be interviewed, and the filmmakers soon learned that amid preparations for the integrated prom, a separate, white-only prom had been organized.
The heart of the film is candid interviews with black and white Charleston students, who speak passionately about the racism that lingers in their town. The filmmakers follow a core of students, among them a black boy and white girl who date despite her father's objections, a white couple whose friendship with a black youth causes them grief, and a black girl who suspects racism cost her the class valedictorian honor.
Saltzman was not allowed to film the white prom, which he estimates a couple of dozen students attended. The integrated prom was far larger and stands as a hopeful climax to the film as black and white students mingle exuberantly.
Freeman said the prom cost him about $17,000, which he said was "money very well spent" that hopefully will lead to integrated proms from now on. "The kids are not going to want to go backwards," Freeman said. "They've got their toe in the water, and the water's warm."
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Monday, 19 January 2009
BEIRUT/ The Real People - The Joys Of Losing Weight
The Real People (later known as BEIRUT) - The Joys Of Losing Weight
2001 | lo-fi electronic/Indie/Alt | MP3 | 256Kbps | 135Mb
2001 | lo-fi electronic/Indie/Alt | MP3 | 256Kbps | 135Mb
Do you like experimental music? Do you like songs without titles? Do you like Beirut? Do you like Lebanon? Do you like Lesbianism? Do you like loads of dumb questions? Well, then here's the album for you, The Joy of Losing Weight by Oprah Winfrey ... sorry by The Real People!
The Real People consists of, surprise surprise, one Zach Condon of Beirut fame!
Amazingly, Condon made this album at the age of fifteen! And even more amazing, or maybe not considering who made it, the album is quite good. Fifteen? .... shouldn't he have been out behind the school bike shed sniffing glue and drinking cider with the local peroxide blond bikes instead of messing about with some downloaded studio software in his bedroom all day?
Anyway, some blurb from somewhere on the initial release of this;
"This album has never been released, is not available for sale, and has never been seen or heard by anyone other than a handful of people who have personally received a copy of this record. It pre-dates all of his work with Beirut and does not bear any influence of the Balkan/Eastern Gypsy sound that he has become renowned and critically acclaimed for; however, it's a highly precocious album that's steeped in amazing melodies draped against a backdrop of synthesized electronica: imagine an entire electronic/experimental album in the style of Scenic World with Zach's distinctive vocals and the occasional appearance of his famous brass instrumentation."
Fair enough!
So here she be, 21 tracks in all .... and no titles! Have fun and make up your own titles!
We call the first one "Flower Ozawa Biscuit Hangover"! Or maybe that's my new GF's name .... I can't remember!
We found this link for this bootleg collection .... yap, nazis that means it ain't our fucking link and this ain't a commercial release!!
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Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler
I always leave with less than I had before. You've seen me. Bet I can make you smile when the blood hits the floor.
- Bruce SpringsteenI'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone, I just don't want you to hate me.
-Randy 'The Ram' Robinson:
(Robert D. Siegel - writer)
This fine track - the title track from auteur Darren Aronofsky's brilliant new film, The Wrestler - rightly won the Boss a Golden Globe last week for Best Original Song.
A brooding, powerful meditation on a flailing, failing soul, performed in a simple and pared down style, it's another sublime Springsteen song.We're shocked that this fine song won actually, since in these award shows, it's usually the worst piece of shit dirge that wins (and usually by the likes of cretins such as Celine Dion!)
This time, the representative of that ridiculous ilk - "I Thought I Lost You" by Miley Cyrus (yes, Miley fucking Cyrus! Oh, the horror!!) and Jeffrey Steele - very thankfully lost out!
This time, the representative of that ridiculous ilk - "I Thought I Lost You" by Miley Cyrus (yes, Miley fucking Cyrus! Oh, the horror!!) and Jeffrey Steele - very thankfully lost out!
Of course, the amazing Mickey Rourke also deservedly won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture for his role as Randy 'The Ram' Robinson !
Mickey really brings the character to life and imbues him with deep complexity as well as great vulnerability. Physically too, of course, Mickey's many hard years in his own life, and his long crazy stint as a pro boxer, have written their trails onto his face and body, as would have been the case for the character he portrays - Randy 'The Ram' Robinson!
All we can say is thank fuck Nicolas Cage (once a very good actor but, for many years now, not so, and actually nowadays a Jonah for any movie) who was originally slated for the role, was for whatever reason gently pushed aside from the project by Aronovsky in favour of Rourke.
It's great to see Mickey - a man who pissed his preternatural talent away for decades - back where he belongs! Hopefully the Oscar will be winging its way to him in a few weeks!
Mickey really brings the character to life and imbues him with deep complexity as well as great vulnerability. Physically too, of course, Mickey's many hard years in his own life, and his long crazy stint as a pro boxer, have written their trails onto his face and body, as would have been the case for the character he portrays - Randy 'The Ram' Robinson!
All we can say is thank fuck Nicolas Cage (once a very good actor but, for many years now, not so, and actually nowadays a Jonah for any movie) who was originally slated for the role, was for whatever reason gently pushed aside from the project by Aronovsky in favour of Rourke.
It's great to see Mickey - a man who pissed his preternatural talent away for decades - back where he belongs! Hopefully the Oscar will be winging its way to him in a few weeks!
The Wrestler is a wonderful film, typically well directed by Aronofsky from a fine script by Robert D. Siegel, with Rourke's towering performance a standout, but with great support work too from Marisa Tomei (who we're normally not big fans of!)
Marisa sure looks good for a chick who's just turned 44 and does some very fine gyrating work as a stripper ... sorry, "Exotic Dancer" ... or "Erotic Hooker" ... or some phrase that means stripper!
Very convincing performance too .... not that we'd really know, not having ever been in a Strip Club (... well, not today anyway!)! Maybe Marisa tread the boards in one of the clubs during those very lean years there after the "Cousin Vinny" limelight faded many years ago!!
We're only kidding Mr. Attorney for Maria Tomei! Only kidding!
Anyway, here's a trailer for the film;
Bruce Springsteen and Mickey Rourke go back a long way! They first met at the Stone Pony back in the eighties and soon after became motorcycle cruising buddies in 1989 and 1990 when Springsteen was living in Los Angeles, CA.
Rourke owned a short-lived club in Los Angeles called Rubber Club, and Springsteen is known to have made two onstage appearances in that club; on 10 Mar 1989, he joined local band The Mighty Hornets for one song (CC RIDER) and, on 25 Apr 1989, he joined an unidentified local band onstage for one song - (STAND BY ME).
According to film director Darren Aronofsky, Springsteen is a huge fan of Rourke's. He's seen every movie of his and he was hoping for him to get back on track making movies. He was following him and he wanted to know about his projects, but the two "haven't been in touch during Mickey's lost years".
Rourke sent Springsteen a letter and a copy of the movie script. In May 2008, Springsteen called him in the middle of the night and told him that he's in touring in Europe, and said that he "don't know if I can do this, but if I can, I'll try something."
Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, and Mickey Rourke at the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony
Springsteen was presented with his Golden Globe statuette last week by some Amazonian Indian called Sting.
In his acceptance speech, Bruce briefly talked about how the song came to life:
"All right! This is uh... the only time I'm gonna be in competition with Clint Eastwood, I know that for sure [laughs]. Felt pretty good, too! [giggles]
Anyway, Mickey called me in Ireland and he asked me for uh... some music, he told me a little bit about the character, he said some people invest themselves in their pain and they turn away from love and the things that strengthen and nurture their lives. He said this was a guy that didn't figure... hadn't figured that out. So I said, 'Well, I know a couple of those guys...'
And so, the song. So... first and foremost, I'd like to thank Mickey. Without the call I wouldn't have written the song, without his inspiration. Thank you brother, for a beautiful performance, thank you. Thank you for thinking of me!
Um... like to thank Darren and all the folks involved with the film for letting me be a small part of their picture, thank you. Uh... love to my strong and lovely wife Patti, and hello to Evan, Jess, and Sam at home. Happy birthday, Big Man Clarence Clemons!"
Springsteen wrote THE WRESTLER in Europe during the Magic Tour, sometime between late May and early July 2008. In July, he called Rourke and Aronofsky complimenting them on the movie and adding that he wrote a song for the film's character.Rourke and Aronofsky went to see Springsteen in concert at Giants Stadium in late July 2008. Rourke introduced his director to Springsteen who picked up his guitar and proceeded to play his new composition. "I literally got stage fright," Aronofsky told MTV. "I never knew what stage fright was! My chin just went down, and I said in my head, 'Oh my God, I'm freezing up in front of Bruce Springsteen.'"
Aronofsky told MTV, "Then we started talking, and then he played the song, and it was amazing. And he's like, 'I don't know if it's good yet.'" Then Springsteen offered the song for free.
The song came while the movie was at the end of its editing phase. This late addition caused the movie's screening debut to take place at the end of the Venice Film Festival.On THE WRESTLER, Springsteen handles guitar, piano, and vocals. Director Darren Aronofsky described it as "a wonderful acoustic piece; makes me choke up every time I hear it. [Springsteen] really captured the spirit of the film and Mickey [Rourke]'s character in the piece."
The song, as heard over the film's closing credits, opens and closes with a long coda, clocking at 5:25.
However, the track will be released in a 3:50 edited version on the Boss's Working On A Dream album.
Yes, the song is included as a bonus track on the Springsteen's excellent new LP Working On A Dream which continues on where 2007's fine "Magic" left off.We saw some good stuff about the Working On A Dream LP on another blog.
THE WRESTLER, the album's third single, was officially released on 16 Dec 2008 at the iTunes Store, in advance of the film's U.S. major cities openings in the subsequent days. This is the album version with the edited opening and closing codas.
The song was also released, but in its unedited form, on a US-only 1-track promotional CD-R issued exclusively to Academy Award voters by film distributors Fox Searchlight Pictures for consideration in the Best Original Song category. The CD-R comes in slimline jewel case without artwork [see scan below (right)], and contains the full, unedited 5:25 version of THE WRESTLER with intact piano outro.
Like we wish for Mickey, we hope that, in a few weeks, the Boss follows up his 1993 Academy Award for "Streets of Philadelphia" with another one for this marvellous track!!
How Mickey Rourke Got Bruce Springsteen's 'Wrestler' Song -- For Free '
Mickey wrote him a very long, heartfelt letter,' director Darren Aronofsky says of Golden Globe-winning song.
By Garth Bardsley, with reporting by Kurt Loder
www.mtv.com
Finding music for a film isn't typically an actor's job, but in the case of Bruce Springsteen's theme song to "The Wrestler," which won a Golden Globe last night for Best Original Song, the Boss has actor Mickey Rourke to thank for adding yet another trophy to his collection. In a conversation last month with Kurt Loder, Rourke and "Wrestler" director Darren Aronofsky shared how they convinced Springsteen to pen the tune — for nothing.
"Mickey knows the Boss from years ago," Aronofsky said, "but they haven't been in touch during Mickey's lost years. ... And Mickey wrote him a letter — a very long, heartfelt letter — and sent him the script."
Obviously Rourke — who also won a Golden Globe last night, for Best Lead Actor in a Motion Picture Drama — was willing to put his heart and soul into making sure "The Wrestler" would succeed. In what is being considered a major comeback for the once-forgotten actor, the role is now making him a favorite for an Oscar nomination.
Apparently his letter-writing skills are quite good, too. According to Aronofsky, "The Boss called Mickey in the middle of the night and said, 'I'm in Europe and I'm touring, and I don't know if I can do this, but if I can, I'll try something.' "
About a month later, the duo went to see Springsteen in concert at Giants Stadium. After Rourke introduced his director to the Boss, Springsteen picked up his guitar and proceeded to play the now award-winning tune.
Apparently his letter-writing skills are quite good, too. According to Aronofsky, "The Boss called Mickey in the middle of the night and said, 'I'm in Europe and I'm touring, and I don't know if I can do this, but if I can, I'll try something.' "
About a month later, the duo went to see Springsteen in concert at Giants Stadium. After Rourke introduced his director to the Boss, Springsteen picked up his guitar and proceeded to play the now award-winning tune.
"Then he played the song," said Rourke. "Right," said Aronofsky. "Then we started talking, and then he played the song, and it was amazing. And he's like, 'I don't know if it's good yet.' "
Apparently, the Golden Globe voters thought it was! "
Anyway, he's a normal guy," Aronofsky said. "And then he gave us the song for free."
Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making its way down the street?
If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me
Then you've seen me, I come and stand at every door
Then you've seen me, I always leave with less than I had before
Then you've seen me, bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?
Have you ever seen a scarecrow filled with nothing but dust and wheat?
If you've ever seen that scarecrow then you've seen me
Have you ever seen a one-armed man punching at nothing but the breeze?
If you've ever seen a one-armed man then you've seen me
Then you've seen me, I come and stand at every door
Then you've seen me, I always leave with less than I had before
Then you've seen me, bet I can make you smile when the blood, it hits the floor
Tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?
Tell me can you ask for anything more?
These things that have comforted me, I drive away
This place that is my home I cannot stay
My only faith's in the broken bones and bruises I display
Have you ever seen a one-legged man trying to dance his way free?
If you've ever seen a one-legged man then you've seen me
Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler (full version)
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The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me (Acoustic)
The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me (Acoustic)
We'd first read about this lot ages back in Uncut Magazine but paid no nevermind, since, basically, we're not fans of the criminally over-rated Arctic Monkeys. We'd also heard a few Rascals EPs and weren't blown away.
Then we came across the official video for this track, Standing Next To Me, in the wee small hours of one drunken night-morning last Summer and really liked it. A fantastic sounding song, a wonderful kick back to the days of pure pop and stylish, stylised songwriting.
Trying to find out who the performers might be, we spotted that bloke from Arctic Monkeys. F*cking hell .... that can't be that bloke from Arctic Monkeys, can it? The music's too fkn good!
Well it was, and it is. Yap, Monkey Alex Turner along with Miles Kane of scouser group The Rascals, along with composer/producer James Ford. AKA The Last Shadow Puppets.
Next day, their great LP The Age Of The Understatement was sourced!
This LP was released on 21 April 2008 in the UK, following the release of their eponymous single in the previous week. It entered the UK Album Chart at #1 on 27 April 2008.
The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid.
Lovely cover artwork too!
This LP's so good we may even think about giving the Arctic Monkeys another try! ..... Maybe!
We saw more details on this LP on another blog ... here
The vid below has a nice acoustic version of Standing Next To Me from "Fader TV", along with a brief interview.
Standing Next To Me was the band's second single, released on 7 July 2008.
art from thewooolf
Want her, have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate
To the never ending
Games that you play
As desire passes through
then you're open
To the truth
I hope you understand
And your love
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
The one you fell for
makes it seem juvenile
And you'll laugh
At yourself
Again and again
And we'll drink
To the thought
She'll remember you
Maybe tomorrow
And your love
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
And your love
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
Want her, have her
Two years have gone now
But I can't relate
To the never ending
Games that you play
As desire passes through
Then you're open
To the truth
I hope you understand
And your love
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
Is standing next to me
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Sunday, 18 January 2009
Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko topless photos
We've been seeing a lot lately of that very pretty Yulia Tymoshenko - current prime minister of the Ukraine - with that crazy Roosky gas crisis!
She has, let's say, a very colourful background with allegations of fraud, corruption, black marketeering etc. etc!
After the demise of the Soviet Union, Tymoshenko suddenly somehow rose to great prominence, directing several energy-related companies and mysteriously acquiring a significant fortune between 1990 and 1998! During the extensive process of privatization in Ukraine, which mirrored that in Russia in terms of rank corruption and mismanagement, she became one of the wealthiest oligarchs in Ukraine.
Despite her enormous wealth, this wench garnered the nickname "Joan of Arc of the Revolution", during the so-called "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, some years back! She must have a great propaganda machine and an army of spin doctors!
Enjoy!!!
Despite her enormous wealth, this wench garnered the nickname "Joan of Arc of the Revolution", during the so-called "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, some years back! She must have a great propaganda machine and an army of spin doctors!
With that very weird looking, traditional hairstyle, she seems to have stepped straight out of the 17th Century!
But she is hot!
The "Joan of Arc of the Revolution" has just turned 48! Hard to believe!
But she is hot!
The "Joan of Arc of the Revolution" has just turned 48! Hard to believe!
So we've dug out these rare finds ... yes ... topless photos of the lovely 17th Century hotty!
Enjoy!!!
C'mon .... what the hell did you expect?! She is a Prime Minister for f*ck's sake!!
Friday, 16 January 2009
Bob Dylan / The White Stripes - As Ugly As I Seem ... I Believe in You
Interesting piece touching on the Bob Dylan and Jack White love-in, which has been going on for a few years now!
And the great song "As Ugly As I Seem, I Believe in You" !!
Or maybe that's "I Believe in You, As Ugly As You Seem, " !!
All thanks to http://winktobob.blogspot.com who writes:
What is with Bob Dylan and Jack White?They must be good friends because in the last couple of years, not a year goes by without them doing something together. I think it must have started somewhere in 2004, when Jack White suddenly appeared at a concert in Detroit. Bob showed so much respect for Jack that he covered a White Stripes song, called "Ball and Bisquit" (hear it here).
Then, in 2006, The Raconteurs - Jack White's so called side project - was allowed to tour along with Bob Dylan as the warm up act.
In September 2007, Dylan did a couple of shows in Nashville, the city where Jack White lives. For two nights in a row, Jack came on stage to perform some very special songs.
Meet me in the Morning from the 1975 album Blood on the Tracks got it's live debut on the first night.
The second night, Outlaw Blues was performed for the very first time (and this is a song from 1965!!) and One More Cup of Coffee from Desire got it's first live performance since 1993.
Besides that, The White Stripes are known to include Bob Dylan covers in their repertoire. Songs like Outlaw Blues, Love Sick and One More Cup Of Coffee have become regular songs for the Stripes.
Furthermore, on the album Get Behind me Satan from 2005 there is a more subtle reference. Near the end of the album there's a song called "As Ugly As I Seem". Lyrically, there is no link to Dylan whatsoever but anybody who's somewhat familiar with Bob Dylan's repertoire immediately recognizes I Believe in You, one of the highlights of the 1979 Slow Train Coming album.
Although it is not a cover and not a literal reference, I believe this is a very clear melodic nod in the direction of Bob Dylan.
Hear it for yourself in the clips below.
The White Stripes - As Ugly As I Seem
Bob Dylan - I Believe in You
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TTRH3.12 Bob Dylan TTRH Season 3 Ep 12 'Nothing'
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Original Airdate January 14, 2009
(Streaming Country Pie Vers.)
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Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Zero Dreams, Blank Themes and Null Schemes
As most of you know, I've studied nothing my entire life and I like to think I'm a bit of an expert.
Hey mama, when you leave
Don't leave a thing behind
I don't want nothin'
I can't use nothin'
Take care into the hall
And if you see my friends
Tell them I'm fine
Not using nothin'
Almost burned out my eyes
Threw my ears down to the floor
I didn't see nothin'
I didn't hear nothin'
I stood there like a block of stone
Knowin' all I had to know
And nothin' more
Man, that's nothin'
As brothers our troubles are
Locked in each others arms
And you better pray
They never find you
Your back ain't strong enough
For burdens doublefold
They'd crush you down
Down into nothin'
Being born is going blind
And buying down a thousand times
To echoes strung
On pure temptation
Sorrow and solitude
These are the precious things
And the only words
That are worth rememberin'
- Townes Van Zandt
I got plenty of nothing
And nothing's plenty for me
I got no car - got no mule
I got no misery
Folks with plenty of plenty
They've got a lock on the door
Afraid somebody's gonna rob 'em
While there out (a) making more - what for
I got no lock on the door - that's no way to be
They can steal the rug from the
floor - that's OK with me
'Cause the things that I prize
- like the stars in the skies
- are all free
I got plenty of nothing
And nothing's plenty for me
I got my gal - got my song
(I) Got heaven the whole day long
- Heyward/Gershwin/Gershwin
Until my baby comes home.
No fun with no one,
As long as baby must roam.
I promised him I'd wait for him
Till even Hades froze.
I'm lonesome, heaven knows,
But what I said still goes.
No love, no nothin'
And that's a promise I'll keep.
No sir, no nothin'
I'm getting plenty of sleep.
My heart's on strike,
And tho' its like
An empty honeycomb,
No love, no sir, no nothin'
Till my baby comes home.
A theme based on the combined IQ of GW Bush, Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin? Kinda .... but not really!
A few guests, including some bimbo rabbiting on about tanning!
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics. Most of the Rat Pack are here today too - well the best two, Sammy and Frank anyway!
And one of our all time favourite songs, the majestic, harrowing and sublime Townes Van Zandt classic "Nothing" which Elvis Costello speaks very nicely about in the intro!
Of course also there are a few more obscure tracks such as the great Nothing by The Fugs and the magnificent It's Nothing To Me by Harry Johnson, who we'd never heard of before.
We also loved the track Nothing But The Wheel - a new one to us - by Peter Wolf with some backing singer called Mick Jagger!
Next week's show should really be something though!
Yap, the next theme is Something!
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/n6gvfd
Season 3
Episode 12
Original Airdate January 14, 2009
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Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Zero Dreams, Blank Themes and Null Schemes
"Nothing can come of nothing: speak again."
King Lear (I, i, 92)
- William Shakespeare
"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I couldn't be more excited because today I'm going to talk about nothing.
As most of you know, I've studied nothing my entire life and I like to think I'm a bit of an expert.
There you go. you've got Freudian Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Reichian Therapy. And now "Them-Timian Therapy". You know which one my money is on.
Hey mama, when you leave
Don't leave a thing behind
I don't want nothin'
I can't use nothin'
Take care into the hall
And if you see my friends
Tell them I'm fine
Not using nothin'
Almost burned out my eyes
Threw my ears down to the floor
I didn't see nothin'
I didn't hear nothin'
I stood there like a block of stone
Knowin' all I had to know
And nothin' more
Man, that's nothin'
As brothers our troubles are
Locked in each others arms
And you better pray
They never find you
Your back ain't strong enough
For burdens doublefold
They'd crush you down
Down into nothin'
Being born is going blind
And buying down a thousand times
To echoes strung
On pure temptation
Sorrow and solitude
These are the precious things
And the only words
That are worth rememberin'
- Townes Van Zandt
Dr Dre was a member of NWA - not to be confused with the NRA, or the WBA.
That sounded like Me playing harmonica !!!
.... a dog commonly known as Snoop.
If you are going to say nothing, you ought to keep it sweet
I got plenty of nothing
And nothing's plenty for me
I got no car - got no mule
I got no misery
Folks with plenty of plenty
They've got a lock on the door
Afraid somebody's gonna rob 'em
While there out (a) making more - what for
I got no lock on the door - that's no way to be
They can steal the rug from the
floor - that's OK with me
'Cause the things that I prize
- like the stars in the skies
- are all free
I got plenty of nothing
And nothing's plenty for me
I got my gal - got my song
(I) Got heaven the whole day long
- Heyward/Gershwin/Gershwin
We've learned nothing and we've accomplished nothing. And I certainly hope you enjoyed it.
Until my baby comes home.
No fun with no one,
As long as baby must roam.
I promised him I'd wait for him
Till even Hades froze.
I'm lonesome, heaven knows,
But what I said still goes.
No love, no nothin'
And that's a promise I'll keep.
No sir, no nothin'
I'm getting plenty of sleep.
My heart's on strike,
And tho' its like
An empty honeycomb,
No love, no sir, no nothin'
Till my baby comes home.
Well Bill, say you do get divorced, you can start writing Country Songs .....
I call it the Theme Time Radio Hour silent treatment ....
Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues into Season 3 with this great show on the theme of Nothing!
A theme based on the combined IQ of GW Bush, Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin? Kinda .... but not really!
Surprisingly, for such a nothing theme, there's some amazing music and the show is especially entertaining!
We note that in the great intro is the line "a wealthy man terrorises a waitress"! Could this be a reference to the scumbag William Zantzinger of "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" infamy (who we wrote about yesterday) who kicked the bucket a week or so back?! Gotta be!
As usual, lots of great info and facts, corny jokes and witticisms.
Some great marriage advice too! A new breakthrough treatment called "Them-Timian Therapy"! I'll remember those nuggets next time my marriage is on the rocks. Probably in a day or two!
We note that in the great intro is the line "a wealthy man terrorises a waitress"! Could this be a reference to the scumbag William Zantzinger of "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" infamy (who we wrote about yesterday) who kicked the bucket a week or so back?! Gotta be!
As usual, lots of great info and facts, corny jokes and witticisms.
Some great marriage advice too! A new breakthrough treatment called "Them-Timian Therapy"! I'll remember those nuggets next time my marriage is on the rocks. Probably in a day or two!
A few guests, including some bimbo rabbiting on about tanning!
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics. Most of the Rat Pack are here today too - well the best two, Sammy and Frank anyway!
And one of our all time favourite songs, the majestic, harrowing and sublime Townes Van Zandt classic "Nothing" which Elvis Costello speaks very nicely about in the intro!
Of course also there are a few more obscure tracks such as the great Nothing by The Fugs and the magnificent It's Nothing To Me by Harry Johnson, who we'd never heard of before.
We also loved the track Nothing But The Wheel - a new one to us - by Peter Wolf with some backing singer called Mick Jagger!
Is that really Dr. Dre and Snoop? Yap, some Nuttin' But A "G" Thang! Yap!!! And did Bob really say "shizzle my nizzle"?
All in all, a truly wonderful show!! One of the best of Season 3, no doubt!Next week's show should really be something though!
Yap, the next theme is Something!
We'll be back again next week and with any luck, we'll talk about something.
Tracklisting
Intro
Nuttin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg (background)
Nothing - The Fugs
Don't Say Nothin' (Bad About My Baby) - The Cookies
There Is Nothin' Like A Dame - Sammy Davis Jr.
Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (Little Miss Dynamite)
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Frank Sinatra (Mr. Frank)
It's Nothing To Me - Harry Johnson
Nothing But The Wheel - Peter Wolf (w/ Mick Jagger)
No Love, No Nothin' - Marlene Dietrich
Nothing Takes The Place Of You - Toussaint McCall
I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues - Mose Allison
That Ain't Nothin' But Right - Mac Curtis
You Ain't Nothin' But Fine - Rockin' Sidney
Nothing - Townes Van Zandt
Outro
Intro
Nuttin' But A "G" Thang - Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg (background)
Nothing - The Fugs
Don't Say Nothin' (Bad About My Baby) - The Cookies
There Is Nothin' Like A Dame - Sammy Davis Jr.
Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee (Little Miss Dynamite)
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' - Frank Sinatra (Mr. Frank)
It's Nothing To Me - Harry Johnson
Nothing But The Wheel - Peter Wolf (w/ Mick Jagger)
No Love, No Nothin' - Marlene Dietrich
Nothing Takes The Place Of You - Toussaint McCall
I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues - Mose Allison
That Ain't Nothin' But Right - Mac Curtis
You Ain't Nothin' But Fine - Rockin' Sidney
Nothing - Townes Van Zandt
Outro
Next Week Something
Here she be Dylanite dogs !
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/n6gvfd
Various individual show components recorded as individual mp3s;
http://rapidshare.com/files/183353800/3 ... 1-2009.zip
Big thanks to blindwilly / charlespoet!
Marla feels beautiful II
jump jump
Nice manip work from zenibyfajnie We really hope she didn't fall off that little table!
We love the part of zenibyfajnie's profile where she says;
Current Residence: The City of Sex and Violence
Interests: "I like to go to the gym. I like the beach, I like to swim and I like to do blow jobs."
Wow! My interests are exactly the same! Well, except I don't like to go to the gym, I don't like the beach and I don't like to swim. BUT I do love getting blow jobs!
We should hook up honey! I really want to check out the City of Sex and Violence!
Where the hell is the City of Sex and Violence though? Salt Lake City?
We should hook up honey! I really want to check out the City of Sex and Violence!
Where the hell is the City of Sex and Violence though? Salt Lake City?
Smoke. Babe. Klimt.
Lovely work from monislawa
The title is "sen nocy letniej". However, since our Polish is as bad as GW Bush's English, we don't have a fucking clue what that means! So we gave it a new name!
monislawa, we love Klimt too. We should hook up and spend some time in that nice bedroom!!
Seven Deadly Sins - Lust
Lovely piece from promis from her series The Seven Deadly Sins.
Were we not aetheist, Lust would definitely be our favourite sin!
Thursday, 15 January 2009
The racist Marylander made famous in Bob Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" passed away last week.
The racist Marylander made famous in Bob Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" passed away last week.
Dylan's "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," a simply strummed acoustic guitar and wheezy harmonica number typical of his early troubadour style that appears on the 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin', chronicles the true story of how Carroll, a 51-year-old black waitress/barmaid and mother of 11, and the white Zantzinger, 24 at the time, tragically intersected at the quaintly named Spinsters Ball, a charity event at downtown Baltimore's long-defunct Emerson Hotel in February 1963. Tellingly, Dylan does not explicitly mention Carroll and Zantzinger’s races.
In a who/what/where/how opening ripped straight from the first sentence of a newspaper story, Dylan begins, “William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll/With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger/At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'.” (Dylan spelled it “Zanzinger.”)
“The story, I took out of a newspaper,” a 22-year-old Dylan explained to host Steve Allen on the latter’s TV show in February 1964, before delivering a solemn rendition of “Lonesome Death” in front of a hushed studio audience. “I changed the reporter’s view—I used it … for something that I wanted to say.”
He used it all right. Dylan etches a social caste system, wherein privileged (“Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres/With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him/And high office relations in the politics of Maryland”) and bellicose (“And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling”) lord of the manor Zantzinger assaults Carroll (“A maid of the kitchen … who carried the dishes and took out the garbage”), resulting in her death (“Killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane/That sailed through the air and came down through the room/Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle/And she never done nothing to William Zantzinger”), and then cynically eviscerates a criminal justice system that convicts Zantzinger only of manslaughter, handing him a meager six-month sentence (“In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel/To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level/And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded/And that even the nobles get properly handled”).
True, sort of, although Dylan treats the facts of the case somewhat cavalierly. Five years ago, I spent weeks poring over newspaper and courtroom accounts of the Zantzinger/Carroll case for a story published in Baltimore magazine. By the time Zantzinger, his wife, and another couple stumbled into the Spinsters Ball, they had been on a daylong drinking bender, with Billy knocking back bourbon after bourbon. A bulky six-foot-one, 220-pounder dressed in top hat, white tie, and tails, Zantzinger immediately proceeded to hector hotel employees, swatting a 19-year-old bellhop with a five-eighths-inch thick carnival cane. At 1:15 a.m., a blotto Billy demanded a drink from Carroll; when she failed to respond to his satisfaction, he called her “a fat bitch” and “a nigger,” then struck her across the shoulder with his cane. Minutes later, she crumpled, fell unconscious, and died eight hours later of a cerebral hemorrhage. An equal-opportunity abuser, Zantzinger carried on, whacking a 30-year-old waitress several times at 1:30 a.m., which engendered a minor scuffle, with the cops finally hauling away Billy and his wife.
Charged with murder, Zantzinger ultimately was convicted that summer of manslaughter by a three-judge panel, who determined that Carroll’s pre-existing high blood pressure and enlarged heart made her especially vulnerable to Zantzinger’s verbal and physical assault. He did six months and paid a $625 fine, seeping back into the Southern Maryland fabric a bete noir for life, thanks to Dylan, whom he never forgave, venomously and famously telling author Howard Sounes in 2001, “He’s a no-account son of a bitch. He’s just like a scum bag of the earth … I should have sued him and put him in jail.”
Zantzinger knew about the Big House. In 1991, he pleaded guilty to 50 misdemeanor counts of “unfair and deceptive trade practices” when he continued to collect rents—even raising them!—on a handful of wooden shanties without indoor plumbing five years after the local county government took possession of the properties in lieu of unpaid property taxes. Sentenced to 18 months in prison, Zantzinger also paid a $50,000 fine—a weird irony when measured against his 1963 conviction.
Dylan still occasionally performs “Lonesome Death” in concert, its visceral power and impact undiminished, while a legion of critics has parsed the song’s lyrics and offered up mini-manifestos on its place in the Dylan canon. Irwin Silber claims it “had a significant impact on American consciousness and style,” while Paul Nelson, less enthralled, notes, “That the song itself is a masterpiece of drama and wordplay does not excuse Dylan’s distortions.”
For his part, Dylan, characteristically laconic, told Steve Allen on that 1964 TV show, “I used a true story, that’s all. I could have used a made-up story.”
The Lonesome Death of William Zantzinger
And she never done nothing to William Zantzinger
-Bob Dylan
"(Dylan)'s a no-account son of a bitch, he's just like a scum of a scum bag of the earth, I should have sued him and put him in jail."
-William Zantzinger
from Howard Sounes"Down the Highway, the Life of Bob Dylan"
In the momentous week when, in a few days, Barack Obama will make magnificent history and be inaugurated as the first black President of the United States, it's shocking to consider that only a few decades back - within Obama's lifetime! - an ingrained racist and wealthy estate owner from a renowned landlord family, William Zantzinger could casually kill a black waitress he'd just met- the hard working mother of ten children - just a stone's throw away from New York and Washington DC, in Baltimore and receive essentially no punishment!
With assistance from the racist status quo, racist authorities, racist systems and 'good ole boys' networks, the charge was knocked down by the Courts from Murder to Manslaughter.
Worse, Zantzinger served only 6 months for this most heinous evil crime - the same term as he might have served had he committed a negligible crime such as letting some speeding tickets go unpaid!
Furthermore, the Courts allowed Zantzinger to serve his time in a local cell where there would be no black co-habitees intent on payback and making his time rather unpleasant!
There's even more! Yes, the racist Courts even allowed deferral of the start of his jail sentence to give Zantzinger time to harvest his tobacco crop!
This craziness is sickeningly incomprehensible!
The message sent out by the authorities was that, since Hattie Carroll was poor, and more importantly, black, her life was worthless. The taking away of that life was therefore nothing important and merited no proper sanction.
The abhorrent crime took place on February 9, 1963, at a white tie Ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland when one William Zantzinger casually - for no reason at all - killed a totally innocent black woman, Ms Hattie Carroll with two blows to the head from a cane. And thereby suddenly left 11 children without a mother.
Earlier that evening, Zantzinger had also casually assaulted another black waitress with his cane at the same event!
Zantzinger and his first wife Jane were attending the charity ball in Baltimore. Zantzinger was drunk when he arrived, decked out in top hat, white tie and tails, and grew even drunker as the evening wore on. After collapsing on top of his wife during a dance, he went to the bar demanding yet another drink. When it failed to materialise at once, he swore at the barmaid. "I'm hurrying as fast as I can," press accounts quoted Carroll as replying – to which Zantzinger declared, "I don't have to take that kind of shit off a nigger," and hit her with a cane he was carrying.
The vile name of William Zantzinger and his vile crime were forever made infamous by Bob Dylan in his magnificent "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". This song was recorded a few months after the murder, on 23 October 1963, and released on Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin'.
This event has come into the public domain again in the past week with the death of the murdering scumbag Zantzinger who kicked the bucket last week aged 69, having lived a full 46 years longer than he would have, had he slain a white person in 1963. Years during which this abhorrent cretin continued to commit a litany of crimes and abuse.
His further crimes included federal tax delinquencies and landlord related crimes pursuant to "properties" rented to poor black people - properties described by the Maryland Real Estate Commission as "ramshackle, primitive structures reminiscent of slave quarters."
Zantzinger had for years been exploiting poor black people as a landlord and charging exorbitant rent to live in shacks which were in violation of county habitability codes and lacking water and sewer connections. He, at one stage, was even charging rent on certain shacks he no longer owned.
Ironically for the various illegal rent crimes, Zantzinger in 1991 was fined $50,000 and sentenced to a 19 months in prison - over 3 times the sentence he received for murder!
Unlike the judge in the Hattie Carroll case, the judge in 1991 refused his request to delay the start of his sentence to get his affairs in order. However, some of his prison sentence was served in a work release program.
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a momentous work, in more ways than one, and ranks amongst Dylan's finest.
In this song, Dylan firmly upholds one of the main pillars of the folk music tradition from it's Irish / Scots homeland where for hundreds of years, going back to the Gaelic tradition, folk music was used as a tool to document historic events - especially atrocities and other significant crimes - and to inform as many people as possible about the facts of an event, thereby keeping the event alive in the public consciousness.
Aside from the magnificence of the song itself in terms of structure, lyrics and melody, the most notable Dylan achievement was the fact that he was able to properly damn the appalling Zantzinger and his appalling crime to the annals of infamy and to spread knowledge of the specific atrocity - and by extension the abhorrent racist structures which enabled the crime and later allowed it go unpunished - not only far and wide at that time, but also across many generations of music fans down the decades.
A truly remarkable and commendable achievement, probably unique in modern music.
Were it not for Dylan, the sick story of Zantzinger would have been lost to the annals of history and oblivion soon after he served his sentence.
The proper blackening of Zantzinger's name achieved via "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" was in many ways greater punishment than the Courts gave him!
Aside from that phenomenal achievement, the song itself is a magnificent work - beautifully structured, with simple yet poetic lyrics which wonderful express rightful indignation while managing to avoid bombast.
There are a few factual changes though; Zantzinger's name is rendered as "Zanzinger", probably to avoid a libel charge - while Dylan says Hattie had 10 children, not the true number of 11 - as eleven, it was said, did not fit the meter!
Starting with stark powerful and factual line "William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll" the song continues by simply setting out the shocking factual details of this shocking crime. It also contrasts the social status and wealth of Hattie against that of Zantzinger and his ilk as well as subtly describing the clear racial divide and protocols which lay between them.
We particularly like the line "Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane" which, aside from factually describing what happened, can of course also can be read as an allusion to the first ever murderer, as set out in the Bible!
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is a sublime timeless work which will still haunt Zantzinger as he wallows in Hell!
A few good links on the Hattie and Zantzinger story, here;
- Fascinating 1963 account of the incident from Time Magazine: The Spinster's Ball
- The original NY Times article about Zantzinger's sentencing: Farmer Sentenced In Barmaid's Death (pdf)
- A recent Washington Post article about Zantzinger's life after his short stay in jail: William Zantzinger; Infamous After Dylan Song 'Hattie Carroll'
Zantzinger (left) Dylan continues to perform "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" to this day. His live-audience renditions of it appear on the albums Live 1975 (2002) and Live 1964 (2004).
Below is;
- a video of a fine Dylan TV performance of this great song from 1964
- the original LP version
- another Dylan live version from a London show in 1965
- a nice, suitably understated cover version by Mason Jennings from last year's I'm Not There OST.
Note: Audio files available for a limited time only. Not in breach of copyright as in accompaniment to a legitimate review of the song.
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'.
And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder.
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain't the time for your tears.
William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland,
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling,
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking.
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain't the time for your tears.
Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen.
She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn't even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level,
Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
That sailed through the air and came down through the room,
Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle.
And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger.
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Take the rag away from your face.
Now ain't the time for your tears.
In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom,
Stared at the person who killed for no reason
Who just happened to be feelin' that way without warnin'.
And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished,
And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance,
William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence.
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears,
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now's the time for your tears.
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Steve Allen TV show
1964
Steve Allen TV show
1964
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Original version
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Live - 5/10/65, London
Mason Jennings - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
I'm Not There OST
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The comedy stylings of Bob Dylan!
"Does Harry Belafonte come from around here? ... He ought to - it rhymes with Belo Horizonte"
Belo Horizonte, Brazil show, August 19, 1991
"Here's my ex-wife, my next wife, my girlfriend, and my fiancee."
Bob introducing the back-up singers; Tucson, 1975
In fact, Bob's been practicing for years for a future Vegas Comedy Stage act!
Anyone who's listened to the great Theme Time Radio Hour would be very familiar with Dylan's fondness for one-liners!
Well he did write "Jokerman" as an autobiography!
Here are a few samples from Dylan shows and other scenarios down the years! Some classics here!
Bob finished a song and said "I forgot the words there for a minute........I think I hypnotized myself."
Portland, Maine 11/23/2001
From the great www.expectingrain.com
Somewhere in 1997:
From: Tom Burstein tburstein email.msn.com
I saw Dylan at Western Connecticut State University in 1997, I believe.
When he introduced Bucky Baxter he said,
"When I first met Bucky, he didn't have a penny to his name. I told him to
get another name."
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:35:56 -0700
From: Brian b8kdnapi pacbell.net
Subject: bob funny
I don't know if you have heard this funny thing bob said or not but when I
saw bob, I think was in was 95 in san diego, he introduced the drummer with
a big afro and said something like, "Some people say he looks like Ice T",
then after a pause he said, "I don't"
February 13, 1999, in Normal, Illinois (Illinois State University campus),From dono919:
"They said I'd never make it to Normal. (PAUSE) They were wrong."
December 8 1997, Irving Plaza
From HALBERT fordham.edu:
the best joke i have heard dylan mumble at a concert was in new york city at
irvingplaza december 8th 1997, where the opening act was joan osborne who sang
the man in the long black coat, after singing her set she was at the bar
drinking, and it is a small place...maybe two thousand...dylan had just finished
his first seven, eight, songs and was introducing the band and thanking the
opening act...all of a sudden he says: "and i'd also like to thank joan osborne;
joan and i is gonna sing a song..." and joan in the back stands up to come to
the stage, when dylan says: "but not tonight."
Richard Shaffer posted the first collection on July 9, 1999.
June 19, 1999, Mountain View, CA
Marc Blaker reported:
At Shoreline after the best Lovesick I've heard Bob says,
"(sarcascm dripping) that was a LOVE song. They're all
love songs. The band loves to play them."
June 22, 1999, Hollywood, CA
CovWoman61 wrote:
He apologized, saying that "I almost didn't make it tonight.
........ had a flat tire.
...........................................
there was a fork in the road......."
June 25, 1999, Chula Vista, CA
Brian posted:
He made reference to how tired he and his band were
"We slept in a trailer park and didn't want to wake the sleeping bags"
Jun 18, 1999, Concord, CA
From: Linda Povey
After playing "Lay Lady Lay," Bob said, "I don't have that brass bed
anymore....I never did have one."
June 26, 1999, Las Vegas, NVSpflpete wrote:
Last Sat. we saw his show in Vegas and he seems very friendly.
He was laughing a lot and even told a little joke.
BobLinks wrote:
"This is a song I wrote for my ex-wife.
She was so conceited I used to call her Mimi"
June 27, 1999, Phoenix, AZ
Jordan wrote:
"Thanks everybody, you're too kind...
You know, I was talking to Neil Young yesterday (audience cheers
at the mention of Young) and he said to me, he said 'Bob, you
just can't hear cool music on the radio anymore...' and I says
to Neil, I says 'sure you just... (a decent pause) you just need
to stick your radio in the refrigerator."
July 2, 1999, Skakopee, MN
kara50 MY-DEJA.COM wrote:
he said he had to 'get a hammer and hit the sack'.
July 3, 1999, Duluth, MN
kara50 MY-DEJA.COM wrote:
"I was born on the hill over there. Glad to see it's still there.
My first girlfriend came from here. She was so conceited I used to call her Mimi."
July 4, 1999, Milwaukee, WI
stuart levitan wrote:
"Nice to be here. One of my early girlfriends was from
Milwaukee. She was an artist. She gave me the brush-off."
July 6, 1999, Detroit, MI
MSGLBJ wrote:
Here he paused and caught his breath, then stepped to the mic and said"Thank you very much Ladies and Gentlemen."
He paused and then leaned back in.
"I went to the Motown museum today." (Cheers)
"I was looking for the Smokey Robinson stuff....
I couldn't find it. This guy came up to me though
and he said What did Clark Kent turn into when he
got hungry?' I said What?' He said Supperman'.
I never did find the Smokey Robinson stuff though.."
July 9, 1999, Tinley Park, IL
BobLinks wrote:
"David Kemper is playing on the drums.
One of David's first jobs was here in Chicago.
He had a job as a waiter but he never took any tips.
He was a dumb waiter."
July 10, 1999, Maryland Heights, Missouri
Joy wrote:
"Larry almost wrote a song today. He wrote a song about his bed, but it
hasn't been made up yet."
July 11, 1999, Cincinnati
Joe Cox wrote:
"Charlie went to see his cousin today at the Hamilton County Jail. He
brought him a cell phone... He almost made it to the show."
July 13, 1999, Va Beach
Joy wrote:
"We were all woken up very early this morning here at the hotel. They
had a robbery there - yeah - we were woken up by the burglar alarm."
July 14, 1999, Raleigh
BBowser868 wrote:
"Larry was talkin' to Neil Young, and he asked him how can you listen to rock and roll- Neil told him "You put a stone up to one ear and a hamburger bun to the other" (rimshot).
Then a few moments later he stops before introducing Charlie and says
"No, it wasn't Neil Young, it was Elvis Costello".
July 16, 1999, Bristow
Joy wrote:
"My ex-wife left me again. She's a tennis player. Love means nothing to her."
July 17, 1999, Camden
BobLinks wrote:
"This is a love song. We love to play it."
"My ex-wife left me again tonight.She's a tennis player. Love means nothing to her."
July 20, 1999, Albany
Brian Perry wrote:
"Larry almost wrote a song today. He wrote a song about his bed, but it
hasn't been made up yet."
July 25, 1999, Hartford
BobLinks wrote:
When introducing the drummer, David Kemper, Dylan said:
"David and I drove here tonight in a car singing songs on the way.
We were singing cartoons."
November 13, 1999, E. Rutherford, New Jersey
J. Robert Fisher sent in this one, adjusted by Johanna McCarthy:
When introducing his band: "David Kemper on the drums.
David's turning 21 tonight. David never lies unless he's in bed."
Late show, Park West last fall
Brooks sent this:
Bob introduced Kemper by saying:
"David Kemper on drums. David grew up on a farm and on Saturday
nights he used to take the cows to the moooooovies."
Subject: Anaheim Late Show Joke...
From: LoveMinusZero
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:54:28 GMT
Anyone catch the first half of Dylan's joke last night? Told it as he was
introducing Kemper. Something about a roll of film (I think) & "seeing what
develops"?
Subject: Re: Chicago joke
From: JMof523817 jmof523817 aol.com
Date: 24 Mar 2000 18:42:04 GMT
Bob said "Dave is the only drummer that tried to make a slow horse fast, but he
stopped feeding him."
(at the Park west late show 10-26-1999 Chicago IL)
Fargo March 30, 2000,
From Jennifer Schneider schn0257 tc.umn.edu
Bob made the following joke while introducing the band:
"Tony was here once before. He got a bicycle for his wife.
Tony said it was a pretty good trade. Didn't you, Tony?" (or something like that)
This really cracked him up. He and Tony couldn't stop laughing.
Rochester, MN. (March31, 2000)From: Joey Morris Grand Rapids, Mich. huttojb216 netscape.net
Last night in Bob was in a great mood.
He introduced Larry and said "He hurt his foot today, we had to call a toe
truck!" He couldn't stop laughing while introducing the rest of the band.
Irvine, CA June 29, 2000
He told a joke last night at Irvine. when he intro'ed the band he
intro'ed David as a someone who "was going to be a doctor but he didn't
have any patients."
peace and love,
erik
Del Mar, 7/1/00
From: JHeistUpCa aol.com
Introducing the drummer at Del Mar, Bob said,
"We went out for some seafood, and he asked them 'Do you serve crabs?'
'Sure do, sit right down,' they told him."
Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 3, 2000
From: blindjoedeath
I'd like to say hello to Miss Linda Lu - president of our
regional fan club down here. She was down here just a minute
ago, but they hustled her outta here -- I wish she'd come back --
I'd like to see her.
Oklahoma City, July 6, 2000
From: "Mark A. Fergeson"
Last night in Oklahoma City, while introducing the drummer.....
"He must have thought he was playing golf today because he wore two shirts,
in case he gets a hole in one."
From: tim romantim mr.net
Minneapolis , July 14, 2000
David Kemper on drums, ladies and gentlemen......David and I were in the
Pickled Parrot* this afternoon and David asked the waitress if they
served crabs.....She said "Buddy, we'll serve just about anybody...."
*the pickled parrot is a popular restaurant/bar in downtown Minneapolis,
about a 1/4 mile from the Target Center.
Camden, July 28, 2000
From: Brian J. Chase thechases worldnet.att.net
Also loved Bob's joke of the night: "David got a hammer last night andhit the sack" and then later about Tony: "He hit the sack too, and he
wasn't even going to bed". No one seemed to notice this second one, but
I simply couldn't stop laughing.
From: J R Beresford-Howe jrbh pacbell.net
The funniest thing I ever saw Dylan do on stage was in San Diego, at
Golden Hall during his first mixed born again/secular tour.... he told a
story about a honeymooning couple next door to him at the hotel, and
announced that he wanted to dedicate the next song to them. Then he
played "Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Nobody."
Belo Horizonte, Brazil show, August 19, 1991
The Telegraph, Winter 1991, Issue #41
Michele Simpson sent it to me Jan 15, 2001
"Does Harry Belafonte come from around here?" Bob asked.
"He ought to, it rhymes with Belo Horizonte".
From Matt Wilson mwilson citizensconferencing.com
When Bob shared the bill with Joni Mitchell in Chicago, 1999, he
introduced "Make You Feel My Love" by saying, "This is a song I wrote for
Garth Brooks. Regrets, I've had a few... but then again, too few too
mention."
From John Domini jdomini northwestern.edu
Bob D played a club show at Park West in Chicago, late '99, & among the
standees along the stage was someone madly scribbling notes of some
kind. Dylan, in great spirits all night, finally grinned down at the
fan & asked: "You writing a check for me?"
From Bo:
Brescia, Italy, Piazza Duomo, July 10, 2001 show
During Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again Bob introduced the band:
He said something like that:
"I would like to introduce the band:
On the guitarÊ - Larry Cambell,
On the other guitar - Charlie Sexton,
David Kemper on the drums, and
on the bass - I'm not going to tell you !!! "
From: "Donald Winters" winte030 qwest.net
When I saw Dylan perform at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the
early sixties, he responded to a heckler in the audience with:
"Hey man, I think there's a phone call for you."
From: "Bill McGirr" billmcgirr hotmail.com
Saturday night in San Francisco (Oct. 13, 2001)
During the band intros Bob introduced David Kemper as
"one of the few drummers around better than no drummer at all"
Syracuse, NY Tuesday Nov 13, 2001:
"I want to introduce my band. The best band in the land,"
Dylan said.
Veteran guitarist Sexton, he proclaimed, is "the meanest man
in the band. When we played the Middle East, Charlie killed
the Dead Sea," Dylan said.
All this historic music and a joke from the deadpan man,
too!
From wvjon charter.net
Morgantown Nov 15, 2001:"On the drums, the meanest drummer in the world. When we played in the
Middle East, he killed the Dead Sea. David Kemper!"
From Leah Warshah
Detroit:
"You might be wondering what's written on his shoes;
those are foot notes! David Kemper!"
From Kevin Thomson Kevtf1 btinternet.com
A 2000 show:
"On drums, David Kemper, he once swallowed a roll of film,
we'll see what develops."
From Pamela Zilavy
During the band introductions at the Greek in Berkeley in October ('02),
Tony stepped up to Bob and said something or other. Then Bob turns and tells
us that "Tony says he actually went school here at UC Berkeley." Then, after
that Bob grins and says, Well, he must be in graduate school now."
...
From timebandit15 hotmail.com
after that he said, "I don't know what he majored in though... maybe gourmet cooking..."
From Tim Tankard, Kansas City
When Dylan played in Kansas City at the Sandstone Amphitheatre in the summer of 2001,
he said this joke about his drummer: "We went golfing this afternoon, and he wore two shirts.
In case he got a hole in one."
Posted to rec.music.dylan by Debra Lind
At Jackson (July 15, 2003 and at Costa Mesa July 27) he told this joke on Larry:
Larry bought a pig the other day. I asked Larry where he was gonna keep
his pig, he said, under his bed. I said, what about the smell? Larry
said, He'll just have to get used to it.
And about George:
George is the... probably the best drummer...on the stage..
From: Matt Wilson, Nov 13 2003
In Wallingford, CT Bob introduced his drummer as "George Recile from
Hartford, CT." When no one in the audience seemed to care that his drummer
was from Hartford Bob pointed at George and repeated "George Recile from
Hartford, CT." When no one still seemed to care Bob looked at George with a
big grin on his face and said "You're from Hartford, right?"
From Chester A. Smith III, Dec 5 2003
Bob in Athens Georgia, University of Georgia, Early 90's,
says..."Hey it's nice to play for a college crowd.....did you
know that Billy Joel never graduated high school....(laughing
with the band, maybe a little drunk?...) I swear it's true!"
From Hamp Nettles, April 11, 2004
In Columbia: On the guitar, a man that comes from a broken home.
His kids break everything in the house. Fuzzy Kozzela (thats how he says the name).
From Deborah Woods June 4 , 2004
In Portland, Maine 11/23/2001
Bob finished a song and said "I forgot the words there for a minute........I think I hypnotized myself."
From Juergen Beselt:
The Bonn (Germany) show, June 29, 2004:
Introducing the band:
"On drums, George Recile. He's the best drummer - on stage."
From Cori Jones:
In Jackson TN on August 20 2004:
Bob Dylan introduced his drummer as a guy who there wasn't nothing he wouldn't do for me and there's nothing I wouldn't do for him, and we've been going through our whole life doing nothing for each other.
From Dave:
October 31, 2004 - De Kalb, Illinois:We got a Halloween joke during the intros. The joke went something like this:
"Larry was a skeleton for Halloween, but he didn't go trick-or-treating. No
body would go with him.
From Geoff Stacks:
November 3, 2004 - West Lafayette, Indiana:
He's from Louisiana. They got a lot of snakes down there. When it rains, he puts them on his
windshield and calls them 'windshield vipers'.
Kingston, Nov 17, 2004:
'On guitar: Stu Kimball. Stu's from around here. He runs a farm just outside
town. Got cows there. He put one on a scale because he wanted to see how much
milky way....'
From Kailin Clarke:
Atlanta (April 12, 13, or 14th 2004, I don't know which):
"Larry was writing to his girlfriend in the hotel the other night.
I said, 'Larry, you can't write on an empty stomach, you gotta use paper!' "
From Leonard Varvaro (2009):
I saw Bob in Omaha a few years ago. At one point he introduced
his friend Doctor 'somebody or other' sitting in the audience.
"Stand up and take a bow, doc" he said. "okay, maybe later" All
of the audience was on its feet at the time.
From tonygps (2009):
In Orlando one night Bob said, "I haven't made it to Disneyland yet.
I don't know if I'll ever get there."
From: Jeremy Heist JHeistUpCa aol.com
I've always remembered and quoted this line from a Dylan concert a long
time ago--it was in Tucson, & might have been Rolling Thunder. He introduced
the back-up singers as "My ex-wife, my next wife, my girlfriend, and my
fiancee." I'm trying to remember if there were even four different women, or
just three.
Bono - Notes From the Chairman
Are we really saying this? Guess we are! Anyway, a very nice piece below from Bono in the NY Times.
He speaks about the duality of great songs, of great singers, interpretive skills, and New Years Eve, all in the context of the timeless Frank Sinatra and the timeless "My Way".
Here's a 1968 recording of the Chairman rattling off this classic, accompanied by loads of great Sinatra snapshots, including loads of Sinatra babes!
Christian Marclay, untitled collage, 1984. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery
Once upon a couple of weeks ago ...
I’m in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year’s. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season’s blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed. Malt joy and ginger despair are all in the queue to be served on this, the quarter-of-a-millennium mark since Arthur Guinness first put velvety blackness in a pint glass.
Interesting mood. The new Irish money has been gambled and lost; the Celtic Tiger’s tail is between its legs as builders and bankers laugh uneasy and hard at the last year, and swallow uneasy and hard at the new. There’s a voice on the speakers that wakes everyone out of the moment: it’s Frank Sinatra singing “My Way.” His ode to defiance is four decades old this year and everyone sings along for a lifetime of reasons. I am struck by the one quality his voice lacks: Sentimentality.
Is this knotted fist of a voice a clue to the next year? In the mist of uncertainty in your business life, your love life, your life life, why is Sinatra’s voice such a foghorn — such confidence in nervous times allowing you romance but knocking your rose-tinted glasses off your nose, if you get too carried away.
A call to believability.
A voice that says, “Don’t lie to me now.”
That says, “Baby, if there’s someone else, tell me now.”
Fabulous, not fabulist. Honesty to hang your hat on.
As the year rolls over (and with it many carousers), the emotion in the room tussles between hope and fear, expectation and trepidation. Wherever you end up, his voice takes you by the hand.
•
Now I’m back in my own house in Dublin, uncorking some nice wine, ready for the vinegar it can turn to when families and friends overindulge, as I am about to. Right by the hole-in-the-wall cellar, I look up to see a vision in yellow: a painting Frank sent to me after I sang “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” with him on the 1993 “Duets” album. One from his own hand. A mad yellow canvas of violent concentric circles gyrating across a desert plain. Francis Albert Sinatra, painter, modernista.
We had spent some time in his house in Palm Springs, which was a thrill — looking out onto the desert and hills, no gingham for miles. Plenty of miles, though, Miles Davis. And plenty of talk of jazz. That’s when he showed me the painting. I was thinking the circles were like the diameter of a horn, the bell of a trumpet, so I said so.
“The painting is called ‘Jazz’ and you can have it.”
I said I had heard he was one of Miles Davis’s biggest influences.
Little pithy replies:
“I don’t usually hang with men who wear earrings.”
“Miles Davis never wasted a note, kid — or a word on a fool.”
“Jazz is about the moment you’re in. Being modern’s not about the future, it’s about the present.”
I think about this now, in this new year. The Big Bang of pop music telling me it’s all about the moment, a fresh canvas and never overworking the paint. I wonder what he would have thought of the time it’s taken me and my bandmates to finish albums, he with his famous impatience for directors, producers — anyone, really — fussing about. I’m sure he’s right. Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you’ve pressed “record” is what makes it eternal. If, like Frank, you sing it like you’ll never sing it again. If, like Frank, you sing it like you never have before.
If.
•
If you want to hear the least sentimental voice in the history of pop music finally crack, though — shhhh — find the version of Frank’s ode to insomnia, “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),” hidden on “Duets.” Listen through to the end and you will hear the great man break as he truly sobs on the line, “It’s a long, long, long road.” I kid you not.
Like Bob Dylan’s, Nina Simone’s, Pavarotti’s, Sinatra’s voice is improved by age, by years spent fermenting in cracked and whiskeyed oak barrels. As a communicator, hitting the notes is only part of the story, of course.
Singers, more than other musicians, depend on what they know — as opposed to what they don’t want to know about the world. While there is a danger in this — the loss of naïveté, for instance, which holds its own certain power — interpretive skills generally gain in the course of a life well abused.
Want an example? Here’s an example. Take two of the versions of Sinatra singing “My Way.”
The first was recorded in 1969 when the Chairman of the Board said to Paul Anka, who wrote the song for him: “I’m quitting the business. I’m sick of it. I’m getting the hell out.” In this reading, the song is a boast — more kiss-off than send-off — embodying all the machismo a man can muster about the mistakes he’s made on the way from here to everywhere.
In the later recording, Frank is 78. The Don Costa arrangement is the same, the words and melody are exactly the same, but this time the song has become a heart-stopping, heartbreaking song of defeat. The singer’s hubris is out the door. (This singer, i.e. me, is in a puddle.) The song has become an apology.
To what end? Duality, complexity. I was lucky to duet with a man who understood duality, who had the talent to hear two opposing ideas in a single song, and the wisdom to know which side to reveal at which moment.
This is our moment. What do we hear?
In the pub, on the occasion of this new year, as the room rises in a deafening chorus — “I did it my way” — I and this full house of Irish rabble-rousers hear in this staple of the American songbook both sides of the singer and the song, hubris and humility, blue eyes and red.
Multimedia
Bono Reads 'Notes From the Chairman' Frank Sinatra's 1969 Version of 'My Way,' From the CD 'Nothing but the Best.' 
Atop a pile of shit !
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Blair Bush Warmonger Love-In!
This is beyond crazy! But apparently real!
Failed Brit politician Tony "I Don't Care" Blair, the "Special Envoy to the Middle East" , erm sorry "Special Envoy to Jerusalem" gets a big medal for his work to "improve the lives of citizens" and for his efforts to promote "democracy, human rights and peace abroad"!
Wait a goddang minute! Improve the lives of citizens? Where? Gaza? Iraq? Afghanistan?
Wait another goddang minute! Efforts to promote "democracy, human rights and peace abroad"? Where? Gaza? Iraq? Afghanistan?
This cnut should be awarded a big jail sentence, not a big medal!
Tony Blair will "stand tall in history", President George Bush said as he handed the former prime minister the US's highest civil award.
At the White House in front of his wife Cherie, Mr Blair received the President's Medal of Freedom in recognition of his work to "improve the lives of citizens" and for his efforts to promote "democracy, human rights and peace abroad".
But an earlier award, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honour, bestowed on him in 2003, remains unclaimed.
"It has not been minted yet," a spokesman for Mr Blair explained.
At the time that the first medal was announced, at the height of the Iraq War, it was suggested that Mr Blair was delaying picking the award up out of fear of appearing to be a "poodle" of the United States. But an alternative explanation is that a complication over the medal's design led to the delay in his acceptance.
The latest award was delivered in front of a Washington audience that included former secretary of state Colin Powell and former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Mr Blair was one of three people being honoured in the ceremony. Former Australian prime minister John Howard and President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia also received the Medal of Freedom. Previous recipients have included Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II.
Mr Bush introduced the former prime minister by recalling his first meeting with Mr Blair in the US after the president came to power.
"A reporter asked if we had anything in common and I jokingly replied we both used Colgate toothpaste," he said to laughter. Mr Bush added: "The truth is, I did feel a close connection."
He went on to describe Mr Blair as a friend. "That friend was there after America was attacked on September 11 2001," he said.
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Golden Globe Gobbledygook!
'I'm so sorry Anne, Meryl, Kristin, and oh God, who's the other one? Angelina'
-Kate Winslet
Man, somebody please shoot that annoying, over-rated, plastic (literally!) Winslet bitch! We think "the other one" Angelina, amongst many others, would have been more than happy to have done so yesterday!
We haven't seen so much falseness, dumbness, plasticity and limitless ego since the last speech Polar Palin made on her insane Campaign ticket! Almost as bad as when that crazy Halle Berry won an Academy Award for ... erm .... "Catwoman" or some crock!
Gather. This is really happening ...
-Kate Winslet
Let's hope Winny doesn't win an Oscar! We can only imagine the frightful events that might ensue there when this whackjob gets up on stage!
And the "Guatemalean Paddy" Colin Farrell won an award? And for Acting - not for being a general asshole!
How the hell did that happen? We've seen that "In Bruges" crock and it really was embarrassingly awful! And Farrell was his typically useless self therein too!! So getting an award for that is a giant fucking mystery!
However, we were delighted for Mickey Rourke, a masterful actor we've liked since his earliest work! He really was on the edge of reaching the rarified level of the likes of Brando, Clift, Mitchum, De Niro (well, early De Niro!) et al when he literally pissed it all away! So it's great to see him - eventually! - back where he belongs!
And of course too we were delighted for the team behind the wonderful Slumdog Millionaire! It's great, and very rare, to see a low-budget work like this get the recognition it well deserves!
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Kate Winslet and Slumdog Millionaire combined to make it an extraordinary night for the Brits at the Golden Globes, winning all six of the awards they were nominated for, and making themselves firm favourites to take top honours at next month's Oscars.
The actress broke a long-running duck that has seen her unsuccessfully nominated for five Golden Globes and another five Oscars by winning a brace of prizes, including Best Actress in a Dramatic Film, for her role alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road.
In an emotional and sometimes tearful pair of acceptance speeches, she told a star-studded audience at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles that "I have a habit of not winning things," before asking, in a highly theatrical fashion: "Is this really happening?" After winning for Revolutionary Road she gushed: "I'm so sorry Anne, Meryl, Kristin, and oh God, who's the other one? Angelina. Now, forgive me. Gather. This is really happening ..."
Though cynics winced at Winslet's faltering delivery, and wondered if it was really necessary for her to declare undying love for both Leonardo DiCaprio and her husband Sam Mendes, the scale of her achievement justified a measure of emotion. No actress has ever scooped the Golden Globe for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress – which Winslet won for her role in The Reader – on the same night. And her gushing performance followed in a great Hollywood tradition.
The low-budget film, about a boy from the slums of Mumbai who wins the jackpot on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, continued a remarkable run of form that has seen it showered with awards, and propelled it relentlessly up the box office charts.
In total, a record 10 of this year's 25 Golden Globe trophies will go back to the British Isles, including the Best Actress in a Comedy prize which was scooped by the little-known London-born actress Sally Hawkins. Hawkins who is also no stranger to a wet handkerchief, upset the odds to beat Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson for her starring role in the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky. Tom Wilkinson was honoured for his role in John Adams, an HBO mini-series about America's second president which won a total of four awards in the TV category of the awards. Irish stars Gabriel Byrne and Colin Farrell also won their first Globes, for the TV show In Treatment and the film In Bruges respectively.
Elsewhere in the Globes, which are the only major awards event to honour both television and film, Tina Fey continued her virtual clean sweep of this year's comedy gongs, landing three trophies for her TV show 30 Rock. The highly-rated Israeli title Waltz With Bashir was named Best Foreign Language film, while Wall-E took Best Animation.
Three films that had been considered leading contenders for the Academy Awards, and which led the Globe field with five nominations each – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt and Frost/Nixon – ended the night being completely shut out.
But it was Slumdog Millionaire that generated the most headlines. It scooped four gongs, more than any other film, getting the nod for the prestigious titles of Best Drama Film and Best Director, for its director Danny Boyle.
As expected, the late Heath Ledger landed the Best Supporting Actor Globe for his career-defining turn as the Joker in the summer Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight. But one of the biggest cheers of the night was reserved for Mickey Rourke, who won the Best Actor award for The Wrestler, in which he plays an ageing former wrestling star who gets a last shot at glory in the ring.
Winslet's highlights A simple thank you would have done !
*Best Supporting Actress – The Reader
"OK, you have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things. [She puts award on the floor then picks it up]. No that doesn't feel right putting that down ... Penelope, Amy, Marissa and Viola. It is such an honour to be in your company ... Sorry this is going on a bit but I'm gonna make the most of it. I must also, I really must also thank our hair and make-up department ... Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were producers on this film. They died while we were filming and they never got to see the finished product; I hope they would have been proud. My husband Sam for your incredible support ... I'm sorry I was so mental at the end. And my children Mia and Joe who are watching this on TV. Look, I won!"
*Best Actress – Revolutionary Road
"I'm so sorry Anne, Meryl, Kristin, and oh God, who's the other one? Angelina. Now, forgive me. Gather. This is really happening ... Thank you so much. You should wrap up. You have no idea how much I'm not wrapping up ... I want to thank the late great Richard Yates for writing this remarkable novel ... Leo, I'm so happy I can stand here and tell you how much I love you and how much I've loved you for 13 years. And your performance in this film is nothing short of spectacular‚ And my husband Sam. Thank you for directing this film, babe, and thank you for killing us every single day. It made me love you more."
Here is a complete list of winners at the ceremony:
FILM:
Best Picture, Drama: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy: Vicky Christina Barcelona
Best Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir
Best Animated Film: Wall-E
Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Score: AR Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Song: The Wrestler (performed and written by Bruce Springsteen), The Wrestler
TELEVISION:
Best Series, Drama: Mad Men
Best Actor, Drama: Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Best Actress, Drama: Anna Paquin, True Blood
Best Series, Musical or Comedy: 30 Rock
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Best Miniseries or Movie: John Adams
Best Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Laura Linney, John Adams
Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Paul Giammatti, John Adams
Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Laura Dern, Recount
Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Tom Wilkinson, John Adams
Cecil B DeMille Award: Steven Spielberg.
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TTRH3.11 Bob Dylan TTRH Season 3 Ep 11 'Work'
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Original Airdate January 7, 2009
(Streaming Country Pie Vers.)
Mp3 @ 256 kbps/ 136 MB/ RS + ES
Absolute Sound Recorder > Sound Forge 6.0 > FLAC Frontend
Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Labour Dreams, Toiling Themes and Workman Schemes
The song title's long, but the artist's name is short.
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call
Oh, you ain‘t so big
You‘re just tall, that‘s all
You got me working, boss man
Working 'round the clock
I want me a drink of water
You won't let me stop
You big boss man
Can you hear me when I call?
Oh, you ain't so big
You just tall, that's all
Gonna get myself a boss man
One gonna treat me right
Work me hard in the day time
But I'll sure rest easy at night
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call?
Oh, you ain‘t so big
You just tall, that‘s all
by Al Dixon & A. Smith
They call it stormy Moday, but Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Moday, but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad
Yes the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy, my heart's in misery
Crazy about my baby, yes, send her back to me
- T-Bone Walker
I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
And a manic mechanic on cars.
It's nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
I got money to spend on my gal,
But the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops
Working for Joe and Sal.
And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby,
She said she'd leave the porch light on for me.
I'm disheveled and I'm disdainful and I'm distracted and it's painful,
But this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight.
Well "Tom, do this" and "Tom, do that", and "Tom, don't do that",
Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash,
Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift,
And I'm a moonlight watch manic, it's hard to be romantic
Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine,
Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...
I can't wait to get off work and see my baby
She'll be waiting up with a magazine for me.
Clean the bathrooms and clean 'em good, oh your loving I wish you would
Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet, this broom'll have to be my baby,
If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawn's early light.
- Tom Waits
- Walt Whitman
Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues into Season 3 with this great show on the theme of Work!
Just reminds me, I forgot to go to work again today! Oh Fuck!
Another excellent show. Lot's of great info and facts, corny jokes and witticisms.
And job interview advice too! I'm gonna really need that after I get sacked tomorrow!
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h3g23c
Season 3
Episode 11
Original Airdate January 7, 2009
(Streaming Country Pie Vers.)
Mp3 @ 256 kbps/ 136 MB/ RS + ES
Absolute Sound Recorder > Sound Forge 6.0 > FLAC Frontend
Theme Time Radio Hour, your home for Labour Dreams, Toiling Themes and Workman Schemes
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
- William Shakespeare
No man is born into the world whose workIs not born with him; there is always workAnd tools to work withal, for those who will....-James Russell Lowell
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-Charles Baudelaire
What about your hypocratic oath, Doc?
The song title's long, but the artist's name is short.
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call
Oh, you ain‘t so big
You‘re just tall, that‘s all
You got me working, boss man
Working 'round the clock
I want me a drink of water
You won't let me stop
You big boss man
Can you hear me when I call?
Oh, you ain't so big
You just tall, that's all
Gonna get myself a boss man
One gonna treat me right
Work me hard in the day time
But I'll sure rest easy at night
Big boss man
Can you hear me when I call?
Oh, you ain‘t so big
You just tall, that‘s all
by Al Dixon & A. Smith
I wonder which is worse, Street Prostitute or Poultry Processor? Well, anyway, both of them probably hate Mondays. So here's their National Anthem.
Famous people don't start out famous.
Some jobs are timeless and will never disappear. Such as gigolos ......
They call it stormy Moday, but Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Moday, but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday's worse, and Thursday's also sad
Yes the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, then I kneel down and pray
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy, my heart's in misery
Crazy about my baby, yes, send her back to me
- T-Bone Walker
If I had to work for any Boss, I'd want it to be Bruce Springsteen
I've been a cabbie and a stock clerk and a soda-fountain jock-jerk
And a manic mechanic on cars.
It's nice work if you can get it, now who the hell said it?
I got money to spend on my gal,
But the work never stops, and I'll be busting my chops
Working for Joe and Sal.
And I can't wait to get off work and see my baby,
She said she'd leave the porch light on for me.
I'm disheveled and I'm disdainful and I'm distracted and it's painful,
But this job sweeping up here is gainfully employing me tonight.
Well "Tom, do this" and "Tom, do that", and "Tom, don't do that",
Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash,
Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift,
And I'm a moonlight watch manic, it's hard to be romantic
Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine,
Sweeping up over by the cigarette machine...
I can't wait to get off work and see my baby
She'll be waiting up with a magazine for me.
Clean the bathrooms and clean 'em good, oh your loving I wish you would
Come down here and sweep a-me off my feet, this broom'll have to be my baby,
If I hurry, I just might get off before the dawn's early light.
- Tom Waits
Well, Merle, I'm know they'd like it on whatever planet you're thinking about sending it to.
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear;
Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck;
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands;
The wood-cutter’s song—the ploughboy’s, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown;
The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else;
The day what belongs to the day—At night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.
Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck;
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands;
The wood-cutter’s song—the ploughboy’s, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown;
The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else;
The day what belongs to the day—At night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.
- Walt Whitman
People don't want to hear about what your dog did last week ...
Dylan's magnificent and seminal Theme Time Radio Hour series continues into Season 3 with this great show on the theme of Work!
Just reminds me, I forgot to go to work again today! Oh Fuck!
Another excellent show. Lot's of great info and facts, corny jokes and witticisms.
And job interview advice too! I'm gonna really need that after I get sacked tomorrow!
The great Tom Waits is on board again with a fine track.
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics.
Of course also there are a few wonderfully obscure tracks - none moreso than the very strange The Coat And The Pants Do All The Work by Harry Reser!
A wonderful show!!
Can't wait for the next one. We don't know what the next theme is though as the show cuts out just as "Pierre" announces it!
Loads more amazing music too with some stone-cold classics.
Of course also there are a few wonderfully obscure tracks - none moreso than the very strange The Coat And The Pants Do All The Work by Harry Reser!
A wonderful show!!
Can't wait for the next one. We don't know what the next theme is though as the show cuts out just as "Pierre" announces it!
See you round the water cooler !
Tracklisting
Intro
First, You've Got To Recognize God - Burnadettes
Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
Workingman's Blues - Merle Haggard
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Sarah Vaughan
Payday - Jesse Winchester
Gotta Find A Job - Lee Dorsey
The Coat And The Pants Do All The Work - Harry Reser
I Can't Work No Longer - Billy Butler & The Enchanters
I'll Do Anything But Work - Ray Charles
Payday Blues - Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks
Wants Ads - Honey Cone
Whistle While You Work - Adriana Caselotti
Call My Job - Detroit Junior
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (and See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue) - Tom Waits
You Got To Have A Job - Marva Whitney
Outro
Intro
First, You've Got To Recognize God - Burnadettes
Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
Workingman's Blues - Merle Haggard
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Nice Work If You Can Get It - Sarah Vaughan
Payday - Jesse Winchester
Gotta Find A Job - Lee Dorsey
The Coat And The Pants Do All The Work - Harry Reser
I Can't Work No Longer - Billy Butler & The Enchanters
I'll Do Anything But Work - Ray Charles
Payday Blues - Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks
Wants Ads - Honey Cone
Whistle While You Work - Adriana Caselotti
Call My Job - Detroit Junior
I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (and See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue) - Tom Waits
You Got To Have A Job - Marva Whitney
Outro
Here she be Dylanite dogs !
The full show on one mp3;
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h3g23c
Various individual show components recorded as individual mp3s;
http://rapidshare.com/files/180869020/3.11_TTR_Work_7-1-2009.zip
Big thanks to blindwilly / charlespoet!
Walt Whitman - I Hear America Singing
I Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear;
Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work;
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck;
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands;
The wood-cutter’s song—the ploughboy’s, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown;
The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else;
The day what belongs to the day—At night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Monday, 12 January 2009
Michael Ballack Über Alles - Über plonker!
Ya Vol! What an Über moron!!
The arrogant, over-rated, useless German, just before yesterday's mauling by Man Utd comes up with this insanely dumb statement!
Herr Ballack said in the News of the World, “A few weeks ago I was sure United were our strongest opponents but now I think Liverpool are the major threat.”
Well actually Herr Bollox could be right. Liverpool are indeed Chelsea's Biggest Threat. For second place in the league!!
However, the way things are going for the mercenaries, Aston Villa could well end up their biggest threat! For third place in the league!!
As he prepares to step out at Old Trafford this afternoon, Michael Ballack has declared that Manchester United are no longer the “major threat” to Chelsea's title ambitions.
The Germany captain instead believes that Liverpool, who drew 0-0 with Stoke City yesterday, are the main obstacle the Blues must overcome in their quest for a fourth English championsip.
Ballack said in the News of the World, “A few weeks ago I was sure United were our strongest opponents but now I think Liverpool are the major threat.”
Such a statement would have been met with derisive laughter last season, or in any of the past Premier League campaigns, as the Reds have failed to mount any serious challenge since the competition's inception.
But Rafael Benitez's side are different prospect this term. They sit atop the table after 20 games and have shown they are capable of winning in all manner of ways.
What's more, the Anfield giants have proved themselves against their direct rivals: Man United fell on Merseyside in September, and a month later Xabi Alonso dealt the Pensioners their first league loss at Stamford Bridge since 2004.
And Ballack reckons the 18-time champs have what it takes to snare their long overdue 19th title.
He said, “They have shown in the past few games that they have the character to deal with being top of the league. They have shown they can handle pressure. Liverpool is a team we respect.
“It’s not like the past few seasons when they were inconsistent. It’s not like it is the middle of October or November — it’s the middle of January and they look like they can sustain a challenge for the title.”
Chelsea lie second in the standings and will move within one point of top spot if they down the third-placed Red Devils today.
The arrogant, over-rated, useless German, just before yesterday's mauling by Man Utd comes up with this insanely dumb statement!
Herr Ballack said in the News of the World, “A few weeks ago I was sure United were our strongest opponents but now I think Liverpool are the major threat.”
Well actually Herr Bollox could be right. Liverpool are indeed Chelsea's Biggest Threat. For second place in the league!!
However, the way things are going for the mercenaries, Aston Villa could well end up their biggest threat! For third place in the league!!
Michael Ballack: Liverpool Are Chelsea's Biggest Threat, Not Manchester United
by Mike Maguire, Goal.com
from http://www.goal.com
by Mike Maguire, Goal.com
from http://www.goal.com
As he prepares to step out at Old Trafford this afternoon, Michael Ballack has declared that Manchester United are no longer the “major threat” to Chelsea's title ambitions.
The Germany captain instead believes that Liverpool, who drew 0-0 with Stoke City yesterday, are the main obstacle the Blues must overcome in their quest for a fourth English championsip.
Ballack said in the News of the World, “A few weeks ago I was sure United were our strongest opponents but now I think Liverpool are the major threat.”
Such a statement would have been met with derisive laughter last season, or in any of the past Premier League campaigns, as the Reds have failed to mount any serious challenge since the competition's inception.
But Rafael Benitez's side are different prospect this term. They sit atop the table after 20 games and have shown they are capable of winning in all manner of ways.
What's more, the Anfield giants have proved themselves against their direct rivals: Man United fell on Merseyside in September, and a month later Xabi Alonso dealt the Pensioners their first league loss at Stamford Bridge since 2004.
And Ballack reckons the 18-time champs have what it takes to snare their long overdue 19th title.
He said, “They have shown in the past few games that they have the character to deal with being top of the league. They have shown they can handle pressure. Liverpool is a team we respect.
“It’s not like the past few seasons when they were inconsistent. It’s not like it is the middle of October or November — it’s the middle of January and they look like they can sustain a challenge for the title.”
Chelsea lie second in the standings and will move within one point of top spot if they down the third-placed Red Devils today.
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Chelsea collapse ... again!
Manchester United 3-0 Chelsea
(Vidic 45′ + 2, Rooney 63′, Berbatov 87′)
(Vidic 45′ + 2, Rooney 63′, Berbatov 87′)
What a shocking result! Well shocking only to the extent that it wasn't 6-0 or 7-0!
Chelsea got a total mauling in the second half and the pampered over-rated mercenaries just couldn't handle it!
Totally outclassed, outplayed and outgunned! And with a simian referee and one-eyed linesman in their corner! And by a side badly affected by injuries to key players!
Scolari's panicked change to 4-4-2 at half-time did not help matters any! The mad Brazilian's really lost the plot lately! Looks like he could be back in Amazonia again real soon!
There must have been a Premiership record yesterday too with Anelka, to our count, touching the ball once after he came on in the second half! Nice work Nicky!
It was a day in which Chelsea would come to rue early wake up calls. First came the fire alarm at their hotel that led to them being shaken from their slumber at 7am. Then came a well-worked United corner routine that resulted in a ruled-out goal - a warning the visitors failed to heed.
As the opening half, in which Chelsea had for the most part been the equal of their hosts, drew to a close, they conceded a corner. Wayne Rooney nudged the ball onto the pitch, before sauntering off, allowing Ryan Giggs to stroll casually over as if he was supposed to take the corner all along. Then, as Chelsea's players arranged themselves, presuming the ball to be out of play, Giggs whipped a cross to Ronaldo who headed the ball authoritatively home.
However, either both referee Howard Webb and his assistant failed to understand the trick or Rooney's failure to explain it to them in advance meant the subsequent goal was ruled out.
It was a lucky escape for Chelsea, whose frailty at set-pieces is quickly becoming problematic, but United's bad luck was redressed moments later. From the re-take Chelsea stood frozen as Dimitar Berbatov rose to flick on to Nemanja Vidic, who had arrived unmarked at the far post to tuck the ball away.
What had been a tightly contested game, in which Deco pulled the strings for the visitors in the opening quarter while Dimitar Berbatov wasted the home side's best chance on the 30 minute mark, became a far more open affair in the second half. Nicolas Anelka's half-time arrival, replacing Deco, left United with more room to manoeuvre and so it was that Ronaldo was able to engineer himself some space on the left flank.
After toying with Chelsea right-back Jose Bosingwa, the Portuguese back-heeled to the overlapping Evra. His cross whistled past Berbatov's forehead before Wayne Rooney toe-poked the ball past Cech, despite being apparently stranded behind an impotent Ashley Cole.
The game was one the Chelsea manager claimed was must-win before the kick-off but, with Jose Mourinho looking on from the stands, their chances became ever-more limited. It was a former Mourinho favourite who was presented with the best of them. Yet, from the first Didier Drogba sliced the ball into touch for a throw-in, from the second he swiped an air-shot with only Edwin van der Sar to beat.
From there, Chelsea seemed to slump into torpor. Rooney, his performance galvanised by his goal, was an ever more irritating thorn in their side. But it was Ronaldo who saw another goal disallowed after a marginal offside decision went in Chelsea's favour. But, by then, the game was finished - so much so that Dimitar Berbatov's 86th minute strike, tapping home from a Ronaldo free-kick, was just the icing on the cake. Again it was a goal made on the flanks, again it was a cross that scuppered Chelsea.
The result lifts Manchester United back above Aston Villa into third but leaves Chelsea four points astray of Liverpool in second.
Chelsea got a total mauling in the second half and the pampered over-rated mercenaries just couldn't handle it!
Totally outclassed, outplayed and outgunned! And with a simian referee and one-eyed linesman in their corner! And by a side badly affected by injuries to key players!
Scolari's panicked change to 4-4-2 at half-time did not help matters any! The mad Brazilian's really lost the plot lately! Looks like he could be back in Amazonia again real soon!
There must have been a Premiership record yesterday too with Anelka, to our count, touching the ball once after he came on in the second half! Nice work Nicky!
2-0 W.Rooney 63′
3-0 D.Berbatov 87′
It was a day in which Chelsea would come to rue early wake up calls. First came the fire alarm at their hotel that led to them being shaken from their slumber at 7am. Then came a well-worked United corner routine that resulted in a ruled-out goal - a warning the visitors failed to heed.
As the opening half, in which Chelsea had for the most part been the equal of their hosts, drew to a close, they conceded a corner. Wayne Rooney nudged the ball onto the pitch, before sauntering off, allowing Ryan Giggs to stroll casually over as if he was supposed to take the corner all along. Then, as Chelsea's players arranged themselves, presuming the ball to be out of play, Giggs whipped a cross to Ronaldo who headed the ball authoritatively home.
However, either both referee Howard Webb and his assistant failed to understand the trick or Rooney's failure to explain it to them in advance meant the subsequent goal was ruled out.
It was a lucky escape for Chelsea, whose frailty at set-pieces is quickly becoming problematic, but United's bad luck was redressed moments later. From the re-take Chelsea stood frozen as Dimitar Berbatov rose to flick on to Nemanja Vidic, who had arrived unmarked at the far post to tuck the ball away.
What had been a tightly contested game, in which Deco pulled the strings for the visitors in the opening quarter while Dimitar Berbatov wasted the home side's best chance on the 30 minute mark, became a far more open affair in the second half. Nicolas Anelka's half-time arrival, replacing Deco, left United with more room to manoeuvre and so it was that Ronaldo was able to engineer himself some space on the left flank.
After toying with Chelsea right-back Jose Bosingwa, the Portuguese back-heeled to the overlapping Evra. His cross whistled past Berbatov's forehead before Wayne Rooney toe-poked the ball past Cech, despite being apparently stranded behind an impotent Ashley Cole.
The game was one the Chelsea manager claimed was must-win before the kick-off but, with Jose Mourinho looking on from the stands, their chances became ever-more limited. It was a former Mourinho favourite who was presented with the best of them. Yet, from the first Didier Drogba sliced the ball into touch for a throw-in, from the second he swiped an air-shot with only Edwin van der Sar to beat.
From there, Chelsea seemed to slump into torpor. Rooney, his performance galvanised by his goal, was an ever more irritating thorn in their side. But it was Ronaldo who saw another goal disallowed after a marginal offside decision went in Chelsea's favour. But, by then, the game was finished - so much so that Dimitar Berbatov's 86th minute strike, tapping home from a Ronaldo free-kick, was just the icing on the cake. Again it was a goal made on the flanks, again it was a cross that scuppered Chelsea.
The result lifts Manchester United back above Aston Villa into third but leaves Chelsea four points astray of Liverpool in second.
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Take me anywhere, I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Another seminal Smiths moment! One of their best known and best loved classics! Originally from their greatest album, The Queen Is Dead from 1986.
Despite the song's massive popularity, strangely it was not released as a single until 1992, after The Smiths split up!Morrissey later re-released the song as a double A-side live single (with his cover of Patti Smith's "Redondo Beach") in 2005, which reached #11 in the UK singles chart.
This magnificent song has been voted very highly in countless "best ever" song lists and has been covered by numerous artists.
There is a Light That Never Goes Out is a song that strikes home powerfully. A first-person narrative concerning yearning, anxiety, and obsession tells the tale of a sad soul who has been kicked out of home, and seeks solace and company from the person they love, the person the song addresses - the enigmatic driver of some car in which the protagonist is being taken somewhere!
All backed up by sublime Marr instrumentation.
Musically, the song begins with a staccato bridge similar to that heard on "Hitch Hike" by Marvin Gaye and "There She Goes Again" by The Velvet Underground, which recurs as a musical motif throughout the song.
With synthesized strings, a balladesque arrangement and yearning lyrics, many listeners have viewed "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" as a love song despite no small level of ambiguity in the lyrics themselves.
The wonderful poignant title of this song has long been a source of wonder. One suggestion has been that the title is a paraphrase of what Hugh Latimer said to Nicholas Ridley as they were about to be burned at the stake as heretics during the reign of "Bloody Mary," Queen Mary I of England:
"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
Simon Goddard argues in his book Songs That Saved Your Life that the basic narrative story is similar to that of the James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause, in which Dean - an idol of Morrissey's - leaves his tortuous home life, being the passenger to a potential romantic partner.
Given Morrissey's previous thematic and lyrical borrowings from literature and cinema, this is a viewpoint with some plausibility. According to Goddard, an earlier version lacked some of the finished version's ambiguity, culminating in the line "There is a light in your eyes and it never goes out".
Additionally, the video for Morrissey's solo song Suedehead shows him visiting Dean's childhood home, and at one point displays the words "There is a light that never goes out."
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out was originally planned to be a single from The Queen is Dead, but Rough Trade Records label boss Geoff Travis selected "Bigmouth Strikes Again" from the same album as the release instead.
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out has subsequently been covered by an array of artists, including UK singer David Ford, Anberlin, Neuroticfish, Braid, Eurythmics, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, The Magic Numbers, The Divine Comedy, Neil Finn, Walleye (on the tribute album The World Still Won't Listen), Nada Surf, The Ocean Blue, Ghost Mice and Schnieder TM (their version of the cover song is known as "The Light 3000"). There is also a Spanish version by Mikel Erentxun, called "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagará". Speedstar also recorded a cover which featured on the Triple J Like A Version compilation CD.
Please do not ever listen to the abysmal version by The Magic Numbers ! I listened to it once and had to be hospitalised!
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive.
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havent got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please dont drop me home
Because its not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die.
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine.
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I dont care
I dont care, I dont care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought 'Oh God, my chance has come at last'
but then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask.
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havent got one ...
Oh, I havent got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Morrissey - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
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Somalia Pirates and the Tanker
The resurrection of piracy in recent times is quite bizarre! We blame Johnny Depp and his "Caribbean" trilogy!!
This (black) peril seems to be escalating dramatically too. Of course, splashed across the news for the past few weeks has been the holding for ransom of an oil-laden Saudi supertanker.
We're wondering if perhaps a massive floating cargo of liquid gold should not have had some mini army on board to protect it? Ermmm????? .... But apparently not!
We note that piracy is considered amongst the biggest moneymakers in Somalia! We hear that "Career Guidance" teachers in Somali High Schools are advising teenagers to get involved in this lucrative business!
They even have specialist University courses on this stuff! Yap, Piracy and Pillage 1.01! A really popular course amongst aspiring scurvy Somali sea-dogs!
Anyway, said tale took another turn over the weekend with the apparent receipt by these aspirant Captain Barbossas of a $3 million ransom! Yes, 3 million fucking bucks! (we're not sure how many barrels of rum accompanied the cash though!)
Now, will the granting of a massive bag of dosh to the tune of $3 million in any way encourage more of these psychos to get into this racket? Nah, course not!!! Well, except for roykeanz and I who are planning to get a team of psychotic sea-dogs together to ravish and plunder our way across the seven seas!
We've already made a "jolly roger" flag and bought some reading material including the Somali Piracy and Pillage 1.01 course book and a self-help book called "Be the Best Jack Sparrow you can Be ... Y'arrrr" !
Curiously, after receipt of said loot, apparently five of the pirates "drowned when their boat capsized"!
Really? Their boat just capsized? Right after they got the loot? What an unfortunate coincidence for those scurvySomali sea-dogs!
And no, they definitely weren't assassinated!!! Fair enough matey? Y'arrrrr!!
This (black) peril seems to be escalating dramatically too. Of course, splashed across the news for the past few weeks has been the holding for ransom of an oil-laden Saudi supertanker.
We're wondering if perhaps a massive floating cargo of liquid gold should not have had some mini army on board to protect it? Ermmm????? .... But apparently not!
We note that piracy is considered amongst the biggest moneymakers in Somalia! We hear that "Career Guidance" teachers in Somali High Schools are advising teenagers to get involved in this lucrative business!
They even have specialist University courses on this stuff! Yap, Piracy and Pillage 1.01! A really popular course amongst aspiring scurvy Somali sea-dogs!
Anyway, said tale took another turn over the weekend with the apparent receipt by these aspirant Captain Barbossas of a $3 million ransom! Yes, 3 million fucking bucks! (we're not sure how many barrels of rum accompanied the cash though!)
Now, will the granting of a massive bag of dosh to the tune of $3 million in any way encourage more of these psychos to get into this racket? Nah, course not!!! Well, except for roykeanz and I who are planning to get a team of psychotic sea-dogs together to ravish and plunder our way across the seven seas!
We've already made a "jolly roger" flag and bought some reading material including the Somali Piracy and Pillage 1.01 course book and a self-help book called "Be the Best Jack Sparrow you can Be ... Y'arrrr" !
Curiously, after receipt of said loot, apparently five of the pirates "drowned when their boat capsized"!
Really? Their boat just capsized? Right after they got the loot? What an unfortunate coincidence for those scurvySomali sea-dogs!
And no, they definitely weren't assassinated!!! Fair enough matey? Y'arrrrr!!
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali pirates released an oil-laden Saudi supertanker after receiving a $3 million ransom, a negotiator for the bandits said Friday.
The MV Sirius Star, a brand new tanker with a 25-member crew, was seized in the Indian Ocean Nov. 15 in a dramatic escalation of the high seas piracy that has plagued the shipping lanes off Somalia.
Mohamed Said, a negotiator with the pirates that held the Saudi tanker, told The Associated Press by telephone the ship had been released and was traveling to "safe waters."
However, Reuters reported before they escaped, five of the pirates drowned when their boat capsized.
The ship owner, Vela International Marine Ltd., declined comment on the claim Friday.
But Poland, which has some of its nationals among the tanker's crew, said it had official confirmation from the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Kenya that the Sirius Star had been released by the hijackers.
A Western diplomat based in Nairobi, Kenya, also said the ship was free, citing the International Maritime Organization. He requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain would not explicitly confirm the release of the tanker. But Lt. Virginia Newman, a spokeswoman for the Combined Maritime Forces based in Bahrain, said it was likely that "a considerable sum" had been paid in ransom and that "It is expected that the ship will get under way in the next 24 hours." She would not elaborate.
The tanker was hijacked more than 500 miles southeast of Mombasa, Kenya. That is far south of where warships have recently increased their patrols in the Gulf of Aden, one of the busiest channels in the world, leading to and from the Suez Canal, and the scene of most past attacks.
The U.S. Navy said Thursday that a new international naval force under American command will soon begin patrols to confront escalating attacks by Somali pirates after more than 100 ships came under siege in the past year.
But the mission — expected to begin operations next week — appears more of an attempt to sharpen the military focus against piracy rather than a signal of expanded offensives across one of the world's most crucial shipping lanes.
The force will carry no wider authority to strike at pirate vessels at sea or specific mandates to move against havens on shore — which some maritime experts believe is necessary to weaken the pirate gangs that have taken control of dozens of cargo vessels and an oil tanker.
"While the potential release of the Sirius Star is undoubtedly excellent news, we must not forget that nearly three hundred other merchant mariners are still being held captive. The men who attacked the ship and held the crew hostage are armed criminals and consequently, we must remain steadfast in our efforts to address the international problem of piracy," said Commodore Tim Lowe, deputy commander of the new force.
Most hijackings end with million-dollar pay-outs. Piracy is considered the biggest moneymaker in Somalia, a country that has had no stable government for decades. A recent report by the London-based think-tank Chatham House said pirates raked in more than $30 million in ransoms last year.
The pirates are trained fighters, often dressed in military fatigues, using speedboats equipped with satellite phones and GPS equipment. They are typically armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank rocket launchers and various types of grenades. Far out to sea, their speedboats operate from larger mother ships.
The U.S. Navy and other nations have international authority to battle pirates in the open seas and come to the aid of vessels under attack. But forces have been stymied on how to respond to ships under pirate control, fearing an all-out assault could endanger the crew members held hostage.
In Ukraine, relatives of crew aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina, appealed on Friday to international humanitarian groups for help. The Faina was hijacked off Somalia more than three months ago with its cargo of 33 battle tanks.
Relatives said neither government authorities nor the ship owner are giving them any information about negotiations with the captors or the crew's health.
Pirates and Ukrainian authorities both said in December that a deal had been reached and that the seamen would be released soon. But there has been no sign of progress since then. The pirates had originally demanded $20 million when they hijacked the Faina.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
John Masefield - Sea Fever
art by Chris Crumley
Sea-Fever
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
By John Masefield (1878-1967)
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967)
(English Poet Laureate, 1930-1967)
Sophia Loren in Red
I remember the back streets of Naples
Two children begging in rags
Both touched with a burning ambition
To shake off their lowly-born tags, so they try
You've been a very bad boy !
Sarah Palin tries out for a new job after her stint as "Failed Bimbo Politician"!
My life has got a Porpoise!
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton Dead At 60
Sad news with the recent death of the hugely influential guitarist Ron Asheton, from Punk pioneers the mighty Stooges.
Ron is a huge loss to the world of music, but the great records he made will live on forever.
Catch the great man in action in two clips below, from either side of the extended Stooges hiatus!
- Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "TV Eye" And "1970," Live In Cincinnati, 1970 (a.k.a. "The Peanut Butter Incident")
- Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "Dirt," Live In Detroit, 2006.
NPR.org, January 6, 2009
The Stooges stayed together for less than five years, but many punk guitarists taught themselves to play by strumming along to the band's records. In fact, Rolling Stone named Asheton the 29th most influential guitar player of all time. Asheton's sound was choppy, distorted and intense. It helped define American punk.
When The Stooges broke up, Asheton tried to get his own record deal, failed, and turned to painting as a sideline, though he said he greatly enjoyed touring with The Stooges when the band got back together in 2006. Asheton died at his house in Ann Arbor, Mich., sometime over the past few days, apparently of natural causes.
Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "TV Eye" And "1970," Live In Cincinnati, 1970 (a.k.a. "The Peanut Butter Incident")
Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "Dirt," Live In Detroit, 2006.
The Stooges stayed together for less than five years, but many punk guitarists taught themselves to play by strumming along to the band's records. In fact, Rolling Stone named Asheton the 29th most influential guitar player of all time. Asheton's sound was choppy, distorted and intense. It helped define American punk.
When The Stooges broke up, Asheton tried to get his own record deal, failed, and turned to painting as a sideline, though he said he greatly enjoyed touring with The Stooges when the band got back together in 2006. Asheton died at his house in Ann Arbor, Mich., sometime over the past few days, apparently of natural causes.
Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "TV Eye" And "1970," Live In Cincinnati, 1970 (a.k.a. "The Peanut Butter Incident")
Ron Asheton and the Stooges Perform "Dirt," Live In Detroit, 2006.
Antipiracy virus spreads through file-sharing websites
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/01/downloading-is.html
Users of popular file-sharing websites: Your next pirated download might be your last. That appears to be the intention of the Downloading is Wrong virus that has spread on some torrent portals.
When a user downloads and launches an infected file, portions of the Windows system's code, called hosts files, are modified; they block access to piracy hubs Mininova, the Pirate Bay and the Suprbay message board. Then, a series of pop-ups begin to fill the screen and a sound file is activated that says, "Downloading is wrong," according to BitTorrent blog TorrentFreak.
Some pointed fingers at MediaDefender, a Santa Monica company that distributes fake music and video files on file-sharing websites to deter piracy. But many signs indicate the culprit is simply an anonymous prankster.
For one, according to postings from affected users, the virus originated from a package of pirated software, rather than the music or video files that MediaDefender would probably target. The Trojan horse gallops its way onto the computer when launching the included keygen program (a small file that creates a valid serial code to activate software).
Antivirus developer Sophos dubbed the worm Troj/Qhost-AC and says the company has updated its software to protect against the Trojan.
Viruses are traditionally distributed for nefarious purposes -- sort of like the Twitter phishing scam that exploded over the weekend, snatching passwords. But it's not too often that a Trojan comes along in support of a morality message.
Maybe we'll see a virus come along that blocks me from getting Rickrolled. Hey, a guy can hope, can't he?
-- Mark Milian
When a user downloads and launches an infected file, portions of the Windows system's code, called hosts files, are modified; they block access to piracy hubs Mininova, the Pirate Bay and the Suprbay message board. Then, a series of pop-ups begin to fill the screen and a sound file is activated that says, "Downloading is wrong," according to BitTorrent blog TorrentFreak.
Some pointed fingers at MediaDefender, a Santa Monica company that distributes fake music and video files on file-sharing websites to deter piracy. But many signs indicate the culprit is simply an anonymous prankster.
For one, according to postings from affected users, the virus originated from a package of pirated software, rather than the music or video files that MediaDefender would probably target. The Trojan horse gallops its way onto the computer when launching the included keygen program (a small file that creates a valid serial code to activate software).
Antivirus developer Sophos dubbed the worm Troj/Qhost-AC and says the company has updated its software to protect against the Trojan.
Viruses are traditionally distributed for nefarious purposes -- sort of like the Twitter phishing scam that exploded over the weekend, snatching passwords. But it's not too often that a Trojan comes along in support of a morality message.
Maybe we'll see a virus come along that blocks me from getting Rickrolled. Hey, a guy can hope, can't he?
-- Mark Milian
Thursday, 8 January 2009
The Supremes - I hear a symphony
A classic Holland/Dozier/Holland piece of Motown songwriting beautifully belted out by Diana Ross with Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard - aka The Supremes!
A tender rhapsody of love indeed!
They sure don't make em like this anymore!
A tender rhapsody of love indeed!
They sure don't make em like this anymore!
You've given me a true love
And every day I thank you love
For a feeling that's so new
So inviting, so exciting
Whenever you're near
I hear a symphony
A tender melody
Pulling me closer
Closer to your arms
Then suddenly, I hear a symphony
Ooh, your lips are touching mine
A feeling so divine
till I leave the past behind
Im lost in a world
Made for you and me
Whenever you're near
I hear a symphony
Play sweet and tenderly
Every time your lips meet mine now baby
Baby, baby
You bring much joy within
Dont let this feeling end
Let it go on and on and on
Now baby, baby
Those tears that seem my eyes
I cry not for myself
But for those who never felt the joy we felt
Whenever you're near
I hear a symphony
Each time you speak to me
I hear a tender rhapsody of love now
Baby, baby
As you stand holding me
Whispering how much you care
A thousand violins fill the air
Now baby, baby
Don't let this moment end
Keep standing close to me
Ooh, so close to me, baby, baby
Baby, baby
I hear a symphony
A tender melody
-Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier/Edward Holland, jr.
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
When you say it's gonna happen "now", well when exactly do you mean?
Starting with a seminal and sublime Johnny riff laid upon by Morrisey's unique vocals and distinctively fucked up powerful poetic lyrics, this is a perfect song! A song you urgently want to immediately hear again once it's over! And then hear again once that's over!
Although, shockingly, not the biggest hit in the Universe at the time of its original release, like the song's great line "when you say it's gonna happen "now", well when exactly do you mean?", the track has slowly but surely, down the years, garnered the oceans of universal critical recognition it all so properly deserves, and now sits proudly amongst the pantheon of modern songwriting!
A truly classic piece of modern songwriting, "How Soon Is Now?" represents the peerless Smiths at their prime.
A crucially important, timeless, incendiary track!
We get the magnificent Morrissey lyrics, ostensibly simple yet extremely powerful - lyrics that really strike you in the gut; lyrics not only left of field, but from another time and place, a cross between Milton, some obscure Victorian writers, Oscar Wilde, Hubert Selby Jr, Kitchen sink drama, Patti Smith, Harold Pinter and a million other eclectic influences!
And all this majesty above a beautifully original, scintillating, wildly-oscillating Johnny Marr guitar riff!
How often do you hear words like "seminal" in a song? How often do you hear a magic unforgettable riff like this?
Nowhere but here, motherfuckers!
This song is perfection itself!!
I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does
I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and the heir
of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does
There's a club if you'd like to go
you could meet somebody who really loves you
so you go, and you stand on your own
and you leave on your own
and you go home, and you cry
and you want to die
When you say it's gonna happen "now"
well, when exactly do you mean?
see I've already waited too long
and all my hope is gone
You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
just like everybody else does
"How Soon Is Now?"was credited to Morrissey and Johnny Marr and first released by The Smiths back in 1984.Sire Records chief Seymour Stein - kind of damning it with faint praise! - called the song "the 'Stairway to Heaven' of the Eighties", while co-writer Johnny Marr more sensibly described it as "possibly our most enduring record. It's most people's favourite, I think."
Originally a B-side with "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" on the 12" single version of "William, It Was Really Nothing" in 1984, the song was subsequently featured on the compilation album Hatful of Hollow and on certain (U.S., Australian and Warner UK) editions of Meat Is Murder.
It was subsequently belatedly released as an A-side in the United Kingdom in 1985, reaching #24 on the singles chart.Although a club favourite, "How Soon Is Now?" did not chart as well as writers Morrissey and Marr had expected. Most commentators put this down to the fact that the song had been out on vinyl in a number of forms before being released as a single in its own right.
The original track ran for nearly 7 minutes; however, the 7" single edit cut the length down to under four minutes. The complete version is generally used on compilations.
The song contains only one verse which is repeated twice, plus a chorus and a bridge.The subject is not one normally touched upon in realm of popular music. It's an existential tale of a desparate individual who cannot find a way to break free of his crippling shyness - a tale with strong resonance to all sensitive intelligent souls across the world! (no, not one, thankfully, for the dumb Jocks!)
Two couplets from the song have since found their way into mass pop culture. Those being the opening to the verse: "I am the son, and the heir, of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir, of nothing in particular", and the chorus: "I am human and I need to be loved / Just like everybody else does".
The opening was actually adapted from a line in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch: "To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular".While the track is cited as having changed the dumb U.S. media's incorrect perception of the band, the lyrics have also been taken as specifically relating to contemporary Manchester club culture.
In any event the lyrics represent Mozza at his powerful poetic best, totally out of step with any other lyricist from this or indeed any other period!
The tune is built around an impactful guitar chord that rapidly oscillates in volume. As to how this amazingly distinctive resonant sound was achieved, Johny Marr gave the following account to Guitar Player magazine in 1990:
The vibrato sound is fucking incredible, and it took a long time. I put down the rhythm track on an Epiphone Casino through a Fender Twin Reverb without vibrato. Then we played the track back through four old Twins, one on each side. We had to keep all the amps vibrating in time to the track and each other, so we had to keep stopping and starting the track, recording it in 10-second bursts .....
We did it in three passes through a harmonizer, set to some weird interval, like a sixth. There was a different harmonization for each pass. For the line in harmonics, I retuned the guitar so that I could play it all at the 12th fret with natural harmonics. It's doubled several times.
The song was originally included as a bonus track on the 12" single release of The Smiths' "William, It Was Really Nothing", released in the United Kingdom on 24 August 1984.
According to John Porter: "I thought 'This is it!'...but I don't think the record company liked it...They totally threw it away, wasted it". The track was subsequently included on The Smiths' compilation album Hatful of Hollow, released on 12 November 1984.
The song was released on Sire Records in the United States, backed with "Girl Afraid", in November 1984. It was expected to sell well and, for the first time, a video was made to promote a Smiths track. However, the song failed to chart.
Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis blamed poor promotion: "I can't understand why 'How Soon Is Now?" wasn't a top 10 single, but perhaps I'm being naive. If only their singles had been played on the radio".
Morrissey too expressed his disappointment in an interview with Creem magazine: "It's hard to believe that 'How Soon Is Now?' was not a hit. I thought that was the one...".
"How Soon Is Now?" was released as an A-side in the United Kingdom later, on January 28, 1985. The 7" featured an edited version of the track, and the B-side was "Well I Wonder", from the about-to-be-released Meat Is Murder album. The 12" single also included a great new instrumental track, "Oscillate Wildly".
In spite of being considered, by this time, something of a classic, "How Soon Is Now?" only managed to rise to #24 in the U.K. singles chart. The reality though, as stated in an interview by John Porter was that "Everybody knew the Smiths' fans already had it"!
Following the acquisition of the Rough Trade catalogue by Warner Bros. Records, "How Soon Is Now?" was issued again as a single in the United Kingdom in September 1992.
According to John Porter: "I thought 'This is it!'...but I don't think the record company liked it...They totally threw it away, wasted it". The track was subsequently included on The Smiths' compilation album Hatful of Hollow, released on 12 November 1984.
The song was released on Sire Records in the United States, backed with "Girl Afraid", in November 1984. It was expected to sell well and, for the first time, a video was made to promote a Smiths track. However, the song failed to chart.
Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis blamed poor promotion: "I can't understand why 'How Soon Is Now?" wasn't a top 10 single, but perhaps I'm being naive. If only their singles had been played on the radio".
Morrissey too expressed his disappointment in an interview with Creem magazine: "It's hard to believe that 'How Soon Is Now?' was not a hit. I thought that was the one...".
"How Soon Is Now?" was released as an A-side in the United Kingdom later, on January 28, 1985. The 7" featured an edited version of the track, and the B-side was "Well I Wonder", from the about-to-be-released Meat Is Murder album. The 12" single also included a great new instrumental track, "Oscillate Wildly".
In spite of being considered, by this time, something of a classic, "How Soon Is Now?" only managed to rise to #24 in the U.K. singles chart. The reality though, as stated in an interview by John Porter was that "Everybody knew the Smiths' fans already had it"!
Following the acquisition of the Rough Trade catalogue by Warner Bros. Records, "How Soon Is Now?" was issued again as a single in the United Kingdom in September 1992.
A 7" single and cassette featured the edited version, backed with a live version of "Handsome Devil", recorded at The Haçienda on 4 February 1983 (this had originally been the B-side to The Smiths' first single "Hand in Glove").
Two CD singles featured tracks from The Smiths' back-cataolgue which were, following the demise of Rough Trade, unavailable in the United Kingdom at that time. The re-issue reached #16 in the U.K. singles chart.
Reviews of this great track upon initial release were generally excellent, such as this one from the now defunct Melody Maker - a top weekly Brit music mag back then;
"Morrissey and co have once again delved into their Sixties treasure-trove, and produced a visceral power capable of blowing the dust off Eighties inertia. The majestic ease of Morrissey's melancholic vocals are tinted with vitriol, as they move through vistas of misery with plaintive spirals around the pulse of Johnny Marr's vibrato guitar. The string's muted strains conjure wistful signs that bridge the schism between crass sentimentality and callous detachment. Each repeated phrase intensifies the hypnotic waves, with results that outflank anything since 'This Charming Man'. Catharsis has rarely been tinged with so much regret, and shared with so much crystalline purity."
- Melody Maker, 2 February 1985
The Smiths were always known for a sublime artwork aesthetic. This track continued in that vein.
The single's cover art was a still from the film Dunkirk (1958) featuring British actor Sean Barrett, praying but looking sufficiently as though he was holding his crotch to have the sleeve banned in the censorial United States, where a photograph of the band backstage at the 1984 Glastonbury Festival was used instead!!
According to Morrissey: "'How Soon Is Now?' was released in an abhorrent sleeve — and the time and the dedication that we put into the sleeves and artwork, it was tearful when we finally saw the record..."
A music video was made - see end of this post - using the 7" edit of the song which intercut clips of the band playing live (including a shot of Johnny Marr showing Morrissey how to play the guitar), an industrial part of Manchester, and a girl dancing.
Whilst unauthorised and heavily criticised by the band, the video has been credited with helping make the song their most famous in the United States, along with helping them attain heavy exposure on college radio.
Morrissey wasn't a fan of the vid though and said:
"We saw the video and we said to Sire, 'You can't possibly release this... this degrading video.' And they said, 'Well, maybe you shouldn't really be on our label.' It was quite disastrous"!
"How Soon Is Now?" was always considered a "major problem" to play in concert, and live versions are rare.
One version was recorded during the concert for The Smiths' live album Rank, but was not used. Instead, a raw version of this song (and entire concert) appeared on the bootleg A Bad Boy from a Good Family.
However, one live version was used to open Morrissey's solo album Live at Earl's Court.
Furthermore, the track has also been played on almost all of Morrissey's tours since 2004.
"How Soon Is Now?" has been since been covered by various artists of very very varying quality!!
The guitar track was sampled, with the Smiths' approval, in 1990 by indie-dance band Soho on their UK Top 10 single "Hippychick".
The song was covered by Psychedelic Furs spin-off band Love Spit Love.
Their version was used on the soundtrack to the film The Craft - a dumb tale about a group of curvy nubile teen witches!
It was also later used as the theme tune to the witchcraft-themed television show Charmed, and has since, rather surreally, become associated with the series. It appears on Charmed: The Soundtrack and as a UK bonus track on its follow-up album, Charmed: The Book of Shadows.
Mad Russian lesbian-chic pop duo t.A.T.u.'s cover of the song is featured on the album 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane (2002). Johnny Marr properly found their version "just silly", but Morrissey, probably tongue in cheek, considered it "magnificent"!t.A.T.u.'s version of "How Soon Is Now" is the opening track on the album Tribute to The Smiths, a compilation of Smiths covers.
Other artists to have covered the song include UK indie band Hundred Reasons, U.S. post-hardcore band Quicksand (bonus track on their Slip album) in 1993, U.S. post-grunge band Everclear, US punk band Meatmen (on the compilation "The World Still Won't Listen"), UK band Paradise Lost (on the limited edition Say Just Words EP), and industrial rockers Snake River Conspiracy.
The song has, down they years, gone on to garner many many well deserved critical accolades;
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine rated the song #486 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. We think it should really really be far higher though! For example, Macca's mawkish "Let it Be" was in their top twenty, for f*ck sake!!
In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at #28 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
In 2006, "How Soon Is Now?" was voted runner up in VH1’s "Top Lyrics" poll for the lyrics, "So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" and marginally missed out on top spot to U2’s "One". None of those judges had heard of Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen though!!In May 2007, NME magazine placed "How Soon Is Now?" at # 7 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever.
The Woodentops - A great lost Group
We've been listening a lot to a recent BBC collection of sessions by the wonderful Woodentops, a short-lived magnificent innovative group way ahead of their time.We were huge huge fans of the band back in their heyday - we were only kids at the time - and had a few of their albums that got played so much, the vinyl got totally fucked up!
At that time, there was one decent radio station - an illegal local "pirate" radio station - called "Capital Radio" that used to blast out loads of Woodentops, as well as oodles of other wonderful obscure indie music, and we always had a cassette or 2 handy to capture the great sounds (it really was a high tech period back then! Some guy had just recently invented the wheel!)
The Woodentops' music at it's best was full of frenetic energy and power; an eruption of punk rawness and pure pop that stood out like a sore thumb amongst the muzak then generally proliferating across the airwaves!
One can possibly point to influences such as Talking Heads, New Order, The Pop Group, Suicide, Big Audio Dynamite, Joy Division, Jonathan Richman etc. but the band really had a sound all of its own. Truly distinctive! Just take a gander at the array of odd instruments they used!
This fine BBC Collection covers the many Beeb sessions that the band recorded between 1984 and 1988 - mainly for the late great John Peel and for Janice Long - and does a great job at encapsulating their sound and the development of their music over that period.
A whopping wonderful 20 tracks in all!
Some classic tracks in here - majestic amalgams of punk, post-punk, agit-pop, electronica and power pop! And many other genres!
Love it!
Taking punk's DIY ideals and applying it to stripped-down acoustic pop, the Woodentops achieved a great deal of critical success in the short time they were together.
The band formed in Northampton, West England in 1983. The initial line-up was Rolo McGinty (vocals, guitar, formerly of The Innocents and The Jazz Butcher), Simon Mawby (guitar), Alice Thompson (keyboards), Frank DeFreitas (bass guitar) and Paul Hookham (drums).
They released their debut single ''Plenty'' on Food Records in 84.
This led to them being signed by acclaimed Indie label (of Smiths fame etc) Rough Trade where the band released a series of classic singles through 1985/86 which soon got the band noticed;
- ''Move Me'',
- ''Well Well Well'',
- ''It Will Come'' and
- ''Good Thing''
Giant was a great collection of powerful innovative music. Also replete with beautiful cover artwork.
Giant was well received by critics and strangely, given that the music was way out of synch with the morass of eighties music, that it was also a minor commercial success. The album's sound was characterised by acoustic guitars, but also featured accordion, marimba, strings, and trumpet sounds, showing influences of great mavericks like Suicide.
Giant reached #35 on the UK Album Charts. A single from the album, "(Love Affair With) Everyday Living" also became a minor hit in the UK Singles Chart.
The following year the band began experimenting with their sound, adding tougher guitars and electronics, and gained an early hit on the burgeoning club scene in Ibiza with ''Why Why Why''.
The band's new more frenetic style first became apparent in their live shows, as documented on the excellent live album Live Hypno Beat (1987), which was recorded in Los Angeles in 1986. The band became more raw live and unpredictable, becoming one of the most exciting independent groups out there!
In 1987, Thompson left, to be replaced by Anne Stephenson of The Communards.The more experimental mood was continued on the second album Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway released the following year, which did not have the same success as their debut.
However, most notably, the listeners of Los Angeles radio station KROQ voted their song "Stop This Car" number 15 out of 106 in the KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown of 1988, outperforming many more established acts! Also, one of the album's standout tracks, "Wheels Turning," became a dancefloor favourite.
The Woodentops continued to play live, touring the world and tracks such as "Tainted World" became a regular on New York radio station Kiss Fm with DJ Tony Humphries.
Sadly, after an all too brief time together, The Woodentop scalled it a day in 1992.
Vocalist and guitarist Rolo McGinty, who wrote most of Woodentops songs, resurfaced with the DJ band Pluto in the 1990s. He was also involved with the Dogs Deluxe electronica project and also provided vocals for Gary Lucas' "Gods and Monsters".
The great news later was that the band returned to live performance in September 2006, and plan to release some new music!
We wish them all the success in the world! They deserve it!
Links:
http://www.woodentopsmusic.com/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/thewoodentops
Discography
* Well, Well, Well... The Unabridged Singles Collection (1985) Rough Trade
* Giant (1986) Rough Trade/Columbia (UK #35, UK Indie #2)
* Live Hypnobeat Live (1987) Rough Trade/Epic (UK Indie #1)
* Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway (1988) Rough Trade (UK #48, UK Indie #1)
* Bamboo: The Best Of The Woodentops (2003)
* BBC Sessions (2007)
The Woodentops - Stop this car
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
The Smiths - Live in Germany - 1984
the Good Life is out there somewhere
We think this was from a show at Rockpalast in Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany back on 4 May 1984!
Deutschland? We thought that Germans were too busy listening to David Hasselhoff and Chris De Burgh back then (and indeed still now are too!)
Some true classics here including "Hand in Glove", "Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now", "Girl Afraid", "This charming Man" and "Pretty girls make graves"!
Oh the mammaries! The mammaries!
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it's not like any other love
This one is different - because it's us
Hand in glove
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me
And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know and I really don't care
Kiss My Shades
Hand in glove
The Good People laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have
And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know and I really don't care
Kiss My Shades ... oh ...
So, hand in glove I stake my claim
I'll fight to the last breath
If they dare touch a hair on your head
I'll fight to the last breath
For the Good Life is out there somewhere
So stay on my arm, you little charmer
But I know my luck too well
Yes, I know my luck too well
And I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
Oh ...
Angie, you're goddang beautiful !
Angie, you're beautiful,
but ain't it time we said good-bye?
Angie, I still love you,
remember all those nights we cried?
but ain't it time we said good-bye?
Angie, I still love you,
remember all those nights we cried?
Goodnight Irene Fah!
One night I got married
And me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife are parting
I want to jump overboard in a river and drown
Goodnight Irene, goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams
And me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife are parting
I want to jump overboard in a river and drown
Goodnight Irene, goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams
Tony Blair - Evil Geniass
Great work Tony in your lucrative role as official "Envoy to the Middle East" on behalf of the World. Or some such dumbly nomenclatured bullshit!
You're doing a fine job! Well, you would be, were it not for that pesky little Gaza annihilation campaign!!
And what does that very dubious role entail? Well, the UK's most unpopular post-war Labour Prime Minister seems to basically be Bush's lapdog overseeing US and, by extension, Israeli strategic interests in the Middle East! A role this grinning jug-eared warmonger previously fulfilled wonderfully well of course, primarily in collaborating with the US on the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions.
We're wondering what the job spec for an Envoy to the Middle East - basically, a vast swathe of Moslem territory, plus little Israel! - might have been. What factors would enable the candidate best fulfil the role and warm himself immediately to most of the Middle East population?
Well, the job spec obviously must have included key requirements such as being an unquestioning lover of America, a warmonger with a history of Moslem carnage and an honorary Zionist!!
You're doing a fine job! Well, you would be, were it not for that pesky little Gaza annihilation campaign!!
And what does that very dubious role entail? Well, the UK's most unpopular post-war Labour Prime Minister seems to basically be Bush's lapdog overseeing US and, by extension, Israeli strategic interests in the Middle East! A role this grinning jug-eared warmonger previously fulfilled wonderfully well of course, primarily in collaborating with the US on the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions.
We're wondering what the job spec for an Envoy to the Middle East - basically, a vast swathe of Moslem territory, plus little Israel! - might have been. What factors would enable the candidate best fulfil the role and warm himself immediately to most of the Middle East population?
Well, the job spec obviously must have included key requirements such as being an unquestioning lover of America, a warmonger with a history of Moslem carnage and an honorary Zionist!!
Of course, it's well documented that Tony Blair has extremely strong ties to Israel going back at least as far as 1975 when Blair joined "Labour Friends of Israel" - a UK lobby group promoting support for a strong bilateral relationship between Britain and Israel.
Later, Blair struck up long-standing friendships with powerful wealthy Zionist benefactors and lobbyists such as Michael Levy and others who helped line Blair's Election Campaign coffers!
Later, Blair struck up long-standing friendships with powerful wealthy Zionist benefactors and lobbyists such as Michael Levy and others who helped line Blair's Election Campaign coffers!
Well, we all know the phrase “one hand washes another”! And sure as eggs is eggs, a number of these wealthy Zionist benefactors and lobbyists were in turn, for their trouble, made Lords by Blair!
As well as the peerages, some have stated that this reciprocal relationship also extended to aspects of UK Government policy. As well as the momentous Afghanistan and Iraq invasion decisions by Blair's Government, most recently, heavy criticism came down upon Blair from all quarters for his failure to call for a ceasefire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, when members of his own cabinet had openly criticised Israel for their actions!
This matter contributed to Blair's approval ratings hitting the floor - earning him the cherished accolade of the UK's most unpopular post-war Labour Prime Minister - and ultimately forcing his resignation.
Oy vey, this schmeckena Blair!!As well as the peerages, some have stated that this reciprocal relationship also extended to aspects of UK Government policy. As well as the momentous Afghanistan and Iraq invasion decisions by Blair's Government, most recently, heavy criticism came down upon Blair from all quarters for his failure to call for a ceasefire in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, when members of his own cabinet had openly criticised Israel for their actions!
This matter contributed to Blair's approval ratings hitting the floor - earning him the cherished accolade of the UK's most unpopular post-war Labour Prime Minister - and ultimately forcing his resignation.
Mazel Tov Tony in the role of "Envoy to Jerusalem"! Keep up the great work!
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
My last date ended like this!
Yap, last Friday I had to pay a midnight visit to ER with a teflon frying pan embedded in my empty noggin!
Even the wired-up junkies, the assorted murderers and the other blabbering bleeding lunatics there thought I was weird!
Man, that bitch didn't have too much New Year cheer!
I got to third base though. Almost! So it was all worth it!!
A great start to the New Year!
I'm sure it will continue in the same vein!
......
Anyway, another classic Tex Avery moment here!
We love ya Tex!
Nympho Librarian
The prim miss took off more than her mask of respectability behind the stacks .... with any man who asked!
We always knew this!
Which is why, as teenagers, roykeanz and I were at the library every afternoon!
This never happened there though!
Sob! Sob!
Anyone got this fine tome of classic pulp fiction, please send it to us!
Paris. Not Texas.
Lovely piece by photodan88
We know this is not Paris, Texas because;
1. there's a sophisticated lady
2. and she's reading .... yes, reading! And it's a BOOK!
Morrissey - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
by pasha1
only stone and steel accept my love
by PixelTribeThe long anticipated new outing from Mozza Years of Refusal is released 17 Feb 2009.
The good news is that this one continues the strong vein of form that ran through his last LP “Ringleader of the Tormentors” from 2006!Some fine tracks in there from the new "Happy Mozza"!!
We're not sure about the cover though! The sublime Smiths artwork aesthetic has long gone!!
And, no, we can't post links because continual of legal threats from internet nazis, even though all we ever did post, when we did post, were found links. We noticed this other blog though if you want to read more about it.
by Sybil1902Here's a live vid for an early incarnation of the track I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris.
Yap, Mozza's gone all adolescent and wants to bang uber-rich, uber-stoopid, uber-skank and gonzo pornstar, Paris Hilton!
As if!!
The vid comes from a San Francisco show on 27 September 2007 and Mozza must be high here cos it seems he just can't get enough banter with the audience!
Is this a cylon clone of the aloof Prince Mozza we used to see in shows back in the eighties and nineties?! Yap!
by scruffums146
In the absence of your touch
And in the absence of loved ones
I have decided I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love
In the absence of your smiling face
I traveled all over the place
And I have decided I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love
I’m throwing my arms around all of Paris
Because only stone and steel accept my love.
I’m throwing my arms around Paris
Because nobody wants my love
Nobody wants my love
Nobody needs my love
Nobody wants my love
Yes, you made yourself plain
Yes, you made yourself very plain
Mozza - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
San Fran - 9/07
San Fran - 9/07
Mozza - I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris
Somewhere else!
Monday, 5 January 2009
The Initials ...The Initials ... The Initials BB !
Une nuit que j'étais
A me morfondre
Dans quelque pub anglais
Du coeur de Londres
Parcourant l'Amour Mons-
Tre de Pauwels
Me vint une vision
Dans l'eau de Seltz
B Initials
B Initals
B Initials
B.B.
- Serge Gainsbourg
Marianne Faithfull
Come over to the window, my little darling,
I'd like to try to read your palm.
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
before I let you take me home.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
- L. Cohen
Marianne sure looked hot back before the Rolling Stones got their claws into her!
We love Mariya Poroshina
Mariya's amazingly like a clone of Cathérine Deneuve!
Sacre bleu!!
All you roosky vampires better look out!
That was LAST week!
Peter Bromhead, Dominion-Post Wellington and Sunday-Star Times, Auckland New Zealand
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Tex Avery - Blitz Wolf (WWII)
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
- Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media (Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)
For those who thought/think Israel was/is the first to invent war propaganda to feed to the masses! (cue a slew of manic vitriolic comments!!)
From one of our heroes, the legendary Tex Avery, here's a fine piece featuring Adolf Wolf (Colossal Stinker) and the three lil piggies! (Austria, Poland and Prussia, we suppose!)
We love Der Mechanized Huffer und Puffer! How can we get our paws on one of those?!
Not that Tex was the inventor of propaganda! Neither was Israel (well, it's only been around a few decades!) Nor America. Not even the Nazis or the Brits!
Nah. Like prostitution, propaganda has been around for countless centuries. Reliable recorded evidence obviously does not go back nearly that far though.
One of the earliest documented examples of propaganda is the Behistun Inscription (c. 515 BC) detailing the rise of Darius I to the Persian throne.
Propaganda was widely used as a colonisation tool by Alexander the Great (356 BC- 323 BC).
The Arthashastra written by Chanakya (c. 350 - 283 BC), a professor of political science at Takshashila University and a prime minister of the Maurya Empire (the empire of ancient India) discusses propaganda in detail, such as how to spread propaganda and how to apply it in warfare. His student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire, employed these methods during his rise to power.
The writings of Roman scribes such as Livy (c. 59 BC - 17 AD) are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman propaganda.
From one of our heroes, the legendary Tex Avery, here's a fine piece featuring Adolf Wolf (Colossal Stinker) and the three lil piggies! (Austria, Poland and Prussia, we suppose!)
We love Der Mechanized Huffer und Puffer! How can we get our paws on one of those?!
Not that Tex was the inventor of propaganda! Neither was Israel (well, it's only been around a few decades!) Nor America. Not even the Nazis or the Brits!
Nah. Like prostitution, propaganda has been around for countless centuries. Reliable recorded evidence obviously does not go back nearly that far though.
One of the earliest documented examples of propaganda is the Behistun Inscription (c. 515 BC) detailing the rise of Darius I to the Persian throne.
Propaganda was widely used as a colonisation tool by Alexander the Great (356 BC- 323 BC).
The Arthashastra written by Chanakya (c. 350 - 283 BC), a professor of political science at Takshashila University and a prime minister of the Maurya Empire (the empire of ancient India) discusses propaganda in detail, such as how to spread propaganda and how to apply it in warfare. His student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire, employed these methods during his rise to power.
The writings of Roman scribes such as Livy (c. 59 BC - 17 AD) are considered masterpieces of pro-Roman propaganda.
Larry Mullen claims 'Bono's friendship with war criminals makes me cringe'
Who'd have thunk it! The smartest person in U2 (though that of course is damning with very faint praise indeed!) turns out to be stickman Larry Mullen!
He talks about Bono cavorting with jug-eared war-monger Tony "I don't care" Blair and numbskulled war-monger GW "this'll make daddy happy" Bush!
Man, this guy finds Bono as annoying as we do! Nice work stickman!
There's a rather interesting reference in the article below too to a writer we like, Paul Theroux, who has described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs"! So, Angelina's a nymphomaniac? Wow, there's a real shocker!!
What about Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage? Are they "mythomaniacs" too? Or nymphomaniacs?
U2 drummer Larry Mullen has admitted he "cringes" when he sees Bono associating with "war criminals" George W Bush and Tony Blair.
The normally reserved musician has launched a stinging attack on his frontman for his involvement with the two world leaders in an interview with music magazine Q.
It is not the first time Mullen has criticised Bono for his campaign work, but this is his most scathing criticism to date. From his appearance at Live Aid and Band Aid in the 1980s, Bono has been involved in numerous charities to raise awareness of crises in Africa, including AIDs.
He praised Mr Bush for increasing aid to Africa and most recently appeared with him during the G8 summit last year. In 2007, he also saluted outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for "doing the things he believed in", despite the "accusations of a slick PR machine, spin doctoring and the like".
But his work outside the band has caused a deep rift between Bono and at least one other fellow band member.
In his interview, Mullen suggests the singer's campaigns have taken their toll on his family life. He admitted that Bono is "prepared to use his weight as a celebrity at great cost to himself and his family, to help other people", adding: "but, as an outsider looking in, I cringe."
He brands Mr Blair and Mr Bush "war criminals".
"Tony Blair is a war criminal and I think he should be tried as a war criminal.
"Then I see Bono and him as pals and I'm going, 'I don't like that'. Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably -- but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse."
Six years ago, in an interview on American TV, Mullen said he believed Bono's political crusades were unsettling the band. He told the '60 Minutes' programme that the lead singer's absence was felt each time he took a break to campaign on issues.
"It does interfere with the band," he said. "It's a four-legged table, and with one leg missing, even for short periods of time, the thing becomes a little unstable."
Bono has also come under attack from critics less close to home, including writer Paul Theroux.
Mr Theroux described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth".
He said he was not complaining about humanitarian aid, disaster relief, AIDS education or affordable drugs.
"Instead, I am speaking of the 'more money' platform: the notion that what Africa needs is more prestige projects, volunteer labour and debt relief."
The U2 singer responded by calling his critics "cranks carping from the sidelines".
"A lot of them wouldn't know what to do if they were on the field," he said.
He talks about Bono cavorting with jug-eared war-monger Tony "I don't care" Blair and numbskulled war-monger GW "this'll make daddy happy" Bush!
Man, this guy finds Bono as annoying as we do! Nice work stickman!
There's a rather interesting reference in the article below too to a writer we like, Paul Theroux, who has described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs"! So, Angelina's a nymphomaniac? Wow, there's a real shocker!!
What about Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage? Are they "mythomaniacs" too? Or nymphomaniacs?
U2 drummer Larry Mullen has admitted he "cringes" when he sees Bono associating with "war criminals" George W Bush and Tony Blair.
The normally reserved musician has launched a stinging attack on his frontman for his involvement with the two world leaders in an interview with music magazine Q.
It is not the first time Mullen has criticised Bono for his campaign work, but this is his most scathing criticism to date. From his appearance at Live Aid and Band Aid in the 1980s, Bono has been involved in numerous charities to raise awareness of crises in Africa, including AIDs.
He praised Mr Bush for increasing aid to Africa and most recently appeared with him during the G8 summit last year. In 2007, he also saluted outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for "doing the things he believed in", despite the "accusations of a slick PR machine, spin doctoring and the like".
But his work outside the band has caused a deep rift between Bono and at least one other fellow band member.
In his interview, Mullen suggests the singer's campaigns have taken their toll on his family life. He admitted that Bono is "prepared to use his weight as a celebrity at great cost to himself and his family, to help other people", adding: "but, as an outsider looking in, I cringe."
He brands Mr Blair and Mr Bush "war criminals".
"Tony Blair is a war criminal and I think he should be tried as a war criminal.
"Then I see Bono and him as pals and I'm going, 'I don't like that'. Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? Probably -- but the difference between him and Tony Blair is that Blair is intelligent. So, he has no excuse."
Six years ago, in an interview on American TV, Mullen said he believed Bono's political crusades were unsettling the band. He told the '60 Minutes' programme that the lead singer's absence was felt each time he took a break to campaign on issues.
"It does interfere with the band," he said. "It's a four-legged table, and with one leg missing, even for short periods of time, the thing becomes a little unstable."
Bono has also come under attack from critics less close to home, including writer Paul Theroux.
Mr Theroux described Bono, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as "mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth".
He said he was not complaining about humanitarian aid, disaster relief, AIDS education or affordable drugs.
"Instead, I am speaking of the 'more money' platform: the notion that what Africa needs is more prestige projects, volunteer labour and debt relief."
The U2 singer responded by calling his critics "cranks carping from the sidelines".
"A lot of them wouldn't know what to do if they were on the field," he said.
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Bianca Kajlich in Maxim
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Here's the lovely Bianca Kajlich in Maxim!
She's some sort of model. Or something!
Ashley's well built!
There are at least two things we love about this one!
We can't out our finger on them though! Unfortunately!
Ashley's some sort of professional boobiful poser. Or something!
We can't out our finger on them though! Unfortunately!
Ashley's some sort of professional boobiful poser. Or something!
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Sexy Tila Tequila strips for Burma!
A rather strange one this!
Vietnamese hotty Tila Nguyen is sizzling in this vid which seeks to attain publicity for the plight of the Burmese people, ruled for decades by a ruthless dictator.
Man, if I'd had a teacher like that, I wouldn't have left school at 11 and consequently not be having no book smarts!
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More Rihanna .... anna .... anna .... anna
More Rihanna .... anna .... anna .... anna !
We love naughty Ambassaors!
We love naughty Ambassaors!
Cultural Ambassador for Barbados, Ms Robyn Rihanna Felty
Here's the Cultural Ambassador for Barbados (yap, really!), Ms Robyn Rihanna Felty.
All Ambassadors should look like this!
For everything you wanted to know about the Cultural Ambassador for Barbados but were afraid to ask, check here!
All Ambassadors should look like this!
For everything you wanted to know about the Cultural Ambassador for Barbados but were afraid to ask, check here!-
Rihanna: Brightest Star, allhiphop.com. September 2005
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Interview with Rihanna. Morafire.com. Jan/Feb 2007.
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Interview with Rihanna. Honoluluadvertiser.com. September 15, 2006.
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http://ahotmess.wordpress.com/2007/05/26/rihanna-performs-in-germany/
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http://soundslam.com/articles/interviews/interviews.php?interviews=in050802rihann
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Rihanna Loses Good Girl Image, Thanks to Jay-Z, Justin, Timbaland, Ne-Yo
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www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,22049,22067782-5009160,00.html
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Rihanna at the Internet Movie Database
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Rihanna at TV.com
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Complete Discography including live performances, lyrics and lots of samples
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Rihanna at People.com
Maroon 5 Feat. Rihanna - If I Never See Your Face Again
Man, we thought we'd never ever ever be saying this, but .... here's a video from Maroon 5!
We mainly like this thanks to the stellar exotic presence of uber-hotty Rihanna dressed very sensually indeed and gyrating that way she gyrates!!
And strangely the song isn't that awful either. In fact, compared to the normal Maroon 5 muzak, this sounds like "London Calling"!
And strangely the song isn't that awful either. In fact, compared to the normal Maroon 5 muzak, this sounds like "London Calling"!
Nothing but the same old story
Vince O'Farrell, Wallongong, Australia, The Illawarra Mercury, The Melbourne Express.
E-mail Vince -- Visit Vince at the Illawarra Mercury
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