...google got new language tools in beta...
Friday, June 22, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
...everybody needs a buddy...
...nobody sings across the working man's point of view quite like ry cooder - his newest cd"My Name is Buddy" takes him back to the depression days of Boomer's Story and Into the Purple Valley!
...just give a listen to this cooder tune
"My Name is Buddy" revisits those themes of displacement, disenfranchisement, deteriorating democracy - but through the story of a band of friends.
Part allegory, part picaresque adventure, the album continues Cooder's examination of a disappearing America, in this case the vanishing American "working man". "Nowadays nobody wants to be called a 'working man' - an SUV driver maybe - but not a working man." But what happened to this message of unity? Of solidarity? Of fairness or justice? What happened to the notion, "we are many, they are few."? These questions put Cooder on a path revisiting the place where so many of those old stories and struggles have been stowed away for safe-keeping; the country's foundation of music - its songs of praise, of sorrow, of work, of protest, of celebration. "What do poor people sing about? Death, Jesus, Mother and what happened today. They lived in poverty or worked in the mill and got their fingers chopped off - something horrible like that - but they carried that music along with them."
"Many of these songs had a warning to the 'working man' folded in - especially those 19th Century songs in three-quarter time. It was the very reason for singing. Those songs were about topical things. They were vehicles for people who had a point to get across," says Cooder. "Otherwise, there is no point in doing it."
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
...sneaking sally down the alley...
...there's something about that southern funk...little feat, bonnie raitt, and listen to this robert palmer medley... (it's a big one!) - lowell george, robert palmer, allen toussaint
Monday, February 12, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
...bad enough with global warming...
...there is not that much snow around (which is a bit 'o' business for me), but now a robot to do my job...
...i feel like an auto worker...
Friday, February 09, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
...Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens...
...if this doesn't cheer you up on a frigid tuesday - what will?...
...right click on this link and download the video
...and if you need to know more here's a wiki entry...
Saturday, February 03, 2007
...who is the biggest warmonger of them all ...
...democrats? - replublicans? - bush? - lincoln? - who went to war the most often? these folks can tell you!
...are you an environmental yeti...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
...new math...
...i've never been one for doing things the way they teach them in school, always looking for a more "practical" approach - made up my own way to add columns of numbers, treat all numbers as a factor of ten, and so on, ...but this is just crazy!
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
sad days....revisited
this was my first post, and something made me repost it again tonite
...listen to nina simone sing strange fruit...
been to one to many funerals this last week or so....always brings me down
a good dose of real sadness straghtens me right out, makes me a little more appreciative, you know...and this is about the saddest thing i've seen in a long while
http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
...listen to nina simone sing strange fruit...
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
...much music sucks i'm told...
...but Mr.Dante knows what's goin' on...
this one is especially for my big sisters - real lesley gore fans
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