It's real. It's very real. . .
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Calexico - Across The Wire (live)
I can't believe I didn't go see them in September. Anyway, this is one of my favortie Calexico songs. . . Great live version. Enjoy.
Eddie Vedder - The Kids Are Alright (live)
November 1993. I had this bootleg but never had the visual. Good stuff!
Just in case you haven't heard the original.
THE WHO - THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
Just in case you haven't heard the original.
THE WHO - THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
Smashing Pumpkins - Soothe
Feeling this right now. . . This is off their "B" side album, "Pisces Iscariot." Don't mind the video. Brings back some old memories. . . Good stuff.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Tom Friedman Wants The Inauguration Bumped Up To Thanksgiving
THIS IS SCARY STUFF:
It’s a huge moment for America and the global economy. I think we should seriously consider moving up the inauguration day. Because I don’t know that we have two months to have a political vacuum at this moment in this economic crisis. I mean, to Neil’s point, the financial system is the heart, it pumps blood to the industrial muscles of the economy. It’s not working. We’re supposed to sit around for two months and wait for the new administration to get in…because this administration has kind of checked out. They’re not going to do anything big. And so, I don’t think people have fully grasped the fact …I tell you, I go to restaurants now and look around, your point earlier….I wanna come up to people and say, “You shouldn’t be here. You should be home having tuna sandwiches. What are you doing here? Don’t you understand there is a storm coming?” Okay? And it hasn’t hit yet. And I believe the decisions made possibly in these next two months could determine the next four years. This administration could be over before it starts. Over in the sense that it will spend the next four years digging out of a hole that has been created right now that may be deeper and darker than anyone realizes.
Citizen Cope - Son's Gonna Rise
This is for Adrian. He continues to "school" me after years of high school. . . He called me from Bend, OR just to tell me about this guy, Citizen Cope. According to Adrian, he is an "f'in genius." So I have no other choice but to take his word. Well I'm diggin' it Adrian. Good stuff. . .
Click here for the offical video of "Son's Gonna Rise."
CITIZEN COPE - LET THE DRUMMER KICK
Click here for the offical video of "Son's Gonna Rise."
CITIZEN COPE - LET THE DRUMMER KICK
"Much to His Chagrin, 'Plain Old Barack Is Gone'"
This article is for the political junkie.
Obama nourished his soul on a life of routine in Chicago, friends say. Now they hope he can find comfort in a city he has never embraced.
By Eli Saslow and Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 24, 2008;
During his political rise, Obama safeguarded times of normalcy and credited them for keeping him sane. A run on the treadmill in the early morning. An evening meander through 57th Street Books. Date night with his wife, Michelle, at one of their favorite restaurants. Pickup basketball at a gym downtown.
Obama already has learned that his mundane routine will be difficult to replicate as president, but his friends say that establishing some kind of similar comfort zone is critical to his success in Washington. They consider it one of the most pressing -- and most challenging -- issues of Obama's transition: How can he create a life as president that keeps him happy?
"Look, there are just certain things that he can't do anymore, or he can't do as easily, and that's going to be hard," said Marty Nesbitt, Obama's closest friend in Chicago. "The objective is to just make sure that things stay as similar to the way they used to be as they can. The same routines, the same conversations -- that's what he wants."
Obama nourished his soul on a life of routine in Chicago, friends say. Now they hope he can find comfort in a city he has never embraced.
By Eli Saslow and Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 24, 2008;
During his political rise, Obama safeguarded times of normalcy and credited them for keeping him sane. A run on the treadmill in the early morning. An evening meander through 57th Street Books. Date night with his wife, Michelle, at one of their favorite restaurants. Pickup basketball at a gym downtown.
Obama already has learned that his mundane routine will be difficult to replicate as president, but his friends say that establishing some kind of similar comfort zone is critical to his success in Washington. They consider it one of the most pressing -- and most challenging -- issues of Obama's transition: How can he create a life as president that keeps him happy?
"Look, there are just certain things that he can't do anymore, or he can't do as easily, and that's going to be hard," said Marty Nesbitt, Obama's closest friend in Chicago. "The objective is to just make sure that things stay as similar to the way they used to be as they can. The same routines, the same conversations -- that's what he wants."
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Thom Yorke Discussing Neil Young and After the Goldrush
Thom Yorke talks about meeting Neil Young and playing him After the Goldrush. This is an outtake of a BBC documentary on Neil Young.
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Here's the song. . . Good stuff! You can download this version at itunes.
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Here's the song. . . Good stuff! You can download this version at itunes.
Norah Jones - Jesus, etc.
This is the first night of the Bridge School Concert (2008). Hey, it took a lot for her to do this since Wilco was backstage. Good times. . .
A Better Brew - The rise of extreme beer
Must read for the beer lover! (New Yorker Magazine)
Beer has lagged well behind wine and organic produce in the ongoing reinvention of American cuisine. Yet the change over the past twenty years has been startling. In 1965, the United States had a single craft brewery: Anchor Brewing, in San Francisco. Today, there are nearly fifteen hundred. In liquor stores and upscale supermarkets, pumpkin ales and chocolate stouts compete for cooler space with wit beers, weiss beers, and imperial Pilsners. The King of Beers, once served in splendid isolation at many bars, is now surrounded by motley bottles with ridiculous names, like jesters at a Renaissance fair: SkullSplitter, Old Leghumper, Slam Dunkel, Troll Porter, Moose Drool, Power Tool, He’brew, and Ale Mary Full of Taste.
Accountability Mr. President. . . (part 2)
FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN:
Photo: a detainee killed by US forces in Abu Ghraib prison, after being beaten and forced into a position with his arms bent back over and behind his head, with a hood restricting his breathing. All the techniques used against him were authorized by president George W. Bush.
To paraphrase Hitch: torture poisons everything.
And people wonder why I seem so angry and concerned about this issue, about its centrality to this election, and about the unique, once-in-a-century chance to put it behind us before it infects us beyond cure. It is, in my judgment, the biggest single crisis we now face, because it does not simply affect our wealth or our safety, but because it affects who we are.
We cannot know hope until we end torture.
Photo: a detainee killed by US forces in Abu Ghraib prison, after being beaten and forced into a position with his arms bent back over and behind his head, with a hood restricting his breathing. All the techniques used against him were authorized by president George W. Bush.
Obama Impersonation - "Ba-L-Ack Obama"
SNL Is looking for a new person to play Obama. I vote for this guy. Hilarious!
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Too Funny! Sarah Palin Interview
You can't make this stuff up! Saturday Night Live isn't this funny! Here's an interview of Sarah Palin while turkey's are being slaughtered in the background. I'm not kidding. . . She's an idiot!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
"From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents"
Cotton production in 1860 with the 2008 presidential results.
Here's the article
CLICK ON THE MAPS
Combine the TWO maps - - AMAZING!!!
Here's the article
CLICK ON THE MAPS
Combine the TWO maps - - AMAZING!!!
The Who - Blue, Red and Grey
ONE OF MY FAVE'S. . .
This off the WHO BY NUMBERS album (1975)
THE WHO - BLUE, RED AND GREY
Some people seem so obsessed with the morning
Get up early just to watch the sun rise
Some people like it more when there's fire in the sky
Worship the sun when it's high
Some people go for those sultry evenings
Sipping cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day
I like every second, so long as you are on my mind
Every moment has its special charm
It's all right when you're around, rain or shine
I know a crowd who only live after midnight
Their faces always seem so pale
And then there's friends of mine who must have sunlight
They say a suntan never fails
I know a man who works the night shift
He's lucky to get a job and some pay
And I like every minute of the day
I dig every second
I can laugh in the snow and rain
I get a buzz from being cold and wet
The pleasure seems to balance out the pain
And so you see that I'm completely crazy
I even shun the south of France
The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy
But when they sleep, I sing and dance
Some people have to have the sultry evenings
Cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day
- Pete Townshend
This off the WHO BY NUMBERS album (1975)
THE WHO - BLUE, RED AND GREY
Some people seem so obsessed with the morning
Get up early just to watch the sun rise
Some people like it more when there's fire in the sky
Worship the sun when it's high
Some people go for those sultry evenings
Sipping cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day
I like every second, so long as you are on my mind
Every moment has its special charm
It's all right when you're around, rain or shine
I know a crowd who only live after midnight
Their faces always seem so pale
And then there's friends of mine who must have sunlight
They say a suntan never fails
I know a man who works the night shift
He's lucky to get a job and some pay
And I like every minute of the day
I dig every second
I can laugh in the snow and rain
I get a buzz from being cold and wet
The pleasure seems to balance out the pain
And so you see that I'm completely crazy
I even shun the south of France
The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy
But when they sleep, I sing and dance
Some people have to have the sultry evenings
Cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day
- Pete Townshend
The Virgin Mary
A statue of the Virgin Mary is seen among the rubble of burned out mobile homes at the Oakridge mobile home park in Sylmar, California, on November 18, 2008. The fire near the suburb of Sylmar devastated nearly 500 properties in the Oakridge mobile home park and has burned around 10,000 acres. By Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty
Sunday, November 16, 2008
John Lennon at 30
Happy Birthday Arod. . . Lennon was just getting started man!!
John Lennon - Crippled Inside
John Lennon - Crippled Inside
The Moral Cost Of Leaving Iraq
This will not be an easy decision. Obama has a lot of cleaning up to do. Pray for him.
FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN:
An Iraqi man weeps next to the body of a dead child killed in an explosion at the morgue of the general hospital in the northeastern town of Baquba some 60 kms from Baghdad on November 16, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq's volatile Diyala province today, killing at least 15 people, including seven policemen, a security official said. Police Major Hassan al-Kurawi said another 20 people were wounded. STR/AFP/Getty Images.
This must be the most heart-rending and disturbing face of the day I've ever posted. My policy is to err on the side of showing everything - from the Nick Berg beheading to the worst abuse of prisoners under the Bush-Cheney interrogation policy. We need to see the evil that we unwittingly unleashed in Iraq and the evil that will doubtless take hold the minute we leave. It is part of the moral equation in deciding what must be done now. And it is not easy. As an advocate for withdrawal, I do not want to deny the moral costs it may involve.
FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN:
An Iraqi man weeps next to the body of a dead child killed in an explosion at the morgue of the general hospital in the northeastern town of Baquba some 60 kms from Baghdad on November 16, 2008. A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Iraq's volatile Diyala province today, killing at least 15 people, including seven policemen, a security official said. Police Major Hassan al-Kurawi said another 20 people were wounded. STR/AFP/Getty Images.
This must be the most heart-rending and disturbing face of the day I've ever posted. My policy is to err on the side of showing everything - from the Nick Berg beheading to the worst abuse of prisoners under the Bush-Cheney interrogation policy. We need to see the evil that we unwittingly unleashed in Iraq and the evil that will doubtless take hold the minute we leave. It is part of the moral equation in deciding what must be done now. And it is not easy. As an advocate for withdrawal, I do not want to deny the moral costs it may involve.
Nebraska's Safe-Haven Law
I told my students about this Nebraska law and how parents are literally dropping off their teenage kids. One student responded, "Is there a place where we can drop off our parents?" Man, that was funny. It reminded me of why I wanted to be a teacher. . . :)
Here's an article from the Washington Post.
Here's an article from the Washington Post.
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