Saturday, July 16, 2022

The Root . . .

. . . of so much evil . . . 

(from Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America by Kurt Andersen)
". . . legal scholar Jeffrey Rose, nowadays president of the National Constitution Center, wrote that "we are all originalists now." He meant that everyone in the legal world acknowledged that the original  meaning of the Constitution and its amendments couldn't be ignored. But originalism became a crude and self-justifying meme that the right used, from the 1980s on, simply to serve its own interests and prejudices. Originalism's most important hidden agenda was to keep courts and judges completely out of the business of business, as if what worked for the U.S. economy for its first century, before modern corporations existed, was how things should work today. It was like the Friedman Doctrine, which turned a reasonable capitalist truism (profits are essential) into a simple-minded, unhinged, socially destructive monomania (only profits matter). . ."
 

So Wrong

Patsy Cline
 



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Friday, July 15, 2022

OHO Live . . .

Photo by P.S. Jozwiak 



. . . and new music from the NEW OHO release - 'AHORA'



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Fish . . .

. . . on recorded telephone conversation asking an election official to break the law 


(from https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senator-graham-says-he-will-not-cooperate-with-georgia-trump-election-probe-2022-07-06/)
".. . . Senator Lindsey Graham will not comply with a subpoena issued by a grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, attorneys for the lawmaker said on Wednesday. . . "Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena, and expects to prevail," attorneys Bart Daniel and Matt Austin said in a statement made on behalf of Graham. The grand jury was selected in May to consider evidence in a probe launched after Trump was recorded in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the state's election results based on his claims of voter fraud.  . . Graham's attorneys said in the statement that the senator was being called as "simply a witness" in what they called "a fishing expedition.". . ."


Haven't Got A Clue

The Flaming Lips



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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Senses . . .

 

Ours is a sensory world.
So many sources abound to entice.
Still this mortal marathon’s run.
The trick’s in 
Pacing yourself.
Finishing’s more than the win.

Ears to see and eyes to hear.
Understand direction where to steer.
All the tender subtleties,
Every little nuance there.
Ears to see and eyes to hear.
Super-Sensory powers instilling fear.
Better than invisibility,
Leaping buildings,
Flying high.

Noise from all sides, all decibels,
Arresting every sensation possessed.

One step forward,
Two steps back.
How much can you take?
If doing the same thing over and over
Brings no change,
Will you do it once again?

I possess no bravery in matters
Any more than anyone else.




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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Listen . . .

 


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Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Comparison . . .

. . . or NOT
 
Courtesy of either Todd Walker, Ron Goad or Pam Jozwiak

The original, stripped-down, bare-bones, solo piano version of Spencer's Mambo (which can be considered a sequel to yesterday's post or stands quite ably on its own), a tune from my first album 'Chromatose' from 2003




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Monday, July 11, 2022

Shaping . . .


This tune, 'Spencer's Mambo' (technically not a mambo, but an homage nonetheless) appears on my very first album 'Chromatose' as a solo, piano instrumental. My family was the inspiration for much of the music in that collection. With the potential unleashed by Logic Pro X, I am able to realize more vivid productions of some of the music. One example of that is this full-realized version of 'Spencer's Mambo' clearly capitalizing on so much of the music that came before me and helped shape my own creations. 






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