Friday, December 2, 2022

In A Nutshell . . .

 

(from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser)
". . . "They want me to do a commercial because it seems that a lot of people that are inclined to be with me don't like the concept of - you know, they're anti vax," he said at the time, adding that he was considering doing it. People in the government had asked? "Yes," he said. . . But months had passed and no Trump commercial materialized even as tens of millions of his people refused to get vaccinated, putting themselves at increased risk of death from the virus. So we asked why he had not spoken out after he had been asked to. . . "Nope, they have not asked me," he told us. . . But Trump was the one who had told us about it in the first place. We point that out. Was he sure? .  . "Not that I know of, no," Trump blithely responded. . . Was he telling the truth the first time? The second? Neither? With Trump, one could never really tell. . . " 


Hello,Goodbye

- The Beatles



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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Plunging . . .

 


OHO performs Plunge, live in Ocean City,  MD in 2018.   Plunge is from OHO''s 2018 album GAZEBO.
 
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Why? . . .

. . . BECAUSE!  (Besides, I'll bet you've never heard it.)

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingus_(Joni_Mitchell_album))
". . . a collaboration (Joni Mitchell) with composer and jazz musician Charles Mingus. Recorded in the months before his death, it would be Mingus's final musical project; the album is wholly dedicated to him. Mingus was released on June 13, 1979. . . The album is quite experimental, featuring minimalist jazz, over-plucked, buzzing acoustic guitars, and even wolves howling through "The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey". All of the lyrics are by Mitchell, while the music for four of the songs was composed by Mingus, three being new tunes, a fourth being his tribute to saxophonist Lester Young from his 1959 classic Mingus Ah Um, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", for which Mitchell wrote a set of lyrics. . . . As with the release preceding, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mitchell hired personnel from jazz fusion group Weather Report, notably bassist Jaco Pastorius to play on the sessions. Mingus would also mark the first reunion of saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock in the studio since recording together on Shorter's seminal Native Dancer album, featuring Milton Nascimento, released in September 1974.
The album is spliced with excerpts, which are labelled "(Rap)", from recordings provided by Sue Graham Mingus, including a scat singing interplay between Joni and Mingus, and Charles and Sue arguing over his age at a birthday party. In "Funeral", Mingus and others discuss how long he will live and what his funeral will be like. He refers to the Vedanta Society and asserts that he is going to live longer than Duke Ellington, who died in 1974, aged 75, by saying, "I'm going to cut Duke!". . ."

Mingus died January 5, 1979 at the age of 56. 


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- Joni Mitchel & Jaco Pastorius



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Monday, November 28, 2022

Never Suspected . . .

 
Are leaving on a Monday?
Have you made up your mind?
Is there anything left
That I can do to give me more time?
I’ve heard the old story,
It’s not something I said
If I didn’t say anything at all.

In the darkness I can see your form
As you lie there asleep.
Something’s wrong with this picture—
You resting peacefully,
I, in this heat.

I never suspected 
That you were a calendar girl.

Six days of the week
I’m working to please you.
But when we’re alone
You’re just making plans.
The pencil and that faded old notebook
Have taken away what has made me a man.

Was it Tuesday, was it Wednesday?
Am I wasting my time?
And how much does it matter,
As this thing ages, it still isn’t wine?
I still hope though, anxiously,
You can find in your heart
One more reason to give me another chance.

Sunday evening, and I lie awake.
Seems there’s no use in sleeping.
Heard the sound of the door behind you,
Now all I hear is the sound of you leaving.




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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Odd Or Humorous? . . .

 

 (from Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann)
". . . Science, however, cannot get along without reason; and to want to make a science out of a sense of the infinite and the eternal mysteries is to compel two spheres fundamentally foreign to each other to come together in a way that is in my eyes most unhappy and productive only of embarrassment. . . Pietism, by virtue of its overemotional nature, would indeed make a sharp division between piety and science, and assert that no movement, no change in the scientific picture, can have any influence on faith that was a delusion, for theology has at all times, willy-nilly let itself be determined by the scientific currents of the epoch . . . "


The World's A Funny Place

- Richard & The Lionhearts



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Saturday, November 26, 2022

The Folk . . .

 

 (from Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann)". . . you need only tell a crowd they are 'the folk' to stir them up to all sorts of reactionary evil. What all has not happened before our eyes -  in the name of 'the folk,' though it could never have happened in the name of God or humanity or the law!  But it is the fact that actually the folk remain the folk, at least in a certain stratum of its being, the archaic; and people from Little Brassfitter's Alley and round about, people who voted the Social-Democratic ticket at the polls, are at the same time capable of seeing something demonic in the poverty of a little old woman who cannot afford a lodging above ground. They will clutch their children to them when she approaches, to save them from the evil eye. And if such an old should should have to burn again today, by no means an impossible prospect, were even a few things different, 'the folk' would stand and gape behind the barriers erected by the Mayor, but they would probably not rebel. . ."


 


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