Open Thread - Friday, December 14, 2018
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 12/14/2018 - 3:20am
If there is no dance, there is not music.
-- Tito Puente
I logged into C99 to prepare the Friday Open Thread, and checked on EL's Tempus is fugiting, or is it?, which put me into a polyrhythmic funk.
I love salsa! The hotter the better! This summer, I had some New Mexico green chili. It was exothermic.
Polyrhythmic funk has the ability to reach inside of you.
No worries.
I hear Poncho Sanchez on that Cal Tjader. Sweet.
And tasty.
Well, I have to beat it and get my chores done.
Have a great weekend! The thread is OPEN.
Comments
Good Morning
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning, Tim ~~~
Yummy - New Mexico green chile - just made a pot of green chile stew last night. It was delightful! During this holiday season, our culture dictated the red chile foods be prepared. Thus, there are food items I only make during this time, but which are offered in restaurants all year long. For example, tamales, carne adobada, posole.
My granddaughter helped me make our traditional cookie, the biscochito, this year. She also helped me make cheese logs, which I gift to many people during the season.
I got released from the Doctor yesterday. My foot had mended. He said - go live your life! Ok!
Have a beautiful day and weekend, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Eating season
I am sitting here with a cup of coffee and banana chocolate chip bread. Nut logs from little sis', showed up in the mailbox yesterday. It's "girls night out" tonight. I made onion soup with sirloin tips, for the abandoned guys. We'll get our 420 on, dine and head for the pub. They are terrible wing men, but good company.
Great to hear the foot is better. I would still stay off the basketball court. One of the guys is a podiatrist, so I hear lots of foot stories. It is much worse than, "I met a man with no shoes". Lots of amputations, pins, prothesis and diabetic woes. Also too, people who do not listen to good advice. Stay off the basketball court.
Culture: North Raleigh has a Polish grocery. The holiday meals include kielbasa, kraut and perogies. Awhile back, the Raleigh paper ran a story about the Polish grocery store. I stopped by to get my New Year's kielbasa and the place was hoppin'. Most of the patrons were 50 years old or older and it looked like a family reunion. People were wearing gang colors. Bears, Lions, Packers, Steelers, Bills, Giants and Eagles were all represented.
I always liked the Christmas school break. A couple of weeks off and kind bud would magically show up.
Have a great weekend!
And too.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Great advice!
No basketball courts for me!!!!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
In memoriam
Nancy Wilson has passed. RIP
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Yet another NCTim Funkin' Friday Open Thread that is
good reading and good listening. Caucus99percent's Open Thread authors never cease to amaze me. I love each and every one of them and (because?) I love each and every one of their threads.
Thank you, NCTim.
For those who are ignorant like me:
And so ends my momentary disruption. Have a great TGIF and a very enjoyable weekend All.
Thanks
Have a great weekend!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
A good wet morning here
Looks like rain through Sat. after 6+ inches last week. Ought to fill our aquifer. The spring is running strong and the pond is full.
Managed to get most of my roof painted this week. It is a spray foam roof that has to be painted every 10 years or so to keep UV light from breaking it down. Always something to do on the homestead.
Friday is my session night. I brushed up on this one to sing tonight. (4.3 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcawqEpIRVo]
https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Nineteen_Thirteen_Massacre.htm
I like early (pagan) pieces like Good King Wenceslas, Greensleeves, and God rest ye merry gentlemen as instrumentals. There will be other carols tonight as well. Only a couple more Fridays till the holiday is over and the carols put away till next year.
Have a good one everybody!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Avoidance
I avoid
ChristamasHoliday music. My youngest is over the top with Christmas. I would get into the car and the radio would be tuned to all Christmas, all the time. Have fun. Eat, drink and be merry.The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
I like those as well, but my very most favorite one is
O, Holy Night. Especially the chorus. Not many can do that carol justice, though. IMO, large choirs do it best preferably boys' choirs. My sentimental childhood favorite, though, is We Three Kings. When I was in fifth or sixth grade, the upper grades in elementary school all walked into the center aisle of the auditorium in red and white choir outfits and up to the stage caroling.
My grade began entering the auditorium on the first note of We Three Kings. Even though I was one of many, many faces in the entire procession and "unseeable" once on stage, seated behind those who had walked in before my grade, I felt very important as we processed. I'm not sure even my eleven year-old self could have explained why and I certainly cannot.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ZOGTPsxng]
I'll add that banter in Christmas specials is uniformly horrible. I wish they'd just sing.
O holy night is my favorite too
[video:https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfLl5OEDy8]
I took this while listening to it on Xmas day at Bodega bay. Special time.
Merry Solstice, haw and everyone!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Very cool, Snoop.
A little history on the Berlin Wall
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xej1FRgrtVo]
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Hola
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Aua (ouch in English)
https://www.euronews.com/live
Heh, good morning, and Danke, but don't go blaming me.
Ages ago, pretty ignorant of salsa, I dropped by a free noon salsa concert in SF somewhat promoting the group's upcoming week long performance at Ernesto's. There was a band with a bandleader up front on timbales, also up front. OK, I know this layout. He explained to all and sundry that "salsa is new, but mostly just mambo" and proceeded to rip into some Tito Puente.
So, un poquito homage to El Rey de los Timbales :
of course, having multiple drummers makes polyrhythms a bit easier, even if it's only one playing 4 and another playing 6, or any other damn thing they please -
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It's your fault
Heh, I am ready for politics.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
all that is missing of the little guy in red
of the Soul Sacrifice Drum Solo of DJ is the yellow vest. Absolutely amazing.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Hello
Good to read you.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Time piece
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
I grew up
eating burritos from a place called "The Green Burrito" in La Puente Calif.
Their green burritos were the best, renowned across the nation.
After closing in the early 90s (the owner passed away) I tried to duplicate the recipe, experimenting with numerous chiles, even contacting the son.
The secret ingredient?
Hatch green chiles from the Hatch Valley, New Mexico.
Yumm!
Oh noes, my mouth is watering like a St. Bernard now.
Thanks for the OT, Tim.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Hatch
Luckily, you can have it sent to the house.
https://www.hatchchileco.com/product/green-chile-cooking-sauce/
For the first ~40 years, I lived in western Pennsylvania, which has a dearth of good Mexican food. Luckily, we had Reyna Foods. A regular Saturday pilgrimage. NC has a much better selection of stores and restaurants.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Your link
took me to a knock off Hatch chile, not grown in Hatch Valley, N. M.
http://www.ihatchchile.com/blog/new-mexico-hatch-chile-labeling-dispute-...
They don't even sell whole chiles, just cans.
But thanks for the link anyway.
I can get whole chiles shipped from the growers assoc. in Hatch Valley.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Sounds good
I use the farmers market. Peidmont is Ag country.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Tito Puente's Simpsons Cameo
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kdDet7G14]
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Heh
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
How to protect yourself from fake news!
Brought to you by an expert on the topic, Christiane Amanpour.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1bhHeCkoU]
Don't mock me, but the name didn't ring a bell and I was randomly surfing TED talks when one came up and I thought, "Sure, a TED talk on fake news!" I wasn't more than a few minutes into it when alarm bells were going off and I went and found out who Christiane Amanpour was. Now I think of her as Christiane "Aleppo Boy" Amanpour.
Where this story gets really uplifting for me is in the Youtube comments. NEVER in a zillion years would I have thought I'd find YouTube comments uplifting but wow. To say that she was ripped apart would be the understatement of the year. So apparently, TED viewers are pretty savvy to MSM's propaganda. I'll just leave this one here for your amusement, but it's fairly representative of the VAST majority that I read.
Ahahahhahaha is this some kind of a joke?! Wants to find truth, interviews the most fake reporter of all times, TED I think it's time for u to shut down, u hit the point of no return.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
"O Holy Night" has an interesting history
Composed in 1843-44 by Adolphe Adam (better known for opera, operetta and ballet music) to words by wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau; turned into English lyrics by Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight in 1855.
Wikipedia has a direct comparison of the French original, literal translation, and Dwight's original version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Holy_Night
One thing to notice in recordings and live performances is that for the most part Dwight's differing "chorus" sections (which follow the French) get the heave-ho for repetitions of the first chorus.
On the other hand, where the French version faffs around a bit, Dwight's rendition throws things into sharper focus: "Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother; And in His name all oppression shall cease." Although not an active Abolitionist, he does seem to have shared their general attitude.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.