August 29, 2016 Open Thread, happy Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist
August 29 is the 241th day of the year. There are 124 days left.
Today's number is 29
Today's number is Twenty-Nine
29 is a prime
29 is copper
29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert
29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert
The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29
I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however.
29 is the maximum age at which one is trustworthy (Weinberg's dictum).
29 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius
Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil sarted the Aeneid
29 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus Maybe twins?
On this day in:
0708 -- First minting of copper coins in Japan
1756 -- Frederick the Great started the French and Indian War by attacking Saxony
1786 -- Shays' Rebellion started
1825 -- Portugal recognized Brazil's independence
1831 -- Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
1885 -- Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle (& first ICE powered behicle)
1911 -- Ishi came in from the cold
1916 -- The US passed the Philippine Autonomy Act
1922 -- The first radio ad was broadcast
1949 -- The Soviet Union tested its first A-bomb
1970 -- Rioting cops killed 3 people at the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War in East LA
1991 -- The Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet suspended all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
2005 -- Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast. Nice work Brownie
Born this day in:
1632 -- John Locke, physician and philosopher
1777 -- Hyacinth, founder of Sinology
1780 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painter and illustrator
1862 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 -- Charlie Parker, saxophonist and composer
1924 -- Dinah Washington, singer and pianist
1927 -- Jimmy C. Newman, singer, songwriter and guitarist; Opry dude
1937 -- Carol Doda, "the perfect 36"
1938 -- Robert Rubin, economic Shiva
1945 -- Chris Copping, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Procol Harum)
1951 -- Geoff Whitehorn, singer, songwriter and guitarist (IF, Crawler, and Procol Harum)
1952 -- Dave Malone, singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators) collaborated with the Iguanas
1958 -- Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor. A smoothie
1960 -- Tony MacAlpine, guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Planet X, CAB, Ring of Fire, and Seven the Hardway)
1971 -- Alex Griffin, bass player (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
1975 -- Kyle Cook, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Matchbox 20 and The New Left)
1985 -- Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombonist (Canadian Brass)
Died this day in:
1533 -- Atahualpa, Sovereign emperor
1657 -- John Lilburne, activist, a level headed fellow
1769 -- Edmond Hoyle, author and educator, according to whom ...
1780 -- Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect who co-designed The Pantheon
1856 -- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, anti-slavery activist and author
1877 -- Brigham Young, bigamist
1930 -- William Archibald Spooner, priest, author and Oxford Don after whom Spoonerisms are named
1946 -- John Steuart Curry, painter and academic
1968 -- Ulysses S. Grant III, the guy buried in Grant's tomb
1976 -- Jimmy Reed, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1981 -- Lowell Thomas, journalist and author
2007 -- Alfred Peet, patron saint of coffee, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley in 1966.
2011 -- David "Honeyboy" Edwards, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Christian Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (I shit you not)
International Day against Nuclear Tests (international)
So, for music we gots:
Frederick the Great, flautist and composer
Charlie Parker
Dinah Washington
Jimmy C. Newman
Chris Copping
Geoff Whitehorn
Dave Malone
Michael Jackson
Tony MacAlpine
Alex Griffin
Kyle Cook
Achilles Liarmakopoulos
Jimmy Reed
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Frederick the Great of Prussia, flautist and composer
Charlie Parker
Dinah Washington
Jimmy C. Newman
Chris Copping
Geoff Whitehorn
Dave Malone
Michael Jackson
Tony MacAlpine
Alex Griffin - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Kyle Cook
Achilles Liarmakopoulos
Jimmy Reed
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Comments
30, not 29
The admonition was "Don't trust anyone over thirty. So, you can trust someone who is 30 or younger, but not anyone who is 31 or older.
Thank you for all the music. No time to listen now, but I will bookmark.
True about Weinberg, thanks.
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 --
Political Activist
Abby Hoffman used the sentence, "Don't trust anyone over 30" in the 1960's as a student rallying cry. In the 1980's he revised it to "Don't trust anyone under 30" (when college grads were flocking into jobs in the finance sectors).
Many thanks for the great musical lineup, as well as the numerical one!
Abbe Hoffman used it a lot, but did not originate it.
Political activist Jack Weinberg, who was "the guy in the cop car", the arrest of whom triggered the Free Speech Movement did, in an interview with a newspaper reported who was trying to insinuate that greater forces were manipulating the movement.
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 --
Glenn Greenwald had a good interview on Amy Goodman's show
today. I liked a lot what he said about Trump and Clinton. And his critique of the media, in Brazil and in the US.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Greenwald and the Intercept
is a great resource. One of the best investigative journalist and publications around. Thanks for tip mimi, I'll catch it today.
EL, thanks for the number fun.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning all.
I'm going to make the trip into town today. It takes a long time to get there and back even when the cab company is being cooperative. I have some errands that I need to get done.
I am 47 I think, or maybe 48. I lost track. So I cannot of course, be trusted.
Good luck with your errands and trip to town. Weinberg is now 76
and still an activist, so ...
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 --
Michael Jackson lip-sync'ed, right?
Real theater there, grand scale.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Dunno if he lip sync'ed or not - I was never a fan. Beyond his
"darling of the tweens" era with the Jackson 5, I'm pretty sure that he is among the vast horde of MTV performers who never would've made it in the days of radio.
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 --
Michael Jackson was *in* the days of radio
The Jackson Five was pretty popular!
Very catchy, entertaining. I don't like his later stuff after he "grew up". But then I don't like Elvis Presley's later stuff too and I can't listen to Paul McCartney's music past 1980.
That was his "'tween idol" days, however;
abc, 123, you & me, deedle deedel dee, etc. and his "I'll be there" whimsey. His "king of pop" stuff, like the exemplar above, is all about the dance moves.
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 --
agree about that dancing stuff
Here's Bob Fosse doing it earlier. Moonwalk at 2:53 of this clip
But anyway, since Michael was already famous and had fans he was bound to have fans in his Thriller years. The videos did help him. Like Elvis kept having hits despite being ....not my cup of tea.
Jill stein just announced
That she's on the ballot in 3 more states: Alabama (which I already knew), Tennessee & Delaware. Woo hoo!
The Beheading of John The Baptist
The bible version
Oscar Wildes play Salome tells a different tale where the dancing daughter Salome is the central character. Salome as femme fatale. The play was first published in French in February 1893, and an English translation, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, in February 1894.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(play)
THe Wilde/Beardsley version is truly a great work - I loved it.
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 --
... what about Richard Strauss' operatic vision/version --
with the (then-infamous) "Dance of the Seven Veils" --?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_%28opera%29
When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said “How well he spoke”.
When Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said “Let us march”.