Open Thread - Friday, January 13, 2017
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
Talk about Eternal Funk.
It sure feels like an eternal funk. I am so exhausted, fatigued and disillusioned that it is hard to work up any enthusiasm. Everything sucks, just sayin'. I feel like I have been in a funk rut and tracing the same ground. This week, I am striving to serve up some fresh funk to tickle the Caucasapians organs.
I was afraid the music was getting like dad stories. Old and tired. I prefer to think of myself as:
The Senate confirmation hearings have been disenfranchising. There is no level to which the crookedly elected will not stoop.
The lack of transparency and accountability combined with the populace's complacency, and ignorance, is very discouraging. I think the whole process is:
So from here forth, I am rolling on a content free thread!
The Yards album cover looks like the old Armstrong Cork building in Pittsburgh's strip district.
I am running out of excuses to play another song.
Heh, like that could stop me.
The thread is OPEN. So, I am going to beat it. I will try to stop by, unlike last week.
Have a groovy weekend!
Comments
Nice spectrum of musicality
Thanks Tim!
Thanks
I was trying to freshen up a bit.
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 -
That Hemingway quote is grim for sure.
It seems to be fitting for our times though. I do enjoy the last sentence which strikes me funny in a sardonic way.
Yeah
I thought the quote was fitting and worry about just how far into authoritarianism we are headed.
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~~~
Hope you are getting rest when you can. The strength deep within you is keeping you keepin' on. Take care, dear one; hugs to you and sweetie.
Have a beautiful day, 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
I know
I have a life observation about people. The really strong, and tough, do the right thing regardless of the challenges.
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 -
Happy Friday 13 from Northern California
Morning socialist commentary, comes with a hug. "that's all I got" living on the verge.
"home to more billionaires than any other country in the world" so of course "the deal is a concessions contract"
California state workers voting on new contract
Huh! 30 times doesn't sound that bad now and I don't understand what "independent mobilization" means anymore, that is how deep the brainwashing goes. Help?
Can't afford a bullet proof vest. Bummer. California gun sales surge to beat new gun control limits
Don't think it is billionaires buying up the semi-automatic weaponry, they want us to kill each other. Fuck that no surrender.
Peace & Love (not violence & hate)
Agreed
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 -
In kind
keep going
good morning, NCTim, I think this is a video
that helps me a bit to "get" something that was "nebulous" to me before.
[video:https://youtu.be/It7anI_t8Xw]
Enjoy.
btw, nothing is eternal, imo, including funk.
Yesterday I walked through Hamburg's neighborhoods in Germany. It was cold, windy and wet. I detected an area that was taken over by US corporations. So, I had a Kentucky Fried chicken near a Staples and a self-storage place that worked exactly in the same way as Storage USA Plus in the US does including a German lady at the reception desk trained definitely in the "American Way" of customer service. Perfect and professional. And smiling. I mean Germans are for the most part ok, but they don't smile a lot.
I miss me some smiling Americans. If just the casino capitalist would drown in their money power.
The digital format
... truncates the wave form. Analog funk is forever.
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 -
sigh, you are good ...
Hamburg!!??! Do you know Ted Taylor?
I ask as a joke because it's silly to think you might, just because you're in that city. On the other hand, I jokingly asked Bisbonian if he knew a friend of mine in Arizona....and he does!
Hamburg is so huge in the Beatles legend, as we all know. Ted Taylor went there from Liverpool with his group, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, ended up staying. He's a Facebook friend and it's weird and fun to get into chats with him. Anyway, he'd be the only person I "know" in Hamburg, thus the dumb question.
I imagine 55 years of change has occurred and it's not the same place.
Aww, Shah, you just can't imagine where I am coming from
my relations to the beatles were like this... When I was 14 or 15 years old, ie around 1962/63, I lived in my parents house in a little town outside of Hamburg's borders, but close to it (40 minutes by car to the Reeperbahn, that's Die Grosse Freiheit and there was the Indra Club, the place, where the Beatles came for their first performance in 1960.
My upbringing was with classical music in a very boring way. I took piano classes, til I graduated from highschool in 1967 and wasn't good at it and did it just because it's what my parents thought they had to offer me and I did what my parents expected from me.. My mother could improvise and had the musical bones in her.
I learned about the beatles through a girl in my class, who had those small 45 rpm sinlge records of them and was a fan. We listened to it when I happened to go to her house to do homeworks with her together. I was so scared to even bring them home. I was envious of her freedom to listen to what she wanted and be openly a "fan". In my parents' house we had no "beatles" music. That's just what it was in a good 'ol conservative German household. I never visited the Reeperbahn. My father had to bring his business partners there, but it wasn't "free" a place to go for his daughters. Red district and all...
My father had a lawyer friend for his business, who adored Jazz in the fifties and my father, half envious, half adoring called him in a teasing way a "crazy nut who loves all this music like Jazz and stuff". They were friendly with each other despite the cultural mismatch...
It was 1967/8 when I went to University in Berlin that I was introduced and became a fan of Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Mahalia Jackson and more. I lived in my own student studio and finally could "grow my own tastes for music".
I learn a lot (as much as I can follow listening to all the songs offered here) from the Evening Blues and other Open Threads with all they have to offer. I really like it here for that. It's a kind way to communicate with it.
My life in a way was a bit like, to say it nicely, "crazy and nutty" ever since. I survived.
Now I know Ted Taylor, thanks to you. Thank You.
[video:https://youtu.be/LbPXyddNBys]
thanks Mimi
it's good to know each other's story!
Morning Tim
Too much sorrow in the world without watching confirmation hearings for people who couldn't even be bothered with the process to get the job. There are times when the world truly sucks.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It is rather disheartening
Tillerson is possibly the worst cabinet nomination or all time. That is saying something considering Session, Earl Butz, Condoleeza Rice, ...
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 -
Earl Butz, I remember. He got tossed after a crude remark
I that believe mirrored his name re: African Americans
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Live onstage at Herman's Hideaway
in Denver, one of my favorite stages to play: we have local heroes the Fabulous Boogienauts doing "Mr. Lackluster".
Apropos. Lackluster is pretty much all I can summon up this morning, after yesterday's outrage overload... But I'll get better by this afternoon- I have a one-off gig tonight that will be nothing but a hoot. Anticipation of that will even make loading out pleasant. Shoulda took up piccolo back when I had a choice. (;-)
Sounds good!
Back in the day, Pittsburgh had an infamous club called The Decade (see Tommy Shannon's shirt on the first SRV album).
Song for the orange one.
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 -
Shit. And now I read *this*:
Whiskey tango foxtrot. Not fair. Just not even fair. I see that they're probably going to be okay, but _damn_...
That is a downer
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 -
Wild weather...
Last Friday it was snowing. Today it's going into the 70's. At least we didn't get hit by the asteroid (or is it oh drat we missed the asteroid?) Sounds like we came close to electing the big meteor!
An asteroid the size of a 10-story building moving at nearly 10 miles per second came within close distance with Earth. Scientists just discovered the asteroid two days before it came closer to us than the moon. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-v9RzD42KE
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Same here
Rocks, big time ^
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 think the Big One is due in less than 100 years
related to incoming objects, larger than ICBMs. Where will be Bruce Willis then? (trivia, he was born in the same town in NJ as my father. They look eerily similar, Delaware River water?
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Twin sons of different mothers?
Your grandad might be Bruce's papa. A long lost uncle there. Test the DNA.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Hmm. No DNA from Daddy but me. Too long ago, even for pathology
slides to have been kept. My grandfather had three wives, his first was mother of my father and aunt.
How do I ask Bruce Willis if he has done the Mormon site (Ancestry) or 23andme? I have received my Ancestry results, 23and me is in process. I want to see if they will hit on my two cousins (done there) as high-hit relatives. A test. They have found another close relative, geographically consistent. HIPPAA.
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Hmm
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 -
Same here
One week ago, we were in the process of getting eight inches of snow. Last weekend the temps dropped into the low teens so the snow did not melt.
Today, I did my morning walk without a jacket and actually got hot. I had an interesting encounter on my walk today too. The Steep Canyon Rangers (award winning blue grass group) are based out of Brevard NC. Three of the members were born and raised here and the other three make Asheville (35 miles up the road) their home. I knew Woody Platt, guitarist and lead singer, had a farm outside of town. But I did not know where Mike Guiggino (mandolin) and Mike Ashworth (percussion) lived. It turns out that Mike Guiggino lives on our regular route in the heart of down town. I saw a tour bus outside a house and Guiggino came out and was loading his stuff into the bus. Like everyone in this small town does, we greeted each other with a "good morning, how are you?" Hubby says that I am now a groupie! LOL
So I guess the Steep Canyon Rangers are heading out on tour again this weekend.
Tim, you have had a lot of funk to deal with. Watching the confirmation hearings certainly cannot help. I hope the sun is shining where you are today, my friend.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Hey GG
What fun to have the SCR in Brevard. Wouldn't it be grand to have them just show up at a watering hole?
Lately, the funk has been threatening to overcome my disposition. Yesterday, I parked Sweetie in front of a movie, Pride and Prejudice, and slept most of the afternoon.
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 -
Actually
We have seen Woody and Mike Guiggino around town occasionally. Woody's father and brother are local architects and I see them often when I am walking. They walk early in the morning before going to work. Woody's wife is Shannon Whitworth who is a singer and a painter. I have seen Woody and Mike at two shows where she had paintings. From what I have heard, Mike is also known to regularly sit in with local jam sessions around town.
I think of you and your Sweetie often. Sending good vibes your way for continued strength to deal with this horrible disease. (((hugs))) to you both.
Edit to add this song, Tell the Ones I Love.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_qshIQtV4]
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Another weirdie: I went to the Pharmacy, the grocery and the
liquor store this AM already. Need to ingest more sodium!!! Last night I tried "lite" NaCl water, no effin way. Still recovering from yesterday's panic attack. Heart attack symptoms are so vague as we must all have them at least once per month. My heart rhythm was fine, still picked electrode stickies off at 1AM. I warned them, they are always deficient there. At least a 12-lead, may more than once. Dx. Low blood Na. Now I had told them the important pharmas I took. They could see my medical history. I was ultrascanned for liver, gall bladder and R kidney. Yep, gallstones. Gallbladder is not inflamed, but liver is, historically. I would have to shop elsewhere for a surgeon. Oh well.
But no one but me picked up, sleepless in Ithaca at about 3 this AM, that I am taking a diuretic. Na-dumping, K-sparing. Experimental stop today. I see my PCP on Thursday 1/18, scheduled. My ankles are not puffy, first sign. Stated after "alcoholic hepatitis" when I came back from fairly complete liver shutdown.
I once shopped for my husband, dying, requiring a very low-Na diet. I had to read microprint on ingredients. Then, I would prepare food and secretly in the kitchen add salt to mine. Confession.
I also heard rumors from my intake nurse (who I did not see again until close to discharge) that my stated and distressing recent weight gain was possibly due to gabapentin I was prescribed last year due to neuropathies starting with a Ti implant. She mentioned gabapentin is very hard on gallbladders. Hmm. She could be an RN who knows less than my daughter. Who was there in hospital on a day off with me. Again, multiple MDs did not mention these associations? Took a PhD in Genetics. I have run the self-baseline (before) control. Now start drug diminishment, faster than slow. No cold turkey except the diuretic.
I hope I sound scientific and rational.
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Good morning, Tim. Thanks for the OT, tunes and
inspiration.
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 --
Thanks EL
Turn this up. It will help you keep moving. If you stop moving, they will catch you and Hemingway.
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
Thanks for the music. I really like Chico Hamilton. I've let go getting worked up about the fake political theater of the complicit duopoly, I mean what else can you do? Like a bad scary movie it's just going follow the script and the Dem. pols will keep trying to act like they are resisting and obstructing the latest doozey of an emperor. This one came naked. The're going to do their dirty deeds regardless of party, the law or the pesky citizens who say Ne. It's gone into the theater of the absurd and very few people can suspend their belief at this horror show. Black Lives Matter signs are still going up in front of white peoples houses here in what's left of Portland's weird funky liberal town.
Keeping Portland weird is my one political goal. Hard to do when the Democratic city and state government is selling the place off to investment bankers from hell, developers, and realtors. Every week we get fake hand written letters from lovely couples who want to buy our house. Cash money no questions asked and as is. The city is trying to move in a totally New Demographic one that like living in canyons of New Portland, prefabricated cheesy sterile 100+ apartments and condo's that make the USSR warehousing architecture of the 60's look aesthetic. Easier to focus my angst and outrage on what's going on in my backyard, Air B and B's and wholesale bulldozing of our green canopy and houses. The city calls any resistance by the residents of our once livable affordable neighborhoods NIMBYism or tough shit it's progress.
As long as the Uni-Piper keeps riding down the main street I do believe we shall overcome.
Funky heh?
My heart goes out to you and Sweetie and your family. The songwriter and the lyricist both from The Brill Building is not at all funky but this tune goes out to you and yours.
Thanks Shaharazade
Yeah, me too, mostly. Presently, Sweetie has BCBS via workplace disability, which is where I get my healthcare coverage. My master plan includes using the exchange to bridge to Medicare, so I feel obliged to keep my eye on healthcare happenings.
Otherwise, I have decided that if the laws of the land do not apply to the political class, I can pick and choose which apply to me. Particularly things like cannabis use and tax exemptions.
Do you every run across Ruby Dee and The Snake Handlers? They are from the northwest territory.
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 should add a PSA in here.
Since it happened to me. IF you are not already dead and want to live, call 911. For me 30 minutes this time. And I ended up sitting on my front porch waiting, because they say 'if you can, unlock entry door and secure any pets, if possible'. She was couch-pillowing, dog door was open; I walked out of there and sat on my floor mat. [think of that].
3 in the Ambulance, eyeing me. The Primary EMT fell on my first step up and dumped stuff, plant pots with soil. I apologized, suspescting that that they approached but no cops, safe neighborhood for them.
I have had poor-to-no sleep in tree days. Jagged edge seems to be blood Na. I think I have a clue, as to fomenter. I takes a self-interested PhD to fix these mysteries of medical stuff. Not enough Wizards And Witches!
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Yeow, rl, hang in there!!!!
Hellos to my cyber funk buddy (and his beloved lady).
I'm late to the party this week. LOL. Old age in dogs as the saying goes. A++++++ grade on all the vids on here today. Keep writing, you guys. Writing has been therapeutic since before modern psychology. Rec'd!!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.