Our new foster papillon “Gloria” got turfed from her last home because she made the dog-logical mistake of attacking their tiny, elderly Queen Bee girl dog. In the three-days-and-counting she’s been here with us, Gloria has given our elderly, imperious (and much larger, tho still smaller than Gloria) Princess Buta-Hime-Sama a very wide berth, even while scrumming cautiously with our two boy dogs. This is good news for readers of the Media Village Courtiers, because it proves that a born lapdog can learn from its mistakes, given sufficient impetus.
On the other hand, Gloria doesn’t drink out of the toilet bowl, even though she’s physically capable of doing so (and let me state for the record that when I fell in love with papillons, I never expected to meet one tall enough to achieve this). So it’s possible that she’s just got more naturally discerning tastes than Dean Broder, Dick Cohen, or David Brooks…
gnomedad
Even if I had no interest in dogs, that’d have been worth reading for the punch line.
demimondian
I don’t see how her lack of preference for eau de toilette means she wouldn’t eat Dean Broder or the like…
JK
In what fricking universe is it more offensive for David Shuster to say that Bill and Hillary Clinton were pimping out Chelsea Clinton than for Pat Buchanan to write that Hitler was not seeking world dominance?
On an unrelated note, Tom Ridge is a useless, clueless coward.
madmommy
A papillion that can drink from the toilet?? Are you sure there’s not something else lurking in the gene pool?
That particular doggie habit is a huge peeve of mine, and my lab is quite large enough to partake if the opprotunity arises. It is a constant battle between me and the rest of the household (all male!!) to get them to put the damn lid down when they are finished using the facilities.
arguingwithsignposts
That is good, because reliving the events at the past owner’s house would do irreparable damage to the bi-puppisanship that is currently being exhibited.
Just walk on by…
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: That was laugh-out-loud funny.
Pictures! I want pictures! I am all about teh kittehs and teh goggies tonight!
xyzzy
Jesus, Anne Laurie, I fucking hate your posts. It’s like you intentionally try to make the subject obscure. Put some links and context in – I have no clue what you’re talking about! Not everyone reads Balloonjuice every day.
Fulcanelli
@xyzzy: It’s encrypted, fool, to annoy and piss-off the wingers and drive-by trolls. Pretty effective, eh?
asiangrrlMN
@xyzzy: Wow. That’s a lot of anger for such a light-hearted post. Breathe, man! It’ll make you feel better.
cross-posting:
@freelancer: Aw, I missed your post last night! That’s sucky. I listened to the links tonight, instead. I really like Faithless’s Killer’s Lullaby, and I ADORE Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Moya. Thank you for the hugs and the well-wishes. I truly appreciate both.
JK, glad you saw my gazillion posts. I like the Croce song, too, so I guess I forgive you the Bachmann nightmare.
asiangrrlMN
@Fulcanelli: Damn it, your answer was so much better than mine!
Fulcanelli
@asiangrrlMN: Hey grrly, still looking for depresso muzak?
How ’bout Metallica’s “One”.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Glad you liked the Jim Croce song. Unfortunately, Croce died in a plane crash the same year that I Got a Name was released.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Now that’s depressing. So much talented wasted. I must listen to Father and Son again.
wasabi gasp
I wish a man shot me today, just so I could watch him see me die.
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: I know, right? And in this case, not through his own damn stupidity.
I feel this way about Joe Strummer, of blessed memory, too….
bedtimeforbonzo
Anne: I am glad Gloria is getting a second chance.
The whole thing is painful for me to post, especially being tired. But one of my favorite dogs ever, CoCo, a young beauty of a Golden Retriever mix who was on the smaller side, attacked our now-13-year-old Beagle, Hamilton, last June, 2008.
Getting a call from my hysterical at work around 3 p.m., I rushed home from work and could not imagine what I was seeing even though CoCo had nipped at Hamilton from time to time in the four years they lived together — Hammels suffered 18 separate puncture wounds and was given a 50-50 shot at surviving after a $4,000 surgery. (The old fucker is still going strong, amazingly, and he and I have really bonded; he had always been my boy’s favorite.)
CoCo had to be put down, my last memory of her in the SPCA truck, bloodied and dazed and hopeless.
I barely had a moment to whisper how much she meant to me as I hurried off wtih Hamilton to the ER vet.
And as I start to cry like a goddamn baby, I can’t tell you how much I miss that goddamn dog and don’t go a day without thinking about her or blaming myself for that fucked-up day in June.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
Fortunately, like the legion of other great musicians who left us far too soon, Croce’s music remains available for future generations to discover.
Listening to I Got a Name and Father and Son takes me back to a much better time in my life.
ellaesther
@bedtimeforbonzo: Oh honey. That is just heartbreaking…. I can only offer this: When our younger dog started really going after our older dog, we discovered that she had kidney disease — she was literally not right in the head. I have a feeling something like this must have been true for CoCo, too.
Comrade Darkness
@xyzzy: Dude, if I can work out the topic, anyone can. I am the master of misunderstanding printed stuff. Anne Laurie’s posts are of the mythical female genre of communication. Her posts are designed to make one feel as if they are privy to an ongoing conversation, and therefore more intimate with the speaker then they really are. Well, for those willing to dive into the details. No wasted words here, which is in interesting contrast to the casual style. Skimming will leave you lost.
Something Fabulous
I am so heartbroken today, speaking of dog fosters. I volunteer at an animal rescue, and we thought we had adopted this sweet (Lily-sized!) dog and her last puppy *together* to this great home. So exciting! Come to find out– I am out of town for work and just heard– he returned them today, three days after bringing them home, it seems because the puppy was “too much work.” After singing their praises and sending success story pictures in multiple emails, just yesterday.
Bless you for fostering, Anne Laurie.
JK
@ellaesther:
I’ll second that regarding Joe Strummer.
“Not through his own stupidity” – On this score, Otis Redding, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Duane Allman also come to mind
asiangrrlMN
@bedtimeforbonzo: I’m really sorry for your loss. It’s so so hard to let them go like that. My condolences to you. Please, let go of the blame you harbor towards yourself. Be gentle.
@ellaesther: Aw, now I have to listen to some Clash.
JK, I am a tad CDO (Compulsive Disorder Obsessive, alphabetical the way it should be) so I have been listening to Father and Son over and over and over again. One more time before I switch to the Clash.
SenyorDave
I guess we should be thankful that Pat Buchanan is so successful that he can peddle his admiration of all things Nazi Germany in a somewhat benign, albeit astonishingly obnoxious venue.
In another reality he would be leading some neo-Nazi group.
A lot of people forget his younger days, when he was a relatively transparent anti-semite.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s concert I’d love to attend. Cat Stevens on the same bill with The Clash.
I think the Guns of Brixton goes well with Father and Son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg
Brian J
About Obama’s speech at the Joint Session of Congress next week:
Allow me to engage in a little speculation.
We’ve all had complaints about his alleged mishandling of the health care reform debate; we’ve heard even more from others. To me at least, the strongest similarity is that he hasn’t made any of the elements standing in the way of reform enemies. Whether people assign this quality to his desire to have bipartisan cover or to something like his need to cut deals with organizations like drug companies, he hasn’t given the public anything to rally against. Nobody is united, so he is therefore stuck in the mud.
I think he’s going to try to make some enemies out of the Republicans by, once again, giving them just enough rope to hang themselves with. Whether they simply sit their in silence as the other side cheers on as he mentions how insurers won’t be able to discriminate against those with preexisting conditions or become completely unhinged and start screaming about death panels, they will embarrass themselves. Obama will make sure of that.
Hopefully, as the momentum starts to shift back in our direction, those sitting on the fence (the Blue Dogs and the few moderate Republicans left) will decide whether they want to face electoral extinction or make reform happen.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Wow. That’s a strangely-intriguing song. I must listen to it again.
By the way, I am blogging right now, and I’m taking your name in vain. Don’t worry–it’s not too incriminating. I am just giving you shit for making me dream of MB. I also give you kudos for the CS song, so it’s all good.
JK
@SenyorDave:
Why were MSNBC execs all bent of shape when David Shuster said the Clintons were pimping out Chelsea but they could care less when Pat Buchanan writes that we should cut Adolf Hitler some slack.
As someone wrote on the blog Tapped, Buchanan thinks Sonia Sotomayor is a racist and Hitler was just misunderstood
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=09&year=2009&base_name=pat_buchanan_and_the_benefit_o
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
The Guns of Brixton was used to good effect in an episode of Rescue Me this past season. It’s one of the few Clash songs where Joe Strummer doesn’t sing lead vocal.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
Hey, girl. Thought about sending you this song last night: “Four and Twenty,” Stephen Stills. Kind of a mediocre video, but it gets the vibe of the song across.
Steeplejack
@asiangrrlMN:
Or this one: “Mad World,” Gary Jules.
My problem is that some of these songs are sort of anti-depressing for me, because they sort of encapsulate the depression and transmute it into something that is oddly inspiring, if only because of the feeling that someone else has experienced something similar to what I am going through at the time.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: Very nice, Steeplejack, I appreciate the widening of my musical tastes. Don’t worry about the video–I mostly just listen, anyway. That wasn’t depressing so much as soothing, so it’s good for my nerves tonight.
Kristine
@ellaesther: I agree. A friend who went through much the same thing as you did learned that the attacking dog had a brain tumor.
asiangrrlMN
@Steeplejack: My previous comment was to your first link. I am not a big fan of the second song, but I dig the animated figures.
JK
@Steeplejack:
Did you get a chance to check out those links about Miles Davis’ tv appearance? It was great to see WNET and WLIW air the entire program during their recent pledge drives.
Anne Laurie
@bedtimeforbonzo: Oh, that’s heartbreaking. Not that it helps any, but the only two cases I’ve known personally where one dog actually killed a ‘packmate’ were both larger young females attacking stubborn elderly males — you made the only possible choice, hard as it was for all parties. Unlike humans, normal dogs have that chivalrous instinct where the girls can beat up on the boys but not the other way around, which wouldn’t matter in a situation where us hairless monkeys hadn’t encouraged our canine housemates’ genetic plasticity. I’m glad that Hamilton survived the encounter, and that Coco had four good years…
We never intended to foster, because most of the Papillons needing temporary homes here in the Northeast are old and small. Our dogs are approximately twice the size of the average show-ring standard model, even though Princess Buta-Hime-Sama comes from a long line of champions born to a top-ranked breeder who prefers big ‘typy’ specimens, and the two boys are just reversion-to-the-mean pet-shop guys (Zevon from breed rescue, Sydney from Petfinders). It wouldn’t be fair to bring a little old dog home to deal with our guys. But the woman who’d been fostering Gloria thought the dog had just figured, incorrectly, that her “job” in her new home was to assume the alpha-btch role by beating up the existing household Queen of Quite A Lot — after that first, fortunately non-serious attack, she hadn’t tried again, but of course they couldn’t risk a repeat. And so far, cross fingers, Gloria’s been quite circumspect with our three, because it’s clear (in dog terms) that they have things well in paw and don’t need a new alpha. She really is a very nice dog, scary smart & fast, and what she needs is an active home where she can do something like agility trials, or at least supervise a busier household than ours…
Wile E. Quixote
OK, what does it say about my personality that I’m a complete and total sucker for movies like The Sting or TV shows like Burn Notice, The A-Team, Hu$tle and Leverage?
Wile E. Quixote
Oh, add to that list The Italian Job. You know, the “outlaws ripping off bad guys” genre. Did I miss any? I’m sure I did.
Steeplejack
@JK:
I did finally get a chance to go through the links, and they were eye-opening. Obviously, I was most interested in the actual video clips, because, as I have said before, I have this mental block that there aren’t clips of pre-rock artists available, so I never think to look for them on line. The background information was less revelatory, because I knew a lot of that from other sources.
Since I was talking about Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim, here’s a good composition from him (no video).
Which sort of reminds me of Pharoah Sanders’s “Astral Traveling.”
moe99
I’ve been watching The Dog Whisperer series and I think he has some helpful things to say about how to keep peace with a pack at home.
As the owner of 3 dogs, I have been a little too lax with them around the house and sort of never figured out that they were dogs, not humans and if I didn’t take the alpha position, one of them would and could. I asked my sibling, the veterinarian on the east coast about Cesar Millan and she likes what he has to say about living with dogs. She has several of her own at her house as well.
burnspbesq
@asiangrrlMN:
If you’re still looking for depressing songs, I remembered another one for you: “In the Shape of a Heart,” by Jackson Browne. I happen to think it’s one of the best things he ever did, but man oh man, it is one sad song.
Steeplejack
@moe99:
I’m more of a Monks of New Skete guy myself. The Dog Whisperer can get needlessly harsh, I think. I recommend checking out the Monks’ How to Be Your Dog’s Best Friend or The Art of Raising a Puppy, at least for a useful counterpoint.
Linkmeister
@burnspbesq: 1986 YouTube video of the song.
I played the hell out of the first five albums JB put out. I’ve been catching up to the others recently.
JK
@Steeplejack:
There aren’t NEARLY ENOUGH clips of pre-rock artists available. I wish there many more available.
Charlie Parker was one of the greatest jazz musicians and he only made one tv appearance in his career.
I wish there was a clip of Oliver Nelson performing Stolen Moments. I’d take that in a heartbeat over the 30 atrocious and breathtakingly lame cover versions currently posted on YouTube.
Thanks for the Dollar Brand and Pharoah Sanders links.
A long time ago, I read somewhere that Soupy Sales, the children’s show host, had many jazz musicians perform on air. I don’t remember the details of the story – whether they performed on his kids’ program or whether it was another show Sales hosted. Unfortunately, I haven’t found those performances.
Many years ago, the The Paley Center for Media in NY formerly called Museum of Television and Radio hosted a week long program featuring jazz on television from the 1950’s and 1960’s. There are certainly a number of jazz performances out there. Regretfully, they haven’t been made available on YouTube or comparable sites.
Steeplejack
@JK:
Duane Allman? Might argue with you there. Motorcycle accident.
I have visited the Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon and seen the graves of Duane Allman, Berry Oakley and Elizabeth Jones Reed (“loving wife of Briggs H. Napier”), the inspiration for Gregg Allman’s “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.” My all-time favorite Allman Brothers song.
BethanyAnne
Oh, hey, looks like I’m around at the same time as asiangrrlMN for once. Did you ever get that Golden Palominos album? What did you think?
Steeplejack
@JK:
I wish there was a clip of Oliver Nelson performing “Stolen Moments.”
Amen to that. My all-time favorite jazz song, as I have stated before. I’d also like to see a clip of Ahmad Jamal doing it, which may be my favorite version, depending on the day of the week and the ambient humidity.
JK
@Steeplejack:
When I read ellaesther’s post “not thru his own stupidity”, I was thinking of rock musicians who died from drug abuse. Was Duane Allman stoned or drunk when he was riding his motorcycle? I honestly don’t know. I love In Memory of ELizabeth, but my favorite Allman Brothers song is Stormy Monday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s
Steeplejack
@JK:
My reply to you fell into moderation. Let me see if I can retrieve it without the offending language.
I wish there was a clip of Oliver Nelson performing “Stolen Moments.”
“Amen to that. My all-time favorite jazz song, as I have stated before. I’d also like to see a clip of Ahmad Jamal doing it, which may be my favorite version, depending on the day of the week and the ambiént humidity.”
Hope this works.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Oh, c’mon. Ambién(t)? Really? Grumble grumble grumble.
Linkmeister
@JK: Don’t forget Terry Kath of Chicago, who thought the gun he was handling was unloaded.
Steeplejack
@JK:
I know that Soupy Sales had jazz artists on his show, but that was a little bit before my time. (Plus, I think, he was mainly, or only, in the New York market.) Maybe clips will surface someday.
burnspbesq
@JK:
I assume you are familiar with the “Jazz Icons” DVD series.
Series 4 is due out next month. Includes a Jimmy Smith disc, which I can’t wait for, Art Farmer with Jim Hall, and more Art Blakey (this time from the 60s, with Freddie Hubbard).
burnspbesq
@Linkmeister:
My senior year in college, I had the late-night shift on Mondays on the campus radio station. I had to announce both Terry Kath’s death and Lynyrd Skynrd’s plane going down.
JK
@burnspbesq:
Not familiar with it, but I’m very glad you mentioned it.
@Linkmeister:
I’ve heard conflicting accounts about Terry Kath’s death. I’ve heard that he was feeling suicidal. Whatever the circumstances, his death was definitely a great loss. I’ve read that Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of Terry Kath. I regret Chicago’s change in musical direction, but I love their early work.
I love Questions 67 & 68 to death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3NMszrfjio
@Steeplejack:
Glad to hear there’s another fan of Stolen Moments.
Steeplejack
@JK:
My “Stormy Monday” story:
Back in the ’70s I was in New Orleans with some friends, and we ended up at Clarence “Frogman” Henry’s bar one night. The band was cooking. Then they went on a break, and my friend’s wife wanted to ask them to play “Stormy Monday.” She worked up her nerve and went over to one of the guys, and his response was: “Do you want it bluesy or do you want it jazzy?” Ooh, bluesy, please.
We sat there drinking and talking for a while, and then we noticed that the band was trickling back one by one. The bass player was kind of noodling around, then the drummer joined him, then the guy on the piano started dinking around. Then the singularity was achieved and we realized, ZOMG, it’s “Stormy Monday”! Bluesy! Rapture. You can’t buy memories like that.
All that said, my favorite jazzy version is by Lou Rawls on his great, great album of the same name.
Here’s a pretty good live version with Stanley Turrentine on sax.
Linkmeister
@burnspbesq: Ouch. I remember hearing about Croce’s plane going down on AFRTS radio in Japan, and then there was Cosell announcing John Lennon’s murder on MNF.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
[. . .] more Art Blakey (this time from the ’60s, with Freddie Hubbard).
[Salivating]
Steeplejack
@Linkmeister:
Terry Kath was a great guitarist. It still kills me even now when I (rarely) hear “Make Me Smile” and they drop his killer solo in the radio edit.
Memo to self: must pick up Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago.
JK
@Linkmeister: @burnspbesq:
Speaking of Terry Kath, what an amazing year 1969 was for great album releases. Off the top of my head there were
Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago
Tommy – The Who
Abbey Road – The Beatles
Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
Nashville Skyline – Bob Dylan
Hot Rats – Frank Zappa
Blind Faith – Blind Faith
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: If you want a shortcut, get Chicago IX. It was essentially the Greatest Hits package up till that point.
Steeplejack
@JK:
I didn’t take “not through his own stupidity” to mean only drug abuse. Motorcycles are a high-risk hobby.
Linkmeister
@JK: Good lord. Look at Wikipedia’s list of albums released that year. In addition to the ones you cite, Allman Brothers, CSN, Led Zep and Led Zep II, To Our Children’s Children’s Children . . .
BethanyAnne
@Steeplejack: It’s true. Lanesplitting is why I don’t worry about cholesterol.
Steeplejack
@Linkmeister:
Okay, but I need to make sure it has the long versions of “Make Me Smile” and “25 or 6 to 4” so I get the guitar solos.
Also, there are some sentimental favorites on the first two albums that were never big hits, e.g., “I’m a Man” and “South California Purples.”
JK
@Steeplejack:
Wow. That’s a great story. My favorite concert album is Live at Leeds by The Who. My 2nd favorite concert album is At the Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band.
@Linkmeister:
Amazing, how many rock musicians died tragically young whether from drugs or vehicle accidents. I remember hearing of John Lennon’s death on radio. It was Monday night, I was just about to go to bed and I’d just turned on the radio to listen long enough till the announcer gave the score in the Dolphins Patriots game and then I heard a reporter say that John Lennon had been rushed to the hospital.
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: Ah, well, no. On that album “Smile” is 3:02, “25 or 6 to 4” is 4:53.
I’ve got the 4-disk “Live at Carnegie Hall” set on vinyl. Interestingly, the band apparently preferred the live recording done in Japan a few months earlier to the Carnegie Hall one, but Columbia insisted on releasing the latter.
Linkmeister
@JK: I imagine there were a bunch of early jazz deaths too, but it was a smaller media world in the 30s and 40s.
For example: Glenn Miller in the war, Bunny Berigan of cirrhosis in 1942, Bix Beiderbecke at 28 in 1931.
JK
@Steeplejack:
Your point is well taken regarding motorcycle riding.
@Linkmeister:
You’re right of course. I was simply citing 1969 album releases from my so so memory.
We just passed the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and I’ve often thought of how many incredible bands and solo artists didn’t perform at the festival. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Woodstock soundtrack album and film but one can only imagine what amazing performances would have resulted from a Woodstock which included a line-up of just some of the following artists
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Chicago, The Velvet Underground, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Zappa, The Beach Boys, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, James Taylor, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, John Mayall, Leon Russell, Richard and Linda Thompson, Delaney and Bonnie, Fleetwood Mac, The Rascals, Cat Stevens, The Stooges, The Nazz, The Animals, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Byrds, Love, Spirit, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Caravan, Soft Machine, Tower of Power, Sons of Champlin, The Pretty Things, T Rex, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Blue Cheer, Procol Harum, and Fairport Convention.
burnspbesq
@JK:
You forgot “In a Silent Way” and “The Gilded Palace of Sin.”
Linkmeister
@JK: Woodstock would have taken two weeks, not three days. ;)
JK
@Linkmeister:
You’re right. I’d forgotten that alot of great jazz musicians died before their time as well. I’ve never listened to Chicago’s live in Japan album, but I’ve read several reviews of it claiming it was better than the Carnegie Hall concert album.
burnspbesq
@Linkmeister:
Coltrane died at 40, Eric Dolphy at 36, Scott LaFaro at 25, Booker Little at 23.
JK
@burnspbesq:
My memory isn’t as good as it should be.
@Linkmeister:
I did write a “lineup of just some of” not a “lineup of all of the following”.
The idea of just Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, Chicago, King Crimson, the Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa performing at a festival strikes me as pretty incredible.
Wile E. Quixote
I love Leverage, so far it’s been relentlessly anti-corporate. I’m surprised that Reason Magazine isn’t writing a screed about how this show would make Baby Ayn Rand Jesus cry.
Linkmeister
@JK: Well, yeah, but as long as we’re fantasizing. . .
I’d like to have seen a version of Lollapalooza with Joni, Laura Nyro, Ronstadt, Janis Joplin, Aretha and Diana Ross.
Steeplejack
@JK:
That was a pretty goddamn good year. I would add:
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Santana
Led Zeppelin
The Allman Brothers Band
The Velvet Underground
The Band
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
John Mayall, The Turning Point
The Byrds, Ballad of Easy Rider
Sly and the Family Stone, Stand!
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Trout Mask Replica
MC5, Kick Out the Jams
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis
Laura Nyro, New York Tendaberry
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: “Make Me Smile” from 1970, with solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzViV6PUOSM
JK
@Linkmeister: @Steeplejack:
I confess to a bias in favor of music from the 1960’s and early 1970’s over the 1980’s, the 1990’s and the current decade.
My larger point for those who prefer the more recent decades was that the 1960’s had enough talent to stage at least 2 other Woodstock festivals which would have very likely produced as many great performances as the original Woodstock festival.
Linkmeister
@JK: It’s not surprising that I feel that way; those were prime music-listening years for me. Hell, I once missed a plane in LA around then because I was too busy reading Rolling Stone at the gate.
Fortunately, back then you could walk twenty feet, exchange your ticket, and get on the next Delta flight if you missed your United one.
JK
@Linkmeister:
“As long as we’re fantasizing”
I dreamt this took place and that I witnessed it.
The Beatles close a 1980 reunion concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden with the Abbey Road medley culminating in an epic 13 minute version of The End featuring guest solos from Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Keith Richards.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
I left it off my list because it’s sort of a guilty pleasure, but, damn it, Gordon Lightfoot’s Sunday Concert came out in 1969 and is my third favorite live album of all time (after the Allman Brothers’ Live at Filmore East and John Mayall’s The Turning Point).
Confession cleanses the soul.
P.S. I just realized that the Woodstock soundtrack has to count as a live album, and that’s right up there. Hmm . . . In fact, earlier today I was trying to find a Richie Havens greatest-hits album that contains “Freedom” from Woodstock. No luck. Guess I’ll have to rip and burn my own.
Linkmeister
@JK: I like it. But why not Central Park? MSG might have been a little small for a Beatles reunion. ;)
Linkmeister
@Steeplejack: Oh, hey, add Mitchell’s “Miles of Aisles” and Dylan and the Band’s “Before the Flood” to “Live at Leeds,” Neil Diamond’s “Hot August Nights” at the Greek in LA, Loggins and Messina’s “On Stage” and Streisand’s “Live at the Forum” (1968) and I could be quite happy for a few hours.
Steeplejack
@Linkmeister:
Fortunately, back then you could walk twenty feet, exchange your ticket, and get on the next Delta flight if you missed your United one.
Yeah, and that was without the body-cavity search and the confiscation of your shampoo.
Steeplejack
@Linkmeister:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
God, whenever I hear that song on the radio or XM or wherever, at about 3:30 (on the clip you linked) I keep expecting it to go into the awesome guitar solo–conditioning from my formative years–and when they splice to the shorter ending it just kills me.
Sweet release . . .
JK
@Linkmeister:
@Steeplejack:
Good point about Central Park. I saw Paul Simon perform solo at Central Park. It was a very good concert, but I would have preferred to be at the Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park. Have you heard that McCartney was visiting Lennon at the Dakota House when Lorne Michaels made his offer on SNL for a Beatles reunion? I read they briefly considered showing up at the last minute but then decided against it.
Did either of you watch Woodstock Now and Then which aired on both the History Channel and VH1? I thought they did a truly outstanding job with this documentary.
Steeplejack
@BethanyAnne:
LOL.
JK
@Linkmeister:
@Steeplejack:
Other live albums I like: 1969 and Live at Max’s Kansas City -Velvet Underground, On the Road – Traffic, Europe ’72, Live Dead, Skull and Roses – Grateful Dead, Live Rust – Neil Young, Rock and Roll Animal – Lou Reed
freelancer
@Wile E. Quixote:
I went Galt to get my friend Joe up on the first couple eps of the 2nd season so far. It’s a very entertaining show.
@xyzzy:
Figuring it out is part of the fun. I mean what’s the point of an inside joke if the outsiders aren’t the least perplexed?
@asiangrrlMN:
Glad you’re feeling a little better, I hope. This might uplift you a tad. It combines 3 of my favorite things: movies, Mogwai (the Scottish Post-Rock band), and Carl Sagan’s prose.
Now that they are mentally linked in my mind, I can’t dissociate the song or the words from each other and without fail, they give me goosebumps.
Steeplejack
@JK:
“As long as we’re fantasizing” . . .
Not exactly the same as yours, but my religious experience was the all-star rendition of “My Back Pages” at Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden. You’ve got (in order):
Roger McGuinn
Tom Petty
Neil Young
Eric Clapton (guitar solo)
Eric Clapton (vocal)
Dylan (!)
George Harrison
Neil Young (guitar solo)
The money part for me is Neil Young’s guitar solo. Hmm, Eric Clapton, the guitar god of the century, has already done a great solo, so how do you follow that? Young’s plangent, against-the-grain answer is the perfect complement.
JK
@Steeplejack:
That was brilliant. I never tire of watching this all-star performance.
bellatrys
I was going to say “OT” but you can’t *be* OT on an open thread, right?
Anyways, here’s a reminder of why Megan McArdle is not just a fool and a fop among the modern Versailles set, but also a monster (as, of course, were so many of the courtiers of the ancien regime) – via Digby, via Old Corrente, it is shown that her claim to understand what refugees in camps go through by being forced to wait in line and undergo a credit check to get her new iPhone was not some sort of aberration, but just a tip-o’-the-berg glimpse of the sociopathy of Ms. Galt…
NobodySpecial
Just thought I’d share this, I’m sure it’s not new to any of the Neil fans out there.
Down By The River
JK
@bellatrys:
Megan McArdle is a virulent, malignant media carcinogen.
@NobodySpecial:
Thanks very much. I love Down by the River. Neil Young is one of the all-time greats.
SGEW
Re McArdle and Libertarianism:
One of the anonymous bloggers at The Economist‘s Democracy in America took on McArdle and libertarianism in general yesterday:
A nice, succinct, and hard to rebut post.
bellatrys
@JK:
Indeed – particularly since the nasty thing about cancers and their instigators is that – they spread. (The most bizarre thing about McAddled to me is not her impermeability to facts, but that, as I recall, she boasts of her fidelity to Christ too, in the form of vainglory over her Lenten fasts…how does her head not explode?)
@SGEW:
Thanks for that link – of course, tis all but a long way of saying what I put together quite a few years past, now:
“The Poor Deserve to Die”, with citation.
bellatrys
I mean, even St. Thomas Aquinas believed that the poor had a right to basic needs, and that “stealing” food when you’re starving isn’t theft at all. And he was hardly a proto-liberal poster boy. (Some of the Early Church writers were downright soshalist, though.)
Morbo
@Fulcanelli: I’ve always found “Fade to Black” more depressing myself. The Apocalyptica version even moreso so long as you know the lyrics ahead of time.
SGEW
@bellatrys: I’m pretty sure that libertarians, generally speaking, don’t subscribe to Aristotelian-Thomstic notions of the “common good,” especially Aquinas’ line: “[A]ll things are common property in cases of necessity.” (ST II-II, Q. 7)
bellatrys
@SGEW:
Yeah, but that conservatarian Catholic academic circle generally adulates “Thomas” (as they familiarly call him.)
I knew one World Bank functionary and one-time Keyes staffer who used to carry a condensed Summa around with her to whip out at parties.
That’s not a joke.
SGEW
@bellatrys:
Wow. And I thought that I was pretentious.
bellatrys
@SGEW:
Well, you still could be – it’s not an exclusive club ;-)
(‘Twas considered a tad extreme, even among that crowd, fwiw. –Ooh, I wonder if anyone has a “Searchable Summa” iPhone app yet? Niche market!)
asiangrrlMN
@burnspbesq: Ya got me tearing up here. Poignant.
@BethanyAnne: Got it! Really enjoyed it. Thank you for the recommendation.
The Metallica songs are revelations to me. Morbo, Fade to Black, the Apocalyptica version has me crying, and I don’t even know the lyrics.
freelancer, that actually made me more depressed–dunno why.
bedtimeforbonzo
I’d like to thank everyone for the kind and comforting words aoubt CoCo, who I always called “my pretty girl.”
I had always wanted a Golden Retriever, and I’m not sure what she was mixed with, but she was as pretty as any Golden I have ever seen. In fact, the Ducks Unlimited calendar I have here at work features her twin on the October page (I always keep one calendar a month ahead) and it can be painful to look at: But the last thing I want to do is deny I enjoyed this dog for five years (Hamilton came a year later).
That’s one reason I blame myself for what happened. We had two dogs already, CoCo and Bowser, a Lab/Border Collie mix who was just a great doofus and who was totally submissive from the day I brought his little sister home. Then I found Hamilton, the only pure bred I have ever had, wandering a highway and could not resist keeping him.
Moe99 mentioned having three dogs. I found it to be a real challenge.
Strange thing is, CoCo would often endlessly lick the insides of Hamilton’s ears — the very dog she almost killed — and put him into a trance. She’d playfully coax Hamilton into chasing her around the backyard (Bowser never had time for this). But I also saw her go off on him when he’d howl for the various reasons Beagles howl (“bay” is the correct term) after getting on her last nerve.
I had always been there to intercede, which is why I wish I had been there that day.
bedtimeforbonzo
Did anyone else see the ABC Prime Time special the other night on Bear Haven in Alaska?
It chronicled Charlie Vandergraw, a 70-year-old retired science teacher who spent more than 20 years living with grizzly bears the way we live with dogs.
The documentary showed the grizzlies eating out of Charlie’s hand — and his mouth. He rolled around the ground with them, petted them, scolded them. The footage — which has been shown in a separate doc on Animal Planet — was amazing stuff.
Strangely, in Alaska, you can only feed wild bears if you intend to hunt them — one of the laws in which Alaskan officials used to torment Charlie.
Charlie seems more than a little crazy. But there’s no denying that he connects with the bears and they connect with him (and that the Alaskan officials have too much time on their hands).
The whole thing was moving, yet sad.
BethanyAnne
@asiangrrlMN: Great :-) I wish there was a youtube I could link for them. “Metal Eye” or “Belfast”. Closest I’ve been able to find is Nicole Blackman talking about how “Holy” has become an anthem for anorexics.
tripletee
@bedtimeforbonzo:
Haven’t seen the doc you’re talking about, but the Alaska F&W folks are no doubt very keen to avoid a replay of Grizzly Man. Regardless of the rapport this guy has with the bears, he’s a very likely candidate to end up as a human pic-a-nic basket.
bedtimeforbonzo
The show referred to Grizzly Man, tripletee.
Charlie made the point time and time again that he has lived with these bears for over 20 years and who are we or the Alaskan F&W officials to tell him otherwise.
And while he may be crazy — crazy like a fox? — Charlie made it clear he understands the risk involved in what he does.
Watching him disarm a hunter who had his sights on one of the bears with words, and eventually understanding, showed me that Bear Haven has an unlikely purpose — that acting on the impulse to kill what we fear and don’t understand is as inhumane as it is pointless.
OriGuy
Anyone ever heard of Rufus Harley, the Pied Piper of Jazz? This clip isn’t the best quality, but it’s the only one I found that doesn’t have a long narrative intro.
Fulcanelli
If you’re up for a mid-morning chuckle, Ed over at Gin and Tacos does a Scholastic Sun Dance on the wretched soul of McMegan and her recent mind-bending libertard screeds.
Good, he is, that Ed. And usually right on the money, as those sockalist leaning academics are wont to be…
WereBear
@Kristine: Must second the tentative diagnosis: epilepsy in dogs can manifest as sudden fits of fear and panic… afterwards, they are dazed and confused.
It was a horrible experience, but there probably wasn’t anything you could do, bedtimeforbonzo @ 18… Just a few months ago I had to put my 13 year old cat to sleep for uncontrollable seizures. He was hurting himself, in that case.
tripletee
@bedtimeforbonzo:
Again, haven’t seen the show – but I can’t blame F&W officials for wanting to stop this kind of behavior. Bears are wild animals and acclimating them to humans (thus robbing them of their natural wariness) is a bad idea, for both species.
Maybe this guy is a Bear Whisperer and he’ll happily live out his life without getting mauled, but what about the next idiot who decides to go Galt with the wild kingdom?
JK
@Fulcanelli:
Thanks for that link. Megan McArdle is a smug, smarmy brat.