Can’t sleep. Listening to Tabula Rasa with Bela Fleck, Jie-Bing Chen and V.M Bhatt. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is up next.
I so miss Water Lily Acoustics.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.
Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
“But what about the lurkers?”
We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.
Hot air and ill-informed banter
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.
If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.
If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.
Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…
Republicans in disarray!
Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
redshirt
LOL. I’m cranking the Paula Abdul right now. She rocked the late 80’s.
magurakurin
Republicans cave on the debt limit and nary a peep. Republican capitulation passed away quietly in the Blogistan night. So long Trillion Dollar Coin,we hardly knew ya…
But, hey, what is that on the horizon? Much wailing and gnashing of teeth as it appears that the Might Harry is about to strike out.
Origuy
After Nusrat, how about Simon Shaheen on the oud?
mai naem
You know Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has a nephew Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan who trained under his uncle and is a pretty good singer as well. He’s much more commercial than the uncle but still very good.
I just watched Frontline. I shouldn’t have watched it. It just makes me angry. These people will never face justice and they’ve caused an unbelievable amount of pain. I know six people personally who lost their houses who are starting all over again. Lloyd Blankfein, meanwhile, probably paid cash for his multiple homes and will never have to worry about his credit rating or having the money to buy a house or a car or anything.
Elizabelle
Catching second half of rebroadcast of Frontline on DOJ’s timidity in pursuing banksters.
Hope it finds its audience, and major prosecutions ensue. (Wondering, though, about statute of limitations.)
Would like to see the government prevail in as many criminal cases as they can mount.
redshirt
I just completed a complete play of all 9732 songs on my iPod, on shuffle. It was wonderful.
Last song was Mathew Sweet, “I’ve been waiting”
ulee
Blinky Williams singing the Good Times theme song. Did she sing–Hangin and a jivin or did she sing Hanging in a chow line? Either way she kicks ass and obviously cannot be controlled by the producer.
kdaug
Man, haven’t listened to Bella Fleck since the Flecktones. They put on one hell of a show live, too – one of my top 5 concerts of all time.
I should really dig out those old CDs.
BethanyAnne
If you are looking to sleep, you could try Simply Noise. Betty Cracker linked to them the other day. I like their rain generator here: rain.simplynoise.com/ or remove “rain” from the link to go to the main site.
John B
Did you lose the Lilly Water CD or something? Bummer!!
Try Bela’s work with Abigail Washburn, called the Sparrow Quartet. Great stuff.
Then Ben Sollee’s album, learning to bend.
Then venture in to the Punch Brothers if you dare!!
All great music.
schrodinger's cat
@mai naem:
I like this one a lot, O re Piya
Urdu is truly the language of love.
schrodinger's cat
@Elizabelle: I think the problem is, much of what the banksters did was perfectly legal.
burnspbesq
A lot of the Water Lily titles are available as high-resolution downloads from HDTracks.com. They sound ridiculously good.
dollared
@schrodinger’s cat: No, that’s simply not true. Securities fraud is hard to prove, but in almost any transaction if you have an intent to deceive you can make a case.
The proof is actually quite easy to find – people making contrary bets, people hiding data that buyers should have had.
And the MERS thing if flat fucking incredible. Every single goddamn mortgage transferred via MERS is invalid. That’s the law.
gerry
Try Tabula Rasa by Arvo Paart. You’ll never be the same.