Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bark louder, little dog.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

A consequence of cucumbers

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Republicans in disarray!

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

This fight is for everything.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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Music Thread: Silver Heels & More

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Someone we know as MomSense… raised two sons… who are in a band… that released an album today!

The first song on the album:

I loved this song, and I can’t wait to hear the rest.  The video is stunning, here’s a screen capture of one of my favorite scenes.

Music Thread: Silver Heels & More

Silver Heels playlist on Spotify:

It’s Friday night.  Let’s talk Music!

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  1. 1.

    Mary G

    Congratulations to Silver Heels, MomSense sons, and MomSense herself. You must be kvelling.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Nuthin’ to do with music, I just like the quote and was reminded of it by the post’s title.

    [Jay] Silverheels raised, bred, and raced Standardbred horses in his spare time. Once, when asked about possibly running Tonto’s paint horse Scout in a race, Jay laughed off the idea: “Heck, I can outrun Scout!” Source

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    The Ballad of Bo Curtis is a song about a lobsterman whose boat sank in January (30 plus years ago) leaving him stranded on a buoy.  When they wrote the song they assumed he had died, but they met a woman from one of the islands who knew him and out them in touch.  They spent some time with him and got his blessing on the song.  He is quite a character!

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: I was just listening to that one when I got a work call and had to refresh the page to get the music to stop while i was on the phone.  :-(  I will definitely go back to that one!

    I am not as crazy about the jazzy stuff, but I really liked all the others.  it’s a great eclectic mix of styles.

  12. 12.

    MagdaInBlack

    Music: I have a “Blues for the Weekend “playlist, and right now its Buster Benton ” Blues and Trouble”  ?

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    No covers!  And now that they are all vaxxed and able to be together in their studio every week they have five more songs they perform and quite a few in the pipeline.

  20. 20.

    randal m sexton

    Lovely music!   Looks a little like my beloved San Juan Islands, but a bit colder.

  21. 21.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    I like Patron Saint and Manatee features my then 16 year old on guitar.

    Also, my son brought the guitar gifted by Bella Q, Alternative Fax in to the studio so it’s on all the tracks.  She was a big fan of Townes Van Zandt as are the members of the band and they wanted him to be a part of making new music with them.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: Impressive!  Does the same person write all of the songs?  Do they collaborate on writing?  This music makes me want to move.  As in dance.  But I would also love to be in Maine, so there’s that, too!

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: Nice!  I assume someone is gifting Bella Q with the album?  Unless it’s really all free?  Is that how the kids do it these days when starting out?  Or do they get a cut from Spotify?

    edit: You must be bursting with pride!

  24. 24.

    debbie

    @MomSense:

    Wow, didn’t know about the guitar!

    I was watching the video and thinking this country would be so much better if it was uninhabited.  ??‍♀️

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    This batch was written by Owen but they all brought parts to the songs.  It was tough during COVID because they had to work remotely. The new things they are doing are all written together.  My favorite of the new songs (more soul) was written during a jam session in my dad’s barn in May.  I just kept bringing food and drinks out and they kept playing.  The neighbors were all outside on their porches dancing and having a ball.

  27. 27.

    Rob

    I liked the song on the video. The video is gorgeous.
    (I don’t have a Spotify account so I can only listen to snippets of the other song).​

  31. 31.

    Emma from Miami

    Maxi talent! I am impressed. Now I’m going to go and listen to all the songs.

  33. 33.

    prostratedragon

    Good song and band! I’m in the midst of migrating my operating system, and this was well worth the wrestling needed to get my old bookmarks for music in the right place to add this one to the list. Must check out Bo Curtis later.

  37. 37.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl: I thought you’d like the video as in beautiful water and islands.

    I had some clients who bought a place in the San Juan Islands, Blakeley.  It’s a large private island with access by plane or boat.  It was “interesting” getting a crew, materials and heavy equipment up there and we had to work in December which was actually beautiful weather due to the Olympic rain shadow.  The wife grew up in DC and summered in Maine.  She married a man from Las Vegas so the San Juan’s were the west coast equivalent of Maine.

    Like Maine the area was heavily glaciated with 5,000 feet of ice.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    They had quite a few barn playing days during COVID when I wasn’t there.  Fortunately the neighbors are very cool!  I won’t tell my dad but they were a little sad about my son leaving because they were enjoying all the music on the weekends.
    The barn was ideal during COVID because they could open the large doors on the front and back so it was well ventilated.

  42. 42.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    So thrilled.  First time I saw him he was so teary.  He was stuck in Florida during the pandemic and missed all of us and didn’t know if he’d ever get home again.

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    There are a couple of B-list classics coming up on TCM tonight:

    10:00 p.m. EDT: Night Moves (1975). Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Melanie Griffith. “A Los Angeles private eye finds a runaway girl and murder in the Florida keys.”

    12:00 a.m. EDT: Cutter’s Way (1981). Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn. “An Ivy League beach bum and a one-eyed, one-legged Vietnam veteran flush out a killer oilman.”

  54. 54.

    DC

    I grew up in Maine and haven’t made it back for a while. We have two young girls so traveling anywhere is huge ordeal.  Seeing the video is definitely making me want to get back soon, though.

  55. 55.

    Dan B

    @WaterGirl:  I had many middle class clients early in my career but there were fewer every year. The rich got richer but the middle dropped.

    I hope you get to visit Jackals who live near water.

  57. 57.

    Eljai

    Just logged off work on the west coast and I’m starting my happy hour with this.  So good.  Where can I buy the CD?  Do they still make CDs?  I’ll figure it out.

  60. 60.

    Martin

    Shit, Momsense, you did good! I’ll be giving this a full listen to later.

    Give the Momsons an extra helping of praise from me.

  64. 64.

    Mike in NC

    Upcoming travel plans:

    (1) Internment of neighbor’s ashes in Arlington National Cemetery in early September.

    (2) Trip to see brother’s family in Boston with a side trip to Maine for a couple of days in late September.

  65. 65.

    Dan B

    @Yutsano: Been thinking about that, will have to watch Delta variant.  So far so good.

    Could even do our house and garden.  After we get it weeded…

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    Curious how any of your local COVID PSAs stack up against this local one which runs a lot on the TV here. Hope they have production values a bit more up to date than what looks like approximately 1959 (not to mention people who can, y’know, act).

    ;)

  68. 68.

    burnspbesq

    Watched an extraordinary evening of bluegrass tonight, live-streamed from the Rockygrass festival outside Denver. “A Tribute to Tony Rice” featured Bryan Sutton and Chris Eldridge on guitars and vocals, David Grisman and Sam Bush on mandolins, Bela Fleck on banjo, Jerry Douglas on dobro, Michael Cleveland on fiddle, and Mark Schatz on bass. And they burned the place down.

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    I actually watched the Parade of Nations for the Olympics. I was more emotional than I expected to be, and not just for Team USA. Even the tiny national delegations like Lesotho were still so happy to be there. I do wish I could have found another feed to watch over NBC however. The team rah-rah stuff got old fast.

  72. 72.

    Pete Mack

    You can see much of that scenery on the cheap if you take the Alaska Marine Highway ferry from Bellingham north to Juneau (or Ketchikan–better named Kitchycan.)

  80. 80.

    frosty

    Spent an hour or so tonight working on “Here’s To Us” by Halestorm and while I was looking around Youtube for lessons I found out they’ll be at the York Fair just up the road next weekend. Woohoo!

    (Heavy rock band, female vocals*, grew up about 15 miles from here.)

    * one of my favorite genres, ever since I heard Evanescence almost 20 years ago. Or maybe Heart, Joan Jett, etc etc.

  87. 87.

    Denali

    Loved the video and the music.We’re going to Maine in September and I can’t wait!

  88. 88.

    Miss Bianca

    Well, great. Now I’m so homesick for Maine I can hardly stand it. Nice song, tho!

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