It’s postcards and music time!
All the details on options for writing for Ohio Issue 1 and for Virginia – and images of postcards – are always available in the sidebar. To make it extra easy to find, I have copied it just below the postcard image.
Chime in if you know about others good post-card writing options for OH or VA.
Also, send me a photo of your postcards and I’ll post it in the thread and add it to the link in the sidebar.
(click the image to see a bigger version)
WaterGirl
BlueGuitarist just sent in a postcard.
Alison Rose
Since I am not a postcarder, I’ll leave that question up to those who are. You know I enjoy flinging my eclectic music tastes at y’all.
“Daylight” – Delerium featuring Matthew Sweet
“Broken Machine” – Nothing But Thieves
“Cranes In the Sky” – Solange
“Chances” – KAYTRANADA with Shay Lia
“Barcelona” – George Ezra
brendancalling
List guaranteed to be free of Slayer!
brendancalling
Although I’d gladly do an all-metal playlist…
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Ooh, that is a pretty picture. I like the play on “Virginia is for lovers” too :) Reminds me of an article I wrote at a past job about Danica Roem, a trans woman elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Still proud of that line :P
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: Thanks for the playlist
edit: listening now!
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Nice!
WaterGirl
BlueGuitarist – those are great postcards. Where did you find those?
WaterGirl
@brendancalling:
la-la-la I can’t hear you. :-)
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: Who was the artist I thought I didn’t know that you thought I would know?
I want to listen to that one next.
WaterGirl
Any postcard peeps here tonight?
WaterGirl
Reminder: there’s still $248 left on PatrickG’s Angel Match!
edit: Oh wait, it was the Willburys.
Phaedrusonbass
Hey folks – I released this about a month ago. It’s Brian Eno-esque ambient music, suitable for relaxation and sleep. First in a series. “Somnus Dolcis 01” is the new one.
This is the YouTube link, which don’t cost nuthin’. It’s also available on all other digital platforms if you feel the urge to throw a few shekels my way.
Thanks and enjoy!
https://t.co/b2rZY3OjNv
BlueGuitarist
I’m writing postcards for the 2 candidates in the BJ thermometer:
Michael Feggans and Kimberly Pope Adams.
I got the addresses and an initial script from Postcards4VA
https://postcards4va.com/
They also have addresses for other candidates.
if you get addresses from them, don’t worry about the statement that you are required to include on each card disclosure of who is paying for the postcards – that only applies if you are doing 500 or more of substantially the same card.
But they do ask for the FEC info that would go with a contribution – name, address, employer – so they can report the postcards each person/group sends as an in-kind donation.
WaterGirl
@Phaedrusonbass: Welcome!
NotMax
Fell down an X-related rabbit hole on YouTube after Tuesday’s X-titled musical selections.
Xylophonic Chopsticks medley
Golden age of the Xylophone
Percussive Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns
.
Baud
@NotMax:
Read that as X-rated.
brendancalling
@WaterGirl: traveling wilburies!
WaterGirl
@Baud: That’s just what NotMax calls x-rated. Pretty slim cover, if you ask me! :-)
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: I had no idea they existed as a group. Can you tell us more about that? End of the Line seems to be about Roy Orbison dying?
How many songs did they do? How long did they play together? I had no idea.
(edit: thanks for the Fleetwood Mac song in the playlist!
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
The cards @1 are from Progressive Postcards.
https://progressivepostcards.ourproshop.com/
Sure Lurkalot
I have time to write cards for Virginia elections but am I correct that I have to buy cards from their approved vendors? I print cards from Postcard Patriots…and I’m halfway to making some of my own for the future. I’m happy to buy the stamps, card stock, printer ink and pens for writing…
Subsole
@brendancalling:
As someone who never got into metal, I’d be interested in that. If only to have some idea of the genre.
CarolPW
@brendancalling: Figuring out who all had been in them at various times, and wondering how many of them were still alive, led me to discover that Tom Petty was 9 days younger than me.
BlueGuitarist
@Sure Lurkalot:
You can use whatever cards you like.
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
Postcard peep popping up! :)
I’m continuing to write for the pro-choice ballot issue in OH, via PostcardsToVoters.org – 5 addresses at a time, 3 days in which to write, White-Out dispenser at the ready.
I particularly encourage pro-choice men to be active allies by writing a few GOTV postcards to Ohio in the next few weeks. Email [email protected] to get started.
The great thing (from my point of view) about PtoV is that you can write their minimum of 4 postcards and be done forever if you want… and that is 4 voters more, who’ve been invited to show up at the polls on Election Day.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot:
Not that I’m aware of! Absolutely not true if you want to write for OH with the addresses I’ve got. Maybe someone else knows more than me about Postcards to Voters?
Personally, I don’t think I’d write for a group that MADE me buy postcards from them.
Can anyone else jump in?
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Hello!
Can you help answer Sure Lurkalot’s question re: Postcards to Voters?
Phaedrusonbass
@WaterGirl: Longtime reader, occasional contributor, PayPal monthly.
I suffer from the conviction that I rarely have anything interesting to say ;)
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: I haven’t listened to Tom Waits in forever. Nice.
H.E.Wolf
There are lots of good postcard-making options online.
I’ve had good luck with Vistaprint, which lets you upload an image of your choosing, and which frequently has discounts. https://www.vistaprint.com/marketing-materials/postcards
I prefer a matte surface for the writing side, and I use their “regular” paper stock.
WaterGirl
@Phaedrusonbass: Since I had to manually approve your comment, you must have changed your nym or your email address.
That’s what made me think this was your first comment.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Thr Traveling Wilburys are awesome! Very popular around my sophomore year of college, so around 1988.
https://youtu.be/1o4s1KVJaVA?si=rYvOxztyiO2LA-9j
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
Traveling WIlburys recorded 2 albums, first one titled Volume 1, second titled Volume 3.
The name derives from a comment about fixing a mistake in a recording session: we’ll bury it in the mix.
I think you’ll like Handle with Care
https://youtu.be/1o4s1KVJaVA?si=aR4niUQ-PJGWjgr0
ETA eclare got there first – same song linked
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: Sounds like you are good to go, then, with whatever cards you want!
kalakal
Paul Rogers killing it on a song he first recorded nearly 50 years earlier with Free
Walk in my Shadow
Baud
@BlueGuitarist:
You will never catch them saying “Second” in a Balloon Juice thread.
RevRick
With my essential tremor, postcards are a hilarious no. But I am encouraging my local UCC church to take the challenge of climate change seriously. I got the backing of Consistory (the governing board) to form a Green Team to explore what we might endeavor to do. We recruited the pastor and four others to join, and we held an organizational meeting on the 24th, at which we decided to follow the model created by the national church on Creation Justice. It calls for one quarter to be spent on education, the next on doing personal/church inventories involving all aspects, including investments, the third on making concrete steps, and the fourth devoted to building links to other organizations.
To kick things off, I’m doing factoids in the church bulletin, we have two people lined up to write letters for our newsletter, we will get on the schedule for our adult forum, and our pastor will preach a sermon series in January.
I invite this community to hold us accountable by asking about progress.
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
@25 I replied to Sure Lurkalot that they can use whatever cards they like
BlueGuitarist
@Baud:
haha!
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: The Traveling Wilburys were a “super-group” started I think in 1988 and lasted a few years. Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne. Yes, I do think End of the Line was for Orbison. They put out two studio albums, both of which are great!
WaterGirl
@Phaedrusonbass: That never stops the rest of us!
We could do an Artists in Our Midst post featuring your music, if you like. That would be a good way to jump in. :-)
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Do they always play in a circle? So everybody’s equal, and nobody’s the star?
edit: Forgot to say that was a fun song.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: I had no idea!
H.E.Wolf
PostcardsToVoters.org is happy for volunteers to use their own postcards. Here is their guideline:
“Use cards that are inclusive. If you buy, print, or make postcards, the images/graphics/photos and wording/quotes/slogans should be issue-neutral/benign/safe and not depict any holiday.”
The design I used first was a 1907 image of “America” (a woman draped in an American flag with her pet eagle at her side). https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51k05RF4YmL._AC_.jpg
When I got the finished postcards, I realized she was slightly too un-draped, so I got a gold marker and wrote “VOTE” across her bosom. Potential problem solved. :-)
Subsequently, I’ve been using an image of women from WWII, with permission from the University of Hawaii Archives, where the photo resides.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Thank you! I saw that after I wrote my comment.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Funny, I saw the reply from BlueGuitarist, but not yours! You both linked the same song, which I did like.
BlueGuitarist
@eclare:
gmta
Another great Wilbury tune: “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” – Dylan writing a Springsteen song.
https://youtu.be/PabG3nJRu3k?si=wSprvb3xdPQIXlh_
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Vote for boobs? :-)
Alison Rose
Speaking of Bob and Tom and George and others, I have always loved this performance of My Back Pages at the 30th anniversary concert for Dylan
(I wish Clapton’s racist ass weren’t there, but…)
WaterGirl
@RevRick: I think you may have mentioned that the other day, and I was impressed.
Do I recall that you have Covid, or are maybe just getting over it? How are you doing?
Phaedrusonbass
@WaterGirl: Gotcha. I put my “writing” mail address. Sorry for the confusion.
Phaedrusonbass
@WaterGirl: Perhaps at the end of the year. I should have another Somnus record out, plus a new record from my progressive rock project, called Audiot Savant. I’ll keep ya posted.
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
*snort* That made me laugh!
As I recall, I wrote “VOTE” in two places (on every dang card): across the décolletage, and across the expanse of the flag, so that it wasn’t quite so obvious that I was modesty-policing Ms. America 1907. :)
I’ll emailing you one of my current OH “Yes on Issue 1” postcards (WWII image) after as I post this comment.
mrmoshpotato
@brendancalling:
What, oh what, would be their GOTV song?
WaterGirl
I haven’t seen any comments in response to my suggestion that we just do the postcard / music threads on Saturday nights until / unless there is more demand.
Not sure if that indicates agreement or suggests that no one read the whole post up top.
Thoughts?
kalakal
A few more
The Faces Cindy Incidentally
Led Zep Gallows Pole
Deep Purple Lazy
The Kinks Celluloid Heroes
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Okay! Do you also happen to have a photo of one of the VOTE (for boobs) postcards?
H.E.Wolf
@RevRick: Congratulations on what you’re doing! That’s impressive.
WaterGirl
@Phaedrusonbass: Sounds good. Don’t be a stranger. :-)
Or as I like to say, lurk less, comment more!
WaterGirl
@kalakal: I almost always like the links you post!
BlueGuitarist
@Alison Rose:
Folks were talking about Chrissie Hynde recently, she was great at that concert, both covering I Shall Be Released
(audio only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63PL1tB8OvU
and
introducing George Harrison
https://youtu.be/1ODhawVaLI8?si=55febcd2cXRiFjRW
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
I’ve got one of those cards left, sans gold ink… I can ink it, but it will take a while to dry.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
What if some of the metal songs were covered by a cello quartet?
WaterGirl
Another great postcard, this time from H.E. Wolf
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: I will look forward to it!
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: If folks want a heavy metal playlist, a heavy metal playlist we shall have!
kalakal
I guess it doesn’t get any more classic than the Fab Four Day Tripper
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Great postcard! Love the photo.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Oh my gosh, I missed his mustache phase!
Sure Lurkalot
@BlueGuitarist: I went to the Postcards4VA site…is that where to sign up and get addresses? That website has a link to where you can buy postcards or templates, which are all Virginia oriented (as opposed to MazeDancer’s PLEASE VOTE template which I used for Ohio). Sorry that I’m not clear on the Virginia effort. Ohio was easy getting addresses from WG.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Every so often in the linked songs tonight George Harrison is sounding a little bit like Arlo Guthrie to me.
WaterGirl
@kalakal: Yes!
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: I think the postcard from BlueGuitarist in comment #1 was really cool. Do you like that one? He provided a link at #21.
And yes, you can get addresses there. Are you going to do like BlueGuitarist and write for the two candidates we have in the thermometer?
Sure Lurkalot
@Phaedrusonbass: This insomniac has added your sleep music to my (long) list of maybe try this.
BigJimSlade
Here’s a change of pace for everyone – Schnittke. I don’t think I’ve pushed this one here before (but I have at LGM), enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FskTyDD6_sE
mrmoshpotato
@kalakal: Deep Purple Pictures of Home
BigJimSlade
@Phaedrusonbass: Very nice! And I like the cover art for it and Cadron, too :-)
BeautifulPlumage
Finally found my cafe press stash of postcards. Working too many hours to schedule these, really hoping to join the next one. No opinion on once a week versus twice since I haven’t made any of them. : (
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: 🤘👻🤘
kalakal
For Glam Rock fans
TRex 20th Century Boy
Bowie Ziggy Stardust
Mott the Hoople https://youtu.be/yNHdPPJGowY?feature=shared
WaterGirl
VOTE! (for boobs) postcard from H.E. Wolf :-) Very nice!
H.E.Wolf
@Alison Rose:
@Phaedrusonbass:
@NotMax:
@eclare:
@kalakal:
@BlueGuitarist:
@BigJimSlade:
Loving all the music selections tonight!
WaterGirl
@BeautifulPlumage: New job? New kitty?
How’s everything going?
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: I’m trying to make dinner so I’m not being a good thread follower. Sure, I like the card Blue Guitarist linked to but I have a shitload of card stock and do not want to buy postcards.
WaterGirl
These were linked on BJ this week and I was really happy to hear both of them again. Maybe that was on the Tuesday postcard thread?
She’s Not There (Zombies)
Time of the Season (Zombies)
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: Oh, sorry, it sounded to me like you were wanting to buy cards. oops.
kalakal
@Phaedrusonbass: Thanks for putting that up, I like it!
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: If you’re uncertain about where/how to get names, feel free to send me an email tomorrow.
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: LOVE THAT!
kalakal
@mrmoshpotato: Now that was an album!
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
As it happened, I didn’t want the image to be breasting boobily into strangers’ mailboxes (and detracting from the GOTV message) – hence the gold ink.
I used to write the “T” first, so that the downstroke disguised the areola, and then go back and add V O E plus the second VOTE. :-)
I never did feel entirely clear in my conscience about using that 1907 image, since I didn’t know quite where to get official permission; and if I had, they might not have liked me grafitti-ing it up.
The female firefighters were easy to get permission for, so I’ve used those ever since! Also, they’re women of color, so it’s my homage to the core constituency of the Democrats.
Alison Rose
@kalakal: Yesss T Rex!
Another fave: “Love is the Drug” by Roxy Music
CarolPW
@Alison Rose:
Neil Young and Tom Petty looked like they were having so much fun singing together. And Clapton is an ass but this shows why he is so highly rated as a guitar player.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: That’s a great story! And a clever solution. I can take down the postcard if you prefer.
Alison Rose
@CarolPW: I loved Tom and Neil together. And yeah…I wish Clapton wasn’t so damn talented because it feels unfair that such an asshole could be blessed that way. Alas…
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
One of the many reasons I like the firefighters image: the woman who is only visible by her white saddle-shoe’d foot.
Strikes me as a great metaphor for what we’re all doing (postcards, donations, music, etc.) – we may not be seen, but we’re essential to the work, and a vital part of the concerted effort!
And with that, I’m out for the evening. Thank you WaterGirl for hosting the party! I’m OK with one night/week or two, whichever is decided.
H.E.Wolf
@WaterGirl:
Nah, it’s all right. If the copyright enforcers were to show up, I’d take my medicine as is only fair. :)
WaterGirl
@Phaedrusonbass: Oh, it’s no trouble, just explaining why I assumed you were new.
brendancalling
@Subsole: I’d gladly do a metal list. My taste is pretty vintage, TBH. Early metal—and especially 80s metal—is very much “fight the power” and really positive. Great for running. Iron Maiden’s “Powerslave” is a great album. Motörhead’s “1916” is a damn masterpiece. Dio, “Holy Diver” and “Last In Line,” OMG.
eclare
@H.E.Wolf:
That is a great observation. I went back and looked, yep.
eclare
@brendancalling:
Gotta have some vintage Ozzy on there with Randy Rhoads.
No “Crazy Train,” I prefer “Flying High Again”
brendancalling
@WaterGirl: I am a true metal-head, and any list I do will be A-list metal, nothing too extreme, and every tune will probably come with a “why this is good/what to listen for” explainer. It’s one of those genres, like hip hop, that’s really misunderstood—but once you like it, you wonder why you never listened to it.
kalakal
A band I dearly, dearly love
King Crimson Epitaph
WaterGirl
This has been fun tonight. Really appreciating all the postcard writers and music linkers!
We’ll plan on another one next Saturday, same time, same station.
P.S. Not intending that comment to close down the thread!
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: Okay! Metal playlist for next Saturday?
brendancalling
@WaterGirl: I can do this
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Who is the first fellow who sings in that video?
raven
@WaterGirl:Roger McGuinn, Byrds.
BlueGuitarist
@WaterGirl:
Roger McGuinn, who recorded a lot of Dylan songs with The Byrds
ETA – Raven got there first. I’m slow again
Gravenstone
@BlueGuitarist: I know they’re totally unrelated, but I always viewed “Tweeter…” as an unofficial sequel to “Something Big” from Petty. Just has a very similar vibe to me.
WaterGirl
@raven: @BlueGuitarist: Thank you!
I felt like I knew the voice but I couldn’t place it.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: Almost a tie!
raven
@WaterGirl:
Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, 197
https://youtu.be/4viQhTmhDX8?si=2S8_CWDsPq4U0qh7
BlueGuitarist
@Gravenstone: interesting! Thanks!
Barbara
@WaterGirl: Posted 50 this morning. Plan to start next batch tomorrow. Taking night off.
raven
@WaterGirl: You wanna really hear and see something?
Joni Mitchell – Coyote (Live at Gordon Lightfoot’s Home with Bob Dylan & Roger McGuinn, 1975)
https://youtu.be/zeaO5UZ5OcI?si=oRXnLemP1b40aG1m
brendancalling
@WaterGirl: honestly, I’d say that anyone who likes “Machine Gun” by Hendrix, the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter”, or Neil Young’s electric version of “Hey Hey My My” already likes metal. They just don’t call it that or identify it as such because of labels.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Sounds like you deserve a night off! Great job on 50 postcards in the mail.
WaterGirl
@raven: Ooh, I’m saving that one for morning because my laptop is about out of gas.
WaterGirl
@brendancalling: It will be interesting to see what you put together.
prostratedragon
“Winter,” Vivaldi, metal version
RevRick
@WaterGirl: I had a bout of sciatica triggered by arthritis in my lower spine. I had had COVID right after Christmas 2021 which caused achiness in my lower back. I’ve been through PT and have been discharged. I have daily exercises to do to prevent a recurrence.
prostratedragon
Symphony no. 25, I, Mozart, metal cover.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Jack B. Nimble & the Quicks, Nut Rocker.
Hot on its heels, the B. Bumble & the Stingers version.
;)
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Pretty good! Ellington and Strayhorn did the whole ballet.
BeautifulPlumage
@WaterGirl: when it rains it pours! Cleo Marie is doing well. Love new job. Old job has been taking up Saturdays (helping old boss while he finds/ trains new accountant). And the friend I offered to do pre-sale house cleaning for back in June is now ready, so that’s been on Sundays. The extra work is short-lived, so just another week or so.
prostratedragon
Works with dubstep, too: “Moonlight,” Beethoven. The rhythm track merely voices the rhythm that Beethoven wrote.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Duke in a tutu. Does. Not. Compute.
:)
Mousebumples
Late to the thread, but Saturdays are generally booked for me through the end of October. Not that I need to be here, but this weekend, next weekend, and I think 2 weekends after that are all out of town weekends – and we might have friends over to cookout the other Saturday night. I can do postcards on my own time, but I just realized how full my October calendar is getting…
Thanks to everyone for postcarding and hope you have fun next Saturday too!
prostratedragon
Epic Symphonic Rock has many cover videos. “Kashmir,” Led Zeppelin, live in Lima.
prostratedragon
Brief lesson in counterpoint, using a common heavy metal riff.
Rachel Barton Pine has been at this for a while: from “Eruption,” Van Halen.
brendancalling
@prostratedragon: that’s awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
I thought this might be fitting for today.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Israel.
eclare
@prostratedragon:
Jimmy Page rules. Always.
To me he is one of the two ultimate Jimmys: Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.
BlueGuitarist
@Sure Lurkalot:
very sorry that i missed this query.
Yes.
You can get addresses, without buying their postcards or templates, at
https://postcards4va.com/
click the “sign up to write postcards” or scroll down and fill in the name, address, etc form to sign up.
Once you sign up you’ll get an email with a link to activate your account.
Once you’ve activated your account, you can select the campaign for which you want to write postcards, and choose the number of addresses you want (from 1-499). You can choose the format of the addresses, e.g. excel.
You can use your own postcards.
When you complete your bundle of addresses, you can request more addresses for the same campaign or a different one.
If you scroll down on their home page you can see the campaigns for which they will supply addresses. which include the competitive elections for Virginia House of Delegates and state senate, such as the 2 candidates for whom Balloon-Juice is raising money:
Kimberly Pope Adams HD 82
Michael Feggans HD 97
The postcards4VA site also has a FAQ button.
Reiterating a comment above: if you get addresses from them, don’t worry about the statement that you are required to include on each card disclosure of who is paying for the postcards – that only applies if you are doing 500 or more of substantially the same card. But they do ask for the FEC info that would go with a contribution – name, address, employer – so they can report the postcards each person/group sends as an in-kind donation.
Hope that helps
patrick II
Ann Coulter.
Bet you’re awake now.
Alison Rose
@patrick II: Dang, she’s still around? And I’m sure the issue isn’t that she didn’t get the memo about not calling Black people “articulate”, but rather that she got the memo and promptly fed it into the shredder.
NotMax
@eclare
Nobody, but nobody, ever even whispered so much as a single bad word about Jimmie Dodd.
;)
Phaedrusonbass
@Sure Lurkalot: Thanks! It helps me, which is why I produce it.
The paradox is that if it’s good, it’s hard to write because it puts the composer to sleep ;)
Phaedrusonbass
@BigJimSlade: Thanks, cap’n!
Phaedrusonbass
@kalakal: At your service :D
Phaedrusonbass
@kalakal: When I saw them in 2017, they did Epitaph, Starless, and Fracture in rapid succession.
I could have died a happy man right there.
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: In Judith Moffett’s 1989 story “Not Without Honor”, aliens contact us because they are having some sort of cultural upheaval involving restless youth, they have been watching “The Mickey Mouse Club” and they see the heroic cross-generational leadership they need in Jimmie Dodd.
WaterGirl
@RevRick: So my details were totally wrong, but I’m glad to hear you are doing better!
WaterGirl
@BeautifulPlumage: Glad the extra obligations are all short-term. Such happy news about Cleo Marie and the new job.