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Postcard Writing & Music Thread

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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.

Postcard image by H.E. Wolf!

 

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No playlist from brendancalling tonight, but soon we’ll have a metal playlist we talked about, maybe next Saturday.  So add your musical links in the comments!

Also, big thanks to all our Balloon Juice Angels and everyone who donated!  We raised $12,500 for each of our two young, progressive, African-American candidates!  Well done, everyone!

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  2. 2.

    H.E.Wolf

    It’s an honor to be the first illustration of the evening!

    Those 5 cards represent a very slow writing process, because I have a temporary splint on one finger of my writing hand.

    On the bright side, it means I wrote with FULL attention because otherwise it was not possible to write at all.

    And that meant I was really focused on why I was doing this in the first place. (continued…)

  3. 3.

    H.E.Wolf

    … I’m doing this one small, concrete (temporarily difficult) task because this is my opportunity to bend the arc of history toward justice.

    I can’t directly improve matters in the Big Problem Areas – but if my postcards influence a stranger to vote, and pass a better law or elect a better legislator, then those laws and lawmakers may make a difference in the arena of the Big Problems.

    So, as PostcardsToVoters.org always says: Write On! :-)

  9. 9.

    H.E.Wolf

    @NotMax: ​
     Can’t go wrong with Bach.

    Anyone familiar with his Coffee Cantata? “Coffee, Coffee, Coffee muss ich haben!”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpiJFGgMJk

    Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süße,
    Ah! how sweet coffee tastes!
    Lieblicher als tausend Küsse,
    Lovelier than a thousand kisses,
    Milder als Muskatenwein.
    smoother than muscatel wine.
    Coffee, Coffee muss ich haben,
    Coffee, I must have coffee,
    Und wenn jemand mich will laben,
    and if anyone wants to give me a treat,
    Ach, so schenkt mir Coffee ein!
    ah!, just give me some coffee!

  11. 11.

    mvr

    This song has the right sort of title for the theme and my experience with James McMurtry, both going to concerts and reading his post online over the years, makes me think he’s a decent guy. Not that everyone in his songs is decent and this song probably may exemplify that.  But  then empathy puts you in touch with people who aren’t always great.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEgLtbsSPHQ

  15. 15.

    H.E.Wolf

    For a number of years I was loosely affiliated with the grad students going through (in all senses) a MFA Theatre program.

    They had a lot of good teachers, but the one who stood out as the most skilled, compassionate, and insightful was their Singing teacher. I used to arrange my freelance work schedule so that I could come sit in the back of the room on Singing performance day each quarter… back of the room so that if I started to weep at the students’ gorgeous performances, no one would know.

    The student who sang this one absolutely *dissolved* me. I don’t know about the original composer, but the point-of-view character in the song seems like a decent person.

    “Someone to Fall Back On”, Jason Robert Brown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35QvhTUIFLU

  16. 16.

    Mousebumples

    I’m just getting started here, tonight, though I think I sent WaterGirl some photos on Monday or Tuesday before I mailed out a batch.

    Postcards to Voters has Ohio and New York addresses – and some for Florida Vote By Mail, but I’m saving those for when we don’t have an election coming up!

    • Dave Colone for Suffolk County (NY) Executive
    • Manny Nneji running for District Attorney in Ulster County, New York (stomping ground of Rep. Pat Ryan)

    Time to get writing!

  17. 17.

    H.E.Wolf

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
     Fabulously naughty number! And some naughty innuendo in the lyrics, if online translate did its job. :)

    हो इत्ती सर्दी है किसी का लिहाफ लई ले ए ए
    Yes, it’s so cold, please take care of someone

  21. 21.

    H.E.Wolf

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
     The wedding song video is adorable! :)

    You’ve also posted some fantastic crowd-rousing numbers in the past (and I stupidly didn’t bookmark them)….

  24. 24.

    Mousebumples

    @H.E.Wolf: Mousebumples in the house! One of the great movers and shakers of the jackal postcard posse. Good to see you tonight!

    Good to be here!

    I’ve had a sick kiddo this past week (daycare crud, so thankfully nothing serious), but it’s cut into my postcarding time. Thought I’d have a cookout tonight – but the weather had other plans.

    I will not be here next week, though. Mr. Mouse and I will be seeing Queen + Adam Lambert in concert. So I’ll be doing the music part, at least!

  27. 27.

    H.E.Wolf

    @schrodingers_cat: 
    @H.E.Wolf: Is this one that you had mind
    Malhari
    ​

     Yes! Thank you!!! I’m bookmarking it this time. Talk about getting the audience fired up and ready to go!

  31. 31.

    schrodingers_cat

    @H.E.Wolf: I will take a look. OMG and Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing and Ghost.

    **swoons**

    I love a man who can dance well. I trained in classical Indian dance for about 4 years. I was good but not great. So I gave up when school became more demanding.

  32. 32.

    H.E.Wolf

    @schrodingers_cat: ​How about some soothing Sufi music.
    Arziyaan (All my requests are written on my face..)

     Both the melody and the vocalists are wonderful. Bookmarking this one too….

  44. 44.

    H.E.Wolf

    @schrodingers_cat: ​
     Very cool to learn of your background in classical Indian dance!

    Every time I see a dance form that’s new to me, I have the urge to take a few years and learn how to do it… although I follow the impulse less often than I’d like.

    That point when it finally starts to make sense in one’s body is such a great feeling.

    Case in point (with some Patrick Swayze): “Wipe Out”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E61j9p_S3rQ

  54. 54.

    mvr

    Another musician who seems to be a decent guy in his music, in his twitter feed and when one goes to see him live is Jason Isbell. (Was not always easy to get along with when he was drinking, but even then I suspect he was an OK person with a problem. His old DBT friends seem on good terms with him now. And his music slays. Also recorded an album in honor of Georgia electing D senators.)
    All that aside this song really kills me because of how it makes clear how vulnerable one is when one loves somebody.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYkyC8J29M

  55. 55.

    H.E.Wolf

    @kalakal: ​
    Well she’s a nice person judging by the (very) limited time I spent chatting to her and she’s got a great voice so …
    Eurythmics – Missionary Man

     Great voice indeed, and an absolutely surreal start to that video.
    Also that was quite the lede you buried! :) Sounds like a story worth telling….

  56. 56.

    mvr

    @mvr: Sorry not to be doing postcards this round. I’m a little at the end of my energy for doing stuff I should be doing. It will pick up again.

  60. 60.

    H.E.Wolf

    @mvr: ​
     Relay race, not sprint. :-) We’ll pass you the baton when the time is right.
    Meanwhile, thank you for the heart-piercing musical selections!

  61. 61.

    Yutsano

    This one is a little Punjabi mixed with some Celtic folk music just for fun. She has lots of others but I think this one is the most fun.

  62. 62.

    mrmoshpotato

    Music?

    From Wikipedia:

    “The Victors” is the fight song of the University of Michigan.[1] Michigan student Louis Elbel wrote the song in 1898 after the football team’s victory over the University of Chicago, which clinched an undefeated season and the Western Conference championship.

  65. 65.

    H.E.Wolf

    Time for me to log off for the evening. WaterGirl, thank you for hosting the party! And thanks to all for the music and dance and postcard energy.

    Signing off with a Marc Cohn song from his debut album, “Walking in Memphis”. The line that means the most to me is when the singer (either a different religion from Muriel, or non-religious) bridges that seeming divide so gracefully with “Ma’am, I am tonight”.

    May we all find our way across seemingly impassible bridges, whatever that means in our own lives. And write on!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRafRp-P-o

  66. 66.

    kalakal

    @H.E.Wolf: Not really, her kid went to the same school as a friend’s kid. Met her briefly a few times when collecting kid, sports events etc. Completely down to earth, no arrogance, very nice and friendly in a completely normal way. no pretension at all.

  75. 75.

    mvr

    @WaterGirl: I’m oldish in a long relationship with my spouse. One I expect to end only when one of us departs. The song underlines what we’ve got to look forward to, but also what that means in the present.

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