Nothing exciting to say here. For some reason, I’ve been watching a lot of Captain Beefheart videos on YouTube. I think I like this one the best:
Consider this an open thread.
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Nothing exciting to say here. For some reason, I’ve been watching a lot of Captain Beefheart videos on YouTube. I think I like this one the best:
Consider this an open thread.
Comments are closed.
mistersnrub
Good piece by Jay Rosen on David Gregory’s refusal to practice real journalism.
Colbert, as usual, nails it:
David Gregory has rejected this hare-brained scheme, saying quote “people can fact-check ‘Meet the Press’ every week on their own terms.” Thank you David! It is not a Sunday host’s job to make sure his guests aren’t lying, any more than it’s a party host’s job to make sure the food isn’t poisioned. (applause..) … The host is there to tell his guests when it is their turn to talk. That is why NBC is currently grooming Gregory’s replacement: a chess timer.
Bnut
Sometimes the random playlist just spits out a line of good shit: Joss Stone, Zeppelin, Lupe Fiasco. And the comes the stupid Rodney Carrington stand up I always forget to delete.
If anyone here lives near New Paltz/Poukipsee in NY, my cousin is holding one of her epilepsy drives soon. This girl blows me away. Overcoming a terrible health problem, and at such a young age doing so much for others. She even had a book written about her.
debit
I worked my ass off yesterday doing yard work. Today, I bike.
Comrade Mary
That song, from Doc at the Radar Station, tumbled me down the rabbit hole of Beefheart love. Good choice, Doug!
EDIT: Yay for biking, debit! I’m on deadline for Monday, so no long rides for me today.
Bob K
WTF? It’s the resident congress critter of crazy town. Shelly (Batshit Crazy Overdrive) Bachmann. “Ganstas?” Let’s see Obama is a socialist, elitist, arugula eating Gangsta from chi-town. This sounds like something Mikey Steele would say and should appeal to all those “brothers of another color” we want to vote for us. These are not to be confused with Wall Street “Bankstas” who need another helping hand from us to keep the mean socialists from taking over all the banks and enslaving us all with their so called “Financial Reform”. And here yet another new word from Bill Clinton -“Hatriot” Isn’t that special?
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) — also a strong supporter of the Tea Parties — refused to endorse Bachmann’s “gangster government” rhetoric: When a southern Republican says you’re spouting Bull$hit what does that say?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/18/blackburn-bachmann-ganster/
Jason Bylinowski
I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do – Cpt. Beefheart
The above is the title of the coolest live progrock/jazzrock album ever made. I don’t even like progrock in general, but I find some of this stuff to be just radical in a good way.
anna missed
I was lucky enough to see the Beefheart band in a rock and roll club in Cleveland Ohio, must have been 71 or 2. It was a truly amazing show, revolutionary, even. My favorite Beefheart/youtube is this one, with just the C’ptn and Frank Zappa doing Orange Claw Hammer – a lyric masterpiece.
mr. whipple
I never really got into Beefheart, the only one I own is TMR. But I can appreciate his place and creativity. It’s some really challenging listening.
benjoya
the captain rules! “nowadays a woman’s gotta hit a man” is great. and “moonlight on vermont.” toally groundbreaking guitar playing, while still speaking the blues vocab. i play his tunes with a drummer who’s been playing for 40-some years. he says “now THIS is an education!”
gbear
I ran across this story while looking around The Strangler site after DougJ’s link to the Dan Savage piece earlier. Forgive me for blockquoting so much of this story, but it starts out bad and just keeps getting worse and worse.
Jeremy
Thanks again for your great musical links & titles, DougJ!
WereBear
@gbear: What a terrible story. Like something out of Kafka.
robert green
beatle bones n’ smokin stones as covered by the fall (only available on the mega john peel box set, a must have anyway for people WHO LIKE THINGS THAT ARE GREAT) is truly one of the greatest songs ever. out-beefhearted beefheart!
debit
@Comrade Mary: It was just an easy 25 miles, but I loved every minute of it. Well, except the bits where I had to ride downtown. I have to find a better route home.
Stephen
Love the Captain Beefheart.
Balloon Juice is like a combination of my favorite things: art rock & the internet.