Fitz-zzzzzzzz

FITZ!

Fitz!

FITZ ! ! !

(fred) FRITH!

GSD from last thread — “zinsmeistering” — what ever happened to that vast wingnut effort to go through everything I’d written and prove I’d plagiarized it all, a la Box Turtle Ben?

I suppose we’ll have to wait until their done translating all that Iraqi Intelligence stuff from that document dump.

Priorities.

This is my current overplayed clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUVbQYqyhCc

Jonny Lang playing at the WH for Bill & Hillary.

You Tube Lots and lots of the Beatles…

My name is Matt, and I am addicted to Firedoglake.

midvalley 7 — that’s a good one.

YouTube is the bomb. Where does all this stuff come from? Just got done watching the Moody Blues “Go Now.” Now I’m thinking Jimi……or Janis…..how long can it last? It’s too much fun for the government to leave it alone.

(with malice toward none) Safety Dance. Repetitively.

Any/all Devo. Also repetitively.

Donald Fagen, New Frontier.
During the golden era of MTV (1981-94ish), I always thought this represented the pinnacle of the cultural artefact known as the Music Video. Still do. (Although the YouTube version failed to record the most excellent ending, which is like leaving out the last two pages of Ulysses.)

Great Faces clip- Rod’s hair. Ronnie’s pants. Too much awesomeness.

You Tube is crack-like, for sure. Or so I hear. For example, I would never spend hours watching Primal Scream videos on that site. Never. Ahem:)

Ha we crashed the server that has that list…

Here’s a great version of the Sex Pistols doing Bodies

Ummmm. Guilty pleasure? Does anyone remember
A-ha? Ya, the take on me guys from the 80’s. They are still going. heres the new single I cant get outta my head. Im a 40 year old A-ha fan. Shhhhhhhhhh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=aha cosy prisons

I was a freshman, we called it “first year” at UVA when I saw the Faces in the fall of 1971, touring behind “A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… To a Blind Horse.” At U-Hall, there in Charlottesville. My LP is a mess, and I finally bought the CD a couple years ago. It’s pretty short, 9 tracks, 36 minutes. Often when I play it (loud), I wonder if anyone else ever plays this old stuff. Of course I saw Ronnie Wood again, last October on the Bigger Bang tour. That 71 show was the last time I ever saw Rod.

I always liked Your So Rude. “I’ll wet my socks, pretend we just got caught in the rain.”

Ronnie Lane died just about 9 years ago, this time of the year, he was 51.

It’s all your fault, Jane! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..rch=Marcia Ball
Heavy heavy song these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=Dr. John Love the Dr., and jeez Eric should stick with that Gibson, what tone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=The Meters Check out those outfits and fro’s!

Hello. My name is Suzanne. I have dual substance abuse issues: FDL and You Tube. It has been less than a day since I last indulged.

wah-hoo-wah, Bill R!

Ooops, i didnt get the URL on that last one, that was the search.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uqcfL17Kc8

This one picked up at Tom Tomorrow is fantastic:

Valentine for Perfect Strangers

Holy crap… Some righteous vintage Humble Pie.

Marine’s wife paints portrait of US troops out of control in Haditha

Julian Borger in Washington
Monday June 5, 2006
The Guardian

The marine unit involved in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November had suffered a “total breakdown” in discipline and had drug and alcohol problems, according to the wife of one of the battalion’s staff sergeants.
The allegations in Newsweek magazine contribute to an ever more disturbing portrait of embattled marines under high stress, some on their third tour of duty after ferocious door-to-door fighting in the Sunni insurgent strongholds of Falluja and Haditha.

The wife of the unnamed staff sergeant claimed there had been a “total breakdown” in the unit’s discipline after it was pulled out of Falluja in early 2005.

“There were problems in Kilo company with drugs, alcohol, hazing [violent initiation games], you name it,” she said. “I think it’s more than possible that these guys were totally tweaked out on speed or something when they shot those civilians in Haditha.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq…..99,00.html

Why did I look? Why did I look? I’ll never get to bed in a timely manner now!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=17j…..arch=stone roses

I agree that YouTube is too good to last — so don’t worry about the addiction, because it all has to go away soon!

What I love about them, among other things, is the flash7-based player they use plays everywhere. There’s not funny codecs, there’s no drm, there’s no only-on-windows-ness. It works on my Linux box the same as it does on my Mac.

The quality isn’t great — but that’s almost part of the charm.

It can’t last in its current form, but there’s a chance — not a great chance, but a chance — that it will survive the upcoming **AA crackdown. Unlike sites like Napster, there is a substantial amount of true copyright-legal video up on YouTube, and if people really like the forum it that legal media might be enough to keep the site popular.

Of course, it also begs the question about where the money is going to come from to keep YouTube going. Their bandwidth costs must be insane.

try searching for “chicken hunter”, a short story about good ol’ american values and meat, cigerettes and booze seen through the eyes of an icelander immigrant…

I say again: Howlin’ Wolf Newport (priceless). Any of the Who versions of Baba O’Reilly.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Grateful Dead Tom Snyder&search_type=search_videos
Noone like Tom Snyder on the tube anymore! Great interviews with Kesey, Garcia, et al. and some acoustic Dead numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=The Tubes – Yikes! White Punks on Dope {{RIP Vince Welnick}} The curse of the Grateful Dead keyboardists continues…

I got majorly lost in all the Jimi recently.

nobody — don’t say Humble Pie if you don’t mean it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En5Qvw8XNk8

BTW: Guys and gals who love beautiful women who can sing: Any of the Mazzy Star videos featuring Hope Sandoval.

More Blossom Dearie on YT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBXal1GAA4A

“Scott-TAY! Beam on DOWN, baby!”

If only Charley Murphy had played Spock . . .

With dial up blazing along @ 2400bps. May I say net neutrality for the users!! enjoy everyone :)

Well, lessee………. there’s lots of Frank Zappa, many with some of his classic lineups. Stevie Ray, Allmans. 7 pages of Tom Waits.

There’s Joni Mitchell. I lost a whole night recently watching Joni clips. Pure heaven. There are several from when she played with Jaco Pastorius. Or how about this one from the Johnny Cash show, or “Big Yellow Taxi”
from the “Miles of Aisles” days. IMHO, she still towers over the field.

Running With The Devil…The Van Halen 1 album cover comes to life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dXbeobaeMk

The mighty Weather Report circa ‘78, playing Black Market and Scarlet Woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5c3H6LpLZI

Thelonious Monk playing Blue Monk in Oslo, 1966:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiCVztLK2Wo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4KY2n-pZok

My husband sold off his lp collection (except his really good stuff) a couple of years ago in garage sales. One guy bought over $600 worth in one go. It was funny to watch as the rumor spread through the vinyl phreaks community of the gold mine on offer. Some of them were practically shaking as he clued them into some of good stuff still available.

So I was thinking of telling him about youtube because all he likes to do on the computer is find music he likes and compile cdsfor when he paints.

But after reading the confessions posted here tonight I don’t think I will. I’d never get back online again. ;o)

Hey, if we are talking music please go here you won’t be disapointed… You may cry though… Maggie and Terry and Suzzie…..
http://www.roches.com/discogra…..kerry.html

Ps… If this song had made it to the Radio before the election who know’s?…http://www.roches.com/discography/igavemyloveakerry.html

YouTube sux! (sorry, dial-up here.) But, there is a workaround: Save video from YouTube to disk

Gavin M – Saw that Venom – “Countess Bathory” video you linked some time ago at Sadly, No!. That was really, um, something.

I love and miss Cat Stevens and am so happy to have found him on YouTube—

grrr, not allowed in to the US. how pathetic.

Anyway this is truly magical and will make you feel oh so young again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=cat

Having witnessed the ravages of YouTube on an entire generation of FDLers (time flies on the internets, I’m talking firedog years), I felt that my heretofore near abstinence was warranted and validated. OK, I admit I dabbled a bit with the Whipping Post/Fillore East clip, and well, there was that Rod Stewart mike stand twirl-a-thon…but I had it under contol.

Then montysano (35) comes along with with all those Joni links. Think I’m about to fall of the wagon.

My name is neurophius and I am not a YouTube addict–yet. I have enjoyed several of the videos Jane has featured recently, but it just now sunk in with me that I can go there any time and listen to whatever I can find. My mind boggles at the possibilities.

No, dammit!
Don’t do this!
I cannot deal with another web jones. Cannot cannot cannot.
[whimpering]

punaise: “firedog years” — I love it! I only hope we can make firedog years into the “Internet time” of politics. Change can’t happen quickly enough!

FDL is a gateway drug to YouTube. Or is it the other way around…

anybody rememeber Peter Gabriel’s seminal MTV video of Sledgehammer (so-so song, industry-changing video some say)?

anybody rememeber how to spell “remember”?

Most amazing song here from the Roche’s
You may cry though%u2026 Maggie and Terry and Suzzie%u2026. The voices of Angels.

http://www.roches.com/discogra…..kerry.html

I have so far evaded YouTube addiction. I have a major Firedoglake addiction, but it helped me kick my previous addiction to about twenty political blogs that I read once a day or more. It’s not blog methadone, though, it’s got a powerful enough kick to dwarf my old addictions.

YouTube addicts and denizens of FDL…what is this country coming to?

Next they’ll be wanting to live in your neighborhood!

LMAO!

Redshift 46 –

“ch ch ch ch ch chaaaaanges….”

Ooooh god & try this one: The Gang of Four doing “To Hell with Poverty”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHhXCPOQWQ
X doing “LA”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..1;x” los angeles
the dKs doing “Police Truck”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=dead kennedys

– Something I forgot to mention on the Pop Cult and Politics thread last night: punk and in particular the 80s LA scene was/is a huge part of my political background ….

YA gotta hear this song.

Earth Rock Wreckerds.

July 2004

Produced by: Terre Roche
Orchestrated by: Edd Kalehoff

I Gave My Love a Kerry (Full arrangement with singing) (MP3 download)
I Gave My Love a Kerry (Folk arrangement with singing)
I Gave My Love a Kerry (Full arrangement without singing)
I Gave My Love a Kerry (Folk arrangement without singing)
I Gave My Love a Kerry
Words by Terre Roche
I Gave My Love a Kerry Who Had No Disdain
For Peoples Of The Country From Which He Came
America The Beautiful He Fought In Your Name
And Not For The Halliburton Company’s Gain

America The Beautiful I Grew Up Inside You
To Hear My Teachers Say Democracy Was Good And True
In Other Places There Was Nothing That A Soul Could Do
To Fight The Dark Oppression Of Their Leaders’ Bloody Coup

I Never Thought That I Would See A Coup In My Homeland
But That Is What Happened And I Think You Understand
That We Are In A Crisis And We Need Every Woman And Man
To Win Back Our America It’s Time To Take A Stand

Let’s Give Ourselves A President Who Has No Ties
To Those Who Would Use Jesus’ Words To Tell Big Lies
About The Moral High Road And Justice In The Skies
While Turning Their Backs On Suffering And Other Peoples’ Cries

How Can There Be A President Who Has No Ties
To Those Who Would Use Jesus’ Words To Tell Big Lies
If You Think You Can’t See Clearly And That You Must Compromise
There’s Strength In Our Number And Here’s What That Buys

I’m Givin’ My Love A Present And That’s My Vote
If Everyone Would Do This It Would Be An Antidote
To The Vicious Wolf That’s Hiding In A Sheep’s Expensive Coat
Republican And Democrat We’re All In The Same Boat

So Cast Your Vote For Kerry In The Autumn Of This Year
And Let’s Not Trade Our Liberties For Freedom From Our Fear
The Enemy That We Perceive Is Not Out There He’s Here
But You Are Stronger Than You Think, America, My Dear
You Are Stronger Thank You Think, America, My Dear

Great song.

punaise

Isn’t “remember” what the surgeon did to John Bobbitt after his disasterous encounter with Lorena?

Mad Dogs 51: I can hear the NIMBYs now – “Not in my blog yard”

Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?

Found this Funkadelic video from a TV show out of Cleveland in 1970
I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody’s Got A Thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzba-8ERMU

also some concert video of Cosmic Slop from 1979:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN4C67B4FVQ

neuro

wasn’t that a redickulous episode!

Gavin M. — good one. One of your trolls showed up here the other night and we gave him the boot.

WOW! Miles and Coltrane doing So What! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=John COltrane

I’m in love with You Tube and my wife knows it. Memorial Day weekend turned into an impromtu kareoke party with each of our friends trying to one up the previous person by trying to find the most outrageous, random song. Who are the people that have some of these songs and clips?!? Amazing.

Rumor has it that NBC or the money behind the Lonely Island guys (unfunny imho)have made people remove clips.

More importantly: You Tube was forced to remove the clips of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents ASsociation Dinner. How do you like that?

Nice Stone Roses.

Everyone should also check out Google Video – it has a great search mechanism and streams quickly. My boyfriend has been putting together a del.ico.us page of links to good google videos – http://del.icio.us/jokersmild

LOL punaise I have no comeback at the moment

punaise: That was quite a comeuppance you gave me.

Has video of the first California Jam ever surfaced on this YouTube thingy?

neuro 63 – before putting that one to bed: it was a fast severence near his vas deferens that made a vast difference in his life. Lop till you drop.

*cringe*

Thanks, Jane! Love the Roses.

Am finding myself typing in various band names, and muttering things like, “Oh Sweet Jesus, please don’t let them have multiple Smiths videos or live performances. DOH!”

Off to dream of Johnny Marr.

I doubt there is a video, but the best concert ever was the Who at Mammoth Gardens in Denver, June 1970.

Mammoth (now the Fillmore) was an old roller rink — the stage was set up along the long side, so no one was more than 50 yards away — most were less than 50 feet.

Live at Leeds was recorded on the same tour; Woodstock was the same show. The first set was the old stuff; second set, Tommy. I plugged my ears with wet toilet paper, but was still overwelmed before it ended.

Morris Sisters performing “solid potato salad.” Too bad they removed it, it was pretty awsome.

A clip from ” Ascenseur pour L’Echafaud ” an early Louis Malle work with .. Jeanne Moreau … and Miles Davis blowing chilly and cool under it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=miles davis film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ch=charlie parker

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie. Wow.

While we’re sort of on the subject: Live105-FM is San Francisco’s self-appointed “alternative” rock station. Over the holiday weekend they did one of those listener-voted countdowns of greatest songs in that commercial genre, which I guess is New Wave, Post-punk, grunge, etc. Here’s the first twenty – there are certainly some worthy entries, but come on: no Clash? The first Clash song, at #23, was (get this) – Rock the Casbah. Clueless.

Under-represented throughout the 500 list, among others : Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads. The full list is clickable on the home page linked above.

LIVE 105’s MEMORIAL DAY 500 CO-OP COUNTDOWN
Friday May 26 – Monday May 29, 2006

1 NIRVANA Smells Like Teen Spirit
2 THE SMITHS How Soon Is Now?
3 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Under The Bridge
4 NEW ORDER Blue Monday
5 GREEN DAY Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) [live]
6 THE CURE Just Like Heaven
7 FOO FIGHTERS Everlong (acoustic)
8 BECK Loser
9 BEASTIE BOYS Sabotage
10 RADIOHEAD Creep
11 DEPECHE MODE Blasphemous Rumors
12 NIRVANA Come As You Are
13 NINE INCH NAILS Closer
14 PEARL JAM Alive
15 DRAMARAMA Anything, Anything
16 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Give It Away
17 JOY DIVISION Love Will Tear Us Apart
18 BEASTIE BOYS Fight For Your Right
19 GREEN DAY Longview
20 BLUR Song 2

Ron could, Wood, and did.

To this day, some people rag Yoko for splitting up the Fabs.

I’ve yet to hear anyone lambast the Glitter Twins for breaking up the great, great Faces.

Thanks for the earsfull, Hamsher.

I don’t go to YouTube very often, but David at Supreme Irony tipped people off to what might qualify as the worst music video ever.

It reminds me of the prom scene in Ghost World:

Rebecca: This is so bad it’s almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.

The kid playing guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..=t&f=b is totally awesome!!!

From a guit-playing fanatic for 30 years.

OK – Semi-obscure good 80’s music

http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..tube-gold/

More obscure great 80’s music

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hxn…..arch=world party ship of fools

Springsteen, from the 70’s, back from when he was great, and ones you never hear on the radio:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zoH…..pringsteen candy’s room

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBc…..pringsteen growing up

oh hell. this is totally keith o’s fault, but i looooove bananaphone –
cellular;
modular;
interactivodular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..ananaphone

Jane – your addiction is just the best thing ever! after a hard day of whatitisthatwedo, to grab a glass of wine and see what treat you’ll come up with is just perfect! I was completely done in and about to feel cranky tired and now I’ve got this great big smile – of course, the Faces always could do that to me!

and CK – sheesh, glad someone else remembers the pleasure of ear damange a la Who … I saw their first US show at the Murray the K Show, then several at Fillmore East – high school daze – worked in the local movie theatre and our perennially stoned projectionist was easy to bribe so when we showed Monterrey Pop, we would run up to his booth and convince him to crank up the sound for the Who’s performance to proper Who levels – good memory, merci!

Oh. My. Gawd.
OK, now I must admit to my incredible Rod Stewart Mania when I was in high school. And I went to see The Faces in the Chicago area (Northwestern Univ.) when they were doing the “Nod is as Good as a Wink” tour.
I was such a Stewart nut that I can tell you that he fucked up the lyrics in this clip.
It’s good to see this. Now, when I tell people I had this insane Rod Stewart phase, they look at me like I was insane. But at one time, Rod Stewart was The Shit. Gasoline Alley, Around the Plynth, his time with Jeff Beck…the guy was the shit.
Thanks so much for posting this clip. I smiled all the way through it.

a junkie and her stash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..=t&f=b

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..=t&f=b

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..h=russians climb buildings

http://www.angryalien.com/0604/titanicbunnies.html

http://video.google.com/videop…..4656145640

http://video.google.com/videop…..3675143177

http://www.cryingwhileeating.com/

http://video.google.com/videop…..pr=goog-sl

Lisa – he sure was! and gorgeous in the tightest pants ever made! and the complete shock/fun of the end of BeckOla! damn … good stuff!

Ronnie Wood has always been one of my favorite guitar players. Not to stir up a hornet’s nest, but I don’t much care for his body of work with the Stones. He and Keith are kind of like two thumbs on the same hand-it’s a strong hand, but is it a good hand? He seemed much more confident as a solo performer with the Faces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=banjo deliverance

George Bush playing the banjo in Deliverance.

ok – before I forget – if any FDLers are popping in to Las Vegas early for YKOS, we’re having a registration stuffing gala on Wednesday afternoon and prob. evening.

I also offered to locate two FDLers to staff the mics during the CIA leak panel with our favorite ladies – just requires standing at them during the question period and getting people to take turns. (and Jane, if you have any candidates for this – send them my way – I thought we’d keep it in the family )

volunteers – email me at media dot yearlykos at gmail dot com

end of ykos psa

back to the fun!

One more for tonight. One of my favorite songs of all tones. It’s a crappy recording, but still, brings back memories……..

Teenage Kicks by the Undertones.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ClY…..undertones teenage kicks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=banjo deliverance

Monty Python.

The Black Knight.

It’s only a flesh wound. :)

This site’s got everything.

yeah the Humble Pie, Small Faces, and Buffalo Springfield clips are rockin my “yo-ho-ho” world.

Don’t forget to check out Rod as a member of the original Jeff Beck Group.

Jeebus; I make my living in this industry and the genie is OUT of the bottle !

Elvis Presley doing one of the most beautiful songs ever written: “Unchained Melody.”

Long live the King of Rock & Roll! (And I’m 21.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d33OwFzImI

That’s a great list that Jane links to up there. I had forgotten that Michelle Rodriguez once sang for Bow Wow Wow…:)

Now I’m so embarrassed.

I just watched “Take On Me” by A-Ha.

And loved it.

Oh the terrible terrible shame…

Elvis, “In the Ghetto”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWdNE42kwk

People, don’t you understand
The child needs a helping hand
Or he’ll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
Are we too blind to see,
Do we simply turn our heads
And look the other way.

Liberalism vs. Conservatism, don’t you think?

Any Bluegrass fans?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..=bluegrass
YouTube – Earl Scruggs & Steve Martin – Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Best

The best mandolin jam session I’ve seen-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..=bluegrass
YouTube – Merlefest 2001 – Midnight Jam

Remember Hot Tuna ( alas just a snippet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=hot tuna
YouTube – Hot Tuna Singing Candy Man

Sam Bush – Sailin Shoes -> Crossroadshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDnu5ZPktg&search=bluegrass
YouTube – Lester Flatt & Nashville Grass -Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms

And the best for last…my daughter’s HS Bluegrass band, playing a Beatles tune (a shippet only :-( )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF01Mdp4hIE
YouTube – eric

Matt O @ 88,

Yes, in a nutshell.

Loud concerts:

I saw Deep Purple in a 3-4K capacity auditorium way back when. I couldn’t hear for three days after that concert–thought it had blown my eardrums.

Then I went to the Korn concert a few years back. The volume when they opened came out so strong that it shook heavy seats that were bolted into concrete. My hearing hasn’t been right since. And that was at an ampitheatre. If it had been indoors…

tired fingers mistyped – 81 refers to stuffing the registration packets as opposed to stuffing a gala or …

ok, time for sleep

but Lisa now has me singing Take On Me …

perhaps a youtube nightcap of Phil Ochs (I love this flic with all the oh so thoughtful members of the audience – sheesh, we were soooo earnest in those days!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=phil ochs

oh and in case I haven’t completely ruined my bidness: LimeWire.

Courtesy of my ungrateful children.

“cats out of the bag”, fill in your next cliche, please buy my next record at Starbucks etc…

Funniest video on You Tube ever:

Do You Take It In the Ass by the Wet Spots.

If you’ve never seen this, prepare to be slain.

http://tinyurl.com/jxtfr

OMG. This will feed my habit for a while.

Mad Dogs @ 10:34—I’m watching that kid for the 3rd time and all I can say is unbefuckinglievable.

Innocent Bystander 93 — that Earl Scruggs is fab.

This is one of those stories we older people like to tell.

I saw that Faces tour in 71. In Cleveland, Deep Purple opened. I sat in the third row. I paid $4.50 for the ticket. It was the Summer of Maggie May. The song was played so much on the radio that after a month it was already an oldie. Still, for my money, the best single ever.

“Take On Me”

Great song. And a reminder of simpler and happier times.

Sharkbabe 94 – oh, my. and to think we had you pegged as such a reserved kind of gal….

Thank you Lobstergirl for the link. The Haddith story is important. The Pentagon went around rumsfailed to make sure that the media and the American people are finally learning what is going on in the bush created chaos of Iraq.

Bruce Springsteen performing “My City of Ruins” at the “America: A Tribute to Heroes” telethon just after 9/11. (Back when 9/11 was more than just a political tool.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjWdNE42kwk

Gary Hart’s interview at http://www.PrairieWeather.com

We may well lose the US army in Iraq.

The same withdrawal plan could prevail. I think there is a civil war there. In fact I wrote a piece about a month ago that the New York Times and Washington Post turned down but the Boston Globe ran which said that if we wake up some morning and the whole country has erupted into a violent, countrywide civil war, we could lose our army there. No one’s talked about this.

The Army is dispersed through by and large central, but to a degree
southern, Iraq. If the nation became aflame, we’ve got platoon-size and smaller units scattered all over the country and the cities to try to pacify them, and they could be cut off.

They couldn’t get back to the Green Zone to be extracted. And we could lose the American Army there as Napoleon lost his army in Moscow.

hmmm. my 10:32 comment has been awaiting moderation for nearly an hour.

While we’re sort of on the subject: Live105-FM is San Francisco’s self-appointed “alternative” rock station. Over the holiday weekend they did one of those listener-voted countdowns of greatest songs in that commercial genre, which I guess is New Wave, Post-punk, grunge, etc. Here’s the first twenty – there are certainly some worthy entries, but come on: no Clash? The first Clash song, at #23, was (get this) – Rock the Casbah. Clueless.

anyway, that’s the gist of it. if interested, go to live105 dot com for the link to the list.

sorry that Gary Hart interview is at the excellent site http://www.PrairieWeather.TYPEPAD.com – they also have selections from the roundtable discussion printed in Harpers magazine last month:

American Coup’D: Military Thinkers Discuss the Unthinkable

I have to post these lyrics from Springsteen’s song:

There’s a blood red circle
On the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door’s thrown open
I can hear the organ’s song
But the congregation’s gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
Like scattered leaves,
The boarded up windows,
The empty streets
While my brother’s down on his knees
My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up!

Now there’s tears on the pillow
Darlin’ where we slept
And you took my heart when you left
Without your sweet kiss
My soul is lost, my friend
Tell me how do I begin again?
My city’s in ruins
My city’s in ruins

…

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/…..ssage/2051

Congress Alert-US MILITARY DRAFT for people 18-42

— In ElectionFraud2004@yahoogroups.com,

US Mandatory MILITARY DRAFT 18-42 quietly snuck in!

As described at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/…..R.4752.IH: on February 14, 2006, Congressman Charles Rangel (NY) introduced a bill (UniversalNational Service Act of 2006 – HR 4752 IH) aiming at drafting everyone – men and women
alike – from the ages of 18 to 42 into the military for a minimum period of 2 years.

Or to quote the bill: “To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.”

The House is to convene on June 6 (06/06/06] to debate and possibly adopt this bill, that is, unless a vast public outcry succeeds in derailing this insanity, which you can do by writing a letter of protest to your congress person through

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm or

_http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html_

(http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html)

Phone calls are even better. The numbers of all US Representatives are at:

_http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.html_
(http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.html)

If you question the validity of this bill, go to:

_http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4752_
(http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4752)

_http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4752_
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4752) :

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – JFK

discussion at http://www.ProgressiveIndependent.com

The Faces,and all the rest what a time we had. We were blessed, those of us who did not have to go to vietnam,I was in the Navy and stationed in Newfoundland,The riots in Detroit were not five miles from my house, midnight tokers, and music were everywhere. Now we have the dried up right wing trying to put the kibosh on all the fun in the world-the best revenge against these soul killers is to live well, and kick out the jams motherfuckers. It is 11:30 out here in the west and you got me all fired up and ready to kick some right wing ass he he.

One of my favorite bands, U2, performing “Peace on Earth/Walk On” on the 9/11 telethon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBwrX1MingU

I’m happily making my own radio stations on Pandora.com. So far I’ve gotten Desmond Dekker, Lovin’ Spoonful and Joe Cocker. Thanks to someone here who suggested this site.

My escapism is the free videos of short gymnastics clips. YouTube has some interesting ones and also http://gymnnetwork.castledell.com
http://www.bestlaidplans.org/gymnastics/
http://www.bestlaidplans.org/gymnastics/requests/

right click and download – most take about 15 minutes on dialup to download with minute and a half playing time but like having the history of dance and music.

The 1989 World Championships are excellent with the Soviets and the Bulgarians having very interesting floor exercise routines and the 1996 Olympics are clearer than most of the films with an interesting contrast in gymnasts from so many countries doing the same floor exercise from different film angles.

Must be seen to be believed: Yatta!

Google video link; YouTube versions were iffy on vid quality. In a manner of speaking.

U2, “In God’s Country”

Home to one of my most favorite lines in music:

“She is liberty and she comes to rescue me.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQPl3fiioUA

RBG at 100:

That “kid” is probably a nerd (meant in the nicest way), and he’s looking at a future of a Rock Star’s wetdream *g*!

He’s probably never been laid yet, but I guarantee, the Babes will have him for breakfast, lunch and dinner LOL!

In my dreams I could play a guitar so good :-(

punaise 104 – that’s what makes me ROTFL – it’s like, buttfucking by way of Karen Carpenter and Guy Lombardo – I came across it at the Fables of the Reconstruction blog – I literally laughed all day, everybody at work wondered what was my problem

Johnny Cash, “Drive On” (Live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNt6W86aIA

Innocent Bystander: Thanks for the dish of Hot Tuna.

At Winterland, roundabout ‘72, they opened for the Dead, and performed MaryLou (”heh-heh- hello MaryLou”). It was the first time I’d ever heard that song, and I loved it. It stuck between my ears, and I instantly recognized it a couple of bars into Ricky Nelson’s version a few years later on the radio. It remains one of my all time favorites.

Again, mucho gracias.

Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire” (Live from 1963)

One of my favorite Cash songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KKuWg7_4Q

Um… Mad Dog… Isn’t that Yngwie Malmsteen’s Pachebel Canon, and the kid is synching it?

I could swear Yngwie recorded that very piece heard in the video.

…well here’s a lulu…Jeff Beck doing Ambitious but all these other people seem to be there…Chong, Adrienne Balou, sheila E, Donny Osmond, Lionel Ritchie (I think that’s him) and a lot of 80’s shoulder pads and big stripped out hair, Tatoo too…oooo

Death to videodrome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..videodrome

Sharkbabe 113 – LOL, if that’s “work safe”….

Sonoma 115

Innocent Bystander: Thanks for the dish of Hot Tuna.

my grandfather once sold an acoustic guitar to Jorma Kakonen (sp?) of Hot Tuna

Matt o. – got your back on U2, at least up through Achtung Baby.

spiderpaws (new variant: spied, urp, Oz)

Adrienne Balou – Elephant Talk….

rat bastahd – #60

Now you’ve done it. That Miles video was excellent! Not long enough for my blood. But the date on it just can’t be right. It says 1958. “Kind of Blue” wasn’t recorded until spring of ‘59, and Bill Evans said in the liner notes that each piece was conceived by Miles the same day as the session, and that no one in the band (including Trane) had seen the music til then. A mystery I will now have to solve.

Damnit! I’ve worked so hard over the years to reverse the cycle of addiction. And now YOU TUBE comes into my life, like a benign voice calling from the distance “shoooe-phone… shoooe-phone…..”

I’ll have to blame Jane for this. Blame is part of the addict’s personality disorder.

Punaise -

I grew up listening to U2. Even post-Achtung Baby. There’s some good songs even on “Pop,” their dabble in electronica.

From that album, I liked Discotheque, Staring at the Sun, Last Night on Earth, If God Will Send His Angels, etc.

“All That You Can’t Leave Behind” was awesome, in my opinion. Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of song was great. (One of my favorites of theirs, all-time. Download the acoustic version from iTunes, you won’t be disappointed.) Beautiful Day, Elevation, Walk On, In a Little While, Peace on Earth.

“How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” was great, I thought.

Yeah, I like U2. Can you tell?

I also grew up listening to R.E.M. (”Monster” was the best.)

If I may, may a suggest a video I made on my Mac on the eve of the invasion in 2003.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FneBhpjIJM0

It features wheelchair football, tennis and sitting volleyball. If George Bush is good for anything, ( a BIG if) it is the Paralympics. When I was at the White House in 2004 with the Olympic and Paralympic teams doing a photo op, I was prepared to tell hi:”Thank you for giving so many people around the world the opportunity to compete in the Paralympics. Keep up the good work. We need more athletes.”

punaise,
http://www.furpeaceranch.com/index.html
This is what Jorma’s doing these days (as far as I know), as well as playing on the local Ohio University radio station from time to time.

Matt O. – guess I’ll give a closer listen to some of those U-tunes. The stuff that makes it to radio has been pretty good. Guilty pleasure: the very poppy Sweetest Thing single.

There are plenty of REM songs that I like, but for some reason I never found a particular album that seemed solid through and through. I saw them in Paris on the Up tour, opening for Patti Smith. Great concert, good album.

LJ/Aquaria at 121:

There seems to be some debate about whether it is The Kid playing or synching with Yngwie’s work.

I’m leaning toward The Kid actually playing it, but who knows :-) If he is synching, he’s still pretty good at that!

See the debate at:
http://p082.ezboard.com/fxxcro…..=205.topic

Margot 129 – thanks

I couldn’t find the acoustic version that I was mentioning on iTunes this time. I know it was an “iTunes exclusive,” though…

Tsk tsk. You people and your accomplished musical artists!

Anyone can enjoy and admire musicians with actual talent. The following is for those among us who can look beyond talent, those who seek perverse thrills from the exceptionally untalented:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8-eaMq4LNfw

pun-stir

…spied -urp-Oz here…I’m a lone rhinocerous

Ok – I swear, you’ll be sorry if you miss this.

A tremendous duo, great song and some of the weirdest, yet strangely compelling dancing ever…

Les Rita Mitsouko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOa-ySfO7U

All right, I’ll admit upfront that I’m a technological Luddite. I didn’t start using a computer until right before the 2004 election, when I had to have my therapist come over and show me how to start it up. This beautiful 17″ iMac had sat on my desk for over a year like a piece of sculpture, gathering dust.

Now, I’ve become a raging cyber-warrior, e-mailing my rants to the President, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and even, occasionally, Firedoglake.

But this YouTube has me stymied. I just watched the Faces and Billie Holliday perform silently. I have my computer volume turned all the way up. I just downloaded MacroMedia Flash. I can watch the Daily Show on Quick Time or Windows. But I can’t do YouTube. I’ve joined, I’ve clicked Help! but so far, no go.

And I’ve got to tell you, it’s pretty damned frustrating (I used to get a freeze frame from YouTube and my computer kept telling me it was loading 44 out of 45 items), coming so close to musical nirvana and then having the door shut silently in my face.

Can any of you help this techo-idiot get to the Promised Land?

Sneaker 134 – say, that was impressive…he’s the real deal, the whole pkg.: the mullet, the rhythm, the rhymes. gotta love the lace curtains in the background.

LJ/Aquaria & Mad Dogs—more on the debate:

Tis Fake. The version you hear was Yngwie Malmsteen. Play the song and the video at the same time and they are the exact same. No deviations whatsoever. Great song though

Well if that is the case, the kid has excellent timing and knows the piece very well.

http://vnboards.ign.com/AC_Fri…..6965886/?5

Babson 140 – most French pop/rock music sucks big-time (I’ve been subjected to way too much of it), but that blast from the past was a real treat.

“dis-moi oui, Andy” – another one of their quirky tunes

…speaking of music videos, try this one

http://www.spiderpaw.com/video/redbroadway.html

LJ/Aquaria at 121:

It seems that The Kid is for real!

Check his website out at http://www.jerryc.tw/html/

He’s got a 1/2 dozen music videos that he’s created with his own lead guitar playing plus backing track stuff.

The Kid can play!

really heading to bed but just got this and thought I’d share … some MSM is just great in my book:

http://www.commercialappeal.co…..09,00.html

(and Sharkbabe – my son sent “that” one to me … and I didn’t dare tell my coworkers why I was hysterical in my office)

nite all!

spiderpaws – that was nice. (Fairfax, huh? we’re kinda/sorta neighbors….)

what’s up with the NSA blog verification thingy at 147?

I seem to recall some Steve Marriot, ‘ Smoking?’ and then there was Robin Trower’s, ‘ Too rolling stoned’. I actually owned Jeff Becks classic record with Rod as lead singer once but I took too many drugs and lost them or gave them away.
Great memories – good times. You tell them there was no AIDs then and we all fucked like rabbits and they don’t believe you.

radlib1 141 – wish I could help / not a techie

For RGB and LJ/Aquaria:

See the website at: http://www.last.fm/music/JerryC

Jerry Chang, also known as Jerryc (not to be confused with the very popular Funtwo), is a young Taiwanese guitarist and composer who is currently the name on every internet musician’s lips with his stunning guitar rendition of Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D.

If you like Miles, definately buy or rent the new Criterion DVD of Elevator to the Gallows (I was lucky enough to see it at the Balboa in San Francisco recently, but the DVD has some great extras).

http://criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=335

and there is some wonderful music in Harlan County USA which I watched over the past few days. The new dvd includs interviews with Hazel Dickens and John Sayles (not to mention it is still so relevant with the recent mining accidents).

http://criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=334

If you want enough music to listen to for many years, explore the live music archive

http://www.archive.org/details/etree

including lots of Camper Van Beethoven -
their most recent album was about Iraq

http://www.archive.org/details/CamperVanBeethoven

Mekons (you can also find Sally Tims and Jon Langford performances)

http://www.archive.org/details/Mekons

the Minutemen (and even more Mike Watt)

http://www.archive.org/details/Minutemen

Lots of Michael Franti and Spearhead

http://www.archive.org/details…..dSpearhead

I could spend all night adding to this list

punaise at 151:

I’d help since I am a techie…but unfortunately, I’m not a Mac techie :-(

Windows XP, Windows Vista, yeah, but Mac stuff is foreign territory and me with no passport *g*.

‘night siun – good luck w/ YKos!

Mad Dogs—thanks for the extra digging. Those videos convinced me.

You Tube is GREAT. ppl would be crazy to worry about copyright when so much fantastic archival footage is out there.

Louis Jordan Let the Good Times Roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0buUEEQWLes

Howlin’ Wolf – Dust My Broom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woNc7SqGhVA

Big Mama Thornton “Hound Dog” (you wish, L-vishnu)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH_Gn5ZsZOo

Miss Wanda Jackson loves a Mean Mean Man, lawdy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbyuzJsd-YE

Wanda Jackson “Rock Your Baby All Night Long”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT9doI19gQ0

Neko Case -Favorite live in Toronto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa4Fgfla-RM

I Wish I Was the Moon Tonight- live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgmWWiURrI

Lucinda Williams Drunken Angel on Austin City Limits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbn1-aVQw8

and World Without Tears live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE2uEl_aB9E

Muddy Waters Hoochie Coochie Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1trU8m2jQ

mannish boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jwZm9jKV8

with James Cotton on harmonica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui9j_EB8vgs

with Johnny Winters, 1981

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm5q9CEgO3E

Subterranean Homesick Blues from THE man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgi2DkDbPU

him again. 1964. Man of Constant Sorrow. The phrasing. the phrasing. bob is bob spelled backwards….hmmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6A0LWVZFM

dylan (is there a trend here?) on american tube in b&w 60s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhUdVHIj3w

singing The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

Bob Dylan’s Talkin’ WWIII Blues–this and the next are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F7SxpxgpRg

dylan from an unaired Canadian tv show, Quest, 1964 singing Girl From North Country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4zWgfz_T1E

Dylan goes electric on their asses at Newport 1965 and gets booed. From No Direction Home…with commentary. Guess you had to be part of that time…I woulda been humping the stage, so to speak. But after watching this, it’s like a primer for A Mighty Wind.

Vedder sings Masters of War (wish I could find an old accoustic version by Dylan…his guitar is so different than the one here…the rhythm/phrasing…and there was really no need for that mandolin solo, but anyway…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8GHBk_HSXg

and one last live one. swinging.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBf9hNeNVL8

I grew ears recently and heard bob dylan for the first time, unmediated, whatever that means.

okay, now…THIS is rock and roll. Mr. Show teaches Yo La Tengo…wish someone would sync the sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPjkP8yDEt0

Tom Waits Wish I was in New Orleans & $29.00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSve3_odCfg

…and I’ll have to just put one Waits here, but he’s sooo searchable.

Surf Coasters first U.S. tour doing Miserlou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUm7fLz5pQ

I have to make myself stop…so much good stuff on there. stop with-

Billy Holliday telling about Strange Fruit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZoAa9qn6s

Hi my name is Fini and I am YouTube addict. I’ve stayed up way later than any human should finding nuggets, chunks and entire vaults full of golden music video from my past since this site launched.

I had NOT, however, found this clip until the amazing Jane posted her secret stash list whereupon this very long lost clip has reappeared out of nowhere. Thanks for posting the motherload of awesomeness that you found. For those who recognize this I salute your musical taste:

Brian Eno & David Byrne – Mea Culpa

punaise – Do you listen to Zazie at all?

Fini Finito – uh oh, the night is young now. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts….

U2:

Still Haven’t Found…

http://video.google.com/videop…..6&q=U2 music video

Sunday Bloody Sunday

http://video.google.com/videop…..7&q=U2 music video

With or Without You

http://video.google.com/videop…..4&q=U2 music video

shoephone – Zazie, as in “Zazie Dans le Metro”? (a film) – no, can’t say it rings a bell.

punaise – I have a CD of hers from 2001 called “La Zizanie”. It’s a really interesting mix of dance beats and modern torch ballads. She sort of reminds me of a French Kate Bush. But even that might be too simplistic a comparison. Actually, she might be Algerian, not sure.
Don’t have a link right now. It was recorded on Mercury France label.

There is a site for My Life…

http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/home.php

and david byrne blogs and has a great streaming
radio station

http://www.davidbyrne.com

Eno is involved with the Long Now Foundation
which has all of talks as downloads including Eno’s kickoff speech

http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/

shoephone – thanks for the tip

well, Monday morning beckons after all. damn. bonne nuit a tous.

punaise – okay I found a bunch of links, but for your pleasure, I will post one that’s in French.

http://www.priceminister.com/o…..Album.html

for some reason this page keeps breaking up the word “album” with an underscore between u_m

I am up too late listening and searching.
Here is a classic, The Temptations doing My Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..EMPTATIONS

and Neil Young Cinnamon Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=neil young

Fini Finito — that’s great.

punaise is dreaming in puns now, but here’s a better link in case he wakes up and just has to check in with fellow doggies.

http://www.mcm.net/musique/cdenecoute/24795

Wish Zazie was on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQcYU_VRj

Haven’t been able to get into FDL for about 35 minutes – server problems?

steve rhodes – I love that movie, Elevator to the Gallows. 1964? Jeanne Moreau. And yes, Miles’ score is so fitting.

One more…

The great Elizabeth Cotton…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SevhwkxNvDg

Not YouTube, but a little waker-uppper for FDL folks:

http://www.jonwhiddon.com/images/New Paintings 4 Sale/Coyote-Night.jpg
(add sound of your choice)

Not my work. sigh. But worth a peek.

Good morning, FDL! Surely the day can only go UP from here. Within 12 hours of our HWAPA discussion, what should lead the LAT but:

Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule
The Pentagon’s move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition.

http://www.latimes.com/news/na…..-headlines

The one and only genius these … people … have is for ruination. Ah, God.

Oh, goddamit. I thought I was the last Humble Pie closet fan. I’m gonna post some Fats Waller clips just to get back at y’all.

Love, love love Small Faces and miss Ronnie Lane. Faces were great, but it’s still that prick singing, ain’t it?

No interest in most pop music other than as background music… and certainly no interest in watching performances. This has all lead to giving to much money and power to the music industry. Considering the vast amount of the stuff that that industry pumped out in 50 years there are only a 100 or so “tunes” worth anything. The rest is rubbish.

Damn you, Jane! Just signed up this morning, now I’m addicted, too.

Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized are two of my all time favorite bands. That Jason, overdose, Jesus saved me guitar heavy sound is what I crave.

Thanks Jane (and don’t worry, you are not alone and — take it one day at a time….)

Tommy Yum: Do you mean
“Faces” or Small Faces?” Ronnie Lane was in both, but what a different sound the two had.

I like to play “When I was Yonger” (Faces) for my 5 year old — we dance around and shout. He loves the part about “his” granpa.

WOW!

oh, yeah. I’m w/Tony T – “WOW!”

have you seen the bootleg duet by condi & georgie? it’s called ‘you’re my husband’

hey jane
would you consider linking at times to favorite mp3 files instead of all video links?
personally, i’d like to listen to something old or something new while i continue to read this great weblog. the videos are great documentation of one single performance but in many cases interfere with my enjoyment of the music. a combination of music and video on your blog would be great.
there are some great music blogs out there, sharing sample mp3 files. two i like are kingblind:
http://www.kingblind.com/
and scenestars:
http://scenestars.net/

i love firedoglake. keep up the great work!

On Iran, posturing isn’t policy.

And for those who love a good classic biopic, scenes from the life of Herve:
Evil Lives In The Heart Of Villechaize

immanentize @ 179:

Oh, Small Faces. What a fantastic band! Listen to “You Need Lovin’” off of their first Decca record and you’ll understand why Jimmy Page asked Marriott to front a band in ‘66 with him and Keith Moon. Plant completely rips off Steve’s vocal performance for “Whole Lotta Love.”

I love Faces too–they’re box set kicks ass–but it’s still Rod Stewart singing. “Tonight’s the Night” kinda fucked things up.

Lobstergirl (24) — OMFG. It all began with Fallujah. The horrors of Fallujah didn’t stop there; we are going to have to investigate it, along with the white phosphorus after all. Thanks for posting that from the Guardian.

Jane — you are such a corruptive (infective?) influence! heh. I can’t believe how much Devo, Springsteen and Byrne I just watched, blew an hour on it; it was like going back to high school and early college without the annoying film of flat beer and stale cigarette smoke or the *sshole boyfriend.

substitute “their” for “they’re.” Jeebus. More coffee for Tommy.

The first, banned Squirrel Nut Zippers’ video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ7tyAqDW70

Tommy Yum — excellent. Yeah, the Faces songs I like are the ones Stewart does not sing. I got to meet Ronnie Lane when I lived in Austin. The President of the musicians union was a friend of mine….

So, are you an Itchycoo Park Fan as well?

OMG! OMD!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XaxRwQrKM

My U-Tube favorite is the ass rocket.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b0j…..earch=butt

Check out this young Korean Girl playing Little Wing. Pretty cool.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p1O…..rch=little wing by korean girl

immanentize–you mean the song? It changed my fuckin’ life!

I so regret not meeting Ronnie. Was in London in ‘86 and went to a club in the East End to see Marriott, and was told upon arriving that he was in the States! Played in Austin in ‘98 or so, and was told that MacLagan was playing across town, raced over to the club and he’d left after soundcheck!

Didn’t these people want me to buy them drinks?!

Mother’s Finest – Truth’ll Set You Free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..er’s Finest

Well, I’m officially a member of the tinfoil hat brigade having gone to the 911truth.org conference.

Amazing stuff really. It’s hard, no impossible, to believe the “official” 911 story if you spend any time at all looking at the facts.

This is a pretty good movie/site to start with:

http://www.loosechange911.com/

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I give you the next President of the United States! A cowbell in every home in America!

Good Morning Firepups,

reading the Newsweek story on the Marine’s wife statements – was really struck by how out of character that is – and how it is indicative of just how out of bounds this story is – couple it with the two families who have already made statements – it simply isn’t done – maybe something in the soldier/marine’s hometown paper as in the case of those court-martialed for Abu Ghraib – but military families do NOT talk about an on going investigation

and I loosely connect it to the statements of the retired generals – again, it simply doesn’t happen – maybe long time retired guys like Odom get to speak, or someone speaks ‘anonymously’ to a Hersh or a Murtha, but not recently retired ‘flags’ – it’s as if one of the bands holding everything together has loosened or slipped off

aside from the horrors themselves – there is something going on here

What’s that link, cbl?

hang on lotus, be right back

fresh thread, gang :)

Not coming up yet, Christy (at least here).

lotuslander — refresh the whole thread, not just the comments. Should pop up as the next choice to read. at the top of this particular thread.

That’s what I’m doing, but hit doan hep.

Hmmmmm…..well, that’s the limit of my pitiful computer help knowledge. I’ll see if there’s a glitch and check with our tech folks.

lotuslander, I cut and pasted Christy’s post into this comment. At least you can read it. Hopefully, we’ll get this figured out.
If you, like me, haven’t had nearly enough coffee yet to face your Monday morning%u2026blergh%u2026well, a dose of truthiness is in order. E&P did a write-up on the Stephen Colbert commencement address to Knox College in Illinois, and I thought a couple of snippets might brighten everyone’s day. Or at least alleviate the worst of those cases of the Mondays we have out there.*

Her’s Colbert on the immigration issue:

“It’s time for illegal immigrants to go %u2014 right after they finish (building) those walls.” People keep saying immigrants built America, “but here’s the thing, it’s built now. I think it was finished in the ’70s sometime. From this point it’s only a touch-up and repair job.”

His suggestions for securing the U.S.-Mexico border went beyond walls to include moats, fiery moats and fiery moats with fire-proof crocodiles.

And here’s Colbert on English as our national language:

He backed English as the official language of the United States %u2014 “God wrote (the Bible) in English for a reason: So it could be taught in our public schools.”

But my favorite bit was Colbert talking to the students about cynicism %u2014 this is great stuff, and perfect for his audience of graduating seniors:

He closed his speech on an apparently semi-serious note, urging the grads to learn how to say “yes.” He noted that saying yes will sometimes get them in trouble or make them look like a fool. But he added: “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blinder, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

“Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. Yes is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

Excellent advice for newly minted college grads %u2014 and the not-so-newly-minted, but still looking for a way to make things better crowd.

*If you don’t know what “Someone has a case of the Mondays.” means, then you need to watch “Office Space” immediately. If you’ve ever spent time working in cube land (or if you are still trapped there somewhere with Dilbert), this movie is for you. Even if you only hate your job occasionally, or have ever hated a job, “Office Space” will crack you up. Repeatedly. For the Stephen Root character alone, it is worth the rental. “That’s my stapler%u2026″

Whig-guy @40 – That Roches song was so sweet. I’ve had their harmonies burned into my sould and wore out the tape listening to them from the early 80’s on.

Babson @3:06 – Libba Cotton! When I was 14 the guy across the street wrote a book about her and she came to their house for a private concert just after it was published.

Christy’s latest, “A Stop on the Veritaseasiness Tour 2006″

lotuslander, if you are still having problems, FWIW, what browser are you using?
Can you use a different one to see if the problem is reproducible in different browsers, eg.,IE (Internet Expolorer) vs Firefox, vs Netscape….
OT, I used to have this problem periodically in Firefox. No problem getting to FDL, just couldn’t get the latest thread. It was usually a result of not clearing cookies in Firefox. Whether I cleared my cookies or not, when the next thread got posted, both the one I couldn’t get and the newer one magically appeared.

there’s some Peter Green from the 60s…

and ther’s Joan Baez doing Diamonds and Rust…

Live on frontier. No can get broadband. Qwest must die. What YouTube???

For Eighties music fans, lots of links to youtube videos here:
http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php

Yes, Yes, YES! Headline on CNN.com

Democrats: ‘Rubber Stamp Congress’

CNN) — A Vermont Democrat running for Congress said the Bush administration has “no clear strategy for success” in Iraq and that the “Republican ‘Rubber Stamp Congress’ has failed to do its duty when it comes to the oversight of this administration.”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html

WATCH OUT FOLKS, THERE’S A NEW TYPE OF “NEO-CON” IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

YUP: Bush is a “Neo-Confederate”

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com

June 5, 2006 — Yesterday, George W. Bush once again honored a past American president. But it was not one of his 42 predecessors. Bush sent a wreath to Arlington Cemetery to honor President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, a gesture Bush reinstated in 2003 after his father discontinued the practice in 1990. Some GOP activists have likened Bush to Abraham Lincoln, however, yesterday, Bush honored Lincoln’s arch foe. The commemoration of Davis’s June 3 birthday was held in conjunction with Confederate Memorial Day. The Arlington ceremony annually honors Davis and Confederate war dead. Some 400 Confederate soldiers are buried at the site of the Confederate Memorial, held at the Confederate War Monument at Jackson Circle in Arlington. The memorial was dedicated in 1914 by Woodrow Wilson, an arch-segregationist who is also considered the original neo-conservative because of his desire to project American influence around the world after World War I.

United Daughters of the Confederacy spokesperson Vicki Heilig thanked George Bush for sending the wreath. Other sponsors of the ceremony were the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Children of the Confederacy, and Southern Relief Society. According to a past Confederate Memorial organizer, there are also unofficial sponsors of both the ceremony and the Confederate Memorial statue. Through a circuitous network of bank accounts in North Carolina and Maryland, support for the event and statue has come in the past from white supremacist, Aryan Nation, Southern secessionist, and neo-Nazi organizations, according to the source. Moreover, the money movements have been covered, in part, through assistance from the National Credit Union Administration and other federal agencies, reported the source.

Although neo-conservatives have put a lock hold on high-level positions within the Bush administration and GOP hierarchy in Washington, the other “neo-cons” — neo-confederates — have been more circumspect, choosing to take positions in mid-level, but no less influential positions, in agencies like the Department of Energy, Voice of America, Department of Defense, Superior Court for the District of Columbia, National Credit Union Administration, General Services Administration, and the U.S. Congress.

I have found two distinct complete versions of Genesis w/ Peter Gabriel performing Supper’s Ready and The Musical Box. It does not get much better than that.

1965 – THEM, featuring a very young Van Morrison
“Here Comes the Night” and “Turn on Your Love Light”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLZoQCJK2g8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..h=ministry no W

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..h=ministry no W

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..search=new order perfect kiss

JStuddle 215

It does not get much better than that.

holy-moley, I’m gonna have to seek those out.

“and they’re giving me a wonderful potion
’cause I cannot contain my emotion”

a few random favorites:

Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer rock out on Frankenstein:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=edgar winter

Lou Reed / John Cale’s doing ‘Heroin’ at Bataclan, 1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=john cale

then joined by Nico for another number:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..earch=john cale

and the classic Serge Gaisbourg/Whitney Houston ‘duet’ from 1986…

and how could I forget…

D Bowie and an allegedly smacked-out Marianne Faithfull channel Sonny & Cher…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..h=marianne faithfull

you may need a palate cleanser after watching that one…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..arch=serge gainsbourg

Incubus – Pardon Me (acoustic)

Love the band. Love the song. For those of you that liked this you should listen to their song entitled 11AM

ah, m*rde! I forgot to include the link for the Serge Gainsbourg/Whitney Houston minidrama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMAHstZ565w

Serge is not sober…

Another of my favorite bands known simply as LIVE has a great song that I think pertains to the current situation we are suffering through in America. The song was written many years ago but but it is appropriately angry. The song is called White, Discussion. Here are the lyrics.

I talk of freedom
you talk of the flag
I talk of revolution
you’d much rather brag
and as the decibels of this disenchanting
discourse continue to dampen the day
the coin flips again and again and again
and again as our sanity walks away

all this discussion
though politically correct
is dead beyond destruction
though it leaves me quite erect
and as the final sunset rolls behind the earth
and the clock is finally dead
I’ll look at you, you’ll look at me
and we’ll cry a lot
and this will be what we said
this will be what we said

look where all this talking got us baby

I looked for it on YouTube but there is no video for it that I could find.

I’m hooked on the old XTC videos. The best/worst is the one they threw together for “Generals and Majors,” with Richard Branson hisownself dancing around in a uniform:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCW6Kte2o1A

Great song. Awful video, but funny. Colin and Andy look so damn young!

XTC!:

heard the neighbor slam his car door
don’t he realize this is respectable street?
what do you think he got that job for
don’t you realize this is respectable street?

serge gainsbourg was never sober! what a rascal he was….

It’s in the order of their hedgerow-wo-wose
It’s in the way their curtains open and clo-wose
It’s in the looks they give you down their no-wose
One part of decency’s jigsaw, I suppose

…

Bang the wall for me to turn down
I can see them with their stern frown
As they dispense the kind of look that says they’re perfect!

I can’t think of an album that delivers a 1-2 punch to get started like Black Sea does. “Respectable Street” followed by “Generals and Majors” right on the downbeat. Awesome.

My site http://www.bedazzled.tv has a lot of cool videos that are generally alot better quality than what you see on youtube….

“God Bless us all, Annie, wherever we’ll be.”

- Ronnie Lane of the Faces

Late to the party, but I worship at the feet of the mighty Bob Marley’s Redemption Song

Supertramp

“Watch what you say, they’ll be calling you a radical, a liberal, a fanitical criminal”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKFZomPosz8

ANYTHING by old UFO! Maaaaaan!

Chris at 227 – I can’t think of an album that delivers a 1-2 punch to get started like Black Sea does. “Respectable Street” followed by “Generals and Majors” right on the downbeat. Awesome.

Good call. My top of the head “backatcha” would be Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik – in fact nine of the first eleven songs leave me reeling:

#1 “The Power of Equality” – 4:03
#2 “If You Have to Ask” – 3:37
#3 “Breaking the Girl” – 4:55
#5 “Suck My Kiss” – 3:37
#6 “I Could Have Lied” – 4:04
#7 “Mellowship Slinky in B Major” – 4:00
#9 “Give It Away” – 4:43
#10 “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” – 4:31
#11 “Under the Bridge” – 4:24

What a great Faces video. I also like Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” and X’s “LA”.

having recently traded in my wax cylinder player for an mp3 device, i am scouring the internets for great stuff. i am now enamoured of mashups, as that genre is the closest thing i’ve found in reality to how music actually plays in my head.

here’s one of my favs, found on youtube: blondie and jim morrison doing rapture and riders on the storm.

it works! it works!

Wow. I keep checking here in the EPU zone to see what is still slowly being caught in the net and lo, there are still lovely things to be had.

brownandserve (231) – ah. I had forgotten “Breakfast in America”…I think the next time I run into the *sshole ex-boyfriend of long ago I will have to remind him of those exact lyrics. The last time I ran into him he said, “Oh, you always were a lefty liberal and I see you still are.” Funny, that particular Supertramp album was one of his faves.

skippy (235) — wish I could catch that one, but there’s some error with the hosting right now. I’ll check back since Blondie and Van Morrison are a couple of my favs. Thanks for sharing that one.

Jane,

In these days of madness that pass for “consensual government” (where the White Boys for Christ need a constitutional declaration of their fealty to the hetereosexual morality and male dominion) perhaps the best YouTube clip is the Kinks. Some 35 years later, so many of their ilk still sing the chorus of Lola – having still never listened to the lyrics.

May their powers perish in snark infested waters.

Thank you, Jane! Thanks a LOT. Now I’m pulled into it. I had to, HAD to see if anyone remembered Weird Al Yankovic’s “Dare to be Stupid” video, which I’ve longed to see. And somebody nicknamed Darksull did:

Dare To Be Stupid

Now I’m hooked, and will be traveling down 1980’s memory lane for the foreseeable future.

Shoephone, punaise: there’s plenty of Zazie on YouTube… mostly en francais…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Kl00h_7vg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RpZSPons80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CKYEeFUHRU