Excellent!

Looks like my weekends will be starting Fridays at 11am.

speaking of music, Murray Waas strikes again!

Oh, no you did not just ask for Youtube viddies.

You’re going to regret this…

Godzilla Vs. Disco Lando

Rejected

From the NYT: C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

Link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07.....r=homepage

File under: Are you fucking kidding me?!

“shitlist” used to be on my workout CD during the “I can’t believe my ex-girlfriend left me” stage during college a few years ago. Ahhh…

Tim

Folks should hit the recommend button at kos for Tim’s diary too!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/3/23153/78935

Yay, firedoglake goes multi-media! And on Friday morning, too.

Thanks for the support, firepoodles, for my first dK diary. Had I known it was that easy to be a diarist, I suppose I would have started long ago. But, being on dK does take time away from being here….

For a day that had little planned and certainly no news on deck, this sure turned out to be a busy one. Nothing motivates the ‘roots like turn-tail Joe-nertia. Scurry, Joe, scurry!

Go Ned! http://www.actblue.com/page/firedoglake

Siun 7 — yep, I already hit that recommend button myself.

Tim did yeoman’s work today posting all those videos we YouTubed. Many thanks.

Teddy 8 — congratulations on your first diary. I sure hope we don’t lose you to the addiction of posting Kos diaries ;)

Eli 4 — yes, we’ve had a long day. A little YouTube music distraction is a good thing.

Eli 4 %u2014 yes, we’ve had a long day. A little YouTube music distraction is a good thing.

Oh, *music*?

Sorry. I do have a few music, um, videos…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZRnqon7tgM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0gvaVyHc0

hey, Jane…you HAVE seen all the Bonzos stuff on YouTube, haven’tcha…? (and I haven’t even checked for Rawlinson End, yet…)

hie thee thither, girly!

Well…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=sting roxanne

And the third (didn’t want to get stuck in moderation):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JG4BpAY7A4

Guess I might as well throw the Ninja Rap in there as well…

Yeah! I am in Boston/Cape Cod for the 4th. It is so exciting to see a different part of the country.

You guys, er um gals sustain me.

Here is drinking to the Constitution and all that it stands for.

Here is drinking to the rule of law.

Oh and here is drinking to awesome posts by women like Reddhedd and Jane.

Love and peace to all the firepups on this newly minted 4th of July.

The Constitution is more important than all of us.

Anna

And just for variety, here’s a couple that I like:

Boney M - “Rasputin”

The Darkness - “I Believe In A Thing Called Love”

(if that second video had been beamed back to the 70s, they would have been worshopped as *gods*)

Eli - what line do I get in to get that 15 minutes back for Godzilla and Rejected? Lord, they’re funny….

i can’t wait to read donita with my naked eye!

speaking of covers and youtube, i wax unapologetically enthusiastically over the scissor sisters’ cover of pink floyd’s “comfortably numb” (and discuss what makes a good cover vs. a bad one) over at skippy (complete w/youtube embed of said song).

…wanna see a Firepup?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/a.....181280435/

Are we supposed to know who she is? Is this video supposed to impress us? Give here credibility? Wasn’t there a better video? I would think more thought would have gone into the marketing, here.

This old Stagehand needs to know more. I guess I’ll need to wait and read.

–mf

Eli - what line do I get in to get that 15 minutes back for Godzilla and Rejected? Lord, they’re funny….

If you liked those, you should like Staplerfahrer Klaus. (Don’t worry, knowledge of German is not necessary)

Hey, have a wonderful 4th everyone. It was great spending time here at FDL today.

A couple more favorite music videos:

Rammstein - “Sonne” (uncharacteristically beautiful chorus, and freaky Snow-White-as-gold-junkie-dominatrix video)

New Order - “True Faith” (one of my all-time favorite videos, completely inexplicable)

monkeyfister 21 — Are we supposed to know who she is?

No, that’s why we have links and tell who she is. Have you ever read a blog before? Been on the internets? Clicked through a hyperlink? Used Google?

I’m sorry but there is a limit to how remedial we’re going to go here.

Here is a 10ish year old boy singing “Der Halle Rache”, from the demanding coloratura role of the Queen of the Night from Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Like the proverbial dog walking on his hind legs, it’s not amazing that he does it well, but that he does it at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=opera

A little bit of shameless blog pimping here –

Connecticut Bob has personal Ned Lamont fundraising boat that he is trying to float.

Bob has a goal of $250, and he’s raised $85 so far.

For any of you itching to throw Ned Lamont some greenback love, think about doing it via CT Bob.

Thanks . . .

http://ctbob.blogspot.com/

[end shameless b-p]

For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=1967

“Wasn’t there a better video? I would think more thought would have gone into the marketing, here.”
All excellent reasons to contribute generously either thru VISA, MasterCard OR PAYPAL and as always, click through the advertising.

Welcome Donita, Jane has a great eye for talent and her imprimatur carries a lot of weight here at FDL and growing influence in a lot of other places as well.

there is a SHITELOAD of vintage Merle Haggard (”Branded Man”-era) at the YouTube, too…

Cozumel 28 — that’s a good one, shameless Stills fan here.

More freaky videos:

Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At?” (freaky monkey experiments)

Electric 6 - “Gay Bar” (gay Abraham Lincolns - the whip-censored bits are “war” and “nuclear war”, BTW)

Uh-oh now I’m gone….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rch=Stills stephen

Recommended Teddy’s and Tim’s diaries at kos. And Teddy’s poll shows 100% in favor of Reid/party supporting the primary winner–duh!
Lots of support for the letter at Reid’s site too.

It’s getting worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rch=Stills stephen

EPU’d and edited:

TeddySanFran

At last count, with 76 votes tallied, the vote was still 100 percent on your poll at DailyKos for the proposition that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid should pledge to support the winner of the Connecticut Democratic primary.

I left a lengthy comment to your diary. Here is an excerpt:

“Senatorial courtesy, the good-old-boy club, the Incumbent Preservation Society, whatever you want to call it, Reid would be making a major mistake to side with Democrats of dubious party loyalty such as Charles Schumer (D-NY)who choose to interfere in the Connecticut Democratic Party’s nomination process and refuse to commit to supporting the party’s nominee after the primary. If that is Reid’s idea of leadership, then the slogan should be ‘Get the Hell Out, Harry.’”

Another in a long line of excellent ideas Jane. Sure appreciate your long days (EDT) blogging from CT. What a wonderful day it has been checking in to read the latest.

LOL Jane!

Come back into the light ; )

Encore presentation… The BEST I’ve found there, bar none…

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park (Beat Club 1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....h=itchycoo park

Jane, you gettin’ any sleep these days, blogging Pacific hours in the East?

Infancy of a Disaster — is she singing about Day One of the Lieberman-as-independent/Democrat-Not/WATB/No Mojo Joe campaign?

ok Jane … everytime I go into youtube rehab, you send me back!

some favorite music history moments:

because whoever chose to focus on Janis’ feet was brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=janis joplin

and then there’s my favorite music man (not john denver):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....rch=herbie hancock

because whoever chose to focus on Janis’ feet was brilliant:

And whoever tagged it as “80s” and “punk”… not so much.

Maybe it’s time to add a youtube and music category up top.

I see your Buffalo Springfield, and raise you a Van Morrison with the Chieftains playing “Star of the County Down”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....search=Van Morrison

(sorry, i once again failed miserably at the html spell)

Steve Gilliard:

TNB did a recent interview with Joe Lieberman’s astral advisor and guardian angel, Benedict Arnold . . .

http://stevegilliard.blogspot......party.html

http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.....rdfor.html

THRUSTING AMERICA’S LOVE OUTWARD!

(An Ode to the 4th)…..

That #35 link is going into my heavy rotation, from the Tom Jones show. Utterly fab.

Well said neurophius.
Primaries are dry runs for the elections. They measure who will actually cast a vote. Today, Joe Liebermann just leveraged all his name recognition, payed for by Al Gore, to tell the Democratic Primary to go “Dick Cheney” themselves. Joementum’s selfishness trashes the whole process and really hurts all the other “smaller” races in CT.
It may also have the unintended impact of increasing the impact netroots can have in the CT primary. Joe just “pulled the rug out” from underneath all those Dems who have been running all along as though they had to rely on Joe’s coat tails to survive the primary.

I will limit myself to one (dial up) question about youtube. Is the sound quality good? Janis, Vanbuffalo you guys are brutal. lol

From the NYT: C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden

I was wondering whether the Pakistanis are taking over the franchise operations, as a substitute for *ilson’s pomegranates in payment for the F-16s. They produce on schedule (let’s see, when might that be?…) and get to keep the planes (signing payment), plus maybe some parts, training, etc. (retainer). Talk about a need to re-invent government!

Okay, there’s a crack in the main fuel tank, and there are–literally–vultures in the air. Does anyone else think that a 4th of July launch of the space shuttle (Motto: Only 50% of the fleet has gone ka-blewie!) is a spectacularly bad idea? I mean, I really hope the launch goes off without a hitch and this turns into a warm and fuzzy 4th of July story, but I think NASA is taking one hell of a gamble here.

prostratedragon - Yea, 3 billion for war planes or lets see how about 3 billion for earthquake relief.

Awesome news about Donita! I love L7, they’re the band I usually end up listening to when I’m pissed off…and this Administration has made me pissed off a lot, so you can imagine how much I’ve been listening to their cds lately hehe.

Okay, there’s a crack in the main fuel tank, and there are%u2013literally%u2013vultures in the air. Does anyone else think that a 4th of July launch of the space shuttle (Motto: Only 50% of the fleet has gone ka-blewie!) is a spectacularly bad idea?

Umm… yeah?

How many shuttles have to blow up before they learn their lesson?

Eureka Springs @ 49 - depends onthe lcips, some are much better than others, depending on the source.

I’d been so good, hadn’t frittered any time away at Youtube in a couple of weeks, but now I’m going back to see 3 new Van vids and see if there’s any Kate Bush or Bonnie Raitt.

Oh well, it’s a holiday night…

ck - So what’s goin’ on with Atrios crowd? I’ve been busy studying, and will be till the the end of July (seriously, I am studying for something).

And, finally on YouTube, a full version. Hey, it SAYS it’s a rare promo version - VERY RARE. And it’s punk, solid funking gold punk.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wGu.....ch=teenage kicks

Kurt 53 — they’re the band I usually end up listening to when I’m pissed off%u2026

They are very appropriate for the present moment, I’d say.

Op99 — not as much sleep as I should get. I was going to take it easy today, holiday weekend, blah blah blah…so much for that…

Eli-
Thanks for the NO and Basement Jaxx fix. Awesome:)

Here’s my current YouTube fixation-

Primal Scream- Country Girl

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8AJB8mfm9Zg

For you youngsters, here’s where that mediocre band got their name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....arch=bonzo dog band

Eli, nice links. I’m a little bit scared and a little bit happy…thanks.

Jane 57, I know what you mean, lol. I wish FDL Late Night people would send me to bed at a decent hour on worknights.

Eli says:
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 pm

How many shuttles have to blow up before they learn their lesson?
———————————————————-
All of them, it seems.

Sorry it’s out of sync. Can’t wait until Apple redoes this film. MMT is a much underated film.

Heh. Glad you liked, Phoebe & Johnny. I actually forgot to post my usual “Monday Media Blogging” feature (usually video), but I’m making up for it here…

All of them, it seems.

That certainly would prevent it from happening again…

not the best of their songs … but sadly youtube does not have “Let’s go for a walk upon the water” so we have to settle … still, precursors to many like bonzo and similar vintage to itchycoo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....search=the move uk

And for Mad Rabbi Joe up in CT, we have classic Slade - Ultra Slade even.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Tm.....arch=slade runaway

And for those of you who don’t know, Slade begat Quiet Riot who copied Slade’s “Come on Feel the Noise,” but don’t hold that against them.

As to the shuttle. I’ll say it again. The ISS has to be finished so that they can have a platform to launch ICBM’s off of. NASA estimates it will take 64 more missions! How many are they willing to kill for a “new world order?” Buzzards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another NASA link. Red flags all over the field here: http://www.breitbart.com/news/.....T4V00.html

powerful lamont ad on ctbob’s site. check it out!
http://ctbob.blogspot.com/

Primal Scream- Country Girl

Well, crap. They don’t have “Get Your Rocks Off”. Although “Country Girl” is definitely a better video…

gotcha covered, Teddy

And for Mad Rabbi Joe up in CT, we have classic Slade - Ultra Slade even.

Love that song. I did not raelize the album was called “Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply”…

Eli-
That video is awesome, just got “Riot City Blues” the other day… fantastic.

YouTube doesn’t have the video-video, but they have a live version of “Rocks”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ce6bURqiSfQ

FProbst, I too will be crossing my fingers and holding my breath. Remember watching the launch of the one a few years ago when the commentator mentioned at the time that some kind of debris seemed to be flying off the rocket?

The dreamer in me would like to see space travel continued somehow, but the practical aspects—some quite obvious, like the effects on materials of repeated freezing and thawing—and NASA’s organizational culture really have me worried for the astronauts.

So… has anyone seen Divine’s version of “Walk Like A Man”?

Okay, everyone get out your X record “Fourth Of July” and read Griel Marcus

http://www.salon.com/opinion/f.....can_dream/

Congressman Tim Ryan today:
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gm.....eorge.html

No. And something tells me I should be really sorry.

Gotta try the you-tube later. For some reason, flash runs off and hides with my audio and I have to restart browsers to get it back.

Hey, thanks to all of you who recommended my first dK diary — it’s on the recommended list, no small thanks to all your votes!

oh, and eli — that Klaus safety video is just disturbing. You owe me a total of 15:23 now….

Stephen 59 — I’d never seen that. Love Viv Stanshall. My (perennially mentioned) favorite, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, was once described as a movie “written, produced, directed by and starring alcoholics.” It’s brilliant, a must-see for the Harry Hutton fan.

YouTube doesn’t have the video-video, but they have a live version of “Rocks”

Ex-cellent…

Another favorite blast from the past - used to be on U68 in NYC all the time back in the day, but I never saw nor heard it anywhere else: New Order - “Shellshock”.

Stephen 77 — now I”m disappointed, I thought it was a YouTube of “4th of July.”

oh, and eli - that Klaus safety video is just disturbing. You owe me a total of 15:23 now….

Mwahahahaha… I fear that this sort of thing may be my sole purpose on this planet.

Somebody’s hit the Recommended List at DailyKos;-)

Congratulations!

Eli … Ms Divine was …just divine.

ducking fast

… great, now thanks to Donita I’m gonna have to share fdl with my SO, who used to think fdl only took me away. Apparently fdl now has intrinsic value!

EPU 67 — I actually just bought a CD (ie, not on ITunes) — a copy of Slade’s “Git Yer Boots On.” I say that all the time and nobody ever knows where it comes from.

Or maybe it’s just too boring to mention, I dunno.

Eli … Ms Divine was …just divine.

I think I might actually prefer that to the original.

yikes! i got l7 mixed up w/luscious jackson…

i’m so unhip..

here’s what i can’t figure out. if the space shuttle is damaged nasa says the crew can wait at the space station for a rescue shuttle. so what if the rescue shuttle gets damaged and that crew is also stuck at the space station. do they all just eat each other alive and the last one gets really fat and comes home with the russians?

Teddy hit the recommended list!!! WOO HOO!!!!

You’re a rock star, Teddy.

I mean, I really hope the launch goes off without a hitch and this turns into a warm and fuzzy 4th of July story, but I think NASA is taking one hell of a gamble here.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. And utterly heartless toward the astronauts. How cynical am I that I just see this as a big, craven grab at the whole trailer trash pie?

But, hey, you know? What’s a few more American lives sacrificed to the President’s vanity? He’s killed 3000 soldiers in Iraq. What’s a few astronauts?

Here’s a politically symbolic one:

Camouflage - “The Great Commandment”.

Donita?
Cool, that’s my little sister’s name.

Donita - Welcome to FDL! I used to be a music columnist. It is a big responsibility. I wrote for a small circulation daily, but you’re on the cutting edge of the next journalism paradigm. Keep that in mind, and your talent and creativity will carry you on through to that other side we’re so close to.

siun - I did the recommend button thingie.

Jane - I am so afraid to get into YouTube. I’m 59, there’s so little time to finish MY work.

all here interested in Frank Probst’s apprehension about the shuttle - I remember one of my first thoughts as I watched the Columbia unravel over Texas was, “Bush has got to be the unluckiest President….”

I mean, I really hope the launch goes off without a hitch and this turns into a warm and fuzzy 4th of July story, but I think NASA is taking one hell of a gamble here.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. And utterly heartless toward the astronauts. How cynical am I that I just see this as a big, craven grab at the whole trailer trash pie?

It’s not like anything bad has ever happened before when we launched under less-than-ideal conditions…

A shuttle explosion is not a rally-’round-the-president type event, correct?

In this case, it’s more like a “What were you *thinking*???” event. Could they be actively trying to squash the shuttle program?

prostratedragon

Your DKos link doesn’t work for me

Hey - did anyone hear anything more about the suddent omg N Korea is threatening the US story that CNN led with for one broadcast?

on the shuttle - where is Richard Feynman when we need him? (sorely missed)

also, hope folks have read Hersch’s latest:
http://www.informationclearing.....e13819.htm

and Howard Zinn says Put away the Flags:
http://www.informationclearing.....e13823.htm

Can I just say how much I hate primal scream?

*ducks and runs for cover*

siun, I second the post about Richard Feynman.

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies - MACHINE GUN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=band of Gypsies

Nite ; )

One more from the vault

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....eely%20Dan

I’ve been fiddling around trying to find the C-SPAN link to yearlykos to send to my relative who is NYC working for a friend doing Lieberman ads - though he says he may bail out because of today’s announcement - a lot of arguing going on in the production room, but they’re supposed to start working on a reasponse to Ned’s new stuff tomorrow morning.

Anyway, does somebody here have the link to the archived C-SPAN coverage of yearlykos? It has to do with convincing my relative to come over from the dark side.

Dover Bitch - he remains one of my heroes

finishing my sort through ICH for today, they included Langston Hughes for the 4th - sadly as appropriate as ever:

Let America Be America Again

http://www.informationclearing.....le4004.htm

*ducks and runs for cover*

It’s okay, TRex. Free country and all that. For now, anyway:)

this is a lovely vid by boards of canada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

looking forward to donita’s posts!

Hey Donita…we met at DNA in San Francisco a million years ago. I was a DJ there in another lifetime. Glad to have you onboard the with the firepups. Welcome!!

Here’s what I found on my first dive into youtube:

Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On?

Marvin Gaye’s cufflinks have more soul than Bobby Gillespie.

Jane - Fond memories are never boring. Slade always brings a smile to my face.

Oh I forgot…this in in Dutch, but you get the point good video, good song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVXhAk6FTwA

FWIW, when the Rebels fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, they were trying to drive Federal troops out of South Carolina. They made a horrible miscalculation, as that action made South Carolina the “aggressors” in the eyes of the nation, just the opposite of the “states rights” image they wanted to project. Their action also wrecked the more moderates in the South, especially Virginia where most of the bloodiest battles were fought.
It seems to me that Howard Dean maybe able to “leverage” Lieberman’s betrayl of the Primary system as a referendum right now for the entire Democratic party. We don’t have to wait until November to hold DINO’s accountable. If we keep doing what we’re doing, every fund raiser that Reid, Clinton, Schumer, …. and all the rest attend, people will ask them about the CT primary. Will they pledge to support the winner?
IMO, the best scenario for Ned and for the Democratic party would be if we put so much pressure on the leadership that they all had to pledge to support the winner of the CT primary. In the best of all possible worlds this might force Joe to recant his threat to run as an Republican independent.

squirrel hiller
yes, that is the plan, exactly.

I saw the Challenger explode. In person, I mean, not on tv. In the actual sky. It was pretty goddamned creepy.

Frank 51

I so agree that pushing this iffy launch on the Fourth of July is nutz.

Shoot, I resented their sending off a launch on my birthday one year. If it went blooey, I didn’t want to have that anniversary hanging over my B-day every year.

Eli 22, Geez, that german dude on the fork lift, that was some sick puppy who concieved of that gem.

my dream shuttle crew:
captain rush”never will be good looking” limbaugh
ann “her arms are so long, she types in another state”coulter
that “gas bill keller” babe
ted “my internets are stuck in the tubes”stevens
karl rove, cause i want to see him in an orange jumpsuit
bill”will bet on anything” bennett
bill”skin ‘em alive”frist
dick “robo heartless”cheney

Neil Young Like a Hurricane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....earch=Neil Young

Whoops!

Jimi Hendrix - MACHINE GUN (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsh7GxzxPSs

Trex - step away from the computer! Once youtube invades your life, it’s all over.

Those JaneHamshersoftheLeft use it as mindcontrol and bygod it works!

Jane - Fond memories are never boring. Slade always brings a smile to my face.

I will never be able to see the name of the band Slade without thinking about this DJ I heard on the radio in London in 1990. He had just played that Run Runaway song and he said, jokingly, “And that was the band SHLAHR-day with ‘Run Runaway’. She’s changed her sound a bit, hasn’t she?”

For the record, “Run Runaway” was the last vinyl single that I ever bought.

Hey Coz, last night you commented that Moose dated Coulter according to a Red Sox site.
Was that hate Yankee rhetoric or is Moose that despicable?

CLETER!!!

Where have you BEEN?!