Login HereHowdy folks. Patrick Rex here, filling on for TRex on the Late Late Night post.
TRex really, really loves Amy Winehouse, as he has made abundantly clear here lately.
I can't say I blame him... I have done a lot of session work these past few years. I wouldn't mind playing drums behind a soul singer with a crack band.
I was in London last fall for two weeks, off and on, for a gig. It was fantastic. I discovered loads of interesting music in addition to lovely Ms. Winehouse. A lot of it was being done on laptops, interestingly.
I am completely head over heels over this clip -
I don't really know a thing about these guys, but I love this track. For those of you who need a bit of a touchup on some of the cultural references: NME used to be a great music magazine. Lately, not so much. Stephen Fry is a very witty and arch British Comedian. The reason Thou Shalt Not buy coca-cola products is because of their horrible labor pratices. Nestle does some pretty terrible stuff involving baby formula and impoverished nations, as well.
I have no idea what Hollyoaks is , though it appears to be a television show.
The Four Elements of hip hop : MCing (rapping), DJing, urban inspired art/tagging (graffiti), b-boying (or breakdancing, to most), and beatboxing.
"Is it?" - I have no idea. Same with the spelling of Phoenix/Pheonix. There's a controversy over that?
Anyway, watching this video made me really, really want to go back to London.
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Evening Patrick Rex.
pure luck, I was waiting for pat to fix the html :)
sorry the layout of this post keeps changing… this advanced version of wordpress is a challenge for embedding movies, y’know, if one is used to the cheap version.
I’m kinda partial to this oldie but goodie from trance/hip-hop.
“Anyway, watching this video made me really, really want to go back to London.”
Does this help any? youtube
Suzanne @ 4
Evening, Suzanne!
TRex was sounding awfully sleepy on the phone earlier, so I told him I would jump in and post something if comments started to approach 270, so he could get some rest.
It’s been a busy week round these parts, no?
EPU —-
Houston Chronicle
The death of Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam, 73, in a car accident has drawn a flood of tributes. A prolific writer of more than 20 books, the lanky, gruff-voiced Halberstam made his fame as a hard-nosed 29-year old Vietnam War correspondent for The New York Times whose dispatches exposed the false optimism of U.S. officials and commanders about that conflict.
Halberstam’s refusal to take officials at their word and insistence on questioning every available source made him a hero to a generation of journalists who followed. His landmark examination of what went wrong in Vietnam — The Best and the Brightest — was published in 1972 and profiled how ostensibly brilliant statesmen led the country into a bloody, ultimately losing fight in Southeast Asia.
Two days after Halberstam’s death, PBS aired a segment of Bill Moyers’ Journal called “Buying the War,” an examination of the failure of many journalists to adequately question the Bush administration’s justification for invading Iraq. The emotional outpouring after the 9/11 attacks pushed media outlets into self-censorship and suppressed critical analysis.
Phil Donahue’s talk show had high ratings, but because he allowed guests to voice antiwar opinions NBC canceled the program weeks before the war began.
(snip)
In another instance, officials planted a false story in The New York Times indicating that Iraq had purchased aluminum tubes to be used to process uranium for nuclear weapons. Vice President Dick Cheney and others then went on Sunday talk shows citing the story as confirmation of Saddam Hussein’s efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction.
Moyers offers some examples of pre-war reporting that Halberstam would have embraced. The Knight Ridder Washington Bureau’s John Walcott, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel published insightful pieces questioning the accuracy of U.S. intelligence claims, but they were lost in the din of cheerleading in support of the war. (Weeks before the war, the Houston Chronicle editorial board warned in an editorial that there was too little justification for the United States to invade Iraq, and too much risk.)
Halberstam’s life is a lesson plan in how news media in a free society should hold government accountable to the truth. After the deaths of more than 3,300 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis in a war that shows no signs of ending, Moyer’s report details the disastrous consequences of what happens when journalists abdicate that role.
Yes it has been. I see the video now. Thanks for fixing that.
I wonder if the Mainstream Media will respond to the Bill Moyer’s documentary I wonder if even Keith O can get away with pointing out Pumpkinheads throwing softballs to Cheney. Much less Pumpkinheads leting Cheney keep claiming Saddam and Al Queida are linked.
I ust left this downstairs so thought I would bring it up. The WaPo writers are getting some good stories out. THe editorial board ain’t worth a rat’s ass.
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This one by OutKast is a blast, too.
things come undone @ 12
That’s exactly what I just quoted above. Tomorrow’s top editorial from the Houston Chronicle.
Lou Costello @ 8
God, I love that scene.
“Well, I didn’t vote for you!”
Hi Patrick… good of you to fill in for TRex…
Lordy it has been hard to follow all the doings this week AND try to work.
This week has been a scandal a minute….
“In 1971, he waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States. He is most prominently known for his release of the Pentagon Papers”
This man is one of our options for Prez RIGHT NOW. The choice is clear:
http://gravel2008.us
Somehow I don’t David Pryor is going to be pleased when he reads the WaPo story.
Get your popcorn!!!
Texas Betsy,
Bill Moyers did a brief segment on him tonight:
Remembering David Halberstam
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour.....ript3.html
Music posts are a wonderful antidote to scandal fatigue.
AZ Matt @ 19
Change that to Mark Pryor
bonkers @ 18
How old is he?
Hi PatrickRex: I went over and saw this last night when you mentioned it. Is he Dan? with a group? I can’t figure it out.
Suzanne @ 21
True but these scandals, why there are so many to choose from. And the fact that they keep coming out with more and more everyday.
Suzanne @ 21
I like ths C&L-LNMC: crooksandliars
What. The. Fuck…?
>:-(
itwasntme @ 24
I think Dan le Sac is a poet and MC, and Scroobie Pip is a laptop DJ. I think that this is the first thing they have recorded and released, and they knocked it out of the park.
Mike Gravel is 77 I believe, and I haven’t seen that much energy and passion out of a Prez candidate in a looooooong time.
Suzanne @ 21
Yeah. A post at Tbogg’s has me listening to Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen tonight.
Yeah, great clip patrick, thanks.
Darkblack, if I remember correctly, the reason there is no uproar is because this is done by a conservative. IOKIYAR.
Another one bites the dust, Deputy Secretary of State resigns because he was a customer of an escort service.
Bwahahahahahahhahaha
The New York Yankees have lost seven games in a row, and are in last place in the Eastern Division of the American League.
There is a God, and he wants me to be happy.
Its 88 degrees at 10pm right now and predict it will be over 100 this weekend…. Woohoo… almost pool time.
darkblack @ 27
I saw that earlier today. Trying to remember where. It was a discussion about Hillary coming on FDL and some the wingnuts were going after Jane for the blackface video during the CT campaign. One person pointed this cartoon out and the fact that the wingnuts weren’t getting worked up about it.
Wow katymine-I’m in central FL, and it’s not nearly that hot here-yet.
Texas Betsy @
10
Wow! “False story,” eh? That’s the kind of direct language we haven’t been hearing enough of.
I caught a bit of the replay of Diane Rehm today on NPR, and one of the guests was responding to a question about Jessica Lynch with some of the usual “misleading story” blather, and I yelled at the radio “No, it was a lie! Say “lie”!” And he did! It was so refreshing!
(Just for the record, no, I don’t think the little people in the radio could hear me. *g* Especially since it was pre-recorded.)
katymine @ 35
I am afraid that here in the Northern Rockies we just hit the 70s for the first time today. On the other hand I will not have to deal with 100 degree heat at all this summer.
Suzanne @ 21
I dunno, I don’t find these scandals fatiguing at all. But music is still good.
Redshift @ 37
Chronicle is not exactly a left-leaning paper.
burnspbesq @ 34
I pull for the Tigers, the Braves and whomever is beating the DAMN YANKEES!
Which is not to say that they weren’t great at one time…. Maris/DiMaggio/Gherig….
But now, they’re STEINBRENNER’S team….
ugh.
RonD @ 37
Ya but it’s a dry heat don’t you know?
Actually it is so dry (less than 12% humidity) that you hardly know it is that hot.
Texas Betsy @ 40
Is there anything in Houston that leans left?
LOL, I just won 20 bucks from someone who refused to believe that Rush played that Barack song. Thanks for the link last thread!
Redshift @ 37
This was on the PBS special the other night. It happened quite often. The publication Night Ridder was aware and publishing articles pointing out that very issue.
Texas Betsy @ 41
Every now and then, you get the feeling that the Chron doesn’t like the Bushies. They did a big story back in the day that linked up the Bushies with the Bin Ladens, way back when nobody gave a shit about it. I think it was in the mid 90s or so. Trying to remember…
RonD @ 45
Blog reading is finacially rewarding career!
My son is a poli-sci major at FSU, just got home-he’s been having finals and missed it. God knows he’s burned me enough times.
DrDick @ 44
I’d say yes.
Epu’d.
Howie is liveblogging at the CA state convention. Hope you have mad listening skilz…or can filter out ambient noises…
Suzanne @ 32
Fuck Chris Muir, Rush Limbaugh, and every other right-wing bike seat sniffer that shares my air and attempts to make racism a punchline.
Jane and FDL took immense amounts of rancor for an image that had no humor content whatsoever.
I, as the creator of that image made no excuses and vowed ‘never again’.
What mealy-mouthed alibis will these sorry specimens proffer?
“But they did it first”?…”Oh, it’s just a joke - get a life”?…”9/11 changed everything”?
A plague upon them all, forevermore.
>:-(
LJ/Aquaria @ 49
Well, that’s encouraging. Any more like her around? Maybe we can take the state back from crazies.
PatR
I’d agree they knocked it out of the park. Love it. More, please, Mr. LeSac?
I absolutely agree, DB. Fucking hypocrites is what they are - fucking hypocrites.
darkblack @ 51
I am with you on that.
Think about this and put in today’s context of non-binding resolutions, and the only thing being “on the table” are all the options against Iran.
Mike Gravel waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months to end the draft during Vietnam, and then releases the Pentagon Papers to further a takedown of a corrupt President. We are in a Constitutional Crisis with a media owned and operated in order to keep it that way. This cannot be any more clear…a crisis, and we need a true patriot to restore “We the people.” NOW.
DrDick @ 52
Plenty like her around. You just have to know where to find them. Are you in Houston?
texasbetsy
i think sen gravel is 73
Think I am going to turn in a bit early. See you fine people tomorrow.
hey jacqrat (waving)
Time to head to bed. Got to go shopping tomorrow to Flagstff, only 120 miles one way!
LJ/Aquaria @ 56
No, far from it. I’m in Montana, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Houston was always a generally conservative place (and this is before the Repugs took over the whole state). I had the good fortune to get out of Oklahoma just before the Republican coup there.
Texas Betsy @ 58
Night, Betsy. Sorry about my poorly worded post below. It has been a long week.
For those who loved the Bill Moyers ‘Buying the War’: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
Check out the extras down the right. Interactive Timeline and the Scott Ritter interview are great. Still workin’ on the rest.
BTW: They will have tonight’s video with Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall posted sometime later today 4/28. But the transcripts are up: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/jour.....index.html
bonkers @ 56
I didn’t know who Gavel was when I saw him last night. He was certainly passionate. I basically agreed with everything he said, but the way he said it was unusual.
Nite AZ Matt & Texas Betsy…
Ah, the joy of it all
And the hits just keep on coming…
“You see what power is - holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!” - Amy Tan
DrDick @ 62
No problem. I was confused so I asked.
BROTHER LEE ROY PARNELL!
‘Night, AZ and T-Betsy.
Spiderpaws said this was going to be a bad weekend for the bushies.
DrDick @ 62
It’s still pretty much conservative, overall, and still gaudy as hell. I was witness to a huge Halliburton shindig there that brings a whole new meaning to conspicuous consumption. Shoulda seen all the diamonds and big hair going into that event!
juslin @ 58
76 ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel
GPB, saw LRP some years ago. That is a guitar player in the finest sense of the word. He is awesome.
LJ/Aquaria @ 71
God, I had forgotten the big hair. Gaudy I do not mind so much, though Dallas/Houston vulgar ostentation makes me queasy.
Man, I was just listening to that horrible minstrelsy over at TPM- the inflammatory crap that Limbaugh has hidden on the Members Only section of his website.
Amazing that some people think it’s ok to make the Selma Marches a punchline.
I have seen the Edmund Pettus Bridge… Liberal/socially concerned/radical Americans should all go stand on that bridge, and imagine walking up the steep incline into the swinging clubs of the Alabama State Patrol.
Rush and his racist demagoguery. Sheesh.
Rap is not music.
It’s spoken word.
It’s pretty ugly, commercially, speaking.
Hip Hop is a marketing ploy to sell shit.
Despite my proclivity to admire and respect Grand Master Flash, it’s all gone downhill since.
When the music business began to employ synth’s, and drum machines, to cut costs, the sound went to hell.
I’m not a producer, engineer, or audio tech, but I sure as shit know what I like in music for 54 years.
It’s NOT on the radio.
And I FEEL the pain of the soul sounds of the 50’s and 60’s that were usupred when they cut out live horns, and top 40 butchered it from there.
Harumph.
Gimme acoustic stringed music of grass, newgrass, jamgrass, dawg, gypsy and folk and celtic and the myriads of those HANDS ON and PURE human made musics any day. Pure HUMAN talent. Human made. Voices stacked, in arrangements, that chill the soul.
And PLENTY of room for the cultural sharing, and INCLUSION, of all people’s rainbow. Of all country’s.
Harumph, 2.
Let the SUPPOSED voice of the oppressed find an outlet other than in major record labels jive ass rape of all things popular.
Harumph 3.
And who in here is fighting the fight, against the RIAA and the Royalty Copyright Board recent impositions of TAXATION that will shut down internet streaming?
Hmmmm?
Indie’s of all rainbows will NEVER again be heard. Only the watered down Clear Channel’s Of Life will allow a few formats. Winehouse, and Joss Stone, might NEVER have been heard.
Harumph.
patrick rex @ 75
I do not really have to imagine it. I watched all of that on TV growing up in the 60s. I think I’m still mad about it.
DrDick @ 75
I really have to resist the urge to fire up my lighter anytime I’m in either city. The only thing holding me back is that putting doing so might make the entire place go up in flames and take me with it! I bet you can ignite the Dallas’s AquaNet miasma from Terrell!
Lou Costello @
74
He turns 77 on my late brother Gene’s birthday, May 13. I’ve known Gravel since he was 42. Lotsa Mike Gravel stories - my wife even has more. Later, though. Off to watch The Last King of Scotland with her.
LJ/Aquaria @ 78
I really have to resist the urge to fire up my lighter anytime I’m in either city. The only thing holding me back is that putting doing so might make the entire place go up in flames and take me with it! I bet you can ignite the Dallas’s AquaNet miasma from Terrell!
I hear the each have their own, personal hole in the ozone layer.
Loo Hoo @ 66
I’ve only seen clips of him on C&L and his web site. I remember people saying Ned Lamont is cool and all, but he’s an awkward speaker, so not sure he can get elected. In a few months, with the help of FDL and others, Lamont makes up a 40% deficit and beat LieberME in the CT Dem primary. If nothing else, we need Gravel to help re-frame debate.
Larue, I am lucky to live in KPIG’s broadcast area. For those not so fortunate, one can listen online. Real DJ’s who choose their own music. Lots of Dobro too :)
Suzanne @
75
Suzanne, he’s a friend of mine, I’ve played onstage several times with him. He taught me slide guitar. I love the man like a brother.
patrick rex @
16
I love that one too - “Must be a king.” “Why?” “He hasn’t got sh** all over him.”
Well, I’m not as sophisticated as the rest of y’all with music, so I’m heading out. Nighty night night.
DrDick @ 77
Roger that. Me, too.
‘Night, LJAquaria. A pleasure.
RonD @
37
You’re in Central Fl? I’m from Tampa, and lived in Orlando/Altamonte Spgs/Winter Park for 5 years before moving to LA.
LJ/Aquaria @ 85
G’night, LJ. Beware the big hair!
GPB, I’ve never seen your friend, but I’ll keep an eye out if he comes to central FL-have you ever seen Sonny Landreth?
Alicia @ 84
My band has been talking about calling our next record “My Dirty Southern Life” in homage to two things, 1. The “Dirty South” of the new music scene that has sprung up in Atlanta in the past five or so years, and 2. our own lives, in contrast to that- always covered in something very NOT glamorous- motor oil, plaster dust, roofing tar, fryer grease… we’re working class and proud of it!
But it ain’t bling and limos for us, that’s for sure.
Hi Alicia! I am indeed in central FL, about 20 mi SE of Tampa. I’m a native.
But Bonkers, Lieberman was just elected to 6 years in the senate. So sad.
Holy shenannigans, I take a few hours off for a gig and I come back to see the Bush administration melting down in a moral cesspool of hookers and graft.
He’s having another baaaaad weekend.
-GSD
larue @
78
You’re a ‘laker after my own musical heart! Only musical events i go to these days are home concerts, great grassroots movement in music. The way it’s meant to be listened to! Harumph!
larue@ 78 - you nailed it - my daughter and son-in-law are musicians and say very similar things……
Cake or Death? youtube
Cake please.
Alicia, you wouldn’t believe what they’ve done to this area in the last few years. Endless concrete and white-flight suburbs where there were open fields and woods just a few years ago.
RonD @ 92
Ron, my husband’s in a band (LA Blues Alliance) with Sonny Landreth. They played at the House of Blues last week. No one can do what Sonny does on slide. He pretty much reinvented it.
RonD @
92
Ron, I first saw Sonny Landreth three years ago on the Delbert Cruise. he was playing with Hiatt, but also played a couple of gigs of his own on the boat.
The first gig, I was standing there, my jaw agape. I was just…blown up, blown away, blown down. A friend of mine from Delbert’s band came up to me and asked me “you’ve never seen Sonny before, have you?”
I replied, stuttering, “uh uh.”
He smiled, put his hand on my shoulder and said “Sonny’s not like the other children.”
After the show, I went up to him, stammering, “Hi, I’m XXXX and I used to think I played a little slide guitar but man…you just put me in my place.”
Sonny shook my hand and said “aww man, you still do. you don’t have to be me, be yourself.”
I’m not usually an autograph collector, but I have Sonny’s on the back of my Stratocaster headstock.
By the way, Lee Roy will be in Central Florida SATURDAY the 28th at the Melbourne Art Festival.
How’s that for to your door service? That’s TOMORROW! TODAY for you!
GO SEE HIM! You will NOT regret it.
I’ll have cake too, thanks.
RonD @ 94
20 mi SE - Riverside?
Just got this today……It’s a ‘Jazz Thing’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYZvqcGKV8
I discovered Sonny a few years back at a WMNF benefit show-simply unbelievable. The best I’ve ever seen.
RonD @ 101
Makes me glad I live here in western Montana. Millions of acres of uninhabited mountains and forests all around here. We even get bears and mountain lions wandering into town occasionally.
Wow Alicia, you’re good. Riverview it is.
Loo Hoo @ 95
Thanks to the Repukelickin voters of CT. Lamont was the DemocratIC nominee.