Friday, January 31, 2020
Alexander O'Neal, "If You Were Here Tonight."
I first heard of this song a few Saturdays ago, when an excerpt of the video was memed in a Tariq Nasheed tweet.
Jadakiss, "ME"
Samples Peabo Bryson's song (at a sped-up pace), "Give Me Your Love", from the album Don't Play With Fire (Capitol, 1982). Again, I first learned of this song thirty minutes to midnight on Thursday.
Paris Match, "A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)" and "Digging Your Scene."
Eleven-fifteen p.m. Thursday. I learned of this group because it was mentioned for its cover of "Digging Your Scene" (see below) in the Wikipedia page for that song.
The Blow Monkeys, "Digging Your Scene."
To think I first heard of this song and band at eleven p.m. Thursday.
O'Chi Brown, "Whenever You Need Somebody."
It was on New Year's Day that I learned Rick Astley's song was actually a cover of O'Chi Brown's 1985 original.
Marika Gombitová - Ateliér duše
I first learned of this singer Wednesday night via Wikipedia's category of 1987 albums. And I first heard and heard of this song Thursday.
Celine Dion, "I'm Loving Every Moment With You."
To think I first heard this song earlier this month when I borrowed the Unison CD.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Kunstler: Forecast 2020--Whirlin' and Swirlin'
Kunstler: Forecast 2020--Whirlin' and Swirlin'
Read it in its entirety at the above link. An excerpt:
Relations with Other Lands
The RussiaGate hysteria worked effectively the past three years to obstruct the chance for repairing relations between our countries. That and the earlier idiotic 2014 intervention in Ukraine under Mr. Obama, which prompted Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fighting in the Donbass. All of that was unnecessary and was carried off just because we were determined to cram Ukraine into NATO — or, at least, not let it join the Russia-centric Customs Union. In the process, we left Ukraine badly damaged. Can we please stop creating more damage? They have always been Russia’s stepchild and always will be. Can we get our American mind right on that?
I suspect Mr. Trump would still like to rectify the situation, especially our relations with Russia. We have some outstanding interests in common, starting with a wish to discourage Islamic maniacs from blowing things up and cutting people’s heads off. How about we try cooperating to manage that problem? Russia is not our economic rival. Vast as its land-mass is, Russia’s economy is not much bigger than the economy of Texas. They possess a very potent nuclear arsenal, with new hypersonic delivery systems that were probably developed to temper our paranoid narratives about them since 2016. War is not an option.
There’s a fair chance in 2020 that Mr. Trump may find an opening to reduce tensions between the US and Russia, even if he is being repeatedly impeached and the S & P index falls by half. Ukraine itself may be a hopeless basket case, its destiny: to become a quasi-medieval agricultural backwater. Anyway, it’s really none of our business, any more than the occupation of Afghanistan was, or the intervention in Iraq was, or Vietnam before that. For starters, though, can we just agree that going to war with Russia is not a good idea and stop militating for it? Liberals used to blame the Military-Industrial Complex for thumping the war drum. Now they’re doing it.
Further temptations to intervene in foreign lands will only accelerate the bankruptcy of the USA and drive a quicker, more dramatic journey down to a much lower standard-of-living. Anyway, with all the other elements of the long emergency proceeding, the trend in 2020 will be for nations to be preoccupied with their own business, and if it doesn’t work out at a national level it might lead to more breakaway regions attempting self-government. Catalan is still burbling away, Italy still has a north/south problem, Scotland still has a mind to dissociate from the UK. Contraction, or de-growth, or declining prosperity — however you want to say it — goes hand-in-hand with a smaller scale of management. Bigness itself is going out.
[...]
I pretty much covered Europe in the Economics section. The main warning for Europe 2020 is that the international rules-based liberal order of the West was made possible in a post-war world by decades of rising energy inputs and rising prosperity. As that reverses, the assumptions behind that order will cease to hold it together. The formation of a new set of operating principles will probably entail a period of disorder, perhaps long in duration.
[...]
There you have the Forecast 2020. We all know it’s an exercise in futility, but it’s one of those unavoidable rituals of human existence. Good luck to all! You may be interested in my forthcoming book, out in March, which is a deep-dive update of where we’re at and a series of portraits of interesting people leading alt-lifestyles in these uncertain times.
Read it in its entirety at the above link. An excerpt:
Relations with Other Lands
The RussiaGate hysteria worked effectively the past three years to obstruct the chance for repairing relations between our countries. That and the earlier idiotic 2014 intervention in Ukraine under Mr. Obama, which prompted Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fighting in the Donbass. All of that was unnecessary and was carried off just because we were determined to cram Ukraine into NATO — or, at least, not let it join the Russia-centric Customs Union. In the process, we left Ukraine badly damaged. Can we please stop creating more damage? They have always been Russia’s stepchild and always will be. Can we get our American mind right on that?
I suspect Mr. Trump would still like to rectify the situation, especially our relations with Russia. We have some outstanding interests in common, starting with a wish to discourage Islamic maniacs from blowing things up and cutting people’s heads off. How about we try cooperating to manage that problem? Russia is not our economic rival. Vast as its land-mass is, Russia’s economy is not much bigger than the economy of Texas. They possess a very potent nuclear arsenal, with new hypersonic delivery systems that were probably developed to temper our paranoid narratives about them since 2016. War is not an option.
There’s a fair chance in 2020 that Mr. Trump may find an opening to reduce tensions between the US and Russia, even if he is being repeatedly impeached and the S & P index falls by half. Ukraine itself may be a hopeless basket case, its destiny: to become a quasi-medieval agricultural backwater. Anyway, it’s really none of our business, any more than the occupation of Afghanistan was, or the intervention in Iraq was, or Vietnam before that. For starters, though, can we just agree that going to war with Russia is not a good idea and stop militating for it? Liberals used to blame the Military-Industrial Complex for thumping the war drum. Now they’re doing it.
Further temptations to intervene in foreign lands will only accelerate the bankruptcy of the USA and drive a quicker, more dramatic journey down to a much lower standard-of-living. Anyway, with all the other elements of the long emergency proceeding, the trend in 2020 will be for nations to be preoccupied with their own business, and if it doesn’t work out at a national level it might lead to more breakaway regions attempting self-government. Catalan is still burbling away, Italy still has a north/south problem, Scotland still has a mind to dissociate from the UK. Contraction, or de-growth, or declining prosperity — however you want to say it — goes hand-in-hand with a smaller scale of management. Bigness itself is going out.
[...]
I pretty much covered Europe in the Economics section. The main warning for Europe 2020 is that the international rules-based liberal order of the West was made possible in a post-war world by decades of rising energy inputs and rising prosperity. As that reverses, the assumptions behind that order will cease to hold it together. The formation of a new set of operating principles will probably entail a period of disorder, perhaps long in duration.
[...]
There you have the Forecast 2020. We all know it’s an exercise in futility, but it’s one of those unavoidable rituals of human existence. Good luck to all! You may be interested in my forthcoming book, out in March, which is a deep-dive update of where we’re at and a series of portraits of interesting people leading alt-lifestyles in these uncertain times.
One Man's Opinion on the Twenty Best Records of 2019
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/31/sound-grammar-the-20-best-records-of-2019/
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Indeed!
It’s Christmas : Don’t just buy your kids Nike SNEAKERS. Get them some Nike STOCK pic.twitter.com/f6Ex3bUteK
— Dr Boyce Watkins (@drboycewatkins1) December 25, 2019
Saturday, November 30, 2019
"Last Hour of KMET 94.7 FM to KTWV The Wave 2-14-87"
Last Hour of KMET 94.7 FM to KTWV
Published on Aug 10, 2017
The last hour of KMET before it transitioned to KTWV The Wave. Ripped from a 30 year old audio cassette TDK D90 from a Sony S2 cassette walkman using a 99c store 3.5 and a Dollar Tree wired speaker into a Radio Shack tri pod. Primitive but effective. You can hear audio of B Mitchell Reed and songs from The Beatles, The Who, Elton John, The Cars, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, The Boss and others. It was a sad day for many of us the grew up on the Mighty Met. As a college student I thought it might be an important thing to document if only for my own nostalgia. Now you can share in it too if you want as long as they don't make me take it down. It also includes the first two Wave songs. Well, it did get taken down. There's a big blank space where an Eagles song once was. I guess even this low quality is a copyright violation lol. Hopefully there won't be any more. Now minus one Beatles song The End. Still has the others in the montage for now. Anyway, back again 2/19. Not sure how long it was blocked this time.
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R.I.P. Marianna, a.k.a. Hattie (Second Anniversary)
It has been two years since Marianna Scheffer, a.k.a. Hattie, has died. I want to pay tribute to her memory, but want to do it right. For now, I acknowledge the second anniversary of her passing.
Nell Carter, (Song Title Unknown)
I don't know if this song was ever released. If not, it should've been. (About the 3:00 mark.)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
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