Jockey Full of Bourbon

music for a new year's day

John Holt - Ali Baba (trilogy dub)

John Holt - Police In Helicopter

John Holt - Sister Big Stuff

Burning Spear - 02 - Slavery Days

 

 

Christmas music

the best Christmas album this year, Annie Lennox's A Christmas Cornucopia

02 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

07 - The Holly And The Ivy

01 - Angels From The Realms Of Glory

04 - Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant

 

an exquisite, stunning album.  cannot recommend it enough  - A Christmas Cornucopia

somewhere

I love american musicals, and close to the top of the list is West Side Story - an innovative score by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by the greatest american composer Stephen Sondheim, groundbreaking choreography...

most of the wongs in West Side Story have become standards, performed by many of the best and best-known singers;  yet the best cover of any West Side Story song has to be this quiet little duet by the late, lamented, much missed Vic Chesnutt and Liz Durrett

Somewherevic

I stood 20 feet from Ralph Stanley...

...sang O Death if that doesn't put me a bit closer to heaven, I don't know what would. a transcendent experience.

some pics from the show: Ralph Stanley and His Clinch Mountain Boys @Oktoberfest, Christ the King Church

 

more pics at flickr

 

because music posts need music, here's a totally unrelated song.  funniest bluegrass song ever <u>and</u> shoutouts to Ralph and to Bill Monroe. 

09-The Bluegrass Widow

Dan Savage' itgetsbetter project in YT

updated 20100924@15:40 - what this post needs is a theme song.  take it away,  Ms. Jill

 

 

Dan Savage has done many good things (remember Santorum?) and spearheaded many worthy causes, but the itgetsbetterproject is likely to be his crowning achievement. take a bow, Dan. in memory of Billy Lucas, the many more suffering today, and of all of us who made it out alive. *

* I'm not LGBT, notthatthere'sanythingwrongwiththat, but I can't help thinking that the itgetsbetterproject also applies to the nerds, the weirdos, the outsiders, the do-not-fits, all of us great unwashed who look back on our high school years as far from "the best times of our lives"

If you're gay or lesbian or bi or trans, and you've ever read about a kid like Billy Lucas and thought, "Fuck, I wish I could've told him that it gets better," this is your chance. We can't help Billy, but there are lots of other Billys out there—other despairing LGBT kids who are being bullied and harassed, kids who don't think they have a future—and we can help them....READ MORE about the It Gets Better Project, in Savage Love, here: http://bit.ly/bYtxBd

via YouTube - itgetsbetterproject's Channel.

[this is sad] Justin Townes Earle Heading To Rehab

via www.americansongwriter.com

"If you’ve been following the saga of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, you know that he was arrested for battery, public intoxication, and resisting arrest last week, following a show at Radio Radio in Indianapolis.

Earle, who was released on bail, announced today that he will be suspending the remainder of his current tour dates, and will be checking into a rehab facility."

so sad to hear;  JTE just released his best album to date, Harlem River Blues.

 

 

01 - Harlem River Blues

 

 

05 - Wanderin'

 

 

from the Color Me Surprised Department

Sanchez will lead the combined company, while Six Apart CEO Chris Alden plans to leave. Six Apart cofounder Mena Trott is joining the Say Media board, which isn’t otherwise changing. (As Business Insider, which first reported rumors of a deal, noted, the two companies already share some investors, including prominent venture-capital firm August Capital, which should make for slightly less awkward post-acquisition board meetings.) The management structure of the combined company hasn’t otherwise been set.

The companies say they’ll have a combined global audience of 345 million. Some critics of such figures note that online-advertising companies often cite the potential audience for advertisements they place, rather than the actual number of people who see ads sold through their networks.

via www.reuters.com

where in this world's does such a merger make any sense?
definitely my time in TypePad is going to be limited.

what is the time? it is grinding time~

Grinderman 2 is here.  on the first few listens, it comes across a bit milder than Grinderman - not as dissonant and electrified.  more melodic and a bit tender.   the influence of NC & The Bad Seeds is noticeable, same as Grinderman had a marked influence on Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!

 

funny song.   yes, it is about what you thought it was about

02 - Worm Tamer

this one is kinda sweet - I hate the "eeevil" chorus

 

 

06 - Evil!

 

memento mori

'tis a somber occasion, let's begin with an appropriate quote

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"

VOX is done, over, finito, joined the choir invisible.  starting to stink a little, to be frank.

why this place mattered is that in a virtual world where about 95% of blogs that are started are abandoned, we (we know who we are), beat those odds.  we lasted, we endured; sure we took blogging breaks, went through manic posting periods, times when we struggled to find anything to say, but came back to this, dare I say, community.

the reason we beat the dismal odds is because of what I've come to believe is the lifeblood of blogging - comments.  as hokey as it seemed, the [this is good]  in its 8-9 language variations, gave  us a jumping place from where we could let folks we heard/like what they wrote about. [tig] took the worry away from "I don't know what to write in a comment, I just liked it/made me laugh/made me think".  and after [tig] came short comments, and replies, and replies to replies, and non-sequiturs, and some of these threads became things of legend.

I know we are all trying to keep in touch in the varied blogging platforms we are heading to - and that is good. but as far and wide as we take our blogs, remember the thrill of getting your first notifications that someone had left a comment in your post: wherever your blog lands, look for new folks writing interesting things and let them know you think [tig]

VOX is dead, long live blogging

20100911

september 11 2010, the day is almost over here where I am.  the ninth anniversary of *that* day.  that day at the time we thought we'd never get over, never forget.  yet we got over it, we let some of it recede.
one moment hasn't lost its power, its punch to the gut - crowded around a TV on the breakroom, watching live video of one smoking tower and seeing the second plane hit.

changes of the last nine years, so much has changed, so little accomplished.  Guantanamo, Abu Ghreib, rendition, extraordinary circumstances, homeland, Patriot Act, two wars without meaning, end, or winners. worst have been the effect in our psyches; we no longer dare to question, to stand out, to refuse.

the good doctor felt this change, the chill down the spine, earlier.  from 2003:  "We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."