tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6440462145116605374..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Hail Mary, Full of Ideas!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17601024785156916702008-05-01T06:13:00.000-07:002008-05-01T06:13:00.000-07:00My old friend from the band days came through town...My old friend from the band days came through town this weekend, he's the Lighting Director for Natalie Cole, they were putting on a private concert for a black tie charity dinner. Hanging out back stage, playfully dueling guitars and throats before and after the show, and then the performance - though I think it was lost on most of the crowd, it was a pleasure watching pro's do their stuff... effortlessly. <BR/><BR/>BTW, if you haven't paid attention before, watch the lighting in a few concerts and shows, it's amazing what it can do to bring out the music - or disrupt it - the good ones, and my friend is a <I>real good one,</I> brings out the music itself in ways that's hard to peg. Sort of like a sound track on a movie I suppose.<BR/><BR/>And there’s something about the idea of music and light blended together that’s rather satisfying all its own.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16038185101377129902008-04-30T22:04:00.000-07:002008-04-30T22:04:00.000-07:00The Motown bass player, James Jamerson, was partic...The Motown bass player, James Jamerson, was particularly amazing, as I'm sure Van and Debass can attest. Here's a guy copying his bass line from <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3OOBlAYTj8" REL="nofollow">For Once in My Life</A>. Bear in mind that Jamerson played with <I>one finger</I>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5424906867555795272008-04-30T21:43:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:43:00.000-07:00I hope everyone's seen Standing in the Shadows of ...I hope everyone's seen Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the great documentary on the superb musicians responsible for the Motown sound. <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY&feature=related" REL="nofollow">Nice clip</A>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9677102776960699672008-04-30T21:38:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:38:00.000-07:00a project for smoovmazzy star and dcdconcert at th...a project for smoov<BR/>mazzy star and dcd<BR/>concert at the gorgerobinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77741672277977886442008-04-30T21:19:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:19:00.000-07:00I like these guys.I like <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5vj3D-OD4" REL="nofollow">these guys</A>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3447884925821741092008-04-30T21:14:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:14:00.000-07:00Our buddy Zo has a new piece out:Black & White on ...Our buddy Zo has a new piece out:<BR/><BR/>Black & White on the Grey Matters <BR/>(Jermiah Wright)<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://vids.myspace.com/index.<BR/>cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid<BR/>=33293190Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1938408643464044932008-04-30T17:55:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:55:00.000-07:00Bob:Kanye West's "Late Registration" compares to A...Bob:<BR/><BR/>Kanye West's "Late Registration" compares to Abbey Road in terms of pure technical mastery. There are at least 4 levels of orchestration that I can hear.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-91767045417652954372008-04-30T17:32:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:32:00.000-07:00"Jesus Walks"Yo, We at warWe at war with terrorism..."Jesus Walks"<BR/><BR/>Yo, We at war<BR/>We at war with terrorism, racism, and most of all we at war with ourselves<BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down<BR/>(Jesus Walks with me) with me, with me, with me [fades]<BR/><BR/>You know what the Midwest is?<BR/>Young & Restless<BR/>Where restless (Niggas) might snatch your necklace<BR/>And next these (Niggas) might jack your Lexus<BR/>Somebody tell these (Niggas) who Kanye West is<BR/>I walk through the valley of the Chi where death is<BR/>Top floor the view alone will leave you breathless Uhhhh!<BR/>Try to catch it Uhhhh! It's kinda hard hard<BR/>Getting choked by the detectives yeah yeah now check the method<BR/>They be asking us questions, harass and arrest us<BR/>Saying "we eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast"<BR/>Huh? Yall eat pieces of shit? What's the basis?<BR/>We ain't going nowhere but got suits and cases<BR/>A trunk full of coke rental car from Avis<BR/>My momma used to say only Jesus can save us<BR/>Well momma I know I act a fool<BR/>But I'll be gone 'til November I got packs to move I Hope<BR/><BR/>[Hook x2]<BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down<BR/>(Jesus Walks with me)<BR/>The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now<BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>And I don't think there is nothing I can do now to right my wrongs<BR/>(Jesus Walks with me)<BR/>I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long<BR/><BR/>To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers even the strippers<BR/>(Jesus walks with them)<BR/>To the victims of Welfare for we living in hell here hell yeah<BR/>(Jesus walks with them)<BR/>Now hear ye hear ye want to see Thee more clearly<BR/>I know he hear me when my feet get weary<BR/>Cause we're the almost nearly extinct<BR/>We rappers are role models we rap we don't think<BR/>I ain't here to argue about his facial features<BR/>Or here to convert atheists into believers<BR/>I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers<BR/>The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way I need Jesus<BR/>So here go my single dog radio needs this<BR/>They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus<BR/>That means guns, sex, lies, video tapes<BR/>But if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?<BR/>Well let this take away from my spins<BR/>Which will probably take away from my ends<BR/>Then I hope this take away from my sins<BR/>And bring the day that I'm dreaming about<BR/>Next time I'm in the club everybody screaming out<BR/><BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>God show me the way because the devil trying to break me down<BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>The only thing that that I pray is that my feet don't fail me now<BR/>(Jesus Walks)<BR/>And I don't thing there's nothing I can do now to right my wrongs<BR/>(Jesus walks with me... fades)<BR/>I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so longStephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72538525379427487642008-04-30T17:27:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:27:00.000-07:00So Bob,At some point we have to open a discussion ...So Bob,<BR/><BR/>At some point we have to open a discussion about where music is going. The past 10 years have not been entirely in vain. <BR/><BR/>The form (rap/hip-hop) transcends the subject matter.<BR/><BR/>After all, the great blues standards revolve around my cheatin' woman, and existential angst.<BR/><BR/>Listen to Kanye for starters. Like Prince, he's honest.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42819372497883038762008-04-30T17:13:00.000-07:002008-04-30T17:13:00.000-07:00Julie:We can still get him to contribute. I'll cal...Julie:<BR/><BR/>We can still get him to contribute. I'll call his office tomorrow (a donation to his preferred charity works wonders *wink*).<BR/><BR/><BR/>Seriously though, a man of that caliber faces scheduling issues.<BR/><BR/>Unlike, apparently, Bill Clinton who has learned prostitution first hand.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45706034627832587172008-04-30T16:23:00.000-07:002008-04-30T16:23:00.000-07:00Smoov, I think someone was simply quoting him, sin...Smoov, I think someone was simply quoting him, since that's a part of his piece in today's Townhall.<BR/><BR/>But it would be pretty awesome if he <I>had</I> stopped by.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43518091492259602182008-04-30T16:21:00.000-07:002008-04-30T16:21:00.000-07:00Rereading the post (since either you keep adding t...Rereading the post (since either you keep adding things or I keep noticing things I missed the first time through), this paragraph stood out for me the second time around:<BR/><BR/>"True, we have to be here in this ocean in order to grow and evolve, but it's tempting to remain a land lubber and just hold onto terra firma. This is to remain a seed without water, a temptation that has a certain appeal, since to live without being sea'd is in a sense to remain in a state of infinite potential: so long as you are nothing, you are potentially anything and everything, just like an infant."<BR/><BR/>This is apropos of Walt's series from last week, and also describes so well the mentality of many leftists, who instead of being drawn to Truth, Beauty and Goodness are hooked on youth, booty and 'hoodness.<BR/><BR/>Hm - not sure where that came from...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84455835028257377842008-04-30T16:17:00.000-07:002008-04-30T16:17:00.000-07:00Thoms Sowell,If you are the real Sowell, I welcome...Thoms Sowell,<BR/><BR/>If you are the real Sowell, I welcome your voice here, sir. There are few men for whom I have more respect.<BR/><BR/>You are among friends.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2732891545087902572008-04-30T15:49:00.000-07:002008-04-30T15:49:00.000-07:00"nimble-fingered wide receptacle of a reader"This ..."nimble-fingered wide receptacle of a reader"<BR/><BR/>This is too good not quote. I don't often do diet Coke spit takes these days -- but thanks, I guess, Bob for ruining my keyboard.Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-50798032745119440522008-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:002008-04-30T14:45:00.000-07:00"How does it feel to be One of the beautiful peopl..."How does it feel to be <BR/>One of the beautiful people?"<BR/><BR/>"Now that you've found another key<BR/>What are you going to play?"<BR/><BR/>Well, Obama, old man?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81707457588212973302008-04-30T13:50:00.000-07:002008-04-30T13:50:00.000-07:00Mousie said:"That is when Obama came of age, in th...Mousie said:<BR/>"That is when Obama came of age, in the 1980s, that optimistic vision of America is what he is interested in, not the liberal party line."<BR/><BR/>Ah yes. That optimistic vision of America, brought to us by Ronaldus Maximus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60447798573877297902008-04-30T11:39:00.000-07:002008-04-30T11:39:00.000-07:00"Wright's anti-semitic, anti-American, hardcore Ma..."Wright's anti-semitic, anti-American, hardcore Marxist radical hatred was entirely occluded from Obama, the world, and most especially the NYT until yesterday. It came as a complete shock to one and all, and no one should hold it against Obama that he cultivated a mutually advantageous political partnership with a Nazi for 20 years. Now he's "repudiated" the Nazi, and we all know that you can consort with Nazis for almost all of your adult life and then simply "repudiate" them at a press availability and the issue goes away entirely.<BR/><BR/>"When Obama felt that Wright was defensible "in the context" of racial divides and the black church, he was defensible in the eyes of the MSM. When Obama felt he was no longer so defensible, the MSM agreed he wasn't." --<A HREF="http://minx.cc/?post=261407" REL="nofollow">Ace</A>Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14107234353994832972008-04-30T11:32:00.000-07:002008-04-30T11:32:00.000-07:00aninnymouse said..."he voted to allow the governme...aninnymouse said<BR/>..."he voted to allow the government to negotiate the prices of drugs covered under the prescription drug benefit. That is a far cry from paying people not to work."<BR/><BR/>That is no difference at all. Allowing the gov't to negotiate the prices, is no different than letting Don Corleone negotiate what he'd like you to do with your business; when force is used or implied in negotiating a contract it is called doing so under duress or color of authority, and is invalidated on that basis - unless of course you are the gov't which can say 'oh... no force here, no threats... they can agree or lose their business's and go to jail, their free to choose'.<BR/><BR/>"I don't want you to become too frustrated during the Obama presidency, is why I bring this up."<BR/><I> Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me...</I><BR/><BR/>"that optimistic vision of America is what he is interested in, not the liberal party line"<BR/><I>thank you Godfather</I><BR/><BR/>You are either completely ignorant, a fool, or a liar – keep in mind that you won’t always be anonymous.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80450392574422828462008-04-30T11:28:00.000-07:002008-04-30T11:28:00.000-07:00Yesterday Obama made a statement about what his me...Yesterday Obama made a statement about what his mentor said a day earlier.<BR/>"His comments were not only divisive and destructive, I believe they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate," <BR/><BR/>As a person who looks inside to where I am at fault when making apologies, I naturally thought what he meant was that Wright was fueling the hate America conspiracy freaks like the 911 "truthers", America created aids to commit black genocide, America is a terrorist state similar to AlQaeda, etc.<BR/>Today I was presented another view which when I think about it makes more sense. Since definitionally a leftist is never at fault, never looks to himself as the cause of division and that it is always someone else who is the cause of the problem, he was actually talking about what he perceives as the hateful right wing.<BR/>You know, the people who are able to see through the charade to things of which he is totally unaware due to a lack of self appraisal.<BR/>Possibly some astute journalist could ask him to clarify who he is speaking of. Nah!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67240536840223338272008-04-30T11:19:00.000-07:002008-04-30T11:19:00.000-07:00"real thought is the essence of prayer, linking ma..."real thought is the essence of prayer, linking man with what is timeless and eternal."<BR/><BR/>How did I let that slip by yesterday? Well… let me cut in now and take a whirl at dancing with it - Real thought is observing the Picture which the assembling puzzle is made from, grasping that some lost piece of an idea integrates into the larger truth, as with finding the puzzle piece with some edge of yellow and white that connects and completes other previously lost pieces of flowers and cloud into the puzzle's border and completes and builds another portion of it; the larger the newly integrated pieces, the larger connection is revealed through the idea made visible, but also the larger the connection that is made with what the puzzle is a picture of. <BR/><BR/>Real thought, original or not, connects us via our mind, and our choice(which is our central action in living) to look upon, think and grasp reality, into the larger Truth of the One Cosmos, into the larger One that is Truth undivided.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27209095865453825392008-04-30T10:46:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:46:00.000-07:00How dare you have an independent thought. Why, yo...How dare you have an independent thought. Why, you're worse than Smoov!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15294693928636869292008-04-30T10:37:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:37:00.000-07:00I never liked Space Ghost (or Brak), but I have to...I never liked Space Ghost (or Brak), but I have to admit I was laughing by the end of that first one.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70331364607152213912008-04-30T10:30:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:30:00.000-07:00This is offensive anti-primate propaganda.This is offensive <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAbKc2LKwM&feature=related" REL="nofollow">anti-primate propaganda</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23543549647344769662008-04-30T10:29:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:29:00.000-07:00Anonymous:We do not get frustrated. We always exp...Anonymous:<BR/><BR/>We do not get frustrated. We always expect the worst, so we are perpetually pleasantly surprised. Regardless of what happens, Obama <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2tXroEp6vA&feature=related" REL="nofollow">can't touch me</A> here in Upper Tonga.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27434543399588936482008-04-30T10:07:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:07:00.000-07:00There is no reason why someone as arrogant, foolis...There is no reason why someone as arrogant, foolishly clever and ultimately dangerous as Barack Obama should become president -- especially not at a time when the threat of international terrorists with nuclear weapons looms over 300 million Americans.<BR/><BR/>Barack Obama has already indicated that he wants judges who make social policy instead of just applying the law. He has already tried to stop young violent criminals from being tried as adults.<BR/><BR/>Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things -- using the mantra of "change" endlessly -- the cold fact is that virtually everything has says about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s.<BR/><BR/>Protecting criminals, attacking business, increasing government spending, promoting a sense of envy and grievance, raising taxes on people who are productive and subsidizing those who are not -- all this is a re-run of the 1960s.<BR/><BR/>We paid a terrible price for such 1960s notions in the years that followed, in the form of soaring crime rates, double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment. During the 1960s, ghettoes across the countries were ravaged by riots from which many have not fully recovered to this day.<BR/><BR/>The violence and destruction were concentrated not where there was the greatest poverty or injustice but where there were the most liberal politicians, promoting grievances and hamstringing the police.<BR/><BR/>Internationally, the approach that Senator Obama proposes -- including the media magic of meetings between heads of state -- was tried during the 1930s. That approach, in the name of peace, is what led to the most catastrophic war in human history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com