Alt-J - Every Other Freckle

Dicky Betts playing Jessica

J.J. Cale, (1938 - 2013)

Homeless

Cocaine (Written and Performed by J.J. Cale); Cocaine Blues - (Written by T.J. Arnal - Performed by Jackson Browne and the Rev. Gary Davis)

It's no accident that J.J. Cale has invited a fiddle player to contribute to this performance.

"Don't confront me with my failures,

I have not forgotten them."

Earth First

Deter

The ninth month calls the tomatoes in and starts colorin' the sumacs a blood red.  The frost flowers are bunched up beside the house patiently awaiting their cue from a clear and cold night sky impending. Life is plural, and divided into increments of unique shades that my enemies don't seem to either notice or appreciate.  The earth is teaming with spectacular complexity, creating a beautiful broth right before their eyes and beneath their feet.  They should be drowned in it and their soaked silhouettes displayed against a September sky to deter their kind from fucking around with our Mother Earth.

It has been said that horse thieves are not hanged for stealing horses -- they're hanged so that other horses don't get stolen.

It's past time to Deter. It's getting late.

PGSW

George Harrison

Alvvays - Adult Diversion; Archie, Marry Me

A Beautiful Definition of Materialism by George Thomas White Patrick, Ph.D.

I have a very old textbook, entitled Introduction to Philosophy (Rev. ed. copyright 1935), by George Thomas White Patrick, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy in the University of Iowa.  The following paragraph is an elegant and apt condensation of Materialism.  On page 247, within chapter 18, entitled "What is the Mind?," is the following excerpt, which Dr. Patrick authored, and which nails down Materialism better than any other I've read.  It's simple to understand, which means one doesn't have to wade through the ego-driven abstractions that many academics create in order to elevate themselves above the masses.  According to Dr. Patrick,

 Materialism in its older form affirmed that there is no other reality than matter, or mass particles in motion; that mind is in no way a distinct or different form of being, but is itself either a form or function of matter.  Man is an adaptive mechanism, wholly explicable in terms of the laws of physics and chemistry.  Consciousness arises in the transformation of energy in the highly complex mechanism of the nervous system, but is not itself a distinct form of energy nor distinct form of being of any kind.

My Favorite Thing About the Rest of the World

My favorite thing about the rest of the world is that it doesn't have a Texas.

                                                                                  Paul Whetstone

Norweigan Fiddle Music

Classical Gas, Performed by Tommy Emmanuel - Originally Written and Performed by Mason Williams

Tommy Emmanuel possesses a neurological masterwork inside his head.

Hannah Georges - Enemies (Directed by John Patton Ford)

Duke Dumont - Won't Look Back

Brocker Way - Man With a Broom (Make Us a Show)

Brocker Way – Man with a Broom (Make Us a Show)

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Coco Rosie - What's God's Name

Alt-J - Hunger of the Pines, Left Hand Free

Kristen Hersh - Echo

Cazzette - Sleepless

Timber Timbre - Demon Host, Magic Arrow

 

Throwing Muses - Two Step

Kristen Hersh and Belly - Slow Dog

"See-through skin
The kind of skin you can see through."

Cern

Kristen Hersh and Tanya Donelly and Throwing Muses

Riley Gene Ellison - August 2009 to May 26, 2012

The are only a few adjectives that are lent to this serial injustice, and they are inappropriate to be uttered in the presence of a little boy who had not quite completed his third year.  I could say malevolent, but that doesn't even come close.  Nor does horrific -- it, too, falls short.  I know that the events that occurred on May 26, 2012 seal it for me in terms of god, or the church, or sectarian philosophy.  Complete wastes of time and energy. Imagine if all that energy were put to task in addressing our socio-cultural issues.  Drugs and inhumanity were the centerpieces of his horrible crime.  From a professional standpoint I am then part of the problem, not part of the solution.  I feel this truth crawling around in my belly and it is very uncomfortable, as it should be.  In reality, there are plenty of words that can be applied to this triple murder. Riley's unimaginable diabolical scalding torture and murder within the confines of a clothes dryer turned opposite to prevent escape, is the worst crime that anyone has ever seen in East Tennessee's piece Appalachia. It would only take a few years for his killer to get murdered in prison by holes punched into his body with a sharpened tooth brush. This, too, is Appalachian American Ennui.

Dire Straits - Water of Love

Beatles - For No One

Frida Kahlo's Last Words

"I hope never to return."

Modest Mouse - Dashboard

Sylvia Plath on Utilitarianism



"I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her unknowable tongue . . . and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another.  It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles."  The Bell Jar

Laibach - Whistleblowers Video

Pixies - Snakes

Arcade Fire - We Exist (Warning - May Produce Tingling and Chills)

(Compliments of WHETTONES)

A Savior of the Snakes: Tomi Ungerer

Thank you, Tomi Ungerer, for de-vilifying the world's most elegant reptile.  There's no telling how many of these beautiful animals you saved through your art.

TuneYards Water Fountain

Painted: An Adventure in Stop Motion Body Art

A - Z of Dance

To Jeff

when one side quits pulling at you
you must immediately dig in and stand your ground,
lest you allow the other side to pull you completely over
and consume what's left of you after you're weakened by the epic struggle.
This will be the test that will carve the contours of your relic.

Alela Diane - To Be Still

The Deep Dark Woods - River in the Pines

Sarah Jarosz: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go (Instrumental) [We Started Nothing]

Aphex Twin - Avril 14th (Extended) (+playlist)

Robin Elliott - Little Soldier

Robin Elliot, Beastie Boys,

Ana Harel Film - Bombay Beach (Trailer)

Alma Harel Film Fjogur Piano Sigur Ros

Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping

Courtesy of WhetTones

Lily & Madeline - Goodbye to Anyone

Two extraordinary talented heartbreakers

Borrowed from WhetTones

Hakensaw Boys

Restaurant Girl
https://play.spotify.com/track/0unKIM83iTUvOw9hfd3DV4

Dawn to Midnight
https://play.spotify.com/track/2qRlt93GrM1TRm1jbo5NV4

River in the Pines

A Mother's Love

Steely Dan - Aja (Full Album)

The Beatles - Revolver Album

Chrissy Hyndes

An anthem to the power of a photograph.  It "hijacked her world that night."  I praise the poetry and pedal steel."  One of the greatest piece ever put together.

Caravan Palace - Clash

 

Thanks, Em'.

Little Dragon - Crystalfilm, Little Man

 

Martin Scorsese Causes Cancer

 

Well, there may not be a direct, causal connection, but there certainly is an indirect path from his financial exploitation of Italian-Americans to an eventual socio-cultural malignancy that  destroys the brain cells of his suffering fan base.  Martin Scorsese is vulgar and relatively short on imagination.  He gets away with saying the word, "nigger," by inserting it into his films, beginning with his own cameo appearance in the back of a cab in Taxi Driver, where he tells the taxi driver how he going to kill a "nigger."  I suppose he justifies his blatant "artistic racism" by claiming the office of authenticity as impetus.  Bowel movements are authentic, too, but that's an insufficient reason to preserve the act for millions to consciously absorb while chomping on popcorn.  Or Milk Duds.  Anna Paquin took a shit in the film, Margaret, but it added nothing but a disgusting, reality t.v. element that cheapened the otherwise very good film.  I mean, you could actually hear the goddamn thing hit the water!  Plop.  Artistically it was probably intended to represent the purging of her secret in the film.  But still . . . .

The "nigger" thing isn't Scorsese's only problem, but it's a good place to target with the first round of chemotherapy.  They say chemotherapy destroys unintended, collateral areas in its process.  Here, that may actually be beneficial to the cultural health of the crowd. 

Scorsese feeds that part of us that should be starved.  To death.  No, that part should be drawn and quartered and fed through a hamburger shredder with fake blood splashing all over  a team of exploited and fat Italian-Americans as they again push the word, "nigger" further into accepted vernacular.

And, by the way, the darker dogs of my nature absolutely loved Goodfellas, though the draw of the film was heavily influenced on the use of a musical score, which was so good it would have made a Ted Nuget documentary damn near worth watching, or, more to the point, listening to.

How many quarts of fake blood you think Marty goes through in a single week of filming. "More blood, goddammit!  We're killing Stacks Edwards, for God's sake!"  Since Stacks black as molasses Scorsese splashes blood everywhere else.

Nobody's insisting that Scorsese should be blacklisted.  The point here is that a MFA dropout with enough money, fake blood, "authenticity" and borrowed collection of albums can make a good gangster film.  Gene Simmons and his band, Kiss is a fitting parallel with Scorsese; the lack of talent is absorbed in the flashy coxcombs, which divert attention away from what's tonally lacking.  At least you can listen to Kiss without looking at it, if that's how you choose to spend your time. 

The Godfather is the gold standard for gangster films, with its brilliant musical score, which wasn't knocked off from somebody's CD collection.  Scorsese hasn't come close to Francis Ford-Coppola's masterpiece, which, though artfully presented, unfortunately glorifies the continuation Italian-American thievery, extortion and serial murder as top-drawer human entertainment. 

We're screwed.



   

Beck - Blue Moon

Hackensaw Boys - Restaurant Girl

The dictionary says that if you pine for someone you desperately want to see them, be with them, or perhaps smother them with kisses.

In the evenings I've started playing this song while I pine about our mother.

"The hardest thing is leaving her behind."

"I wanna call you, I wanna call you, yes I do."

Taj Mahal - Clara

Sublime - What I Got

My Wallet's Gone

Jane's Addiction - Jane Says, Mountain Song, Just Because

Beck - [My Sun-Eyed] Girl

Oxytocin, Pheramones, Seratonin, Dopamine, Value, Urination, etc.

Oxytocin:  A neurotransmitter known as "the bonding hormone."

Pheraamones:  Olfactory signals that are exchanged between people.

Seratonin:  A neurotransmitter that contributes to well-being and happiness.

Dopamine:  Motor control, motivation, reward neurotransmitter.

While I was watching a quasi-documentary, I saw a computer pose the following question to a programmer:  "What is the highest value?"  Dude typed in "infinity," first.  Then "love," and then "life."  About then I had to pee, and on the way to the bathroom I came up with the answer:  The highest value is the next highest value plus one.  In my world then value is relative. 

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams Extended by Psychemagik

Cervantes' Commentary on the Golden Age of Nature

"[T]he heavy curve of the plowshare had not yet dared to open or violate the merciful womb of our first mother, for she, without being forced, offered up, everywhere across her broad and fertile bosom,whatever would satisfy, sustain, and delight the children who then possessed her."

                                                                                                          Don Quixote

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - KEXP

The Un-Blessed. Does Jesus Love Them, Too?

Say:  Jesus Loves Me,

   This I Know,

   For the Bible

  Tells Me So.

By His Hands

We All are Fed,

Thank Him for

Our Daily Bread.

Now say, "Amen."

Now utter this mantra every day of your life, before every meal, so you'll blur image above. 

These are cheap, meaningless, and completely dishonest words that are recited so that we can fall under the sectarian spell and its corrupt illusion that would have us duped in to believing that we live in a just world.

We Do Not.

Without each other, and a whole lot of luck, we are completely on our own.

Tune Yards - Bizness

Beirut - Elephant Gun, Santa Fe