Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated. "Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein" - Pauly Shore.
If you still enjoy music - if you still know what it is - state your current listening in a comment. You don't have to tell us why - you're not as smart as me and can't describe shit for shit - but if you want to go the extra yard, pleased do add a brief yet persuasive appraisal to justify your frankly bizarre choice.
As Edfray (notveryprettymusic) said: "We have reached two million plus page-hits. Time to hang up the spurs and lay back."
Enjoy the break, but don't stay away too long. I need my stimulus!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the fish (and conversation and music)!
ReplyDeleteD in California
Have fun!
ReplyDeleteHoping the writing goes well with a break from Th' Isle O'Foam©.
ReplyDeleteDai Sanuk!!!
ReplyDeletebone voyagee,
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your well deserved break
ReplyDeleteCheers! Catch you on the flipside
ReplyDeleteRock on FT3! Who knows what lies ahead. What I do know is —I have always enjoyed my time here - you never know what you will get - laughter, learning something new, experiencing some excellent music, and interacting with interesting people scattered all across the globe. You are the tie that binds. That’s pretty fucking cool if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteThank 'ee from the heart of my bottom, Thames! I'm hiatusing indeterminably because: I have a feeling very nearly, perhaps all, the albums I wanted to feature here are here, and I don't want th' IoF© to become a re-feature resource for those who didn't catch them first time around. That, and - a general internet malaise, which affects me from time to time but seems to run deeper now. There's so little I need to read/watch/listen to, and so much that grates and infuriates (pretty much anything from this century) that I'm weaning myself off it. That, and - the diminishing returns of the hunt for new music that checks my boxes. I'm listening right now to Bret McKenzie's 'Freak Out City', which is swell and all, but if I'll remember it in a month's time is ... well, I forget. So I'm listening less, to less. I love the quiet (not silence) of my home, and the sounds that float in, birdsong, dogs ... that's enough to make music an intrusion. That, and - the increasing demands on an old operating system (my computer's, too) are becoming tiring. That, and - the feeling that th' IoF© peaked a while back, when comments were open to any bum who wanted to make one. Recently, there's been an influx of Internet Nuisances who've necessitated a change to moderated comments, which is something I never wanted to do. Bummer, man!
DeleteThere's always been the core Four Or Five Guys© who've made this worthwhile, and you're still out there, and th' IoF© is still here to be explored (a lot of screed).
That, and - I'm reactivating a dormant novel (which I didn't give away here already), my last grab for the brass ring. Takes up Four Or Five Hours© a day keyboard time, makes my brain simmer like a day-old chili!
Thanks as ever to youse bums what is responsible for raking the sand on th' IoF©.
Best wishes!
ReplyDeleteYou do you!
kong rats on yer' big number, huzzah!
ReplyDeleteAnon RF: Heart emoji...
ReplyDeleteWell all I can say is I hope Kreemé is keeping an eye on the posts because I'd hate to miss the big event because suddenly a dozen posts all get posted at once. 20 to go the "2 & 6 zeros". Keep Chillin' Farq old bean!
ReplyDeleteWell done, Farq, old boy!! Ya' made it to the magical desired number!!! Happy to be a part of the good ole' Isle of Foam .. and all who sail in her!!!!
ReplyDeleteA great punctuation mark to reach, Farq. I do hope we haven't seen the last of you. Am currently enjoying 'Godbox', but also reading the thematically-overlapping Graham Masterton's 'Mirror' just to help addle my easily confused mind. Don't stay away too long, babe (air-kiss).
ReplyDeleteThanks for everthing
ReplyDeleteKeep on keeping on!
ReplyDeleteI don't care what you say, I'm checking back every day. You never know.
ReplyDeleteMe too!
DeleteBuggeruntus Farq . . . is the globe not in a bad enough state with all these bastard politicians sodding the world up? Now you are deserting us and we will be bereft, inconsolable wondering what there is left to live for! A glimmer of hope must remain, a guttering flame perhaps, as you have put us through this torment before only to rise again from the ashes. Eternal gratitude for all and everything hereupon. I will leave you with the old Chinese proverb: "May your shadow never grow shorter and your cattle have many young".
ReplyDeleteonward to 3000000
ReplyDeleteDo what you feel is best, but this IS the most fun online! I'll STILL pop in daily!
ReplyDeleteOne for your holiday.
ReplyDeleteCheck this and thanks for the ride dear F
https://exystence.net/blog/2025/08/19/danny-widdicombe-trichotomy-iridescence-2025/
Mm, noice! Thank you. What an amazing year this is turning out to be in music! This is the THIRD album* I'll be keeping, and it's only nearly September!
Delete*That I can think of right now - there may be more.
Yer welcome. Have a good time.
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Go grab that brass ring one more time, ol' fella...
ReplyDeleteSeeing from experience how a blog's first hits are in the twenties or thirties...2 M is quite the achievement...even if the Isle Of Foam doesn't get reactivated (or anytime soon), that is a nice number to hang it up on...and maybe, if the hits still keep comin'...
Hi there FT3 - I was rummaging around my digital music library and started cherry picking songs and pulling them into a folder with the idea of creating what I have named "FT3 Mixtape #1". I know nothing about editing music or any of the other things you do - to do what you do on the Island. This is just a simple digital version of the 70's cassette "mixtapes" I used to make back in the day - nothing more. I worked on sequencing them - I didn't like the original shuffle placement. There is no overall theme/concept employed - just 22 tunes (97 minutes) I like that I think sort of go together (I could be wildly wrong about that!). My meager effort is the least I can do to reciprocate for all the enjoyment I have received herein.
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I played this in the car yesterday and it was like I'd discovered a fantastic hidden station. Thank you.
DeletePlayed it in the car? How perfect!!. The cassette mix tapes I mentioned making years ago were mainly for use in my car and sharing with friends who played them in their cars. There is nothing better than driving along listening to music - especially if there are a few aural surprises along the way.
DeleteI think I will commence work on FT3 Mixtape #2. So glad you enjoyed it.
I have been watching this space, and I must say I rather like your abstract take on Paul Simon's Sound of Silence very much.
ReplyDeleteHmm .. currently listening to "Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska" .. sorta spacey rock stuff!! ... before this The Kinks "Face to Face"!! .. and last night some Edgar Froese!!
ReplyDeleteExcellence in deliverables! Me - Jellyfish. Catching up with both albums via a rediscovered Umajets album.
DeleteThe New Eves. the Guardian says,
ReplyDeleteVelvets-style drone rock, trad folk, anarcho-punk and hippy whimsy are all discernible in the Brighton quartet’s debut album – all played with white-knuckle intensity. I would add witchy, wicker man vibes and "don't give a fukkedness" attitude.
Yes, yes - any tunes?
Deletesoitinlee,
DeleteGood luck on the novel and thank you for providing this space.
ReplyDeleteLorde - "Green Light"
ReplyDeleteGlastonbury 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhnV09nx6ao&list=RDMhnV09nx6ao&start_radio=1
So, did I miss anything while I was gone...
ReplyDeleteWell, you missed the only appearance ever on the entire internet of the lost Beetles psychedelic jam track "Carnival Of Light", posted as a BAYMI. I got the jitters about that and deleted it maybe a couple of minutes after posting.
Delete#fml
Delete(Check your email. Don't pass this around)
Delete(can I have one?)
DeleteCoincidentally at this very moment I'm listening to Phaedra - Tangerine Dream. I haven't heard this (or any other TG in years).
ReplyDeleteCurrent listening yeah
ReplyDeleteChina Crisis "Flaunt the imperfection" (with walter becker production to add charm to it)
Jon Hassell "Earthquake Island"
Roxy Music's "Manifesto"
an Pescado Rabioso for some argentinian psych rock.
Ah, and Young Gun Silver Fox, a discovery that I must thank you again for.
Allright then
Bat
Tonight it is the 1st 2 Marshall Crenshaw albums. Sometimes I want to just reflect and feel like the guy summer driving in a convertible. Perfect top down music.
ReplyDeleteTop down music is my favorite music after up skirt.
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Farq it! Farq has Farqed Off.
ReplyDeleteMusique Mon sewer.
Ah. I'm attempting to become a muso. (Strokes beard). I'm listening to Corridor of Faces : Lazy Smoke. Some hazy psychedelic groove from the lost continent of the Aquarium Age. Also I'm heading on my cosmiche surfboard into Krautrock seas a plenty. Agitation Free. Malesch.
There's lots of music to discover but until then. Enjoy the voices in your head.
Uh, I'm, literally, like, right here, dude-bro? Lazy Smoke is fire.
DeleteCurrently on my listening list
ReplyDeleteas mentioned befrore Carnival of Light by The Beatles but also
Great While It Lasted by Johnny
Never saw it coming by Clair Voyant
Bolero by Thijs van Leer
Someday My Prince Will Come by Patricia Paaij
Nothing is Real - Alvin Lucier
Kudos - you're one of the LITERALLY Four or Five Guys© who managed to snag the COL. It was slated to be a bonus disc in the upcoming Anthology re-release (in addition to "Anthology 4") but apparently Paul nixed it, again. I'm glad to have it, although if I listen to it more than Leave My Kitten Alone I'll be surprised.
DeleteI've been chillin' to Snarky Puppy & Goose lately. Tasty stuff!
ReplyDeleteFollowing up on the August 22nd post, here is FT3 Mixtape #2 -- "Drivin' Around". 19 songs - 70 minutes. Several songs included herein, I only became aware of via FT3. I think they fit in nicely.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/archive/kU2CSPwFdG
Thank 'ee!
DeleteIn the last week or so...
ReplyDeleteHappy Mondays 'Bummed'
Heart 'Bad Animals'
Edward Vesala 'Heavy Life'
John Morton 'Outlier'
Steve Lacy 'Scratching The Seventies'
Lola Kovacev 'Balkan Impressions'
Aino Tytti - 'Slicing the Troposphere' (headphones-mix)
Do you wear a fez and a smoking jacket whilst enjoying these selections?
DeleteInspired by a recent re-viewing of, "Ghost World", I have some Skip James spinnin'. Your turn.
ReplyDeleteWell I wasn’t going to check in at Th' Isle O'Foam© until next month but clicked on the bookmark by mistake, and there are 55 comments.
ReplyDeleteI have mainly been listening to reggae 45’s because I hope to sell a load soon and need to check they are playable and also if I might want to keep some - Pluto Shervington, Ram Goat Liver will not be sold. Other than reggae, The Kinks have been spinning quite a bit on the old dancette.
I had the 12" of Pluto's "I Man Bitter". Very different from the comedy stuff.
Delete"True I A Rebel I Man No Mind".
I dont play music as I used to--albums cassettes & cd's... gave up dope for no reason and that was a major contributor to listening pleasure... my component system has bugs in each component and sits in storage. My last car had a cd player and i had 3 stuffed-full storage cases with 90 or so each burns of great toonz...The 1st question I asked of the seller of my next [present] 2006 volvo was: Does it have a cd player? "Yes!" he said, "but it's broken" [about a grand to fix] So...i been stuck with drivin' round hearing pretty unhip fm radio fare, [what a whole lotta zep! ...meetwood Flack...Under Pressure*, + more than enough Queen, ... many oldies appreciated, the occasional not so oldie [I do like Free Fallin' of Petty, also his Dont Back Down] and am bemused by things that stick inexplicably in the head, like the words to Tears of a Clown [Smoky], Poppa's got a brand new bag [masterpiece!] ...'The ballad of irving 142nd fastest gun in the west' and a quirky Syd-ish
ReplyDelete1996 song of Belle & Sebastian 'The Stars of Track and Field' [hate their name but admire this song!]
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYphHhF4Mo
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*Willie Nelson & a chick do a verbatim version!
Great comment, and thanks for not pimping out your acquired-taste keyboard stylings!
DeleteI bin lissnin' to the albums in Tracks II a bunch.
ReplyDeleteI got into the set one album at a time, not bingeing, like Wardo, and I'm convinced this is why the set got milder reviews than it deserves. If you speed-scroll through it for the hits (or whatever) you're not going to appreciate what's happening here - an alternate Bruce history that I prefer to the E Street Band albums post-River. As a solo artist, he's way more interesting than a band leader, and these albums are varied and adventurous and deeply thoughtful, and there's not one you can dismiss as even sub-par. Terrific stuff.
Absolutely agree with you on this. Released like this, it invited bingeing, I suppose, but it deserves a more measured listen to.
DeleteI've been listening a lot these days to the tuneage of Chuck Prophet, especially his latest, a cumbia disc, well worth a spin or six. --Muzak McMusics
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/10nhral/100th_episode/
ReplyDeleteHow very true that is. Milestones are meaningless because they are based on the Myth of the Interval:
Deletehttps://rebuddharedux.blogspot.com/
finest kind, Farq; thanks. As someone said elsewhere & elsewhen, "instead of six degrees of separation, we have billions of degrees of connectedness." So, milestone, schmilestone, methinks? Or at least they are both about time. Speaking of which, Da Brudder's cover of "Time Has Come Today" showed up today as did Morris Day & The Times "Jungle Love"...if the Doll's version of "Stranded in the Jungle" appears....
DeleteThe Dillards' Copperfields album was one that escaped my attention for a long time, and I probably haven't absorbed it enough yet, cuz when "Close The Door Lightly" appeared in the earbuds yesterday, I was just struck by the loveliness of the music. Great version of a fine tune. Herb Pedersen was a good addition to the band. I'm really into lush stereo guitar sounds these days. I've listened to Robert Forster's "If It Rains" so often that my wife recognizes his voice as "that whoa whoa whoa whoa guy". That's from his The Evangelist CD, in case you've never delved much into Robert, Grant, and the Go-Betweens.
ReplyDeleteCopperfields is gawjuss. True story of the Dillards here:
Deletehttps://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/08/true-life-stories-of-rock-pop-n-roll.html
(I'll investigate Th' Evangelist - tx!)
Dillard & Clark supposedly did a version of The Statler's "Flowers on the Wall" for an encore on occasion...so much deeply useless information rattling around in my head...
DeletePlayed Copperfields & Wheatstraw in the car yesterday. New old car, CD player works.
DeleteCurrently listening to - Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
ReplyDeleteEverybody should have this hot biscuit on th' autochanger of their Consolette©, you ax me.
DeleteThe Beatles - 1968 03 15 Rishikesh, India - Spiritual Regeneration/Happy Birthday
ReplyDeleteMudcrutch - The best of the 2016 Tour. Some fine psychedlica-bluegrass-banjo.
ReplyDeleteA very unique band. How the country music of The Byrds should do if they were just formed now. (Or then)Petty kicks back (like the Farq) and sings whilst playing bass. (Not the fish). He gets into some transcended vocal vibes. (Petty, not the fish). Highly recommend.
Also Manuel Gottsching. Inventions for electric guitars. Somewhat chemically enhanced in an entheogenic flow of geeetar. That sounds unlike anything really before or after. Perhaps truly in-between the all seing ohmmmm of the eternal now.
That's make it simply mmmmm.
Approach to Anima by Maya Ongaku.
Water, shimmering ethereal chants from a Japanese ambient jazz psychedelic pastoral blessed out coolness.
A breeze on a mountain too through the hair on a Yeti's head.
Lenny Breau post RIP facilitated by Randy Bachmann
ReplyDeleteDo you get royalties for this? Seems like you should. Imagine the soundtrack....
ReplyDeletehttps://vocal.media/journal/custom-home-protection-with-insulthane-extreme-spray-foam
James pit (you read that right - James pit) is now my go-to author of writing!
Deletehttps://vocal.media/authors/james-pit
Literally so much to "unpack" here! This is a personal favorite:
Efficient Furnace Repair Services For Halifax's Cold Weather
- but you're sure to have others!
For me...what I'm listening to INTENTLY is whatever live show I'm digitizing to post over at the Voodoo Wagon. This week it was a show by My Chemical Romance, a rather shouty group of fey, pale, potty-mouthed glitter glam-boys popular with the younger set a few years back.
ReplyDeleteThe folks at Westwood One released a concert for syndication with over two dozen words not fit for American broadcast, censored by back-masking the offending word. I'm going to put it out with a censored and an uncensored version, so I'm trying to reverse the reversed words.
Other than that...jeez, in the car yesterday the random shuffle on the flash drive fed me Duke Ellington's "Diminuendo In Blue," Denim's "I'm Against The 80s" and Johnny Cash's "Daddy Sang Bass."
I'm sure you know this, but you can back-mask in Audacity (and re-back-mask) very easily. Isolating the vocals is much harder, but this was probably not done for the broadcast.
DeleteYes....I use Audacity and use the "reverse" feature to remove the censorship. As you guessed correctly, they do not reverse just the vocal, but the entire passage. It takes a bit of trial and error to catch the correct starting and ending points, but it sounds better than the reversed bit.
DeleteEspecially on this show...they drop the mother-friggin' f-bomb twenty-seven times in less than an hour, so it gets annoying. :)
A companion to Denim's "I'm Against The 80s”, is their great track The Osmonds, YT link below. Lyrically UK listeners will get it, may not translate well elsewhere. It’s a long track but worth sticking with it till the end.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AM_pUZ1Iu4&list=RD-AM_pUZ1Iu4&start_radio=1
a prose pro's pro, #amirite?
ReplyDeleteAny truth to the rumor here you may be the next PM there?
Thailand is famed as the world's oldest fledgling democracy. We'd get bored if there wasn't a coup or a pointless regime change every few months.
Deleteit does seem very on brand and somewhat saner than what is evolving in the US
DeleteIt's a long tradition of stable chaos. And I trust Thai people. Not (ever) the gangsters who seize power, but the people. America? It took a world war to bring Hitler down. Not protests, not voting. Trump (like most Americans) doesn't give a shit about protests or voting, but he'd love to press that big red button. It's already too late, it's a done deal. Game over.
DeleteSomewhat unironically, and also timely, I have been listening a ton to this:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
For the last few years I've told folx who ask it will get worse before it gets worse. I am lucky some kind folx in Sweden and Finland have offered me safe haven if I need to flee and am mindful my grandfather almost waited too long in 1937 Germany...children and grandchildren complicate matters, but the irony of my German passport is deep. A colleague in Barcelona recently encouraged me to come there...
DeleteFrom a distance (and what do I know) there seems to be a feeling of "we might be turning into a fascist state" among good folk in the Untied Snakes, as if there's still time to sort things out - voting! let our voices be heard! - while armed thugs are pulling you off the streets and out of your homes. That's a sign that things are deeply fucked. Your own "forces of law and order" are abducting your neighbors, your economy has tanked and you have a violently stupid and venal and ugly bunch of people in control of your country. Everything is already in the past tense. It's not "evolving", it's happened. It's no use saying "it's a global thing, the way the world is going". Yes, there *seems* to be a general growing tendency to the right, but the US has, at least in my time, seen an absolutely unprecedented failure, a shrugging capitulation to the very worst your society (the world) is capable of. What to do? Beats me.
DeleteWe are fucked six ways to Sunday and if things break well it may only take a generation to sort out; it's bad. As for what to do....fuck if I know. And I study revolutions for a living. If we're lucky we are Hungary or Turkey, but it could get much worse than that and as you suggest in some ways already has. I had a kinda stunning moment this late spring when on a zoom with colleagues mostly in Europe when a person in Congo who recently had to flee Goma and a person in Venezuela both inquired after my safety. I think the upcoming governor's race in the state of Virginia will be telling in a variety of ways, about where things might or might not be going, but of the several options I see, 2 are pretty bad and 1 is not great. So, y e a h. I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, but it's bad and getting worse and we are some of the relatively lucky ones. For now.
DeleteMaybe Indonesia has something to show you:
Deletehttps://gulfnews.com/world/asia/indonesia-erupts-in-flames-protests-over-lawmaker-perks-tragic-death-spark-nationwide-fury-1.500251440
Brazil too...
DeleteDo you really think US citizens will take to the streets in sufficient numbers, and even commit acts of violence to change what is happening? Not being sarcastic, just interested in your take. I just don't see that happening, and its obviously a belief shared by the far right.
DeleteNo, I don't. I think that what passes for "the left" doesn't have the impetus (okay, cojones) to organise any kind of violent overthrow, nor do they think it's necessary. They have a misguided faith in democracy and reason, neither of which is anything more than librun bullshit for the "the right". To fight evil (and that's what this hideous movement is) you have to be tougher than the bad guys, more ruthless. Being smarter and kinder gets you nowhere but under. I can't see the future any more clearly than you, pmac, but we have a very clear view of the past. These things never end well.
DeleteMy guess is that the US is about to enter the Spainish Franco era or the similar experience in Portugal. In both situations, it basically took the military to put the country back on the track to democracy. Only short term hope I see is if he keels over soon, and Vance lacks the emotional appeal to the MAGA base. But, even then, it would still take some type of actual rebellion by the populace to make the change.
DeleteDon't disagree with either of you. The US is fucked and will get worse before it gets worse; if things changed tomorrow it'll take a generation to get back to something near normal and that won't be what it once was/coulda been....though I need not tell either of you it was never what it was cracked up to be. That said, it is a large country with spaces and places that could become focal points of resistance--it's happened elsewhere (sorta, rarely with "good" endings). And there are things that are hard to figure. Eight years ago Obama was a popular president; Michelle Obama remains one of the most popular figure in the US while Trump has ratings lower than Biden. 1000s of voters in NYC voted for AOC AND Trump. What even the fuck. But as Don Farq suggests, we have all seen this movie before and know how it is most likely to end...if, as you suggested, it has not already ended except for the shouting and details. Dark days.
DeleteMAGA Make America Genocidal Again
DeleteMAGA Make Antartica Glaciers Agrow
MAGA Make All Gays Ambassador
MAGA Makes a girlfriend alluring
MAGA Make American Geriatrics Anal
MAGA Musk's America Goes Aryan
MAGA Muslim America Goes Allah
MAGA Men Are Gruesome Animals
MAGA Murder All Grey Americans
MAGA Most Are Grave Adulterers
@pmac, whether or not Americans with a conscience and/or backbone will take to the streets is hard to know. But I witnessed something recently that was heartening. The town (and county) I live in has made it abundantly clear that the sheriff's office, for instance, will not detain people on "suspicion" of being without paperwork, nor assist the masked goons of ICE to do their dirty work. On a Sunday, there was the annual Hispanic Heritage street fair and as it began to get going, there were suddenly on the edges of the crowd suspicious looking men trying to look their most menacing and/or official. Without coordination or preparation, suddenly the vast majority of the people attending, most of whom were not latino, encircled the entire fair and acted as a human fence. The shits backed down and left. --Muzak McMusics
DeleteSo, Trump blew up a "drug" boat in the Carribean that was from Venezuela. My guess is that this is his pretense for declaring a war against that country in an effort to get around the judicial losses he has been receiving and also to get the country off of the Epstein files.
DeleteOh, and to get your mind off of all this BS, here's an amazing bootleg of the Allman Brothers in Sept 1971 recorded at The Warehouse in NO. Quality is stunning and the band is on fire (was a soundboard recording and has just been remastered). Over 2 hours!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oEZ1OHlIg4
Musak - as long as the citizenry is capable of this kind of show of resistance, there's hope. And Newsom, in spite of reservations people may have about him, is the most credible figurehead for the Dems right now.
Deletes'true...the women to whom I am married, doing her best to get arrested, song led at a march and rally in Austin yesterday with a great turn out and when they shut down the streets between the State Capitol and City Hall the cops let them and seemingly kept between them and the Texas State troopers are the kind of small signs you hope for.
Deletethere are spaces and places and we do and will need them.
pmac, that concert was legendary when I was growing up...thank you for sharing
FT3, may the gods help us if the dems put up Newsom . . . we need someone who actually will know what they're doing in a leadership role (and not spend time courting joe rogan, whatever). I admit he may have nice hair, but he's all style and no substance and we need someone who has convictions (not the kind that tRump has, all 34 of them) to lead with, and I think there are a few of those. Besides, newsom was married to Kimberly Gargoyle (or whatever her name is) . . . shows bad judgment. --Muzak McM.
DeleteWho else is there? AOC - too woman, too Hispanic, too smart, too young, too beautiful, too everything. Bernie - too old, too Bernie. I'm sure there are smart Dems working below the international event horizon - who do you see as a viable figurehead? Great Hair and Funny are working for Newsom right now, and that's a pretty potent combination.
DeleteJeez, as an observer from Oakland, I've been loathing Newsome's greasy Bryl-creamed noggin for two decades. Look up the picture of him and Kimberly Guilfoyle lolling on a rug in a Pacific Heights mansion and you'll have to contact your ophthalmologist about uncontrollable eye-roll. Yes, I'd vote for him over Trump, but he's one of those "I'll say or do anything to get elected" types. Plus, elitist as all get-out, and if you want to pull the working class back, he's not your (our) guy. Plus, he banged his best friend's wife, which is across a line for me.
DeleteSlim Pickens is an understatement, if a helluva character actor. Gretchen Whitmer?
Deletewhich is just a sad, sad commentary on where we are...bleak.
DeleteYes, next step for AOC is probably a Senate primary run against Chuck Schumer. Amen to that. Bernie's day has passed as a candidate. Others to watch include Maryland governor Wes Moore, Illinois gov Pritzker, Michigan govern Whitmer, to name just a few. --M. McM.
DeleteI'll take your word for these three (really just a few) good people, Mr. M, because as one who knows very little about US politics I've only seen their names mentioned and couldn't put a face or a deed to any of them. And, in knowing only Jack Shit, and not having voted, I think I'm pretty representative of the US electorate. Newsom is tub scum, but he's visible tub scum, and so, unfortunately, viable. "Oh yeah - the guy with the hair and the funny memes or whatever." As you say, not really the qualifications you look for in a world leader, but there've been worse. And the Dems should have fielded a great potential leader in the last two elections, so it's a little late. Still, lotsa luck.
DeleteKudos to PMAC for not droppin' the metaphoric H-Bomb; authoritarianism isn't always Hitler. The Latin American model should have been brought up a lot over the last 10 years. Anyway....here's a Live From The House of Blues Show #5 featuring a sort of New Orleans festival line up. I don't know if they were recorded from the same show though. It's the Radiators, Allen Toussaint, and Dr. John, doing three short sets. Digitized directly from discs by draftervoi: https://mega.nz/file/rBRQFbTZ#LTOq0q_miepK1-WxW7XUktG-g5IepduTXJiYZgZk1rk
DeleteOf course, the other way to look at this is WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY! A chance to see things fall so low that they then need to be picked up. A chance to get money out of politics and to get politicians who are accountable to the people and not to corporations/billionaires/etc. A chance to treat everyone as equal (mmm didn't I read that was in something called the Constitution?) and to frame legislation that enforces that. A chance to clean out the military, the police and public services. Then again, maybe I'm incredibly naive and should, instead, sit back and watch the whole lot of them (Americans) continue to climb on top of each other at whatever cost to the people being trampled on al in the name of Manifest Destiny and other associated bs.
ReplyDeleteAS for music - I'm listening, a lot, to Diamond Mine by King Creosote: beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBarrence Whitfield, Yardbirds, Kinks, Lone Justice, Velvet Underground, some of our old shows (Cool & the Crazy).....you get the idea
ReplyDeleteThe idea I got was that you're some kind of movie star. Which is clearly wrong.
DeleteJohn Hartman (Hawkster)
DeleteI'm nobody who worked on the (Cool & Crazy) show doing what we wanted too....
Groovy.
DeleteTop Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs - Pigus Drunkus Maximus. Why -'cause I can
ReplyDeleteGreat record!
DeleteI've been unhealthily obsessed with Spirit's extraordinary 'Future Games' recently, but the last few minutes always de-salted my cracker, what with the toe-stub xenophobia and non-contiguous radio samples (don't you hate those?), so I futzed myself up a FoamIteration™, with a much nicer ending, and it's yours for th' axing. (*crickets*)
ReplyDelete"de-slated my cracker"--whot-a-way with woids! And I'm axing
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DeleteThis, I think, even more than Spirit Of 76, is Randy's post-band meisterwerk. There's nothing else quite like it, and it's packed to bursting with moist, succulent earworms. And gawjuss fretwork. Mistakenly dismissed as lightweight or (worse) "lo-fi", it's as soaked in color as a Golden Era Marvel panel, bounces like Silly Putty, and retains its minty freshness even after decades of frequent mastication!
And now, with its new streamlined audio tailfins, it sets new standards in deluxe stereo entertainment! @193, the revolutionary new hi-fi standard!
Thank you!
DeleteThanks Farq ..it's one of my fave Spirit albums!!!
DeleteOne of the GREAT headphone albums ...
DeleteRecently said something I thought I'd never say: "If you like Surf Rock, check out Marty Stuart"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQMXHICN0g
Here things in the Land of Smiles(?) are pretty messed up as well, especially with daily shouting matches ('This is OUR land!')on both sides of the Thai - Cambodian border. Not sure when this is going to escalate further... The amount of fake news on social media from both sides is staggering and even worse, most swallow it like candy.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed that eventually people will get tired of it and go back to normal life!
At some point Cambodia is going to have to realise they basically "got nuthin'", and it's to no other nation's benefit to support them. But the south of Siam is always going to get hot and bothered about some damn thing - my advice: don't live there.
DeleteHi!! I lived in Hat-Yai for over 20 years .. yeah, the occasional bomb, but I never felt in danger!! Further south - Narathiwat & Pattani - could be exciting, I was told, but mainly out in the boondocks!! And have you noticed any flare ups between Thailand & Cambodia usually happen when there're domestic problems?? Cambodia will most likely soon be controlled by China anyway!! Much like Laos already is!!
Deleteas for listening it's johnny winter's first lp for columbia
ReplyDeleteas for any political discourse it's useless he's in that's it...game over
you that voted or didn't can tell your young ones about the once great city on the hill
woody
Re-upperized by request; my futzed version of Dae Lims' SMiLE, and my THiRTY MiNUTE SMiLE:
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thanks, Don Farq
ReplyDeleteArlene Francis or Dorothy Kilgallen?
ReplyDeleteEither or both would be in my list of ten invitees to the perfect chatty dinner party (you know, the lists that invariably include Jesus, Mozart, and Einstein, none of whom would get past my red rope), but if one had to make her excuses I'd hope it wasn't Arlene Francis. I'm smitten.
(Yes, I'm bingeing the original US TV series What's My Line. Pure dopamine.)
And I thought I was the only one watching What's My Line reruns. Shoulda known. It always tickles me to see Arlene Francis pop up in some film. She can't play a role, she's Arlene Francis. The episodes with Groucho are priceless. --Muzak McM
DeleteI'm watching a couple a day, but I've yet to catch Groucho. Fred Allen on the panel was a disappointment. I know he was ill toward the end of his appearances, but he often struck a mean note at the expense of the contestants. And he simply wasn't very good at the game.
DeleteKilgallen gets points for being involved however tangentially in the JFK assassination stuff.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe the conspiracy theory that "she was killed because she knew too much" (although anything connected to the assassination is possible), but the "disappearance" of all her research and writing for her Ruby/Oswald story is suspicious. I'd like to know if there's an authoritative source for this, or the first time it was mentioned.
DeleteShe's sharp and a little batty (in a lovable way), And classy. and Arlene is warm and witty. And classy. Impossible not to fall in love with them both.
Arlene was saucy and hot! Check her out as Jimmy Cagney's wife in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three."
ReplyDeleteSexy and funny. And class out th' ass.
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