Posted on 09/10/2003 9:03:45 PM PDT by Mudboy Slim
"Come Together!!"
(To be sung to the Beatles' "Come Together")
Here comes the RightWing...We been buildin' up slowly...
We got Dubyuh leadin'...got our troops a'rollin'!!
We got Rush on the Eee-eye-bee;
Mudboy Slim ain't jokin', Right's got RATS on their knees!!
Left fears the Righteous...Libs got whupped at the polls!!
RATS love RapistWillie...Slick kills little children!!
Left's all naive fools...braindead freaks.
One thing Right must tell Dems is folks gotzta be FRee!!
Come Together, Right NOW...in DeeCee!!
DemRATS're destructin'...Libs love Eeeee-vil Tyrants!!
Left's got zero morals...Left's RAT-spine's a crackin'!!
RATS got FReeped down becuz Right's FRee!!
Fight the A.N.S.W.E.R. Commies 'cuz we loathe Tyranny!!
Come together, Right NOW...help US FReep!!
Right!! Yo...
Keep rollin', Justice...we got Soddom runnin'!!
Next, git O. bin Laden and that bozo Clinton!!
We say, "One and one and one is three!!"
RATS think Slick's good-lookin', but in Jail, Slick Shall SQUEEEEEAL!!
Come together, Right NOW!! RE-IMPEACH!!
Oh...
Come together...yeah!!
Come together...yeah!!
Come together...yeah!!
Come together...yeah!!
Come together...yeah!!
Come together...yea-eah-eahh!!
Come together...yea-eah-eahh!!
Come together...yeah!!
Mudboy Slim
You're correct of course, but I wasn't referring to who most blacks think better to help them economically. I was referring to them knowing who, or who is not, just being PC when in their company.
I promote Michael King's site & the African American Republican Leadership Council to blacks I know. I haven't gotten back much positive response yet, but I also haven't been hearing anything bad, so who knows, maybe folks are looking at the conservative point of view.
Nawwwww, you ain't gonna put that on me, son.
Look, why don't you take a chance & send it to 'em, anyway?
Consider it the same as the proverbial note in a bottle.
In case you've not discovered this already, by (& past) a certain age a really "good" thrill's damned hard to come by.
Good thrill's don't seem to come to one (nearly) as much as when they're a kid, & don't know any better.
Means with age a persons gotta increasingly take chances in order to "make" thrill(s).
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
So?
...feeling lucky?
Sweet Jesus I'm pulling for ya Sultan, & the very best of luck.
"If'n ya don't hear from me in awhile, it's cuz I'm recoverin'!"
I sure hope you're able to do that recovering at home.
Just maybe the USPS will be unusually efficient & get to you something I'd sent you Monday that'll help make the recovery time much more enjoyable.
...you take care of yourself, y'hear?
New York?
HA!!
Nothing personal but, no thanks.
Guess a "Friend-in-the-box" is the best I can do. {g}
"BTW. Give Norah's record a chance. It's awesome."
You may take that to the bank, Mr.A.
Hell, this young Lady just might be very good, as you claim.
In which case she's someone I've been looking & waiting on for quite a while, now.
Wasn't necessarily expecting an extremely attractive, petite, young & talented brunette musician with beautiful dark eyes (to kill for), either.
Would've settled for a lot less.
Say a gal with an attention span longer than my green singer finch? {g}
"I've gotten to know her some recently, she's the real deal. Not a bs bone in her body. The majors all passed on her...a tiny jazz label (Blue Note) signed her, and off she went."
Whaaaaat, you trying out for Comedy Central or are you a Scorpio with a "humor delete" rating?
Is that supposed to be funny?
Blue Note's hardly a "tiny jazz label," my friend.
I've scores of extremely rare & old jazz recordings (remastered on CD, incidentally) by jazz *giants* the likes of Bobby Hutcherson, Hoarce Silver, Art Blakey, Anita O'Day, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Joe Henderson, Jo Stafford, Cannonball Adderly, Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter & the list goes on and on.
Those people refused to record with anyone *but* Blue Note, y'know.
Geshhhhhh, YOU'D do well to hitch up with BL in any capacity, CM; so, please tell me you were pulling my chain, OK?
"I know some of the guys in her band and they are all excellent players. Their success ain't the product of some major label multi-million dollar pr machine. She's resisted promotion, high priced videos, VH1 diva bs, dance remixes and the like. I gotta alot of respect for that. That and I can listen to her sing all day."
Ok-Ok...ya don't want to influence the *jury* now, do ya?
I'll give you my honest opin about the gal, & without my boneheaded biases getting in the way.
...this I promise.
If that guy thought for one nanosecond he was going to be recieved by an ABC *property* like ESPN as anything but a sitting duck?
One whereby -- more sooner than later -- they'd wait for just the *right* time when he said something that could be parsed, dissected & twisted into their own meaning than ol' Rush's not nearly as smart OR on the ball as I'd thought he was.
Not by a country mile.
The exact same screwing Lott & Gingrich et al took; only, today our *hero* squeeled like a stuck pig.
It was disssgussstinggg.
I mean listening to him babble on & on was a truely painful...no...make that excruciating experience to have to sit through.
It was obvious the guy cares more about sitting up there that panel of morons for his sickening football gig than he does his self respect; *or*, for that matter for the conservative movement responsible for giving him his financial autonomy else he'd have told 'em all to get screwed.
Geeheezz.
Just WTF is going through in the minds of the people who're supposedly leading our side, anyway.
...the guy was a flat-out embarrassment.
HA!!
You've got to be the "guru," CM!
After all, you're the musician.
Right?
"Blue Note is tiny when compared to the conglomerates owned by Warner, Vivendi...you know, BMG and the like."
True.
But I'd like to think we're well beyond being fooled by the old "big is better" shtick, too.
"But to be fair. In the jazz world, it's THE label."
Yup.
Its always come down to, "best is better"; &, in that respect BL has taken the prize for years.
"Consider she outsold Miles by tenfold and you get my drift."
An amazing fact, if true; considering, the lousy state of music sales, of any kind.
Just understand my POV whenever reading a *stats* like that these days, too. (~if only based on my above POV.)
I've long ago become somewhat less enthusiastic [read: impressed} than you (appear to be) after hearing atrocities such as "Dumber & Dumbest" or Goldmember" have set box office records; or, the top of the charts are currently occupied by single-digit IQ misfits who "made it" by producing nothing but some real shit, OK?
Compelled me to look real hard at just "who" wields the purchasing power, today; given, the overall state of the music & cinema industries as well as what's considered "art" in other venues.
Even you are aware of the deterioration; which, if one bases an opin solely on "sales" makes you & I the odd man out, right?
If what we see today is considered nothing more than a *barometer* of the human condition in western culture today?
It doesn't bode well -- for any of us -- & quickly renders stats (such as [that]) quite hollow.
"Geez, I envy your record collection!"
Years in the making, my friend; &, remains a work in progress.
(That collection's the main reason I began considering the purchase of a radio station, y'know; but that's another *story* for another time.)
"Play her album on Sunday morning when you're making coffee. You'll see what I mean."
I shall but, wouldn't that mean I'd have to purchase it, first?
So you'll buy it off of me if I don't care for it, is that right? {g}
(...would nj's "come away with me" fit the *bill*?)
>...an extremely attractive, petite, young & talented brunette musician with beautiful dark eyes (to kill for)
"Tell me about it."
No-no, ya got it bassackwards.
You tell me.
...I'm all ears. {g}
Big '88, you know you are in my prayers!
Big '88, you know you are in my prayers!
Springsteen: 'Demand Accountability From Leaders'
AP
Bruce Springsteen performs with Steve Van Zandt of the E Street band during a performance at Shea Stadium Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003, in New York. Last night, Bruce Springsteen called for the President to be impeached. He was kidding, of course: the suggested impeachment would make a Clarence Clemons presidency possible.
But Springsteen wasn't entirely kidding.
At one point toward the end of his first show at Shea Stadium, right before playing "Born in the U.S.A.," he made a rare political statement.
Welcoming both Republicans and Democrats to his show, he told the audience to "demand accountability from our leaders," especially because our soldiers had been sent to fight a war.
It didn't take much to get the message. Springsteen also made an impassioned plea for the Coalition for the Homeless that seemed even more important, considering the recent upsurge in street beggars and sidewalk sleepers in Manhattan.
Then, too, he performed his song, "American Skin," which he wrote about the death of Amadou Dialo , killed by New York City police while former Mayor Rudy Giuliani held office.
Springsteen, once coy about his politics, is now unafraid to make a few statements. In a jovial moment he read aloud a letter he said he'd received from grade-school principal John C. Hughes at P.S. 48 in Queens.
His show, the first of three at Shea, was otherwise the usual brilliant exercise in marrying serious business with party-atmosphere rock and roll. He mixed songs from his Sept. 11 tribute album "The Rising" with older hits such as "Born to Run," "Because the Night," and "Tunnel of Love."
He also covered, I think, three oldies: John Fogerty's anti-war song, "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Seven Nights to Rock," and a portion of the old Curtis Mayfield/Major Lance hit "Monkey Time" was fused with his own rave-up version of "Meet Me at Mary's Place."
Among the fans who turned out in the iffy weather: actress Candice Bergen with her husband, Marshall Rose.
Before the show, the E Street Band's leader, Little Steven Van Zandt , held a small gathering for friends in a meeting area at Shea. When he was told it had started raining before the group was supposed to go on, he blanched.
"Rain and cold," he said. "You wanted to play in October," a friend countered. On stage, Van Zandt didn't look like he was having too much trouble adapting to the blustery elements.
The group did perform some buried treasures, like the much-appreciated "Night" from the "Born to Run" album, "Man's Job" from "Human Touch," "No Surrender" from "Born in the U.S.A." and "Johnny 99" from "Nebraska."
Will he do them again this week? It's anyone's guess. For me the highlight of the evening was the penultimate song, "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," which stole the show. I'm still smiling.
A rocking version of "Dancing in the Dark" followed as the closer, with Springsteen and the E Street Band giving the 60,000 sardines at Shea a concise, just under three-hour souvenir to take home.
Good to hear...take your time resting up, Sultan, we need you around fer the long haul!!
FReegards...MUD
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