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Posted about 1 year ago
>>>First of all...**"Live Music Is Better, Bumper Stickers should be issued"** .....Another in a random series.**Bill Withers** at Carnegie Hall, workin' it, feelin' it. This semi-improvised free flow social commentary is the last track on a brilliant but flawed live cd. Recorded in '72, it stands up remarkably well today. I like the slow percolating funk groove but the production hasn't transfered well into the digital format.>>To experience the heady elixir of the ??mass groove boogie?? & the collective bliss of bodies in motion is to come closer to understanding the liquid history of blood and sweat and tears.But that's not why I logged on this evening. A few months ago, I said the Dems, that great party of "diversity" (>>"diversity I spoke theirs words as if a wedding vow.....") was gonna tear itself apart and get very ugly. I said it while brilliantly suppressing my glee, but more than a little depressed because there really ??is?? no conservative on either ticket.>>>McCain may well gather a coalition of centrists, moderates, and disaffected Dems. (and their numbers will be legion no matter who gets the nomination for the dems.)Moving forward, the dems have come to realize that proportional representation sounds pretty but it creates disasters.Wait 'till Sen Obama's camp reads the fine print in the superdelegate roll in the process.Folks, its gonna get much uglier.
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Comments (18)

  1. inrumford
    inrumford says I've always been a Bill Withers fan so this was an appreciated listen and I applaud your political passion. I've always be pretty apolitical, though not through malaise or disinterest, but it simply blows about 2 feet over my scrambled brain
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  2. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says inrumford, good to hear from you. Politics is a sick addiction for me. Ranking with music, NFL, and wild kinky bacchanals.
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  3. inrumford
    inrumford says So, speak to me of the flaws in this CD
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  4. dharmachris
    dharmachris says where can one find the superdelegate rules? Yeah,,, the longer the primary lasts the more likely the Dems will do the traditional quadrennial action of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Or, one can make the argument that the primary competition only serves to toughen the eventual Dem nominee (unlike with Msr. Kerry), and preempt the arguments the Rove-ing Republican hit squads tactics. so when does football start again for some bacchanalian frenzy??
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  5. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says To me, The flaws in the cd are two-fold. ??Some?? rote performances of songs he's probably tired of singing, and a "mushy" sound overall. >>>Hi dharmachris, You know, the current dem strategy may be a stroke of brilliance really. As they play out their passion play of "diverse" sniping and offended sensibilities they can avoid talkin' real issues. I think they both lost millions of votes when they asserted in the last debate that they'd copmmence withdrawing troops from Iraq immediately and swiftly. (thats a paraphrase of course, but the essence is there. I think the American People understand what the dems refuse to admit. The NFL draft is this weekend, the first ??party?? is two weeks from Sat.
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  6. Cody B
    Cody B says Can't argue with Bill Withers or the fact that this live record is not his best (Still Bill is almost perfect) or the fact that the political season will get ugly. Can't agree about the lost votes for pulling out of Iraq or the numerous sly jabs about the party (passion play of "diverse sniping" to disguise a lack of issue discussion..geez, we've had about 18 debates, hundreds of position papers, and wall to wall coverage for months. With all that I agree with you..the ugliness could cost 'em the White House, which more than any election in the last 12 years, should be a lay up. On the dem plus side, a drop dead tie with both of 'em on ticket looks better than it did a month or two ago.
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  7. waydutch
    waydutch says catching your crafty swipe at Bill with the Harlem track pick too...
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  8. Spike
    Spike says deadmandeadman, proportional representation creates disasters, but is there a better alternative? What exactly is the fine print in the superdelegate role? I enjoyed Bill Withers's "Harlem/Cold Baloney." During the first half, the key keeps modulating up numerous times, and that reminds me of his song "Steppin' Right Along" from his 1985 album Watching You Watching Me, where at the 2:51 mark it modulates up from Bb to B as the lyrics shift from secular to spiritual.
    I assume that the lyrics of the second half of Harlem/Cold Baloney are a test of our knowledge of black music history, so I'll take the bait and guess that it's a reference to the artist featured in your March 22 post (and coincidentally Madeline Burke's March 22 post) about Bukka White, the Mississippi bluesman whose first 78, in 1937, was the song "Shake 'Em On Down." This link is a total surprise to me, and I wonder if Withers's lyrics were inspired by this, or some intermediate source.
    Permalink posted 04/24/2008
  9. contrabandwidth
    contrabandwidth says If ever we have gotten a better education in the electoral college/election process, than I am unaware. We should all be experts at the finer details at the end of this. Agreed, the dem's are cannibalizing themselves and setting a lack luster candidate such as McCain up to polish up his message and be on point, while they are still figuring out who their nominee is. First of all..."Live Music Is Better, Bumper Stickers should be issued" Is this not a line from "Proud To Be A Union Man" from Neil Youngs Hawks and Doves album?
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  10. Cody B
    Cody B says Spike..Is there anything new ?
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  11. Spike
    Spike says Cody, it makes one wonder, doesn't it? Of course, nothing new is either totally new or totally old.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  12. Cody B
    Cody B says Couldn't ask for a better answer than that Charles. Cheers.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  13. Spike
    Spike says Cheerio, mate.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  14. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Hi Spike, I hope you see this. >>>Apparently, certain of the Super Delegates have the power to "baptize" up to five additional super delegates. These are rules set in place and developed by the dems themselves. These "super-duper delegates" are, by n large, big-time party hacks, I mean, party operatives from the traditional branch of the old guard The thinking is that a large slice of these are firmly in Hillary's camp. Sen. Obama has become a lightning rod between to camps who view themselves as polar opposites when in fact their needs and desires are identical. The racial divide is fractious enough, but once again the dems may well nominate a candidate so obviously elitist as to make "mad" John McCain seem like a man of the peeps. Whatever dude, the sad state of political rhetoric has made Sen Obama's gift for oratory shine like a shiny bauble in a swamp, drawing in folks to the campfire, engendering a feeling of ....."we can change the world, rearrange the world. It's dying......". I know the feeling well dude, and the worlds of unintended consequences even tiny battles in the war on convention can yield. We are living in the post moral age. The 'me-first' age. An age of instant gratification and shrinking attention spans. An age brought on by throwing off the yolk of courtesy and respect, an age where so many turn to the government teat when they're feeling needy, or disrespected, or neglected, or abused, misused, unused, confused or refused. An age where soundbites of **Hope** and **Change** and hints of nasty ogre **corporations** out to strangle our puppies in fetid bank vaults can turn a man into a messiah. Couple that with an increasingly obliging press and media core and your settin' yourself up to fall. Folks who know have already read the writing on the wall, the writing that leads to a victory in Nov, and it doesn't say Obama. But for the party operatives to install Hillary as their Nominee, (the politically savvy thing to do) or bow to the will of their electorate and hand the election over to the GOP.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  15. Spike
    Spike says It's amazing how irrational we are. I watched some of the Democratic convention in 2004 and let myself get caught up in the oratory, like getting caught up in a movie or concert, and it was fun just enjoying the aesthetics of it, believing in what they said, and Obama's speech was my favorite. Now my fantasy is that the Democratic nominee will verbally eviscerate, shred, demolish, Tyson-ize McCain. I love cruelty.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  16. dermahrk
    dermahrk says so is your idea of heaven the Patriots quarterback sodomizing Bill Clinton under his desk while humming "Rule Brittania?" Just wondering....
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  17. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Spike, No group on earth is more cruel than the tolerant liberals. And you're correct about how cruel it'll get. Moveon.org is already bragging about how much they've raised to "smear" (their word, not mine, honest to god) John McCain. They just need a candidate. >>>Its ironic that Moveon.org has grown so powerful, as it is an unintended (but not unforeseen) consequence of McCain-Feingold. I wonder if McCain can define petard. god I love this shit. I could tell Obama how to win this thing.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008
  18. Spike
    Spike says Until you get the chance to tell Obama how to win this thing, share it with us. Dermahrk, I think you're more imaginative than I am.
    Permalink posted 04/25/2008

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