I'm such a bad person. I stumbled in at 1.30 with a gang of folks and blasted music 'til 2.30, waking up my room mate. What an a-hole. She woks the same hours as me, and while it was my decision to stay up stupidly late and suffer for it at work today, it wasn't hers. So so so danged sorry.Here's my remorseful song, Johnny Cash covering Bonnie 'Prince' Billie (with Billie doing backing vocals)
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Like I said - it's really very personal. Both the record itself and my reaction to it. The more I listen to it the more I dig it. There's a lot of truth in it.What I think about most when I listen to it is that I want my father to listen to it. How do describe the Colonel... decrepit ol' Marine with shitty lungs and fragile skin. "Like the 309" sounds just like him. _It should be a while ...
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I will be hitting the bottle in just a bit, I figure I have earned it now that I am officially on my winter break. The week before vacation is always a rough one for teachers, and I am ready for bed at this point in the night. I will not go down with out a fight however, and have promised myself some whiskey before calling it a night. While it would be easy to post music that would be fun to li...
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Back in November 2005, i did a post on a regular blog entitled "*They Are Killing My Brothers Again*":http://electronictiger.net/roare/2005/11/they-are-killing-my-brothers-again.htmlToday i saw this story on line. It made me cranky.They called it the "Thousand-yard Stare""Veterans' Affairs doctor tells staff to refrain from PTSD diagnoses":http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-p...
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.........Johnny Cash...........The name itself carries the impossible weight of near mythic status. A half century of American countryfolk music is mapped out in the deep canyons a crags in the voice of Johnny Cash. His catalog spans the ages...& the generations...........Seeing him revitalized late in his career with the superb string of cd's under the auspices of producer extraordinaire (and...
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Further On Up The Road"- Bruce Springsteen's tune "I'll meet farther on up on the road- Got on my dead man's suit and a song to sing. Where the road is dark, one sunny morning and we'll rise I know and we will meet further on up the road"
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Johnny Cash played "every prison song he knew" when he performed live at Folsom Prison in 1968. Songs like "I Got Stripes," "25 Minutes To Go" and the specially-written "Folsom Prison Blues" are well-known favorites. But have you heard him play "I'm Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail" from the same concert? How about "This Ole House" or "June's Poems"? These are 3 of the 7 songs that weren't i...
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I love reading stuff like "this":http://mog.com/brendanhalpin/blog_post/127600#comments It reassures me that the wheel's still spinnin' 'round and around.I'll bet the first time some cave-kids figured out some new cool polyrhythms there was an elder bitchin' about the 'crazy music the kids listen to'
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...I'm still feeling that live music vibe and since I'm chillaxin, I've down shifted from brother Brown to the Man in Black...that's right, Johnny Cash, dude was smooth as chicken shit on a pump handle, if you think about it-- this was the show where the infamous "finger picture" was snapped by one of the camera men who were filming the performance for a BBC documentary......I've written about ...
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This morning on my ride into work I had to stop the album I was listening to, I had to see if the local stations were discussing the horribly saddening news of Heath Ledger's passing yesterday. I still remember being in college when I heard of River Phoenix's death. I remember being distressed with thoughts of his brother Joaquin watching as he overdosed - having to make that call. Haunts m...
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Turn the key and drive on. America awaits discovery. Get behind the wheel, for it is not about the destination, it is about the journey.
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Rain has been what I have been looking at for the last four days. While the anticipation of green grass, and warm weather keeps my hopes up,grey skies have a way to just slow a person down. Sundays do the same to me, you know the weekend is over and the work week is about to begin. I find myself listening to a lot of Johnny Cash on Sundays. I do not think there are many who can tell a story lik...
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We started watching season 2 of HBO's In Treatment on Sunday night. Gabriel Byrne is the only actor who could play Paul. His magnificent acting in this stellar drama inspired this mix called "I wear this crown of thorns upon my liars chair full of broken thoughts I cannot repair."Johnny Cash - Hurt (mp3)Pixies - Where is My Mind (mp3)Wilco - Misunderstood (mp3)The Beatles - Help (mp3)Ryan Ada...
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On my last post B42 made reference to the song Boy Named Sue sung by Johnny Cash. I pointed out that it was written by Shel Silverstein, someone who is more well known for his children books. After a couple replies, B42 came back with this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein, which shows the amount of work Shel has done outside the world of children’s literature. What caught my e.
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'In My Life' is probably my favorite song of all time...and this is one of my favorite versions
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