Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Music as decoration?
I feel these words are music.
‘First and foremost womens’ values are NOT about using Military Power to force our will on other peoples, steal their lands and resources, and kill them if they resist…
If women had put their collective foot down 5000 years ago when the first groups of males broke off to form the first armed groups for fun and conquest, we’d all be in a lot better shape…
Posted by joe maine on from 11/13 at 05:12 PMUgly as life has been, there isn’t much I would do over. One thing, however, would be learning to play an instrument. Aye, I could start learning one now, but don’t think I would reach the high standards of other areas of endeavor (political misanthropy, freshwater fishing, photography).
But music and sound… without these, we’d be even more impoverished. The wind and birds on a high ridgeline just west of Death Valley ranks with any sound-producing tools h. sapiens has devised.
Rage Against The Machine’s cover of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” was running through my skull today http://tinyurl.com/37je4a Truly music for a government’s funeral. A different take on sound is the DVD “Touch The Sound,” a documentary about percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Well worth a look.
Sweet Fraudulent Yawheh in a birchbark canoe! I f00kin’ LOVE RAGE! OwwwOOOOOO!!!!
People Of The Sun: http://tinyurl.com/3y9a2w
Testify: http://tinyurl.com/22nqmr
Killing In The Name: http://tinyurl.com/2lvk5rPosted by Zen Prole on from Urth 11/14 at 12:15 AMthis is a terrible joke but it is also true.
my friend was singing that bob marley song and i battered him over the head with the cd box. he didnt feel ok.
i always liked this too..
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
-- Gioacchino Rossini, 1867Posted by michael on from scotland 11/14 at 05:41 AMho hum
very quiet here today, maybe this story/joke will tease you out of hiding…
very good
in the 60s there is an old man and woman sitting on a park bench in glasgow [scotland]. the man turns round and said..“I was just thinking, i met you in 1914, i didn’t have a job or any money, but you seemed to like me and stuck by me.
The 1st world war came along and i spent four years in a mudhole getting shot at but you stood by me every step of the way.
after the war i couldn’t get a job, it was the great depression but you were there standing by me all the time.
Then the second world war came along and they give me a tin hat and a stick and told me to keep the germans out of sauchiehall street… which i did to the best of my ability. And you stood by me every step of the way.
The war finished, still couldn’t get a job because they said i was too old. and you stood by me every step of the way.
And here we are, old, no money, and you are still here by my side.
And i was thinking...you’re a fucking jinx!”
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/14 at 08:46 AMGood story, Michael...and thanks for the links, Zen. Hi Joe.
I too wish I had played an instrument. I did, however, sing in a rock band and it’s one of my deepest regrets that I didn’t follow that path. Even the most nominally famous rocker has a bigger audience than I do. That’s a lot of folks to both entertain and provoke. Plus, it probably would have been mighty fun.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/14 at 10:45 AMI got a new band going on and things are taking off nicely, which is why I haven’t been around all that much. here is a place you can hear some demos we hung up:
be extraordinarily well everybody,
xoPosted by owen on from barcelona 11/14 at 11:18 AMWithout music I would go insane. Zen and Mickey it’s never too late to learn an instrument. I do wish that I took piano lessons when I was younger like my mom wanted me too, it would’ve have made playing the guitar easier. Today many of my friends (I’m 26) are obsessed with guitar hero. I always tell them to just buy a used accoustic guitar and chord book and start to play.
The Weakerthans say: Sounds Familiar
We emerged from youth all wide-eyed like the rest. Shedding skin faster than skin can grow, and armed with hammers, feathers, blunt knives: words, to meet and to define and to… but you must know the same games that we played in dirt, in dusty school yards has found a higher pitch and broader scale than we feared possible, and someone must be picked last, and one must bruise and one must fail. And that still twitching bird was so deceived by a window, so we eulogized fondly, we dug deep and threw its elegant plumage and frantic black eyes in a hole, and rushed out to kill something new, so we could bury that too. The first chapters of lives almost made us give up altogether. Pushed towards tired forms of self immolation that seemed so original. I must, we must never stop watching the sky with our hands in our pockets, stop peering in windows when we know doors are shut. Stop yelling small stories and bad jokes and sorrows, and my voice will scratch to yell many more, but before I spill the things I mean to hide away, or gouge my eyes with platitudes of sentiment, I’ll drown the urge for permanence and certainty; crouch down and scrawl my name with yours in wet cement.
Posted by Richard on from Buffalo 11/14 at 12:42 PMOwen..6..looks interesting, how do you describe your music...influences?
Mickey..if you sang today, what would you sing. What instrumentation would you want?
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/14 at 12:42 PMLong time lurker here.
what does it mean? what can you do about it?
what can you say? don’t even know about it
nobody talks, nobody listens, well look around
look out your window, they’re having a ball
having a party, well come inside,
you can do what you like,
well its a nightmare, its all negative
nothing matters, what if it did?
you could lock your doors, close all you windows
and hide away......hide away.....its only lifeIts Only Life
The Feelies
The comment by Lennon got me wondering.
Wondering what he would think about the property obsession in the current age.Recently I came across something called the 9/11 Concert for NY.
There was McCartney, all botoxed groomed and comfortable.
Reveling in the spectacle of it all
Seemingly unaware of the ramifications of it all.What would Lennon think if he was still here?
Posted by Tommy on from I live by hte River 11/14 at 01:04 PMMichael Tilson Thomas: “Music is about everything.” http://tinyurl.com/2fxtbw
Karl Haas: “Music is a life.”
http://tinyurl.com/2852fp (mpg)Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 11/14 at 03:16 PMHi all...anyone see the movie “Redacted”? It will be banned in a lot of places.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/14 at 03:36 PMHi RMJ. Wouldn’t be nice if a shocking film could wake up America? If only…
Hello Robert.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/14 at 04:09 PMMickey, RMJ...12...the only film that will awaken the dead is the film they appear in...that will be their reality show.
Too bad there aren’t condoms for rifles and justice for the rape victims. There is no doubt in my mind that torture is being allowed as the entertainment outlet for the confused, deranged, frightened, perverted, frustrated soldiers.
Posted by joe maine on from 11/14 at 05:14 PMWelcome, Tommy. Hope you’ll join in more often.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/14 at 05:41 PMToday the hate mongers in New York won. Gov. Spitzer withdrew his plan to allow those from other countries to be issued drivers licenses. For those who have not followed this controversy, it has really been something, especially up here in Albany. The hate pouring out of the talk radio programs has been unparalleled - most of it coming from ordinary people - not government officials. Spitzer gave a speech today explaining his position. It is one of the best speeches I have heard in a while.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/14 at 05:41 PMKEEPING IT ALL IN THE FAMILY....
A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard, brother of State Department Inspector General Howard “Cookie” Krongard, is a member of Blackwater’s advisory board.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/14 at 05:48 PMA new post is up.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/14 at 06:06 PMhit me with music............hit me with muuuuuuusiiiiiiiiiic
Posted by ruben on from 11/16 at 08:54 PMAs one who was a professional classical musician for 25 years let me put my oar in and say that music is all very well if you are not the one making it.
Music is a good servant but a most tyrannical master, a vicious bitch of a master if I may say so.
Any one ith a trained ear will be driven mad by out of tune playing, but to play in tune, etc is a devils own labour
Posted by Steve Meikle on from New Zealand 11/17 at 03:17 AM
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