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Showing posts with label Art Music qv Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Music qv Music. Show all posts
Godiva (or Godgifu) (c. 990?–September 10, 1067) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name "peeping Tom" for a voyeur comes from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom watched her ride and was stricken blind.
The New York tabloids are having a field day with a settlement between an EastVillage artist and the City over her arrest for going out topless on the street.
The artist, Jill Coccaro, "who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley" (no immature jokes, please), relied on a 1992 decision of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, which held that prohibiting women, but not men, from going topless violated equal protection.
Attila at the Pillage Idiot has obviously spent considerable time and energy in penning an excellent review – of a review of "Supreme Discomfort, The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas" to Orlando Patterson.
Mr. Attila’s post is certainly well worth the time and I highly recommend it and want to thank Mr. Attila for taking the time to pull it all together so that others may benefit from his insights.
In a feeble attempt to add to Mr. Attila’s excellent commentary I call the readers attention that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas actually answered this book eloquently in a speech before the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tenn., on July 29th, 1998.
{A note to Mr. Crablaw, he mentions Marvin Gaye's album, What's Going On?}
Supreme Court Justice Thomas said a number of poignant things, including:
I'd like to thank the members of the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association who have been so courageous and forthright and kind to invite me to join you this afternoon. As has become the custom, a wearisome one I admit, this invitation has not been without controversy. Although this is unfortunate, this controversy has added little value in the calculus of my decision to be here.
[…]
Unlike the unfortunate practice or custom in Washington and in much of the country, the court is a model of civility. It's a wonderful place. Though there have been many contentious issues to come before the Court during these initials years of my tenure, I have yet to hear the first unkind words exchanged among my colleagues. And quite frankly, I think that such civility is the sine qua non of conducting the affairs of the Court and the business of the country.
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With respect to my following, or, more accurately, being led by other members of the Court, that is silly, but expected since I couldn't possibly think for myself. And what else could possibly be the explanation when I fail to follow the jurisprudential, ideological, and intellectual, if not anti- intellectual, prescription assigned to blacks? Since thinking beyond this prescription is presumptively beyond my abilities, obviously someone must be putting these strange ideas into my mind and my opinions. Though being underestimated has its advantages, the stench of racial inferiority still confounds my olfactory nerves.
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Of course there is much criticism of the Court by this group or that, depending on the Court's decisions in various highly publicized cases. Some of the criticism is profoundly uninformed and unhelpful. And all too often, uncivil second-guessing is not encumbered by the constraints of facts, logic, or reasoned analysis. On the other hand, the constructive and often scholarly criticism is almost always helpful in thinking about or rethinking decisions.
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I have found during my almost 20 years in Washington that the tendency to personalize differences has grown to be an accepted way of doing business. One need not do the hard work of dissecting an argument. One need only attack and thus discredit the person making the argument. Though the matter being debated is not effectively resolved, the debate is reduced to unilateral pronouncements and glib but quotable clichés.
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The summer of 1971 was perhaps one of the most difficult of my life. It was clear to me that the road to destruction was paved with anger, resentment, and rage. But where were we to go? I would often spend hours in our small efficiency apartment in New Haven pondering this question and listening to Marvin Gaye's then new album, What's Going On? To say the least, it was a depressing summer.
A book-review editor can elicit a positive or negative review of a book (and the subject of the book) simply by choosing a reviewer with known views.
You know all you need to know about the New York Times's feelings toward Justice Clarence Thomas (as if you didn't know it already) when you see that the Times Book Review assigned the review of "Supreme Discomfort, The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas" to Orlando Patterson. Patterson, a respected black intellectual, is a sociologist, not a lawyer. If the Times had had any interest in examining Justice Thomas's legal views, it would not have offered the review to a non-lawyer.
Why is that relevant? Justice Thomas has been a member of the Supreme Court for 15 years and, contrary to the ever-present sneers about his taking orders from Justice Scalia, he has developed a strong and individual jurisprudence over that time. You'd barely know this from reading Patterson's review.
Wherligig Summer Solstice Concert in Westminster on June 21, 2007 at 7 PM
Posted June 17th, 2007
A good friend of mine, an artist colleague, and former neighbor from Patapsco, Kenny Koons has, since 1985, performed traditional music from the Celtic and Nordic lands with his family in a group called Wherligig.
Kenny recently called to my attention that Wherligig will be performing this Thursday in Westminster.
He wrote:
Wherligig, the traditional Celtic and Nordic music trio, will perform a Summer Solstice Concert on June 21 at 7 pm at the CarrollArtsCenter in WestminsterMaryland.
Wherligig is a family ensemble composed of Ken, Stephanie and Ryan Koons of Westminster, Maryland.
Since 1985, they have performed traditional music from the Celtic and Nordic lands on handmade acoustic instruments including the hammered dulcimer, neo-Celtic harp, fiddle, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, Appalachian dulcimer, tin whistle, and guitar. Ken has built or restored the instruments that Wherligig uses in performance.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for CCAC members, Seniors 60+, and students 18 and younger. Tickets may be purchased or reserved at 410-848-7272.
The CarrollArtsCenter is located at 91 West Main Street, Westminster, MD21157.
Come experience a versatile ensemble performing centuries old music. For more information please go to www.wherligig.com or www.carr.org/arts.
Petula Clark, Commissioner Minnich, Steve Powell, and Dave Roush sing “Our Barn.”
Saturday evening, June 16th, 2007
I just filed my next Westminster Eagle column and in it Commissioner Dean Minnich, commissioners’ chief of staff Steve Powell, and Dave Roush are speculated as dancing in a chorus line singing “Our Barn” to the tune of Petula Clark’s November 1964 hit, “Downtown”
Hmmm.
Well, you should have read the first draft…Enough said.
An intelligent comment noted, “this song was originally written for the feature film "A Countess From Hong Kong" (starring Sophia Loren & Marlon Brando), with music and lyrics by Charlie Chaplin, who produced and directed the movie as well [his final film]. This performance came from "THE HOLLYWOODPALACE" around the time the film was first released, in January 1967.”
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Before I get to Mr. Burns’ comment, I want to say again, how much I appreciated his post that brought back so many memories of a time and place from a long time ago.Thanks.
As far as Dwight Dingle and WTTR – these folks are simply super.Dwight and I had a great deal of fun with my Westminster Eagle column on aspects of 1967 last Wednesday, June 6th, 2007: Dwight Dingle, 'Sgt. Pepper' and a bathtub band .(I may need to republish it on “Soundtrack” as I have received questions from many folks as to where they may find it.
Of course, it was the topic of on-air discussion the day it came out, June 6th, 2007 and then the next evening, I talked about the column and other erratum on-air with Bruce Main…
Believe me when I tell you this, it was more of a play on words than anything.
Little known fact, around the time when I was in the 2nd grade back in 198x, Nickelodeon and Nick and Nite picked up The Monkees television show. Then some years later, I come to find out that there is a Clarksville in HowardCounty.
As far as the Betamax reference, that was more irony than anything. If you are a regular YouTube user, feel free to look up user "videoholic2007," who was boasting about his Betamax collection.
BTW, Dwight Dingle and the folks at WTTR are a nice group. check out the pictures on my main site, www.kennyburns.com from my visit up there last year.
Thanks for the feedback.And oh, I saw The Monkees TV show when it was prime time TV…And Mr. Burns, the next time you are in town, please let me know.Lunch is on me.
As much as I appreciated P. Kenneth Burns calling to our attention the need of Baltimore mayor Dixon to go outside of the city for support for her re-election campaign, I was particularly intrigued with the reference to the “Last Train to Clarksville.”
And only Mr. Burns knows if he was referring to mayor Dixon’s trip to Howard County in the manner in which the 1966 Monkees’ meant it… Or if he was referring to mayor Dixon and “Betamax” metaphorically or if it is a coincidence…
But what a trip down memory lane that reference causes an aging Baby Boomer such as me.Although, I gotta tell ya, “The Monkees” were a little lame for my taste to put it mildly; it nevertheless brings back a time and place from many years ago.
“It was 40 years ago last Saturday, June 2, 1967, when the Beatles released their eighth album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Although musical taste can be fiercely debated, many music critics and publications consider this album to be one of the most influential of all time. Rolling Sto...”
“The Last Train to Clarksville,” from 1966, may be considered to be a pop song and to be sure, it certainly has a bubblegum feel and sound to it.Nevertheless the song was about a serious dynamic in the lives of young men eligible for military duty.
The song, with its “pop flavor” and seemingly light-hearted approach is forever engrained in my head as a great example of cognitive dissonance…
The song is about a man who is trying to arrange one last date with his sweetheart because he has been drafted and he is about to be deployed to Vietnam.Listen for :
'Cause I'm leavin' in the morning
And I must see you again
We'll have one more night together
'Til the morning brings my train.
And I must go, oh, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
And I don't know if I'm ever coming home.
And the reference to “Betamax players[2] in home” was equally a hoot.Yes, I actually still have content on old “beta” tapes.”And I thought some of the data migration from my old columns and short stories in DOS-based “Word Perfect” was hard…
Meanwhile if you are not reading Mr. Burn’s excellent work at Maryland Politics Today,” there is no better time than now….Err, after ya watch, “The Last Train to Clarksville” by the Monkees:
Oh what the heck…Let’s hear more.This is a song that I did like:
The first half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format, introduced by Sony in 1975 and commonly known as "Beta." The first Betamax cassettes held only one hour of video, but the capacity was subsequently increased to hold an entire movie. Sony later introduced Beta Hi-fi, which improved audio quality, and SuperBeta, which offered a better image.
Beta Vs. VHS
One year after Beta was introduced, the VHS format came out with a slightly larger cassette that held a full movie from the start. VHS began to overtake Beta almost immediately, but for several years, both formats were widely used, and pre-packaged movies were offered in both Beta andVHS. By the late 1980s, Beta had been almost entirely eclipsed by VHS, although Betamax machines were still manufactured by Sony until 2002.
Betamaxed!
The Betamax technology was considered to have superior image quality over VHS, but was hardly noticeable on ordinary home equipment, especially if the recording was done off the air and not from a high-quality master tape. To this day however, "Betamaxed" refers to a superior technology that is overtaken by an inferior one. See VHS, helical scan, Beta/VHS debacle and Betacam.
WTTR wins five awards for news and sports from Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association:
The awards were presented by the Associated Press last weekend in Ocean CityMaryland.
Mark Woodworth, Dwight Dingle, and Tom Burnett were cited for OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A CONTINUING STORY for November's "ELECTION NIGHT 2006."
Pat Sajak's "I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT..." took top honors for being the OUTSTANDING EDITORIAL OR COMMENTARY.
The best PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM OR SERIES went to the "CARROLL COMMUNITY FORUM - MENTAL ILLNESS" show.
The WTTR news staff (delivers) 27 locally produced newscasts every weekday from a crew that has won hundreds of professional journalism awards and community honors over the past several decades.
In several phone conversations with Dwight over the last several days, he said more information will be forthcoming.I had been in contact with Dwight several times recently as he is included in my Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Westminster Eaglecolumn… (As I post this it is not online yet.)
The movie's most famous scene takes place in a roadside restaurant (a Denny's, just south of Eugene, Oregon), where Bobby tries to get a waitress (Lorna Thayer) to bring him toast with his breakfast, which is not on the menu.
Despite appeals to logic and common sense, the waitress adamantly sticks to the rules of the restaurant, so Bobby comes up with a plan of his own:
Bobby: I'd like a plain omelet. No potatoes, tomatoes instead. A cup of coffee and wheat toast.
Waitress: No substitutions.
Bobby: What do you mean? You don't have any tomatoes?
Waitress: Only what's on the menu. You can have a number two — a plain omelet. It comes with cottage fries, and rolls.
Bobby: Yea, I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want.
Waitress: Well I'll come back when you make up your mind.
Bobby: Wait a minute, I have made up my mind. I'd like a plain omelet, no potatoes on the plate. A cup of coffee and a side order of wheat toast.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we don't have any side orders of toast. I'll give you a English muffin or a coffee roll.
Bobby: What do you mean "you don't make side orders of toast"? You make sandwiches, don't you?
Waitress: Would you like to talk to the manager?
Bobby: You've got bread. And a toaster of some kind?
Waitress: I don't make the rules.
Bobby: OK, I'll make it as easy for you as I can. I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A number two, chicken sal san. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.
The waitress then indignantly orders them to leave, to which Nicholson knocks the drinks off the table with a sweep of his arm.
Back in the car:
Hitchhiker in the back seat: Fantastic that you could figure that all out and lie that down on her so you could come up with a way to get your toast. Fantastic.
Bobby: Yea, well I didn't get it, did I?
Hitchhiker in the back seat: No, but it was very clever. I would've just punched her out.
Today in history, the Beatles released their eight album, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the United States.
For more in depth information on this album – click here.For the youngsters out there, who are no familiar with the album, technologically and musically, the album is of historic proportions.
Here is Sgt.Peppers lonely hearts club band. I am posting the whole album in parts this is part one and it contains:"Sgt. Peppers lonely Hearts Club band" "With A little Help from My Friends" and :Lucky In the Sky With diamonds"
Yesterday I was having a flashback and popped in my Marvin Gaye CD. Why I had decided to listen to Marvin Gaye on this particular occasion I could not answer. I think I just wanted to hear something with a nice beat.
One particular song caught my attention. It was "What's Going On." For some reason on this particular day, I listened with a more reflective consciousness.
As I surveyed the current landscape of the world and in my conversations with others, the question that is before all of is "What's Going On?" We really want to know that because - to a large degree - it appears we cannot make sense out of anything.
I think that this video says what Mr. Godfrey had in mind:
Mr. Crablaw – I disagree with your post – but I like you - and Ozzie. And I'm hoping my post will make ya smile. I worry about ya sometimes. All that anger. Try eating more vegetables.
The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - meet The Zimmers and their amazing cover of The Who's "My Generation".
Lead singer Alf is 90 - it's quite something when he sings "I hope I die before I get old". And he's not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band!
The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes.
The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts.
Some massive names from the pop world have thrown their weight behind The Zimmers... The song is produced by Mike Hedges (U2, Dido, Cure), the video shot by Geoff Wonfor (Band Aid, Beatles Anthology), and it was recorded in the legendary Beatles studio 2 at Abbey Road.
Look out for the single being released from May 21 - with proceeds going to a good cause.
At this point “Numb” (released in September 2003) from their second album “Meteora”released on March 25, 2003, continues to be my favorite LinkinParksong – and probably will remain a favorite for a long time.I guess I somewhat identify with the quandaries faced by the female protagonist in the video as a result of many of my experiences growing up an artist in CarrollCounty…(See the video farther below…)
One of the many nice things about LinkinPark is that the band has developed a reputation for not using “explicit lyrics” in most of their released material… with the only exception being their 1999 Hybrid Theory EP…
The video “What I’ve Done” was released on April 2nd, 2007.“What I’ve done” is the lead song on their upcoming album, “Minutes to Midnight.”
A series of streaming videos can be found at: http://linkinpark.com/site.html.I left it on while I was doing other work on the computer – writing my next column for the Westminster Eagle for Wednesday, April 11, 2207…
A "Lady Godiva" has her day in 
