tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72415845237373067772024-03-05T18:39:02.562-08:00Pissing in the Ocean in a Rainstorm at High Tiderantings musings songs apologia expositions moralizing mayhem artRich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-70849316069541208962021-03-22T09:02:00.008-07:002021-03-22T09:20:54.933-07:00My Brushes with Fame Take One: Tom Waits<p>First off I haven’t been posting now for a couple years and still intend to get all my songs up and online here and etc and so forth but let’s try my moving forward with this idea. My Brushes with Fame!</p><p>Take one: Tom Waits</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4e6joQbQSmTBP28A64Hmw9KLx14NxYC6_mWHwMwmps8dish1ig0Oetlnb487KzlgghJ-ZE07y_3GAItlNR6QcD6_cIqIDqeY-9PxkLwBO2IcfOo0B6z7HqjzwYP5MFjZgkCHjDXbt0nk/s640/image2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4e6joQbQSmTBP28A64Hmw9KLx14NxYC6_mWHwMwmps8dish1ig0Oetlnb487KzlgghJ-ZE07y_3GAItlNR6QcD6_cIqIDqeY-9PxkLwBO2IcfOo0B6z7HqjzwYP5MFjZgkCHjDXbt0nk/s320/image2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJgJRECoDyEMdc3XNNaI1JPOg-Yb-vGFAPWhVKmbvuijMFF87AeQSY9z7ZHYTo3Zak5dINd1tVgOjeryvv2b_QB7ANsjlYCA2FBb0vjVH5-zrE02wJOCaP8LmHLaseRuWIHo9JWLQniQ/s873/image1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJgJRECoDyEMdc3XNNaI1JPOg-Yb-vGFAPWhVKmbvuijMFF87AeQSY9z7ZHYTo3Zak5dINd1tVgOjeryvv2b_QB7ANsjlYCA2FBb0vjVH5-zrE02wJOCaP8LmHLaseRuWIHo9JWLQniQ/s320/image1.jpeg" /></a></div><br />Preface:<p></p><p>I’m a huge fan. He is one my few real songwriting heroes. My second concert experience ever was Tom Waits in the spring of 1979 Mandel Hall at The University of Chicago. Amazing show! Quite theatric. </p><p>I started playing his songs as well as I could shortly after that, the first one I learned was “Better Off Without a Wife” from Nighthawks at the Diner, the first of his records I bought at Second Hand Tunes in Hyde Park. </p><p>I usually tell a truncated version of this when I introduce my song “In Regard of flight”, but I posted it the other day on a Tom Waits fan group and it was quite enjoyed so I thought I’d share it here as well. </p><p>The tale:</p><p>In 1986, I was flying back to Chicago late one night, and got on the EL at O’Hare to head home. I had just begun writing songs at that point.</p><p>On the train were three people. An African-American woman with two Shopping bags whom I assumed had just gotten off work at O’Hare. The others were Tom</p><p>Waits and a male fellow traveler.</p><p>He was in town doing Franks Wild Year at Steppenwolf and apparently lived near Irving Park Road. </p><p>I sat in the seat in front on Tom as he read Rolling Stone and ate popcorn. I told him I loved Rain Dogs and that his was the second rock concert I’d ever been to in 1979 at Mandel Hall at my College the University of Chicago (my first was a few months earlier - Elvis Costello and the Attractions Armed Forces Tour at The Aragon Ballroom - The Rubinoos opened) </p><p>I started asking him questions. He asked me if this was some kind of interview, and I said no but that I had just started writing songs, and was a big fan and was interested in his thoughts. Then he started to talk with me, I guess realizing that I didn’t want something from him and that I was just annoying. </p><p>He asked me what I wrote about and I answered “I write expositions on various things” which he thought was interesting. I also told him I was a a doctor in training as well. </p><p>He told me what he was listening to at the time which included Guadalcanal Diary as I recall. And he said two wise things. </p><p>First, that everything you give to music, music gives back. Now 35 years , two bands, and having made three albums later I know that to be true. </p><p>Second, that you should write about what you know. Advice so good I haven’t always followed it</p><p>He got off at Irving Park Road with his friend</p><p>I’ll never forget that night. And I think my songs, especially my lyric writing, is often very influenced by Tom.</p><p>Postscript</p><p>If anybody knows Tom feel free to pass the story along. I can’t imagine he’d remember except it would surprise me if he never forgets anything ever. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWr9c228U8vRHHPfdvoL2oLsH3jJc2j0jUUaKwbatPKnbc4_MydXnyJBekREtv36vv06tkv4bm1XeMSMrhJEhuC7j9Z9gOZfTAn-Dn3QUwdMuxD36VnRl8SODw8DbCS4lrFNlAkUhXbTM/s995/image0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="857" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWr9c228U8vRHHPfdvoL2oLsH3jJc2j0jUUaKwbatPKnbc4_MydXnyJBekREtv36vv06tkv4bm1XeMSMrhJEhuC7j9Z9gOZfTAn-Dn3QUwdMuxD36VnRl8SODw8DbCS4lrFNlAkUhXbTM/s320/image0.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-24245859749236070322017-06-08T11:29:00.000-07:002017-06-08T11:37:33.159-07:00Song #102. What We Are<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/is-donald-trump-the-modern-nero" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>From </u></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>"Is Donald Trump the Modern Nero?"</u></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/is-donald-trump-the-modern-nero" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: black;">by </span>Malcolm Forbes </u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><u>Daily Beast 11.07.15</u></span></a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>What We Are</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now
that your world has gone turned inside out<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
everything you hold true is plagued with doubt,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If
there’s still a place where life’s wrestled free from fear,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
there’s a God who loves us,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It
ain’t here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look,
you and I both know that mistakes were made<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As
the philosopher said even Emperors will,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But
it was telling the Emperor what kings just don’t want to hear <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That
got the philosopher killed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When
speaking lies is safer than speaking true,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen
friend. There’s something you can do<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take
your broken wooden heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
carve yourself a gypsy violin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make
it laugh just like a mother’s crying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen
while it whispers “The world isn’t dying”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
“Tomorrow‘s really not that far”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow’s
what we are.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Get
in my car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll drive us down to Ancient
Rome,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">54
AD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emperor Nero ‘s at home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At
night in his garden, Christian torches* aglow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He
entertained the masses with a fiddle and a bow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
like the late Spade Cooley, he kicked his wife to death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He
killed his brother and his mother, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
before Rome knew what hit her, fires would grow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tell
me, does this sound like anyone you already know?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere
hope can’t hurt you, it only makes you strong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere
no one claims a thing’s right that’s just plain wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Somewhere
men know we must walk awhile in another man’s shoes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
that a lie is a lie, and not “fake news”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
stones on your chest ain’t really new.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These
fallen seas around can rise for me and for you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take
your broken wooden heart<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
carve yourself a gypsy violin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Make
it laugh just like a mother’s crying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listen
while it whispers “The world isn’t dying”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
“Tomorrow‘s really not that far”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Remember</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow’s
what we are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span> </div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">*What’s a ‘Christian
Torch’, I hear you ask?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, take a
Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tie him to the top of a long
pole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then douse him with pitch, and set
him on fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An unusual light."</span></span></span><br />
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Notes on the song made 6/8/2017: Somehow, present-day evil men often lead to us to comparisions to other men...Nero, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Joe McCarthy, Napoleon. Attilla The Hun, Vlad The Impaler, Pol Pot, Trump. The list is dismally dismayingly endless. The persistence if this kind of malevolence married to power challenges notions that hope, while arguably audacious, is actually just perseverating pipedream at best, and incoherent delusional madness at worst. Yet, as with was so brilliantly handled in O'Neal's The Iceman Cometh, hope is a kind of "you can't live with it and you can't live without it" sort of thing, with a special emphasis on the word "and". Hope is the essential paradox of life. Gypsies know about paradox, as well as evil, music and death. So, I guess I would leave you with the recommendation to give hope's fiddler a dram.<br />
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<u><a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/richkrueger/song/28101545-what-we-are" target="_blank">A recording on reverbnation</a></u><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This will take you back to the complete song list with discussions on this blog (a work in progress).</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or visit <a href="http://www.rockinkmusic.com/songs"><strong>www.rockinkmusic.com/songs</strong></a> for complete song lists and lyrics without discussion</span><br />
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<br />Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-7068068159536575002017-01-09T18:37:00.001-08:002017-05-01T18:39:29.343-07:00Song #89. A Tout Jamais (Pour Eva)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPk_Sprtnd-Rh37-tBG2bmjWEqb1sdFdyQTVaHcIb9VkixAiOY7AQouglKaLCdp7f77kTgHBR3-ebbB1ZJhcQ4Q7ge9s8nRpQErL5zk7tbBscXooo05Qncsi2ElXkSiV17gCzfB5XODgM/s1600/Wittgensteva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPk_Sprtnd-Rh37-tBG2bmjWEqb1sdFdyQTVaHcIb9VkixAiOY7AQouglKaLCdp7f77kTgHBR3-ebbB1ZJhcQ4Q7ge9s8nRpQErL5zk7tbBscXooo05Qncsi2ElXkSiV17gCzfB5XODgM/s1600/Wittgensteva.jpg" /></span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Tout Jamais
(Pour Eva)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is this for Eva,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This world that
is all that it is?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever it is,
or was, the world never bothered with me.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And our mad
conjurer Wittgenstein strolls out onto the sea,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a small map
of Europe tucked under his arm<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which he unfolds
to be<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vast and unwanted
new territory.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you really
can’t say,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>try saying nothing*<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Eva <o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again I have
chosen to say nothing</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Eva<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And for Eva,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I shall hide on
my side of all our unknowns.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am adrift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m subdititious**. I have lost my home.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I’ll winter in
the branches of an old dead tree.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From these woods
open my arms and try cling to the breeze<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blowing through
all those moments which could never be requited<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Eva</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes some
things cannot be</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Eva<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And Eva<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you unsubmerge
you’ll no doubt be found<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Neath that hat.
The black-hearted poppy periscopes over its crown.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the horizon,
hope’s vanishing point,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a green
Flanders’ field,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sit nearby
where the world came to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poppies
here are real<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I break bread
with the crosses and stones<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which stand row
upon row upon row as no doubt they know<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every one that
once was, was once the case.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every one that
once was, was once the case.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For every one the
world lost here the world made its case<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a novena for all those
the world misunderstood, or chose not to know,<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And all the
others the world has merely forgotten</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ninth day’s
prayers are always held safe<o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br />
For Eva<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- For Eva Ave,
November 2008<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*My paraphrase of
"Wovon man nicht sprechenkann, darüber muß man schweigen"
("Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"), the final
line in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">** Subdititious
is an old word, often excluded from the dictionary, perhaps even your
dictionary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In case you are wondering I
am using the second definition, that is, a surreptitious substitution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>subdititious </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">1. Placed
underneath; used as a suppository. </span><span style="font-family: "courier new";">2.
Surreptitiously or fraudulently substituted, suppositious. Put secretly in the
place of something </span><span style="font-family: "courier new";">else; foisted in</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">These comments
were made on January 7th and 8th, 2017.</span></em> </span></span>
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not sure
about this song really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title is a
French pun; “Forever and ever for Eva”. Why a French pun, and not German or
Flemish one? Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my severe
limitations in those languages, and that those countries are renowned for their
genuinely poor sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not sure how
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wittgenstein</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and WWI got into this one, not to mention </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alfred Korzybski</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gregory Bateson</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but somehow they did. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bennett" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alan Bennett</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is there too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And </span><a href="http://www.jacquesbrel.be/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brel</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
</span><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I blame Bennett
primarily, and his play “The History Boys”, for the recrudescence of my interest
in Wittgenstein.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tell the truth, I
am vastly ignorant about philosophy, and its major ideas, and its method.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I have tried to talk about philosophy
with more learned men than myself, my short comings are readily apparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of what I do know about philosophy comes
from a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/3u8SfYjTYk4" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Beyond The Fringe” sketch</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is an even </span><a href="https://youtu.be/qUvf3fOmTTk" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">funnier version</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of this one featuring with John Cleese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or perhaps you prefer </span><a href="https://youtu.be/eyVX3uJpqxc" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Bruces</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">?<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, in fact,
Wittgenstein and WWI seem to have direct connections somewhere in my mind as
regards some of own basic tenets. First, that in general we do not know what
the hell we are talking about, do we (?), at least with any precision, and
really shouldn’t we all just shut up (Wittgenstein)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, we like to get around this basic
problem by rallying to consensus around very compelling but nonetheless really
very bad ideas (WWI). <o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do have a basic
philosophy in fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wrote about it
</span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2010/01/can-you-name-last-decade-or-everything.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“There was one
thing the last decade [the 2000’s] taught me. I think it is a variation on the
ideas of Karl Popper and Wittgenstein, but it may be a poor meritage made out
of their sounder ideas. I am not sure. It remains that there is only one
certain fact that all human beings from the beginning of times through our last
decade and for humanity's remaining years will have in common. That fact is
that some portion of what any individual knows to be absolutely true is not
true. Its corollary is that most of the sorrow in the world that man creates
for himself and for others stems largely from the heterogeneity of views
regarding that fact.”</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“So who the hell
is Eva?”, I hear you screaming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eva Ave is
a breathtakingly extraordinary person and artist I had the good fortune to know
for a short time while I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to be there in order to be
tortured by the local university.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I dug Eva’s hat
and she dug mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe we may have
even exchanged hats briefly.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are many
things I could tell you about Eva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Amsterdam, Portugal, St. Petersburg (FLA)…all places she has hailed from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’d a bad habit of not wearing proper
shoes, or any shoes at all really. As a result, she nearly lost her leg to a
snake bite in Spain, among other misadventures - a metaphor perhaps for her
once sleeping regularly with a lawyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do hope to record
a better version of this song for my 2017 release. </span><a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/richkrueger/song/2129498-a-tout-jamais-pour-eva" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here’s an older DEMO version</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This will take you back to the complete song list.</span></a>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-19110833473440993772017-01-07T15:35:00.000-08:002017-06-08T11:38:01.702-07:00Song #101, A Short One On Life<a href="http://collection.whitney.org/object/1022"><img border="0" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI1HaSscfPVW1qsZ_5mmPCW-H2kqGnXa3Tyxa7Ch__yI-Dn0Or7RnRNhEYXz7GBkiD2a-G94rW3FctDytdQsqbhU6J0jVFeGT_w4kEh4NPocl7_jZm0Qb2xjM9Unv1E75svxeSizBkccg/s400/sacco+and+vanzetti+-+crop.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>A Short One On Life</strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">–for KR, Tom Skinner, Skyline Radio, and Tulsa</span></em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She walked in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She looked around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She picked me out and she spun me ‘round</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And said, “Kiss me now boy, but don’t ever </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> take your eyes off me.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To this day, I ain’t sure if this story’s even true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tell me, does this kind of shit ever happen to you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Cause it ain’t never happened to me before </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in my whole goddamn life </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And maybe, well maybe, she was just real drunk. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I couldn’t tell you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me? I’d rather take what comes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then try to tell a river which way to run.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Cause there is only one fact </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that I’ve hewn hard from my long life, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And that’s that life, well it ain’t that long.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If she had a nickel, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or so I was told,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For every one night wonder with a heart of gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And a name for his cock that no thinking person </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> would ever even name a dog,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then she might have had time for nicer finer things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She might’ve even stayed home past age 13,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When with her father’s long coat and his cigarettes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> she hopped a freight train for Tennessee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And maybe, just maybe, she’s just crazy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And sometimes, she’s just hurt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But who needs a stranger’s tears. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A stranger’s more use for vodka and beers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And you will never make me believe that it’s a sin </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to want a warmer place to sleep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if just like life, he ain’t that long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, there's some folks got names for women like her,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And she knows the places those kind of folks can go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The small minded kind who like to pass judgement,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well they can all just kiss her ass, then kiss the ass </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of the woman who should have been president.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There ought to be a law against stupid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We stayed a couple</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a couple go ‘rounds,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As if two losts could ever make a found.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were off and on and in and out for two years </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that I will never see again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, I could complain out loud how my life unwound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that’s just the way that some lives are bound, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And although you know you can’t step </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> into the same river twice, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don’t mean you’re ever gonna quit tryin’.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And maybe, well maybe, life’s meant to be crazy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sad and strange,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Messed up and poorly planned, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the only one you’re ever gonna have.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But sometimes, well sometimes, I get a little lucky,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and something comes along,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like a short song about life, how life ain’t that long</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like a short one on life, how life ain’t that long </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- July 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">These comments were made on1/7/17.</span></em> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In comments I made a couple years ago on another of my songs (</span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/90-you-cant-see-me-in-this-light.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "Can't See Me In This Light"</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), I drew the conclusion that "requited love is of less and less utility to me or to anyone else". I would note here that the unrequited kind however remains very frequently felt, and is oft quite necessary. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"See it as an inoculation, rather. Briefly painful, but providing immunity for however long it takes. Given the occasional booster, another face, another reminder of the pain, it can last you... half a lifetime." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>- from Alan Bennett's The History Boys</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still, I think there is a good deal of truth in this "short one on life". The events and descriptions made reference to in this song DID all happened to women I have known, although not all to the same woman. And some of these things did happen to me as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What they hell do I know? I miss Tom, and KR, and Tulsa whenever I am away. And </span><a href="https://youtu.be/THuDZ9mO7qY"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skyline Radio</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is a great song.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And life is way too fucking short. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Eventually this song will be on my new album, probably later this year. Tentative title at this point is "Life' Ain't That Long". Or maybe "Common Sense Is For Pussies."</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This will take you back to the complete song list with discussions on this blog (a work in progress).</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or visit <a href="http://www.rockinkmusic.com/songs"><strong>www.rockinkmusic.com/songs</strong></a> for complete song lists and lyrics without discussion</span></span><br />
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<br />Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-78542432356751672862012-03-31T12:05:00.002-07:002017-01-07T14:15:21.335-08:00Song #90. Can’t See Me in This Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All needs be<br />
Seen by me<br />
Is lit by the light<br />
Burning steady in your eyes<br />
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Ruby glowing coal<br />
Bank the timbers of your soul<br />
The strange strong light<br />
Burning steady in your eyes<br />
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Shine on me<br />
Let your light shine down on me<br />
It don't matter you can't see me in this light <br />
But let your light shine down<br />
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If there’s a point<br />
To have a heart<br />
It’s so I'll know<br />
Just what it means to lose it<br />
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And man it's gone<br />
I'll never find it in a night gone blind<br />
From the white pure gleaming<br />
Burning steady in your eyes<br />
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Shine on me<br />
Let your light shine down on me<br />
It don't matter you can't see me in this light <br />
But let your light shine down<br />
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All love is<br />
Is a door ajar<br />
You're drawn through <br />
After light falling from a star<br />
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Build me a cage<br />
Out of your arms<br />
I will be a perfect effigy<br />
Burning steady in your eyes<br />
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Shine on me<br />
Let your light shine down on me<br />
It don't matter you can't see me in this light <br />
But let your light shine down</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-December 2008</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Notes written on 3/30/12. I think this is a very strong pop love song. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dear friend has made it very clear that I need to read then reread Chekov’s 'Uncle Vanya’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so I have started. On the other hand, when a profoundly naive man finds himself lost in the wilderness, thinking that he will starve to death from a lack of affection (or do I mean attention), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a young woman’s mere kindnesses can easily misconstrued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is even more true when that young woman is beautiful, and an artist, and insists on sharing with you her fantasies of being raped by older men. I wish you could gather the points accrued for being a gentleman, and redeem them later for something useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>But these smallish pathetic sins are probably very common, at least as common as the natural lack of common sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently although I cannot and will not be loved, at least I can still suffer injury at love’s hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me, it’s the closest thing to knowing I am still alive. And I do manage to transmute these woman into muses, and they do help get some songs written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It leads to me to the conclusion that at my age, requited love is of less and less utility to me or to anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then life is no more fair than a person is likely to get what he truly deserves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129478" target="_blank">There is an MP3 of the song here.</a> </span></span><br />
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Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-38380521919115557612012-03-31T09:53:00.004-07:002012-03-31T12:17:36.619-07:00Song #91. ‘77 /17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEGjBS9Qk0QuxjLO32TPImiIO8XIwRz317L4yyrDvou5zJq40xzuAejRzDkhy2w2NWr9LKsuRFfOU6ZMF90zRP3J85sM54yxBcnnkioqgutfqe4eGfevIAsuDqvduzRR2F_ZNK06NiYeE/s1600/rhps-lips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEGjBS9Qk0QuxjLO32TPImiIO8XIwRz317L4yyrDvou5zJq40xzuAejRzDkhy2w2NWr9LKsuRFfOU6ZMF90zRP3J85sM54yxBcnnkioqgutfqe4eGfevIAsuDqvduzRR2F_ZNK06NiYeE/s400/rhps-lips.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><em>"[You] creep me out...it was thirty years ago ...get over it" – Nancy H</em></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'77 /17</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was fucking easy being green<br />
And there, proudly on the movie screen<br />
The rock and roll transvestite queen<br />
Midnight lips<br />
My first kiss<br />
Susan Saradon’s lovely tits<br />
John and Paul, Glen, Sid and Steve<br />
Our brand new Elvis stops the TV<br />
Harry Reems gets out of jail<br />
William Jefferson Clinton still don’t inhale<br />
But she let me put my fingers there<br />
Then she slipped off her underwear<br />
'77 /17<br />
A couple hundred nights and<br />
Christ, I really loved you Nancy<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'77 </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was like a blur<br />
The Pistols flipped off the whole fucking world<br />
Steamed up car windows radio nights<br />
Policemen and their long flash lights<br />
Bee Gees under winter stars<br />
Not all the way, but really far<br />
I swore to her that my love was true<br />
And God knows I longed to show her, too.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walked hours to her house through streets of snow <br />
Still, Nancy'd never tell me though<br />
But if she had I would have died<br />
What a fucking perfect way to go<br />
'77 /17</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many many many many many nights and</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christ, I really loved you Nancy<br />
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'78</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When eighteen hit<br />
College-bound and dumb as shit</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The music died at Winterland the fourteenth day</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I prayed she wanted me to stay. But she wouldn’t say<br />
God she really made me sad</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it looked to her like I got mad<br />
So one day I just wouldn’t talk to her<br />
And to this day, she ain't never said a word<br />
Sid and his Nancy were a year away<br />
But me, I think I really died that day<br />
I want to go back and learn<br />
How not to love someone in turn<br />
Who lets you kiss 'em at a show<br />
Where every punk that you know knows<br />
'77 /17</span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus Fucking Christ, I really loved you Nancy<br />
Mary Holy Mother of Christ, I really loved you Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-December 2008</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Notes made on 3/29/12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the fall of 1977 I began my last year in high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also the year of the Sex Pistols and punk and new wave, none of which I got at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That summer, I remember <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_729166141">watching a story entitled “</a></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://youtu.be/F9WXYS9Ggfs" target="_blank">New Elizabethans</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">” on Punk </span></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Dobyns" target="_blank">Lloyd Dobyn’s</a> hip TV news magazine “Weekend”, which substituted for SNL once a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember thinking that it was all a bit scary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weekend’s misleading premise was that punk<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wasn’t so much about the music as it was about violence, and that the bands, despite their protestations, really saw punk as a ticket to get rich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elvis Presley died that summer too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The “New Elvis” Elvis Costello stopped the 1977 Christmas episode on Saturday Night Live, the episode the Pistols were supposed to play on, but could not as they could not get US Visas due to their criminal records.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drove my mother’s silver gremlin in those days, and in the fall 1977 the car radio played fantastic make-out music…Billy Joel’s The Stranger was out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday Night Fever was released.</span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nancy was my first girlfriend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was an aspiring painter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worked on tech in the school shows, and I performed in those shows, which is how we met.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was cool, and cool to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was just about the first girl I ever got the nerve up to ask out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our first date was that fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was invited to tag along with a group of her friends who were going to see the new wild film event in town, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, at the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_TLA" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Theater for The Living Arts in Philadelphia</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> which in the 1970’s was an art film/grind house, before becoming a concert venue called The Filmore at the TLA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interesting coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sex Pistols last show was at the Filmore in SF…</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I never did see the film that night, after the singing red lips, as Nancy and I made out the entire movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the first time anything that great had ever ever happened to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was elated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through that fall and winter we went to many many movies with her over the next few months, and never really saw those either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man I was head over heels in love, but Nancy was more reticent, although she apparently enjoyed necking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted her to declare her undying love for me as I had for her (repeatedly), but for reasons which eluded me, but which still confirmed my worse feelings about myself, she would not use the L word. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not once. So one day in Spring, profoundly hurt from unrequited love/requited lust, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just stopped talking to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she apparently seemed fine with this as far as I could tell, although later I did hear that she was hurt that I stopped talking to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like me I know she is married and has near adult kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tried to reconnect with her, but she’ll have none of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smart woman, certainly smarter than I’ll ever be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still don’t understand women to this day and probably never will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I have often said, “Por Que No Me Amas!!!!”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HakfU0Txkcg#t=163s" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is a video of a performance at the gallery.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129486" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is an MP3 of the song here.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZMCZSRkKvwDHU3CKHgHJdO5H-5XSCCwi7pgZY0MMaZpxhuIMxecopSrlLQK7dQwlCHepB8RUKGAJsxQHaKN47lLTVrf3kSvQorPJRH5xiS0cwSRRoP7Qsm9y4pvNvPvMIZ1E304JiF2U/s1600/S&N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZMCZSRkKvwDHU3CKHgHJdO5H-5XSCCwi7pgZY0MMaZpxhuIMxecopSrlLQK7dQwlCHepB8RUKGAJsxQHaKN47lLTVrf3kSvQorPJRH5xiS0cwSRRoP7Qsm9y4pvNvPvMIZ1E304JiF2U/s400/S&N.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-48832671340266409202012-03-12T05:19:00.001-07:002012-03-12T05:30:01.884-07:00Song #92. Versteht?, or Whose World and Whose Hands?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC071V4uzCI23_FgIhryrxpcNZ6LK72vvAtfyLbL7zADdcLz91oJRRUvZhI8seHXwzNmuqQDBFiqz4gqmj9Q55SCv_4hQjEBdj9gxkl5x43z4QoJIgxwlpBhSdgGJfxgE2zgqSNNZd94/s1600/brecht.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGC071V4uzCI23_FgIhryrxpcNZ6LK72vvAtfyLbL7zADdcLz91oJRRUvZhI8seHXwzNmuqQDBFiqz4gqmj9Q55SCv_4hQjEBdj9gxkl5x43z4QoJIgxwlpBhSdgGJfxgE2zgqSNNZd94/s400/brecht.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></em></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Note: This song is written entirely in German, except for the words</span></em><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let's say we play this brand new game,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One where I make up all the rules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And on your turn you follow all these rules to learn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I've changed them all<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that it's always your turn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the game's called "Watch You Dangle"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From every bone you’re thrown<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you know that all you know<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is just so very very very wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C'mon Everybody, sing along!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swing your hammer of a head and ring the bell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All your dreams are dead as hell<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Cause I've got your whole world in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got your whole world in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what part of "Fuck you!" don't you understand?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember when they used hold you up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like a diamond against the sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'd watch you as you caught the light<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that anyone who dared look at you would go blind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But they say that what goes up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes needs a little help to land,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that what goes 'round<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes swings around<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wielding something shiny sharp and heavy in it's hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s so easy to fall for love with the ones one should avoid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look deep into my dark blue smile<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And see what’s lying tightly coiled:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schadenfreude.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey I like you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I even respect you, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think of me as a faithful friend and fan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then watch as I wield your loyalty and trust<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To turn every friend you ever had<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Against you to a man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game‘s called “What’s the poison?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That I've poured down in your well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spreading lies can satisfy<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Near as much as pulling wings off writhing butterflies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’d never believe it if I told you<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the guy nailed up on that cross believes is true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I’ve got your whole world in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got your whole world in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what part of what you've heard don't you understand?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you know "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sing it in the German if you can.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what part of "Fuck you!" don't you understand?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Versteht?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-March 2009<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts!” – Brecht</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"People who fight may lose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who do not fight have already lost." - Bertolt Brecht</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">Notes were written on 3/12/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the line “What part of 'fuck you' don’t you understand” for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thought it be a good name for an album, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is more than a little Elvis Costello in the song. There is a fair amount of vitriol as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully it doesn’t just spill out as whining. Who doesn’t feel that there are folks out there who gained your trust who relish fucking you over, for their own reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe good Buddhists don’t feel like this, but other then them, everyone. I haven’t recorded this one properly yet, although I did lay down a backing track once.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;">I would also strongly recommend that everyone become fully knowledgeable about Brecht’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera" target="_blank">Three Penny Opera</a>, and especially the wonderful song “Dreigroschenfinale”. There is a <a href="http://youtu.be/6DSiD5CQ_Uk" target="_blank">fantastic performance intranslation of this song by Tom Waits</a> which he put on his brilliant album Orphans.</div></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-62419239423499848262012-03-11T15:34:00.001-07:002012-03-12T05:30:51.798-07:00Song #93. In Between Kingfishers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BWZszKkvF5hKNxnVxjZ93s39_OP39QUKFP4meVfQbzpJo5VQaFqniED4G_yWjvUyDT_brJTFMXvZXuMUnJJnB1t-dzaNwkg-PoU9ScBP7Wx_xuOYaLIiVSqnaBJ4hGblQhg96-hfRX8/s1600/Huey+and+Sam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BWZszKkvF5hKNxnVxjZ93s39_OP39QUKFP4meVfQbzpJo5VQaFqniED4G_yWjvUyDT_brJTFMXvZXuMUnJJnB1t-dzaNwkg-PoU9ScBP7Wx_xuOYaLIiVSqnaBJ4hGblQhg96-hfRX8/s400/Huey+and+Sam.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kingfisher's Sam M. Walton will ‘splain you from his grave<br />
Just why he can’t be undersold<br />
He's was where I bought this brand new tent<br />
Run me less than one month's rent<br />
Or a-tenth the mortgage I used to owe<br />
‘Til that paper was worth more than the house and the bank said: “Go!"</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still, winter and Fresno won't meet up again until sometime late Halloween<br />
But by then who knows just how bad things just might be<br />
So for now, like the other families<br />
In all those other tents <br />
We’re just got caught up a little in between<br />
A little in-between.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Folks say California’s a garden of Eden Abhez ‘Nature Boys’ <br />
Clever as their tans, and beach-stoned to a man<br />
But here in this inland No-Town, lives remain<br />
‘Bout as easy as fallin’ 'neath a train.<br />
Gov’ner closed New Jack City, but said we can move on up to his state fair<br />
Where his state cops can watch us closer there.<br />
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Summer and Sacramento bake you drier than a stone<br />
200 miles north of all you had and all you’d known.<br />
Strung out like a wire hung<br />
From what your future was to where your future's gone,<br />
And you’re left hanging in between and on your own<br />
Forgotten and alone.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Kingfish Huey P. Long sang there’s ‘nough for folks to share<br />
And if you work hard ‘n play fair you can even be a millionaire<br />
They called him a demagogue, communist, cracker and clown<br />
He sang “Every man a king but no man wears a crown”<br />
He built bridges and highways and the hospital at LSU<br />
'Til a doctor shot him in 1935 and he bled to death at the age of 42.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Woody Guthrie and F.D.R.<br />
Sit with Sam and Huey in an abandoned car<br />
Behind a vacant Wal-Mart in a town like them that’s died.<br />
Huey strums Woodrow’s guitar<br />
And sings a song for working folks with kids who gotta live in their cars.<br />
Franklin whispers sweetly, “In this light, Samuel, you look just like Eleanor.”<br />
And Kingfisher’s Sam M. Walton can’t recall just what the hell his whole life was for,<br />
Although he’s sure it was gold<br />
Or maybe it was green<br />
Or maybe something in between.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-April 2009</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The notes were made on 3/11/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there is a great deal here in this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began thinking about this problem really once I became unemployed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like all doctors and a lot of other folks, I never thought I experience unemployment in my life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I was looking for a job in January of 2009, I thought I might be landing one in Fresno, California. I saw the pictures in the paper about the tent cities in Fresno, and in Sacramento behind the Blue Diamond Almond Factory (never knew almonds came from factories…go figure).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard about how Governor Schwarzenegger wanted to move all the tent cities from what the homeless had named “New Jack City” to the California State Fairgrounds. I thought about the old 1930's Hooverilles of sepia tone photographs, and about the New Hoovervilles, and where did those newish brightly colored tents came from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figured they came from Walmart, where they would have been cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That led me to research on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton" target="_blank">Sam M. Walton</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned he was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingfisher,_Oklahoma" target="_blank">Kingfisher, OK</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I thought about The Kingfish, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Long" target="_blank">Huey P. Long</a>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think one can come up with two more different views about Capitalism than these two men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So all these ideas got rolled into this song.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is an <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129439" target="_blank">mp3 of the song here</a>, and a <a href="http://youtu.be/A7wIhrEJA-0" target="_blank">video of the song I performed at The PaulHenry Gallery on 1/6/2011.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></div></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also here a link to something I wrote I posted on facebook called <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1783366704">“</a></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/note.php?note_id=195925070162" target="_blank"><em>Folks Say California's a Garden of Eden (Abhez Nature Boys) - Loaves & Fishes</em>”</a>, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and an earlier essay I had originally posted on myspace <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called “<em>All The News That Gives Me Fits..</em>.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The lead article on the front page of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26tents.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=The%20new%20hooverville%20sacramento&st=cse" target="_blank">The New York Times on Thursday March 26, 2009 was about the tent cities springing up in California and other places...The New Hoovervilles</a>. Our national pride is soaring.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlB6QbKtuL4wEM8AWZl1_0_XgasCUT6C5GrZp0cmqRWypTZx9_j-_RHHjAVg4hcmdf6sMWqLhWqaJT4X4phNAce4cAwe_3WZWQuaTuyGTFNYqL64HJAOOFdaxLrsW61LUhBInQ7jJATCw/s1600/Sacramento+Tent+City.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlB6QbKtuL4wEM8AWZl1_0_XgasCUT6C5GrZp0cmqRWypTZx9_j-_RHHjAVg4hcmdf6sMWqLhWqaJT4X4phNAce4cAwe_3WZWQuaTuyGTFNYqL64HJAOOFdaxLrsW61LUhBInQ7jJATCw/s400/Sacramento+Tent+City.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><em>Sacramento California Tent City - The New Hooverville</em></strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I seem to remember that it was during the Reagan Administration that the homeless in this country unsubmerged from the netherworld of "stuff that we can safely ignore" to "a nuisance shame to reproach and annoy us". Folks stopped referring to those on the street as "bums", "winos", "beggars" or "hoboes", and began labeling them as "homeless" or "street people"...a Lamarckian approach to reclassifying these folks as a rather different sort of pest.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this all brought up lots of thoughts:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heading to work early one Sunday morning in 1986, driving past the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and watching a guy wake up on a park bench."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jack", an old song of mine which came from that observation.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking about William Carlos Williams' poem "The Young Housewife" and its important idea that as writers we "use" our subjects...his comparing the woman to a falling leaf and then later his grinding up leaves under the tires of his passing car.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tearing that poem out of my copy of the Abridged Norton Anthology of English Poetry and giving the pages to Hugh Blumenfeld in the field in Kerrville,Texas where I first met him. Living in a tent in those fields myself, albeit voluntarily, for a week or so at the end of each May for about ten years in a row while so many new friends lived around me in other tents. Playing "Jack" at the ballad tree at Kerrville...although it wasn't the on the hill but in their little theater because of an incoming rain storm, how a bunch of other performers came over to me after asking after the song. Debuting "Jack" at Earl's. Chris Farrell's telling me that it really was something'. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volunteering at </span><a href="http://barbspad2.tripod.com/needs.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The St. Martin de Porres homeless shelter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> run by Sister Connie and Sister Theresa and really how very little I contributed. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Living with my wife's terror about our losing our home if my own unemployment continues.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hearing </span><a href="http://youtu.be/0tDxVRw6yec" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phil Ochs' song "There but for Fortune".</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The first time I remember ever hearing a Phil Ochs' song, "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", performed by Todd Kelly with his twelve string at Earl's Pub open mike. Thinking how great I thought that song was and how much I enjoyed his version. How incredibly annoying Todd Kelly really was, and all those crap quality cassette tapes he would fob off of him and Dwain Story. Later hearing about his last job delivering pizzas and that one day he just sat down on an apartment stoop after delivering a pie and dropping dead.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrDvARZDnhNMdARk3kO0lp200oaw-yqnx6uksr_DSWtZOuK8zg-Hg2wOHsNoXA42rSxkhYQIOTsnVfHBfIH5PuUzO9NbG5uVJXkQ5jRessguQClvtQCe3DUXqDG0Skn70pE2pcuD4aRA/s1600/Dwain+Story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrDvARZDnhNMdARk3kO0lp200oaw-yqnx6uksr_DSWtZOuK8zg-Hg2wOHsNoXA42rSxkhYQIOTsnVfHBfIH5PuUzO9NbG5uVJXkQ5jRessguQClvtQCe3DUXqDG0Skn70pE2pcuD4aRA/s320/Dwain+Story.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dwain Story</span></em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thinking about the day he and Dwain Story coming over to my house to sell me Dwain's Guild for 200 bucks so he could get his Martin. Learning about Dwain's years with the Knob Lick Upper 10,000 and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">those old LPs on Mercury and his being managed by <u>The</u> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Grossman" target="_blank">Albert Grossman!</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUqHOdQ0DKzJeF-jniWqBjW-_rLxCXgDFcMeTuy7bABOHx-rtll7qIg7eZi-vxKo_gQFExLm9871SzldllzEJzo-jHAMH0fuZBiw8FRDCcw1Ksk4Mmfv1c9KJrxHUxE4o0r-3bbOu0iw/s1600/knob+lick+front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUqHOdQ0DKzJeF-jniWqBjW-_rLxCXgDFcMeTuy7bABOHx-rtll7qIg7eZi-vxKo_gQFExLm9871SzldllzEJzo-jHAMH0fuZBiw8FRDCcw1Ksk4Mmfv1c9KJrxHUxE4o0r-3bbOu0iw/s400/knob+lick+front.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Knob Lick Upper 10,000 two album covers on Mercury </span></em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Pete Childs, Erik Jacobsen, and Dwain Story.</span></em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gXjWGuV5XHM7N9GFfJSILA8DP1lsDanJ_siZhGalHqeRonq75VAgqs5e97saYDIHHz-sExyuWur5gYxmA9G_4d1c0rZs18Sq6B-NJ2EcbEPUXlfc4yZ17HcgkF3XcO-wMEiyl2LOF5k/s1600/knob+lick+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gXjWGuV5XHM7N9GFfJSILA8DP1lsDanJ_siZhGalHqeRonq75VAgqs5e97saYDIHHz-sExyuWur5gYxmA9G_4d1c0rZs18Sq6B-NJ2EcbEPUXlfc4yZ17HcgkF3XcO-wMEiyl2LOF5k/s400/knob+lick+back.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The back covers with original signatures from </span></em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pete Childs, Erik Jacobsen, and Dwain Story - Produced by Al Grossman!</span></em></strong></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still remember Dwain's songs “Wendigo” and of course "Good Pussy 4 Sale", whose heroine's seven-inch clitoris that could ball the jack. Dwain played great even after having been institutionalized for years for schizophrenia which turned out to be bipolar disorder. He needed a different medication. First time I hung out with Dwain at a short-lived open mike in Wicker Park (pre-Liz Phair, pre Urbus Orbus). I have loads of memories of this…my buying him and me a pizza while this really really awful comedian-cum-lately did about forty minutes laughing at his own pathetic jokes all about his wife…Dwain telling me about the transient hotel he lived in…Dwain complaining about how </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Junior" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detroit Junior</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> got the gig the previous weekend at Earl's earning <span style="color: #444444;">himself fifty bucks…Dwain telling me that if he had that fifty how he could afford to take a prostitute. How wide my eyes got listening to him talk. I also recall how the kitchen staff came out to hear me play that night. Did I play "Jack" that night? Naw...I couldn't have. Hadn't even written "She's Crazy on You (Shiela)" about Dwain and that conversation.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Dysfunctionells were playing "Sheila" with the great Peter Stampfel in Philly after Vence's car nearly caught fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I mentioned that the song was about a songwriter in Chicago, and that the Guild I was playing</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> I had bought off him, Peter asked who I was talking about. I told him it was Dwain and he jumps up…”I KNOW DWAIN STORY!” Wow. Dwain came to hear us play with Pete at the Lunar... a bit of a reunion. I even once had " to repair" that old Guild using a stick I found on the campground at The Kerrville Folk Festival. In 1998 I saw Dwain sitting on a Lincoln Park Zoo park bench case open for tips. Not much in his case. Dropped a twenty in as I left. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dwainstory" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Dwain is still with us, too.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He used to hang at The Gallery Cabaret, but apparently he got band.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope he is still doing okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2010 I made about 25 copies of the CD with his two old Mercury LPs on them, with covers and all, so he could sell them as he busked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope he is still doing okay.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dwainstory" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wendigo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was his big song. Remember studying way early one morning during my pysch rotation in 1989 and finding out that wendigo is an American Indian form of psychosis. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So now I have been thinking about tents and rents and mortgages and park benches and the weather and capital punishment and raising your own chickens and as it turned out I was writing another song at</span><a href="http://rbwinningcoffee.lbu.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Winning's</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> last night...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kingfisher's Samuel M. Walton shouts from his grave "Won't be undersold".</span> Got me this big brand new tent <br />
At only 'bout one month's rent<br />
Way less than half the old mortgage if truth be told<br />
Sure, we loved that house but the roof was too old<br />
Winter and Fresno won't meet up again until late Halloween<br />
Like the other families in all the other tents we're just a little in between<br />
Times just caught some us up a little too in between<br />
California Eden Abe's nature boy has grown up insane<br />
Living here's just about as easy as fallin 'neath a train<br />
This morning's cops spread the word <br />
Quick as Hollywood polishes turd<br />
"Take your tent down you're off to the fair"<br />
The Austrian's muscle made room for us there<br />
The water there's safer and clean<br />
For those here who found themselves caught up and in between<br />
Times just caught some of us up a little too in between <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-50921239716443028602012-03-11T13:52:00.001-07:002012-03-12T05:31:12.254-07:00Song #94. All Our Tomorrows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LVko41d_NU7lGNv6K7Hw5J8jbVNCZ319kTOOZ0X1z7KHeO58D6v4X6h7dOVPKMpMLGCm38S2bgWgYQSV6sIl-KARwdLwv0XmRAeUuiTAyUdCOakUZb3_AeUNSMB_7wjJa5MxpcBU5Sc/s1600/laguna+tidepools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0LVko41d_NU7lGNv6K7Hw5J8jbVNCZ319kTOOZ0X1z7KHeO58D6v4X6h7dOVPKMpMLGCm38S2bgWgYQSV6sIl-KARwdLwv0XmRAeUuiTAyUdCOakUZb3_AeUNSMB_7wjJa5MxpcBU5Sc/s400/laguna+tidepools.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Look <br />
It’s a brand new me<br />
Stoney broke 'n broken down <br />
‘N so low down ‘n so let’s dive deep down in<br />
Look, I took my wooden heart and carved me this gypsy violin<br />
Listen while it laughs just like a mother's crying <br />
Let its sorrow burrow into you <br />
A brand new tattoo<br />
<br />
We’re sailing cruelly random seas<br />
The effluent of time and stupidity<br />
On shore in rock crags pools evolve <br />
Slippery as history<br />
Here, the now and then squirm and throb and teem <br />
Alive one ebbing tide<br />
Just to drown again like stones <br />
Like truths we’ve cast aside <br />
<br />
Fallen seas always rise<br />
<br />
So haul all your tomorrows along with you<br />
Don’t ever let them go <br />
Don’t let go<br />
<br />
Look <br />
What we are<br />
Bodies strewn up in the crowns of trees<br />
(No better place for hiding leaves),<br />
Pause in awkward dangle awaiting autumn coloring<br />
Look, I really loved you <br />
But you just can’t take it in <br />
I really loved you<br />
It’s so hard to know the one’s who’s true<br />
From those put here to fuck with you<br />
<br />
So you’d best haul all your tomorrows along with you<br />
Don’t let them go too far <br />
Tomorrow’s what we are<br />
<br />
Haul all your tomorrows along with you<br />
Don’t ever let them go <br />
Don’t let go</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-July 2009</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/5/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I knew where this song came from or where it was going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like some of the language in it but I am not sure it hangs together really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know I was near rock bottom when I wrote this and was wondering how I would ascend again, and if and when I did what I would take with me. Tomorrow was all I could come up with…which is interesting in that the words “squirm and throb” were nicked from the boys who sang “There is no future”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The references to tide pools came from one of my most wonderful days ever, tide pooling in Laguna Beach with the Peter Stampfel family back in the summer of 2001. I need to bring this song back from the dead just to see if there as anything really there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recorded a backing track for this one in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should listen to it again maybe. Maybe relearn the song.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div></span>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-7108011953872430852012-03-11T13:43:00.002-07:002012-03-12T05:31:33.887-07:00Song #95. Ain’t It So Nice Outside Today?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaldC239htzHfqhJkXT9znhEmRP8sbaBXCJp-pv-EP7DSeEWkpokdYJ-jRs7JTSths_-JdkcyuBojqkhxTNoAl2Hgy_tyEDtO-kjhvJTdz14eJT-m7zbFHKHrHgeXVzXv8lj3aDTQx2c/s1600/prosthetic-limb-1_1254359678.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaldC239htzHfqhJkXT9znhEmRP8sbaBXCJp-pv-EP7DSeEWkpokdYJ-jRs7JTSths_-JdkcyuBojqkhxTNoAl2Hgy_tyEDtO-kjhvJTdz14eJT-m7zbFHKHrHgeXVzXv8lj3aDTQx2c/s400/prosthetic-limb-1_1254359678.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"There but for fortune may go you or go I" - Phil Ochs<br />
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Ain’t it so nice outside today?<br />
Ain’t it so nice outside today?<br />
There’s so much you want to do.<br />
Ain’t it so nice outside today?<br />
<br />
Back's been broke a couple times.<br />
Neck just won’t bend quite right.<br />
Lost his left eye in some bar fight.<br />
Her shoulder’s froze up tight.<br />
<br />
They can’t mount a flight of stairs.<br />
Can’t climb out of a chair.<br />
He said, 'My head got busted with a 2 X 4,<br />
And since that day doc, it’s like I got no soul no more.<br />
<br />
And it hurts so bad,<br />
And it’s hurt for so damn long now.<br />
The pain won’t ever go away.<br />
But I gotta live another day.'<br />
We all wanna live another day.<br />
'Cause there's just so much we gotta do<br />
And it's so nice outside today'.<br />
<br />
Sister been deaf since she was born.<br />
Brother been blind since he was two<br />
From something he got from momma when he got born.<br />
Whatever it was carried momma off too.<br />
<br />
The good hand keeps dropping things.<br />
The foot feels like it’s made of wood.<br />
Can’t walk. Can’t talk. Can’t stand. Can’t sit.<br />
There’s blood everytime you take a shit.<br />
<br />
And it hurts so bad,<br />
And you ain’t worked for so damn long now.<br />
Boss won't risk your coming back.<br />
And if you don’t work, well you don’t get paid<br />
So you can't live to work another day.<br />
And there’s so much you still can do.<br />
And ain’t it nice outside today?<br />
<br />
The nurse, she said good luck<br />
And give you these pills.<br />
But you don't know what they do.<br />
But these pills just don't see you through.<br />
It's like helplessness is just another word for nothing left to lose.<br />
<br />
There but for fortune</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She said 'Doc, the meth ran out., <br />
And I crashed real hard<br />
February. The cops found me down<br />
Outside an E/R that'd been shut down.<br />
<br />
Seems I’d slept too long<br />
I slept too hard on my right arm.<br />
Doctor said weren’t nothin’ he could do.<br />
He told me he had to cut it off before time I’d come to.'<br />
<br />
And the pain so bad sometimes.<br />
And it’s hurt for too damn long now.<br />
I can’t even feed myself.<br />
Didn't Jesus even ask God himself?<br />
Didn't Jesus ask<br />
Why can’t I live another day?<br />
You know that there’s so much I still have to do<br />
And G-d ain't it so nice outside today.<br />
Ain’t it so nice outside today?'<br />
<br />
helpless<br />
hopeless<br />
aimless<br />
homeless<br />
pointless<br />
toothless<br />
limbless<br />
useless<br />
faceless<br />
worthless<br />
lifeless<br />
yet it's<br />
don't cry don't cry don't cry<br />
<br />
‘Cause there’s still so much that you can do<br />
And ain’t it so nice outside today?</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-November 2009</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/5/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think there is a great deal here in this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything in this song happened, again and again, to folks whose greatest aspirations were to be relieved of some of their suffering and to not feel like they were throw away people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And many would never meet those basic aspirations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122120090162" target="_blank">Wrote about the origins of this one in“Charlie Holley and The Cripples” found here.</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122120090162#!/note.php?note_id=175271920162" target="_blank">Definitely got somehelp with this one from my dear brothers Jack Hardy and Andrew Calhoun</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both said, “It’s go to be IN the song man…”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=722q1n2kGTo#t=324s" target="_blank">There is a video of the song here recorded at The Paul Henry Gallery on 1/6/2011.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2585886" target="_blank">I made a rough home recording of this song linked here</a> (along with many others) needs to be properly recorded as soon as I can get 5K that doesn’t need to pay bills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dream on….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-15873775354175661362012-03-10T16:18:00.002-08:002012-03-15T14:14:48.608-07:00Song #96. Nine Is The Lucky Number (for Jeff and Emi on their wedding day)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn050Y6qGznzDjYFz6amN_r9z1kFsPCwcBbKxTEREgSvWgQZIZ-BJFg-Ax0Dicq7rLzoLCGt-oHwN3DLblHxScWb2gqx12voHty71ir4Agkza68XhyphenhyphentRwRKVvWn65GStgJ87mPt93N1c/s1600/sansankudocomposite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdn050Y6qGznzDjYFz6amN_r9z1kFsPCwcBbKxTEREgSvWgQZIZ-BJFg-Ax0Dicq7rLzoLCGt-oHwN3DLblHxScWb2gqx12voHty71ir4Agkza68XhyphenhyphentRwRKVvWn65GStgJ87mPt93N1c/s400/sansankudocomposite.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five hundred years after the war<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The one Thucydides retold)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or about a hundred since <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Julius C. had remade <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What Lucius M. had so well razed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A letter penned in Ephesus <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sailed across a wine-dark sea <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">180 miles west <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To Corinth on the Peloponnese<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s subject, immorality<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And faith and hope and charity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The greatest being charity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when we stow our children’s things<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Translations by an English King) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charity is replaced by love <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Very much a marriage thing)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Horns of jealousy are veiled<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women’s teeth are painted black<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thousand and one paper cranes <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sail gold across pacific seas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From another Island Nation-State<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To an Eastern sea-board town <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two families fuse their two <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Southwest mile high desert kin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three times three (san-san-kudo)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stand with your greatest human flaws <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hate and pride and ignorance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind a 14 welders lens<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you can look straight at the sun <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And reread Paul’s 1C13</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-June 2010</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/4/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeff asked me if I would like to write a song for their wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gathered ideas slowly and is often the case in these matters I didn’t complete the thing until the morning before the wedding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the research about weddings in Japan, I learned that certain traditions were incorporated from the west, particularly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13" target="_blank">Paul’s First Corinthians 13</a>, which is included in so many western weddings as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this wedding was also a melding of these traditions, Emi from Japan and Jeff from not Japan, this seemed worth exploring. And the references within 1C13 gave access to historical and image references to play on in the song...the reference to the welder's glass compared "through the glass, darkly".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">In the photo above Jefff and Emi are perfroming the San-San-Kudo ceremony. According to web, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Sansankudo no Sakazuki" generally called "sakazuki-goto," is the traditional custom at every wedding performed according to Shinto rites - </span>Long ago in Japan, sake played an important role in tying together the gods and common people. Therefore, one would never drink alone, but always in groups. There are now many old customs which have lost their meaning or popularity, but the drinking of sake at wedding ceremonies, known as "Sansankudo no sakazuki", a major focus of the ceremony, continues to thrive even in modern culture. "Sansankudo no sakazuki" brings the gods in between humans to help them, through the sharing of sake, come closer together and create a bond of friendship.”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“San-san-kudo literally means "three, three, nine times." The cup used at san-san-kudo is a special one called "sakazuki," which is only used to drink sake and no other beverages. The bride and groom take turns taking three sips each of three different bowls of sake, each one larger than the next. One does not drink the sake like a 'shot' but rather tilting the cup up very gradually and sipping lightly. Three is an indivisible number, and it is considered a sacred number in Buddhism. Nine means triple happiness. But just as the san-san-kudo sake sips may not be altogether delicious, the couple's marriage life may not always be delightful, but they will have to overcome their hardships with the co-operative spirit of the san-san-kudo. By exchanging the nuptial sake sips—three times three—husband and wife are united.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked the notion of three times three, and the three words in Paul 1C13, and the two different translations over time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have only played this song once at the wedding but hope to relearn it again, although the music will certainly be different than on that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would also love to have this song translated properly into Japanese and then to try to learn it in.</span><o:p></o:p></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s almost certain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere it's almost certain life has finally wrestled free from fear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere it's almost certain there is a God who could love us, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But man, He ain't here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it’s almost certain somewhere<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere it’s almost certain hope can’t hurt you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope only makes you strong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere it’s almost certain no one claims something’s right when it’s certainly wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's almost certain <br />
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We’re running somewhere in a coward’s parade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From a world that is poisoned, broken and sick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Go on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try to breathe freely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll drown in shit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What dreams you've left obscure your view.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stones on your chest ain't new.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's almost certain </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were hewn somewhere.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere maybe men know just how hard it is to walk in another man’s shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere all the so-called lovers of Jesus know <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lies are called lies, not "the news"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s almost certain<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is it true in their somewhere no one has ever died? <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A somewhere where nature’s defied?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where you can live unwounded and clean<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With nothing to learn or to lose</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Cause you’re sure? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or a fool?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s almost certain <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere*</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t need to die just to be reborn. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No man lives a life that’s untorn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you’re being cheated by powerful men<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who think they’ve nothing to learn or to lose<br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Cause they’re sure <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’re a fool.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They’re so certain <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They’re somewhere</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-October 2010<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Verse in Italics was in an earlier draft</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/4/2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ever been lied to?.” –Paul Simon’s “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Born At The Right Time”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a piano song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song is about being lied to, especially lying to yourself. And about certainty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And faith. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>There was a quote from “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All In The Family</i>” that always stuck with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Archie Bunker is talking about religion with his son-in-law and explains, “Faith is believing in stuff that no one in their right mind would believe.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Archie was paraphrasing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper" target="_blank">Karl Popper</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/200910/hunger-certainty" target="_blank">Studies have shown that humans thirst forcertainty as part of their survival mechanism.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I ain't no different, but it is this thirst that leads us to be nothing more than pawns in others hands, especially when we are hurting and lost and lonely. There’s a sucker reborn every minute, eh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many times do we need to relearn this lesson?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The song owes an unpaid debt to Vernon Tonges’s brilliant phrase “almost certain” I blatantly stole from his masterful and magisterial song “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thunder Goose</i>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course, another debt to Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://youtu.be/SNA7cdgoepA" target="_blank">There is a homespun video of an earlier draft of this here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html" target="_blank">This will take you back to the complete song list.</a></span></div></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-5783685132441168952012-03-10T15:41:00.021-08:002016-04-16T19:48:26.105-07:00Song #100. Think What You Will<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rich white men's avarice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://youtu.be/3Uib-J5uU6Y" target="_blank">Here is a video of the song performed at the Gallery</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/4/2012: The music for this one has a bit of Spanish feel…maybe ala Dylan/Levy’s “One More Cup of Coffee”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I suggesting a connection with the themes in this song and the Inquisition?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask me later. So far I have only played this one once…and that was a previous draft at that. I have certainly been spending a lot of time lately dwelling on the noise spewing from the mouths of these republican corporate shills, not just Santorum. Although Santorum is a perfect exemplar, who preach hate and intolerance, and who convey some kind of twisted sincerity, a poisonous earnestness, that not only are their views reasonable, but also that they reflect some silent majority of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I fear the truth is that these hate-mongers represent, speak for, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a larger than acceptable minority of scared ignorant hate-filled morons that populate the tea parties, evangelical unChrist-like hateful Christian shitheads,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Republicans, the Klan, and the Survivalists and the Neo-Nazis, and whatever else inhumane human fecal matter that floats in that fetid pool of our citizenry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the Christians could try a little harder to read St. Paul’s Book of Romans and try to get it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is only one fact that has been true, is true, and will always be true, about all human beings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That fact is that some portion of what anyone person knows to be absolutely true, is not true at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, it is the heterogeneity of opinions about this fact has led to almost all of the inhumanity of man versus his fellow men from the beginning of time to now. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Which side are you on?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-618691765705202812012-03-10T15:41:00.020-08:002012-03-12T05:33:10.437-07:00Song #99. What Is It That You Want? (for Diane Izzo and Marco Zas)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKKL5NCs7TPuYZflIeMwvn_kTSm8T5V5uo7qj8pWp6vXM6lHy1TjW6eBkc7cBiaQEhx9sLhDNzdv2yPgx4JPKf_mVWqr4wt8JollUFfkZA_BsaAZMWxqvi3RUVoMH11molH9HfimVhUk/s1600/Diane+and+Marco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKKL5NCs7TPuYZflIeMwvn_kTSm8T5V5uo7qj8pWp6vXM6lHy1TjW6eBkc7cBiaQEhx9sLhDNzdv2yPgx4JPKf_mVWqr4wt8JollUFfkZA_BsaAZMWxqvi3RUVoMH11molH9HfimVhUk/s400/Diane+and+Marco.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is it that you want <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you put it into words?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would you know it if it bit you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you wrap your fingers ‘round<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those dreams put there to kill you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow’s lying face down in the road<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’re our one millionth new Tom Joad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you doubt what’s just been said<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a wake-up call<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But are you already dead?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen up Brothers and Sisters <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is it that you want?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To walk to talk to breathe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To know deep in your soul <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You were once worth something to someone <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That you ain’t yet died inside<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That your ship ain't sailed its last time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to know when it all finally slips away<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That your life was one hell of a stay<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Testify Brothers and Sisters<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is it that you what?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The notes were made on 3/4/2012: <a href="http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2011-03-01/remembering-singer-songwriter-diane-izzo-83172" target="_blank">Diane Izzo</a> and Marco Zas, pictured above, are friends of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Diane, a brillinat singer-singwriter and performer, </span>lost her battle to a brain tumor in 2011, way too fucking early in her life. Marco, Diane’s lover, has renal failure, and has had troubles with transplants and complication of renal disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spoke with them a lot during some of their trials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite of being their friend, and a physician, I felt I did almost nothing to help them through all this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I certainly wanted to do more, should have done more.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many years ago, I had lost a friend, a former girlfriend, Pat Irving, to a brain tumor, when Pat was 20 and I was 22. Pat ws the basis of an earlier song of mine called <a href="http://youtu.be/FvVbz-xECfI" target="_blank">“Waltz with Me Jenny (there's a old video of this is linked here)”</a> I had kept that experience of Pat from Marco and Diane, as Pat had died, and I wanted to be hopeful for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember Marco talking to me after Diane’s tumor was diagnosed as having recurred, and that they were trying to make plans for “just one more year”, a year they were cheated of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he told me I thought of Pat, her recurrence, how scared she was when that happened and of course her eventual demise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The notion of “just one more year” hit me hard, especially since I was, and still am, wondering what the hell it is I want out of life, what the hell is important, my current sense of depressions and resignation and hopelessness, and what if anything am I gonna do about it anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss Diane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Everyone who knew Diane misses her. </span>I hope Marco is doing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">okay. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a piano song, and with the help of a tight band and some horns, can take off for sure. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HakfU0Txkcg#t=787s" target="_blank">There is a video of this from The Gallery's Singer-Songwriters night at 13:08 into the video.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Cause t</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hey’ve all heard this one already</span></span></span></span><br />
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Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-10837483100431544852012-03-10T15:39:00.022-08:002017-06-08T11:34:33.649-07:00Collected Lyrics For The First 102 Songs By Rich Krueger, With Or Without Other Authors, In Reverse Chronological Order<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I as of today, 3/10/2012, I guess I have written, or co-written, 100 songs with lyrics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought at first it was only 97 when I began this collating process in February, but rechecking notebooks there were three more…an <u>even hundred</u>! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many do not suck. Others clearly do suck, particularly early on. I find this reassuring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been other Rich Krueger musical compositions: a few pieces of chamber music (for examples <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_8232608" target="_blank">Best Two Out of Three</a></i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Music Box Trio</i></b>); a couple songs I worked on with Chris Farrell where I made very small contributions; a hymn I reset to new music (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s A Wideness In God’s Mercy</i></b>); a few instrumentals, like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bulgar Wheat (Oliver Steck/Rich Krueger)</i></b> and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2829012" target="_blank">Liverpool Charlie Morgan’s Bugger All</a></i></b>; and some incidental music used in <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sheer-lunacy/Content?oid=875095" target="_blank">The Cardiff Giant</a> play, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/babylon-sistersall-eight-die/Content?oid=876353" target="_blank">All Eight Die</a></i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my main musical output has been songs in the urbane folk/rock-and-roll/pop idiom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">100<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-100-think-what-you-will.html" target="_blank">Think What You Will</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://youtu.be/3Uib-J5uU6Y" target="_blank">video</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">September-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">99<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2047659291"> </a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-99-what-is-it-that-you-want-for.html" target="_blank">What Is It That You Want? </a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HakfU0Txkcg#t=787s" target="_blank">video</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> (For Diane Izzo and Marco Zas) </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">July-11</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">98<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-98-me-and-my-big-fat-for-julie.html" target="_blank">Me And The Girl Bar-Singer…</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kUnzi4B-H7I#t=832s" target="_blank">video</a> </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> (For Julie Jurgens)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-10</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">97<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-97-somewhere.html" target="_blank">Somewhere</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNA7cdgoepA&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">video</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">October-10</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">96<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-96-nine-is-lucky-number-for-jeff.html" target="_blank">Nine Is The Lucky Number</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(For Jeff and Emi on their wedding)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">95<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-94-aint-it-so-nice-outside-today.html" target="_blank">Ain't It So Nice Outside Today?</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=722q1n2kGTo#t=324s" target="_blank">video</a> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2585886" target="_blank"> mp3</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-09<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">94<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-94-all-our-tomorrows.html" target="_blank">All Our Tomorrows</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">July-09<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-93-in-between-kingfishers.html" target="_blank">In Between Kingfishers</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://youtu.be/A7wIhrEJA-0" target="_blank">video</a> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129439" target="_blank">mp3</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-09<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">92<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-92-versteht-or-whose-world-and.html" target="_blank">Verschet? Or Whose World And Whose Hands?</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">March-09<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">91<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/song-91-77-17.html" target="_blank">‘77/17 (For N.H.D.)</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HakfU0Txkcg#t=163s" target="_blank">video</a> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129486" target="_blank">mp3</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-08<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">90<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/90-you-cant-see-me-in-this-light.html" target="_blank">Can't See Me In This Light (For RL)</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2129478" target="_blank">mp3</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-08<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2017_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">A Tout Jamais (Pour Eva Ave)</a><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/richkrueger/song/2129498-a-tout-jamais-pour-eva" target="_blank">mp3</a> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-08<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Lucid Nightmare Revenant <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-08<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wrong<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-07<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">86<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Wednesday Boys<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">May-07<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">85<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yesterday's Wrong<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-07<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">84<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jessica Smiled (For Jessica Mills on her birthday)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-07<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">83<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>True Love<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(For Vernon and Stacey on their wedding)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-02<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">82<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Ballad Of Mary O’Connor* <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-01<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">81<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bartender<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-98</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">78<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Family (Apologies To The Rev Al Green) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(For Susan and Doug on their wedding)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">September-95</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">77<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ain’t Life Grand<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-95<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">76<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus Loves Me (I Know This)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-95<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">75<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Off To Change The World<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-94<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">74<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It's Wonderful Life (For Ezra Idlet on his 40<sup>th</sup>)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">73<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Girls Go For Arse'oles<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">72<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Waltz (Terpsechore)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">71<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Regard Of Flight<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">70<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Little Richard’s World Of Mirth++<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">69<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heaven<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-93<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">68<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Gospel According to Carl<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-92<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">67<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Amazing (For Scott and Wendy on their wedding)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-91<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">66<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nashville Patiently, Or Tell Me A Story</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> (For, or at, John Ims)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">July-91<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">65<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kerrville Song<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(For the Songwriting School </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">64<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Another Hour<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-91<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">63<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everything Dies</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>(Formerly "All Eight Die", For the Cardiff Show)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-90<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">62<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ideal World*** (For the Cardiff Show </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> “All Eight Die”)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-90<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">61<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Closed, Come Again (Sorry)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-90<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">60<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Young English Romantic Song<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-90<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">59<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kick In The Head <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">58<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> Por Que No Me Amas (</span>Love Me)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> 57<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Miracle On 34th Street<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-89</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">56<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just A Fascination<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">55<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Cardiff Giant Song<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">54<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Uncertainty Principle, Or After Heisenberg<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">March-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">53<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Decent Place <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">March-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">52<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Between You And Me<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">51<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Secret Admirer<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">50<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I Don't Mind<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">January-89<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">49<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The New Hat<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">48<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Collective Memory***<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-88</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">47<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Change In Clothes<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">46<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Zero And The Bandit Queen </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Of Department Stores^<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-88</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">45<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Woman On The #6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">September-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">44<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Charlie Guitar (For Charlie Koster)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">August-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">43<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On Your Return<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-88</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">42<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An Economy Of Errors<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">May-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">41<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jack<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">40<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tell It To The Tambourines<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">January-88<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">39<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Waltz With Me, Jenny <span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(For Patricia Irving </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">March 7, 1962 – August 31, 1982)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">38<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everything That's Ever Happened </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> During My Entire Life<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">November-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">37<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Ballad Of Davy And Al<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">September-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">36<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jimmy Kidder<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">July-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">35<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dirty Little Town<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">34<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Six String Of Heaven (Daddy’s Guitar)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">33<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Picnic With The Pope, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Or Things Happen In New Mexico+<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">June-87</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">32<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The One You Love<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">May-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It's Just A Little Funny<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There's Something Out There<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One, Two , Three<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tom Johnson<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">April-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let Us Go Then, You And I^^<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">March-87</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Plea For Misunderstanding In An </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Uncomplicated </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> World, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Or Lawrence Welk And WWIII <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Great War<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She's Crazy On You (Sheila)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">February-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Emergency-Made-Simple<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">January-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vague Existential Yearnings<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">January-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expectation<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">January-87<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>#13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Week, With A Bullet<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-86<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> It's Christmas Time Again<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-86<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Love Is Gonna Break The Fall<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">December-86</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Some Of The Things I've Said Before<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">October-86<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span></span></div>
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Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-77181013038100035672011-01-08T17:59:00.000-08:002011-01-08T18:17:15.774-08:00Arizona Deep and DearTraditions & This Crazy Little Thing We Call the Bill of Rights<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDY7_xyLpHjEOTxoBHn2zPSZGUehZf8YMEwgwkTbfuNmb6f5MZagdND-sa8XVMeJU2S5nKPXSe10xJxxvhpTwHt7KIyMmYv435uKECammobNsgI6D1pDe5RSgPtIo-99-PYcQkIT-w_1I/s1600/pogo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDY7_xyLpHjEOTxoBHn2zPSZGUehZf8YMEwgwkTbfuNmb6f5MZagdND-sa8XVMeJU2S5nKPXSe10xJxxvhpTwHt7KIyMmYv435uKECammobNsgI6D1pDe5RSgPtIo-99-PYcQkIT-w_1I/s320/pogo.bmp" width="208" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I doubt this blog will resonate with many of you, but I found myself dwelling on today’s terrible events in Arizona, and being troubled. So I read some things and am sharing them here with some reflections. </span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 9/11 attacks took place, an aide leaned over George W. Bush, who was reading to school kids, and whispered, “We are under attack”. George Bush sat for a while, clearly stunned. The question is are we still under attack again today, or are our enemies determined to attack again within the United States.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not talking about Al-Qaeda. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am talking about Tea Party Partisans, particularly the gun wielding ones. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There seems to be an obvious paradox. It is a constitutional right for citizens to bear arms. It is within the constitutional right of free speech to advocate threatening specific people you do not agree with and to use those arms to threaten them, at least metaphorically. Killing people you do not agree with is apparently not unconstitutional, although it is against the law in many places, and is generally to be discouraged, unless you do not agree politically with the person you may threaten to kill metaphorically.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2T95DlVKN4GNK1BzMdr6Nu3CQel4auhrxznoDYpf6ofWmSzjVoicwDWtBP8t_1a3FkXxF3G1q9j61xLAdLVUkRup3hnwEWQI6GRuZJuw8Ln2WyjOSUuwQPnO9VUH6bsgu0Y5YpP_LLA/s1600/749.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2T95DlVKN4GNK1BzMdr6Nu3CQel4auhrxznoDYpf6ofWmSzjVoicwDWtBP8t_1a3FkXxF3G1q9j61xLAdLVUkRup3hnwEWQI6GRuZJuw8Ln2WyjOSUuwQPnO9VUH6bsgu0Y5YpP_LLA/s320/749.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today <a href="http://giffords.house.gov/">Rep. Gabrielle Giffords</a> of Arizona was shot in the head, and an unknown number of others were wounded when an assailant opened fire in an area where the lawmaker was meeting with constituents, officials said. Many of the wounded are dead or dying, including a 9 year old girl and a senior Federal Justice appointed by George H. Bush. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early reports are that the arrested suspect in the shooting is 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner, a man whose quickly retrieved online YouTube posts suggest that he is a paranoid man with an obsession with the government. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/gabrielle-giffords-shot-c_n_806211.html#51_jared-lee-loughner">From the Huffington Post</a>: “The most illustrative window is Loughner’s YouTube account, which appears to be hub of anti-government zealotry, obsession over currency and language standards, and, to put it bluntly, outright paranoia.”</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, when the congresswoman’s father Spencer Giffords, 75, was asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies, he offered a different opinion as to where to cast blame. He wept and said "Yeah," he told </span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/ariz_congresswoman_shot_in_head_YFTvsurRHy5OWGSRKnuK8J#ixzz1ATapcbLU"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New York Post</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. "The whole tea party."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this just a grief stricken father’s rambling hyperbole and slanderous accusations? Is he too just another delusional paranoid? Consider the following.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09giffords.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According the New York Times</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, “Sylvia Lee, a friend of Ms. Giffords, told CNN that the congresswoman had received numerous threats….Last March, after the final approval of the Democrats’ health care law, which Ms. Giffords supported, the windows of her office in Tucson were broken or shot out in an act of vandalism. Similar acts were reported by other members of Congress, and several arrests were made, including that of a man who had threatened to kill Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"And in August 2009, when there were demonstrations against the health care measure across the nation, a protester who showed up to meet Ms. Giffords at a supermarket event similar to Saturday’s was removed by the police when the pistol he had holstered under his armpit fell and bounced on the floor. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeDOEh9722gyc0XQzrhUnrEvMEk2aZ7yTnvdr0Ovc_TvTzY6QbZP6IkATkh2Dl_FsAA6GXfi89HL6wMbXBnmZJNDF75y-UOG_nh4ek1qrC-2teHLLQ1w6DWCfe7aXSEYe-klKSPeNP0g/s1600/Palinmap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqeDOEh9722gyc0XQzrhUnrEvMEk2aZ7yTnvdr0Ovc_TvTzY6QbZP6IkATkh2Dl_FsAA6GXfi89HL6wMbXBnmZJNDF75y-UOG_nh4ek1qrC-2teHLLQ1w6DWCfe7aXSEYe-klKSPeNP0g/s400/Palinmap.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"During the fall campaign, Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential candidate, posted a controversial map on her Facebook page depicting spots where Democrats were running for re-election; those Democrats were noted by crosshairs symbols like those seen through the scope of a gun. Ms. Giffords was among those on Ms. Palin’s map.” </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is just free-speech , right?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, Giffords’ 2010 Congressional opponent Jesse Kelly held a June 12 gun event that was billed as follows on the </span><a href="http://www.pimagop.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pima County Republican website</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/08/giffords-opponent-jesse-kelly-held-june-event-to-shoot-a-fully-automatic-m16-to-get-on-target-and-remove-gabrielle-giffords/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(now removed)</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Get on Target for Victory in November Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office Shoot a fully automatic M15 with Jesse Kelly”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jesse Kelly, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be bothered in the least by the Sarah Palin controversy earlier this year, when she released a list of targeted races in crosshairs, urging followers to “reload” and “aim” for Democrats. Critics said she was inciting violence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He seems to be embracing his fellow tea partier’s idea. Kelly’s campaign event website has a stern-looking photo of the former Marine in military garb holding his weapon. It includes the headline: “Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The event costs $50. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isolated rhetoric? More Free Speech? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, controversial <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html">Rep. Michele Bachmann</a> (R-Minn.) said this weekend that she wants residents of her state "armed and dangerous" over President Barack Obama's plan to reduce global warming "because we need to fight back." This is the same extreme paranoid ramblings of the tea party’s favorite son, </span><a href="http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/glenn-becks-long-history-extremist-r"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Glenn Beck</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He ran several segments, including one on his radio show, in which he promoted the concept of the secession of Texas from the Union. A little later, he tried to pretend he didn't agree with the concept while in fact giving a secessionist the opportunity to promote his plans to Beck's audience.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He regularly promoted "one world government" paranoia. This included a supposed plot to put us all on a global currency controlled by the New World Order.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He tried to argue that the chief cause of the sour economy was the United States' reliance on a central banking system.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He hosted an entire hourlong segment devoted to promoting militia-derived constitutional theories about state sovereignty.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He expressed his admiration for Nazi admirer and renowned anti-Semite Henry Ford.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He warned his audience about Obama's supposed secret plot to grab our guns.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- He also speculated that it is actually liberal "political correctness" that inspires right-wingers to go on murderous killing rampages.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- Later, when a Beck fan named Richard Poplawski shot three Pittsburgh police officers because he believed the cops were going to take his guns away on behalf of President Obama...and a number of other acts of right-wing violence occurred that were similarly inspired by Beck's kookery...Beck attacked C&L and other blogs for having the audacity to point out the connection.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -- Then, after building up his audience's paranoia, anger, and fearfulness, he pleaded with them not to indulge in acts of violence.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, Palin has remove the crosshair map from her website and offered </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=wall"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her condolences on facebook</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today's tragic shooting in Arizona. On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice.- Sarah Palin”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were generally two flavors of commentsthat followed this posting.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Bartholomew Hayes “Your rhetoric has caused the deaths of innocent Americans and your offered 'prayers' rings hollow after putting this Congresswoman in your 'crosshairs'. try washing their blood off of your hands but you are unable to do so!”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Katherine Shannon “Wasn't this one of the members of congress whom you put in your "crosshairs?" Why did you do that?”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Noah Karr Kaitin “This is what happens when you play with fire, Sarah. You hurt innocent people.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> F.A. Seidman “You should be in prison. Don't try to worm your way out of this like when O'Reilly incited the killing of George Tiller. Your political career is over and I hope to God you're Federally investigated for inciting hate crimes with your ‘hit list’.” </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Louise Wylen “Heh, you took out a lot of Libs today, eh, Sarah? good work!!! “</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Laura C Cutshall “ ‘The crossfire is intense, so penetrate through enemy territory by bombing through the press, and use your strong weapons -- your Big Guns -- to drive to the hole. Shoot with accuracy; aim high and remember it takes blood, sweat and tears to win,’ -- Sarah Palin”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Gawain Harding “Don't retreat, reload.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Tim Kapp “Politics will get you shot, not that politicians deserve much better.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of note, Giffords differed with many Democrats on issues such as gun control. A long-time gun owner, Giffords supported the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right of Americans to bear arms, according to her official biography. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of the 8th Congressional District also signed an amicus brief opposing to a 32-year-old ban on private handgun ownership in Washington D.C. Giffords owns a Glock handgun and regards gun ownership as a constitutional right and an "Arizona tradition."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51bgTJKLuTma5XqcGNlxQTbyXs4OiQNrMqOotgi9lMIhNP5EFyM5PUlXDSGjblxofBxbu43P08bRpviLpLXk8tesaU9Q_c5O_XtmT04-Z9TexODtgoX8VWtm1-JXtdgxL8v7qIFtJEMU/s1600/James_Brady_triptype.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51bgTJKLuTma5XqcGNlxQTbyXs4OiQNrMqOotgi9lMIhNP5EFyM5PUlXDSGjblxofBxbu43P08bRpviLpLXk8tesaU9Q_c5O_XtmT04-Z9TexODtgoX8VWtm1-JXtdgxL8v7qIFtJEMU/s400/James_Brady_triptype.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arizona was one of the states that sued to overturn the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 l which required background checks before you could purchase a handgun. The bill was named after James Brady who was shot in the head by the Jodie-Foster-obsessed John Hinckley, Jr. during an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The bill was ruled unconstitutional in 1998, but most states, including Arizona, still require the sort of checks when purchasing a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer. However, sales by private owners especially at gunshows do not necessarily require such checks in all states, including Arizona.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In July 2009, Representatives Michael Castle and Carolyn McCarthy introduced the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act of 2009 (H.R. 2324)[13] in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced similar legislation, the "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Show_Loophole_Closing_Act_of_2009"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gun Show Background Check Act of 2009</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"(S. 843), in the U.S. Senate. As of October 2009, the House version of the bill had 35 co-sponsors (mostly Democrats) and the Senate version had 15 co-sponsors, all Democrats.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presently, 17 states regulate private firearm sales at gun shows. Seven states require background checks on all gun sales at gun shows (California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Oregon, New York, Illinois and Colorado). Four states (Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) require background checks on all handgun, but not long gun, purchasers at gun shows. Five states require individuals to obtain a permit to purchase handguns that involves a background check (Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, Nebraska). Certain counties in Florida require background checks on all private sales of handguns at gun shows. The remaining 33 states including Arizona do not restrict private, intrastate sales of firearms at gun shows in any manner. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently it is an Arizona tradition, among its many traditions (John McCain and Barry Goldwater aside). And perhaps they are among our dearest and deepest American traditions as well , such as unending tragedy, blind stupidity, perpetual violence, the unhinging effects hate and fear, and our all-too-many wasted lives.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-55040452762341197972010-11-08T15:55:00.001-08:002012-03-31T10:09:28.468-07:00Me And My Big Fat Broken Heart - A New Song<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay well things are tough all over I'll admit and I ain’t no different and I ain’t that weird about it neither. But sometimes I get a bit obsessive and compulsive and that raises reasonable concerns from reasonable people as to my current degree of reasonableness. I certainly can understand where they are coming from, as there are times when I can vaguely recall having been reasonable. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then finally, when the scales begin to fall from my eyes, I see what pain I cause myself, and the nuisance I have been to others, and I begin to wonder about it. And I always cringe. But then sometimes there is a song that gets done. It is not a process I would recommend really, but my muse always carries a heavy stick to beat me with. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It may not be art but it sure is bruising. Something out of Aubrey Beardsly perhaps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DkyW37w4gRMMD4uI5aO98wi0pR8AzGpvxPEvGAEJXGaUE5CvclsdQwzfyM65iv01w5mtRFsHWkVnIFoiWrvUzYkV13jMmokOKUfKx04F_iLjDloO4V5xlPO-v8Abv-nWJnfssp-qWTA/s1600/113.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DkyW37w4gRMMD4uI5aO98wi0pR8AzGpvxPEvGAEJXGaUE5CvclsdQwzfyM65iv01w5mtRFsHWkVnIFoiWrvUzYkV13jMmokOKUfKx04F_iLjDloO4V5xlPO-v8Abv-nWJnfssp-qWTA/s1600/113.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe I will get this thing recorded sometime soon...but until then think maybe Rick Danko singing an upbeat country song with a fairly rapid harmonic rhythm....maybe like Dylan’s"You Ain’t goin’ Nowhere", but little more up tempo and nowhere near that good.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Me And My Big Fat Broken Heart</span></em></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A day don’t pass me by that a perfect stranger doesn’t tell me</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That I remind them of someone that they once loved or knew that died</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I smile back at them as if to say “Well, thank you”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cause it’s important having been seen for having tried.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm here to raise a glass to all my lonely foolish dreaming</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's spill over sometimes when the troubles start to swell</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No right-minded no one wants to break down to a stranger</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So that’s why God made bars and booze and one-night cheap motels</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But hey you look just drunk enough that you might actually understand me</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let me bend your ear awhile before the night pulls us apart</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There ain’t nobody sober gonna talk to me tonight</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cause they’ve all heard this one already </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">About me </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and my big fat broken heart</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You know just why you came here but you know you can’t admit it</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At least not before you had a few more than a few</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You staring at the stage and wonder when she gonna start</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A couple more and all the songs she sings will be about you</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She sings up there of loneliness as if it something she invented</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She kicks you in the head from the inside</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She shatters your illusions that you just might one day be happy </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She leaves smiling before you’ve drunk all you can’t hide </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If a man’s a friend you might think he would tell you</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I’m too drunk to listen and the night’s torn me apart</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There ain’t nobody sober gonna talk to me tonight</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cause they’ve all heard this one already </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">About me and my big fat broken heart</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - November 2010</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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</div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-60731127049374261582010-10-12T15:32:00.000-07:002010-10-17T09:35:09.231-07:00Somewhere It's Almost Certain<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>I watched too much TV growing up…probably still watch too much TV, and all the time telling my kids that they watch too much TV for their own good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do as I say and not as I do, right?”</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>I think my kids have a dimwit for a father…but fortunately they already know that.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvc1drwLskvbNH27q01zOjZ30tIY0mYjbL3zJqv72a-qp3L527EfALknedbhUylR6RzEOBid0R-zFtUhodWmnFsjzbuWXI6YzMiMZPrUnnLSj_DZRpgCge-bplhbzHXT3L_uc4wuYa8Ac/s1600/Bunker.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvc1drwLskvbNH27q01zOjZ30tIY0mYjbL3zJqv72a-qp3L527EfALknedbhUylR6RzEOBid0R-zFtUhodWmnFsjzbuWXI6YzMiMZPrUnnLSj_DZRpgCge-bplhbzHXT3L_uc4wuYa8Ac/s200/Bunker.bmp" width="143" /></span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>But I remember a lot of TV shows, at least snippets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gobbets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One line that has always stuck with me, particularly because of its obvious ramifications as regards the Book of Romans, is a quote from Archie Bunker.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>“Faith is believing something that no one in his right mind would believe.” </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>This new song (first draft?) is about whatever you think it may be about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is about the foolishness inherent in hope, and faith, and love, and honesty, and the future, at a time that seems pretty dire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I am ambivalent on this point. Have been since I have seen "The Iceman Cometh". </span>The song by its lyric and melody (not apparent here) it juxtaposed to two other “hopeful” songs, “Over the Rainbow” by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, and “Thunder Goose” by Vernon Tonges…certainly two of my favorite songs written by three of my favorite songwriters. There may even be a bit of "Try to Remember" from The Fantastics in here. Certainly wouldn't mind Jerry Orbach singing this song, if he wasn't dead.</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JVpjgBqduvEFoJ6yyoKhiQ6bzbwhiMALrWC4Dv7IcN2Uxh49lCnvn4ZwhUnIANe-nTzDBuIxrSW3Z0hT2H04kk36jCgpFm4nx7dfD_q31rMUecu1GfqadS9WeFWj7LEPP7RhFZVRCMs/s1600/Tripix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JVpjgBqduvEFoJ6yyoKhiQ6bzbwhiMALrWC4Dv7IcN2Uxh49lCnvn4ZwhUnIANe-nTzDBuIxrSW3Z0hT2H04kk36jCgpFm4nx7dfD_q31rMUecu1GfqadS9WeFWj7LEPP7RhFZVRCMs/s400/Tripix.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It’s almost certain</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It's almost certain life has finally wrestled free from fear.</strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">It's almost certain there is a God who could loves us, </span></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> but man He ain't here.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>But it’s almost certain</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It’s almost certain hope can’t hurt you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> Hope only makes you strong.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It’s almost certain no one claims something’s right </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> when it’s certainly wrong.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It's almost certain </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We running somewhere </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>in</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> a coward’s parade.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>From a world that is poisoned, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>broken and sick.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Go on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Try to breathe freely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll drown in shit.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What dreams you've left obscure your view.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The stones on your chest ain't new.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It's almost certa</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>in </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>They were hewn somewhere.</strong></span></span><br />
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</strong></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Maybe men know just how hard it is </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> to walk in another man’s shoes.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>All the so-called lovers of Jesus know lies are called lies, </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> not "the news"</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It’s almost certain</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Is it true in this somewhere no one has ever died? </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Is this somewhere where nature’s defied?</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>You live unwounded and clean with a heart filled with air</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>And nothing to learn or to lose</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>‘Cause you’re sure? O</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>r a fool?</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>It’s almost certain </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Somewhere</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>- October 2010</strong></span></span></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-72151178151745327722010-06-12T15:54:00.000-07:002010-06-12T15:54:19.426-07:00Nine’s The Lucky Number Though<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXDFd2xy5U9ZmwH5Jgiv2WrX9G6MqZ8dniEY5WqkfXnIRzvd09bQIKAQBAmZqVbtNekc1O8DuS0zjN7Y9Lj_OnXsItfft1fmVTfaZNm_llQGHa1uCLHxiG2hZLSjjWChve5nV5Q8MyD0/s1600/songpg1+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXDFd2xy5U9ZmwH5Jgiv2WrX9G6MqZ8dniEY5WqkfXnIRzvd09bQIKAQBAmZqVbtNekc1O8DuS0zjN7Y9Lj_OnXsItfft1fmVTfaZNm_llQGHa1uCLHxiG2hZLSjjWChve5nV5Q8MyD0/s400/songpg1+copy.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five hundred years after the war</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The one Thucydides retold)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or about a hundred since </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Julius C. remade </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What Lucius M. had so well razed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A letter penned in Ephesus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sailed across a wine-dark sea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">180 miles west </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To Corinth on the Peloponnese</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s subject, immorality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And faith and hope and charity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The greatest being charity</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when we stow our children’s things</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Translations by an English King)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charity is replaced by love </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Very much a marriage thing)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Horns of jealousy are veiled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women’s teeth are painted black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thousand and one paper cranes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sail gold across pacific seas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From another Island Nation-State</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To an Eastern sea-board town </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here two families fuse these two</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Southwest mile high desert kin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three times three (san-san-kudo)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nine’s the lucky number though </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stand with your greatest human flaws</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hate and Pride and Ignorance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Behind a 14 welders lens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you can look straight at the sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To reread Paul’s 1C13</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>To Jeff Krueger and Emi Ozawa on their wedding day </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Saturday June 12, 2012</em></span>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-17397160749947099772010-03-13T19:37:00.000-08:002010-03-13T19:37:18.852-08:00An open letter to Glenn Beck in response to his column "Is American History Repeating?".<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have written this as an open letter to Mr. Beck. Feel free to comment, and to write more letters to this man. His e-mail is: <a href="mailto:glennbeck@foxnews.com">glennbeck@foxnews.com</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgda7G3sMadHYmwM_JCPqpyiIwC6KEq5zPEsY4A_XptefKWqCzi4GT2c9MmfNTfwU5uVK2j-kx0tMn0mNjZmG6qPqrTPUm4fbCXDo-ksac4sR8K6JuF8haFl9BfBZuvtgP2Hgz4bO80t1w/s1600-h/joesph-beck-book-cover+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgda7G3sMadHYmwM_JCPqpyiIwC6KEq5zPEsY4A_XptefKWqCzi4GT2c9MmfNTfwU5uVK2j-kx0tMn0mNjZmG6qPqrTPUm4fbCXDo-ksac4sR8K6JuF8haFl9BfBZuvtgP2Hgz4bO80t1w/s320/joesph-beck-book-cover+copy.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Mr. Beck,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I read with alarm and dismay your commentary from March 11th, entitled </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588989,00.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Is American History Repeating?".</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you no shame, sir? The nonsensical irresponsible blather that you publish and broadcast is dangerous and hateful. In this article you compare and contrast Jesus Christ and Adolph Hitler. I quote, in context, </span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Take Jesus and Adolf Hitler: One's good, one's evil. They had one thing in common: When there was fear and hunger, they said I'll save you, follow me. When you are hungry and afraid it's not always easy to see the difference between good and evil."</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no common ground between Jesus and Hitler. There is only difference, the same difference that exists between Jesus and yourself. It is not only that Jesus is good (that was your implication, was it not?) and Hitler and yourself are evil. The difference is embedded in two very important truths which apparently you do not understand. First, Jesus said 'Follow me" to everyone, not only those who were afraid and starving, and did not condemn by innuendo, lies, and the odd ad hominem attack those that did not follow him. Second, he was followed not only by the fearful and hungry, but by many others as well. And he was not followed by the hateful and powerful, the intentionally deceitful and misleading, and the powerful who have always fed on the poor and lowly, the weak and the meek.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In your horrible little column you write of the 9/12 Project that "You are the only thing stopping health care from destroying America." </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is health care destroying America? What on earth are you talking about? Isn’t that precisely President Obama’s point; that is, if we do not fix the broken health care system in this country it will bankrupt the country. And if health care is destroying America, then why shouldn't we overhaul and repair it? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The economic nonsense you filled the rest of your column with is ridiculous. The New Deal did help many people who were in trouble. It was not a bad idea...it was a good idea. It was the only idea. And it was the spending and the investing by the government that did get us back on the road to prosperity, particularly the spending in preparation for WWII. Not because spending on war was more productive than domestic spending, but because the size of the spending was so large. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I do not want to argue these points with you. There would be no point, because the truth means nothing to you. You say your mantra is "The Truth has No Agenda". Perhaps. But you clearly have an agenda and the truth has nothing to do with it. You are a contemptible liar.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of my friends, at least those who hold you in contempt, also believe you are just a merely a two-bit hustler, or a blathering weepy buffoon who helps the left in general by demonstrating just how contemptible and ridiculous and out-of-touch your extreme conservative point of view is. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not agree with them. You are dangerous. Your point of view is dangerous. And you must be held accountable for your lies. I have started a facebook group named <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=393298735481&ref=mf">“Can you tell the difference between Glenn Beck and Joseph Goebbles? I can’t.”</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope we do our part to expose you for who you are and the evil you represent.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sincerely,</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard C. Krueger, Jr., MD, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 13, 2010</span>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-29728487985536649212010-02-22T21:04:00.000-08:002010-02-22T21:14:14.390-08:00My New Series: "Drinking with Johnny 'The Iceman' Hildreth" Episode One, “ So, just what's in a ‘Spanish Harlem'?' "<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Famed actor and all around really fine attractive man Mr. Phil Ridarelli jogged my memory tonight in his post on Facebook about having a Manhatten tonight. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to begin my new series of articles entitled "Drinking with Johnny <em>'The Iceman'</em> Hildreth". However, in all honesty the series should be entitled "Getting Drunk with Johnny <em>‘The Iceman’</em> Hildreth”. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I happen to know almost everyone, and I mean everyone, has a least four such stories they can contribute to this series. I look forward to all of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Episode One:</strong> “ So, just what's in a <em>‘Spanish Harlem'</em>?' ". </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, a little background on the Manhatten, and on Johnny <em>“The Iceman' </em>Hildreth.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XYGKZTt_0wZwYJZXc7bQVvR8oz5OLW4IfSKYOI98p4Ylpv-rJ81Td8Z3JeJG872Z-ei0NVtqUJxxZRvsp38T12xHT8tvIP2-Q_GCt-yGyDavC_FzIoI6jrerP9SMaKzT2ioVUCCaPjY/s1600-h/manhattan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0XYGKZTt_0wZwYJZXc7bQVvR8oz5OLW4IfSKYOI98p4Ylpv-rJ81Td8Z3JeJG872Z-ei0NVtqUJxxZRvsp38T12xHT8tvIP2-Q_GCt-yGyDavC_FzIoI6jrerP9SMaKzT2ioVUCCaPjY/s320/manhattan.jpg" width="182" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(cocktail)">The Manhatten</a></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Manhatten is certainly fine cocktail…and my favorite cocktail. It is an old cocktail. There is a mystique and <a href="http://wiki.webtender.com/wiki/Manhattan">myth to the Manhatten</a>. It is composed of whisky, sweet vermouth, a hearty dash of bitters, shaken (not stirred! please) on ice and poured straight up in a martini glass or one the rocks, with one or two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraschino_cherry">maraschino cherries.</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Personal preferences:</em></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Whiskey: I prefer American rye whiskey over bourbon, but it is almost impossible to find American rye in most public houses. You can also use a Canadian whiskey all of which are rye whiskey, but I prefer American ryes, or Kentucky Bourbon, over Candidan Whiskeys. Old Grand Dad Rye or Old Overholt Rey or Wild Turkey Rye or Jim Beam Rye. I just bought a bottle of 6-year-old <a href="http://www.novusvinum.com/spirits/russellreserve_rye.html">Russell’s Reserve Rye</a> for my next Manhatten.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Vermouth: I am a <a href="http://www.noillyprat.com/">Noilly Pratt</a> man.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters">Bitters</a>: <a href="http://www.angosturabitters.com/default2.htm">Angostura</a>, or <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080118004337/http://www.sazerac.com/bitters.html">Peychaud’s</a> if you are in the mood. 3-4 vigorous shakes for one cocktail</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Ratio Whiskey to Vermouth, three to one. The history of the Manhatten has ratio orginally one to two, one to one, up to ten to one. Trust me on this, three to one. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Good clear ice. Chill the shaker. Chill the glass.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Two cherries, please...</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcA2sr9YBKsrIVUCIZQFTbJRsllPPimVU9dyCp1VHJ1fLG36Qwz9iLaN6YZT6nNeSMvDnuQMY_UOgWfjUxgAP3sRWoioedvcS3M027ecQG82GsazHzOYB0TUoLdArSvCezHVikYcdBbU/s1600-h/hildreth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitcA2sr9YBKsrIVUCIZQFTbJRsllPPimVU9dyCp1VHJ1fLG36Qwz9iLaN6YZT6nNeSMvDnuQMY_UOgWfjUxgAP3sRWoioedvcS3M027ecQG82GsazHzOYB0TUoLdArSvCezHVikYcdBbU/s320/hildreth.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My good friend Johnny <em>“The Iceman”</em> Hildreth had many really good convivial drunken evenings in the years between 1984 and 1998. Ah, the memories! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Hildreth is an actor, director, teacher, and playwright in Chicago. A founding member of Cardiff Giant, he easily one of the most talented and funniest guys I know, which is saying a great deal. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I remember an evening with John Hildreth at Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap in Chicago. We indulged in a series of Manhatten. We usually didn’t need a reason to drink, but still always tried to find new ones. I think the reason that night was that John may never have had a Manhatten up to that point. I remember little else about reasons for that evening. I do remember it as one of our best drunks ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After several Manhattens another friend of mine, Mr. John Bowman, sauntered by. We exchange bon mots, and then JB asks us about our evening's choice of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">libation. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Manhattens," we reply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Bowman: "Ever had a <em>'Spanish Harlem'</em>?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Iceman and Rockin'K (in unison and with much curiousity): </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No. So, just what's in a ‘<em>Spanish Harlem'</em>?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JB: "Well, it's like a Manhatten...with sweet vermouth...except instead </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of bourbon or rye you use Mezcal. Oh, and instead of a marashino </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cherry you use a hot pepper...ideally a Jalapeno or even better...a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Habenero"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JH/RK: "Sounds fascinating..."</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, as we expected there was no Mezcal behind the bar at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woodlawn Tap, but there was tequila. The only peppers to be found were those sort of yellowish hotish pickled Italian Peppers served on salads. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still we </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made do and saw the evening through to its inevitable conclusion.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not sure I can recommend the Spanish Harlem as the drinks of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kings...but it has its charms...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With much delight I report that the <a href="http://www.biteofthebest.com/116-crown-cocktails-from-classic-to-contemporary/">Spanish Harlem</a> is indeed a bonefide cocktail of sorts…</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</div></div></div></div>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-67423431931988770132010-02-05T10:36:00.000-08:002011-06-30T12:57:16.240-07:00Folks Say California's a Garden of Eden (Ahbez Nature Boys) - Loaves & Fishes<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SUNDAY 11-29-09</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had worked the previous night on call in the NICU at Roseville Kaiser. I had the day off …which turned out to be my first day off ever in my three work junkets to Sacramento from Albuquerque. I was going to make a day of it. So I visited "Loaves and Fishes" soup kitchen/day care/shelter/etc. in Sacramento.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was Hugh Thompson, or maybe it was Hugh Thomas. He had come to Sac to take a job driving a truck, but got laid off about a year ago. Then he started volunteering here, and now he works here for pay. Nice guy. L&F has a real big operation...which is a shame of course that the need is so great. Hugh tells me the crowds gather about 8 am at the L&F “Friendship Park”, where they pass out food tickets for lunch, and help people find work, or provide medical care, or child care. The operation is “across the tracks” literally from lots of nice homes and gentrified restaurants, etc. The Salvation Army is on the L&F side as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked him if there were still the tent cities that were in the paper back in the Spring. Hugh said “they” had moved them out, but he didn’t know to where, or who “they” were. I guess in truth I had kinda come over here today to see for myself… looking for those tent. I asked him if the folks had been moved to the State Fair Grounds. Hugh said that there was talk about moving them to Cal-Expo but that fell thorough. City was now making plans for where folks were to go this winter.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I parked and went for a walk around. I left my iPOD behind. Technically it was my son Max’s iPOD. He gave it to me when a friend gave him a better one). I figured walking around in headphones might give someone a poor impression of me. There was a lovely new bike trail near the American River. Lots of young families with their well maintained little kids on new bikes riding across the bridge that took you over the river. It was a beautiful day to ride a bike.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the walk, I found few stands of colorful newish Eureka tents nestled in gullies between the Union Pacific railroad tracks and the bike trail. There was a pit bull wearing a light jacket chained up near one tent...it seemed he yearned to be free. I snapped a picture, but then a guy called up asking “What are you taking a picture for”. I felt kind of ashamed. I asked him how long he’d been living there. He said “for a while”. I apologized for invading their privacy. I kept the picture anyway. I’ll put it up here when I can get it off the cell phone and into the computer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the walk I found this large opening in a razor wire fence at 14th and Ave C that seemed inviting. It seemed to be there for a purpose. So I climbed through and then up onto the railroad trestle. I walked about 3 miles along the railroad track to back behind the almond factory...Blue Diamond Almonds and the International Almond Exchange. Hell, I didn't know almonds came from factories. There were a few folks around but no massive encampments. People seemed isolated…leaning up against fences in places folks weren’t supposed to be, sitting on some fresh cardboard or an old mattress, sometimes listening to an MP3 player.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made it back through the razor wire to the nice side of the tracks, got in my car, and drove back to a grocery store and then back to my comfortable hotel room. It is really nice here. I settled down to a DVD, a tumbler of sherry, soft cheese, some French bread, and a jar of pickled herring.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written Tuesday 12-1-09 while I should have been doing something else.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTJOLelXR6Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TTJOLelXR6Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Rich Kruegerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01586315551487037787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241584523737306777.post-80449045142938482502010-02-03T16:05:00.000-08:002010-02-03T16:08:05.271-08:00Little Richard's World of Mirth - An Unnecessary Film by Rich Krueger<div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One might begin at the beginning which was 1995 but let’s just begin at my blog note of Monday, January 4, 2010 entitled </span><a href="http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2010/01/making-of-first-ever-dysfunctionells.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Making Of The FIRST EVER Dysfunctionells Music Video: Trying To Give Credit Where It Credits Due While You Are Actually Stealing Another's Work”</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Well, the video is finished and published on youtube.com ...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FIRST EVER </span><a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/rounders-96.php"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dysfunctionells</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> music video of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFI8SuktziU"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Little Richard's World of Mirth"</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from the good people at Copyright Schmopyright, Inc. and Unnecessary Art, Ltd. I hope you like it and PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD </span></div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Initial praise has been awesome</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">...</span></span></div><div align="justify"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Good video! Also, good to hear the song again, the memories, the years. One of us!” - Greg Kotis of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Urinetown, the Musical</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.neofuturists.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Neofuturists</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sheer-lunacy/Content?oid=875095"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cardiff Giant</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> fame</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“That was epic! This should go viral. Spread it around!” Nate Maxson author of </span><a href="http://sabellapress.com/buybooks.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The Rat Grinned Blue Through a Barrel of Dreams" A new book of poetry published by Sabella Press</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Take a dose of this and skip your therapist visit this month. Hey guys-- we want more!!!” Sandrolin Koppel Rounder/Hurley/Fugs superfan and facebook friend.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is fantastic!!!" Steven Nery ameable host of </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/aboveaverageopenmic"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Above Average Open Mike</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> at RG Winnings Coffeehouse in Albuquerque </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hey, great Gertie the dinosaur cameo! And Krazy Kat, funny, if you hadn't already told me about the existence of Krazy Kat old cartoons I would have been shocked to see such a thing!" - </span><a href="http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jeffrey Lewis, A King of Pop</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"nice nice video and always liked the song. glad you guys got posterityized!" - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Stampfel, The King of Pop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"An excellent song and a brilliant video. Reminds me of the ones they used to show on The Old Grey Whistle Test. And probably the best cast list of all time at the end." – Paul Kerr, author of </span><a href="http://paulkerr.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blabber 'n' Smoke - A Glasgow view of Americana and related music and writings</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Wow. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heartening. Disheartening. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Makes me want to wack off and then shoot myself." The one and only and never equivicating Oliver Steck</span></li>
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</div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ladies and Gentleman it is time to get your pull quote raving about the film right her…right now…so WATCH THE VIDEO, EH?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><br />
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<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXber9TN3urR0i-_x4RC9J2yI3EYWs3HUOgo23My4BlyyfdsY36mhpr9zN1jDkK2pDnZYOdPFoykNWEr0DdyC7sL6QC21Z62qi_e5ZHcorfr4PJkBHmYxZWB1gs2omxKKxOdskuQ0wqX0/s1600-h/sixfer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXber9TN3urR0i-_x4RC9J2yI3EYWs3HUOgo23My4BlyyfdsY36mhpr9zN1jDkK2pDnZYOdPFoykNWEr0DdyC7sL6QC21Z62qi_e5ZHcorfr4PJkBHmYxZWB1gs2omxKKxOdskuQ0wqX0/s400/sixfer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to say that after seeing this film I made...I think it gives insight into how my mind works...or rather, wanders. No wonder I am often distracted. Anyway, there are a couple mistakes in the film I hope to correct. First, I meant to include images or clips of <a href="http://www.subcin.com/anger.html">Kenneth Anger</a> and <a href="http://www.anais-nin.de/">Anais Nin</a> and <a href="http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/aleister_crowley.html">Aleister Crowley</a> from Anger's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZWdzYgYoU">"Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"</a> (bits of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8vdUXwosM">"Rabbit's Moon"</a> appear as well of course) as well as <a href="http://moviesareonlyalife.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/samson-debrier/">Samson De Brier</a> and <a href="http://www.artbrokerage.com/artist/renatedruks/Renate-Druks">Renate Druks</a>. In addition I labeled <a href="http://renatedruksart.us/ThePaintings.html">Renate Druks</a> footage as being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin">Anias Nin</a>. Further I had hope to include the </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PRMZrW3Zsg"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">boobies-bearing Julie Andrews</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> film </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.B._(1981_film)"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"S.O.B" </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and of course the very hot <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/natashagurdin/">Natalie Wood</a> from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CDWihmMRIM">"The Great Race"</a> I certainly wanted to include some hot band footage from Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot", but I thought it too too well known. And I did misspell a few names in the credits...including my own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to take this time to send out a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all the folks appearing for free in tonight’s film: the dysfunctionells, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_%22Cannonball%22_Richards"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">frank 'cannonball' richards</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://thehumanmarvels.com/?p=63"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">francesco lentini - the three- legged man</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://thehumanmarvels.com/?p=60"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waldo the regurgitating geek</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Martinetti,_Contortionist"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">luis martinetti – contortionist</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbooth.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">john wilkes booth – mummy and actor</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(musical)"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">adolph elizabeth hitler</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and his </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6637693/Adolf-Hitlers-Mercedes-bought-by-Russian-for-5m.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mercedes</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://odditiesandentities.tumblr.com/post/356253567/koo-koo-the-bird-girl-was-born-minnie-woolsey-in"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">koo-koo the bird girl</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.johnnyeckmuseum.com/about.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">johnny eck</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the man born without a body, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the marx brothers</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.ignatzmouse.net/us/mouse-index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">george herriman's ignatz and krazy kat</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">winsor mccay's</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gertie the dinosaur</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.virtual-tours-newfoundland.ca/Dildo/dildo.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the town of dildo newfoundland oh Canada</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.anais-nin.de/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anais nin</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://renatedruksart.us/ThePaintings.html">renate druks</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Anger"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">kenneth anger</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhb2OTEKWIY"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">samson de brier</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.controverscial.com/Aleister%20Crowley.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aleister crowley</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.animationartist.com/InsideAnimation/DavidJohnson/InterviewNatwick.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grim natwick</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleischer_Studios"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">max fleischer's</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://bettybooptoons.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">betty boop</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_the_Clown"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ko ko the clown</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo_(Fleischer)"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bimbo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cohl"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">emile cohl's</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE3yEk62sYc"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fantasmagorie</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfOmxAtI00Q"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hashers delirium</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">jack lemmon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Falk"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">peter falk</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keenan_Wynn"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">keenan wynn</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tony curtis</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jEKVq38bY"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gypsy rose lee</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.wgntv.com/about/station/stationhistory/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wgn </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><a href="http://www.chicagotelevision.com/wgntv.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bob ‘bozo’ bell</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and </span><a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/nancy.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nancy and sluggo</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and in addition we have to thank our families, our fans, our friends, marshall was it dawson? who recorded and mixed the track ...you done really good, </span><a href="http://www.charlestonchicago.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wendy and the charleston</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Jimmys-Woodlawn-Tap/2910673"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">jimmy's woodlawn tap</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/sheer-lunacy/Content?oid=875095"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cardiff giant</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, chris farrell, susan and brian kozins, john bowin, doug brush, </span><a href="http://www.chibarproject.com/Memoriam/LoungeAx/LoungeAx.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sue miller and julia adams and the lounge ax</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the mercury lounge</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.furious.com/perfect/stampfel.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">peter stampfel</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/15/arts/pop-review-irreverent-folkies-in-back-porch-jam.html?pagewanted=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the holy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Modal_Rounders"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">holy modal rounders</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.jimrosecircus.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the jim rose circus</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.riverviewparkchicago.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 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