No, I'm not going to make fun of Trump for wearing diapers. Many disabled and elderly people do, including my late mother, who also had dementia. But I'm happy to point out all the other reasons why you shouldn't vote for a terrorist cult leader and rapist who packed SCOTUS with grifters and undoubtedly sold top-secret intel to the highest bidder while tens of thousands of Americans were dying of COVID because of his policies.
Thanks. Laughing at a guy for wearing diapers is a step away from laughing at a guy for using a colostomy bag, which l will straight-up crack someone in the jaw for.
So to summarize:
Adopting BDS is criminalized
Criticizing Israel is antisemitic
Appealing to ICJ is unwarranted
Funding UNRWA is banned
Appealing to ICC Is banned
Ending the occupation is off the table
Ending the settlements is off the table
The peaceful Great March of Return is banned
Protesting peacefully on college campuses is antisemitic
Demanding return of Palestinian children held in indefinite detention in Israeli prisons is not even an option
I dunno? Stop building settlements on occupied land and using the force of the state to exercise power over people without their consent? Does that seem like a start?
#NowPlaying - decent audience-recorded #bootleg of the flo & eddie era mothers' hometown debut at santa monica civic, august 1970, misdated as el monte '71. totally dig kaylan/volman as front-mothers, increasingly less into the mud shark skit sequence, here in early draft, a premonition of my least favorite #zappa. stunning & fun kornyfone art. @vinylrecords
Gilbert Shelton/Hub City Movers "Set Your Chickens Free"
long shot - anyone have a better recording/transfer of THIS version (the original) of this song - not any of the other fine versions out there, lovely as they are. If so, please share in whatever format you can, thx
(lyricist Gilbert Shelton is the creator/artist of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but they have nothing to do with this song really)
@mrcompletely Right now, $125 is a choice. I've not worked more than a casual editing gig here and there for a year. Won't be recuperated enough from the last thing to work for a while.
A rock concert.
A month of weekly trips to my local art-house cinema watching old noir films, including going for a coffee and a cookie at the little bakery around the corner afterwards.
I'm passing on Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Norah Jones, and Krauss/Plant (which is fucken KILLING me) based on those economics.
NP: Roy Haynes Hip Ensemble (1974)
Perfect jazz for a stormy NYC night. Roy played so beautifully with Bird and Dizzy and Sonny in the '40s and still sounded completely current and hip throughout the '70s, embracing fusion, avant garde and spiritual jazz like he was born into it. Great band with George Adams and a young Hannibal Marvin Peterson in the front line.
if you've only heard the Peter Gabriel version check this out. The original is on a Youssou album (The Lion, it's a good one) which does have Gabriel vocals but they're mixed way further back than in the version that was a US hit. I think that original with both of them is my favorite but this one's a trip with Youssou way at the top of his insane range
@mrcompletely One of the cool things about coming of musical awareness in Montreal was easy exposure to music from across the French-speaking world -- especially Francophone Africa.
Seeing it again Tuesday with people. I had to go alone the first time because I didn't want my friends to see me cry.
And l did cry.
Been waiting for that movie since l was in Grade 8, and that's a long fucken time ago.
And well aware there were multiple timelines on which l wasn't here to see it: One of the moments that killed me was when Paul says: "There's a narrow way through." That's exactly how my oncologist presented my case to me years ago.
The first season of The Peripheral was ok in its way & I'm looking forward to the Neuromancer show of course but I'm really hoping above all that someone will eventually do a @GreatDismal adaptation that leans with full force into what I take as his two core theses: the very rich are "no longer even remotely human", and the causes & drivers of most stories are utterly opaque to the people living in them. This latter point confuses many readers and would cause delightful havoc in video media #sff
