To quote an all time Classic, Shrek I, As the villagers say "Get out your pitchforks!"
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This is a test.. Only a Test...
What music are you listening to?
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That's it! I am going into Rehab on using the video thingie for posting. It's Protest-City Man.
It's links and conversation for me from here on out!
"Good Morning Ladies, Gentleman, Transgendered folks, including the non-binary and non-sexual, and other species ...." <- I must include other life from "Out-There.."
A sometimes early morning favorite around my Workstation is the Classics...
For your listening pleasure a little Beethoven's 5th.. Not to be confused with one ex President's fifth or my Uncles fifth. Just sayin'
It's links and conversation for me from here on out!
"Good Morning Ladies, Gentleman, Transgendered folks, including the non-binary and non-sexual, and other species ...." <- I must include other life from "Out-There.."
A sometimes early morning favorite around my Workstation is the Classics...
For your listening pleasure a little Beethoven's 5th.. Not to be confused with one ex President's fifth or my Uncles fifth. Just sayin'
There is a pattern of, like a Frog in a pan of cold water placed on a heat-source, we are just slowly boiling away what is free and what is not in the USA.
And It is a real thing that once "Americans" have something for free they resist a change towards paying for it.
You correctly point out that it is surveillance-capitalism in that YouTube is now "knowing" what you are doing on and with your computer.
It's really getting there with Corporate ability to spy on us.
FROGS OF THE WORLD UNITE! You have nothing to lose but your chains...
Opps I think someone already has a copyright on that concept.
Loose Screw
Master Weed Puller
If only I could see the pictures...
I assume this corporate intimidation towards conformity.
As it has been written it the will of One over the Will of the Many with the black-out.
It would be nice to include a text link for the politically ostracized from seeing the video image and yet able to click on it; for their "free will."
So if Y'all will think of me and the other Picketers please add a text link along side the black-screen-of-corporate-domination over the masses.
Here is my Default Morning play.
Working Man's Dead
Starting a new job! Wish me luck!
I assume this corporate intimidation towards conformity.
As it has been written it the will of One over the Will of the Many with the black-out.
It would be nice to include a text link for the politically ostracized from seeing the video image and yet able to click on it; for their "free will."
So if Y'all will think of me and the other Picketers please add a text link along side the black-screen-of-corporate-domination over the masses.
Here is my Default Morning play.
Working Man's Dead
Starting a new job! Wish me luck!
Loose Screw
Master Weed Puller
Back at home and hiding from the World so "Who can it be now?"
Loose Screw
Master Weed Puller
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells
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Ah, yes, the much maligned and misunderstood Louie Louie! The most recorded song ever. Everyone knows the "infamous" but actually perfectly innocent Kingsmen's version (and eventually certified as such by the FBI no less!). Here's some interesting history on it and the original lyrics gleaned from various sources, including Wikipedia.
"Louie Louie" is a rhythm and blues song written and composed by American musician Richard Berry in 1955, recorded in 1956, and released in 1957. It is best known for the 1963 hit version by the Kingsmen and has become a standard in pop and rock. The song is based on the tune "El Loco Cha Cha" popularized by bandleader René Touzet and is an example of Afro-Cuban influence on American popular music.
"Louie Louie" tells, in simple verse–chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover.
Just prior to the song's release, Berry sold his portion of the publishing and songwriting rights for "Louie Louie" and four other songs for $750 to Max Feirtag, the head of Flip Records, to raise cash for his upcoming wedding. The single was a regional hit on the West Coast, particularly in San Francisco, and when Berry toured the Pacific Northwest, local R&B bands began to play the song, increasing its popularity. The song was re-released by Flip in 1961 as an A-side single and again in 1964 on a four-song EP, but never appeared on any of the national charts. Sales estimates ranged from 40,000[ to 130,000 copies.
In the mid-1980s, Berry was living on welfare. Drinks company California Cooler wanted to use "Louie Louie" in a commercial, but discovered it needed Berry's consent because he still owned the radio and television performance rights.[ The company asked the Artists Rights Society to locate him which led to Berry's taking legal action to regain his rights to the song. The settlement made Berry a millionaire.
While the title of the song is often rendered with a comma ("Louie, Louie"), in 1988, Berry told Esquire magazine that the correct title of the song was "Louie Louie" with no comma.
Original lyrics by Richard Berry:
Louie Louie, oh no, me gotta go,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go
A fine little girl, she waits for me
Me catch the ship across the sea
Me sailed the ship all alone
Me never think I’ll make it home
Louie Louie, oh no no no, me gotta go
Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go
Three nights and days I sailed the sea
Me think of girl constantly
On that ship, I dream she there
I smell the rose in her hair
Louie Louie, oh no no no, me gotta go
Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go
So, there you have it, the most widely banned song of the early rock ‘n’ roll era.
And what was it all about?
A first-person perspective lament of a Jamaican tavern patron talking to his bartender named Louie about how much he misses his girlfriend while he’s away at sea.
That’s about it.
Keep that in mind the next time one of your kids comes home with a CD carrying the Parental Advisory label, then you play something for them that will really warp their minds.
Disco king Barry White created Richard Berry's "all-time favorite" version as he "reworked and revamped" the original to create a "Latin-tinged" rendition that "took the song from pure rock 'n' roll to pure moan 'n' groan".
White commented,
I'm gonna sing just like Richard Berry. I'm gonna do this song that this black guy wrote. Everybody thinks that these white guys recorded it, but a black guy did this.
I would like to take this opportunity to emphasize and give an acknowledgement of credit. The song "Louie Louie" was originally written and created by a man who, I feel, was one of the true pioneers of my time. All my respect, highest admiration and love goes to Mr. Richard Berry.
Dave Marsh summarized Berry's reaction,
In White's arrangement, "Louie Louie" emerges as an up-tempo Latin groove, driven by timbales and congas and punctuated by brilliant trumpet riffs, while White supplements the chorus with the plaintive interpolation "Comin' home, Jamaaaica!" Richard Berry loved it because White's version finally brought to life his original vision of "all the timbales and congas going, and me singing 'Louie Louie'." "Barry White did it exactly the way I wanted to do it," Berry enthused, "I loved it."
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A little off topic, but since you opened the door, as Perry Mason would say and Christmas is just around the corner:
Holiday Greetings to Everyone
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an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress,
non-addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday,
practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or
secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular
persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the new generally accepted calendar
year, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of
other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our country
great (not to imply that Namibia is necessarily greater than any other
country) and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical
ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms:
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely
transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no
promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for
her/himself or others and is void where prohibited by law, and is
revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to
perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a
period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting,
whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish
or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
Disclaimer: No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; however,
a significant number of electrons were slightly inconvenienced.
Apart from all that:
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and all the best for the New Year !!
(Note that the gentleman who sent this to me and who I had the pleasure of knowing and working with for several years, spent some time in Namibia as a military pilot.)