A 44-year-old Saginaw man remains jailed today on charges of bestiality after he was seen engaged in sexual acts with a dead dog, Michigan State Police troopers said. Ronald Kuch was arrested after police searched the area of Midland and Carter roads Friday for a man who ran away from a Bay County Animal Control officer. The entire incident was within view of a nearby day care center. At his arraignment on Monday, Kuch demanded a preliminary examination in Bay County District Court. District Judge Craig Alston ordered him to remain jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond pending a hearing on the evidence Nov. 6. Kuch is charged with crimes against nature and assaulting a law enforcement officer.
Troopers said a woman from the day care center called for animal control because there was a dead dog near the property that had been hit by a car several days earlier. Before officers could arrive, the man showed up and began engaging in sexual acts with the dog, police said. The animal control officer also reported seeing Kuch involved in the sex act and as he approached him, Kuch shoved him away and ran off. State troopers searched the area and found the man hiding in the attic of a nearby house.
Officers determined that the house belonged to the man's girlfriend and later learned that the dog, a black Labrador retriever, also belonged to the girlfriend. The dog had been dead for four or five days. The official charge of crimes against nature carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. If the person is a repeat offender, the maximum is life in prison. This sicko should never be let back on the streets.
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"had been hit by a car several days earlier..."
"The dog had been dead for four or five days."
Speechless. Throw away the key. The girlfriend needs a going over as well.
FORREST CITY, Ark. - Authorities say a would-be burglar's plot was foiled when he got stuck — naked — in the window of a house. The man was caught before he could take anything from an apartment he was allegedly trying to rob, Forrest City police said. Dennis Reed Jr., 19, was arrested Saturday when police found him stuck between an air conditioning unit and a window frame of the apartment, police said. Reed was nude when police found him.
Reed told police that he was forced at gunpoint to break into the apartment by a subject he only knew by his first name. Officers and emergency personnel initially tried to free Reed, but were unsuccessful. Reed was finally freed after the fire department's rescue squad rescue personnel entered the apartment and removed the air conditioner.
Reed was charged with residential burglary and taken to the St. Francis County jail, police said.
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So this guy who forced him to do it wanted him to do it nude? Is he sure the other guy wasn't just playing with his head in a really, really weird way?
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All the world sings a tune on a spring afternoon
When we're swallowing pigeons in the park.
(Apologies to Tom Lehrer.)
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Thanks, Pel, that's a few less droppings on me.
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This is called the circle of life. Nature is actually a brutal place where the stronger eat the weaker ... alive. This is reality confronting some peoples romantic view the animal world.
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I nominate Mr. Pelican for the '0' The Hell I Can' Award.
An HIV-positive man convicted of endangering the lives of three girlfriends is attempting to turn conventional science on its head by denying the existence of the virus that leads to AIDS.
Andre Chad Parenzee was convicted in February of endangering the lives of three women and faces 15 years in prison. One of the women now has HIV.
This week, he enlisted the expert evidence of two self-styled researchers - both members of the so-called Perth Group - who have used the witness stand to attack the "HIV myth".
In what is believed to be an international legal and medical first, South Australian Supreme Court judge John Sulan has set aside two weeks effectively to put HIV on trial.
Prosecutors have prepared several expert witnesses to shore up more than two decades of global research - which underpins public health and safe sex campaigns - that HIV causes AIDS and is contracted through unprotected sex.
Prosecutors objected in this week's leave-to-appeal hearing to Parenzee's witnesses' status as "experts" but Justice Sulan said he would address the objection after their evidence was heard.
The court heard argument from Parenzee's counsel, Kevin Borick, who is working pro bono, that his client's conviction cannot stand if HIV is based on flimsy science.
His expert witnesses received no money for their appearance this week, but their airfares from Perth were paid for by Parenzee's mother.
Perth-based medical physicist Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, who has a Bachelor of Science and works as a medical engineer at Royal Perth Hospital, told the court that HIV was mistakenly identified by a French scientific team in 1983, which was headed by Luc Montagnier.
In a 50-page Powerpoint presentation, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos said AIDS had nothing to do with HIV, which - if it existed at all - was not a retrovirus and not transmitted between people by sexual intercourse.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos argued that HIV had never been isolated, and was only identified in 1983 by a process called "reverse transcription", which is said to create retroviruses.
She said the reverse transcription observed by Dr Montagnier in 1983, the so-called "discovery of HIV", was not specific to HIV.
She said the main risk factors for getting AIDS remained the passive role in anal intercourse, and intravenous drug use.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos claimed AIDS was caused by prolonged exposure to semen, which oxidised cells, degrading them and led to numerous other serious illnesses - the AIDS-related illnesses - which end in death.
Secondly, she cited numerous scientific papers that concluded that vaginal sex did not transmit HIV.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos cited a 1997 published paper by University of California researcher Nancy Padian that the risk of a male transmitting HIV to a female at 0.0009 per cent, for each act of vaginal intercourse.
According to the Padian paper, a man would have to have sex with his wife three times a week for 27.4 years to expose her to a 95 per cent risk of passing on HIV.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos's colleague at the Perth Group, Val Turner, testified that the testing of HIV was "indirect" - it measured the presence of proteins and antibodies in blood assumed to be triggered by HIV.
Mr Turner said there was no test to directly detect HIV.
AUSTRALIA'S most senior Muslim cleric has blamed immodestly dressed women who don't wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned "meat" that attracts voracious animals.
In a Ramadan sermon that has outraged Muslim women leaders, Sydney-based Sheik al-Taj al-Din al-Hilaly also alluded to the infamous Sydney gang rapes, suggesting the attackers were not entirely to blame.
While not specifically referring to the rapes, brutal attacks on four women for which a group of young Lebanese men received long jail sentences, Sheik Hilaly said there were women who "sway suggestively" and wore make-up and immodest dress "and then you get a judge without mercy (rahma) and gives you 65 years."
"But the problem, but the problem all began with who?" he asked.
The leader of the 2000 rapes in Sydney's southwest, Bilal Skaf, a Muslim, was initially sentenced to 55 years' jail, but later had the sentence reduced on appeal.
In the religious address about adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilaly said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?
"The uncovered meat is the problem."
The sheik then said: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."
He said women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men.
"It is said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement (igraa)."
Muslim community leaders were yesterday outraged and offended by Sheik Hilaly's remarks, insisting the cleric was no longer worthy of his title as Australia's Mufti.
Young Muslim adviser Iktimal Hage-Ali - who does not wear a hijab - said the Islamic headdress was not a "tool" worn to prevent rape and sexual harassment.
"It's a symbol that readily identifies you as being Muslim, but just because you don't wear the headscarf doesn't mean that you're considered fresh meat for sale," the former member of John Howard's Muslim advisory board told The Australian. "The onus should not be on the female to not attract attention, it should be on males to learn how to control themselves."
Australia's most prominent female Muslim leader, Aziza Abdel-Halim, said the hijab did not "detract or add to a person's moral standards", while Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Ali said it was "ignorant and naive" for anyone to believe that a hijab could stop sexual assault.
"Anyone who is foolish enough to believe that there is a relationship between rape or unwelcome sexual interference and the failure to wear a hijab, clearly has no understanding of the nature of sexual crime," he said.
Ms Hage-Ali said she was "disgusted and offended" by Shiek Hilaly's comments. "I find it very offensive that a man who considers himself as a mufti, a leader of Australia's Muslims, can give comment that lacks intelligence and common sense."
Yesterday, the Mufti defended the sermon about "adultery and theft", a recorded copy of which has been obtained and translated by The Australian.
Sheik Hilaly said he only meant to refer to prostitutes as "meat" and not any scantily dressed woman with no hijab, despite him not mentioning the word prostitute during the 17-minute talk.
He told The Australian the message he intended to convey was: "If a woman who shows herself off, she is to blame, but a man should be able to control himself".
He said if a woman is "covered and respectful" she "demands respect from a man". "But when she is cheap, she throws herself at the man and cheapens herself."
Sheik Hilaly also insisted his references to the Sydney gang rapes were to illustrate that Skaf was guilty and worthy of receiving such a harsh sentence.
Waleed Ali said Sheik Hilaly was "normalising immoral sexual behaviour" by comparing women to meat and men to animals and entirely blaming women for being victims.
"It's basically saying that the immoral response of men to women who are not fully covered is as natural and as inevitable as the response of an animal tempted by food," he said.
"But (unlike animals) men are people who have moral responsibilities and the capability in engaging in moral action."
Revelation fo the Mufti's comments comes after he criticised Mr Howard last month in The Australian for saying a minority of migrant men mistreated their women. Sheik Hilaly said such a minority was found in all faiths. "Those who don't respect their women are not true Muslims."
"There's a small percentage found among all religions, but we don't recognise ours as Muslims."
Aziza Abdel-Halim said Sheik Hilaly's remarks during Ramadan were inaccurate and upsetting to the Muslim community.
"They are below and beyond any comment (and) do not deserve any consideration."
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Hey Oztrailian...so how goes the muzzie assimiliation experiment? Still need a little tweaking?
This "mufti" is the "senior muzzie cleric" for all of OZ?
OMG.
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So this muslim cleric likens women to pieces of meat in his arguments? Personally, I wouldn't have thought of things that way. I sort of like to think of them as alive, human, and having rights and all. Also, he likens men to some poor cats who have no choice but follow their instincts to do what they have to do to survive. Also very telling. And the people around him listened to this without shouting him down, I suppose. Also very telling.
It seems as though it's all he can do to restrain himself from saying it's the women's fault altogether. Probably knows that would be bad in the current environment.
In my experience, this kind of thinking is nothing new at all in the muslim world. It isn't talked about, and the many who experience it either directly or indirectly will deny it, but it is very much there. The men will threaten something like "If you tell anyone, I'll say that you knew I was in the house but you stepped out of the shower and I saw you!" to shut them up. Even though she's ten. And everyone knows that the guy will be forgiven, and the girl blamed and ostracized.
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Lol, Fark? Lololol. Were the stories even remotely pro-USA? If so, I wonder how many of the little Farkers gagged, swelled up into a big blue ball, and 'sploded, lol.
90% of the Farkers are Tranzi shitheads. I've had a login there for at least 6 yrs - dating to before going off the Saudi the last time - but I quit visiting after 9/11. They snapped back into Eurtrash mode faster than the NYT.
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Condom on and the Farkers are getting exposed to different shiat other than tranzi crap. I don't agree with ya .com on this one. This should bring up good discussions on a major website.
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I already have a life, lol. Going to yet another DU-level shitfest doesn't strike me as a good investment of my time.
You seem to think I'm in need of combat - I dunno about that, lol. I used to relish the fight. Now I'm nore mellow. Prolly cuz I'm getting a very healthy dose of happy happy joy joy, lol.
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Fair enough. I'm watching them destroy each other right now. I'm going to give em a little break, and see what happensd 2 or 3 days from now. It should be a nice time to hit them again.
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between that violent video that anon5089 posted the other day and the comments and articles going around the web - it won't be long until western women will be once again needing chaperones to go out in public - just to keep from being raped by animals.
How far we have fallen and so quickly. And unless something changes, the chances of a women alone on the street getting wacked on the head and raped or worse, seems to be increasing tenfold by the month. I thank God that I was born and lived in what may soon be remembered as that brief but perhaps very short moment in history when women were safe and free to do as they pleased.
Aussie lass Beccy Cole singing "Poster Girl" in response to some of her fans who disagree with her supporting the Diggers, the Australian soldiers fighting in The Long War.
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Kicks. Ass. Go Beccy - you'll rule OzzyLand. The Diggers are gonna get fed up with the namby-pambies and introduce them to Digger justice. The numbers are there - else Howard would've been turned out before now. With people like Beccy - Labor won't see the light of day for 20 years.
Rockem Sockem, Beccy. Great vid and a True Digger.
A dog may be man's best friend. But one dog, Lady, decided she needed more friends -- and she found plenty in the knot of toads living at the local pond. A suburban family's secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to light in this personal essay by NPR's Laura Mirsch.
Lady "was really perky, and happy, and generally excited to see you when you came in the door every day," recalls Andrew Mirsch.
But that was before the Mirsch family moved into a new house.
"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.
Lady would wander the area, disoriented and withdrawn, soporific and glassy-eyed.
"Then, late one night after I'd put the dogs out, Lady wouldn't come in," Laura Mirsch says. "She finally staggered over to me from the cattails. She looked up at me, leaned her head over and opened her mouth like she was going to throw up, and out plopped this disgusting toad."
It turned out the toads were toxic -- and, if licked, the fluids on their skin provided a hallucinogenic effect.
What followed was the Mirsch family's quest to stop their cocker spaniel from indulging herself. But it wasn't easy. Lady was persistent, and resourceful.
The situation seemed to resolve itself when the toads went into hibernation for the winter.
But when they returned, so did Lady -- and with a vengeance.
"We couldn't keep our dog's addiction a secret any longer," Laura Mirsch says. "The neighbors all knew that Lady was a drug addict, and soon the other dogs weren't allowed to play with her."
In the end, Lady seems to have found a way to manage her problem.
"She seems to have outgrown the wild toad-obsessed years of her youth," Mirsch says, "and now only sucks on weekends."
A blizzard watch for parts of southern Colorado, including El Paso County, will be upgraded to a warning around noon today, the National Weather Service in Pueblo said.
The warning will be for 3 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday along the Interstate 25 corridor between El Paso and Las Animas counties, meteorologist Paul Wolyn said. Between four inches and 1Å“ feet of snow may fall in El Paso County.
Snow isnÂ’t expected until late tonight or early Thursday morning, Wolyn said. A blizzard, technically, is the combination of falling or blowing snow and winds greater than 35 mph. ThursdayÂ’s high is predicted to be around 38, with a north northwest wind of 40 to 45 mph. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph.
READYColorado, a public awareness campaign that seeks to educate about the importance of disaster preparedness, suggests people have a kit ready to get them through an emergency, including a blizzard. Among the recommendations: 2 quarts of water per day per person for drinking and another gallon per person for cooking and washing.
ItÂ’s also smart to stock up on extra food, including food for your pet, and to make sure your battery-operated radio is ready to go.
Although travel will be discouraged in blizzard conditions — and could be impossible in some places — the Colorado Department of Transportation recommends that drivers always keep the gas tank at last half full and carry a winter emergency kit that includes a flashlight, water, candles, nutrition bars and extra blankets.
To check local road conditions or report areas that need plowing or sand, call the Colorado Springs street division hotline at 457-7669.
A current forecast from the Pueblo office of the National Weather Service can be found at www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/. According to Accuweather, the entire state may see SOME snow, with higher elevations getting as much as two feet. The ski season officially opened last weekend on artificial snow. We may have the real thing for this coming weekend - all across the state. This will certainly slow up trucking, and the coal trains coming from the Western Slope may be delayed. I, however, will be safely tucked into my home office, reading Rantburg.
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I blame global - uh - climate change. Right. (Keep-warm tip: hot sake. Just don't try to drink it at room temperature.)
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2 feet up at the resorts?
OK, where do I get a ticket online...
Better Keep Warm tip: Whiskey, wingle malt Sctoch or Irish. Drink at any damn temperature you want just dont drink the cheap stuff.
Hybrid cars are all the rage in Hollywood. Celebrities drive them like they're a badge of honor. You save a few gallons of gas, you save the planet. Right? Well, not when you hop on a private jet and burn enough fuel to propel NASCAR through 2050.
Of course, the stars need to go here and there. The location shoots, the fabulous vacations, etc. But that's why God created United Airlines. G-IV's, on the other hand, were created in the image of precious celebs. See the pix and details on the 'crites at the link. And take the leetle poll at the bottom... where you'll see one who isn't a hypocrite. A bit of a surprise, actually.
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Clooney's rep, publicist Stan Rosenfield, tells TMZ, "You clearly have no understanding of certain people's need for private transport," and points out that Clooney often has "no control" over his travel schedule.
Jeez, Stan. Sorry about that. Who am I to question George Clooney? Who the fuck do I think I am? Ya think I was as important as...George Clooney, or some really really important person like that...
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I'm as ready to bash the celebs as the next guy but wouldn't it be worse if they flew jets and then drove SUVs. At least they are trying to make a show of environmentalism where the little people will see their example.
The numbers are also a bit skewed as they assume the jet took only the celeb and calculate the drive distance for them when for all we know the jet was going somewhere anyway (because a producer owned it or whatever) and the celeb was offered a ride in which case the net fuel usage might be less than if they'd flown commercial (just guessing here that a lighter faster plane gets better fuel mileage).
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It's even worse than that. Global warming "scientists" blame air travel for anywhere from 3% to 10% of global warming emmissions (admittedly, the higher the estimate the bigger the nut job). The EU is even considering capping aircraft emissions (i.e. flights).
These hypocrites cause far more damage to the environment than the masses they seek to blame.
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Poor, poor Georgie. Not only is he forced to take millions of dollars from TV and movies, he' made to ride in limos and private planes as well! Next they'll be inundating him with top-notch Hollywood trim!
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hmmm DiCaprio flies commercial... after "Departed", in which he was excellent, I'm starting to like the guy
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I watched The Aviator just for the scene where Hughes appeared before the Senate... Lawzy to be so wealthy you can tell a scumbag Senate circus the truth and then to fuck off, lol.
I was actually stunned when I saw the bit on him. Never would've guessed. I actually felt bad for presuming he's one of the shitbags.
Leo's okay by me, too.
If anyone saved that link that floated through RB some months ago listing the Hollyweird flakes, please post on this thread. TIA.
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Hybrids are dangerous to drive.
Don't believe me?
Take a test drive and turn right (or even worse) left from a full stop where the damn thing has shut the motor off and into heavy traffic.
Brandon Flowers doesn't want to be an 'American Idiot'
Brandon Flowers has criticised Green Day for what he sees as their calculated anti-Americanism.
In particular, Flowers singled out the track 'American Idiot' and the fact they filmed their DVD 'Bullet In A Bible', which features the song, in the UK.
"You have Green Day and 'American Idiot'. Where do they film their DVD? In England," The Killers' frontman told The Word. "A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot' I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. It really lit a fire in me."
Explaining he was offended by the set-up, Flowers added: "You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to write about, and I'm sure they meant it in the same way that Bruce Springsteen meant 'Born In The USA' and it was taken wrongly, but I was really offended when I saw them do that."
The singer added he felt the DVD was a bit of a a stunt.
"I just thought it was really cheap," he explained. "To go to a place like England or Germany and sing that song - those kids aren't taking it the same way that he meant it. And he [Billie Joe Armstrong] knew it."
The Killers' frontman said he believed that his band's new album 'Sam's Town' is a much better representation of America.
"People need to see that, really, there are the nicest people in the world here!" he declared. "I don't know if our album makes you realise that. But I hope it's from a more positive place." I have no idea who The Killers are or who Brandon Flowers is, sad but true, but I'll find out. And if I can stomach it, I'll buy something, lol.
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BFD, Green days is a cheesy punk-pop band for high-schoolers... but then again, isn't all pop music aimed at dumb teens with no clues at all, surfing on phony PC-authorized "rebellion"?
See this book on how the entertainment corps herd the youths markets and milk these kids fdry of mommy & daddy's money.
Also, that great post from yesterday.
Btw, that's why apolitical music like say psychobilly, though it is not the highest mark in Arts history, is a refreshing change of pace from "message" groups like the dreaded Rage against the Machine or the Dead Kennedys.
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...True story about GD that will tell you EXACTLY where those lads are coming from. A year or so back, the liittle darlings were doing an interview and wanted to show how 'edgy' they were - so they burned an American flag in front of the interviewer, reminding him all the while how they were doing something illegal and speaking truth to power yadda yadda yadda.
The interviewer quietly pointed out that although it may not be appreciated by many folks, it was most definitely NOT illegal to burn a flag. The response was embarassed silence, lotsa 'Duuuuude's, and quickly changing the subject.
Green Day is exactly what their marketing managers want them to be. The rest of the time they seem to be pretty much stoned and/or completely apathetic to anything else except their next roya;ty check's arrival. Insofar as it goes they are no different from any of the 'next big things' of the last three or four decades. I seriously doubt my grandkids will ever hum a Green Day tune - but I would bet you they will know a Springsteen tune.
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The Meteors did insist they were apolitical, which is as I said a refreshing change, especially when compared to the HUGELY leftist french music scene. As for the Cramps, I dunno where they stand, and I prefer not to know, though I'm accustomed to dissociate an artist's work from it's political stance. Still, I have a mp3 in which Lux introduce the song by wishing an happy birthday to the USMC. Oh, well, at least they're decadent enough, always a good thing for Rock'n'Roll.
I've heard a couple The Killers tunes - not bad. Kind of reminds me of some stuff off the Trainspotting soundtrack from like 1996. Kind of British sounding pop.
F*ck GD, Billy Jackass Armstrong is one of these "too cool for the room" type of jerkoffs. They have a few good songs though overall they are way overhyped. American Idiot amuses me; there's a line in it about him not wanting to be part of the "Redneck Ajenda." I'd love to get a t-shirt made saying "Part of the Redneck Ajenda" to show my support to all things anti-p.c.
I used to see shirts in south carolina that said "Redneck World Order" on them - pretty funny.
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Greenday has always sucked. The first two Rage Against the Machine albums were fantastic though. Sure they were singing "down with whitey", and all that nonsense, but at least they fucking JAMMED.
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I'm sorry - I'll be the one asshole to disagree - Green Day melodys and hooks and live performances are great. That said - I can divorce my musical appreciation from the political message (I'm also a Deadhead 25 yrs plus). If you're still getting your geopolitical beliefs/life messages from popular music, I have advice: grow up. You can appreciate early Harry Belafonte without saluting the asshole he's become, same with Cat Stevens.
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Rantburg Secret:
Though he can fry anybody's ass in a heartbeat, Franks all squishy on the inside. Lol.
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Here's what's playing on my PC now, lol...
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Alan Parsons Project - Time
Amazing Rhythm Aces - Third Rate Romance
Annie Lennox - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter.mp3
Blue Man Group - Exhibit 13.mp3
Dido - All You Want.mp3
Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love.mp3
Dusty Springfield - You don't have to say you love me.mp3
Enya - Only One Time(long).mp3
Gary Jules - Mad World (full version).mp3
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally).mp3
Jonathan King - Everyone's Gone to the Moon.mp3
LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live.mp3
LeAnn Rimes - I Need You.mp3
Lenny Welch - Since I Fell For You (1963).mp3
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World.mp3
Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love.mp3
Marmalade - Reflections of My Life (single).mp3
Mel Carter - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me.mp3
Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin.mp3
Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon.mp3
Neil Diamond - Solitary Man (1966).mp3
Nilsson - Without You.mp3
Peter & Gordon - A world without love.mp3
Ray Stevens - Everything Is Beautiful.mp3
Rolling Stones - Play With Fire.mp3
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger.mp3
Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation.mp3
Spirit - Nature's Way.mp3
Stephen Bishop - It Might Be You.mp3
I don't think we have diddley-squat in common, musically speakin, lol.
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I'll give you points for eclectic, .com. "What a Wonderful World" is simply one of the finest tunes ever recorded and Satchmo's version is the only one that measures up. It appears on all of my jazz vocals mix-downs. Please don't even get me started about modern drivel by artists like "Green Day".
"Nights in White Satin" is a sentimental favorite if only because my bands usually play it to let me strut my stuff on the flute solo.
Procul Harem's version of "Whiter Shade of Pale" still gets my vote. It's main line remains a classic to this day. Plus, how many songs these days contain references to classical British literature and ancient mythology?
Perhaps you recall the instrumental titled "Angie", off of Simon & Garfunkle's first album. It's actually by an obscure artist whose name is Davey Graham who essentially began the world music genre decades before Paul Simon made it famous. This self-taught guitarist traveled all through MENA (Middle East - North Africa) and all the way to India working out his self-described Turko-Arabic stylings. Even today, this man's finger picking ability blows most artists clean out of the water. Sadly, he's switched to classical nylon stringed guitar now. His earlier steel stringed work was nothing short of astonishing.
They have recently released one of his best albums, "Hat" on CD. A stunning melange of Art Blakey, Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Henry Purcell plus Simon & Garfunkle, it is a musical tour de force. Blakey's "Buhaina Chant" is a 64th note mind-bender just as "Bulgarian Dance" is a nearly atonal wonder that fluidly phases in and out of harmony. Most astonishing of all is how Graham's renditions often outdo even the original artists' versions.
Something tells me you might appreciate this long under-rated artist. He, along with Segovia, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch (see right-hand links at "Hat" page) and Pentangle all served as guitar heros for me in my early years.
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Eclectic is the right word. I have, maybe, 20 playlists - and all of them are as bizarre as this, lol.
I do not pretend to be a discographer or authority. Just as with literature, art, and food, I simply like what I like. Something inside vibrates sympathetically and into the mix it goes, lol.
I'm not sure what you think I'm gonna do with the info you took so much time and put such effort into - from what you've written, it doesn't sound like it's easily acquired - and I still don't know if it would hit my sweet spot. Something occurred while I was "away" and I don't enjoy the financial freedom I once did.
I apologize for not being able to converse with you on your level - and sounding ungrateful. The former is just the luck of interest, what grabs you and sucks you in. The latter is purely financial.
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Just thought you might appreciate an artist whose playlist is as eclectic as yours.
Mine is all over the map, from JS Bach, Jimi, Johnny Winter, Junior Brown, John Petrucci, King Crimson, Dave Brubeck, Jean Pierre Rampal, Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, Spike Jones, Frank Zappa, Larry Coryell. Strunz & Farah, Olantunji, Jorgen Ingman, you name it. I also write a lot of material myself.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Police find naked man stuck in window
