The Man in Black graces us with some travelin’ home music
I don’t think I’ve posted the great Johnny Cash here, which is an oversight I’m glad to correct. He was a walking, talking heap of Americana, a unique talent who expressed great complexity in simple songs. And as video like this reminds us, while little Joaquin Phoenix did a credible impersonation in “Walk the Line,” he couldn’t project the raw-boned, country-boy physicality that made Cash such a presence.
And the singing? Please. Again, it sounded OK until you hear the real thing and are reminded once again of the Cash genius.
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DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:08 pm
Ok finally!!! Here’s my ode to all the tax cheats who are being outed by UBS; and their ex-wives who can’t WAIT for the names to come up on that list!!! Remember: You can’t escape death taxes, OR an angry ex-wife; but nice try though fellas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0tNO3QFoOE
getalife
August 21st, 2009
4:11 pm
Great choice.
Viva la Mexico:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtMPlY3duz4
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:13 pm
Let’s get it started!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdGJuDZp4I
getalife
August 21st, 2009
4:15 pm
Where are you going with that gun in your hand?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnKUiybiFo
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:22 pm
This one’s to the conservative party. George Strait’s I Hate Everything. Enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RtJ4hy-GrM&feature=related
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:23 pm
this is for the leeeeettle numpties who have their underoos in a knot because someone who no longer lives in GA has the audacity to post on THEIR BLOG (ZOMG!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u0wwCfoJ4&feature=related
(I think that the man in black would approve)
Northern Songs LTD
August 21st, 2009
4:24 pm
did someone say ‘gun’?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3_z8jp_HY&feature=related
Kamchak
August 21st, 2009
4:27 pm
In honor of yesterday’s opera lovers.
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:29 pm
Nice tie-in to the earlier thread: Don’t take your guns to political rallies.
and Joaquin Phoenix was great in I Walk the Line -
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:30 pm
USinUK in honor of you……..
This one’s for you!! I’m Shocked, Shocked…….!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:31 pm
Let me put it this way: Phoenix did better than anybody else likely would have. Scott wasn’t Patton, either. But he was good.
Mrs. Godzilla
August 21st, 2009
4:33 pm
How about a Black Magic Woman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah-yrleNFb0
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
4:34 pm
Johnny!!!! Thanks Jay!!!
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:34 pm
okay … I can’t he’p myself … one more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrlDMGHsoz0&feature=related
(such a classic)
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
4:36 pm
OMG – Johnny Cash, Santana, and the Clash – I love you people.
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:37 pm
DDR –
LOVE that scene (your winnings sir … oh, thank you very much)
of course, I’d like for the dems to grow a spine as they did in this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulNJayp5ChM
Taxpayer
August 21st, 2009
4:39 pm
That Johnny and June. I do declare!
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
4:40 pm
I’ve never seen Casablanca. Isn’t that sad? Or the Sound of Music.
Brad Steel
August 21st, 2009
4:41 pm
Having an actor, regardless of their singing chops, try to fill in for the Man in Black is bound to come up short. It was Hollywood self indulgence to try and sort of …ummm ..uh disrespectful. It should have gone the Sweet Dream route
And for the sanctimonious conservatives, listen to these lyrics. I think this photo would be Johnny’s reaction to your political bend.
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:41 pm
USinUK
I sat a couple rows behind this guy in a little theater in the West End. One of the people with him looked like a female version of himself. I kinda hoped it was a sister –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnXjE66tvQ
Northern Songs LTD
August 21st, 2009
4:42 pm
Cash does Petty — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTXkW2oCsI&feature=fvw
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:43 pm
Bosch
It’s a tad maudlin. Sound of Music’s a feel good.
Really…. You have a lot to make up before you check out…
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
August 21st, 2009
4:43 pm
Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.
Aahhh, yes, Canadians singing-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LSarhZpnMs&feature=related
Keeping them safe and healthy.
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:43 pm
Bosch!!! You’ve never seen one of the greatest movies of ALL TIME!!!!
OMG!! Run out and rent the DVD tonight!! You’ll be so glad you did!!!
PS: You can forget about the sound of music; all that sweetness will rot your teeth!!
Taxpayer
August 21st, 2009
4:43 pm
Of course Johhny always did have an eye for up and coming country bands.
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
4:44 pm
This is my favorite Johnny/June song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg7zkpROcEk
Is there another Johnny/June song? Anyway………
I Report/ Vast White Wing Conspirator (-: You Whine )-:
August 21st, 2009
4:45 pm
Nancy Hoyer seems to be confused-
Hoyer: Public Opt May Have To Go
Pelosi Says ‘No Way’ Health Plan Can Pass Without Public Option
Maybe she should go see the doctor?
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:46 pm
Taxpayer 4:39
One of the great American tv shows.
Reminds me of Congress.
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:47 pm
Paul –
for you :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRxfOYFVjP4
(you sat behind David Bowie??? wow. now, that’s just cool – I saw his Glass Spider tour – the guy is truly weird and gifted and odd)
Bosch – do a 2-fer … rent Casablanca and To Have and Have Not (my god, Lauren Bacall was GORGE!!!) … you simply can’t go on with this void in your life. Sound of Music … meh.
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
4:47 pm
Debbie/Paul,
It’s always been on my list to see, but I’ve just never gotten around to it.
Paul,
You sat a couple rows back from Bowie? I would have turned all middle school and ran up to him and giggled for his autograph.
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:48 pm
DDR
[[You can forget about the sound of music; all that sweetness will rot your teeth!! ]]
Philistine….
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
4:48 pm
IN THE NEWS………Lately there’s been some talk about a female(?) sprinter from South Africa and if she’s really a female or no, (the world is awaiting the results of a gender test). Here, for the first time, she speaks out!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHjDBcrNwjU&feature=related
Paul
August 21st, 2009
4:51 pm
USinUK
ahhhh…. thanks…. right up my alley, how’d ya know?
Bosch
People were coming up to him and asking for his autograph – he’d point at the stage and say “this is their night” or he’d say “please, we’re just out for some time together.”
Nicely handled.
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:52 pm
DDR –
“PS: You can forget about the sound of music; all that sweetness will rot your teeth!! ”
I’m sooooo with ya! although, the only scene I liked was when Capt. von Trapp and Maria dance the Austrian folk dance out on the patio … such a romantic moment!
Kamchak
August 21st, 2009
4:55 pm
Damn youtube—can’t even show a woody woodpecker cartoon. Let’s try again. Another song about guns
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
4:56 pm
Paul -
my favorite Bowie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQFuNHCMF2Y&feature=channel
libs together
August 21st, 2009
4:56 pm
Cindy Sheehan To Lead Protest Against Obama Continuing Bush Wars
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Infowars
August 18, 2009
For immediate release:
Next week, Cindy Sheehan will join other like-minded peace activists to have a presence near the expensive resort on Martha’s Vineyard where President Obama will be vacationing the week of August 23-30.
featured stories Cindy Sheehan To Lead Protest Against Obama Continuing Bush Wars
featured stories Cindy Sheehan To Lead Protest Against Obama Continuing Bush Wars
From her home in California, Ms. Sheehan released this statement:
“There are several things that we wish to accomplish with this protest on Martha’s Vineyard.
“First of all, no good social or economic change will come about with the continuation or escalation of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We simply can’t afford to continue this tragically expensive foreign policy.
“Secondly, we as a movement need to continue calling for an immediate end to the occupations even when there is a Democrat in the Oval Office. There is still no Noble Cause no matter how we examine the policies.
“Thirdly, the body bags aren’t taking a vacation and as the US led violence surges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, so are the needless deaths on every side.
“And, finally, if the right-wing can force the government to drop any kind of public option or government supported health care, then we need to exert the same kind of pressure to force a speedy end to the occupations.”
Cindy Sheehan will arrive on the Vineyard on Tuesday, August 25th.
For more information, or to request an interview with Cindy Sheehan please contact:
Laurie Dobson
lauriegdobson at yahoo dot com
(207) 604-8988
or
Bruce Marshall
brmas at yahoo dot com
(802) 767-6079
To donate to help with logistical support, or to help Cindy and other Gold Star Families (families who have lost loved ones in war) get to Martha’s Vineyard please click this link.
Or go to
Paypal.com and put in the email: Cindy@CindySheehansSoapbox.com
or
Mail a check to:
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, LLC
55 Chumasero Dr STE 5D
San Francisco, Ca 94132
Families who oppose the wars and have lost a loved one during the Obama Regime are especially encouraged to attend.
josef nix
August 21st, 2009
4:57 pm
BOSCH
“I’ve never seen Casablanca. Isn’t that sad?”
Tell me it ain’t so! Best propaganda film ever made and the story behind it’s making is itself a Hollywood clasic. Check it out…
Paul
August 21st, 2009
5:00 pm
USinUK
I always kinda liked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-g_Y0UCxmg
libs on crack
August 21st, 2009
5:01 pm
Good song for the health bill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
5:02 pm
USinUK romance!!! You want old school type romance?!? Below is the most “romantic scene from a oldie movie EVER”!! Guaranteed…… I cry every time I see this part!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuo9T6wl5XA&feature=related
josef nix
August 21st, 2009
5:03 pm
USinUK–”To Have and Have Not”…Couldn’t agree more. “Watch on the Rhine” (”Well, we’ve certainly been shaken out of the magnolias, haven’t we?”)
USinUK
August 21st, 2009
5:04 pm
it’s late … I’m making my way upstairs … have a great weekend!! see you guys on Monday
Scooter
August 21st, 2009
5:06 pm
Here is what happens when boys take big guns to town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJC1unnuwds
Paul
August 21st, 2009
5:06 pm
DDR
Old type romance?
Get a new handkerchief -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdGPt9wt4
md
August 21st, 2009
5:08 pm
“this is for the leeeeettle numpties who have their underoos in a knot because someone who no longer lives in GA has the audacity to post on THEIR BLOG (ZOMG!!)”
Just for balance, I can’t even count the times I’ve been told to leave “their” blog when I’ve participated at the scotsman or BBC. They come in all shapes and sizes.
Scooter
August 21st, 2009
5:15 pm
Kamchak, another song about guns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5jVrfRYrM
DebbieDoRight
August 21st, 2009
5:17 pm
Oooohh Paul!! Musical Theatre!! I LOVE musical theatre!! So, since you wanna go classic on me, I had to reach WAY back for this one!! Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3vHN1Aadck
Bosch
August 21st, 2009
5:18 pm
Family is home – gonna go hang with the Bosches – have a good weekend everybody!
Paul
August 21st, 2009
5:21 pm
Debbie……
Still and all, go to this link, watch it. Then browse through the rest of the 10th Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuS1cCnG8xc
Have a great one, Bosch! Few more scans and I’m outta here, too -