A little music, and a little perspective
It’s been a rough if interesting week in the world of politics and here on the blog as well. Emotions have flared, expectations have been dashed. Time for the healing power of music, I would say.
But as important as politics might seem to some, a little perspective might be in order. I’ve got a couple of folks in my personal life — relatives by marriage, technically, but over the years they’ve become much more than that description could ever imply — who are facing health issues. One of them has already gone through the fire, so to speak, and has emerged safely on the other side; the second is about to begin that voyage, and we’re gonna make sure she comes through it as well.
So … this one is for Wendy, and for her best friend Ted.
– Jay Bookman
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They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:31 pm
When you finally see or even talk to an Old Friend in awhile, it usually make you feel good inside, it does me
Let’s let Eric Clapton put into song………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZ5G3xoxhI
TBG: hope you were able to check out those Charlie Pride’s that josef and I left for you the other week
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:33 pm
Gmare
I figured I would get someone with the Elvis post.
For you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-v38lbPNZs
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
6:33 pm
Maybe I could change
Maybe I could change the world
Maybe I could change myself
Maybe I could change the world
Maybe I could have your love
I’ve been holding my hopes so high
But can’t you help me now, my arms are so tired
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTL8i8JEAOo
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
6:34 pm
Thanks to you, too, Paul!
I don’t think the man ever sang a song that wasn’t GREAT.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:34 pm
Gmare
have another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n3ebuL1cPA&feature=related
josef
June 29th, 2012
6:35 pm
BOTH
Visted Nicaragua during this time….interesting time and place….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1LhlVtbW_U
and please rememver Victor Jara in the Santiago Stadium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRmre8ggkcY
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:39 pm
Gmare
and yet another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hig_GJB5N2I
Just saying..
June 29th, 2012
6:42 pm
Best wishes for your family members, Jay.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:45 pm
josef
My mother has been a few mission trips to Nicaragua. Says the people are great, however the poverty will have you appreciating what you have before you can take your next breath.
Paul
June 29th, 2012
6:47 pm
Pleasant weekend, all -
(my pool is getting to be like a hot tub….)
Erwin's cat
June 29th, 2012
6:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW3nPqPPBDw
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
6:49 pm
Wee tot, Josef?? Well I wasn’t much more than that myself, a young teen then. It seems some of the short term memory may go, but those years, ah, those years – sweetly present. And you had a cool mom!
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
6:51 pm
My Chicago and big time guitar collector/player buddy, Dave, and I used to play and sing this one. (It always sounded better after we had had a few drinks!)
I’ve got my head out the window
And my big feet on the ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svU25RkBNE
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
6:54 pm
iPad needs charging, back later. Thanks everybody!!!
Oscar
June 29th, 2012
6:55 pm
Just went outside. Can report it’s still very hot.
Time for Billy Joel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8buJ2-oD02E&feature=related
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:56 pm
Jam
back at ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Fm-7N694o&feature=related
josef
June 29th, 2012
6:57 pm
GMARE
Betcha didn’t know he was a MOT! He had to keep it quiet given the times, but is a BIG hero to Baron Hirsch Synagogue…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9aulVzaVtI
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/15015/happy-75th-elvis-yes-the-king-was-jewish/
josef
June 29th, 2012
6:59 pm
GMARE
You can charge and blog, too!
Erwin's cat
June 29th, 2012
7:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rpBUD0hjaI
josef
June 29th, 2012
7:01 pm
OSCAR
Got your Billy Joel…and have posted this before, but given the events of the last week, it may be appropriate tonight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPywgiMb4k
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:02 pm
josef
GF dissed me for a night out with her cousins, so I wont be running off on you as per my usual Friday routine
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:04 pm
Official high in Macon today, 105. Ok, ok, ok, I’ll buy a Prius, just let it cool off some.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwhbNrkDXM
F. Sinkwich
June 29th, 2012
7:11 pm
I get so weepy here, the Kumbyah and all. As the great philosopher from LA once wished, before he was regrettably found in a coke stupor in the bottom of a pool, we can indeed get along.
Sniff.
It was a great week for those of us who love free stuff. Especially if it’s very expensive and someone else pays for it.
After all, aren’t we all equal? It’s absurd that anyone has more of anything than anyone else. It’s just not fair.
So I offer my first contribution to this lovefest of losers who somehow believe that the destruction of everything held dear to Americans is somehow just an intermural sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MiD_U4CHQ
Sniff.
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:12 pm
So BOTH, that Billy Joel song describe your evening? LOL!
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:13 pm
“So I offer my first contribution to this lovefest of losers”
So gracious and humbling that you would offer up yourself a gift
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:14 pm
godless
that was good…………
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
7:15 pm
One of the original punks…
You just joined the Klan
Your head’s full of sand
You need a bunch of friends
To make you feel like a man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eccbUSD84Gs&feature=autoplay&list=PL8E9AC8DFAB0E68E7&playnext=1
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:15 pm
Date night?
http://youtu.be/8rX6vumdt-A
That Black Guy
June 29th, 2012
7:20 pm
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
6:31 pm
TBG: hope you were able to check out those Charlie Pride’s that josef and I left for you the other week
_____________________________________________________________________
I did, my Father and I thank you and josef.
BTW, Jay finally sent the email address (you know he’s a slacker). I’ll hit you up when I get off work.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:21 pm
TBG
Cool dude.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:23 pm
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/06/29/a-little-music-and-a-little-perspective/?cp=5#comment-998627
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:24 pm
hahahaha
Too many screens open. Meant to post the song below not Winfields blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL2091AA3C771D71B7
F. Sinkwich
June 29th, 2012
7:24 pm
“Washington – Consumer spending stalled in May as stagnant wages and slackening employment held back the biggest part of the U.S. economy. Purchases were little changed after a 0.1 percent rise the prior month that was smaller than initially reported, according to Commerce Department figures issued today in Washington.”
Cheer up!
We got Obamacare!
(I should probably insert some dum-as$ YouTube thingy here, but I don’t feel like it).
josef
June 29th, 2012
7:27 pm
BRUNO
In case you’re lurking (and I expect you are) that 7:08 from BOTH is for you, too, from me, and you know what I mean….
That Black Guy
June 29th, 2012
7:28 pm
Hey Jay, will you ask they 2nd 5:08 to stay on topic?
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:29 pm
An underappreciated group, Bro….
Only by those who don’t know. The Brothers and Sisters (not limited to melanin content either) know AND appreciate the Doobies and all others who’ve given up the Funk.
————–
TBG
Dude, you would have made Johnny Carson envious last night. You were delivering one-liner after one-liner….
That Black Guy
June 29th, 2012
7:29 pm
Well, screwed that up.
Hey Jay, will you ask they 2nd 5:08 to stay on topic? – should be “THE 2nd 5:08″
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNxUFa47WlI&feature=related
Brother Bruno
If you happen to check in, do have a great weekend
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
7:30 pm
Didn’t read the crap but did check on the link.
Joan Baez? What a hippie peacenik!
(Something went really wrong! LOL!!)
And Sandwich, there is a running joke here about how we always have at least one dickhead who deposits a turd in the Friday night punchbowl. Congrats, you’re the latest to join that list…
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRbZJXjWIA&feature=related
Jam: I thought it was great that Sink was presenting a gift to himself
That Black Guy
June 29th, 2012
7:33 pm
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:29 pm
Dude, you would have made Johnny Carson envious last night. You were delivering one-liner after one-liner….
____________________________________
Flor de Cana had the keyboard last night.
Funny thing is I can’t find a bar or resturant that serves it.
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:34 pm
Sink, we already had a heavy metal version of that song.
Erwin's cat
June 29th, 2012
7:34 pm
Bruno…Cheers bro
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:35 pm
And just to remind y’all that I’m about more than just the funk… Sinkwich brought this one to mind with his posts for obvious reasons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQru7oCdYXA
…Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I’m dreaming
I can hear them say
Carry on my wayward son
There’ll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more
Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don’t know…
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8GCc8OhTz8&feature=related
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
7:37 pm
BOTH, Mick Ronson was one badass axe player. And that work on Suffragette City proves it.
McGuinn covered Dylan a lot…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPBMyP8uFo&feature=related
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:37 pm
TBG
I’ve gotta go buy me a case of that one then… I was reading the posts at work this morning, and my co-workers had to come and see what had me crying so hard. I don’t think I could have started my day any better.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:38 pm
Bro
You are hitting them with the wit tonight. TBG made you up your game and you came to play
F. Sinkwich
June 29th, 2012
7:38 pm
“And Sandwich, there is a running joke here about how we always have at least one dickhead who deposits a turd in the Friday night punchbowl. Congrats, you’re the latest to join that list…”
SCORE !!!!!!!
josef
June 29th, 2012
7:41 pm
IMAM
Unmentionable says to tell you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dOxVwnHhw
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjtOzLfebgY
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:43 pm
Is a comedy interlude allowed? If you only want music skip this one. But I’d like to dedicate this one to Rodney King. May he rest in peace.
http://youtu.be/LWGCIm4GNQE
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
7:45 pm
heathen, you said something very cool earlier – “I must admit that you have made me rethink a lot of things. I really try not to be so hung up on ideology that I don’t consider what others are saying.”
That reminds me of one of my very favorite sayings.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. ~Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45qX1VYONds&feature=related
FrankLeeDarling
June 29th, 2012
7:46 pm
Here is some local alt country you might enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqOIwtjoMOM&feature=relmfu
Soothsayer
June 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
Well, not being a MOT myself, I decided that this member could say better than I what really needs to be said.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:47 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w
FrankLeeDarling
June 29th, 2012
7:49 pm
this one is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAEHumzyYCk&feature=related
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:50 pm
godless
I was kinda worried by the dedication, but I remember watching that episode of his show. I had the same reaction this time. My stomach is cramping from laughing so hard. I gotta admit though, I break one of his rules from time to time. I’m guilty of blasting NWA’s F**k the Police while I’m on my way to work in uniform. I always hope that the uniform will keep me from getting the business.
josef
June 29th, 2012
7:51 pm
BOTH
Nice dedication to Brother Bruno…me, too, Bruno, me, too!
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
7:53 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTQJ2QiK4QU&feature=related
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:54 pm
Jam, Good quote and GREAT song.
There was too much of this going on this week.
http://youtu.be/X8IkhciYWTw
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
7:55 pm
F Sink re Kumbayah, well it’s a start for you, Honey.
josef
June 29th, 2012
7:55 pm
Speaking of Joan Baez….
This one’s been running through my head….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwP2ulxDdY&feature=related
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
7:57 pm
FrankLeeDarling: alt country! Yes!!!
getalife
June 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
bruno hates us.
Obama’s fault.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wws7mnMewPw
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
7:58 pm
FrankLee
I like those two cuts…
They BOTH
All I see now when I hear that song is “Gator” smoking his mom’s tv in the Taj Mahal…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTA3qGQouaU#t=1m50s
I like gettin’ high
’cause I’m a c..c..c..c..c..c..c..crack head
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:04 pm
Just walked outside……….. Still HOT
It is so hot it made the devil go home
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:04 pm
BRUNO
That @ 7:47….heh, heh? No? Oh, and welcome to the MOTs, BTW
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
8:06 pm
what’s MOT?
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
8:10 pm
EWF covers Bread…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNBFBEoVSw
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
8:11 pm
heathen,
Member of the Tribe. (Hebe, Hebrew, Jewboy, etc…) The old joke being if you have to ask you ain’t one!
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:11 pm
BROSEPHUS
@ 7:58
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:15 pm
HEATHEN
Here ya go…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZMj5RksbE
Soothsayer
June 29th, 2012
8:15 pm
Well, I guess I’m the skunk at the picnic here at the wake for our dearly departed blogger. So I’ll go and let you get back to your wailing and memorializing. Goodnight.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
8:16 pm
Okay, I give up. MOT?
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2jDWpD6fM
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
8:16 pm
Since FrankLee broke the Alt Country suit:
http://youtu.be/q68WO-DJe_s
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
8:21 pm
josef:
Is there anyone I missed? LOL!!
http://youtu.be/GBD_d9SZYnw
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:21 pm
GMARE
@ 8:16
Elvis!
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
8:22 pm
The penny dropped! Member of the tribe?
JamVet
June 29th, 2012
8:22 pm
G Mare, see my 8:11.
(Buncha silly gentiles. LOL!)
jonix, love the kinky one.
Terribly funny in a dark way…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDdqubE7zQ
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:25 pm
HEATHEN
@ 8:21
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADH-QSSaxk&feature=related
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:27 pm
GMARE
Just remember, it’s….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsAXJw2jlU
stands for decibels
June 29th, 2012
8:31 pm
I’m guilty of blasting NWA’s F**k the Police while I’m on my way to work in uniform.
The stuff people miss, when they don’t bother to check in to FNM.
Anyway, Bros, your confession reminded me of this cinematic imagery.
http://cdn2.hark.com/images/000/005/270/5270/original.0
ducking out again. Stay shady, y’all.
G Mare 71(PLEASE VOTE NO ON TSPLOST)
June 29th, 2012
8:32 pm
Not to be too snarky but, conservative Christian=redundancy?
Okay, I admit the snarky. But, but, but….
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:33 pm
Turn it up just a little louder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBgqzvviTrQ
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
8:35 pm
josef
Most people forget that Halle Berry played a crack head in that movie. Her first movie role was a crack head in Jungle Fever. Her first major starring role in a movie was a drug addict in Losing Isaiah. She did a few movies in between, most notably Boomerang, but I always remember her as starting off as a crack head.
On the other hand, Samuel L was a drug addict who had completed rehab not too long before shooting that movie. I think he was in rehab a year before or something like that.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVxMB6w8PU&feature=related
godless heathen
June 29th, 2012
8:37 pm
Not to be too snarky but, conservative Christian=redundancy?
Not necessarily sez the godless heathen.
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:38 pm
Jam and godless
Hope you are jamming on these nasty ole skool ZZ Top classics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfO8TcBa6I0&feature=relmfu
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:38 pm
BRO
Samuel L. Jackson is one of my “heroes.” He’s like the Honey Badger…he don’t give a sh*t! Not to mention, he’s a damned fine actor….
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:41 pm
josef @ 8:38
so true
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
8:41 pm
They BOTH @ 8:33
I turned it up, but it still didn’t have the complete sound and distortion that I love…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5abamRO41fE&feature=relmfu
Turn that one up, and your neighbors will probably call the people on you…
They BOTH suck
June 29th, 2012
8:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSIwVFxk0jA
Don Abernethy
June 29th, 2012
8:43 pm
The Republicans and Democrats have over the past 30 years screwed up this country so much I don’t think it can ever be repaired no matter who is President. So we might as well sing and hang on for the ride to the bottom.
josef
June 29th, 2012
8:45 pm
BRUNO
Okay, it’s Friday and what’s FNM without a visit from our friends and a show tune… “we belong to a mutual admiration society…”
Brosephus™
June 29th, 2012
8:46 pm
josef
Can’t argue with that!! Hell, if I know he’s in a movie, I’m watching it just to see him. I often wonder how much better the Matrix series would have been had he played Morpheus.