I’m lost again. I always get lost on Anton’s complex of blogs.
But anyway, HI ANTON!
Here in my unpronounceable state (actually a Commonwealth) of Massachusetts, our right-wing fascist ideologue governor Mitt Romney is positioning himself to run for Republican Party candidate for President of USA, and so …
* Came out for the restoration of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts.
* Wants to outlaw abortion and stem cell research.
* Is pushing for an amendment to our state constitution to stop same-sex marriages.
Specifically, he’s trying to pile up credentials for the ultra-right-wing of the Republican Party which (as you may have noticed) is in control of the Republican Party this decade.
It’s all rather depressing, because except for the Nazi Governor, Massachusetts is about the most notoriously progressive state in the USA. But people are people, and there are always scoundrel politicians who know how to toss out Savage Vote Candy. Romney’s good at that.
The Death Penalty, for example, is Voter Code for: Let’s kill some Blacks and Hispanics. In states which have the Death Penalty, when a white man is sentenced to death and a black man is sentenced to death for identical crimes, the black man is seven times more likely than the white man to actually eventually be executed.
Okay, I’m always leaving comments about political things (I think). Elsewhere on your blog labyrinth is a call to talk about your favorite band.
Here’s what I think you should do if you’re brave and independent.
1. Tell all your friends you’re going to New York City to listen to a bunch of indie bands at clubs, and to do drugs.
2. Take the bus or train or plane to New York.
3. Go to the Mostly Mozart Festival playing through August at Lincoln Center. Tons and tons of Mozart every night. Orchestras and ensembles and virtuosi instrumentalists and singers from all over the world.
4. Go back to Canada.
5. Tell all your friends you went to New York City and listened to a bunch of indie bands at clubs, and to did drugs.
Meanwhile, Geoff Muldaur finally stopped hiding, went out on tour, and released two very remarkable CDs:
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” (a live concert in a club in Bremen Germany)
“Private Astronomy”, his covers of the 1920s jazz compositions and songs of Bix Beiderbecke. The warbler is the remarkably talented Martha Wainwright.
It is possible that all music gets stale and rancid within just a year or so, like cheese and deli meat in the refrigerator.
But I don’t think so. I think re-discovering beautiful music of the past is about the richest experience I know.
I think we’ve decided to go to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and see Amanda Plummer do Joan of Arc in Anouilh’s “The Lark.” We saw her old man do “King Lear” there a couple of years ago, and then he took it to Broadway. We’re broke, so I guess we’ll be robbing gas stations and convenience stores all the way up there and back. That’s what Americans do.
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Haven’t caught you on MSN in a couple days. Did a bunch of programming on colony yesterday, and more planned for today. It is starting to look good.
sweet. i’ll be on later today.
I’m lost again. I always get lost on Anton’s complex of blogs.
But anyway, HI ANTON!
Here in my unpronounceable state (actually a Commonwealth) of Massachusetts, our right-wing fascist ideologue governor Mitt Romney is positioning himself to run for Republican Party candidate for President of USA, and so …
* Came out for the restoration of the Death Penalty in Massachusetts.
* Wants to outlaw abortion and stem cell research.
* Is pushing for an amendment to our state constitution to stop same-sex marriages.
Specifically, he’s trying to pile up credentials for the ultra-right-wing of the Republican Party which (as you may have noticed) is in control of the Republican Party this decade.
It’s all rather depressing, because except for the Nazi Governor, Massachusetts is about the most notoriously progressive state in the USA. But people are people, and there are always scoundrel politicians who know how to toss out Savage Vote Candy. Romney’s good at that.
The Death Penalty, for example, is Voter Code for: Let’s kill some Blacks and Hispanics. In states which have the Death Penalty, when a white man is sentenced to death and a black man is sentenced to death for identical crimes, the black man is seven times more likely than the white man to actually eventually be executed.
Okay, I’m always leaving comments about political things (I think). Elsewhere on your blog labyrinth is a call to talk about your favorite band.
Here’s what I think you should do if you’re brave and independent.
1. Tell all your friends you’re going to New York City to listen to a bunch of indie bands at clubs, and to do drugs.
2. Take the bus or train or plane to New York.
3. Go to the Mostly Mozart Festival playing through August at Lincoln Center. Tons and tons of Mozart every night. Orchestras and ensembles and virtuosi instrumentalists and singers from all over the world.
4. Go back to Canada.
5. Tell all your friends you went to New York City and listened to a bunch of indie bands at clubs, and to did drugs.
Meanwhile, Geoff Muldaur finally stopped hiding, went out on tour, and released two very remarkable CDs:
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” (a live concert in a club in Bremen Germany)
“Private Astronomy”, his covers of the 1920s jazz compositions and songs of Bix Beiderbecke. The warbler is the remarkably talented Martha Wainwright.
It is possible that all music gets stale and rancid within just a year or so, like cheese and deli meat in the refrigerator.
But I don’t think so. I think re-discovering beautiful music of the past is about the richest experience I know.
I think we’ve decided to go to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario and see Amanda Plummer do Joan of Arc in Anouilh’s “The Lark.” We saw her old man do “King Lear” there a couple of years ago, and then he took it to Broadway. We’re broke, so I guess we’ll be robbing gas stations and convenience stores all the way up there and back. That’s what Americans do.
Leave a Comment on Vleeptron or I’ll shoot this fish.
hey anton the giant mutant carnivorous predator mice are NOTHING!
go back to Vleeptron and check this out:
http://vleeptron.blogspot.com/2005/07/be-afraid-be-very-afraid.html
(and it’s all Canada’s fault)