Don’t try to follow those step diagrams at home unless you are a trained professional dancer.
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THE CROSS REEL
Sarah Jarosz is just part the ensemble here, but what a fine performance by all.
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AND GOD CREATED WOMAN
Maya Gabeira, Brazilian champion surfer.
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JILL STEIN
I was channel surfing today and stumbled on Jill Stein’s speech at the Green Party convention, accepting its nomination for President (of the United States.) She was announcing a list of regulatory reforms for financial markets she would support as President. They were all simple, rational and essential reforms but, in the current political climate, sounded radical.
She won’t be allowed into the Presidential debates, but if she were she would mop the floor with Romney and Obama, not because she has a excess of charisma but because someone talking rationally about important subjects would frankly expose Willard and Barry as the corporate spokesmodels they are.
A vote for Stein will be the only meaningful one you can cast this November, but we have to face the fact that a lot of people really enjoy having smoke blown up their asses. So go ahead, America — pull down your pants and get ready to bend over one more time.
PARLEZ-MOI D’AMOUR
The melody of this lovely song is quoted in the soundtrack of Casablanca when Ilsa first walks into Rick’s place. It’s a subtle but deft touch, referencing a love song that the two would almost certainly have heard when they were together in Paris.
Posted in honor of Bastille Day.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ON LOVE
Love should run out to meet love with open arms. Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room. From the first moment when they see each other, with a pang of curiosity, through stage after stage of growing pleasure and embarrassment, they can read the expression of their own trouble in each other’s eyes. There is here no declaration properly so called; the feeling is so plainly shared, that as soon as the man knows what it is in his own heart, he is sure of what it is in the woman’s.
I’LL FLY AWAY
AND GOD CREATED WOMAN
RING THEM BELLS
Not many artists can cover Dylan and leave the ring standing. Sarah Jarosz never touches the canvas in this rendition of Ring Them Bells, which is, incidentally one of the greatest songs ever written.
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SHE NEVER SPOKE SPANISH TO ME
She spoke to all the shadows in her bungalow
But she never spoke Spanish to me.
By the greatest beer joint dance band in recorded history.
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