tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post5758845668021490677..comments2024-03-28T10:14:23.792+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THE NEW BARBARIANS.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-50339189593033608522011-03-14T21:47:59.926+00:002011-03-14T21:47:59.926+00:00An English drinking song, originally - To Anacreon...An English drinking song, originally - To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee, a few sons of harmony sent in a petition, that he their inspirer and patron would be......<br /><br />Eventually, the answer arrives from the jolly old Grecian that he wold be delighted. The tune does permit many's a transformative intepretation, although it is Hendrix's which captures the sourness of the dream turned nightmare, which makes elegy <br />of bombast.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-51768705968798752072011-03-14T07:03:28.823+00:002011-03-14T07:03:28.823+00:00It's a beautiful tune, that, Mr Ishmael. Fair...It's a beautiful tune, that, Mr Ishmael. Fair lifts one's feet of the ground. And yes, as you point out, a hint of bagpipes in the subtle droning.black hole sunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13754977921603292534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40118533314570409112011-03-12T11:18:29.915+00:002011-03-12T11:18:29.915+00:00Aye, that's just what I meant, mr m, and him j...Aye, that's just what I meant, mr m, and him just a poor nigra boy, too.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33018114211172407302011-03-12T01:41:13.463+00:002011-03-12T01:41:13.463+00:00Almost the swirling of the pipes, Mr I.Almost the swirling of the pipes, Mr I.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-37957117760917940292011-03-12T00:16:48.159+00:002011-03-12T00:16:48.159+00:00Good job, mr verge, that they venture not into Jap...Good job, mr verge, that they venture not into Japan's unnatural disasters, eh? I suppose that when crimes against humanity are committed by Uncle Sam they become part of God's greater glory, Hiroshima and Nagasaki simply the triumph of freedom.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-77468163364382813722011-03-11T23:33:06.907+00:002011-03-11T23:33:06.907+00:00OT: SMUNAF has been leading its bulletins all nigh...OT: SMUNAF has been leading its bulletins all night with reference to "the worst natural disaster in Japan's history." You'd think they might have some YTS bright-spark capable of looking up the 1923 post-quake firestorm. But I suppose worst ever sounds better. Facts and a bloody good story, right Rupe? (Not that the poor bastards on the receiving end of this one will care where it ranks, of course.)Vergehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16651753975933628764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41316285704197970722011-03-11T14:48:27.485+00:002011-03-11T14:48:27.485+00:00Yes, that's true,mr m r, all of it, especiall...Yes, that's true,mr m r, all of it, especially the anti-war dimension of that performance in the time of Vietnam, and I do not underestimate it, have posted it here, before. Where the studio version excels, I think, is in the musicality, the three or four guitar lines ; I hear Baroque harmonies and Scottish lamentations shimmering through the pyschedelic bombast, and although the piece remains Americaine noire, his doodling lends it a timeless, universal melancholy, fair makes a man weep.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-33206535276922457642011-03-10T18:45:50.121+00:002011-03-10T18:45:50.121+00:00I beg to differ Mr I, but the sheer brutality of t...I beg to differ Mr I, but the sheer brutality of the Woodstock performance says far more than the technically gifted and sanitised version. That was a eyeopener for the masses, who didn't always get to hear the voices of the anti-war movement, portrayed as drug crazed hippies, traitors and pinkos.Mothers Ruinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-87380729549255408992011-03-10T12:15:55.011+00:002011-03-10T12:15:55.011+00:00Only half?Only half?call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-28816402274120589642011-03-10T07:41:44.237+00:002011-03-10T07:41:44.237+00:00On the same day as Obama announced Gitmo's con...On the same day as Obama announced Gitmo's continued existence, Illinois abolished the death penalty - they'd discovered that half the people sentenced to death were provably innocent and that caused a loss of confidence in the reliability of the system.<br /><br />The obvious conclusion is that military tribunals held offshore are much superior to judge and jury trials.<br /><br />Or something like that.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.com