I go for a year or more without listening to or thinking about the Rolling Stones. And I can’t stand watching Mick Jagger perform. But then I’ll hear a song, and my “Stones Freak” button is pushed, and I want to listen to nothing but the Stones for days on end. Funny how that works, eh?
So what have you been up to?
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The usual stuff around here:
1) Bathroom and kitchen repair.
2) Regional planning and water resources protection research and testimony.
3) Business: compiling/matching/selling mailing lists and mailing list move update services.
Keep your ‘Stones. Stefi and I are listening to Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Beetoven, J S Bach, etc on audiotapes in our old Subaru Legacy and CDs in our new VW Jetta TDI. When I want to listen to oldtime rock, I listen to Buddy Holly for the 50s, Canned Heat/Beatles/the Who etc/etc from the 60s, Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Bank from the 70s, just about everything from the 80s, nothing much since. What would you expect from an old-timer who closed up his soul and locked in his tastes to whatever he heard or felt before he turned 55?
Still listen to Leonard Cohen from time to time, and sometimes I rent McCabe and Mrs Miller just to hear him sing the ballad of the holy game of poker.
Our kids don’t begin to understand my tastes at all, and I truly don’t give a shit.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Well, I am pretty much studying 20-30 hours a week for the next 4 months or so, and this is on top of work so free time will be few and far between.
Not complaining though…
This is about the coolest thing I have seen for a while. Surprised I did not come across it sooner. You can see the frontpage of tons of newspapers around the world, and direct links to read some of them. Very cool, check it out:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
One more thought, wrt to our Supreme Court decision discussion last week. What if, it is determined that corporations do not have free speech, would that preclude a film company from funding/producing movies with political context, such as Moore’s F 9/11? What about corporations that currently pay Rush Limbaugh to express a political point of view? Would they have to be silenced? Would Rush and Michael Moore, etc would have to be self-funding? Or just not a registered Corp?
Enojoy the weekend everyone.
Arnold,
Have you ever thought of moving to Canada ?
They have some really good Guy Lombardo music in the old juke boxes :)
Spent the day digging out from the snow storm. Got 25 inches here. That was too much for my ATV snow plow to handle, so I had to use the Bobcat to scoop out the whole driveway. Took about 5 hours. And I am completely beat. Still have to finish digging out my truck by hand tomorrow.
Can’t complain too much though. We never lost power and no trees came down.
And I LOVE the Stones, Mick Jagger and all….
McK,
1) Lombardo’s too damned syrupy for my tastes, especially as I’ve been dieting seriously for some years now.
2) Canadian-Chinese cuisine, last time I tried it in a little dump of a restauant outside Calgary, tasted and visually resembled something I might have gotten on the breakfast menu at some I-Hop. As for real Canadian cooking, I sampled some of that in yet another restaurant in Windsor back in the early 90s. Ugh.
Living in Canada, I think, would be like something I heard in Jerusalem from a couple of off-duty US Consulate Marines at a small bar, when I asked them what they thought of that place as a duty station. Both of them told me frankly that it was the dullest place on the planet, unless you were either into heavy-duty Zionism like me, or equally heavy-duty Arabism like the ragheads. It frequently got boring for me as well. Imagine a place where on one side of a politically determined line through the city, everything was shut down on Fridays, and on the other side, everything was shut down on Saturdays, and where Sundays was an ordinary workday, Yom Alef, they called it. I don’t know what God supposedly commanded all those folks to do, way back when. But he sure as hell didn’t consult me about it.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
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