Nirvana - Son of a gun

Interview with Jim Morrison's father and sister

"Whoever controls the media controls the mind" --- Jim Morrison

The Rolling Stones Before They Make Me Run San Diego 1994

This is about the Rock and Roll lifestyle that got Keith Richards in trouble. The song was recorded while he was out on bail after getting caught with heroin and arrested for drug trafficking in Toronto in 1977. He was found guilty of the lesser charge of heroin possession, and sentenced to probation.Richards sang lead and did the majority of the work on this song. With Keith's drug charges pending, Mick Jagger took a lot of control on the album, but this song was pretty much all Keith.The original title was "Rotten Roll."Richard's vocals were double-tracked to make them stand out.The first bit of the song is about the drug death of Richard's friend Gram Parsons.An engineer named Dave Jordan helped mix this song. He went on to work with groups like The Specials and The Pogues.

Working Class Hero - John Lennon

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty hard years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Wilco - Dawned On Me

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Rusted root - kill you dead

Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams on their Halloween Costumes

OK, now that I got your attention with this trashy provocative piece where two stars and gentle souls are stalked and hunted down like animals for having the nerve to do what they do (and well) and be together outside of their home in public. This is what I really wanted to say especially after posting RYan doing Gram Parson's Grevious Angel w/ Emmylou on my facebook. ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_D14fDloWM

RYan Adams accompanied by Emmylou Harris performs "Oh My Sweet Carolina" live at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA 2011

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When “Really Cheesy” is a Great Thing

Claire is a foodie who is also a hottie and knows a good grilled cheese = She may very well make it on the Top 100 Hottest women of the new every day media (celebrating savvy, smart & hot women of new everyday media) for upcoming e-book New Media Madness: an everyday art on mystrawhat.com = to include Top 100 Hottest & a little hot poetry too. .. ENGLISH CHEDDAR GRILLED CHEESE WITH SPICY CHUTNEY AND CURRIED TOMATO SAUCE FROM FOOD FOR THOUGHT by Claire Thomas @ http://thekitchykitchen.blogspot.com/

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The Grilled Cheese Truck: When "Really Cheesy" is a Great Thing

2011 Mina Riazi

The land of glittery tans and silicon dreams, Los Angeles is no stranger to the many manifestations of cheesy. Meet Dave Danhi, President and Executive Chef of The Grilled Cheese Truck, one of the country's most celebrated food trucks. Here, he talks to Poor Taste about his appetite for seafood, what he loves most about Los Angeles, and the perfect grilled cheese.
What inspired the idea of The Grilled Cheese Truck? "A friend of mine sent me an invite to The Grilled Cheese Invitational back in 2009 and I realized I had never competed in the food competition in all the years that I had been a chef. I went and there was a line over a mile long and over five people wide and that's when I realized that there is such a large grilled cheese food following."

What about the grilled cheese sandwich do you think attracts such a large following? "What I try to bring it back to and one of the reasons for our success is that grilled cheese is the ultimate comfort food and everybody in this country was brought up with a grilled cheese sandwich. We take their childhood food memories and feed their adult palettes. It makes them feel like kids again."

What is your second favorite way to savor cheese? "I'm a purist when it comes to that. I love just a cheese board with cheese at the right temperature and some good, crunchy bread. I love to hit the cheese tastings in Los Angeles."

What makes or breaks a grilled cheese sandwich? "Some people are purists and when I talk to them it's cheddar and bacon, cheese and bread. For me, being the chef, it's a good marriage of flavors and textures– but it's got to be cooked correctly. I feel very strongly that the butter needs to be put onto the bread rather than onto the pan because when you put it on the pan the sandwich feels greasy. I have two people that spend time just buttering the bread."

"We have to re-impress everyone every day. We're the second most followed truck in the country next to Kogi, and never do we assume that there's going to be a line in front of the truck. The goal is to keep impressing people."

As a food innovator in Los Angeles, what do you like about your city? "I like that Los Angeles is so casual and that I don't have to be in a suit and tie in order to eat at a fancy restaurant. One of my biggest reasons as a chef is that the produce here is at the top of the list and the seafood is the best in the country–whether it's the fish markets, the farmer's markets, or the local purveyors."

What about Los Angeles makes it such a promising breeding ground for new food trucks? "One of the reasons is that we're a very spread out city–we're more a horizontal city than a vertical city and I think that has helped with the food trucks, but to be honest with you I think it's more a national thing. This country has never had a large street food culture and I think the country has been dying for a street food culture and due to the economy, people can now go to date-night for 25 dollars."

Jim Norton: Best of the Roses for the Cowboy's Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6sn6_TMSQ&feature=related

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Jack Hanna on Fox and Friends this morn re: Wild animals on the loose in Zanesville

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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 7:55 AM
Subject: Jack Hanna on Fox and Friends this morn re: Wild animals on the loose in Zanesville

OK, so 50 of these wild animals have already been shot dead by local officials and now they're calling in the Columbus, OH Zoo to help. ..help shoot the other 30 or so wild animals loose from the Zanesville property w/ tranquilizers so they can preserve their lives and take care of them properly. .. And now Jack Hanna has been called on to help this wild and dangerous (for all involved) situation.
HOWEVER, first Jack Hanna is going to be stopping by Fox and Friends this morn so he can "tell us" what he's "going to do" to help. ..
Being about 100 miles from Zanesville which is nothing for a Grizzly and other wild animals to roam and, for the safety of these innocent animals that were held captive and found themselves free after the murder of their owner, I'd be a lot cooler w/ Jack Hanna getting his expertise to Zanesville pronto and skipping this media opportunity until everything is settled.

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Wilco - I Might

was i wrong
off all night long
so high
as the stinking sun
i came alive
then i felt
oh uh oh
some guys
have everything i know
it's alright
i've done a lot of
crawling around outside
(and i heard)
it's alright

Your sno-cone
and it's piss and blood
it's in the cards
(oh, oh)
get well soon
EVERYBODY!!
do all lies
have a taste?
let it go
i don't know oh..
a cow's neck
bad shave
in the low blow slo-mo
it's alright
you won't set the kids on fire
oh but i might
ho

You come on
sentimental
if the solar car's coming
i'm home
The Magna Carta's
on a SLim Jim blood
bruthal
the sunk soul
with the coal clean toe
is the muthal
yea. that's right
when you find out
i'm all inside
you still might

it's all right
it's all right

it's alright
you won't set the kids on fire
oh but i might
Ho

it's all right
it's all right

Last nite on the back porch while listening to an NPR interview with Mark Olson and Gary Louris on the new and, with patients & understanding, long awaited Jayhawks album --- And they were politely honestly answering the tough questions of a soundingly smart & cute female interviewer - commenting how not having the big hit on the radio and being bigger than what they had become is probably the reality of their longevity and beautiful rabid fanbase = Well, even though Wilco's new album is strangely on the Billboard charts upon its release - I think this odd premise rings true for them too. .. (like a couple others we may know, Ho). ..

This video of Wilco frotman Jefff Tweedy makes me smile and compelled me to grab the heavy Ralph Lauren whiskey drinking glass and my acoustic six string guitar and hit the back porch so I too can smile like this. .. Mike, so how about those bass players who play guitar??? (first few seconds do focus into a sure shot) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKj-GflL4Y&feature=related


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Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia - Live '95 London

= timeless, nice live version + Mick J., R. Wood, Keith R. sharing the difference between small room shows and 10,000 maniacs. ..

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The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Older Guys USTV (full version)

The New York Times Sunday edition during football season. ..

One of the great things about The New York Times Sunday edition during football season is that you can read it while the Steelers lose in the fashion they did to the Houston Texans (or Baltimore) and yet you don't feel completely depleted, dejected, devastated - there's a "fortune inside your head" filled with all these interesting things. ..

Sunday there was a nice little piece about a new Documentary on FishBone called Everyday Sunshine which is narrated by Laurence Fishburne (FishBone & Fishburne. .. Coincidence????) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChXk4R0mGNw

"EVERYDAY SUNSHINE: THE STORY OF FISHBONE" - documentary trailer

www.youtube.com

EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From ...

 

 

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The NFL & EverydayNewMedia = Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger, Crutches + Diana Falzone

Today I empathize w/ Big Ben = as I'm on 2 crutches & wearing a boot/cast on my left foot/leg. It stinks. Moreover, Ben dealt with major adversity today and took a beating while showing big character = kept doing his job ... Keep on keeping on. ..

 

Ben Roethlisberger Injury: Steelers QB Needed X-Rays, Crutches After Sunday's Game

 

The only bright-spot this weekend = is a new Diana Falzone pic. .. certain royalty of New Media Madness: an everyday art ...

 

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My father's friend, Ted Windt, who was professor emeritus of political rhetoric and a former chair of Pitt's Department of Communication = I wonder what he would think of today's presidential times & rhetoric needed, useful & what we really would remember about them via history???

My father's friend, Ted Windt, who was professor emeritus of political rhetoric and a former chair of Pitt's Department of Communication = I wonder what he would think of today's presidential times & rhetoric needed, useful & what we really would remember about them via history???

So many Saturday afternoons were spent with me as a teenager listening to professor Windt and my father talk while th...ey grilled steaks (@ our indoor grilling station) worked, had cocktails and wine. .. And Ted was there for some functions too. .. (He encouraged my poetry confirming for my father that I was a poet . .. They opened doors for me that I refused to walk through though because I wanted to do it on my own like an A*$).

Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s  Amazon.com: Presidents and Protesters : Political Rhetoric in the 1960''s: Theodore O., Jr. Windt: Books

 

Obituary: Ted Windt / Pitt professor, expert on presidential rhetoric

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Ted Windt, a University of Pittsburgh scholar who dazzled generations of students with his passion for politics and language, died yesterday.

Mr. Windt, 67, was an expert on political rhetoric and the author or editor of numerous books and articles on the subject.

 

He had such a keen, incisive mind; his opinions were expressed with such clarity but never with harshness," Wecht said. "It was truly a great intellectual pleasure to get together with him. He would dissect issues like a scalpel."

 

Beyond politics, Mr. Windt was an avid sports fan and a collector of 20th century American literature, with a particular interest in the works of members of the Beat Generation, such as Jack Kerouac.

 

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The New Yorker: Dept. Of Diplomacy: Second Act : article on my classy, cool & humble cousin. ..

The New Yorker article on one of my cousins in Manhattan (one is Upper E. Side & other Upper W. Side) was a pleasant surprise for me to find = You always want to see good things for people = especially your kin-folk = and someone as classy, cool + humble as she (and I was just saying = an incredible breakfast maker). ..

"Dept. Of Diplomacy: Second Act : The New Yorker:
When friends and acquaintances of Joan Blumberger Olden, a former fashion executive in New York, received an invitation recently to a cocktail party honoring François ...".... http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/06/30/080630ta_talk_mead

Dept. Of Diplomacy: Second Act

www.newyorker.com

Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925

 

 

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NEW: WILCO - "Born Alone"

NEW. Wilco. BORN ALONE song from The Whole Love.

COOL = this video is reminiscent of videos on MTV when MTV was a platform - a vehicle, if you will - which provided aid in the form of video as a new medium to allow the artists added extensions of expression for their songs. ..

And, well, which was also used to SELL MORE RECORDS through TV (music television). ..

UNLIKE what MTV is now = a giant commercial for the facade of some kind of (cheesy) rock-stardom.

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Favorite High School Teacher

This question was posed to the viewers by WorldNewsNow @ 4amish after Red Eye (which had the lovely Diana Falzone on as a guest and Bill Schulz showing us the schwag from FashionWeek). .. It's nice that some shows and media personalities figured out that including their audience (who they rely to tune in) can really add to the conversation (on many levels). ..(For the hottest women in the New everyday Media I gauge by how dynamic and engaging the personality is w/ in the New everyday Media -as well as attractiveness). ..

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From: FRENCH77@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:03:52
To: <worldnewsnow@abcnews.com>
Reply-To: FRENCH77.com
Subject: Favorite High School Teacher

One of my teachers in high school kept in touch w/ me through my family when I was in university and whenever I was published for poetry he invited me to read a collection of my poems for his classes. So I did. I put together a collection and read for all of his classes that day. It was cool.


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