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RC I Dont post so much on the tennis forums anymore, especially that one, much prefer blogging here when i do, havent been watching as much tennis lately, had my mind on other things, spent most of my time on FB lately chatting to friends π ….
Okay…went over and had a look. Ali, he/she is just lashing out and you were available. Whoever that guy is …seems he’s probably going on on the wrong forum with all the “Orewellian” reference.
Stay here — for tennis news. I love Ricky Dimon β€
RC Yeah i will, much prefer the company here anyway π ….
Good. Love you, Ali Wali! Hope you are smiling…
Takes a lotta love…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJn58Izz9cc
RC Love that song, love David Gray, love that album, was listening to White Ladder this afternoon ironically π
Wow.wwwwwow. Strange isn’t it?? Yesterday I heard Babylon on a radio station while in my car. Then last night I started listening to the whole album, White Ladder (what other one is there π ?? )
Of course I was catching up on tennis and when I do, my bracket and internet tennis friends come to mind. So…It must be ESP with us. That happened to me with amy here some time ago and a Margaret Atwood book.
Golly, it’s all random, right? Or is it. What’s the chances of both of us tuning into a David Gray CD from 1999-2000? For me, all music is divided by pre- September 9/11 and post… post 9/11 music conjures up a happier, more innocent time in life, I think. Cheers, Alison my thoughts are with you!
shoot! meant pre 9/11 music brings a happier, more innocent time to mind — NOT POST 9/11!
ESP might be more known as “remote viewing” now? Some people have been shown to be quite good at it. Obviously not me, tho!!! I’d be a whole lot better at predicting if I was good at it!!
Okay…one more from White Ladder – Babylon. Pre 9/11. To an easier time.
let go in our hearts, let go in our heads… or maybe I’ve got the lyrics wrong again π
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTMws6srlt0
“This is a low-flying panic attack”….gosh I’m such a Radioheadie — 2.5 decades later — I still go back to something from Thom Yorke at the end of the day ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k
RC love this version of this song https://youtu.be/CzmfXgtbxEs
^ Also love the original though too https://youtu.be/bjNDLlZqes0 ^
I Only knew Adelle for singing Rolling in The Deep, didnt realize Aretha Franklin did it originally love both versions RC ….
RC Thats what we do at our camps, burn the wicker man, to bring in the new seasons, dont worry though we dont burn anybody or anything live lol π ….
hehehe….I’d love to join you in you in your earthy rituals!
RC This is what we do, https://youtu.be/74DeoFjmA74, nobodies in their though dont worry lol ….
https://youtu.be/Yv-bnEbMgxo
Alison,
Way back in 2003, happily for me, Radiohead came out with Hail to the Thief.
What Wiki says about it:
The album was self-produced by the band and…. Songwriter Thom Yorke wrote many of the album’s lyrics in response to the War on Terror and the resurgence of right-wing politics in the Western part of the world at the turn of the millennium, and said that the album expresses “frustration and powerlessness and anger, and the huge gap between the people that put themselves in control and the people that allegedly voted for them”, alluding to the controversy surrounding the 2000 United States presidential election.
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At 23:36 Thom says, “That’s how they get you. When people stop participating in democracy, that’s when fascism occurs; and that’s when idiots get in charge.” ο»Ώ
Deja vu, 2017. The country is still at it! But Thom and Johnny make angst sound ethereal in this unplugged in Paris 2003 version ?
I know, I’m OTT posting the entire performance π just skip to No Surprises. It’s so killer at 27:58 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWZdi4Atr-U
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Hail to the Thief is one of my favorite Radiohead albums, and I think is often overlooked with their prolific body of work! π
Hi Kevin π
Hail to the Thief has been cued up in my car for the commute to work since January. Agree with you about Hail to the Thief often overlooked and underrated. Over time maybe that will change. It feels like the most enduring of his work lately.
Moon-shaped pool only had two tracks that I revisit: Burn the Witch always makes me smile, then there’s Daydreamer, which hits eerily deep and still scares me a little when I listen and watch the video. Probably it’s starting to grow on me – that’s how it works. He’s on the same page as I am politically and possibly as freaked-out. The impact on coral reefs and so on…ice caps melting…
?…lol, this could be a tennis fanatic debate. Federer, Nole, Rafa is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrCGgA0bEY
RC I Loved this Radiohead song, it turns out that guitar rift was an accident, and the group like it so much, that they left it in https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk
Hey Alison ?
Creep was the first I’d heard of them. And back then there wasn’t youtube – so… I didn’t purchase my own CD until Kid A came out and by that time it had taken a boyfriend having them on day and night, listening to them over and over, until discovering the addiction was mine π In 1993-4…I was into a lot of music that was NOT Radiohead – it was rarely at steady at a good running and work-out tempo. When Hail to the Thief (2003) came out it grew on me fast – every track. As mentioned, the bond was about a mutual political perception at the time. I had to track back and realize how much I loved much of their earlier music too. The 2007 CD, In Rainbows, had too many teenie-bop tracks, however… enough of my favorites are mixed in that I keep it around: Weird Fishes Arpeggio, Faust Arp, Jigsaw Falling (posted that one to you a couple years ago on tennis-x) and Reckoner. I have to skip the bits connected to the soundtrack of Twilight, lol.
I’m mesmerized by this Weird Fishes piano cover. It’s a nice meditation piece – very Jungian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGPfH10zmI
Wierd Fishes Arpeggi — CD version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IABEgPT89-o
I must be a teenie bopper then.
Absolutely love pretty much everything from Radiohead and Tom yorke but in rainbows is probably my fav right up there with OK Computer.
I consider Pablo Honey and The Bends to be way more pop but it’s all fantastic IMHO and way above 99% of everything else put to some form of polymer or ones and zeros.
Ahh sweet music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOwjVVSNOtY
Jack Black’s best role…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECyX8A3iP0
Hahahaha…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc3TYIIpOZM
Lol yes. Parr of you anyway…still teenie bopper π
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wepAxJ6BN30
Very groovy. Good one!
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Why are you needing to be approved I wonder?
Mind you, if I was moderator, I may have moderated you for dissing In Rainbows. π
I really like it because of the mix in songs, some pull you in right away and others pull you in over time.
Have you seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAWEG0AhA_M
Sorry, this one better…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_a8f24UJI
Not available in my country! I hate that.
if it’s a version of Weird Fishes tho…I’ve probably seen it!
That’s a shame.
No, it’s In Rainbows “From The Basement”.
Performed live in a studio setting (with no audience).
This is a popular useful chrome browser addon that allows you to access websites blocked in your country…
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unlimited-free-vpn-hola/gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio?hl=en
Posting from a different device requires approval, of course. Soon I will add another device — I’m sure it will throw me off for awhile.
You’re probably using a slightly different e-mail address.
I had that problem once when I entered a different e-mail on a new device when I thought it was the sams.
Yes…certainly it was the email with that gravatar!
Sometimes it’s a browser problem tho….I thank-you for the helpful tip which I’ll pass along to the geek who I’ll pay to fix things. Technology has gone beyond me, it’s infinitely boring I can’t do it myself. How these devices work isn’t – I used to try to keep up…my dream is to survive off grid. Sometimes I pray for a solar flare or a EMP that sends everything back to hunter gatherer time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nc9pfpsWDw
“I really like it because of the mix in songs, some pull you in right away and others pull you in over time.” says Hawkstradamus.
Exactly. A year ago I heard Daydreaming…it was too creepy. Now I can’t get enough of it lol…
Poor Shawn Spicer and his latest press conference ? Spicy might not be around much longer…I’ll miss him when he goes – for his foot in mouth clangers he’s ended up being the only bright spot in the Trump adm.
I think he should stay because he represents the party accurately.
I also think he will stay. As will Bannon.
Media are being played.
This time I think Spicey really stepped in it. You can’t mess with the Holocaust. My father could have told Spicey about how the smell of burning flesh became stronger as he and the other American soldiers got closer to the concentration camp. He had to take pictures of the atrocities for the Nuremberg trials.
It’s mind boggling that Spicey or anyone for that matter, could say something that ignorant and stupid. The whole point with Hitler and the Nazis was to find a way to kill the Jews more efficiently. That’s how they came up with Zyklon B gas and the ovens. They created a way to kill people on a mass scale. The world has never seen anything like it before or since.
Sometimes I wonder what goes through the mind of someone who makes such an idiotic comment.
Hope you are feeling well, Nny!
It’s not getting any easier to stomach reality and making the adjustment is a full-time struggle. I’m going to a town hall meeting tonight with like-minded Idahoans vs right-wing con men. That’s all I can do. Keep trying.
The march in support of Science is coming up soon too, I think…that’s an important one around here! Geez…
rc,
Yes, I am feeling much better and am recovering well. Thanks for asking!
I don’t think that Spicey is the worst of the Trump administration. He just put his big foot in his mouth and made an incredibly insensitive comment about the Holocaust. At least he has apologized for it, which is more than can be said for Trump and his endless hateful, misogynistic comments. You have to be a decent human being to apologize and he doesn’t qualify.
It never gets easier watching this all play out. Now we are supposed to believe that Trump grew a conscience when he saw pictures of those dead babies gassed by Assad. So he sends some missiles and thinks he’s done something. He has no core beliefs or principles. He just does what he thinks will make him look strong or be more popular.
The worst of the Trump administration is Steve Bannon. That man is toxic with a truly hateful and bigoted agenda. He is dangerous. I would like to see him out, but I don’t think Trump will do it. The other cancer in the Trump presidency is Kushner, Trump’s moron of a son-in law. This guy is not qualified to be in the position that Trump has put him in. No experience on the world stage dealing with foreign countries and international relations. He knows how to make money, honestly or dishonestly. I don’t recall anyone voting for Kushner or Ivanka. But they are greedy and corrupt, just like Trump.
Hang in there and keep fighting the good fight! We must take back our country! People need to get out in record numbers for the midterm elections in 2018!
Nny,
Thanks, you too — hang in there. I watched Trump’s press conference…he really is all over the map – there’s no telling which way he flips on any given day. And yet, even though I realize that fact about him, it was still remarkable to hear him announce that the United Nations is no longer obsolete. Because he’s in the mood and says so… LOL…remember what he said about the UN before he was elected and had so many Trump supporters (Bannon types) super excited about promising to put an end to the UN hahahaha
But his complete flip on the UN does nothing to calm my fears about him being in charge of the H-bombs and carrying around the nuclear code brief case. It is nice for the moment that he’s declared his support for our allies.
But…at the same time he makes a point of saying the Pacific Fleet is heading toward North Korea for gods sake.
He’s so shallow…we all know he is! This is a big reality TV show starring himself – his ratings are what matter the most.
Okay…I’m outta here for now!
My chrome browser is down and infected with the Zeus virus so this post will need to be approved π
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Nny,
First I hope you are continuing to feel better and stronger! And if you are, I’m asking for your opinion (I think you are more moderate than myself). Certainly I respect your knowledge and opinion and I think we are close to being on the same page and I appreciate your viewpoints and history.
It’s this morning’s episode of Democracy Now which featured in part, Stephen Cohen, New York University; and Jonathan Steele, former Moscow correspondent for the Guardian. Have you heard this side of the Syrian chemical weapons story and if you have, what do you think and feel about this? Frankly, it terrifies me — not knowing where the truth falls on all sides — and feeling acutely aware of what is at stake. To me all parties are in part lying and also telling some truth. And I tend to in part believe the Russians at this point, having been mislead too many times by my own government! Back in 2003, I came to have no doubt in my mind that the Bush Administration was lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the need to go to war was a gross mistake on every level. But I am naturally Anti-War…in fact, any time our administration insists on regime changes around the world I have to think it’s a disaster in the making and join a march in protest. (especially since the Idaho Republicans cancelled the town hall at the last minute last night – they can’t even be bothered – ****!)
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2017/4/13