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Monthly Archives: September 2011
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Hustling the tourists in Florence, Italy
James Baldwin on Public Education: “It’s very hard to talk about education in this country without talking about the whole society in which it mainly fails to occur.”
From a 1973 discussion at UC Berkeley. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piGSgnSqO5E&feature=related Transcript: It’s very hard to talk about education in this country without talking about the whole society in which it mainly fails to occur. You can hardly talk about schools without talking … Continue reading
Janis Joplin, “Try”
Live in Germany, 1969. Love the breakdown that starts at 3:12. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLyWd6tnEPM&feature=related
“Join me in a pledge that you will never rest until this old God-hating, Christ-hating, whiskey-soaked, Sabbath-breaking, blaspheming, infidel, bootlegging old world is bound to the cross of Jesus Christ by the golden chains of love.”
Recent thinking about the connection between MMA and Christianity (useful articles here and here) led back further to Muscular Christianity, the late 19th and early 20th Century movement that held that a strong, physically active body and vigorous masculinity leads … Continue reading
South Korean Poplocking
Another nice video from Yak films. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKgXXIV6ns&feature=related
Test ‘Em All
In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act passed Congress with bipartisan support. George W. Bush signed it into law in January 2002. The main thrust of the bill was to introduce a nationwide testing regime for students in the third … Continue reading
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Shadow of Giants
Next to the Tiber River, Rome
Furry Lewis, “Shake ‘em on Down”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBHgWSS9WY
Gary Clark Jr., “Bright Lights”
A couple years ago a random string of events led to a Friday afternoon spent at the Lonestar Rod & Kustom Roundup at the county fairgrounds in Austin. Besides the cars, bbq, beer and tattoos, the other main attraction — … Continue reading
The Origins of the Term “Student-Athlete”
From Taylor Branch’s article “The Shame of College Sports”, which argues that the NCAA should pay the athletes that have made it a billion-dollar business. Worth reading the whole thing. Below is just one fascinating excerpt: Today, much of the … Continue reading
Josefus, “Gimme Shelter”
Among other things I’ve been wasting time on lately, one has been scouring for good examples of scuzzy proto-metal. Don’t know why I’d never heard of the Houston band Josefus. Their 1970 album, Dead Man, is solid. Here’s them putting … Continue reading
Some Gospel Funk: The Relatives, “Let’s Rap”
I’ve been dipping a toe lately into the gospel funk genre. Actually, the pool is only about big enough for a toe as the style never really took off, probably quite rightly. But this video from 1974 is an interesting … Continue reading
WINNER OF THE 2011 WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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“The Hustle” Wins the 2011 Washington Book Award for Biography/Memoir
Simply a huge honor. More details in The Seattle Times. There will be a party with other award winners on Oct. 12 at the Hugo House in Seattle from 6-8 p.m. Please come if you are in town.
Mad Professor, “What’s Going on?” (Dub)
Love the way he picks apart a song. Playing live in NYC this Friday. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zb7dIn_1U&feature=related
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Rachid Taha, “Barra Barra”
Never get tired of this song. Taha wrote it about the conditions in his native Algeria, but it seems just as well a pretty decent song to summarize the last decade. Translation: Rachid Taha – “Everybody Out!” Everybody out! There’s … Continue reading
The Post-9/11 “State of Exception”
While there’s no need to add to the bombardment of 9/11-retrospective media, I found this Mark Danner article useful in framing the changes the country — especially in its legal foundations — has gone through over the last decade. A … Continue reading
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A thought on Sunday afternoon
“Roll the Dice” By Charles Bukowski if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. … Continue reading
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Jimi Hendrix, “Machine Gun”
I don’t know why this song never seems to make it onto the Hendrix “greatest hits” albums that come out every year or so. My guess is that it gets overlooked because it’s on the “Band of Gypsys” album, not … Continue reading
Dub Invasion in NYC
The Dub Invasion Festival kicks off tonight and runs through next Friday at various venues in NYC. It will feature a whole lot of fantastic events, including shows by Adrian Sherwood, Mad Professor, and the legendary Lee “Scratch” Perry. The … Continue reading
Seattle Police Violence Investigated by the Justice Department
When I was working on The Hustle, I heard a litany stories about Seattle Police abuses against minorities dating from the 1950s to the present. That these accounts all came from people who lived in the Central Area and South Seattle … Continue reading
