Monday, July 3, 2017

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  1. No offense, Mike, but bring back ABBA.

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    1. Yes, of course I get it! :0)

      But take a look at this!

      https://youtu.be/StDpLge_ITM

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    2. What??? Not a fan of the Boss??? OMG! Well, I guess I'll forgive ya, Jeff. Have a terrific 4th!

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    3. Y'know, as I write this it is 7:30 on a cloudy and cool morning and Laurie is still crashed out with the insidious mutts. I remember when I was in college and people would sing this song at keg parties during the Reagan years when I was at UCONN. I knew at the time that they didn't quite get the lyrics, but this tune became representative of patriotism. And, I gotta tell ya, I think that's fine. I do not think that this tune is anti-American. I think that it incorporates criticism of the US with love of home.

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    4. I just never understand what he's saying. Being a musician, people think I'm a snob, but I never tell anyone what they should or shouldn't like, although I can stand death metal. Springsteen's O.K. I wouldn't stand on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, NJ and shout "he sucks!" I want to live.
      I love Cagney doing Yankee Doodle Boy. Not everyone's cup of apple pie, but I dig it!

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    5. Should read can't, as in cannot, stand death metal. That, or rap going on in the car next to me at a red light. b'boom, b'boom.

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    6. Years ago I invented a new type of music. It was a cross between Country and Rap. I called it Crap.

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    7. Speaking of protest songs, Joan Baez chimes in with her take on "Nasty Man" Trump:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ7N9lEl_E

      At about 1:25 in, we hear (and see) this verse:

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      Fumblin’ and bumblin’ through the halls at night
      Turning every light switch on
      Searching for the room where you used to be the groom
      But she’s packed all her jew-ler-ee and gone.
      Yeah, she’s scooped up all of her jew-ler-ee and gone.
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      I don't like the look of that. Or am I must being sensitive?

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  2. seeing as this is the one large country in the "global north" which treated Jews nicely, damn proud to be an American! Plus Columbus was a crypto-Jew converso (alleged), hence why I will defend him.

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