For the chaps plus the chapesses

 

Yes, someone for both species to enjoy. I initially thought that I wasn’t as crazy for the younger sis, as maybe she was the new, “modern”, harsh voiced type, into herself, gives nothing, plus more into “modern” music … but then changed that view.

This is part one of two, chaps and chapesses, the other on the morrow, but tomorrow’s actually preceded this one … younger sis mentions tomorrow’s artist below by the way.

There seems an older bro in the family too. Hope you enjoy..

Tuesday [1 to 5]

(0513) Dark still. American midterms officially today. Also, wonder if IYE is ok. (0651)

 

5. Sacred ground


4. Steve at 1533

  • Maricopa County Claims “Power Related Issues” Causing Vote Center Closures – Resident Says He Was Turned Away From 3 Different Locations: “We’re Getting F*cked With Again”
  • Democrat Agenda: Pack the Supreme Court, Kill the Filibuster, Add New States, and Let Illegals Vote
  • Trump in Iowa: ‘Somalia Has Ruined the State of Minnesota. We Don’t Want Them.’
  • Video Shows Nigerian Youths Chanting for Rifles to Kill Christians at Sunday Worship
  • IRGC Just Got Warned The Hammer Is Coming
  • Too Much Front, Too Few Men: Kupyansk Cracks First
  • COVID vaccines cause cancer, and so do chemicals in our food, water and medicines
  • Far-left Labour activists turned senior politicians are purging government buildings of British history
  • When Democrats Tell You What They’ll Do, Believe Them
  • British Columbia’s Conservative Earthquake Shakes Canada’s Political Landscape
  • Much more.

3. Stopping the scammers


Donna L is a darling but afflicted by that disease which makes people answer their phones, with all sorts of scams designed to be at the other end. It’s not only my preference for typing, which saves the voice and all sorts of germs getting in … it’s also the scamming quotient which prevents me from employing Alexa or Siri. I talk all right … to govt, bank, utilities and the potential for scamming is there too … but the basic principle still stands:

Use a dumbphone and only answer it if the number is in your address book.

2. DAD at 1533

a) Dunkirk (59): Five anti-migrant British nationals have been banned from the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments for six months; no specific acts of violence were established. Apprehended on Thursday, October 29, near Dunkirk, the individuals were travelling in a minibus—dubbed “the battle bus”—and were live-streaming footage of their actions against migrants on social media.

b) Why are only leftists and migrants allowed to be “angry”? German authorities condemned violence at “GenZ-regelt” protests while praising their left-wing objectives, highlighting a double standard in response to riots involving Molotov cocktails and attacks on police.

c) Donald Tusk has refused to retreat over Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal crisis, declaring that ‘there can be no compromise’ as criticism closes in from both the right and his own coalition. The Parliamentary Council denounced Friday’s events as an ‘unlawful coup’, while PSL and Poland 2050 turned to President Karol Nawrocki in search of a way out.

d) UK Labour minister sparks fury calling employers ‘not working people’. Treasury Minister Emma Reynolds sparked backlash by claiming employers cannot be considered “working people” because they are “companies” while defending Labour’s Budget tax increases.

e) Terrifying footage has emerged from Birmingham, where youths took to the streets on Halloween and set off dangerous fireworks in the streets. Police struggled to contain the chaos, and had to issue a Section 60 to expand stop-and-search powers. (JH: Yes of course … pay the insurrectionists, expand stop and search. Well of course.)

1. Americam midterms

Americans for Limited Govt site newsletter:

In elections, midterm and presidential, dating back to 2010, in years the Republicans won the popular vote for the U.S. House of Representatives — in 2024, 2022, 2016, 2014 and 2010 — the Democratic candidate averaged 57 percent of the vote in the Delaware at-large Congressional district. And in years Democrats won the popular vote for the House — 2020, 2018 and 2012 — the Democratic candidate averaged 62.17 percent of the vote in Delaware.

So, if U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) is coming in well above 60 percent of the vote, it will likely be a Democratic win in the House of Representatives nationally, but if it’s below 60 percent of the vote, it could prove to be a challenging night for Democrats.

The problem with that is both the new electronic voter fraud involving ballots generated from other countries … China, Venezuela etc. … plus the massed invader vote, plus the rampant illegality, mainly Demonrat, e.g. Arizona … it’s how far they can successfully cheat. On a slightly different matter but still the same people behind it …lowlifes with low moral compass and an agenda, largely involving gold, oil and $$$$, plus sophisticated organisation over decades, tweaked for today:


Yeeessss … Slotkin is the new Nuland. And is Donny, at that age, and with those gatekeepers, capable of putting a lid on it? You being more au fait with all this than I am, who knows?


There does appear to be some pushback … while blue state Americans, plus some nominally red states, esp. Bush country, are mired in sleaze, voters Reps and Senators do seem to draw the line at death cult terrorists as the candidate. What have Demonrats against Rogers? AIPAC. Interesting race.

Will Iran and Rubio stop Republicans coming out and voting straight red, or will sufficient move themselves to stand in lines for hours, then meet the Demonrat officialdom near the door, then have their vote refused and/or then flipped, electronically? With no later comeback via activist judges?

🍿🍿🍿🍿 and prayers to the correct God this time.

Monday [16 till close of play]

(1617) Not far from evening all.

 

21. A west in darkness


20. The joys of centralisation


19. Moo corner


18. Midterms officially tomorrow

… though the dead, invaders and demonrats would dispute that.


17. Poland


16. DAD at 1532

Belgian Government faces collapse as budget talks break down. A five-party coalition has failed to agree how to find the savings needed to meet EU deficit rules, sending the Prime Minister to the King to offer his resignation.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/11/belgian-government-faces-collapse-as-budget-talks-break-down/

Old Souls Day

 

The idea came out of a musical post I’d intended for elevenses on All Souls Day and not only I was thinking that The Animals in the early to mid 60s had this uncanny ability to sound “ancient” in some ways throughout their catalogue but many reactors to their music touched on that point … one even called Burdon an Old Soul.

Thought I … hmmmm, maybe that might fit into Tuesday’s posts. Looking back now at the first two Bach musical pieces today … I’m no way comparing in quality … and yet … and yet … within the genre itself of folk, blues, soul, rock, rhythm they carved out for themselves in their short career as a unit … their songs really do stand up as something different … quite expertly, if simply, constructed.

Eric Burdon himself, the Newcastle lad who was the band’s vocalist, said they’d been billed as the second band with Chuck Berry and, realising they could never “out-rock” the man, they decided to go more serious, even a bit otherworldly, certainly harking back to much earlier times, even back a century and longer.

The first song below here was a monster hit across the world, deserved in the eyes of many … but in the opinion of one youtube uploader … in Burdon’s very talent lay the seeds of the band’s doom … we saw similar with CCR and to a lesser extent, Steve Winwood. Creative differences, plus money, tore them apart less publicly than with some other bands of the time.

Pity, because many say they “own” the song with this version, just as CCR “owned” Put a Spell on You. Yes … so many versions of HotRS … and now I get onto another prob besetting me last evening in trying to get this post ready.

That’s the problem of the reactors. Why even bother? Well, I want to see how the songs of that era stand up … do they grab younger listeners/watchers? Do they wow certain demographics today? In the case of The Animals, the answer is a resounding yes! This will continue after HotRS:

There’s another partner reaction here from a demographic who really appreciate jazz, soul, blues.

There’s something I must say at this point … I’ve gathered many “regular” young reactors, not so much Boomer/Gen X and they’re the first go-tos every song I’m looking at. The demographics are mainly black women and men, plus white women.

For some reason, I find white men too emotionless and analytical or if Woke left … weirdos.

White, antiWoke men tend to be systems oriented … building things, seeing if they work … and that’s exactly the criticism of Burdon, Parsons and band. They “construct” a song, they create a feeling, an ambience, they can move like robots … so can I at home. Look at this blog … it’s a construction … yet there’s still an ambience.

Eric Burdon’s a Geordie, an Englishman, yet he can certainly feel soul, the blues … in his life, especially the blues … has a keen sense of musical history, while Parsons is consummate at the ethereal, other worldly, even manic, swirling high in the ether … a unique combination, plus the rest of the band were superb.

Then they had lineup changes and immediately lost that “whole band” effect, never got it back. Three years of The Animals we got … that was it.

Which brings me to the second reactor … Stacey is a stalwart … I’ve not seen her do a bad reaction, plus she’s all woman with those gestures. It was amusing, her reaction to the girls screaming, ha ha … she could not stand it. I love her relaxed reactions.

And now we get to the reactor maybe I should avoid … my bread and butter for decades, the eternally sassy, bubbly girl who could either go bad, as they do today … or wunnerful, as I find her reactions. On many of them (not this one), she runs text above, giving much info about band, song, context. She’s a good reactor, though I’m not taken by her playing at the start … not my music.

Still, we’re generations apart … she’s crazy, daughter-type kid … let’s get to the song: