(1657) Almost evening all.
16. She’s been consistent
… it’s not been jumping on a bandwagon.
15. Moo corner
14. Eyes wide shut
13. Govt to control youtube for our benefit
12. Free school milk
11. Running scared, hiding away
Wanted something more than official gun salutes and formal celebrations … wanted some real Americana as a 70s boy might have experienced it … the feeling of total freedom … so hard to get across to people today.
But also wanted it reacted to by a younger person who nonetheless got all the jokes. There were two very good black reactors I often watch … they got the groove the band laid down, start to finish, they got the synth, they could not understand the singer … whereas this reactor could … coz he’s a different demographic.
It’s a bit like some mates trying to play some garage music … yep, the groove’s great, the singer speaks his set of available lyrics, then has to think what to say after that … quite humorous, quite amateurish … garage … I love it … a bit like solos in the Sunday jazz, not knowing what’s coming next … so they invent something.
It’s carried by the band and the singer’s obsession with night trips on the highway … I remember them well. In SoCal on t’other coast, I did just this in my Sunbird convertible, down by Oceanside, wind through the balding pate under the cap … it was so FREE, so full of possibilities, meet some girl, met six.
The reactor, already being part of the demographic, different generation, just smiles at the different things pulled by the band. I’m thinking this video is a tribute to what America once was. But more than that, it’s so me, Jimbo tearing down the highway to the groove, gal or mate minding the cassette player … always the core groove, the pulse of life.
Great music in a classical sense? Hell no … but as a slice of 70s Americana … perfect I’d say. Anyway, it’s my tribute to America on this day.
It’s a noir and took some finding … there really was not a great choice today. This seems to be ok.
(1134) Have a good elevenses. I’ve rewritten the “For newer readers” opener under the sidebar pic. (1228)
10. Moo corner
9. John Cleese corner
8. Jimbo corner
7. No truer words
6. IYE corner at NOWP
a. ”Venezuela Kicks Out Clinton Foundation For Trafficking Children Amid Earthquake Chaos”
https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/venezuela-clinton-foundation-child-trafficking
b. ”A federal judge in Texas called a protest outside an ICE facility “an assault on democracy,” then handed nine demonstrators 30 to 100 years in prison.
The charge was terrorism. The theory was that they were an “antifa cell.” An officer was shot that night and survived. Prosecutors called the whole thing a premeditated attack. The defense called it a protest.
This is the first case built on the new presidential memo labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.” The template exists now. They’ll use it again….but on Data Center / AI protests.
Details below:”
https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-287476780
Precedent set to be abused by corrupt judges. Allegedly.
… which eventually became Streamline Moderne. Whilst in music, my era is early to late Baroque, esp. in chamber music, using basso-continuo … in art, imho, surrealism, art deco and streamline can’t be bettered … not to mention ladies’ and gents’ fashions.
Sadly, this short doc suffers from that egregious American habit of trying to drown out the narration with ugly noise, seen by the uploader, somehow, as “mood music”. Nice looking though with the sound turned off.
(0716) Morning all … US Anniversary … other than that, not a lot newsworthy this morning. (0851)
5. Lord T sends
No url, sorry readers. I’d no way say Lord T is tech-challenged, not at all (he’d cybernetically punish me if I suggested that) … it’s just that he’s a “backend” techie and I’m a “frontend” user … that’s all it is. 😎
4. Steve at 1430
3. Sent by Toodles
2. DAD at 1430
a) Video shows white Teen arrested after attack as three black men [who attacked him] walk away. Birmingham Police have defended an officer’s actions….
b) AfD leader vows to restore German-Russian ties when she becomes Chancellor….
c) Iran shuns European leaders at Khamenei state funeral….
d) The UN’s selective silence betrays Women again. For decades, the United Nations has presented itself as the world’s foremost institutional defender of women against violence, war, and oppression. That claim has now been tested—and found wanting.
dd) Andy Burnhan’s involvement in the Police ‘Operation Hexagon’ into Grooming Gangs in Manchester, and the silence thereafter.
All right, readers, going with this one today, a more political roundup on Sunday, ok?
America 250 on July 4th. Anyone reading the real history knows it was probably just meant to happen. To American cousins, bros and sisses … celebrate, guys! (Pic American Museum & Gardens)
Pic from American Museum and gardens