For a person who enjoys good music as I do, there is so much good music out there. With the impeachment hearings going on I decided to see what the founding fathers might have been listening to if they had their streaming service. I typed in the wrong date, 1790 instead of 1787 and found this marvelous piece. I could have gone with traditional, the up start Mozart or the always in fashion Johann S Bach. Instead I clicked on this Italian composer I had never heard of before and found a wonderful piece of music.
We live in blessed times
What I have learned by doing this weekly music post is that there is so much good music. An orchestra could play every night all year long and never repeat themselves and never play an inferior piece They don’t. They repeat the same “important” composers in the same boring top 40’s style play list.
For something different as in “I never heard of this guy”
Enjoy, Jack
Bartolomeo Campagnoli, His Wiki
jack, for making a difference in our musical education, thanks.
Welp…..A sudden entry for Hokey Western Movie of the Fiscal Quarter
”Charro” 1969, with Elvis as an Eastwoodesque cowboy gunslinger out in the wild and wooly West. He does not sing in the movie. He does sing the title song, written by Billy Strange and Mac Davis; but does not break into song after getting the drop on the badman or whatever. But contained in the script is that tired old scene where the hero is walking along in the middle of nowhere toting his saddle after the bad guys have beat him to a pulp and left him to die. The hero not only manages to rope a wild horse, but saddles and breaks it and rides off to seek his revenge. Seen it in at least 3 other movies so far.
The movie is so bad it’s great.
Jack,
Thank you for this unknown jewel. The cover for my Kindle reads “So many books; so little time”. Music is the same. Being limited by being human, one must come to terms that there is magnificent music, words, sights, things to learn that you run out of time. The big problem is deciding what to see, hear, learn or do next.
Sturgeone,
Many moons ago a friend of my worked on Charro. He always told the story (possibly apocryphal) that Col Tom Parker supplied chickens for a street scene, for a stiff fee of course.
“The hero not only manages to rope a wild horse, but saddles and breaks it and rides off to seek his revenge.”
sturge, but a better take was a reverse plot and far far better movie: the electric horseman. wizened cowboy unbreaks a tame horse and it (not the cowboy) rides off into the sunset
plus one of the best chase scenes ever
A Col. with chickens. Some things do repeat.
The Trump impeachment hearings get the soap opera treatment they need to keep the American people paying attention.
Humanity Has Killed 83% of All Wild Mammals and Half of All Plants
Patd
Re Electric Horseman. Another friend worked on the film and got Jane Fonda’s jacket. She is a size 6. No wonder she still has that impossible figure.
Jamie, but who got redford’s hat & jacket with all the lights?
The End of Infinite Growth
The Italian composers of the 18th Century were accomplished but didn’t get the traction of the Bach’s and Mozart’s of the day. Anyone who watched Amadeus knows of Salieri but think of him as a bit of a joke. He wasn’t.
The Iowa polls are all over the place. Pete has definitely risen from close to zero in the late fall, early summer. Hard to get a bead on the other top candidates.
As to Gov. Edwards, lol. SFB is doing his his magic. Keep it up.
Sondland knows that it’s time to go home—but he can’t just yet. Book of the Day
YOU CANT GO HOME AGAIN
”Hey, Bungalow Bill, what did you kill, Bungalow Bill?
Bullet headed Saxon mother’s son.
Short Story of the Early 21st Century:
”Never Bet the Devil Your Head”
by Edgar Allen Poe
“Never Bet the Devil Your Head”, often subtitled “A Tale with a Moral”, is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The satirical tale pokes fun at the notion that all literature should have a moral[1] and spoofs transcendentalism.
CBSRadio Theater, 1957
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/drama/cbs-radio-workshop/cbs-radio-workshop-57-07-28-78-never-bet-the-devil-your-head
Play big or go home, Gordo.
Jack…. ahhhh…. wonderful piece of music…
I’m not partial to westerns…. but I love those so terrible it’s good campy sci-fi movies. I remember something called Lake Placid where there’s this giant alligator that eats swimming teenagers. Cloris Leachman feeds the damn thing. Any thing with giant snakes is a scream. And I LOVE all the original Godzilla movies. My absolute favorite will always be Godzilla vs Mothra.
I like space westerns, except for the close-up violence. The “Star Wars” movies included, of course, but the best space cowboy was Nathan Fillion in “Serenity.” I’ve yet to see the Seth MacFarlane western, “A Million Ways To Die In The West.”
Warren is moving a tiny, little bit to the center because Mayor Pete is gaining steam. I don’t think her shift really helps Bernie in the long run, because his health is an issue. Bloomberg can throw all the money he wants at the race, he’s a Repug in Dem clothing. But, whomever gets the nomination, I don’t see any third-candidate splitting of the vote this time. Trumpsky is just too awful for those to whom he promised factory and mining jobs; they got zilch for their votes.
So, did Pence read the notes of the July call taken by his assistant? No way to prove that, most likely.
My favorite bitch this election about media putting their thumbs on the scale finally got an airing on AMJoy this morning.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1196135458918371328
had fantasy about twit’s trip to walter reed being a set-up to resign. get doc to say he’s to ill to continue presidency or that he has dementia and therefore can’t be held accountable in criminal case by nysd when he’s out of WH and that dems would be reluctant to impeach anyone with alzheimer’s
but nooo, he’s back to touting what good health he’s in.
Still could be that….whatever he says now, everybody knows he lies all the time.
New action thriller starring Gary Busey in which The President and VP defect to the enemy, and with a cadre of loyal senators in tow attempt to set up a government-in-exile with the help of Sparta……I mean, the enemy.
Between Jack and Jace I’ve put my earballs on some many musics I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of. I figure that’s one of the good things about a community.
6th Democratic Presidential Debate *December 19, 2019* Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Only 6 have qualified so far; Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders.
Jamie, and five of them are losers!
Good thing to know that SFB can plan ahead six months to do a bit of preventative health checking now instead of next year. As people put together timelines, photos, videos, statements (official and from burn phones) from those who are around Walter Reed and the WH, it all sounds like the big fat orange blob was having some type of chest things, no heart just like Cheney so that is off the list. How about a guess that some type of heavy drug use, many say Adderall, caused a bit of a problem when combined with stress from being a criminal.
A day of shredding documents continues. The medium duty shredder is not up to the task that the new heavy duty shredder is doing. Even that one has spells of over heating. Slowly working backwards from this last week to the bags which go back a few years. You need to let certain documents age before shredding. Even though the experts recommend shredding almost anything that arrives in the mail with your address, such as your next best credit card or loan offer, most people do not. For the most part it is okay. But, if you deal with strangers who are interested in you for nefarious reasons, following the shred everything makes sense.
Check with your trash or garbage collection service or company about shredded documents. Some have a way to handle the stuff, with or without shredded plastic (credit cards) or shredded plastic shipping bags labels. Others say bag it in the garbage for the landfill.
BB, I have three shredders, one in each place that I’m likely to discard something. The heavy duty Fellowes machine really gobbles stuff up including thick envelopes with plastic enclosed. I bought a large roll of waste-basket sized light duty plastic bags in which to dispose of the residue. It must go to our landfill. I have banker boxes of stuff upstairs; it’ll have to go to a commercial shredder. Much of it is left overs from long-gone relatives.
Flatus – the ubiquitous bankers boxes. Got ’em. I tried going to the television sponsored community shredding events, but the long lines, one or two box maximum, and the general hassles just were too much. Then I priced the costs at shredding companies or the UPS/Staples/other stores, and came to the conclusion I can buy a lot of heavy duty shredders and spend crummy weather weekends saying goodbye to bad memories or “what is this and why did I keep it?” discussions while the grinders do what they are supposed to do. Also, shredding allows for time to enjoy a glass of wine and some classical music while pondering of how many criminals in the D.C. region spent their time shredding documents. I even bought a comfortable folding chair to sit in during the “let’s make confetti” soiree.
I wound up with a dime-store shredder one time…..in trade I think. I started shredding shit. After awhile I wound up with a bag or two full of shreddings……
I gave it up, recognizing that I had nothing worth shredding.
Bacon grease and a Bic gets the job done, every time. Adult supervision recommended.
…just popped in to remark that Trump spends almost all of his Presidency attacking, impugning, slandering, and undermining fellow Americans. We, the people, are his enemy.
He’s like America’s abusive step-father. He abuses us because we remind him what a piece of shit he is.
Mr Bink : A+
wait i edited it, you might want to re-grade. sorry
As i’ve said before, though, Fred Trump must have really done a number on those kids.
I am a great supporter of fire as an expungement.
So, how is a person who assists Pence a “never Trumper”? Next thing, Trumpsky will be thinking Repugz are conspiring to get Pence into the top spot before the election rolls around.
I hope so, Ms Dallas
BiD, methinks he already thinks that – that is if he thinks at all.
John Oliver discusses the census, why it matters, and the consequences of an undercount.
NEW THREAD