I love Stevie Wonder. I do. And now I'm sad. When I was a boy a friend put on the headphones and cranked up the stereo really
REALLY HIGH so high it was loud in the room, it would have damaged anybody else, and he asked me to tell him what the words are so I did. And since then if I hear this song which is almost never my whole body automatically demands to sing it. I love his whole catalog.
And when I was over there on YouTube it showed me a praying mantis holding its space at the feeder. Wonder why YouTube would show me such an odd thing as this.
What am I, an ornithologist? If these guys notice the traffic and slap an ad on it I'm not gonna play anymore, 'cause Homey don't play dat.
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I can tell we're not gonna ever get any Bob Dylan posts.
I've loved Stevie Wonder since I was a little kid, and I'm very disappointed in him.
I'd just like to ask him that if a young black kid is followed and confronted by someone who then attacks him, is it really true that you want him to not be allowed to defend himself? A young woman would not be allowed to stand and defend herself against a rapist?
It's just sad.
He was supposed to be the new Ray Charles, but he really had nothing on Baby Ray.
Ray really did have soul.
Wow. This *must* be a blog for commenters. Couldn't even finish the post without going off topic. Love it.
How would he know where he is? For that matter, what color anything or anybody is?
Very odd.
In any case, Stevie, if I ever find any cd of yours in my house I shall burn it. BURN IT WITH FIRE!
The cd, that is. Hopefully, not the house.
I watched that hummingbird get its ass kicked four times and it puts me in stitches every time. I want to put the ending on loop and watch it run.
The thing is, there isn't a trace of "oh I hope it's okay." How evil. I don't even care if it's dead because that was funny. Worth the life of one hummingbird.
That hummingbird explosion was kind of like a jet engine being downed by flak. The bird produced 99% of the energy that brought it down -- the mantis just managed to get caught between the ultra-high tolerance turbine blades.
bago:
Am I, a fan of his too, disappointed ? Nah- the politics of big stars is too predictable and boring but I do appreciate it when one speaks out against the Hollywood groupthink.
That is why many of us appreciated Althouse when she went against the college prof grain.
edutcher, when the Wonder finishes it offers more and I wanted a repeat but something else ran, Another guy too, I think Ray Charles, I don't know, singing it together. And I still like S. Wonder best.
Class, man. It is so cool when his voice takes over.
Charles Barkley zeroes in on a big culprit in the Zimmerman Trayvon narrative.
The main stream press.
HAY! You put me on the blogroll. Far out. That's almost as good as an eggroll.
Lem, I heard a commercial the other day, the guy goes, "Come on, Gary, you can't believe what the lamestream media tells ya." I sounded odd because I thought Palin coined that.
Yea I head that before. on talk radio.
Barkley has always marched to his own drummer. He prides himself on it.
I'm looking for stuff to put on but everything is so crazy is not funny. or maybe i'm not feeling funny just now.
I don't know may I should just put on something like what i'm sensing at the time and don't overanalyze it.
I'll agree to the idea my linking "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul" is due to brainwashing.
As RSM says, or used to it seems to me, Buckley's quote about indoctrination is such you would never know.
Like Tony's death if front of his family, with Meadow walking through the door.
Lem, just wear what you want. No one will notice.
I have a crazy long list of bookmarks, haven't cleaned those up for years. Used to be I kept them nice and neat, now they're just a mish-mash of things that were variously important at some point over the last few years.
I've a mind to just post those one by one, find a few sentences to add, then see what happens.
Maybe not all of them. My Amazon Vine bookmark is mine, all mine, my precious.
That's right. You guys can all wear shorts now.
I am not trying to be other than a contributor.
My contributions may stink, but I believe there is a purpose toward helping me understand myself, at minimum.
Maybe humanity is composed of others who sometimes think like this and then good things happen.
Here is the very funny, extremely foul (with regards to language) thing I was attempting to do before in my poor way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avh2QdAxQjw
Volkswagen commercial. The line is said by a black guy. Significant?
I'm eating sausages with ghost pepper salsa. Leaves the habanero stuff in the dust.
That's right. You guys can all wear shorts now.
ROFLMBAO!
But again, we aren't getting any Dylan, are we?
Nice catch MH.
The main stream press, the full court press, no one can stop Charles Barkley.
Well, except Kevin McHale.
Paddy O, yeah, do that. Could wind up bizarre-O, but interesting at any rate.
Barkley and Keven McHale were both genetic freaks. Barkley was 6'6" 250 pounder who could race down the floor and had an incredible vertical leap. McHale was a mobile 6'10" with absurdly long arms who, when healthy could defend center and power forwards.
Barkley didn't make the '84 Olympic team but he was the 2nd most impressive player. He didn't get along with Bobby Knight, and Knight wanted a team full of team players who could win.
The proof is in the pudding. We won. The 1988 team lost because Thompson couldn't put together an Olympic team. He thought a bunch of great athletes could win it all, but forgot they had to play as a team and put the ball in the basket.
Lem, just put up a mellow song.
What's good.
late night at da Laundromat... With the CA kids.
Sometimes I wonder if someone ASKED most of these celebs what they thought and if, left to themselves, if they wouldn't have addressed the issue. (This seems to happen often about various things... why *not* ask Justin Beiber about the economy?)
Because most people aren't news junkies. They maybe heard the first NBC edited call and some in that vein and Al Sharpton and then someone said... What you gonna DO Stevie? And who is going to say, "Why, I'm going to do nothing on account of I haven't been following the news and haven't researched this." These days you have to DO something or you get attacked and shamed and unfriended.
There have been a couple of celebs (Cosby and some rapper I don't know from Adam - according to Big Hollywood) who have informed themselves enough to step out of bounds and say that this wasn't about racism or that the prosecution didn't have a case (no matter what actually happened.)
Shorter message: Shut up and sing.
In ye olden days, singers, actors, athletes and comedians were looked upon as entertainers. People didn't care about their political opinions, and when show biz folk did utter them, they were rightfully dismissed by serious people.
No one cared what Joe Diamaggio or Ava Gardner thought about the Korean War.
So Stevie wonder has an opinion, well gosh. Y'know a man who writes/sings for living must really have some wise words about politics, economics, foreign policy, and the Federal Reserve.
Andrew Branca who did the Zimmerman trial reporting at Legal Insurrection noted that Florida's Stand Your Ground law is modeled on the laws of 33 other states... Including California. So Stevie Wonder may find his domestic touring options limited.
You guys can all wear shorts now.
Thing is, I don't like to wear shorts. It makes me feel like I'm wandering about in public in my underwear, being fully dressed means having two full-length fabric tubes around my legs. I just don't like being told I can't wear them and be a man, that's... whatever the feminine fashion equivalent of mansplaining is.
Eh, you can't expect artists to have rational political opinions, the artistic temperament is fundamentally fascistic, or rather, fascism is the artistic temperament applied to politics. Aesthetic judgment leads to massively counter-productive results in the intrinsically unsightly realm of the political arena.
But again, we aren't getting any Dylan, are we?
You know....Dylan did write some very iconic and good songs. Almost like poetry set to music. Unfortunately, he has a terrible singing voice. Being almost exactly the same age as AA and in that generational stewpot, I do have some Dylan records. YES...records, not cds.
One of the very few Dylan songs that I can stand to listen to him.
Even before I clicked on the link I knew which song that was, DBQ. Good one!
Well now, you see DBQ and I are going to get along just swimmingly in between our moments of personal recrimination and bitterness.
I like her.
Well now, you see DBQ and I are going to get along just swimmingly in between our moments of personal recrimination and bitterness.
See.....Just like being married.....but without the sex.
;-)
I like her.
Thank you.
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