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Ashley Judd recited a "Beat poem" at the Washington Women's March called "#NastyWoman." Intrigued, I looked for the original. I couldn't find the text but I did find a reading by the teenaged poet, Nina Mariah:

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Where did the "Beat" label come from? Perhaps one of our beret-wearing readers can help me, daddio.

My first thought, as a codger, was:

Beatniks and politics, nothing is new

A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view

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The song that went viral for The Strawberry Alarm Clock in 1967 was not sung by the drummer, but instead by 16 year-old Greg Munford, who was attending the recording session as a visitor.

Full lyrics after the jump. Test your knowledge/memory

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Faking Bad Update: The Vesper

Chip's improved photo (see comments)

The Vesper*

'A dry martini,' [Bond] said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' 

'Oui, monsieur.' 

'Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?' 

'Certainly, monsieur.' The barman seemed pleased with the idea. 

'Gosh, that's certainly a drink' said Leiter. 

Bond laughed. 'When I'm...er...concentrating,' he explained, 'I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. This drink's my own invention. I'm going to patent it when I can think of a good name.' 

—Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1953)

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*This one's destined for a retail display

Hideaway - Kiesza

 

I happen to like this tune a lot, but the dancing on this video is just amazing.

"Kiesza is originally from Calgary, Alberta, and she was a codebreaker for the Royal Canadian Navy before she switched to a career in music."

Wow.

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Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain" always reminded me of Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game."  If you're a fan of both songs, perhaps you've thought the same or maybe you knew it already. Not until tonight did I realize that they are explicitly related. Joni Mitchell explained:

In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favourite haunt, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get back in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. 'Cause he was over the hill. (...) So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called 'The Circle Game.' Link

Here's a video version of "Sugar Mountain" that includes some rare before and after banter by Young which usually gets deleted in compilations:

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La Mème Choisi

I like that video because the people (tourists? Strasbourg townies?) seem so bemused.

Just wait until they get a load of the minaret planned for the Grand Mosque in their town:

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It depends on whom you ask.

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Song lyrics after the jump

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I saw this linked at TOP (major LOLs in the morning):

Tiny Detectives

I just started watching "True Detectives"

h/t Saint Croix

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For all the separatists and their elk:

Der Sommeschlacht is a great word.

Added: a 1991 track from the band Kurt Cobain called "the best band in the world" -- Scotland's Teenage Fanclub:

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Heard through the bovine in another thread:

Bovine: "My envy runs deep for that wood pile
You have an exceptionally nice wood shed."
Biker: "People never said that about me when I was younger and single.

That reminded me of a favorite movie called "Cold Comfort Farm":

She Was A Beer Drinking Woman

California Dreaming... again

A different take

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Lyrics after the jump.

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The words to that 1965 hit song are almost 3,000 years old. What makes words so eternal?

May Flowers

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Bang a gong...

Get it on...

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Would you like to rule the world?  How about your own world?

I think her cover is better than the original. YMMV

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Ever notice the heartbeats and crickets at 52 seconds?