Carol Rutz’s Annexe

This song has been in my head. I might as well pass it along to you.

After the Mutiny of Holy Week 2008, we were without Issues. But we got great news, landlubbers!

Looks like someone has formed Pirate Christian Radio and the guys from Issues Etc are coming back soon!

And I have just the perfect song for you all! Some guy made a mash up of Pirates of the Caribbean with Adam Ant’s Jolly Roger. Just the thing for all of us! Arrrrrrr!

Got word via Fark that Dick Martin of Laugh-In passed away about 8 hours ago. A bit of sad news, since I was introduced to his type of comedy by my middle school vice principal in the early 90s. He mentioned that there will be a Laugh-In special that week and I tuned in. I loved the bits of quick and colorful subversive humor.

It was the clever wordplays, the digs at cultural foibles, and the fast-paced clips that make Laugh-In a cultural icon. Contrast Rowan & Martin with the crudeness of recent comedy. After watching the episode, I realized that my vice principal introduced me to (for a lack of terminology) “grown-up humor” and its accompanying culture.*

Here are two Laugh-In Quickies, complete with a President Nixon cameo. You bet your sweet bippy that none of the presidential candidates had the guts to say “Sock It To Me”.

Good night, Dick, and thank you for the laughs.

*Wes Clark had experienced that too, but he refers it as the patio culture, as he entered that grown-up realm via the backyard patio.

For Lucciola: fast forward and listen to Kitaro’s Sacred Journey I [Pilgrimage I].

This reminds me of some sunsets I’ve seen before moving to Indiana. It was also the song which carried me through the last month of Sem in 2005. I must have listened to it every day.

Despite that today is the first day of spring, it will snow tomorrow.

When I was in the Valley, one Spring tradition observed would be KROQ playing Slow Children’s Spring in Fialta. (This year, they will also play President Am I on Election Day.)

I grew up in North Hollywood, in a Chicana/Latino heavy community. I remember Limon 7 and Vero Mango, before the lead scandals. I remember the Froozles, “Go See Cal”/”Pussy Cow”, and Pippi Longstocking marathons on Channel 5. Most of all, I remember the music.

This song first came on when we kids ran around the sprinklers on the lawn, on a hot afternoon. I did not know who sang it…but I can remember that tone. It was circus-like and cheerful, akin to eating SweetTarts. I thought I’ve heard it years later at the swap meet at Saugus.

It turned out that this song was known as “My Forbidden Lover” by Tapps, and it hailed from Canada. It was quite popular with the Aqua-Net crowd.

Just think…it was about 25 years since I ran through the sprinklers, and now I found it, while awaiting a snowstorm in Indiana. I’m planning to get the instrumental version. Whee!

“As White As They Come” is heavy on esoteric mysticism and synthesizers. The music expressed personal destruction upon enlightenment and reformation.

Been listening to Morrissey and The Smiths, and I figured you guys need to discover why he has a cult following in Los Angeles and among the Chicanos.

It’s a cold day here at the Fort, plus Symposia week is ending tomorrow. The Irvine classmates were there, give or take a few. All of us present except me are working within the Synod. I told them about my computer work and plans to work within the Open Source movement. They thought it was great and they understood.

Here is something that I would listen to when I was in Irvine. Despite the sunny weather, Southern Californians enjoy the dark and classic Gothic sounds of Robert Smith. This song is one of my favorites, and I figure that you would like this video before Mr Smith donned his makeup.

We know what Fox News did to Dr Paul is ridiculous and despicable– in fact, even the New Hampshire GOP withdrew its official endorsement from the forum.

And to show insult to injury, Frank Luntz is suspected of using the same people for different “random focus groups”. The thing is that it is supposed to be composed of undecided voters. Instead…we have Chuck.

It would be one thing if Mr Luntz would disclose that his groups does contain members from prior sessions. But the assumption is that it is a *fresh* focus group, with new members. That is very misleading.