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ominous gurgling from the construction site. what's that about
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the canucks car flags are back baby
#i was behind this guy for literally 20 minutes. the nucks flag flapping away brought me a lot of joy#canucks#hockey
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If I ask nicely who will rb this telling me what is the last song u listened to 🥺
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"The Need For Topical Music", written by Phil Ochs
Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music.
It is somewhat ironic that in this age of forced conformity and fear of controversy the folksinger may be assuming the same role. The newspapers have unfortunately told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the cold war truth so help them, advertisers. If a reporter breaks the "code of the West” that used to be confined to Hoot Gibson movies, he’ll find himself out on the street with a story to tell and all the rivers of mass communication damned up.
The folksingers of today must face up to a great challenge in their music. Folk music is an idiom that deals with realities and not just realities of the past as some would assert. More than ever there is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available.
I have run into some singers who say, “Sure, I agree with most topical songs, but they're just too strong to do in public. Besides, I don't want to label myself or alienate some of my audience into thinking I'm unpatriotic.”
Yet this same person will get on the stage and dedicate a song to Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger as if in tribute to an ideal they are afraid to reach for. Those who would compromise or avoid the truth inherent in folk music are misleading themselves and their audiences. In a world so full of lies and corruption, can we allow our own national music to go the way of Madison Avenue?
There are definite grounds for criticism of topical music, however. Much of the music has been too bitter and too negative for many audiences to appreciate, but lately there has been a strong improvement in both quantity and quality, and the commercial success of songs like “If I Had a Hammer” have made many of the profit seekers forget their prejudices.
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. A case in point is Pete Seeger's classic “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” which brought a message of peace to millions, including many of the younger generation who do not consider themselves involved in politics.
Folk music often arises out of vital movements and struggles. When the union movement was a growing, stirring and honest force in America, it produced a wealth of material to add to the nation's musical heritage. Today, there regrettably seem to be only two causes that will arouse an appreciable amount of people from their apathetic acceptance of the world; the Negro struggle for civil rights and the peace movement. To hear a thousand people singing "We Shall Overcome" without the benefit of Hollywood's bouncing ball is to hear a power and beauty in music that has no limits in its effect.
It never ceases to amaze me how the American people allow the hit parade to hit them over the head with a parade of song after meaningless song about love. If the powers that be absolutely insist that love should control the market, at least they should be more realistic and give divorce songs an equal chance.
Topical music is often a method of keeping alive a name or event that is worth remembering. For example many people have been vividly reminded of the depression days through Woody Guthrie’s dust bowl ballads. Sometimes the songs will differ in interpretation from the textbooks as with “Pretty Boy Floyd”.
Every newspaper headline is a potential song, and it is the role of an effective songwriter to pick out the material that has the interest, significance and sometimes humor adaptable to music.
A good writer must be able to picture the structure of a song and as hundreds of minute ideas race through his head, he must reject the superfluous and trite phrases for the cogent powerful terms. Then after the first draft is completed, the writer must be his severest critic, constantly searching for a better way to express every line in his song.
I think there is a coming revolution (pardon my French) in folk music as it becomes more and more popular in the U. S., and as the search for new songs becomes more intense. The news today is the natural resource that folk music must exploit in order to have the most vigorous folk process possible.
(Broadside #22, March 1963)
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sorta becoming one with the soil, this one
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Fidan Zaman (Azerbaijani, based Baku, Azerbaijan) - Paintings from her travel diary called The Sea, Paintings: Acrylic
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shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.
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my thoughts on this hilarity:
thorpey as bob
yeah. yeah. where have you been, my blue-eyed son? i don't think it gets better than this. casting limitations being what they are, we certainly can't rely on acting. manitoba, minnesota, whatever.
alarie as joan
this is the least vampiric photo of the guy i could find. maybe he kind of looks like late 60s short hair era joan if you squint severely. he speaks french. maybe he'll sing "pauvre ruteboeuf" and everything will be ok. god i hope he can sing.
wonger as pete seeger
hmm. this might be the most critical case of adaptational attractiveness ever committed to film lmao. does the fact of his captaincy lend him some old man folkie credence? i don't know. the audition must've been something else.
logan bairos as phil ochs
it took me HALF AN HOUR to find a half-way decent picture of the guy. then i gave up.
cameras appear to be allergic to him, which may not bode well for this particular casting decision. i hope he can act!
conner roulette as robbie robertson
charismatic enough to pull off the big screen. can grow a reasonable muzzy for a junior hockey player. has a taste for country music [what hockey players don't, never mind], which would help with the band's americana gig. importantly for the role, he's Indigenous—half Cree and half Ojibwe.
hyde davidson as joni mitchell
the only person more impossible to find good pictures of than logan bairos? doesn't matter for a cameo! get some hair straightener in there and he'll go right from hyde to jekyll joni!
as a bonus, op finagled up a janis joplin cameo as well and decided to cast dylan ernst.
why the hell not! o lord won't you buy me a mercedes benz!!
final conclusion: if this movie were real, i don't think hyde davidson would be the thing that killed it stone dead.
ok it's intermission with the canucks so im giving everyone my very considered opinions on casting the bob dylan movie (note that i have no idea what time period the film actually covers) solely with whl players:
bob dylan: ty thorpe. ex-dub. who cares
joan baez: eric alarie. he's maybe 6'1" or whatever but it's fine, we can put everyone else on apple boxes
pete seeger: trevor wong (i've given this absolutely no thought, but i have a fondness for him so)
phil ochs: logan bairos.
robbie robertson: conner roulette!
joni mitchell (because i want a cameo at least): hyde davidson...he literally would either kill this well or kill the movie stone dead. beautiful
you can tell the canucks are destroying my soul because im actually posting this for an audience of zero lmao
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hipness purgatory
indie sleaze
global village coffeehouse
supergraphic ultramodern
memphis-milano
internet awesomesauce
pacific punk wave
utopian scholastic
frasurbane
curly girly
pastel southwestern
mission school
#utopian scholastic bc of all the childhood nostalgia#it was really funny seeing that patricia houlihan poster tho bc sometimes i'll just drive past one lmao
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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.
The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.
BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.
Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.
“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”
Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.
“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.
In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."
-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024
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Saw a sibling poll and needed to expand it because I fit, like. Mid youngest, youngest in theory only child in practice, and adopted. And I think they all have their own unique parts in the sibling ecosystem.
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