Music odds and ends

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

In my movie gem vault I have a treasured film called 'Romeo Is Bleeding' starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin and Juliette Lewis. 

 

A brilliantly crafted tale of police corruption and gangland underworld power struggles. A trailer...

 

 

Daryl Hall and John Oats, "Romeo Is Bleeding" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self."

 

- Hamilton Mabie

 

Andrews Sisters and Dan Dailey, "In The Good Old Summertime" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."

 

- Walter Savage Landor

 

In 1969, a James Bond movie, 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' featured this musical composition by the legendary Louis Armstrong...

 

Louis Armstrong, "We Have All The Time In The World" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

 

- Thomas A. Edison

 

Kid Rock, "Born Free" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

 

- Henry David Thoreau

 

Big Mark's spoon cover of Bob Seger's, "Roll Me Away" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

A man asks a psychiatrist, "How do you select who should be admitted to your facility?" The psychiatrist replies, "We fill a bathtub with water and give the person a spoon, a cup, and a bucket. Then we ask the person to empty the bathtub." The man smiles, "Ah, I understand, if you are sane you would take the bucket." The psychiatrist replies, "No, a sane guy pulls the plug of the tub to drain the water. Do you want a room with or without a balcony?"

 

The Ventures, "Bongo Rock" ;

 

 

Edited April 8 by Avoiceinthecrowd

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

Man has been intercepting communications from the dawn of civilization. We can imagine the ways.

 

The rider of the horse speeding across the frontier to deliver mail bribed or threatened to give someone access to the bag holding the mail.

 

Then motorized mail then airmail. Telegraph intercepts and forgeries then phones and on and on.

 

But what about intercepting pigeons to read or swap the paper message rolled up and fastened to the bird's leg.

 

Can we imagine some clever person setting up a discrete kiosk about halfway between the two points the pigeons travel and lure the birds in with special and very aromatic seed mixtures then read or swap the message?

 

People have told me that pigeon communications are basically tamperproof. All of them seem to think the bird operators are uncorruptable, that they can't be bought.

 

Can one pay off one end without the other end noticing or can one buy both ends? Can anyone keep the fact of pigeons used to communicate a secret? Were people back then paying closer attention to things flying by?

 

For sure there were less distractions and flying things were food so a keen eye in the sky seems to be expected.

 

The historical records I have looked into invariably describe the use of pigeons to communicate as safe and reliable.

 

In a modern setting, in the plot to the movie, 'Ghost Dog' the mob were sending out hit messages by pigeon. From 'Ghost Dog'...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

 

- Henry David Thoreau

 

Bob Seger, "Roll Me Away" ;

 

 

Edited April 9 by Avoiceinthecrowd

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"All men are different, and it is the difference between them that creates the greatness, the variety, and the creative inspirations of life, as well as the tensions of social intercourse."

 

- Joost A.M. Meerloo

 

Joe Jackson, "Is She Really Going Out With Him" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one. The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and consciousness."

 

- Joost A.M. Meerloo

 

Joe Jackson, "Breaking Us Two" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always included attacks on individual responsibility. For if individuals do not have free will, and are not responsible for their actions, then their lives must be controlled somehow - preferably by the state - according to the socialists. They must be regulated, regimented and controlled - for their own good."

 

Thomas DiLorenzo

 

Platinum Blonde, "Situation Critical" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need."

 

- Mick Jagger

 

The Rolling Stones, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

Wiki tell us that;

 

Coulrophilia is paraphilia towards clowns. There is an associated subculture dedicated to it, and it may intersect with coulrophobia, the fear of clowns. The coulrophilia community is related to the BDSM community, with both often using props and fetish fashion as a means for sexual arousal.

 

AVC writes: so, every time I sat in the audience at a circus while just a kid with my family, some of those sitting around us could have been bondage clown

fetishes...mindboggling.

 

I have no feelings either way about clowns. When they are being funny they are too slapstickish for my taste and when they are trying to be scary I can't shake the memory of them being lousy at making me laugh.

 

Focus, "Hocus Pocus" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

What is all the fanfare about a regal's head always being the highest of those attending?

 

If all must kneel, then the regal's head will have from one to two foot height advantage given the approximate distance from the knee to the sole.

 

Where is the proverb or metaphor or even allegory that lays out the rationale of why altitude in matters of mind makes any difference in anything?

 

Is it based on a belief once held that the higher a head the closer to the Creator in the Heavens. Is this why Tibetan monks find refuge in temples built at high altitudes, so the mind is even closer to the heavens...who knows?

 

By this same philosophy transplanted to our time, those flying at very high altitudes in commercial airliners or floating around in hot air balloons would be exceptionally blessed to have their minds elevated to such close proximity to the Creator above.

 

Don't we all love how relic rationalizations fall apart when we try to adapt them to innovative progress. Rationalizations that could only hold water in their time period.

 

What of those space travellers that jouneyed to heaven's front porch, were they worshipped like deities or did they just vanish melting into the scenery?

 

FAUN, "Walpurgisnacht" (medieval rock) ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

In 'The History Of The Modern Marriage Proposal, Bustle tell us;

 

The real beginnings of the diamond engagement ring tradition only emerged in the late 1800s, when a mining company struck rich seams of diamonds in Africa and formed a jewelry department, DeBeers, to deal with it.

 

DeBeer's master stroke came in the 1930s and 40s, when it employed a hugely successful "Diamonds Are Forever" advertising campaign to insist to the American population that diamonds were scarce, expensive, and the only viable way in which to propose marriage.

 

The Dead South, "Diamond Ring" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

Bustle tells us:

 

An attempt to make male engagement rings a necessity actually failed. The Atlantic has traced a vast advertising campaign in the 1920s that attempted to sell "man-gagement" rings to the masses. Complete with ultra-macho names: the Pilot, the Stag, the Master. Men rejected the need to declare their own taken status so openly.

 

South Indian Ka, "Macho Macho Gana" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

In The History Of The Modern Marriage Proposal we learn of the Leap-Year Proposals from the 1780s onward:

 

A centuries-old tradition restricts the right for European and American women to propose marriage themselves to one day; Feb 29, which occurs every four years.

 

Emma Anderson, "Bend The Round" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."

 

- Zig Ziglar

 

Midnight Oil, "Blue Sky Mine" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three."

 

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

 

Stephen Stills, "Treetop Flyer" ;

 

 

Edited April 14 by Avoiceinthecrowd

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

 

- Norman Vincent Peale

 

Don Henley, "New York Minute" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."

 

- Douglas MacArthur

 

Dire Straits, "The Sultans Of Swing" ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and it's condition has it's counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

 

- Kirsten Zambucka

 

Stray Cats, "Rock This Town" (live) ;

 

 

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat."

 

- Caroline Schoeder

 

Bad Company, "Shooting Star" ;

 

 

Edited April 15 by Avoiceinthecrowd

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

 

- Lao-tzu

 

Sheena Easton, "Telephone" ;

 

 

Edited April 15 by Avoiceinthecrowd

[Avoiceinthecrowd]

"A rolling stone can gather no moss."

 

- Publilius Syrus

 

The Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter" (live) ;