Among the many souvenirs put on board the Voyager spacecraft, [which has now left] our solar system, was a copy of Chuck Berry’s 1958 recording, ‘Johnny B. Goode.’ I fully expect that Voyager will be picked up by a space-faring civilization one day. It will be placed in a museum and revered. I’m hoping that space-faring civilization will be our own. Or if not, we’ll at least receive a message in 40,000 years or so from some distant solar system. And that message will say: `Send more Chuck Berry.’
CHANTILLY, Va. – At a private fundraiser at the home of pizza giant John Schnatter last month, Mitt Romney is seen on a cell phone video offering his candid thoughts on how Democrats and Republicans view wealth.
What a welcome, what a place this is my goodness,” said Romney, who is shown in the video standing outside at Schnatter’s estate in Anchorage, Ky. Schnatter is the founder of of the Papa John’s Pizza empire.
“Who would have imagined pizza could build this, you know that?” said Romney. “This is really something. Don’t you love this country?”
“What a home this is, what grounds these are, the pool, the golf course, you know if a Democrat were here he’d look around and say no one should live like this,” said Romney, as the crowd began to laugh. “Republicans come here and say everyone should live like this, all right. This is a real tribute to America, to entrepreneurship.”
Everyone can be rich!! Because, if everyone became wealthy enough to “live like [that],” of course there would still be thousands of people willing to work at Papa John’s for meager wages, employees willing to cheaply produce the materials Papa John’s uses, low-paid truck drivers willing to deliver these materials, and millions of newly rich people willing to eat at a shithole like Papa John’s.
Ah, the power of American Entrepreneurship. We can all be entrepreneurs and attain a beautiful home and grounds, just like Papa John himself. Because American Entrepreneurship never has to exploit someone else to prove successful.
Neil Young, “Revolution Blues,” featuring the late, great Levon Helm on drums, Rick Danko (also deceased from The Band) on bass, and David Crosby on rhythm guitar. What an unbelievable lineup.
Helm’s signature drum sound also appears on a second On the Beach track: “See the Sky About to Rain.” Levon seems to receive the most praise for his distinctive vocals, which often overshadows his talent as a drummer. As heard here, his soulful, syncopated drumming style has the ability to effortlessly lock into a groove and really drive a track. Garth Hudson claims he was Buddy Rich’s favorite rock drummer, and there is no higher praise than that. R.I.P.
“To learn to take the universe seriously there is no quicker way than to watch—to be a “waker,” as the country-people call it. Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge—barring the rare sound of the watchman—was broken in Elizabeth’s ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs; ticking harder and harder till it seemed to clang like a gong; and all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape. Why they stared at her so helplessly, as if waiting for the touch of some wand that should release them from terrestrial constraint; what that chaos called consciousness, which spun in her at this moment like a top, tended to, and began in. Her eyes fell together; she was awake, yet she was asleep.”
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Is there anything more ridiculous than the Republican debate participants pledging to a televised flag?
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I’m in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up. He’s got the gift for melody, he’s got the gift for rhythm, he can play any instrument. He can scream and shout as good as anyone, and he can sing a ballad as good as anyone. And his melodies are effortless, that’s what you have to be in awe of…. he’s just so damn effortless. I just wish he’d quit (laughs). Everything that comes out of his mouth is just framed in melody.
Newt Gingrich is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.
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