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Friday Music Thread – Your Early Faves

I’m sorry to hear that, Hope. I wish him a speedy recovery!!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

GAH! Well, my son is 30, so I guess it makes sense.(Nah, I don’t think so.)

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

Not I, you Swedish or Norwegian cutie. I galnced but left real early (about 5 PST). What happened??

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 3:05 pm

I remember that, now that I hear it again! And it IS trippy for a kid’s album. Thanks for that memory.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 3:02 pm

OK– this is my last music post for this week. Sorry, but this was just a blast!

Nowadays I buy almost exclusively world music cd

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 3:00 pm

Moms Mabley– she came up with the only real description of giving birth: Take your upper lip and try to pull it all the way over the top of your head.

Yep, pretty much.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 2:33 pm

Oh No!! Man, that just… I can’t believe it. I’m grinning ear to ear!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 2:28 pm

Wow– what an experience, and the stories you must have. Please, write about them sometime.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 2:26 pm

A+ on that Javez!

“Bounce Your Boobies” was a new one on me. In fact, never heard of Rusty Warren– LOL!!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

Damn– this is just too much fun!! I’m a soooo loving reading these little tidbits of your lives along with the songs. I don’t care much if anyone plays these tunes, but I feel like I’m writing a musical autobiography. I’m jumping all over the place–from all different periods of my life.

Junior High (now called Middle School– I had an art teacher who I dearly loved. She would play albums while we painted, and she introduced me to folk music. I became such a folk addict. (Became an artist too, eventually.)

Here in LA, there were a few folk scenes, called Coffee Houses. This was after the beatnik scene and at the beginning of the hippie scene. We used to go the The Ash Grove and The Troubadour almost every week.

Some faves from then:

Odetta

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

And another from that amazing music year!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 1:35 pm

Thanks AdLib. I’m gonna try it now.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 1:33 pm

Can’t wait ’til you get home, Boomer1949 (Year I was born!).

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

I was a Singing Nun fanatic– wanted to be a nun, after this album (plus watching the movie, “The Nun’s Story.” Too bad(or lucky) I was Jewish.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

I loved that song–still do!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 12:39 pm

Dropped out of high school to move to San Francisco to be a hippie. These were a few songs from that weird episode:

Donovan

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 12:23 pm

OMG!!!

Donovan was a staple and STILL a favorite!

Great.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 11:40 am

When I was a little kid–lo these many years ago!—I was a bad sleeper, so my mom told me I could listen to the radio. She said if I listened to it very softly, I would have to lie there very still to hear it, and that would help me fall asleep. (It usually worked.) This is a song that was popular then and got a lot of play:

“Blue Velvet” Bobby Vinton

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 11, 2009 @ 11:38 am

The Mind of the Politician

K7, I have had many of the same musings– thank you for articulating them and bringing them up.

They way I see it, politicians are to a certain extent egocentric.They’d almost have to be to get out there and raise money and stay in the spotlight. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just the nature of the beast, I’d say. And more so if they want to become President!

That said, they are still capable of good leadership and even altruistic aims. But way too many are in it out of the need for fame and power– Lieberman comes instantly to mind. And yeah, Obama is a politician too–not merely a politician, but let’s face it.

One day, I’d like to spend some time researching how the Parties choose their candidates. Talk about the sausage factory! it might turn me off to politics, but I’ll risk it.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 14, 2009 @ 11:46 am

Coup on a Shoe-string

That is an outrageous story! That should be illegal and thank the heavens for unions. Grrrr.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 16, 2009 @ 3:52 pm

Sure I do! I never wore them though– I was into crude leather sandals that laced up to my knees–like a gladiator/hippie.

I have phases too, but have always gone to extremes. When I was in the corporate world, I was a ridiculous clothes-horse and suit wearer. Other times, I wear kinda costume-y stuff and lots of ethnic clothing– Sometimes Mexican peasant, sometimes Chinese, all kinds of things from everywhere.

But nowadays, I have succumbed to whatever is the most comfortable. Unless I go out. Then, it’s 4″ heels, baby!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 16, 2009 @ 2:49 pm

Gee– that’s what I wear too– African, Indian, ethnic whatever, and some I make for myself out of big, chunky things. great minds and all….

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 6:32 pm

Embrace Change

Boomer, I could not agree more. And his speech was brilliant.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 5:45 pm

Touched by an Angel – A Christmas Story

That was beautiful, Alpha. It is my belief as well.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 6:54 pm

Dear Javez, first let me repeat my heartfelt condolences about the loss of your brother. As I said, I know how hard the loss is. Your beautiful story reminded me of of the time when my father was dying, because there was also an angel involved.

My dad was in a nursing home following cancer surgery months earlier, and had taken a turn for the worse. My son (who was about nine at the time) and I had just spent some time with him, and we walked out of there very downhearted.

There was a coffee shop next door and I just wanted a few minutes to try to gather myself and have a cold drink. When we got inside, there was only one other customer there–an older man sitting alone in a corner.

My young son ordered and we sat there in silence. After a time, that old man came over to our table. Without much ado or conversation, he proceeded to do some pretty cleaver magic tricks. At first I was baffled. Then both my son and I started to get into the little performance. My son started to smile, then laugh. And the man went away.

After a couple of minutes, my son looked at me and said,”Mom, I think that man was an angel.”

Now, I must explain something. In the Jewish religion, we are taught that angels often take the form of humans– usually the least likely, like homeless or “street people.” So my son’s remark was not that out of the blue, but I was happy he had thought that. Of course, I agreed.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 5:39 pm

Don’t Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the OK: Vote Dem!

Thanks for bringing that up! Wow–that is so important, and something NO ONE mentions. I need to use that in my hopeless quest to try to keep discouraged Dems from staying home in 2010-2012.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 8:19 am

Mornin’ Bernard!

Your three moods are the same as mine and I run through them several times each day.

You mentioned unrealistic expectations– I definitely think that is the case. I know it is for me. Obama’s campaign was awe-inspiring.But not only his soaring rhetoric; his personal history is one that also led me to make assumptions. And I still believe he is the person I assumed him to be, just not as perfect nor as radically liberal.Like any person, he is complicated.

You also hit the nail on the head when you mentioned our system of representation. Until that–and above all, campaign finance reform–is changed we will never have a true democracy.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 10, 2009 @ 8:17 am

Awesome– Thanks a million!

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 9, 2009 @ 4:06 pm

You are adorable! Thank you.

I guess there are people who will always see the glass as half empty. There are certainly legitimate concerns, not only about what hasn’t yet been accomplished but about the direction some of Obama’s policies are headed.

But this guy has a Herculean task! Just massive clean-up and a crappy Congress. He’s doing an amazing job.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 9, 2009 @ 2:38 pm

Thanks for the list. I bookmarked yesterday’s story about the firing of those vodka-butt contractors in Kabul as another example. It’s not World Peace, but those are the types the Reptilians would keep forever.

» Posted By Chernynkaya On December 9, 2009 @ 2:16 pm