Thursday Night Open Thread

There’s a group that I’m not all that familiar with called Southern Culture On The Skids. I was surprised to learn that I was actually familiar with some of their stuff. They’ve had several different songs that appeared in several different movies in the last quarter century. While I am one that will often sit through the credits, I never really noticed they had so many songs used in films.

Recently, I ran across a writing online that mentioned that fact, so I did some digging. And, sure enough, they’ve been in movies I’ve seen. And some movies I haven’t seen. No Oscar winners in the bunch, but still films I’ve seen.

Their first national exposure came with their song “Camel Walk.”

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Every Single Thing About This Makes People in 2020 Cry

Y’Know, I Was Going To Make Fun of This Spam, But ….

… it’s in a category by itself:

It is spelled correctly — which is a surprise. Yet, on the other hand:

of course like your website however you have to take a look
at the spelling on quite a few of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling problems and I find
it very troublesome to inform the truth on the other hand
I will surely come back again.

On the other hand, don’t bother.

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By Comparison, My Life Has Been Utterly Wasted

Do you have 10 minutes to spare watching a babe with a great deal of musical talent?

I thought you would. Ends kind of abruptly, unfortunately.

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Speaking of Vivaldi, I learned the following on a discussion thread about some rediscovered compositions of his (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3871433/posts):

Beethoven and Brahms had no idea who Vivaldi was, since they lived during a time when his music was lost. There were no “Vivaldi Concerts” in the 19th century.

A quip by Peter Shickele (of P.D.Q. Bach fame) was (not exact quote) “Vivaldi wrote 500 concertos, or the same concerto 500 times.”

The cartoonist Rodriques did a cartoon every month in the Stereo Review lampooning stereophiles (truly worth being lampooned). One of his cartoons showed a sign in a stereo shop that read “Vivaldi Tapes Erased for Free.”

Concerted Effort

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Bwa-Ha-Haha. Nobody Knows You Like Your Brother. Bwa-Ha-Ha!

Barack Obama’s Half-Brother Rips ‘Cold and Ruthless’ Ex-President
New York Post | August 1, 2020 | Jon Levine

A “cold and ruthless” President Obama abandoned his Kenyan family in their greatest hours of need, according to a new tell-all by estranged half brother Malik Obama.

“He got rich and became a snob,” Malik, 62, told The Post via Skype from his home in the Kenyan village of Nyang’oma Kogelo. “What I saw was he was the kind of person that wants people to worship him. He needs to be worshipped and I don’t do that. I am his older brother so I don’t do that.”

The book, “Big Bad Brother From Kenya,” a self-published memoir which Malik Obama spent 22 years writing, hit Amazon with little fanfare on July 11. In its 435 pages, Malik covers the long and gradual falling out between him and the former President…

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