'TBH Politoons'
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Baron Dave Romm's Review
Klezmer Music
By Baron Dave Romm
Gut Yom Tov: May you be be registered with the web site of life.
Klezmer is a Yiddish term, meaning "kley zemer" or "vessels of song" or "instruments of song". Klezmer has its roots in the untrained musicians of Easter European shtetls of the 15th century CE. Due to religious intolerance, the Russian conservatories were not open to Jews, so most Klezmer musicians were self-taught. The wave of Jewish immigration 1881-1924 also brought their music, adding to the melting pot that eventually became the unique American style of jazz. Dixieland is essentially klezmer with a violin substituted for clarinet, though the clarinet is used in much klezmer-like jazz. The wailing, emotional, exuberant music stirs the spirit as it moves the feet. Like much jazz, klezmer has a structure and a melody but relies on free form improvisation for its joy.
Though it never completely disappeared, in recent years Klezmer has resurfaced. Mainstream Judaism has embraced its roots and expanded the repertoire. There is a rather amazing amount of klezmer out there, and you can check out listings here for more traditional Klezmer, here for Isle of Klezbos and others, here for the UK, some links to eclectic examplers here, and book a klezmer band here.
One of the best collections and introductions to Klezmer is Klezmania: Klezmer for the New Millenium. Here's a nice review, with sound clips. The music ranges from the 1910s to a 1990s hip hop/rap fusion that works in both styles. It has some 1960s klezmer beach music, hot jazz and traditional folk styles. You can get it from amazon.com, which also has song samples.
Kol Simcha is (or was) a klezmer band that lives in the present. The music is traditional, the arrangements are more modern and clean. The blues clarinet starts off slowly in Shpieles, but speeds up to an emotional instrumental. The odd timings in Dybbuk add to the whirling song. Perhaps too clean for folk music, the also do soul, as in their other album, both available here. (If the link doesn't work, just to to CDNow and search for Kol Simcha).
I've talked about them before, so let me just mention Boiled In Lead quickly. They are ostensibly a Celtic band, but do thrash and world beat and almost anything else that suits their fancy, including klezmer (they're on the Klezmania CD). Old Lead and From the Ladel To The Grave as well as some of their more recent albums fit into the genre.
Doing research for this review turned up a reference for Klingon Klezmer. I have no idea what this is, but it looks like fun. I'll let you know when I hear it...
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual artist and a noble of Ladonia with a radio show, a very weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
Reader Commentary
from Rob
Bombs? What Bombs? (or..."hey!look over there!!")
I'm confused...Bunnypants is doing everything he can to garner UN support
and get everyone behind this notion of war with Iraq...But, the US and
British are BOMBING 170 miles south of Baghdad on an almost daily basis.
To my knowledge, this fact has never been mentioned in any of the
cheerleading for war by pResident fuckhead or any of his minions or that
supreme evil asshole in charge: Chthulu (sic) Cheney.
This gives me a sick headache.
Why do they need permission for something they are already doing? Is this
current bombing part of a previously signed permission slip? Or do they
think we are too stupid to realize the contradiction?
Again I ask: What the fuck are we doing????
Is this revenge for Daddy's failed attempt or another extension of the BFEE
money grab?
I'd wager it's a combo that cokeboy wants desperately to biggie-size...to
hell with the consequences.
And what might those consequences be?
How many terrorist cells are in this country? Will they mobilize in response
to any aggression towards the holy land? Without a doubt.
Are we ready for that kind of war? Strikes on US soil like what happened in
New York only wide spread?
I submit that being safe in America is a fading reality.
People be ready to change your perceptions of the "militias" in this
country...they may just save our collective asses.
You can shop all you want, just shop with a sidearm, eyes wide open.
~~ Rob
Turtle rescue, rehab and rehoming
Thanks, Rob
He's Been Busy, Again!
the worried shrimp
The Chosin Chickenhawk...
Attack Iraq Around The Clock
by Alvin
Attack Iraq Around The Clock
{Sung to 'Rock Around The Clock' by Bill Haley & His Comets}
{As Sung By Commander-And-Thief, Dubya Bush}
One, two, three o'clock, four, shock Iraq
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight, shock Iraq
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve, shock Iraq
We will attack... Iraq... around the clock!
Put domestic problems on the run
I'll have some fun when the clock strikes one
Attack Iraq around the clock tonight
We will attack Iraq in broad daylight
We will attack Iraq around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes two, three and four
We'll chase Saddam, then, we'll bomb some more
Attack Iraq around the clock tonight
We will attack Iraq in broad daylight
We will attack Iraq around the clock tonight
{break}
Missiles, five o'clock, six, and seven
The war helps GOP's election
Attack Iraq around the clock tonight
We will attack Iraq in broad daylight
We will attack Iraq around the clock tonight
When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven, too
If my polls are down, war I'll still pursue
Attack Iraq around the clock tonight
We will attack Iraq in broad daylight
We will attack Iraq around the clock tonight
{break}
When the clock strikes twelve, watch CNN
Next day, we'll be bombing Saddam again
Attack Iraq around the clock tonight
We will attack Iraq in broad daylight
We will attack Iraq around the clock tonight...
Alvin D
New TV Schedule - Season/Series Premieres
Monday
(all times eastern) ABC 8 - 8:30 Drew Carey (Sept 9) 8:30 - 9 Whose Line (Sept 9) 9 - ? MNF (Sept 9) CBS 8 - 8:30 King of Queens (Sept 23) 8:30 - 9 Yes, Dear (Sept 23) 9 - 9:30 Raymond (Sept 23) 9:30 - 10 Still Standing (Sept 30) * 10 - 11 CSI: Miami (Sept 23) * NBC 8 - 9 Fear Factor (Sept 23) 9 - 10 Third Watch (Sept 30) 10 - 11 Crossing Jordan (23 Sept) The WB 8 - 9 7th Heaven (Sept 16) 9 - 10 Everwood (Sept 23) * Faux 8 - 9 Boston Public (Oct 21) 9 - 10 Girls Club (Oct 21) * UPN 8 - 8:30 The Parkers (Sept 23) 8:30 - 9 One On One (Sept 23) 9 - 9:30 Girlfriends (Sept 23) 9:30 - 10 Half And Half (Sept 23) * * Denotes New Program
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another lovely day, but was much warmer inland.
So, some football game was on in the background, when I saw a commercial for Play Station 2. It opens with a long shot on a class - the class is made up of women, and there is a guy in a
protection suit, whose job is to take the blows from the women learning how to defend/protect themselves. Instead of thinking he's helping teach defense to the subjected, or even helping to level the playing field, he daydreams
that he's in a Play Station game. In this game, he is in control, and he beats the shit out of his 'opponents'. We then return to reality where he has beaten up the women in the class.
This really frosted my ass. Rape is about control, not sex. It's like saying
Deliverance (1972) is a Love Story (1970) for banjo players. Boo. Hiss.
Tonight, Monday, CBS celebrates the last Monday of reruns with reruns of 'King Of Queens', 'Yes, Dear', 'Raymond', 'Becker', and 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'.
On a rerun Dave, the scheduled guests are Al Pacino and New York Yankee Roger Clemens.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are Donny Osmond, Katey Sagal, and comic Bob Marley.
NBC has reruns of 'Fear Factor', 'Third Watch', and 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Bernie Mac, Jill Hennessy, and Our Lady Peace.
On a rerun Conan the scheduled guests are Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Chaplin, and Alanis Morissette.
On a rerun Carson Daly (from 7/24/02), the scheduled guests are Jennifer Esposito, Rick Fox, and Nelly.
ABC has 'MNF' where the Eagles visit the Redskins. Depending on your coast, a fresh 'Drew Carey' and a fresh 'Whose Line' will air either before or after the game.
The WB has the fresh season premiere of '7th Heaven' followed by the fresh series premiere of 'Everwood'.
Faux has a fresh 'National Geographic Channel Presents Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed'. ('Pre-taped' for the west coast)
UPN has reruns of 'The Parkers', 'One On One', and then back-to-back reruns of 'Girlfriends'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
2002 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Sharon & Kelly & Emmy
Sharon Osbourne, left, and her daughter Kelly celebrates winning an Emmy win for the show "The Osbournes" as Outstanding Non-Fiction Program (Reality) at the
2002 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Photo by Reed Saxon
Wins Emmy for Best Reality Show
'The Osbournes'
"The Osbournes," the hit expletive-filled MTV show about rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his family, won an Emmy on Saturday night for best "reality series."
The series was named the year's outstanding nonfiction reality program at the Creative Arts Emmys, which are mainly awards for technical achievements given out eight days in advance
of the main Emmy awards, which are handed out on Sept. 22.
Osbourne's wife Sharon, one of the show's producers as well as one of its stars, accepted the award on behalf of her husband, saying, "Ozzy I love you."
NBC's presentation of the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City won six awards for technical work, the most of any program during the evening. It was followed
by HBO's "Six Feet Under," which took five awards.
Actor Charles S. Dutton was named best actor making a guest appearance on a dramatic show for his work on ABC's "The Practice." Patricia Clarkson won the best guest actress award
for her appearance on HBO's "Six Feet Under."
The comedy guest appearance acting awards went to actress Cloris Leachman for her work on Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle" and to Anthony LaPaglia for his work on NBC's "Frasier."
'The Osbournes'
More 2002 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
'Frasier'
"Frasier" is in an Emmy class by itself.
The NBC comedy, breaking a record held by "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," became Emmy's most-honored show when it received three creative arts awards Saturday in a precursor to the Sept. 22 main event.
The trophies pushed "Frasier's" total since 1994 to 30, one more than the 29 garnered by Moore's comedy during its 1970-77 run. Other awards are possible for stars Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce
in the upcoming ceremony.
"Six Feet Under," HBO's macabre funeral home drama, was the top series winner Saturday with five awards. The show received a leading 23 Emmy nominations in July.
Powered by "Six Feet Under," HBO captured the most awards, 16, followed by NBC with 15. ABC and Fox each received five trophies, while CBS received four.
Awards for acting, directing and writing will be presented in the main ceremony airing on NBC. Highlights of the creative arts ceremony will be shown on E! Entertainment Television on Sept. 21.
'Frasier'
2002 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner arrives for the 2002 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, September 14, 2002 in Los Angeles. Garner, star of the series "Alias" was a presenter at the
awards show. The Primetime Emmy awards will be presented September 22 in Los Angeles.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Showered with Beer in Glen Helen
Sex Pistols
In true punk spirit, rowdy music fans pelted the Sex Pistols with beer on Saturday as the one-time scourge of the British establishment played its first U.S. concert in six years outside Los Angeles.
The hailstorm may have been meant as an homage to the band's own anti-establishment roots, but drenched singer John Lydon was having none of it, labeling one thrower a "turd"
and a "wuss," to the delight of the 50,000-strong crowd.
The Sex Pistols, who briefly ruled the music world in the late 1970s with such incendiary anthems as "God Save The Queen" and "Anarchy in the U.K.," reunited to headline a
punk rock festival at the Glen Helen Pavilion in Devore, 55 miles east of Los Angeles.
In July, the quartet dusted off their instruments for the first time since November 1996 to play a London show marking their 25th anniversary. Guitarist Steve Jones told
Reuters before Saturday's show there were no plans for the group to perform again although he was eager for more action.
For a bit more, Sex Pistols
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
In Fight With Right
O'Really
There's nothing unusual about pugnacious talk show host Bill O'Reilly being in a fight. The real surprise this time is who he's fighting.
In the past two weeks, O'Reilly has come under attack from the right, from the same ideologues who helped make the Fox News Channel personality one of the most popular figures on cable television.
Earlier this month on "The O'Reilly Factor," he had a riveting confrontation with Bible-toting Stephen Bennett, a Connecticut minister who speaks out against the adoption of children by gays and lesbians.
After O'Reilly called Bennett a "religious fanatic," two conservative groups, Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, urged its members to protest.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal — normally friendly "Factor" territory — published a column by its chief editorial writer, William McGurn, who called O'Reilly "unhinged" for his behavior
toward the writer as a guest. His headline: "The Blowhard Zone."
So many battles, so little time. It's not as if he's ignoring other ends of the spectrum, either. The rapper Ludacris and his fans are mad because an O'Reilly segment led Pepsi to drop the
musician as a spokesman. O'Reilly's fight with Hollywood personalities over disbursement of Sept. 11 charity funds continues.
Whether calculated or not, the dispute with conservative groups may be as shrewd as a politician who adroitly positions himself in the center just before an election.
For more details, O'Really
Rome's Piazza San Giovanni
Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Literature Nobel laureate (1997) Dario Fo', flanked by his wife Franca Rame, delivers his speech during a demonstration in central Rome's Piazza San Giovanni, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002. The
demonstrators are accusing conservative premier Silvio Berlusconi of using political power for his personal benefit, and saying opposition parties weren't doing enough about it.
Photo by Pier Paolo Cito
And Yoko & John...
Frederic Seaman
Intimate details about John Lennon's final years in New York - and his tense relationship with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney - will be revealed when his widow Yoko Ono goes to court next week.
She'll be testifying to end a long-running feud over the ownership of never-seen-before photos of Lennon, and his candid letters to fellow rock stars.
Ono is suing her late husband's former personal assistant, who she claims has been "a source of pain" since the music icon was gunned down outside the Dakota apartment building on the Upper West Side on Dec. 8, 1980.
But the aide, Frederic Seaman, who is accused of stealing and exploiting 374 private family photos, says he plans to attack Ono's credibility, blaming her for the disappearance of his own
diaries written during Lennon's final days.
He has branded her a paranoid control freak, and told The Post that in his final years, Lennon would "disappear into a dream world" to escape her micromanaging ways.
In an interview conducted before the trial, the judge told the parties to limit public comments.
For a lot more details, Frederic Seaman
Debuts As ABC Host
George 'Judas' Stephanopoulos
George Stephanopoulos debuted as the sole host of ABC's revamped public affairs program "This Week" on Sunday, the show unveiling a new look while keeping its roundtable of opinion.
Stephanopoulos conducted solo interviews with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle during the first half of his hour-long program, then
joined a reconstituted roundtable for political chat.
Only at the program's end did the former Clinton aide allude to his new role. He paid tribute to newsman David Brinkley, the first "This Week" anchor, and his immediate predecessors.
Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts put their stamp on the program with "insight, intelligence and wit," he said. "I hope I'll do the same."
Otherwise, Donaldson and Roberts were forgotten, victims of sliding ratings. The show introduced a new set, new graphics with a blue and yellow color scheme and a pointed goal of trying to make news.
George 'Judas' Stephanopoulos
BartCop TV!
Man With An Opinon
Jesse Ventura
Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura wants President Bush and the State Department to say they're sorry for asking him and his family "not to participate in sexual tourism"
on their trip to Cuba this month. Last week, Otto Reich, the assistant secretary of state for western-hemisphere affairs, made the remark while trying to talk Ventura
out of the trip, which is supposed to show off Cuba's agriculture. Reich said Fidel Castro has promoted sexual "exploitation of women and children as one of the biggest
reasons why European tourists go to Cuba." Ventura told the Minnesota Pioneer Press he wants "a personal apology."
Jesse Ventura
From Eva
Gold Bookmark
A man holds an 18 carat gold bookmark given to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler by his long-term companion Eva Braun after the 1943 defeat of German troops on the Soviet
front, in Madrid September 13, 2002. The bookmark is set to go on sale in Madrid and the starting price at the Duran auction house will be 5,000 euros when bidding
gets underway on October 22. The inscription reads 'My Adolf, don't worry...(the defeat) ...was only an inconvenience that will not break your certainty of victory.
My love for you will be eternal, just as our Reich will be eternal. Always yours. Eva 3-2-43.'
Photo by Andrea Comas
Nagoya, Japan
Paper Airplane Contest
Hopes soared as hundreds of planes took off only to crash seconds later in Japan's 9th Annual Paper Airplane Competition on Saturday.
Over 400 planemakers aged between 3 and 81 propelled featherweight constructions of all sizes, competing to see how long they could stay in flight at an indoor stadium in the western city of Nagoya.
The planes ranged from 8-inch paper darts, weighing just 0.18 ounces, to 3-foot "jumbo jets," said Sentaro Shiraki, spokesman for the Japan Paper Airplane Association.
Shiraki said none of the entrants in the competition's 12 categories — that were based on the age of contestants, and the style and size of plane — came close to breaking the world record "hang time" of 27.6 seconds.
Paper Airplane Contest
Hard Rock In Vegas
The Who
Singer Roger Daltrey, left, and guitarist Pete Townshend, right, of The Who perform Saturday night, Sept. 14, 2002, at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The drummer is Zak Starkey,
Ringo Starr's son. The band had been scheduled to begin its U.S. tour at the site in June, but bassist John Entwistle was found dead in his hotel room.
Photo by Eric Jamison
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