Because I don’t really have time to do a pod-cast, or any kind of internet radio show (and frankly if I were going to play music I probably wouldn’t find much in a pod-safe directory). So I’m going to continue blogging as I would otherwise, and offer you a playlist, as a sort of Intellectual Radio Program. All the thought without any of the pesky listening.
We’ll call it Radio Marrakesh, because I think that’s what I’m going to call any radio show or radio-like show that I do. So here’s the playlist. It’s a sort of angry political (in my mind) bunch of songs (with a little humor), that I’ve been listening to for a while. Powerful songs, which have a coherent political statement but also have great emotional power. I don’t quite have the order worked out, so don’t blame me there.
Title - Artist - Album- Palaces of Gold - Martin Carthy - The Collection
- Ballad of Harry T. More - Sweet Honey in the Rock - The Women Gather 30th Anniversary
- Samson and Delilah - Spencer Bohren - Carry The Word
- A Prince Among Men - Andy Irvine - Rain on the Roof
- Time to Ring Some Changes - Richard Thompson - Starting as Henry the Human Fly
- The Monument (Lest We Forget) - Andy Irvine - Rain on the Roof
- Joe Hill (Ballad of, to the Tune of John Hardy) - Phil Ochs - Montreal, Canada - 22 October 1966
- Hard Times of Old England - Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat
- Joe Hill (I Dreamt I Saw Joe Hill Last Night) - Joan Baez - The Best of Woodstock
- Wasn’t That A Time - Pete Seeger
- Viva La Quince Brigada - Pete Seeger
- Five Years - Tom Smith - Debasement Tapes
- Raggedy - Pete Seeger - American Industrial Ballads
- Another Clearing Time - Stravaig - Movin’ On
- Pharaoh - The House Band - Green Linnet 20th Anniversary Collection
- The Pit Stands Idle - Housebound - Groundwork
- Ballad of William Worthy - Phil Ochs - All the News that’s Fit to Sing
- The White Collar Holler - Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks… Live
- I Ain’t Marching Anymore - Phil Ochs - I Ain’t Marching Anymore
So There you go. Enjoy
Cheers!
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So this isn’t link rot in the normal sense, I’m not going to post about how links age on the internet, because frankly I bet you could care less. No, I’m going to post about links that have been sitting around in my “you should post TealArt entries about these articles” folder (ok so it’s a mental categorization, shoot me.
We Are Not OK
This one from June 17th. About gay male community issues, relating to drug usage, HIV. I really enjoyed the authors analysis that:
One of the questions I most frequently ask residents is “What is it that you wanted to do sexually that you could only do when you were high?” You might suppose that the answer would be an array of sex acts so extreme and kinky as to be unimaginable. And for some this is true. However, for most, their fantasy is no more than to get fucked and to connect with another man. Albeit in all the wrong places and all the wrong ways, these guys are basically looking for love.
Spot on. People keep saying things like that, pretty soon I’ll be out of a job. But seriously, I think the guy nailed it here. This is why projects like WWOTB are necessary, this kind of analysis makes what I’m interested in worthwhile. I need to go back over the research, but my sense is that gay men, for a multitude of reasons, are not exceptional in their problematic ability to relate to each other/other men (the leader in this little sub-group is Peter Nardi, who’s work is fascinating and really rather good. So there.) Nardi’s work is so interesting, it’s a good thing he’s at a college that doesn’t have a Ph.D. program, elsewise (my new favorite word), I’d be tempted to apply to study with him, and I’m not sure I can deal with that kind of disciplinary shift. (Though in fairness, I’m practically doing sociology at this point anyway, so it wouldn’t be too shocking, never the less, despite any griping that may go on, I’m pretty happy where I am.)
Bloggers Need Not Apply
Seems, search committees for academic jobs google people as part of their process, and people’s blogging has interfered with jobs and what not. I worried about this for a while, but then it became a non issue, or something. TealArt isn’t a typical blog: I don’t complain about people or shitty institutional situations and I don’t share any information that could be potentially identifying. The most incriminating act that I commit on TealArt is blathering, and unreviewed academic work, which at this point isn’t a big deal, and frankly I think TealArt is more of an asset than a potential harm. Shrug, the article is good though. Enjoy it.
I’m feeling all bloggy, so expect a spree in the next few days/hours. Cheers…
Sam
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Wow.
Really, that’s all I can think to say. Last night, I went to see Serenity, the Joss Whedon movie that was made as a part of his late lamented Firefly TV series.
Wow.
I’ve known that it was going be be heart wrenching for a while, one of my friends got to see it in a sneak preview in late May. But somehow, amazing actually, she didn’t give me a spoiler. I totally would have broken.
I usually attach to characters, and am completely broken when characters I love die. When I watched it, I completely didn’t react, it wasn’t real. Until later, and then it was.
Despite the heartbreak, the movie was perfect, basically. I have a few complaints. Like, why there wasn’t more Chinese spoken. (One premise, is that humanity was united by an anglo-sino alliance, so the characters pepper their speech with chinese phrases, much like I use yiddish.) Why did you have to do it Joss, why?
Other than that… amazing. I really think that it was a pretty damn perfect job with the movie. I don’t know what more to say, so there.
Cheers,
sam
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