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The moon walk would be televised

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July 20, 1969 - I listened via radio, as always. Surprise at night: The moon walk would be televised. Culmination of great effort. But already wondering where attention should focus. Gil Scott Heron had perspecrtive: Whitey's on the Moon. When that fall at Marquette in Public Speaking class assignment to use a visual aid: I white-frosted a Styrofoam cake container and put my brother's little Astronaut figures on top. The surface of the moon was icing on a cake, inside the cake were the flames of war in Asia and riots in cities and starvation in Bangladesh.  I say it was bag mixed with confusion because there was combined great awe and pride - but there was even greater clarity in the view that Earth was in a Tangle. Same is true today, Funnily enough. .. What would Vonnegut say? 'so it goes.' My 2010s remake of the cake is enhanced here thanks to MS Co-Pilot. https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2019/07/50th-anniversary-of-landing-on-moon.html
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Baroque and Hungry on the Al Compas del Mundo Show

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  Jim Haas invited me to guest DJ on Jim Haas’s Al Compas Del Mundo 1-hr Internet Radio Show , and I did. How can I call this out? Let’s call it Baroque and Hungry! My hit list is included: List Al compás del mundo 241, 7-9-26 - guest DJ Jack Vaughan   01 Pete Seeger - Living in the Country (USA) 02 Afrocubism - Mali-Cuba (Mali, Cuba)   03 Jordi Savall - The Lancashire Pipes-Pigges of Rumsey-Kate of Bardie (España) 04 Chatham Baroque – Fandango (USA)   05 The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day (USA) 06 Leroy Carr - (In the Evening) When the Sun Goes Down (USA)   07 The Supremes - Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart (USA) 08 Xavier Cugat - Night Must Fall (Mexico)  09 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata (Sudafrica) 10 Keith Jarrett - No Moon at All (USA)   11 James Brown - Night Train (USA) 12 The Lilly Brothers - Little Annie (USA)   13 Charlie Parker - A Night ...
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From Vault: Bo on Mind

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  Ran in 2008 Bo Diddley died. There are probably some competitive flamenco cats that I am not aware of - but I would rate him greatest rhythm guitar player of all time. The guitar as percussive motivator in his hands was total banshee force, but full of invention. He also had a lyrical approach that was in its turn incredibly rhythmic and original and also humorous. Mona, Who Do You Love, You Cant Judge a Book, Road Runner .. so many numbers that were part of my best days. He created a foundational style of rocknroll and he did so by reinventing the instrument called the guitar. Who would say he did not have his hand on the pulse of his time as much as the Nasa astronauts or the Beats? Say Man, Mumbles, Ride on Josephine, Cadillac, Cops and Robbers. His super session with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. An all instrumental Checker record of his I used to have. Certainly unique. Some good articles have traced his tremendous influence. Let me add a few: The Doors doing Who Do you Lo...
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Hey, Calvino!

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  CO-PILOT GENERATED IMG Calvino shared the Futurists' spirit of experimentation and their desire to break with traditional artistic conventions. While the Futurists celebrated speed, technology, and violence, Calvino was more interested in exploring the complexities of human experience in a rapidly changing world. He was wary of the potential dangers of unchecked progress and the loss of individual identity in the face of mass culture. - Gemini Generated Text  
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Pull My Daisy 1959

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  Dir Rbt Frank; narration Jack Kerouac; music: Dave Amram. Includes Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Larry Rivers. 1959
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Chicago Northwestern

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  A link to Chicago Northwestern by Juicy Lucy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlcrduUahU4 Might have heard this song on WTOS-FM [Wauwatosa] . About 5 years short of US 200th Birthday. The song was immediately resonating: As this was a rail line I often took. Took to, really. British group Juicy Lucy may have taken to the Chicago Northwestern too. There is a dark tale to tell. They morphed it in their song back to the Western Days when Liberty brought destruction to the Native Americans. You have to listen close to hear it, and I point out specifically here that this is biting satire accomplished for illumination. Juicy Lucy does not condone the terrible toll of the Beautiful Train. Shown below: That's my train.
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Armored Car

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  Dave Purvis -played by Perry Mason nemesis William Talman - is a master criminal planner who robs the Wrigley Field revenues during a ball game. THis is the other Wrigley Field, the one in L.A. for the minor league Angels. THe movie is made in 1950. The hold up goes wrong and a cop is shot and killed. A lot of forensics, radio patrol cars and wire taps ensue in a movie that moves at a clipped pace. Purvis is involved with a burlesque dancer who is easy on the eye but a genuine tough cookie. The burlesque bits pretty much seal the fact that this was a B movie. All the criminals in this noir are desperate and untrustworthy, the kind who "never gave one dime to the United Way." Like many of these movies, the interplay of black and white in cinema composition is at times stunning. While the cops persevere the general impression is that it is a mean old world. Funny thing, The TMC moderator said Armored Car toured the country on a double bill with The Good Humor Man, a Jack Cars...
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