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Roy C's If I Could Love You Forever starts with a classic CYO dance song chord (think Pacabel) progression. CLICK ABOVE AND IT SHOULD JUST START PLAYING. This is a slow one, it's clear pretty soon - some Memphis horns come in, underpinning  flighty oddly mechanical violins, and electrical clavier thing, and then comes a strange falsetto, an odd voice - it's Roy C. Hamond - something like I've Been Lonely Too Long. Like that song, too this was a flashback of 60s soul, that just managed to slip into the R&B charts of 1975. Music was getting more and more rote. But If I Could Love You Forever breaks through. Roy does an overdub - two voices - the falsetto.. He is not too well known but he forever can intone... If I ... oh I .... Could Love You Forever ... besies the falsetto, he appars in a more regular singing voice. Dubbed. It is just haunting thrilling and captivating. Like when someone else might have heard Heartbreak Hotel in the deep winter of Mitch ...

Sell! (circa 1978) - Jack Vaughan

Gordon Thomas writes:  While Criterion’s catalog of Fellini films is very deep, their recent Blu-ray edition of  Fellini Satyricon  is a latecomer. But no matter; it’s here, and it’s wonderful. The film is not the Fellini favorite for many – nor is it for this writer – but I’m very grateful for its arrival. There are plenty of reasons to appreciate now what was considered, at its release, the director’s folly, and just as many reasons these days to ask questions of it..... Read the whole story.....on Bright Lights site. Related Satyricon Trailer Revisite d - MoonTravellerHerald - I recently saw the Criterion Satyricon Gordon discusses, and it all came back to me..that is the nausea I felt during the first 20 or so minutes.

Recently found a trove of Pynchonian trivia. It all started when I realized it was him talking on this promo If you're driving south from LA International it should take no more than a hit or two off of your favorite brand of cigarette before you're right here, in Gordita Beach, California. Well, no, actually, this used to be the beach. Later on, all this is gonna go highrise, high-rent, high intensity. But right now, back in 1970, what it is is just HIGH. An ounce of Mexican Commercial should run you no more than ten dollars - that's with the seeds and stems, of course..... For a trove of YouTube Pynchon, dial The bong goodbye - Brightlightsfilm Rumination Funny but - People lay the Manson Family's vicious Tate-LaBianca murders to drugs, delinquency and diaspora – in that Charles Manson could arise from a bereft underworld, use LSD as a salve, and manipulate young girls casting about in the late 1960s in California. Funny but there are parallels between LS...

William Moulton Marston was a unique somewhat New Englandish character. Born in the 1890s in Saugus Mass. – educated at Harvard – he is renowned in comic book circles as creator of Wonder Woman at the outset of World War II. A recent book by Jill Lepore, The Secret Life of Wonder Woman , looks at his life. In his time he was a bit of a social revolutionary and polygamist. He studied psychology at Harvard, and did a thesis which tested World War I German prisoners on their truthfulness by measuring their blood pressure. With this and later promotions he became an individual that was a  part of the campaign of history known as feedback -  but as a  pseudo scientist rather as a great innovator. He actually was not the inventor of the lie detector – that mantle goes per Wikipedia to John August Larson of UCal Berkeley. This is worth noting as the history of feedbacks and cybernetics are both racked by misteps…and some outright shamanism. The lie detector or polygraph machi...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (who remembers there is such an office?) in May listed some of Osama Bin Landen's last assets - his books. Below is the list of the books in English. There is also an interesting list of Think Tank white papers he possessed. Looking at anyone's - well almost anyone's - book collection is interesting. (Once on this site I riffed on a collection of Thomas Pynchon as I took it to be.) It is hard to tell if someone read the books at all, sometimes. But let's assume for purposes of rhetorical argument that Bin Laden read a good part of these. Many of them show a pretty strategic bent. To me, Bin Laden always seemed like a chess player. He seemed to know that the US would attack Afghanistan after the 2001 assaults. I also feel that he expected the Iraq incursion, and that, while he was prescient enough not to think he could totally foresee the exact number on the dice he threw, that he expected something along the lines...