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Some more information about the voluntary eunuch community.
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"I'm just a poor left-winger, befuddled, bewildered, forlorn, duped by a bearded singer, peddling his communist corn. In the cafe, espresso, sounds of guitars could be heard, twanging a plaintive folksong, spreading the communist word..."
The young Greene was originally a local TV personality on a Columbus, OH kiddie program "The (Uncle) Al Lewis Show", where she played Cinderella. Through some bizarre events she was noticed and recruited by Dr. Fred Schwarz, a professional anti-communist from Australia. His organization, known as the The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, sought to counter the liberal leftist folk movement with a Joan Baez of their own design. Dr. Schwarz's red-baiting tirades were converted into eight pithy right-wing folk-songs performed by Greene and released between 1964 and 1966. Greene's strange career as a right wing propagandist is interesting and worth a read. As CONELRAD says, "the most remarkable and puzzling element of the Greene story is the fact that she remains largely un-rediscovered. How is it that those tone-deaf kitsch stalwarts, The Shaggs, have achieved respectability and worldwide fame with a New Yorker profile, tribute album and rumored film, while Greene's equally fascinating career has been ignored?"
The Janet Greene Songbook has the rest of her oeuvre.
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Researchers in the Netherlands, in conjunction with their colleagues elsewhere, announced the results (paywalled) of a new study that takes a CBT approach to tinnitus, more commonly known as "ringing in the ears" that shows the first signs of promise for relief of the often maddening disorder. Alternative therapies exist. Spiders not included.
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(Whether it's a boy or girl)
A big serving of explosives
Might be up to half a pound
They must be in constant motion
Push, and kick, and flail, and shout
If they can't, they just explode
Bang! Kaboom! Your luck's run out. [includes Soviet animation and baby monkeys]
"Beware of Monkeys" is a series of dialog-free cartoons about five little monkeys and their loving, resourceful, but hopelessly overworked mother.
The monkeys first appeared in Гирлянда из малышей | A Garland of Toddlers (1983, 8 min.) that paired them with a troop of kindergartners and their easily distracted nanny.
The next episode Осторожно, обезьянки! | Beware of Monkeys! (linked above, 9 min.) appeared in 1984. It was followed up in 1987 by
Как обезьянки обедали | The Monkeys Eat DinnerSeveral sequels followed after the fall of USSR, adding unnecessary voices and self-conscious slapstick stylings:
and
Обезьянки и грабители | The Monkeys and the Robbers
Обезьянки, вперед! | Monkeys, Go! (1993, 8 min.)The background music was provided by Andrey Makarevich's «Машина времени» | Time Machine, one of Russia's oldest continually active rock bands (founded around 1970). Some representative pieces: Поворот | "New Turn" (fan video), Костер | "The Bonfire" (live), Марионетки | "Puppets" (live).
Обезьянки в опере | Monkeys at the Opera (1995, 9 min.)
Обезьянки: скорая помощь | Monkeys: Ambulance (1998, 10 min.)
Among other things, Makarevich is a poet and memoirist, a mixed media artist, and occasional TV personality (hosting Смак | Savor, a long-running show that combined cookery with occasional celebrity interviews). In recent times, Makarevich has been an on-again, off-again Kremlin supporter. He is still recording.
Peter Brings the Shadow to Life is a video made by Joe Pease which cleverly inverts our perspective of a skateboarder.
...The cult of and luster for country blues among these record collectors came about because not only were recordings by Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James and Robert Johnson not successfully sold to African Americans, but other record collectors were not interested in them either. There were so many collectors of New Orleans jazz that not only did the recordings became too expensive to collect, they also didn't want them -- they wanted to find something that required more energy to uncover, and more energy to actually appreciate. Anyone who has ever listened to Charley Patton knows that you have to learn how to listen to him, you have to really struggle -- it is a work of archeology, really, to make out what he is saying. It is powerful, and I don't want to deny its power, but you have to learn how to hear that power, and African Americans, when these records came out, didn't necessarily hear that.From an interview with Marybeth Hamilton, author of In Search of the Blues
Here, for the well connected, can be found a 49.1 MB mp3 audio interview of Marybeth Hamilton. Which may very well be the one transcribed in the first link of this post. But I am too pressed for time this morning to wait to find out.
And here are two reviews of In Search of the Blues:
Pro: Anthony Heilbut
Con: Dave Marsh
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