Also, saying Israel is a theocracy is also astoundingly incompetent.
Why are none of your fucking videos available in Canada?
Oh, Chick Corea.
I’m kinda relieved now.
watchu know about chick? damn i think i like you, kid.
so many many years ago i had a circle of friends… all fusion enthusiasts… and we’d play together. four of us; keyboardist, bassist, guitarist and drummer. we all discovered the fusion greats together. bands like mahavishnu orchestra and return to forever, so these musicians were our idols whom we would never surpass. so, in good humor we gave each other names, as follows:
chris, the guitarist, was called ‘al ravioli’ (return to forever guitarist ‘al dimeola’)
kelly, the keyboardist, was called ‘cheap korean’ (return to forever keyboardist ‘chick corea’)
james, the bassist, was called ‘stanley farce’ (return to forever bassist ‘stanley clarke’)
and i was called ‘fail collins’ (genesis drummer ‘phil collins’)
aint that the funniest shit you ever heard? i think so.
Hahahahah, you were Phil Collins? Why? Genesis is not even fusion-y. But I see some of the sound experimentation that shines through your otherwise purely funk virtuoso predilections. I guess among fusionists, that would have set you appart.
Fucking fusion. I fucking hate fusion.
With a passion.
To call it soulless, would be an insult to soulessness.
Goddamnit I hate them.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msbLcYGM4rg[/youtube]
How many years practice you think to even master the maracas?
How can anyone hear the stories of the Old Testament and not be moved?
I honestly believe that Machiavelli’s case was much like Bacon, Newton, Darwin and Descartes (much as I dislike Darwin and Descartes): his religion was sincere. He chose Moses.
The reason Kierkegaard didn’t understand Abraham was… He didn’t listen for God. Had no interest. Like my high scool teachers who gave us a version of the Illiad which had all the Gods removed. It was still beautiful, no doubt. Read a lot like JRR Tolkien’s battle scenes. But… Kierkegaard was also beautiful, but…
Anyway. Who indeed cannot be moved? Women maybe. We cannot ask women to bear that level of intelligence and awareness AND worship God. Well, some Gods…
And people who have only hate for themselves, God’s creation. How can they but hate God, but feel cold fear in reading those pages, in hearing those stories? The stories of the destruction of the enemies of God’s people are stories of them.
The Old Testament even gives us the riddle and paradox of Solomon, held as the best man ever, and went rather FROM God to heathenry than the opposite. And still the most beloved of the Old Testament. Even gives us such a thing as that.
Our own little secret. He may be Solomon, but he’s OUR Solomon.
What scope… What scope of the world the Old Testament gives us… The Illiad gives great scope, in suggesting such a Great Thing as Troy as only the very edges of the world outside. But the Old Testament rather encompasses it, effortlessly. No man who has read the Old Testament can look upon the world and ever feel they have stepped out, that it is bigger than they imagined, that it left things unaccounted for. For a man of the Old Testament needs no map. What can speak louder than the dust? How can anything have been more holy than making the dust speak with a brook, which sprung from a rock?
But seriously, how can anyone?
The Old Testament was always much more preferable, than the New Testament, to me… the NT is so he-said-she-said drama-queen rhetoric… and there, started, the beginnings of drama and gossip. lol
Game-theory wise, I’m a strictly new-testament guy.
On the other hand, in organic agriculture terms, you really cannot do without.
…?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5EyQvq4ALM[/youtube]
If Jorge Guerrero is the romantic gentleman, Vitico Castillo is the scoundrel.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7AGkRfeZME[/youtube]
Luis Silva is just corny, but we still love him. I think he may be Colombian.
COMO NO VOY A DECIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25eAP1fPvgY[/youtube]
And this guy I hate for reasons I cannot explain. He’s a good old fashioned Patriarch drunk.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax4KCpfoPRg[/youtube]
He does have the only ode to an actual dead horse to have ever become a super-hit.
fuse this, bitch!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10a45mgMGcY[/youtube]
lemme tell you something about mclaughlin. this guy is what happens when by being a phenomenal guitarist you end up hanging out in various intellectual circles that find it fashionable to get into eastern philosophy. and this is why i wanna smack the shit out of him. just listen to him talk. ever hear a sober guy try to sound like he’s high on opium or some shit that’s given him special philosophical insights that only a yogi can have? hello friends… far out man. and how he paused before he said ‘concert’ like he was searching for the right words. jesus christ dude this isn’t some transcendental event that can’t be put into words. shut the fuck up and play the goddamn guitar.
Goddamnit I can’t.
It’s like if everything that could go wrong with Chet Baker did go wrong.
This is how I prefer skill to be exhibited.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKquWe89jo[/youtube]
I have heard most of those songs a million times. But I have never heard them. He is showing me something altogether different than Williams, or Segovia, or Diaz, or however many other less remarkable ones I have heard. I can here truly judge each note, and measure the difference. I get both to enjoy this incredible interpretation, and get my mind blown all over again at just how goddamn good John Williams is. Just how very fucking good. I have no doubt De Lucia, for example, would make a fool of himself on that stage.