I love the Lennon/McCartney catalog. But George Harrison was as good a songwriter as they, and proved it once he started putting out his own albums. Tonight, a tribute to Mr. Harrison.
“My Sweet Lord”
“What is Life”
“Give Me Love”
“Got My Mind Set On You”
And finally, his most well-known song: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.
Hearty Birthday Wishes! Thanks to you and all the others who re-tweeted my tweet about our crowd canvassing event to get signatures on the OFA gun petition. It was a perfect day!
Thanks for dropping in on YOUR special day! Happy BD, hope your handsome sons treat you well this weekend.
Chips, you’re too funny. You’re no doubt on your chaise lounge awaiting peeled grapes, wondering whether LibLib or UTA or LovelyPlains will grant TODville a new space to comment.
Is today the Run for the Roses? I should have remembered that. It’s also Audrey Hepburn’s birthday.
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), in a promotional still for Love in the Afternoon (1957). Hepburn made her Hollywood debut with Roman Holiday in 1953, after shooting several films in Britain. She is one of only eleven people to win an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award
It’s astonishing Chips! If you get a chance read the article (link not working for some reason now) http://wapo.st/17CiwRQ Goes all the way back to Reagan, LaPierre, and an arms dealer.
“My Sweet Lord”……beautiful! Great shares, LL! It’s probably not particularly your thing but I’m taking some flack from my Fam & friends for opting out of the Cinco de Mayo celebrations this year. I’m just not that into the party. I thank you for this music.
This is what every Dem, anywhere should speaking of…..at none stop no matter what question asked. Dems need to be in these TBGOPers’ faces as well as these lame lazy bat poopers calling themselves Journalists’ faces…….
Exactly, prettyfoot! Like you, 2014 is my number one priority. If we work hard and defeat these insane tea baggers, we will even convince the so called “blue dog” Democrats to back the President. In keeping with the marvelous idea, suggested by our Globalcitizenlinda, let’s show them that President Obama’s juice is contained in all of us citizens who support his agenda and oppose the craziness of the current GOP.
let’s show them that President Obama’s juice is contained in all of us
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YES!…and as PBO has said so many times…~WE ARE THE CHANGE WE SEEK!~
Just read a little today about the NRA convention and decided I could take no more, so largely avoiding Twitter and the usual newsie sites. These people are monsters, absolute monsters.
I wrote here yesterday that on my way home from my stuttering medication management appointment I was listening to the World Service. The top story was on the NRA convention. It was so embarrassing that this was the day’s image of my country.
There’s always such a focus in the international media on nuts like the NRA and Palin, their madness is box office I suppose. So, that usually leaves most outside America asking ‘how on earth did a man like Barack Obama get elected in that place?’ The saner side of America is rarely shown!
Honestly, there are no words. These creeps are despicable.
I just watched the first episode of Justified and it scared me out of my wits. It’s about Kentucky RWNJ Nazi gun culture and it’s freakin’ SCARY. WTH is up with these Southern states and their hold on our Congress, stunting our growth and obsessed with this kind of knee-jerk horrific violence .
It really is time-warp stuff Meta, I used to love ridiculing and lampooning them, but it’s just not funny at all, people are dying because of these ****ers’ hold on political life. The little I read today was too much, as was that ad boasting about PBO’s gun law defeat while showing him comfort a Sandy Hook mother. I ****ing hate them.
I remember the very deep divisions of the Viet Nam War and the culture wars of the 70s. That was nothing compared to the extremist crazy violence happening now in the GOP. It’s so incontrovertibly SICK.
Oh God, so true Meta. And we say it every day, the most shocking part really is that this ever-spiraling hate and insanity is almost completely overlooked by the MSM, so no light is being shone on it all. No examination, certainly no condemnation, nothing. So these ****ers are emboldened, as the NRA crowd have been the last couple of days – utterly comfortable openly expressing racist views and their usual deranged venom. It is endlessly depressing.
And you know Meta, I mocked the WH press corps during the week with that photo of an all-white room at PBO’s press conference, but, of course, that’s the root of their indifference to this wave of hate – it doesn’t impact their cozy privileged lives, so they ignore it.
I’m with you, Chips. The NRA freaks are not funny anymore – if they ever were. They’re costing lives, and they’re totally irresponsible. And now that their president is a right wing conspiracy loon… they scare the wits out of me.
They scare me too Theo, especially after seeing the new guy – he makes LaPierre seem semi-rational, and that’s saying something. They really have taken over from the Tea Party as the gathering point for the nutters who cannot cope with a black man being President. Of course, they hate any one who ‘threatens’ gun law reform, regardless of their skin color, but we all know what’s truly driving them now. And this is 2013? My God.
And to think in 2008 just under 46% of the electorate voted to make her VP.
That’s why I laugh when such a fuss is made when PBO’s approval ratings fall – that’s 46% of the electorate who wouldn’t approve of him even he reduced unemployment to 0%, abolished taxes and found a cure for cancer. When he hits around 54%, to me that’s maximum sane approval.
Yup – when I see his approval get to 53%, I do a little dance that 100% of thinking people are behind him. It’s scary that nearly 1 in 2 people in this country are non-thinking.
I think the answer has to do with what some people now call “white privilege.” I think the problem has also to do with the education we get. Very few Americans know that Southern whites used terror and violence to overthrow Reconstruction and restore white supremacy. But you know what, those terrorists called themselves “redeemers,”and history books treat them likewise. Many who revere Dr. Martin Luther King treat his assassination as if it were an isolated incident committed by one crazy guy. Yet King’s assassination was part of the massive terror and violence inflicted on Black people, and whites who supported them, during the Civil Rights movement. Black churches and Black homes were bombed. Innocent people, including children, were killed. Despite this history, most Americans are indoctrinated to believe that terrorism i s purely unAmerican. Only people who dark or Muslims commit acts of terror.
Racist Terror against blk people is very much accepted…seen as the norm actually…hence the radical racist ravings of Beck and Lambaugh can happen without impunity and if someone acts on those racist ranting…they are not held accountable..
The NRA purposely chose a president who looks and sounds like the sheriff Rod Steiger played in “In the Heat of the Night,” which was almost 50 years ago.
They are making a statement, saying that we hold pre-Civil Rights southern values and the GOP must step in line behind us. GOP are all cowards, kowtowing to this despicable lobby.
Separately, today is the 43rd anniversary of the Kent State Shootings.
I’ve mentioned that I grew up in what’s now Duncan Hunter Jr’s district, and recall that one of my prom-princess high school classmates said the National Guard were justified in shooting those students because a few of them had thrown rocks. I thought to myself “WTH,” and but didn’t realize then what a mindset that kind of thinking represented.
A few weeks ago on Chris Matthews half-hour weekend NBC show (which conveniently airs at 5:30 am Sunday mornings in the Los Angeles market) had a special on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ release of “Please Please Me,” which was their English debut single.
He asked his guests to name their favorite Beatles tune.
Katy Kay had an obvious soft spot for George, choosing “Something” and I think “Do You Wanna Know a Secret” or was it “Here Comes the Sun” (not sure, was a few weeks ago)
Joe Klein chose “A Day in the Life”
upChuck Todd chose “Helter Skelter” (he also said he was a music major and liked complex songs, hence his admiration for Queen; he played the French Horn).
Helter Skelter as fav Beatles tune? WIth so many amazing songs to choose from? I think my fav is “Norwegian Wood.”
I remember very clearly going to see the film, Concert for Bangladesh and being absolutely moved by the cause and the performances of George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston and Eric Clapton. I played the album incessantly for weeks. It was a very clear marker of this kind of event.
I was about to post that. Thanks LovelyPlains. I also didn’t know that his second wife of 2 yrs is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The Woman who was the 1st Black member of Parliament in the Dutch Gov’t in the early 2000s. I believe they have one child now. Yes, I am gossiping, please excuse me……But it irks me when this educated Illiterate, Niall Ferguson who got married at 23 and was married until 2011, when he left his wife for this Ayaan Hirsi Ali woman. So when did he become an expert on child rearing? This is 2013. This guy is 49 yrs old Not Anita Bryant for crying out loud.
Now would Tina Brown fire her fellow countryman as she rightfully did Howard Kurtz or would she chicken out? Niall Ferguson has written a few bat poop articles and had lied in 2012 about pres Obama. What would Harvard do? Hmm?
His wife is just as nasty a person as him. She uses here story of growing up Muslim in Ethiopia, converting to Christianity, to make a living defaming good Muslims around the world. There might not be two people I dislike more than those two, and I don’t have ill will towards anyone, regardless of motive.
Hey, LP, She sounds like the kind of person of color that right wingers greatly admire. The fact that she is an African and a former muslim works to shield her husband from charges of racism and religious intolerance. But then again, on the issue of race, I was taught in school that Ethiopians, like the ancient Egyptians, were actually black whites (Hamites/Semites) and not Black (Negro) Africans.
No, that was some idiot Daily Caller moron….somehow was previously employed by the National Jornal. Ferguson is a British *Histiorian* who has no clue about anything he talks about.
I put litmus tests on program’s that invite him on as a guest….if your judgement is he is knowledgable guest…then my judgement is your program is worthless, not in the business of reporting, just editorializing.
Gun Safety advocates need to add to their network, a group of dedicated brilliant legal minds who will invest long term in the goal of reducing the power of the NRA on our political systems and their profits as they destroy peace around the world
Been waitin’ for this thread, LL. In addition to My Sweet Lord, this is my next favorite with George Harrison and all the glorious others, there and not there. Please forgive me for including the long trail of lyrics, but I love ’em. #WordsToLiveBy
End of the Line
Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please
Well it’s all right, doing the best you can
Well it’s all right, as long as you lend a hand
You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring
Waiting for someone to tell you everything
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring
Maybe a diamond ring
Well it’s all right, even if they say you’re wrong
Well it’s all right, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well it’s all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay
Well it’s all right, everyday is judgement day
Maybe somewhere down the road aways
You’ll think of me, and wonder where I am these days
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays
Purple haze
Well it’s all right, even when push comes to shove
Well it’s all right, if you got someone to love
Well it’s all right, everything’ll work out fine
Well it’s all right, were going to the end of the line
Don’t have to be ashamed of the car I drive
I’m just glad to be here, happy to be alive
It don’t matter if you’re by my side
I’m satisfied
Well it’s all right, even if you’re old and grey
Well it’s all right, you still got something to say
Well it’s all right, remember to live and let live
Well it’s all right, the best you can do is forgive
Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please
Well it’s all right, even if the sun don’t shine
Well it’s all right, were going to the end of the line
Andrew Sullivan made me laugh today defending Ferguson – not his comments, but the man himself. Sullivan is godfather, apparently, to one of Ferguson’s children, so therefore he couldn’t possibly be homophobic. Right.
Well, Sully still yearns to be in the Log Cabin Republicans. But he knows that the GOP would string him up in a minute. But on the other hand… Jesus, it’s tiring.
I haven’t read Sullivan since he decided he could make money out of charging people to read his blog. I would pay to read TOD – would never pay to read someone who flip flops every other day as to his politics and his ideals.
He did that same “coming to the defense” of Furguson, when he put out this Newsweek cover story. http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/newsweeks_niall_ferguson_debac.php?page=all After he was destroyed by everyone, Tina Brown made the astonishing admission that they did not have and editor, or fact checker even look at his piece, before printing that cover story!
They also went to school together or Came to USA at the same time. Sullivan needs To stop being a Hypocrite here. Really? He needs to stop, right now or he is not being honest.
The only time he was honest – and his main claim to fame – was the outburst against Sarah Palin on Bill Maher’s show. Before that few knew who he was – and he hasn’t said anything of merit since.
Hello TOD – thank you all blog “tyrants” for bringing the President’s trip to us in such wonderful detail. I don’t say this often enough – always rushing from one event or project to another – Chips and all of you, thank you. If it weren’t for this blog, I would not have such excellent information.
I have a request tonight. If you have not done so already, would you please sign the petition re: gun violence. There are signs that some of the Republicans may have second thoughts because of the negative fallout resulting from their “No” votes. As the President said, that was just the first round. We need to constantly remind the Congress that we expect action on gun safety legislation.
The most encouraging thing lately were the poll numbers for those who voted against background checks, that’s the big hope now, that these spineless ****ers will think again for fear of losing their seats. This isn’t over, no way.
I promptly signed this! As I keep reminding people, it took 70 years to overturn a U.S. Supreme Court decision that had legally sanctioned racial segregation. Then it took another 10 years before Congress caught up with the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw legal segregation throughout the country. Most of the fundamental social and political changes that have taken place in America have not come about as a result of Instant/dramatic changes. Rather, they’ve come about as a result of dedicated struggles that always dusted themselves off whenever they encountered set-backs/defeats.
Remember folks, the President is also serving as a checks and balance in the T Bagger House. They can’t get through what they want either, both serving as a counter weight to each others agenda.
But status quo favors Republicans, in the end, but its not as bad as it could be. 🙂
George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. By 1965 Harrison had begun to lead the other Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”. He developed an interest in the Hare Krishna movement and became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing them to the other Beatles and their Western audience. Following the band’s break-up in 1970, Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer, and in 1988 co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty, among others. He also organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison was also a music and film producer, founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. (Full article…)
Thank you LL. George Harrison has been my love since I was a child; still remember crying into my soup in 3rd grade when I heard on the news that he had married Patti Boyd, I was so sure he would wait for me! He was such a talent and an inspiration to so many. So nice for you to highlight him. Give me love, give me light, give me peace on earth. Yay George!
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Hello all!
Winner!
Thank you for the post LL!
My pleasure!
Thanks LL. Love George Harrison. Too bad Bangladesh is still hurting.
Congrats Theo! Fellow Taurus, right?
Proud fellow Taurus! Best sign of the Zodiac – we’re always right! 😉
And stubborn. 😀
hahahaha…Spoken like a true Taurus…of course I am a Taurus as well….hehehe
Me, too!
Well hello! When’s your BDay?
May 7th.
Tomorrow? Early Happy Birthday.
Thanks, Carol Mae!
Theoooooooooooooooo! Hello you!
Congrats, Theo!
Noticed your WP avatar is now a dusty rose (?) color instead of Obama-blue. Like it though. 🙂
I was on my phone – my usual avatar is back!
Congrats on 1st Theo!
Happy Birthday Carol!!
Thank you for the great tunes, LL!!!
#FORWARD
Thanks Bob. . .
Well Howdy every one! Happy Birthday to me!
Tie!
Sweet!
Hearty Birthday Wishes! Thanks to you and all the others who re-tweeted my tweet about our crowd canvassing event to get signatures on the OFA gun petition. It was a perfect day!
So glad. The NRA is crazy this week-end.
Happy birthday Carol!
Thank you Chips.
CarolMae!
Thanks for dropping in on YOUR special day! Happy BD, hope your handsome sons treat you well this weekend.
Chips, you’re too funny. You’re no doubt on your chaise lounge awaiting peeled grapes, wondering whether LibLib or UTA or LovelyPlains will grant TODville a new space to comment.
Enjoy those grapes! LOL.
Thanks Arapaho.
Happy B-Day!! Carol…
Thank you LP. 😀
Happy birthday Carolmae!
Thank you.
Happy Birthday, Carol! I hope you’re enjoying the day!!
Thank you.
Happy Birthday!
Thank you Jackie!
More BD Greetingsssssssss…
Thanks, love it!
Happy Birthdayyyyyyyyyyyy…Carol..
Thank you Prettyfoot! 😀
happy Birthday, CarolMae!
Thank you.
I love, My Sweet Love. Great Tune.
Congrats Theo67.
Thanks LL. Midnight TOD Night Owl posts are Bad to the Bones.
I don’t know how I make these mistakes. LORD. My sweet LORD 😉
Thanks LL. I loved the Beatles, together and separate. My first 45 was “I Want to .hold Your Hand”! I was very young. 😉
Congrats on being Co-TOD Pilot with Theo67.
Your B-Day? Happy B-Day, Stevie Wonder Style……CarolmaeWy 😎
Thanks. 😉
Sending happy birthday wishes your way, CarolMae! Hope you have an enjoyable and special evening!
Thank you VC.
Congrats Theo…Carol was creeping just like Golden Soul in the Derby!
Is today the Run for the Roses? I should have remembered that. It’s also Audrey Hepburn’s birthday.
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), in a promotional still for Love in the Afternoon (1957). Hepburn made her Hollywood debut with Roman Holiday in 1953, after shooting several films in Britain. She is one of only eleven people to win an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award
There was a women and and AA jockey running for the first time….the track was drenched, but was a decent race Orb won.
Thanks.
This is madness! Eight 40-round clips…..sole intention was to kill these two police officers.
Thanks for highlighting the great George Harrison, LL! And congrats on first Theo… and happy birthday Carol! And Helloooo Ms Chips!!
Thanks andogriff.
You are very welcome! Hope you are having a great day.. : )))
Yes, it’s been nice.
Good gawd, look at those figures.
It’s astonishing Chips! If you get a chance read the article (link not working for some reason now) http://wapo.st/17CiwRQ Goes all the way back to Reagan, LaPierre, and an arms dealer.
Will do tomorrow LP, thank you.
NP, make sure you are not near any heavy objects!
“My Sweet Lord”……beautiful! Great shares, LL! It’s probably not particularly your thing but I’m taking some flack from my Fam & friends for opting out of the Cinco de Mayo celebrations this year. I’m just not that into the party. I thank you for this music.
This is what every Dem, anywhere should speaking of…..at none stop no matter what question asked. Dems need to be in these TBGOPers’ faces as well as these lame lazy bat poopers calling themselves Journalists’ faces…….
There is no alternative but to vote them OUT….2014….
Exactly, prettyfoot! Like you, 2014 is my number one priority. If we work hard and defeat these insane tea baggers, we will even convince the so called “blue dog” Democrats to back the President. In keeping with the marvelous idea, suggested by our Globalcitizenlinda, let’s show them that President Obama’s juice is contained in all of us citizens who support his agenda and oppose the craziness of the current GOP.
let’s show them that President Obama’s juice is contained in all of us
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YES!…and as PBO has said so many times…~WE ARE THE CHANGE WE SEEK!~
True.
LL great post!
Just read a little today about the NRA convention and decided I could take no more, so largely avoiding Twitter and the usual newsie sites. These people are monsters, absolute monsters.
I wrote here yesterday that on my way home from my stuttering medication management appointment I was listening to the World Service. The top story was on the NRA convention. It was so embarrassing that this was the day’s image of my country.
There’s always such a focus in the international media on nuts like the NRA and Palin, their madness is box office I suppose. So, that usually leaves most outside America asking ‘how on earth did a man like Barack Obama get elected in that place?’ The saner side of America is rarely shown!
You know, I never considered that.
Crazy sells no matter where you are, and crazy America sells the biggest.
Honestly, there are no words. These creeps are despicable.
I just watched the first episode of Justified and it scared me out of my wits. It’s about Kentucky RWNJ Nazi gun culture and it’s freakin’ SCARY. WTH is up with these Southern states and their hold on our Congress, stunting our growth and obsessed with this kind of knee-jerk horrific violence .
It really is time-warp stuff Meta, I used to love ridiculing and lampooning them, but it’s just not funny at all, people are dying because of these ****ers’ hold on political life. The little I read today was too much, as was that ad boasting about PBO’s gun law defeat while showing him comfort a Sandy Hook mother. I ****ing hate them.
I remember the very deep divisions of the Viet Nam War and the culture wars of the 70s. That was nothing compared to the extremist crazy violence happening now in the GOP. It’s so incontrovertibly SICK.
Oh God, so true Meta. And we say it every day, the most shocking part really is that this ever-spiraling hate and insanity is almost completely overlooked by the MSM, so no light is being shone on it all. No examination, certainly no condemnation, nothing. So these ****ers are emboldened, as the NRA crowd have been the last couple of days – utterly comfortable openly expressing racist views and their usual deranged venom. It is endlessly depressing.
THIS x100000000000000
And you know Meta, I mocked the WH press corps during the week with that photo of an all-white room at PBO’s press conference, but, of course, that’s the root of their indifference to this wave of hate – it doesn’t impact their cozy privileged lives, so they ignore it.
Yes, you’ve unlocked the truth on that one.
I envision them all like the horrendously antiquated George Will and Peggy Noonington with cocktail weenies stuck in their yellow teeth.
That there is the quote of the century!!
I don’t know meta, on May 4, 1970 the National Guard opened fire at Kent State protesters. It was covered by the MSN though.
I’m with you, Chips. The NRA freaks are not funny anymore – if they ever were. They’re costing lives, and they’re totally irresponsible. And now that their president is a right wing conspiracy loon… they scare the wits out of me.
They scare me too Theo, especially after seeing the new guy – he makes LaPierre seem semi-rational, and that’s saying something. They really have taken over from the Tea Party as the gathering point for the nutters who cannot cope with a black man being President. Of course, they hate any one who ‘threatens’ gun law reform, regardless of their skin color, but we all know what’s truly driving them now. And this is 2013? My God.
I blame the media for making Sarah Palin’s hate-mongering mainstream.
And to think in 2008 just under 46% of the electorate voted to make her VP.
That’s why I laugh when such a fuss is made when PBO’s approval ratings fall – that’s 46% of the electorate who wouldn’t approve of him even he reduced unemployment to 0%, abolished taxes and found a cure for cancer. When he hits around 54%, to me that’s maximum sane approval.
Yup – when I see his approval get to 53%, I do a little dance that 100% of thinking people are behind him. It’s scary that nearly 1 in 2 people in this country are non-thinking.
I want to know why isn’t this considered …Sedition……Terrorism and Treason….just imagine what would happen if their name was Muhammad…
I wish I had an answer to your very good question. We are heading that way, for sure.
I think the answer has to do with what some people now call “white privilege.” I think the problem has also to do with the education we get. Very few Americans know that Southern whites used terror and violence to overthrow Reconstruction and restore white supremacy. But you know what, those terrorists called themselves “redeemers,”and history books treat them likewise. Many who revere Dr. Martin Luther King treat his assassination as if it were an isolated incident committed by one crazy guy. Yet King’s assassination was part of the massive terror and violence inflicted on Black people, and whites who supported them, during the Civil Rights movement. Black churches and Black homes were bombed. Innocent people, including children, were killed. Despite this history, most Americans are indoctrinated to believe that terrorism i s purely unAmerican. Only people who dark or Muslims commit acts of terror.
Right on Right on…Nath…
Racist Terror against blk people is very much accepted…seen as the norm actually…hence the radical racist ravings of Beck and Lambaugh can happen without impunity and if someone acts on those racist ranting…they are not held accountable..
It’s like a timewarp but with bigger guns.
The NRA purposely chose a president who looks and sounds like the sheriff Rod Steiger played in “In the Heat of the Night,” which was almost 50 years ago.
They are making a statement, saying that we hold pre-Civil Rights southern values and the GOP must step in line behind us. GOP are all cowards, kowtowing to this despicable lobby.
Separately, today is the 43rd anniversary of the Kent State Shootings.
I’ve mentioned that I grew up in what’s now Duncan Hunter Jr’s district, and recall that one of my prom-princess high school classmates said the National Guard were justified in shooting those students because a few of them had thrown rocks. I thought to myself “WTH,” and but didn’t realize then what a mindset that kind of thinking represented.
Love Mr. Harrison! Here’s one of my all time fave Harrison songs! “Crackerbox Palace”
On topic (for once).
A few weeks ago on Chris Matthews half-hour weekend NBC show (which conveniently airs at 5:30 am Sunday mornings in the Los Angeles market) had a special on the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ release of “Please Please Me,” which was their English debut single.
He asked his guests to name their favorite Beatles tune.
Katy Kay had an obvious soft spot for George, choosing “Something” and I think “Do You Wanna Know a Secret” or was it “Here Comes the Sun” (not sure, was a few weeks ago)
Joe Klein chose “A Day in the Life”
upChuck Todd chose “Helter Skelter” (he also said he was a music major and liked complex songs, hence his admiration for Queen; he played the French Horn).
Helter Skelter as fav Beatles tune? WIth so many amazing songs to choose from? I think my fav is “Norwegian Wood.”
Here Comes the Sun 😉
One of my favs 😆
I remember very clearly going to see the film, Concert for Bangladesh and being absolutely moved by the cause and the performances of George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Billy Preston and Eric Clapton. I played the album incessantly for weeks. It was a very clear marker of this kind of event.
Obama back in US after trip to Mexico, Costa Rica
So Our POTUS is back In the USA, It’s all right……….Isn’t that another George Harrison’s songs?
Well, it’s a Traveling Wilburys song. So, yes, his… but also Tom Petty’s, Bob Dylan’s, Jeff Lynne’s, and Roy Orbison’s.
Yeah. I checked and found that out. Thanks.
I posted End of the Line for ya!
Glad he’s home safely.
Bigot Ferguson trying to save his job now……to late! All employers should sack him ASAP.
I was about to post that. Thanks LovelyPlains. I also didn’t know that his second wife of 2 yrs is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The Woman who was the 1st Black member of Parliament in the Dutch Gov’t in the early 2000s. I believe they have one child now. Yes, I am gossiping, please excuse me……But it irks me when this educated Illiterate, Niall Ferguson who got married at 23 and was married until 2011, when he left his wife for this Ayaan Hirsi Ali woman. So when did he become an expert on child rearing? This is 2013. This guy is 49 yrs old Not Anita Bryant for crying out loud.
Now would Tina Brown fire her fellow countryman as she rightfully did Howard Kurtz or would she chicken out? Niall Ferguson has written a few bat poop articles and had lied in 2012 about pres Obama. What would Harvard do? Hmm?
His wife is just as nasty a person as him. She uses here story of growing up Muslim in Ethiopia, converting to Christianity, to make a living defaming good Muslims around the world. There might not be two people I dislike more than those two, and I don’t have ill will towards anyone, regardless of motive.
Yes, Ms. Hirsi is a star on the evangelical, Islamophobic right.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls herself an Atheist now. She has Passages of Koran tattooed in her back. The woman is whacked.
Hey, LP, She sounds like the kind of person of color that right wingers greatly admire. The fact that she is an African and a former muslim works to shield her husband from charges of racism and religious intolerance. But then again, on the issue of race, I was taught in school that Ethiopians, like the ancient Egyptians, were actually black whites (Hamites/Semites) and not Black (Negro) Africans.
Bingo Nath, another version of Herman Cain. As far as historical ancestry, they could care less.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/02/and_you_thought_dating_was_har.html
Well. Ferguson had 3 children with His 1st wife, Douglas. Sorry about getting that part wrong.
Is this the same idiot who shouted at President Obama in the middle of his statement last year?
No. That was an idiot from the Daily Caller……a Brit, but No….Not this Niall Ferguson.
No, that was some idiot Daily Caller moron….somehow was previously employed by the National Jornal. Ferguson is a British *Histiorian* who has no clue about anything he talks about.
“Ferguson is a British *Histiorian* who has no clue about anything he talks about.”
LovelyPlains, You totally nailed him.
I put litmus tests on program’s that invite him on as a guest….if your judgement is he is knowledgable guest…then my judgement is your program is worthless, not in the business of reporting, just editorializing.
George Harrison corrupted by the boys from Monty Python.
Gun Safety advocates need to add to their network, a group of dedicated brilliant legal minds who will invest long term in the goal of reducing the power of the NRA on our political systems and their profits as they destroy peace around the world
Been waitin’ for this thread, LL. In addition to My Sweet Lord, this is my next favorite with George Harrison and all the glorious others, there and not there. Please forgive me for including the long trail of lyrics, but I love ’em. #WordsToLiveBy
End of the Line
Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please
Well it’s all right, doing the best you can
Well it’s all right, as long as you lend a hand
You can sit around and wait for the phone to ring
Waiting for someone to tell you everything
Sit around and wonder what tomorrow will bring
Maybe a diamond ring
Well it’s all right, even if they say you’re wrong
Well it’s all right, sometimes you gotta be strong
Well it’s all right, as long as you got somewhere to lay
Well it’s all right, everyday is judgement day
Maybe somewhere down the road aways
You’ll think of me, and wonder where I am these days
Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays
Purple haze
Well it’s all right, even when push comes to shove
Well it’s all right, if you got someone to love
Well it’s all right, everything’ll work out fine
Well it’s all right, were going to the end of the line
Don’t have to be ashamed of the car I drive
I’m just glad to be here, happy to be alive
It don’t matter if you’re by my side
I’m satisfied
Well it’s all right, even if you’re old and grey
Well it’s all right, you still got something to say
Well it’s all right, remember to live and let live
Well it’s all right, the best you can do is forgive
Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze
Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please
Well it’s all right, even if the sun don’t shine
Well it’s all right, were going to the end of the line
Andrew Sullivan made me laugh today defending Ferguson – not his comments, but the man himself. Sullivan is godfather, apparently, to one of Ferguson’s children, so therefore he couldn’t possibly be homophobic. Right.
Well, Sully still yearns to be in the Log Cabin Republicans. But he knows that the GOP would string him up in a minute. But on the other hand… Jesus, it’s tiring.
Ha, yes! His mind must be worn out from the gymnastics, I rarely read him any more, he’s all over the damn place.
I haven’t read Sullivan since he decided he could make money out of charging people to read his blog. I would pay to read TOD – would never pay to read someone who flip flops every other day as to his politics and his ideals.
“I would pay to read TOD”
Well 99ts, starting tomorrow the blog is subscription only. Currency? Cheesy Puffs, of course! 🙂
Chocolate – always chocolate – now there’s a currency idea.
Oooooooh, DO NOT tempt me 99ts!!!!
or 99 cents
how could you miss the opportunity to charge 99 cts – given the name in the handle?
Ha, you’re right Linda!! 😆
He did that same “coming to the defense” of Furguson, when he put out this Newsweek cover story. http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/newsweeks_niall_ferguson_debac.php?page=all After he was destroyed by everyone, Tina Brown made the astonishing admission that they did not have and editor, or fact checker even look at his piece, before printing that cover story!
They also went to school together or Came to USA at the same time. Sullivan needs To stop being a Hypocrite here. Really? He needs to stop, right now or he is not being honest.
The only time he was honest – and his main claim to fame – was the outburst against Sarah Palin on Bill Maher’s show. Before that few knew who he was – and he hasn’t said anything of merit since.
One of my favorite people, formally in the Obama admin. –sidenote ladies–she used to shag up w/ George Clooney.
Hello TOD – thank you all blog “tyrants” for bringing the President’s trip to us in such wonderful detail. I don’t say this often enough – always rushing from one event or project to another – Chips and all of you, thank you. If it weren’t for this blog, I would not have such excellent information.
I have a request tonight. If you have not done so already, would you please sign the petition re: gun violence. There are signs that some of the Republicans may have second thoughts because of the negative fallout resulting from their “No” votes. As the President said, that was just the first round. We need to constantly remind the Congress that we expect action on gun safety legislation.
http://www.barackobama.com/news?source=404-page
Thank you.
Done, thank you hgerhard:
The most encouraging thing lately were the poll numbers for those who voted against background checks, that’s the big hope now, that these spineless ****ers will think again for fear of losing their seats. This isn’t over, no way.
Done that a while back .
I’m thankful too for all the info TOD gives. Petitioned signed.
I promptly signed this! As I keep reminding people, it took 70 years to overturn a U.S. Supreme Court decision that had legally sanctioned racial segregation. Then it took another 10 years before Congress caught up with the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw legal segregation throughout the country. Most of the fundamental social and political changes that have taken place in America have not come about as a result of Instant/dramatic changes. Rather, they’ve come about as a result of dedicated struggles that always dusted themselves off whenever they encountered set-backs/defeats.
Luck be a Lady tonight! 🙂
#JustImagineIf
Yes We Can
#LandslideDEMS2014
Yes We Can
Ot oh.
Reliable. Posted within past ~ 40 min
Remember folks, the President is also serving as a checks and balance in the T Bagger House. They can’t get through what they want either, both serving as a counter weight to each others agenda.
But status quo favors Republicans, in the end, but its not as bad as it could be. 🙂
True but I hate seeing the future of our entire nation tied to a couple of creeps from Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia.
Bobfr,
What does your sources tell you about the Damascus explosions?
Israel? America? ?
I have the same sources you do, Jovie 😉
Tweets from folk on the ground who are reliable … 🙂
#FORWARD
This is getting ominous…..dejavu of Libya videos…..from tonight’s reported strike.
Thanks LL for the George Harrison videos! 🙂 Beautiful songs – everyone of them.
Chat away!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/04/chat-away-156/
George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. By 1965 Harrison had begun to lead the other Beatles into folk rock through his interest in the Byrds and Bob Dylan, and towards Indian classical music through his use of the sitar on “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”. He developed an interest in the Hare Krishna movement and became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, introducing them to the other Beatles and their Western audience. Following the band’s break-up in 1970, Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer, and in 1988 co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty, among others. He also organized the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. Harrison was also a music and film producer, founding Dark Horse Records in 1974 and co-founding HandMade Films in 1978. (Full article…)
Thank you LL. George Harrison has been my love since I was a child; still remember crying into my soup in 3rd grade when I heard on the news that he had married Patti Boyd, I was so sure he would wait for me! He was such a talent and an inspiration to so many. So nice for you to highlight him. Give me love, give me light, give me peace on earth. Yay George!