Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I kinda like the Hasidic Hardcore. And I have actually seen Matisyahu. But for today’s SOTD, I’m going to focus on another famous Jewish-American singer and songwriter, Lou Reed. Once I settled on Lou Reed, I knew I was going to choose something from Transformer, and was originally going with Andy’s Chest — a reference to the scar on Andy Warhol’s chest after he was shot by Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist behind the SCUM Manifesto. It is a great song, but I have to go with Satellite of Love. There are many things I love about this song—the finger snaps and crescendoing horns in the vamp, the weird little recorder solo, the fact that there’s a tuba. But it’s the backing vocals that really do it for me. First, there’s the Thunder Thighs, the back up singers who did the “Do Do Do” part of “Walk on the Wild Side.” And then there’s David Bowie! And he kills it. The falsetto on the descending arpeggios — “Bom bom bom.” The soaring high notes at the end. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2uvTvaHEA

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

The best path is to become a plaintiff's lawyer who signs up cases.

True story, Icky had a case very early on which wound up with him suing a company that hadn't been sued before. Turns out this company had a very icky past. They paid Icky's client a lot of money. Client died, spouse got an estate lawyer who had the client sign a retainer that included a percentage. When spouse talked to Icky, she realize her rice too wet she fuck up. She fired the lawyer.

That estate lawyer stopped doing estates after that and went into the business of signing up these types of cases. The estate lawyer could now buy Axe Capital using em's couch change.

I almost worked for a referral machine years ago. The model was mass marketing, keeping choice cases (high damages, low complexity) in-house with a small staff of lawyers, and sending out all the other stuff. You're right. The guy who ran the place never practiced for real. Just monetized the license. Don't think he had private jet money, but probably close.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

Do you know Songs For Drella? Cale and Reed's tribute to Andy.

Fun stuff-

https://www.google.com/search?client...MEANGoNdtIAAAA

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I love telemedicine. Soooo much can be done by zoom, about half my appointments are now zooms. I think a lot of docs really like it, too.

We stood up a practice in about two weeks that would have taken years before Covid. We'll see what happens going forward as states stop with the emergency rules and have to figure out how we're going to operate.

Texas will join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact March 1, which is a good sign. Our legislature was at war with Teledoc a few years back, and we were very restrictive.

I've had a number of OB visits via telemedicine, and it's been very nice to check in without having to deal with going to the clinic.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

It is subjective. But I believe I could argue credibly that it is or ought to be objective.

Having Reed and Cale in the same band is simultaneous lottery wins, lightning strikes. Jagger/Richards, McCartney/Lennon. Okay.

But there’s something Next Level about early VU’s disregard - entirely - for song structure fused to the Cole Porter level pop tune songwriting talent of Reed. The movie’s best line is, “the heat of this band simply couldn’t survive.” It was really rare. And while I love the Doug Yule stuff, and all of Reed’s solo catalog, there’s something uniquely sticky about the first two records. WL/WH sounds like a pile of noise in parts. “Lady Godiva’s Operation” sounds like a studio throwaway. But that’s intentional. Because the song’s so carefully crafted, if you polished it up, it’d sound too perfect.

And I can get bored even from “Rock n Roll.” But I still can’t turn off “Venus in Furs” once it starts. Cale was a bigger part of the secret sauce of early VU than was ever credited. Glad he got his accolades in the movie.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Sometimes the SOTD will have no special significance other that it is a song I happen to be listening to. This one is by Arooj Aftab, a Pakistani ex-pat living in Brooklyn. I like it because it is quiet, a little haunting, and helps me achieve a little mental peace at times when mental peace is otherwise elusive. Mohabbat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ98HX1MO8

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

No one should dismiss the $12 quarterly royalties.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Having Reed and Cale in the same band is simultaneous lottery wins, lightning strikes. Jagger/Richards, McCartney/Lennon. Okay.

Wakeman and Emerson almost played together. I say this today because I saw Rick Wakeman last night in a show that was both awesome (his playing of his ouvre) and sad (as he stuttered and dottered through quasi-funny stories and lame responses to audience questions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_W...nd_joining_Yes

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

I'd just like the cachet of being able to say I had Jack and Cokes with Lemmy. That's some seriously rarified air. (Probably literally, as it was mostly Marlboro Red smoke.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Wakeman and Emerson almost played together. I say this today because I saw Rick Wakeman last night in a show that was both awesome (his playing of his ouvre) and sad (as he stuttered and dottered through quasi-funny stories and lame responses to audience questions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_W...nd_joining_Yes

I don't know much about Yes or ELP. But Wakeman played on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which is the least Sabbathy but probably most creative of the early Sabbath classic LPs,* and Emerson was in ELP, which did "I Believe in Father Christmas" which is not nearly as good as the Kinks' "Father Christmas" but listening to which is a guilty pleasure in which I dabble around the holidays.

So they're all good in my mind.

_________
*Vol 4 may vie for this title, and it is my favorite of Sabbath's catalog, and possibly my favorite by its prolific producer, Cocaine. But SBS's use of symphonies and prog rock effects is, IMO, next level.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'd just like the cachet of being able to say one had Jack and Cokes with Lemmy. That's some seriously rarified air. (Probably literally, as it was mostly Marlboro Red smoke.)

Not nearly as cool as knowing a Plasmatic, but my high school(s) pretended to educate two members of the Dead (years before me, duh), Stanley Jordan (cool jazz musician I briefly met once), Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind (a year before me, but the current guitarist is a tool and passing acquaintance), and the Donnas (my much younger brother knew them but couldn't get any from four girls who only sing about sex). Now, we are better known as the crucible that formed Susan Wojcicki - the CEO of YouTube (my sister says she was cool).

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I don't know much about Yes or ELP. But Wakeman played on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which is the least Sabbathy but probably most creative of the early Sabbath classic LPs,* and Emerson was in ELP, which did "I Believe in Father Christmas" which is not nearly as good as the Kinks' "Father Christmas" but listening to which is a guilty pleasure in which I dabble around the holidays.

So they're all good in my mind.

_________
*Vol 4 may vie for this title, and it is my favorite of Sabbath's catalog, and possibly my favorite by its prolific producer, Cocaine. But SBS's use of symphonies and prog rock effects is, IMO, next level.

I confess to loving prog rock. The first 10 Genesis albums and all Gabriel solo. Rush. King Crimson. Jethro Tull. IQ. Camel. ELP. Pink Floyd. Hawkwind (Lemmy's first band). Kansas. Saga. Early Styx. Uriah Heep. All are the tits. And, my fave, Marillion (only with Fish).

Edit - some Roger Waters solo. "These Are The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" is also the tits.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'd just like the cachet of being able to say I had Jack and Cokes with Lemmy. That's some seriously rarified air. (Probably literally, as it was mostly Marlboro Red smoke.)

I seem to remember his recipe: You fill an Old Fashioned glass with ice and Jack; you float some Coke on the top.