Bob Roberts part 3 Greed & Avarice & Prejudice - the real American Values

So here's another bit from Tim Robbins' film " Bob Roberts " which I put together which includes a couple of songs " I'm a bleeding heart " & "Complain"



And for Tommy Makem who passed on this week here's a lovely sweet tune " Will You Go Lassie Go ":



...and so it goes so here's that Jazz legend Louis Armstrong playing " St. James Infirmary " set to an odd piece of animation by DharrJJ at YOUTUBE :



take care,
GORD.

Bob Roberts Part 2- " Be a Clean Living Man With a Rope in His Hand "

Anyway here's another clip I made from Tim Robbins' film Bob Roberts :



And for your listening pleasure on a lazy Saturday is the incredible Miles Davis playing Cyndi Lauper's tune " Time After Time " so enjoy:



Take care,
GORD.

Battle of New Baghdad & R.E.M & a little Miles Davis

Before we we get too political & before we get to Baghdad here's Human Nature by the incredible Miles Davis :



Anyway here is another funny yet disturbing video from Jan Lewis:

Battle of New Baghdad" - to the tune of "Battle of New Orleans" - written by Jan Lewis, performed by Jan Lewis & Jerry Miller - as featured on Neil Young's Living With War website.



and a more serious video about the on going suffering of the people in Iraq & the troops dying for the mistakes & failures of the Bush Regime & Neocons- A cover of the Song " Everybody Hurts " by R.E.M.




and here is the original from one of the best groups around R.E.M.




Take care,
GORD.

EXECUTION ROW

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyway here is a topical song about Iraq written in the style of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row which was a nod to the works of Jack kerouac ... and so it goes

Execution Row : written by Jan Lewis, performed by Jan Lewis & Jerry Miller - as featured on Neil Young's Living With War website.




Jack kerouac reading from On The Road passages about Dean Moriarty from Youtube user palaceofwisdom :



Take care ,
GORD.

Tim Robbins' Funny & Disturbing Satirical film Bob Roberts & More Kerouac

Quotes of the day:

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau


Anyway here's a couple of songs sung by Tim Robbins in his film Bob Roberts which is as relevant today if not more so than when it was released in 1992 - so I created this clip to post on Youtube & here on my blog:



and from Youtube user; onlyjokingman music by Joe King to Kerouac reciting from an original tune by rama[ ie acko]:




take care,
GORD.

Robbie Robertson , Kerouac & Johnny Depp

Quote of the day:

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha


Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Let's begin with a little piece by Jack Kerouac recited by Johnny Depp " The Mad Road " :

Johnny Depp reading Jack Kerouac's " The Mad Road "

by Youtube user :uicanannain





Anyway here's some more music by Canadian musician singer songwriter Robbie Robertson - The first video is to his beautiful song " UNBOUND" from Youtube user WarriorPanther who has posted a number of videos with great music by Robbie Robertson & R. Carlos Nakai & Peter Kater etc.




This next video contains the original videos for two songs by Robbie Robertson " FALLEN ANGEL " & " SHOWDOWN AT BIG SKY " from Youtube user FirePrayer



take care,
GORD.

R Carlos Nakai - Native American Music & Wounded Knee

Quote of the day:

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Acts 4:32-35 Bible New Testament (King James Version)


Here's the trailer for the film " Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee "




Anyway here's some more Native American music to begin your week by R. Carlos Nakai which I enjoy - hope you do too -
Music for contemplation & meditation
R. Carlos Nakai PROMISE from Youtube user AnneMarieCotter

Canyon Trilogy R. Carlos Nakai Canyon Records.
Published by Native American Flute Music
1989 R. Carlos Nakai 2003 Canyon Records
Daybreak Vision www.canyonrecords.com




ANASAZI from Youtube user Bethgile
Southwest settings to R. Carlos Nakai music



& R. Carlos Nakai ECHOES OF TIME from WarriorPanther



take care,
GORD.

PEARL JAM ,TIM ROBBINS , BOB DYLAN & WOODY GUTHRIE

Anyway here's another little ditty about Bush's America & the American invasion of Iraq- The video is World Wide Suicide by Pearl Jam live on Jools Holland so enjoy as the Carpet Bombing of Iraq will beginning soon just like the good old days in Vietnam & Cambodia for the Neocons it will be orgasmic all those big bombs & missiles exploding as they delight in the deaths of other human beings who stand in their way of underground lakes of oil -




World Wide Suicide Lyrics

I felt the earth on Monday
It moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper
Laid out for me to see
I saw his face in the corner picture
I recognized the name
Could not stop staring at the
Face I'd never see again

It's a shame to awake, in a world of pain
What does it mean when war has taken over?
It's the same every day in a hell man-made
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...
World Over...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted
Writing checks that others pay
And in all the madness
Thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about and
Nothing for them to say

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that soldiers save
Tell them to quit it, the truth's already out there

The whole world...
World Over...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there is another, another, another, another, another...
Way

It's a shame to awake,in a world aflame
What does it mean when war has taken over?
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder -

And now here's a tune by Tim Robbins from the extremely funny satirical though a little too close to reality film Bob Roberts which is a wonderful mockumentary - Tim Robbins accepting the Woody Guthrie Award 2006 performs This Land Was Made For Me aka the Yuppie Anthem & other ways to justify Greed Avarice & Neo-Colonialism or what Bush Harper & Blair call the White Man's Burden & other bits of insanity -





Anyway here's Bob Dylan reciting his poem Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie :
If you listen carefully the cadence or rhythm of the poem is like a train speeding across America like Jack Kerouac's black car flying through the darkened Night of Dead American Dreamland -or even if you will Arcade Fire's Get-away-car -



Take care ,
GORD.