desdemona
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I don't know whether to take you seriously or not musicman, lol
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I was just listening to 'theme from an imaginery western' from jack bruce's album "songs for a tailor", I went back and listened after hearing a version leslie west did on an album called "night of the guitar" various guitarists that toured together, another great album, anyways, great song.
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it was a good race dude, he pulled away close to the finish but the jockey was also the star here, you could see the way he kept the horse right where he wanted him and didn't push him til the last few yards, the coverage was awesome, you can see so much closer now, the jockey switching sides with his stick and pushing the horse at the end with his hands, first race I've seen that close. The only Kentucky Derby I ever went too was in the 70's, Bold Forbes won that yr, we hung out in the middle, lol I still have the winning ticket, he was the favorite so it didn't pay much, but the center of the track was a partying area back then. ;) This horse has never lost a race I guess, he just looked strong through the whole race.
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"well it ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe, iffin you don't know by now "
bob dylan - don't think twice, it's alright
"you don't love me, pretty baby, you don't love me, yes I know"
allman brothers band - you don't love me
and I agree CTC "black dog" is the one of the greatest intro's I can think of, gets you pumped up before the music even begins
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King Headlines $600G Kerry Fund-Raiser
Fri Apr 30,10:35 PM ET
ST. LOUIS - Singer Carole King headlined a fund-raiser for Democrat John Kerry's presidential campaign Friday night that his spokesman said brought in $600,000.
"We can win this, but we would like to get people who are not necessarily Democrats to join us," King said to a half-full ballroom. "And the truth is a lot of the people who should be supporting John Kerry — because they are the people who are the most hurt by George Bush — are not there yet."
Kerry spokesman David Wade said 300 guests paid $2,000 each to attend the event. King sang hits like "You've Got a Friend" and "I Feel the Earth Move," but Kerry said her participation has extended beyond singing to campaigning door-to-door.
"She wrote a perfect song, incidentally, a number of years ago, for everything the Republicans do, particularly when they turn around and tell us that the economy is turning around," Kerry said. "And her song is titled, `It's Too Late Baby.'"
Kerry and King also shared the stage with Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites), who is one of several candidates being considered as Kerry's running mate. Gephardt responded to Republican criticism that Kerry would not be an effective leader in a time of war.
"To see this administration, this president in the last week question the war heroism of John Kerry, from a man who couldn't figure out how to get to the National Guard meetings, makes my blood boil and it can't stand," Gephardt said
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_mu/kerry_king
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May 1, 7:24 PM EDT
Augusta Delaying James Brown Statue
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- City officials have delayed the unveiling of a statue honoring James Brown until the singer resolves his legal troubles.
Officials originally scheduled the unveiling for May 7 to coincide with the Godfather of Soul's 71st birthday, which is Monday, and the downtown music festival that was named in his honor until recently.
The former James Brown Music Festival reverted to its original name, the Garden City Music Festival, in February because of the public backlash after his Jan. 28 arrest for allegedly hitting his wife, Tomi Rae Brown. Brown has denied the allegations.
"We need to let Mr. Brown settle those issues in his private life before we move forward with a very public recognition of his professional life," Mayor Bob Young said Friday.
Young also cited production delays. The $40,000 statue is still a clay model waiting to be cast in bronze, a process that will take at least six weeks.
http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/sto...EMPLATE=DEFAULT
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Smarty Jones Wins Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Make it two in a row for the people's choice at the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones splashed his way past Lion Heart in the stretch and won America's premier horse race Saturday a year after Funny Cide captured the fancy of the racing world. The victory triggered the biggest payoff in the game, with the undefeated favorite earning a $5 million bonus from Oaklawn Park along with the Derby winner's share of $854,800.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302004/news/...lnews/19928.htm
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how sad, that after all the sacrifice men have made in previous wars we can allow this kind of presidency that promotes secrecy and a personal agenda. It seems watergate was a lesser offense than what has taken place behind the scenes now, and that was pursued more aggressively and without restraint. I'm not a subscriber to conspiracy theories but the president's lack of astuteness and his allocation of decision making to his likeminded cabinet is nothing less than negligence. It amazes me how polls can still show the election as being close, but then they're not counting those thousands of americans that don't vote :(
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Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground (csn&y)
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yeah but this administration just denies access to everything, they call this historic but there's no record of it, go figure. NOT that I wanted to see the president stumbling around for answers and that stupid grin on his face, but what is he so afraid of divulging?
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Harmony Rules in the Future of Music
Future of Music Summit Offers an Interlude in the Online Piracy Cacophony
By David McGuire
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Friday, April 30, 2004; 12:53 PM
read the article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2004Apr30.html
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Just How 'Historic' Can an Oval Office Interview Be if It's Not Recorded?
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: April 30, 2004
If an important meeting takes place in the Oval Office and there are no television cameras to record it, did the meeting matter?
ABC, NBC and CBS all led their evening news programs with the Sept. 11 commission's meeting with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday. Yet no television news program had images of the encounter. A paranoid conspiracy theorist could conclude that the much-anticipated White House interview never took place.
There were no pictures of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney sitting side by side in front of the Oval Office fireplace. There was no tape of the president or Mr. Cheney greeting or talking to commission members at the White House entrance.
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you know I hate to say this, but, hey, what do they expect when they sent 18 & 19 yrs olds without much training into a situation like Iraq, without understanding anything about the enemy or what they're doing there, the military isn't even responding with much gusto in disciplining these soldiers, well it's an awful thing, those soldiers should be strung up for what they did, not only to the prisoners but to our reputation, but I'm sure the iraqi will acknowledge there are good soldiers and bad soldiers, as we've had to accept, there are good iraqi and bad.
btw, I thought every soldier knew about the geneva convention, no?
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really cool umma, thanks for the link
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Selective Imagery In Iraq
By Jim Hoagland
Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A25
an excerpt:
The Fallujah atrocity has been chased from TV screens and front pages in France and Italy by pictures of Iraqi youths brandishing grenade launchers beside burning U.S. oil tankers outside Baghdad. The gunmen are shown in iconic poses associated by the impressionable with Europe's history of revolution and resistance, fancied and real.
In many mainstream European publications, they are portrayed not as the Baathist killers or jihadist fanatics described at U.S. military briefings in Baghdad and Washington, but as authentic revolutionaries inspired by a new form of Arab nationalism being born in Iraq. I don't think that is true. But it will increasingly be accepted abroad as true if Washington's intentions remain cloaked in confusion.
Look closely at that film of the March 31 killings in Fallujah and you will see "a turning point in the world's perception of the conflict in Iraq," wrote Charles Clover, a war correspondent for the Financial Times, in that respected British newspaper's Saturday edition.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...av=most_emailed
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Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A17
The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI's methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of the case until now.
The lawsuit was filed April 6 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, but the case was kept under seal to avoid violating secrecy rules contained in the USA Patriot Act, the ACLU said. The group was allowed to release a redacted version of the lawsuit after weeks of negotiations with the government
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...av=most_emailed
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According to the Associated Press's April 29, 2004 report, "couples rule People magazine's list of "The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World 2004," with cover girl Jennifer Aniston and her husband, Brad Pitt, among them.
"I was an unfortunate looking teenager," Aniston tells the magazine in an interview. "I never felt beautiful, ever."
She also says she and Pitt are "absolutely in the process" of trying to have a baby, which includes taking folic acid and setting aside a room in their new house for a possible nursery."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...l?nav=headlines
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Keanu Reeves to Get Honorary World Stunt Award
Associated Press
Thursday, April 29, 2004; 1:27 AM
LOS ANGELES -- Keanu Reeves will be honored for his work in action movies at the upcoming World Stunt Awards.
The awards, which recognize the men and women who put their lives at risk to make fights, explosions and tall-building falls on TV shows and movies look more realistic, will be presented May 16.
Nominees were selected from 19 films, including "Kill Bill -- Vol. 1," "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," "Bad Boys II," "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and "The Last Samurai." Categories include best fight, best fire stunt and best work with a vehicle.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...l?nav=headlines
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Musical Lennon Project Heads to San Francisco Prior to Broadway Run in 2005
By Ernio Hernandez
29 Apr 2004
Lennon — the musical stagework once known as The Lennon Project — will make its world premiere at San Francisco's Curran Theatre this winter prior to its Broadway run in 2005.
Conceived and directed by Don Scardino, the new musical based on the songs of John Lennon. The staging, produced by arrangement with Yoko Ono, will feature the music of the late Beatle with a book by Scardino.
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TV REVIEW | 'STRIP SEARCH'
When the Nation Is at Risk, Did You Say Civil Rights?
"Strip Search," an intensely earnest, painfully wrongheaded film on HBO tonight, tries to sound an alarm about the erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act by likening the detention of a Muslim immigrant in the United States to that of an American student in China.
The problem is not just that this kind of melodramatic moral equivalency is silly and specious. (Dissent, terrorism — what's the difference, really?) The most tendentious point in "Strip Search" is Glenn Close. As a federal investigator intent on wringing a confession from the Muslim suspect, the slithering star of "Fatal Attraction" is a hundred times more menacing and scary than any bullying Chinese military interrogator. One glimpse of Ms. Close in action ("But who am I, just a lowly cog in a rusting wheel," she whispers silkily, "ignored, unappreciated"), and viewers can only conclude that even without air-conditioning or habeas corpus, a suspect is much better off in Communist China.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/arts/tel...ion/27STAN.html
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Understanding the President and His God
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: April 29, 2004
he question is not, When did George W. Bush accept Jesus as his personal savior? The "Frontline" documentary "The Jesus Factor," on PBS tonight, raises a different issue: Do most Americans realize just how fervent the president's evangelical faith really is?
"The Jesus Factor" is a little like those illustrated anatomy books where transparent plastic pages can be flipped to reveal the muscle, bone and organs beneath the skin. Stripping off the layers of patrician pedigree, Yale and his Texas business pursuits, the documentary lays bare Mr. Bush's spiritual conversion and its consequences.
It is not a disrespectful look. Yet by pulling together well-known and long forgotten incidents and remarks, the program reminds viewers that this "faith-based" president has blurred the line between religion and state more than any of his recent predecessors: a vision that affects the Iraq conflict as well as domestic policy.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/arts/tel...ion/29STAN.html
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Concert Review: Eric Clapton
Tue Apr 20, 2004 07:20 PM ET
By Charles Ferro
COPENHAGEN (Billboard) - Eric Clapton must have taken heed when Chuck Berry sang about a boy playing a guitar just like he was ringing a bell, because that's exactly what earned "Slow Hand" his reputation as a legendary axeman. And that's precisely what he did Saturday at the Danish national stadium Parken, in a show that demonstrated absolute competence but offered no surprises until the encore.
To be sure, the lion's share of the 24,000 people on hand were pushing middle age. The guys were decked out in jeans, boots and leather jackets, while the ladies were clad in duds that compensated for nip'n'tuck operations they never had. In fact, Parken looked like a macro version of one of the country's blues bars on any given Saturday night. The crowd came to hear Clapton revisit the milestones of a three-decade long career and got value for the money -- plus the bonus of opener Robert Randolph & the Family Band.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...18§ion=news
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beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, good to see you! it's me, hehehe mdenise
Delaying James Brown Statue
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we're talking AUGUSTA here people, augusta GEORGIA, lol