Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

dumbikaze translates as ignorant wind?

I love that term dumbikaze.....

dumbikaze.....
ROTFLMAO!!!

Sturg:
Your definition/translation is most excellent.

Now hang on, although my best bud Sean (you know him as "Lard") is shy about getting credit for coining "dumbikaze" (my favorite new word of the year) I heartily give him full credit even if he might complain. And, by the way, his blog tribute today to his fabulous sister Kathleen (another secret: she was once Oprah's interior decorator, for real -- i'm really in trouble now) is a must read: http://seanholton.wordpress.com/

"Letting his foes shoot while he kept his power dry might just get the job done."

I hope you are right. I kept telling DW that he's employing the rope-a dope strategy, hoping to wear them down. We'll see.

Craig

Should I consider this your contribution to this weeks Take This Tune? September Morn was the song. :-)

Take This Tune Link

http://takethistune.blogspot.com/

september, but in the rain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTcOP2CZmpM&feature=fvw

If you missed it from last thread, this is on all week and is absolutely fascinating

Live webcasts twice a day for the Clinton Global Initiative taking place

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/meeting_2009_annual_webcast.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=Webcast

Agenda Tues - Friday

http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ourmeetings/meeting_2009_annual_agenda.asp?Section=OurMeetings&PageTitle=Agenda&Agenda_2009=22

omigod sturg, my mother is completely nuts for dinah washington. i grew up listening to her pretty much every night. thanks for that link. passing it along to her.

Craig,
Did Lard translate it as 'ignorant wind' as Sturg brilliantly did?

Darn it STurge. That is next week's song

not complete widdout der schnozz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ldVj34Sfo

More September songs for those who are You Tube savvy:

Maggie May -- "It's late september and i really should be back at school"

Wasn't there a Frank Sinatra septemberish song? not sure

cc......Compliments to the mom......feel like i almost know her from listening to you and imus.......

sorry jamie......i became enthused and momentarily befuddled.......

ha, no cajun, sturg owns that brilliance

Sturgeone

That was the first week. Schnozz and all. Then Earth Wind and Fire's "September" for week two

One of the participants came up with this oldie by Carole King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMjoF4xtMko

frank did the same september song (kurt weill) as der schnozz, I kinda like old schnozz's somehow betterer.....

The Album was "September of My Years". The Song was "It Was A Very Good Year"

Got It. Someone put it up this week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtYBydINbZ0

now if i can just find frank's recording of "Inka Dinka Doo"

well, our household grieved at the loss of Dinah nearly as much as JFK's passing, which, as i recall, occurred within about a month of each other. One lousy year for a seven-year-old. my first memory of watching TV was seeing Oswald shot live on television. I still have nightmares about it. Which is why i remain so ambivalent about being on television (skipped Countdown tonight)

oh.........what the hell............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGLjzFHa40

lee harvey oswald band......last live performance:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jvxq0axZFrM/R4fYQMxnpAI/AAAAAAAACDQ/Wu-cISWPeqc/s400/the+lee+harvey+oswald+band.jpg

gee thanks, sturg, i've now devolved into a dinah spiral -- here's my absolute fav.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judyCgN2daA

I think I own Divine Wind.

Sturgeone,

One of my favorite movies except for one thing. The tag line was "Where Were You In '62" and I graduated in 1961 because of jumping a year. Otherwise it was pretty much life as it was.

Stinky and I just watched Letterman's show from last night.

I thought Mr Obama did an excellent job, as did Letterman who can be an excellent interviewer of uber-celebs.

someone's in the kitchen with Dinah.........dinah doing noel coward's lament.............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bK8wZCSgzw

el flatus maravilloso..........

oh Sweet Caroline....
whoa.... whoa.... whoa....

I LOVE Lard's blog.... hell... I LOVE Lard.... here's to always wishing him well...

don't you worry Rebellious, I know Lard well. he' s gonna survive this thing.

I like the President as a person. I think the Healthcare Bill fashioned in September certainly doesn't look like the Bill envisioned in August, so I am not sure how September "belongs" to Obama.

Embargoed polls?. I think Obama repeated there would be no tax this Sunday five times that Fact Check has fun with. I think however, you mean the fear in August that Obama would fail has been replaced with the probability the Democrats will get some Bill out of the Senate that won't trigger a revolution.

I also assume your scorecard does not include September problems like Afghanistan, Iran, CIA, Race etc that are more a chronic drag on Democrats. Hell, you haven't seen the polls yet on this week in NYC with Obama at the UN, but I doubt it will fall off script.

I see that the administration tried to gag Humana newsletter as many in COngress say Avantage will lose 143 million, a point Humana was making. Healthcare has a ways to go and there are more rounds in this match.

Frankly with September's roll call of Paterson-gets-the-thumb-down, Brezinski, Carter, ACORN, Rangel, that fired CZAR, Edwards, etc. Obama might be happy with his numbers, but the Democrats ought to be very concerned about theirs..

We;;, there's still Dancing DeLay.....

Maxtrue, i'm beggin you, as I am all Trail Mixers, please take a break from the momentary bullshit and listen to Dinah's "Bitter Earth" plea in the link above. She was the ultimate diva. And I simply could not think of a better anthem for what I'm trying to do with this blog.

"Maggie May -- "It's late september and i really should be back at school"

Maggie Mae story: Early on, that song wasn't a planned single. But some acetates were sent to the various Mercury/PolyGram offices, and the head of the Nashville end of the business listened to them. His son -- a young teenager -- heard them and went completely nuts for Maggie Mae. A call was made, some re-thinking done, and the single shipped.

Well, this might be bouncing around in Obama's head......

Who knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDXgKIpJyIk

This is a day late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknEJf9cPeY

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Great one Craig. I listened to Dinah then saw your post. Hope my selection doesn't ruin your mood. Certainly not Dinah

Sorry.....

Craig, MG, I had forgotten about Dinah Washington for so long. I love her songs! Thanks for that link,.... beautiful!
another:
What Difference A Day Makes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI&feature=PlayList&p=3F1A66E82C2FE216&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=21

Well if we are going to do Dinah, then here's one of my favorites. A Great Duke Ellington song

Mood Indigo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPioWt8XX94

As usual BBC News America actually broadcast real news about G20 and Healthcare

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/default.stm

My father loved Dinah Washington too.... listening to all the great tunes you guys are linking to sure is bringing back good memories..... thanks....

Patsi.... that teenager was one smart dude....

i got lost in the dinah-discology me own self....teddibly hard to pick one but this is it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Azd4D76Is&feature=related

Craig,

Now that MA has voted to allow Duvall to appoint a temp for Kennedy, do you have any inside info on the likely appointee? OSH needs to know who to nag about the 94th.

What good is love
mmmm that no one shares
And if my life is like the dust
oooh that hides the glow of a rose
What good am I
Heaven only knows

Lord, this bitter earth
Yes, can be so cold
Today you're young
Too soon, you're old
But while a voice within me cries
I'm sure someone may answer my call
And this bitter earth
Ooooo may not
Oh be so bitter after all

poignance:

2. Piercing; incisive: poignant criticism.
3.
a. Neat, skillful, and to the point: poignant illustrations supplementing the text.
b. Astute and pertinent; relevant: poignant suggestions.
4. Agreeably intense or stimulating: poignant delight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smWWvMifgBc

it appears that charles A's phrasing has a lot in common with that of willie nelson...........

.. all those things you said Sturge, and then some:

Neil Diamond - I Am... I Said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwircEDCss8

Sturgeone

If you are going to do Aznavour then I must counter with Montand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZLSM40V0o8

And Nina Simone with a Jaques Brel song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI8F6DbB2cE

well.....no where to go now but to order some escargoats, truffles, and frawg laigs.......widda touch of gypsy mainline violining.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oqO-OjC2Q

and so to bedt..........

Now there IS something so clear and direct about Bitter Earth and yes, the words poignant. It brings back memories of my dad's Fisher and his record collection as did Jamie's early pick with Ella.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow written by Carol King was first recorded in 1961. Though Amy is no Simone or Washington in voice or personality, there is something she captures of the sixties that isn't there in Carol's version nor any other I have heard. She slows the song to its natural stride and lets the naked melody slink through the space, unfettered and alone.

Again my apologies Craig for being so one-dimensional. Some things do make the world less bitter......

I am so loving the Dinah clips. Thanks to all for posting. Gonna drift off now to "What a difference a day makes." It's a Trail Mix Dinah-Fest. Don't get much better than this.

oh my dinah washington. I have to take a cold shower.

Don't know if this was posted, but here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRiiKOEAlw

All of Me

Ok what you folks think? Can we make Dinah our official Trail Mix Diva? If so, I'll post her in Weird Stuff on the sidebar.

Ok what you folks think? Can we make Dinah our official Trail Mix Diva? If so, I'll post her in Weird Stuff on the sidebar.

Posted by: craigcrawford.myopenid.com Author Profile Page | September 22, 2009 9:32 PM

I vote yes!

Last one Craig. Yep, sometimes we all feel this way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-82V3IIcY4M&feature=related

A Stranger on Earth

Later......

"Can we make Dinah our official Trail Mix Diva? If so, I'll post her in Weird Stuff on the sidebar."

Ooh, please Craig! Do it!

So, who's going to tell Alicia?? Craig?

Dinah certainly can sing her beautiful timelessness into the present. Her gifts should not be lost in the new. I think you know the answer to your question Craig.

She suits you....

OK then, it's official. Dinah is ours.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/trail-mix-stuff.html

Now, for the more testosterone inclined i will open nominations for Trail Mix Boss. My personal choice would be Johnny Cash, but having exerted such heavy handed influence on our choice for Trail Mix Diva (Dinah Washington) I really should defer to the popular choice. Nominations shall remain open for a few days.

Stolen from @Progressivepam on Twitter

Taking advice from Condi on how to protect US from terrorism is like taking dance lessons from Tom Delay.

I second the Johnny Cash nomination.

Absolutely Craig. Every political blog should have an official Diva and we've got two both licious

Man in Black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqpPj87ekE&feature=related

Good one, Patsi, but what about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

Well I have to vote for Sammy Davis simply because he is my all time favorite singing anything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls33JN395OE

The extended notes about this appearance are a great read.

Johnny Cash-Walk The Line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7K4jH7NqUw

Sunday Morning Coming Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP67H4qfe5w

Pending public comment, Cash's "Hurt" (by Nine Inch Nails) is our Trail Mix Boss.. http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/trail-mix-stuff.html

Flatus,

Sometimes it's a small world. Do you happen to know a retired AF Major, Robert Rayburn ? Went by the nickname of Sam. He's the brother of one of Dear Wife's colleague.

Frankie Laine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dj3HL8DbEc

I'm sorry, Rez, I don't.

Dang it, Craig, I was well on my way to revertin' to permanent lurker status, and then you drag Cash into the mix. So I'm delurkin' long enough to nominate this song, because A) it shows that Cash was tough AND tender and B) it's just flat a great song penned, somewhat surprisingly, by funny man Jerry Reed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL6EqM4kPGk

Outta here. Nite, all.

PS Having said that, though, my favorite tough guy singer is and will forever be Waylon.

Don't you dare go lurker on us Fairweather. Enough of that already. No pain, no gain, ya know.

Ketchup has natural mellowing agents -
The Ketchup Advisory Board

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Loud razzberry. ;)

My friend Larry is sick . He's the one who coined the following phrase -

Me-
" The world is going down the Crapper Larry. "

Larry-
" Why do you think we elected a black guy Robert ? "

Larry's in a building at 19th and Buddy Holly with a small dog and no insurance. And the ghost of Buddy Holly, with a host of lesser dead musicians.
That's my friend's medical plan , the Ghost of Buddy Holly is taking care of him.

As I said a few weeks back this health care debate, has made me really sick.

Larry would kill me if he read this thread.

Craig -
Your comments about Obama the other day, about how he was more than willing to take on Rev. Wright, and the failings of Black America, but couldn't stand up to the white bankers. That was a very raw nerve. Because just the day before, after an attack by Limbaugh, I was thinking how Obama may be 55% White.

But he cannot, and will not ever be an angry black man. That is the kiss of death.

I watched Obama on Letterman last night. It was a master stroke, after a month and a half of old white bozos here's a guy sitting at the table trying to cut a deal.
He's not crazy, and he's not a fool. He may sell us down the river, but he's not going to move the country anymore than he thinks we can stand.

Even if he thinks we should move quicker.

Where's Dexter?

"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead." -- Mark Twain

One more thong -

If we had all listened to Brian, we all could be into the new president's confession about his baby with his mistress,

you're bad, CBob, mentioning the unmentionable.

Craig -
Don't be workin' those dark metaphors, or quotes. There's a group here who milk that cow very well , thank-you very much,

the cow is plentiful, Bob

Okay, one more: a lesser known Cash song that came out in the wake of the monster hit "Ring of Fire" and also includes horns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhb97ITGVkM

I'm not a fan of bullfighting, but I love this song. Still trying to find out who's playing the horns, but the backing vocals are June, Helen and Anita Carter.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/obama-the-closer.html#comment-261843

BRAIN BLEACH!!!!

Craig -
I'm glad you are our friend.

you go, Fairweather, anything with June works for me. Can you believe her face in the clip above? Says it all.

For Dexter where ever you are -

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc86_Weoye0

" Daddy ran whiskey in a big black Dodge".

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Uh-huh. Know what I always found most strking about the Carter Sisters, though? They all had Mother Maybelle's eyes--that blue. Amazing.

And Anita was very much underrated as a vocalist, too. Never seemed quite able to get the songs to be a great star in her own right.

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"Bought it at an auction at the Masons' lodge"--God, Earle's a great poet as well as a great musician. And some of our local moonshiners drove exactly those big cars with the humongous engines--

One for me wherever I am -

Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band @ Farm Aid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tLzyuiUUzI

" said boy , I got to show you somethin' before it's gone"

Cash's video posted above, anybody notice? -- the ending where he closes the keyboard for the last time. Damn, makes me cry worse than for Ole Yeller every time.

Craig -
"I'm glad you are our friend. -- Posted by: Colorado Bob"

Oh c'mon Bob, I am the lucky one here. I walk in the sandals of your servant. No bullshit.

Jack Cafferty: When Delay Goes To Prison They Can Show His Dancing Video To The Inmates (VIDEO)

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/jack-cafferty-when-delay_n_295533.html

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This one's the one makes me cry. Call it a crazy knobite metaphor, but by the time Cash passed his body had indeed become a "rusty cage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAE9iO6xp8

and so this was the song I listened to when the news first came he was gone--he finally did break that rusty cage and run--

Speaking of fresh poll numbers -

Health Care Is Hazardous to Poll Numbers for Grassley, Other Senators

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/health-care-is-hazardous-to-poll.html

Seriously, the loyalty of those who come here so often is what keeps me in business. Thank you all.

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ROFLMAO, Cbob--just before I administer myself another BRAIN BLEACH!!!

It would seem the health care scalpel cuts both ways.

I'm a tad worried that the brutal economics of the new world order are not on my side, but rest assured that whatever happens there will always be a home for our little community.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/obama-the-closer.html#comment-261861

It's either here. or off into the swamp with Yoda ...... and none of us is ready to be a Jedi.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/09/obama-the-closer.html#comment-261864

Surely things aren't that bad--and BTW--thank you. For putting up with my knobite incoherencies, inconsistencies, and general talent for non sequiters.

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I was waiting for this shoe to be untied, we'll raise all the dough you want for the bandwidth.

Things are pretty bad, Fairweather. The industry is in a a tailspin and I fear the worst. But under no circumstances will our community go away.

a Johnny Cash song straight to the heart of the matter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSN1F72QU4

If I had to guess, I'd say that the horns on the matador and ring of far were Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass........

Craig -

What you know about this platform is really pretty deep. I can't think of anyone around modern American politics who understands it better. And after over 4 years of chasing spam, you've actually made a rather clever little knowledge web.
Everyone who comes through here is a bit better, even if we beat them to a bloody pulp.

Bottom line is that anything we can do to build traffic to the site will keep us in business. We're in good shape now, but every little bit helps.

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True. Things don't look good for the industry at all. I've been reading a lot about that, and it worries me for all of you who are in it. (I was a communications major at one time, so I might have ended up in it myself had I not realized my passion was history.) I'm not gonna be a patronizing--ahem--biddy and tell you not to worry, having heard that way too many times in my own life when things looked dark. But I do believe this: there will be light at the end of the tunnel. May take awhile but something good will come.

Uh--babe, Fairweather's kind of formal and long to type. Just make it plain Fair, please. :)

Craig -- Hard to explain exactly why I don't like the song or video "Hurt" -- quite a few of the people who knew Johnny didn't. And supposedly, he was uncomfortable with the video after he actually saw the finished thing.

But I love almost anything else Johnny ever did. I have a photo of him sailing, and his hair is blowing around his face. Quite simply the sexiest photo of a man I ever saw!

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LOL sturg--can't help it, that song makes me laugh because it's so painfully true--

And come to think of it, that could indeed be Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass.

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What bothered me about it is that the opening, at that table, looks like a Vincent Price film--and John looked half a ghost sitting there--

the web may come and the web may go, but Fish Camps and Crab Cracks are forever...........

Craig -
I spent $12.50 in Lubbock last night not because I wanted to see a movie about what I believe is the central issue our times.
I spent $12.50 because , I learned that it had been made by 228 people that helped her make that film.
You could go self funding in a heart beat dog.

Sturge -- Jack Clement wrote The One On The Right Is On The Left -- great tune.....

"Hurt" --
A song too far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk9DK0c0SSI

One of the most bitterly ironic tunes, I think, I've ever heard, cause it's never really gonna be easy from now on--

However, there is a Cash connection, because this was cowritten (with Susanna Clark) by his stepdaughter Carlene Carter--

Time to say goodnight, Gracie--er--goodnight, Fair. <3

In 2005, a documentary on Clement entitled Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan was created by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville, pieced together from Clement's home videos and interviews with peers, including Jerry Lee Lewis and Bono.

Clement currently hosts a weekly program on Sirius Satellite Radio's Outlaw country (channel 63) from 2pm to 6pm (Eastern) on Saturdays.

wikipedia

Strug -
I told him to run off and write novels 2 years ago , that jackass has never listened to me.
I mean what's a good novel without some fish heads laying around ?

Craig -
Seriously ...
Get a job with Josh Marshall. or make your own Daily Beast.

I vote make your own Beast.

Craig -
That's not your turnip truck parked in front of the Capital.

a fish head makes the big show:

You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can_Tune_a_Piano_but_You_Can%27t_Tuna_Fish

(and I might add: Unless you know the scales.......)

I hate Facebook , too many people trying to give me poker clips they found on the floor.

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Yes, Fair -- that bothered me throughout the video...it was like he was waiting to die. Some thought that his producer for those last recordings did that as a prelude to his death, which was surely coming within a few years. Of course, June's untimely death sped that along. My problem is that there is a weakness -- or pitiable quality -- that wasn't Johnny.

Sturg -
How old is the Odyssey ?

Townes: Waiting around to die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHZ2oj8wDk&feature=related

Patsi-
Football players & musicians, the myth is a hard thing to leave.

The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon. Indeed it is the second—the Iliad being the first—extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the then Greek-controlled coastal region of what is now Turkey.

when it was written the Dead Sea was still just a tad sickly.........

Well I hear Karkatoa getting ready to blow on the History channel.

And you guys know me, I'm a sucker for a hot volcano.

Sturg-
Thanks ..... It's about a guy tryin' to get home . Right ?

Right.......he took the long way home.........happens to some of us here and there along the way..........Thomas Wolfe notwithstanding............

Indicted DeLay Dancing with the Stars *gag*
.
If you're the queasy type, don't watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEBJTjwvAEI
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Craig, I love your comments.

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Two of the most famous presidential speeches featuring their dogs were made on this day...anybody care to guess either the Presidents' names or the dogs'?

How about adding a bit of porn Craig? that might drive the traffic up ;)

FDR and Fala was one?

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