You Are My Minions: Another Bad Day In Paradise

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Another Bad Day In Paradise

Pete Seeger, dead at 94.

This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender

I cannot describe how saddened I am by this. Not even bunnies can fix it.

Not. Even. Bunnies.

4 comments:

Jim H. said...: Yeah. But you know we should all live to be 94 and effect the world through our art!; 2:57 PM
Sasha said...: Inch by Inch is one of the best prayers I know.

A biography that reminds us of the part that isn't so much music with Ronald Reagan as a minor character. http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/pete-seeger-dead-94-folk-legend-playlist-politics

And that first photo at the bottom of the page? I'm in there somewhere. http://www.festival.si.edu/2014/remembering-pete-seeger-at-the-folklife-festival/

And Joe Stead uploaded this today, Pete singing Which Side Are you On and chatting a little. Because I need to remember that he was about the core of thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8scaZKLD6c; 6:41 PM
Whispers said...: A good interview; 10:30 PM
zombie rotten mcdonald said...: I really regret missing Springsteen when he toured behind the Seeger Sessions; it seems that the show was not even sold out, and it apparently fucking rocked.

When perusing the blogs about it, the thing that struck me is that although I am nothing like a Seeger fan, the music he wrote, played and sang is so ubiquitous that I found myself saying "yesh....yesh.... FUCK YESH..." all over the place.

I was gonna write a post about such, and especially how the wingneuticles found it irresistable to kick a hippy when he was dead and unable to defend himself anymore, such that it made many of them lose their shit yet again.

Fuck, I feel like becoming a hippy myself, just to fuck with them.; 1:00 AM

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