Snagg's Posts - TBD2024-03-19T07:44:55ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustavahttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2190199454?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://teebeedee.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1gj2rvwnnnmq8&xn_auth=noThe Valentine Dedication Countdown Begin-Eth.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2012-01-17:1991841:BlogPost:13443302012-01-17T17:30:00.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
<p>Some of you know that I DJ at a local radio station. Every year, I invite all TBD'ers to request a song (and dedication, if desired) to their own hunka hunka burnin' love that I can play on the air during the VD show, which will be Sunday, February the 12th. You and yer sweetie can listen in, live on the internet, or wait until I've archived the broadcast and posted it here. It's free, it's romantic and is generally better than anything on TV that night.</p>
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<p>(BTW - VD =…</p>
<p>Some of you know that I DJ at a local radio station. Every year, I invite all TBD'ers to request a song (and dedication, if desired) to their own hunka hunka burnin' love that I can play on the air during the VD show, which will be Sunday, February the 12th. You and yer sweetie can listen in, live on the internet, or wait until I've archived the broadcast and posted it here. It's free, it's romantic and is generally better than anything on TV that night.</p>
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<p>(BTW - VD = Valentine's Day. I LOVE that joke.)</p>
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<p>Anyway, times a'wastin'. If you choose to participate, DON'T post yer request in public - Message me instead, so that, if I don't have the song you want, I can start scrambling to find it, or we can discuss alternative choices.</p>
<p>As with Love itself, Nothing Is Too Weird. It doesn't matter if you and yer squeeze's main song is "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Die Rosenkrantz" or the theme to "The Munsters", if it rings yer bells and I can get my hands on it, I'll play it.</p>
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<p>Except, of course, for Celine Dion or Michael Bolton. There will be NO Dion or Bolton requests accepted. Somebody's gotta have standards around here, and it might as well be me. Selah.</p>His day job is a crawlspace inspector.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2011-12-26:1991841:BlogPost:13329612011-12-26T16:24:41.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
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</p>I'm posting a blog to announce that I don't want any backtalk. Or reasonable, thoughtful discussion of alternate views. .tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2011-03-19:1991841:BlogPost:11355042011-03-19T11:15:08.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
So <span style="text-decoration: underline;">THERE</span>!
So <span style="text-decoration: underline;">THERE</span>!RIP Alex Chilton.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-03-18:1991841:BlogPost:8745782010-03-18T11:30:00.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
Yeah, I know, "Who?"<br></br><br></br>Suffice to say - Alex Chilton was great because he followed his muse while others would have continued to beat a dead horse. It took a special talent to achieve such success at so young an age, and to be clear-eyed enough to see it for what it was - which was Not Much. A gifted composer who trusted neither his own talent or the reactions it drew, no prior songwriter had so dared to invert the ethos of the modern pop song - To deliver, instead of bliss and a cheap…
Yeah, I know, "Who?"<br/><br/>Suffice to say - Alex Chilton was great because he followed his muse while others would have continued to beat a dead horse. It took a special talent to achieve such success at so young an age, and to be clear-eyed enough to see it for what it was - which was Not Much. A gifted composer who trusted neither his own talent or the reactions it drew, no prior songwriter had so dared to invert the ethos of the modern pop song - To deliver, instead of bliss and a cheap thrill, something bitter and sour- but much more honest. Rivaled only by Ray Davies and Randy Newman in his ability to convey melancholy and conflicted emotions, he was willing not only to examine the dark side of what most people would have considered themselves lucky to have achieved, but he doggedly pursued that crooked path as a matter of artistic principle. A trailblazer and utterly unique.<br/><br/>http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/03/17/alex-chilton-big-star-sxsw/Elvis is STILL dead.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-12:1991841:BlogPost:2380932009-08-12T12:30:00.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
But I may be able to get him rotating in his grave like a wind turbine, if this post generates half the attention that I think it could,,,<br />
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What <i>did</i> that guy mean to you, anyway? I see him mainly as the perfect encapsulation of what's wrong with the American Dream: That the American Dream is NOT set up for the well-being of the American citizenry themselves, but solely for the financial gain of a select few. No matter how revolutionary your idea, no matter how enlightening or inspiring…
But I may be able to get him rotating in his grave like a wind turbine, if this post generates half the attention that I think it could,,,<br />
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What <i>did</i> that guy mean to you, anyway? I see him mainly as the perfect encapsulation of what's wrong with the American Dream: That the American Dream is NOT set up for the well-being of the American citizenry themselves, but solely for the financial gain of a select few. No matter how revolutionary your idea, no matter how enlightening or inspiring you may be, your Brilliant Concept will already have been analyzed, focus-grouped, demographed and shunted down a narrow, pre-determined pathway, where it's end result will be a carefully-packaged, watered-down, K-Mart Blue-Light Special while you yourself will be celebrated, feted and set up as a God among Men - Until the sales slip .0005 %, and then you're declared a washed-up failure, a has-been, and it's off to the Late-Nite Infomercial / Glue Factory with you, Sport.<br />
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While, of course, the guys who finagled the rights to your Bright Idea will just keep raking it in. You, for your trouble, will be presented as a National/Global Laughingstock, if for no other reason that it's a handy way to contaminate any possible jury pool if you decide to try any kind of legal action. Just Take What They Offer and Run, Chum, 'cause you'll <i>never</i> beat the Machine.<br />
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After all...It ate up <i>Elvis</i> and spit him out, didn't it? Maybe there wasn't a whole lot to chew up in the first place with the Pelvis, a hick kid from the swamps of Memphis, but he had his moment - and got devoured for it. Human beings aren't <i>built</i> to handle that level of fame and success...And that's exactly what the Machine's been designed to do. To generate public hysteria, channel that into a consumer frenzy, and set up the next icon...Food for the Beast.<br />
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And people wonder why I despise "American Idol"....So, what exactly should we call ourselves now?tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-24:1991841:BlogPost:1537662009-07-24T22:53:17.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
Ning-A-Ding-Lings? Ningompoops? Ningbats? OpeNING Statements? Ningleberries?
Ning-A-Ding-Lings? Ningompoops? Ningbats? OpeNING Statements? Ningleberries?After two days, I'm still a little depressed about this.......tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-23:1991841:BlogPost:1440982009-07-23T01:00:00.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
I was in a drug store Monday evening (the 20th - hint, hint), and while filling out the check the perfectly nice young female clerk helpfully offered the day's date.<br />
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I told her, "Thanks, but I knew that one. Big Trivia Fan here."<br />
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First Bad Sign: Her reply - "Huh?"<br />
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I drew a breath and asked her if she knew what world-famous event had occurred on that day, forty years earlier, that was the cause of newspaper reports and tv segments and talk radio debates and internet alerts and god knows what…
I was in a drug store Monday evening (the 20th - hint, hint), and while filling out the check the perfectly nice young female clerk helpfully offered the day's date.<br />
<br />
I told her, "Thanks, but I knew that one. Big Trivia Fan here."<br />
<br />
First Bad Sign: Her reply - "Huh?"<br />
<br />
I drew a breath and asked her if she knew what world-famous event had occurred on that day, forty years earlier, that was the cause of newspaper reports and tv segments and talk radio debates and internet alerts and god knows what all else.<br />
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She gave me that look that you get when you show a card trick to a dog. Total befuddlement, a nervous sense that she was supposed to be more excited but didn't know why.<br />
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I told her that forty years ago that day, mankind landed on the moon for the first time.<br />
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Another "What?"<br />
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I tried one last time. "Neil Armstrong? 'One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Mankind'? Apollo 11? The human race set foot on another heavenly body for the very first time?"<br />
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She stared at me for a few seconds, and then burst out guffawing and said " Get outta here! We ain't been to the MOON! That's just <i>Crazy!!</i>"<br />
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Now. I'm aware that ignorance knows no age or intellectual divide. I know quite clever people that are still totally unaware of some things that one would expect almost anybody living in the Information Age to be cognizant of - Like, that if it's the middle of the afternoon here, then it's the middle of the night on the other side of the planet. I know people in <i>management positions</i> who are under the impression that the ENTIRE UNIVERSE re-sets it's clock every time we switch back and forth from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time. I'm <i>real</i> good at staring at somebody who's said something that dumb with an unnervingly blank expression until they get flustered and go away.<br />
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But...Doesn't a perfectly content stranger not even knowing that we've been to the Moon make any of you just a tad...<i>sad</i>? These are the folks that are going to inherit the planet, and it made me morose. Just how ignorant and uninformed is acceptable these days?This is getting ridiculous.tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-19:1991841:BlogPost:1267322009-07-19T23:26:33.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
If I were a superstitious man, I'd start to think that my ex was still placing curses on me....<br />
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But then, I remember that she could never do <i>anything</i> right - So it's just more of the usual Weird Luck...and one very sick fiancee. Gotta stick to those priorities...<br />
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I sincerely hope to be back on the air next Sunday. My apologies to all that tried to listen in....
If I were a superstitious man, I'd start to think that my ex was still placing curses on me....<br />
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But then, I remember that she could never do <i>anything</i> right - So it's just more of the usual Weird Luck...and one very sick fiancee. Gotta stick to those priorities...<br />
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I sincerely hope to be back on the air next Sunday. My apologies to all that tried to listen in....Sonic Youth, St Louis, Mo, 7/17/09tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-18:1991841:BlogPost:1205622009-07-18T22:50:24.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
My, My - What a difference thirty years makes.<br />
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Not for Sonic Youth, exactly - They have remained remarkably dedicated to their vision of experimentalism, musical independence, the beauty that can be found in the tension between extremes, and squalling, ear-shattering racket.<br />
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Maybe that was a part of the point; A band whose staked-out territory is usually thought of as heaving, sweaty clubs and gnarly, art-damaged New York critical discussions, playing a free show on the Mississippi riverfront…
My, My - What a difference thirty years makes.<br />
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Not for Sonic Youth, exactly - They have remained remarkably dedicated to their vision of experimentalism, musical independence, the beauty that can be found in the tension between extremes, and squalling, ear-shattering racket.<br />
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Maybe that was a part of the point; A band whose staked-out territory is usually thought of as heaving, sweaty clubs and gnarly, art-damaged New York critical discussions, playing a free show on the Mississippi riverfront to strolling picnickers may well have been as much a challenge to them as it was a puzzle to the audience.<br />
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That, and a comment that even Sonic Youth are admitting to their own middle age. Thirty years ago, Sonic Youth were a band that <i>scared</i> people - and now, they're an Institution. I realized this looking at the crowd: People half the band member's ages, tatted and pierced Gen-X'ers, with babies in cuddly pink-and-blue strollers, watching living legends roar and howl and shriek on a pleasant July evening in front of the Jefferson Memorial. A cultural collision of a fairly high order.<br />
I was talking with a new acquaintance about their 1988 masterpiece "Daydream Nation", and I mentioned the 2007 re-issue's inclusion of their crushing cover of the Beatles' "Within You Without You" - And suddenly the phrase "You are me and we are all together" popped into my head....and the more I think about it, the more sense it makes.<br />
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But that's just me. They were great, as usual, and played almost nothing old, mostly the new album. It's still S<i>onic Youth</i>, folks - I don't think that they know how to play a bad show. They are road-seasoned pros, after all, no matter what kind of middle-aged musings some members of their audience may dwell on. They still rock like crazy, and that's all that really matters.WQNA, Mk IItag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-07-07:1991841:BlogPost:582902009-07-07T23:00:00.000ZSnagghttp://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/DavidCarltonHustava
WQNA "Fear & Loathing In Springfield" set list, June 28th, 2009...<br />
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"Character" / "Wild America", Iggy Pop<br />
"Revolution In Apt. 29", Wayne Kramer<br />
"America" (<i>Francis Scott Key</i>), Lou Reed<br />
"American Roulette", Robbie Robertson<br />
"Are You Glad To Be In America?", James Blood Ulmer<br />
"This Land Is Your Land", Woody Guthrie<br />
"One Big Happy Family", Tonio K<br />
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"Folsom Prison Blues" (<i>Johnny Cash</i>), Steve Tombstone<br />
"Hey, Good Lookin'" (<i>Hank Williams</i>), Dave Edmunds<br />
"The Pilgrim (Chapter…
WQNA "Fear & Loathing In Springfield" set list, June 28th, 2009...<br />
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"Character" / "Wild America", Iggy Pop<br />
"Revolution In Apt. 29", Wayne Kramer<br />
"America" (<i>Francis Scott Key</i>), Lou Reed<br />
"American Roulette", Robbie Robertson<br />
"Are You Glad To Be In America?", James Blood Ulmer<br />
"This Land Is Your Land", Woody Guthrie<br />
"One Big Happy Family", Tonio K<br />
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"Folsom Prison Blues" (<i>Johnny Cash</i>), Steve Tombstone<br />
"Hey, Good Lookin'" (<i>Hank Williams</i>), Dave Edmunds<br />
"The Pilgrim (Chapter 33)" (<i>Kris Kristofferson</i>), Paul Burch & the WPA<br />
"Spoonful" (<i>Willie Dixon / Howlin' Wolf</i>), Chris Whitley<br />
"Folsom Prison Blues" (<i>Johnny Cash</i>), Firewater<br />
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"Watch Your Step" / "Jack Talked (Like A Man On Fire)",Stan Ridgway<br />
"Time Flies", Scott H Biram<br />
"Misery Loves Company", Mike Ness<br />
"The Hungry Wolf", X<br />
"The Fastest Horse In Town", Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons<br />
"Woman" (<i>Jack Kerouac</i>), Jim Carroll, Lee Ranaldo, Lenny Kaye & Anton Sacco<br />
"Good", Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit<br />
"Native New Yorker", Booker T. Jones w/ Neil Young & the Drive-By-Truckers<br />
"Puttin' People On The Moon", the Drive-By Truckers<br />
"Meet Me By The River", Matthew Ryan<br />
"Riverside" live, the Beat Farmers<br />
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Album of the Week: Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane And Sugarcane"<br />
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"White Rabbit" (<i>the Jefferson Airplane</i>), Patti Smith<br />
"Changing Of The Guard" (<i>Bob Dylan</i>), Chris Whitley & Jeff Lang<br />
"Slippin' And Slidin'" (<i>Little Richard</i>), Johnny Winter<br />
"Farmer John" (<i>the Premiers</i>), live, Los Lobos<br />
"What's New, Pussycat?" (<i>Tom Jones</i>), Los Fabulosos Cadillacs & Fishbone<br />
"Hurdy-Gurdy Man" (<i>Donovan</i>), the Butthole Surfers<br />
"Li'l Red Riding Hood" (<i>Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs</i>), John Felice<br />
"Black Or White" (<i>Michael Jackson</i>), Robbie Fulks (Heh heh heh hehhh....)<br />
"Que Sera Sera" (<i>Doris Day</i>), Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women