Wintery Mix and Revolution....
Oct. 27th, 2017 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I drove home today in "wintery mix" --basically snow, but mostly the sort that melts the instant that it hits the ground. It has since decided to stick. I took a picture of the big maple tree. It's a bit blurry because, I didn't actually want to step outside now that the temperature has dropped enough for our first official few inches.
As I was driving around in this awful mess, I got a craving for the kinds of songs that I LIVED on during the 1970s and 1980s (and, let's be honest, well into the 1990s when I was marching in the "Take Back the Night" marches in Loring Park). You know, hard core folk music where Utah Philips sings about dumping the bosses off your back and lyrics like, "if blood be the cost of your awful wealth, Good God, we have bought it fair." I cleaned out our hall closet where we stashed our (STILL WORKING!) turntable and all the vinyl and found all sorts of gems including old Holly Near and so much Pete Seeger.
Plus, this:
The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy--that's the album that has "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" as sung by the late, great Leonard Nimoy. And, an album on which Nimoy reads "The Cool Green Hills of Earth" by Robert Heinlein, as well as "Gentleman, Please Be Seated." Such good stuff. I intend to send this snowy day listening to uplifting music.
Right now, Pete Seeger, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1963 is singing "Oh, Freedom!"
JUST. What. I. NEED.
As I was driving around in this awful mess, I got a craving for the kinds of songs that I LIVED on during the 1970s and 1980s (and, let's be honest, well into the 1990s when I was marching in the "Take Back the Night" marches in Loring Park). You know, hard core folk music where Utah Philips sings about dumping the bosses off your back and lyrics like, "if blood be the cost of your awful wealth, Good God, we have bought it fair." I cleaned out our hall closet where we stashed our (STILL WORKING!) turntable and all the vinyl and found all sorts of gems including old Holly Near and so much Pete Seeger.
Plus, this:
The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy--that's the album that has "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" as sung by the late, great Leonard Nimoy. And, an album on which Nimoy reads "The Cool Green Hills of Earth" by Robert Heinlein, as well as "Gentleman, Please Be Seated." Such good stuff. I intend to send this snowy day listening to uplifting music.
Right now, Pete Seeger, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1963 is singing "Oh, Freedom!"
JUST. What. I. NEED.