I might be upsetting people here. I could be mixing it up with Fagan suffering from TDS. I can't remember. It could be both. Maybe someone can clarify.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" features prominently in animated film "Whisper of the Heart." I think the opening title sequence is accompanied by an Olivia Newton John version. Early in the movie, there is a fond parody about life in Tokyo ("Concrete Roads"), and then there is re-write toward the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjqRLIS5-ro
This is a Studio Ghibli film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, who sadly died in 1998 at age 47. I don't know whether it was the director, or the writer of the source Manga, but there is something profound about how a Japanese person was so inspired by the song.
Since Youtube has introduced new health content and other censorship rules, I am swearing off them. Eff Youtube=Google. They have lots of great content, but they can go succ themselves. Lots else to explore and support, and books to read. Enjoy those links extra for me, but remember it feeds the beast we are wanting to be rid of. Hard to avoid Googlemaps, but I heard of something called...paper maps?....ah, probably just a conspiracy theory.
my paper telephone directory (2012) is still unexpectedly up-to-date and we love using it. maps, the A to Z street guide, atlases, who needs more to get around ;-))
I just had to laugh! Mr. "the Knife" and I took a camping trip to the Oregon coast a couple of weekends ago. Put the address into the GPS and away we went. I had planned to take I-5 to the Longview exit, head west to Astoria and then south on Hwy 101. The !@#$% GPS kept telling me to turn around to pick up I-5 again. When we had traveled too far to turn around, it took us on a merry chase through the coastal mountains for a couple of hours before finally dumping us on Hwy 101 one town up from our destination! I grumbled that I would have much preferred to have my Mom navigating with her paper maps. (She and I have driven all over the Western U.S. with paper maps and AAA guide books.) When we stopped at the local store for a few supplies, I requested that he find an Oregon map. While he was in the store, I called Mom to gripe about the "modern convenience" that had me zig-zagging my way through western Oregon. She asked me why I didn't have an Oregon map with me (the implication being that she had raised me better than that! 😂 🤣) I told her that her son-in-law was in the store finding a map. She had a good chuckle over that!
Thanks St Alia....GPS (back when I used it) failed me on about 5 occasions, one caused me to lose a cleaning job, one made me late for a music gig. I also hate the way it makes choices about routes that I would not make, (a backroads person) and also makes everywhere one goes a sellable piece of information. Shrinking minds and choices, daily!!
Amen! The only reason I bought the blasted thing is I was living in PHX for three months and had no idea how to get anywhere. I don't do smart phones (have a flip phone) and my vehicle had no GPS (I refuse to have a car with built in GPS!). I miss the days when Costco had the new Thomas guides out at the first of the new year. (Costco, I know, I know!)
People don't know how to give directions anymore, so there is that aspect as well. I used to look up directions on Mapquest, but that program led me straight to a bridge abutment once, and of course, I need a computer to use the program since I don't have an iThingy to consult. 😂
My buddies and I worked up My Old School to play together at our yearly hiking/eating/tequila drinking get togethers. I struggled to hold Jeff Skunk Baxter's guitar part together, and never could nail the pinch harmonics consistently. What a great tune. Steely Dan never sounds dated to me.
John Denver and Johnny Cash - I needed them tonight. Thank you MKM for bringing them back to us today for such a wonderful revival. Literal - ‘teardrop in my eye’ Thank you, me
I don’t believe there are such great musicians and entertainers out there today. As I was listening, and enjoying the music, I wondered to myself what negative comments there could possibly be. Unfortunately there always are. Thanks MCM for this compilations. Wonderful.
Great choice of tunes, Mark! Here's some Freedom Music from the recent Jam For Freedom Festival in the UK. Rob MyJob sings "I Just Want to Get Along in this World"
Too bad Steely Dan went full Branch Covidian.
I want to believe Cash wouldn't. Let me believe.
noooooo....fagen is a covidian?
I might be upsetting people here. I could be mixing it up with Fagan suffering from TDS. I can't remember. It could be both. Maybe someone can clarify.
I think you’re right on both, Johnny
What a wonderful collection here. Thank you.
You have great taste, Mark!
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" features prominently in animated film "Whisper of the Heart." I think the opening title sequence is accompanied by an Olivia Newton John version. Early in the movie, there is a fond parody about life in Tokyo ("Concrete Roads"), and then there is re-write toward the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjqRLIS5-ro
This is a Studio Ghibli film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, who sadly died in 1998 at age 47. I don't know whether it was the director, or the writer of the source Manga, but there is something profound about how a Japanese person was so inspired by the song.
Here is John Denver Live in Japan 1981 singing the hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSmh6FO3T74
Since Youtube has introduced new health content and other censorship rules, I am swearing off them. Eff Youtube=Google. They have lots of great content, but they can go succ themselves. Lots else to explore and support, and books to read. Enjoy those links extra for me, but remember it feeds the beast we are wanting to be rid of. Hard to avoid Googlemaps, but I heard of something called...paper maps?....ah, probably just a conspiracy theory.
my paper telephone directory (2012) is still unexpectedly up-to-date and we love using it. maps, the A to Z street guide, atlases, who needs more to get around ;-))
I just had to laugh! Mr. "the Knife" and I took a camping trip to the Oregon coast a couple of weekends ago. Put the address into the GPS and away we went. I had planned to take I-5 to the Longview exit, head west to Astoria and then south on Hwy 101. The !@#$% GPS kept telling me to turn around to pick up I-5 again. When we had traveled too far to turn around, it took us on a merry chase through the coastal mountains for a couple of hours before finally dumping us on Hwy 101 one town up from our destination! I grumbled that I would have much preferred to have my Mom navigating with her paper maps. (She and I have driven all over the Western U.S. with paper maps and AAA guide books.) When we stopped at the local store for a few supplies, I requested that he find an Oregon map. While he was in the store, I called Mom to gripe about the "modern convenience" that had me zig-zagging my way through western Oregon. She asked me why I didn't have an Oregon map with me (the implication being that she had raised me better than that! 😂 🤣) I told her that her son-in-law was in the store finding a map. She had a good chuckle over that!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Thanks St Alia....GPS (back when I used it) failed me on about 5 occasions, one caused me to lose a cleaning job, one made me late for a music gig. I also hate the way it makes choices about routes that I would not make, (a backroads person) and also makes everywhere one goes a sellable piece of information. Shrinking minds and choices, daily!!
Amen! The only reason I bought the blasted thing is I was living in PHX for three months and had no idea how to get anywhere. I don't do smart phones (have a flip phone) and my vehicle had no GPS (I refuse to have a car with built in GPS!). I miss the days when Costco had the new Thomas guides out at the first of the new year. (Costco, I know, I know!)
People don't know how to give directions anymore, so there is that aspect as well. I used to look up directions on Mapquest, but that program led me straight to a bridge abutment once, and of course, I need a computer to use the program since I don't have an iThingy to consult. 😂
Mrs. "the Knife"
somehow we survived! I have such a terrible sense of direction, I have met many a helpful stranger....thanks mary-lou
direct inter-human communication is very valuable and strange as it may sound, but I often literally thank God for that!
My buddies and I worked up My Old School to play together at our yearly hiking/eating/tequila drinking get togethers. I struggled to hold Jeff Skunk Baxter's guitar part together, and never could nail the pinch harmonics consistently. What a great tune. Steely Dan never sounds dated to me.
Songs decrying mask-wearing and the mindset behind it.
A duet between a mask-wearing zealot and a medical freedom fighter. Listen to IT’S JUST A MASK. Subscribe to Turfseer’s Newsletter. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/its-just-a-mask
Watch O HOLY ROMAN, a song about a child who asserts his independence from other children who wear the mask https://turfseer.substack.com/p/o-holy-roman
Watch POD PEOPLE BARBECUE. Origin of mask-wearing zombies revealed in song!
https://turfseer.substack.com/p/pod-people-barbecue
The people graduate “with honors” from this institution of “higher learning.” Watch SHEEPLE UNIVERSITY. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/sheeple-university
BONUS: Free Download. THE ALTERNATIVE COVID-19 NARRATIVE HANDBOOK. A Collection of useful links. Get it here: https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-alternative-covid-narrative-handbook
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Wonderful Marcus & Diamond Crew. https://youtu.be/_t1qQRb3mKU . https://youtu.be/tBHAZUozFpY . "Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into The Sun.".
Sad times now but we are fortunate through God to be alive to watch a coming glorious Revival🇺🇸🤍 pray for strength !!
Thanks!
Cash and Denver gave me goose bumps! What a treasure!
Thanks MCM...love the Skunk Baxter solo
loved that jarmels song when i was a kid. this is the original, notice the later edition of the group transposed it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHR7YxT3rys
and my fave version of country roads. sweet jamaica! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQFKMar4x-w
John Denver and Johnny Cash - I needed them tonight. Thank you MKM for bringing them back to us today for such a wonderful revival. Literal - ‘teardrop in my eye’ Thank you, me
I don’t believe there are such great musicians and entertainers out there today. As I was listening, and enjoying the music, I wondered to myself what negative comments there could possibly be. Unfortunately there always are. Thanks MCM for this compilations. Wonderful.
Great choice of tunes, Mark! Here's some Freedom Music from the recent Jam For Freedom Festival in the UK. Rob MyJob sings "I Just Want to Get Along in this World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVda-WcaBLU