Travelogue --On the road and in the air to Southern India

The Ellora Caves, which, of course, will be a focus of our archaeological explorations.

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On Tuesday, All This Is That again becomes a travelogue for a couple of weeks, as I travel to India to visit Mumbai, Udaipur, Aurangabad, and Pune.  Some of my favorite posts on ATIT comes from my trips to NYC, Mexico, Great Britain, Florida, Turkey, and Greece. 

I'll try to start writing and posting photos Tuesday.  As always, I hope to rope in guest editors.  As always Pablo, will be providing political commentary...
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Nigel Godrich’s "Basement Tapes"

Thanks to Ian Rodia for this awesome music link.  Ian found uber-producer Nigel Godrich’s ‘Basement’ recordings where he records random bands live in his studio; later episodes are at Bob Clearmountain’s studio.  There are a lot of interesting bands and artists that you probably know.  But, what is incredible is the sound--obviously not overdubbed or fiddled with a lot.  Everybody sounds great!  Even people of whom I;m not a huge fan. Here's a link to Godrich's website.  He is probably best known for his work with Radiohead.  He also scored recently with his work with Paul McCartney--a lot of people this was Maccas best solo work since his first album.

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Video: 2012 - The Election

Thanks to Dr. Stephen Clarke-Willson for this clip. The folks at All This Is That (and at the President Sarah Palin blog) keep warning the "it can't happen here" folks that this could actually happen in your lifetime!


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Faces No. 148 - scratchboard drawing by Jack Brummet

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negative image of scratchboard - click to enlarge

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My favorite Jim Morrison story: The Miami Incident

You probably remember the "Miami Incident" if you were listening to music back in 1969.  If you weren't, you may have heard about it.  My friend Frank Curran was at a Doors show in Seattle sometime later, when someone yelled "play Miami!", and Morrison unloaded on Seattle (as I also heard Jimi Hendrix do in his last hometown show).

The "Miami Incident" landed Morrison in serious hot water with the FBI and the courts.  On March 1, 1969, he gave a controversial performance at a Doors concert in Miami, Florida, and was later charged with public drunkenness, and various other crimes.  He was specifically accused of exposing himself   to the crowd, and was eventually convicted of "indecent exposure," a misdemeanor, and not the felonies he was initially charged with.  He was sentenced to serve time.  But he never served it; he moved to Paris and died at the age of 27.
One night, Morrison was out with a bunch of people, and his friend Tom Baker started goading him (it was getting hostile):

"Tell us now, Mr. Jim Morrison, rock star. Tell us what happened in Miami."

Morrison glared at Baker, and drained his drink.

"Come on, Jim, tell us once and for all."

"Well," Jim Morrison said in a quiet voice, "I wanted to see what it looked like in the spotlight."

The crowd burst out laughing, spraying the bar with their drinks and Jim grinned proudly.
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The steaming pile in D.C. is almost up to Obama's Adam's Apple:::::BHO catches fire again

By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Correspondent

It has become abundantly clear that the Republicans and the Tea Party People think they have found the winning issue in their quest to return to power.  From chairman Michael Steele to windbag Mitch McConnell, the GOP have said that they will hold the Democrats feet to the fire for passing health care reform come November.

Essentially the Republicans intend to campaign on their twisted belief that there is nothing wrong with the way insurance companies do business.  In fact, the GOP seems to say, we probably need to cut them even more leeway.  [Ed's note:  how's that free-enterprisey stuff workin' for ya?] This is a fight that Obama is nowhere near ready to give up.  In fact, in the last few days he seems to have caught fire again--giving impassioned speeches (as opposed to those rather cooler, cerebral ones that dominated his first year as President.  He has held two large rallies outside Washington this week.  He's twisting arms, rallying the troops and making one more push to settle this insanity for once, and for all. 

Mr. Obama said this week, and rightfully so, that his health care plan incorporates the best ideas of Democrats and Republicans, and that it strikes a middle ground between government-run health care, and a system dominated by insurance companies.

"So I don't believe we should give either the government or the insurance companies more control over health care in America. I want to give you more control over health care in America."

 As an old friend once wrote in a poem "Go, you sumbitch!, go!"
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jack brummet drawing: Faces No. 146

I drew this in a meeting yesterday in San Francisco. Hardly any of the figures represent people who attended the meeting. 

Faces No. 146, by Jack Brummet - Click to enlarge

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The Hawk--Ronnie Hawkins--performs Bo Diddly's great "Who Do You Love?" at his ex-employee's The Band's final performance

The Hawk a/k/a Ronnie Hawkins, performs Bo Diddly's great "Who Do You Love?" at his ex-employee's--The Band's--final performance on Thanksgiving night, 1976.  Great tune, great performance. 


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The Dilemma: which bath?

In my hotel room at the St. Regis in San Francisco (in SoMa), after 12 hours of meetings, I am "free" until 8 AM, after I get through 47 emails. I am staring at this actually quite hilarious, card, thinking, "OK, should I just go ahead and expense this $1,650 bath?" Do you think anyone would notice? Or should I be parsimonious and just do the the Krug Champagne and truffles bath for a mere $525?
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Digital art: The Axe - David Axelrod, Obama's Defender of the Faith

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Map 6: by Jack Brummet

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Digital Art: I re-enact the key scene from Psycho

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