By Jack Brummet
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Take the money and run by Graham Nash - an Occupy Uprising theme song (with lyrics)
By Jack Brummet, Music History Editor
This is a wonderful song from David Crosby and Graham Nash in their prime. It could be a theme song for the Occupy Uprising. In fact, 'though, Graham Nash wrote this song about Neil Young and Steven Stills, who kept the money and ran. Crosby and Nash were in the sort of "George Harrison" slot in the band CSN&Y--they got to put maybe one song on each album, and thus lost the author royalties on CSNY albums, while Stills and Young racked up millions of dollars on their publishing credits.
Take the money and run
(By Graham Nash)
Take the money and run
Like a thief across a neighbor's yard
Take the money and run
Like a ghost out in the night.
Take the money and run
'cause you found out that it wasn't hard
to take the money and run
because you were out of sight.
You cannot tell me any more lies
You cannot pull the wool over my eyes
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
'cause the summer sun is sinking down
Take the money and run
'cause the four winds may not blow
Take the money and run
'cause the verdict has been handed down
Take the money and run
because there's no place left to go.
You cannot give me any more time.
You've already taken too much of mine
Take the money and run
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This is a wonderful song from David Crosby and Graham Nash in their prime. It could be a theme song for the Occupy Uprising. In fact, 'though, Graham Nash wrote this song about Neil Young and Steven Stills, who kept the money and ran. Crosby and Nash were in the sort of "George Harrison" slot in the band CSN&Y--they got to put maybe one song on each album, and thus lost the author royalties on CSNY albums, while Stills and Young racked up millions of dollars on their publishing credits.
Take the money and run
(By Graham Nash)
Take the money and run
Like a thief across a neighbor's yard
Take the money and run
Like a ghost out in the night.
Take the money and run
'cause you found out that it wasn't hard
to take the money and run
because you were out of sight.
You cannot tell me any more lies
You cannot pull the wool over my eyes
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
'cause the summer sun is sinking down
Take the money and run
'cause the four winds may not blow
Take the money and run
'cause the verdict has been handed down
Take the money and run
because there's no place left to go.
You cannot give me any more time.
You've already taken too much of mine
Take the money and run
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Søren Kierkegaard, from 19th century Denmark, writes about Fox News?
“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Map 3: The Keelin Map
By Jack Brummet
[watercolor and pen and ink on d'Arches watercolor paper, approximately 3' x 1', framed in a three pane ex-window]
This is one of the first maps I ever painted. It hangs in Keelin Curran's office in One Union Square. The frame is an ex-window from our house that we replaced when we renovated our basement.
[watercolor and pen and ink on d'Arches watercolor paper, approximately 3' x 1', framed in a three pane ex-window]
This is one of the first maps I ever painted. It hangs in Keelin Curran's office in One Union Square. The frame is an ex-window from our house that we replaced when we renovated our basement.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
The Best Thanksgiving Song Of All Time - Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant
One Thanksgiving tradition for me is listening to Alice's Restaurant. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. /jack
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A pictorial history of Presidential turkey pardons from Harry Truman through Barack Obama
By Jack Brummet, Holidays and Holy Days Editor
President Harry S. Truman seems to have been the first President to issue a pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey, in 1947. All subsequent Presidents have carried on the tradition.
President Harry S. Truman seems to have been the first President to issue a pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey, in 1947. All subsequent Presidents have carried on the tradition.
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