Protest songs
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Tommy Martyn
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Protest songs
Marky is this what you called about? I would kill to get hold of a copy. I love VG and the SS. Although they are not as good as the trio of John and Cooper and Clarke.
Well I listened a couple times to your message Tommy and heard you say "Protest Songs" but I'm just not yet aware of an album of theirs called that, I really haven't done a whole lot of research on them yet, but I did read he was a postman as you said. I don't know what the one my friend Paul burned me is called, I think it's just a compilation. One thing I do know is I wish I could be God for a minute and bring back the legendary missing album from 1978 that got lost to time and likely has completely disappeared from this earth forever before anyone got to hear it. Now comes the baby cry in the record shop - "waaaaaaaaaaahhhh - I want my fabled lost album by Subway Sect!"
JEEZus the wind here is incredible. Will someone tell the sky we don't have hurricanes in Seattle, so settle the flying fuck down? TAKE A CHILL PILL. OH SHIT THERE WAS LIGHTNING I kNEW IT I saw the light flicker OH FUCK I AM SO FUCKING FUCKED IF THE POWER GOES OUT I ?DONT' HAVE BATTERIES FOR MY FLASHLIGHT AND won't be able to use the internet which is utter hell and I'll have to light a candle and drink and play music.
JEEZus the wind here is incredible. Will someone tell the sky we don't have hurricanes in Seattle, so settle the flying fuck down? TAKE A CHILL PILL. OH SHIT THERE WAS LIGHTNING I kNEW IT I saw the light flicker OH FUCK I AM SO FUCKING FUCKED IF THE POWER GOES OUT I ?DONT' HAVE BATTERIES FOR MY FLASHLIGHT AND won't be able to use the internet which is utter hell and I'll have to light a candle and drink and play music.
it's still bizarre to me that while you were enduring the whatever the hell was going on in your town, we were having a tornado here
anyway -- not remotely related to your songs, but i liked the title of this thread, so instead of starting a new one, i'm just going to call this
neo-hippie-protest songs through strange anti-commercial commercialism
i told myke already, but jack johnson did the soundtrack to curious george.
-- it is the album of the decade, i'm kidding, but it has to be the best way in the world for me to accept, the curious is not going anywhere, and life is just going to have to get better in spite of him and his tremendous mishaps, so with our own two hands we are learning how to re-use, reduce, and recycle
i told myke i wished i had called him and invited him to see ben harper with me and my pals this summer, and after listening to the new version of my two hands and the three r's i really, really, really wish he'd gone with me.
it really doesn't matter about george and his curiosity when jack's in the classroom with you
also i enjoy taking eddie to class with me occasionally when we learn about africa; the molo sessions are really a great way to convey culture, it fits nicely with the read to feed unit.
anyway -- not remotely related to your songs, but i liked the title of this thread, so instead of starting a new one, i'm just going to call this
neo-hippie-protest songs through strange anti-commercial commercialism
i told myke already, but jack johnson did the soundtrack to curious george.
-- it is the album of the decade, i'm kidding, but it has to be the best way in the world for me to accept, the curious is not going anywhere, and life is just going to have to get better in spite of him and his tremendous mishaps, so with our own two hands we are learning how to re-use, reduce, and recycle i told myke i wished i had called him and invited him to see ben harper with me and my pals this summer, and after listening to the new version of my two hands and the three r's i really, really, really wish he'd gone with me.
it really doesn't matter about george and his curiosity when jack's in the classroom with you
also i enjoy taking eddie to class with me occasionally when we learn about africa; the molo sessions are really a great way to convey culture, it fits nicely with the read to feed unit.
http://home.nyc.rr.com/jadedem/gw1.html
curious at his finest, i mean exploring the finest.
i'm off to explore vic chesnutt with the squirrels. have a great weekend.
curious at his finest, i mean exploring the finest.
i'm off to explore vic chesnutt with the squirrels. have a great weekend.
Tommy I think perhaps you may be thinking of another band besides Vic Godard & Subway Sect? I am not able to find anything by them called Protest Songs.
There IS however an album from 1989 by Prefab Sprout called Protest Songs - is that what you are thinking of? Prefab Sprout are good too - though I'm sorry to say I never owned that particular album of theirs. They are one of these bands I really meant to catch up with again in the early 90's but never did aside from playing a few of their latest singles during my radio show.
Anyway whatever this thing is that you want so badly - please do let me know. I would be more than happy to try to find it for you. Unless it's the long lost 1978 Subway Sect album, in which case, I think we're all out of luck.
There IS however an album from 1989 by Prefab Sprout called Protest Songs - is that what you are thinking of? Prefab Sprout are good too - though I'm sorry to say I never owned that particular album of theirs. They are one of these bands I really meant to catch up with again in the early 90's but never did aside from playing a few of their latest singles during my radio show.
Anyway whatever this thing is that you want so badly - please do let me know. I would be more than happy to try to find it for you. Unless it's the long lost 1978 Subway Sect album, in which case, I think we're all out of luck.
i don't know what to say. someone killed the writer of curious george this week. here's another cup of crazy in the usa.
Children's story
Writer and director of 'Curious George' killed
02/10/2006
He suffered several stab wounds and was stuffed beneath a heap of trash, Sgt. Gladys Cannon said.
Two men have surrendered and confessed to killing Alan Shalleck, who collaborated on bringing the beloved children's story of the mischievous monkey "Curious George" to television and a series of book sequels, police said Thursday.
Rex Spears Ditto, 29, of Pembroke Pines, and Vincent J. Puglisi, 54, of Oakland Park, voluntarily surrendered late on Wednesday at the Boynton Beach Police Department and were arrested on charges of first-degree murder, armed home invasion, aggravated battery and dealing in stolen property, police said.
"They came in ... and confessed to robbing and murdering this guy," Sgt. Gladys Cannon said.
Both men were being held in the Palm Beach County jail.
A maintenance worker found Shalleck's bloodied body on Tuesday covered in garbage bags in the driveway of his home. He suffered several stab wounds and was stuffed beneath a heap of trash, Cannon said. An autopsy was scheduled on Thursday.
Authorities allege Ditto and Puglisi stole jewellery from Shalleck and pilfered funds from his checking account.
Shalleck, 76, was the writer and director of more than 100 short episodes of "Curious George," which aired on the Disney Channel, and co-wrote a series of books with Margret Rey, who created the mischievous monkey with her husband more than 60 years ago.
Cannon said authorities tracked Ditto and Puglisi using Shalleck's telephone records.
"They were acquaintances," she said.
Cannon declined to elaborate on their relationship with the victim or provide further details of the crime.
Shalleck co-wrote more than 28 "Curious George" books and helped write and direct 104 film shorts. The monkey, created in 1939 by Hans and Margret Rey, makes his big screen debut Friday in movie theatres across the United States.
Children's story
Writer and director of 'Curious George' killed
02/10/2006
He suffered several stab wounds and was stuffed beneath a heap of trash, Sgt. Gladys Cannon said.
Two men have surrendered and confessed to killing Alan Shalleck, who collaborated on bringing the beloved children's story of the mischievous monkey "Curious George" to television and a series of book sequels, police said Thursday.
Rex Spears Ditto, 29, of Pembroke Pines, and Vincent J. Puglisi, 54, of Oakland Park, voluntarily surrendered late on Wednesday at the Boynton Beach Police Department and were arrested on charges of first-degree murder, armed home invasion, aggravated battery and dealing in stolen property, police said.
"They came in ... and confessed to robbing and murdering this guy," Sgt. Gladys Cannon said.
Both men were being held in the Palm Beach County jail.
A maintenance worker found Shalleck's bloodied body on Tuesday covered in garbage bags in the driveway of his home. He suffered several stab wounds and was stuffed beneath a heap of trash, Cannon said. An autopsy was scheduled on Thursday.
Authorities allege Ditto and Puglisi stole jewellery from Shalleck and pilfered funds from his checking account.
Shalleck, 76, was the writer and director of more than 100 short episodes of "Curious George," which aired on the Disney Channel, and co-wrote a series of books with Margret Rey, who created the mischievous monkey with her husband more than 60 years ago.
Cannon said authorities tracked Ditto and Puglisi using Shalleck's telephone records.
"They were acquaintances," she said.
Cannon declined to elaborate on their relationship with the victim or provide further details of the crime.
Shalleck co-wrote more than 28 "Curious George" books and helped write and direct 104 film shorts. The monkey, created in 1939 by Hans and Margret Rey, makes his big screen debut Friday in movie theatres across the United States.
what do you mean, like you think someone offed a 76 year old the week of the release of the movie and album or you think he maybe just died and someone made up a story? i don't know. i think it's fucking terrible. if it's a joke it's in really bad taste!
i'm going to revise my story. i was invited to a pancake breakfast fundraiser. it's rain snowing, and i was like no, i'm going to pretend it's still thursday night when the weather was nice, i had a good drink, didn't know someone had killed a seventy-six-year-old who wrote a cartoon, was with someone i like, and felt well.
i'm going to revise my story. i was invited to a pancake breakfast fundraiser. it's rain snowing, and i was like no, i'm going to pretend it's still thursday night when the weather was nice, i had a good drink, didn't know someone had killed a seventy-six-year-old who wrote a cartoon, was with someone i like, and felt well.
mark, i think it's just the truth. someone murdered this elderly man for some money it seems like. it's in the washington post. it's not anything other than another example of how crazy some folks in this country are. it's really very, very sad to me. he seemed like a dear person, and it's a waste. how many elderly folks can say they go to schools and try to help kids learn to love to read, and somebody stabbed him to death. this country has its share of crazies; we really don't need to go looking elsewhere to find them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02402.html
"They always considered children as little people and wanted to write for them as little people," he told the Associated Press in 1996.
Born in Westchester County, N.Y., Mr. Shalleck was a drama major at Syracuse University. He found a job in the CBS mailroom in 1950 and worked his way up to associate producer for "Winky Dink and You," a children's television show in which kids drew on a plastic film placed on the TV screen. He later produced children's films and formed his own company.
In Florida, he worked at a bookstore and was known in his retirement village as a quiet but friendly man. He often visited schools to read books to children, who called him Gramps.
"Gramps is a persona that transcends everything else," he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2001. "I'm a communicator, not an educator. My main goal is to get them to love to read."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02402.html
"They always considered children as little people and wanted to write for them as little people," he told the Associated Press in 1996.
Born in Westchester County, N.Y., Mr. Shalleck was a drama major at Syracuse University. He found a job in the CBS mailroom in 1950 and worked his way up to associate producer for "Winky Dink and You," a children's television show in which kids drew on a plastic film placed on the TV screen. He later produced children's films and formed his own company.
In Florida, he worked at a bookstore and was known in his retirement village as a quiet but friendly man. He often visited schools to read books to children, who called him Gramps.
"Gramps is a persona that transcends everything else," he told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2001. "I'm a communicator, not an educator. My main goal is to get them to love to read."