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Michael Arturo's avatar

Dead on about Neil Young. God, what a destroyed soul. Good news, though: “Oligarchy-Stock” is coming to LA next weekend; the list of performers includes

1) Neil Young and Batshit Crazy Horse

2) Joan Baez, Shitlibs With Rust

3) Country Joe Biden and the Fish,

4) Acosio-Cortes and the Kozmik Vote Blue No Matter Who Band,

5) Ten Years After featuring Bernie Sanders,

6) Blood Money, Sweatshops, and Vaccines,

7) The Politically and Ungrateful Dead

8) Ro Khana as Ravi Shankar

9) Refried Canned Messaging

10) Sly and the Family Soros

11) Climate Justice Clearwater Revival

12) The Diversity Blues Band

13) Johnny Nuclear Winter

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JohnAZ's avatar

I have wondered why these people, the celebrity class are so socialist. Most have had to bust their asses to get here they are. Why do they want to give away everything to a population of gimmes?

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Michael Arturo's avatar

There are several reasons. There’s a bubble of friends and opinions, there’s status and price that comes with it, there’s a paycheck attached, there’s a legacy to protect, there’s fear of being demoted, there’s a reputation or the perception of one, there’s an entourage to feed, there’s a lack of common sense, there’s a deadening of critical thinking if ever it existed, to begin with, and it wasn’t all a facade. And lastly, there’s a facade. On the list of priorities are 1, 2, and 3.

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The Keys's avatar

Wow! Where’ve ya been? If anyone makes it in the entertainment industry these days it’s because they’ve been blackmailed. Look up “The black eye club.”

I have a friend in the entertainment business. Here’s his summation: if you’re making your way up, you get approached to “join the club.” If you refuse, your career stops there. He said one of his friends was told he had to do some ungodly things with a corpse while being videotaped to make it in the industry. He refused. His career ended.

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Donna Wilson's avatar

Whose corpse, one wonders.

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Ben's avatar

Never heard of the black eye club or corpse defilement if true that is disgusting and demonic.

I know about the casting couch escapades and have known some B grade actors and actresses who have said getting that in can be very difficult for a straight laced person.

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grand funk's avatar

We have known of the black eyes.

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Sedgwick C. Hartung's avatar

A desperate need for external validation directly proportional to their internal emptiness.

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rd3's avatar
Apr 7Edited

I hadn't thought about Ravi Shankar in years. Isn't it hilarious to look back at how all of those Boomer "legends" were desperately searching for enlightenment from every conceivable culture, but their own? They never thought to look back at their own ancestors who built the world. Brown people must know the real truth.

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shibumi's avatar

Here's a really fun read about the Boomer legends and their possible ties to military intelligence:

https://www.winterwatch.net/2024/04/laurel-canyon-military-intelligence-family-backgrounds-of-the-iconic-60s-counterculture-rock-stars/

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Michael Arturo's avatar

That said, the message is so stale. It’s lost all of its cache. I don’t know what kids today cling to that has any ring of authenticity to it. JHK is right, they killed music, movies, comedy, it’s all rot. The only thing left is to mock the ruins.

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rd3's avatar

Comedy died when Norm MacDonald died.

There is great music out there, you just have to seek it out.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

God saw fit to "plaque" (Cajun: plah-kay, put) me in a place with off-the-charts culture. And it still has a heartbeat!

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rd3's avatar

Rick, perhaps you can settle a question I have about the accordion. A number of Texas bands that I like will use the accordion in some of their songs. Is this an influence from Cajun/Creole music, or is it from the Germans who settled parts of Texas?

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Rick Olivier's avatar

Both, but much more German/polka influenced. The TexMex polkas are incredible, the Flaco Jimenez/Esteban Jordan stuff, incredible. You don't hear polkas much (or at all) in Cajun/Creole. Manic two-steps, yes, but not strict polkas. That shit's German.

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rd3's avatar

Thanks, for that. I imagined it was more German. The band at my wedding played hard country (Paycheck, Coe, Haggard, etc.) and polkas. The perfect combination.

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Disinfected's avatar

Nice!

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Don Reed's avatar

04/07/25: This looks like a funeral home's Disneyland! Now: It gets personal: I'd never heard of Fiona Hill until today. I think she's the most dangerous of them all. Take a look at her Deep State-Wikipedia profile. The "Steele Dossier" is still exhibited AS IF IT IS STILL A SOURCE OF RELIABLE INFORMATION --- as if it had never been exposed as a fraud, a hoax funded by Hillary Clinton. The day that Trump exacts his "retribution" on her is one that I hope I live long enough to witness. My great-uncle's money put her through Harvard. She became an American citizen in 2002. And SHE IS A TRAITOR.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

brilliant, shared

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Alzaebo's avatar

Cuz they gotta DO somethin'! The Trump Tyranny cannot go on!!

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well done!

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William Wallace's avatar

Man that’s some good Gummies you got there!

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Michael Arturo's avatar

That's what happens after 25 hours of listening to Corey Booker as Joe Cocker sing You Kraine So Beautiful To Me

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