From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #452 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, August 21 2008 Volume 10 : Number 452 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] o.t: what the Blues are.................. [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] "One Of Us" Video [Hold ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:43:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] o.t: what the Blues are.................. BLUES 101 If you are new to Blues music, or like it but never really understood the whys and wherefores, here are some very fundamental rules: 1. Most Blues begin with: "Woke up this morning..." 2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town." 3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes - sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher and she weigh 500 pound." 4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch...ain't no way out. 5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die. 6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis. 7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or anywhere in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the Blues in any place that don't get no rain. 8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the Blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you were skiing is not the Blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it is. 9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster. 10. Good pl aces for the Blues: a. highway b. jailhouse c. empty bed d. bottom of a whiskey glass 11. Bad places for the Blues: a. Nordstrom's b. gallery openings c. Ivy League institutions d. golf courses 12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old person, and you slept in it. 13. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if: a. you're older than dirt b. you're blind c. you shot a man in Memphis d. you can't be satisfied No, if: a. you have all your teeth b. you were once blind but now can see c. the man in Memphis lived d. you have a 401K or trust fund 14. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could have. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the Blues. 15. If you ask for water and your darlin' gives you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are: a. cheap wine b. whiskey or bourbon c. muddy water d. black coffee The following are NOT Blues beverages: a. Perrier b. Chardonnay c. Snapple d. Slim Fast 16. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So are the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broken-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction. 17. Some Blues names for women: a. Sadie b. Big Mama c. Bessie d. Fat River Dumpling 18. Some Blues names for men: a. Joe b. Willie c. Little Willie d. Big Willie 19. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Jennifer, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis. 20. Blues Name Starter Kit: a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Mute, Lame, etc.) b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime, Kiwi, etc.) c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore, Clinton, etc.) < B R> For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Pegleg Lemon Johnson or Lame Kiwi Clinton, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.") 21. I don't care how tragic your life is: if you own a computer, you cannot sing the blues, period. Sorry! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:44:48 +0100 From: "Keith" Subject: [idealcopy] "One Of Us" Video Dunno if this has been mentioned here before but PF website has this news today. Latest news August 20, 2008"One Of Us" Video We have posted a video for "One of Us' on Wire's youtube page , it can also be found on the video page of this site. The video was shot in New York and London by Malka Spigel who incidentally also shot the video for In The Art of Stopping. In further news, the North American tour listing is now complete with shows in LA and NYC (the latter being a free show to celebrate WFMU's birthday) now announced. Link below in case it doesn't work above. http://www.youtube.com/user/wirehq ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:39:57 -0400 From: Hold Subject: Re: [idealcopy] "One Of Us" Video Laziest Wire vid ever. It makes the Githead stuff look like high art. (And that fish-eye lens has gone way past tiresome.) Steven On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Keith wrote: > Dunno if this has been mentioned here before but PF website has this news > today. > > > > > > > > > Latest news > > > August 20, 2008"One Of Us" Video > > > We have posted a video for "One of Us' on Wire's youtube page > , it can also be found on the video > page of this site. The video was shot > in New York and London by Malka Spigel who > incidentally also shot the video for In The Art of > Stopping. > > In further news, the North American tour listing is now complete with shows > in LA and NYC (the latter being a free show to celebrate WFMU's birthday) > now announced. > > > > > > Link below in case it doesn't work above. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/user/wirehq > - -- www.myspace.com/factus2 www.myspace.com/holdnyc ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #452 ********************************