Robert Schumann - “Traumerei”, one of the most beautiful melodies ever written.
Traumerei is translated as “scenes from childhood”. It dates back to 1838.
In today’s late-coming admission that the Obama Administration has assassinated four American citizens with drone strikes, Attorney General Eric Holder described the death of one of those four, 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, as a “mistake.”
A mistake is when you write “2012” instead of “2013.”
A mistake is when you make change for a ten instead of a twenty.
A mistake is when you back into another car.
But — as Mr. Obama would say — let me be clear: Targeting a 16-year-old who is accused of no crime for death by bomb in a specific attack two weeks after his father was assassinated is not a mistake.
That’s what we call murder.
United States Attorney General Eric Holder has told Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.
It has been widely reported but rarely acknowledged in Washington that three US citizens — Samir Khan, Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son — were executed in a September 2011 strike in Yemen. With Holder’s latest admission, however, a fourth American — Jude Mohammed—has also been named a casualty of America’s continuing drone war.
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Waiting for someone to defend this.
Just.
Waiting.
Daft Punk - Horizon (Japan Bonus Track)
So I wrote a review for Fun With Vinyl. It was my second review for them, with more to come. It’s fun to write these things up. June promises some Prince material, too!
My other review: George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex” 12” single.
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The Brief:
I always think people love Amy Grant as much as they hate her. She’s too tame for regular folks, but too rebellious (although not) for the Christian crowd. Yet through all that, somehow she’s found a middle ground, and her audience has stayed with her. I’m in that audience. I’ve been an Amy Grant fan since early on, way before she was ever accused of crossing over. But if the public thought 1985′s unguarded was a cross over, they were clutching the pearls for months after the single “Baby Baby” debuted in January 1991, promoting her then-new album Heart In Motion. She was more adult, fun, sexy, and flirting with someone other than her then-husband singer Gary Chapman in the video. (It’s acting, people!) The third single, “Every Heartbeat”, was released over the summer of 1991, and continued her flirty, sophisticated, and sexier adult image. She wasn’t slutty, but she wasn’t hiding behind a leopard print jacket & mall hair either…. (more behind the link)
US rescuers search for tornado survivors | Rescuers have sifted through rubble searching for survivors after a 3km-wide tornado packing 320kph-strong winds devastated Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 24 people, injuring at least 230 and leaving dozens missing.
The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office said on Tuesday that 20 children were among those confirmed dead and the death toll was expected to rise.
US president Barack Obama called the devastation “one of the most destructive tornados in history”.
Time lapse video of the tornado yesterday.
Tornado damage, May 20, 2013, from my cousin Arah’s Facebook. She took these pictures. Her & her family were not affected as much. They had some roof damage where they lived in Moore, but they still have a house. They were mere blocks from the direct path of the tornado. It was my cousins on mom’s side that lost their house, and were under a pile of rubble.
I wish I was there to help them, but at this point, only so much can be done.
