Thursday, December 2, 2010

musical interlude: a song for wall street by gene burnett





24 comments:

  1. Loved the last part...hilarious...what a great daydream

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  2. Song for Teresa

    She wasn't always schizophrenic
    She lost her mind at the clinic
    Had some harsh words from a cynic

    She wasn't always schizophrenic
    Now when she closes her eyes
    She hears that voice
    Whispers in her ears
    She has no choice
    It says she's been bad
    Bad girls should kill themselves

    She lost her mind at the clinic
    She once knew how to sail
    until they sent her to jail
    No on to make her bail

    Had some harsh words from a cynic
    Some kind of psychic jamming
    Recorded in her mind
    She yells back at them
    But they win every time

    She wasn't always schizophrenic
    She lost her mind at the clinic
    Had some harsh words from a cynic


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  3. this is a sad song. who is teresa?

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  4. Teresa is a neighbor of mine. My mom's friend more than mine actually.

    Yes, it is very sad. She sleeps with the light on and the TV or radio on, so the voices wan't be heard over the sound...

    She is in her mid thirties, only functional via pharma...

    She was in jail for meth. She was addicted when she went in--but not schizophrenic.
    something happened to her there...I suspect mind contro experimentation.

    I ask her once who's voices she heard. She said, "the cops".
    They keep telling her she should kill herself. What a living nightmare.

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  5. a sad song for a sad story.

    is she still addicted to meth?

    did you write teresa's song?

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  6. No Teresa only takes 'licit' drugs now...ones perscribed by her psychiatrist.

    Yes,I wrote it. It actually came into my head as I was watching the videe you posted.

    I don't klnow why...the Muse works in strange ways.

    I used to write pages of poetry and songs and such...before I began writing political commentary. I still write whatever comes to mind. It's just that mostly the political crisis in on my mind now days.

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  7. it's a beautiful song. maybe teresa would like to hear it.

    nice spontaneity, too. i think that's the only way muses can work. in strange ways.

    maybe you could write about the day the reign of tyranny ended. with the earth still intact. maybe we should all do that. the written word is powerful.

    i hope your friend can get off the pharmaceuticals. i hope the voices go away so she can hear her own. tell her i said hey.

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  8. great video... lol... great ending

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  9. "maybe you could write about the day the reign of tyranny ended. with the earth still intact. maybe we should all do that. the written word is powerful."

    Ya know...I have written a lot of that. Mostly when I was in that rock band.

    Woh woe oh one day I swear to you I will find a way
    To end the heart ache and the suffering I see in your eyes
    Just hold your hand out I will take it
    And lead you past this lonely wheel
    That turns our fate into dust
    Our love into rust and our heats into ingots of steel
    There's another way to go
    Don't build a wall around your soul
    There's another way to go

    [from the 80s]

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  10. Typo..."heats" is supposed to be "hearts"

    I need to proof better....

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  11. Hey! It got a >grin< out of me. Thanks for system reboot!

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  12. that was great, h! i would like to hear it set to music.

    what else do you have in there?
    bring it on out...

    and thanks. this was fun.

    it's another way to go.

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  13. r&b - i am glad you liked it. nothing like a good reboot. i hope it lasts.

    cheers,
    arcadia

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  14. Thanks for fixing the 'heart' part Arcadia.
    I had to reboot too--my actual computer...it is still being fussy.

    I'll sprinkle some more lyrics aroung from time to time for you. Right now its almost 2 in the morning for me and my brain musta went out with the computer, Lol

    I don't know if you were aboard when Jersey helped put up a YouTube of one my records from the 60s. It's on one of the past threads here now, but I forget which.
    G'night all,
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  15. you are probably already gone, but good night anyway.

    i was not around for the record but i would love to hear it.

    there is always tomorrow.

    a

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  16. Good morining Arcadia, and Cotobakers

    I thought I'd throw out another wikidleap critique to start the day:

    http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/some-on-the-internet-start-to-wonder%e2%80%94is-wikileaks-for-real/

    America’s covert machinery, easily the largest in world history, reaches every corner of the globe, gathering, hiding, publishing or distorting information to suit its own purposes. On its payroll are politicians and artists, scions of noble families and common gangsters, visionaries, crackpots, assassins and healers the world over.

    It would not be surprising at all if WikiLeaks were being used by this intelligence network to do its bidding, knowingly or otherwise. Surely this would explain the almost comical spectacle of WikiLeaks “releasing” tons of potentially damaging information while America’s entire intelligence community merely whimpers like a whipped dog— as if the U.S. were not capable of moving the website out of civilian reach and erasing it from existence as easily as it introduced the Stuxnet virus to the computers of an Iranian nuclear plant. (Overshadowed by the WikiLeaks’s non-news was the Monday morning bombing in Tehran that killed one Iranian nuclear scientist and injured another.)~Behrouz Saba

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  17. "...it's only a day away..."~a

    I don't even have it...puter crashes inbetween...JG may be able to pass it along or download it again.
    Or you might find it on YouTube: >> The ORACLE, 'Don't Say No' 1967

    ww

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  18. ah...this world again. interlude's over - back on your heads.

    great opening paragraph. one almost does not need to say anything else. i am laughing as i am reading.

    '...as if the us were not capable...'

    the level of elusiveness of both julian and osama would pretty much require their living together somewhere in the only place on the planet the us cannot penetrate. i'm not saying it's impossible, just a thought.

    americans need heroes. since they do not do much themselves. the word no longer has meaning. but it is easier to designate heroes than to change something you are doing or to be willing to see what is there to be seen. assange now has hero status. americans are off the hook again. and they will not let go of him too easily.

    the reps who dissed the tsa terrorists in the video were called heroes. it seems that rather than seeing one as just doing one's job, an elected official who is not in treason, in the moment, on a particular issue earns hero status. even though they might have voted for the patriot act for food. it is a dangerous indulgence.

    the sad part is that he is also publishing events that should be known.

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  19. "the sad part is that he is also publishing events that should be known."~a

    Yes, as constructed the republic was meant to be completely transparent, and the peolpe were considered adults who could run their government and their own lives as well.

    The exact reverse applies today, a totally opaque government and the people stand naked before it, serfs and slaves--the very thing the revolution in 1776 overturned.
    We are back to square one.

    ww

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  20. here here.

    it is still changeable. it just means that those who are willing must carry the weight of those who are not willing.

    makes me tired sometimes.

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  21. "makes me tired sometimes."~arcadia

    "It's a hard job but somebody has got to do it"~ attributed to Eichman

    But yes, it is a hard job. I have spent on average ten hours a day studying and critiquing the criminal system imposed on the people of this nation. All on my own dime. Are they grateful? That is not the point is it?
    We do this because we are compelled--a higher calling if you wish.
    I like to think somebody up there appreciates it.

    ww

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  22. Hey Puddy, what's wrong with the margin alignments on this site?
    Our text didn't always overlap the red type...
    Call out the the tech gnomes by gawd.

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  23. From the DC Bandstand days: "I love the words but not so much the lyrics. I could dance to it though."

    I worked at a finance firm in Boca Raton Florida and watched a day trader jump thirteen head first on concrete. The tech crash days. This poor soul was not gellin'

    The fear campaign is especially diabolical when it the financial sector. aka 1929 and coming again before Barry's eight are up.

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  24. UNIVERSAL KMA ID:

    Kisseth Mine Arse 007

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