Musical Moondays - Solstice Eclipse Edition

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Monday December 20, 2010 · 9:20 PM PST

2010/12/20 · 21:20

Welcome to Musical Moondays, an open thread series for music junkies and their enablers. Please add your musical contribution which may or may not relate to everything and/or nothing at all.

Tonight we will have the privilege of enjoying a lunar eclipse on the solstice. Such an event has not occurred in hundreds of years. The last time the moon was fully eclipsed by the sun on the shortest day of the year was in 1638, to be exact.

In honor of this strange coincidence, let's have some Creedence Clearwater Revival, and any other musical accompaniment of your choosing. Just find a Youtube you like, and paste the embed code in your comment. A multimedia-intensive experience may occur over the fold, if tonight is the kind of evening I'm predicting.

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Monday November 08, 2010 · 9:10 PM PST

2010/11/08 · 21:10

Welcome to Musical Moondays, an open thread for the music junkies and their enablers. Please add your musical contribution which may or may not relate to everything and/or nothing at all.

Now that the fall weather has hit, my stomach always seems to yearn for more hot food and coffee, and I'm starting to nest like a squirrel. I simultaneously draw inward while reaching out to friends, knowing that the hard times ahead require yet more patience and coordination. It's hard work surviving the winter, but we have the ability to huddle together and figure out what's really important to us.

In the bear spirit of hibernation mode and our need to make it through all this, I'm linking to a friend's diary from Sunday:

We Can Make It Through This - anotherdemocrat

And now over the fold, I shall take you to a Hidden Place by Björk:

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Monday October 18, 2010 · 9:15 PM PDT

2010/10/18 · 21:15

Welcome to Musical Moondays, a semi-random community series for sharing melodious creations of our choosing, which may or may not relate to our personal lives and/or society.

The Dalai Lama was at my campus last week and I got to attend the Scientific Explorations of Compassion and Altruism conference sponsored by Stanford's new CCARE center, with various researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, bioengineering, and neuroeconomics describing their research on the underpinnings of human compassion with the spiritual and secular leader-in-exile of the Tibetan people.

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Monday August 30, 2010 · 11:38 PM PDT

2010/08/30 · 23:38

Welcome to Musical Moondays, a semi-random community series for sharing melodious creations of our choosing, which may or may not relate to our personal lives and/or society.

Tonight's episode focuses on social justice and equality for all, specifically the treatment of black people after Hurricane Katrina. I'm choosing a catchy mashup that brings me right back to 2005, when Bush was strumming on a country singer's guitar and cutting John McCain's birthday cake instead of mobilizing all federal forces to the aid of the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

There was a live televised Concert for Hurricane Relief, which had some very beautiful and touching performances. I remember feeling tense the whole time though, because everyone was panicking that there was no federal response and you could see the suffering. Kanye West, one of the hosts of the program, was visibly perturbed and finally came out and said on live TV in front of the whole United States:

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 2:12 PM PDT

2010/08/16 · 14:12

With the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the Bush Congress ended Federal matching of State spending of child support incentive payments. There is proposed legislation, H.R.1386 - Child Support Protection Act of 2007, sitting in the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, one of whose members happens to be my current Rep. Pete Stark. Time to give his office a call.

Some outrage below the fold.

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Monday July 05, 2010 · 10:28 PM PDT

2010/07/05 · 22:28

Well folks I think tonight might be a bluesy, love-sick sort of night for me. I thought someone liked me, but I guess they don't. So below the fold is a video that makes sense to me right now.

Please share something musical in this open diary. I'm just doing it as a way to connect to other people, and music seems to be a good way to do it.

You can listen to my radio station at http://blip.fm/...

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Friday July 02, 2010 · 9:07 PM PDT

2010/07/02 · 21:07

Listen All Y'all, It's a Republican Sabotage! There's a Double-Dip Recession, aka Depression, headed our way: the GOP would rather score some mirage political points for the upcoming 2010 elections than save people from homelessness and persistent joblessness. They've refused to renew federal unemployment extensions for those who haven't been able to find work in the worst employment market since the 1940's. Never in American history has any Congress denied emergency unemployment extensions while the official jobless rate is above 7.6%; right now it's still at 9.3% and the jobs stimulus money is running out. Corporations are holding onto their cash, banks aren't lending the money we bailed them out with, and you and I will be stuck out on the street with our iPods pretty soon. So I thought I'd make a music video to go along with my unemployment.

Inspired by Bob Cesca's article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

WARNING: Music Video embedded below the fold...

Poll

56 votes Show Results

Sabotage?

56 votes Vote Now!

Sabotage?

Yes.

50 votes

No!

6 votes

Pie?

0 votes

Musical Moondays

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 8:36 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 20:36

Howdy folks. It's time for another semi-erratic installment of Musical Moondays, the place to bare your musical tastes to all. Tonight's episode is concerned with new beginnings. This song popped up on my playlist over the weekend and it was ridiculously synchronous to events that are occuring both in my life, and in the outside world. I specifically thought of sharing the selection beyond the fold with you, my friends.

Poll

5 votes Show Results

New Beginning?

5 votes Vote Now!

New Beginning?

The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing

0 votes

Too many stand alone, there's too much separation

0 votes

We can break the cycle, we can break the chain

1 vote

We can share the myths, the dream, the prayer

0 votes

Change our lives and paths, create a new world

0 votes

We need to make new symbols, make new signs

1 vote

It's time to start all over, make a new beginning

3 votes

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 9:39 PM PST

2009/12/21 · 21:39

Ok it's been a long time since I had one of these threads but I've been feeling particularly musical lately. Musical Moondays is about posting videos of your favorite music, a song that's stuck in your head, or a work that is moving you today. You can also just use it as an open thread or to socialize while listening to good music :D

I've been pretty conflicted about the health insurance reform bill the Senate has managed to squeeze out of its corrupt body. On the one hand, getting rid of pre-existing conditions and offering a subsidy will really help me and a lot of other people out. On the other hand, not having a public option or medicare-for-more lets the private industry cancer survive. I have a lot more empathy for people in need than I have spite for the industry, and I'd rather pour money into that coffer than the war machine, if given a choice.

I think it's really shitty that Obama sold progressives down the river with regard to health care reform, but it was completely predictable, as was his stance on Afghanistan, which he even admitted to as a candidate.

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Monday November 02, 2009 · 3:17 PM PST

2009/11/02 · 15:17

Last week was pretty tough. Our manufacturing plant in the Silicon Valley had been scheduled to be shut down for months. The production stopped the first week of October, our equipment was all moved to New Mexico or Korea the next week, and inventory and office workers were moved to a small office and warehouse in the final week while demolition, cleanup, and remodeling took place. I was one of the office workers who got moved, so it seemed like my position was safe for the time being, but apparently it was not.

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 4:23 PM PDT

2009/08/28 · 16:23

I'm so tired right now. I've been up late at night, almost every night for weeks now, putting together a coalition of netroots and grassroots to have a national, synchronous march in ever major city in the country on 9/13 at noon. The teabaggers took away the narrative all summer, and now I want it back! Folks, we need to take a page from the Iranians and MARCH IN THE STREETS! I'm telling you, we're having problems getting official sanction, but that's not going to hold us back. We have a date and time, we have many cities with the location set and permits obtained, but unfortunately we are hitting the wall in other cities. We will need massive turnout for this to be effective. I can't believe we've gone this whole summer with not a single call for marches or protests - just tea parties. Well I'm not waiting for leadership anymore - we're going to MAKE them pass the Kennedy bill with a public option!

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 5:05 PM PDT

2009/08/17 · 17:05

Today is my daughter's first birthday. This weekend we both went to Pete Stark's Healthcare Townhall to voice our support for a strong public option. Now I want to share with you my story of why I take this so personally. Please follow me below the fold.

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