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The playlist for Monday 25 Aug 14 9pm to Midnight Pacific Edition of The Justice Department: Musique sans Frontieres
~~ "Stilted Guitar Picks and Abandoned Stilettos" ~~
1 - Little Axe -- "Long Way to Go"
2 - Baby Huey -- "Hard Times"
3 - Little Sister -- "Stanga"
4 - Nina Simone -- "Rags and Old Iron"
5 - Isaac Hayes -- "Walk on By"
6 - Otis Redding -- "More Than Words Can Say"
7 - Winston Curtis -- "Be Thankful For What You Got"
8 - William Bell -- "Everybody Loves a Winner"
Station Break
9 - Rodney Crowell -- "Highway 17"
10 - The Doors - "Cars Hiss By My Window"
11 - Buffy Sainte Marie -- "Until It is Time For You To Go"
12 - Emmylou Harris -- "Goodbye"
13 - Daniel Lanois -- "Where Will I Be"
14 - The Church -- "Under The Milky Way" "
15 - Iron and Wine -- "Resurrection Fern"
Station Break
16 - Laika and the Cosmonauts -- "Salt Mine Twist"
17 - The Mermen -- "Sponge Cookie"
18 - The Calm Blue Sea -- "We Will Never Be As Young As We Are Tonight"
19 - Seabear -- "In Winter's Eyes"
20 - Au Revoir Simone -- "Only You Can Make You Happy"
21 - Explosions In The Sky -- "Your Hand In Mine"
Station Break
22 - Stina Nordenstam -- "Crime"
23 - Nouvelle Vague -- "Making Plans for Nigel"
24 - Nico and The Velvet Underground -- "Femme Fatale"
25 - Marianne Faithfull -- "Song For Nico"
26 - Serge Gainsbourg -- "No Comment"
27 - Jacques Brel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas"
28 - Francis Cabrel -- "Petite Marie"
29 - Ennio Morricone -- "La Bambola"
Station Break
30 - Patti Smith - "Frederick"
31 - Porno For Pyros -- "Tahitian Moon"
32 - Steve Earle -- "Galway Girl"
33 - Cara Dillon -- "Black Is The Color"
34 - Lila Downs -- "Mi Corazon me Recuerda"
35 - Olga Guillot -- "Delirio"
36 - La India -- "La Gran Tirana"
37 - Mongo Santamaria -- "Manteca"
Station Break
38 - Miriam Makeba -- "Where Can I Go" "
39 - Garanda -- "Sunda Javanese Gamelan"
40 - Ulrich Schnauss -- "A Million Miles Away"
41 - Mari Boine -- "Vuoi Vuoi Mu"
42 - Souad Massi -- "Houria"
43 - Vangelis -- "Ask The Mountains"
Who luvs ya, baby?
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(12-String Ovation Balladeer Astoria, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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It ends because the beginning won’t jumpstart
again: red smudge of a mouth, lipstick everywhere
the afterthought a comet leaves on its way
out. What makes this moment unfold like a fine
woman raising herself up from the bathroom floor?
Honky-tonk in the honeyed brown of an eyeball?
Perfume & its circus of heart-shaped introductions?
It ends because the needle always winds up in
the lead-out, like a man pawing around for broken
spectacles after he wakes in the world’s rubble.
Hand over hand he paws, through stilted guitar
picks & abandoned stilettos, raised skirts & rocks,
glasses as chipped & smudged as the topography
of a skipping record. He could be Albright
himself, foraging the still-life swish of low-rise
tutus & skyscrapers cracked in the twisted
aftermath of a smile. Even without glasses,
he remembers her in high style: magnanimously
coming down the blue & violet threads of night,
her green dress clashing with the bathroom tile.
-- Adrian Matejka
"End of Side A"
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(Field of Tournesol Normandy, France / copyright Justice Putnam
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Voices and Soul appears on Black Kos Tuesday's Chile; poetry chosen and critiqued by Black Kos Poetry Editor, Justice Putnam.
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(Cut Stones and Arch St Ceneri, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Chateau de Valicourt Montmorancy, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Question: Who is your audience? What are you here for?
Answer: Tribal Alliances, Heart-felt Convictions, Passionate Reason, Random Abandon, Sustainable Civility and a kiss; to comfort the sad and the mad Ones; the Ones roaming the International section of the American Supermarket at night; or roaming the neglected streets looking for an angry malaprop to sink their teeth into; the Ones who seek without seeking and learn as much as they teach; the Ones who embrace and kiss and embrace again; the Ones who sing the song of the city and the ballads of the forest; the Ones who chant the rhythm of the sea and hum the melody of the desert; the Ones who sing the prayer of Her name and Her name is the World. Yes, those are the Ones. -- JP
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(Man, Girl and Broken Window Klamath Falls, Oregon / copyright Justice Putnam)
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So that explains it... !
Sunlight and Water Pitcher Muir Beach / copyright Justice Putnam
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... Or does it?
(Holy Bible and 3 in 1 Oil Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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I took another small sip of water as the next questioner rose, this time by the stacks of French novels. She was cute; red hair, tall, maybe 5'9" or 5'10", well proportioned. Had to be another doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Cal; so even at 24 or 25, was too young for my wandering eye.
"You stated," she stated determinedly, "and I quote; 'Comedy, Poetry and Fiction are only effective and only become Art if there is a Truth behind the humor, the verse and the lie.'"
"Yes," I uttered to fill the small silence.
"In your writing; in your humor, verse and lies, are you telling a Truth about yourself?" she asked, "or are you telling a Truth about the Culture and Society as a whole?"
"Yes," I answered.
--Justice Putnam
"Conversations With The Audience"
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(Motown NN14 Detroit, Michigan / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Chair, Floor and Electric Cord Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
"The most unostentatious, the most inexpensive, the most ridiculous chair, if a chair can be ridiculous, which could be devised. Brassai chose precisely this insignificant chair and, snapping it where he found it, unearthed what there was in it of dignity and veracity. THIS IS A CHAIR."
-- Henry Miller
"The Eye of Paris"
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(Rail Road Crossing Sonoma, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(Farm Road Olema, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises."
-- Horace
"Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand."
-- Charles Kingsley
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(Lamp and Post Berkeley, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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(House Ruins of Poet St Pol Roux Brittany, France / copyright Justice Putnam)
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Josephine
words and music by
Justice Putnam
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(m/8) Taking the steps
Down to the sea
Somewhere along
The coast of Normandy
Where the white
Fossil sands
Churned turbulently
Where men rushed
Into battle
And died violently
Whose last
Dying breath
Was to plead with
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(m/8) Could be
The grasslands
Of the Sioux
No matter
Which side
They were on
They were all
Thinking of you
Could be in
In the South Pacific
Or the Persian Gulf
An Indonesian jungle
Or an Arctic hut
Could be in a
Manhattan penthouse
Or a cold water den
(coda) We’ll all grasp
At that last
Bit of hope
In the end with
Josephine
Josephine
I’m pleading
With Josephine
(tacet) Josephine
Take me
Home
© 2005 Justice Putnam
Fleur du Sel Musique
and Mechanisches-Strophe Verlagswesen
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Rest in Peace Aaron Schwartz
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(Morning Fog And Surf, Muir Beach, California / copyright Justice Putnam)
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