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DiabloLoco

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #930 on: April 07, 2017, 01:06:41 pm »
Quote from: Bill St. Clair on April 07, 2017, 12:56:13 pm
Katy Perry
Chained to the Rhythm
On repeat, as recommended by the lyrics.
Haven't been this attached to a new tune since Stevie Wonder's "So What the Fuss".

https://youtu.be/Um7pMggPnug
No thanks.

Here's why-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df0xj-d-IGI
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Bill St. Clair

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #931 on: April 08, 2017, 07:22:48 am »
Quote from: DiabloLoco on April 07, 2017, 01:06:41 pm
No thanks.

Here's why-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df0xj-d-IGI

"So here's how I'm going to use MY voice. I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton." -- Katy Perry

I stopped there. I disagree with the politics of lots of entertainers. I also don't care what they think, since most of them DON'T think. I want them to look good, sing sweetly, and emote effectively. That's all I care about from them. I use their talents to improve my life. And ignore the rest.

YMMV.
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"The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war." -- Bill St. Clair

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DiabloLoco

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #932 on: April 08, 2017, 01:36:51 pm »
Quote from: Bill St. Clair on April 08, 2017, 07:22:48 am
Quote from: DiabloLoco on April 07, 2017, 01:06:41 pm
No thanks.

Here's why-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df0xj-d-IGI

"So here's how I'm going to use MY voice. I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton." -- Katy Perry

I stopped there. I disagree with the politics of lots of entertainers. I also don't care what they think, since most of them DON'T think. I want them to look good, sing sweetly, and emote effectively. That's all I care about from them. I use their talents to improve my life. And ignore the rest.

YMMV.
When I disagree with entertainers, I boycott them. For instance, Liam Neeson is publicly anti-gun, even though almost every single one of his movies features him using one. Therefore, I refuse to support him in any way, which includes watching any movie that he has stared in. IMHO, so-called "celebrities" (businesses as well) should keep their opinions to themselves. Especially when that opinion has something to do with hot button issues such as politics or religion. That is, if they want to keep their current fan/customer base anyways.

This strategy has also hurt Target and Starbucks in recent months. Both businesses alienated a large swath of their customers and suffered the consequences of said customers refusing to do business with them.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/starbucks-boycott-like-most-others-wont-hurt-it-in-the-long-term-2017-02-03
 
Most people are stupid and forgetful, so this strategy doesn't always work in the long term and sometimes even backfires on the protesters (Chick fil a for example). It can however, have devastating effects in the short term. 40% stock downturns as well as CEO's stepping down are recent examples of that.

I agree though.....YMMV
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #933 on: May 22, 2017, 07:15:39 am »
I'm not sure why but recently this song has popped back into my life:

Elvira by the Oak Ridge Boys

"Giddyup, ahoompapaoompapah mow mow!"

I remember listening to this as a kid.  I find myself drawn to these older songs more and more lately.  (apologies to those that think this song isn't THAT old...)   :wub:
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #934 on: December 10, 2018, 05:44:14 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BwWKXjVaI

Flawless use of Lauryn Hill's timeless 'Ex-Factor' sample. Real nice!
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #935 on: December 10, 2018, 10:18:16 pm »
re-visiting    Warren   Zevon......werewolves    of   London.......Roland   the   headless   Thompson   gunner.....etc....
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #936 on: April 29, 2019, 02:10:01 am »
SSG.  BARRY  SADLER---  BALLAD  OF  THE   GREEN   BERETS....///   takes   me   back   to  an  earlier   time   &  place...when  all   my  pain  was  physical...
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #937 on: April 29, 2019, 07:28:23 pm »
Quote from: casca-503 on April 29, 2019, 02:10:01 am
SSG.  BARRY  SADLER---  BALLAD  OF  THE   GREEN   BERETS....///   takes   me   back   to  an  earlier   time   &  place...when  all   my  pain  was  physical...

and he wrote the Casca books too.  I was in the bar in Guatemala City where Barry hung out a few times. Nice bar.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #938 on: April 29, 2019, 08:24:43 pm »
yes,   and   was   shot  /  killed  /   by   a  jelose   husband   /   also   made   some   self   defense   tapes   for   sale..../    Robin  Moore  wrote   book   w/him   about    G.B.'s..../   influenced   me    to   enlist.....
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #939 on: May 03, 2019, 11:40:43 pm »
what probably influenced me the most was the shooting instructor in fourth grade, he was a WW2 veteran and gave me a copy of To Hell and Back.   That might cause accusations of the school teacher in   All Quiet on the Western Front, it wasn't that way at all though. And then there was always the propaganda film Sands of Iwo Jima.  Louis L'amour helped out some too.

None of which I will repudiate now.

Even so.

 Best anti war book- Good bye to All That by Robert Graves.  Honorable mention, the Forgotten Soldier.

Best anti war movie besides the obvious ones - The Americanization of Emily

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