There's a Bear in the Way

The Gaturs: Cold Beer
Wasted (Tuff City/Funky Delicacies, 1970/1994)



Madlib: Bear Wizz Beer (Commercial)
Remixes 2: Saturday Morning Edition (Le Smoke Disque, 2004) (MAD002)



Gotta love the innocent yet ironic ingenuity and sardonicism of children.

As usual, the music is the leitmotif posturing the theme — ya dig?


+The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids | NY Mag

*Image sourced from the Fail Blog

Ezra Jack Keats | Plop!

Snowball: Tender Storm
Defroster (Atlantic (Germany), 1978) (ATL 50 463)



Quincy Jones: Snow Creatures
Dollar$ (The Heist) OST (WEA (UK), 1972) (43005)



Ezra Jack Keats — The Snowy Day is read, in my home, as reiteratively numberless as tradition; consequently, my son's prized word is now, "plop!".

Unable to embed TSD, I alternatively offer music to posture TSD's theme.

Aquaman x BP + Spill Updates

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9



Mandrill: Aqua-Magic
Beast From The East (United Artist, 1975) (UA-LA577-G)

Conjoin your reading despondency with Aqua-Magic as your leitmotif.


+Highlight: see link '7' for "BP Oil Spill: World's Largest Oil Skimmer Arrives in Gulf of Mexico"

*Aquaman: Joel Gomez — pencils and ink wash + Beth Sotelo — colors via Gelatomettista

The Wire: Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson Interview

I was a late watcher of The Wire. As my pen name (Holden Caulfield) suggests my unnumbered retorts open with the sincere: “Eff that!!!”. The more ubiquitous the sell (claim) the more driven my rejection, thusly I wasn’t initially sold.
My man 2 Liter kept telling me about Omar Little, played by Michael Kenneth Williams, a homosexual stick-up-kid so thorough he once primped satin PJs in the street whistling his leitmotif as a forewarning. My attraction to the show was not me drawn to Omar’s sexual prejudices; conversely, I found his character dynamic and thought then that if one character was so compellingly humanized then what would a series worth of characters offer. My answer came in form of me watching the series as I am a dedicated fan of the show. I now get advance seasons and am slated to have the entire season five by New Years.

In other unrelated news:

Rolling Stone : The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock, one of the most eminent scientists of our time says that global warming is irreversible — and that more than 6 billion people will perish by the end of the century written by Jeff Goodell and posted: Oct 17, 2007 2:20 PM:
RS I Playahata

Hot Air

Karen Young: Hot Shot
From: 12” (West End Records, 1978)

JVC Force: Stylin´ Lyrics
From: Doin' Damage (B-Boy, 1988)

News Flash
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Congress To Hold Hearings On Hip-Hop Lyrics: AHH

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My two cents:
As a leitmotif Karen Yong partners Pearls Before Swine. Used thematically JVC Force is the doublet for Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection addressing Hip-Hop lyrics

+ JVC Force Bio per Andy Kellman at allmusic:

Long Island's JVC Force, a rap group whose name stands for "Justified by Virtue of Creativity for All Reasons Concerning Entertainment" (that would actually make them "J.V.C. Farce," but whatever) was a trio consisting of DJ Curt Cazal and MCs AJ Rok and MC B-Luv. Signed to B-Boy, the group broke out with an underground hit single in the form of "Strong Island." The song would become the group's signature moment, and though a few successive tracks came close to rivaling the song's greatness, the group was never able to top it. The group left two albums in its wake, 1988's Doin' Damage and 1990's Force Field.

Petey Greene: A Man Who Conned, Rhymed & 'Speechified'

Sam Cooke: A Change Gonna Come
From: Ain't That Good News (RCA/ Abkco, 1964)

Talk To Me
Focus Features/Rogue Pictures: © 2007; Drama; Rating: R; In Theatres: July 13th, 2007

Kasi Lemmons (dir.)
Don Cheadle
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Taraji P. Henson
Cedric The Entertainer
Martin Sheen

Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle portrays the one and only Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr.; Petey’s story is funny, dramatic, inspiring - and real. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell (Taraji P. Henson), the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig.
He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s (Mike Epps) brother Dewey Hughes (double Golden Globe Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor). From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk (Cedric The Entertainer) and Sunny Jim (Vondie Curtis Hall). Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling (Emmy Award winner Martin Sheen). Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style – on – and off-air – would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

I enjoyed the first half as it was teeming with jesters witticisms. Yet the remainder of the film became a slow-weep of a biopic. Thematically, the molasses pacing of the second half did albeit run in accord with Petey’s reluctance in all ventures not radio.
Sam Cooke’s A Change Gonna Come (lyrics) in Talk To Me, as it was used in Spike Lee's X, was integrated as a “long time coming” segue to a parabolic emoting leitmotif.

*Apple trailer
*Trailer for your iPod

Turbidity

REDEYE GRAVY



Chubb Rock featuring Howie Tee 'Caught Up' From: And The Winner Is... (Select, 1989) is the GOP's leitmotif.
Now You Tell Us... by Eric Alterman discusses the role of newspapers and blogs in exposing the Bush administration's firing of eight federal attorneys.


*Turbidity
*Redeye gravy - as a vegetarian gravy made from ham and coffee (which I love) is a rather nauseating hodgepodge slurry thusly less for food and more for repointing mortar joints in historic masonry.
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Time

LEITMOTIF FOR WAKING

Two years ago, when Congress passed a law to extend daylight saving time by a month, the move seemed a harmless step that would let the nation burn a little less fossil fuel and enjoy a bit more sunshine.

The change took effect Sunday, daylight saving time began three weeks earlier (and ends a week later, on the first Sunday in November). This puts the United States out of sync with the rest of the world for longer than usual this spring, almost certainly disrupting not only computers but also the business and travel schedules of companies, workers and travelers. Most of Europe goes to daylight saving time March 25, two weeks after America, while most of Asia, Africa and South America do not observe daylight saving time at all.

The daylight-time shift, according to technology executives and analysts, amounts to a “mini-Y2K.” That is a reference to the rush in the late 1990s to change old software, which was unable to recognize dates in the new millennium, 2000 and beyond.

The fear was that computers would go haywire, and there were warnings of planes falling from the skies and electronic commerce grinding to a halt. Billions of dollars were invested to fix the so-called millennium bug, and there was no wave of computer-related disasters.

This time, with extended daylight saving time, the problem is subtler. The potential pitfall is a disruption of business, if the clocks inside all kinds of hardware and software systems do not sync up as they are programmed to do. In a business world that is increasingly computerized and networked, there could be effects on everything from programmed stock trading to just-in-time manufacturing to meeting schedules.

For consumers, the greatest potential impact will be on e-mail and calendar programs like Microsoft Outlook, used to schedule dentist visits, soccer practices, evening entertainment and other appointments.

The latest Windows operating system, Vista, is not affected, and for those running Windows XP Service Pack 2, online software updates have been pushed out automatically to correct the problem. Microsoft and Apple are also making software patches and instructions available on their Web sites.

For the roughly 7,000 public companies in the United States, Mr. Hammond estimates the total cost of making computer fixes to deal with the daylight saving time shift at more than $350 million.

The energy savings from extending daylight time are not great, but could mount, according to studies. A report last year by the Energy Department projected savings in electricity at four-tenths of a percent each day of extended daylight savings time — or three one-hundredths of a percent of annual electricity use. Daylight saving time modestly reduces evening electricity use.

Still, tiny savings each year could add up in the long run. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, a nonprofit group, estimates that the cumulative benefit through 2020 of longer daylight saving time would be a saving of $4.4 billion and 10.8 million metric tons less carbon spewed into the air.

The 2005 energy bill gives Congress the option of repealing the daylight saving time extension, if energy savings are not achieved.

For full article: Time Change a ‘Mini-Y2K’ in Tech Terms

A leitmotif (IPA pronunciation: [laɪt məʊ tɪəf]) (also leitmotiv; lit. "leading motif") is a recurring musical theme, associated within a particular piece of music with a particular person, place or idea. The word has also been used by extension to mean any sort of recurring theme, whether in music, literature, or the life of a fictional character or a real person.

Although usually a short melody, it can also be a chord progression or even a simple rhythm. Leitmotifs can help to bind a work together into a coherent whole, and also enable the composer to relate a story without the use of words, or to add an extra level to an already present story.

The word is usually used when talking about dramatic works, especially operas, although leitmotifs are also used in other musical genres, such as instrumental pieces, cinema, and video game music.

The word itself has a mixed etymology, as a further meaning to the German word Motiv was borrowed in the 18th century from the French motif, meaning "motive" or "theme", while the German word Motiv itself can be traced back to the 16th century, meaning only "motive" (cf. Latin motivus). Prefixing it with leit- (coming from the German leiten, "to lead"), produces Leitmotiv (German plural: Leitmotive), meaning "leading motif".

Leitmotifs are very common in movie scores; a well known example is the Star Wars Imperial March associated with Darth Vader and his previous self, Anakin Skywalker, in the Star Wars series of films composed by John Williams. Themes for the characters Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, Emperor Palpatine, and Yoda also recur throughout the movies. John Williams also composed music for Jaws and the Indiana Jones films that uses leitmotifs. Lara's Theme in the film Dr. Zhivago is another example of this.