2006 February | buzz twang

Spread your wings….

February 6, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Queen hit me like a ton of bricks sometime in the mid-70′s. “Spread your Wings” is a lesser known tune, from News of the World, but it has always been one of my favs. The guitar solo at the end is stellar; a feedback intro, then a nice harmonic romp with vibrato and flange played [...]

Brokeback to the Future

February 6, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Brilliant. From the jokesters at Chocolate Cake City. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Under the wire…

February 6, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

…things you may have missed and some good reads. Vonnegut’s Blues for America… An exerpt: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE [...]

Yankee dollar talk

February 5, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

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The internet is for porn….

February 3, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Pretty funny. It’s an odd mash up of ideas. The song is a lift from Sesame Street, one voice sounding pretty close to Cookie Monster, since its from the play Avenue Q, and the CGI characters from a video game heavily influenced by the Shogun Warrior toys. There are a bunch of these floating around [...]

What lurks below… and all around….

February 3, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

“I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus — living fossils — so we will never forget what these people stood for.” – Rush Limbaugh Good post over at Shakespeare’s Sister (from December 2005) that is a nice overview of the right=wings love of turnng [...]

Liberal Phil

February 3, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

From Truthdig. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

February 3, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

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Despotism in the Land of Freedom

February 2, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

A propaganda film from 1946 on “Despotism”. It’s rather amazing in so many ways to see how the definitons offered are unfolding and being exercised in both attitude and in action in contempory America. Both sides claim the other is the root of despotism in America. And, in that, I can agree. We are all [...]

Blowing right-wing minds with reality…

February 2, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Via Avedon at The Sideshow, Peter Daou gives a point by point… Pro-Bush Media Bias Blowing Rightwing Minds: A number of rightwing bloggers have reacted with shock to my piece on pro-Bush media narratives. I sympathize with them, if only because arguing that the media favors America’s right shatters their worldview and interrupts the cozy [...]

Play it loud.

February 2, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

At their height, there were very few bands that could touch the sheer energy of The Ramones. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Stupid is as stupid does….

February 1, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

When I was a kid, we used to put explosives in things – apples, watermelons, model cars, you name it, and blow them up. We were young and dumb, and you learned after awhile that it was hard to completely blow something up until it was disintegrated entirely. Damn near impossible. And, believe me. We [...]