I wanted to include a couple more things here about the SMiLE album... mostly getting my inspiration from Wikipedia here ( Read more... )

Another for the Song Hall of Fame... "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" performed by Moby ( Read more... )

Chuck Berry died, so that's the current thing....  He was 90.

Here's what I wrote about him a long time ago...

As John Lennon said, "If you were going to give rock & roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."

Chuck Berry is the Alpha. Without him, there would not have been a Rock and Roll. No Beatles, no Rolling Stones, no Beach Boys, ( Read more... )

Donald Trump is certainly someone I'm interested in....  I won't vote for him (obviously?) but there are aspects of his candidacy that I like...  I've been watching recorded bits of the Republican National Convention and yesterday I watched the speech by Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.....  I thought it was pretty good, and I especially liked the end ( Read more... )

I have these old quotes from Trump or about Trump, which from time to time I put in here.  These are on torture, but I guess Trump has softened his views a bit since when these came out....  so...  whatever.

Torture works, okay folks? [...] Believe me, it works. [...] Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let' ( Read more... )

I collected a bunch of quotes a while back, on Donald Trump, and here are a few more I like.  They're actually from last summer, about a year ago ( Read more... )

"Trump is a fascist. And that’s not a term I use loosely or often. But he’s earned it ( Read more... )

"If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?"

- Donald Trump on Twitter, he later deleted the tweet. (16 April 2015 ( Read more... )

Came across these quotes today...  from a few months ago.

"If Donald Trump were a Democratic mole placed in the Republican Party to disrupt things, how would his behavior be any different? I don't think it would be."      - George Will

"Could Donald Trump be a secret double-agent, sent by Democrats to destroy their party from within ( Read more... )

Excerpts from a CNN report ( Read more... )