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Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.

(It will probably be hard for me to hit 25...but we'll see)

1. Guns n Roses
2. The Cure*
3. k.d. lang
3. The Indigo Girls
4. The Bobs
5. Melissa Etheridge
6. Helen Reddy
7. Sinead O'Connor
8. New Model Army
9. Tori Amos*
10. Angelique Kidjo
11. Heather Nova
12. Joan Osborne
13. Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
14. Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums featuring Miss Carmen Getit
15. The Royal Crown Revue
16. Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
17. Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer
18. The Osborne Brothers
19. Third Tyme Out
20. The Kathy Kallick Band
21. The King's Singers
22. Jan Allain
23. Olivia Newton-John
24. Melissa Ferrick
25. Bill Evans (also with Tony Trishka)

I ganked this from inscrutable

Some random things:

1. Damages is one of my new favorite shows. It is dynamite...it is a like a thriller...but a TV show...and it is amazing...and Glen Close is just amazing. I hope she gets a Best Actress Emmy. The show is soooo good!

2. The Army gave me a lot of physical training...a lot of which has withered away. But, as I've discovered in boxing classes, one thing oddly has stayed with me. I can hold my feet 6 inches off the ground for a long time without being too stressed by it.

3. Driving back from boxing classes, I hear Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight" followed by "Lady Marmalade" by P!nk, Christina, Mya, et al. And I thought a few things.
Whitney Houston was a dynamite hit maker in her heyday. And we rarely hear all of her great songs on the radio...generally only "I will always love you"--which is also a good song...but...well, that was her at her most melismatic...but "I'm Your Baby Tonight" has barely any melisma at all...neither do a lot of her other songs. Listening back to her, she was quite tasteful and artful in her use of melisma and power. Then I was listening to "Lady Marmalade" and thought...the young power singers...many of whom I like...seemed to only have picked up on the melisma and not the rest of it...I mean...that Lady Marmalade gets a bit crazy with the melismas everywhere. They all have good voices...but they put too much in I thought.

4. On Friday, illiaanya and I were in the office working when we sort of got onto this renditions of national anthems kick. So we watched quite a few and noted that there are very few male solo singers doing renditions of the Anthem. We watched Whitney Houstons...which was moving as always and made us both a bit misty. And then we watched one by Destiny's Child...and I think it is a great rendition of the national anthem, and the are seriously working a Supremes-like poise:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUy9xbnun6Q

That's all for my randomness for today.

So I was listening to my iTunes, and Heart's "All I Wanna Do" popped up. I was struck by their euphemism for orgasm. So I thought, since I have lots and lots of musically oriented folk on my friends list, I thought it might be fun to come up with a list of lyrics that are euphemisms for orgasms (not just for sex...but for orgasm). So dogpile on! And debates of euphemism validity are welcome!

Here's my contribution:

-He brought the woman in me, so many times, easily. -- Heart, "All I Wanna Do"
-There'll be 15 minutes of kissing, then you'll holler please don't stop. There'll be 15 minues of teasing, 15 minutes of pleasing, and 15 minutes of blowing my top. -- The Dominoes, "Sixty Minute Man"

Now I don't think this actually counts as euphemism..but...

-Relax don't do it, when you want to suck to it. Relax don't do it, when you want to come. --Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax" -- speaking of relax, I think this is another euphemism for orgasm in that song: Shoot it in the right direction, Make making it your intention. Live those dreams, scheme those schemes. Go to hit me, hit me, hit me with those laser beams.

Okay, y'alls turn!

I thought I'd repost this. I got it from clawfoot and thought the folks I know who don't know clawfoot should probably see this. It is just gross.

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I just learned about a case of segregation-era oppression happening today in Jena, Louisiana. I signed onto ColorOfChange.org's campaign for justice in Jena, and wanted to invite you to do the same.

http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2528-221090

Last fall in Jena, the day after two Black high school students sat beneath the "white tree" on their campus, nooses were hung from the tree. When the superintendent dismissed the nooses as a "prank," more Black students sat under the tree in protest. The District Attorney then came to the school accompanied by the town's police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."

A series of white-on-black incidents of violence followed, and the DA did nothing. But when a white student was beaten up in a schoolyard fight, the DA responded by charging six black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

It's a story that reads like one from the Jim Crow era, when judges, lawyers and all-white juries used the justice system to keep blacks in "their place." But it's happening today. The families of these young men are fighting back, but the story has gotten minimal press. Together, we can make sure their story is told and that the Governor of Louisiana intervenes and provides justice for the Jena 6. It starts now. Please join me:

http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2528-221090

The noose-hanging incident and the DA's visit to the school set the stage for everything that followed. Racial tension escalated over the next couple of months, and on November 30, the main academic building of Jena High School was burned down in an unsolved fire. Later the same weekend, a black student was beaten up by white students at a party. The next day, black students at a convenience store were threatened by a young white man with a shotgun. They wrestled the gun from him and ran away. While no charges were filed against the white man, the students were later arrested for the theft of the gun.

That Monday at school, a white student, who had been a vocal supporter of the students who hung the nooses, taunted the black student who was beaten up at the off-campus party and allegedly called several black students "nigger." After lunch, he was knocked down, punched and kicked by black students. He was taken to the hospital, but was released and was well enough to go to a social event that evening.

Six Black Jena High students, Robert Bailey (17), Theo Shaw (17), Carwin Jones (18), Bryant Purvis (17), Mychal Bell (16) and an unidentified minor, were expelled from school, arrested and charged with second-degree attempted murder. The first trial ended last month, and Mychal Bell, who has been in prison since December, was convicted of aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery (both felonies) by an all-white jury in a trial where his public defender called no witnesses. During his trial, Mychal's parents were ordered not to speak to the media and the court prohibited protests from taking place near the courtroom or where the judge could see them.

Mychal is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31st, and could go to jail for 22 years. Theo Shaw's trial is next. He will finally make bail this week.

The Jena Six are lucky to have parents and loved ones who are fighting tooth and nail to free them. They have been threatened but they are standing strong. We know that if the families have to go it alone, their sons will be a long time coming home. But if we act now, we can make a difference.

Join me in demanding that Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco get involved to make sure that justice is served for Mychal Bell, and that DA Reed Walters drop the charges against the 5 boys who have not yet gone to trial.

http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=2528-221090

Thanks.
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Isn't interesting that heather gray is more or less the official color of work out gear, especially T-shirts?

Why heather gray? (which was also the color of the Army's work out uniform)

I mean, there are lots of work out clothing items that are black, but wearing a black T-shirt doesn't necessarily read: Work out! Yet...can you wear anything heather gray without it looking like work out clothes?

Who decided heather gay and why has it stuck?

On a related note, boxing classes are kicking my butt. And I like it.

This morning, at 4:22am my mother passed away. She had just turned 54 years old.

I'll be dealing with arrangements and supporting my sister and my dad right now.

Sometime later I'll post about what an awesome person my mom was for those who never got to meet her.

( Discussion of a 70s Porn film...cut in case you don't want to read about such things )

All of that aside, I'm still listening to Kylie over and over. I really need to move on to another album. But I can't help it!

I am going up to the Bay Area today!

I had another one of those French Gulch dreams last night.

I have this recurring dream where I drive back to French Gulch and try to find the cabin I lived in, El Diablo.

The trouble is, I was 3-4 years old when I lived there...and the cabin burned down a long time ago.

But I know that it was off a dirt road that went up into the mountains...and I think there were only two cabins along that road (that probabbly isn't true though).

In the dream I wander the main road until I see the side road up into the mountains that calls to me. I walk up there, and I find the signs of a burned down cabin...burned down long ago...but I don't know if that actually is El Diablo or some other place. The townspeople are all suspicious....because they don't know who I am.

I would like to go back to French Gulch...but I don't even know what it looks like anymore.

So the cabaret is over.

The cast pulled it together and were awesome...especially awesome were complainr and ichbinkelsey...not just because they are awesome performers (like the rest of the cast)--but because they helped with the behind the scenes business in ways that were invaluable.

ibk, got the room opened at 2pm, so while I was still teaching class, people were able to do final run-throughs; complainr, way back when this started, had me over to her house and played through the pieces on the piano and helped me figure out what to do.

Awesome. Know I've got to pay some people some money for copies of a recording of it. Once I get copies, I'll give copies to all cast members (and others who should have a copy).

That performance is done...one more to go.

I'm playing at gay pride. I've got a great bassist and guitar player...here's hoping that will go well too.

All I'm saying is this...soon I will sleep.

So, my part of the Transgender Summit just finished airing on ET. I thought it was pretty good.

Just one nitpick. Well, it isn't really a nitpick...it is actually sort of big. They do the..."There is a flipside to the story of Transwomen..." enter me. Then they say, "No would guess that Trooper6 was born a woman...then they show a picture of some woman who isn't me! Some random black woman...and a femmey one at that! Dress and girly hair...that sort of thing. Then show show an actual photo of me pretransition...then back to me here and now. But seriously...who was that random feminine female they passed off as me? I'm sure it was just some sort of honest mistake, but she didn't even look like me!

Harumph!