Alternative pop band Japanese Breakfast says it will not perform at Main Street Armory in Rochester, N.Y., after learning that the venue would also be hosting the far-right ReAwaken America Tour next month.
The ReAwaken tour, organized by Tulsa businessman Clay Clark and co-signed by former president Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, has boasted speakers for its Rochester stop such as political lobbyist Roger Stone, according to Clark’s Thrivetime Show website.
Japanese Breakfast, an indie band led by Korean American singer Michelle Zauner, was slated to perform at the venue on Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. with rock band Yo La Tengo. But the group pulled the plug this week.
“We have canceled the event because a number of people reached out letting us know they were boycotting the venue because of the Reawaken America tour,” Japanese Breakfast said in a tweet Thursday afternoon. “It’s a picket line we support and are not interested in crossing.”
I mentioned in yesterday’s post about Joe Manchin’s betrayal that it had brought to mind a song, and this is that song. Interestingly, I played this one over two years ago, and when I did, my friend Jerry sent me another version … an episode of Live From Daryl’s House featuring the O’Jays in 2016, some 44 years after the original! I thought it was fun and they still sound pretty darn good for old dudes, so I’m playing both the original and the one with Daryl Hall on this post!
The O’Jays were formed in 1958 and named after Cleveland DJ Eddie O’Jay. This song, released in 1972, was their first Top 40 hit! Gene McFadden and John Whitehead wrote this song along with Leon Huff, who along with Kenny Gamble produced the track and released it on their Philadelphia International label. The song was inspired by problems Whitehead…
This week’s Torah portion, Balak (בָּלָק), is the 40th (40/54 or 52, depending on the year: this year, it’s 54…) reading in the annual cycle, and the 7th parashah in the book of B’Midbar/Numbers. Sometimes it is doubled up with Parashat Chukat, but this year, 5782, being a leap year, it is read separately, in Numbers 22:2-25:9.
Everyone remembers this parashah as the talking donkey story, although I’m pretty sure that the Messenger sent to kill Balaam did not look so elegant, but why is it named for the evil king who hired the ass’s owner? And, more importantly for me, why do we use the words of a mercenary mage as our soothing song when we enter the synagogue (Mah Tovu)? Interesting how the Sages chose to honor the very villains of the stories, sometimes, to show the lessons…
An holistic growth, involving our bodies, minds, and souls, means removing all that is unnecessary while becoming aware of who we really are, want, and need.
” Quebraram- se as cadeias, é livre a terra inteira,
A humanidade marcha com a Bíblia por bandeira;
São livres os escravos, quero empunhar a lira,
Quero que est’alma ardente um canto audaz desfira,
Quero enlaçar meu hino aos murmúrios dos ventos,
Às harpas das estrelas, no mar sós elementos!
Castro Alves ( O navio Negreiro e outros poemas. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2007. p. 69)
Literatura brasileira em diálogo com outras literaturas e outras linguagens. William Cereja e Thereza Cochar. Editora Atual. 5 ed.reform. São Paulo, 2013
As I find myself sorely lacking in humour tonight, I am reposting a Saturday Surprise from June 2018, but it is, I think, one well worth repeating! I hope you find a smile or two here to start your weekend!
Well, well, well … we have all survived yet another week and here it is, the first official weekend of summer! So, does everyone have happy plans for the weekend? Me? No, no … Chris is at yet another band competition this weekend, this one in Dublin (Ohio, not Ireland), so Goose and I are just chillin’. I don’t know about you all, but I think my U.S. friends will know what I mean when I say it’s been a tough week, and personally, I’m in the mood for some beauty, some humour, and some cute furry critters. But first, a funny-sad story about a member of the Sig-7 (short…
When the wind kisses her she starts blowing hot and cold like a young maiden, in company with wind and sun when she feels dry and thirsty, she waits avidly for the moistness to fill the cracks on her dryness, and when rain comes she gets drenched with joy to prepare herself for her green youth and fertility changing colours and shapes from time to time and from place to place just to serve humanity…
She gets molded into any shape we need by laying as a clay on the potter’s wheel, she purifies whatever she receives so pious that a home gets purified when coated with her, she keeps open her chest to share her bounty of crops, ores and minerals…
We err when we take her fragility, humility and diversity to shower her love and blessings as her meek surrender to the might of human rights, but we…
Biden on Friday called Abu Akleh’s death an “enormous loss” as he stood alongside Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem in the West Bank.
“I hope that her legacy … will inspire more young people to carry on her work of reporting the truth and telling stories that are too often overlooked. The United States will continue to insist on a full and transparent accounting of her death and will continue to stand up for media freedom everywhere in the world,” Biden said.
He added, “She was an American, an American citizen and a proud Palestinian and she was performing very vital work in an independent media, a vital work of democracy.”
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