There are a lot of great young musicians, like Australia’s bassist, Tal Wilkenfeld, who can keep up with Jeff Beck and Chick Correa. You just hope they can hang around for a while and not get all screwed up or burned out like so many who went before.

I came across in interesting young American (she was born in NY I think) musician with some real talent. Her bio is fascinating! 😀

Lucia Micarelli bio

Here is a YouTube vid of Lucia performing ‘Kashmir’ with Jethro Tull:
Lucia Micarelli & Jethro Tull – Kashmir Cover

She has an amazing amount of energy for suck a little slip of a girl! 😀

I’ve also heard her play Ravel String Quartet in F major (Assez vif Tres rythme) and enjoyed it. I think she’s an accomplished musician. I’d really hate to see her get eaten alive by the industry, but she seems to be cultivating some friends who have survived the biz and know how it works. 🙂 Perhaps that will be enough.

The star of my high school’s production of Patience went on to star in many Houston G&S Society productions (among other professional ventures). Is Houston G&S any good? Well, they are among the very few companies in the world who have been permitted to play at D’Oyly Carte’s own house in London occasionally…

[GROANNNN]

Ahem.

I understand your intent… but to my knowledge, Sir Arthur Sullivan never wrote any bad music. And I’ve heard a great deal of what he did write. Some of it is occasionally a bit dull, but all of it is crafted to within an inch of its life.

Kryten, wherever they end up hanging that ball, it couldn’t be in the entryway of the White House. That would be just…

… wait for it…

… too many ironies in the foyer.

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They are just coasting until the end.

I’m rather surprised that we actually managed to not only pick up useful intel, but that they actually routed it to the correct country.

The police chief in Mumbai is saying now that no one told him about a possible attack, that would appear to be typical, i.e. the chairman of the Tata Group that owns the Taj was notified, but local authorities weren’t. They have preserved the worst of the pre-WWII British civil service in their government, and never updated it.

From leaks it would appear that that is what the Hedgemony has done with the US government, turned it into a bloated, inefficient bureaucratic morass after Clinton spent 8 years putting it on a diet and streamlining things. The amazing part is that all of the extra people have done less than the people they replaced. It was obviously designed not to work.

Ha!! 😀 Yup! Kinda reminds me of another nation currently… not a million miles from you! 😉 LOL

Case in point (and so funny!)
“Impeach Bush” Christmas ornament will hang from White House tree

Laura Bush asked members of Congress to pick local painters to decorate ornaments for this year’s 20-foot Fraser fir in the Blue Room. The globes (to be unveiled by the first lady tomorrow) are supposed to showcase something special about each congressional district. Washington state’s Rep. Jim McDermott contacted a local arts organization, which asked Lawrence, a collage artist, to create the local entry.

“I was at first nauseated, then realized it was an opportunity,” said Lawrence, 55, who frequently combines politics and satire in her work and saw this as the perfect way “to highlight Jim McDermott because he’s a hero of mine.”

The nine-inch ball is covered with swirly red and white stripes — and, in tiny glued-on text, salutes the Democratic congressman’s support for a resolution to impeach President Bush. (Also showcased: Washington state’s 1919 labor strike, its suffrage movement and the violent anti-World Trade Organization riots of 1999.) Lawrence sent it off to D.C. in September and was very surprised it was accepted for the tree — and that she was invited to this afternoon’s White House reception for the artists, which she flew to D.C. to attend.

“Apparently, they didn’t read it — or Laura Bush is more progressive than I believed,” Lawrence told us.

Oh. My. GOD!! Who said irony is dead? LOL

Of course, it could just be the Bushmorons way of deflecting attention and showing they have a sense of humor (since everyone knows that’s not true). Of course they know there’s not a snowflakes chance in hell of them getting impeached or anything else. *shrug*

But it is funny! 😉

I assume that Australians have a small town out in the middle of nowhere that has become synonymous with a total lack of connection to the world, the way we talk about Podunk in the US. Faridkot is probably the Pakistani equivalent, and that’s why the terrorist used it.

The leaking that is going on is part of the CYA operation to divert attention from the pitiful response of the government to the problem. They have every religion on the planet in India, and every one seems to have a terrorist group aligned with it, and you add in the political and ethnic terrorists, you would think that India would be leading the world in having a response team, but apparently their commandos have to hitchhike to incidents.

This isn’t a nation, it’s a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta with bad music.

*sigh* I STILL say Rove is running India. LOL (And that is funny!)