#Gary Gentry

[asidesandbsides]

Starts With G, Part 1

Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell - All I Have to Do Is Dream / Less of Me

Great song, sounds a little scratchy from wear, but not too bad. Glen sounds louder than Bobbie, for whatever reason. She's more audible on "Less of Me," which is a Glen Campbell composition, which kind of makes sense, ha ha ha. Anyway, it's not as good as the A-Side, and not in much better shape sound-wise.

George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag / Pretty Little Dreamer

Funky dutchmen here! I don't know this song, but it sounds like a weekend in smoky Amsterdam in the best of times. I'd imagine. A little muddy sounding, but I think that's just how it was mixed. The B-Side has a little circus-sounding thing going on at the start and the bridge, and some nice-sounding drum fills, but is otherwise unremarkable.

Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll Part 1 /Rock and Roll Part 2

I'd say this is mainly of historical interest, except that "Part 2" is reasonably great, if you can put certain unsettling facts about Mr. Glitter aside. This is, however, a "broken record" in the cliche sense, which doesn't happen as often as you'd think, so it won't play through without skipping ahead a bit. "Part 1" is, unfortunately, pretty fucking dumb. There's a reason they never played that side in stadiums.

Bobby Goldsboro - The Straight Life / Tomorrow is Forgotten

"The Straight Life" is a nice little bit of flute-based escapism, sounding pretty clean but for a few pops here and there. I'm not in love with it, or the B-Side for that matter, but they're both pleasant enough. Just fairly standard 60s pop.

[waterloo-to-anywhere]

Waterloo To Anywhere - 'Is this song about Peter?' Masterpost

✅ Deadwood

✅ Doctors & Dealers

✅ Bang Bang You're Dead

✅ Blood Thirsty Bastards

❌ The Gentry Cove

✅ Gin & Milk

✅ The Enemy

✅ If You Love A Woman

❌ You Fucking Love It

❌ Wondering

❌ Last Of The Small Town Playboys

✅ B.U.R.M.A.

Notes:

verdicts are entirely arbitrary (actually i was being generous lmao)

yes im aware that all dpt songs are technically cowrites so these lines could also be written by stan/didz/gary. however it does feel like carl very much had the creative control over this album

don't take this too seriously, im fully aware that i sound like this most of the time:

(pls carl)

[racefortheironthrone]

I understand that knights normally followed a fairly set career path: start as a page, get taken on as a squire, and then if they merit it and have resources, knighthood. How did it work for other classes of soldier? How would one go about becoming say, a man at arms, or a specialist like a long bowman or a crossbowman or a pikeman for example?

Ah, excellent question!

One preliminary thing, you do have to be mindful of the distinction between actual training and social organization. Let's take your "career path" for knights, for example - at its heart, the whole page/squire thing was essentially a two-stage apprenticeship, but there was both a mix of actual martial training (I'll get into the curriculum in a bit) and what we would think of as socialization into the noble class - things like music, dancing, literacy, manners, and so forth aren't really directly related to the job of an armored heavy cavalryman, after all.

Importantly, when it comes to the distinction between various ranks, we have to keep in mind the importance of both material resources and sociocultural status. As you note, the difference between a squire and a knight was really about whether the squire could afford the full complement of arms, armor, and a horse, and there were more than a few grown men who were squires their whole lives (this is the inspiration for characters like Squire Dalbridge) because they just didn't have the money to advance to knighthood.

At the same time, the difference between a knight and a man-at-arms came down to social class - in order to be a man-at-arms, you had to have the same training as a knight and own the same equipment (arms, armor, and horse), which is why a lot of the written sources simply call all such men men-at-arms whether they were knights or not - although some sources took more pains to distinguish between the milites gregarii (the plain man-at-arms) and the milites nobiles (which, as you probably have guessed, refers to actual knights).

The former tended to be from the gentry rather than the nobility, and as a result of their lower status, they were usually paid half the wage rate of knights despite doing the same work and taking on the significant risk of providing their own equipment. (The fact that they were cheaper also explains why the proportion of actual knights on the campaign rolls dropped rather rapidly between the 13th and 14th centuries - knights were more expensive, so hiring men-at-arms instead meant you could stretch the budget for heavy cavalry.)

The Knightly Curriculum

As I suggested above, the training for knights was essentially an apprentice system where the page and then the squire provided service to their master in exchange for education. When it comes to the actual content of this training, the curriculum was actually pretty ecletic:

As you might expect, training in arms was an important part of the program. However, this training included a lot more than just swordsmanship. While the sword was very culturally important, when it came to the actual military function of a heavy cavalryman, the lance was arguably of greater importance. Training also tended to include other sidearms - axes, maces, and the like. In later periods, as armor got a lot better and mounted frontal charges tended to be de-emphasized in favor of having men-at-arms fight as dismounted heavy infantry, the curriculum expanded to include new weapons like the poleaxe and other polearms that Gary Gygax was obsessed with.

Training in horsesmanship was also a core part of the curriculum. GRRM is not wrong when he says that "jousting was three-quarters horesemanship," and this is why pages and squires were not only taught formal equestrian lessons, but were also taught how to hawk and hunt as part of their training. Hawking and hunting were the past-times of the nobility in no small part because they involved riding horses very fast through difficult terrain while simultaneously handling either a dangerous animal or weaponry, and were thus were considered good training for future cavalrymen. As Hillary Mantel puts it, "la chasse...we usually say, we gentlemen, that the chase prepares us for war."

Training in armor tends to get downplayed or overlooked, but it was considered so important that a major portion of what pages and squires did was deal with armor - carrying it, maintaining it (scrubbing with abrasives to prevent rust, oiling the straps to keep the leather straps supple, polishing - it was really endless labor), repairing it, putting it on their master and taking it off, and so on and so forth - so that they would understand every step of the process and be able to fend for themselves later on if they didn't have attendants of their own. The famous French knight, Jean "Boucicaut" le Maingre, was held up as an example to pages and squires for constantly wearing full armor while undertaking exercise:

What About the Man-at-Arms?

As you may have noticed, I've been mostly talking about how knights trained rather than men-at-arms. So how did your gentry-born homme d'armes train? Essentially the same as a knight, but with less of the aristocratic bells and whistles of ritualized service and socialization to the nobility. So a son of the gentry would probably be training under the tutelage of their father or other male relative - and given that we're talking about a society in which the overwhelming majority of people did the same jobs as their parents, often being legally bound to do so, this was a very common phenomenon all the way from peasants upwards - or perhaps from a professional tutor who would most likely be a veteran in working retirement.

Towards the later Middle Ages, as literacy rates increased and book production expanded to match supply to demand, your more traditional systems of apprenticeship and one-on-one tutoring became supplemented with written manuals of arms. While this genre of military literature goes all the way back to classical antiquity - and indeed, Roman manuals like De re militari were very popular in the Middle Ages, as were translations of Byzantine manuals - these lavishly illustrated manuscripts were both practical teaching tools and status objects for the families who owned them.

Specialists: Longbowmen, Crossbowmen, and Pikemen

Ok, enough about the upper classes, what about the commoners who served as specialist infantry in Medieval and Renaissance armies?

Well, I've already written a bit about longbow training, but the gist of it is that what started out as a (Welsh) hunting tool was recognized by the English royal government as a vital aspect of military readiness, so laws were promulgated that required essentially all but the poorest to own a longbow and that "that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows… and so learn and practise archery." This training started at a fairly early age and lasted at least a decade, because it involved both the acquisition of technique and the development of the body (not just the arms, but also crucially the back muscles, as the "special sauce" of the English longbowman was his ability to "lay my body in my bow" rather than relying solely on the arms) - such that archeologists can identify longbowmen from the over-development of the shoulder and arm bones.

What about crossbowmen? Well, as I've already written a bit about, one of the major advantages of the crossbow over the longbow is that you could train someone to be a crossbowman in as little as four months, compared to the decade at minimum for a longbowman, because most of what you were teaching them was accuracy in shooting (hence why the recruitment process often involved eye exams) and the procedures for loading and cocking the crossbow - which required a certain amount of physical strength to pull back the string to the nut that would hold it in place, or to work the winch or the lever or the gaffe or the windlass if you were using a heavier crossbow, but nothing like the physical conditioning required for a longbow.

One of the reasons why the term "Genoese" is so often associated with the crossbow is that the Republic of Genoa established a corps of crossbowmen to serve both in the army and as marines in the navy and these experienced soldiers in turn provided a ready supply of labor for mercenary companies. While the captains who recruited on behalf of the great companies might have to put in the up-front investment of equipment (the crossbow and its accessories, pavise shields, armor,and sidearms), they were able to essentially outsource the training costs to the Republic.

When it comes to training, pikemen were somewhere in the middle between the longbowman and the crossbowman. Because pikemen have to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with lots of other pikemen without stabbing one another accidentally or getting their polearms tangled up, coordinating movement and action was vitally important. Hence, pikemen learned a series of quite complicated drills to teach them how to move in formation in different directions, how to change formations from line to square and back, how to switch from pike to sidearm and back, how to work with missile infantry, and so forth.

As I've talked about before, a big part of the reason why Swiss pikemen were so feared on the battlefield is that, because they were very well-drilled and disciplined due to the policies of universal military service adopted by the Swiss cantons, they could execute these drills very quickly, which meant that the Swiss pikemen could turn on a dime from an impenetrable defensive pike square to a shockingly fast and aggressive deep column which beat the ever-loving shit out of the Burgundians, the Hapsburgs, the Italians, the French, and pretty much everyone - until the Swiss ran up against a nasty combination of the German Landsknecht and the Spanish tercio.

[brokehorrorfan]

RoboCop 2 will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sci-fi action sequel was the final film directed by Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back).

Comic book legend Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City) and Walon Green (Eraser) wrote the script. Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.

RoboCop 2 has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary with author/CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon

Audio commentary with RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians Gary Smart, Chris Griffiths, and Eastwood Allen

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary with author/CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon

Audio commentary with RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians Gary Smart, Chris Griffiths, and Eastwood Allen

Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2 – Interviews with director Irvin Kershner, producer Jon Davidson, actors Tom Noonan, Nancy Allen, Galyn Görg, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin, and author/CG supervision Paul M. Sammon

Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2 – Interviews with Phil Tippett, Peter Kuran, Craig Hayes, Jim Aupperle, Kirk Thatcher, Paul Gentry, Don Waller, Justin Kohn, Randal Dutra, and Kevin Kutchaver

Interview with RoboCop armor fabricator James Belohovek

Interview with comic book writer Steven Grant

OCP Declassified – Archival production and behind-the-scenes videos including interviews with director Irvin Kershner and actors Peter Weller and Dan O’Herlihy, and a look at the filming of some deleted scene

Theatrical trailer

Teaser trailers

TV spots

Still Galleries – deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes photos, stills, posters and lobby cards

When Detroit's descent into chaos is further compounded by a police department strike and a new designer drug called "Nuke," only RoboCop (Peter Weller) can stop the mayhem. But in his way are a sinister corporation and a bigger and tougher cyborg with a deadly directive: take RoboCop off the streets … permanently.

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[all-thestories-aretrue]

Ok but the way i was STRESSING during that fight with the acamoth. I was sitting on the floor building furniture and just started sweating. I wasn't even doing anything strenuous. Just putting screws in.

You would not believe how many times I said fuck when Astrada showed up. I was fully prepared to say goodbye to him. Nothing good ever lasts etc etc.

Dan and all the silver bullets omg. I was waiting for those to come back around but fully thought it would be cult related.

Lola getting shot in the gut repeatedly 😭😭😭 and her panic at the end about Dan. I just want to hug her. And also tell her that not everything is her responsibility. I'm also lowkey terrified of the other shoe dropping with her and the gentry and Mother. Like one episode left. Shit's going to hit the fan and she's going back to the hedge. Lola!!!!!!

John nearly drowning again 😬😬😬 that cannot have been fun for him. AND THE WAY HE JUST KEPT TAKING MORE DAMAGE. I am shit at the health levels but he had to be getting like really really close to death. He took so much damage 😭😭 AND SOME OF IT WAS SELF INFLICTED. But also omg his magic is so cool 😍😍. Also John just being like Aviva thinks she's so much better than everyone else as the meanest thing he could think 😭. He's right Aviva is so much better than many people but i am biased. And like I may be reading too much into it but I lowkey think it kinda revealed his own insecurity about her.

It was when Aviva went "unconscious" that I truly started losing it a bit. That's when I started getting really nervous. SHE WAS ALONE IN THE TWILIGHT WITH THE ACAMOTH. It was horrible. But I also love that she got to kick its ass with John by her side. So fucking fitting and satisfying. 10/10. I also just really really love her anger and rage. And the image of both of them sitting there hugging all bloody is v nice.

Horribly saddened by everyone else who died tho. Gary!!!! And Amber!!! Ugh. So much needless death. They didn't deserve that. Poor Gary and Amber.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.27

Beer Birthdays

Fred J. Stegmaier (1861)

John Mallett (1964)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Johann Bernoulli; Swiss mathematician (1667)

Gary Gygax; game designer (1938)

Maureen McGovern; singer (1949)

Yahoo Serious; Australian comedian (1953)

Keenan Wynn; actor (1916)

Famous Birthdays

Hilaire Belloc; French writer (1870)

Maury Chaykin; actor (1949)

Maria Grazia Cucinotta; actor (1968)

Christopher Dean; English figure skater (1958)

Geoffrey de Havilland; British aircraft designer (1882)

Erno Dohnanyi; Hungarian composer, conductor (1877)

Leo Durocher; baseball manager (1905)

Bill Engvall; comedian (1957)

Peggy Fleming; ice skater (1948)

Bobbie Gentry; country singer (1944)

Roxanne Hart; actor (1952)

Juliana Hatfield; pop singer (1967)

Thomas Herbst; German artist (1848)

Simon Jones; English actor (1950)

Norman Lear; television producer (1922)

Carol Leifer; comedian (1956)

Alex Rodriguez; New York Yankees 3B/SS (1975)

Maya Rudolph; actor (1972)

Allan Simmons; scrabble player, writer (1957)

Betty Thomas; actor (1948)

Joe Tinker; Chicago Cubs SS (1880)

Jerry Van Dyke; actor (1931)

Pete Yorn; pop singer, songwriter (1974)

[slashingdisneypasta]

"Ooh, I shiver with fear!"

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but nothing will ever kill me.”

"He's as clumsy as he is stupid."

"Life's full of tough choices, isnt it?"

"Royalty, nobility, the gentry, and... how quaint. Even the rabble."

"Hiya, Georgie!"

"The only reason you're still alive is that I find your stupidity... mildly amusing."

"Now I call on my Army of the Dead; the Cauldron-born! Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!"

"For no mere mortal can resist The evil of the thriller~ "

"I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog, too!"

Pleaseeee, let me know if theirs someone else you would prefer to pick!! ^^There are so many many choices

[altruistic-meme]

wake up babes another “Abram was listening to country music again” list just dropped

today’s country recs are inspired by the whole “guys singing country only sing about drinking and women and girls singing country only sing about killing their husbands” thing, but in a reversed sort of way. so i bring you our two categories of songs:

guys singing about divorces / break-ups - “you don’t love me as much as you used to, so i’m going to find someone who does” (Lover, Lover by Jerrod Niemann) [bonus: it’s the only one here about the guy leaving the girl] - “oh she’s left me for GOOD hasn’t she” (Gone by Montgomery Gentry) - “she left me :( i’m so sad” (Watching Airplanes by Gary Allan) - “she stormed out and left EVERYTHING and i’m HEARTBROKEN and SAD”  (Give It Away by George Strait)

girls singing about fucking partying - “i’m going to get FUCKED tonight ;)” (Here for the Party by Gretchen Wilson) - “went to the bar and got so fucking drunk guys don’t get this drunk” (All Jacked Up by Gretchen Wilson) - “i got black-out drunk and got married vegas-style, oh fuck” (Last Name by Carrie Underwood)

[sporadiceagleheart]

Manny Charlton July 25th 1941- July 5th 2022 Tribute, George Michael, Dan McCafferty, Darrel Sweet, John Locke, Tim Bogert, Avicii, David Bowie, Louis Armstrong, Luther Vandross, Alan White, Rev. Benjamin Cone Jr., Troy Ramey, John Denver, Michael Jackson, Fred White, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, Red Sovine, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny Horton, James Brown, Barry White, Jimmy Dean, Prince, Ray Charles, Terry Kath, Elvis Presley, Mark St. John, Walt Woodward III, Richie Teeter, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Selena Quintanilla, Percy Sledge, Glenn Frey, Tina Turner, Randy Meisner, Bishop Rance Allen, Whitney Houston, Harvey Watkins, Sr., Willie Neal Johnson, Paul Beasley, Lee Williams, Willie Banks, Franklin Delano Williams, Amy Winehouse, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, John Lennon, George Harrison, Troy Gentry, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, Tom Brumley, Shawn Jones, Sib Hashian, Sam Cooke, Johnnie Taylor, Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Joe Ligon, Teddy Pendergrass, Keith "Wonderboy" Johnson, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, pardon the bad word but it's the song of Nazareth as this edit was a tribute to Manny Charlton and I forgot to add Toby Keith but I'll mention his name rest in peace to Toby Keith and all those singers and musicians

[kd8bxp]

Liked on YouTube: Mel Blanc Associates Presents Superfun

Mel Blanc Associates Presents Superfun SUPERFUN The Radio Comedy Service SUPERFUN, What It Is A comedy void has existed on radio since Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and the other comedy shows left the air. Comedy albums, the only produced humor available to today's radio, have never become a major factor in programming because too few of them are suitable for airing, due to the nature and length of the sketches. As important, no one station in a market has their exclusive usage and the one or two really funny albums released each year become overexposed. SUPERFUIN fills this existing void. It is the most ambitious radio comedy project ever undertaken. Each subscribing station becomes, at once, the prime source of humor in its market...whether the market is Los Angeles, California or East Liverpool, Ohio. One reason for this is SUPERFUN'S scope; the initial service alone fills nine twelve-inch discs. Equally important, by virtue of its unique design and execution, SUPERFUN belongs to you alone in your market, not to us. The writers, producers and performers are to your listeners, anonymous. Creative Supervision... Mel Blanc Produced & Directed by Noel Blanc Head Writer... Richard Clorfene Exec. Producer... Harry O'Connor PERFORMERS: Mel Blanc, Len Weinrib, Byron Kane, Joan Gerber, Arte Johnson, Howard Morris, Joe Sirola, Gary Owens, Lee Zimmer, Rudy Hoffman, Jesse White, Dave Ketchum, Henry Corden, Hazel Shermut, Ed Prentiss, Pat Carroll, Naomi Lewis, Leo De Lyon, Sid Melton, John Stephenson, Diane Hale. WRITING STAFF: John Rappaport, David Pollack, Elias Davis, Red Baker, Bob Ridolfi, Bob Arbogast, Jack Margolis, Judy Corrigan, Robert Biheller, Bill Schwartz. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Vance Colvig, John Gentri, Robert Einstein, Nick Bennion, Frank Barron, Albert Einstein, Bill Lutz, Robert Kurtz, Steve Clark, Paul Pumpian, Mal Sharpe, Bob Goodwin, Jim Ashton, Jonathan Socher. SOUND EFFECTS: Eugene Twombly AUDIO ENGINEERS: Paul Ryan and Mike Cerone COVER DESIGN: Nick Bennion via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMnKuZWraNI

[uneasylisteningradio]

Opposites October 15, 2022

stream on mixcloud

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Mutants - Opposite World

DJ speaks over The Yellow Balloon - Noollab Wolley

Plasmatics - Butcher Baby The Go-Go's - Yes or No Leslie Uggams - River Deep Mountain High

DJ speaks over Focus - Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!

The Raincoats - In Love Mission of Burma - OK/No Way Smokey Robinson - And I Don't Love You The Evolution Control Committee - Nearly No Time for Yes The Evolution Control Committee - No Time for Yes Leonard Cohen - There Is a War The Chills - Effloresce and Deliquesce

DJ speaks over Gary Tesca Orchestra - River Deep, Mountain High

Shrink - Valid or Void Mischief Brew - Roll Me Through the Gates of Hell (Acoustic Version) Bobbie Gentry - There Is a Mountain (with Donovan) Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Stop / Go / Stop

DJ speaks over Charles Lloyd - Forest Flower : Sunrise/Sunset

Twinart - Hands On Hands Off Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue XTC - Your Dictionary Television Personalities - I've Been Down so Long (It Looks Like up to Me) Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Echo & The Bunnymen - Angels and Devils Chris and the Alphabeats - The Opposite Song Mo-Dettes - Masochistic Opposite

Chandra - Opposite NJF - Happy/Sad Lothar and the Hand People - Yes I Love You Chabuca Granda - Cardo o Ceniza

The Monkees - Shades of Gray

[coolthingsguyslike]

[malone-or-mag]

An absolute masterpiece, close to my ❤️

[musicandmotors]

Ray Charles & George Jones – “We Didn’t See a Thing” Song written by Gary Gentry

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.23

4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat Brutus's army. Brutus commits suicide. 425 – Valentinian III is elevated as Roman emperor at the age of six. 502 – The Synodus Palmaris, called by Gothic king Theoderic, absolves Pope Symmachus of all charges, thus ending the schism of Antipope Laurentius. 1086 – Spanish Reconquista: At the Battle of Sagrajas, the Almoravids defeats the Castilians, but are unable to take advantage of their victory. 1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the Danish Civil War. 1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris. 1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions. 1642 – The Battle of Edgehill is the first major battle of the English Civil War. 1707 – The First Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain convenes. 1812 –General Claude François de Malet begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon, claiming that the Emperor died in the Russian campaign. 1850 – The first National Women's Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts. 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Westport is the last significant engagement west of the Mississippi River. 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe. 1911 – The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. 1927 – The Imatra Cinema was destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people died in the fire and almost 30 were injured. 1940 – Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco meet at Hendaye to discuss the possibility of Spain entering the Second World War. 1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany prohibits Jews from emigrating, including in its occupied territories. 1942 – World War II: Allied forces commence the Second Battle of El Alamein, which proves to be the key turning point in the North African campaign. 1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard American Airlines Flight 28 are killed when it collides with a U.S. Army Air Force bomber near Palm Springs, California. 1942 – World War II: The Battle for Henderson Field begins on Guadalcanal. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf begins. 1955 – Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam. 1955 – The people of the Saar region vote in a referendum to unite with West Germany instead of France. 1956 – Secret police shoot several anti-communist protesters, igniting the Hungarian Revolution. 1958 – Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued. 1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me. 1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas. 1972 – Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months. 1982 – A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. 1983 – Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. 1989 – The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic. 1989 – Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then. 1989 – An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314. 1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. 1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. 1995 – Yolanda Saldívar is found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of popular Latin singer Selena. 1998 – Israel and the Palestinian Authority sign the Wye River Memorandum. 2001 – Apple Computer releases the iPod. 2002 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatist terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage. 2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. 2007 – A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform. 2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands. 2011 – The Libyan National Transitional Council deems the Libyan Civil War over. 2015 – The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages.

[aquariumdrunkard]

The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Intro ++ Kevin Ayers – Puis Je? ++ The Kinks – There’s A New World Just Opening For Me (demo) ++ Bernard Chabert – Il Paet En Californie ++ The Beach Boys – Lookin’ At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) ++ Emitt Rhodes – Long Time No See ++ The Millennium – I Just Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye ++ Sandhy & Mandhy – Vuelve A Ser El De Antes ++ Margo Guryan – Sunday Morning ++ Panta Rhei – Nachts ++ Curt Boettcher – Lament of the Astral Cowboy ++ Miriam Makeba – Love Tastes Like Strawberries ++ Jan & Lorraine – Number 33 ++ Sibylle Baier – Wim ++ Susan Christie – Paint A Lady ++ Jacques Dutronc – Les Métamophoses ++ Tony, Caro & John – Eclipse of the Moon ++ Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) ++ Pugh Rogefeldt – Små Lätta Moln ++ Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra – Sand ++ Linda Perhacs – Paper Mountain Man ++ Bobbie Gentry – Seasons Come, Seasons Go ++ Vashti Bunyan – Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind ++ Erin Rae – Duchess (Aquarium Drunkard Session) ++ Kathy Heideman – Sleep A Million Years ++ Kathy Heideman – The Earth Won’t Hold Me ++ Nico – I’ll Keep It With Mine ++ Alexander ’Skip’ Spence – All Come To Meet Her ++ MC5 – Let Me Try ++ Slapp Happy – The Drum ++ Sylvie – Sylvie ++ John Cale – You Know More Than I Know ++ Mark Fry – Song For Wilde ++  Gary Higgens – Thicker Than A Smokey ++ Sonic Youth – Empty Page > Disconnection Notice > Rain On Tin (Acoustic Session)