#david spradley

[c-40]

A-T-3 229 Tom Browne - Brighter Tomorrow

Tom Browne was one of the Jamaica Kats discovered by Donald Blackman in Jamaica, Queens in the US. His track Funkin' For Jamaica was the Jamaica Kats and Kittens posse cut. Here's an excellent piece on the Jamaica Kats published in Wax Poetics https://www.waxpoetics.com/article/funkin-for-jamaica-tom-browne/

Brighter Tomorrow is from the post-Herbie-Hancock-releasing-Rock-It album Rockin' Radio. Michael Jonzun (Jonzun Crew, Pac Jam) and his brother Maurice Starr (who together were producing New Edition at the time) were brought in to write and produce the album's title track and single. Ted Currier who died last week and David Spradley (Atomic Dog, Ray-Gun-Omics) wrote and produced the album's other single Crusin' as well as the album track Turn It Up (Come On Y'all) Jay Burnett is engineering. Brighter Tomorrow was written by keyboardist Clifford Branch Jr and produced by Arista GRP founders Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen, actress and singer Carol Woods sings lead, and it's the best reason for buying Rockin' Radio

[rainingmusic]

Sly Fox -    Let's Go All The Way 

[heartodaygrowntomorrow]

1,693.) Thurs Jul. 22, 2021

Happy 80th Birthday #GeorgeClinton ! The Song of the Day is: George Clinton - “Atomic Dog”(1982) #SongoftheDay #music #parenting #happybirthdayGeorgeClinton #funk #PFunk #Parliament #atomicdog #journal #HearTodayGrownTomorrow Support the Blog - Click Below

Happy 80th Birthday George Clinton! The Song of the Day is: George Clinton – “Atomic Dog” From the album Computer Games (1982) Do the dogcatcher, baby, do the dogcatcherOohWhy must I feel like thatWhy must I chase the catNothin’ but the dog in meWhy must I feel like thatWhy must I chase the catNothin’ but the dog in meBow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeahBow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeahGeorge…

[spy-in-the-house]

SpyInTheHouse 674.fm ElectroFilesSpecial_04252019

... detailed insights later! 

TRACK LISTING

01 THE DISCO 3 [FAT BOYS/ DAMON WIMBLEY, DARREN ROBINSON, MARK MORALES]: Reality _ Beat Version [ A-side from Sutra Records SUD-018 US 12" | 1983 ] 02 FAB 5 FREDDY [FRED BRATHWAIT]: Change The Beat (French And English Rap) [ A-side from "Fab 5 Freddy/ Beside ‎– Change The Beat" Celluloid CEL-156 US 12" | 1982 ] 03 D.ST. [DEREK SHOWARD]: The Home Of Hip Hop [ A-side from "Home Of Hip Hop" Celluloid CEL-185 US 12" | 1985 ]  04 THE RAKE [JA]: Street Justice [ A-side from "Street Justice" Profile Records PRO-7024 US 12" | 1983 ] 05 LOVEBUG STARSKI [KEVIN W.SMITH]: Say What You Wanna Say [ B2-track from "House Rocker" Epic BFE-40255 US LP/Album | 1986 ] 06 BOBBY DEMO [BOB BOYER & DEMO CATES]: More Ounce (Rap) [ A-side from Amherst Records AMHD-6 US 12" | 1981 ] 07 WORLD's FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM [SE'DIVINE PRICE & R.LARKINS]: Hey! D.J. _ Extended Version [ A-side from "Hey! D.J." Charisma TEAM-1-12 UK 12" | 1984 ] 08 TYRONE BRUNSON: The Smurf [ A-side from "The Smurf" Believe In A Dream 4Z9-03166 US 12" | 1982 ] 09 REGGIE GRIFFIN & TECHNOFUNK: Mirda Rock _ Vocal [ A-side from "Mirda Rock" Sweet Mountain Records SM-604 US 12" | 1982 ] 10 WARP 9 [ADA DYER, CAROLYN HARDING, CHUCK WANSLEY, KATHRINE JOYCE, LOTTI GOLDEN, MILTON BROWN, RICHARD SCHER]: NUNK (New Wave Funk) _ Extended Mix [ A-side from "Nunk" Prism PDS-450 US 12" | 1982 ] 11 JOHN DAVIS & TOO MUCH: Destination Earth [ A1-title-track from Metrovynil-841294 US LP/Album | 1984 ] 12 SEXUAL HARRASSMENT [LYNN TOLLIVER JR./ aka DAVID PAYTON]: I Need A Freak _ Long Version [ A-side from Montage Records MS-605 US 12" | 1983 ] 13 STRAFE [STRAFFE/ STEVE STANDARD]: Set It Off _ Vocal [ A-side from Jus Born Records JB-001 US 12" | 1984 ] 14 STRAFE: Comin' From Another Place _ Deluxe Version [ A1-track from A&M Records SP-12152 US 12" | 1985 ] 15 MAN PARRISH [MANUEL JOSEPH PARRISH]: Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) _ Special Disconet R.E.M.I.X(es) [ B-side from Importe/12 MP-321 US 12" + A-side from Rams Horn Records RAMSH-12-3176 NL 12" | 1982/83 ] 16 DIVINE SOUNDS [MICHAEL DOWLING, RICHARD DOWLING, SHELTON McCOY]: What People Do For Money [ A-side from "What People Do For Money" Specific Records SR-243 US 12" | 1984 ] 17 PAUL HARDCASTLE: 19 _ Destruction Mix [ A-side from "19 (Destruction Mix)" Chrysalis CHS-22 2860 UK 12" | 1985 ] 18 TIME ZONE [AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, AMAD HENDERSON, B-SIDE, MOTIVATOR, RUSTY EGAN]: The Wildstyle [ A-side from "The Wildstyle" Celluloid ‎– CEL 165 US 12" | 1983 ] 19 FREESTYLE [GARFIELD BAKER & BYRON SMITH]: Automation _ Dub Mix [ B-side from "It's Automatic" Music Specialists ‎MSI-114 US 12" | 1986 ] 20 K-9 CORPS feat. PRETTY C: Dog Talk [ A-side from "K-9 Corp / George Clinton ‎– Dog Talk / Man's Best Friend" Capitol Records 8562 US 12" | 1983 ] 21 CAPTAIN RAPP [LARRY EARL GLENN]: Bad Times, I Can't Stand It _ Part 1 [ A-side from "Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)" Saturn Records SAT-2003 US 12" | 1983 ] 22 PROJECT FUTURE [RAHNI P.HARRIS & DAVID SPRADLEY]: Ray-Gun-Omics [ A-side from "Ray-Gun-Omics/Arcade Lover" Capitol Records 8555 US 12" | 1983 ] 23 PAC-MAN [FREDDY PACKMAN]: I'm A Pacman [ A-side from "I'm A Pac Man / Play It Again Sam" ZYX Records - 5071 GER 12" | 1983 ] 24 XēNA [LISA FISHER]: On The Upside [ A-side from Emergency Records ‎EMDS-6541 US Promo-12" | 1983 ] 25 I.M.S. [INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM/ REBECCA McLAIN, GEORGE STEFANI, PAUL LIMOLI]: Nonline [ A1-track from "Nonline" Emergency Records ‎EMDS-6539 US Promo-12" | 1983 ] 26 WHODINI [DREW CARTER, JALIL HUTCHINS, JOHN FLETCHER]: The Haunted House Of Rock [ A1-track from "T.H.O.R." Jive VJ-12015 US 12" | 1983 ]  27 THE UNKNOWN D.J. [ANDRÉ PIERRE MANUEL]: Basstronic [ A1-track from "Basstronic" Techno Kut Records TK-1207 / Macola Records US Promo-12" | 1988 ] 28 TWILIGHT 22 [GORDON BAHARY & JOSEPH SAULTER]: Electric Kingdom _ Vocal Version [ A1-track from "Electric Kingdom" Vanguard ‎SPV-68 US 12" | 1983 ]  29 E.ST.JAMES: What's Done In The Darkness (Always Comes To Light) _ Dance Party Mix [ B-side from Razmtaz RAZ-5503 US 12" | 1987 ] 30 KEN LEWIS: Cosmic Cars [ A-side from "Ken Lewis/ D. K. Gang ‎– Cosmic Cars/ Cosmic Dub" Scorpio DK-82-03 CAN 12" | 1982 ] 31 CYBOTRON [RICHARD DAVIS/ 3070 & JUAN ATKINS]: Clear [ A-side from "Clear / Industrial Lies" Fantasy D-216 US 12" | 1983 ] 32 PAUL HARDCASTLE: Rain Forest [ A-side from "Rain Forest / Sound Chaser" Bluebird BRT-8 UK 12" | 1984 ] 33 NATASHA KING [NATASCIA MAIMONE]: AM-FM _ Instrumental [ B-side from "AM-FM" Emergency Records ‎EMDS-6536 US Promo-12" | 1983 ] 34 WHODINI: Magic's Wand _ Special Extended Mix [ B-side from "Magic's Wand" Jive VJ-12008 US Promo-12" | 1982 ] 35 DAVID ST.GEORGE: I'm Rappin _ Vocal [ B1-track from "Love Stimulation / I'm Rappin" Malaco Records MAL-1217 US 12" | 1985 ]  36 JAZZY JEFF [THE SOURCE/ JEFFREY MIREE]: King Heroin (Don't Mess With Heroin) _ Fix Mix [ A2-track from Jive JD-1-9330 US 12" | 1985 ] //...

[darylelockhart]

Adventures in Crate digging: George Clinton and Thomas Dolby

My crate digging takes me on strange adventures. This is one of them.

George Clinton X Thomas Dolby - Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends (1985)

This is the title track from Clinton’s 1985 album. An obscure collabo from an often overlooked set of sessions. Clinton and Dolby were labelmates (Capitol) at this point, and both were super popular. Dolby also released a collaboration track with Ryuichi Sakamoto (”Field Work”) in 1985, which also speaks to  Dolby’s ability to adapt his style to fit any session. The song was actually written by George, Doug Wimbish, and Bernard Alexander, but Dolby on the session really pulls it together. He even broke out the Fairlight CMI for this one!

When I started working at Capitol, we had the ability to order CDs for ourselves. This was the second album I ordered. Why I had to have two copies of this on CD I’m not sure. But I do.

When I say that this album is overlooked, it’s not that critics weren’t feeling it. Everyone loved it. What I mean is, how are we not talking  about an album with credits like these:

Guitars: DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight, Michael Hampton, Andre Foxxe, Tony Hooks, Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, Bernard Alexander, Steve Washington, Stew Simon

Real bass: Rodney Curtis, Doug Wimbish, Steve Washington

Electric bass chips: Bootsy Collins, Doug Wimbish, David Spradley, Steve Washington

Keyboards: Thomas Dolby, Junie Morrison, Bootsy Collins, Tracey Lewis, Doug Wimbush, Eric White, Steve Washington, David Spradley

Fairlight and assorted keyboard chips: Thomas Dolby

Real drums as in traps: Dennis Chambers, Bootsy Collins

Electric drum chips: Bootsy Collins, Tracey Lewis, Bernard Alexander, David Spradley

Sequential circuits and linn drums: Steve Washington

Percussion: Muruga Booker, Bootsy Collins, Larry Fratangelo

Strings: Bob Basso, David Everheart, Manny Capote, Lorraine Basso, Bogden Chrusey, Gary Wedder, Stu McDonald

Horns: Maceo Parker, Greg Boyer, Greg Thomas, Benny Cowan, Eric White, Ken Faulk, Ed Calle

I’m saying that this is a session where Doug Wimbish, Thomas Dolby, Dennis Chambers, Maceo Parker and Bootsy Collins were in the same room. Or at least, on the same reel. This is like Robert Glasper and Fishbone doing an album and - oh yeah, the last track has Thundercat on it. 

There are magical moments in music where weird people come together with no other purpose than to see what happens. This was one of those moments!

[gwanth1002]

Anthropology 1002 Syllabus

Anth 1002.11 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

Spring 2017: Hybrid Version

Professor Barbara Miller, barbaramillergw@gmail.com

Office hours: Friday 11:30am-1pm (please email in advance to confirm)

Email and phone availability (cell 202-420-1002, for emergency)

 Hybrid course mission:

A so-called hybrid course involves less time in a traditional classroom setting and requires more independent, self-monitored work by the student outside of class. In this case, class time will not be devoted to lectures or watching full-length documentary films. Instead, class time will be used for structured discussion of readings, film viewings, and independent research projects. Given the altered course delivery, evaluations of student achievement will not be based on the traditional testing model. In all, the class will consider students to constitute a community of scholars, working toward the common goal of learning a lot about sociocultural anthropology and how it connects to our everyday lives through reading, viewing, sharing, and independent observational research and analysis.

Given GW guidelines about expected class time per week:

► Students will spend 90 minutes a week in class (attendance is required; please see below for details).

► Students are expected to devote at least six hours a week, on average, outside of class to this course.

 Expectations – students will:

Do the assigned reading, watch the assigned films, and be prepared to discuss them in class and participate in Blackboard discussions about them

Conduct and present 6 of the “Anthropology in Everyday Life” Research Exercises; review classmates’ presentations on Tumblr, and be prepared to comment on them in class.

Take a turn being a class note-taker for one-half of a class session (45 minutes); thus each student will have an opportunity. There will be a list/sign-up sheet; if something goes wrong and you cannot take notes at your assigned time, it is your responsibility to swap a time with another student (social capital at work). Class notes will be posted on a thread on Discussion Board on a weekly basis so that we build an archive.

Participate in class discussion in person and on Discussion Board (ONE thoughtful post each week, either a novel post or a post in response to another student’s post; posts should be about 100 words on average, thoughtful, well-crafted, and perhaps drawing on other class readings/learning); individual introductions at the beginning of class do not count).

  Learning objectives:

► Awareness of concepts and theories in sociocultural anthropology and awareness of world ethnographic variation

► Understanding of ethical responsibilities and challenges in fieldwork; learn of the value and limitation of purely optical research

► Facility with critical thinking in assessing anthropology’s approaches and findings

► Practicing close observation, note-taking, and reflexivity

► Writing short reports and visual presentation on Tumblr

► Preparing and presenting short oral reports on research (6 in all) including required overview during the last class

► Appreciation of value of peer learning through “Community of Scholars” approach

 Grading:

As of the first class, everyone starts with an “A” grade. I will be your coach, guiding you to achieving learning objectives. There are no exams.

Draft rubric:

 Task

 Midpoint

 End of Course

 Misc.

 % of Grade

Attendance

      20

Discussion Board

      30

Tumblr

      50

                                        TOTAL

      100 percent

 Required Books (on sale in the GW bookstore; 2-hour reserve in Gelman Library):

Barbara D. Miller, Cultural Anthropology (2017, 8th edition). ISBN 978-0-13-44190-7 [My Anthro Lab not required].

James Spradley and David W. McCurdy, eds., Conformity and Conflict (2016, 15th edition); referred to below as C&C.  ISBN 13-978-0-205-98079-5 [selected chapters].

Elizabeth Thomas, The Old Way: A Story of the First People (2006, any edition].

Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (2013).

Jon D. Holtzman, Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (2000, any edition).

 GW support for students:

► Instructional Technology Help Desk open every day 24 hours:  Tel. 202-994-4948; ithelp@gwu.edu

►Disability Support Services (DSS): Marvin Center 242, telephone 994-8250; http://gwired.gwu.edu/dss

►Mental Health Services, counsellors available all day, every day at 202-994-5300; https://counselingcenter.gwu.edu/

 In case of an emergency:

Our class meets in the seminar room, 2nd floor, of 2110 G Street, the main anthropology department building. It is a historic row house and has no elevator. In case of an emergency, we will follow general GW instructions about evacuating the building, as needed, or “sheltering in place.”

 Week- by-Week

Week 1. January 27.  Introductions and orientation

Introductions around the room (also posted on Blackboard in more detail)

Discussion of creating a Tumblr site for the class research presentations: need to decide on its name and draft a mini-description [Nicole volunteered to set it up]

 Week 2. February 3. What are goals and scope of anthropology and how to the four fields contribute to a broad and deep view of humanity?  

Class discussion: Review of student comments to topics on Discussion Board Week 2

Readings for Week 2 discussion:

Miller Chapters 1 & 2

C&C Chapter 31 "Body Ritual among the Nacirema”

Start reading Thomas

Viewing for Week 2: two films: Nanook of the North (YouTube) and The Fast Runner    

Discussion Board

Exercise 1 due by midnight Sunday, Feb 5 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts (listed at the end of the chapter) from Chapters 1-2; take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post the text and photos on Tumblr as part of your growing research archive.

 Week 3. February 10.  Research methods: truth, objectivity, intersubjectivity; and Economic systems: working, eating, sharing, exclusion

Class presentation by each student about their posts for Exercise 1 and comments on classmates’ post.

Readings for Week 3 discussion:

Miller Chapter 3, 4 & 5

C&C Chapter 3 "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS"

C&C Chapter 4 "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas"

C&C Chapter 13 "Poverty at Work: Office Employment and the Crack Alternative"

C&C Chapter 14 "Women in the Mine"

C&C Chapter 2 "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari"

Continue reading Thomas

Discussion Board

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Exercise 2 due by midnight Sunday February 12 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapters 3-5 including a related photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept, and post on Tumblr

 Week 4. February 17: Reproduction, the life cycle, and well-being

Class discussion of one’s own posts for Exercise 2 and comments on classmates’ posts

Readings for Week 4 discussion: Miller Chapter 6 & 7

C&C Chapter 16 “Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping”

C&C Chapter 37 "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi"

C&C Chapter 38 "Public Interest Ethnography: Women's Prisons and Health Care in California"

Finish reading Thomas

Viewing: Maasai Women (e-reserves streaming video)

Discussion Board: Questions will focus on The Old Way

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Exercise 3 due by midnight Sunday February 19 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 6 or Chapter 7 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to each of them, write 100-150 words about each concept, and post on Tumblr

 Week 5. February 24: People related  

Presentation and class discussion of posts for Exercise 3

Readings for Week 5 discussion: Miller Chapter 8

C&C Chapter 18 "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife,"

C&C Chapter 19, “Marriage and Adulthood in West Africa”

Start reading Holmes

Viewing: Dadi’s Family (e-reserves streaming video)

Discussion Board: Questions will cover Weeks 4 and 5 textbook topics and C&C readings

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Exercise 4 due by midnight Sunday February 26 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 8 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concept, write 100-150 words about each concept, and post on Tumblr

 Week 6. March 3 Groups

Presentation and class discussion of Exercise 4

Readings for Week 6 discussion: Miller Chapter 9

C&C Chapter 22 "Mixed Blood"

Finish reading Holmes

No viewing

Discussion Board

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Exercise 5 due by midnight Sunday March 5 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 9 and take a photo for each from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

 Week 7. March 10 Power and politics

Presentation and class discussion of Exercise 5

Readings for Week 7 discussion: Miller Chapter 10

C&C Chapter 24 "Cross-Cultural Law: The Case of the Gypsy Offender"

C&C Chapter 6 “Manipulating Meaning: The Military Name Game”

Viewing: Kawelka—Ongka’s Big Moka (e-reserves streaming video)

Exercise 6 due by midnight Sunday March 12 on Tumblr: choose a Key Concept from Chapter 10 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concept, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

Discussion Board: Questions will focus on Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Mid-point assessment: The professor will review and comment on the students’ two files (Discussion Board posts and Tumblr photos/posts, provided on Blackboard/Assignment no later than midnight March 10; post as much as you have done by the deadline).

 Week 8 SPRING BREAK

 Week 9.  March 24 Communication

Class discussion of one’s own post for Exercise 6 and comments on classmates’ post

Readings for week 9 discussion: Miller Chapter 11

C&C Chapter 7 "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job"

Start reading Holtzman

Exercise 7 due by midnight Sunday March 19 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 11 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

Discussion Board: Questions will cover week & and week 9

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

 Week 10 March 31 Religion and beliefs

Class discussion of one’s own post for Exercise 7 and comments on classmates’ post

Readings for week 10 discussion: Miller Chapter 12

C&C Chapter 29 "Baseball Magic"

C&C Chapter 30 "Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage"

Continue reading Holtzman

Exercise 8 due by midnight Sunday March 26 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 12 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

 Week 11. April 7 Expressive culture

Class discussion of one’s own post for Exercise 8 and comments on classmates’ post

Readings for week 11 discussion: Miller Chapter 13

C&C Chapter 32 "How Sushi Went Global

C&C Chapter 33 "Village Walks: Tourism and Globalization among the Tharu of Nepal"

Finish reading Holtzman

No viewing

Exercise 9 due by midnight Sunday April 2 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 13 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

Discussion Board

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

 Week 12. April 14 People on the move

Class discussion of one’s own post for Exercise 9 and comments on classmates’ post

Readings for week 12 discussion:  Miller Chapter 14

Viewing “First Contact” (e-reserves on Blackboard)

Exercise 10 due by midnight Sunday April 9 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 14 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

Discussion Board

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

 Week 13 April 21 People (re)defining development

Class discussion of one’s own post for Exercise 10 and comments on classmates’ post

Readings for week 13 discussion: Miller Chapter 15

C&C Chapter 11 "Forest Development the Indian Way"

C&C Chapter 36 "Advice for Developers: Peace Corps Problems in Botswana"

C&C Chapter 39 "Using Anthropology"

Viewing: Kayapo: Out of the Rainforest (e-reserves on Blackboard)

Discussion Board: final posts due by  

Read Tumblr posts and be prepared to comment in class next week

Exercise 11 due by midnight Sunday April 23 on Tumblr: choose two Key Concepts from Chapter 15 and take a photo from your daily experiences connecting to your chosen concepts, write 100-150 words about each concept and post on Tumblr

 Week 14 TUESDAY May 2 Class round-up

Following the guiding principle of this class as being formed by a “community of scholars,” we will devote this final class meeting to discussing the format of the class in terms of its learning objectives. We will consider expectations, work load, research assignment details, and student accountability in terms of Discussion Board, Tumblr, and class participation.

 Second-half assessment: The professor will review and comment on the students’ two files (Discussion Board posts and Tumblr photos/posts, provided on Blackboard/Assignment no later than April 30; post your work since the mid-point assessment, March 10, following instructions on Blackboard).

[spradleylobbyist-blog]

Gov. John Bel Edwards, once long-shot candidate, building war chest ahead of 2019 re-election campaign

BY TYLER BRIDGES

Gov. John Bel Edwards began raising money for his re-election campaign only eight days after taking the oath of office in January 2016 and ended the year having collected about $3 million, according to his fundraisers.

Most of those who sponsored the events were business lobbyists and others with interests before the governor and the Legislature, which is the norm in a state where private dollars fund candidates’ campaigns.

Edwards and his political allies are expecting a tough re-election campaign in 2019 from well-funded Republicans determined to prove that his election in 2015 was an anomaly in a conservative state dominated by Republicans.

“If there is opposition, you have to have the resources early on to wage a campaign,” said Dale Atkins, who helped organize a Sept. 28 fundraiser at the New Orleans home of Terrell Clayton, a developer of affordable housing.

Edwards, a Democrat, is following the example set by his Republican predecessor, Gov. Bobby Jindal, who raised $3.4 million during his first year and had such a bulging war chest (and high approval ratings) when he ran for re-election in 2011 that no big-name Democrats dared challenge him.

“If I’m looking at running for governor and see a guy with $10 million in the bank a year beforehand, I would think twice about it,” said Atkins, who is the clerk of civil court in New Orleans.

Edwards’ success in 2016 speaks to the power of his office and stands in sharp contrast to the difficulty he faced raising money for more than two years during the governor’s race when he was a long-shot candidate.

The first event for Edwards, on Jan. 19, 2016, was organized by two Baton Rouge lobbying outfits, Spradley & Spradley and Roedel Parsons Koch Blache Balhoff & McCollister, and consisted of a dinner at Dooky Chase’s, the famed New Orleans restaurant. Cost of entry was $5,000 per donor, the maximum allowed.

“We decided to get together to have a fundraiser for the new governor and then talked to our clients,” said Tom Spradley, a veteran lobbyist for a variety of business interests.

Randy Haynie, another prominent lobbyist, hosted a $5,000 per couple fundraiser at his Lafayette home on Oct. 25.

The invitation host list included lobbyist Tyron Picard; trial attorneys Glenn Armentor, Jim Roy and Craig and Pat Morrow; state Sen. Eric LaFleur, D-Ville Platte; and former Gov. Kathleen Blanco and her husband Raymond.

“A lot of these folks were citizens in Lafayette Parish who own their own businesses and care about the state,” said Haynie, whose clients include the NFL, the tobacco giant Altria and the Harrah’s New Orleans Casino. “Very few in that audience deal with the state of Louisiana businesswise.”

Haynie said he has organized fundraisers for the past five governors and acknowledged that putting on these events helps his business.

“But I’d do it if I was retired,” he said, estimating that the event raised at least $150,000.

As at other events, Edwards mingled with the crowd, posed for selfies and spoke to the group about his goals for the state, including his plans for ending Louisiana’s budget problems.

A dinner at Arnaud’s restaurant in the French Quarter raised more than $1 million, said Dan Robin Sr., the main organizer. It is believed to have been the biggest single event for Edwards in 2016.

Richard Carbo, the governor’s spokesman, declined to discuss Edwards' 2016 fundraising or to provide a list of the events.

Edwards won’t have to provide the specifics until he files a campaign report on Feb. 15 for his 2016 activities.

Emelie Tenenbaum, who raised money for former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and worked for the nonprofit New Orleans Business Alliance, is the governor’s chief fundraiser.

Robin said the Sept. 7 event at Arnaud’s collected $5,000 apiece from some 220 people, the maximum number that could fit in the restaurant space. Donors got a seven-course meal that ended with café brûlot.

“I had to turn away a lot of people,” Robin said, adding that he’s planning to hold another event around the same time in 2017. “We’ve never had a more honest person around. He’s a great young man who cares about the state.”

Robin announced a year ago that he, his son Dan Robin Jr. and Ted Jones, a veteran Baton Rouge-based lobbyist who also organized the Arnaud’s event, had affiliated with a New Orleans law firm, Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert. The news caught the eye of political insiders because James Garner had been a top campaign attorney and adviser to U.S. Sen. David Vitter when Vitter lost the 2015 race to Edwards.

In 2016, Edwards included Garner on a team of private attorneys preparing a lawsuit against oil and gas companies that alleges their drilling activities caused the coast to erode and that will seek heavy damages to restore the lost land.

Garner raised money from clients for the Arnaud’s event.

Garner wasn’t the only foe from the 2015 campaign who raised money for Edwards last year.

Oil and gas interests, which favored Vitter, hosted two events for Edwards in January.

“I’m raising money where I can,” Edwards said in an interview then. “You can’t start too early or raise too much. Running for governor and running for re-election are expensive.”

He said political reality explains why the groups are hosting the events.

“They opposed me last year, and I’m governor this year,” he said.

After getting their contributions, Edwards tried to curtail tax breaks that benefit oil and gas interests, but the Legislature did not agree.

Edwards followed up the oil and gas fundraisers with a Feb. 4 event at the Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant, just east of Ruston.

Afterward, the governor was busy working with legislators to resolve the state’s budget crisis during two special sessions and the regular session, followed by the massive flooding in metro Baton Rouge and the high-profile shootings that convulsed the region. (The governor cannot raise money during the regular session or for the following 30 days, according to the state’s ethics agency.)

On Sept. 20, he attended a fundraiser at the Shreveport Club hosted by three public officials — Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler, Bossier City Mayor Lorenz Walker and Caddo Parish District Attorney James Stewart Sr. — and Wayne Brown, owner of Brown Builders in Bossier City.

Stewart said Edwards got a good reception from the crowd.

“It wasn’t the normal politicos entirely,” Stewart said. “It was a lot of average people excited about the governor.”

On Oct. 19, Baton Rouge attorney Kris Kirkpatrick hosted Edwards at his home, with hosts contributing $5,000 and attendees $1,250.

Hosts included lobbyists C.J. Blache, Gabrielle Kees, Darrell Hunt and Paul Rainwater, who served as chief of staff to Jindal.

Another host was Richard Lipsey, a Republican gun store owner who provided an important endorsement of Edwards in the 2015 race and was named by the new governor as chairman of the Board of Regents, a plum patronage position that oversees the state’s higher education policies.

Another host was developer Mike Wampold, who got the Legislature to change state tax law that benefited the construction of his Watermark Baton Rouge hotel downtown.

On Nov. 28, Edwards attended an event at the Uptown New Orleans home of Mickey and Hilary Landry, both attorneys.

Mickey Landry said Edwards was “very direct” as he described the state’s budget situation and added, “He’s a middle-of-the-road guy who tries to bring people together.”

Alton Ashy, who represents video poker truck stop and video poker machine owners, organized fundraisers for Edwards with his clients in November at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Baton Rouge and at Hammond’s Trey Yuen restaurant in December.

“He’s been very fair with my clients,” Ashy said. “He feels like they are small businesses that want a fair shake.”

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_b7e7eb34-df5f-11e6-9449-037ae02d2837.html

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Booklist (iemp) - January 2017

Updated booklist. As same as before, I have left certain textbooks out since I don’t want to dig through the long since untouched boxes. If any of you have questions about any of these books, I wouldn’t mind answering your questions. (Or if you want suggestions on what to read. / A bookworm buddy to chat with)

Abigail  Keam - Death By A HoneyBee (Josiah Reynolds Mysteries Book 1)

Al Sarrantonio, Martin H. Greenberg - 100 Hair-Raising Little  Horror Stories

Alan Moore, David Llyod - V for Vendetta

Ali - Three Translations of the Koran side-by-side

Andrei Codrescu - The Blood Countess

Anne Rice - Vittorio, The Vampire

Anthony M. Armstrong - Mirror Mirror

Apryl  Baker - The Ghost Files

Arthur Daigle, Cave Yates, Craig A. Price Jr., H.L. Burke, Intisar Khanani - Fantastic Creatures (Fellowship of Fantasy Book 1)

Carol F. Karlsen - The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft  in Colonial New England

Carol McCleary -The Alchemy of Murder

Charles R. Grizzle - Riding the Bomb

Charles W. Chesterman, Knopf - The Auducon Society Field Guide  to North American Rocks and Minerals

Christie Golden - Warcraft: #2 Lord of the Clans

Christopher  Bloodworth - Darkness Blooms

Clamp - Card Captor Sakura 5

Daniel Blatman - The Death Marches

David Adams - Ren of Atikala (Kobolds Book 1)

David L. Watson, Roland G. Tharp - Self-Directed Behavior

David W. McCurdy, James Spradley - Conformity and Conflict

Defoe - The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In  Two Parts

Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale

Don Dellilo - White Noise

Donald  T. Williams - Mere Humanity: G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien  on the Human Condition

Douglas Niles, Kevin Dockery - Starstrike: Task Force Mars

Drew  Hayes - NPCs (Spells, Swords, & stealth Book 1)

E.B. Hudspeth - The Resurrectionist

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Emory Adams Allen - The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished Races

Eric Nylund - Halo: First Strike

Eric Nylund - Halo: The Fall of Reach

Fern  Michaels - Celebration

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Frederick F. Cartwright, Michael D. Biddiss - Disease and  History

Gabriel Mesta - StarCraft: #2 Shadow of the Xel'Naga

Gayle  Forman - If I Stay

Gene Fowler - Good Night, Sweet Prince

Gerald Hawksley - Ghosties: A Silly Rhyming Spooky Picture Book  for Kids

H.W. Conn - The Story of Germ Life

Harun Yahya - The Moral Values of the Qur'an

Holland Thompson - The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of  Mechanical Conquest

Hourly History - Egyptian Mythology: A Concise Guide to the  Ancient Gods and Beliefs of Egyptian Mythology

J. Bryer - The Tree of Bones

J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

J.R.R.  Tolkien - Roverandom

J.R.R. Tolkien - The  Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers 1

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Two Towers 2

Jack London - The Call of the Wild

Jacob Grimm - Grimm’s Fairy Tales

James E. Lindsey - Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World

James Lucas - Das Reich

James Rollins - Black Order

Jeff Grubb - StarCraft: #1 Liberty’s Crusade

Joe Schreiber - Death Troopers: Star Wars Legends

John Katsenbach - Hart’s War

John R. Reed - Victorian Conventions

John T. Omohundro - Thinking Like an Anthropologist

John Williams - An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition,  Concerning the Discovery of America

K.N. Parker - The Death of Death

Kaori  Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 1

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 2

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 3

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 4

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 5

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 6

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 7

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 8

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 9

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 10

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 11

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 12

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 13

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 14

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 15

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 16

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 17

Kaori Yuki - Angel sanctuary 18

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 19

Kaori Yuki - Angel Sanctuary 20

Kaori Yuki - Grand Guignol Orchestra 1

Karin Slaughter - Broken

Karl A. Menninger - Whatever Became of Sin?

Koichi Tokita - Mobile Suit Gundam W: Endless Waltz

Lawrence Rees - Auschwitz

Lemony  Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events (Book 1)

Lindsey Cole - BlackBuried Pie

Lindsey Cole - BlueBuried Muffins

Lindsey Cole - CranBuried Coffee Cake

Lindsey Cole - PoisonBuried Punch

Lindsey Cole - RaspBuried Torte

Lindsey Cole - StrawBuried in Chocolate

Lindsey Cole - Very Buried Cheesecake

Lindsey Cole - WineBuried Wedding

Lish  McBride - Necromancer

M.C. Cooke - Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

Maeve  Binchy - Quentins

Margaret Arndt - Fairy Tales from the German Forests

Mel Odum - Diablo: #2 The Black Order

Melvil Dewey - A Classification and Subject Index for  Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library

Michael  Faraday - The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Ladie - The Very Real Imaginary Adventures of William  Locke

Mine Yoshizaki - Sergeant Frog 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales

Nicole Galland - The Fool’s Tale

Nigel Cawthorne - Turning the Tide

Noel Pocock - Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Oskar  Augustus Johanssen & William Albert Riley - Handbook of Medical  Entomology

Paul J. Shinoda - Pokemon: Official Nintendo Players Guide

Peter Abrahams - Down the Rabbit Hole

Petr Alekseevich, Knias Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread

Philippa Stockley - A Factory of Cunning

R.A. Gates - The Tenth Life of Mr.Whiskers

R.A. Salvatore - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Richard Rhodes - Masters of Death

Rick  Priestley - Games Workshop: How to Paint Citadel Miniatures

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers

Robert  Bevan - Critical Failures (Caverns and Creatures Book 1)

Robert Wilson - A Small Death in Lisbon

Ron Ripley - The Boylan House

Saul Bellow - Seize the Day

Shane Michael Murray - The Orc of Many Questions

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery

Sprogling’s  Children’s Book - A to Z of Silly Animals

Stephen King - Thinner

Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That  Can’t Stop Talking

Takashi Matsuoka - Cloud of Sparrows

Tami Hoag - A Thin Dark Line

The Pokemon Company Intl. - Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver  The Official Pokemon Kanto Guide National Pokedex: Official Strategy Guide

The Pokemon Company Intl. - Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver:  The Official Pokemon Johto Guide & Johto Pokedex: Official Strategy Guide

Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology

Thomas Harris - Hannibal

Tracey Hickman - StarCraft: #3 Speed of Darkness

Umberti Eco - Foucault’s Pendulum

V.R. Ruggiero - Beyond Feelings

Van Coops - In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure

Various - Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian

Various - Great Ghost Stories

Various - The American Journal of Archaeology 1893-1

Victor Hugo - Les  Miserables

William Blades - The Enemies of Books

William C. Dietz - Halo: The Flood

Wirt Sikes - British Goblins Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology,  Legends and Traditions

Yei Theodora Ozaki - Japanese Fairy Tales

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A-T-3 228 Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics

Ray-Gun-Omics by Project Future is probably best known in the UK for its appearance on Electro 1 the beloved Street Sounds compilation series

It was written and produced by the team behind George Clinton's Atomic Dog and Loopzilla, namely David Spradley, Ted Currier, and Rahni Harris, along with David and Debbie Sandridge of the Dayton funk group Dayton. Rahni Harris and Ted Currier had worked on Dayton's Hot Fun and Feel The Music albums and before Atomic Dog the Xavier project (Work That Sucker To Death) with Bootsy Collins and George Clinton

Sadly Ted Currier passed away the other day. Before was a writer, arranger, and producer Ted Currier had been an influential radio DJ in New York. His innovative mixes were the inspiration for Shep Pettibone's Mastermixes

Ray-Gun-Omics is a riff on Reaganomics, Ronald Reagan's disastrous economic policies of increased defence spending and reduced government spending as preached by Milton Friedman. Grand Master Flash And The Furious Five's global hit The Message had come out the year before, it wasn't the first conscious rap record but it was the first to sell well. From Gill Scott-Heron to The Last Poets overtly political tracks like Ray-Gun-Omics were well established

The other week I read Robert Lekachman's Capitalism For Beginners comic book, I've read the series since I was a kid and I was surprised I'd not read Capitalism, what interested me was it had been published in 1981 (and it only cost 50p) which was Margret Thatchers first term and the year Reagan becomes 40th president of the United States

Before I get into why I believe Capitalism For Beginners is still relevant (for beginners) I want to mention another book, albeit an unfinished one. In the 1920s and throughout the 30s at roughly the same time Fredrick Hayek is writing papers that will influence monetarism, the economic policy of Thatcher and Reagan, Walter Benjamin is working on his Arcades Project. Benjamin saw the Paris arcades, the city's first shopping malls built not long after the French Revolution in the early nineteenth century to serve the burgeoning middle-class and upper-class, as the origin of and a way of seeing the present (Benjamin was influential in the work of John Berger.) Benjamin identifies the heyday of the Paris arcades as birthplace of consumerism and ephemerality, the arcades sold fashions to service our dreams and seduce our momentary desires. What the people who walked the Paris arcades in the early nineteenth century wouldn't have known at the time was that most of the arcades would be demolished within fifty years, 24 of over 150 remain, this was just a fleeting moment necessary for capitalism, fashions become passé, the once highly fashionable arcades that were left soon became old fashioned. Historical enquiry can reveal something about ourselves. In the last two or three decades property developers have realised the two hundred year old Paris arcades can achieve premium rents. Nostalgia, uniqueness, and 19th century grandeur are all assets to tourism in an age of irresponsibly cheap flights and weekend get aways, when most cities look remarkably like each other (the arcades are featured in magazines and newspapers around the world.) The tarting up of the façades of the Paris arcades are also the result of financialisation that begun in the 1980s and the consequential deindustrialization of many European cities (especially France and the UK)

I write a blog about music from 40-years-ago I do this because I want to understand the present. The same can be said for why I enjoyed reading a super simple comic book on capitalism written over 42-years-ago. As I've mentioned Capitalism For Beginners was written as Thatcher was implementing monetarism in the UK to deal with stagflation, like today inflation was high, it had been rarely below 10% for a few years and was at 15% when Thatcher got in. The book tries to address the future of capitalism and it predicts what happened while Thatcher was PM pretty well, privatisation, corporate government partnerships, increased profits to investors, offshoring and exploitation of tax loopholes, new private monopolies, tax benefits and securities for corporations, the destruction of unions, rising unemployment, the bare minimum of welfare if you're not already rich or a corporation, redistribution of income away from labour towards property leading to abundant supply and inadequate purchasing power, the myth of trickle-down economics. Blair's reforms are also predicted as a hybrid form of monetarism and even Brexit and Trump and the immigrant shaped scapegoat. Lekachman didn't foresee the full damage of monetarism though, over a decade of austerity, short term planning and long term defunding; revolving doors between government, financial institutions, and the media; precarious job security, zero hours contracts, fire and rehire, and the gig economy; abandonment of unprofitable infrastructure maintenance; risks and costs paid for by the public and profits funnelled board members, shareholders, corporations and consortiums; a sluggish often hostile response to climate uncertainty. As a final caveat the writer comments that when capitalism can no longer satisfy the interests of working people they will become more politically engaged and demand for better. But Lekachman didn't count on news reporting becoming entertainment, serious mainstream journalism disappearing, and the public becoming increasingly politically illiterate. Monetarism is commonly associated with neoliberalism. It's astonishing to think we've had almost fifty years of neoliberalism, despite regular crises. Capitalism's golden era after WW2 didn't last much more than twenty years

Project Future

With a general election sometime in the next 17 months and inflation still high both the UK's main political parties are laying out economic visions for the country. These visions are weak and uncreative. It sounds to my ears that the leaders of our political parties are saying there is no alternative than make everyone poorer and the rich richer. There is an alternative though, tax the rich. Why has this been thrown out by both Sir Keir and billionheir Sunak? Talk of a wage-price spiral is convenient for a government faced with angry doctors, nurses, teachers and all the other professions who are now demanding wage increases inline with inflation after years of seeing their wages fall to the point where they are not covering the cost of living. The reality is the vicious circle is between prices and profits, to say that we are in a cost of living crisis is as helpful as Sunak saying the credit card has been maxed out, we are in a profit crisis, where's the fiscal responsibility in that Sir Keir?

Like the monetarists Sunak believes in market freedom (which isn't really free if you take in all the tax breaks and lobbying, offshoring, second jobs by members of parliament etc) he's not about to intervene and do the sensible thing by introducing price controls and enforcing regulatory action to curb monopoly power and financial speculation. I've heard people say maybe Labour will do this in their second term but that sounds suspicious

The City says we need to squeeze more out of the public. After thirteen years of austerity is there anything more to squeeze? Jeremy Hunt has admitted a recession is an acceptable price to pay to to bring inflation down and both the government and Bank of England have no qualms about deliberately putting peoples livelihoods at risk... that Sunak's approach to the economy is called Market Moralism is a sick joke