Windows Of The World

Dionne Warwick - Windows Of The World

(written by: Hal David and Burt Bacharach)

The windows of the world are covered with rain,
Where is the sunshine we once knew?
Ev'rybody knows when little children play
They need a sunny day to grow straight and tall.
Let the sun shine through.

The windows of the world are covered with rain,
When will those black skies turn to blue?
Ev'rybody knows when boys grow into men
They start to wonder when their country will call.
Let the sun shine through.

The windows of the world are covered with rain,
What is the whole world coming to?
Ev'rybody knows when men can not be friends
Their quarrel often ends where some have to die.
Let the sun shine through.

The windows of the world are covered with rain,
There must be something we can do.
Ev'rybody knows whenever rain appears
It's really angel tears.
How long must they cry?
Let the sun shine through.

Top Secret Government Alien UFO Invasion Film

Another Boring Post about our corrupt White House....

White House E-Mail Lost in Private Accounts
Messages May Have Included Discussions About Firing of Eight Prosecutors

By Michael Abramowitz and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 12, 2007

The White House acknowledged yesterday that e-mails dealing with official government business may have been lost because they were improperly sent through private accounts intended to be used for political activities. Democrats have been seeking such missives as part of an investigation into the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

Administration officials said they could offer no estimate of how many e-mails were lost but indicated that some may involve messages from White House senior adviser Karl Rove, whose role in the firings has been under scrutiny by congressional Democrats.
Democrats have charged that Rove and other officials may have used the private accounts, set up through the Republican National Committee, in an effort to avoid normal review. Under federal law, the White House is required to maintain records, including e-mails, involving presidential decision-making and deliberations. White House aides' use of their political e-mail accounts to discuss the prosecutor firings has also fanned Democratic accusations that the actions were politically motivated.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which is investigating the use of outside accounts, issued a statement saying that the White House disclosure is "a remarkable admission that raises serious legal and security issues," adding: "The White House has an obligation to disclose all the information it has."

The controversy over the outside e-mail accounts is a byproduct of the ongoing showdown over the prosecutor firings, emerging after the administration recently provided to Congress e-mails from some White House officials that had been sent from their RNC accounts. Scott Jennings, the White House deputy director of political affairs, used a "gwb43.com" e-mail account last August to discuss the replacement of Bud Cummins, who was dismissed as the U.S. attorney for Arkansas, according to one e-mail.

Goldfrapp-Felt Mountain

Is my new fave CD-thanks to Shawn. Check out this live version of "Lovely Head".

R.I.P Bob Dylan

In honor of the untimely passing of the great Bob Dylan, the Sunday Morning Hangover Radio Show will feature 2 hours of the best of the Dylan Bootlegs . Collectors and those interested in the llegacy of this deceased musical giant should tune in.
Dylan was always a huge influence and he will be missed.
Sunday Morning at 10 AM on KWVA 88.1 FM
www.kwvaradio.org

My Latest Radio Project-Airship Radio Theatre

I'll let my captin, Dudley, explain:

"A few months ago now–I don’t recall how many–this project began. At first, it was the offer of an hour of Saturday morning air time from a local AM station. To do what with? I already had a talk show with compatriot, James Stegall. I had started writing comic bits to perform, feeling the talk format stultifying and tired. When OPT waved a handful of cash at us, my first thought was to cobble together my comic interests with an interview show, and see what happened. To that end, I wrote seven scripts (”The James & Dudley Show” Hated it. ). Then circumstances prevailed that caused this idea to be tossed aside; I needed a new direction.

After a lengthy call for voice actors on Craigslist, our number shook down to 7. One of these actors, Mark Lewis, at one of our meetings in our Eugene annex (a bar), suggested the show should be set aboard an airship–a giant dirigible the length of a football field. I jumped right on it–amazingly, I had been playing with a book idea about an eccentric multi-millionaire who builds a giant airship. Thus was Airship Radio Theatre begun.

Well, not really. Concepts are fine, and fairly commonplace. Next, I had to write the scripts.

A long-time desire of mine has been to write for radio. I never pursued it seriously, since radio drama is a tiny niche (but still larger than I suspected). Here was my opportunity. Now…could I do it?

Then we needed a guest.

Composer of “Classical Gas,” Mason Williams, agreed to be that person–our first guest. One show became three–all of them featuring “Classical Gas,” MW, and sketches (written by MW) by the Smothers Brothers (as well as our own brand of sketch comedy).

How to record it? OPT offered us recording time, but we could never fit into their schedule. We borrowed a mic from them, but had no cable, stand, or way to make the computer hear it (mics generate an analog signal), so gave it back (later, they bought us three mics and cables–but what they bought we considered too low end). Enter Mark Lewis again. This time with two beautiful USB mics. We began recording around our diningroom table. I hung a quilt over the archway leading into the livingroom. We were loud and unruly and kept wife and son awake. But it worked.

Now I’m going to build a studio, a simple affair, out in our garage. A table, lights, chairs, thick curtains, a borrowed computer, USB mics… Many summer night I suspect will be spent out there. This will result in parties. And, of course, there will be actors at these parties. And writers. And an inventor. Just like in olden times.

Now we’re talking about how to do the show live, before a recorded audience. I mean, record before a live audience.

Thanks to Marc Time James Stegall, Allan Erickson, Kristi Koons, Mark Lewis, Nicholas Edwards. And Jenna. One mustn’t ever forget one’s wife.

Revised Release date:Late April
Time: 10 am
Day: Saturday
Station: 1600 am KOPT (mono, sadly)"

Bong Hits 4 Jesus

Free-Speech Case Divides Bush and Religious Right
By LINDA GREENHOUSE N.Y.Times
Published: March 18, 2007
WASHINGTON, March 17 — A Supreme Court case about the free-speech rights of high school students, to be argued on Monday, has opened an unexpected fissure between the Bush administration and its usual allies on the religious right.
As a result, an appeal that asks the justices to decide whether school officials can squelch or punish student advocacy of illegal drugs has taken on an added dimension as a window on an active front in the culture wars, one that has escaped the notice of most people outside the fray. And as the stakes have grown higher, a case thatonce looked like an easy victory for the government side may prove to be a much closer call.
On the surface, Joseph Frederick’s dispute with his principal, Deborah Morse, at the Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska five years ago appeared to have little if anything to do with religion — or perhaps with much of anything beyond a bored senior’s attitude and a harried administrator’s impatience.
As the Olympic torch was carried through the streets of Juneau on its way to the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City, students were allowed to leave the school grounds to watch. The school band and cheerleaders performed. With television cameras focused on the scene, Mr. Frederick and some friends unfurled a 14-foot-long banner with the inscription: “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.”Mr. Frederick later testified that he designed the banner, using a slogan he had seen on a snowboard, “to be meaningless and funny, in order to get on television.” Ms. Morse found no humor but plenty of meaning in the sign, recognizing “bong hits” as a slang reference to using marijuana. She demanded that he take the banner down. When he refused, she tore it down, ordered him to her office, and gave him a 10-day suspension.
Mr. Fredericks’s ensuing lawsuit and the free-speech court battle that resulted, in which he has prevailed so far, is one that, classically, pits official authority against student dissent.
Read the rest HERE

Smashing Pumpkins-Tonight, Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZYqaSc4cU

It Was 40 Years Ago Today...

..That Sgt.Pepper taught his band to play!
This week's show is already in the can and it will be great! It has
been 40 years since the Beatles put the finishing touches on Sgt
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Sunday I will be featuring a 2
hour special about the making of that groundbreaking album with
interviews, outtakes, backing tracks and mono alternate mixes of the
album that ushered in the Summer of Love.
This Sunday morning at 10 AM on the Sunday Morning Hangover !
Available streaming at www.kwvaradio.org and in Eugene at 88.1 FM.
Don't forget to set your timer forward one hour due to the Spring
Forward!!!

Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee

Water Vs. Wine
It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found in feces.In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poo. However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey, beer or other liquor)
because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling,
filtering and/or fermenting.
WATER = Poo WINE = HEALTH
Ergo: It is better to drink wine and talk stupid than to drink water and be full of crap.
Thanks to Cat Tails...to Cocktails for this information.

This Sunday: Incorrect and Outsider Music

In a 1996 Pulse magazine article, Irwin Chusid coined the term "outsider music", which he defines as "crackpot and visionary music, where all trails lead essentially one place: over the edge." Chusid has drawn a distinction -- too often lost on deadline-beset journalists -- between the terms "incorrect music" and "outsider music," which he insists are not synonymous and overlap only slightly. Chusid has explained that Incorrect Music was a radio concept, which included all manner of musical "wrongness," often by people who should have known better, or whose sincerity was questionable. Outsider musicians, on the other hand, he defines as "artists who are often termed 'bad' or 'inept' by listeners who judge them by the standards of mainstream popular music. Yet despite dodgy rhythms and a lack of conventional tunefulness, these often self-taught artists radiate an abundance of earnestness and passion. Most importantly, they betray an absence of pretense. And they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality."
This show is now available HERE.

This Sunday's Radio Show

This show will probably bore most of you, but seeing as it's Oscar night and I have been listening to a lot of classic Hollywood soundtracks lately( especially The King and I) Sunday at 10 AM at kwvaradio.org the Sunday Morning Hangover will feature my favorite soundtracks, overtures and themes from classic Hollywood movies.

And Another Thing....

Even tho on Sunday Mornings I can be way hungover, sleepy,comatose,dopey and sleazy I still vow to do a GREAT radio show at 10 AM Sunday morning on KWVA 88.1 Eugene www.kwvaradio.org that is all.

An Angry Man

What pisses me off is that everyone is more concerned with Britney shaving her head, American Idol, Survivor, Anna Nichol and other stupid shit like sports rather than the fact that our President King George Bush has broken every law in the book including murder AND NO ONE GIVES A SHIT!!!!
I was watching a documentary about Nixon and the Vietnam war tonite and what struck me was the fact that in the 60's and 70's people real cared and got pissed off about this stuff-nowadays all these young bubblegum chicks and pussified boy toys are either too stupid or too self absorbed and selfish to get off their fat asses and demand impeachment.
This asshole criminal presnit GW and his handler Dick have got to be run out of town or else we are all gonna be fucked.

Coming Soon on the Hangover....

A Tribute to English Producer Joe Meek!

http://rhis.co.uk/jmas/index.html

Record Convention Sunday!

The Hangover will broadcast LIVE from the Eugene Record Convention at 10 AM this Sunday! Go there for records as low as $1 each!Meet famous radio personalities such as Marc Time, DJ Sleeve, Rocco, Dawn Baby, Amelia, Kranky Kowboy and many more!!!!!

Gary Phillips remembered

Another figure and celebrity from my Rather Ripped days is also gone, dying of cancer the same day as my fiend Rick. Gary Phillips was a great guitarist and played in Copperhead with John Cippolina, Earhquake, the Greg Kihn Band, Sudden Fun,and worked at Berserkeley Records with great legends such as the Rubinoos and Jonathan Richman.
He used to hang with us at Rather Ripped and we would bust his stones constantly. He was a fun guy who LOVED powerpop, Rock and Roll and shooting the shit, A special blog has been set up here:(http://garyphillips.blogspot.com/) in memory of another great rocker who died way too soon.

Rather Ripped, Rick R.I.P. and Ray Remembers

I found out this week that my friend and ex partying co-worker from Rather Ripped Records in the late 70's Rick Johnson died last week after a long illness.
Rick was once my best friend's roommate, a bright happy guy who knew a lot aboumusicand like all of us in the 70's LOVED to party. We spent a lot of time together at Rather Ripped Records, the world's best record store located in Berkeley California north of campus until it's demise in the early 80's.
I will miss Rick who died in his early 50's-too young too soon...
More on the Rather Ripped story-My fiend Ray Farrell who conspired with me and others to foist punk rock upon the world in the 70's is now a big wig at E Music and wrote to us regarding the using of the words "Rather Ripped" by Sonic Youth as the title of their latest CD.:

"The store was gone before the band first performed in California which
was late 84 or early 85. That was when I met them as I booked their west
coast dates. When they were preparing the new album, Thurston of the band sent an
email saying- "thinking of calling the al bum Rather Ripped"... wasn't
that a record store you worked in?" I responded with a few anecdotes-
that it was the model for Amoeba Records; the legendary Patti Smith
poetry readings; and an in store where Roky Erickson told anyone that
would look him in the eye that he was "watchin' you die". Thurston forwarded that to the band. Thurston liked the way the title flowed and the multiple connotations it can have. In the context of the new album, it was the first time in many albums where the band just recorded an album without much preproduction. They made a more
spontaneous record and "rather ripped" was the best way to describe it.
Steve Shelley, SY's drummer was the only one that had reservations about
the title. I told him that when the store existed, "ripped" could mean a
number of things- elegantly stoned or ripped off. I told him that Joe Strummer had come to the store one afternoon with a mutual friend and wanted to s ee Commander Cody play in Cotati. On the way up, Joe asked " so Rather Ripped- does that mean that you see yourselves as being ripped off by The Man?" Steve says, that's exactly what I'm afraid of- rock critics using the title against us saying that were ripping off our fans. Don't know if you remember Byron Coley, music writer. He worked at Rhino (the store) in the RRR days. He used to visit RRR regularly He's one of Thurstons' best friends and they share a love of archiving music obscurities especially the 70's- small run pressings of artists vanity projects; experimental labels like 1750 Arch and the like. I saw the two of them at a poetry reading just after RR came out. Byron says to me - kinda weird how the album is called Rather Ripped, huh? Must make you feel like you're in a time tube having two completely periods of your life reflected together"
Also- one of my regular RRR customers John "Pinksocks" Silva, went on to manage Nirvana, Beck, Sonic Youth among others. He loved the idea of calling it "Rather Ripped". While I'm on the subject of RRR anecdotes--- A few years ago I did a promotion on eMusic with the Cure. When I met their manager he looked at me and said, Ray Farrell- you sold me my first Cure record- a UK 45 of "Boys Don't Cry" he said he was a power pop fanatic at the time and that I said it was a natural step. A couple of years ago, some old friends and I went to the Freight And Salvage to
see a Holy Modal Rounders reunion. There were a bunch of cooler older guys with long white hair attending the show. One came up to me and said, "You sold me my first Planxty record and now I have a radio show
on KPFA!" The last time I remember talking about the store with Thurston was on a
road trip we took with John Fahey in 96. Thurston booked a short northeast tour for two of them as solo perfo rmers. Fahey had a mercurial wit and a penchant for obscure detail. In the car one day we talked about the early -mid 70's folk scene. He knew a lot of Berkeley people back then- had plenty of anecdotes about the Freight And Salvage, Robbie Basho, Country Joe McDonald, etc. I told them that working in a used
record store in Berkeley in the 70's, we would get a lot of trade ins that would have the owners stoned poetry or attempts at songwriting scribbled on to the inner sleeve or on separate paper stuffed in the jacket. I collected most of them along with local punk flyers. I always referenced the album it came from because then it was clear how lets say "George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass' would inspire some mopey
stoned spinoff of one of the songs. Fahey said that I should make a book
out of it called Proverbial Eloquence of the Rather Ripped. And that Robbie Basho likely penned a few of them. Unfortunately, that stuff didn't survive my
various moves since those days."

Another Great Blog!Rato!

This blog has great music downloads like: lotsa Bossa Nova, Neil Diamond, Etta James and just great Rock and Roll. Go Here:http://ratorecordsblog.blogspot.com/
I talked about this blog on Sunday's Radio Program available HERE

My Fave New Blog!

Lots and LOTS of Jazz Babes, Soul Singers, Female Lounge and torch singers and tons of bio info great CD/LP covers and MANY Rapid share downloads.
I might play some of these on my show tomorrow-10 AM on KWVA.

http://shesingsjazzandmore.blogspot.com/