Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground

Morgan -my massage therapist

What a great massage!Today on the Hangover I will be playing this song.
Thank You Morgan

Anna Lee, The Healer
writtrn by Brian Wilson


Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
Healer with the healing hands
Makes you well as quick as she can
You'd love to see those smiling eyes
Of Anna Lee

From the Himalaya mountain side
Of the Nishigesh
To a California beach house
Facing towards the sea
Goes a gal who got her fame
By going round healing folks

Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
Healer with the healing hands
Makes you well as quick as she can
You'd feel those healing hands
Of Anna Lee

When she gets a chance to help someone
She's really happy
If you trust her with your ill
She'll quickly make you see
She can fix things up for you
Just like she did for me

Anna Lee, Anna Lee, the healer
She cures people with her hands
I'm just one of her many fans
You'd love to feel those healing hands
Of Anna Lee

The healer, the healer, the healer, the healer

where the hell is matt?

http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=z3nPA

14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.
A clip that melted the heart of curmudgeonlike me.

More on McCain's Beer Brain

The L.A. Times had a story sunday about McCain's ties to the beer industry:
"Hensley & Co., one of the nation's major beer wholesalers, has brought the family of Cindy McCain wealth, prestige and influence in Phoenix, but it could also create conflicts for her husband, Sen. John McCain, if he is elected president in November.

Hensley, founded by Cindy McCain's late father, holds federal and state licenses to distribute beer and lobbies regulatory agencies on alcohol issues that involve public health and safety.
The company has opposed such groups as Mothers Against Drunk Driving in fighting proposed federal rules requiring alcohol content information on every package of beer, wine and liquor.

Its executives, including John McCain's son Andrew, have written at least 10 letters in recent years to the Treasury Department, have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to a beer industry political action committee, and hold a seat on the board of the politically powerful National Beer Wholesalers Assn.

Hensley has run afoul of health advocacy groups that have tried to rein in appeals to young drinkers. For example, the company distributes caffeinated alcoholic drinks that public health groups say put young and underage consumers at risk by disguising the effects of intoxication.

The involvement of McCain's family in federal regulatory issues could create a conflict of interest for a future McCain administration, according to advocacy groups and political analysts. McCain has recused himself for many years on alcohol issues in the Senate. As president, however, McCain would face far more difficulty distancing himself from an issue with such broad scope.

Cindy McCain holds the title of company chairwoman and controls about 68% of the privately held company stock with her children and the senator's son, according to records at the Arizona Department of Liquor License and Control. Cindy and John McCain keep their finances separate, and he has no stake or role in Hensley.

In an interview in May, she said she knew "everything that is going on" and communicated with her executive team every day. She added that she did not need to be at headquarters to be in charge. So far, she has given no hint of what changes, if any, she envisions. "That's very premature," she said.

If her husband is elected president and she retains her role at Hensley, she will set a precedent for outside corporate activity by a first lady.

The McCain campaign issued a statement Friday about the issue, saying that "any decisions going forward will be made when John McCain wins the election and takes office, and not before." Hensley executives declined to comment.

Political analysts said they were astounded that the presumptive Republican nominee had not already addressed the issue.

"You can't run a beer company out of the White House," said Samuel L. Popkin, a political science professor at UC San Diego. "You can't run any company from the White House. McCain is leaving a live hand grenade on the table, a major embarrassment."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-hensley22-2008jun22,0,965991.story?track=rss

Margo Guryan on Sunday's Show

I will be interviewing Margo Guryan on Tomorrow's program.From Wikipedia:

Margo Guryan (born in Far Rockaway, New York City) is a singer/songwriter who blends elements of pop, folk, and jazz. She is best known for her 1968 album Take A Picture. Her songs have been recorded by Mama Cass, Glen Campbell, and Astrud Gilberto, among others.
Margo Guryan grew up in the suburbs of New York, and took an interest in music from an early age. At Boston University, she studied classical and jazz piano, idolizing musicians such as Max Roach and Bill Evans. She was primarily a jazz musician until a friend made her listen to the song God Only Knows from the album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. According to Guryan,
"I thought it was just gorgeous. I bought the record and played it a million times, then sat down and wrote 'Think of Rain.' That's really how I started writing that way. I just decided it was better than what was happening in jazz."
In 1968, she released the album Take A Picture. Take A Picture was a breezy album full of light, jazz-tinged pop melodies. However, due to Guryan's refusal to tour, the album was underpromoted and failed to make an impact. Resigned with this, Guryan withdrew from the professional scene and became a music teacher.
Recent years, however, have seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in her '60s work - enough so that Take A Picture was reissued in 2000 by Franklin Castle Records. Additionally, a demos collection entitled 25 Demos has been made available. In 2006, the song "Take A Picture" was used in a TV advert for mobile camera phones.

Colbert Report- McCain 'green screen challenge'

Technologically unsavvy Republican presidential candidate John McCain may be regretting his choice of a green background in a nationally televised speech earlier this month.

Playing off an earlier challenge to his viewers, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert called for submissions to his "green screen challenge" to make McCain's much-panned speech seem more interesting. On Thursday night's show, Colbert aired the first set of submissions. Dozens more have been posted to YouTube.


http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Colbert_mocks_McCain_speech_with_new_0613.html

Why McCain Has Beer On the Brain

Cindy McCain May Reap Benefits of Anheuser-Busch Bid (Update1)

By Jonathan D. Salant and Kristin Jensen

June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Cindy McCain, the millionaire wife of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, may see her fortune increase with a proposed takeover of beermaker Anheuser- Busch Cos., financial disclosures show.

Cindy McCain, who has assets of at least $8.5 million, owned more than $1 million of Anheuser-Busch shares at the end of last year, according to a Senate disclosure form filed by her husband and released today. News of the $46.3 billion unsolicited bid from InBev NV has sent the company's shares soaring, up about 17 percent from Dec. 31.

The exact size of the potential windfall is unknown because the financial forms require lawmakers and their spouses to list only ranges for the values of their assets, and one option is to simply say ``over $1 million.'' Messages left with McCain's Senate office and campaign weren't returned.

InBev made the $65-per-share offer for the maker of Budweiser beer on June 11, and Anheuser-Busch said it would consider the bid. A transaction would unite Budweiser, the lager first brewed 132 years ago in St. Louis, with InBev's Stella Artois, Bass and more than 200 other brands.

Cindy McCain also owns a beer distributorship, Hensley & Co., worth more than $1 million. She reported liabilities of between $2.8 million and $5.5 million, owing money on King Aviation, the private jet company whose planes were used by her husband during the campaign, as well as construction, credit and promissory notes.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aJik4WI9a0M8&refer=us

Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

Watch 1.4 Billion (that's with a B)of YOUR tax dollars go up in smoke . You break it, you buy it -so enjoy:

Barack and Michelle Fist Bump

Toe Fat

The God figure in that Chick publication I rant about below looks like the cover of the first Toe Fat LP.

Chick Publications

I love these little cartoon books that you find on the street-this one's dated 1972 and is the usual nonsense about how our just and forgiving faceless God banishes people to a horrible burning eternal hell-the title is "THIS WAS YOUR LIFE!"
Read the whole "tract" HERE.

Singin' & Swingin': Lee Castle & The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra: Hits Of Burt Bacharach (1974)#links

Singin' & Swingin': Lee Castle & The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra: Hits Of Burt Bacharach (1974)#links

Look closely at the girl on the cover: it's Mary Tyler Moore in one of her album cover photos.This photo was taken for another cover in the early 60's.

Flying Penis Interrrupts Gary Kasparov

This anti-Kremlin Russian Chess Champ was trying to launch a new democratic political party yesterday when a propeller driven dildo scared the wits out of his bodyguards. I don't blame the Doberman-like security agent for swatting it down,stomping on it and then carrying the dick and balls away.Good job!
I just wish we had creative protests like this here in America.
So where can I buy one?
Thanks to Clark Kent for this.

Obama Smears

This fax arrived at a friend's workplace today ,and it shows how low the right will go to smear the Democratic front runner. I edited the link to the sender's site, but it is the nastiest dirtbomb I've seen thrown in ANY campaign. Is Obama really a gay drug sniffing murderer?It shows how scared the right wing wackos are, and how powerful tomorrow's Oregon primary vote will be.Click on the pick so that it will enlarge and read some of this crap.

More Email from Listeners

thanks for your jungle-themed program today, one of my favorites in a while. i love the old exotica, bird calls, tiki music, not to mention thurston howell III/mr. magoo doing a caveman song.
-j

Hey Rev,
Have an awesome show tomorrow! I smell a mother's day theme. I don't know if I told you, but I found "I touch myself" on itunes. I love the look on my girlfriend's face when she hears it. Priceless. Anywho, I'm looking forward to another hangover! Laters.
-Danny

Here's the story.
I'm in a group called Team Chardonnay. We've been meeting every Saturday night for two years to drink wine.
Members of our team are also employees of the Eugene Hotel kitchen staff, and are great fans of your radio program. In after, this little meeting is responsible for us being hung-over while we listen to your show.
-cheers, Brian (the deck swabber)

RE: Kinder and Gentler
nope dont change at all......we like you real, jaded and witty
unclesneakyfun


marc, i just got to say that i used to do a radio show at kwva back in 1995-1996, and on my best days maybe i approached what is an average show for you. i never listen to the radio but i do make it a point to tune in your show as it never fails to entertain and make me laugh, and is always unpredictable. i seem to always hear something that makes me think, "i gotta find that!". were you doing shows back in the 90's? if so, i probably saw you either at the station or at house of records where i worked around the same time. i'm guessing you were also a fan of the 365 days project that had a blog of audio oddities in mp3 format. i created several discs of those recordings. anyway, sorry for the lengthy fan letter, and keep up the good work.
bill
ps on your most recent show when i attempted to listen to the little french girl sing from 1860 my son started screaming, "I DON'T LIKE THIS SOUND!!!!!".

HI MARC.
THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT PROGRAM. WHAT WAS THAT "THREE SUNS" TUNE YOU WERE PLAYING AT THE END OF YOUR LAST PROGRAM ON 3/30? IS MUCH OF THEIR STUFF AVAILABLE ON CD THESE DAYS? THANKS.
-JEFF

Mr T:
I've been missing your shows. I've got some sleeping issues and whatnots. I will try to get it together this weakend. I've listened to some of your back issues. Very Keen Sir !
You play the drums ! (the true leader of any band)
Best of wishes,
cja

O'Reilly Goes Ballistic

Here's a classic clip of Bill O(with hair)going ballistic with the F word on "Inside Edition.(Thanks to the Huffington Post.)

Marc's Swedish Chick Singer of the Week: Anna Ternheim

God she kills me.

UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections

Electronic voting machines have digested the millions of votes they gobbled up and made disappear in 2004 and are coming for more.
Find out what you can do to help stop them.

UNCOUNTED: The New Math of American Elections
A Film by David Earnhardt
"...powerful and persuasive..."
Howard Zinn, Author, "A People's History of the United States"
Bijou Arts Cinema
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 (ONE NIGHT ONLY)
6:45pm & 9:00 pm
Sponsored by: Truth in Voting and Progressive Democrats of America
Q&A with filmmaker David Earnhardt and Marc Baber of Truth in Voting

It's been four years since the 2004 election debacle yet these questions remain...

Why do 18 states still use computerized electronic voting machines?
Why are private corporations, with no obligation to protect the public interest, still maintaining and monitoring these machines?
Why are hundreds of primary election problems in states like Pennsylvania being ignored ("frozen" and malfunctioning machines, broken machines that were not replaced or fixed for hours, machines set up mistakenly so that only members of one political party could use them, etc..)?

Why are our country's loudest and most important voices silent on these issues? Where are Clinton, McCain and Obama?
Will you vote in November or will a machine vote for you?
Will the votes of Oregonians make a difference or will the November election be hijacked by the machines used in other states?


"A vital and important work...Uplifting, encouraging, optimistic..."
Brad Friedman, Investigative Journalist, BradBlog.com

Senator McCain, Did you Call Your Wife A C@#%&t!?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/mccain-asked-did-you-call_n_99744.html
"Clive businessman Marty Parrish was escorted from Sen. John McCain's town hall meeting by Des Moines police and members of the Secret Service after asking McCain if he had called his wife Cindy an expletive in 1992.

Parrish, an ordained Baptist minister who holds a master's degree in political science, was questioned by Secret Service agents before being released. He was not charged in the incident. Parrish asked whether McCain called his wife Cindy an expletive related to the female anatomy, as has been alleged in the book "The Real McCain," written by Dem strategist Cliff Schecter.

McCain's response got him a round of applause from the crowd: "There's people here who don't respect that kind of language, so I'll move on to the next questioner in the back."

In an interview with IowaPolitics.com, Parrish said his intentions were simple in posing the question to McCain. The former Joe Biden campaign worker stressed he is very concerned about the Republican presidential nominee's temperament.

"We have a man whose temper can get the best of him," Parrish said. "What I am worried about is his temper. Our country is in a serious crisis. This election is the most significant one since 1860. It appears America is asleep -- so I stood up and asked the question."

Bill Clinton in Junction City

Yeah I actually went to the Hitl..-I mean Hillary Clinton Rally! We arrived at 8:45 on time to a packed(not!) Junction City High School crowd of 500 diehard Hillary fans and old school Democrats.Hillary wasn't there.
I brought my folded up plastic Obama lawn sign(hidden in a pocket) but my wife wouldn't let me unfurl it.
It WAS groovy seeing a former pres,and midway through his speech 3 cheerleaders walked into the event and giggled and squeeled.
Bill was up there telling everybody about all the cool stuff Hillary was up to and only dissed McCain once or twice.The word "outspent" was used a lot.
And he was talking about Obama. This coming from a political machine that was spending money for this campaign three years ago.
I'm still voting for Obama if you haven't guessed.