Litsy

Schoolhouse Rock!: The Official Guide | Tom Yohe, George Newall

I have had this on loop all day. 250 years later, and we're still fighting this. Thanks to all who went out there today to fight the good fight. I got blindsided with a hellacious cold and didn't want to spread my germs, but I've been there in spirit. #resist 💙✊🏻♥️

If you've never seen Schoolhouse Rock, especially this one, it's worth 3 minutes of your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

Ruthiella ✊✊✊ 1d

TheBookHippie Feel better!!!! 1d

ChaoticMissAdventures I live in Portland Oregon so we are pretty learned in the protest ways. I was Bail Friend today. Meaning I hang out, all my friends have my number written on their arm and if they get arrested or sent to hospital I am in charge of organizing their release. We rotate Bail Friend duties. It has been a quiet day and all my people are done for the day so that feels good. 1d

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Aims42 Hope you feel better! Yeah, 250 years later and we‘re back to this 🙄 1d

Graciouswarriorprincess Sending hugs! Hope that you feel better soon! I was there today protesting! 1d

Leftcoastzen There is a terrible cold going around. My letter carrier had it . He kept thinking he had COVID, but tested negative 3 times. His lasted nearly a week 1d

Deblovestoread Feel better! We had good weather, larger crowd, lots of honking and some fantastic clever signs. 💙✊🏼💙 1d

dabbe @Ruthiella ✊🏻💙✊🏻 1d

dabbe @TheBookHippie How the hell do you get a cold when it's 100+ degrees outside? 🤔🤣 1d

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures What a stellar idea! I've never heard of that before! Glad all your peeps are safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 1d

dabbe @Aims42 TY! When will we learn? 😳 1d

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay you! I hope all went well and that everyone is safe. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 1d

dabbe @Leftcoastzen #ruhroh You know, I didn't even think of testing to see if it's Covid. I wonder if my kits have expired. 🤔 1d

dabbe @Deblovestoread TY! You people in Oregon ROCK! ✊🏻💙✊🏻 1d

Graciouswarriorprincess @dabbe Yes. We stayed safe and it was peaceful protesting. 1d

Ruthiella @Deblovestoread The signs are the best. Such great reading this afternoon. One of my favorites was History: “Don‘t make me repeat myself”. 1d

melissajayne The photos I saw from the various rallies looked amazing, meanwhile turnout for Donnie‘s party was in the toilet 1d

TheBookHippie @dabbe S T R E S S … 1d

dabbe @Graciouswarriorprincess Yay! 💙♥️💙 1d

dabbe @Ruthiella @Deblovestoread My favorite was “The only good orange monarch is a butterfly.“ 🦋 (which there was a monarch emoji!) 1d

dabbe @TheBookHippie I have no reason to be stressed; I'm retired! 🤣 Yet ... 1d

TheBookHippie @dabbe your immune system sees stress and lessens and thus ….a cold. 1d

TheBookHippie @dabbe 🤦🏻‍♀️😵‍💫🫣👀🤷🏻‍♀️ 1d

dabbe @TheBookHippie 😘 1d

dabbe @TheBookHippie You hate Schoolhouse Rock? 😲 1d

TheBookHippie @dabbe no -colds. 1d

dabbe @TheBookHippie Whew! 😅 1d

IMASLOWREADER feel better 1d

AnnCrystal Best that you stayed home and rest. Hope you feel better soon 🙏🏼💝. 23h

dabbe @IMASLOWREADER TY! 😍 16h

dabbe @AnnCrystal TY! 😍 16h

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Robotswithpersonality

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics | Dolly Parton, Robert K Oermann

so-so

A pleasant meander. Sort of an extended interview/conversation, using individual songs to talk either specifically about the story behind the song or some aspect of Dolly's life.
I'll admit to wishing the production had been a bit different: the beginnings of songs start the various conversations, and maybe it's a rights or length concern, but after a while you just find yourself wishing you could hear the whole song 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? instead of a fade out clip. Acknowledged, I could just pause and go listen to the song, but that does tend to break up the listening experience....
The other somewhat jarring feature were the interstitials not in Dolly's voice - introducing changes in subject matter that are not fronted by a different song. I can understand the organizing principle behind sectioning off and clearly labelling such shifts in topics but the voice doing so 1w

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 is almost robotic, not melodic, and is an unpleasant contrast to Parton's drawl and occasional drift into song.
And on the really, really subjective end of critiques, evidently this awesome person is a lot more religious/spiritual than I knew and God/gospel talk is just distancing to this atheist reader. 1w

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bibliothecarivs

A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics | Billy Bragg

Yesterday, I was pleased to find two Billy Bragg CDs at a local charity shop. I'm currently listening to Don't Try This at Home for the first time and I'm looking forward to listening to The Internationale. #TuesdayTunes

Bookwomble Both excellent albums, comrade ✊🚩😊 3mo

bibliothecarivs ✊️🚩 3mo

TieDyeDude @TheBookHippie just mentioned his album with Wilco recently! I've listened to some of his stuff since that I've liked. Thanks for sharing! 3mo

TheBookHippie What a find!!!! So lovely!!! It‘s very soothing music to me! ♥️ 3mo

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Bookwomble

A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics | Billy Bragg

#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

"I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them, but they were only satellites.
It's wrong to wish on space hardware,
I wish, I wish, I wish you cared." ??️?

? A New England ?
? Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy ?
? Billy Bragg ?
? https://youtu.be/IOLsnzuIADM?si=hwczW8VPwjMXQfXD

Luke-XVX I met him once at a protest in my teens! 8mo

Bookwomble @Luke-XVX ✊😊 8mo

Leftcoastzen Love Billy Bragg! Look how young! Made my morning watching this video.. thanks for posting!🥰 8mo

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen He's a baby! ?? I remember watching this performance on the telly in 1983. I can't remember whether I'd already bought "Life's a Riot...", but if I hadn't, I definitely bought it the next day! Love Billy for many reasons ? 8mo

Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen I don't know if you've heard of comedian Bill Bailey, but he wrote a comedy love-letter to Billy called Unisex Chip Shop, and this is the two of them performing it together. There's another version you'll find on You Tube of them busking it in the street, which is fun, too. https://youtu.be/1lnWNg3Pax8?si=t8xcUAGdCHSVDT-T 8mo

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inthegreensandblues

Lyrics | Tori Amos

#Bats makes me think of this song 🦇

#WickedWhispers @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 8mo

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Susanita

Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs | Leonard Cohen

My score is 73/100. As with the previous surveys, some songs are very familiar, and others I‘ve never even heard of the artist. Here‘s the link if you want to take the survey https://bit.ly/46wY0GA

I think I‘m contractually obligated to select as number one a song that has my name as the title so …
1. Suzanne

And also…
2. The Edge of Seventeen
3. Suite Judy Blue Eyes

#TLT