You’ve Been Posted!

I found plenty of bloggable stuff out there on the Internet today. Here are a couple of bits and pieces.

  • Peter Gabriel. According to AP, he’s bailing on Genesis’s induction next month into the rock hall of fame, citing his upcoming European tour. Sort of harsh, no? Maybe they do some sort of video link.
  • Carl Sagan. NPR quotes the scientist on the view of Earth from 4 billion miles away.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

When I was little, I watched “Cosmos” on public television – that show kind of blew my mind. I might have to Netflix that action.

“As a bonus you’ve been probably bobbing your head all along and not just because you might have a contact high,” says Click Track.

Ha ha ha! Stoners getting high at the Trey show! Ha! Only I didn’t see or smell pot or any other drugs (besides booze) once when I was there. Maybe the blogger did, but he didn’t elaborate. Then, from hackneyed to casual racism: “The two forays into light-reggae were about as successful as you’d expect from a band of seven white folks led by a dude from Vermont.” Yeeeucthh.

Reminds me of this:

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Six Degrees of Phish

Wow, I have not much at all tonight. The best I can do is make an observation – Peter Gabriel’s “Games Without Frontiers” makes for terrific Metro listening. The song popped up on the iPod during my commute this evening, and I suddenly felt like I was in a music video on the blue line.

Also, via Songfacts via Wikipedia, I learn that the whistling in that song was done by Gabriel, Hugh Padgham, and Steve Lillywhite. The latter, incidentally, produced “Joy,” Phish’s last record.

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