Shawna Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 forgot to mention: anyone that voted before last night, there's a new addition to the list (I missed it...) so you can go back and edit your votes if you'd like. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 We'd like to welcome Ben (you know him as RockyRaccoon) as our new(est) Songplaces writer! He's written two articles for Songplaces so far and already made himself invaluable! Take some time to have a read: Pretty Girl From Annapolis by the Avett Brothers (His second article is "Aladdin Sane" by Bowie, which I haven't had time to upload yet.) Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 WTG Rocky!...I love the Avett Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Thank you thank you. I've enjoyed writing the articles. I'm pumped for the next one. Though I have no idea what song it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Nice work there Rocky, I enjoyed it. Congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Way to go, Ben!!! Writing about music is one of the best things you can do... (I've been -and still am- a music journalist for decades ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 and here is Ben's follow-up to that first incredible article. "Aladdin Sane" by David Bowie Enjoy!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Both VERY well researched and written, Ben. I am proud to know you. (indirectly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Haha I appreciate all the praise. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I thought it sucked. (Kidding. But come on, we can't keep stroking the guy's ego like this, it's unhealthy. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 katie_sane would love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Oh yes, she would. I miss that girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 I thought it sucked. (Kidding. But come on, we can't keep stroking the guy's ego like this, it's unhealthy. ) Haha well there's no denying how good Bowie has been. Until like, '83. Then he kinda started sucking. But for like ten years, he was nearly flawless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Not Bowie's ego, your ego. Bowie's my hero, if he wants to have an ego that's fine with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Ahhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Way to go, Rocky!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Yeah, it's from that book, but isn't it a cool thought? Just imagine ... Occupy Hearts!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Today's the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and after a recent survey 21% of the Germans below 30 don't know what to associate when they hear "Auschwitz" musical interlude: Rappoport's Testament: I Never Gave Up [spoilerq:1]lyrics[/spoilerq] [spoilera:1](Chorus) And if you survive me I Never gave up Tell them this I Never gave up And if you survive me I Never gave up Tell them this Almost as if I were planning ahead I drank, I ate, I made love I learnt to snatch whatever I could I never asked for pity and I never gave up (Chorus) Twenty months I kept accounts And in the end they'll balance out Sometimes I vomit happy memories Sometimes I laugh out loud just to crack my face (Chorus) And if I meet Hitler in the other place I'll spit this precious soup in his face And all my accounts will be settled, you see 'Cause Hitler never ever got the better of me (Chorus) I never gave up, I never gave up I crawled in the mud but I never gave up (Repeat to fade)[/spoilera] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 Good grief, I wonder what percent of Americans under 30 would know what Auschwitz was. I'll ask my kid today and see if they've been taught about that at his school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 yeah maybe, but you have to see that on this topic it's different being German... it's maybe like an American not knowing what happened at Pearl Harbor or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockyRaccoon Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 That's interesting. I had a German exchange student once and he, as well as many of my German language teachers, have told me that the history of the Nazi's and how terrible they were is drilled into their heads year after year in school until they can't stand it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 yeah, something like that... I for one wouldn't have thought that you could go through school and not have heard the holocaust very intensively ...or maybe they did and forgot it again? Even though that wouldn't be much better, I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 That's interesting. I had a German exchange student once and he, as well as many of my German language teachers, have told me that the history of the Nazi's and how terrible they were is drilled into their heads year after year in school until they can't stand it anymore. Some of my german friends told me exactly the same. One of my best friends for decades was even seeing a shrink... Nobody (americans, french, south-americans, chinese, etc) should forget what happened, yet young Germans are not guilty of what their great-grandparents did. It's good to be known if that avoids that it could happen again. But who knows... Half of my mother's family disappeared in Europe after WWII (now we know they died in the camps) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earth-Angel Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Hate to make it sounds like it's one and the same, but when you live in South Africa you don't go a day without it being drilled into your head how people suffered (and apparently are still suffering even though they weren't even born at the time...) of the horrors of Apartheid & slavery. Now, I have never had my own slave (neither has anyone I have even known) or made someone show me their travel papers before (neither has anyone I have even known) but I am constantly made to feel guilty (and punished) for the fact that years & years ago - it happened. For a country of people who are always drilling it into our heads we need to think of the future, everyone working together hand in hand, but they seem to be living in the past & working hard on building resentment between people. Isn't it more important to know about the past, learn from its mistakes, ensure they never happen again AND LIVE IN THE NOW??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 Isn't it more important to know about the past, learn from its mistakes, ensure they never happen again AND LIVE IN THE NOW??? Absolutelly. Same thing happens here with the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) people are still fighting over shall we search, judge, etc? I haven't been in Argentina for 40 years but it's the same with the 30.000 missing people (some of them were friends of mine in school, we grew together...) I thnk as things are right now, we should learn the lesson and focus in the present and near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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