_forumlogo.png.a607ef20a6e0c299ab2aa6443aa1f32e.png)
Alexander
-
Posts
3,380 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Donations
0.00 USD
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Posts posted by Alexander
-
-
Okay...
So, we fix it so the airport security people are not allowed to touch your junk or molest your toddlers.
And then we'll all act outraged when someone hides an explosive device down the front of their pants or on a toddler.
Everybody happy now?
-
I'm a strange type of introvert. I keep myself very much to myself, have few friends, etc. When I go to a place where people are socializing I tend to feel very out of place. I tend to be alone in such situations.
However, I'm also a performer. I have NO problem getting up in front of groups of people and doing stand-up, improv, teaching, acting, etc. My wife used to say that when we went to parties, she would see this switch thrown and I would go from the introvert who can't come out of his shell to the life of the party and the absolute center of attention in nothing flat.
When I'm in a performance situation, I'm fine. It's when I'm in a social situation that I have no control over the shy guy/center of attention thing. I can't just go into the party and be social. I have to drift around for a few hours before I'll find myself drawn into somebody's conversation. Then I can't shut up.
As I said, it's weird but I know it's not unusual, especially among performers. As I understand it, Johnny Carson was similarly introverted in social situations...
-
Today's update features Memphis Minnie performing "He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing)," a tribute to the heavyweight champion, Joe Louis.
-
Yep. Gal can sing. Pity she's going to be a rock n' roll casualty...
-
Today's update features Roosevelt Graves and his brother Uaroy, possibly one of the greatest tambourine players of all time, performing "I'll Be Rested (When The Roll Is Called).
-
The Carter Family appear for the last time in today's update performing "No Depression In Heaven."
-
No, it doesn't sound much like "Sugarcane" at all...
-
I heartily recommend the new Costello album, "National Ransom." Produced by T-Bone Burnett, whose style of production I've come to find boring for the most part, but who does a fabulous job here (the album sounds quite a bit like his work on "King of America").
-
"Band On The Run" is arguably Paul's best post-Beatles work. Great album, although I don't feel particularly compelled to upgrade my copy...
-
Looking forward to this...
-
Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachel return in today's update performing "Milk Cow Blues."
-
On this Election Day eve, it is fitting that today's update features Uncle Dave Macon's "Governor Al Smith," Macon's endorsement of Smith in the 1928 Presidential election. Make sure you get out and vote in this most important midterm election tomorrow!
-
It's interesting to see how humanity can only see its own side. If humanity was completely wiped out, the universe would never notice. We're not that important.
-
I love this. I heard about it from a coworker who took it VERY seriously. I said to her, "Even if everything this guy says is true and this woman WAS a time traveler and DID have a cell phone, she wouldn't be talking on it because THERE WOULD BE NO SIGNAL. No cell towers. No satellites."
Duh. Hard to believe ANYBODY is taking this as anything other than a joke...
-
Uncle Dave Macon returns in today's update performing "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train."
-
I'll have to give "Night Nurse" a spin later...RIP.
-
That doesn't look like a very happy storm system...
-
Today's update features Blind Alfred Reed performing "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?"
-
I've heard some might fine tracks by Johnson on the Hi label...
-
Thank you so much for your very kind words, both here and on the blog, Chris. Such praise means a lot coming from you!
Today's update features country music pioneer Al Hopkins performing "West Virginia Gals."
-
Today's update features Sister Clara Hudmon (later known as the Georgia Peach) performing "Stand By Me."
-
The last disc of the "Anthology" kicks off in today's update in which the Carter Family performs the classic "Hello, Stranger."
-
One of the best of all time. RIP.
Nice that he had a comeback in recent years and did some truly remarkable work to put a cap on an already stellar career...
-
Today's update features the Heavenly Gospel Singers performing "Mean Old World," which closes the first disc of the last volume of the "Anthology."
Please check out "Where Dead Voices Gather"
in Miscellaneous Music
Posted
Today's update features Minnie Wallace, along with Will Shade of the Memphis Jug Band, performing "The Cockeyed World," a song protesting the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.