Saturday, December 05, 2020

SATURDAY NIGHT TAME IMPALA, GRATEFUL DEAD.

Tame Impala with Patience. Released as a single in 2019.





Tame Impala is the Perth,Australia born project (2007) of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker, who writes, performs, records and produces all the "band"'s music. For tours he is accompanied by Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesiser), Cam Avery (bass guitar, vocals), Jay Watson (synthesiser, vocals, guitar) and Julien Barbagallo (drums, vocals).



Grateful Dead with Box of Rain. From the 1970 album American Beauty.


The Grateful Dead formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums).


Nite.



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IN MEMORIAM DR. WALTER E. WILLIAMS (1936-2020).

A great man has left us. Dr. Walter E. Williams, George Mason University economics professor and syndicated columnist passed away at the age of 84 on DEC 2, 2020.


Via Economic Policy Journal:


"He was the author of over 150 publications which have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, Georgia Law Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Social Science Quarterly, and Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and popular publications such as Newsweek, Ideas on Liberty, National Review, Reader's Digest, Cato Journal, and Policy Review. He authored ten books: America: A Minority Viewpoint, The State Against Blacks, which was later made into the PBS documentary "Good Intentions," All It Takes Is Guts, South Africa's War Against Capitalism, which was later revised for South African publication, Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks, More Liberty Means Less Government, Liberty vs. the Tyranny of Socialism, Up From The Projects: An Autobiography, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed On Discrimination? and American Contempt for Liberty."









Rest in peace and God Blesss, Dr. Williams. You will be sorely missed.


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Sunday, November 29, 2020

SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: HEINRICH VOGELER (1872-1942).

Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – June 14, 1942) was a German painter, designer, architect, and teacher, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. After WW1 he became politically involved, joining the KPD, the German Communist Party, around 1920. With his second wife he emigrated to the USSR in 1931. Upon Germany's invasion in 1941, he was, despite his communist credentials, deemed a security threat. He died in a collective farm in Kazachstan in 1942.


Fruehling (Spring)



Sommerabend (Summer Evening)



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