CatHouse Chat

If this doesn't move you, then you need a heart and soul transplant.

[This is David, again, crossposting from third world county. R'Cat has the collection of these Flash presentations linked in her upper right-hand corner, but I felt they needed another plug to keep them up front—especially now.]

Just CLICK HERE or on the pic below. Honor, Sacrifice, Duty.

If viewing th video doesn't move you, I really don't want to know you. (R'Cat may be more generous, but she's not me, 'K? :-)

Trackback linked at: MacStansbury, TMH's Bacon Bits, Right Wing Nation and Soldiers' Angel

Seat Warmin'

'K, now... just a lil crossposting (sorta) from third world county to kinda keep R'Cat's blog seat warm for her while she's cattin' around with family. (Wait. That didn't sound right. Oh, man, am I getting in deeper trouble here or what? heh heh).

So, here's a neat lil site you may or may not know about: Putfile.com.

Well, it may seem a lil clunky, may be less than wholly reliable and may just be around for a short while, like so many of these things seem to be, when I saw but Putfile mentioned at Dr. Phat Tony’s, I knew it fit my three criteria for a website/software I needed to check out:

• It promises to do something I need to do, want to do or at least have some sort of peripheral interest in doing (pretty broad, eh? ;-)
  


• It is easily accessible/usable, no matter which of my computers I access it from


• It fits with my “I’ll pay whatever I have to for what I need, but everything else better be as darned near free as can be” criterion.
  

So, signed up. Made an mp3 from a wav file I’d recorded and uploaded that. Oops. Upload failed the first time. Server error. Tried again. Says it worked. Let’s see how the code that’s supposed to load it works.

Click here to listen to 'Lifes Railway to Heaven'

Worked fine. BTW, this is an example of the kind of music that can easily be found in America’s Third World County™. I just took an old 19th Century gospel tune that some of the old folks around here like a lot and kinda Bluegrassed it up a lil bit. My arrangement/recording is kinda repetitive. If I have the time someday, I’ll spend time polishing it, adding a tad more variation, etc.

Recorded with Roland Soundcanvas (SCC-1 and SD-35) midi. Original midi sequencing done with Encore music transcription software and PowerTracks Pro7.

I know my Redeemer lives!

(Gak! I can't believe I had such an embarrassing oopsie in the title! Fixed now. *grf!*)

Nicole C. Mullens recorded a beautiful song, "Redeemer," on her solo debut album in 2000. It meshes in with the quote from Job in my previous post, and I thought it, too, fit in with today's mood.

Here are the lyrics:

Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning
Who told the ocean you an only come this far?
Who showed the moon where to hide 'til evening
Whose words alone can catch a falling star?

Well I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redeemer lives
All of creation testify
This life within me cries
I know my Redeemer lives

The very same God that spins things in orbit
He runs to the weary, the worn and the weak
And the same gentle hands that hold me when I'm broken
They conquered death to bring me victory

Now I know my Redeemer lives
I know my Redemer lives
Let all creation testify
Let this life wihtin me cry
I know my Redeemer, He lives

To take away my shame 
And He lives forever I'll proclaim
That the payment for my sin
Was the precious life He gave
But now He's alive
And there's a new day

And I know my Redeemer, He lives
I know my Redeemer lives
Let all creation testify
This life within me cries
I know my Redeemer lives

Saturday Sun

Just some linky stuff...

Get 'em while they're hot! Beethoven's symphonies numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9 from the BBC's Philharmonic under the direction of Gianandrea Noseda are available for download here for a limited time. These are all high-quality mp3 files, and so they are rather large for music files, especially for folks unused to downloading large music works. But they are well worth the download. Very Good Stuff.

If you want to listen to some von Karajan interpretations of Beethoven's symphonies numer 7 and 9, Diane has them up on her radioblog listing at Diane's Stuff. Also Very Good Stuff.

The Carnival of the Recipes is up over at Anywhere But Here. Good eats, great treats.

A continuing series on the Declaration of Independence speaking to the current scene here through Monday. Citizenship is costly. We must continue to pay the price if we want to continue to enjoy the benefits.

Here's a delightful discovery: Collecting My Thoughts. It's a text-dense blog by a retired librarian who's a real live thinking literate person. Always thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Kathleen Parker had a piece well worth reading yesterday. In case you missed it, here is "Family's feud with a fascist future."

It's July 2. Have you re-read The Declaration of Independence recently? Well, if not, here's your chance.

And while you're at it, here's some interesting background to the First Amendment to the Constitution. And you thought Roger Williams was a singer? That's Roger Whittaker (and what kinda old fogy are you to be thinking of him, anyway? :-)

Want more linky goodness? After you've surfed a while off Romeocat's blogroll, CLICK on over to my place and surf a few of the out-of-the way links both on my blogroll and my (sparse) links collection. I think that surfing a person's blogroll/links collection can be as interesting as their blog is. In the case of my blog, sometimes moreso.

*VBG*

Hello Everybody

Well, R'cat has invited me to help out with some postings while she tours, rights wrongs and otherwise gets this country on track.  What a daunting task she has set before me.  Oh, I forgot to introduce myself.  I'm GM Roper, attorney for the late Obo Neykundu, General Manager of Nigerian Mines Consolidated....

Whoops, wrong intro... Sorry about that!  Actually, I really am GM Roper and my blog is GM"s Corner "Where Truth, Honesty and Integrity Are Honored Above All Else!"  My politics are decidedly conservative, I love humor on a blog, all seriousness all the time makes for dull reading.  I was recently inducted into The Wide Awakes, an honor for me, and the source of no small amount embarrassment for those that know me.  At any rate, I hope that I do R'cat proud while she takes on the evil doers in America.

I'll be back, and in the meantime, don't be afraid to visit my blog too.  Any friend of R'cats is already a friend of mine.

Dueling Music

Okaaayy... Jeremy brought up the idea of introducing new links/bloggers and R'Cat stamped APPROVAL all over it, so...

Here are a few of my fav new (some just new to me) bloggers, some cool music links, etc. If you notice the comments to Jeremy's first post, there's a wide diversity of tastes mentioned between R'Cat, Jeremy and me there. Beethoven, Megadeth and AC/DC cover a pretty wide range. But I'll bet R'Cat and jeremy have even wider tastes than their fav group mentions indicate, and I know I'm not permanently stuck in the Classical period. :-)

That said, here's a roundup of recent links to some very good music on the web. YMMV (and I'm sure Jeremy will post a link to his Megadeth post but--Oh! too late, I just did. :-)

The Beeb is offering downloads of new performances of all of Beethoven's symphonies this month. I've listened to numbers one through five, so far, and they are very credible performances. LARGE files, so be warned. I've had one person tell me her DSL connection got swamped. YMMV.

Keep the Coffee Coming is a great site! It's a combo audio/picto/diarist blog featuring some of the best music you may have missed or neglected. Today's mp3 (audioblog) posts feature Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks and Peter, Paul and Mary. Yesterday's mp3 posts included Eddie from Ohio and Connie Kaldor. Good stuff, Maynard. (BTW, I found Keep the Coffee Coming via a link from my now fav coffeeblogger--actually coffee-tea-cocoa blogger: Christine of Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea.)

Streaming music radio? Yes. Radio Wales has a bit of everything: 30s and 40s jazz and big band, Celtic folk, new pop and rock and just about everything in between. You can select a program and play it out of sequence or listen live. Requires Real Player or Real Player Alternative. Be sure to catch Frank Henessy's Celtic Heartbeat. Wonderful Celtic folk music!

A friend and I were having one of those "catch me if you can" email discussions the other night. He's in Melbourne, Australia and I'm here in America's Third World County™. In the course of the conversation, it came out that we were both listening to the same Vivaldi piece on 4MBS Classic 103.7 in... Brisbane, Australia. heh. indeed. (Are you listening, Glenn? The sincerest form of flattery, indeed. heh.)

And speaking of Australia and music, here's one of the most unique music-related sites I've seen. Ever wonder where you'd put a pipe organ in your home? Well, neither have I, but there's this guy...

I've a lot more in the music area, but those will suffice.

Non-music new-to-me bloggers with interesting blogs? In contemporary commentary, The English Guy is new to me in the last couple of weeks. I've found his comments to be insightful and well-stated. Contemporary culture, current events, wry observations and the occasional link to something wacky. Rich's site is a varied read.

Soliloquoy is a working writer's blog. Nancy does some thoughtful exploration of her world. Her posts remind me to take thought to my own daily experiences. Book and movie reviews, observations, articles published elsewhere. An eclectic journal. Some good reads, quite different to much of my poly-social blog reads.

Yeh, I understand On Location With Rick Lee had an Instalaunche a week or two ago, but in case you've missed the site, DO check it out. Rick's a commercial photographer with an artist's eye. Loads and loads of purty picksures.

Looking forward to some of Jeremy's links.

Back to normal Cathouse Chat...

:-)

Montgomery Gentry says it right:

From Cowboy Lyrics,  Montgomery Gentry - You Do Your Thing Lyrics.

Put me on a mountain,
Way back in the back woods
Put me on a lake with pickin on the line
Put me 'round a campfire cookin' something I just cleaned
You do your thing, I'll do mine

I ain't tradin' in my family's safety
Just to save a little gas
And I'll pray to God any place, any time
And you can bet I'll pick up the phone if Uncle Sam calls me up
You do your thing, I'll do mine

Hey, I'll worry about me
You just worry about you
And I'll believe what I believe
And you believe what you believe too

I ain't gonna spare the rod
Cuz that ain't what my daddy did
And I sure know the difference between wrong and right
You know, to me it's all just common sense
A broken rule, a consequence
You do your thing, I'll do mine

Hey, I'll worry about me
You just worry about you
And I'll believe what I believe
And you believe what you believe too

I'm gonna keep on working hard
Make my money the old-fashioned way
I don't wanna piece of someone else's pie
If I don't get my fill on life I ain't gonna blame no one but me
You do your thing, I'll do mine

You ain't gonna be my judge
Cuz my judge will judge us all one day
You do your thing, I'll do mine.