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Midweek Makeover: Bruce Highway Edition

By MB

On July 25, 2012

So, there was this original, by Bob Dylan. Â Secret? Â I’d never really paid attention to it, before 2009.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM[/youtube]

It’s great, isn’t it? Â But in that weird way that makes the first time you heard a song stick as the original, I’ll always associate this with the Whitlams. Â I was rolling north on the Bruce Highway in Australia when I first heard it:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAtA6rEpF40[/youtube]

Bonus Bruce Highway music –

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWneXu5bJSA[/youtube]

Weekend Music: A Distant World Edition

By MB

On July 20, 2012

In Music

Outkast – Git Up, Git Out

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acN_99gfuAM[/youtube]

Â Curtis Mayfield – Diamond in the Back

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVANQheoRUw[/youtube]

Sly and the Family Stone – Family Affair

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdiRhzTsSnk[/youtube]

Boston

By MB

On July 16, 2012

In Travel

Boston from the air

Dubai

By MB

On July 13, 2012

In Travel

Weekend Music: Rewind Edition

By MB

On July 13, 2012

In Music

Camera Obscura’s Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Who4OL08iR8[/youtube]

Beirut’s Postcards from Italy:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61BVv6pLtw[/youtube]

Continuing the postcard theme (ever heard of Postcrossing?), here’s Jens Lekman’s Postcard to Nina:

[youtube width=”640″ height=”480″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmq3GXsMcHM[/youtube]

By the time I get to Arizona . . .

By MB

On July 12, 2012

In Personal, Policy, Society

As an Arizona- born native? Â I think Gov. Jan Brewer and these law enforcement clowns should be ashamed of themselves. Â You’d hope that they’d want to do something useful with their lives. Â But, no. The guy in this video? Â Helps illustrate what a bunch of halfwit clowns they are:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCXzqgD99o[/youtube]