Odin's Day

[shadesong]

Administration
Hello to new readers marlowe1, montykins, and spimby!

Medical
Exhaustion + nausea. Bad brain day - feeling very drifty in the head. A few vision issues, too.

Still don't have the biopsy results. And in answer to missakins' very good question, the reason I'm stuck at home waiting for the call = I do not have a cell phone.

Unguessed Lyric
"If you don't say it's wrong, then that says it's right." Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? -- Solomon Burke, "None Of Us Are Free", 0ccam

Kingdom of Loathing
Thank you for the Kmails of welcome and game-booze, y'all! And to answer a FAQ, yes, I've joined a clan; unwilly got to me first, and bribed me with a gift basket, to boot.

I have a trophy now. This pleases me, even though it is completely irrelent in real life. :)

8 Hunks of Hanukkah
Pictures of burning_brain and i_am_lono are up at hanukkah_hunks! This is fun.

Arisia
Will those of you who are Arisia panelists please post or send me your bios so I know what mine ought to look like? Argh. The year I was a panelist, it was extremely last-minute, so I had no bio. I have never written a panelist bio. *fret*

I had more I wanted to say, but... bad brain day. So. Here you go.

Comments

[dindin.livejournal.com]

*peers at marlowe1*

[rosefox]

I'm pretty sure I used the bio that I used for Dark Furies.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

-Go here and you can see about a zillion of 'em from last year.

[celticfeministw.livejournal.com]

Mental bulletin to the 'Song Medical Universe:

Call with the damned biopsy results already!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

...burning_brain and i_am_lono are up

Um...Should there be a "so to speak" after that? (I don't know! I can't look! I'm at work!)

Here's yer bio!

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"shadesong owns your ass. That's all you need to know. But you can pretend to own her ass if she says OK."

Song

[0ccam.livejournal.com]

The song is "None of Us are Free".

Google found this for me:
"Various Artists, Putumayo Presents American Blues (Putumayo)
This is a whole different slice of American blues and a wonderful bringing together of artists who have remained true to the roots. As such, this collection ends up feeling a more genuine representation of what's going on than nearly any other compilation I can think of off hand. There are some real gems, even just jumping in with Arthur Adams & B.B. King's sultry "Get Next to Me". Adams's honey sweet voice is appealing beyond description, and his muted popping electric slide guitar work only adds to his charm. A modern (first words are "Waiting on the corner with my cell phone in my hand"), urban blues that knows where it came from and isn't at all ashamed to reference older blues lyrics and slang.

The great Ruth Brown is a living reminder that the blues is about the beauty of the human voice telling stories of getting through mighty rough times. She walks the floor hard and confidently on "Good Day for the Blues", a proud woman determined to find work and work for a living to support the family who depends on her. Henry Gray, who made his mark decades past as Howlin' Wolf's old school pianist and is now regarded as an elder statesman of Chicago-style blues, shows he's lost none of his bounce on "How Could You Do It". Accompanied by a swinging band with bullet-miked harp, Gray will make you throw aside your cane and jump up and dance.

If there's a rarity to treasure, it's the chance to again hear Sugar Pie Desanto on "Hello, San Francisco (Part 1)". Sugar Pie was given her name by Johnny Otis who helped her record her first album in 1955, and she's one of the feistiest grand dames performing the blues today. But it's Solomon Burke powering out his immensely soulful "None of Us Are Free" that is worth the price of the whole disc. Accompanied by swooping organ and gospel-style harmonies, his words are a heartfelt and inspiring call for compassion and action. "There are people still in darkness / And they just can't see the light / If you don't say it's wrong / Then that says it's right". Closing the disc, this remarkable song (and there hasn't been one like it for decades) gives a person an awful lot to continue thinking about. There are 14 tracks, including some by younger artists who will eventually be carrying the torch. But for this listener, the people mentioned above contribute the highpoints that make this disc worth owning. But you should get it just to hear Solomon Burke's "None of Us Are Free".
— Barbara Flaska"

from here: http://www.popmatters.com/shorttakes/2004_03_21_archive.shtml
And that gave me a song title to search for. I love Google.

Full lyrics (Apparently Lynyrd Skynyrd covered it): http://www.skynyrd.com/lyrics/91-97/twenty/twenk.html

Re: Song

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's a gorgeous song.

Okay...

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

The panelists (or those who are my friends on LJ) have their time slots and all, but when will the rest of us see the program? If it's up on the site, it's not easily accessible.

I feel that I'm focusing a bit too much on something that's more than 2 weeks away. I have other things that should be getting this attention. Oh well.

Re: Okay...

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

No clue. It's driving me a little crazy, too.

Re: Okay...

[jasra]

Soon. :)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I just used the whitelist feature to pre-OK you, and there you were.

The gift basket is something I like to do for all new members, and transitions into the Food Day things, like Taco Tuesday, or Pizza and Beer Friday.

Oh, and take a look around the clan stash, it give you a heads up on items, and has useful stuff you can take.

-un goes off to make food