Pet Collars for the Fall Season

by joy on April 14, 2012

Long Hair Tortoise Shell Cat for Rent- Cheap

Why butcher an animal for a collar when you can find a nice lethargic one to play along?  We’ve got a bunch of incredibly friendly cats who, for a small ration of food, will lie wrapped around yer neck for an extremely long time.  Now, we have one in black and white, with short hair, and another, lush number who is more traditional in her tortoise shell markings, but she’s a lot bigger, and a whole lot feistier.  My son Jess, an animal rescuer from way back, has trained these animals to drape over his neck, thus eliminating the need for a scarf in chilly weather..  We’re working on the Sonny Bono, which is a sort of fur vest, comprised of a family of long hairs who we are training to latch on to each other’s tails.   It’s a bit tedious, cats being what they are, and we are cat herders, I tell them, not cat hurters. If all goes well, Fall Season may be stunning, with Kitty Boas, galore!!

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We ARe ThE 99 PeRCeNT!!!

by joy on March 7, 2012

The story thus far…
Last September:
My son Jezz had been camped out in Zuccotti Park with Occupy Wall Street, protesting the growing influence of the Uber rich on our government, and the disparity between the rich and poor in this country.  I had gone down to drop off blankets and food there a few times, and was astounded at the level of awareness that these young (mostly very young)  brave, idealistic people showed.
After a while, I wrote a song about it and even got feedback from Sister Brigid ( a super guru)..about the words..
Then, I booked a gig on Long Island, in a club that Bobby Belfiori was promoting, Buckleys, in Baldwin…and I asked the guys to play a little funk jam…
Anyhoo, everyone started dancing and singing along.  The bass player, Even Steven, offered to help produce the tune with me.

 

All the musicians wanted to be part of it, and Rod Kohn from Buddy Miles’ band even sent wave files of keyboard and guitar through the internet..from Hollywood, Florida…to add to the track.

 THEN… I asked Mark Brady to come to the studio to videotape our recording session.  Mission and Trp were there, and they got inspired and wrote some additional lyrics…

THEN,  Mark said he’d cut a video together..BUT then, Mark got really sick, with some severe blood poisoning…and in the middle of going back and forth to doctors,  his video editing system crashed.

Meanwhile, Mark’s friend Mark Melendez offered some of his Occupy footage.  THEN Mary Campbell offered to shoot Even Steven and me playing the song in the park..and then in a club …Then TrP and Mission, videotaped themselves rapping….

…so anyway, with all this footage, and Mark’s system down, and his face blown up like a balloon from a jaw infection…Even Steven and I cut a video..and the results were great…

And THEN Mark got better and was able to replace some of his video editing gear, so he and I finished the original video..

SO  here are the 2 versions in all their glory….

so..here are 2 videos of one song, We are the 99 Percent, which now has an original arrangement, so much that I’ve included several of the players as writers of the piece….

Here’s version 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cQA2D2-Cg

And version 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYVis4FyAM

YouTube – Videos from this email

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Suspending Habeas Corpus – We Have Devolved!!

January 2, 2012

From a Letter to a friend (who self identifies as a right winger): It was really a wakeup call when you pointed that out, that despite our political differences, we were creeped out by the same things!! We both agree that personhood for corporations is wrong and insane. That’s one of the demands of the [...]

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A letter to a friend who is underwater (on his morgage) in Florida

November 6, 2011

The Occupy Wall street movement has struck a nerve..it’s the 1 percent who owns 40 percent of the wealth, who buy the elections, and send factories overseas…Whirlpool took a 13 million dollar bailout, then cut and run and left 5000 workers jobless after they moved to Mexico..I say, great!.  Let them pay import tax!!  (oh, [...]

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Regarding Liberty Plaza..

October 17, 2011

Subject: Day 7 of the Wall Street Demonstration Dear Friends, Some of you folks know that my dear son Jesse is with the CUNY student contingent down at Liberty Square protesting corporate takeover of the US government , and tax evasion by the wealthy.  Forty percent of people under the age of 30 live in [...]

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Be Wary of Fake Democrats!!

September 17, 2011

What is a fake Democrat?…we had a guy in Staten Island, Mike McMahon, who had been a NY City Councilman, who run for Vito Fossella’s seat, when it was found that Fossella (a Republican) had been busted for a DWI, and then was found to have two families, one in NY and a mistress with [...]

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Just a note to say I was here

July 26, 2011

I’ve gotta leave some graffiti, my initials on a tree, something Anything to prove I was here Just a note to say Once upon a time I existed and breathed just like the little cat who sits on my lap purring away like a little happy engine, I was here. Sometimes I get weary of [...]

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Winding Down – The Last Days of the Space Shuffle

July 8, 2011

I’m reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Kubler Ross to deal with the beginning of the end.  Sorry, this is not necessarily depression, but I would like not to subscribe to the denial that surrounds death in this culture, where we all are expected to live to 120, happily and healthily.  We put [...]

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My Survival

March 9, 2011

This was a song I wrote a long time ago..but it feels sort of prophetic…My Survival Reminds me of Michael Moore’s speech in Wisconsin, only in my song it was 500, not 400. The 400 were also the wealthy robber barons who were able to fit into Mrs Astor’s ballroom…ironic, that 400 people own more [...]

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Insolent, Insufferable Irish Sculptors, Original Punk Rock Artists

March 4, 2011

My sister and I share a passion for ancestry research.  While mostly we’re descended from pretty complacent souls, once in a while a cool story comes through.  This one, is from Wikipedia..where our forefathers, worked in Oxford while the famine raged in their homeland of Cork, Ireland. At this point, Darwin was the rock star, [...]

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