Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go – the river roll roll roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul
Brokedown Palace
Robert Hunter
Jerry Garcia
Jaquandor writes a nice piece on what we can learn from critics:
I read a lot of critics and reviews, because I think their writings are often informative. Critics are almost always very well-steeped in their chosen fields, so one can learn a great deal from them, about the history and development of the field, which works shaped the field and which might have, but didn’t (and thus went on to become “unjustly neglected masterworks”). But I’ve always been deeply suspicious of critics as judges of what is good and what is bad, because – – and there is simply no other way to say this – – they so very, very often get it wrong.
And what we likely will not learn:
One good list deserves another. Here’s Project Censored’s Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003.
Via thousand yard glare.
VH1’s list of the 50 greatest album covers. You look, you decide.
Via A List A Day.
It looks like there may be a new satellite system to provide an alternative to the US military based GPS system. The prospect is apparently not going down well with the US:
The US wants to maintain a superiority in space. It has seen, even in the recent conflicts, how central that is to its ability to conduct campaigns overseas, and therefore anything that either erodes that superiority, or worse still, jeopardises it, will be taken very seriously indeed by the American military, and so it’s entirely understandable that they would much rather Galileo didn’t exist.
But Europe and possibly Russia and China appear to be moving ahead with the system.
Via PRC News.