“Technology’s nice but if you don’t have a story, forget it.”
– Filmmaker Randy Ericksen
“Technology is great, but the story is greater.”
Ibid.
“Everyone wants to save us, and help us, but no one wants to know us.”
– 22 year old Lakota Songwriter and Producer Frank Waln who grew up at Rosebud.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nativetrailblazers/2012/04/27/filmmaker-randy-ericksen-hip-hop-artist-frank-waln
OK, those quotes are unrelated to what I’m about to blog but I just found those very profound just minutes ago so I had to include them here.
So, I spell a special ed teacher about once a week for an hour and a half or so; and it’s this one middle schooler named ___ who has full-on autism, downs, and many other issues so he’s very low functioning. Essentially I just babysit him while he watches his favorite cartoons on VHS and he has a button that can start it or stop it and that’s it. He loves to stop it and laugh — then start it again, and watch some more, “rinse, repeat,” etc.
Every once in a while though, something most people don’t ever notice OR care about — he’ll grab my hand or arm really lightly to get my attention and then touch his nose, his teeth his ear or his foot, etc., and he’s willing to wait almost forever until I say what he just pointed to, and the moment I say it he laughs hysterically and grins from ear to ear and either points to something else to continue or goes back to clicking his videos.
A friend who works full-time with special ed issues just blogged that a kid just gave her a noogie which made me giggle so much I had to pen these thoughts immediately.
It really is the little things, huh?
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12273051
SOFFTY FASNFFTOF (my debut folk full-length) just made it onto iTunes, hint, hint…
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soffty-fasnfftof/id522966480
[I lied didn't I? Those quotes turned out to be "sublimely" pertinent!]
Here’s a roundup of shorts, er uh ground up sorts, um, I mean some wound up sports, or wait, I know, a Roundup of Sorts…
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/9464509
And as they say in the middle school where I sub the most, it’s “mad beast.”
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12648062
We all still live and die by this punk rock sensibility that everyone who makes it is a scumbag, like so many crabs in a bucket.
Having hung out a lot with people like Robbie Robertson, John Densmore, Warren Buffet’s son Peter, Jacob’s dad from Twilight and the old blue guy from Avatar, I can say it’s more about what you’re doing and how you live your life than what amount of dollars or checkbooks you carry around in your pocket.
And not trying to rib David too much, if you’re not talking about Silvio Dante, you must mean Rodriguez and not Berlusconi, right? What are you doing man? Tell me what’s up!
– Patrick Moore
A feedback recovered from the old IUMA website, thanks be to the WAYBACK MACHINE!!!
http://web.archive.org/web/20051208014506/http://artists3.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Marco_Capelli/lyrics-0.html
http://www.gritsworld.com/press_page
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9895127
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3kPW-fE5Yc
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11152313
I lost my dad at 20, so I can relate a little bit to what Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina ‘Krissi’ Brown must be going through right now. Wow.
I’ve never met her, or her folks, but I can’t stop thinking about all my own stuff because of this. It took me a decade and a half before I even began to start feeling right again after all that.
Anyhow, here’s a reprint from my Facebook page that I thought deserved a wider “audience.” Cheers, marco.
First time I ever heard of Whitney Houston (RIP) was when I had a gig at a place called Mystic Oral School which got some kids ready for Gaulludet University in DC, known as the deaf college. I was only 17 or so myself. They also tended to kids with autism and other “special needs.” We were hired there to headline an all-school dance.
Before we played was a dj who was running a singalong and this song “Greatest Love Of All” by Whitney was presented by almost every girl and several of the guys in the course of a couple hours. Most of the band split after sound-check to get ready for the show but I stayed to watch many of the performances. I’d never heard this song before that night but it brought shivers up my spine when some of these kids sang this song!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Love_of_All
And to think Clive Davis tried to talk Whitney out of adding this song to her rekkid. I’m sure the George Benson version before her was a fine tune, but it would’ve slept at the middle of the charts and went away probably had Whitney not championed this song. Wow. Makes you think.
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FLIM-FLAMMYS: A Marco-Style Review of the Grammys.
12feb12. Mystic, Konetiuk!
And now I’ll attempt to make all my snarky remarks over at FB and Twitter into one large post so I can delete all the one liners for good.
Most of the words are mine, unless the little iKons show you otherwise. J
@tinselkorey LOL I did JazzHands 2day too. Also friends of mine sang at pregrammys at the Renaissance. Wish I were on that coast this wknd!
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Adele, I have Amy Winehouse on line 1. She wants you to give her back her hairstyle. #grammys #grammy #grammys2012
rosannecash rosanne cash
The Minaj outfit just screams ‘GREAT MUSICIAN’! #IWoreThatInThe80s
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@rosannecash @Terry_Ware @SandraBernhard I’m with you there, Roseanne. I’m watching it in a bar with the sound off, and reading tweets.
@calinative LL Cool who? I guess at least he kept his same name forever instead of changing it every week like P doody, diddy wah daddy…
I notice The Boss doesn’t need to wear a miter to sound like he owns the whole freaking world.
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jamileh Pump up the Jam
@rosannecash I know I could just google it but…what is a miter in this context?
@jamileh Minaj showed up on red carpet with a.. Bishop. Wearing a miter.
@rosannecash @jamileh If she really wanted 2 shock us she coulda ripped up a picture of Pope Ratzinger, oops. n/m. Sinead already dunnit..
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I ribbed Adele at the end of last year a bit, and now she sweeps. What’s up with that? twitpic.com/81bcur/full
Oh wait, Adele won an award? holy wah. Who’d'a thunk it. Congrats lady. Here’s hoping you win a couple more, eh?
@NeyomFriday I haven’t paid attention to anything by him since Grenade. What’s new with him?
Steampunk was popular at the last 2 NAMMs. I think I’ll play my folk music and classical guitar in front of gears, maybe I’ll win a grammy
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@mrdaveyd Man, I reached for my Pick Of Destiny and it wasn’t there. Who stole my pick? Nicky Minajjjj, you got my pick???
@M_CCarpenter @rosannecash woah, first I thought that was Tina Turner doing her Pinball Wizard stuff all over again.
Have U seen Katy Perry play guitar? I’m scratching my head trying to figure out why her label won’t let her shred in public!
I thought for sure she was Tina’s granddaughter. Time for some family tree stuff! She’s got Mark Anthony’s belly though.
Please 4give my allcaps; but since WHEN DID MY GRAMMYS BECOME A REALITY SHOW??? Deep breaths…
“Has Snookie shown up yet? If not…be grateful.”
– Susan ______
Just spied my buddy Little Steven. I swear if he showed up w/o the round bandana over his head everyone would think he was me! #grammys
“Men Without Women one of my fave albums ever.”
– Dawn ______
“Too funny, when I saw him playing I did a double take I was like does Marco have a twin? Lol”
– Cody ____
Dawn, you know that long bluish purplish coat he wore with Disciples of Soul is at Foxwoods Hardrock out in the hallway there, right?
http://twitpic.com/ome1f
Woah, what’s Lady Gaga wearing, that French inquisition helmet thingie???
And I’m sorry, I mean no agism here, seriously. Do each of the Beach Boys look like Senator McCain in intense pain or what???
“That net thing made think of those things they put on hams or turkeys…well, it did.”
– Allison ____
@Podemskichick I’m not a fan either. Plain White T’s are the only Violent Femmes wannabes I’ll tolerate really. #grammys2012 #grammy
OK I give up, who’s the blond dude doing Bm looking stratocaster solos on a cutaway classical guitar while Sir Paul’s tryin’ to sing? (I’ve got the sound off so I think it was that, or was it C? Anyhew…)
“Joe Walsh. Diana Krall on piano.”
– Colin _______
Oh that makes sense. He’s still doing Rocky Mountain Way no matter what axe you put on his lap.
“LOL…it actually wasn’t bad. But kind of surprising to see ol Joe up there with the classic acoustic.”
– Colin
neat. I’ll have to catch it on youtube or reruns.
I definitely saw some interesting vibrato but for the most part it looked quite boring. In my not so humble opinion.
@CatalinaByrd wait that’s taylor swift? I thought it was Grace Potter just not showing panties or anything…
9 hours ago
@FolkAlley Dust Bowl? I thought she was recreating that Orwellish Hillary Clinton 1984 ad they did before the primaries last time around.
I love Chris Brown!
Could someone maybe please help me find out if maybe I might’ve caught Stockholm Syndrome maybe?
Got to agree with you there. Losing /world/folk/nativeamerican was a punch in the gut, to be sure. Not to mention all the others!
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@DanteRoss @lorrieboo you’re right, that says it right there!
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@lorrieboo LED ZEPPLIN never won a Grammy and TRAIN have won 3. #grammys The whole shabang in a nutshell right there
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@tinselkorey once in a while something musical happens at a grammys. It’s like watching The Dead for hours hoping for that moment. Oops…
“Too late, you said it. The living deadheads will be coming to get you soon. Don’t panic.”
– John ____
hahahaha. Well I won’t be the first to have said it. I don’t think Jerry Garcia was the first either. I just made the analogy.
@ThatEricAlper I think Michael Jackson broke Roger Miller’s longstanding streak on the male side. How far back do the female records go?
Slowly wake up to realization that “Breaking Dawn” didn’t sweep, didn’t even win any… Wait wrong Ceremony…
@459GangNutty wow! Maybe my favorite quotable of the whole nite! You said a mouthful, toots. “Whitney Houston died YESTERDAY and the WHOLE GRAMMYS CHANGED..JESUS DIED 2000 years ago and he is STILL waiting on US TO CHANGE”
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@ThatEricAlper Nothing wrong w’ AmericanIdol as realityshows go. I just came up hoping 4 Grammys 2 B THE LAST event 2 cave & become one.
RT @YummyMummyclub : Dear Adele. Please don’t do drugs. Ever.
@ThatEricAlper Truly believe the worst side effect of the move from hippy to yuppy was the global shift from pot to coke
Levon Helm took americana? That man IS americana, and I mean that in a good way.
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http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=330
http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ATI/ati347.txt
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/feb/09/monday-round-town-plus-soft-pack-says-hi-from-la-w/
The other day I saw a friend in a coffee shop and related a moment when I went out in the hallway as a substitute teacher and a schoolkid yelled “mr marco,” smiled and waved and then began singing slightly altered lyrics to my song “frybread,” something like “nana… nana… make me some frybread, make me some frybread, nana make frybread… but s/he did it in key and right on to the rhythm and tempo.
He immediately called his toddler who’s the one you can hear offstage in my music video because of her fisherprice fone-on-wheels. He wanted to ask her while I was there what her favorite song was. He said there was too good of a chance she’ll say it’s “Frybread” because he’s heard her sing it all the time. Well she listed two songs as her all-time favorites. Uncle Kracker’s “Smile” and my “Frybread.”
I’m grateful, thankful, embarrassed, awkward, humbled, and elated each and every time someone responds like this to my humble little 3-chord song written in C with the simplest most honest lyrics about a relationship between a 4-year-old Navajo girl and her great grandmother. I really don’t know how to express all those feelings in words really.
I did want to mention this though as a follow-up to that first story I’ve been relating all week because this kind of stuff just keeps happening.
Here’s the post I’d put up about that earlier event: OK nothing more thrilling this life than having someone about 3 feet tall who you haven’t seen in more than a month recognize you in the hallway, wave say hi and smilingly, sing a couple lines from the chorus of a song you wrote! http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_8025975
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
I’ll bet Lennon is laughing at/with all of us.
The lyric change is at about 5:01 mins.
Hear for yourself, and as a professional folksinger I simply say if you can’t handle parody, this says more about you than Cee Lo or John.
K thx bye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ourduRjODPA&feature=player_embedded
Marco Frucht of Connecticut is a poet, songwriter, folksinger and classical guitarist who is a big fan of Tanka Bar. He participated in early test marketing for our products. You can hear his music on his Reverbnation page.
Marco has concocted a chili recipe of his own design which we have dubbed “Marco’s Sweet Tanka Chili.” Sounds perfect for a cold, winter night.
4 T. olive oil * 1 white onion, finely chopped 1 T. paprika 2 large red peppers 1 bell pepper 4 garlic cloves, chop finely 1 bag Tanka Bites, cutting some of them just a little tinier than they already are.
Saute these first ingredients (in order of appearance) in a frying pan.
IN A LARGE CROCK POT OR SLOW COOKER
4 more T. of olive oil 1 can tomato paste 2 cups water 2 small slices of fresh ginger, chop fine 2 t. ground cumin 1 t. cayenne * 1 jalapeno * 1/2 sweet potato chopped fine * 1/2 sweet potato solid (for cutting down on saltiness) 2 cans organic black beans * 1 bay leaf
Bring water to a rolling boil, add tomato paste, change heat to medium, add all the sauteed ingredients, then add everything else. change heat to simmer.
*Extra virgin cold press oil if possible. If you’re cooking for children go easier on the hot stuff. I’ve soaked and boiled dry beans but it doesn’t add a huge flavor or texture difference for this recipe.
Lives in the Balance (Literally)
Please do not pay anyone besides Jackson Browne, Richie Havens or me for your ability to get this song.
http://abmp3.com/download/6337274-mp3.html
This is the only place left I’ve found that it’s still free of charge from me.
The internet is beginning to frustrate me. The only two songs I’m selling ANYWHERE currently are my “Chiapaneca” and my “Frybread” as a CD single for 5bucks or less. I’ve seen it for sale for 9 dollars, and I’ve stumbled upon the single downloads for as high as 2 dollars.
I get 64 cents from iTunes and amazon, 70 from CDBaby, 99cents at Digstation.com, a whopping three cents from rhapsody and only a penny from napster. Spotify, who I had so many hopes and aspirations for gives me absolutely nothing two fiscal quarters in row which angers me greatly.
Also something you should know. Apple WAS giving me 70cents per download until Amazon came in at 64 cents as a win-win for EVERYONE BUT the artist. Why? Because Apple responded by going from 70 down to 64. (I would love to start a class law suit for half the difference at 3 cents and nail the both of them some day, but that’s for another discussion ok?)
Listen, I’m not going to make any real money as an award winning independent songwriter and producer, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let someone else make real money off of your ability to get free music from me.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Marco Capelli Frucht
http://www.frucht.org
http://www.oilpanalley.com
http://www.tinyurl.com/reverbmarco
POETICALLY PARENTHETICAL: (Umm, Strike that, reverse it…) Looks like Ron Paul might win Iowa this time around. I have problems with Paul just as I do Obama but if he does take it, I know an awful lot of Democrats and Independents (and a huge amount of angry disenfranchised Veterans) who will flood the polls to vote him in. This may in fact be the Revolution that every facet of our police state has tirelessly derailed and frustrated for the past 20 some odd years now. (perhaps my entire adult life when I look back at Iranscam, S&L and EnronValdez)
Listen up, you stingy old self-appointed rhetorical guru, thinking you’re all that. Really. You’re just one bad Lee Atwater wannabe, really. Here’s my open letter to you.
Mr. karl rove, You’ve been mic checked.
For too long you’ve been given the bully pulpit of expensive ad campaigns, costly think tanks, moneyed secret interest and offshore taxdodge groupthink seed money aiding your attacks on not just your candidate’s perceived enemies; but those of your own personal moneyed interests as well.
Well here it is, we all stumbled on a way to beat your bully pulpit with no microphones, no corporate media favors, no war-room cloister meetings and no per-diem payments to paramilitary logic, philosophy and thought.
Just a bunch of creative folk gathering together and verbally kicking your ass. You don’t need to recognize but your asskicking took more than just courage; but conviction, cause, and a desire to reject last Millenium’s entire way of doing things.
You’ve been mic checked,
You’ve been owned;
And you’ve been occupied.
I could say so much more but I will leave it like this. Racist, sexist, class-apartheid oriented leverage-capital and its lazy abusive cronies the likes of you, are on the losing end from now on.
Go ahead and ply your wares in someone elses’ nation mr. rove you little little whatever-it-is-you-are, man; because you can’t do that thing you do around here no more: we ARE the 99% and you ARE the weakest link.
Sorry, I’ve wanted to say that for “so long.”
for the non corporate media,
I’m marco