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To Kill a King at The Olde Young Tea House

Enjoy this short set by To Kill a King at The Olde Young Tea House with the warning that the songs are catchy as hell.

One song was missing though from their previous gig at the Westgarth

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Aram Sinnreich, David Byrne, Chris Ruen & Flash Rosenberg

The upside of not publishing my blog post on talks I went to in NYC by Aram Sinnreich, David Byrne & Chris Ruen is that the videos have been uploaded. If you like ignore my notes and just watch :o)

December 4th, 2012, thoroughly enjoyed Aram Sinnreich’s talk based on his forthcoming book Piracy Crusade. Read the full draft of the book for free on http://piracycrusade.com. The presentation embedded below, and the book, are both freely available under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. [If you give feedback on the website piracycrusade.com before the book goes to press you will get a mention in the book too though it may be too late for this since I've taken so long to put this online.]

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Serendipitous discovery of the day

While on the wrong train hearing these 2 lovely women playing violin at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station. Thank you GreenHerring2 for uploading this video to youtube.

I love NYC public transit, for the convenience, for the people-watching, for the mashup of 5 people’s headphones with the sound of the tracks, for the hours it keeps & for poetry in motion.

Two poems on public transport today

Untitled by Jeffrey Yang, Art: Holly Sears Hudson River Explorers

Poetry in Motion - Untitled by Jeffrey Yang

Ragtime by Kevin Young, Art: Raul Colon – Primavera

Poetry in Motion - Ragtime by Kevin Young

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Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Louis Jordan – Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens 1 and 2

Original version by LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE 1946

Louis Jordan’s remake of his 1946 hit

The Muppets – Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Looking for the origin of the phrase came across these two versions. also wikipedia references 2 potentially earlier origins for the phrase.

This song is sometimes cited as the origin of the phrase, but the phrase is older, perhaps originating with a joke regarding a chicken thief. The phrase appeared in recorded media as early as 1939, in the cartoon feature Gulliver’s Travels as, “Nobody here but just us… chickens!”
In the 1931 Our Gang episode “Little Daddy”, Farina and Stymie crawl inside an empty chicken coop to hide from a social worker who has come to take Stymie to the orphanage. Farina makes rooster noises to fool the social worker, but when the man asks, “Who’s in there?”, Stymie replies “Just us chickens!” – retrieved from wikipedia Nov 17, 2012

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Punch Brothers @ The Sage Gateshead

My fave song of the night – the last one – Moonshiner

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