Friday, May 18, 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

May 15: No idle funk

Bootsy!



Two fer, though this second is blues, but worth the drumstick moment and then the, of course, blues that happens:


Monday, May 14, 2012

May 14th -- Guess What?


Well, it eventually had to happen here at "Bray"!  A funky mule.  Please and thank you.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

May 13: Sabbath Five Minutes of Funk


Best listened to in the afternoon, with a little bass turned up.  It's hot in the Valley.  Annoy the neighbors for five minutes.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

May ??th Experience the Five Minutes of Funk



On the . . . !

May 12: Say it, Five Minutes of Funk! Say it!




You could listen to that "Funky Fast Bump" twice (which you should), but just in case you feel like moving on for your full five minutes of funk:


Can't you do it? Can't you do it?  Can't you do it?

Thursday, May 3, 2012

May 3rd Funk for Five Minutes

It's only four minutes, but worth double that:


That guitar is zappin'.  Peace out.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

You May Too Have Five Minutes of Funk!

Bad lip read these, you funkers!



And since we're shy of five minutes now . . .


No confusion.  Just funk.


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

May One Have Five Minutes of Funk?

Y'Betcha!


Check out the bar glasses tinkling.  Gotta love the 70s.


Monday, April 30, 2012

April 30th Five Minutes of Hal-a-funk-a-lujah


Yes.  Turn me on, baby.

And oh no that's not five minutes yet.  Dig this:

Yowza.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Your Weekend Five Minutes o' Funk



and then, to make it to five funky minutes to shake de rest of yo dust off:


This one was apparently playing in The Wire in Prop Joe's shop.  Gotta love the thought of this song funkifyin' through the smell of hot solder and burning insulation . . .

From The Gift:

The poet Gary Snyder, asked in an interview why the oral tradition is so weak in the United States, answered: "Because of the stress on individual names and the emphasis on keeping a text pure."

Each of these preoccupations -- the one a concern of the market, the other a concern of the academy -- treats our art as proprietary works, not gifts.

Spot on. Page 247, in a footnote, in the edition I bought a couple of weeks go.

http://www.lewishyde.com/publications/the-gift








Thursday, April 26, 2012