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.

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

Your ever-lovin' April 27th Five Minutes of . . .

http://www.youtube.com/v/hdxQ_zrG1Ww&fs=1&source=uds

and then, to fill out the five minutes, a little bass lesson from . . .

http://www.youtube.com/v/IHE6hZU72A4&fs=1&source=uds

Dig!

Your Ap-ah-reel Tah-Wenty-Six Five Minutes of Funk!

http://youtu.be/BF24CaUrNSI

Sly and the Family -- "Thank You . . ."

Your April 25th Five Minutes of . . .

http://youtu.be/BbkcWo5I_A8

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