May 18th Friday Funk for Five F*&^#%*ing Minutes. Seriously.

Is your Friday going to be this good?

May 17 Funk for Five

  LeROY!

May 16: Five Minutes of Funking Funk

Bootsy, of course, again:

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:

May 14th -- Guess What?

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

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.

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?

May 3rd Funk for Five Minutes

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

That guitar is zappin'.  Peace out.

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.

May One Have Five Minutes of Funk?

Y'Betcha!

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

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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