I Tube, Therefore I Am

It certainly is.

Cartoon violence or staring at Elizabeth Montgomery.

You are up early. I thought World Domination didn’t get under way until noon or so. And you meglected to memtion Have Gun, Will Travel, which taught some of us what it means to be a man: always quote Shakespeare to a bad guy before you shoot him.

Besides, don’t make us choose between Batman and Bewitched. That would be cruel.

True. Can you choose between Spiderman and Batman?

@Dodgerblue: richard boone don’t play. have you ever seen hombre with him and paul newman?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10VzyZq_7x0&feature=related

Good thing the folks at Common Sense didn’t factor in comic books/graphic novels. Because for me, the Silver Age Marvel Comics did so much to stimulate my imagination and enhance my vocabulary and comprehension. That, and Saturday morning cartoons.

The only thing that saved me from total immersion was the irredeemably bad quality of afterschool and Sunday morning cartoon options.

I credit Bullwinkle for my first stirring of political consciousness and Emma Peel for other first stirrings.

No electricity or tv from 1970 through 1976 (or running water, indoor plumbing, natural gas or central heat for that matter) except for when we had a generator going, but we lost that when Gramps burnt down the shed. But like most steenks, I read a hell of a lot and also listened to the local AM station that had a very broad sense of programming to serve everyone in the valley – Bartok to Bloodrock with rancheras, Native American music and a shit load of news.

@redmanlaw: Radio was my eventual salvation from TV addiction – particularly once I discovered the FM side of the dial. On the other hand, radio played a big role in turning me into a hippie.

@Walking Still: “Equis 80 Rocca – Juarez, Mejico.” “KOMAaaaa.”* My two night time 50,000 watt blowtorches, that and the late great free form FM station in Albuquerque that I built my first antenna to catch.

* can’t count how many times I heard the goddamn OU fight song on there.

@redmanlaw: post some Native American music. all i have at home is Indigenous.

@jwmcsame: Here’s a start:

Ulali, “Mahk Jchi” A contemporary take on traditional music. I saw them live and my friend David Amram (OG beatnick and composer of the score for the Manchurian Candidate) got me up on stage with them to drum. He also had me play with the late Floyd Redcrow Westerman at a gig or two.

Samples of songs for the San Juan Pueblo Turtle Dance done at the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos around New Years.

Pueblo Drum Group – slow War Dance song

A Navajo Yeibechai song from a healing ceremony done in the wintertime.

Peyote song from the Native American Church I grew up across the road from a major NAC practitioner so we heard this stuff all the time.

ADD: War Dance song by Navajos from a New Mexico Army National Guard unit in Iraq.

LOVE Ulali!

@redmanlaw: thanks. i assume the drumbeat is the heart, the rhythm of life. it sure seemed to beat a lot faster in the peyote song. i assume a song with a slower beat is more reverent. i read this in the LA times last week about choctaw stickball and how the drummer for each team slows or speeds up the beat letting the team know to drop back or pick up the pace.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/18/nation/la-na-choctaw-stickball-20111019
thanks for the knowledge. I’ll google up floyd redcrow westerman this weekend.

@redmanlaw: For me, it was WWUH (University of Hartford) and WHCN (in the early 70’s – before it sucked). After that, I was off to WOBC for my college DJ days.

We lived for the day the Scholastic paperback catalog arrived in class, and we were back the next with all our choices.
Somewhere in my mom’s house is a box with all those books … best day of the year when they showed up.