{"id":220,"date":"2005-11-09T10:31:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/11\/09\/this-weeks-podcast-ry-cooder\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T17:31:15","slug":"this-weeks-podcast-ry-cooder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/this-weeks-podcast-ry-cooder\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week’s Podcast – Ry Cooder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now
I don’t know what I look like<\/em><\/p>\n

Voting was a trip.\u00c2\u00a0 In Santa Monica, you usually vote at somebody’s house.\u00c2\u00a0
But once a decade I go to the elementary school a couple of blocks away.<\/p>\n

First and foremost I couldn’t get a fucking parking spot.\u00c2\u00a0 For all the
parents waiting to pick up their kids in their SUVs.\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, doesn’t anybody WALK
home from school anymore?\u00c2\u00a0 Do these self-centered parents really think anybody’s
going to steal their obese kid?\u00c2\u00a0 Read the reports, it’s only FAMILY members
who abduct children.\u00c2\u00a0 Regular child thefts…lower than they were when WE were
growing up.\u00c2\u00a0 But a kid can’t even leave the house anymore, can’t ride a bike.\u00c2\u00a0
We’re growing a culture of wimps who live in front of video screens.\u00c2\u00a0
Playdate?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve got your fucking playdate.\u00c2\u00a0 God, let kids be kids.<\/p>\n

And on the other end of the spectrum you’ve got the octogenarians.\u00c2\u00a0 The
people who eat donuts and check you into the voting booth.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the fucked up
society we live in.\u00c2\u00a0 We can’t allocate enough dough to pay on the ball people to
smooth the voting process.\u00c2\u00a0 How many people gave up and went on with their
day because they couldn’t continue to burn time waiting for Sally’s great
grandmother to remember the alphabet?<\/p>\n

But worse was the voting itself.<\/p>\n

We’re antiquated here in California.\u00c2\u00a0 I grew up in Connecticut.\u00c2\u00a0 Where we had
voting MACHINES!\u00c2\u00a0 You pulled levers, and an hour after the polls closed you
had results.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m filling out a fucking punch card.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it USED to be a
punch card.\u00c2\u00a0 For the last twenty five years.\u00c2\u00a0 They switched it today.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that
anybody told me.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the person who gave me the instructions.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the person
who collected the ballots.<\/p>\n

You see I looked for the hanging chads.\u00c2\u00a0 And not only did I not find any, I
found no HOLES!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s like I never even voted.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I noticed the black marks.
Turns out now the little pinpricky-thingy squirts a little ink blot instead
of making a hole.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I only counted five ink blots, and there were eight
measures on the ballot.\u00c2\u00a0 I just about threw fifty percent of my vote away.\u00c2\u00a0
Imagine if it were a REGULAR election, with dozens of selections!\u00c2\u00a0 I reinserted
the ballot and reapplied my vote.\u00c2\u00a0 With FORCE!<\/p>\n

And we’re supposed to trust elections…<\/p>\n

And then I drove out to Burbank, which is like a whole ‘nother state, to
record some podcasts.<\/p>\n

Then I was on a podcast PANEL at the California Copyright Conference meeting
at the Sportsmen’s Lodge.\u00c2\u00a0 They told me the food would suck.\u00c2\u00a0 It did.\u00c2\u00a0 But you
know when food is tasteless how you keep eating it, figuring if you intake
enough you’ll get the flavor you’re seeking?\u00c2\u00a0 So you end up bloated and
uncomfortable, and unsatiated to boot.<\/p>\n

Now I’m ensconced back in my home in Santa Monica.\u00c2\u00a0 And I just listened to
this week’s podcast.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’ve got to tell you, I’ve got nothing to say.\u00c2\u00a0 It
speaks for itself.<\/p>\n

So, the quote at the top is from "Life During Wartime", from Talking Heads’
"Fear Of Music" album.<\/p>\n

Got to talk about that band sometime on the air.<\/p>\n

But this week I’m talking about Ry Cooder.\u00c2\u00a0 From back in his early days.\u00c2\u00a0
Before he was a cultural hero amongst rich baby boomers needing to feel hip.\u00c2\u00a0 I
can’t imagine these pricks enjoying "Into The Purple Valley".\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s one
of my favorite albums.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the first I ever re-bought on CD.<\/p>\n

But you’re listening in MP3.<\/p>\n

But you’ll get the idea…<\/p>\n

\n

You can listen or download the podcast from Rhino’s site<\/a><\/p>\n

Or you can subscribe in the iTunes Music Store.\u00c2\u00a0 Just search for Rhino, click on "Podcasts" and it will come up.<\/p>\n

OR, click on the link below, and if you’ve got a podcast-ready version of iTunes installed on your computer the program will launch and you can subscribe on the page that results (hang on a second for the process to complete).<\/p>\n

Apple<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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