https://share.stationhead.com/8VXILI092UF
“Heartbreak Hotel”–Elvis Presley
“Born to Run”–Bruce Springsteen
“Streets of Baltimore”–Gram Parsons
“Ramblin’ Man”–Hank Williams
“My Kingdom”–Echo & the Bunnymen
“Goin’ Home”–Dinosaur Jr.
“Nature Boy”–Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
“Maggie M’Gill”–The Doors
“Dreaming”–Blondie
“Beautiful”–Christina Aguilera
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kqP5YdPDoOdIkmqbBlB4k?si=416ca6c8991e49a0
Q in Joseph Murphy.
MCIA.
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity.
Unclassified files from DARPA.
Now held at Quantico.
Project Veritas.
NCIS.
File name “jag”.
Ron DeSantis.
Navy SEAL.
JAG.
Quantico.
CYBERCOM outed two pedophile producers at CNN.
Drip drip drip.
We have it all.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7IgbjPtUs3iUnf5eWcCb1Z?si=lsb_L_5TRvqAOGNb1FqU0A&nd=1
release_good
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qtyA0aoLHNjChD3aNr2Dd?si=JF6LHX23SgC7uCdXZ7S58Q&nd=1
George Kaplan.
Roger Thornhill.
You can never tell anyone what you do.
Can you keep a secret?
Maybe I stayed home for two months.
Didn’t leave the house.
Or maybe I left the country.
Phone farm.
Replica of house.
Internally consistent.
Who can check?
Two rooms.
Three.
Four.
Four is easy.
One, two, and three are more effort than it’s worth.
Because this possibility never seemed plausible to any analysts.
Ghost Army were decoys.
But their chatter was real.
A ghost army is still an army.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/18/pentagon-reportedly-running-secret-global-army-of-60000/
FISA renewed.
Australia loophole.
McCrystal is butthurt that we highjacked his idea.
Because he used our truth.
Military intelligence is far superior to CIA.
With some caveats.
Old CIA < New CIA.
William Burns good.
Trust operation.
Counter-info op turned into info op.
Counter-info op that hijacked a LARP.
Is it a cover story to protect DTRA and make DARPA look honorable?
Maybe.
Or maybe DoD are less scumbags than CIA are.
War between NSA and CIA.
Hacking capabilities.
Tailored access (Fort Meade).
Vault7.
Frankfurt consulate.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
CIA attempt to usurp NSA area of expertise.
DIA pushback against CIA via DCS.
COVID as bat vaccine.
Aerosolized.
To be sprayed in caves.
Escaped Wuhan lab before it was finished.
EcoHealth Alliance (run by Peter Daszak [check out his opera singer brother]) offered GoF project to DARPA.
DARPA declined.
EcoHealth’s proposal was on a top secret drive.
TS/SCI.
TS/SAP.
Documents not classified.
Pushed off site by Major Joseph Murphy (USMC).
Aide to Commandant Berger.
General staff.
MCIA as intel support to Berger.
In his role on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (who have certainly fucked things up before [Operation Northwoods proposal for false-flag terror attacks {real casualties} on American citizens]).
Now led by traitor Mark Milley.
Also populated by subversive Michael Gilday.
Civilian control by Lloyd Austin (traitor for pushing killer vaccines on troops).
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
Why is CDC parsing HHS VAERS data to make it look half as bad as it actually is?
How passive is the surveillance of VAERS (historically)?
Let’s take something serious such as Kawasaki Disease as an example.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599698/
Underreporting of severe adverse events to VAERS appears to be by a factor of 10.
If CDC admits 10,688 #VaccineDeaths , the actual number may be 106,880.
If OpenVAERS gives the real number in the VAERS system (21,382 vaccine deaths), the actual number may be 213,820 vaccine deaths so far in the USA from this portfolio of COVID vaccines (JnJ, Moderna, and Pfizer).
Pfizer is clearly the most deadly (as the above picture shows).
CDC tries to play the “correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation” card, but that doesn’t wash.
Consider this:
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
For free, techno fog.
Major Murphy makes it clear why this is.
Thank you, James O’Keefe:
The above document deserves extreme scrutiny.
If it is a cover story, it is a good one.
It may provide some cover for the military.
But I think it is largely true.
There is, unfortunately, a reason the military might need cover.
What the fuck is this (ongoing program)?
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_HDTRA11710064_9761
The “highlights”:
How could INSCOM not know about this?
DTRA is literally co-located with them at Fort Belvoir.
Do you need the CliffsNotes?
No problem:
Flynn is definitely doing the Lord’s work.
As is Colonel Sellin:
The Canadian Caper.
Of course it’s CIA propaganda.
But Godard said some of the best (because of their passion) movies ever made were propaganda.
Mosaddegh.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
SAVAK.
The original Joe Biden (Jimmy Carter).
Inflation (Bidenflation).
Gas price.
Afghanistan and Yemen now substituting for Tehran.
2012.
Obama.
John Kerry.
Pallets of cash (Iran Deal).
Heavily invested in Big Pharma.
It appears Joe Kennedy III took over where the “Climate Envoy” left off:
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfizer-inc/members-invested?id=D000000138
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/johnson-johnson/members-invested?id=D000000386
I disagree with Major Murphy on Remdesivir.
Causes fluid in lungs.
Completely unsuitable as a treatment for COVID.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/gilead-sciences/members-invested?id=D000026221
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/merck-co/members-invested?id=D000000275
Problem is Moderna IPO in Dec. 2018 and BioNTech IPO about ten days before #Event201 in October 2019.
Open Secrets (Congressional stock holdings) lagging approximately four years right now.
Kerry just as deep in Burisma as Joe and Hunter Biden.
Ukraine blew it.
They could have blown the whistle on Biden.
They caved.
Now Russia will own them.
They dug their own grave.
Corruption has consequences.
RE: BioNTech (and Event 201 foreknowledge).
Gates Foundation invested $55 mil. in BioNTech the month before their NASDAQ IPO.
To reiterate, that IPO then preceded the coronavirus war game (sponsored by Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum with help from Johns Hopkins CHS) by about a week and a half.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-biontech-ipo-idUSKBN1WO29B
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/players/haines.html
#AvrilHaines (John Brennan).
Avril Haines now promoted (by Biden) from extremely-suspicious pandemic exercise RIGHT BEFORE THE REAL PANDEMIC BROKE OUT to head the entire U.S. intelligence community (ODNI).
John Brennan and Michael Hayden are, for all intents and purposes, the same traitorous piece of shit.
No reason for either of them to publicly (a huge break in precedent for CIA and NSA) berate Trump for four-straight years on Twitter.
Brennan’s protege at Event 201.
Joint Chiefs of Staff fuckery:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf
I thought Lyman L. Lemnitzer was the worst CJCS.
That was until Mark Milley came along.
T-R-E-A-S-O-N.
Like Tammy Wynette might have sung:
https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/milley-claims-china-calls-perfectly-within-the-duties-of-his-role/
But Trump is a fucking retard as well.
Latest proof:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-roasts-gutless-desantis-for-keeping-his-booster-status-a-secret
#DeSantis2024 #Rand2024
A history of Trump’s retardation and #CrimesAgainstHumanity .
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-i-got-the-pfizer-125703879.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-played-conspiracy-theory-hits-024518810.html
Trump had to nonchalantly mention his booster status in what was basically a church setting.
This is about as close to being Hochul-level-evil as one can get.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/gov-kathy-hochul-defends-calling-nyc-churchgoers-my-apostles/
Kinda like how England vaccinated people in cathedrals with organ music playing to calm their nerves (slaughterhouse).
Who’s more objectionable now: Milley (absolutely a traitor) or Trump (absolutely encouraging crimes against humanity [the administration of killer vaccines] when he should know better)?
Milley is a straight-up traitor to the United States of America…and he might be a better person than Donald Trump.
I’ve already demonstrated that the COVID vaccines are dangerous.
Now let me remind you that they don’t work.
[#NeitherSafeNorEffective]
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2306
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-deaths-2021-vaccines-b1963790.html
What would make Trump go from being the best President in modern history (he was!) to a vaccine-worshipping, sell-out cunt?
Some really tortured logisticians postulate that it’s all about “optics”.
Hm. Perhaps.
But to what end?
What is the strategic advantage of Trump alienating his own base?
Does he really think he’s going to win over liberals?
Is he winning them over by sucking the dick of Big Pharma?
I don’t think so.
The heat is now on Fauci.
-PD
A silver mt. zion.
Montreal.
Hotel tango.
Sighing synths.
Leonard Cohen.
Getting cold.
Lee Hazlewood.
Arizona into the Rockies.
Wyoming.
Road music.
Music of wide open spaces.
Charles Mingus checks in.
Bob Dylan.
Tumbleweeds.
Was QAnon bullshit?
WFMU seems to think so.
And all their hipster listeners.
Missing the Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Chris Isaak.
My Bloody Valentine.
R.E.M.
Automatic for the people.
Rightly asking if this guy, Pauly Deathwish, is Borat.
Elvis working at the truck stop.
Nevada.
New Mexico.
Into French philosophy at a Barnes & Noble.
Film criticism.
Cinematic music.
The great philosophers.
Taking on Philip Glass.
Rachmaninoff.
Swedish version.
Poor girl with grey teeth.
Dirty bra.
Addicted to Kardashians.
And meth.
Smoking candy cigarettes.
Brutal, cold world.
No fall back.
Withdrawal back.
Wanna lock me for blood pressure.
It ain’t no cakewalk.
Ripoff.
Tech moves fast.
Write anything.
Better than nothing.
Bad press.
No press.
You have a printing press.
The Innocence Mission.
Miles.
Porgy and Bess.
A thousand planes.
Two ambient instrumentals to start this album.
Setting an amber tone.
Pensive.
Ex-pensive.
Time is a luxury.
And Miles comes in.
Bending notes.
Sighing again.
Like music from Big Pink.
John Simon.
Leonard Cohen.
Very much of the Deserter’s Songs type.
Song cycle.
Van Dyke.
And Coltrane leaps in.
No bends.
Solid sax.
Honky.
Low mids.
Leaping up.
Transposition.
A little noodling.
And WHAT THE FUCK.
Now we are in Blue Hawaii.
On a jukebox in Nashville.
Sawdust on the floor.
Just spit that tabaccy anywheres.
It really is Elvis.
Loaded.
Lou Reed.
Doo-wop.
We’re in east Texas with George Jones.
Straight country.
Classic country.
Bona fide redneck interpolation.
“Daisies on Your Doorstep”.
Troubled relationship.
Robert Altman.
Nashville.
Hitchcock.
Traut.
Birds.
Grandaddy invades!
Modesto!!
And back to EXPANSIVE verb.
Cathedral.
Serious shit.
Country gothic.
Phil Spector would have loved this.
The plandemic that killed Phil Spector.
Biggest celebrity to buy the farm.
Buy the farm?
Or sell the farm?
During this whole plandemic.
Write copy.
Boilerplate.
You have no publicity.
I block all reposts.
I wanna EARN it.
Organic.
Diminished 7th.
Dissolve into what?
More Mercury Rev homage.
Drums from “Desperado”.
Another lonely bloke ended by “Holes”.
Favorite song ever.
Happy end.
Drunk room.
Tom Waits.
The chord.
Spring.
Le Sacre.
Back to regularly scheduled programming.
Knife in the Water.
Austin.
R.E.M. again.
Big Star.
John Cale droning away on the viola.
No tremolo.
Swing it.
Ragged time.
Texarkana.
Arkansas.
And Texas.
Definite Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci nod.
Nick Drake.
Again The Innocence Mission.
Birds.
Pink Floyd.
Fairport Convention.
Psych barn.
The Byrds.
Gram Parsons.
Neil Young big time.
Stooges meet Beach Boys meet Messiaen.
But the Bowie knife is orange.
Made in Germany.
Kanye West and Wayne Coyne drop in.
An anti-hit.
When you can sing, but you get raped by auto-tune.
Loosen that shit up.
Going all Arabic on me.
Raga.
Spinal Tap.
Clouds of sound on almost every track.
A very ambient album.
Mood set.
Mood retained.
Mature.
Duran Duran.
Peaches DJ Berlin.
Where’s Warhol?
Nigel Godrich.
Jonny Greenwood.
Thom Yorke.
Grinderman.
Roger Waters again.
Microtonal blues.
Straight into Bjork.
Does she umlaut?
Sounds of a Mac.
Swan.
Alarm clock.
Gentle waking.
Paganini.
Rachmaninoff.
Elton John.
Stevie Wonder.
Sly Stone.
James Bond in Rio.
Drax.
Os Mutantes.
Jobim.
Korean frogs.
Shinto.
Spy guitar for reprise.
Tom Verlaine.
Richard Lloyd.
Paul Simon.
Rhythm of the saints.
Graceland.
Beethoven emperor concerto.
Slow.
Beloved.
Tokyo.
Press roll.
Sushi.
Kill bounce.
Phil Selway.
Colin Greenwood?
A masterful track.
“Icelandic Pastiche”.
NOW WE’RE TALKING.
Papa Trump back in the house.
For the apocalypse.
Rocky Balboa.
L.L. Cool J.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Second coming.
To save.
Vengeance is his.
Everyone given a chance.
A fair chance.
NASA.
I hear a single.
“Landslide”.
Wisconsin decertified.
Ramthun came through.
About fucking time.
There’s a riot goin’ on.
Paperclip Nazis.
Eric Carmen.
Smokey Robinson.
Tears of a motherfucking clown.
Oboe.
Michael Stipe.
Gil Evans.
Having the French horns get groovy.
Amelie.
Sketches of Spain.
Sunday morning.
Loveless.
Kevin Shields.
Belinda.
The Soft Bulletin.
Christ coming down from the clouds.
Like a ton of bricks.
Anvil.
Don’t call it a comeback.
Not all the way.
Staple Singers.
Rick Danko.
Rocket pans across stereo field.
Jesus talkin’.
Crucified.
Died.
Buried.
AND ROSE AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKERS.
Jesus more space than NASA.
Really a masterpiece of sample placement.
Crystal-clear mix.
Clouseau.
Peter Sellers.
Bass solo.
Absolute Mingus.
Bloody jaw-dropping.
This is like a fucking lost Roland Kirk album.
This track!
Concerto for Booty and Orchestra.
Montreux.
Can never spell.
System hacked.
No more spelling.
Adieu au langage.
Flute loops.
Cocteau Twins.
Ties together album.
Last track coming on like Faust.
Built to Spill.
Silver Apples.
In memory of a bloke who bit it.
End of Night on Earth.
Real recorder.
Charity.
You will live forever, my friend.
I never knew you.
You aren’t forgotten.
Thought of you put in this track.
Catharsis.
Yerself is steam.
Smashing Pumpkins.
Siamese.
Great album by Pauly Deathwish.
Spotify.
iTunes.
Solid.
-PD
We are finally catching up with Pauly Deathwish.
Here on his sixth album, drugs.
Good psychedelic surf start.
The romance must have seemed possible.
Christian trappings.
A great opening track.
Psychedelic Christianity.
Think of those private press releases from the ’60s and ’70s.
I’m hearing the joy and gravity of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.
The breakdown of this song “An Ocean of Cough Syrup” is where it’s at.
Maybe a bit of Kevin Ayers.
Wasted innocence.
After the party.
The party at the end of the world.
Certainly song lyrics reminiscent of Wayne Coyne.
Sonic Youth.
Yummy Yummy Yummy.
Pop psych.
Monkees.
Maybe the romance has faded.
Tabloid.
Even Dire Straits.
Walk of life.
Track 2 with acrobatic chord changes.
Music school.
Straight-up Fort Leavenworth presentation.
A pop song about biological warfare, economic warfare, psychological warfare, and divide/conquer.
This is some serious shit.
Not sure whether to call Billy Bragg or Glenn Greenwald.
This is the kind of shit that wins Nobels.
So maybe we are hearing the new Dylan here.
Imagine if Thom Yorke actually had something to say.
The bends.
Lift.
Leonard Cohen.
John Cale.
Anthemic.
This dude is definitely right-wing.
I guess you could say.
Imagine if Bob Dylan was actually in the John Birch Society.
That’s what you get here.
Hey, take it or leave it.
Ezra Pound!
But this dude is all about ‘merica.
And i got no problem with it.
Climax.
Constitution of the USA.
Time’s up.
“memes at the ready”.
Information warfare taken into the realm of head music.
Songwriting.
This guy is a danger…to the lame liberal establishment.
THIS MOTHERFUCKER HAS RELEASED 7 ALBUMS THIS SUMMER!!!!!!!
Kraftwerk.
Jon Spencer.
Martin Rev dipping Copenhagen.
Ministry?
Butthole Surfers?
Dabbling.
“Latinas for Trump”.
Wow.
Track 3 is a trucker song.
Set in Switzerland.
With production like Nigel Godrich.
It’s a long track.
But enjoyable.
Drum machine and acoustic guitar.
And funky clavinet.
Jerry Reed.
Amos Moses.
Yodeling!
FUcking hell.
Haven’t heard this since Jerry Lee.
Dwight Yoakam.
Chris Isaak.
But this is the kinda shit cognizant about There’s a Riot Goin’ On.
Spaced cowboy.
Travelogue of Swiss sites from cinema history.
I have a feeling this guy would drink Klaus Schwab’s blood.
This conspiracy platter is fine listening.
Variety.
French/German.
No Italian.
Except Cortina d’Ampezzo.
No Romansch.
Motorik.
NEU! meets Gram Parsons.
Who is/was this “Swiss Alps Truck-Driving Gal”?
Cosmic funk.
Like French band Air.
Great bassline.
Dancy filler track of highest quality.
Mike Lindell needs to hear this shit.
mark_packet.
recieve_good.
What if Wayne Coyne and Dave Fridmann actually made songs that spoke to something larger?
They’ve hit it occasionally.
You gotta have Jesus in your heart.
Brian Eno first four records spun out again and again.
Cornelius.
Stereolab.
And WHAT THE FUCK?!?
Delta blues?
Country blues???
Yes, indeed.
“COVID-19 Blues”.
Like late-period Dylan.
Seriously.
If Dylan passes, this dude is next up.
I know it sounds implausible.
Communism used to be risqué.
Now the tables have turned.
Paul Joseph Watson needs to hear this shit.
The human condition.
Dr. Steve Pieczenik needs to hear this song, “COVID-19 Blues”.
This is Stax.
Muscle Shoals.
Atlantic.
Booker T.
But with that San Antonio twist.
Pauly Deathwish from the Alamo city.
Augie Meyers.
Flaco Jimenez.
Is Trump still the President? 😉
When was this written?
Why that move to Bedminster?
Cabinet meeting.
A unifying song.
Like “Dixie”.
Ask Abraham Lincoln about “Dixie”.
Masked and anonymous.
QAnon line as money shot.
Sweet harmonica.
Linn drums.
Beck.
Loop.
It don’t matter.
This record rocks the Walmart parking lot.
GUITAR SOLO!
Jimmy Vaughn.
B.B. King.
Richard Manuel tickling the ivories.
Band brown album.
Call Q.
Call Mojo.
Call Uncut.
Side two for all you vinyl lovers.
“Let’s Get Creative”.
Floyd delay.
Sexy song.
J. Spaceman.
Jeff Tweedy.
Kid A.
Really special production.
Which just goes to show that anything can be done with an iPhone.
Except privacy.
Tim Cook cocksucker.
In shitty record store.
Radiohead were our Beatles.
Or their Beatles.
Now many friends have left.
You can’t say White Lives Matter.
Can someone please tell Pauly Deathwish this?
Not that he SAID it.
Because he didn’t.
Trail of Dead.
Which makes sense.
Read this motherfucker’s bio on Spotify.
No slouch.
I happen to know some extra details which I may divulge at a later date.
Lots of training in music composition.
Multiple touches with Nadia Boulanger.
Sexy song.
T. Rex.
Bolan.
Jonny Greenwood.
Scott Pilgrim.
Edgar Wright needs to hear this shit.
No cap.
Dead ass.
Trans.
Neil Young.
Dead Man.
Thurston Moore needs to hear this shit.
Funny mention.
Watch the water.
August 20.
Rollerskate Skinny appreciation society.
St. Johnny.
Boo Radleys.
First Stereolab album.
Grandaddy.
Harvest drums.
Like it!
Like a Sonic Youth country album.
Made in a barn.
Nothing Ween about this shit.
Except for the trucker song.
Which is funny as fuck.
This dude definitely a QAnon.
“Midnight Rider”.
Paul Revere.
One if by…two…
Mercury Rev.
Suzanne Thorpe.
Applied memetics.
Oh shit.
First Eno record.
Desert island.
THIS is impressive.
Turns out to be motto of 4th Psychological Operations Group (4thPOG) at Fort Bragg.
The PSYWAR just got real.
Vietnamese ghosts amplified.
But this is Chinese.
China bio attack.
Fauci through China.
Focus on Peter Daszak and his absurd opera-singer brother.
There is going to be hell to pay.
Q-uantum of solace.
PCAPs.
Obviously, Pauly Deathwish loves the instrumentals from Bowie’s Low.
This is a constant touchstone.
Trance.
Meditative techno.
Ugh.
When the bass drops in on “Verbum Vincet ’72”.
Who was Q?
Who is Q?
Was Q a psychological operation?
From whence might it have emanated?
Roger Waters.
Hell to pay.
Criminal networks wiped off the face of the earth.
Peking opera.
Sue me.
LeBron James is a worthless cocksucker.
I think I would get along with this Pauly Deathwish guy.
8964.
We have it all…in Utah.
“Bluffdale” like Marquee Moon.
Meets chiptune.
Super Marquee Moon.
Even a bit of John Bonham.
Good drum sound.
Dubstep?
Riots worldwide.
No vaccine passports.
Here’s where BLM and MAGA come together.
Don’t vax us, man.
A unifying event.
The real racists are the totalitarian Democrats.
Am I doing this right?
Pepe Lives Matter needs to hear this shit.
Klaus Voorman bass.
Leave it in.
Smacked out of your gourd.
Phil Spector murdered by the Rona.
Lee “Scratch” producing The Clash.
People want to sleep forever.
Sleep through this global nightmare.
Gotta wake up.
But the reality is crushing.
So God gives us solace here and there.
Black ark.
Meandering.
Oar.
Moby grape.
Hal Blaine back in the barn stoned on some world-class shit.
Nodding.
Space-age.
Astral weeks.
Nick Drake.
Ending album on serious note?
“Cotton Ball Soup”.
Will the masses win?
Against the vaccine passport bastards?
Montreal.
Where’s GYBE?
No heroes can be found.
Where’s Thom Yorke?
Radiohead?
Bob Dylan?
WWIII.
iTunes.
Spotify.
-PD
Good God…I made it to the end!
Of Season 1…
Why?
Why do we have this completist urge?
I could proffer myself as a communications historian.
A sociologist.
The anthropology of television.
But really the truth is that I needed something to watch…to take my mind off things.
And so it’s been a good ride. Season 1 in the bag.
And it ends on a high note.
Kris Kristofferson.
I had seen him in a dismal picture called Chelsea Walls.
Good God…Ethan Hawke really bungled that offering.
And so for the longest time I thought Kristofferson was merely a hack “character actor”.
I knew his history.
Brownsville boy…Rhodes Scholar.
I’d even heard some of his music.
Always struck me as third-rate outlaw country.
But this episode of Saturday Night Lives changes my opinion of him forever.
The show starts with a song/skit.
Kristofferson sings “Help Me Make It Through the Night”.
As Chevy Chase fumbles with the ribbon in the hair of his lover, Kris just keeps on singing right through.
I’ve rarely heard a more soulful rendition of a song.
Later, Kristofferson sings “I’ve Got a Life of My Own”.
It is a revelation!
Looking for a way to lose these lonesome blues now that Neil Young quit Spotify?
Well, look no further than ol’ Kris.
The band…(not The Band, but close)… Kris’ band here. So good!!!
“I’ve Got a Life of My Own” is a glory cry. I may not have a great life, but I have a life.
I have a beard and long hair. Or I have a mustache and a buzz cut.
Life ain’t glamorous down on the Rio Grande border. Nor in San Antonio.
Doug Sahm is dead.
But Kris lives on.
What a great injection of American music here. You think you don’t like country music?
Give this chap a try. And when I say he was a Rhodes Scholar, I am dead serious.
This, of course, gives him an intellect to pair with his easiness at being on stage (from his performing career).
What I mean to say is that Kris Kristofferson is a better host than just about anybody on the first season of Saturday Night Live.
You need him to be a gynecologist opposite Jane Curtin? No problem.
Need him to be John Belushi’s foil in “Samurai General Practitioner”? Done!
[That skit, by the way, is the comedic highlight of the show. Belushi was beginning to approach godlike stature with his samurai character.]
Rita Coolidge is generally stiff on her one solo number (“Hula Hoop”), but having Kristofferson’s band makes the song persuasive. And the closing surprise is indescribably cute (thanks to Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman).
Chevy Chase is great as always as Gerald Ford.
And Dan Aykroyd was starting to come along by this point as Jimmy Carter.
Though Garrett Morris only gets a few spots, he’s awesome as Jesse Owens and Andrew Young.
Don Pardo (the announcer of the show) gets a more “visible” role in this episode by way of the Samuel Beckett spoof “Waiting for Pardo”. It is a masterpiece! [And it makes me wonder whether Kristofferson was allowed to do some writing…perhaps this skit?]
Immanuel Kant, watchmaker. Spinoza luggage. All of the Price Is Right interjections by Pardo are for products ostensibly produced by famous philosophers. Pretty witty stuff!
So there you have it…
I highly recommend this episode!
-PD
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