I will admit that my taste in music has always been mature. While other guys were head banging or playing the latest Rush album when I was a kid, I liked to listen to standards or the music of the Rat Pack – the 1960’s lush lounge music or horn heavy Motown soul. For this week’s weekend ear candy, I am highlighting “Crazy”, the first hit for the singer Seal from 1991. Sure it was a popular song on the radio then, reaching number seven on the Billboard Music Charts, but my friends thought it was a one off novelty song and they didn’t follow his career like I did.
I like his music because of the use of strings and horns on many tunes and the funky electronic sequencing like on “Crazy”. And yes I am jealous that he is married to super model Heidi Klum. Here is a live performance of “Crazy”.
Doug —
This has nothing to do with the subject of your blog.
I just thought you'd be interested knowing why I no longer have a blog at the Courier.
Below is my last blog that posted for about an hour or so before they deleted me.
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Regretfully I must conclude my blogging days with this last posting. I was alerted via Email…
*****YOU NEED TO REMOVE THIS LINE FROM YOUR BLOG IMMEDIATELY. You need to remove the comments regarding it as well, and you must leave a comment to the effect: "This blog post has been edited and some comments have been removed."*****
This Email was in reference to my use of "douche bag" to describe pirates who had attacked a commercial ship with U.S. citizens aboard & had taken the captain hostage. While some folks might disagree with the use of such words I don't believe it was vulgar & certainly not any worse than other uses of language on this blog & others.
Just a week later I had the words "dumb bitch" in the title. Then I thought maybe it's not because the words were vulgar but because they attacked a person or a group of people. However, in October of 2007 I called Senator Craig a moron with no demand to remove that attack.
Other uses of harsh language passed without any fanfare. In some of these cases the language wasn't printed in its entirety. Instead, curse words were simulated to show anger over a situation. Simulated cursing also came in another blog as well with #*&% YOU! to show anger & frustration. Some simulated cursing simply replaced certain letters with *** leaving the curse word to your imagination. However, those simulations didn't fool anyone to thinking of a nicer sounding word. Some cursing wasn't even simulated in the case of talking about an "ass-kicking."
I have come to the conclusion that my use of "douche bag" might have been accepted if I had written it "d**che b**." Or, had I used it to describe a disgraced republican politician. Either way, censorship for the slang use of the word in question seems a bit ridiculous considering what has been allowed up to this point.
It truly has been a pleasure sharing my thoughts with you as well as reading yours. However, rather than be unnecessarily censored (in my opinion) I'll have to discontinue my blog.