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Channel98

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Today I heard Charlie Parker's Moose The Mooche on our local jazz station. Here is what the LearnJazzStandards site says about the song: "It is believed that the title refers to his drug dealer in L.A. who was nicknamed 'Moose the Mooche,' as Parker was a heroine addict."

I never knew Parker was attracted to female movie stars.
 

Aaron

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Not everyone has an internal monologue going at all times? I wonder what it’s like to not have that happening all the time.
I’m outwardly very quiet, but inside my head, the voice never stops.
 

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I was just talking to the guy I'm making new music with about this. We were recording for upcoming "podcast clips" that we'll be posting eventually (we record for 10-20 minutes each time we jam, then I pull out clips for upcoming promotion). Our conversation about it may end up animated.

Like this, which you're not supposed to see yet...

 
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HecticArt

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The voice is going all the time. It tends to get in the way when I'm listening to something that should be paying attention to, but bores me.
 

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Oh, don't be too hard on Justin Trudeau. He said he regrets wearing blackface – and he certainly sounded sincere, humble, contrite and remorseful.

I'm sorry – I tried to say that with a straight face. :p

He also could not remember how many times he did it.

But I think this is likely as far as we can discuss it as even though it's Canadian politics, it is still politics.
 

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He also could not remember how many times he did it.

All right, this is a serious question Idrather. I know Canada is basically the same thing as the US. However, I don't know anything about like the history of African slaves in Canada.

When I went to Holland and now this was probably like 2014 so a while ago but not that long... They had some parade in Groningen. They were like hot air balloons and stuff. It was like a whole big thing in that little city where my grandmother was from... But anyway, the thing I remember way more than hot air balloons was in that parade. There were a bunch of people in blackface like straight up minstrel show without the white lips black face. And it was shocking to me as an American.

But I think over there it's like not as big a deal because they don't have the same history of enslaving Africans and now living and interacting with their descendants day to day like we do in the US.

So, as far as black face goes, is Canada basically like America and how we think of it because of our history of slavery? Or is it more like Holland?
 
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All right, this is a serious question Idrather. I know Canada is basically the same thing as the US. However, I don't know anything about like the history of African slaves in Canada.

When I went to Holland and now this was probably like 2014 so a while ago but not that long... They had some parade in Groningen. They were like hot air balloons and stuff. It was like a whole big thing in that little city where my grandmother was from... But anyway, the thing I remember way more than hot air balloons was in that parade. There were a bunch of people in blackface like straight up minstrel show without the white lips black face. And it was shocking to me as an American.

But I think over there it's like not as big a deal because they don't have the same history of enslaving Africans and now living and interacting with their descendants day to day like we do in the US.

So, as far as black face goes, is Canada basically like America and how we think of it because of our history of slavery? Or is it more like Holland?

And I have read articles now where there is like a movement about blackface and Holland and how they're trying to like get rid of it. Especially schwartza Pete in Holland Who is Santa's helper over there and it's always portrayed as just a white dude in black face. That's a whole other crazy story. First of all the name schwartza isn't that a almost exactly the same as the term Jewish people use for blacks? I don't know. I remember growing up that my friend's parents would say that sometimes And we all knew it was a bad word I think it just means black, but I also think it's derogatory. It's like a little variation of that... Anyway, I just looked it up. The Jewish term is Schvartze... Which is pretty similar to the Dutch version But I don't think that Dutch version is derogatory. I think it literally just means black.
In this case, the blackface was really more brownface. He was dressed as an Indian (the one in Asia not Native Americans). It has been generally viewed in bad taste for several decades now and certainly a no-no for anyone having political aspirations.
 
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I saw that! When my son was that age, I went all through those things with him and did great. Because I'm not obese. If I were obese I wouldn't crawl through pipes and expect to do well in whatever those things are. But my wife and I did fine. And heck I was in my 40s when he was in elementary school.
 

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I saw that! When my son was that age, I went all through those things with him and did great. Because I'm not obese. If I were obese I wouldn't crawl through pipes and expect to do well in whatever those things are. But my wife and I did fine. And heck I was in my 40s when he was in elementary school.
Way back in what seems like another lifetime, we'd take the kids to Chuck E Cheese, where they had the ball crawl pits. Those couldn't be too sanitary.
 

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Senior year of college we found out it was somebody's birthday, so we all went to Chuck-E Cheese' for some stupid reason.
We had been in studio for a couple of days, most of us hadn't been home to shower or change, and we looked rough.
Pizza + beer + lack of sleep + elevated play structures = mayhem.
It's a miracle that we didn't get kicked out or had the cops called on us.

It was a good time though.
 

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they had the ball crawl pits. Those couldn't be too sanitary.
Those are bad. And those foam square pits are even worse! They get REAL grungy and nasty

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