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Here is the 367th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Nov. 12, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz
Guest: Marty Allen
Featuring: Dave chats with veteran comedian Marty Allen. Plus: Inside Broadway (Man & Boy), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (on Shalom Dammit! live), Saturday Segue (coaches) & Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (covers).
Note: Marty Allen passed Feb. 12, 2018.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:35:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:35:00); Man and Boy (00:54:00) 01:11:00 GUEST: Marty Allen 01:55:00 Sponsors 02:04:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: covers 02:45:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on Shalom Dammit! live 02:51:00 Dave Goes Off – A Sound Opinion on Tom Waits 03:04:00 Friends 03:09:00 DAVE GOES OUT
Nov. 12, 2011 Playlist: “Coney Island Baby” (00:13:30; Lou Reed); “There’s a Coach Comin’ In” (00:20:00; Paint Your Wagon 1951 Broadway cast); “Mystery Train” (00:22:00; Neil Young); “Earache My Eye” (00:24:30; Alice Bowie/Cheech & Chong); “Centerfield” (00:27:00; John Fogarty); “Venus in Furs” (00:48:00; Velvet Underground); “The Punch-Drunk Fighter” (01:07:30) & “The Golf Pro/Let’s Face the Music and Dance” (01:49:00; Allen & Rossi); “Love is a Four Letter Word” (02:07:30; Joan Baez); “Seven Days” (02:12:00; Ron Wood); “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (Cat Power; 02:17:00); “Can’t Leave Her Behind” (stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo; 02:24:00); “What Good Am I” (02:26:00; Barb Jungr); “Chimes of Freedom” (02:30:00; The Byrds); “I’m Still Here” (02:49:30; Tom Waits).
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Segment originally aired Nov. 12, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
Sad Note: Our Friend of the Daverhood, Marty Allen, passed Feb. 12, 2018 at age 95.
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Shalom Dammit, this is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of November 6th, 2011.
It is not just the weather that is turning cold, my friends. News broke this week that celebrity model and spokesperson Kim Kardashian will be divorcing her basketball-player husband, Kris Humphries, after being married exactly 72 days.
Now, I could comment about the evanescent nature of celebrity marriages, or make easy, late-night jokes about the carnage of the Kardashians’ cartoon carnality-turned-carnival, or I could point out the danger of letting surface attractions overwhelm deeper concerns, or I could rue the cluelessness of a society that elevates a woman of no discernible talent or accomplishment to the level of television royalty, or I could chastise the venality of media – which debases a spiritual human event into an orgy of marketing, advertising and self-absorption, or I could simply say, I told you so, because we all could have told her so.
But really, the point I most want to make about the Kim Kardashian divorce is…
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
I don’t care…do you care? You shouldn’t care. Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
(to the tune of Adon Olam) Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
Everyone, get a life! Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
Topics include: Adolph Green, Subways are for Sleeping, Bells are Ringing, theater, Broadway.
Segment originally aired Nov. 5, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave Lefkowitz interviews Dawes band bass player Wylie Gelber
Topics include: Dawes, music.
Segment originally aired Nov. 5, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Featuring: Dave chats with two-time Tony-winning actress Phyllis Newman and with Wylie Gelber, bass player for the roots band, Dawes Plus: Inside Broadway (reviews of The Judy Show & Voca People), Saturday Segue (time changes), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (times a-changin’), and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Kardashian divorce.
Note: An audio glitch glitch towards the one-hour mark rendered about five minutes of the program unrecorded but did not affect the rest of the broadcast or audio archiving.
Note: Phyllis Newman passed Sept. 15, 2019.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:00 Dave on Dawes 00:25:30 DAVE GOES OFF on Daylight Savings Time 00:29:00 SATURDAY SEGUE: time changes 00:53:30 GUEST: Phyllis Newman 01:19:00 AD: Shalom Dammit – An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon 01:21:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (01:21:30), The Judy Show (01:27:00) & Voca People (01:30:00) 01:49:00 GUEST: Wylie Gelber 02:20:00 Sponsors 02:23:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the Kardashian divorce 02:27:00 Friends 02:32:00 Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (times a-Changin’) 02:46:00 DAVE GOES OUT w/ Joyce Weil
Nov. 5, 2011 Playlist: “My Girl to Me” (00:16:00), “Time Spent in Los Angeles” (01:37:00), “The Way You Laugh” (01:41:30), “Come Back to a Man” (01:45:00), “How Far We’ve Come” (02:13:30) & “When My Time Comes” (02:54:00; Dawes); “Time to Ring Some Changes” (live) (00:29:30; Richard Thompson); “Turning Time Around” (00:32:30; Lou Reed); “Beat the Time” (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians; 00:37:00); “Time Precious Time” (00:40:00; Lindsey BUckingham); “Who Knows Where the Time Goes” (00:44:00; Eva Cassidy); “What’s New at the Zoo” (00:50:00; Do Re Mi 1999 off-Broadway cast); “Casual” (01:16:00; Julius LaRose & Phyllis Newman); “Black Crow Blues” (02:32:30), “Where are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)” (02:35:00) & “Highlands” (excerpt, 02:42:00; Bob Dylan).
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Shalom Dammit, this is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 30th, 2011.
Well, winter has come to Greeley, USA. It’s only the end of October, but this is Colorado, so of course, we get snow before Halloween. Who knows? Maybe by Lincoln’s Birthday we’ll have beach weather.
But this being the first snowstorm of the season, all gehenna breaks loose. You’d think Northern Colorado had never seen snow before. It’s one thing when Florida gets a dusting, and cars go sliding across the road – mostly Jews leaving the dinner buffet to get home before noon.
And in the northeast, the TV weatherpeople go berserk. “First winter blast! Mothers ambushing the supermarket! Buy rocksalt, find your candles, don’t park your car on alternate sides of the street Tuesdays, Thursdays and every fifth Sunday when there’s a full moon and Jupiter is rising in the guest house of Saturn!” Two inches of snow, and you’d think polar bears were threatening to galumph down Fifth Avenue.
But Colorado? Without snow, the only thing Vail would be known for is Walgreens and syphilis. You don’t need Nostradamus to predict that an early season storm will dump white stuff on trees, roads, backyards, powerlines. Snow and Colorado go together like borscht and sour cream. Like David and Bathsheba. Like Pakistan and duplicity.
So why does it take two and a half days for Xcel Energy to get the lights back on? Did they not glance at a weathermap a week before the storm? Monks in Bangladesh knew there would be blizzard in Colorado before the local energy company did. Honest to God, Swami Poopoopadoola in Rangpur was on the Weather Channel a week ago saying, “Ganesh advises you should hire extra tree-removal crews – and I don’t even know what snow is.”
And so, for the past three days of my visit to Greeley, I have lived without light, heat and hot water. Which is why I smell like a giraffe in a sweat lodge. If I want to get warm, I have to crawl into the refrigerator. There’s no television, so I have to engage with these big, unwieldy black-and-white things our ancestors once called “books.” And there is no internet, so I can’t spend my usual afternoons downloading doctored nude photos of Mayim Bialik.
Now the more rugged among us would hail this return to an older way of life. How good it is, they would say, to be disconnected from intolerable inboxes, cacophonous commercials and the twaddle of Twitter tweets. Enjoy the silence, reflect and recharge. Breathe.
I can’t breathe, I’m Jewish! I’m lucky if I can groan and wheeze. I want my MTV! I miss my spam! I can’t build a cozy fire without getting splinters in my groin.
It may be sad, but technology is here to stay, so when it is taken from us, however briefly, the loss feels like a phantom limb. From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, we have been blessed by people who have made our lives so convenient, we can no longer endure inconvenience. If that means we’re spoiled, so be it.
And now, speaking of spoiled, there’s a kosher flank steak in my freezer that needs to be handled with rubber gloves and a gas mask.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches. (sings) “Walking in a winter wonderland…dammit.”
Dave Lefkowitz interviews singer-songwriter Pieta Brown
Topics include: music, Mercury, Greg Brown.
Segment originally aired Oct. 29, 2011 on the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 365th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired Oct. 29, 2011. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: singer-songwriter Pieta Brown
Featuring: Dave chats with singer-songwriter Pieta Brown. Plus: Saturday Segues about darkness and Halloween, Inside Broadway (reviews of The Mountaintop and Relatively Speaking), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (darkness) and Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection on the blackout.
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN 00:08:30 DAVE GOES OFF on Xcel 00:16:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Darkness 00:46:30 DAVE SAYS BYE – Barry Feinstein 00:50:30 INSIDE BROADWAY (news (00:51:00), The Mountaintop (00:58:30), Relatively Speaking (01:05:30)) 01:18:30 Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection #27: the Blackout 01:46:30 Weather & Sponsors 01:57:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later: darkness 02:36:00 GUEST: Pieta Brown 03:01:30 Thanks Yous & Friends w/ Joyce Weil 03:10:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Oct. 29, 2011 Playlist: “Beware of Darkness” (00:16:30; Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs); “Dear Darkness” (00:20:00; PJ Harvey); “Blackout” (00:23:00; Muse); “Darkness Descends” (00:27:30; Laura Marling); “Blackout” (live) (31:00; David Bowie); “Dark Night Blues” (00:35:00; Blind Willie McTell); “Darkness” (00:38:00; Jenifer Jackson); “Blackout” (00:41:30; Anna Calvi); “When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy” (01:22:30; Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band); “When We are a Vampire” (01:28:00; Jane Siberry); “Zombie” (01:30:30; Fela 2010 Bway cast); “November Spawned a Monster” (01:35:00; Morrissey); “Werewolves of London” (01:40:00; Warren Zevon); “Day of the Locusts” (01:58:00) “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” (02:02:00); “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” (02:11:30) & “Father of Night” (02:15:00; Bob Dylan); “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (02:07:30; Antony & the Johnsons); “Mercury” (02:21:00), “Butterfly Blues” (02:24:30), “Be With You” (02:28:00), “I Don’t Mind” (02:30:30), “So Many Miles” (02:34:30), “I Want it Back” (02:55:30) & “Closing Time” (03:14:00; Pieta Brown).
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Shalom, Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for the week of October 23rd, 2011.
So all these people without an occupation are busy occupying. They’re occupying Wall Street, they’re inhabiting Zuccotti Park, they’re occupying cities and colleges across America because the have-nots are getting a bissel sick and tired of the haves.
It was ever thus, people. Before we all were born, a handful of upper-class hoity-toities looked down on the rest of us. If they were in a generous and tax-deductible mood, they donated a library or slipped a few bucks to charity.
Everyone hates the rich because…they’re rich. And we’re not. Life sucks, then you die.
But now we have a growing segment of the population who are fed up with the status quo and think they can change it by…showing up somewhere and not leaving. Hey, it beats violence, and protests certainly did have an impact on the Vietnam War, racial segregation and the roll-out of New Coke.
Still, I am bothered by two aspects of this “Occupy Somewhere” movement. The first is the “and then what?” factor. Okay, so you shout at the rich, you rail at the corporations, you run the CEOs out of town on a rail – well, more likely a Lear Jet. And then what? What do you replace them with?
If the protesters are saying, “make college affordable, or at least make it so I’m not paying off my student loan with my Medicare and reverse mortgage.” Okay.
If the protesters are saying, “change the tax code,” fine, I’m all for it. Tax the rich until they’re poor, tax the poor until they’re dead, and give the middle class a break for once.
If the protesters are saying, “don’t let stockbrokers, bankers and corporate bigwigs get away with rampant fraud,” I’m for that, too. Let them get away with just enough fraud so that they keep jobs in America instead of farming them out to Uttar Pradesh.
The problem is we don’t know WHAT the protesters are saying except, “we can’t get jobs, the jobs we get don’t pay anything, and the pay we get goes to buy imported crap because we don’t make anything.” Republicans and social conservatives keep wanting to liken the occupiers to Soviet Communists. Well, guess what? Those old Russians were rebelling against the gentry and landowners who controlled everything and gave nothing back. Sound familiar? Communism didn’t happen because the poor wanted to give Fox News talking points, it happened because the peasants found it unpleasant watching the czars eat pheasant.
These hippies and democrats and college kids and ukelele players, they don’t care about words like Marxism or capitalism. They just want their piece of the pie, and they’re not blind; they know that out of ten slices, nine have been gobbled up before the pizza even gets delivered.
So if you ask where my sympathy lies, it is with these demonstrators, even if the only thing they’re demonstrating is how easy it is to get really grimy after three days sleeping in a park.
What I do take issue with is the whole theme of the protest – “occupying.” The organizers took their motif from the so-called Arab spring. You know, where young Arabs got tired of their corrupt, totalitarian leaders so they staged relatively peaceful rebellions that will ultimately bring in corrupt, fundamentalist Muslim leaders? Anytime you look to the Arabs for a moral compass, you’re pretty much gonna float into an iceberg.
The anti-Semitic undertones of this movement are very minor, but they’re there. From the usual grievance that Jews comprise the evil one percent oppressing the other 99 to the idea of that loaded word: “occupation.” Even though the protesters are, themselves, the occupiers, you can bet many of them are weeping for the Palestinians supposedly displaced from the sliver of Israeli land they absolutely have to live on.
And yet, and yet. There is a positive impulse here, and I hope President Obama – and whatever clown the Republicans pull out of their sidecar – I hope they listen to these rebels and take to heart the idea that American wealth, enterprise and future security have been stolen by a handful of families and corporations.
When everybody gets to eat, but some people eat a lot better – so it goes, that’s the world. When people are starving and Marie Antoinette is still eating cake, that’s when the knives come out. Or worse, in this case – the bongs and bongos.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches.
