Varitek
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Lila64 said:I can't PM or email Varitek from this site. I have the link to 'One Country'. Check your PM coolian
yourwildhorses @ gmail
thanks to both of you!
Lila64 said:I can't PM or email Varitek from this site. I have the link to 'One Country'. Check your PM coolian
Axver said:Beds Are Burning and Forgotten Years are sending now.
I think I'll follow them up with The Dead Heart, Short Memory, and Put Down That Weapon.
Lila64 said:
Let me know what you think. I can't believe Ax has a totally opposite opinion of this song than I do
Varitek - are you anywhere near DC? I have to pack Maddy for cold weather. She leaves on her trip Thursday evening.
Varitek said:
yourwildhorses @ gmail
thanks to both of you!
Lila64 said:
Sent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd_diPTrjpI
Maddy is going on the 8th grade "field trip" to DC for 5 days. I can't go, unfortunately. We're in S.Calif. I've been following weather.com all week. I was just checking with actual humans living on the east coast. She's never been, and I'm trying to make sure she'll be warm enough. We're not used to things like weather
Varitek said:oh and for packing, i'd say layers. tshirts and sweaters. it can be warm inside. and jeans, and long (not ankle) socks. obviously sneakers for walking around. if she has to dress up, send her with pantyhose, they do wonders in cold air.
Lila64 said:I've heard this is an annual "event" for 8th graders across the U.S. They didn't have this going on "in my day" (Yes, I'm old, get over it ) Not that my mom would have even considered it. But there's about 80 or so kids going from/thru her school. Sounds like a non-stop trip of seeing the monuments and such. They are scheduled for the Holocaust Museum as well. I hope everyone learns a lot from this. Maddy was very interested in going, knowing that some of her ancestors did not survive the concentration camps. It should be an interesting learning experience
Lila64 said:This isn't a field trip per se. I don't know what you call it. It's costing me a fortune though
Oils - My Country: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyeTuoWCqUE&feature=related
(I'm not watching these, just listening)
Lila64 said:
She doesn't have long socks or thermal underwear, or anything to wear under pants. She has some shirts./sweaters for layering & a jacket. No dressing up at all. She will be bring sneakers and her new Ugg-type boots.
And yes, Beds Are Burning was a big hit here in the U.S. for the band. I saw them many times live. Incredible!!!
We saw them in October of 2001, about a month after 9/11. We knew it would be even more moving than normal; they were very political in their day. They played the HOB in Hollywood, which holds about 1000 people. Came back in March 2002 to the same club. Just awesome. So much power, energy... Their drummer... Oh man. I have to stop drooling on myself now
coolian2 said:And our major field trips were to dodgy places up north or Rotovegas
Axver said:
My geography class went to the Great Barrier Reef but I couldn't go; the risk of being sunburnt was too high.
But I got to go on all the excursions to fuuuun places like the GINGER FACTORY!
Lila64 said:I know their is a Capitol Tour, Bureau of Engraving & Printing, The Holocaust Museum (looks like a couple of hours scheduled for it), Smithsonian, yes I see the Spy Museum on the schedule, Arlington, Gettysburg, the memorials,... Lots planned for the amount of time they will be there. No freedom, nor should they have any. They are 13-14 year olds. I don't envy the chaperones one bit.
I think there is a Holocaust Museum or something to that affect in West Los Angeles. If she's interested, we can take her there on our own time.
Axver said:One of the greatest moments in Australian music history has to be when the Oils played Beds Are Burning at the Closing Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics with "sorry" written on their clothes as a direct "fuck you" to John Howard for not issuing a National Apology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLxOq5SNLIg
I've already said it, but it was so awesomely fitting to see Garrett as a government minister sitting behind Rudd when the National Apology finally was given earlier this year.