Mr. Dan Kelly’s blog

Bye Bye

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:11:42 -0800

I prefer the ease of LastFM to Vox for musical offerings. Please stop by!

http://www.last.fm/user/mrdankelly

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"Back Door Man" — Willie Dixon

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:08:03 -0700

Willie Dixon

Back Door Man

Willie Dixon

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Clifford Hayes and the Dixieland Jug Blowers — "Banjoreno"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:33:07 -0700

Banjoreno

Dixieland Jug Blowers

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LiveJournal Go Boom

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Thu, 31 May 2007 12:16:51 -0700

I'm going to take a stab and say that someone bombed the living shit out of LiveJournal and SixApart for their slavish acquiescence to some parental action group I've never even heard of, and that's why I can't get on my LJ right now. So, like a man in a bunker a mile beneath an earth scorched by nuclear bombs and biowarfare devices, I'm posting this to say, "I'm still here. Is anyone else?"

I won't blow this up into something bigger than it is, but I find it interesting that just when this country started moving away from terror fear and ultra-right-wing isolation and overreaction, and moving toward the idea that we need to fix things rather than blow them up, the old child protection panic has been implemented at LiveJournal.

You know something? I'm going to take a stand and say you shouldn't fuck kids. It's crazy, I know, but it's about time someone said that diddling the little ones is bad. Very bad indeed. Anyone who tries to molest or assault a child should be arrested, tried, and (if found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt) locked up. Call me an iconoclast.

Thing is, you don't really have to go much further than that. But as is the case with most panics, people mistake the map for the territory and start burning books, banning blogs, and demanding loyalty oaths when they think the pervs aren't being rounded up and shot fast enough. This moves on to demolishing any quasi-representation of the objet d'panic, enforcement usually based on the perceptions of people who imagine trench-coated perverts in every bush. It's like using a sledgehammer to swat flies. As an aside, I've always been of the mind that those who complain the loudest are mentally struggling the most, and they want to spread the self-flagellation around. In the old days they formed monasteries and whipped each other in private. Now they start crusades.

I am a writer, a creator of content. As such I cannot support any form of censorship. I don't make exceptions, and not because of any slippery slope fears, but because it's wrong to censor people, however disgusting or repulsive they might be. If they keep their hands clean, who gives a damn what they write or draw, sez I. You want to isolate sleaze? Fine. But don't destroy it.

I may very well move away from LiveJournal if they can be so arbitrarily and easily influenced into stifling expression without careful analysis.

If you want the final hardcore American reason for arguing against censorship, here it is: I paid for this service. You don't get to shut it off unless you have absolute proof I'm up to no good.

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Ennio Morricone — "Valmont's GoGo Pad"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:08:18 -0700

From Danger: Diabolik!

Danger: Diabolik!

Valmont's GoGo Pad

Ennio Morricone

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Ennio Morricone — "La Resa Dei Conti (aka Sixty Seconds to What?)"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:00:06 -0700

For a Few Dollars More

La Resa Dei Conti (aka Sixty Seconds to What_)

Ennio Morricone

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Neil Young — "Southern Man"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:30:45 -0700

For Jerry Falwell.

Neil Young

Southern Man

Neil Young

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Morrissey — "National Front Disco"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:14:03 -0700

Morrissey

The National Front Disco

Morrissey

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Big Bill Broonzy — "Guitar Rag"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:24:04 -0700

Big Bill Broonzy

Guitar Rag

Big Bill Broonzy

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John Hasbrouck — "Keep It Clean"

nobody@vox.com(Mr. Dan Kelly) — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:53:12 -0700

John Hasbrouck

Keep It Clean

John Hasbrouck

John is a local musician and one of my guitar teachers. He's a nice fellow too. He just wrote to tell me he founded yet another band, this time a classic country string band in the vein of the Three Stripped Gears or Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers. Here's John's web site, please stop by!

The above tune is John's cover of a number by Charley Jordan, a superlative fingerpicker himself.

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