Music and Rench Audio by rench 03 Jul 2008 04:39 pm
yeah, I did the music. enjoy.
Music and Rench Audio by rench 22 Apr 2008 07:54 pm
Rench blogified in the blog-o-blag
Just want to note that some cool people have said some nice things about me recently in the blog-o-blag. Check out these fresh writings:
Go interweb!
Po Dawg shows you how to play a traditional Vietnamese Hymn on the Moon Lute.
Do you ever get the feeling like you’ve been saying something for a long time, and people keep acting like nobody’s said it? I wonder if Jackson Pollock had to hear people make jokes about a zany artist who splatters paint on the canvass a lot.
those are just the most recent.
Music and Rench Audio by rench 19 Oct 2007 09:22 am
Originals of some covers on Life In Mean Season
Charley Pride doing “All I Have To Offer You Is Me”
Bobbie Gentry doing “Fancy”
Emmylou Harris doing “Till I Gain Control Again”
I can’t find any footage of the Louvin Brothers doing “Cash On The Barrelhead”.
Music and Rench Audio by rench 18 Oct 2007 10:51 am
Just got back from playing shows in the UK and Netherlands. Great trip.
Heres a youtube clip from the Netherlands show:
and also some great photos here:
http://www.kjguch.com/gallery/rench/06102007/
Music by rench 09 Oct 2007 02:11 pm
iris dement singing pretty saro
Not often in a narrative movie do they just have a singer sit and do a whole song. Probably my favorite part of “Songcatcher”
View co-host denies evolution is true, not sure if world is flat.
What’s really outrageous about this is that “I have children, I don’t have time to know about stuff” is really not an adequate excuse for disputing basic scientific ideas. Parents need to make time to know whether the earth is round or flat, whether things revolve around the earth or the sun, whether you can get more energy out than you put into a device, whether global warming is true, etc. or else people with a greedy agenda can lie to us and get away with it. I’m not naming names, but there’s a certain president whose name starts with B and almost rhymes with douche, who’se been ignoring what scientists agree on in order to push religion in schools and environmental disaster for the sake of the oil industry. Democracy works a lot better when people take responsibility to be informed. Someone should say that and nobody on the show did.
Politics by rench 13 Aug 2007 04:00 pm
Dick Cheney was smarter in 1994
He never should have started smoking the crack.
Funny by rench 12 Jun 2007 05:54 am
barbara walters has nothing on this troupe of deranged japanese girls.
The fucking union that works for you.
I wish unions actually put out commercials like this.
Politics by rench 12 Mar 2007 07:47 am
Another anti-immigrant policy hurts America.
From the New York Times:
“WASHINGTON, March 11 — A new federal rule intended to keep illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid has instead shut out tens of thousands of United States citizens who have had difficulty complying with requirements to show birth certificates and other documents proving their citizenship, state officials say.
Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia have all reported declines in enrollment and traced them to the new federal requirement, which comes just as state officials around the country are striving to expand coverage through Medicaid and other means.
Under a 2006 federal law, the Deficit Reduction Act, most people who say they are United States citizens and want Medicaid must provide “satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship,” which could include a passport or the combination of a birth certificate and a driver’s license.
Some state officials say the Bush administration went beyond the law in some ways, for example, by requiring people to submit original documents or copies certified by the issuing agency.
“The largest adverse effect of this policy has been on people who are American citizens,” said Kevin W. Concannon, director of the Department of Human Services in Iowa, where the number of Medicaid recipients dropped by 5,700 in the second half of 2006, to 92,880, after rising for five years. “We have not turned up many undocumented immigrants receiving Medicaid in Waterloo, Dubuque or anywhere else in Iowa,” Mr. Concannon said.”
Anti-Immigrant hysteria has led to a bad federal policy, whose only effect is the cause American citizens to lose their health care, delay preventative treatment until hospitalization and emergency room care are needed, costing people their health and costing more money for the patients and the taxpayers.
It just can’t be any clearer: The current emphasis on illegal immigrants as the cause of our problems is only leading to policies that hurt us all. Somehow, illegal immigrants were a big enough deal that politicians were able to pass a law that makes it harder for millions of Americans to get health care. Thats retarded. Heres a little more from the article that just outrages me.
“Medicaid officials across the country report that some pregnant women are going without prenatal care and some parents are postponing checkups for their children while they hunt down birth certificates and other documents.
Rhiannon M. Noth, 28, of Cincinnati applied for Medicaid in early December. When her 3-year-old son, Landen, had heart surgery on Feb. 22, she said, “he did not have any insurance” because she had been unable to obtain the necessary documents. For the same reason, she said, she paid out of pocket for his medications, and eye surgery was delayed for her 2-year-old daughter, Adrianna.”
We have to get our priorities straight and know whats really a problem. It is so sad that Republicans have been able to stir up the anit-immigrant bullshit, and that the Democrats haven’t stood up against them more strongly. This legislation was written by two white male republicans from Georgia.
One of them is dead now. The other says he will fight against repealing this legislation and will actually try to extend it to the Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is what I call a bad congressman.
Republicans are doing far more damage to my country than illegal immigrants.