1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.
Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic
Track 3 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica
1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – I’m sharing the whole album, song everyday until the end of the ablum.
Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic
Track 2 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica
Continue reading “I Want To Be Your Partner by “Spider” John Koerner”
There was a couple of people who liked to hear some 1965 acoustic folk, one man and a guitar “blues” – So I thought I’d share the rest of the album.
Genre – Folk/Blues/Acoustic
Track 1 – From the album “Spider Blues” by “‘Spider’ John Koerner”, with “Tony Glover” on harmonica
Sorry it’s a bit late, I only just thought of it, I’m terrible with dates …
No idea if this is the best or even the right photo for this, but I like the bohemian thing going on with the guys just chillaxin’ playing games on their smartphones.
So for a “diversity is our strength” valentines day, I made this :
Cheers
Don Charisma
Continue reading “Just The Two Of Us – Bill Withers – Valentines Day Special”
Best of three movie reviews, I guess – I haven’t yet seen this movie, but it’s probably one of the few movies that came out 2019 that I will actually go out of my way to see. Oh, and “1917”, … Continue reading (NSFW) Joker May Be My Movie Of The Year – The Critical Drinker
This came up next after the previous movie review I posted from The Critical Drinker (the previous movie is so forgettable, I’ve forgotten the name of it already !) I’ve added NSFW, as I know he likes to use profanity … Continue reading (NSFW) The Drinker Recommends… 1917
The Critical Drinker turned up on my feed sometime ago. I find his reviews entertaining, and not pandering to minority political narrative. I seem to remember him saying he’s an bestselling author himself (although I never checked). He also seems to improve the more he drinks.
I’d say his reviews are for grown ups, he does use profanity, so maybe not full volume at work, hence – NSFW
*Yawn* … another female empowerment movie.
Something about going broke ? Dunno can’t quite remember that idiom.
Anyway …
(Nearly 500K views in 3 days, *WOW* not bad for indie media review) :
Continue reading “(NSFW) Birds Of Prey – It’s A Garbage Movie – The Critical Drinker”
UnionHomeStead and I had some chats recently. I visited them on my “day off” and really liked their blog. Sorry I don’t know all your names, and it’s no worries, in these days where privacy is rare 🙂 (Google and FaceBook I’m looking at you)
They are Kiwis from New Zealand, running a smallholding, growing their own food and raising their own animals (and kids and children !). All as ethically as they can.
Some concerns where expressed to me, about being a guest blogged (presumably because of exposure to 39000 followers) – but I promise it’s really nothing to worry about. I’d say 99% of those following are nice people, or at least the ones that I’ve had the privilege to converse with. WordPress.com is much friendlier social network than Twitter etc., kinda why I”m still here.
Hopefully, my guest blogging UnionHomeStead.com will bring them some more followers and friends. They are nice people, feel free to pay them a visit, say I sent you.
Honey for Nothing…
Having been asked to guest by The Charismatic One is both incredibly flattering and hugely terrifying. What to write was the number one concern because here is where we confess to being *whisper* utterly, completely, totally disjointed from the world around us. Well, perhaps that is overstating things a tad. Way back when the Homestead was but a twinkle in two bright-eyed kids visage, we were rather proud of being up with the play and in the know. We had some pretty set ideas on ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ and we weren’t scared to scream ahem…speak them. In fairness, Maggie, Ron et al did give us plenty of fulminating fodder but we fumed with relish; waving our placards from our tiny piece of the planet. That is, right up until the little Homesteaders started along.
Continue reading ““Honey For Nothing” – Guest Blogger – UnionHomeStead.com”
I remember I was quite offended at the time. It was fairly soon after I started my blog in 2014.
Thanks for following my blog. I suppose your blog is an intelligent kind of spam based on the wish of bloggers to let their ego develop on the net.
I have respect for your intelligence and wish you good luck.
(Kind thanks to drwilly of drwillylip.wordpress.com for a most excellent insult)
I came to realise, It’s actually a reasonable comment. A reasonable question to ask oneself. Sometimes criticism may seem harsh, but, it can be some of the best advice one will ever receive.
It’s a question I ask myself when I’m writing or sharing – is what I’m creating enriching people’s experience of life, or am I just creating “Intelligent Spam” ? Am I sharing something people wouldn’t normally see ? Am I distributing information which is interesting ? and so on.
Continue reading “Intelligent Spam, Picking Best Photos And My Social Media Links”
In response to my post about my leaky water filter (which is now fixed) – My friend and fellow blogger – who’s taking a break from blogging, and has been so kind in helping me, in my comments section, left me this comment today :
On a somewhat related note, when we first move into our house we started receiving calls all day from a waterproofing company who just would not take no for an answer. My wife, who worked night shift, got tired of the calls waking her up as she tried to sleep during the daytime.
Next time they called and asked if we had a problem with water leaking in the basement she responded, “Yes, we have a terrible problem. When it rains the water comes in and starts filling up the basement, but before it can get more than two feet deep it starts leaking out. Can they come out immediately and stop it? We just can’t get it deep enough to do any serious swimming.”
They never called back, but for a couple weeks afterwards she got nervous whenever someone came to the house, assured it was going to be the men in white coats coming to take her away.
Author – (c) 2020 The Modern Theologian
As I said they he is taking a break from blogging, so please bear that in mind if visiting his blog (I’ve linked to, because I always cite sources with links if possible).
And, the “And” part :
I’ve been slowly adding the flags of the countries of my commenters on my sidebar (as I’m proud of my own flag, I assume others are too). Just added Spain, Australia, Canada and Denmark. If I missed anyone please leave a comment which flag you want to see and I’ll add it for you.
Cheers
Don Charisma
Continue reading “Leak Humour And Country Flags (Water Filter Is Fixed BTW)”
This guy has been posting some useful information regarding coronavirus – I just posted about UK imposing forced quarantine. The FT article I shared was behind a paywall.
So I picked it up from – http://archive.ph/
He also says that you can get articles from – https://archive.org/web/
As I understand it, I can share the article for “satire or discussion”, and guess what ? My posts have a comments section, ie a discussion, so I can re-post under copyright fair use rules.
Anyway – I’ll let “Styxhexenhammer666” explain more about “archive activism”, in order to hold the fakestream media to account :
Continue reading “Archive Activism! Archive Every “News” Link You Post, Cross Platform”
I was working on my computer last night, and heard a bang from the kitchen. I rushed over to find water spewing everywhere. So I switched off the supply to the under-sink water filter system (the obvious source).
I just heard about this. My condolences and deepest sympathy for the victims.
Reports suggest the shooter was a soldier who was having a land dispute with his CO. The CO was the first to be killed. The shooter then went on a killing spree, on the streets, then at a shopping mall. The shooter was eventually killed by the Thai security forces.
Thailand is now in mourning for the deceased. May the rest in peace.
Source – Sky News Australia
Continue reading “Thailand Gunman Killed By Security Forces In Hours-Long Siege”
(That’s enough blogging for one day – time for some downtime)
No need to tell me the right answer, I’ve heard it on TV relating to UK 5G deal with Huawei.
But when I first saw the name on a phone in the phone shop … well … I tried to guess :
“Who are we”
“Who a wee”
“Who’re wee”
“Who way”
And then I’m joking with a friend, and I’m like
“Who the hell are we ?”
(It’s funnier if you try to pronounce it in English out loud)
Kind of ironic though, with the controversy surrounding the company, and then the UK government striking a deal with them, whilst the rest of the world don’t want to touch them with a barge pole.
Comments invited 🙂
Cheers
Don Charisma
I didn’t know he was sick, I hadn’t seen him around for a while.
So – Get well soon Jordan Peterson, I wish you a speedy recovery and hope to see you again soon.
Jordan – Thank you for all your efforts, especially concerning helping to protect free speech, and your efforts to educate people about the real and present danger of a dystopia emerging in the west.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTwEFa5NW2k
Continue reading “Jordan Peterson – Peterson Family Update – February 2020”
I was thinking about writing a post about tolerance. I’m a fairly tolerant person. It does seem though that those who demand tolerance from me seem to be the least tolerant of and towards me. That was it basically, so a fairly short blog !
After dealing with a troll issue – I needed a break from blogging today, so I’ve been out visiting all of the blogs who’ve added likes to my posts over the past week or so (thanks to you all). I’ve put some likes on your posts too, to pay it forward, “spread the love” so to speak.
«Dreamers look into the future and see promise. Those who do not dream only see the future.» — D. Elder Charisma quotes are sponsored by DonCharisma.com – you dream it we built it … because – “anything is possible with … Continue reading Dreamers look into the future and see promise. Those who do not dream only see the future.
«I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.» — Margaret Thatcher Charisma quotes are sponsored by DonCharisma.com – … Continue reading I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
«Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.» — Fyodor Dostoevsky Charisma quotes … Continue reading Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Water lily flower and Bill Withers. Good match ?
I think this version of the song is remixed or remastered.
Enjoy !
Cheers
Don Charisma
Fatboy slim at his finest … props to Christopher Walken for his “dancing” … love the analogue synths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF5cBoAV5Ys
Enjoy !
Cheers
Don Charisma
Continue reading “Fatboy Slim – Weapon Of Choice (Official HD Video)”
The boy eating his lunch reminded me of the front cover of – “You’ve come a long way baby”, and this is probably the best track off that album.
Enjoy !
Cheers
Don Charisma
Something a bit more upbeat for … because … I like it, dunno why, but I do …
The dog seemed to want to get photographed, even smiled for me 🙂 Could be a juxtapose or could be exactly the right photo, dunno. Suppose it’s subjective, beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder.
Cheers
Don Charisma
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I really like this photo, even though it has some technical imperfections. I was totally unprepared for this shot to enter my viewfinder. Any photographer knows this – but it was one of those moments, no time for focusing or … Continue reading Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down
This is a cover version, I like this one too. I made the video with ffmpeg, m4a music file and photo I took of a Thai doll that a friend gave me at Songkran a few years ago. I blogged … Continue reading The Commitments – Try A Little Tenderness
In case you didn’t catch it the first time – here’s Spider John Koerner, one man and a guitar playing “Rent Party Rag” Genre is kinda folk/blues, and it’s a long one 10 minutes Cheers Don Charisma Continue reading Repost – Spider John Koerner – Rent Party Rag
This one’s for Leslie. She knows who she is, she’s been a good friend to me. I hope she likes the song, it’s one of my favourite ballads, which has been covered by other artists. RIP Otis Redding, we miss … Continue reading Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
Over the last week or two my blog stats have gone through the roof, and many new followers have added me – great to see as I know I’m sharing often content which doesn’t always fit people’s confirmation bias.
So, Just wanted to say a quick thanks. I try and post what I think is interesting, unusual, new, upcoming and outside establishment. And, when I have the capacity be creative and share new creations.
Continue reading “My Blog Stats Are Taking Off – Thanks To All My New Readers And Followers”
From 2018 – One of the best of “Bad Lip Reading” – comedy does still exist on the internet 🙂 Cheers Don Charisma Comments Comments are often welcomed, provided you can string a legible, relevant and polite sentence together. In … Continue reading “INTERROGATING ZUCKERBERG” — A Bad Lip Reading
ffmpeg is one of the most powerful video/audio enoding/decoding/etc tools out there. It’s been around for donkey’s years, and used by amateurs and pros alike.
The main downside is that it’s a command line only tool, so if you’re not willing or able to “get your hands dirty” then probably just do a next on this post. If you want to to try it out, there’s plenty of guides accessible via Google et al which will shine a light on the path for you.
ffmpeg is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. ffmpeg has codecs included for just about every photo/audio/video imaginable. As one comment I spotted online eluded – ffmpeg is very very smart, more than people give it credit for.
Continue reading “ffmpeg One Liner – Still Photo + Music File = Video File”
I’ve been using Transferwise for about three years now. I don’t recommend things I’ve never used to others, otherwise I’d have talked about Transferwise on my blog before. I’ve made maybe 70 transfers with them by now, each of which went flawlessly. It’s a service I use regularly, and is convenient and efficient for helping manage my money, and saves me money.
Continue reading “How To Make FREE Money From Transferwise – Risk Free”
Another Random oldschool dance track for Saturday night … An all time classics, Jan Driver Mix is probably the best mix … It’s a 12″ DJ/Club version, so it’s longer than radio edit, with longer intro and outro for the … Continue reading Laurent Garnier – The Man With The Red Face (Jan Driver Remix)
Random oldschool dance music for Saturday night … Couldn’t decide which version I preferred, so I posted both (probably the first one). No idea where I first heard it. Maybe Camden Palace (now Koko) or The Electric Ballroom, or maybe … Continue reading SF Express – My Love Is Stronger (Beats and Gooves For a Pornstar)
Recently I moved my old videos from WordPress to YouTube to free up storage space on my blog, for posting photography later.
I wasn’t quite sure how YouTube would deal with the fact that the music included in some of my videos is mainstream and copyright. I thought this was a big no no on YouTube.
As it turns out, I was wrong – it’s OK, you can post copyright music without getting banned etc from YouTube. Only thing that will happen is that the video will get marked as containing copyright music. The rub is that you won’t receive any monetization. *Nothing bad will happen.*
I thought about it for a while, and actually I don’t care, my videos would probably only clock up a few views anyway – so monetization isn’t something of any importance to me.
The other thing is videos can be set to unlisted, so they don’t appear in search. What that means is it’s just your blog viewers who can access them via the special link provided by YouTube (not shown in any search).
So copyright owner isn’t actually going to make any money from you posting the video, which is fine for me (of course if you actually wanted to give the money to the copyright owner, you can set the video as listed for search in YouTube)
So, could be a good way to share music you like with your followers – just a suggestion/tip. Might be helpful to someone. I will likely use the facility again later, as sometimes I can only find poor quality versions of pieces of music (on YouTube) I’d like to share, or I can’t find the particular mix/version that I have in my own music collection.
It’s simple to merge a single still photo with music (easiest way to do it). Or if you have video you can merge the video with music.
I think I used Photoshop to do mine. Also Avidemux I’ve used in the past – it’s free, and pretty easy to use. Plus plenty of others out there.
Feel free to leave a comment – what’s your favourite video editing software (preferably free and easy to use.) ?Especially like to hear what Linux users use for video editing, as I’m using Linux more and more these days.
Cheers
Don Charisma
Continue reading “Posting Copyright Music On Your Blog Via YouTube”
Naomi Wu’s channel popped up in my YouTube feed a while back. At the time I was watching a lot of electronic, science, engineering and technical channels, so probably her channel is watched by those with similar interests. I follow … Continue reading Children’s Charity Rejects $3000 Raised By Female STEM YouTuber
I grew up with the BBC. They made some amazing TV and were probably the best of the 3, and then 4 channels available to watch (that’s all we had). Some of the greatest ever comedy shows came out of … Continue reading The Bias Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) – Worth £155 Per Year On Pain Of Prison ?
I made this track a while back on Ableton. It was my one of my first attempts at making music, since the 90s. Probably not most people’s cup of tea, but my Canadian friend kinda inspired me to share it. … Continue reading Music – “Heart Nose Best” – Don Charisma
(Reuploading my old videos to YouTube) Sometimes a photo just won’t do for capturing a sunset or any other moment for that matter, so I’m experimenting with video 🙂 I shot this video of the sunset the other evening (the … Continue reading Repost – Beach Sunset Video
One of the best performances of Gary Moore & Albert Collins’ – “Too Tired”, live at the Montreux Music Festival 1990 Maybe you’re too tired of paperwork (Tax returns are due on Friday in UK) so time for a bit … Continue reading “Too Tired” – Gary Moore & Albert Collins
Don Charisma 