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Earlier this week I spent some time filling sandbags with other volunteers. A few tried to get some singing going, with no success. One problem was that few people know all the words to any given song anymore. The other problem seemed to be a lack of suitable songs. What are your favorite examples of
call and response in the popular music of the last 40 years? I'm looking for examples where both call and response are vocal.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bricoleur
at 6:55 AM on June 12, 2008
(17 comments)
Tul Karem’s refugee camp, the time, if I remember correctly, Chanukah 2003, it was to execute there about 9 people. Sorry, I don’t remember the pretense we were given for the mission.
From Shovrim Shtika or
Breaking the Silence where Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on
Hebron
posted to MetaFilter by adamvasco
at 11:45 PM on April 21, 2008
(13 comments)
The Makhmalbafs
are an Iranian family of filmmakers, although Samira tends to get the most press.
posted to MetaFilter by sciurus
at 1:58 PM on April 7, 2008
(13 comments)
I shot his plane down.
First his fighter plane was just lost under unknown circumstances during WWII. People speculated on a possible suicide of the writer. Then his golden armband was found by a fisherman in the sea.
Then the plane of well known french writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
was found in the mediteranean.
Now 88 year old journalist Horst Rippert, who was a fighter pilot during WWII,
admits that he shot down Saint-Exupéry and that he regretted this his whole life.
posted to MetaFilter by jouke
at 9:41 AM on March 17, 2008
(36 comments)
Bacon Cups
are sure to make your next party a hit.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 2:50 PM on February 28, 2008
(82 comments)
Villagers in the mountains of northern India and Pakistan have been
growing their own glaciers for centuries. They're small
domesticated glaciers, cultivated by hand, and they provide a reliable source of water for agriculture. Legend has it that they made glaciers to block mountain passes and keep the Mongol Hordes out! More detail in
New Scientist - subscription required, but you can probably see this
instruction sheet.
posted to MetaFilter by moonmilk
at 10:55 PM on February 7, 2008
(28 comments)
Questioning the banality of evil.
"There is a widespread consensus amongst psychologists that tyranny triumphs either because ordinary people blindly follow orders or else because they mindlessly conform to powerful roles. However, recent evidence concerning historical events challenges these views. In particular, studies of the Nazi regime reveal that its functionaries engaged actively and creatively with their tasks. Re-examination of classic social psychological studies points to the same dynamics at work. This article summarises these developments and lays out the case for an updated social psychology of tyranny that explains both the influence of tyrannical leaders and the active contributions of their followers."
[Via Mind Hacks.]
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus
at 9:50 PM on January 2, 2008
(108 comments)
"Hugh Massingberd,
a celebrated former obituaries editor of
The Telegraph of London who made a once-dreary page required reading by speaking frankly, wittily and often gleefully ill of the dead, became the recipient of his own services after dying in West London on Christmas Day." The linked
NY Times obit (by Margalit Fox;
print version) contains many good quotes, like "The Telegraph’s send-off of one Lt. Col. Geoffrey Knowles, 'who as a subaltern was bitten in the buttocks by a bear — he survived but the bear expired'";
The Telegraph's own
obit is much longer (and, of course, unsigned) and contains, along with more good zingers, a well-written account of his life ("The inevitable consequence of his bingeing proved another triumph of style, as Massingberd, a tall, slim and notably handsome youth with hollowed-out cheeks, transmogrified into an impressively corpulent presence whose moon face lit up with Pickwickian benevolence").
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat
at 12:08 PM on December 30, 2007
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