Of course, it’s entirely possible that you wrote it, I read it, and even commented on it. My memory is notoriously untrustworthy.

P.S.: Another vote for hips here.

We evil white males be lost without those shapely hips.

[for the purists, you cant go by a tavern unless your moving. presumably walking not driving… ]

Mary Hopkin Those were the days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyaTIXdN5fI

but that was not the original!!
i think its apropos that we hear the original

Those were the days (The original Russian song) – Дорогой длинною
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1UKbyPRHs

From art, and music, we never realized we were singing the same songs… Sadly, when one does this, one romanticized the living condition of the other, and so it becomes desired and copied. which was the purpose of doing so…

Walters & Kazha – The War Is Not Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l6lNjSA40o

i said it before. and i will say it again.
American freedom fighters died almsot 300 years ago..

Latvian freedom fighters are still alive today

300 years ago, many Americans died for liberty. less than 30 years ago, Latvians died for liberty that Americans just tossed away this election.

so i decided to put this up in honor to the five who lost their lives in the struggle for Independence on 20 January 1991, so that someone will remember them as brothers in freedom…

Vladimir Gomanovich
Sergei Kononenko
Andris Slapins
Edijs Reikstins (high school student)
Gvido Zvaigzne

Edijs Reikstins was killed by soviet special forces. its very hard to find stuff about him. a lot in books, but almost no articles.

Photo Exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the barricades of 1991
http://www.latvia.eu/sites/default/files/neatkariba-e-izstade-eng2.pdf

excerpt:

So firm was our stubbornness, our resolve, our will – to be free

We would be free

That conviction came from our parents, and grandparents stories, from our ancestral legends, from our memories of our childhood and our youth which had taken root in our senses and our conscience so forcibly that even an axe could not excise them, from old photographs or the pages of a book that bear testimony that once there was a Latvia

On Sunday, January 20, 1991, the black berets attacked and took over the Interior Ministry in Riga, Latvia.

Five people were killed, all by gunfire, and ten were wounded. Three of the dead were killed in a park near the
Ministry, apparently by sharp-shooters. The three were Andris Slapins and Gvido Zvaigzne, two Latvian members of a film crew working for the well-known Soviet film director Juris Podnieks, and Edijs Riekstins, a high school student, who was shot in the abdomen. Vladimir Gomonovich, a Senior Lieutenant of Police, was shot in the neck, and Sergei
Kanonenko, a police inspector, was shot in the head.

The sixth fatal casualty in Latvia occurred earlier in the week, on January 16, when 39-year-old Roberts Murnieks, chauffeur for the Latvian Minister of Transportation, was stopped for unknown reasons by Soviet troops. He died after being shot in the back of the head.

Before the attack on the Interior Ministry building, Soviet troops arrested five people, charging them with
possession of weapons.

Until June 1991, the central government was silent about the events of January 1991. The Soviet prosecutor’s office, headed by General Nikolai Trubin, issued a statement on June 3, 1991, that denied all reports that victims of the January 13 attack were crushed by tanks or shot by Soviet troops.

I have Here Comes My Baby on vinyl! Dig this one: http://tinyurl.com/24bx57g

MJR,

That is another great one from Roy. This Ray Davies/Kinks classic is probably obscure to most people, but a classic IMO:

http://tinyurl.com/c259rnv

“One of [Roy Orbison’s] last songs [“You Got It”] rivals the beauty of Blue Bayou for me. Perhaps because reflects how I feel about my girl.”

Try on for size, if you will, another beaut from the same LP (1989, posthumous) — “California Blue”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogeuinHxlqw

M J R