RoCM Playlist: 11 Nov 2023 (and Long Island Elections)
So a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was really going to try to embrace the fall season this year and to be a bit… I believe the word I used was “cheerier”… during this season. Yeah… I really used that word. I don’t recall ever using it before, but hey, when you’re trying to make changes it can sometimes be useful to start with vocabulary.
Last week, the first challenge of the season to my new found “cheerier” attempts came in the form of our Long Island election results – in which our local Huntington Town Democratic Committee (HTDC) got absolutely drop-kicked in both the town council race as well as the larger county races. Part of the reason it didn’t entirely ruin my disposition is that anyone with any common sense – sense that the previously mentioned local chapter of the Democratic Party seems to lack – could see the mud-stomping coming since August, kind of like one of the slow-mo fight scenes in some direct-to-DVD action film. A dated reference, but not quite as old as the politics of Huntington.
You can see these local results here – but a tl;dr version is that the only Democrat that won is Rebecca Sanin in the Suffolk County Legislator, District 16 race – placing the results at 6 wins for the Republicans and 1 for the Democrats. The most galling result is that the local Dems, who had a 3-2 majority on the Huntington Town Council when we moved here ten years ago – have resigned all seats and the Republicans have a 5-0 stronghold on the council. Well done, HTDC. Nice work. <sarcasm emoji>
I am sure the local Dems will learn from their mistakes – we have only seen them handily lose the last few election cycles starting in 2016 in spite of the rest of the country resisting this nonsense, so how bad can it really get? *COUGH* Now excuse me while I stick my face in a boiling vat of holiday “cheerier”.
Anywhoo… here is the playlist. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there is an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.
| Time | Artist | Song | Release | Song note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00:16 PM | Inez Foxx | You Hurt Me for the Last Time | The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975 | |
| 4:07:51 PM | Andrew Cyrille, Elliot Sharp, & Richard Teitelbaum | Singularity to Unity | Evocation | Andrew Cyrille – Drums [Drumset], Percussion |
| 4:21:22 PM | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | Of Life and Love and God | The Tribe | Billy Jabali Hart – Drums |
| 4:32:33 PM | Derek Bailey | When Your Liver Has Gone | Standards | Derek Bailey – Acoustic Guitar |
| 4:40:02 PM | Sounds of Liberation | We’ll Tell You Later | Sounds of Liberation | Byard Lancaster – Alto Saxophone |
| 4:52:30 PM | Tom Waits | Big Black Mariah | Live in Nijmegen, Holland (Nov 5, 1985) | |
| 5:00:18 PM | Erma Franklin | Piece of My Heart | Erma Franklin: Piece Of Her Heart – The Epic And Shout Years | |
| 5:05:00 PM | Don Byron | Fencewalk | Nu Blaxploitation | Don Byron – Baritone Saxophone |
| 5:13:13 PM | David S. Ware Quartet | Corridors & Parallels | Corridors & Parallels | William Parker – Bass |
| 5:23:42 PM | Billy Bang & Kahil El’Zabar | Spirits Entering | Spirits Entering | Kahil El’Zabar – Drums, Kalimba [Thumb Piano], Berimbau, Percussion |
| 5:32:47 PM | Mary Halvorson | Moonburn (feat. The Mivos Quartet) | Belladonna (feat. The Mivos Quartet) | Mary Halvorson – guitar |
| 5:43:19 PM | Nina Simone | Sinnerman | Pastel Blues | Lisle Atkinson – Bass |
| 5:54:54 PM | Tom Lehrer | The Old Dope Peddler | An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer |
