Theodora L'Engle Knight

Theodora L'Engle Knight
Location
Portland, Oregon, USA
Birthday
July 02
Title
Pack Leader, Her Royal Highness
Company
Prozac On Paws: The Tale of Three Spayed Females
Bio
raised in Boston and never meant to leave. went to hahvahd and barely survived the experience, but i did have some lovely brushes with greatness there that i will never forget. i got 2/3 of an mba and mistakenly got into finance. now i'm a recovering accountant. you never really recover. thankfully fell into screenwriting by collaborating on a tv movie and selling it to nbc. wrote scripts for a while. also did some playwriting and was blessed to have my stuff workshopped with some pretty good actors. then i became agoraphobic after a hysterectomy to remove The Fibroid Tumor that Ate Santa Barbara. I adopted a 9-year-old yellow lab, Good Willa Hunting, and trained her to be my service dog. the second time around i married a wonderful and talented landscape architect/jazz flute and sax player. we moved up to portland, oregon 2 weeks after 9/11. lost thelma the love kitty on the way. lost my husband to pancreatic cancer and part of my brain to george brad pittuitary boomer tumor willis. now i live in senior low income housing with my current service dogs/canine crew: Ella Fitzgerald and Cocoa Chanel. tumor george is gone gone gone, i'm writing again and even thinking about going back to the standup comedy open mikes. anything and everything is possible. i just have to leave the house one day at a time. As Steven Wright says, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

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OCTOBER 9, 2009 8:37PM

Folkie Friday: WE NEED AN ANTHEM NOW! SOME IDEAS.

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okay, i was going to do a whole thing about me being a teenager in the late sixties and boycotting lettuce with the best of them and fucking a boy who looked like Mick Jagger under the Washington monument during the Cambodia demonstration where i kept running into Eugene McCarthy and he was a sweetheart. probably still is. but the music speaks and speaks and speaks for itself. i will keep adding more over the weekend. this is the music that really hits me where it hurts while inspiring the fuck out of me too!!!

and, people, WE NEED A FREAKING ANTHEM. NOW! we need some music for now, when freaking obama gets a peace prize when there is no peace and people are dying in Afghanistan in horrible ways and no one has ever ever ever won a war there. ever. this could not be more timely and it sickens me that this same shit is all the same 30-40 years later. we dont' seem to learn a freaking thing.

(and you can read more about my life and see how hawt i was here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/theodora_lengle_knight/2009/10/08/i_can_scan_pics_of_me_through_the_ages_big_tits_in_one

okay, this one first because it's the best and i got requests to re-post it. Phil Ochs...

 

 

the lovely Tim Buckley's (the best) Anti-War song,  Once I Was...:

Tim Buckley Once I Was... Live in '68
 
Richie Havens at Woodstock!!! '69. Handsome Johnny, man!
Young Bob Dylan singing Blowin' in the Wind:

 

Peter, Paul and Mary singing Blowin' in the Wind:

i will keep posting more and more, but, to me, these two songs say a whole lot that we all need to hear and shout from the rooftops!!!!! young people, get thee to DC and just sit there and shout and sing and the rest of us will follow you. i promise!

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Roger Fallihee
October 09, 2009 08:40 PM
you are such a brat, roger! and get your ass over to my Pics post with Big Tits too!!! i love you, man.
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 08:41 PM
where the freak are you, roger???? this post freaking rocks!!! Richie Haven's singing Handsome Johnny at woodstock??? are you freaking kidding me???? young Dylan and Blowin in the wind? we fucking need some songs for these horrible times. we need them badly. we need our own We Shall Overcome, people.
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 08:54 PM
You've never been more right in your life, Theo, we DO need an anthem, an anthem we can dance to, once I can walk again. :-). It's weird, too, because I've been working on a post about being 14 in '69, and wearing the black bandana tied on my upper arm, so sure that we could end that war, with our braless, brainless selves.
Rated for all it could've been, back then.
junk1
October 09, 2009 09:44 PM
oh, julie, thanks for coming by!!!! that is a trip that you are workign on that post. i'm pretty psychic. wouldn't surprise me if i picked up on it and that's why i reached out to you to promote this thing. for once, it's not about me wanting attention. WE NEED AN ANTHEM. i'm so glad you agree with me. the war did end back then. it did. this happening again????? horrific. love love love and graittude and please, love, can you and your black armband :) pass this one along. i'm super passionate about this.
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 10:13 PM
We have the perfect anthem, it's 44 years old and was written and performed by Phil Ochs, Small Circle of Friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulTmmTIlM_o
bobbot
October 09, 2009 10:25 PM
Richie Havens was the best.. I liked how he used his thumb for the chords. The protest years were like the other side of the moon to me. I lived in a aww shucks farm town and the only thing we had to protest about was running out of grape nehi during haying season. Then I discovered pot and it was bye-bye reality for the next 25 or so years.

That Richie Havens was the gas.. hands down. -Ric
RicTresa
October 09, 2009 10:28 PM
bobbot, are you trying to piss me off. i posted that already!!!!! thanks for the link. but give me my props for the buckley song at least.
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 10:34 PM
oh god, Ric, i know. harvard square was a kind of heaven back then.there were all these coffeehouses and people like Havens and Tom Rush and Bonnie Raitt and Dave Van Ronk would come and perfrom and you're be right up with them because they plaxces were small. but Havens, man. he rocked my world, well, he folked my world. :) i ran into him on the street a couple of times and he was unfailingly gracious. you would LOVE him. love love love and gratitude
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 10:37 PM
Tim Buckley, like Leonard Cohen, always operated under my radar screen, but these vids are really good. Not a huge Richie fan but I of course love Dylan. He's coming to Seattle soon, I think. Maybe he already came. I'd like to see him. Finally, I also like the Phil Ochs video that you posted. That might be my favorite one. (Rated)
Roger Fallihee
October 09, 2009 10:40 PM
finally, Roger!!! you were apparently so entranced by my Pics thru the years that you coujldn't get here. i forgive you. yes, the phil ochs song is my favorite. obviously i have to post it again for you children. well, you and bobbot. :) i will. buckley is excellent though. i had a mad crush on him back them. bottom line: WE NEED AN ANTHEM!!! oh, i know what to do.... please pm this around for me. i'm not attention whoring. WE NEED AN ANTHEM NOW.
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 10:44 PM
Ah, your folkie Friday post, at last. Sorry to goof up Judy Collins for you. You're right; we do need an anthem.
Kathy Riordan
October 09, 2009 10:47 PM
oh, Kathy! i'm so happy. i had just given up on you ever coming here. you didn't mess up anything. i will do some Judy Collins next week. i never even checked to see i fyou liked my comments. so many poeple dont' thank their readers anymore. shit, i'll stop whinig. so happy to see you here.

we do need an anthem, a rallying point. i'd be grateful i fyou'd pass this on to anyone who cares about this kind of thing. love love love and big gratitude!!!
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 10:52 PM
Jimi Hendrix's brilliant distorted version of our national anthem. That's my pick for a song to rally around.
littlewillie
October 09, 2009 11:11 PM
Hey, Willie. shit man, send me the link to it -- im' wiped out tongiht -- and i'll post it too. this is the point, to create a pool from which people can pick. i'd love for there to be an OS Anthem and then more and more. btw, i saw jimi three times in concert. i rock, man. and ohers who were almost as cool. love love love
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 09, 2009 11:16 PM
Amen, sister! I've been thinking the same thing. Music has a way of cutting through the crap - we need an anthem.
Owl_Says_Who
October 09, 2009 11:29 PM
I can't play most of these links because my 'puter is old, old, old. I can play them, but it's very fragmented.
I know most of them anyway.

Tom Waits is my anthem singer, but not for everyone.
Steve Earle sings anthems, nicely. I'd vote for him for folkie/anthem Friday.
aim
October 09, 2009 11:34 PM
I must say I like Peter, Paul and Mary mostly because of what they stood for and I am a sucker for folk music... Hang Down Your head Tom Dooley that's what I'm takin' about! Great idea Theo maybe baby steps is all we have. We have to start somewhere and you took the first step for us!
Lunchlady 2
October 09, 2009 11:39 PM
"One nation,
Under a groove,
Gettin' down
Just for the funk of it"...
zumalicious
October 09, 2009 11:53 PM
Nice goin', Teddy. Love these! Rated. D
Yarn Over
October 10, 2009 12:16 AM
Owl, girl!!!! i'm so happyt hat you agree with me about how we need an anthem. it just feels like there is no center for fighting all of this shit. so this is my small contribution to that effort. i'm figuring that we could vote and have an OS favorite anthem and then go wider... i'm very serious about this. love love love!!!

aim! i'll check out Steve Earle. sorry about the old old old computer. there are so many refurbished ones out there that don't cost a fortune. you shouldn't have to suffer like this. plus you're supposed to give me raves for my selections. didn't you get the memo? :) lvoe love love

LL2, i know, girl. im' all about baby steps. i'm so glad that you think this is a good idea. i'm happy to post this music every friday and, hopefully, have others congtribute theirs and vote or whatever. i adore PP&M. i love everything they stand and stood for. love love love!

Zuma Zeee! i was afraid you might be angry with me. i LOVE those lyrics. love love love

YO!!!!! i thought you would love this one. brings you back, doesn't it? i'm excited about doing this. I may do Tuesday TV Tidbits too, sicne i'm a walking TV Guide. this gives me some structure, which i love to some extent: accounting, screeenwriting, etc. love love love!

and big gratitude for all o fyou! and you RATED too!
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 10, 2009 01:37 AM
you hippie you...you'll be on the list now, you know, come the revolution.
Brian B
October 10, 2009 06:33 AM
Brian B, thanks for coming here. i'm not a hippie now, man. i'm a protester. i was all of us who are unhappy to get organized. figured we could start with an anthem. love love love and gratitude!!
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 10, 2009 06:44 AM
Sorry Teddy, I know that you did. I guess that I should have mentioned that in the comment. I just thought you'd know that's what I meant. I would never try to piss you off sweetie. The Buckley is a forgotten gem that gets too little notice these days. We seem to share an affinity for the folkies and sometimes I just don't think to lay it all out in words.
bobbot
October 10, 2009 08:05 AM
An anthem? How about these: Universal Soldier; Eve of Destruction; I Ain't Marchin' Any More; Bring 'em Home; Draft Dodger Rag; Dance Band on the Titanic; Chimes of Freedom; Sit Down, Young Stranger. I'd list more but my fingertips are still blistered.

Maybe it's time to get angry all over again.

Rated
Boanerges1
October 10, 2009 10:03 AM
Liked Tim Buckley, loved Jeff Buckley, Dylan of course, have seen Richie live he was good. Still want to hear the stories of sowing your oats. Rated for optimism, we need it now.
rita shibr
October 10, 2009 11:34 AM
As the sounds rises to a crescendo we MUST see the change. The faster we get to it the better. A responsible withdrawal pleeeease!
Traveller1
October 10, 2009 01:22 PM
Love the Bob Zimmerman!

Here's a new one for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_K6iVDGOHs&feature=player_detailpage
Debbs4
October 10, 2009 02:13 PM
Theo maybe find "When Johnnie Comes Marching Home Again"
hurrah, hurrah....our boys need to come home and our government needs to empty it's pockets of big business's hands.
Lunchlady 2
October 10, 2009 02:28 PM
Bravo. I love all these songs. We could revive Phil Ochs now and just change Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. Tragically Phil lost his battle with manic depression, or Bob Dylan might have been surpassed.
Redstocking Grandma
October 10, 2009 03:50 PM
It IS the same shit, 30-40 years later. I can't call it ignorance any longer: it is malfeasance.
Fill us in on the Jagger-like and the lettuce.
scoubidou
October 14, 2009 01:31 AM
thank you, scoubi, for coming here too. i will read your post. it is malfeasance. you're so right. i will write more about the 60s and the lettuce. love love loev and gratitude
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 14, 2009 03:12 AM
shit, what is wrong with me???? i can't believe i didn't thank everyone for commenting on this one. i'm so sorry. i'm very very big on expressing gratitude for every abundance. and you guys are a HUGE one. this is what comes from posting too often. whew. i'll slow down again soon. love love love and ENORMOUS gratitude for coming to support the idea of an anthem!!!
Theodora L'Engle Knight
October 14, 2009 07:38 PM