Ernst Busch!

So, I was aware that Ernst Busch had an ouevre beyond Six Songs For Democracy , but in spite of the fact that hearing his voice can evoke my whole childhood, from the linoleum on the floor to the tubes in the amplifier and the ravelling straw over the single giant speaker, I had never sought out the rest of that ouevre. Ernst Busch was a popular German Commnist performer, who sang a lot of lyrics by Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht , including "The Song of the United Front," which I used to sing all the time as a kid. It's a great song to sing while marching determinedly around the living room, and its lyrics are unassailable:

and just because he's human
a man would like a little bite of bread
he wants no servants under him
and no boss over his head!

Yesterday there was for some reason dueling war-songs earworms at personhead James Nicoll's livejournal, which sent me off to collect something from the Six Songs for Democracy album to share, and I discovered that not only is there a large existing trove of Ernst Busch's rousing antifascist anthems, but the people who have put them on to Youtube have matched them with images that make them over into contemporary commentary.

Now I have to go take a nap. The dogs are incapable of letting me sleep for more than three hours at a shot.

Extra dog report, day 2

I am exhausted. Every time I lie down Percy (the mastiffy one)and Truffle jump on top of me and wrestle. I yell at them: they jump off of me: they jump back on me. It's a wonder I am not bruised.

And during all this, Lola yips and howls continuously.

When I am not lying down they are not like this.

I also have to get my act together to get money for Frank's tickets -- airplane and qualifying exam.