What A Strange And Wonderful World In Which We Live

So I've subscribed to a podcast called "Tapestry of The Times". If you haven't heard of it, I suggest you give it a try. The Smithsonian Institute releases some of their vast collection once a week and you hear anything from 1930's blues, to songs sung during the Civil War, to Chilean folk songs about lamas, to Indonesian pop song's from 1977.

Last week the topic was songs about Joe Hill.

Now for those of you like myself who didn't know who Joe Hill was, I learned a little info from my podcast as well. Joe Hill was a labor activist, who lived around the turn of the twentieth century. He was executed for a crime he didn't commit in Utah. The man tried to keep him down, but instead they made a martyr of him. When he died he was quoted as saying, "Don't Mourn - Organize!"



Now I had always known Joe Hill as the novelist of the horror novel - "Heart Shaped Box"



And if he looks familiar, that's because his father is a little know horror author himself. You may have heard of the guy, I think his name is something like Stephen King.

Anyway, I get to listening to these songs about Joe Hill they're playing on the "Tapestry of the Times" and I love them. So I start downloading a couple for the Ipod.

Strange.

I never knew I liked songs about Unionizing. I wonder what other wonderful stuff there is out there that I'll discover at some point in my life?

Can't wait to find out.