ON TWO successive days in October 2003, Australia's two houses of Parliament met in joint session to hear first President George Bush and then President Hu Jintao of China.
I can just imagine Phil Spector sitting with his fellow inmates in federal prison (those hardened criminals are just suckers for singing competitions), enjoying his one hour respite from being passed around like a lit joint, only to hear his gorgeous arrangement ridiculed on national television.
It seemed to me almost impervious to transformation; and while I could imagine easily enough a musical treatment of the world of the Stork Club, of cafe society and the all-night jazz joints, it was hard to hear J. J. Hunsecker, particularly as played by Burt Lancaster, sing.
Afterwards you could go to that stinky Black Jack joint at 3814 Notre-Dame to hear The Pirates of the Lachine Canal play obscure 7 inches and drink very big bottles of Molson.
When I first heard Lil Reese's "Traffic" on last year's excellent and cryptic Don't Like mixtape, all I could think about was how amazing it would be to hear that joint cranked all the way up, blowing out the speakers of a trunk.
In this sense, 'receiving revelation' must itself be understood as a person's — or community's — joint resolution to hearing and acting-in-accordance-with the voice of God, itself manifest in hearing and acting-in-accordance-with the voice of tradition.
Deaf infants are able to engage in joint attention similar to hearing infants; however, the time spent engaged in joint attention is often reduced in deaf infants born to hearing parents.
When I lived on the farm as a country boy, on a Saturday night we'd come out of the cotton field and go to the juke joint and hear the blues because we were going to meet all our favorite girls, or if we didn't have a favorite girl we'd look at them and hope they'd be our favorite girl.
brought a fake joint to a House oversight hearing on Friday on Washington, D.C.'s new law decriminalizing marijuana.
