media I learned a new word.

This is, in all honestly, a pretty rare event, so I thought I’d share.

From this page, on the terrific (so far) Uncommon Folk music blog:

And, when it comes to folk music you listen to Woody Guthrie. As the great working class champion Guthrie said in a lost seventh verse of his now ruthlessly reified song This Land Is Your Land: Nobody living can ever stop me / As I go walking my freedom highway / Nobody living can make me turn back / This land was made for you and me.

Main Entry: re·ify
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): re·ified; re·ify·ing
Etymology: Latin res thing — more at REAL
: to regard (something abstract) as a material or concrete thing

Nice, word, isn’t it? I thought it was a typo.

Anyway, speaking of music, right now through Indy.tv I’m listening to a really weird performance that started out as a cover of Lou Reed’s beautiful classic “Sweet Jane,” melted into Jane’s Addiction’s “Jane Says” (a natural-enough move), then Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It” (bizarrely, and briefly) before returning to “Sweet Jane.” Sooo strange.