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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: Gazoo on February 16, 2005, 10:01:23 PM
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Needed a new forum for stuff like this: Rock Fonts!
http://www.rockrage.com/media/fonts/musicfonts.html
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
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And for this -- although perhaps links to songs should be their own thread:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001119.html
This is Doves, "Black and White Town." It's kind of like Tears For Fears collaborating with JoBoxers on a new way of looking at "Heat Wave." An early candidate for Single Of The Year!
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
OMG, you're right. A grievous oversight indeed. They wouldn't have trademarked it, would they?
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
OMG, you're right. A grievous oversight indeed. They wouldn't have trademarked it, would they?
perhaps, but I doubt all the other bands gave permission either. The Beatles?
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
OMG, you're right. A grievous oversight indeed. They wouldn't have trademarked it, would they?
perhaps, but I doubt all the other bands gave permission either. The Beatles?
Good point. Hrm. :?
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And for this -- although perhaps links to songs should be their own thread:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001119.html
This is Doves, "Black and White Town." It's kind of like Tears For Fears collaborating with JoBoxers on a new way of looking at "Heat Wave." An early candidate for Single Of The Year!
Wow! Me like! And of course your description is Totally. Spot. On. And Paul Weller is kicking himself for not thinking of it first...
Coincidentally, they did a bit on KFOG this morning about that new Bright Eyes song sounding a LOT like Dylan's "Don't Think Twice".
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And for this -- although perhaps links to songs should be their own thread:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/001119.html
This is Doves, "Black and White Town." It's kind of like Tears For Fears collaborating with JoBoxers on a new way of looking at "Heat Wave." An early candidate for Single Of The Year!
yes, i'd call that spot on, too!
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Well, if it's fonts ye be wanting, lads & lassies:
http://www.fontparadise.com/index.asp
They've got some music-oriented fonts there you might like.
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Well, if it's fonts ye be wanting, lads & lassies:
http://www.fontparadise.com/index.asp
They've got some music-oriented fonts there you might like.
jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers?
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jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers?
I have a program that lets me make simple animated gifs. I cropped a pic, made 3 other copies that had the funky eyes & strung together in the program.
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
OMG, you're right. A grievous oversight indeed. They wouldn't have trademarked it, would they?
perhaps, but I doubt all the other bands gave permission either. The Beatles?
Good point. Hrm. :?
Ditto for Led Zeppelin. The typefaces they purport as being the Zep logos are close but to my eye don't seem to be the exact ones the band used.
As for the omission of the Dead, I wouldn't take it too personally--the only other bands included from the psychedelic era are Pink Floyd and the Doors. Otherwise their selection has a decidedly metal bias.
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jeepers, creepers, where'd you get those peepers?
I have a program that lets me make simple animated gifs. I cropped a pic, made 3 other copies that had the funky eyes & strung together in the program.
can you do the same thing with POC's (I mean CZJ's) boobs?
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can you do the same thing with POC's (I mean CZJ's) boobs?
You want blue lightning to come out of CZJ's boobs?
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can you do the same thing with POC's (I mean CZJ's) boobs?
You want blue lightning to come out of CZJ's boobs?
don't try to lace those boobie woobies with a string of lightning bolts!
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can you do the same thing with POC's (I mean CZJ's) boobs?
You want blue lightning to come out of CZJ's boobs?
Don't we all?
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don't try to lace those boobie woobies with a string of lightning bolts!
I wouldn't dream of it. Now, see- if there was another photo from that photoshoot with her in nearly the same but a slightly different postition? I could use the 2 (or more) photos to make her "move".
ETA: Gaz has a dancing banana. And his avatar's cool, too! :lol:
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don't try to lace those boobie woobies with a string of lightning bolts!
I wouldn't dream of it. Now, see- if there was another photo from that photoshoot with her in nearly the same but a slightly different postition? I could use the 2 (or more) photos to make her "move".
ETA: Gaz has a dancing banana. And his avatar's cool, too! :lol:
what's "ETA?"
yeah! make her move!! like zhane!
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ETA stands for 'Edited to Add'. It's what we do at Fametracker & Television w/o Pity. Habit, I guess.
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ETA stands for 'Edited to Add'. It's what we do at Fametracker & Television w/o Pity. Habit, I guess.
oh, that's a lot less sneaky than my method. ;)
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yeah! make her move!! like zhane!
I don't really know who Zhane is- but like this?:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/beej/CZJ01.gif)
ETA: OK. So, I just heard Zhane? I know NOTHING about 1993.
here's the thing: to make her move slower, I'd need to add more "frames"- which increases the file size. And our avatars can only be SO big, y'know.
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yeah! make her move!! like zhane!
I don't really know who Zhane is- but like this?:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/beej/CZJ01.gif)
ETA: OK. So, I just heard Zhane? I know NOTHING about 1993.
here's the thing: to make her move slower, I'd need to add more "frames"- which increases the file size. And our avatars can only be SO big, y'know.
she looks like a really bad dancer. :) but it works with stereo mc's. nifty!
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Thanks! Yeah, it's cool. The program also has various special effects.
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yeah, I know the Grateful Dead are old farts, old dead farts, but as far as lettering, it's hard to believe they would be left out of a list like this.
OMG, you're right. A grievous oversight indeed. They wouldn't have trademarked it, would they?
perhaps, but I doubt all the other bands gave permission either. The Beatles?
Good point. Hrm. :?
i found the answer. at least with the thin lizzy font, you can only use the font to type letters that already exist in the logo. so i can type the words, "thin," "hit," "tin," etc. in the thin lizzy font, but any letters that do not appear in the logo do not appear on the screen.
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2114863/
A couple of quotes from the article:
However we hear the song—as a heartbreaking suicide note or an unforgivably mawkish tug on our emotions—it remains lodged in the collective cranium. "Strange how potent cheap music is," Noel Coward once remarked.
James Sullivan is a former critic and reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is currently writing a book on the cultural history of blue jeans.
A cultural history of blue jeans? We are seriously running out of good ideas for non-fiction.
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A cultural history of blue jeans? We are seriously running out of good ideas for non-fiction.
actually that's a really fascinating subject. Really. Blue jeans went from being what poor people wore to work... to being what hippies wore as a "statement"... to being what trendoids wore because Calvin Klein's name was on the butt.
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Everybody's got something to hide...:
NPR did a story on this site yesterday: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. It’s amazing.
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Everybody's got something to hide...:
NPR did a story on this site yesterday: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. It’s amazing.
I saw this before -- posted here? Anyway, it makes me too sad, some of these.
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Everybody's got something to hide...:
NPR did a story on this site yesterday: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. It’s amazing.
I saw this before -- posted here? Anyway, it makes me too sad, some of these.
The one that's freaking me out right now? "Everyone who knew me before 9/11 thinks I'm dead." Much as people fantasize about completely starting over again, new identity and all, I can't fathom anyone actually going through it.
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Everybody's got something to hide...:
NPR did a story on this site yesterday: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. It’s amazing.
I saw this before -- posted here? Anyway, it makes me too sad, some of these.
The one that's freaking me out right now? "Everyone who knew me before 9/11 thinks I'm dead." Much as people fantasize about completely starting over again, new identity and all, I can't fathom anyone actually going through it.
are you assuming all these "secrets" are true?
Bet somebody in Hollywood takes that idea and tries to pitch it as a TV series...
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Everybody's got something to hide...:
NPR did a story on this site yesterday: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. It’s amazing.
I saw this before -- posted here? Anyway, it makes me too sad, some of these.
The one that's freaking me out right now? "Everyone who knew me before 9/11 thinks I'm dead." Much as people fantasize about completely starting over again, new identity and all, I can't fathom anyone actually going through it.
the one that feaks me out most is the one that says "I love one of my children".
So many unanswered questions behind that one, and the real tragedy will be borne by the other child(ren) and may not have even manifested yet. At the same time I think this is a very common thing that many parents are in deep denial over & at least this sender is self-aware.
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We always knew Paul Harvey was nutzy-cuckoo, but he's lost his last marble:
http://tinyurl.com/9yx46
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We always knew Paul Harvey was nutzy-cuckoo, but he's lost his last marble:
http://tinyurl.com/9yx46
and now you know.... the REST of the story!
he was old when I was at ABC 15 years ago... he's gotta be pushin' 90! Rich Hall used to do a great Harvey spoof on SNL; unfortunately most of the people in the live audience in NYC had no idea who Paul Harvey WAS. But in the Red states he's God.
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Wow. That's just... wow. Thanks, Paul Harvey. You can sit down now.
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We always knew Paul Harvey was nutzy-cuckoo, but he's lost his last marble:
http://tinyurl.com/9yx46
and now you know.... the REST of the story!
he was old when I was at ABC 15 years ago... he's gotta be pushin' 90! Rich Hall used to do a great Harvey spoof on SNL; unfortunately most of the people in the live audience in NYC had no idea who Paul Harvey WAS. But in the Red states he's God.
He was born 9/4/1918, so he's almost 87. I always enjoyed his idiosyncratic delivery, but never listened to him enough to realize what a reactionary he could be. Oh well. When I looked him up on Wikipedia I also came across a good quote:
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
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We always knew Paul Harvey was nutzy-cuckoo, but he's lost his last marble:
http://tinyurl.com/9yx46
and now you know.... the REST of the story!
he was old when I was at ABC 15 years ago... he's gotta be pushin' 90! Rich Hall used to do a great Harvey spoof on SNL; unfortunately most of the people in the live audience in NYC had no idea who Paul Harvey WAS. But in the Red states he's God.
He was born 9/4/1918, so he's almost 87. I always enjoyed his idiosyncratic delivery, but never listened to him enough to realize what a reactionary he could be. Oh well. When I looked him up on Wikipedia I also came across a good quote:
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
There are several "unauthorized" bios of him floating around, worth picking up on. My fave Harvey story is about how he was your basic gung-ho pro-Vietnam War hawk... until his son Paul Jr became of draft age (and I believe was making noises about becoming a conscientious objector). Then Paul Sr went thru a tortured "conversion" and decided it was time for Nixon to pull out.
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Well, let's forget crazy old Paul Harvey for a moment and talk about crazy old Beej.
A friend hooked me up with Tribe.net
Is anyone else here a member? You can be on my Tribe "friends" list!
Woo.
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Well, let's forget crazy old Paul Harvey for a moment and talk about crazy old Beej.
A friend hooked me up with Tribe.net
Is anyone else here a member? You can be on my Tribe "friends" list!
Woo.
I don't know why, but, why not?
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I don't know why, but, why not?
Why should you be on my friend's list? Because I freakin RULE! :D
Why I'm on Tribe.net? Because it's there! And a lot of the other Tribe.net members are naked women. :wink:
ETA: OK, Geoff- I've zapped you the "invitation". Cool avatar you've got over there, too.
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I don't know why, but, why not?
Why should you be on my friend's list? Because I freakin RULE! :D
Why I'm on Tribe.net? Because it's there! And a lot of the other Tribe.net members are naked women. :wink:
ETA: OK, Geoff- I've zapped you the "invitation". Cool avatar you've got over there, too.
http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/199/aff/199aff77-c812-4b04-824d-2d95cce117d2
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I don't know why, but, why not?
Why should you be on my friend's list? Because I freakin RULE! :D
Why I'm on Tribe.net? Because it's there! And a lot of the other Tribe.net members are naked women. :wink:
ETA: OK, Geoff- I've zapped you the "invitation". Cool avatar you've got over there, too.
http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/199/aff/199aff77-c812-4b04-824d-2d95cce117d2
How does one join tribe.net?
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I sent you an invite. I sent it to your Flem59 email address.
As for that picture of me that Geoff linked to: I guess you could say I'm a little "horny & blue".
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PS: If anyone else wants me to zap them an invite just say the word! Or you can go to tribe.net and just join on up!
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
wow! I've never heard "Dawn of Correction" but always wanted to. Hope they have Danny Aiello's "Papa DO Preach"!
ETA: tahnks, Gaz -- I just listened to "...Correction". Yikes! No Danny Aiello, tho'...
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
wow! I've never heard "Dawn of Correction" but always wanted to. Hope they have Danny Aiello's "Papa DO Preach"!
Holy Sh!t: Listen to Carole King's "Oh! Neil," her reply to Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol" -- she'd give up "all [her] chewin' tabacky" to be known as "Mrs. Neil Sedacky." I'm speechless.
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Holy Sh!t: Listen to Carole King's "Oh! Neil," her reply to Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol" -- she'd give up "all [her] chewin' tabacky" to be known as "Mrs. Neil Sedacky." I'm speechless.
oh by cracky!
I'd actually heard that one long long ago. She didn't actually believe he was straight, did she? :wink:
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
I remember an answer record called "Big Fat Juan" which was extremely offensive ("that man made of smell") and wondered if it would be included. There was a Cajun Queen single put out too; was it on this list?
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
I remember an answer record called "Big Fat Juan" which was extremely offensive ("that man made of smell") and wondered if it would be included. There was a Cajun Queen single put out too; was it on this list?
there's a difference between an "answer record" and a parody. I'm assuming "Big Fat Juan" was a parody of "Big Bad John"?
My fave is the answer to Shirley Brown's "Woman to Woman" ("Hello, may I speak to Barbara? Barbara, this is Shirley..."), "From His Woman to You", which of course was done by a Barbara, Barbara Mason ("Hello, Shirley...?"). Both made the Top 40 in '74.
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WFMU's posted MP3s of numerous "answer records," such as the frightening "Dawn of Correction" (a reactionary response to "Eve of Destruction") and Lou Christie's ultra-obscure "Mr. Tenor Man." Interesting stuff:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/08/spazzy_answer_s.html
I remember an answer record called "Big Fat Juan" which was extremely offensive ("that man made of smell") and wondered if it would be included. There was a Cajun Queen single put out too; was it on this list?
there's a difference between an "answer record" and a parody. I'm assuming "Big Fat Juan" was a parody of "Big Bad John"?
My fave is the answer to Shirley Brown's "Woman to Woman" ("Hello, may I speak to Barbara? Barbara, this is Shirley..."), "From His Woman to You", which of course was done by a Barbara, Barbara Mason ("Hello, Shirley...?"). Both made the Top 40 in '74.
Point well taken, but since I probably only heard it once (KYA's new singles?) I don't remember enough lyrics to know whether it was an answer and/or parody.
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My fave is the answer to Shirley Brown's "Woman to Woman" ("Hello, may I speak to Barbara? Barbara, this is Shirley..."), "From His Woman to You", which of course was done by a Barbara, Barbara Mason ("Hello, Shirley...?"). Both made the Top 40 in '74.
I've got "From His Woman to You" on the Buddah Records box set. Kind of a bizarre scenario (she comes right out and admits she doesn't have a job or anything but "gives him what he needs, when he needs it" -- do people generally acknowledge harlotry and indentured servitude at the same time?) but a wonderful vocal performance. "I can give him LOOOOVE ..."
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[Kind of a bizarre scenario (she comes right out and admits she doesn't have a job or anything but "gives him what he needs, when he needs it" -- do people generally acknowledge harlotry and indentured servitude at the same time?)
she's just copping to being a 'ho, no? Like, several decades before hip-hop made it fashionable. Lil' Kim can do a remake when she gets outta jail. "From His 'Ho to His Bitch". LOL!
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Holy Sh!t: Listen to Carole King's "Oh! Neil," her reply to Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol" -- she'd give up "all [her] chewin' tabacky" to be known as "Mrs. Neil Sedacky." I'm speechless.
oh by cracky!
I'd actually heard that one long long ago. She didn't actually believe he was straight, did she? :wink:
There are no coincidences, part LXXXVIII: CG plays Neil Sedacky, "Queen" -- er -- "King of Clowns"! I've never heard this one.
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saw this website referenced on NYRMB:
http://www.soulfuldetroit.com
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didn't know where else to put this, but apparently there's a play in London about the guy behind "Telstar" (the song, not the satellite):
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/show/cm/content/84443
http://www.rhis.co.uk/jmas/framer.html
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didn't know where else to put this, but apparently there's a play in London about the guy behind "Telstar" (the song, not the satellite):
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/show/cm/content/84443
http://www.rhis.co.uk/jmas/framer.html
Joe Meek was one crazy cracker. (An anthology of his productions, "It's Hard to Believe," is worth checking out, though. It includes the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right," which I bet most of you didn't know was a Meek production.)
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didn't know where else to put this, but apparently there's a play in London about the guy behind "Telstar" (the song, not the satellite):
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/show/cm/content/84443
http://www.rhis.co.uk/jmas/framer.html
Joe Meek was one crazy cracker. (An anthology of his productions, "It's Hard to Believe," is worth checking out, though. It includes the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right," which I bet most of you didn't know was a Meek production.)
I'm sure Little Steven has talked about him on his show. So Meeks was also gay? the blurb mentions his unrequited love for someone named "Heinz"...
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didn't know where else to put this, but apparently there's a play in London about the guy behind "Telstar" (the song, not the satellite):
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/show/cm/content/84443
http://www.rhis.co.uk/jmas/framer.html
Joe Meek was one crazy cracker. (An anthology of his productions, "It's Hard to Believe," is worth checking out, though. It includes the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right," which I bet most of you didn't know was a Meek production.)
I'm sure Little Steven has talked about him on his show. So Meeks was also gay? the blurb mentions his unrequited love for someone named "Heinz"...
Indeed, he was and he was. Heinz was the bass player for the Tornadoes, who later had a minor hit in England with a hokey number called "Just Like Eddie" (as in Cochran). Meek had a huge fixation with folks like Cochran and Buddy Holly.
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and speaking of record producers... this very interesting piece from Slate.com about the current europop hit factories. Some of his facts are a bit fudged (Stock/Aitken/Waterman didn't "launch" Bananarama, they revived them) but worth reading. And anyone who hates Diane Warren deserves to be cut some slack...
http://www.slate.com/id/2123747/
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and speaking of record producers... this very interesting piece from Slate.com about the current europop hit factories. Some of his facts are a bit fudged (Stock/Aitken/Waterman didn't "launch" Bananarama, they revived them) but worth reading. And anyone who hates Diane Warren deserves to be cut some slack...
http://www.slate.com/id/2123747/
yeah! what elizabeth said (about diane eve)!
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and speaking of record producers... this very interesting piece from Slate.com about the current europop hit factories. Some of his facts are a bit fudged (Stock/Aitken/Waterman didn't "launch" Bananarama, they revived them) but worth reading. And anyone who hates Diane Warren deserves to be cut some slack...
http://www.slate.com/id/2123747/
yeah! what elizabeth said (about diane eve)!
oops, I didn't realize it was "she" and not "he" :wink:
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and speaking of record producers... this very interesting piece from Slate.com about the current europop hit factories. Some of his facts are a bit fudged (Stock/Aitken/Waterman didn't "launch" Bananarama, they revived them) but worth reading. And anyone who hates Diane Warren deserves to be cut some slack...
http://www.slate.com/id/2123747/
yeah! what elizabeth said (about diane eve)!
oops, I didn't realize it was "she" and not "he" :wink:
that's ok. i tried to correct my mispelling of her name (should read: "elisabeth") before i submitted the post, but i ended up typing her name with a "z" after all.
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and speaking of record producers... this very interesting piece from Slate.com about the current europop hit factories. Some of his facts are a bit fudged (Stock/Aitken/Waterman didn't "launch" Bananarama, they revived them) but worth reading. And anyone who hates Diane Warren deserves to be cut some slack...
http://www.slate.com/id/2123747/
yeah! what elizabeth said (about diane eve)!
oops, I didn't realize it was "she" and not "he" :wink:
that's ok. i tried to correct my mispelling of her name (should read: "elisabeth") before i submitted the post, but i ended up typing her name with a "z" after all.
Here's to Respectable Songwriting!
FWIW, I have nothing inherently against artists who don't write their own material. Indeed, y'all have heard my bleatings for Three Dog Night's inclusion in the R&R Hall of Fame, and they never composed more than a B side. But weve horribly lost the notion of *interpretive* reading of material in recent years. When's the last time you heard a dramatic *reimagining* of a song hit the charts? "It's My Life"? "The First Cut Is the Deepest"? "Listen to Your Heart"? We, collectively, as a society, have utterly failed to take advantage of the amazing wealth of material we've composed in the past 25 years. We've caught ourselves in an awful conundrum: We've convinced ourselves that the only valid performers are those who write their own material, and when it takes them more than three years to write an album's worth of material, we bemoan the time lapse and argue that they should have opened to one of the countless hands that lay before them. Can't win that bet, alouette.
May I humbly propose that further reviews of contemporary artists be a little more cognizant of their songwriters and their role, and judge by more understanding criteria (This includes accepting Neil Sedaka's straight songs as straight, appearances to the contrary, unless he presents himself as a Lothario, in which case all bets are off)?
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Gaz: Maybe you could telecommute! As posted on Craigslist.
Paid Marketing Internship (palo alto)
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Reply to: stacy@leahmusic.com
Date: 2005-08-09, 3:38PM PDT
Earn credit hours and extra money contributing to a new music service. Start up located in Palo Alto (near University)is looking for internet savvy folks who love community groups, music, and blogging. Hours are flexible and free concert tickets can be yours as well.
more info...I was curious to see who/what the company is. Some guy in Hillsborough:
Domain name: leahmusic.com
Registrant:
Bill Nguyen (3YCDH) amanda@onebox.com
915 Hayne Road
Hillsborough, CA 94010
United States
Phone: (650)3444585 x
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Gaz: Maybe you could telecommute! As posted on Craigslist.
Hunch is that they want to replicate MySpace, a wildly successful Net community builder that was recently acquired for $560MM by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media. I checked it out, and unfortunately, (a) leahmusic.com is "under construction," and (b) anyone using a onebox.com (or yahoo, or gmail, etc) email address is less than legit in my book. Call me paranoid and/or arrogant, but if your company isn't big enough to handle HR under its own domain name, it can't afford to have me on board.
But I remain all ears to opps on the horizon, as my own efforts have come up Zilch (Mr. Dobolina, Mr. Bob Dobolina).
Thanks!
Gaz
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Gaz: Maybe you could telecommute! As posted on Craigslist.
Hunch is that they want to replicate MySpace, a wildly successful Net community builder that was recently acquired for $560MM by Rupert Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media. I checked it out, and unfortunately, (a) leahmusic.com is "under construction," and (b) anyone using a onebox.com (or yahoo, or gmail, etc) email address is less than legit in my book. Call me paranoid and/or arrogant, but if your company isn't big enough to handle HR under its own domain name, it can't afford to have me on board.
But I remain all ears to opps on the horizon, as my own efforts have come up Zilch (Mr. Dobolina, Mr. Bob Dobolina).
Thanks!
Gaz
I have a couple of gmail addresses, and the choice to use these kind of addresses can have little to do with a companies resources, and more to do with avoiding long-term spam accumulation. There may be other reasons to pass, but don't let that be one of them.
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Here's to Respectable Songwriting!
FWIW, I have nothing inherently against artists who don't write their own material. Indeed, y'all have heard my bleatings for Three Dog Night's inclusion in the R&R Hall of Fame, and they never composed more than a B side. But weve horribly lost the notion of *interpretive* reading of material in recent years. When's the last time you heard a dramatic *reimagining* of a song hit the charts? "It's My Life"? "The First Cut Is the Deepest"? "Listen to Your Heart"? We, collectively, as a society, have utterly failed to take advantage of the amazing wealth of material we've composed in the past 25 years. We've caught ourselves in an awful conundrum: We've convinced ourselves that the only valid performers are those who write their own material, and when it takes them more than three years to write an album's worth of material, we bemoan the time lapse and argue that they should have opened to one of the countless hands that lay before them. Can't win that bet, alouette.
May I humbly propose that further reviews of contemporary artists be a little more cognizant of their songwriters and their role, and judge by more understanding criteria (This includes accepting Neil Sedaka's straight songs as straight, appearances to the contrary, unless he presents himself as a Lothario, in which case all bets are off)?
wow. those latter two paragraphs would make any established music critic drool with envy. how do you write like that? brilliant, mr. dobolina.
i agree that more credibility is due to performers who do not write, but have a knack for interpretation (give me a "c!" give me a "dion!"). however, i understand the knee-jerk reaction to cringe at the thought of hit factories. people like diane eve warren (and rbert tepper) made quite a mess of things in the 80's.
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i agree that more credibility is due to performers who do not write, but have a knack for interpretation (give me a "c!" give me a "dion!"). however, i understand the knee-jerk reaction to cringe at the thought of hit factories. people like diane eve warren (and rbert tepper) made quite a mess of things in the 80's.
Eva Cassidy comes to mind.
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Excellent argument, to which I have two thoughts: First of all it is Ironic that Hollywood has the exact opposite problem, "No remake is not worth doing".
Second, whose cover of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" are you refering to? Sheryl covered Rod covering Cat, remember?
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Eva Cassidy comes to mind.
yes, indeed!
and i hope no one is EVER referencing sheryl crow's "version" of "first cut." eck, eck, eck.
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Excellent argument, to which I have two thoughts: First of all it is Ironic that Hollywood has the exact opposite problem, "No remake is not worth doing".
Second, whose cover of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" are you refering to? Sheryl covered Rod covering Cat, remember?
I was criticizing Sheryl's by-the-numbers cover. It was listenable and vaguely pleasant, but terribly unnecessary. If she, or anyone else, is going to cover a song, I want her to make it *necessary*. But that takes a lot more courage than painting by numbers for the easy cash-in.
(I don't know if Rod's version diverged from Cat's at all, having never heard the latter; it's the fact that I never heard the original that legitimizes Rod's having done the song in any fashion.)
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Excellent argument, to which I have two thoughts: First of all it is Ironic that Hollywood has the exact opposite problem, "No remake is not worth doing".
Second, whose cover of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" are you refering to? Sheryl covered Rod covering Cat, remember?
I was criticizing Sheryl's by-the-numbers cover. It was listenable and vaguely pleasant, but terribly unnecessary. If she, or anyone else, is going to cover a song, I want her to make it *necessary*. But that takes a lot more courage than painting by numbers for the easy cash-in.
(I don't know if Rod's version diverged from Cat's at all, having never heard the latter; it's the fact that I never heard the original that legitimizes Rod's having done the song in any fashion.)
These days a lot of songs get covered simply for use in film soundtracks. Cheaper than licensing the original, and lots of struggling artists are willing to do them to get the exposure (see also: that guy who covered Laid for the American Pie XXVII soundtrack).
China kept a-calling on the meter.
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(I don't know if Rod's version diverged from Cat's at all, having never heard the latter; it's the fact that I never heard the original that legitimizes Rod's having done the song in any fashion.)
I've got Cat's on my British Invasion box set. It's good.
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China kept a-calling on the meter.
Hooray for people knowing "Zilch"! But at the risk of mondegreening myself, I've always thought it was "China Clipper calling Alameda," as in a signal between two boats.
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Stumbled onto this great investigation of backmasked lyrics in rock songs ("Fire on High," "Stairway to Heaven," et al):
http://www.textfiles.com/music/backmask.txt
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Stumbled onto this great investigation of backmasked lyrics in rock songs ("Fire on High," "Stairway to Heaven," et al):
http://www.textfiles.com/music/backmask.txt
turn me on Gazman... turn me on Gazman...
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(http://www.ameliaray.net/images/neil.jpg)
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(http://www.ameliaray.net/images/neil.jpg)
"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
That is so way cool. How come neil didn't show up when I graduated for SFSU?
BTW, the diploma folders have not changed one little bit in 23 years.
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
That is so way cool. How come neil didn't show up when I graduated for SFSU?
I was kind of wondering the same thing--did he speak at your graduation, or was he just there watching someone graduate?
It is SO tough coming up with something to say in those moments. The one time I ever got to talk to Peter Gabriel, all I could think of was to thank him for playing my favorite song of his earlier in the evening (it's Here Comes the Flood, the one that depresses POC so terribly.)
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I was kind of wondering the same thing--did he speak at your graduation, or was he just there watching someone graduate?
It is SO tough coming up with something to say in those moments. The one time I ever got to talk to Peter Gabriel, all I could think of was to thank him for playing my favorite song of his earlier in the evening (it's Here Comes the Flood, the one that depresses POC so terribly.)
he was watching someone graduate. too bad about the gabriel song. :)
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too bad about the gabriel song. :)
Back atcha, kiddo. :D
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
I must've missed the original story somewhere, but how did that photo come about?
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BTW, the diploma folders have not changed one little bit in 23 years.
Make that at least 28 years!
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
I must've missed the original story somewhere, but how did that photo come about?
the full story is here. (http://purgatoryisacat.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_purgatoryisacat_archive.html#111799185690593866) neil was just hanging out at graduation, so my aunt snapped a pic of us. after my mother ordered me to "take a picture with neil diamond." she figured it out later.
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a caller on CG mentioned this -- a hotel in Switzerland where the rooms are named after rock artists. Care to stay in the Lenny Kravitz suite?
http://www.ziczac.ch/rockhotel/Engl_%20zimmerliste.html
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a caller on CG mentioned this -- a hotel in Switzerland where the rooms are named after rock artists. Care to stay in the Lenny Kravitz suite?
http://www.ziczac.ch/rockhotel/Engl_%20zimmerliste.html
Fleedwood Mac?
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a caller on CG mentioned this -- a hotel in Switzerland where the rooms are named after rock artists. Care to stay in the Lenny Kravitz suite?
http://www.ziczac.ch/rockhotel/Engl_%20zimmerliste.html
They've got a room for Saga?!?!?!?
Nice that they have at least a couple of pix posted, but jeez, they gotta get a better camera.
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a caller on CG mentioned this -- a hotel in Switzerland where the rooms are named after rock artists. Care to stay in the Lenny Kravitz suite?
http://www.ziczac.ch/rockhotel/Engl_%20zimmerliste.html
They've got a room for Saga?!?!?!?
Nice that they have at least a couple of pix posted, but jeez, they gotta get a better camera.
Duuuude... we're HUGE in Zurich! and Big in Japan.
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"old man, look at my diploma, I'm a lot like you were..."
yeah... :) i couldn't think of anything to say as we were posing for my aunt, so i blurted out, "i'm gonna be a rockstar." neil said, "right on!"
I must've missed the original story somewhere, but how did that photo come about?
the full story is here. (http://purgatoryisacat.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_purgatoryisacat_archive.html#111799185690593866) neil was just hanging out at graduation, so my aunt snapped a pic of us. after my mother ordered me to "take a picture with neil diamond." she figured it out later.
POC, what is the deal with you & older black women who juxtapose the last names of famous white guys? Is it a trend?
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POC, what is the deal with you & older black women who juxtapose the last names of famous white guys? Is it a trend?
i dunno. but i suppose there are a number of older white women who might substitute "chuck berry" for "chuck jackson."
;)
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Yes, it's happened -- we have a tropical storm named Katrina:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/08/24/national/a114638D53.DTL
[insert Katrina/Waves joke here]
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marc cohn was shot in the head (http://shanefontayne.com/cohntour_05.html).
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marc cohn was shot in the head (http://shanefontayne.com/cohntour_05.html).
My god, that's horrific. He's incredibly lucky that he wasn't hurt worse.
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marc cohn was shot in the head (http://shanefontayne.com/cohntour_05.html).
My god, that's horrific. He's incredibly lucky that he wasn't hurt worse.
I was surprised nobody mentioned this when it happened. It was last week, wasn't it?
Lucky indeed. Except for the getting shot part.
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Speaking of the group Voice of the Beehive.....
http://kofis-hat.blogspot.com/
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marc cohn was shot in the head (http://shanefontayne.com/cohntour_05.html).
My god, that's horrific. He's incredibly lucky that he wasn't hurt worse.
I was surprised nobody mentioned this when it happened. It was last week, wasn't it?
Lucky indeed. Except for the getting shot part.
Cohn, five minutes prior: "I need another 'One Hit Wonder' interview like I need a hole in the head."
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marc cohn was shot in the head (http://shanefontayne.com/cohntour_05.html).
My god, that's horrific. He's incredibly lucky that he wasn't hurt worse.
I was surprised nobody mentioned this when it happened. It was last week, wasn't it?
Lucky indeed. Except for the getting shot part.
Cohn, five minutes prior: "I need another 'One Hit Wonder' interview like I need a hole in the head."
LOL! You so bad.
continuing in a musical vein:
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4134&n=2
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Armistead Maupin censoered by Texas Baptists:
(09-20) 09:58 PDT Waco, Texas (AP) --
A dining contractor has removed coffee cups with a gay author's quote from a Starbucks at Baylor University, saying it was inappropriate for the Baptist school.
Aramark, which oversees the coffee outlet, pulled the cups earlier this month from the campus store after consulting with Starbucks' district office and Baylor's dining service, school officials said Monday.
"I think they were trying to be sensitive," Baylor spokesman Larry Brumley said. "Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle."
The quote from novelist Armistead Maupin reads:
"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."
Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Central Texas, said he thinks the cups' removal as unnecessarily restrictive.
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The latest iteration in music-recommendation engines:
http://www.pandora.com/
I initially input the Jefferson Starship, so it started playing "Fast Buck Freddie." Nice start. Subsequent entries of Three Dog Night, Dusty Springfield, Franz Ferdinand, Stevie Wonder, and War produced the following setlist:
The Knack, "Heartbeat"
The Monkees, "For Pete's Sake"
Tom Petty, "Don't Do Me Like That"
Orleans, "Reach"
The Animals, "Baby Let Me Take You Home"
Afterglow, "Dream Away"
Dusty Springfield, "Stay Awhile"
Martha & the Vandellas, "Honey Chile"
The Carpenters, "Want You Back in My Life Again" (mislabeled as "Please Mr. Postman")
They've decided that my tastes tend towards "mild rhythmic syncopation, a subtle use of vocal harmony, a vocal-centric aesthetic, major key tonality, melodic songwriting, extensive vamping, and a prominent organ."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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...and a prominent organ."
ROTFLSHIPMP!!!
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So, the US Mint sys the new nickle's gonna feature a "more cheerful" Jefferson...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2005/10/04/financial/f144235D69.DTL&o=0
To me? It looks more like he's trying not to fart on an elevator or something...
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So, the US Mint sys the new nickle's gonna feature a "more cheerful" Jefferson...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2005/10/04/financial/f144235D69.DTL&o=0
To me? It looks more like he's trying not to fart on an elevator or something...
I think he looks like Timothy Leary.
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So, the US Mint sys the new nickle's gonna feature a "more cheerful" Jefferson...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2005/10/04/financial/f144235D69.DTL&o=0
To me? It looks more like he's trying not to fart on an elevator or something...
I think he looks like Timothy Leary.
I agree!
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LOL! Y'know, now that you mention it- he does!
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per Yahoo news,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_fe_st/gator_python
Python eats alligator and explodes. Both dead. Picture too!
Wow.
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per Yahoo news,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_fe_st/gator_python
Python eats alligator and explodes. Both dead. Picture too!
Wow.
I've got the same queasiness in my stomach after seeing that, as I got upon viewing Food of the Gods, a film that truly scarred me as a child.
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per Yahoo news,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051005/ap_on_fe_st/gator_python
Python eats alligator and explodes. Both dead. Picture too!
Wow.
(http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051005/capt.mh10310051654.gator_python__mh103.jpg)
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My friend, Mark "Ethel Merman" Sergeant, is one of the many folks profiled in the new movie 24 Hours On Craigslist...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/10/07/DDGRNF37561.DTL&o=1
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Wow. That's some Texas sized hair!
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I have the audio of this if anyone wants it. It's really meant to be heard. Can't say I agree with everything, but, hell, Smokey's cussin'!
Courtesy of Poetology.com
"The Black American"
by Smokey Robinson
"I love being Black. I love being called Black. I love being an American.
I love being a Black American, but as a Black man in this country I think it’s a shame
That every few years we get a change of name.
Since those first ships arrived here from Africa that came across the sea
There were already Black men in this country who were free.
And as for those that came over here on those terrible boats,
They were called niggah and slave
And told what to do and how to behave.
And then master started trippin' and doing his midnight tippin',
Down to the slave shacks where he forced he and Great-Great Grandma to be together,
And if Great-Great Grandpa protested, he got tarred and feathered.
And at the same time, the Black men in the country who were free,
Were mating with the tribes like the Apache and the Cherokee.
And as a result of all that, we're a parade of every shade.
And as in this late day and age, you can be sure,
They ain't too many of us in this country whose bloodline is pure.
But, according to a geological, geographical, genealogy study published in Time Magazine,
The Black African people were the first on the scene,
So for what it's worth, the Black African people were the first on earth
And through migration, our characteristics started to change, and rearrange,
To adapt to whatever climate we migrated to.
And that's how I became me, and you became you.
So, if we gonna go back, let's go all the way back,
And if Adam was Black and Eve was Black,
Then that kind of makes it a natural fact that everybody in America is an African American.
Everybody in Europe is an African European; everybody in the Orient is an African Asian
And so on and so on,
That is, if the origin of man is what we’re gonna go on.
And if one drop of Black blood makes you Black like they say,
Then everybody's Black anyway.
So quit trying to change my identity.
I'm already who I was meant to be
I'm a Black American, born and raised.
And brother James Brown wrote a wonderful phrase,
"Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud! Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud!"
Cause I'm proud to be Black and I ain't never lived in Africa,
And ‘cause my Great-Great Granddaddy on my Daddy’s side did, don't mean I want to go back.
Now I have nothing against Africa,
It's where some of the most beautiful places and people in the world are found.
But I've been blessed to go a lot of places in this world,
And if you ask me where I choose to live, I pick America, hands down.
Now, by and by, we were called Negroes, and after while, that name has vanished.
Anyway, Negro is just how you say “black” in Spanish.
Then, we were called colored, but shit, everybody’s one color or another,
And I think it’s a shame that we hold that against each other.
And it seems like we reverted back to a time when being called Black was an insult,
Even if it was another Black man who said it, a fight would result,
Cause we’ve been so brainwashed that Black was wrong,
So that even the yellow niggahs and black niggahs couldn’t get along.
But then, came the 1960s when we struggled and died to be called equal and Black,
And we walked with pride with our heads held high and our shoulders pushed back,
And Black was beautiful.
But, I guess that wasn’t good enough,
Cause now here they come with some other stuff.
Who comes up with this shit anyway?
Was it one, or a group of niggahs sitting around one day?
Feelin’ a little insecure again about being called Black
And decided that African American sounded a little more exotic.
Well, I think you were being a little more neurotic.
It’s that same mentality that got “Amos and Andy” put off the air,
Cause’ they were embarrassed about the way the character’s spoke.
And as a result of that action, a lot of wonderful Black actors ended up broke.
When we were just laughin’ and have fun about ourselves.
So I say, “fuck you if you can’t take a joke.”
You didn’t see the “Beverly Hillbilly’s” being protested by white folks.
And if you think, that cause you think that being called African American set all Black people’s mind at ease…..
Since we affectionately call each other “niggah”,
I affectionately say to you, “niggah Please”.
How come I didn’t get the chance to vote on who I’d like to be?
Who gave you the right to make that decision for me?
I ain’t under your rule or in your dominion
And I am entitled to my own opinion.
Now there are some African Americans here,
But they recently moved here from places like Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Zaire.
But, now the brother who’s family has lived in the country for generations,
Occupying space in all the locations
New York, Miami, L.A., Detroit, Chicago-
Even if he’s wearing a dashiki and sporting an afro.
And, if you go to Africa in search of your race,
You’ll find out quick you’re not an African American,
You’re just a Black American in Africa takin’ up space.
Why you keep trying to attach yourself to a continent,
Where if you got the chance and you went,
Most people there would even claim you as one of them; as a pure bread daughter or son of them.
Your heritage is right here now, no matter what you call yourself or what you say
And a lot of people died to make it that way.
And if you think America is a leader on inequality and suffering and grievin’
How come there so many people comin’ and so few leavin’?
Rather than all this ‘find fault with America’ fuck you promotin’,
If you want to change something, use your privilege, get to the polls!
Commence to votin’!
God knows we’ve earned the right to be called American Americans and be free at last.
And rather than you movin’ forward progress, you dwelling in the past.
We’ve struggled too long; we’ve come too far.
Instead of focusing on who we were, let’s be proud of who we are.
We are the only people whose name is always a trend.
When is this shit gonna end?
Look at all the different colors of our skin-
Black is not our color. It’s our core.
It’s what we been livin’ and fightin’ and dyin’ for.
But if you choose to be called African American and that’s your preference
Then I ‘ll give you that reference
But I know on this issue I don’t stand alone on my own and if I do, then let me be me
And I’d appreciate it if when you see me, you’d say, “there goes a man who says it loud I’m Black. I’m Black. I’m a Black American, and I’m proud
Cause I love being an American. And I love being Black. I love being called Black.
Yeah, I said it, and I don’t take it back."
Smokey Robinson
Def Poets, 3rd Season
May 16, 2003 (c)
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ironic after reading the Smokey thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=JOUALvjfLI0
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ironic after reading the Smokey thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=JOUALvjfLI0
two words: jesus. christ.
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I have the audio of this if anyone wants it. It's really meant to be heard. Can't say I agree with everything, but, hell, Smokey's cussin'!
Courtesy of Poetology.com
"The Black American"
by Smokey Robinson
That's hotter than Smokey's frozen gumbo (available at Safeway)!
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ironic after reading the Smokey thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=JOUALvjfLI0
What awful questions. Stacked. No options for, you know, sane responses. Of course, it's edited, so you don't know how many people responded with "None of the above."
The people who answered "The Final Solution" -- I wonder if they knew it was taken from the Nazi answer to the Jewish "problem?" Disturbing...
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ironic after reading the Smokey thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=JOUALvjfLI0
The people who answered "The Final Solution" -- I wonder if they knew it was taken from the Nazi answer to the Jewish "problem?" Disturbing...
yes, the one kid who was smoking said something about the "shoah," i think. maybe i misheard.
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I have the audio of this if anyone wants it. It's really meant to be heard. Can't say I agree with everything, but, hell, Smokey's cussin'!
Courtesy of Poetology.com
"The Black American"
by Smokey Robinson
That's hotter than Smokey's frozen gumbo (available at Safeway)!
yup! where does he find the time?
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Gilberto Gil, Politician
From technology.guardian.co.uk/news/
(i'm posting the entire thing because the link is broken.)
Gilberto Gil wears a sober suit and tie these days, and his dreadlocks are greying at the temples. But you soon remember that, as well as the serving culture minister of Brazil, you are in the presence of one of the biggest Latin American musicians of the 60s and 70s when you ask him about his intellectual influences and he cites Timothy Leary. "Oh, yeah!" Gil says happily, rocking back in his chair at the Royal Society of the Arts in London. "For example, all those guys at Silicon Valley - they're all coming basically from the psychedelic culture, you know? The brain-expanding processes of the crystal had a lot to do with the internet."
Much as it may be currently de rigueur for journalists to ask politicians whether or not they have ever smoked marijuana, the question does not, under the circumstances, seem worth the effort. Gil's constant references to the hippy counterculture are not simply the nostalgia of a 63-year-old with more than 40 albums to his name. For several years now, largely under the rest of the world's radar, the Brazilian government has been building a counterculture of its own. The battlefield has been intellectual property - the ownership of ideas - and the revolution has touched everything, from internet filesharing to GM crops to HIV medication. Pharmaceutical companies selling patented Aids drugs, for example, were informed that Brazil would simply ignore their claims to ownership and copy their products more cheaply if they didn't offer deep discounts. (The discounts were forthcoming.) Gil himself has thrown his weight behind new forms of copyright law, enabling musicians to incorporate parts of others' work in their own. And in one small development that none the less sums up the mood, the left-wing administration of President Luiz Inacio da Silva, or "Lula", has announced that all ministries will stop using Microsoft Windows on their office computers. Instead of paying through the nose for Microsoft operating licences, while millions of Brazilians live in poverty, the government will use open-source software, collaboratively designed by programmers worldwide and owned by no one.
"This isn't just my idea, or Brazil's idea," Gil says. "It's the idea of our time. The complexity of our times demands it." He is politician enough to hold back from endorsing the breaking of laws, for example on music downloading, but only just. "The Brazilian government is definitely pro-law," he grins. "But if law doesn't fit reality anymore, law has to be changed. That's not a new thing. That's civilisation as usual." (He is not a hi-tech person himself, he says, but readily concedes that his children have "probably" done a fair bit of illegal downloading.)
Gil has lived by this philosophy - his guitar-based music has always been, in its own way, open-source, mixing the influences of bossa nova, samba, reggae and rock - and he has suffered for it, too. Tropicalia, the anti-establishment movement he helped found in Brazil in the 1960s, threatened the grip of the military dictatorship there and in 1968 he was jailed, along with his musical collaborator, Caetano Veloso, with whom he shared the status of a Latin American Lennon and McCartney. Freed after several months, he was instructed to leave the country and moved to London. His fame followed him to Europe and he went on to perform with, among others, Pink Floyd and Jimmy Cliff.
"Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life," he says. "But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. I remember telling a Brazilian girl who used to be part of our community here in London, 'I'm gonna have a role to play in politics in the future!' And now ... it is the future."
Gil is in London as a signatory to the RSA's Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property, which calls on governments to restrain corporations from further locking down their ownership of ideas. The campaign encompasses everything from the music industry's myopia over downloading to the recent efforts of one agribusiness firm to patent basmati rice, then charge Indian farmers for the privilege of growing it.
Defenders of such developments insist that strong patent laws are crucial - without them, nobody would have the incentive to develop new ideas - and that anything else would impede innovation. Gil and his ministry team have an opposing theory: tough intellectual property law is a 20th-century idea and most of the blossoming of world civilisation has happened perfectly well without it. "The 20th century is a cul-de-sac," says Claudio Prado, Brazil's digital culture czar, in London with Gil. "And the engine of progress doesn't have a reverse gear, so it's hard for the first world to get out of the cul-de-sac." The fact that many Brazilians still live in 18th or 19th-century conditions, he says, means that the country has an opportunity to accelerate into the 21st century without entering the cul-de-sac in the first place.
Internet evangelists are fond of hyping the "network society", but this, Prado argues, is what Brazil has been for centuries. "In a Brazilian favela, that's the way it works," he says. "You go and help your neighbour build their house. Or take carnival - that's a totally collaborative process. Sixty thousand people, unrehearsed. That's what you do when you don't have money. You collaborate." Brazil has ploughed millions of dollars into bringing computer access to the poorest parts of the country, but the bigger picture is not that President Lula's government is embracing the internet. It is that Brazilian society, in a manner of speaking, was itself a kind of internet before the fact.
All this leaves the minister with little time for writing songs. "I haven't even thought about it," Gil says. "It's a very different, drastic kind of time that you have to give to writing music. So for three years I haven't even considered it - the last song I wrote was before the ministry. But now, as my routines become a little more controlled, I'm gathering momentum again. I might be reading documents for work, for instance, on a plane, and an idea comes and I write it down on the back of the page. It's not a preoccupation, but I'm letting it come, slowly."
Performing, he says, is more important to him, and he frequently leaves his wife Flora, with whom he shares a home in Rio de Janeiro, to perform abroad. He must surely be the only serving politician to have completed a 22-gig tour of Europe earlier this year.
The two worlds of Gil's music and his politics merged most closely when he announced that he would license some of his own songs for free downloading. Time Warner, which owned the licences in question, quickly announced that, actually, he would not. "That showed me how difficult the situation is," he says. "An author is not the owner anymore. He doesn't exercise his rights. His rights are exercised by someone else, and sometimes the two don't coincide."
Explaining his view, he cups his palms and traces curved shapes in the air.
Time Warner won - "for the moment" - but it is characteristic of Gil that he regards the experience as a largely positive and most certainly rather amusing one. "I think it's a good development that the minister of culture of Brazil is looking after the interests of a Brazilian artist," he says, "who happens to be himself."
A similar mischievousness seems to have explained the government's response when an official accused Microsoft of behaving like a drug dealer in handing out free software to make customers dependent on its products. Microsoft Brazil sued, but the administration simply ignored the case, and the company eventually withdrew it. "But this is not demagoguery," Gil insists, if you accuse him of just being provocative. "This is pedagogy." Eventually, in other words, the world will learn.
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Get ready for: "America's Next Muppet"
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2005/090505.shtml
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Just in time for Halloween: Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"!
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/musicpartner/universal/rockwell/rockwell_somebodyswatchingme_00602498819227_dl.mov
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Just in time for Halloween: Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"!
http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/musicpartner/universal/rockwell/rockwell_somebodyswatchingme_00602498819227_dl.mov
He rocks. Well.
"Maybe showers remind me of Michael Jackson too much..."
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Not cool but Halloween timely:
Hanging Mistaken for Halloween Decoration
(10-27) 10:55 PDT Frederica, Del. (AP) --
The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.
The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.
"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.
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"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.
Do the Germans have a word for something like this -- so sad, yet so comical?
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"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.
"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.
Do the Germans have a word for something like this -- so sad, yet so comical?
'Schadenfreude' means finding joy in others' pain (especially if the other is a famous/high-ranking person).
So maybe this is 'Freudenschade'?
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...just about anyone you can name from the 60s or before:
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/
(Be sure to check out the shot with Wayne Cochran...must be seen to be believed.)
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...just about anyone you can name from the 60s or before:
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/
(Be sure to check out the shot with Wayne Cochran...must be seen to be believed.)
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/EdByrnes.jpg
Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb!
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...just about anyone you can name from the 60s or before:
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/
(Be sure to check out the shot with Wayne Cochran...must be seen to be believed.)
Hard to top this one:
(http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/GlenCampbell.jpg)
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Hard to top this one:
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/%7Epresley/celeb/GlenCampbell.jpg
is that Elvis, or Mick Jagger in the movie Performance? LOL!
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It's finally here: the TV series of "Boondocks" premieres Sunday nite:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/04/DDG2JFI1FR1.DTL
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It's finally here: the TV series of "Boondocks" premieres Sunday nite:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/04/DDG2JFI1FR1.DTL
Talk about your crappy time-slots though...Sundays at 11? What, was the Monday 2am slot taken?
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It's finally here: the TV series of "Boondocks" premieres Sunday nite:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/04/DDG2JFI1FR1.DTL
Talk about your crappy time-slots though...Sundays at 11? What, was the Monday 2am slot taken?
well, that's when Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block begins -- to them it's a prime slot. But it does make me consider getting TiVo...
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So did anybody watch The Boondocks last nite? I completely forgot, dammit. Interesting review by Dana Stevens on slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129517/?nav=fo
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I taped it but haven't watched yet. Maybe after I get home from the improv show tonight- although I'm usually pretty tired after that. So, probably watch it Tuesday.
I don't know when adultswim plans on rerunning them- but yer welcome to borrow said tape when I'm done, RGMike!
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So did anybody watch The Boondocks last nite? I completely forgot, dammit. Interesting review by Dana Stevens on slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129517/?nav=fo
Yeah, I stayed up (too late) and enjoyed it, but still can't get over the n-word stuff. It break my heart to see my students use this word, in the same week as Rosa Parks passes on.
Oh well...I would have to say that the way Aaron McGruder uses it is about as OK as I can take. Maybe Chris Rock too...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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So did anybody watch The Boondocks last nite? I completely forgot, dammit. Interesting review by Dana Stevens on slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129517/?nav=fo
Yeah, I stayed up (too late) and enjoyed it, but still can't get over the n-word stuff. It break my heart to see my students use this word, in the same week as Rosa Parks passes on.
Oh well...I would have to say that the way Aaron McGruder uses it is about as OK as I can take. Maybe Chris Rock too...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, yes, but "nigga" doesn't have the same meaning to these kids. It's all about context.
Funny thing, I was watching Clockers, the Spike Lee movie, a few weeks back on local broadcast channel 36, and in it the character played by Delroy Lindo uses the word -- a lot -- and uses it to describe other black characters. And every. single. time. he did, channel 36 bleeped the word. It seemed rather silly, as it was not being used as a racist epithet, but there you are.
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So did anybody watch The Boondocks last nite? I completely forgot, dammit. Interesting review by Dana Stevens on slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/id/2129517/?nav=fo
Yeah, I stayed up (too late) and enjoyed it, but still can't get over the n-word stuff. It break my heart to see my students use this word, in the same week as Rosa Parks passes on.
Oh well...I would have to say that the way Aaron McGruder uses it is about as OK as I can take. Maybe Chris Rock too...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, yes, but "nigga" doesn't have the same meaning to these kids. It's all about context.
Funny thing, I was watching Clockers, the Spike Lee movie, a few weeks back on local broadcast channel 36, and in it the character played by Delroy Lindo uses the word -- a lot -- and uses it to describe other black characters. And every. single. time. he did, channel 36 bleeped the word. It seemed rather silly, as it was not being used as a racist epithet, but there you are.
Yep, but in order to see it that way, you have to be able to see in shades of gray, and entities like networks (or the FCC) only see black and white. And to be fair, there are probably those out there who are still offended when they hear the N word (which I confess to still having problems typing, let alone saying).
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only see black and white.
On a related subject, nothing has been said here about the college coaches who remarked that black athletes are faster than white athletes. I was watching the HBO NFL show the other day, and Dan Marino asks Chris Collinsworth for his comments. Chris laughs and says "No WAY am I commenting on this one! I CAN'T."
"But I CAN," says Chris Carter. "Why is that?"
Most insightful stuff I've ever seen on that show, even though they did dance around the subject. Still, it shows you the state of our national discussion on race issues. At the end of the piece, Carter asks Collinsworth:
"When you were playing, what, 8 years, did you ever have a white cornerback cover you?"
"Uh, once. He fell down, though the play went to the other side."
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WHOA: A *ton* of old recordings -- lost solo singles and the like -- sanctioned by the Monkees' official site:
http://www.monkees.net/singal.htm
Among the relics: Micky beating Nilsson to the punch in recording "Daybreak," Davy performing "Alone Again Naturally" on the Merv Griffin show in '73, and a horribly warped rendition of "Daydream Believer" on the Tonight Show in 1969.
I could spend hours there. And next month, I just might.
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this has to be seen to be believed.
http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
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after you follow the instructions, avert your eyes just sligthly & the afterimage you experience will give you some idea how this actually works.
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this has to be seen to be believed.
http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html
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after you follow the instructions, avert your eyes just sligthly & the afterimage you experience will give you some idea how this actually works.
nifty!
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Heidi Fleiss is looking for a few good men...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/16/entertainment/e193754S38.DTL&type=bondage
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This is neither cool nor funny, just sad and bizarre:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/11/28/international/i085454S60.DTL
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This is neither cool nor funny, just sad and bizarre:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/11/28/international/i085454S60.DTL
Sadly, having met more than a few people with severe nut allergies, I don't find it bizarre anymore. With tinfoil hat jauntily adjusted on head, I harbor deep suspicions that there's a direct relationship between the exponentially rapid increases in these allergies in recent years and the introduction of genetically modified foods, the extent to which we may already be consuming them being unknowable. One for the long-term bettors: I predict Monsanto loses a class-action lawsuit to the tune of a trillion or more within our lifetime.
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from songfacts.com (http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=797):
Human Nature by Michael Jackson
Album: Thriller
Date: 1983
U.S. Chart: 7
Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page.
This was one of 7 US Top 10 hits off Thriller.
Steve Porcaro, a studio musician and member of Toto, wrote this after his daughter came home from school upset that some kids were mean to her. He replied that it was "just human nature."
Porcaro recorded a rough version and left it on a cassette in the studio. Another member of Toto, David Paitch, unknowingly used the tape to put 3 songs on for Quincy Jones to consider for Thriller. Jones did not like Paitch's songs, but heard Porcaro's tune and decided to use it.
lots of good info about song origins on this site!
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review of '69 stones concert (http://www.hippy.com/php/article-112.html).
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Clear Channel lets a big one get away:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05347/621636.stm
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Very cool. I'm going to check the site out. I wouldn't mind working with/for a venture like that.
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wow, great stuff. Best quote: "For instance, he adds, there may never be an appetite for dozens of separate concerts by acts like Eddie Money."
No, really?
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I am totally trolling the site. The pelons are cool. Posters too.
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* w o w *
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All Music Guide enters the world of playlists and recommendations -- I haven't dived into this yet, but I've long been interested in the power of the Internet to achieve what I describe as "distributed tastemaking": You find not so much the song you want, but the person/source who helps you find what you didn't know you want.
So here goes, if you have some down time to give a whirl:
http://tapestry.allmusic.com/
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http://www.itsawonderfulinternet.com/
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Yahoo's music videos section (formerly Listen) has a promo video of Elton John's "Step Into Christmas" (1974, sez the credit) available. http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/lists/byalpha.asp?l=J&p=15 It's rather primitive and the audio's hideously hissy, but a neat artifact as well as a reminder of how amazing a run Elton and Bernie had from '72 to '75.
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sadddest, scariest thing I've heard this week: Isaac Hayes is a Scientologist!
http://www.scientology-kills.org/celebrities/hayes.htm
Did anyone else know this? Somehow his name doesn't usually get mentioned when Celebrity Thetans are listed. Saw an interview with him in the Onion A/V section. He wasn't terribly pleased with that recent South Park spoof of his religion.
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Urth:
What say Cnet about this?
From http://msn.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124312,00.asp?GT1=7645
Do Burned CDs Have a Short Life Span?
Optical discs may not be your best bet for storing digital media long term, expert says.
Opinions vary on how to preserve data on digital storage media, such as optical CDs and DVDs. Kurt Gerecke, a physicist and storage expert at IBM Deutschland, has his own view: If you want to avoid having to burn new CDs every few years, use magnetic tapes to store all your pictures, videos and songs for a lifetime.
"Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD," Gerecke says. "There are a few things you can do to extend the life of a burned CD, like keeping the disc in a cool, dark space, but not a whole lot more."
The problem is material degradation. Optical discs commonly used for burning, such as CD-R and CD-RW, have a recording surface consisting of a layer of dye that can be modified by heat to store data. The degradation process can result in the data "shifting" on the surface and thus becoming unreadable to the laser beam.
"Many of the cheap burnable CDs available at discount stores have a life span of around two years," Gerecke says. "Some of the better-quality discs offer a longer life span, of a maximum of five years."
Distinguishing high-quality burnable CDs from low-quality discs is difficult, he says, because few vendors use life span as a selling point.
Similar Limitations
Hard-drive disks also have their limitations, according to Gerecke. The problem with hard drives, he says, is not so much the disk itself as it is the disk bearing, which has a positioning function similar to a ball bearing. "If the hard drive uses an inexpensive disk bearing, that bearing will wear out faster than a more expensive one," he says. His recommendation: a hard-drive disk with 7200 revolutions per minute.
To overcome the preservation limitations of burnable CDs, Gerecke suggests using magnetic tapes, which, he claims, can have a life span of 30 years to 100 years, depending on their quality. "Even if magnetic tapes are also subject to degradation, they're still the superior storage media," he says.
But he's quick to point out that no storage medium lasts forever and, consequently, consumers and business alike need to have a migration plan to new storage technologies.
"Companies, in particular, need to be constantly looking at new storage technologies and have an archiving strategy that allows them to automatically migrate to new technologies," he says. "Otherwise, they're going to wind up in a dead-end. And for those sitting on terabytes of crucial data, that could be a colossal problem."
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Urth:
What say Cnet about this?
From http://msn.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124312,00.asp?GT1=7645
Damn good question. I don't know off the top of my head. But I'll sure as hell ask a couple of people who should.
I do agree with one point he makes: cheap discs make lousy copies. Unstable, lots of errors, and just not trustworthy. TDKs used to be safe, but no more. Nowadays Mitsui is the best brand, but they can cost a bit--around .65 apiece unless you buy a whole bunch of them. Taiyo Yudens are OK, a bit cheaper (about .30 apiece by the hundred) but fairly trustworthy.
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Any good word about Memorex? I have a decent stack of Memorex CD-Rs here on my desk.
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Any good word about Memorex? I have a decent stack of Memorex CD-Rs here on my desk.
Sorry, not so good. Use em for discs for the kids...
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
wouldn't you rather be captured by Clare Danes?
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
wouldn't you rather be captured by Clare Danes?
no, not really. she's not my type. plus, she might do me more harm. sitting in an uncomfortable position while being verbally humiliated isn't my idea of a really bad day as a prisoner of war.
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
Capt. Hommel should be played in film by Peter Sarsgaard.
P.S. Princess, I hope your stomach is better. Ali, I love the new Neil quote; that may be my favorite line of his.
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
Capt. Hommel should be played in film by Peter Sarsgaard.
P.S. Princess, I hope your stomach is better. Ali, I love the new Neil quote; that may be my favorite line of his.
Mr Sarsgaard is a brilliant actor (tho' maybe not THAT brilliant :-) ); see Dying Gaul if it's still in NYC.
and Princess: how about Shirley Jones & Shirley Knight talkin' dirty in Grandma's Boy? Hubba hubba!
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would that i be captured by danes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4606350.stm)! didn't really know where to post this.
Capt. Hommel should be played in film by Peter Sarsgaard.
P.S. Princess, I hope your stomach is better. Ali, I love the new Neil quote; that may be my favorite line of his.
Mr Sarsgaard is a brilliant actor; see Dying Gaul if it's still in NYC.
and Princess: how about Shirley Jones & Shirley Knight talkin' dirty in Grandma's Boy? Hubba hubba!
i still think i'll wait to be forced to watch Grandma's Boy on a plane...
thanks, gaz! "i'm feeling much better now!"
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I'm near Ghandi!
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I'm near Ghandi!
Oh yeah? Well, I'm just to the left of the Dalai Lama...
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I'm near Ghandi!
Oh yeah? Well, I'm just to the left of the Dalai Lama...
Not surprisingly at all, I'm in the same quadrant, extremely so on both counts. My political compass:
Economic Left/Right: -5.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
Which leaves me just a touch more anarchistic than Nelson Mandela and just a touch more communistic than the Dalai Lama. I think I've gotten a little more extreme on both counts over the years, having become sufficiently disenchanted with the establishment to accept my place on the fringe.
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Near Gandhi
Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72
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between Ghandi & Mandela:
Economic Left/Right: -6.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51
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Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.41
I'm down by the Dalai Lama. Hard to believe I'm so far the most libertarian in the group.
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Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
Near Ghandi as well, but a little right thereof. Not surprising I'm so central, I kept flip-flopping on a lot of the questions. More grey areas, to my thinking. Or maybe I'm just wishy-washy.
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Economic Left/Right: -6.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
southwest of nelson, just west of the dalai, whatever that means.
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Economic Left/Right: -2.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.10
Near Ghandi as well, but a little right thereof. Not surprising I'm so central, I kept flip-flopping on a lot of the questions. More grey areas, to my thinking. Or maybe I'm just wishy-washy.
You're not wishy-washy -- there ARE a lot of grey areas, something folks on the extremes of both right and left are often loath to admit.
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The url says it all:
www.8trackheaven.com
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http://www.politicalcompass.org/
I'm near Ghandi!
BTW, this reminds me of an idea I had once for a useful website. You fill out a long form on your beliefs and desires and such -- political, social, personal. Then, at election time, the system generates recommendations on candidates and laws for you so you don't have to wade through the documentation and contradictory campaigns.
Of course, programming it to take all this in would be tough if not impossible, especiallly keeping it unbiased. You'd need a team of starry-eyed poly-sci majors to figure out all the permutations of the bills and candidates and how they relate. And really good programmers (not me, I'm just the idea guy). And still you'd have a system ripe for abuse, and one not likely to make any money.
But does the internet need another porn site? Or another blog?
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an excellent Steven Winn piece in today's Chron about Oprah's latest cavortings:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/02/DDG7FH10SJ10.DTL
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This is especially for you copy editors out there: A New Yorker piece on the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves illustrating all of the punctuation errors in this best selling book about punctuation errors. Good snarky fun!
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1
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It's understandable why Gaz didn't post this link this year, but if anyone cares about the V.Voice Music Poll for 2005, here's the top 40 anyway:
http://www1.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop05/winners.php?type=album
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It's understandable why Gaz didn't post this link this year, but if anyone cares about the V.Voice Music Poll for 2005, here's the top 40 anyway:
http://www1.villagevoice.com/pazzandjop05/winners.php?type=album
Hmmm. I own exactly two of the albums among the top 40--Sufjan Stevens and the New Pornographers. Another sign I'm getting too lazy to keep up with current pop.
(Although I've been meaning to pick up the Monk/Coltrane record, but since that was recorded in the year I was born, I suppose that doesn't do much for my desire to stay current.)
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Hmmm. I own exactly two of the albums among the top 40--Sufjan Stevens and the New Pornographers. Another sign I'm getting too lazy to keep up with current pop.
(Although I've been meaning to pick up the Monk/Coltrane record, but since that was recorded in the year I was born, I suppose that doesn't do much for my desire to stay current.)
I also have exactly 2, Beck & Gorillaz. I'll certainly get the White Stripes & My Morning Jacket, and probably a few others like Sleater-Kinney next time I binge.
Would you recommend the 2 you got?
agree on the Monk.
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Hmmm. I own exactly two of the albums among the top 40--Sufjan Stevens and the New Pornographers. Another sign I'm getting too lazy to keep up with current pop.
(Although I've been meaning to pick up the Monk/Coltrane record, but since that was recorded in the year I was born, I suppose that doesn't do much for my desire to stay current.)
I also have exactly 2, Beck & Gorillaz. I'll certainly get the White Stripes & My Morning Jacket, and probably a few others like Sleater-Kinney next time I binge.
Would you recommend the 2 you got?
agree on the Monk.
Enthusiastic yes on the New Pornographers, not so much for the Sufjan Stevens.
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Hmmm. I own exactly two of the albums among the top 40--Sufjan Stevens and the New Pornographers. Another sign I'm getting too lazy to keep up with current pop.
(Although I've been meaning to pick up the Monk/Coltrane record, but since that was recorded in the year I was born, I suppose that doesn't do much for my desire to stay current.)
I also have exactly 2, Beck & Gorillaz. I'll certainly get the White Stripes & My Morning Jacket, and probably a few others like Sleater-Kinney next time I binge.
Would you recommend the 2 you got?
agree on the Monk.
Enthusiastic yes on the New Pornographers, not so much for the Sufjan Stevens.
Might have to recant my take on Sufjan. Listened to it again this morning and it's growing on me. If you have a taste for Belle-and-Sebastianesque twee-pop, you might like it.
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naked Scarlett and Keira:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/02/07/entertainment/e070559S47.DTL&type=entertainment
well, OK, they're not naked at that link, but the story's about them being naked in Vanity Fair this week...
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naked Scarlett and Keira:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/02/07/entertainment/e070559S47.DTL&type=entertainment
well, OK, they're not naked at that link, but the story's about them being naked in Vanity Fair this week...
OK here's the pic. You loved Scarlett's cleavage, so here's her butt!
http://justjared.blogspot.com/2006/02/vanity-fair-march-2006.html
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Darondo; Never heard anything about him. You?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/PKGTKGV0MS1.DTL
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Darondo; Never heard anything about him. You?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/PKGTKGV0MS1.DTL
nope but sounds like I'd like it -- one for Gaz's SF Amoeba Records shopping list!
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Darondo; Never heard anything about him. You?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/12/PKGTKGV0MS1.DTL
Had never heard of him before this. AMG actually has samples from his album:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1e6ompma9fco
I found his stuff kinda meh.
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One of my favorite videos of all time: Alan Parsons Project's "Don't Answer Me."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bLbUQGNL3Dw
"Tough break, Nick.
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
Heh, I nabbed it from those same sources; it's a great shorthand word b/c it's hard to vocalize it without giving it the slight shoulder shrug that it connotes. Been seeing it for a few months -- I guess we run in different online circles. :)
I'm also guilty of jumping on the "not so much" bandwagon, which I picked up like a mild cold from LiveJournal denizens.
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
Heh, I nabbed it from those same sources; it's a great shorthand word b/c it's hard to vocalize it without giving it the slight shoulder shrug that it connotes. Been seeing it for a few months -- I guess we run in different online circles. :)
I'm also guilty of jumping on the "not so much" bandwagon, which I picked up like a mild cold from LiveJournal denizens.
"meh" reminds me of "menza-menz" (or maybe originally "mezza-mezz"), an Italian expression from my Noo Yawk youth, which also means "so-so" or "in-between" or "fair-to-middling".
"How ya feelin' today?"
"Oh... menza-menz..."
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
Heh, I nabbed it from those same sources; it's a great shorthand word b/c it's hard to vocalize it without giving it the slight shoulder shrug that it connotes. Been seeing it for a few months -- I guess we run in different online circles. :)
I'm also guilty of jumping on the "not so much" bandwagon, which I picked up like a mild cold from LiveJournal denizens.
"meh" reminds me of "menza-menz" (or maybe originally "mezza-mezz"), an Italian expression from my Noo Yawk youth, which also means "so-so" or "in-between" or "fair-to-middling".
"How ya feelin' today?"
"Oh... menza-menz..."
Sounds like that phrase is the Italian version of (or at least has the same roots as) the Spanish "mas o menos" (sp?) which also serves in that "so-so/more-or-less" space in the language.
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
Heh, I nabbed it from those same sources; it's a great shorthand word b/c it's hard to vocalize it without giving it the slight shoulder shrug that it connotes. Been seeing it for a few months -- I guess we run in different online circles. :)
I'm also guilty of jumping on the "not so much" bandwagon, which I picked up like a mild cold from LiveJournal denizens.
"meh" reminds me of "menza-menz" (or maybe originally "mezza-mezz"), an Italian expression from my Noo Yawk youth, which also means "so-so" or "in-between" or "fair-to-middling".
"How ya feelin' today?"
"Oh... menza-menz..."
Sounds like that phrase is the Italian version of (or at least has the same roots as) the Spanish "mas o menos" (sp?) which also serves in that "so-so/more-or-less" space in the language.
The equivalent in French, if I remember correctly, is "comme si, comme sa" (pron. roughly "come see, come saw"), though I'm sure the POC will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
Meantime, Urth, have you ever read the Testy Copy Editors forum? It's quite funny and educative for people who have such interest in and/or fussiness about the finer points of language: http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB2/ I'm a regular lurker there.
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I found his stuff kinda meh.
When did "meh" slip into the lexicon of American hipster slang, and from whence did it come? I've just in the last two weeks or so seen it pop up in various blogs, emails, and forum posts, and I swear I'd never run across it before. I assume it means "so-so" or something to that effect, replacing last year's entry in that category "not so much."
(Aside: do we need a separate thread for questions of language, grammar and such?)
Heh, I nabbed it from those same sources; it's a great shorthand word b/c it's hard to vocalize it without giving it the slight shoulder shrug that it connotes. Been seeing it for a few months -- I guess we run in different online circles. :)
I'm also guilty of jumping on the "not so much" bandwagon, which I picked up like a mild cold from LiveJournal denizens.
"meh" reminds me of "menza-menz" (or maybe originally "mezza-mezz"), an Italian expression from my Noo Yawk youth, which also means "so-so" or "in-between" or "fair-to-middling".
"How ya feelin' today?"
"Oh... menza-menz..."
Sounds like that phrase is the Italian version of (or at least has the same roots as) the Spanish "mas o menos" (sp?) which also serves in that "so-so/more-or-less" space in the language.
The equivalent in French, if I remember correctly, is "comme si, comme sa" (pron. roughly "come see, come saw"), though I'm sure the POC will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
Meantime, Urth, have you ever read the Testy Copy Editors forum? It's quite funny and educative for people who have such interest in and/or fussiness about the finer points of language: http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB2/ I'm a regular lurker there.
Actually, no, but I am not at all surprised to find out such a thing exists. As the phrase "testy copy editor" describes most if not every copy editor I've ever met, at least when it comes to grammar and the English language.
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The equivalent in French, if I remember correctly, is "comme si, comme sa" (pron. roughly "come see, come saw"), though I'm sure the POC will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
pronounciation correct, spelling is "comme si, comme ça."
:)
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The equivalent in French, if I remember correctly, is "comme si, comme sa" (pron. roughly "come see, come saw"), though I'm sure the POC will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
pronounciation correct, spelling is "comme si, comme ça."
:)
that's what I had in mind, but no clue as to how to spell it!
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For you '80s types: this page has links to every weekly Top 30 survey from NYC radio station Z-100 (including top 30 of the year) from Aug 1983 to 1992.
http://www.ct30.com/z100/sitemap.html
in fact, if you to the main page
http://www.ct30.com
there are surveys for these stations and years:
CKLW - Detroit
The Big 8
(67-79 Charts)
WKNR - Detroit
Keener 13
(63-71 Charts)
KGB - San Diego
Boss 30
(1966-72 Charts)
KYNO - Fresno
Big 30
(1967-70 Charts)
KFRC - SF
Big 30
(1967-70)
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The equivalent in French, if I remember correctly, is "comme si, comme sa" (pron. roughly "come see, come saw"), though I'm sure the POC will correct me if I'm wrong. :)
pronounciation correct, spelling is "comme si, comme ça."
:)
The equivalent in Mandarin is "ma-ma hu-hu". It directly translates as "horse-horse tiger-tiger" (and no one seems to know why).
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For you '80s types: this page has links to every weekly Top 30 survey from NYC radio station Z-100 (including top 30 of the year) from Aug 1983 to 1992.
http://www.ct30.com/z100/sitemap.html
in fact, if you to the main page
http://www.ct30.com
there are surveys for these stations and years:
CKLW - Detroit
The Big 8
(67-79 Charts)
WKNR - Detroit
Keener 13
(63-71 Charts)
KGB - San Diego
Boss 30
(1966-72 Charts)
KYNO - Fresno
Big 30
(1967-70 Charts)
KFRC - SF
Big 30
(1967-70)
Here's one that Bob Stroud sent me back when we first started listening to him: http://www.oldiesloon.com/
As he said to me back then: "Get ready to spend more time there than you probably should!"
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For the record-collecting geeks in the house:
http://shallowrewards.blogspot.com/
Some fascinating reading. I could spend a LOT of time there ... if I had a lot of time to spend.
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For the record-collecting geeks in the house:
http://shallowrewards.blogspot.com/
Some fascinating reading. I could spend a LOT of time there ... if I had a lot of time to spend.
In fact, right now you can build your own 30-track Northern Soul compilation (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.rennie/northernsoulmusicnewsite/2006site/index2006.html) for less than £10 shipped.
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For the record-collecting geeks in the house:
http://shallowrewards.blogspot.com/
Some fascinating reading. I could spend a LOT of time there ... if I had a lot of time to spend.
In fact, right now you can build your own 30-track Northern Soul compilation (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.rennie/northernsoulmusicnewsite/2006site/index2006.html) for less than £10 shipped.
My god that's a bargain... it's less than $15 American per CD, and from the HUGE song list, it's obvious most of these tunes are obscure/hard-to-find in the US.
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For the trivial-minded among you: online Jeopardy audition tests next week:
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetest
Yes, I've registered; my R&R Jep appearance does not disqualify me.
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For the trivial-minded among you: online Jeopardy audition tests next week:
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetest
Yes, I've registered; my R&R Jep appearance does not disqualify me.
Thanks for the reminder. I'm registered now...
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In case you missed last nite's South Park, which took aim at SF (guess they're tired of Scientology) -- here's something from sfgate.com:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=3918
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In case you missed last nite's South Park, which took aim at SF (guess they're tired of Scientology) -- here's something from sfgate.com:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=3918
(http://www.ggould.com/images/southparkguy.gif)
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For the trivial-minded among you: online Jeopardy audition tests next week:
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetest
Yes, I've registered; my R&R Jep appearance does not disqualify me.
So Gaz, how did you feel your test went? I think I did okay last night, though there were some questions I had no clue on. But those don't bother me like the ones I knew but just totally blanked on:
JK Rowling
Little Shop of Horrors
I knew those! But not at the time...
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For the trivial-minded among you: online Jeopardy audition tests next week:
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetest
Yes, I've registered; my R&R Jep appearance does not disqualify me.
So Gaz, how did you feel your test went? I think I did okay last night, though there were some questions I had no clue on. But those don't bother me like the ones I knew but just totally blanked on:
JK Rowling
Little Shop of Horrors
I knew those! But not at the time...
I don't think I did well at all. Of the 50 questions, I confidently knew about 20, was pretty sure on another 15, made educated guesses on another 10, and oscillatedly wildly on 4. And blanked on the name of Hamas, which kind of embarrassed me.
There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M." I had no idea so I said "Macarena" with a smiley emoticon. I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
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I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
One of my favorite tactics in college. Even worked sometimes. Probably not in the Jeopardy quiz tho...
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M." I had no idea so I said "Macarena" with a smiley emoticon. I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
the Minuet?
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M."
What is "Minuet"?
You had different questions, I think.
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M." I had no idea so I said "Macarena" with a smiley emoticon. I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
the Minuet?
Jinx.
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M." I had no idea so I said "Macarena" with a smiley emoticon. I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
the Minuet?
Jinx.
Minnie's boyfriend wanted to know if she'd had dinner already...
"Hey Min -- you et?"
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M." I had no idea so I said "Macarena" with a smiley emoticon. I hoped my sense of humor would compensate for my sense of history.
the Minuet?
Jinx.
Minnie's boyfriend wanted to know if she'd had dinner already...
"Hey Min -- you et?"
Which reminds me of my favorite Kingston Trio tune:
THE MERRY MINUET
(Sheldon Harnick)
The Kingston Trio
They're rioting in Africa. (whistling)
They're starving in Spain. (whistling)
There's hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch ...
and I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
for man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
someone will set the spark off ...
and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa.
There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us ...
will be done by our fellow man.
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M."
What is "Minuet"?
You had different questions, I think.
See, Cathy was the one who adored those things. I love to rock and roll. And I think I'm gonna go have a hot dog.
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There was one question about a dance among (French?) royalty, six letters, began with "M."
What is "Minuet"?
You had different questions, I think.
See, Cathy was the one who adored those things. I love to rock and roll. And I think I'm gonna go have a hot dog.
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette... what a wild duet!
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OMG: a kid plays the Super Mario Bros. theme on two guitars at once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzUe3ZQvxQ
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OMG: a kid plays the Super Mario Bros. theme on two guitars at once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzUe3ZQvxQ
that
is
wacky.
geddy lee, look out!
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OMG: a kid plays the Super Mario Bros. theme on two guitars at once:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzUe3ZQvxQ
that
is
wacky.
geddy lee, look out!
Forget Geddy Lee--Stanley Jordan is quaking in his boots!
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it's the Guardian (UK) rockumentary quiz!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1752396,00.html?
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it's the Guardian (UK) rockumentary quiz!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1752396,00.html?
You scored 8 out of a possible 10
Number one Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I missed the Ramones and Julien Temple Q's.
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it's the Guardian (UK) rockumentary quiz!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1752396,00.html?
You scored 8 out of a possible 10
Number one Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I missed the Ramones and Julien Temple Q's.
I scored 9 -- missed that Glastonbury one too.
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it's the Guardian (UK) rockumentary quiz!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1752396,00.html?
You scored 8 out of a possible 10
Number one Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I missed the Ramones and Julien Temple Q's.
I got 9 of 10--missed the Ramones question as well (I had not even heard of the film in question), and just guessed on the Julien Temple one, so I guess really we tied.
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it's the Guardian (UK) rockumentary quiz!
http://film.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1752396,00.html?
You scored 8 out of a possible 10
Number one Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I missed the Ramones and Julien Temple Q's.
I scored 9 -- missed that Glastonbury one too.
Rock on
You scored 10 out of a possible 10
Number one Shine on, you crazy diamond.
I don't even know who some of these people are!
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
Sorry, this guy just lost any shred of credibility he had with me. I can totally understand him loving this album, but there is NO. WAY. IN. HELL. that it's anywhere near the artistic statement he makes it out to be. File it with your guilty pleasures or even desert island discs, bud. I suppose it may be as significant as any other mega-seller from that era to people who were in junior high or older at the time, but his argument is lost on me. I'll be curious to read the letters they get about this piece, from both sides.
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
Sorry, this guy just lost any shred of credibility he had with me.
Someone had to do it; he took one for the team.
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
Sorry, this guy just lost any shred of credibility he had with me.
Someone had to do it; he took one for the team.
I just have to imagine this article was done tongue in cheek. I know Schon is talented, a former wunderkind, but I would think Journey ages about as well as those fashions you see in "The Wedding Singer."
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
Sorry, this guy just lost any shred of credibility he had with me.
Someone had to do it; he took one for the team.
Point taken. Hartlaub and Vaziri are the two youngest members of the entertainment staff (seniority-wise anyway), and dog knows Vaziri couldn't have done this assignment and played it anywhere near straight.
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The Chron's Peter Hartlaub sings the praises of Journey's Escape as it turns 25:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/24/DDGVRID9BV1.DTL
They discussed this on the KFOG Morning Show today.
Sorry, this guy just lost any shred of credibility he had with me.
Someone had to do it; he took one for the team.
Point taken. Hartlaub and Vaziri are the two youngest members of the entertainment staff (seniority-wise anyway), and dog knows Vaziri couldn't have done this assignment and played it anywhere near straight.
What excuse do the idiots pictured with their lps have? "Look ma! I'ze in da paper!"
Gag me.
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Gag me.
My sediments exactly!
:lol: :roll: :lol: :roll:
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Mark, you'll dig this posting from the ILM board, having constructed pop-culture syllabi of your own; maybe other Clubbers will as well.
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6936461
From The Beatles to Brit Pop:
British Popular Music and 20th Century British Popular Culture
This course will critique the socio-cultural impact of British popular music between 1963 and 1999. Songs and LPs will be read as texts which can offer unique insights into British views of class, sex and sexuality, race and politics. We will consider the influence of American culture (Black American culture in particular) on British popular music, the impact of immigration on concepts of Britishness, changing concepts of youth, the impact of changing technologies on music production and consumption, popular music scenes and the importance of location. Every week students will be expected to listen to at least three important LPs, attend a screening and engage in preparatory reading.
PREPARATORY READING
T.W. Adorno (1941), ‘On Popular Music’ in S. Frith and A. Goodwin (eds) (1990) On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word, Routledge, London.
A. Bennett, Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place, Chapters 1 and 2 (11-51)
Week 1: British Pop in the 60s
READING: Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties, ‘Introduction’ (1-33)
LISTENING: Selections from The Yardbirds, Roger the Engineer (1966)
The Beatles: Revolver (1966)
The Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967)
The Small Faces, Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (1967)
The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (1968)
The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (1968)
The Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed (1969)
The Who, Tommy (1969)
SCREENING: Selections from The Beatles Anthology,
The Rolling Stones Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus (1968)
Week 2: Blues Rock and Heavy Metal
READING: E. Berelian (2005), The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal, London, Rough Guides.
LISTENING: Selections from Free, All Right Now (1970)
Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Black Sabbath, Paranoid (1971)
Deep Purple, Made in Japan (1972)
SCREENING: The Song Remains the Same (1976)
Week 3: Progressive Rock
LISTENING: Selections from Soft Machine, Third (1970)
Yes, Close to the Edge (1972)
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound (1973)
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Henry Cow, Leg End (1973)
Pink Floyd, Wish you Were Here (1975)
READING: P. Stump (1997) The Music’s all that Matters: History of Progressive Rock, Quartet.
SCREENING: The Making of Dark Side of the Moon
Week 4: From Folk to Folk Rock
LISTENING: Selections from Martin Carthy, Martin Carthy (1965)
Bert Jansch, Bert Jansch (1965)
Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left (1968)
Fairport Convention, Liege and Lief (1969)
Roy Harper, Flat Baroque and Berserk (1970)
Richard and Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)
Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman about Politics (1986)
READING: N. Mackinnon (1994) The British Folk Scene: Musical Performance and Social Identity, Open University Press, Buckingham.
SCREENING: Acoustic Routes
Week 5: Art Rock and Eccentricity
LISTENING: Selections from Scott Walker, Scott 4 (1969)
Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure (1973)
Robert Wyatt, Rock Bottom (1974)
David Bowie, Heroes (1977)
Kate Bush, The Kick Inside (1978)
Brian Eno, Ambient: Music for Airports (1978)
Peter Gabriel III (1980)
Peter Gabriel IV (1982)
Week 6: Punk
LISTENING: Selections from The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
The Clash, The Clash (1977)
Anti-Nowhere League, Anti-Nowhere League Punk Singles Collection
READING: J. Savage (2005), England’s Dreaming, Faber and Faber.
SCREENING: Punk: Attitude (Dir. Don Letts, 2005)
FURTHER READING:
D. Hebdige (1985), Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London, Routledge.
D. Laing (1985) One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
Roger Sabin (ed.) (1999), Punk Rock, So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk, Routledge.
Week 7: Post-Punk and Pop
LISTENING: Selections from Wire, Pink Flag (1977)
Gang of Four, Entertainment! (1979)
PIL, Metal Box (1979)
Japan, Quiet Life (1980)
Duran Duran, Duran Duran (1981)
READING: S. Reynolds (2006), Rip it up and Start Again: Post-Punk 1978-1984, Faber and Faber.
Week 8: Ska, Rude Boy, Two-Tone, Mod, Reggae and the Mainstream
LISTENING: Selections from Elvis Costello, My Aim is True (1977)
The Specials, The Specials (1979)
Madness, One Step Beyond (1979)
The Police, Regatta de Blanc (1979)
The Jam, Sound Effects (1979)
UB40, Signing Off (1980)
READING: D. Thompson (2004), 2 Tone, The Specials and the World in Flame: Wheels out of Gear, Helter Skelter.
E. Verguren (2004), This is a Modern Life: the 1980s Mod Scene, Helter Skelter.
D. Hebdige, ‘The Meaning of Mod’ in S. Hall and T. Jefferson (eds) Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain (1976)
D. Hebdige, ‘Reggae, Rastas and Rudies’ in S. Hall and T. Jefferson (eds) Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain (1976)
Week 9: From Manchester to Madchester
LISTENING: Selections from Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures (1979)
New Order, Power, Corruption and Lies (1983)
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead (1985)
The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (1989)
Happy Mondays, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990)
READING: D. Thompson and D. Sultan (2005), True Faith: An Armchair Guide to New Order, Joy Division, Electronic, Revenge, Monaco and The Other Two, Helter Skelter.
S. Goddard (2004), The Smiths: Songs that Saved Your Life, Reynolds and Hearn.
SCREENING: 24 Hour Party People (Dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Week 10: Soul and Dance
LISTENING: Selections from Neneh Cherry, Raw Like Sushi (1988)
Soul II Soul, Club Classic Vol. 1 (1989)
Massive Attack, Blue Lines (1991)
Leftfield, Leftism (1995)
Week 11: Indie and Brit Pop
LISTENING: Selections from Jesus & Mary Chain, Psychocandy (1985)
My Bloody Valentine, Loveless (1991)
Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque (1991)
Oasis, Definitely Maybe (1993)
Blur, Parklife (1994)
Pulp, Different Class (1995)
READING: J. Harris (2004), The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock, London, Harper.
FURTHER READING
J.J. Beadle (1993) Will Pop Eat Itself?: Pop Music in the Sound Bite Era, Faber and Faber, London.
A. Bennett, B. Shank and J. Toynbee (eds), The Popular Music Studies Reader, London, Routledge 2005.
D. Bradley (1992) Understanding Rock ‘n’ Roll: Popular Music in Britain 1955-1964, Open University Press, Buckingham.
I. Chambers (1985) Urban Rhythms: Pop Music and Popular Culture, Macmillan, London.
Stanley Cohen (1987) Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, 3rd edn, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Sara Cohen (1991) Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
S. Frith (1983) Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock, Constable, London.
S. Whitely (1992) The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture, Routledge, London.
J. Lull (1992) Popular Music and Communication, 2nd edition, Sage, London.
P. Gilroy (1993) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Verso, London.
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Week 2: Blues Rock and Heavy Metal
READING: E. Berelian (2005), The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal, London, Rough Guides.
LISTENING: Selections from Free, All Right Now (1970)
Led Zeppelin II (1969)
Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Black Sabbath, Paranoid (1971)
Deep Purple, Made in Japan (1972)
SCREENING: The Song Remains the Same (1976)
Wow, imaging getting college credit for watching TSRTS...
"Does anybody remember LAHF-ter?"
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Wow, imaging getting college credit for watching TSRTS...
"Does anybody remember LAHF-ter?"
Considering I fell asleep in the theater the first time I saw TSRTS, it wouldn't be all that different from my economics courses.
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real or a setup?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TTwgNhX4BSo
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Mark, you'll dig this posting from the ILM board
You betcha, especially weeks 6-9, which I never got to focus on academically back at UCSB.
I would SO love to give a week's lecture that featured the Stone Roses...
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Top 25 Bay Area songs of all time?
a debate in the Chron today:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/DDGI2IFUCJ1.DTL
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Top 25 Bay Area songs of all time?
a debate in the Chron today:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/DDGI2IFUCJ1.DTL
I gave this a fuller description on the List Thread
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Top 25 Bay Area songs of all time?
a debate in the Chron today:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/28/DDGI2IFUCJ1.DTL
I gave this a fuller description on the List Thread
I'd forgotten we even had a "List Thread" (and no wonder, since it hadn't been touched since June 2005!).
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2 VERY interesting pieces on slate.com today about music. I'd love to hear Gaz's reaction to either or both:
http://www.slate.com/id/2141418/?nav=navoa
http://www.slate.com/id/2141421/?nav=navoa
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2 VERY interesting pieces on slate.com today about music. I'd love to hear Gaz's reaction to either or both:
http://www.slate.com/id/2141418/?nav=navoa
http://www.slate.com/id/2141421/?nav=navoa
Wow, read both of those all the way through, now I really, REALLY regret not going to the EMP this year.
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2 VERY interesting pieces on slate.com today about music. I'd love to hear Gaz's reaction to either or both:
http://www.slate.com/id/2141418/?nav=navoa
http://www.slate.com/id/2141421/?nav=navoa
Jody Rosen, who wrote the first piece, is a really bright guy; I had a few brief conversations with him over the weekend and he's a regular at the I Love Music board. I don't feel like "rockism" is a well enough understood meme to trot out without fuller explanation but otherwise he wrote a great piece.
As for the drama with Ms. Merritt: Some people want to knock him down a peg, it seems to me, because he's a very distant person, with a shyness that looks an awful lot like dismissive arrogance. Jessica Hopper, as far as I'm concerned, is an ADD-addled miscreant who thinks journalism amounts to the ability to squirt someone dead in the eye with a water pistol and call it "insight." She was tacky enough to send her old blog postings as her contributed comments to Pazz & Jop last year (comments that were no more decipherable the second time around), and her willingness to outright ignore facts in the name of making someone look bad is almost as pitiable as it is despicable. I've never met her and I don't wish to. Disappointing to see that Sasha Frere-Jones, a terrific writer whose acquaintance I made last year, has dropped his principles in this case and gone for the ad hominem.
I wonder if much else has been written about the conference. Haven't seen much apart from a few expected blog postings.
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As for the drama with Ms. Merritt: Some people want to knock him down a peg, it seems to me, because he's a very distant person, with a shyness that looks an awful lot like dismissive arrogance.
TANC: Mr Merrit's fave song, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", has been revived for the "visit Disneyland during it's 50th Anniversary Celebration" commercials.
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As for the drama with Ms. Merritt: Some people want to knock him down a peg, it seems to me, because he's a very distant person, with a shyness that looks an awful lot like dismissive arrogance.
TANC: Mr Merrit's fave song, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", has been revived for the "visit Disneyland during it's 50th Anniversary Celebration" commercials.
Which brings to mind a quote that I've seen attributed to Townes Van Zant, but has since been appropriated by others, as it could have been by Townes, for that matter:
"There are two types of music: the blues--and Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah."
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Ban the Blunt!
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article621217.ece
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For Disco Alicat especially:
http://www.disco-disco.com/index.shtml
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Someone had to do the disco web thing.
I do luvs me some disco.
Also like Box of Rain on WDRV deep trax right now
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It's the new, improved... Wonder Woman!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=6002
Oh MY!
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Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" before a bunch of old staid white people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow
Not very good quality footage, but still a cool artifact; I'd never seen Melanie playing live before. Oh for the days when women in rock treated guitars as something more than props.
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Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" before a bunch of old staid white people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow
Not very good quality footage, but still a cool artifact; I'd never seen Melanie playing live before. Oh for the days when women in rock treated guitars as something more than props.
that is beautiful. and i love the word, "staid." melanie is one rocking babe! and the hairdos - oh my!
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Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" before a bunch of old staid white people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow
Not very good quality footage, but still a cool artifact; I'd never seen Melanie playing live before. Oh for the days when women in rock treated guitars as something more than props.
that is beautiful. and i love the word, "staid." melanie is one rocking babe! and the hairdos - oh my!
Melanie's an old staid white person herself these days. And a Fundie to boot, iirc.
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Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" before a bunch of old staid white people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow
Not very good quality footage, but still a cool artifact; I'd never seen Melanie playing live before. Oh for the days when women in rock treated guitars as something more than props.
that is beautiful. and i love the word, "staid." melanie is one rocking babe! and the hairdos - oh my!
Melanie's an old staid white person herself these days. And a Fundie to boot, iirc.
way to ruin it.
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Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers performing "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" before a bunch of old staid white people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GZyF7vIow
Not very good quality footage, but still a cool artifact; I'd never seen Melanie playing live before. Oh for the days when women in rock treated guitars as something more than props.
that is beautiful. and i love the word, "staid." melanie is one rocking babe! and the hairdos - oh my!
Melanie's an old staid white person herself these days. And a Fundie to boot, iirc.
I'd never heard that - yikes.
But back to the hair: Didja notice that the EH Singers have not one, but TWO singers who look like LaWanda Page?
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Lulu performing "The Boat That I Row" on Beat Club, introducing what would soon become The Shirley Partridge Look. I'd love to wear crushed velvet with lace ruffle trim too. But that's just me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hb8mgXA17k
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Lulu performing "The Boat That I Row" on Beat Club, introducing what would soon become The Shirley Partridge Look. I'd love to wear crushed velvet with lace ruffle trim too. But that's just me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hb8mgXA17k
I thought that was Jerry Seinfeld's pirate shirt.
But the hair is vintage Dusty Springfield, no?
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Lulu performing "The Boat That I Row" on Beat Club, introducing what would soon become The Shirley Partridge Look. I'd love to wear crushed velvet with lace ruffle trim too. But that's just me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hb8mgXA17k
deeeeeevine! look slike she studied a bit of james brown beforehand.
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garba-garba-garba-garba-garbage chameleon!
Boy George to fo community service with the NYC Sanitation Dept:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/06/27/entertainment/e123732D37.DTL
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Mark, this is especially for you, since you're the most trivia-curious person I know (and that really is a compliment from me), but all of you may dig this: The blog of Ken Jennings, the all-time Jeopardy champ. He's quite an engaging guy, actually. And he's selling a giant foam head with his likeness.
http://www.ken-jennings.com/blog/
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Ken Jennings, the all-time Jeopardy champ. He's quite an engaging guy, actually.
For a devout Mormon.
Wait... the dog from Frazier died???? Now THAT's news, dammit! Why is his blog the only place I've seen that?
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Tim Goodman has already written extensively about how godawful most of the Emmy nominations are, but -- in a cool surprise -- they nominated the South Park ep about Scientology for Best Animated Program:
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/emmys/env-et-rail7jul07,0,6227108.story
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The Middle East made easy:
http://www.slate.com/id/2146230/nav/tap1/
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The Middle East made easy:
http://www.slate.com/id/2146230/nav/tap1/
and i thought *i* was stuck between iraq and a hard place. brilliant!
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The Middle East made easy:
http://www.slate.com/id/2146230/nav/tap1/
and i thought *i* was stuck between iraq and a hard place. brilliant!
Publicity you can't buy:
(http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060724/capt.c3d59e694dc5442fafc396324392654c.czech_republic_lebanon_demonstration_ctk102.jpg)
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Straights in P-Town complain about being "oppressed":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/07/26/national/a114741D30.DTL
This reminded me of the piece the Daily Show did last week about a straight couple with 2 kids who bought a house in the Castro and were shocked -- shocked, I tell ya! -- to see men holding hands.
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The Middle East made easy:
http://www.slate.com/id/2146230/nav/tap1/
and i thought *i* was stuck between iraq and a hard place. brilliant!
Publicity you can't buy:
(http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060724/capt.c3d59e694dc5442fafc396324392654c.czech_republic_lebanon_demonstration_ctk102.jpg)
My. She certainly has a way of drawing attention to her, uhhh, cause.
She should lose those glasses though.
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This NYTimes piece about Candace Bergen's basset hound will surely have poc singing "I Wanna Be Your Dog" :wink:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/us/03dog.html?ex=1154750400&en=543ce4526e17d5d2&ei=5087%0A
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I'd never heard of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot -- the SF precursor to the Stonewall Riot by three years -- until this weekend:
http://www.comptonscafeteriariot.org/csw.html
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I'd never heard of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot -- the SF precursor to the Stonewall Riot by three years -- until this weekend:
http://www.comptonscafeteriariot.org/csw.html
I was unaware of it until just recently. Saw a docu earlier this year on KQED.
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"The Man From C.A.M.P.": The folks at WFMU give us "I'd Rather Fight Than Swish" and many, many more.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/the_man_from_ca.html
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"The Man From C.A.M.P.": The folks at WFMU give us "I'd Rather Fight Than Swish" and many, many more.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/the_man_from_ca.html
I'm immediately reminded of that lispy, mincing version of "My Boyfriend's Back" (circa 1981 or so) and of course, the Joan Collins Fan Club's cover of "Leader of the Pack".
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"The Man From C.A.M.P.": The folks at WFMU give us "I'd Rather Fight Than Swish" and many, many more.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/the_man_from_ca.html
Sorry. now that I'm home and am actually listening to these, they're neither cool nor funny. I guess I should be grateful to have come of age in the '90s. :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
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"The Man From C.A.M.P.": The folks at WFMU give us "I'd Rather Fight Than Swish" and many, many more.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/the_man_from_ca.html
I'm immediately reminded of that lispy, mincing version of "My Boyfriend's Back" (circa 1981 or so) and of course, the Joan Collins Fan Club's cover of "Leader of the Pack".
Which is not in this playlist (http://www.trikont.com/catalogue/349_queer_noises/349_queer_noises.html#tracklist), but I'm forwarding it along anyway. I probably should actually make an effort to listen to Jobriath at some point.
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"The Man From C.A.M.P.": The folks at WFMU give us "I'd Rather Fight Than Swish" and many, many more.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/08/the_man_from_ca.html
I'm immediately reminded of that lispy, mincing version of "My Boyfriend's Back" (circa 1981 or so) and of course, the Joan Collins Fan Club's cover of "Leader of the Pack".
Which is not in this playlist (http://www.trikont.com/catalogue/349_queer_noises/349_queer_noises.html#tracklist), but I'm forwarding it along anyway. I probably should actually make an effort to listen to Jobriath at some point.
What, no "Killing of Georgie"? :wink:
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Old Hippies unite!
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/15277495.htm
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Old Hippies unite!
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/15277495.htm
TANC: One of the articles I copyedited for Jane today mentioned Camp Winnirainbow.
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Old Hippies unite!
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/15277495.htm
TANC: One of the articles I copyedited for Jane today mentioned Camp Winnirainbow.
Well, since you mention copyediting, it's spelled "Winnarainbow!"
:lol:
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From the CG website -- my comments in italics:
Freddie Mercury's 60th Birthday Bash
One of rock's legendary frontmen, Freddie Mercury, would have turned 60 on September 5 2006 and we're marking the day with a special celebration
We're joining his family, friends and fans for a fund-raising performance of the smash-hit musical 'We Will Rock You' featuring special guest appearances. And we're giving you the chance to appear on-stage in this special charity performance.
Renowned for his elaborate, flamboyant parties (no, really?), we're celebrating Freddie's birthday in style by inviting you to impress us with your party trick. (Well, Freddie always brought his tricks to parties...) We’re looking for two people to join the cast on-stage for the stunning finale of 'We Will Rock You' in London's West End on September 5 when the whole cast sing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. If you want to be one of the cast members on the night then you need to tell us what party-piece you would do for Freddie Mercury’s party.
We’re not looking for Freddie-alikes! We want you to show us your party act (keep it clean, please) (Are they kidding?) that you think Freddie would have loved. E-mail us at freddiesparty@capitalgold.com and tell us your name, your age and a bit about yourself as well as what your party piece is. E-mail a picture of yourself too or footage of you performing your party piece. Closing date for e-mails is Friday August 25
We'll invite the best 30 entrants into Capital Gold HQ in London to perform in front of a special panel of judges. The final two will appear live on stage as part of the cast for the special Freddie Mercury's 60th Birthday performance of 'We Will Rock You'.
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From the CG website -- my comments in italics:
Freddie Mercury's 60th Birthday Bash
One of rock's legendary frontmen, Freddie Mercury, would have turned 60 on September 5 2006 and we're marking the day with a special celebration
We're joining his family, friends and fans for a fund-raising performance of the smash-hit musical 'We Will Rock You' featuring special guest appearances. And we're giving you the chance to appear on-stage in this special charity performance.
Renowned for his elaborate, flamboyant parties (no, really?), we're celebrating Freddie's birthday in style by inviting you to impress us with your party trick. (Well, Freddie always brought his tricks to parties...) We’re looking for two people to join the cast on-stage for the stunning finale of 'We Will Rock You' in London's West End on September 5 when the whole cast sing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. If you want to be one of the cast members on the night then you need to tell us what party-piece you would do for Freddie Mercury’s party.
We’re not looking for Freddie-alikes! We want you to show us your party act (keep it clean, please) (Are they kidding?) that you think Freddie would have loved. E-mail us at freddiesparty@capitalgold.com and tell us your name, your age and a bit about yourself as well as what your party piece is. E-mail a picture of yourself too or footage of you performing your party piece. Closing date for e-mails is Friday August 25
We'll invite the best 30 entrants into Capital Gold HQ in London to perform in front of a special panel of judges. The final two will appear live on stage as part of the cast for the special Freddie Mercury's 60th Birthday performance of 'We Will Rock You'.
would that i could leave the country. i once won a trip to acapulco with a poem i wrote about freddie. but come to think of it, onstage with a bunch of theatre-types in london on freddie's bday is the last place i'd want to be. i'll be sitting in the lap of the gods with the headphones on.
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Besides Gaz, I mean.
I suspect a good bit of computer editing went into getting this choreographed, but it looks like fun and it's pretty fun to watch too (and it's a catchy tune to boot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
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Besides Gaz, I mean.
I suspect a good bit of computer editing went into getting this choreographed, but it looks like fun and it's pretty fun to watch too (and it's a catchy tune to boot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
that *does* look like fun! at first i thought it was a waste of time, but it's certainly easier to watch than most videos (no strobelights or nauseating camerawork). and i like the band, too, though i only own their self-titled album.
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The Austrian version of "Jack":
http://www.musiksender.at/index2.htm
yes, "wir spielen was wir wollen" translates as "we play what we want"...
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The Austrian version of "Jack":
http://www.musiksender.at/index2.htm
yes, "wir spielen was wir wollen" translates as "we play what we want"...
And not only that: "Hollywood verfilmt das Leben von Michael Hutchence"=Michael Hutchence biopic on the way!
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The Austrian version of "Jack":
http://www.musiksender.at/index2.htm
yes, "wir spielen was wir wollen" translates as "we play what we want"...
And not only that: "Hollywood verfilmt das Leben von Michael Hutchence"=Michael Hutchence biopic on the way!
starring Johnny Depp, or at least that's the scuttlebutt.
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an interesting take on this summer's hits (Gnarls Barkley, we're lookin' at you) from a Baltimore Sun critic:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/30/DDG38KQSPH1.DTL
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Snakes on the plains?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/05/national/a082618D20.DTL
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Snakes on the plains?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/05/national/a082618D20.DTL
Yikes, what a nasty way to go.
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Snakes on the plains?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/05/national/a082618D20.DTL
ha! maybe the snake was framed.
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This just might be my favorite rap song of all time. NB the clever Chicago sample.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Called 'Saturdays' " (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zpyTZ2CN7s)
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This just might be my favorite rap song of all time. NB the clever Chicago sample.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Called 'Saturdays' " (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zpyTZ2CN7s)
it's been one of my favorites for years, just for the line, "now let's all get baked like anita." i'm blanking on the chicago sample, though...
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This just might be my favorite rap song of all time. NB the clever Chicago sample.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Called 'Saturdays' " (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zpyTZ2CN7s)
it's been one of my favorites for years, just for the line, "now let's all get baked like anita." i'm blanking on the chicago sample, though...
I'm guessing "Saturday in the Park"? :wink:
BTW princess, is it Anne Bancroft's birthday? Turner Classic Movies is showing Miracle Worker and The Graduate.
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This just might be my favorite rap song of all time. NB the clever Chicago sample.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Called 'Saturdays' " (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zpyTZ2CN7s)
it's been one of my favorites for years, just for the line, "now let's all get baked like anita." i'm blanking on the chicago sample, though...
SAT-ur-DAY! (scratch) SAT-ur-DAY! (scratch)
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This just might be my favorite rap song of all time. NB the clever Chicago sample.
De La Soul, "A Roller Skating Jam Called 'Saturdays' " (http://youtube.com/watch?v=0zpyTZ2CN7s)
it's been one of my favorites for years, just for the line, "now let's all get baked like anita." i'm blanking on the chicago sample, though...
SAT-ur-DAY! (scratch) SAT-ur-DAY! (scratch)
ahhhh, now i hear the horns. :)
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nice piece in the Chron about Sir Tom Jones, still sexy at 66.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/26/DDGINLBF7L1.DTL
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File under Things-I-Bet-You'd-Never-Guess:
Sesame Street's Elmo is black.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/28.clash/index.html
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File under Things-I-Bet-You'd-Never-Guess:
Sesame Street's Elmo is black.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/28.clash/index.html
I thought he was red! :wink:
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File under Things-I-Bet-You'd-Never-Guess:
Sesame Street's Elmo is black.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/28.clash/index.html
I thought he was red! :wink:
That's my point, so did I!
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Is YouTube dead?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/19/DDG0FLRA0U1.DTL
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Is YouTube dead?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/19/DDG0FLRA0U1.DTL
as long as i can watch golden girls, french and saunders, and the amanda show reruns, i'll be happy. unless they do away with the freddie mrecury videos.
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Is YouTube dead?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/19/DDG0FLRA0U1.DTL
Not dead, but their hipster cred is down the YouTubes.
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Is YouTube dead?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/19/DDG0FLRA0U1.DTL
Not dead, but their hipster cred is down the YouTubes.
Not arguing, but how many of their 100,000,000 visitors do you think would apply the label 'hipster' to themselves? I don't think Google is going to do anything with it except make it more profitable.
You want a conspiracy theory? Maybe, for some reason that us lay people can't fathom, this is just another step in their development of a true Artificial Intelligence.
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from today's sfgate:
clips of Richard Dawkins, atheist & author, whose docu "Root of All Evil" inspired my sig quote (the film shows at the Roxie for a week starting Friday).
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=3
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The latest musical sensation, from Argentina:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35266
METAL, DUUUUDE!!
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The latest musical sensation, from Argentina:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35266
METAL, DUUUUDE!!
"They want them on television here, but also in Washington ..."
I hear Mark Foley's a big fan.
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Pizza vs Pumpkins?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/31/BUG70M2SFA1.DTL
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Is YouTube dead?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/19/DDG0FLRA0U1.DTL
Not dead, but their hipster cred is down the YouTubes.
Not arguing, but how many of their 100,000,000 visitors do you think would apply the label 'hipster' to themselves? I don't think Google is going to do anything with it except make it more profitable.
Comedy Central pulls all their clips from You Tube. Well that'll increase YT's profitability...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/logout?blogid=3&entry_id=10400
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Very cool indeed: WZZN, Chicago's oldies station, has a page on their website with all the weekly music surveys from their '60s/'70s Top 40 heyday -- you can search for any week you want. Hours of fun!
http://www.947thezone.com/timemachine.asp
the Top 30 songs this week in 1970:
1. I Think I Love You...Partridge Family
2. Fire & Rain...James Taylor
3. I'll Be There...Jackson Five
4. We've Only Just Began...Carpenters
5. It Dont Matter To Me...Bread
6. Somebody's Been Sleeping...100 Proof
7. Deeper & Deeper..Freda Payne
8. Gypsy Woman...Brian Hyland
9. Green Eyed Lady...Sugarloaf
10. Lola...Kinks
11. Tears Of A Clown...Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
12. All Right Now...Free
13. Lucretia MacEvil...Blood, Sweat & Tears
14. Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma...The New Seekers
15. Lets Work Together...Canned Heat
16. Candida...Dawn
17. El Condor Pasa...Simon & Garfunkel
18. Its Only Make Believe...Glen Campbell
19. Heaven Help Us All...Stevie Wonder
20. Montego Bay...Bobby Bloom
21. Cracklin' Rosie...Neil Diamond
22. God, Love And Rock & Roll...Teegarden & Van Winkle
23. Indiana Wants Me...R. Dean Taylor
24. That's Where I Went Wrong...Poppy Family
25. Out In The Country...Three Dog Night
26. Share The Land...Guess Who
27. Cry Me A River...Joe Cocker
28. Stand By Your Man...Candi Staton
29. See Me, Feel Me...The Who
30. Still Water (Love)...Four Tops
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For whoever was waxing nostalgic about Get Smart recently -- davefish, I think:
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-second12nov12,0,7610061.story?coll=cl-movies-features
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For whoever was waxing nostalgic about Get Smart recently -- davefish, I think:
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-second12nov12,0,7610061.story?coll=cl-movies-features
i don't remember liking that show. but maybe i just didn't grok it at the moment.
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For whoever was waxing nostalgic about Get Smart recently -- davefish, I think:
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-second12nov12,0,7610061.story?coll=cl-movies-features
i don't remember liking that show. but maybe i just didn't grok it at the moment.
It is very very '60s, being a spoof of the Bond and other spy movies that were all the rage at the time, as well as TV shows like Man from U.N.C.L.E.. I'm assuming you saw it much later in reruns; still funny but not the same immediacy.
Speaking of which, I saw a bit of the orig Casino Royale on cable last nite -- '60s to the max! I got a headache from the set design alone.
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bonnie raitt and stevie wonder (http://music.aol.com/videos/sessions/sessions_flash.adp?defaultCovers=584,512,508&defaultID=584). pretty uneventful after bonnie sings. actually, pretty uneventful, overall.
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Great article on the Dan (http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html)
I don't see the error in the HTML. Just go to http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html . . .
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Great article on the Dan (http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html)
I don't see the error in the HTML. Just go to http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html . . .
I don't see the error in the HTML either, but I couldn't miss the one in the headline. Yeesh, they spelled Annandale right in the first sentence of the first freakin' graf, but they could manage to get it in the hed?
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Great article on the Dan (http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html)
I don't see the error in the HTML. Just go to http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html . . .
I don't see the error in the HTML either, but I couldn't miss the one in the headline. Yeesh, they spelled Annandale right in the first sentence of the first freakin' graf, but they could manage to get it in the hed?
"You going back to Anna, Dale?"
"That old grudge?! Never!"
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Great article on the Dan (http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html)
I don't see the error in the HTML. Just go to http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1174152_7|63358||0_0_,00.html . . .
Typo or no, that was a pretty cool article--thanks for that, Joe.
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oo-oo that smell! can't'cha smell that smell?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/05/BAGQDMPQB319.DTL
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Grammy Nominations announced, for those who still care:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2006/12/07/entertainment/e091023S74.DTL
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Nice: http://www.lukira.com/lukira/2006/11/a_brief_history.html
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Lots of off-the-wall Xmas stuff here -- it's quite Gaz-tastic, methinks:
http://www.christmasagogo.blogspot.com/
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OK, actor/director Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny) is one weird dude. We knew that. But hey, ladies, how'd you like to spend the night with him (for a fee)?
http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html
Yikes. and again -- yikes!
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OK, actor/director Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny) is one weird dude. We knew that. But hey, ladies, how'd you like to spend the night with him (for a fee)?
http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html
Yikes. and again -- yikes!
check the last entry on that page - he's selling his sperm.
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OK, actor/director Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny) is one weird dude. We knew that. But hey, ladies, how'd you like to spend the night with him (for a fee)?
http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html
Yikes. and again -- yikes!
check the last entry on that page - he's selling his sperm.
Wow -- Stephen Colbert is doing that satirically ("Stephen Colbert's Fortmula 401", nudgenudgewinkwink), but jeez. (or jizz, as the cas emay be.)
Have you ever seen The Brown Bunny? That's the one where Chloe Sevigny gives him a full-frontal, triple-X BJ on camera.
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OK, actor/director Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66, The Brown Bunny) is one weird dude. We knew that. But hey, ladies, how'd you like to spend the night with him (for a fee)?
http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html
Yikes. and again -- yikes!
check the last entry on that page - he's selling his sperm.
Wow -- Stephen Colbert is doing that satirically ("Stephen Colbert's Fortmula 401", nudgenudgewinkwink), but jeez. (or jizz, as the cas emay be.)
Have you ever seen The Brown Bunny? That's the one where Chloe Sevigny gives him a full-frontal, triple-X BJ on camera.
no - i remember wanting to see the brown bunny but something about the title makes me think of shit.
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while looking for James Brown-related stuff, I found this website with lots of cool old R&B concert posters:
http://www.thesouthside.org/Posters1.html
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while looking for James Brown-related stuff, I found this website with lots of cool old R&B concert posters:
http://www.thesouthside.org/Posters1.html
For the entire family!
(http://www.thesouthside.org/JB%20Apollo.jpg)
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thank you, mr. autrey (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?em&ex=1167973200&en=2d1e429264af3027&ei=5087%0A)
shows what he was awarded at the end of this story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6236053.stm).
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I dunno If we ever had a R'RHOF thread (I'm too lazy to look), but this year's Class has been announced: Van Halen, Grandmaster Flash, REM, Patti Smith and (finally!) the Ronettes.
and the DC5 have been snubbed yet again, along with the Hollies, Johnny Rivers...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/08/entertainment/e080725S03.DTL&type=music
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Scorps on a Plane?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/10/national/a064130S14.DTL
"Get these muthaf---in scorpions off mah muthaf---in plane"!
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Only in SF can you sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and be called a "faggot" by a bunch of silver-spoon, Pacific Heights wannabe-thugs:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/10/BAGPQNG2MM1.DTL
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Scorps on a Plane?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2007/01/10/national/a064130S14.DTL
"Get these muthaf---in scorpions off mah muthaf---in plane"!
you can never tell about people who fly through chicago.
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Only in SF can you sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and be called a "faggot" by a bunch of silver-spoon, Pacific Heights wannabe-thugs:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/10/BAGPQNG2MM1.DTL
pacific whites has a gang now?
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Only in SF can you sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and be called a "faggot" by a bunch of silver-spoon, Pacific Heights wannabe-thugs:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/10/BAGPQNG2MM1.DTL
pacific whites has a gang now?
you gotta read the story -- one of the rich kids says "I'm 20 deep -- my boys are comin!"
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Only in SF can you sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and be called a "faggot" by a bunch of silver-spoon, Pacific Heights wannabe-thugs:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/10/BAGPQNG2MM1.DTL
pacific whites has a gang now?
you gotta read the story -- one of the rich kids says "I'm 20 deep -- my boys are comin!"
i *did* read the story. i'm still shocked! a van pulls around the corner? straight outta south central, i'm sure.
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God help us all -- Mick LaSalle is writing a novel, and he's serializing it (one chapter at a time) on his website:
http://micklasalle.com/
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The Great Super Bowl Guacamole shortage?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/FDGKRNP8KR1.DTL
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The Great Super Bowl Guacamole shortage?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/FDGKRNP8KR1.DTL
That was begging for a "Guac like a man" pun.
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The Great Super Bowl Guacamole shortage?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/FDGKRNP8KR1.DTL
That was begging for a "Guac like a man" pun.
Guac this way: Haas should get Tim Curry to do commercials. "I do the Guac!"
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The Great Super Bowl Guacamole shortage?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/FDGKRNP8KR1.DTL
That was begging for a "Guac like a man" pun.
Guac this way: Haas should get Tim Curry to do commercials. "I do the Guac!"
Peyton's l'azure rocket arm
Gives me such a thrillo
Avocado shortages?
Use a tomatillo!
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http://sfgate.com/g/av/movies/2007/02/05/qm2ggbridge_ji.mov
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http://sfgate.com/g/av/movies/2007/02/05/qm2ggbridge_ji.mov
Thanks for posting that, Geoff. Nice to know that in some ways, we're still "the city that knows how."
(I liked hearing the comments of the surrounding observers too. But a couple of times I got the impression the video was speeded up just a bit.)
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http://sfgate.com/g/av/movies/2007/02/05/qm2ggbridge_ji.mov
Thanks for posting that, Geoff. Nice to know that in some ways, we're still "the city that knows how."
(I liked hearing the comments of the surrounding observers too. But a couple of times I got the impression the video was speeded up just a bit.)
The website said it was sped up to save file size.
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"And I-ee-I-ee-I will always have dinner with yoooooo..."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=13472
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children. go where i send thee (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/children-let-me-tell-you-about-a-place-called-amsterdam/)
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The Biggest (Virtual) iPod (http://biggestipod.com/)
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The Biggest (Virtual) iPod (http://biggestipod.com/)
wow.
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Andrew Gold's mom is back on stage at 77. You can see where he got his hair and eyes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/theater/06marni.html?_r=1&ref=movies&oref=slogin
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those wacky Starship folks are suing each other again...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/23/BAGBIOQBCI1.DTL
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The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL
Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!
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The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL
Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!
No tattoos? In the MARINES? Yeesh, I thought you had to have three tattoos just to get thru boot camp.
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The Marines are banning "large, garish" tattoos.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/28/national/a110350D55.DTL
Doesn't this effectively prevent 2/3 of all 18-to-24-year-old men from joining the Corps? LOL!
Pretty much. Geesh, the armed forces are hardly in a position to be turning people away. Although this precedent could help give the 18-to-24ers an easy out if we ever have a draft again.
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The Chron's "Summer of Love" page, with links to the articles in their current series:
http://www.sfgate.com/summeroflove/
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The Devil made him do it. Yeah, sure:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/22/national/a113903D92.DTL
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The Devil made him do it. Yeah, sure:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/22/national/a113903D92.DTL
Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear the microwave goin'
I still see my baby glowin'
She was 21 seconds nuked in Galveston
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Anyone had a chance to check out the new "street view" feature of Google Maps? It's kind of cool--and kind of scary.
http://maps.google.com
(Btw, you have to install the newest version of Flash for it to work.)
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Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/
I sometimes wish I had the compunction to maintain an MP3 blog. Alas, the legal grounds are more than shaky, and blogging's a major commitment; once you stop posting regularly, people start forgetting to stop by.
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Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/
You MUST download from that blog: George Harrison's demo version of "It Don't Come Easy," which Ringo scored the hit with. I hadn't considered how George-like that song is.
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Some great storytelling as well as some great digifiles to grab at this MP3 blog:
http://moistworks.com/
You MUST download from that blog: George Harrison's demo version of "It Don't Come Easy," which Ringo scored the hit with. I hadn't considered how George-like that song is.
Damn, you're so right!
And I LOVE the 5 versions of "Son of a Preacher Man" -- takin' time to make time, indeed!
That site is a treasure-trove... I've bookmarked it for further enjoyment.
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Damn, you're so right!
And I LOVE the 5 versions of "Son of a Preacher Man" -- takin' time to make time, indeed!
That site is a treasure-trove... I've bookmarked it for further enjoyment.
confession: i always thought that song WAS by harrison. but now that i've heard his version. well...i'm even more so.
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damn! I only got a score of 66.7%!
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
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damn! I only got a score of 66.7%!
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
88.9%
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damn! I only got a score of 66.7%!
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
88.9%
72.2% Correct
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69.9
For some reason, I did terribly on the second 9 tone sequences; other than that I did pretty well.
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69.9
For some reason, I did terribly on the second 9 tone sequences; other than that I did pretty well.
80.2 %
While I was taking it, I thought I was doing much worse.
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This is cool: http://www.allbutforgottenoldies.net/
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A colleague on another mailing list advises:
Someone (who is way too profound to be mentioned in these circles but can easily be looked up in whois) has put recordcollection.com up for auction:
http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/08/recordcollectioncom-for-100000/
Auction is next Wednesday, August 15th at 11am PST...
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This could easily have gone in the "I Didn't Know That" thread: Styx's drummer is gay; he came out in 2001, apparently. How did I miss that story? Nice piece in the Chron, at any rate.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/DDEDS196T.DTL
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This could easily have gone in the "I Didn't Know That" thread: Styx's drummer is gay; he came out in 2001, apparently. How did I miss that story? Nice piece in the Chron, at any rate.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/DDEDS196T.DTL
Yeah, he was a guest on the morning show the Friday of Pride weekend, but I think you may have been in NY. It was mentioned in the thread for the Pride set.
http://10at10club.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3345&start=0
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Styx's drummer is gay; he came out in 2001
Actually Styx's drummer is dead; he died in 1996. Chuck Panozzo is gay & the bassist, his late brother John was the drummer. (yet another band with a dead drummer because of alcohol abuse)
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Styx's drummer is gay; he came out in 2001
Actually Styx's drummer is dead; he died in 1996. Chuck Panozzo is gay & the bassist, his late brother John was the drummer. (yet another band with a dead drummer because of alcohol abuse)
oops.
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you do the hokey pokey...and *this* is what it's all about
(from http://www.columbia.edu/~marg/ani/letter.html)
From the Ron E., the Righteous Babe Records Minister of Communications:
The li'l folksinger has asked me to distribute the text of this open letter to the editor of MS, in response to a short paragraph in their Sept./Oct. 97 issue. It's a tad long for e-mail, but Ani wanted folks to be able to read the entirety of her message instead of an edited version. We would really like to see this posted on websites wherever possible. **You may distribute or forward the following as long as you do not alter or edit it.**
November 5, 1997
Marcia Ann Gillespie
Editor in Chief
Ms. Magazine
135 W. 50th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10020
So I'm poring through the 25th anniversary issue of Ms. (on some
airplane going somewhere in the amorphous blur that amounts to my
life) and I'm finding it endlessly enlightening and stimulating as
always, when, whaddaya know, I come across a little picture of little
me. I was flattered to be included in that issue's "21 feminists for
the 21st century" thingybob. I think ya'll are runnin the most bold
and babe-olishious magazine around, after all.
Problem is, I couldn't help but be a little weirded out by the
paragraph next to my head that summed up her me-ness and my
relationship to the feminist continuum. What got me was that it
largely detailed my financial successes and sales statistics. My
achievements were represented by the fact that I "make more money per
album sold than Hootie and the Blowfish," and that my catalogue sales
exceed 3/4 of a million. It was specified that I don't just have my
own record company but my own "profitable" record company. Still, the
ironic conclusion of the aforementioned blurb is a quote from me
insisting "it's not about the money." Why then, I ask myself, must
"the money" be the focus of so much of the media that surrounds me?
Why can't I escape it, even in the hallowed pages of Ms.?
Firstly, this "Hootie and the Blowfish" business was not my
doing. The LA Times financial section wrote an article about my record
label, Righteous Babe Records, in which they raved about the business
savvy of a singer (me) who thwarted the corporate overhead by choosing
to remain independent, thereby pocketing $4.25 per unit, as opposed to
the $1.25 made by Hootie or the $2.00 made by Michael Jackson. This
story was then picked up and reprinted by The New York Times, Forbes
magazine, the Financial News Network, and (lo and behold) Ms.
So here I am, publicly morphing into some kinda Fortune
500-young-entrepreneur-from-hell, and all along I thought I was just a
folksinger !
Ok, it's true. I do make a much larger profit (percentage-wise)
than the Hootster. What's even more astounding is that there are
thousands of musicians out there who make an even higher profit
percentage than me! How many local, musicians are there in your
community who play gigs in bars and coffee shops about town? I bet
lots of them have made cassettes or CDS which they'll happily sell to
you with a personal smile from the edge of the stage or back at the
bar after their set. Would you believe these shrewd, profit-minded
wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping _100%_ of the profits on the
sales of those puppies?! Wait till the Financial News Network gets a
whiff of _them_!
I sell approximately 2.5% of the albums that a Joan Jewelanis
Morrisette sells and get about .05% of the airplay royalties, so
obviously if it all comes down to dollars and cents, I've led a wholly
unremarkable life. Yet I choose relative statistical mediocrity over
fame and fortune because I have a bigger purpose in mind. Imagine how
strange it must be for a girl who has spent 10 years fighting as hard
as she could against the lure of the corporate carrot and the almighty
forces of capital, only to be eventually recognized by the power
structure as a business pioneer.
I have indeed sold enough records to open a small office on the
half-abandoned main street in the dilapidated urban center of my
hometown, Buffalo, N.Y. I am able to hire 15 or so folks to run and
constantly reinvent the place while I drive around and play music for
people. I am able to give stimulating business to local printers and
manufacturers and to employ the services of independent distributors,
promoters, booking agents and publicists. I was able to quit my day
job and devote myself to what I love.
And yes, we are enjoying modest profits these days, affording us
the opportunity to reinvest in innumerable political and artistic
endeavors. RBR is no Warner Bros. But it is a going concern, and for
me, it is a vehicle for redefining the relationship between art and
commerce in my own life. It is a record company which is the product
not just of my own imagination, but that of my friend and manager Scot
Fisher and of all the people who work there. People who incorporate
and coordinate politics, art and media every day into a
people-friendly, sub-corporate, woman-informed, queer-happy small
business that puts music before rock stardom and ideology before
profit.
And me. I'm just a folksinger, not an entrepreneur. My hope is
that my music and poetry will be enjoyable and/or meaningful to
someone, somewhere, not that I maximize my profit margins. It was 15
years and 11 albums getting to this place of notoriety and, if
anything, I think I was happier way back when. Not that I regret any
of my decisions, mind you. I'm glad I didn't sign on to the corporate
army. I mourn the commodification and homogenization of music by the
music industry, and I fear the manufacture of consent by the
corporately-controlled media. Last thing I want to do is feed the
machine.
I was recently mortified while waiting in the dressing room
before one of my own shows. Some putz suddenly takes the stage to
announce me and exclaim excitedly that this was my "largest sold-out
crowd to date!" "Oh, really?," I'm thinking to myself, "that's
interesting...too bad it's not the point." All of my achievements are
artistic, as are all of my failures.
That's just the way I see it. Statistical plateau or no. I'll
bust ass for 60 people, or 6,000, watch me.
I have so much respect for Ms. magazine. If I couldn't pick it
up at newsstands my brain probably would've atrophied by now on some
trans-Atlantic flight and I would be lying limp and twitchy in a bed
of constant travel, staring blankly into the abyss of the gossip
magazines. Ms. is a structure of media wherein women are able to
define themselves, and articulate for themselves those definitions.
We wouldn't point to 21 of the feminists moving into the 21st century
and define them in terms of "Here's Becky Ballbuster from Iowa City,
she's got a great ass and a cute little button nose..." No ma'am.
We've gone beyond the limited perceptions of sexism and so we should
move beyond the language and perspective of the corporate patriarchy.
The Financial News Network may be ultimately impressed with me now
that I've proven to them that there's a life beyond the auspices of
papa Sony, but do I really have to prove this to _you_?
We have the ability and the opportunity to recognize women not
just for the financial successes of their work but for the work
itself. We have the facility to judge each other by entirely
different criteria than those is imposed upon us by the superstructure
of society. We have a view which reaches beyond profit margins into
poetry, and a vocabulary to articulate the difference.
Thanks for including me, Ms., really. But just promise me one
thing; if I drop dead tomorrow, tell me my grave stone won't read:
ani d.
CEO.
Please let it read:
songwriter
musicmaker
storyteller
freak.
-Ani DiFranco
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Love Ani, but she ought to recognize that whether she intended/desired to or not, she did create a template of a business model for indie singer-songwriters. Quite honestly, most of the conversations I've had about her over the years have been less about her music and more about her sensibilities in working outside the system. She's both artist AND entrepreneur, and it seems ungrateful to lament being recognized for the latter instead of the former in one article.
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Love Ani, but she ought to recognize that whether she intended/desired to or not, she did create a template of a business model for indie singer-songwriters. Quite honestly, most of the conversations I've had about her over the years have been less about her music and more about her sensibilities in working outside the system. She's both artist AND entrepreneur, and it seems ungrateful to lament being recognized for the latter instead of the former in one article.
that seems to be the meat of most responses. and i can dig it. but it's a good vent to her favorite rag.
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poc may want to come back to SF when she hears about...
The Mrs Robinson Society:
http://www.mrsrobinsonsf.com/enchant.htm
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poc may want to come back to SF when she hears about...
The Mrs Robinson Society:
http://www.mrsrobinsonsf.com/enchant.htm
forgive me, but that's altogether too weird.
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poc may want to come back to SF when she hears about...
The Mrs Robinson Society:
http://www.mrsrobinsonsf.com/enchant.htm
forgive me, but that's altogether too weird.
Hey, welcome back! How have you been?
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poc may want to come back to SF when she hears about...
The Mrs Robinson Society:
http://www.mrsrobinsonsf.com/enchant.htm
forgive me, but that's altogether too weird.
Hey, welcome back! How have you been?
i've been great! just returned from a two-week honeymoon in france. spent a week driving around lovely bretagne, and then a weekend in st. jean d'angély (where i used to live) with friends, and a few days in paris. god, i love the food: raw oysters and mussels, and all sorts of other things i only know how to say in french. then there's the sausage and cheese and wine and buckwheat whiskey and crepes and snails and frog legs and desserts and...sigh. there was a museum in there somewhere.
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buckwheat whiskey
O-TAY!
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buckwheat whiskey
O-TAY!
all that, and more! we drank that bottle before we left the country, but managed to score some delicious bretagne digestif called lambig. something made of honey...
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways. After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore. Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.
I guess I literally can't make up my mind.
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways. After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore. Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.
I guess I literally can't make up my mind.
fencesitter!!
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways. After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore. Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.
I guess I literally can't make up my mind.
fencesitter!!
I saw clockwise. Then, reading the text, i glanced back and she was going counter. Back to text, then back, and she's going clockwise again. Can't get it to go back.
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Got this the other day via the office grapevine, then they were talking about it on the Morning Show this am:
Which way is the dancer spinning?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
(True to my nature (and my occupation), I see her going anticlockwise; took me quite awhile to see it the other way.)
i am finding it quite impossible to see her dancing any way BUT clockwise.
I'm with POC on this one; I can only see clockwise.
I'm demonstrably weird, I definitely saw it counter-clockwise the first time, before I even read anything about it being possible to see it go both ways. After I read that & tried to see it the other way it happened pretty quickly that I could, and then it was nearly impossible to see it go counter-clockwise anymore. Looked at it again just now & first I saw clockwise, and then I saw counter-clockwise.
I guess I literally can't make up my mind.
fencesitter!!
I saw clockwise. Then, reading the text, i glanced back and she was going counter. Back to text, then back, and she's going clockwise again. Can't get it to go back.
i tried that trick. i still can't see it counter-clockwise. this is funny! :) i wonder how many other things we see so differently every day. sounds like coffee talk...
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David Byrne's bike tour of NY:
http://www.davidbyrne.com/journal/misc/10_07_07_DB_bike_video.mov
(Discovered this on Marcus' blog page on the BCO site. Well worth the 5 minutes or so.)
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One of the most amazing football endings ever:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/248.0/popup/index.php?cl=4788157
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One of the most amazing football endings ever:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/248.0/popup/index.php?cl=4788157
gosh. i didn't even know that was legal.
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We be jammin', mon. Jammin' cellphones, that is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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We be jammin', mon. Jammin' cellphones, that is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
i love it! where do i buy one? if only i can set it to:specific.
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hair today, gone tomorrow (http://www.pacificariptide.com/pacifica_riptide/2007/11/human-hair-and-.html).
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Good times never seemed so... creepy. Neil Diamond reveals that his song was about Sweet Caroline... Kennedy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/20/entertainment/e065401S05.DTL
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Good times never seemed so... creepy. Neil Diamond reveals that his song was about Sweet Caroline... Kennedy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/20/entertainment/e065401S05.DTL
maybe he was thinking about her pony.
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baby that's back at ya:
sesame street unsuitable for today's society child (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin).
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baby that's back at ya:
sesame street unsuitable for today's society child (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin).
That's a great article. My question is, if 80% of kids in the ghet -- er, "inner city", were watching SS, then how come reading scores haven't improved in the past 38 years?
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baby that's back at ya:
sesame street unsuitable for today's society child (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin).
THIS IS GRATUITOUS
(Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.)
ETA: On the other hand, this is very fair:
the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.
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baby that's back at ya:
sesame street unsuitable for today's society child (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin).
THIS IS GRATUITOUS
(Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.)
ETA: On the other hand, this is very fair:
the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.
So in other words... Gen X/Gen Y snark is OK unless it's directed at your childhood memories? :wink:
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baby that's back at ya:
sesame street unsuitable for today's society child (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin).
THIS IS GRATUITOUS
(Bert, too, is described as grouchy; none of the characters, in fact, is especially sunshiney except maybe Ernie, who also seems slow.)
ETA: On the other hand, this is very fair:
the Children’s Television Workshop declared the inner city not a grim sociological reality but a full-color fantasy — an eccentric scene, framed by a box and far removed from real farmland and city streets alike.
So in other words... Gen X/Gen Y snark is OK unless it's directed at your childhood memories? :wink:
and i don't find the "framed by a box" sentiment to be sincere.
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"Oh Those wacky Brits", part XXXVIII: check out how many old re-released Xmas singles returned to the UK chart this season...
http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?date=29%2F12%2F2007
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"Oh Those wacky Brits", part XXXVIII: check out how many old re-released Xmas singles returned to the UK chart this season...
http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?date=29%2F12%2F2007
Would you believe I didn't hear the Elton or Mariah Xmas songs once this year?
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"Oh Those wacky Brits", part XXXVIII: check out how many old re-released Xmas singles returned to the UK chart this season...
http://www.chartstats.com/chart.php?date=29%2F12%2F2007
Would you believe I didn't hear the Elton or Mariah Xmas songs once this year?
I really resisted the Mariah when it first came out -- who needs ersatz Spector when the orig is available -- but I've come to like it. One of the few decent Xmas perennials to come from the '90s, and I say that as a serious collector of the stuff.
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101 Classic TV Intros, at your service:
http://netnotables.com/2007/12/02/101-classic-tv-intros/
I heart the Internet.
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101 Classic TV Intros, at your service:
http://netnotables.com/2007/12/02/101-classic-tv-intros/
I heart the Internet.
Then again, he's missing "Nanny and the Professor." And he links to this:
http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/
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101 Classic TV Intros, at your service:
http://netnotables.com/2007/12/02/101-classic-tv-intros/
I heart the Internet.
Wow! Ellery Queen! Haven't heard that in years. Thanks!
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Cheapest. Car. EVAH! Made in India, it's the Tata Nano -- less than $2500 . Which makes it a bodacious Tata indeed. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/n/a/2008/01/09/financial/f224333S54.DTL&o=0
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When I saw the headline i thought it was a joke, or a story from the Onion:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/15/DDFPUF2T6.DTL
WTF does Mary J Blige need 'roids for???
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When I saw the headline i thought it was a joke, or a story from the Onion:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/15/DDFPUF2T6.DTL
WTF does Mary J Blige need 'roids for???
As one ILM wag remarked: Does that make them ineligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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When I saw the headline i thought it was a joke, or a story from the Onion:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/15/DDFPUF2T6.DTL
WTF does Mary J Blige need 'roids for???
As one ILM wag remarked: Does that make them ineligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
Bwahahaha! But seriously, I just saw a bit on Outsports about this, and it makes sense now. 50 Cent, Timbaland, et al are WAY buff.
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Those of you who need to embed media into websites will appreciate this development from my friend/colleague Lucas:
http://developer.yahoo.com/mediaplayer/
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interesting, "animated" interview with the woman behind Persepolis on this Oregon culture blog:
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/culturepulp/culturepulp/series.php?view=archive&chapter=26821
"The real war is not between the West and the East; the real war is between intelligent and stupid people." -- my new favorite quote.
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Say you're at work and you JUST GOTTA HEAR Build Me Up Buttercup RIGHT NOW?
This will probably be able to hook you up:
http://songerize.com/
Plug in the name of the song and band, and it will most likely play it for you. It struck out on a couple of NRBQ songs I put in, and also on Shaddap You Face, but it found Timothy, as well as a couple of other semi-obscure songs I put in.
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Say you're at work and you JUST GOTTA HEAR Build Me Up Buttercup RIGHT NOW?
This will probably be able to hook you up:
http://songerize.com/
Plug in the name of the song and band, and it will most likely play it for you. It struck out on a couple of NRBQ songs I put in, and also on Shaddap You Face, but it found Timothy, as well as a couple of other semi-obscure songs I put in.
Strike 1: Raiders, "Love Music"
Strilke 2: Marty Balin, "Hearts"
Home Run: Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Fawwin' in Love"
(Which is to say: THANK YOU for this.)
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Say you're at work and you JUST GOTTA HEAR Build Me Up Buttercup RIGHT NOW?
This will probably be able to hook you up:
http://songerize.com/
Plug in the name of the song and band, and it will most likely play it for you. It struck out on a couple of NRBQ songs I put in, and also on Shaddap You Face, but it found Timothy, as well as a couple of other semi-obscure songs I put in.
Strike 1: Raiders, "Love Music"
Strilke 2: Marty Balin, "Hearts"
Home Run: Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Fawwin' in Love"
(Which is to say: THANK YOU for this.)
No luck with Gun Hill Road, either.
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For those of you who are list fanatics. This site may be funny as well as cool, but mostly it's cool.
http://www.oobject.com/
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Say you're at work and you JUST GOTTA HEAR Build Me Up Buttercup RIGHT NOW?
This will probably be able to hook you up:
http://songerize.com/
Plug in the name of the song and band, and it will most likely play it for you. It struck out on a couple of NRBQ songs I put in, and also on Shaddap You Face, but it found Timothy, as well as a couple of other semi-obscure songs I put in.
Strike 1: Raiders, "Love Music"
Strilke 2: Marty Balin, "Hearts"
Home Run: Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds, "Fawwin' in Love"
(Which is to say: THANK YOU for this.)
No luck with Gun Hill Road, either.
I think there's a minimum level of popularity a song needs to have had. I struck out on Yellow River as well as Lakeshore Drive but I hit on I Am Woman. Mashmakhan came up zeroes as well. But Shape of Things to Come was found.
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Making the rounds at my office:
Time for some Friday PhotoShop fun?
The CD Cover Meme group (http://flickr.com/groups/cdcovermeme/pool/) has only three rules:
(1) The first article title on this random wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
is the name of your band.
(2) the last four words of the very last quote on this random quote page
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
is the title of your album.
(3) the third picture here
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
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Making the rounds at my office:
Time for some Friday PhotoShop fun?
The CD Cover Meme group (http://flickr.com/groups/cdcovermeme/pool/) has only three rules:
(1) The first article title on this random wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
is the name of your band.
(2) the last four words of the very last quote on this random quote page
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
is the title of your album.
(3) the third picture here
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
I'll bite:
(http://10at10club.com/images/sdba.jpg)
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That's damn beautiful.
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That's damn beautiful.
yeah. i love this one:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2234892692_770ee9db14.jpg?v=0)
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i'm working on my new album cover design, so i justified wasting time playing along as "research". here's my submission to the project:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/2251679415_e3d35ded7d.jpg?v=0)
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if only Charles Schultz had lived to see this day:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/11/sports/s093446S53.DTL
(http://iamthelizardqueen.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/snoopy_dance.gif)
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according to Peter on the news this morning another Beagle won at Westminster in the category Best Opposite Sex (whatever the hell that means), but the newsworthy bit was the owner: Patty (yes that one) Hearst.
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according to Peter on the news this morning another Beagle won at Westminster in the category Best Opposite Sex (whatever the hell that means), but the newsworthy bit was the owner: Patty (yes that one) Hearst.
Patty Hearst
heard the burst
of Snoopy's Thompson gun
and bought it
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great songs about sunshine and rainbows:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/submit?blogid=29&entry_id=24268
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I drink your Shamrock Shake!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?&entry_id=24772
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http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080321p2a00m0na016000c.html
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neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1
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neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1
There is a separate not-cool-and-not-funny thread. But on the point: I am fortunately in very conservative investments these days and have shed all my debts except my student loan. The economy's got a ways yet to fall; we're only seeing symptoms of the illness now. Years of greed are coming home to roost (does saying so make me another Rev. Wright?).
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neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1
There is a separate not-cool-and-not-funny thread. But on the point: I am fortunately in very conservative investments these days and have shed all my debts except my student loan. The economy's got a ways yet to fall; we're only seeing symptoms of the illness now. Years of greed are coming home to roost (does saying so make me another Rev. Wright?).
Preach it, Brotha Gaz! "God DAMN Rich Republican America!" ;)
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Yikes! High Reward = High Risk, and there's your proof.
If you want to take your mind off of it, check out this game, which came recommended today on a Merc blog.
http://vying.org/games/cephalopod
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Muxtape: a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes (http://muxtape.com/)
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ah, so THIS is what Ian Fleming had in mind when he wrote Octopussy...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/17/BAGF1060FF.DTL
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ah, so THIS is what Ian Fleming had in mind when he wrote Octopussy...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/17/BAGF1060FF.DTL
That's wild. I wish I were adventurous enough to do that sort of thing. Getting a research grant to spend 2 1/2 years snorkelling in Sulawesi sounds pretty fun to me.
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All 120 Crayon Colors! (very cool page with fun trivia also)
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/22/all-120-crayon-names-color-codes-and-fun-facts/ (http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/22/all-120-crayon-names-color-codes-and-fun-facts/)
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Another social-networking site, this one aimed at music fanatics 35 and over (that is, nearly all of us).
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003793179
http://www.getback.com/
I haven't tried it out myself yet, but let me know if any of you do; I may jump in. But I recently added myself to Myspace and Facebook, so I'm not sure if I want yet another mode of being one poor correspondent. (This is why I don't instant-message anymore.)
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this is something that this board has needed for a LOOOOOONG time.
http://www.instantrimshot.com/ (http://www.instantrimshot.com/)
Geoff, is there anyway to embed this into a comment?
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this is something that this board has needed for a LOOOOOONG time.
http://www.instantrimshot.com/ (http://www.instantrimshot.com/)
Geoff, is there anyway to embed this into a comment?
Genius!
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this is a really cool short animated film:
http://www.vimeo.com/993998 (http://www.vimeo.com/993998)
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Drag Queens, book your flights to London: the Victoria & Albert Museum is presenting an exhibition this summer of the Supremes greatest... costumes.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/supremes/index.html
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Cyndi Lauper and Charo named Grand Marshalls for this year's Pride Parade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/BASP10UAG3.DTL
Look for Miss Coochie-Coochie to make a Morning Show appearance that week...
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Cyndi Lauper and Charo named Grand Marshalls for this year's Pride Parade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/BASP10UAG3.DTL
Look for Miss Coochie-Coochie to make a Morning Show appearance that week...
She's been on before, no?
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Cyndi Lauper and Charo named Grand Marshalls for this year's Pride Parade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/BASP10UAG3.DTL
Look for Miss Coochie-Coochie to make a Morning Show appearance that week...
She's been on before, no?
several visits -- it's been a while but Dave LOOOOOOOVES Charo. (see: Judy, Liza, and lady Di
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Cyndi Lauper and Charo named Grand Marshalls for this year's Pride Parade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/BASP10UAG3.DTL
Look for Miss Coochie-Coochie to make a Morning Show appearance that week...
She's been on before, no?
several visits -- it's been a while but Dave LOOOOOOOVES Charo. (see: Judy, Liza, and lady Di
I've heard her in all seriousness play some FINE flamenco guitar on the radio. Not sure if it was on KFOG.
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Cyndi Lauper and Charo named Grand Marshalls for this year's Pride Parade
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/BASP10UAG3.DTL
Look for Miss Coochie-Coochie to make a Morning Show appearance that week...
She's been on before, no?
several visits -- it's been a while but Dave LOOOOOOOVES Charo. (see: Judy, Liza, and lady Di
I've heard her in all seriousness play some FINE flamenco guitar on the radio. Not sure if it was on KFOG.
I've heard her playon KFOG, and only in the last 2-3 yrs. She totally RAWKED!
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Oprah's ratings are down -- the princess and I could not be happier.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/celebrities/ci_9385575
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Oprah's ratings are down -- the princess and I could not be happier.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/celebrities/ci_9385575
i'd be doing the neutron dance, but i think her pr guy hit the nail on the head - the decline is probably due to an overall decline in the industry. i'm sure oprah's checkbook still reflects her omnipotence.
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Meant to post something about Dennis Richmond's retirement back when he did his last newscast, but this tribute is right in my neighborhood -- across from the 24th St BART station. So naturally SF-ist posted a photo:
http://sfist.com/2008/05/22/people_really_l.php
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Oprah's ratings are down -- the princess and I could not be happier.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/celebrities/ci_9385575
i'd be doing the neutron dance, but i think her pr guy hit the nail on the head - the decline is probably due to an overall decline in the industry. i'm sure oprah's checkbook still reflects her omnipotence.
She gave the commencement address at Stanford last Sunday. In a real shocker, her main point was something about how money isn't what enriches your life.
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Oprah's ratings are down -- the princess and I could not be happier.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/celebrities/ci_9385575
i'd be doing the neutron dance, but i think her pr guy hit the nail on the head - the decline is probably due to an overall decline in the industry. i'm sure oprah's checkbook still reflects her omnipotence.
She gave the commencement address at Stanford last Sunday. In a real shocker, her main point was something about how money isn't what enriches your life.
"Wasn't it a millionaire
Who said 'imagine no possessions'?"
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so you want to win some bar bets?
http://easybartricks.com/ (http://easybartricks.com/)
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http://www.seero.com/video/Steve_McQueen_3
The famous Bullitt car chase side by side with a Google Map of the actual streets!
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Gods bless Wikipedia:
List of songs labeled "the worst ever" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_in_English_labeled_the_worst_ever)
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What's astounding to me about this SFGate photo feature on fans of Insane Clown Posse is:
a) Insane Clown Posse still exists, and
b) still has fans!
http://www.sfgate.com/cityexposed/
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Felix Hernandez (the Rhythm Revue DJ, not the Mariners pitcher) has posted a new set of fab soul clips, for those who have RealPlayer installed:
http://www.classicsoul.com/internetshow.html
Currently grooving to the Lost Souls' "It Won't Work Out Baby."
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Felix Hernandez (the Rhythm Revue DJ, not the Mariners pitcher) has posted a new set of fab soul clips, for those who have RealPlayer installed:
http://www.classicsoul.com/internetshow.html
Currently grooving to the Lost Souls' "It Won't Work Out Baby."
anxious to check out Timi Yuro's Sam & dave cover and wondering if Katie Love (who?) is covering Millie Jackson.
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Katie Love (who?) is covering Millie Jackson.
Invert that: Katie recorded it two years before Millie. (Millie improved on it, though.)
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Katie Love (who?) is covering Millie Jackson.
Invert that: Katie recorded it two years before Millie. (Millie improved on it, though.)
Live'n'Learn! Millie's take is from the Cleopatra Jones sndtk; I'd always assumed it was written for the film. Surprised Katie's hasn't turned up on JJ's "Lost & Found Soul" feature on KPOO.
ETA: I *love* Millie's but Katie's is quite lovely -- more late-'60s-Philly-sounding. Me likey.
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And the Timi Yuro -- also quite nice. Too bad that comeback didn't work out. Right around that time, Ellen Foley covered Yuro's "What's The matter, baby?"
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http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1231230/christian_the_lion/
this is better than taking a llama to the dentist.
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Here is a fun quiz. How many of the 100 Most Common Words (http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords) in the English language can you name in 5 minutes?
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Here is a fun quiz. How many of the 100 Most Common Words (http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords) in the English language can you name in 5 minutes?
37. I was surprised at the words that weren't included...until I saw the words that *were* included.
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Here is a fun quiz. How many of the 100 Most Common Words (http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords) in the English language can you name in 5 minutes?
I got 53. John Lennon would be saddened that "no" made the list while "yes" did not.
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Here is a fun quiz. How many of the 100 Most Common Words (http://codebox.no-ip.net/controller?page=misc.QuizCommonWords) in the English language can you name in 5 minutes?
I got 53. John Lennon would be saddened that "no" made the list while "yes" did not.
I got 49, but inadvertantly clicked on the stop button after only 4 minutes. I was also most surprised that "yes" isn't in the top 100. I got all of the top 20 except "to" for some reason.
If you want to test your lack of geographical knowledge there's also a quiz there on the 50 Largest Countries. I got 29 on that, which I suspect is really pretty good.
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THE MUSIC BLOGS SPEAK TROOF:
From an ILM thread:
"A remix is essentially a carbon-dating technique for a song, IMO, and that's about it. All remixes from one year sound miraculously similar."
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Get ready to lose an hour or two. Mix magazine has archived all of their Classic Tracks articles about the stories behind the recording of classic tunes 1960-92 (http://mixonline.com/classic-tracks/). Very detailed, you'll love these.
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This could've gone in the election thread too, I suppose: nice piece about MSNBC's Rachel Maddow -- I didn't know she was "out", altho' I figured she must be gay.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/MNJ012RR6S.DTL
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This could've gone in the election thread too, I suppose: nice pice about MSNBC's Rachel Maddow -- I didn't know she was "out", altho' I figured she must be gay.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/MNJ012RR6S.DTL
Great article. But when and how did angry GOPers come to dominate the comments on SFGate articles? Geesh. :-\
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This could've gone in the election thread too, I suppose: nice piece about MSNBC's Rachel Maddow -- I didn't know she was "out", altho' I figured she must be gay.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/11/MNJ012RR6S.DTL
I always liked her on Air America. I don't remember hearing her say she was gay, but I would have been extremely shocked if she weren't!
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Get ready to lose an hour or two. Mix magazine has archived all of their Classic Tracks articles about the stories behind the recording of classic tunes 1960-92 (http://mixonline.com/classic-tracks/). Very detailed, you'll love these.
Or maybe a week or two. I'm gonna need to read most of those. I love the interweb.
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Here's another site for you to waste time on.
http://lpcoverlover.com/ (http://lpcoverlover.com/)
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
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TANC, after Gaz & I got to hear "Rubber Duckie" on Classic Kasem this weekend, a nice piece on SFGate's parenting blog about Bert & Ernie's, er, relationship:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?blogid=29&entry_id=30676
"Children's Television Workshop's official position has been that Bert and Ernie are "friends," and, you know, whatever. Clay Aiken kept telling people he was straight, and no one with any sense believed him either."
LOL!
Double TANC: today's Jim Henson's Birthday.
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
I beg your pardon?
But man, that's fine piece of pie.
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
I beg your pardon?
But man, that's fine piece of pie.
hmm, it appears that some machines don't have the character set top display what I tried to do. Urth: I imagine you're seeing a bunch of question marks and such. .. what I see is upside and backwards text that I generated from http://www.fliptext.org/
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
I beg your pardon?
But man, that's fine piece of pie.
hmm, it appears that some machines don't have the character set top display what I tried to do. Urth: I imagine you're seeing a bunch of question marks and such. .. what I see is upside and backwards text that I generated from http://www.fliptext.org/
I mostly see small squares.
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
I beg your pardon?
But man, that's fine piece of pie.
hmm, it appears that some machines don't have the character set top display what I tried to do. Urth: I imagine you're seeing a bunch of question marks and such. .. what I see is upside and backwards text that I generated from http://www.fliptext.org/
It worked for me. I just didn't know how you did it. Pretty cool stuff, maynard.
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CBS.com now has every Twin Peaks (http://www.cbs.com/classics/twin_peaks/) episode available online.
¡ƃol ʎɯ qɐɹƃ puɐ ǝıd ,o ǝɔıls ǝɔıu ɐ ʇǝƃ 'ǝǝɟɟoɔ ǝɯos ʍǝɹq oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ¡ǝɯosǝʍɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ
I beg your pardon?
But man, that's fine piece of pie.
hmm, it appears that some machines don't have the character set top display what I tried to do. Urth: I imagine you're seeing a bunch of question marks and such. .. what I see is upside and backwards text that I generated from http://www.fliptext.org/
I mostly see small squares.
here's what it looks like if your machine is set up w the same character set:
(http://www.sfgate.com/g/pictures/2008/09/24_t/log.jpg)
I was trying to type like the famous backwards talking little person that appears in the dream sequences. .... except it's just upside down, not backwards... ;D
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I was trying to type like the famous backwards talking little person that appears in the dream sequences. .... except it's just upside down, not backwards... ;D
I thought you were impersonating the dream weirdo from the show, but I couldn't figure out how you did it, either!
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I was listening to Weather Report's "Elegant People", trying to figure out who sampled the phrase at the beginning of the song. A little research produced this site: http://www.secondhandsongs.com
Awesome!
btw: it was Portishead.
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clever web page for a Dutch department store. You need Flash and you've gotta wait a few seconds for it to start, but once it gets going...
http://producten.hema.nl/
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clever web page for a Dutch department store. You need Flash and you've gotta wait a few seconds for it to start, but once it gets going...
http://producten.hema.nl/
Note that at the very end, there's no Dutch-language equivalent for "ghettoblaster."
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clever web page for a Dutch department store. You need Flash and you've gotta wait a few seconds for it to start, but once it gets going...
http://producten.hema.nl/
Note that at the very end, there's no Dutch-language equivalent for "ghettoblaster."
i always thought a ghetto blaster was a gun.
very cool ad. now i want toast.
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Here's another fun way to waste some time on the web: Map locations of famous album covers (http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/album_atlas/FullListing.php)
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Here's another fun way to waste some time on the web: Map locations of famous album covers (http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/album_atlas/FullListing.php)
This is triff! Thank you!! (Interesting to learn that the Strange Days cover was snapped close to my place.)
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Here's another one, especially for Gaz: an interactive timeline of Internet Memes. (http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes)
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Here's another one, especially for Gaz: an interactive timeline of Internet Memes. (http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes)
I needed this. Thanks.
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Perhaps not the best thread for this, but Urth and I recently got into a short conversation on Facebook about Frank Chu, the local-legend protester whom I went Halloweening as back in 2000. Turns out Wikipedia has nicely summarized his story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
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Perhaps not the best thread for this, but Urth and I recently got into a short conversation on Facebook about Frank Chu, the local-legend protester whom I went Halloweening as back in 2000. Turns out Wikipedia has nicely summarized his story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
Someone went through a lot of trouble writing that. Very informative! I've had some nice convos with Frank about the 12 galaxies. Behind closed doors, of course.
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Perhaps not the best thread for this, but Urth and I recently got into a short conversation on Facebook about Frank Chu, the local-legend protester whom I went Halloweening as back in 2000. Turns out Wikipedia has nicely summarized his story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
Someone went through a lot of trouble writing that. Very informative! I've had some nice convos with Frank about the 12 galaxies. Behind closed doors, of course.
He was at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Saw him at the main stage during Hazel Dickens' set, so I think he likes that traditional stuff.
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Perhaps not the best thread for this, but Urth and I recently got into a short conversation on Facebook about Frank Chu, the local-legend protester whom I went Halloweening as back in 2000. Turns out Wikipedia has nicely summarized his story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
Someone went through a lot of trouble writing that. Very informative! I've had some nice convos with Frank about the 12 galaxies. Behind closed doors, of course.
He was at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Saw him at the main stage during Hazel Dickens' set, so I think he likes that traditional stuff.
The one place I was most surprised to see him wasn't at a public gathering, but rather getting off a 6 Parnassus bus at 9th and Judah as I was waiting to get on one evening in the last year. I was used to seeing him downtown a couple times a week, so having him show up "off duty" out in my (former) neighborhood was kind of a blow-away.
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Well, it's a little funny. But mainly, it's just swell.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/11/entertainment/e041916S59.DTL&tsp=1
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Well, it's a little funny. But mainly, it's just swell.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/11/11/entertainment/e041916S59.DTL&tsp=1
gosh, wally! you don't look so cute anymore!
;)
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Rhino's Damn Fine Day song-of-the-day postings have been consistently strong. Today they selected Randy Newman's "Baltimore":
http://www.damnfineday.com/?p=2581
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Rhino's Damn Fine Day song-of-the-day postings have been consistently strong. Today they selected Randy Newman's "Baltimore":
http://www.damnfineday.com/?p=2581
Gaz, thanks for that. I looked at their archives and signed up straightaway. (Their song for tomorrow is In France They Kiss On Main Street--maybe a not so sly comment on Prop 8?)
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Google Ancient Earth:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/12/rome-reborn-italy
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Design your own Muppet! only 130 bucks...
http://www.fao.com/catalog/boutique.jsp?parentCategoryId=98&categoryId=793
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A friend posted this on his Facebook page:
Rock musicians of the early 70s in their parents' homes:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-70s-rock-musicians-and-their-parents-homes-070419
Gaz, take note of the one of the apparently preggers Grace.
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a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc
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a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc
This was a truly LOL moment:
Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.
“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”
“I always wear black,” I mumbled.
“But we are at the beach!” she said.
Well, maybe she had a point.
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a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc
This was a truly LOL moment:
Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.
“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”
“I always wear black,” I mumbled.
“But we are at the beach!” she said.
Well, maybe she had a point.
yes! I also liked the story about how she was wearing a Smiths t-shirt in the mid-'80s and passed a group of young NYC black guys and one of them shouted out "I am human and I need to be loved!"
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a VERY cool posting by Suzanne Vega (she has a NYTimes blog about music'n'stuff) regarding her mixed-race background and how it relates to music.
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/?8dpc
This was a truly LOL moment:
Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example.
“Mom! Why are you wearing all black?” my daughter recently shouted at me. “You look so emo!”
“I always wear black,” I mumbled.
“But we are at the beach!” she said.
Well, maybe she had a point.
yes! I also liked the story about how she was wearing a Smiths t-shirt in the mid-'80s and passed a group of young NYC black guys and one of them shouted out "I am human and I need to be loved!"
yes, but that part practically teared me up, not cracked me up.
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I've submitted votes in prior years, now its your turn ...
(This is in association with the ol' WABC year-end countdowns):
We're inviting you to vote for your 7 favorite all-time songs, as we present the 11th Annual Top 77 Song Survey. Everything you need to know is at this link, which is where you can vote: www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/ (http://www.tunemagic.net/VoteTop77/)
Voting ends Dec 14 -- please don't forget! Then after Dec 25, check that site again to see the results, sorted and analyzed all sorts of ways!
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Gaz especially will appreciate this, from the NY Radio Message Board:
http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/349243.html
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a wonderful Jon Carroll column in today's Chron about "the reason for the season":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDD814LL83.DTL
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a wonderful Jon Carroll column in today's Chron about "the reason for the season":
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/12/DDD814LL83.DTL
effin' brilliant!
"Jesus is not the reason for the season; the reason for the season is the Northern Hemisphere tilting away from the sun, and everything else is just culture. So give it a rest. Let us all be of good cheer. Let us practice tolerance and love. Nothing is warmer in winter than a friendly human to embrace.
I think the point is merriment. That's what we seek, and that's what we wish for. If you want to drag a tree into it, be my guest."
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
He's not just a great song writer. :) That was fun to read, thanks!
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
He's not just a great song writer. :) That was fun to read, thanks!
Amen, that was fascinating. And props to Slate, for somehow sussing out that Fagen was a Shepard devotee, and getting him to write that remembrance.
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
funny, my daughter's fiance's family has a tradition of seeing AChristmas Story every year on TV. I've never seen the movie. I did however want a BB gun when I was a kid, and my mom did say no, it would poke your eyes out. The point is, I didn't understand who this kid with the glasses was when I first saw this post, and had to scour the message boards to relocate this! It doesn't seem like that good a movie to me, is this a true classic?
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
funny, my daughter's fiance's family has a tradition of seeing AChristmas Story every year on TV. I've never seen the movie. I did however want a BB gun when I was a kid, and my mom did say no, it would poke your eyes out. The point is, I didn't understand who this kid with the glasses was when I first saw this post, and had to scour the message boards to relocate this! It doesn't seem like that good a movie to me, is this a true classic?
I don't think it's a classic in the same way that It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street are classics. More likely, because it aired at a time when a good percentage of today's adults were kids or teenagers, they saw it and it gradually worked its way into their consciousness in the same way that other Christmas TV specials like A Charlie Brown Christmans or Rudolf the Red Nosed Raindeer did--they're not great art, but they're a pop culture artifact. IMO, it's kind of a cheesy show, but people eat it right up.
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count. But (like Fagen) I really WAS a Shepard fan when I was 12, so this article was quite amazing to me.
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/031223/031223_christmasstory_hmed_11a.hmedium.jpg)
funny, my daughter's fiance's family has a tradition of seeing AChristmas Story every year on TV. I've never seen the movie. I did however want a BB gun when I was a kid, and my mom did say no, it would poke your eyes out. The point is, I didn't understand who this kid with the glasses was when I first saw this post, and had to scour the message boards to relocate this! It doesn't seem like that good a movie to me, is this a true classic?
I don't think it's a classic in the same way that It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street are classics. More likely, because it aired at a time when a good percentage of today's adults were kids or teenagers, they saw it and it gradually worked its way into their consciousness in the same way that other Christmas TV specials like A Charlie Brown Christmans or Rudolf the Red Nosed Raindeer did--they're not great art, but they're a pop culture artifact. IMO, it's kind of a cheesy show, but people eat it right up.
Well, it helps to have been a Jean Shepard fan. (He wrote the book on which the movie is based and was the film's narrator). Shepard was on the radio in NY from the '60s thru the '80s, and like Fagen I discovered "Shep" when I was 11 or 12 (even tho' Fagen is older than me) and Shepard's stuff is ideally suited for boys at that age -- not old enuf for sex but thinking of yourself as too old for "kiddie stuff". He was on every night at 10 for an hour, telling stories about his childhood, his Army days, etc. A true raconteur, a lost art in many ways. At 13 I discovered Rock'n'roll with a passion and outgrew him; in the '70s he did some wonderful stuff for PBS and I rediscovered him again. I was one of the few people who actually saw the film in a theater in 1983 (it was only a moderate success, box-office-wise) and fell in love all over again.
I agree that it has become a "classic" thru repetition; Ted Turner discovered that he owned it after buying the MGM library and decided to start running it every Xmas. And it caught on with people old enuf to remember that era who then watched it with their kids and so on. But I also think it's very sweet and funny (it's certainly the best movie Bob Clark, best known for Porky's of all things, ever directed) with a terrific recreation of time and place despite a fairly small budget. And I'm watching it right now.
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Donald Fagen meets Jean Shepard:
http://www.slate.com/id/2207058/pagenum/all
very interesting, especially if you've seen AChristmas Story more times than you can count.
It's an all-time favorite of my brother's - as is Fagen. I like it more and more as the years go by.
I also like this:
(http://afrojacks.com/images/stories/plaxicoxmas.JPG)
"You'll shoot your thigh out!!"
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MMMMMM.... Bacon...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?_r=1&8dpc
(http://www.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/a4d5ed9f4988b3692a5ce940b516f57d.jpg)
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MMMMMM.... Bacon...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?_r=1&8dpc
(http://www.geekzone.co.nz/imagessubs/a4d5ed9f4988b3692a5ce940b516f57d.jpg)
and speaking of bacon... anybody go to Denny's today for a free Grand Slam?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/03/financial/f072530S32.DTL
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Perhaps not the best thread for this, but for those who are interested, this was posted to a mailing list I'm on:
I'm tim's digital librarian. This will be a celebration of his archives
and re-introducing this material to a new audience in this modern age
- via the Internet Archive.
Please rsvp if you can :-) but no biggie. bring friends too!
thanks!
Dear Phosters!
You are cordially invited to an evening of film, art and music inspired by
Timothy Leary and his archives.
Confirmed guests include: Ralph Metzner (Colleague of Tim's at Harvard and
co-author of "The Psychedelic Experience"), Joi Ito (Tim's Godson, CEO
Creative Commons), RU Sirius (Collaborator, Author), John Perry Barlow
(Friend of Tim, EFF Co-Founder, Grateful Dead Lyricist), Michael Horowitz
(Tim's Personal Archivist), Zach Leary (Tim's Stepson, Leary.com), Joey
Cavella (Leary.com, Retinalogic) and Chris Graves (Leary.com,
Retinalogic).
Brewster Kahle will also be on hand to give a little tour of the Internet
Archive's recently launched Timothy Leary Video Collection:
http://www.archive.org/details/Tim_Leary_Archive
When: February 8, 2009
Where: 111 Minna Gallery
2nd Street Between Howard and Mission
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-974-1719
http://www.111minnagallery.com/
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm - Reception
9:00pm-10:30pm - Premiere of "The Terrestrials" film by Rene Daalder
10:30pm-2am - Party back at 111 Minna Gallery
The evening reception is for the press and a collection of special people
we are bringing together for this event. Feel free to invite anyone you'd
like, but please have them RSVP if they can:
http://www.timothylearyarchives.org/contact
The web page for the reception is located here:
http://www.timothylearyarchives.com/events/
We'll be announcing the launch of several creative projects that use
material from the archives, such as "The Terrestrials," a documentary
premiering right after the reception, and "The Leary Virtual Experience,"
a 3-D site in the virtual world Second Life, courtesy of the Wishfarmers.
"The Terrestrials," Directed by filmmaker Rene Daalder, is a
feature-length scifi documentary that follows 6 students of UC Santa Cruz
as they digitize Tim's video archives:
http://www.theterrestrials.com/
http://www.renedaalder.com/
The film will be premiering immediately following the reception, at 9pm,
just a few blocks away from the gallery, at Obscura Digital:
Obscura Digital
460 Bryant St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 227-9979
http://obscuradigital.com/
After the screening -- and during it if you don't feel like watching a
movie - there will be a party going on all night at the 111 Minna Gallery,
featuring DJs and dancing, with visuals by Tiki TV -- all featuring media
from the Timothy Leary Archives.
Thanks for spreading the word!
The Timothy Leary Futique Trust
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I couldn't decide where to post this, ended up here. This is one of the very best things I've ever read by Roger Ebert (and he has a Pulitzer Prize). I still don't think The Reader is a good movie, but he did make me think about it. And that's only a small part of this piece anyway. Amazing stuff, i think:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/02/let_me_tell_you_what_i_think.html
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Entertaining (and long) interview with session drummer extraordinaire Hal Blaine:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8721142&blogID=105954407
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OMG! Don't tear down the Carpenters' house!
http://laist.com/2008/02/17/carpenters_hous.php
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Incredibly long but fascinating New Yorker piece on the life and death of David Foster Wallace (whose work I've never read):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=1
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The positive effects of pot: Michael Phelps' loss is the SF Food Bank's gain.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/11/MNBT16CRD2.DTL
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bkFIPLIOGL8/SZG1f4OM0BI/AAAAAAAAdlQ/yIYBQKeC_u4/s400/michael_phelps_corn_flakes_bong_box.jpg)
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Here is a glimpse of 2019 (http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/). Scroll down to the 2nd video, it's more comprehensive.
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Here is a glimpse of 2019 (http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/). Scroll down to the 2nd video, it's more comprehensive.
Wow. In 10 years, huh?
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Don't remember what thread I originally mentioned this in but here's the website of the folks behind "Jews on Vinyl":
http://www.idelsounds.com/?t=anon
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Don't remember what thread I originally mentioned this in but here's the website of the folks behind "Jews on Vinyl":
http://www.idelsounds.com/?t=anon
That is truly great. Love the slide show of various vinyl offerings of prominent (and not-so-prominent) Jewish singers. Man, the Barry Sisters had a TON of albums. Wonder if they were an inspiration for the Sweeney Sisters on SNL?
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Don't remember what thread I originally mentioned this in but here's the website of the folks behind "Jews on Vinyl":
http://www.idelsounds.com/?t=anon
That is truly great. Love the slide show of various vinyl offerings of prominent (and not-so-prominent) Jewish singers. Man, the Barry Sisters had a TON of albums. Wonder if they were an inspiration for the Sweeney Sisters on SNL?
I think the Sweeney Sisters are a Lennon Sisters parody, no?
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Geoff, do you know about this already?
(from the Merc)
The non-profit Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) has, since 1996, worked to preserve the ephemera of the digital age, capturing copies of millions of Web pages in bimonthly sweeps and maintaining its Wayback Machine, a tool that allows you to see the changes in a page over time. As you would imagine, both the collection and the haul brought in by each new sweep have grown rapidly. The library (tech geek details here (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130499), video tour of the Sun "internet in a box" here (http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp)) now holds about 151 billion archived Web pages in a 3 petabyte (that's 3 million gigabytes) database that is expected to expand at the rate of 100 terabytes a month (that's 100,000 gigabytes). That database is tapped up to 500 times a second by some 200,000 visitors a day.
In addition to old Web pages, the archive also houses collections of texts, audio, video and live concert recordings, including an extensive cache of Grateful Dead shows (http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead). In case of disaster, the entire database is mirrored at the New Library of Alexandria in Egypt, where, based on the fate of the Old Library of Alexandria, they are well aware of the importance of back-ups.
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Geoff, do you know about this already?
(from the Merc)
The non-profit Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) has, since 1996, worked to preserve the ephemera of the digital age, capturing copies of millions of Web pages in bimonthly sweeps and maintaining its Wayback Machine, a tool that allows you to see the changes in a page over time. As you would imagine, both the collection and the haul brought in by each new sweep have grown rapidly. The library (tech geek details here (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130499), video tour of the Sun "internet in a box" here (http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2009-0325/feature/index.jsp)) now holds about 151 billion archived Web pages in a 3 petabyte (that's 3 million gigabytes) database that is expected to expand at the rate of 100 terabytes a month (that's 100,000 gigabytes). That database is tapped up to 500 times a second by some 200,000 visitors a day.
In addition to old Web pages, the archive also houses collections of texts, audio, video and live concert recordings, including an extensive cache of Grateful Dead shows (http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead). In case of disaster, the entire database is mirrored at the New Library of Alexandria in Egypt, where, based on the fate of the Old Library of Alexandria, they are well aware of the importance of back-ups.
I knew about the GD archive, and I knew about the main archive, but didn't realize the two were related!
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Toby Keith is pissed at Ethan Hawke:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/06/state/n121222D57.DTL&tsp=1
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Toby Keith is pissed at Ethan Hawke:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/06/state/n121222D57.DTL&tsp=1
I read the first bit of the article the other day (this incident opens the story). The kicker to the anectdote was the last line where Kris says to Ethan Hawke: "You know what Waylan Jennings says about guys like that? He's doing to country music what panty hose did to finger f*cking."
So, I'm not sure how accurate any of the anectdote really is, but I'm sure Hawke really wanted to lead with that line, and may have elaborated on the incident for dramatic effect.
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Toby Keith is pissed at Ethan Hawke:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/06/state/n121222D57.DTL&tsp=1
I read the first bit of the article the other day (this incident opens the story). The kicker to the anectdote was the last line where Kris says to Ethan Hawke: "You know what Waylan Jennings says about guys like that? He's doing to country music what panty hose did to finger f*cking."
So, I'm not sure how accurate any of the anectdote really is, but I'm sure Hawke really wanted to lead with that line, and may have elaborated on the incident for dramatic effect.
If T. Keith's only dispute is with the attribution to himself...and he doesn't dispute the quote attributed to KK...then he is a serious dumbfuck. As I mentioned a couple months ago when, KK's name came up & I wiki'd him, he was a military brat, son of a sr. officer, then became a Rhodes scholar & a West Point instructor before his music & acting career.
Regardless, from now on I will shamelessly take advantage of the alleged Waylon J. quote "_____ did to _____ what panty hose did to finger fucking." And yes, I AM still bitter.
(there's a long, potentially TMI story behind that, but HOLEE SHIT that resonates with me.)
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Everything you need to know to sound like the ultimate web insider is right here (http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/). It is also an insanely cool bit of design.
Here's a thumbnail:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3409362834_b28cedc2c1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3409362834/sizes/o/)
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Everything you need to know to sound like the ultimate web insider is right here (http://informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-4-final-beta/). It is also an insanely cool bit of design.
Here's a thumbnail:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3409362834_b28cedc2c1.jpg)
Wow, there's a piece of work. I was all set to say it looks like a map of the London Tube system, then read the accompanying blurb that says it's based on the Tokyo Metro. OK, close enough.
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cool? funny?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1165930/Barry-giant-sea-worm-discovered-aquarium-staff-mysterious-attacks-coral-reef.html
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How to dress a goat:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/fashion/09STEVIE.html?_r=1
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How to dress a goat:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/fashion/09STEVIE.html?_r=1
Loved this line:
Her reach extends to Hollywood as well. Lindsay Lohan hopes to buy the rights to her life story and to play her on film. Unmoved, Ms. Nicks responded: “Over my dead body. She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we’ll talk.”
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hi def pic of the inauguration allows you to zoom in:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
pretty cool!
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Great interview with Wendy & Lisa in Out:
http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=25083
Most shocking news: they found Trevor Horn to be homophobic.
Best line: they liken Prince to a "fancy lesbian."
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Great interview with Wendy & Lisa in Out:
http://www.out.com/detail.asp?id=25083
Most shocking news: they found Trevor Horn to be homophobic.
Best line: they liken Prince to a "fancy lesbian."
That was great!
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Here's a site that Mike could have used the other day:
http://www.tv-intros.com/
Welcome to TV-INTROS !!
Where all we care about is how the show starts.
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A nice posting this week about Lulu on "Funky 16 Corners", featuring a couple cuts from her 1970 LP New Routes, which was her attempt at a Dusty in Memphis type thing (it's the album with "Oh Me Oh My"). Great pic of Lulu too
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/lulu-dirty-old-man-feelin-alright/
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A nice posting this week about Lulu on "Funky 16 Corners", featuring a couple cuts from her 1970 LP New Routes, which was her attempt at a Dusty in Memphis type thing (it's the album with "Oh Me Oh My"). Great pic of Lulu too
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/lulu-dirty-old-man-feelin-alright/
did you notice that Duane Allman is playing on this?
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A nice posting this week about Lulu on "Funky 16 Corners", featuring a couple cuts from her 1970 LP New Routes, which was her attempt at a Dusty in Memphis type thing (it's the album with "Oh Me Oh My"). Great pic of Lulu too
http://funky16corners.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/lulu-dirty-old-man-feelin-alright/
did you notice that Duane Allman is playing on this?
The Dirty Old Man tune has a particularly spicy guitar part!
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Needed a new forum for stuff like this: Rock Fonts!
http://www.rockrage.com/media/fonts/musicfonts.html
Just testing one of the general access boards. Things are looking to be normal, at least at first glance. Carry on.
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From Memorial Day weekend: Sly Stone in an interview (!) with Chris Douridas on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic." I disagree with Chris on some matters - I think Sly botched the production of There's a Riot Goin' On in his PCP haze - but it's nice to hear Sly is lucid. Tidbit: he thinks Terry Melcher knew all the way back when that Charlie Manson wanted to kill him.
http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb090525sly_stone
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Amazing to think this was shown on network television. Also just plain amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vip0H-I8pTg
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Amazing to think this was shown on network television. Also just plain amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vip0H-I8pTg
TANC: the Morning Show crew were reading emails from Fogheads who were complaining because they played "Peaches en Regalia" yesterday; more than one person said they "hate" it because it's "boring and repetitive". But hearing "You Found Me" 8 times a day *isn't*??
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Amazing to think this was shown on network television. Also just plain amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vip0H-I8pTg
That Mr. Zappa is such a polite young man...!
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A good if short interview with the most humble musician I've ever encountered, Bill Withers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061201443.html?hpid=artsliving
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This is the most unbelievable optical illusion (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/) you have ever seen.
You literally cannot believe what your eyes tell you.
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This is the most unbelievable optical illusion (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/) you have ever seen.
You literally cannot believe what your eyes tell you.
my mind has been blown!
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This is the most unbelievable optical illusion (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/) you have ever seen.
You literally cannot believe what your eyes tell you.
I couldn't see this earlier in our motel, bad internet, but it turns out the same image has been making the rounds in a physics teacher newsletter I subscribe to:
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/possibly-the-best-optical-ilusion-i-have-seen-all-year/
it deals with the way the colors and after-images screw with your perceptions. Definitely something for me to hold on to for next year's classes!
another version:
(http://www.cuneytozdas.com/tutorials/illusion/color_illusion.png)
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Cool pictures of the Earth (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/recent_scenes_from_the_iss.html) looking down from the International Space Station.
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Something of a TANC: KFOG played Leonard Cohen's version of "Hallelujah" this morning (a leftover from yesterday's request show); now Cohen says-- NO MORE COVERS OF THIS SONG, PLEASE!
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/07/10/leonard-cohen-asks-for-brief-halt-to-new-covers-of-hallelujah/
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By the same guy who does Funky16Corners, this music blog one is more pop-oriented:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com
he does podcasts, too:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/iron-leg-digital-trip-podcast-archive/
straight from vinyl it seems, lots of hiss and crax
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By the same guy who does Funky16Corners, this music blog one is more pop-oriented:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com
he does podcasts, too:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/iron-leg-digital-trip-podcast-archive/
straight from vinyl it seems, lots of hiss and crax
Where do guys like him find the time?!?
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By the same guy who does Funky16Corners, this music blog one is more pop-oriented:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com
he does podcasts, too:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/iron-leg-digital-trip-podcast-archive/
straight from vinyl it seems, lots of hiss and crax
Where do guys like him find the time?!?
by avoiding chat groups like this...? ;)
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get a free candy bar
https://secure.realchocolate.com/
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Roger Ebert clebrates 30 years of sobriety:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and_im_an_alc.html
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A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:
http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/
and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.
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A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:
http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/
and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.
But then there's this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/393-ROSANNA.html
ETA: And this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/267-ARQUETTE,-ROSANNA.html
Back to square one. :)
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A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:
http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/
and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.
But then there's this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/393-ROSANNA.html
ETA: And this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/267-ARQUETTE,-ROSANNA.html
Back to square one. :)
Damn that Wikipedia!!
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well, maybe this is cool *and* funny. For the Deadhead on your Xmas list...
http://gratefuldeadopoly.com/
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Ever find yourself pining for the fjords of Norway? Now you can take the train from Bergen to Oslo (and see a couple of fjords along the way) without leaving your chair. The whole thing is several hours long, but even the 9-minute clip (scroll down a little) is pretty cool.
http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/ (http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/)
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"Cool" is not exactly the term I'd use for this, but it is pretty interesting. NYTimes web team put together this app that overlays before and after pics from Port-au-Prince with focus on major landmarks--grab and pull the slider back and forth to see satellite pics of before and after combined in one. The technology is cool, the subject is horrifying.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/20100114-haiti-imagery.html
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The devil went down to Port-au:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html?sc=fb&cc=fp
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The devil went down to Port-au:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html?sc=fb&cc=fp
that was inspired.
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If you like puppies, you can keep track of some Shiba Inu's born two days ago.
http://www.ustream.tv/SFShiba
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This is really cool.
http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cube-feeding-5000/ (http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cube-feeding-5000/)
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This is really cool.
http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cube-feeding-5000/ (http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cube-feeding-5000/)
The transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube...
...now THAT'S what I'm talking about! (high-five!)
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Maybe you never thought about this before. Maybe you should:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/01/BUEV1BPKAR.DTL
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Maybe you never thought about this before. Maybe you should:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/01/BUEV1BPKAR.DTL
Jeez, I've got so many passwords and such, this is a concept I've considered. If I get hit by a truck...
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Maybe you never thought about this before. Maybe you should:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/01/BUEV1BPKAR.DTL
But this part is just too weird:
"My WebWill will deactivate accounts, make final updates on Facebook, send last tweets on Twitter or even ensure a client's World of Warcraft character finds a new home."
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Maybe you never thought about this before. Maybe you should:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/01/BUEV1BPKAR.DTL
But this part is just too weird:
"My WebWill will deactivate accounts, make final updates on Facebook, send last tweets on Twitter or even ensure a client's World of Warcraft character finds a new home."
I loved the commenter on SFGate who said, in essence, "so you can continue to not have a life even after you're dead!"
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If you ever thought parking was hard to come by in SF, check out what this guy does in Holland:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7p4J1jHy9o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7p4J1jHy9o)
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Check this out: a head to head comparison of what people listen to in different cities.
For example here is Urth vs. POC (http://rockitbaby.de/projects/mycityvsyourcity/#madrid/spain/portland/united%20states).
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Check this out: a head to head comparison of what people listen to in differet cities.
For example here is Urth vs. POC (http://rockitbaby.de/projects/mycityvsyourcity/#madrid/spain/portland/united%20states).
um, who are they polling to get their info? the same artists show up over and over, more or less (Radiohead, Lady Gaga... Vampire Weekend? Seriously?). Nashville and Memphis: no country acts? Milan, Italy: no Italian artists? Odd, to say the least.
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Check this out: a head to head comparison of what people listen to in differet cities.
For example here is Urth vs. POC (http://rockitbaby.de/projects/mycityvsyourcity/#madrid/spain/portland/united%20states).
um, who are they polling to get their info? the same artists show up over and over, more or less (Radiohead, Lady Gaga... Vampire Weekend? Seriously?). Nashville and Memphis: no country acts? Milan, Italy: no Italian artists? Odd, to say the least.
Looks like they are somehow harvesting user data from Last.fm. Hard to say how relevant that might be. But yeah, I'd believe Vampire Weekend. Very big in indie rock circles right now. Surprised the Decemberists didn't show up in the Portland list, although there were several others that have local connections (Spoon, Modest Mouse, Death Cab).
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Vampire Weekend. Very big in indie rock circles right now.
Their new album debuted at #1. Not my speed, though.
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Vampire Weekend. Very big in indie rock circles right now.
Their new album debuted at #1. Not my speed, though.
Gawd that shows how out of touch I am. Some band I never heard of debuts at #1!
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Vampire Weekend. Very big in indie rock circles right now.
Their new album debuted at #1. Not my speed, though.
Everything I've heard by them sounds like the recycled-ska stuff of the mid-to-late '90s (Mighty Mighty Bosstones, etc) and yet the critics went ga-ga and called them "daring and original" -- I'm baffled. Apparently what they're really trying to imitate is Graceland-era Paul Simon. They consistently cite that LP in interviews.
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There is some amazingly cool stuff in here, including a few about pop music (1 specific to Floyd & 1 specific to the Beatles)
Stunning Infographics and Data Visualization (http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/stunning-infographics-and-data-visualization.html)
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There is some amazingly cool stuff in here, including a few about pop music (1 specific to Floyd & 1 specific to the Beatles)
Stunning Infographics and Data Visualization (http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/stunning-infographics-and-data-visualization.html)
I'm envious of people who can conceptualize/visualize things this way. It's far outside my skill set.
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There is some amazingly cool stuff in here, including a few about pop music (1 specific to Floyd & 1 specific to the Beatles)
Stunning Infographics and Data Visualization (http://www.noupe.com/inspiration/stunning-infographics-and-data-visualization.html)
I'm envious of people who can conceptualize/visualize things this way. It's far outside my skill set.
Fully agree--I'd be lost if I had to come up with something like that. But some of those are just spectacular. Particularly love the one about our favorite drugs, that adopted the typographic style of the 60s psychedelic poster.
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A Chron piece about food songs -- I smell a food-centric 10@10 on the way... "Foodie Friday"?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2010/03/24/DDI41CHV7D.DTL
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Check out the historical photos of SF (& other places) mapped to their present day locations at Sepia Town (http://www.sepiatown.com/index)
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Check out the historical photos of SF (& other places) mapped to their present day locations at Sepia Town (http://www.sepiatown.com/index)
Beautiful! And a great name!
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Ok Go -- the band who did a video of their catchy song Here it Goes Again on treadmills -- does a VERY COOL Rube Goldberg inspired video to a new song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
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Ok Go -- the band who did a video of their catchy song Here it Goes Again on treadmills -- does a VERY COOL Rube Goldberg inspired video to a new song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
have I shown you guys the videos of the Rube Goldberg school project I did this year? I hate to repeat my postings.
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Can't remember if this has been posted or not. But forced perspective pics are cool.
http://www.drweb.de/magazin/35-splendid-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
See if you can guess my favorite.
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Can't remember if this has been posted or not. But forced perspective pics are cool.
http://www.drweb.de/magazin/35-splendid-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
See if you can guess my favorite.
TANC: I finally saw the recent HBO flick Temple Grandin last nite and a major plot point involves forced perspective.
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Can't remember if this has been posted or not. But forced perspective pics are cool.
http://www.drweb.de/magazin/35-splendid-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
See if you can guess my favorite.
Cool pics! I would guess your fave is 'the fountain'
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The 2010 "TIME 100" list of most influential people. Click each name for more info.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1984685,00.html
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San Francisco FTW! We're the "leanest" city (note that Texas has 3 of the top 5 "fattest" -- I'd say "eat it, Texas!", but clearly they already do)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=62996&tsp=1
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latest entry in the "Gayest Album Cover EVAH" sweepstakes...
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EZ914M.jpg)
The hand on the shoulder really nails it. And their big hit was called "Ten Percent"...
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Was that modeled after that Orleans cover? (You know the one; I'm refraining from reposting it out of taste.)
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The Bangles have been auctioning off memorabilia on eBay to raise funds to help pay the medical bills for a friend. This dress is pretty darn 80's looking - but check out the who's-who of music in the accompanying photo...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170517571316
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this is more radio news, but KALW is rebroadcasting a Fresh Air program episode interviewing Jimmy Webb (from 2004)
airing right now on KALW 91.7 FM
-- should be archived on their site soon: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
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You go, (golden) girl: Betty White hoodies for her animal charity:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2010/07/coming-soon-betty-white-licensed-apparel-for-men-and-women.html
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f26df420970b-pi)
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This is the sort of thing Mshray would love.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/10/13/130536054/water-balloons&sc=nl&cc=es-20101017
Mark, holler back if you see this.
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Here's your chance! Johnny Cash costumes, guitars, lyrics up for sale:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/10/25/entertainment/e024846D83.DTL&tsp=1
Auction website: http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2010/johnny-cash/index.html
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Another for the "gayest album cover evah" collection:
(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/i/imagination/album-the-very-best-of-imagination.jpg)
I just bought this (for the music, mind you). But when I got a load of the pic I LOL'd. They had 4 or 5 smooth disco hits in the mid-'80s, and I gotta say I always assumed there was a woman in the group. Oops.
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I knew there was a reason I like the new Clipper card:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/transportation/detail?entry_id=76657
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Geeta Dayal, a wonderful person I've met a few times through Village Voice-related things, had a marvelous story to share on her blog. She's one of the most intelligent and thoughtful people I've ever come across - how many people are experts in both neural chemistry and ambient music? - and wrote a book on a Brian Eno album for the "33 1/3" series that I've mentioned in ages past. Anyway, she didn't talk to Eno himself for the book, but he got a hold of it - and loved it:
http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/2010/11/meeting-brian-eno/
Heartwarming and cool and validating.
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For chart geeks: a blog that collects radio station weekly surveys from the golden age of Top 40:
http://blog.backspinradio.net/
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For chart geeks: a blog that collects radio station weekly surveys from the golden age of Top 40:
http://blog.backspinradio.net/
very cool, I'll have to come back when I have more time.
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For chart geeks: a blog that collects radio station weekly surveys from the golden age of Top 40:
http://blog.backspinradio.net/
OMFG! I could lose way too much time on this. Would an admin xpost this to the Chart Trivia thread, wherever it may lie?
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For chart geeks: a blog that collects radio station weekly surveys from the golden age of Top 40:
http://blog.backspinradio.net/
TANC: One of the songs I just played tonight for friends, Springwell's Hot 100 cover of "It's for You," is in the Boston WMEX countdown featured right now!
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Gayest. Comic Book. Cover. EVAH?
(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/2/27722/996254-junior_48_super.jpg)
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OK...Let's try this again...
Here's video of Cyndi Lauper joining Prince onstage during Jungle Love from his concert last night in NYC. Oh-we-oh-we-oh!
http://perezhilton.com/2010-12-31-cyndi-lauper-prince-perform-jungle-love
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OK...Let's try this again...
Here's video of Cyndi Lauper joining Prince onstage during Jungle Love from his concert last night in NYC. Oh-we-oh-we-oh!
http://perezhilton.com/2010-12-31-cyndi-lauper-prince-perform-jungle-love
pretty insane way to end the concert!
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an '80s icon helps a much older one:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/20/world/europe/AP-EU-Cyprus-Boy-George.html?_r=1&hp
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an '80s icon helps a much older one:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/20/world/europe/AP-EU-Cyprus-Boy-George.html?_r=1&hp
I wish it had transpired more like ROTLA: "Throw me the idol!!"
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Way cool!
http://www.studiomultitracks.com/tag/queen/
http://www.studiomultitracks.com/2011/01/gimme-shelter/
Individual studio tracks from your favourite artists. I think I'm going to spend all day listening to this one:
http://www.studiomultitracks.com/tag/alice-in-chains/
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Welcome ladyboys,
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/09/6016617-pioneering-airline-hires-ladyboy-flight-attendants?gt1=43001
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Welcome ladyboys,
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/09/6016617-pioneering-airline-hires-ladyboy-flight-attendants?gt1=43001
This, in the midst of a war? Awesome!
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Dude! It's Prog Beatles! Hadn't thought of this cover in ages. Yes does the Fab Four:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QAmw9YsJU
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Dude! It's Prog Beatles! Hadn't thought of this cover in ages. Yes does the Fab Four:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5QAmw9YsJU
They did a live cover of I'm Down in the mid-70s, too, when they were at their proggiest. No video on Youtube from that era, though, just one with Jimmy Page circa 90125 that sounds like craaaaap.
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Country Joe McDonald (hearts) nurses! I'd've never known about this if I didn't work for Kaiser...
http://www.kaiserpermanentehistory.org/latest/country-joe-brings-florence-nightingale%E2%80%99s-legacy-to-life/
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Sili Valley gets a new area code: 669
http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/669-your-new-area-code/
Why do I think some group of evangelical prudes are gonna be upset?
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Very cool, early color photos of post-quake SF in 1906:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/07/MN6K1I4BU4.DTL
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Sili Valley gets a new area code: 669
http://www.baycitizen.org/government/story/669-your-new-area-code/
Why do I think some group of evangelical prudes are gonna be upset?
No danger in being the Neighbor of the Beast, I don't think.
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You may recall some time ago I discovered this music blog:
http://moistworks.com/
aka "An MP3 Boombox", with some good writing about interesting, often obscure recordings. Hadn't looked there in a while, and when I pulled up the page I found that the most recent post is from almost exactly a year ago: March 17 2010 -- a eulogy for Alex Chilton. There are some recent comments posted, of a "what happened to you guys?" "WTFF?" nature, but no explanantion of why a blog with 4 or 5 regular contributors and a slew of other occasional writers just.... stopped. It's almost as if Mr Chilton's death was too much for them. Weird.
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I guess this can go here as well as anywhere else. CW Nevius takes on sfgate comment trolls:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cwnevius/detail?entry_id=86578
I agree with most everything he says, except that I don't truly understand why he (and the people he mentions in his stories) take it so personally when trolls go a trolling. Yes, trolls are awful little cowards: as such should be ignored (in real life and in comments sections of the web). After all, it's difficult to take anyone who lives in their parent's basement very seriously.
However, trolls do make it more difficult to sort out the wheat from the chaff -- actual comments that are informative, interesting and/or humorous. It would be nice to limit the trolls, but doing so is easier said than done.
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posted by one of AL's FB-friends, on the subject of Rush (the band). I'm in the "whack you upside the head" camp myself.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/nerdliving/2011/04/10/rush-is-right-or-horribly-horribly-wrong/
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Gaz posted this on FB, but I thought it was worthy of sharing here. Paul Simon makes a fan's night at a show last week in Toronto:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/05/14/136305513/paul-simon-and-a-moment-of-pure-sobbing-joy?ps=cprs
(Good quality video, sound is less so.)
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Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas. Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story
Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.
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Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas. Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story
Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.
Dollar beers? Praise the Lord!
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Beer & Jesus: yeah, must be Texas. Heard a commercial for this place on that alt-country station I've been streaming.
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bible-study-bar-story,0,105947.story
Note that one of the bar patrons quoted in the story is named "Joe Mama". ahem.
Dollar beers? Praise the Lord!
TANC: this NTM tune that is very funny... "Jesus & Johnny Cash"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYT8x7utQV4
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Cool Smiths prints for sale: http://www.culturelabel.com/shop/idea-generation-gallery
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Cool Smiths prints for sale: http://www.culturelabel.com/shop/idea-generation-gallery
LIKE!
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Hey, fun to flip through this online catalog of rock memorabilia going up for auction June 25-26; items from Elvis, Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Johnny Cash, Motown, The Who, Hendrix, Joplin, Sinatra, Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, right up to Lady Gaga and more:
http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2011/music-icons/index.html
http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2011/music-icons/icatalog.html
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ah, young love in the middle of a hockey-hooligan riot:
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874161-amorous-protestors-lost-in-the-heat-of-vancouver-riots#.TfpDdLXqxhs;facebook
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ah, young love in the middle of a hockey-hooligan riot:
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874161-amorous-protestors-lost-in-the-heat-of-vancouver-riots#.TfpDdLXqxhs;facebook
Incredible image, but if you go to the link in the last graf of the update, it looks as if the couple and friends staged it. Performance art? ;)
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ah, young love in the middle of a hockey-hooligan riot:
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/16/6874161-amorous-protestors-lost-in-the-heat-of-vancouver-riots#.TfpDdLXqxhs;facebook
Incredible image, but if you go to the link in the last graf of the update, it looks as if the couple and friends staged it. Performance art? ;)
the real story:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?entry_id=91251
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A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play. 'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us
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A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play. 'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us
wow, cool. it really works!
I got all mine: Neil Diamond, Farah Fawcett, Mighty Mouse.
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A lil' game: Think of someone who is famous before hitting Play. 'Akinator the genius' will ask a few questions then guess who you're thinking about: http://www.akinator.mobi/us
wow, cool. it really works!
I got all mine: Neil Diamond, Farah Fawcett, Mighty Mouse.
It got two out of three of mine: Willie Mays and Peter Gabriel. But I stumped it with Big Al Anderson.
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appropriate, as the discussion of KFOG trying to cast off their older demographic reminds that may of us ARE that demographic:
http://news.yahoo.com/aging-boomers-strain-cities-built-young-130207113.html
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especially for TC, since I'm sure he hasn't friended AARP on FB... yet. They posted this Neil Peart artiicle in their feed today:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-fitness-neil-peart-20110725,-10,911838,full.story
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Not about food, but SF Foodie responds to that "why people are leaving SF" piece in yesterday's Chron with a "oh HELLS no, we ain't goin' anywhere" post on reasons to live here
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/08/why_were_staying_in_san_franci.php#more
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Not about food, but SF Foodie responds to that "why people are leaving SF" piece in yesterday's Chron with a "oh HELLS no, we ain't goin' anywhere" post on reasons to live here
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/08/why_were_staying_in_san_franci.php#more
W Blake Gray, the writer of that piece, used to work at the Chronicle as a wine writer.
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I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed. Pretty awesome.
http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1
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I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed. Pretty awesome.
http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1
Wow, very cool. I've heard about one or two disused subway stations that still exist under the streets of Manhattan, but this is the first I've heard about this.
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I never knew this secret train platform under the Waldorf-Astoria existed. Pretty awesome.
http://gothamist.com/2011/11/07/photos.php#photo-1
Wow, very cool. I've heard about one or two disused subway stations that still exist under the streets of Manhattan, but this is the first I've heard about this.
I really dig this kind of stuff! So cool.
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Paul Simonon of The Clash/Gorillaz spent 2 weeks in jail after being arrested on a Greenpeace mission. He joined anonymously as a cook and never revealed his identity to them!
Check out the great jail cell drawing he made in one of the links in the story below.
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44634-the-clashs-paul-simonon-arrested-for-occupying-oil-rig-with-greenpeace/
I know it's an old shot, but a great one. SWOON!
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKfgkOyTE-r4a3Fy_7CD75ge0xTvVliPkx1bk3X52V57Xv_ya3)
You can crush him, you can bruise him, yes, even shoot him......
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Paul Simonon of The Clash/Gorillaz spent 2 weeks in jail after being arrested on a Greenpeace mission. He joined anonymously as a cook and never revealed his identity to them!
Check out the great jail cell drawing he made in one of the links in the story below.
http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44634-the-clashs-paul-simonon-arrested-for-occupying-oil-rig-with-greenpeace/
I know it's an old shot, but a great one. SWOON!
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKfgkOyTE-r4a3Fy_7CD75ge0xTvVliPkx1bk3X52V57Xv_ya3)
You can crush him, you can bruise him, yes, even shoot him......
Wow, very cool indeed. I'd heard music was always his second love; he was much more into being an artist.
One of my bigger musical regrets is not having seen the Clash more than I did. I did see 'em a couple of times after Combat Rock came out, but that was late in the game relatively speaking, as they'd sacked Topper Headon and gotten Terry Chimes (aka Tory Crimes) to rejoin by then. Better than not at all, I guess.
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Now this RAWKS! The Punk Rock Advent Calendar:
http://www.punk-christmas.com/
ETA: December 2 is freakin' great. Mike, you may want to mine this for a few nuggets for your Holiday Countdown. And they're all downloadable too--woot!!!
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Cool little story about a guy who worked at a music store making a house call to the Dakota back in '78.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cp-roth/my-visit-with-john-lennon_b_1136589.html?ref=entertainment
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Composite of aerial views of SF in the 30s...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~217219~5504219:-Composite-image-of--Views-1-164-Sa
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Composite of aerial views of SF in the 30s...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~217219~5504219:-Composite-image-of--Views-1-164-Sa
Very cool - I bookmarked this. A couple of random observations:
1) SOMA is very different than it is now.
2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.
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2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.
It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).
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I went to this website thinking it was the Recycled Records in the Haight (but their URL hs a hyphen in it). This one's in Illinois and the intro is really cute:
http://www.recycledrecords.com/
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2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.
It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).
Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?
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another cool searchable databse of Billboard and UK singles and album charts...
http://www.umdmusic.com/default.asp?Lang=English&Chart=D&ChDay=25&ChMonth=12&ChYear=1973&ChBand=&ChSong=
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2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.
It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).
Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?
My guess would be around the time that they put in the Embarcadero freeway, but I would defer to local history buff TCat for confirmation on that.
Here's an old pic of it taken from in front of the Ferry Bldg., but not the one I referred to above. Still looking for that one.
(http://media.merchantcircle.com/32854029/cable%20car-embarcadero_full.jpeg)
And here's a postcard from a different angle, closer to the one I'm looking for but still not it.
(http://classicrail.com/cards/ca1166.JPEG)
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a reason to be cheerful? That your dad wasn't Ian Dury, apparently:
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Music/Article.aspx?id=251783
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2) Market Street met up with the Embarcadero in what appears to be some sort of public transportation traffic circle.
It was a big turnaround for Market Street trolleys. I've seen a pic of it at the Pacific Cafe (where Mike dined tonight).
Thanks - do you know when it was 'redesigned'?
My guess would be around the time that they put in the Embarcadero freeway, but I would defer to local history buff TCat for confirmation on that.
Here's an old pic of it taken from in front of the Ferry Bldg., but not the one I referred to above. Still looking for that one.
And here's a postcard from a different angle, closer to the one I'm looking for but still not it.
I'm not certain of any specific timeline, but this sentence pretty much sums up the start of the decline of the Ferry Bldg:
"The opening of the Bay Bridge in 1936, and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, along with mass use of the automobile, rendered the daily commute by ferryboat obsolete."
(from http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/history2.php)
I bet that's when the Ferry Bldg's trolley and cable car hub configuration began to change. And if you haven't yet seen the very interesting film from 1906 called "A trip down Market Street" you should chk it out:
http://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905
(http://www.archive.org/images/clicktoplay_over.png) (http://www.archive.org/details/TripDown1905)
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The things people do with Legos these days.
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/legos-as-album-cover-art-by-aaron-savage
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I posted this on my timeline today, but here it is again (in case you missed it). So beautiful.
http://vimeo.com/35396305
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I posted this on my timeline today, but here it is again (in case you missed it). So beautiful.
http://vimeo.com/35396305
I liked the music for this when I heard it, so I looked it up:
"Outro" from the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming by M83.
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when I saw the "Soup du Jour: Snark Fin" slogan on the home page, I thought: "wow, 'Snark Fin Soup' would be a great name for a band or a blog" And lo, here's a (seeemingly) abandoned blog with that name:
http://snarkfinsoup.blogspot.com/
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clever use of Whitney song titles as headings for MSNBC's weekend political summary:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/13/10396072-first-thoughts-didnt-we-almost-have-it-all
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
This is total BS. Kids go through developmental stages in which it is totally appropriate to be self-absorbed and extremely shy around adults other than their parents -- this is also known as a survival instinct. Plus, with a small amount of effort from adults, children warm up within a few minutes; I was at my niece's birthday yesterday, hanging around the ball pit (huh huh, huh huh), and all of the kids were treating me like their oldest friend when I showed interest in what they were doing. All of this pampering that allegedly leads to these kinds of behaviors is irrelevant; it's biologically driven, as we are reminded at every pediatric visit.
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
This is total BS. Kids go through developmental stages in which it is totally appropriate to be self-absorbed and extremely shy around adults other than their parents -- this is also known as a survival instinct. Plus, with a small amount of effort from adults, children warm up within a few minutes; I was at my niece's birthday yesterday, hanging around the ball pit (huh huh, huh huh), and all of the kids were treating me like their oldest friend when I showed interest in what they were doing. All of this pampering that allegedly leads to these kinds of behaviors is irrelevant; it's biologically driven, as we are reminded at every pediatric visit.
excellent comment. you should add that to the sfgate discussion (seriously)
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excellent comment. you should add that to the sfgate discussion (seriously)
[clinging to/hiding behind my mom's leg] umm . . .
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excellent comment. you should add that to the sfgate discussion (seriously)
[clinging to/hiding behind my mom's leg] umm . . .
heh, I understand your reluctance to participate in the sfgate comments section. It's usually not worth it.. But your comment is pretty good and I don't think anyone has said what you said.
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
The difference is that American kids spend way too much time being babysat by televisions, video games, iPhones, etc. It makes them prone to developing social issues (i.e. anxiety, introversion, etc.) Kids need parental attention, y'all. Kids need to play outside. Kids need one on one time. Also, American kids tend to eat waaay too much sugar (esp. HFCS) and junk food. This doesn't help them with their moods and attention spans. Not rocket science.
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
The difference is that American kids spend way too much time being babysat by televisions, video games, iPhones, etc. It makes them prone to developing social issues (i.e. anxiety, introversion, etc.) Kids need parental attention, y'all. Kids need to play outside. Kids need one on one time. Also, American kids tend to eat waaay too much sugar (esp. HFCS) and junk food. This doesn't help them with their moods and attention spans. Not rocket science.
No shit, and today, as a teacher, I'm feeling the brunt of all the Valentine candy to kids are ingesting!
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uh, the short answer? YES.
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/02/13/are-american-children-brats/?tsp=1
The difference is that American kids spend way too much time being babysat by televisions, video games, iPhones, etc. It makes them prone to developing social issues (i.e. anxiety, introversion, etc.) Kids need parental attention, y'all. Kids need to play outside. Kids need one on one time. Also, American kids tend to eat waaay too much sugar (esp. HFCS) and junk food. This doesn't help them with their moods and attention spans. Not rocket science.
and the French kids drink red wine at age 5 so they're naturally more mellow.
But seriously, there's way too much "oh sweetie, you're wonderful, the world revolves around you" on the part of "educated" parents. I've never seen so many kids who seem oblivious to the fact that there are other people in the world as I have since moving to SF.
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interested in our resident Coit Tower docent, TinkaCat's take on this:
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/02/22/coit-tower-ballot-measure-qualifies-for-june-vote/?tsp=1
(he's the most decent docent I know!)
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interested in our resident Coit Tower docent, TinkaCat's take on this:
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/02/22/coit-tower-ballot-measure-qualifies-for-june-vote/?tsp=1
aw, shucks ... BTW, my next tour is on March 3rd, 11 AM ...come on down!
It seems like a lot of NIMBY action going on here...
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interested in our resident Coit Tower docent, TinkaCat's take on this:
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/02/22/coit-tower-ballot-measure-qualifies-for-june-vote/?tsp=1
aw, shucks ... BTW, my next tour is on March 3rd, 11 AM ...come on down!
It seems like a lot of NIMBY action going on here...
but (unless I mis-read) they're trying to ensure that city money goes to preserving the murals etc... yes?
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interested in our resident Coit Tower docent, TinkaCat's take on this:
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/02/22/coit-tower-ballot-measure-qualifies-for-june-vote/?tsp=1
aw, shucks ... BTW, my next tour is on March 3rd, 11 AM ...come on down!
It seems like a lot of NIMBY action going on here...
but (unless I mis-read) they're trying to ensure that city money goes to preserving the murals etc... yes?
The NIMBY aspect seems like Telegraph Hill Dwellers Assn snobbery. They do not want more traffic, etc. in their 'hood.
OTOH, the part about allocating funds earned BY the facility BACK to the facility does seem the way to do things here, esp b/c the murals and the tower and the grounds do need some help. Allowing larger commercial events and private rentals of the tower would certainly raise money for the destitute Park and Rec Dept, and it does seem a little unfair that those monies could be used elsewhere. I must re-think this one a bit, I suppose.
The murals need some help, and they really are National treasures. Parties could pose a threat of some sort to the murals. I can easily see privileged and drunken revelers doing damage to the murals by splattering their Jägermeister on the works. No one needs that.
And if you haven't seen the murals you should. Did you know there are even more murals in the tower stairwell and on the second level that are normally closed to the public EXCEPT when the FREE SF City Guides Tours is offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11 AM? This tour does offer a rare opportunity, I must say. And btw, they technically are NOT WPA works, but rather part of the Public Works of Art Project, a pre-cursor to the WPA.. although both were part of FDR's New Deal alphabet soup programs though. Fascinating stuff.
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Just saw this: a very cool visual representation of wind currents in the US, in real time. Mesmerizing.
http://hint.fm/wind/index.html
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Just saw this: a very cool visual representation of wind currents in the US, in real time. Mesmerizing.
http://hint.fm/wind/index.html
And this nice high-rez video (all the way to 1080p!) of ocean currents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xusdWPuWAoU&feature=youtu.be
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Just read a fascinating piece on Theodore Roosevelt and the stuff in his breast pocket that saved his life. (Dayum, Teddy Roosevelt was da man!)
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/04/theodore-roosevelts-life-saving-speech/
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This has S-gal written all over it:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/21-vintage-covers-of-smash-hits-magazine
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I think our friend Mr McCombs should sue: there's a blog called GazFunk! (it so happens Larry "Funky 16 Corners" Grogan is doing a guest blog thing there this week)
http://gazfunk.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/guest-contributor-larry-grogan/
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Kodak first developed the digital camera in 1975, but kept schtum about it.
http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/editorial/kodak-s-last-days-1.42251
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Hey Geoff, do you know Pete Sears, by any chance? Even if you don't (which I think is unlikely) you will dig this story if you haven't heard it already:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/pete-sears-gets-stolen-bass-back-after-38-years-978916/
Pete just got a custom bass returned that was stolen in Germany in 1978. And there's a Jerry Garcia/Doug Irwin connection...
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Hey Geoff, do you know Pete Sears, by any chance? Even if you don't (which I think is unlikely) you will dig this story if you haven't heard it already:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/pete-sears-gets-stolen-bass-back-after-38-years-978916/
Pete just got a custom bass returned that was stolen in Germany in 1978. And there's a Jerry Garcia/Doug Irwin connection...
I don't know Pete personally; he usually plays a bass from my old company. I did know Doug Irwin however (and Jerry) Irwin was mainly known for his guitars for Jerry.
(http://www.performanceimpressions.com/Moonalice_Nateva_Festival/content/bin/images/large/Pete_Sears_Moonalice_Nateva_Festival_2010_opp9777.jpg)
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Apparently there are problems getting clips to play in Firefox, but despite that and other flaws,
this provides some amusing opportunities to explore different music categories:
http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html
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Apparently there are problems getting clips to play in Firefox, but despite that and other flaws,
this provides some amusing opportunities to explore different music categories:
http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html
I didn't realize last night that it goes deeper than just the one page!
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Apparently there are problems getting clips to play in Firefox, but despite that and other flaws,
this provides some amusing opportunities to explore different music categories:
http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html
I didn't realize last night that it goes deeper than just the one page!
Some of the flaws include a lack of operational and contextual information.
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For Geoff:
http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2013/05/14/amazing-sightings-hawk-gives-blackbird-free-ride-gallery/#12231-1
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For Geoff:
http://blog.sfgate.com/stienstra/2013/05/14/amazing-sightings-hawk-gives-blackbird-free-ride-gallery/#12231-1
nice shots. We've been watching the blackbirds harass the hawks lately.
yesterday's bird shot I took:
(http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/163502_10201273021090387_269701463_n.jpg)
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An entertaining blog post about the Monkees and the Beatles:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/11/let-it-be-fiat-monkees-golden-beatles/
The comments also contain some trivia that was new to me, although no doubt some of you
already knew it.
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...commemorates the start of the Olympic games, but it's based around a very obvious rainbow motif, and includes this quote from the Olympic charter (which is what it points to when you click it):
"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter
Well played, Google!
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Interesting music geekery on Slate.com:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/02/justin_bieber_and_the_beatles_they_both_liked_to_rhyme_the_same_words.html
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The story behind Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love. The echo on Robert Plant's vocal at the
end was an accident...
http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-making-of-led-zeppelins-whole-lotta-love-1401390281
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Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
AKA, why radio sucks. Interesting and disheartening.