Do a search for MacBeth
and see the trailer for
the Brazosport Lil' Players movie.
It's "MacBeth" like you've never
seen it before. Really.
and then you can do a search for
The Mathletes and watch a few of
Joe's fine music videos.
Ok.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
DIAL B for BLOG
DIAL B for BLOG:
"This was the real purpose of Presley's trip to see Nixon -- he wanted to be declared a Federal Agent so he and his bodyguards could legally carry small arms in every state in America. Nixon’s badge allowed them to do just that. Now, Elvis was legally empowered to protect himself, and carry on the fight for justice and 'respecting the flag' -- just like his boyhood hero, Captain Marvel Jr.!"
All the times I've heard this story I've never heard this explanation...
it makes perfect sense.
"This was the real purpose of Presley's trip to see Nixon -- he wanted to be declared a Federal Agent so he and his bodyguards could legally carry small arms in every state in America. Nixon’s badge allowed them to do just that. Now, Elvis was legally empowered to protect himself, and carry on the fight for justice and 'respecting the flag' -- just like his boyhood hero, Captain Marvel Jr.!"
All the times I've heard this story I've never heard this explanation...
it makes perfect sense.
Friday Random Ten
Been meaning to steal this from Tbogg(actually I'm sure I've seen it lots of place's...just see it there most often)
1. Charles Mingus - Jack The Fieldstalker - Complete Debut Recordings
2. Willie Nelson - Something to think about - Countryman
3. Jad Fair - Leaders of the Trend - Sunshiney Sunshine
4. SOA - Riot - Dischord 1981 The Year in 7 inches
5. ENON - Gimlet - On Hold
6. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Pretentious version) - LCD Soundsystem
7. Ornette Coleman - Kaleidoscope - This Is Our Music
8. Talking Heads - Who is it? - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
9. Charlie Haden's Quartet West - Scenes from a Silver Screen - The Art of Song
10. NRG Ensemble - Wouldn't Want to Eat it - Bejazzo Gets a Facelift
1. Charles Mingus - Jack The Fieldstalker - Complete Debut Recordings
2. Willie Nelson - Something to think about - Countryman
3. Jad Fair - Leaders of the Trend - Sunshiney Sunshine
4. SOA - Riot - Dischord 1981 The Year in 7 inches
5. ENON - Gimlet - On Hold
6. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Pretentious version) - LCD Soundsystem
7. Ornette Coleman - Kaleidoscope - This Is Our Music
8. Talking Heads - Who is it? - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
9. Charlie Haden's Quartet West - Scenes from a Silver Screen - The Art of Song
10. NRG Ensemble - Wouldn't Want to Eat it - Bejazzo Gets a Facelift
R.I.P. Randy "Biscuit" Turner
got this through myspace and I couldn't find a link...
but this is some SAD news...
Big Boys singer put funk in punk
Musician found dead in South Austin home; police investigating
By Joshunda Sanders, Joe Gross
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, August 19, 2005
Beloved punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, the same day a feature story about him appeared in the The Austin Chronicle.
Marc Savlov, a Chronicle reporter who wrote the cover story about Turner, told a group of neighbors who stood outside of Turner's South Austin home that he was the person who went to house, looked inside and called police. "I opened the door, and it was dead silent," he said, his hand shaking as he held his cell phone. He said he had just come from giving a statement to police.
Police investigators at the scene did not release details about Turner's death Thursday night. Investigators from the Travis County medical examiner's office did not return calls. Kevin Buchman, an Austin police spokesman, would not confirm the identity of the body Thursday night. He said it was not being considered a suspicious death.
Nationally, Turner was best known as the frontman for punk-funk pioneers the Big Boys. With the Big Boys, Turner subverted the rapidly entrenching dogmas of American hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early '80s with humor, eclectic songwriting and outrageous costumes.
With guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Rey Washam, the Big Boys, which lasted from 1978 to 1984, became known for explosive and funky live shows. They slowed down punk tempos to allow for syncopated rhythms and played with nonpunk bands such as the Washington, D.C., go-go act Trouble Funk. The Big Boys can be seen as a direct precursor to funky rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone. The band's encouragement of audience participation made them iconic punk rockers.
"It's hard to overstate how huge they were in Austin," Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey said Thursday evening. "They weren't just a punk band. A really wide spectrum of people would check out the shows. It was due in a large part to Biscuit. Everyone in the crowd would be dancing and having so much fun, and Biscuit was like the ringleader of this band that would sometimes have a full horn section on stage. The band's motto was 'fun, fun, fun,' and that was Biscuit to a T.
"People like Biscuit created an amazing community here," Coffey continued. "The Big Boys were the heart and soul of it, and he was the heart and soul of the Big Boys. He meant so much to the music scene here in Texas and to punks throughout the U.S."
Influential punk rockers such as Coffey, Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, and producer Steve Albini paid tribute to the Big Boys in essays included in the band's two anthology CDs, "The Skinny Elvis" and "The Fat Elvis." The East North Loop record store Sound on Sound is named after a Big Boys song. Turner went on to sing with Cargo Cult, Swine King and was working on new projects, including visual art.
Neighbors said that Turner was an artistic, off-beat personality who often retreated into his house for days to work on visual art. His neighbors gathered at the corner where his house was and reminisced about the Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee that they knew as a character who took pride in the tree full of plastic blue bottles in his yard, being quirky and creating art.
"He brought such a touch of humor and life to the block," said Robert Goyer, 46, who lives across the street. "He's irreplaceable."
Goyer said Turner would do things like paint snakes on the road. Last year, he hosted an open house where everything in the house was orange — right down to the Cheetos and soda. Other neighbors said that he would offer to watch their animals when they were away. Goyer said that Turner had been looking forward to an art show in Nacogdoches and was excited about the Chronicle article.
"It's my world, and sometimes I retreat to it knowing full well that beyond that front door right there is horror and destruction and death and mayhem," Turner said in the Aug. 19 cover story. "But I know I can't control any of that, and so this little world that I've created here, well, I can barely control that, too, but it's much more fun."
but this is some SAD news...
Big Boys singer put funk in punk
Musician found dead in South Austin home; police investigating
By Joshunda Sanders, Joe Gross
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, August 19, 2005
Beloved punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, the same day a feature story about him appeared in the The Austin Chronicle.
Marc Savlov, a Chronicle reporter who wrote the cover story about Turner, told a group of neighbors who stood outside of Turner's South Austin home that he was the person who went to house, looked inside and called police. "I opened the door, and it was dead silent," he said, his hand shaking as he held his cell phone. He said he had just come from giving a statement to police.
Police investigators at the scene did not release details about Turner's death Thursday night. Investigators from the Travis County medical examiner's office did not return calls. Kevin Buchman, an Austin police spokesman, would not confirm the identity of the body Thursday night. He said it was not being considered a suspicious death.
Nationally, Turner was best known as the frontman for punk-funk pioneers the Big Boys. With the Big Boys, Turner subverted the rapidly entrenching dogmas of American hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early '80s with humor, eclectic songwriting and outrageous costumes.
With guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Rey Washam, the Big Boys, which lasted from 1978 to 1984, became known for explosive and funky live shows. They slowed down punk tempos to allow for syncopated rhythms and played with nonpunk bands such as the Washington, D.C., go-go act Trouble Funk. The Big Boys can be seen as a direct precursor to funky rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone. The band's encouragement of audience participation made them iconic punk rockers.
"It's hard to overstate how huge they were in Austin," Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey said Thursday evening. "They weren't just a punk band. A really wide spectrum of people would check out the shows. It was due in a large part to Biscuit. Everyone in the crowd would be dancing and having so much fun, and Biscuit was like the ringleader of this band that would sometimes have a full horn section on stage. The band's motto was 'fun, fun, fun,' and that was Biscuit to a T.
"People like Biscuit created an amazing community here," Coffey continued. "The Big Boys were the heart and soul of it, and he was the heart and soul of the Big Boys. He meant so much to the music scene here in Texas and to punks throughout the U.S."
Influential punk rockers such as Coffey, Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, and producer Steve Albini paid tribute to the Big Boys in essays included in the band's two anthology CDs, "The Skinny Elvis" and "The Fat Elvis." The East North Loop record store Sound on Sound is named after a Big Boys song. Turner went on to sing with Cargo Cult, Swine King and was working on new projects, including visual art.
Neighbors said that Turner was an artistic, off-beat personality who often retreated into his house for days to work on visual art. His neighbors gathered at the corner where his house was and reminisced about the Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee that they knew as a character who took pride in the tree full of plastic blue bottles in his yard, being quirky and creating art.
"He brought such a touch of humor and life to the block," said Robert Goyer, 46, who lives across the street. "He's irreplaceable."
Goyer said Turner would do things like paint snakes on the road. Last year, he hosted an open house where everything in the house was orange — right down to the Cheetos and soda. Other neighbors said that he would offer to watch their animals when they were away. Goyer said that Turner had been looking forward to an art show in Nacogdoches and was excited about the Chronicle article.
"It's my world, and sometimes I retreat to it knowing full well that beyond that front door right there is horror and destruction and death and mayhem," Turner said in the Aug. 19 cover story. "But I know I can't control any of that, and so this little world that I've created here, well, I can barely control that, too, but it's much more fun."
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Slashdot | V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006
Slashdot | V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006:
"According to Sci Fi Wire, V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March."
They can push it back all they want.
They still won't have a good movie when they're done.
Sad really.
"According to Sci Fi Wire, V for Vendetta, originally slated to open on Nov. 4, has been pushed back to next March."
They can push it back all they want.
They still won't have a good movie when they're done.
Sad really.
Stay Free! Daily: Beer for kids
The Japanese even do bad better than us...
Stay Free! Daily: Beer for kids:
"'Even kids cannot stand life unless they have a drink,'"
This is bad, right?
Stay Free! Daily: Beer for kids:
"'Even kids cannot stand life unless they have a drink,'"
This is bad, right?
Bill Clinton's Post-Presidency - A Plan for World Domination
Bill Clinton's Post-Presidency - A Plan for World Domination:
If I was one o' them New World Order Conspiracy types then this would worry me...
"Five years after his presidency, Clinton still thinks like a world leader. In some ways, it’s more complicated: He thinks like the leader of the world. While there’s no official means to be president of the planet, other than as U.N. secretary-general—a prospect constantly floated by Clinton supporters, though it’s practically impossible—he certainly seems to be trying hard to invent one. On September 15, the former president will be hosting the grandly titled Clinton Global Initiative, a conference timed to coincide with the World Summit at the U.N. The guest list features an impressive and eccentric mix of moguls, heads of state, and problem-solvers—from Sonia Gandhi to George Soros to Rupert Murdoch—who, after three days of panel-going and furious rubber-chicken consumption, are expected to sign pledges to do something about bettering the world."
I'm actually pretty ambivalent about Clinton...
He was far from ideal but he did make a real difference for the working class.
I could actually go look up data and make the argument,
but I'm lazy,
and it's not my job...
eh...
If I was one o' them New World Order Conspiracy types then this would worry me...
"Five years after his presidency, Clinton still thinks like a world leader. In some ways, it’s more complicated: He thinks like the leader of the world. While there’s no official means to be president of the planet, other than as U.N. secretary-general—a prospect constantly floated by Clinton supporters, though it’s practically impossible—he certainly seems to be trying hard to invent one. On September 15, the former president will be hosting the grandly titled Clinton Global Initiative, a conference timed to coincide with the World Summit at the U.N. The guest list features an impressive and eccentric mix of moguls, heads of state, and problem-solvers—from Sonia Gandhi to George Soros to Rupert Murdoch—who, after three days of panel-going and furious rubber-chicken consumption, are expected to sign pledges to do something about bettering the world."
I'm actually pretty ambivalent about Clinton...
He was far from ideal but he did make a real difference for the working class.
I could actually go look up data and make the argument,
but I'm lazy,
and it's not my job...
eh...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Fw: [CTRL] Raw intel: Charleston Naval Base in Aug. 17 drill
----- Original Message -----
From: Total Information
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Raw intel: Charleston Naval Base in Aug. 17 drill
Raw intel: Charleston Naval Base in Aug. 17 drill
(Total411.info) -- RAW INTEL UNVERIFIED -- Someone claiming to be in the Navy posted the following comment to total911.info. This website has communicated further with the source, who seems credible. This is what the source posted:
The Charleston Naval Base has been majorly downsized the past 15 years, so the largely abandoned facilities would be perfect for a "drill" like this.
Moreover, the Charleston Naval Base in North Charleston, did pick up one major program since the downsizing, according to GlobalSecurity.org:
So, despite denials in the Charleston print and electronic press, indications are that military facilities in the Charleston area are drilling on Wednesday August 17th. Here are some contact numbers to ask people if they're aware of the danger that the nuclear drill Wednesday could "go live" with the help of an inside job:
Naval Weapons Center - (843) 764-4094 ; (843)764-7000
Naval Hospital Info Desk - 843 - 743-7000
EPA Charleston / North Charleston Community-Based Environmental Protection Project:(404) 562-9649 ; 803-935-6592 ; 843-792-1669 -0- ask if they know whether or not the Navy will be playing with live nukes Wednesday.
I am navy here in charleston....i know for a fact that the nurses in charge of the clinics in the hospital in north charleston, which is just a few blocks away from the harbor have "freed" up the doctors sched tomorrow so they can attend said drill. i was talking about this to a fellow corpsman and one of the head nurses said we weren't to talk about it, and that he had just freed up the docs to attend the drill. its not to be common knowledge he said. there where no other details discussed.Interviewing further the source, one of the games being played military spokesmen becomes apparent. You see, the Charleston Naval Base is based in the city of North Charleston, South Carolina. So when NORTHCOMM told the Charleston Post and Courier there were no drills scheduled for Charleston -- that didn't include North Charleston, which is a different city. North Charleston contains the Naval ports -- "ports off Charleston."
The Charleston Naval Base has been majorly downsized the past 15 years, so the largely abandoned facilities would be perfect for a "drill" like this.
Moreover, the Charleston Naval Base in North Charleston, did pick up one major program since the downsizing, according to GlobalSecurity.org:
The military remains a major industry in the Charleston area today, despite major downsizings. The 1995 round of Base Realignments and Closures resulted in the decision for Charleston to receive the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command transferring from Orlando, Florida, bringing with it 500 permanent active military jobs as well as 2,500 transient students attending the school each year. The Navy expects to have an estimated 7,800 active and civilian employees after the April '96 closure, with the 500 Power Training Command employees to be added by 1999.The NNPTC is in the Naval Weapons Center in Goose Creek, which is north of North Charleston and was originally established as the Charleston Naval Ammunition Depot. Very interesting.
So, despite denials in the Charleston print and electronic press, indications are that military facilities in the Charleston area are drilling on Wednesday August 17th. Here are some contact numbers to ask people if they're aware of the danger that the nuclear drill Wednesday could "go live" with the help of an inside job:
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Fw: [CTRL] Raw intel: Ft. Monroe / Charleston nuke drill rescheduled for Aug. 18 (Thursday)
----- Original Message -----
From: Total Information
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:37 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Raw intel: Ft. Monroe / Charleston nuke drill rescheduled for Aug. 18 (Thursday)
Raw intel: Ft. Monroe / Charleston nuke drill rescheduled for Aug. 18 (Thursday)
August 17 8pm EDT -- UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE -- Naval source says U.S. Navy drill scheduled for Charleston Harbor today, Aug. 17, has been RESCHEDULED for Thursday afternoon, at approximately 3:30pm .Source confirms drill is tied to NORTHCOM nuclear terror command drill at Ft. Monroe.
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ReadyMade: Feature - How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job? - Daniel Clowes
I''ve been reading Clowes since..well..a long time...
great stuff. Can't wait to see "Art School Confidential"...
he gives good interview too,
so go read already.
ReadyMade: Feature - How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job? - Daniel Clowes
great stuff. Can't wait to see "Art School Confidential"...
he gives good interview too,
so go read already.
ReadyMade: Feature - How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job? - Daniel Clowes
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
k-punk: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE: THE CURE'S UNHOLY TRINITY
Maybe you remember a while back when I referred to The Cure as "psychedelic".
Well here's a lot more from somebody who thinks about The Cure too much.
My friend Ted e-mailed me the link to this really great write-up of the big three Cure records.
k-punk: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE: THE CURE'S UNHOLY TRINITY:
"Goth morbidity arose in part from a Schopenhauerian scorn for organic life: from Goth’s perspective, death was the truth of sexuality. Sexuality was what the ceaseless cycle of birth-reproduction-death (as icily surveyed by Siouxsie on Dreamhouse’s ‘Circle Line’) needed in order to perpetuate itself. Death was simultaneously outside this circuit and what it was really about. Affirming sexuality meant affirming the world, whereas Goth set itself, in Houllebecq’s marvelous phrase, against the world and against life. By the early eighties, it was possible to posit a rock anti-tradition that had similar affiliations, an anhedonic, anti-vital rock lineage that began with The Stones – with the neurasthenic Jagger of ‘Paint it Black’ rather than the cloven-hooved demonic-Dionysus of ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ - and passed through the Stooges and the Pistols, before reaching its nadir-as-zenith in Joy Division. But Goth suspected that rock was that always and essentially a death trip. This was the gambit of The Birthday Party, who hunted rock’s mythology back to the fetid, voodoo-stalked crossroads and swamplands of the delta blues. After all, isn’t Blues the clearest possible demonstration of the discrepancy between desire and enjoyment, and therefore of the validity of the theory of the death drive? The Blues juju – or jou-jou – relies upon the enjoyment of desires that cannot be satisfied."
Well here's a lot more from somebody who thinks about The Cure too much.
My friend Ted e-mailed me the link to this really great write-up of the big three Cure records.
k-punk: IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE: THE CURE'S UNHOLY TRINITY:
"Goth morbidity arose in part from a Schopenhauerian scorn for organic life: from Goth’s perspective, death was the truth of sexuality. Sexuality was what the ceaseless cycle of birth-reproduction-death (as icily surveyed by Siouxsie on Dreamhouse’s ‘Circle Line’) needed in order to perpetuate itself. Death was simultaneously outside this circuit and what it was really about. Affirming sexuality meant affirming the world, whereas Goth set itself, in Houllebecq’s marvelous phrase, against the world and against life. By the early eighties, it was possible to posit a rock anti-tradition that had similar affiliations, an anhedonic, anti-vital rock lineage that began with The Stones – with the neurasthenic Jagger of ‘Paint it Black’ rather than the cloven-hooved demonic-Dionysus of ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ - and passed through the Stooges and the Pistols, before reaching its nadir-as-zenith in Joy Division. But Goth suspected that rock was that always and essentially a death trip. This was the gambit of The Birthday Party, who hunted rock’s mythology back to the fetid, voodoo-stalked crossroads and swamplands of the delta blues. After all, isn’t Blues the clearest possible demonstration of the discrepancy between desire and enjoyment, and therefore of the validity of the theory of the death drive? The Blues juju – or jou-jou – relies upon the enjoyment of desires that cannot be satisfied."
haven't been posting
go see the dos chicas show...it's funny...
that's the goal...
it succeeds..
and go see the freneticore show too...
(hopefully I'll update with links in the a.m.)
uhm, other than that there's this:
I'm a devil
devious with desire
honest with anger
thwarted by the righteous
and confused by the rest
and this:
these are the bohemian days
days of sleep
and hangovers
and nights of drinking
and dancing
and yes,
women,
and song...
a time not just for old bad habits,
but a time to explore new ones!
a time to be
to eat when I'm hungry
and sleep when I'm tired
so maybe I don't
have the time
or the inclination
to do all the things
I used to do
but I'm still here.
that's the goal...
it succeeds..
and go see the freneticore show too...
(hopefully I'll update with links in the a.m.)
uhm, other than that there's this:
I'm a devil
devious with desire
honest with anger
thwarted by the righteous
and confused by the rest
and this:
these are the bohemian days
days of sleep
and hangovers
and nights of drinking
and dancing
and yes,
women,
and song...
a time not just for old bad habits,
but a time to explore new ones!
a time to be
to eat when I'm hungry
and sleep when I'm tired
so maybe I don't
have the time
or the inclination
to do all the things
I used to do
but I'm still here.
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