The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly

"Over at the Stakeholder, Jesse Lee writes about the latest A3S2 wingnuttery, and it's a doozy. The immigration bill working its way through Congress contains a section giving the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to "waive...all laws" in the critical area of — wait for it — construction of barriers and fences. And of course the courts are prohibited from interfering."

hmm...maybe they aren't building fences and barriers to keep people out, but to keep people in....

this weekend! go see some dance! Le Mauvais Choix!

 

 

 Le Mauvais Choix Presented by Aileen Mapes and Aaron Jackson
"An Absurd Insight into the Everyman".

 

Super Happy Funland,2610 Ashland  

Feb 11 to Feb 12

fr: $8 sa: $8

There is also a 10pm show.

After each performance there will be three bands playing as well; they are the Mathletes, Locust Ghost, and Organ Faliure.

 

 

 

 

 

I've been helping out on this show (did some sound design, and some other techy goodness) and I just want to say I was totally wowed by the run through I saw...

This is some brilliant stuff.

 

oh yeah,

There is only a 10pm show on Saturday...

 

and oh yeah,

if ya didn't know it,

I play bass for the mathletes too...

 

 

Mike

 

 

 

StarNewsOnline.com: The Voice of Southeastern North Carolina

StarNewsOnline.com: The Voice of Southeastern North Carolina:
"As part of an extensive, in-depth interview, a trained examiner rates the offender on a 20-item personality test. The items include glibness and superficial charm, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity. The subjects earn zero points if the description is not applicable, two points if it is highly applicable, and one if it is somewhat or sometimes true. "

Well at least I'm not a pathological liar...
or at least, uh, pathological.

moods

I came into work with a great attitude this mornin...
I was tired, but the work on "Mauvais Choix" (Aileen's piece) went so great last night that it really propped me up...
well, suffice it to say that work has already worn me down again and I am now grouchy and useless!!!

more about Aileen's show later...

bored bored bored

so, I got one of those e-mail questionaires:

here it is:


Welcome to the Winter 2005 edition of getting to know your friends.
What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you will send. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to a whole bunch of friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already!


1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A SECOND HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?
Southern France- if it's good enough for Robert Crumb and Richard Belzer it's good enough for me...
2. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING? my leather jacket - which is pretty much just a costume piece...
3. THE LAST CD YOU BOUGHT? I have no idea...I'm going to buy the new LCD soundsystem as soon as it comes out...I bought Merle Haggard, Ray Charles, Fela, and Nick Cave DVD's last week though

4. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? during the week: 7:45 or whatever time my heart burn wakes me up - on the weekend - sometime between 9 and 2

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE? um, blenders are good I guess

6. IF YOU COULD PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I do play several thank you very much
7. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SPORTS CAR OR SUV? old pickup truck
8. DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER DEATH? not even sure I believe in life before death
9. FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK? green eggs and ham
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON? Spring
11. WHAT'S IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR? my car has no trunk
12. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER? duh, keep that raw nasty sh*t away from me...gimme a burger, with bacon and cheese
13. FROM THE PEOPLE YOU WILL EMAIL THIS TO, WHO'S MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST? ?
14. WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? ?
15. WHO Did YOU RECEIVE THIS FROM? Karen
16. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER? Uhm, I'm a guy, am I supposed to have one of these?
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Peanut Butter
18. BUTTER, PLAIN, OR SALTED POPCORN? Butter
19. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? red
20. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU DRIVE? 85 Oldsmobile Station Wagon
21. FAVORITE SANDWICH? Salami
22. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Pasadena, Tx
23. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? well, I am a guy but I don't really have one of these either...
does Jell-o wrestling count?

Alan Moore interviews Eno - go listen

BBC Radio Player

we make money not art: Playing mobile games with buildings

we make money not art: Playing mobile games with buildings

My only question is where to put my quarters to reserve the next game?

Salon.com News | Paralyzed Broadcasting System

Salon.com News | Paralyzed Broadcasting System:
"The controversy surrounding the children's series 'Postcards From Buster,' featuring a cartoon bunny who, in one episode, visits Vermont to make maple syrup and meets children from two families headed by lesbian couples, generated headlines last week when incoming Education Secretary Margaret Spellings lambasted the episode as inappropriate."

I have an uncle who wouldn't let his kids watch "Sesame Street" because it showed black kids and white kids playing together. In Pasadena, Tx where I grew up I'm sure that was more common than we'd like to think. Still I never thought that would be the mentality of the folks running the country. Yet, here we are. Suddenly it's like D.C. 2005 is Birmingham 63 or even Pasadena 74....
I don't understand why folks can't get it through their head...
all us folks, every one of us, is stuck here and we're stuck here together. The sooner we start acting like it and looking out for each other instead of trying to find ways to marginalize and ostracize each other the better off we'll ALL be...
grrr...

POWER HOUR PICS!!!

BLP Power Hour Pics (via Spacetaker.org)

just thought some of you might enjoy seeing some pics from the show....
yeehaw!

Off the Kuff: The day the music died

Off the Kuff: The day the music died

I've always been a huge fan of "chantilly lace"
and I'm still not sure why differentiates chantilly
from other kinds of lace...

ahhh....

FOK last night...good session...had one uninvited musician sitting in...so it wasn't ideal...but it was good...some very melodic almost ornette-like moments....bits of ayler...some real art ensemble bits (the banjo!) and lots of healthy fiery skronk!!!tonight I may go sit in with "Friendship Bracelet" for a few minutes...then it's finishing up the CD for Aileen's show at Super Happy.

I'm ready for the weekend already...got the IBP retreat Saturday,

and then hopefully Danseparc at #'s Sat night...whoohoo!

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms: "

Gotta run to work so I present this without comment...

Fw: [BAD SIGNAL]ENTERPRISE Taken Behind Stables

----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:15 PM
Subject: [BAD SIGNAL]ENTERPRISE Taken Behind Stables


> bad signal
> WARREN ELLIS
>
> Those who've been following my occasional pieces
> on genre TV might be interested to learn that
> ENTERPRISE was finally cancelled today.
>
> Story's on AICN right now.
>
> I hope that the people involved with the show who
> I occasionally heard from find new work soon.
>
> And so another Star Trek show descends into
> TV Hell. I met someone last year who'd been
> brought in to pitch a new Trek show: but, more
> than half a year down the line, I haven't heard
> anything else. So my suspicion is that Star
> Trek is gone from our screens for a comfortingly
> long time.
>
> And, with the final Star Wars film on the way,
> it seems that by the end of the year the culture
> will feel peculiarly cleansed. As if the shackles
> were released from us in our cultural basement,
> and we can finally take from our mouths the
> shattered antique underpants used as gags and
> wash old men's semen out of our bum crevices.
>
> -- W
>
> ...................
> UNSUBSCRIBE:
> http://www.flirble.org/mailman/listinfo/badsignal



I have been dutifully watching Enterprise this season, and well quite
frankly, even the best eps couldn't touch BG or even Atlantis SG-1...
so, good riddance I reckon...

good mood

I have been in an exceptionally good mood lately...
not sure why, although I'm sure the BLP show being a hit helped,
and of course the rock magic of The Mathletes is a powerful
happy thing...
but it's really weird...
sure, the undercurrent of desperation is there...
the idea that if I have to do this job,
or really any job,
for the rest of my life
I'll go INSANE...
sure, there's that...
and of course there's still
the whole nothing
on the love life front...
and of course the binge drinking,
and other recreational brain destroying activities...
the house is a mess,
the computer in my bedroom died,
my dvd remote broke,
and my car is falling apart...
sure, those things are all there...
but overall,
I'm feeling good, if not downright optimistic...
and all without pharmaceuticals.

I am...

I am incredibly self-involved.
When I think about myself,
which is often,
this is what I think,
"I am incredibly self-involved."

See, Apple deserves bashing: Corante > Copyfight >

See, Apple deserves bashing: Corante > Copyfight >:
"'This information should absolutely not be conveyed to the customer.'"

amazing...

32 Short Stories about Brazosport

well, we did the show this weekend...
and it went GREAT!!!
3 performances, good crowds, and lots of great compliments...
Paul is a funny funny man and he gave us a great script to work with...
and then everybody just ran with it...
WHOOOHOOO!
hopefully we'll restage it again...
cause if you missed it,
well, you really missed something.

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture):
"There are only a handful -- probably fewer than five hundred -- corporations that abuse or assert corporate personhood in the United States. Yet the harm they do to our economy and our republic is enormous. If they were denied personhood, we could root corruption out of government, get corporations out of politics, and make America safe and hospitable for entrepreneurs and small- and medium-sized businesses again, leading to an explosion in economic activity."

corporate personhood is a vile scam perpetrated on we the people by activist judges!!!
grrr...
(linking to Ron over at real art instead of directly to Buzzflash or Working for Change cause you should be reading Ron every day like I do!!!)