WEEKEND TUBE - 2007 IN REVIEW

Here it is. Courtesy of Current T.V.

source: Current

FOUR NIGHTS OF NEW YEARS WITH THE NINE!

STS9 are offering a live web stream of their four night NYE run from The Tabernacle in the ATL. It all starts tonight. It's available at IClips. All you do is a brief registration and then you can stream for free. I've been on IClips for a few shows and it works great, even for us Mac users. No fuss, no spam, NO CHARGE!

GET IT HERE

R.I.P. - Oscar Peterson

"The jazz odyssey is over for Oscar Peterson: the Canadian known globally as one of the most spectacularly talented musicians ever to play jazz piano has died at age 82."

source: CBC

HIPPIE CHRISTMAS!

JERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Weekend Tube

Weekend Tube

hmm.

Unusual Color Wheels Found in Life and Art

COLOURlovers is one of the blogs I subscribe to. I'm find their posts entertaining and inspiring.
Their recent post on color wheels found in life and art is no exception.
Check 'em out.

A Christmas Gift From Bruce

from his site..
"To: Our friends visiting BruceHornsby.com, Bruuuce.com & BruceHornsbyLive.com...A holiday surprise - free live download!!!!
It has been a fun-filled, fantastic year and we appreciate your support for all of our adventures in music...
We've put together a special holiday collection of live tracks from the summer of 2007! As usual, we didn't skimp; and it's yours for the taking!

So eat, drink, be merry and most of all enjoy!

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers"

get it here

LED MOTHERFUCKIN' ZEPPELIN

THE BOYS ARE BACK!
Led Zeppelin has just finished their first show in 19 years. Plant (seen in a recent rehearsal in the photo above), Page, Jones and John Bonham's son Jason on drums played in London's O2 arena to a beyond sold out crowd and apparently did NOT disappoint.. Billboard.com was there delivering the up-to-the minute set list highlights including .....

Led Zeppelin has played:

"Good Times, Bad Times"
"Ramble On"
"Black Dog"
"In My Time of Dying"
"For Your Life" (first time ever played live)
"Trampled Underfoot"
"Nobody's Fault But Mine"
"No Quarter"
"Since I've Been Lovin' You"
"Dazed and Confused"
"Stairway To Heaven"
"The Song Remains the Same"
"Misty Mountain Hop"
"Kashmir" ("They're starting to look tired now but that riff is still big enough to fill the 02," says a spy inside)

Encore:
"Whole Lotta Love" ("The crowd is going ballistic," says our source)
"Rock and Roll"

Wow. That's a set! "For Your Life" DEBUT. Get the fuck out. I'm not even going to say anything else.

Weekend Tube - Redemption

Okay. We all know I shit the bed on last weekends tube. I pulled a quickie. It sucked.

So here is my attempt at redemption. Two heaters. One a BANKSY. One an Olbermann.

A Christmas Time Surprise!

Ahh, The Slip. My favorite band? Yes. Sometimes. Talented musicians, craftsmen of their art? Yes. All of the time. But the Slip can be even more that.
Besides ruling the universe...at least my universe The Slip are often joined on stage by Nathan Moore to form the Slpendiforously Fantastic Surprise Me Mr. Davis.
Those of you that know what I'm talking about, well, you know what I'm talking about! But for those of you who know not of what I speak. DON'T TRIP! Your ass(es) is in luck.
TONIGHT Surprise Me Mr. Davis is playing in S.F. and the concert will be offered as a FREE webcast! The show starts @9 with an opening set from The Sensations (feat. Greg Loiacono of The Mother Hips). Surprise Me Mr. Davis gets going @10 and you comfortably melt into your computer screen sometime around 11!

CLICK HERE FOR SHOW
and then you can choose to"view in a larger window"

source:Reap and Sow Music

THE LIST 1.0

I am in the process of cataloging my (mostly live) music collection...and a process IT IS! I'm finding i need a list just so I'm not getting duplicates of shows. Also, it will make it easier for me to share music with everyone. So if you see something you would like , email me and I will send you a copy.
Here is a list of some of shows I've gotten in the past 4-5 months (sans phish).

Please note that 99% of these are SOUNDBOARD and FM sourced!

**THE LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED. PLEASE SEE NEWEST POST TAGGED W/"THE LIST" ABOVE.

Weekend Tube

a taste from the recent republican debate..

TONIGHT!

Friend of the Advocate, kind soul and incredible musician, Shawn Vreeland is having a CD release party TONIGHT at the Goose. Info above. Grooves Below! If you know what I'm saying.

Weekend Tube?

I was thinking of posting a cool You Tube video once a week to share what I've been digging on. I was going to post it on a certain day of the week and call it 'you tube tuesday ..or wed.', whatever. If I did that I would have to post on that day and you all know how I am with that.
So ladies and gents, I introduce..

Weekend Tube!

I'm starting this off with a favorite of mine. You might have come across this already. Either on your own or through the Murcof Tube link on this blog.

Here is Murcof (laptop), Erik Truffaz (trumpet) and Talvin Singh (tablas) at Montreux 2006.
Also, I have a soundboard audio copy of this show for those that are interested. It is amazing!

Guiliani & Fox News

Read about it HERE.

source: Salon

Massive Letdown

So, I was just watching some South Park and taking some um...well, anyway. My ears were MAD HAPPY when they caught the familiar sounds of some Massive Attack, which is one of my favorite bands ever! The joy was soon washed over and drowned with disapointment when I realized it was a commercial I was hearing....aaggghh! A commercial for a video game called 'Assassins'. Awful.
I know selling out is the unfortunate norm and not a lot can be expected of people and all of that, but...come the fuck on. This is Massive Attack. The infamous crew of camera shy, stage shy, studio shy musicians. If they need money why don't they tour? Or record? Shit,
put together a greatest hits mix. T-shirts? A fucking poster maybe. Please.

Say it aint so, Joe!

Yahoo settles dissidents suit

THIS is some bullshit.
If your not familiar with this story, start HERE

Free Graph and Grid Paper

I've been using this site for a while now. I mostly print graph paper for landscape designs but have recently printed some of the guitar/bass fret paper also. You can change the number of lines per sheet, size of lines and all. They have a lot of specialty papers for different design formats, accounting and more. It's free and it's great.
click HERE

George W. Bush's Presidential Advance Manual

click HERE to read it. there are some interesting parts in there as well as some silly stuff...
"The formation of “rally squads” is a common way to prepare for demonstrators by countering their message. This tactic involves utilizing small groups of volunteers to spread favorable messages using large hand held signs, placards, or perhaps a long sheet banner, and placing them in strategic areas around the site.These squads should be instructed always to look for demonstrators. The rally squad's task is to use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform. If the demonstrators are yelling, rally squads can begin and lead supportive chants to drown out the protestors (USA!,USA!,USA!). As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators form the event site. The rally squads can include, but are not limited to, college/young republican organizations, local athletic teams, and fraternities/sororities."

source: yourleaders.org

R.I.P. Norman Mailer - A Great American Voice

(AP) - Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song" died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Art of the Street

Time Magazine has a great Photo Essay on Urban Street Art available to view and read HERE

Free Directions Instantly on Your Cell Phone

SAVE THIS NUMBER!
You will need it.
It's free.
It's super simple and easy to use.
It works.

I've used it. It's great.
Try it.

check the site here

Peaceblaster

STS9 is more than my favorite band. They're good people. They've always found a way to share their success with others...artists, d.j.'s, fellow musicians. They've also consistently supported many worthwhile organizations and causes including Head Count and especially Conscious Alliance.
Now they've invested their efforts into a new site, Peaceblaster.
"Peaceblaster is a database of links, organizations, documentaries, books and ideas geared toward raising awareness and creating a platform to organize, participate in and debate the pressing issues of our day."

Austin City Limits 07-08 Season

Austin City Limits Broadcast Schedule:
10.06 Norah Jones
10.13 The Decemberists/Explosions in the Sky
10.20 Femi Kuti
10.27 Jimmy Reed Highway: Jimmie Vaughan and Friends
11.03 Wilco
11.10 Arcade Fire
11.17 Brad Paisley/Dierks Bentley
11.24 Van Morrison (Encore)
12.01 Gretchen Wilson/Miranda Lambert (Encore)
12.08 Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Encore)
12.15 John Mayer
12.22 Lucinda Williams/Old Crow Medicine Show
12.29 Bloc Party/Ghostland Observatory
01.05 Crowded House/Grupo Fantasma
01.12 Regina Spektor /Paolo Nutini
01.19 Roky Erickson/Kings of Leon
01.26 ACL PRESENTS: The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Know Your Rights as a Photographer

I thought this was a cool article as well a s the follow up article.

source: cheap shooter

Where Does Our Tax Money Go?...The war on Pot.

What else could we spend $42 billion each year on? Health insurance for kids? Better paid teachers? It's our choice.

read more here

source: AlterNet

Where Does Our Tax Money Go?...Wiretaps!

"I was actually surprised that this was such a routine transaction that it would have a set fee," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.

read more here

source: The Raw Story

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

"The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.

The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii."

read more here

source: SFGate.com

Reverse Graffiti!

check this here

"Eric @ Wired writes -
A street artist has got to have a serious bone to pick to keep on working in front of shouting, gun-waving cops. Then again, I guess Alexandre Orion had a bit of an advantage when the police tried to nab him in a São Paulo street tunnel: He wasn't painting city property, he was cleaning it. For over two weeks last year, the Brazilian artist selectively scrubbed soot from the tunnel until the white surface underneath stared through as a cemetery's worth of skulls."

Sick y'all. I love it! ART!

source: make blog

Photos of the Recent So Cal Wildfires

I just came across this photo essay of the recent wildfires. It's scary to see how close the fire came to the burbs'.

source: LAist

Blumpkin?

Hmm. Not sure about the difference between a 'Hot Carl' and a 'Cleveland Steamer'? Well, trust me, there is a difference. Learn all about it and plenty more at UrbanDictionary.com

Shitty Neighbors?

Got 'em? Wanna' avoid 'em?
Check into it at RottenNeighbor.com

Accuracy and Accountability in Politics?

Possible? Yes.

Available? Yes.

Too Me? Yes.

Where? FactCheck.org
and also, OpenSecretrets.org

Virtual Moonwalk...Seriously

Man..I fucking love Google. They've just relaunched Google Moon with "Street View" on-surface panoramic NASA photos from the astronaut's perspective. Google's Lat Long blog explains:
"This update brings higher-resolution map imagery, text search, and photos and stories from every Apollo landing. We even included Street View-style panoramas of the moon's surface, taken by the Apollo astronauts ... something you won't see anywhere else. And last but certainly not least, we tossed in scientific charts that are good enough for actual mission planning and science classrooms alike."

uh...cool

N.P.R. Launches New Music Site

We all know how cool and informative N.P.R. is. Now they've invested all their wit, knowledge and substance in a new music only site. It's FULL of news, reviews and interviews as well as live concerts and more. Dig on it HERE

Anna Thekla (Alice) Dypoldt...Peace Be With You.

As I mentioned, Stephanie's Beloved Grandmother, Alice, passed away on November 3rd.

Most of us called her Oma and that is how I will remember her. Oma was a beautiful soul and we are all blessed to have known her. She truly reflected the beauty of this world and had a great way of sharing that with those she knew. She was very close with her family, her friends and those she loved.

Again, I feel blessed to have shared times with Oma discussing life, Love and happiness. My sympathies are with Steph, her Mom, her brother, sister and uncle as well as everyone else who has lost a friend with Oma's passing.

I will never forget the lessons I learned from Oma. Thank you, Oma. I love You.

link to obituary

Second Saturday with Friends

Yep. It's already Second Saturday and this month is a special one. Friend of the Advocate, Joanna Hedrick is currently showing some of her photos at the Cool Cat Gallery and will celebrate with a reception this Saturday November 10th from 6-10 p.m.

The Exhibition will go to Saturday, December 1st and is showcasing some of Joanna's new work as well as the work of Wynshum Luke.

Everyone here at the Advocate is stoked. The offices are a'buzz and yours truly will look forward to seeing you down there.

Getting Back To It, Y'all

Wow! It's been over a month since I've posted here. I've been overwhelmed the dramas of life. Family, Business, Personal Relationships, Health, Car Accidents and the unfortunate passing of Stephanie's Grandmother who I feel blessed to have known and learned from.
I have a lot to share with everyone including plenty of web goodies, my Halloween with STS9, my truck accident and more.
Stay Tuned y'all.

1 GB 20 Years Ago vs. Today

source: digg

ANTARCTICA - A Global Warning..

..is an absolutely amazing new visual essay on our generation's biggest challenge.

With Photographs by SEBASTIAN COPELAND Foreword by MIKHAIL GORBACHEV & an

Introduction by LEONARDO Di CAPRIO.

check it out HERE

The Second Coming of Electronica?

Yours truly was happy to come across this article on Slate.

source: Slate

Who's got it? Who's using it?

click image to view larger version

Breakin' Down A "Brokedown"

Rest In Peace Joe Zawinul

Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna on Tuesday, aged 75.

read more here

source - reuters

peace

photo - Dino Perucci

John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview

Listen to Jann S. Wenner's historic interview with John Lennon, conducted in December of 1970 here.

spare some change?

what are you doing tomorrow? wanna' panhandle for reparations?
seriously, get down here.

Get Well Soon

"Joe Zawinul, who performed and recorded with Miles Davis, has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness, officials said Tuesday."

Apparently he is very ill. Read more here.

source: Washington Post

rage against the machine

romanian protestor
castellon spain 9/4/07

photo by Juan Marti

The Richest and Poorest Places in the Country

Top 10 wealthiest states

Here's where the median household income is highest

State	Income
Maryland	$65,144
New Jersey	$64,470
Connecticut	$63,422
Hawaii	$61,160
Massachusetts	$59,963
New Hampshire	$59,683
Alaska	$59,393
California	$56,645
Virginia	$56,277
Minnesota	$54,023

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

The 10 poorest states

The states with the lowest median household income

State	Income
Montana	$40,627
Tennessee	$40,315
Kentucky	$39,372
Louisiana	$39,337
Alabama	$38,783
Oklahoma	$38,770
Arkansas	$36,599
West Virginia	$35,059
Mississippi	$34,473

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

source: CNN Money

Amother One Bites the Dust

I'm sure you've head the story. Just thought you might enjoy Encyclopedia Dramatica's slant here.