Archive
ha’fway 2009
Happy 233rd birthday, United States!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
(Sub)consciously prompted by these music blogs, here are my favs of the first half of 2009… it’s all bound to switch around by year’s end:
Artist – Album (label)
- Dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion (Ohlone)
- Masada Quintet + Joe Lovano – Masada Book Two: Book of Angels, Vol. 12 ~ Stolas (Tzadik)
- OSI – Blood (Inside Out Records)
- Wussy – Wussy (Shake It Records)
- Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy – Spirit Moves (Green Leaf Music)
- Wynton Marsalis – He and She (EMI / Blue Note)
- John Zorn – Alhambra: Love Songs (Tzadik)
- Regina Spektor – Far (Sire / Warner)
- Isis – Wavering Radiant (Ipecac)
- Zu – Carboniferous (Ipecac)
- Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings, really only the instrumental disc (Roadrunner)
- Jamie Saft – Black Shabbis (Tzadik)
- Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones (Rounder)
- Secret Chiefs 3 – Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini (Web of Mimicry)
- Ember Swift – Lentic :: 子玉 (Few’ll Ignite Sound)
I didn’t get a few that already came out this year… the new Green Day, U2, Placebo, Eminem, Dave Matthews Band, Fever Ray, Crank 2 soundtrack (by Mike Patton). I’m waiting for them to be cheaper used, but they may make it to the list at the end of the year.
The 2nd half of 2009 promises to bring some potential great ones, too… John Zorn’s O’o, Medeski Martin & Wood Radiolarians 3, Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane (possibly by November), Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Souls (maybe), a new Sufjan Stevens (just speculating, since it’s been a while), Ani DiFranco always has something coming out, Jon Madof’s CircuitBreaker debut (maybe) & another Rashanim, The Tango Saloon’s Transylvania (stateside release?), new Tristeza, Over the Rhine Live from Nowhere IV, George Hrab ‘s 6th album Trebuchet, Derek Webb‘s Stockholm Syndrome, SFJazz 2009 with Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano and others, A Perfect Circle internet only single releases (as mentioned back here), and a new Tool record (they’ve worked on it some, but I doubt it’ll hit until 2010)… and I’m sure another dozen or more that I’ll dig from Tzadik.
~Dan – np: Cut Chemist – The Audience’s Listening
again… Happy 233rd birthday, United States!
This July 4th, celebrate Sarah Palin resigning as Alaskan governor!
Bill Maher’s Religulous
(click for larger poster images)
Well, I saw Bill Maher & Larry Charles‘ Religulous yesterday afternoon… and while it was the third weekend in theaters, there were more people in attendance than the opening weekend of Expelled (same theater in Eugene, same time of day). Hmmm…
Anyway, funny funny funny movie. Of course, considering the subject matter, there’s a wealth of comedic opportunity. While it is primarily making fun of religion by talking down at its followers; well, there are some good points made. Obviously, I’m biased, though… I like Bill Maher, and I tend to side with him in many areas. Meh… sue me.
Check it out if it’s playing near you, or when it hits the DVD shelves.
If you like Bill Maher, you can get his HBO show Real Time for free as a podcast… check it out here (iTunes link).
~Dan – np: Goddamn Electric Bill – Topics for Gossip
PS- sidenote / unrelated…
Fox News has nothing better to talk about than magazine touch-ups, as they are effectively on the wrong side on the issues when it comes to the constituents… might as well talk about magazine close-ups of former beauty queens:
Monty’s Rockcast / Palin Debate Flowchart & Duck Hunt / Holy Fuck on CBC Radio Q
Well, three unrelated topics… Monty Colvin’s podcast, the VP debate, and Holy Fuck on CBC Radio Q…
Monty Colvin, bassist/ songwriter/ backing singer from Galactic Cowboys and multi-instrumentalist/ lead vocals/ songwriter from Crunchy, has a podcast. If you’re a fan of Galactic Cowboys (GC), King’s X, or guys who say “um” and “stuff” a lot… check it out. As a big GC fan, episode #2 was really good… great insights to the making of the self-titled debut. He’s only up to episode #3, but I look forward to more Rockcasts. Keep it up, Monty!
“And a great podcast fell upon the ground… hmmm…”
-Wylde Silas Tomkyn
Subscribe here: itpc://web.me.com/montycolvin/Site/PODCASTS/rss.xml
Check out his webpage: http://www.montycolvin.com/
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Speaking of podcasts (ok, I guess they were related topics), I just got through the 10/2/08 Vice Presidential Debate on my iPod (I wasn’t around to watch the debate) between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.
Well, all I can say it… “you betcha” is starting to sound like a bad cartoon catch phrase, Sarah.
So, Dick Cheney‘s only bad decision was shooting his friend in the face? That’s what she said. Really, Sarah Palin?
Really?
No… really?
Sigh… I just hope this doesn’t turn out poorly… for us all… not just “Joe Sixpack and Hockey Moms.”
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
OK, back to something that cheers me up… because as much as I like to hear my politicians mispronounce “nuclear” (it’s not new-cue-lar), I like hearing post-rock, organic-electronic band Holy Fuck MUCH MORE… they play “Lovely Allen” and “Royal Gregory” on Canada’s CBC Radio Q hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
The CBC Radio Q podcast is located HERE (the 10/3/08 show is one with Holy Fuck playing live — they’ve been interviewed on it before, but as far as I know, not playing live).
Bleh… sorry for my run-on, parenthetical sentence (as I like to do)… the podcast link is HERE (iTunes link) or HERE (CBC web mp3-link).
~Dan – np: Talkdemonic – Eyes at Half Mast
If you missed it…
The 2008 Presidential Debate(s) are (will be) available for download as a CBS podcast HERE (via iTunes). For non-iTunes people… well, I’m sure it’s out there elsewhere.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=292335278
~Dan
PS- Rest in peace, Paul Newman. I love your spaghetti sauces and your daughter’s cookies (literally, not euphemistically).
A Very Special Planned Parenthood Fund
Planned Parenthood is a great organization. They help women of all stripes who are in need of medical advice, birth control, et cetera.
I don’t know if you knew this, but you can make a Planned Parenthood donation in honor of someone else. They get a little card saying that a donation was made in their name. Hmmm… who deserves to get donations made in their name to Planned Parenthood? What’s that you say? Sarah Palin? The running mate of John McCain? The Governor of Alaska who thinks that it’s OK to teach abstinence only sex education, who also happens to have a 17-year old pregnant daughter? OK. Yep, she deserves a donation in her name.
You can send as little as $5. Even if only $5, everything helps… Planned Parenthood. The part about making it in honor of Sarah Palin is just icing on the cake. And, donations to Planned Parenthood are tax deductible. Whereas donations to Sarah Palin are not. And we all know that Sarah Palin would want us to give money to PP instead of her anyway, right?
The link to PP’s donation site: https://secure.ga0.org/02/pp10000_inhonor
To their main site as that link above looks suspect (but isn’t, I checked): http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
The address to make the donation in honor of:
Sarah Palin
c/o McCain for President/Sarah Palin
1235 S. Clark Street 1st Floor
Arlington, VA 22202
You know what to do…
~Dan – np: Glen Phillips & Works Progress Administration
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
PS…
McCain / Palin ’08
the old guy & the fundie mom
(or)
Yeah, that’s a GREAT idea.
Palin(g) in Comparison
To the Hillary supporters who for some reason don’t like Barack Obama…
Don’t Vote for McCain simply because he chose a woman. I know that may seem like an unlikely alternative, and I know that we’re all smarter than that…
But there are rumors and rumors of rumors that some Hillary-likers (now maybe undecideds) are switching over to the crotchety side simply due to his choice of a woman…
Sarah Palin is not an alternative to Hillary. She’s actually quite the opposite.
- She doesn’t believe in teaching sex education in schools. She believes in abstinence only sex education. Her 17–year old daughter is pregnant. Hmm… yeah, not teaching kids about condom use really works… 100% of the time that they don’t have sex. Of course, it works zero percent of the time when they do have sex.
- She wants creationism (i.e.- religion…) taught in public schools (…as science). So… she believes the earth was formed around 4,000 B.C. – – which is roughly 4,000 years after the agricultural revolution occurred in Mesopotamia. Oh, and it all started with two people, a snake who knew (presumably) excellent Hebrew, and an apple that a supernatural being didn’t want these two people to eat. Yes, let’s give her the 2nd position in power.
- She also believes that the founding fathers (of the U.S.) fully intended for “Under God” to be in the Pledge of Allegiance. Um… the founding fathers were long dead in the 1950s. They were (mostly) deists, not (mostly) Christians, and they had nothing to do with the “Under God” in the pledge or the “In God We Trust” on the currency. That all happened in the 1950s as a reactionary move of congress during McCarthy’s anti-communism witch hunt.
- She wants polar bears to cease to be listed as endangered. They don’t need rights. They’re just animals.
- She wants to deny any benefits to homosexual couples. They don’t need rights either. They’re just animals.
- She opposes abortion and stem cell research. Um… hello… stem cell research doesn’t have to come from fetii. They are separate issues, and stem cell research should not, not, not be linked to it… regardless of your views on abortion / reproductive rights. Wake up!
- Oy… http://www.ontheissues.org/Sarah_Palin.htm
Sarah Palin is not the alternative. Not. The. Alternative. And, as the old man’s V.P., there’s a good chance that she could be P. after the oldie has a heart attack after being egged on the way to inauguration. Not a good idea.
~Dan – np: a weird iPod playlist with Gnashing of Teeth‘s 2006 demos and Joss Whedon‘s Mr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog Soundtrack
/ 
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
Amazon.com mp3 downloads
Creative Commons
This blog and concert photos therein are licensed under a Creative Commons License. Available with Attribution for Non-Commercial, Non-Derivative Use.
pacificlectic : concert reviews & eclectic music news 