Short, Sharp, Schrapnel

Vicious Intent: The Rock 'N' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel

In December 2007 Dark Horse will publish Stainboy Reinel's first book of collected works, Vicious Intent: The Rock 'N' Roll Art and Exploitation of Stainboy Reinel. Unschooled, undisciplined and unstoppable, Stainboy now carries out his deadly assignments and other secret services in sunny Orlando Florida while indulging his tastes in beautiful women, fast cars, expensive restaurants, and sharp, stylish clothing.

SOURCE: StainboyReinel.com

Local promoter pays it forward

Gamble Records organizes 2 shows to benefit local non-profit groups*.

Here's a look at Friday night's set opener at Dandelion Communitea, in downtown Orlando. The Token Gamblers rock the house with some foot-stomping bluegrass goodness, including special guest Big Jef on fiddle.


*The proceeds to benefit:
Florida School of Herbal Studies
Simple Living Institute
Solilla Center 4 Creative Kids

Check them out!

SOURCE: Zelo

E.L.L.A. Music Festival next weekend

October 5 and 6, 2007


As part of the Orlando-based Gamble Records Presents series, Orlando audiences can hear a different voice for Florida female singer-songwriters. Put together mainly through the valiant efforts of Robert Johnson (I know what yr thinking) and Jonathan Andrews, this recent press release sums up the goal:

For Immediate Release!
Gamble Records is setting the stage for a cultural renaissance of the Floridian feminine spirit. Ten amazing musicians will be linked together by one of the most righteous music festivals to ever grace the presence of our city beautiful. The E.L.L.A. Music Festival, on October 5th & 6th at the Rogers’ Building Theater (37 S. Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL, 32801) in downtown Orlando, will be one of the only festivals in our city that stays true to its purpose; to bring the finest female singer/songwriters that Florida has to offer to the attention of the Central Florida listening audience.

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR 1 OR 2 DAYS @ DANDELION COMMUNITEA

Produced by Gamble Records

SOURCE: Zelo

Sins of the Gawker

Elijah Pollack Is Going To Be A Horror

When is it okay to hate a 4-year-old? Maybe when the kid's name is Elijah Pollack. Elijah is the son of Alternadad Neal Pollack, the author and oh-so-hip dad who has been remanded to blogging his existence away on Epicurious. This week, they visit a cheese store and, well, Elijah is the worst. Now we know both he and his portrayal are at the mercy of his daddy.He is essentially a formless mass that has been fashioned into what he is by his father. But if we were to come across a sculpture that resembled, for instance, a large penis, we would be remiss not to mention that fact simply because the statue was created by a sculptor and did not form itself. And if you think we are somehow being hyperbolic or unnecessarily cruel in being so harsh on little Elijah, let us show you.

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AUTHOR RESPONDS

Neal Pollack Half-Heartedly Defends His Character/Son

Understandably unhappy professional father Neal Pollack is understandably unhappy that yesterday we called his four-year old son Elijah the worst and predicted that in a few years he'll be a full-grown horror show. Why did we launch this "disgusting sneak attack," he asks, in an email blast to his "Friends, Colleagues, Supporters, and anyone else who might be interested."

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SOURCE: Gawker.com

Sitting zazen…

Achieving your childhood dreams

Sad news

Jeff Wood Kept The Beat For Tampa's Music Scene

By KEVIN WALKER

The Tampa Tribune
Published: Sep 14, 2007

TAMPA - Jeff Wood, a beloved fixture of the local music scene and one of its most talented drummers, died Wednesday night at his mother's home in Valrico. His family and his fiance gathered around the 42-year-old as he died at 7 p.m.
"It was very beautiful," his mother, Jan, said.
Shortly after his death, lightning flashed and thunder boomed. That was beautiful, too, and appropriate for a local rock 'n' roll icon.

"He would have liked that," his mother said.

Skip directly to the full story.

SOURCE: The Tampa Tribune

Ecstatically Peaceful!

Remain in light

Osho Zen Tarot

The Fool

A fool is one who goes on trusting; a fool is one who goes on trusting against all his experience. You deceive him, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you; and you deceive him again, and he trusts you. Then you will say that he is a fool, he does not learn. His trust is tremendous; his trust is so pure that nobody can corrupt it. Be a fool in the Taoist sense, in the Zen sense. Don´t try to create a wall of knowledge around you. Whatsoever experience comes to you, let it happen, and then go on dropping it. Go on cleaning your mind continuously; go on dying to the past so you remain in the present, here now, as if just born, just a babe. In the beginning it is going to be very difficult. The world will start taking advantage of you...let them. They are poor fellows. Even if you are cheated and deceived and robbed, let it happen, because that which is really yours cannot be robbed from you, that which is really yours nobody can steal from you. And each time you don´t allow situations to corrupt you, that opportunity will become an integration inside. Your soul will become more crystallized.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 2

SOURCE: Osho.com

This just in from the A.V. Club…

Dirty Projectors
Rise Above
(Dead Oceans)

The concept is irresistibly rich—young musician goes home to his parents' house, finds an empty cassette case for Black Flag's Damaged, and tries to remake the album from memory—but it would be a mistake to hear Rise Above as a mere conceptual exercise. For one thing, Dirty Projectors couldn't sound less beholden to the source material. Barely a note of "punk" rage plays out in songs as elaborately restructured and emotionally reconstituted as "No More," which laces cries of "I need action" with haunting harmonies and quasi-African guitars. Dirty Projectors leader Dave Longstreth clearly had more than a remake on his mind—a mind whose wandering ways will be worth following for years to come.
A.V. Club Rating: B+

Reviewed by Andy Battaglia
September 11th, 2007

SOURCE: TheOnion.com

How's Joe?

Future leaders of our nation

It's just a moon phase thing

CURRENT MOON

moon phase

And not just in a Bright Eyes release

Paradise Lost
Squabbling, bad management and development threaten to destroy Cassadaga, the one place in Central Florida that doesn't look like every other place In 1875, New Yorker George Colby and three spirit guides hiked through the brush and muck of Central Florida until they came across a serene place of rolling hills and ponds. Colby was a spiritualist – someone who communicates with the dead through mediums and séances – and he wanted to establish a spiritualist camp in the South. He found a property and, in 1880, filed a homestead for 74.4 acres with the state of Florida. About 15 years later (there is some confusion on the exact dates), Colby deeded 35 acres of his land to the newly formed Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association.

By Deanna Sheffield/ORLANDO WEEKLY
Thursday, September 6, 2007

SOURCE: OrlandoWeekly.com

This just in from The Washington Post…

Author Dave Eggers Cops $250,000 Heinz Award

Author, philanthropist and literary entrepreneur Dave Eggers has become the youngest person ever to win one of the annual $250,000 awards from the Heinz Family Foundation. Eggers, 37, used earnings from his autobiographical 2000 bestseller "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" to launch 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center in San Francisco for children ages 6 to 18. Since then, the center has replicated itself in five other cities, with another branch scheduled to open this fall in Boston. "I think of it as a validation of the work that 826 does," a grateful Eggers said in an interview. He said the $250,000 would be split evenly among the seven centers.

By Bob Thompson/Washington Post, Wednesday, September 12, 2007


SOURCE: WashingtonPost.com

BlogOrlando 2007

BarCamp Orlando 2007

A look see

PJ Harvey: "The Mountain" (Live for Norwegian radio)

Polly Jean Harvey stopped in Oslo on Wednesday for a Norwegian radio interview and also played five songs from her forthcoming White Chalk. Luckily, the performance was filmed, and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation has posted this performance of "The Mountain" from the session for all to see. If you've heard fellow White Chalk track "When Under Ether", you might not be surprised by the piano or the high vocal register. The shadowy lighting and the intense performance still make this riveting viewing, though, and there's no preparing yourself for when Harvey's voice leaps up for a Tim Buckley-esque flight of vocal fancy. "I feel nothing," she complains, describing dying trees and betrayal between lofty howls. It's still intriguing how quickly she can go back to an easygoing chuckle after this, too.

SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

This just in from Pitchfork…

Weather Report founder Joe Zawinul Dies

Keyboardist, songwriter, and jazz fusion pioneer Joe Zawinul passed away today, September 11, in his native Vienna, according to a Reuters report. The report cites local news agency APA as saying that Zawinul succumbed to a rare form of skin cancer at age 75.

Read more

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

Boxer briefs

The National: "Apartment Story"

If you've seen the cover of the National's Best New Music'd Boxer, then the latest video from that album might look familiar. Filmed in a Brooklyn church, the Banner Gwin-directed clip for "Apartment Story" shows well-dressed singles shyly introducing themselves to each other, tapping their fingers and their toes to the National's thrumming anthem. From a stage behind them, the band plays, and eventually the spiffy young folks start moving out to the dancefloor. "We wanted to capture the sweet but awkward vibe of a wedding reception or singles mixer," the National's Matt Berringer tells Spinner, which has the video. Funny, my wedding DJ thought it would be a good idea to get things going with some Kenny Rogers.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

If you happen to see either of these men…

…ask them when they are going to get off of their fat asses and produce something close to good music again.
Damn!

Sincerely,
Bart Silverfish
Blissink Records

Black Lips

Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil
[Vice; 2007]

Rating: 8.3

Black Lips can, to date, be depended on for raucousness, irresponsibility, occasionally pissing in their own mouths onstage, and sloppy garage tunes indebted to noise and punk as much as the band's Southern roots. Given all that, the idea of them hitting anything outside of a niche audience seemed slim. They're a go-to band for filth-rock puritans, even as their unhinged live shows have helped them slowly gain a larger audience with each album's release.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

Print enlightenment

Art as interaction

Local Projects is turning museums into places where people interact with information—and each other. Its latest commission will have the whole country joining the conversation.

By Angela Starita


SOURCE: PrintMag.com

Animal Collective

Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam
[Domino; 2007]

Rating: 9.3

In March, Animal Collective's Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) had his breakout moment with the release of Person Pitch. It was his first solo album that didn't sound like what we'd previously heard from Animal Collective; sample-heavy and based on loops, the album's songwriting devices favored expansion and contraction over conventional chord changes. Person Pitch reflected Panda's interest in dance music-- even when it veered toward the angelic pop innocence forever associated with the harmony-drenched hits of the 1960s and 70s. Both the album and its transcendent centerpiece, "Bros", are deservedly being widely considered among the year's best.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com

I love you, in Irish

Gilliam's Island

The alternative to
the All-American,
family-fun movies
of the last 5 years.

NOTE: Not for the faint of heart

Salad Fingers (7 episodes)

OMG!

A poem: If I Owned the Internet

How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? "If I were in charge of the Internet," Rives says, "You could Mapquest your lover's mood swings/Hang left at cranky/Right at preoccupied/U-turn at silent treatment ..." Enjoy a unique talent.

About Rives


SOURCE: TED.com

A Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo

A Cross-modal, cross-user, multidimensional experience
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.

About Blaise Aguera y Arcas

SOURCE: TED.com

Dave Eggers: Where you at?

Before he started reading, he was talking about his process
for twisting Deng's voice into his own. This excerpt is one
of the first things he wrote when working on the book.
Moe's Books, Berkeley


There seems to be a suspicious lack of Dave Eggers on television these days. A scant few years ago you couldn't swing an old issue of Might without hitting a mention of the D to the E. He was last sighted at the 2005 Hay Festival of Literature & Arts.*
Upon further investigation we found this at McSweenys.com:

… In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent book-publishing house in San Francisco that puts out the McSweeney's quarterly literary journal; the monthly magazine The Believer; a daily humor website, www.mcsweeneys.net; and Wholphin, a DVD quarterly of short films. In 2002, Eggers opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco, where he teaches writing to high-school students and runs a summer publishing camp; there are now branches of 826 in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, and Ann Arbor, and in 2007 a seventh center will open in Boston. With the help of his workshop students, Eggers edits a collection of fiction, essays, and journalism called The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is also the co-editor of the Voice of Witness series of oral histories.
His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, Punk Planet, and The New Yorker. He has recently written introductions to new editions of books by Edward Wallant, John Cheever, and Mark Twain.
His most recent work is What Is The What:
Valentino Achak Deng, real-life hero of this engrossing epic, was a refugee from the Sudanese civil war-the bloodbath before the current Darfur bloodbath-of the 1980s and 90s. In this fictionalized memoir, Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) makes him an icon of globalization. Separated from his family when Arab militia destroy his village, Valentino joins thousands of other "Lost Boys," beset by starvation, thirst and man-eating lions on their march to squalid refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, where Valentino pieces together a new life. — Publishers Weekly

*In 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind".

SOURCE: zelo research

Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows

September 12, 2007–February 25, 2008 Painted or printed images on glass were among the earliest forms of projected "motion picture" entertainment. Mechanical glass slides were manipulated to simulate various kinds of change in the image, and multiple projectors allowed for superimposed and dissolving views. Brightly colored, handcrafted slides, depicting human activity, fantasy figures, and landscapes, were typically presented with live narration, music, and sound effects, in what became popular by the 1870s as Magic Lantern shows. Experimental media artist Ernie Gehr's Panoramas of the Moving Image (2005) is a synchronized five-channel video installation that uses eighty-seven original slides and views selected from Gehr's personal collection and that of renowned pre-cinema collector David Francis. Projected side by side, the slides create a mesmerizing wide-screen spectacle. A selection of vintage paper Zoetrope strips and Phenakistiscope discs—complementary artifacts of nineteenth-century moving-image technology—are also on display.

Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, and Ron Magliozzi, Assistant Curator, Research and Collections *All dates are subject to change
SOURCE: MoMA.org

This video inspires smiles

Caribou's 'Melody Day' Song of the Week on BBC Radio 2

Melody Day is this week's record of the week on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's show on BBC Radio 2.


SOURCE: www.caribou.fm

PJH, again!

The name is Hawk…Thomas Hawk

Photo courtesy of Zoomr.com

Only because you asked…

Absolutely heaven for fans of the genre.
Enjoy!

It tickles a little

St. Moist

MoistWorks is an audioblog started by James Morris* in April of 2004. A year later it was hijacked by a number of additional writers, many of them divas. We update Monday through Friday, putting up all sorts of music and as much text as the occasion seems to call for.

*JAMES MORRIS is the founder of moistworks. He played wide receiver briefly in the AFL. He is the editor of The Roxanne Diaries, the UTFO fan club newsletter.

Juicy Temples makes me thirsty

Klaus Heesch
Creative Director/Principal

Klaus learned his craft at various ad agencies and design studios. He was let out for good behavior and founded Juicy Temples in 1999. In the last eight years, he has won more than 100 awards at shows across the country. Besides his obvious talents, “Klaus makes this a refreshing place to work,” says Amanda Hutton. “Even when he starts singing — which happens all the time.”

Raised in Florida and a graduate of UCF, Klaus Heesch is a
nationally recognized designer. His work has been honored in
numerous publications and competitions including Communication
Arts, STEP Magazine, Print Regional Design Annual, Rockport’s
“1,000 Type Treatments”, “Great Graphic$ on a Budget”, and
“1,000 Greetings: Creative Correspondence Designed for All
Occasions,” the ADDYs, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA),
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, and the Marketing
and Interactive Excellence (MIXX) Awards. He was also named Art
Director of the Year by the Orlando Advertising Federation.
Prior to founding Juicy Temples in 1999, Klaus served as an art
director and designer for various advertising agencies and design
studios working with clients as diverse as the United Way, Wet n’
Wild, Disney Cruise Lines and the House of Blues.

He has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences
and events. Recently an 8-page article in HOW Magazine featured
Klaus’s career path and the design work at Juicy Temples.

Side Note: An accomplished musician and songwriter, Klaus penned
the only song heard in ‘The Blair Witch Project.’



2424 E. Robinson St.
Orlando, Florida 32803
phone 407 895 5015
fax 407 895 1883
juicytemples.com

This just in from the Village Voice…

Clearing the Air
Sorting solid claims about the 9/11 toxic cloud from the obscuring haze of uncertainty

To understand how deeply New Yorkers hold the conviction that 9/11 environmental fallout is killing people, you need only to have attended the August 21 public meeting that was held in a chamber across from City Hall.


The topic was the disastrous August 18 fire in the heavily contaminated Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, which killed two firefighters. Only three weeks before the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks, here were city, state, and federal officials once again trying to downplay the possibility that the fire released environmental toxins into the neighborhood.

By Graham Rayman
September 4th, 2007 6:18 PM

SOURCE: VillageVoice.com, Wikipedia.org

A God, actually…

Maxwell Lemuel Roach
(January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was a bebop/hard boppercussionist, drummer, and composer. He worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown. Roach also led his own groups, and made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement of African-Americans. He is generally considered to be one of the most important drummers in history.

SOURCE: Wikipedia.org, DemocracyNow.com

Extreme badass alert!

Kenneth Schalk (Candiria)
Drum Nation Volume 3 might be your
last chance to hear the talents of former Candiria drummer. Kenneth Schalk is one of the most impressively creative and diverse drummers ever to sit behind a kit. After a split with the band in August, Kenneth moved to the West Coast to take a small refreshing break from the music business.

SOURCE: Magna Carta records

WARNING: This video clip contains extreme amounts of badass drumming.
Whiplash could occur. Consult a physician before operating machinery or
driving a forklift.

Did someone say Emo?

Here's the only Emo I know.

One more from McSweeney's…

Wholphin Subscription
Beginning with No. 4

Edited by Brent Hoff

Wholphin is a new quarterly DVD magazine lovingly encoded with unique and ponderable films designed to make you feel the way we felt when we learned that dolphins and whales sometimes, you know, do it. TThe fourth issue of Wholphin will feature Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard lying to one another; the FBI mistaking an artist for a bioterrorist; Scottish 9-year-olds singing “Satan Rocks” at their country fair; an episode of the Russian “Married... with Children” re-scripted; an Academy Award nominated short; nuns; retired chimpanzees; plaster casters; and films from France, Morocco, New Zealand and the U.K. This issue will also include a bonus disc featuring the final installment of Adam Curtis’s The Power of Nightmares. Part Three: “The Shadows in the Cave.”

For Wholphin submission guidelines, please click here.

For a peek at what's on Wholphin no. 4, click here.

A Wholphin subscription lasts for 4 issues. You'll receive the current issue, plus the three subsequent issues.

This just in from McSweeney's…

The Believer Subscription Beginning with October 2007

Edited by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park, and Vendela Vida

By subscribing to the Believer, each month you will receive, in perfect-bound print, all the new articles, interviews, reviews, poems, and columns so enticingly excerpted here on the website; you will have the opportunity to study up close the beautiful illustrations of Charles Burns, Tony Millionaire, and our regular raft of guest artists and photographers; you can pore over each issue’s two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the website; you will enjoy the feel of the Westcan Printing Group’s gorgeous “Roland Enviro 100 Natural” recycled acid-free heavy stock paper against your hands, fingertips, and face; and you will save a hefty percentage off the $8 cover price. The Believer subscription currently starts with the October 2007 issue (Volume 5, Issue 8) and runs to September 2008. To purchase individual Believer issues, click here.

My new hero: Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He co-founded bOING bOING magazine and the Boing Boing Blog, and was an editor at Wired from 1993-'98. For 3 years, Mark wrote a monthly column for Playboy called "Living Online," and was the co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook (Putnam-Berkley, 1995). He's the design columnist for Mobile PC magazine and a contributing editor to TheFeature.
He's the author and illustrator of a science experiment book called The Mad Professor.

Source: BoingBoing