Cannonball run

For the kindest man
in the world

Early Monday morning December 10th, 2007, Cannonball, the kindest man in the world, was admitted to ORMC after a motorcycle accident. He suffered severe head trauma and is in a coma. Though the prognosis wasn't originally hopeful he is taking baby steps toward consciousness and full movement. No one knows what the final outcome will be but if anyone can beat this thing it's Cannonball. He needs love, friendship, positive energy and let's face it — coin. Friends and loved ones kept vigil at the hospital before his move to rehab, musical/art benefits are going on and more are being planned, and we know he can feel the love. But there's more to be done — any and all ideas to help Cannonball and his family please go for it... Thanks, Katie and Stephanie
— Cannonball Relief Fund

This site is accepting donations to help with Cannonball's medical costs and/or physical rehab. 100% of the funds will go to Cannonball.

SOURCE: Zelo

Shameless plug…

Not too long ago, I had the distinct pleasure to work with a fellow who happened to be quite a luthier. He had a few photos of his craftsmanship with him at the office. The woodworking was magnificent and rivaled any upper-tier bass line I've seen. He brought an actual bass into the office one day for show and tell. Amazing! The basses are uniquely blended layers of beautiful and exotic wood. If you're a bass player or just like finely crafted wood instruments, RM Basses are worth checking out.



SOURCE: RMBasses

The sound of silence…

Supersilent
8
(Rune Grammofon; 2007)

Anyone who's heard A Love Supreme (1963) — or hey, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000) — should have some idea of the spiritual associations, however loosely defined, of music that falls loosely into these sub-genres. What always struck me about free jazz, in particular, was how it conveys both spiritual ecstasy and chaotic dread at the same time. Y'know, just like how the words "rapturous" and "apocalyptic" carry very different connotations but mean essentially the same thing. Supersilent's latest title-less masterpiece — the follow-up to 2003's equally incredible 6 — comes dangerously close to being the essential document of that non-juxtaposition; a perfect intersection of free improvisation, electroacoustic experimentation, and the dramatic arc of post-rock.

— Joel Elliott

SOURCE: CokeMachineGlow.com

The Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection

Actor claims obsession with Drake, simulates suicide on 2007 video to Drake's music

The already startling death of actor Heath Ledger has taken on another startling dimension following the revelation that Ledger courted a self-proclaimed obsession with another tragic figure, late English folk singer Nick Drake. This obsession even manifested itself in a piece of Drake-inspired performance art that may have foreshadowed Ledger's demise.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com, MTV.com

Coachella announces line-up

The line-up for the 2008 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL — Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 — was announced January 21 at an event in Mexico City. Beyond the line-up announcement, COACHELLA promoters detailed their plans to make tickets and travel packages directly available to music fans throughout Mexico.

“This is really a way for us to get closer to our fans throughout Latin America who have been supportive of Coachella for the past 10 years,”
says Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett.

SOURCE: Coachella

In regard to obstacles…

Ganesha (also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka) is one of the most worshipped deities in the Hindu faith, also extending into Buddhism and beyond India. He is easy identifiable by his elephant head (as you can see in the picture) and is known as the ''Remover of Obstacles'' but also places obstacles in paths of some.

Ganesha is known as "Lord of Obstacles" in a spiritual and material sense. Paul Courtright said that "his task in the divine scheme of things, his dharma, is to place and remove obstacles. It is his particular territory, the reason for his creation." He is also known as the Lord of Intelligence — Buddhi and Ganesha is closely associated, buddhi being a noun that is translated as wisdom or intelligence.

SOURCE: PurplePJs.com

Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead

Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan apartment, and police said drugs may have been a factor.

Police said Ledger was naked in his bed with an unknown number of sleeping pills near his body.
The Australian-born actor was 28.
[READ MORE]

My life right now is, I wouldn't say reduced to food, but my duties in life are that I wake up, cook breakfast, clean the dishes, prepare lunch, clean those dishes, go to the market, get fresh produce, cook dinner, clean those dishes and then sleep if I can. And I love it. I actually adore it.

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

SOURCES: KTLA.com, IMDB.com

On this day in history…

Francis Bacon,
1st Viscount St Alban (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. Indeed, according to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method. In the context of his time such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy^{[citation needed]}. Nevertheless, his demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still informs conceptions of proper methodology today.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death. He has been credited as the creator of the English essay.

SOURCE: Wikipedia.org

It's a 2-fer!

BLACK MOUNTAIN
In The Future
JagJaguwar

Favorite psych-and-prog-spiritual pioneers BLACK MOUNTAIN are back with "In The Future", their second full-length album that resonates with the same epic ring, beloved deep rock touchstones and genuine folk fragility that made their self-titled debut full-length an instant classic. The new album possesses immense breadth, seamlessly showcasing short and classic folk-pop gems along with driving modern rock masterpieces, peaking with "Bright Lights", a seventeen-minute multi-dimensional opus that gives Pink Floyd's "Echoes" a run for its money. [READ MORE]

"In the Future is an expansive statement of an album, full of big guitars and cold space, a variety of sounds and a hard-earned and ever-present brilliance."
— 8/10, POP MATTERS

"Confident but not copyist, in the future few records will sound this dominant." -- 8/10, NME

"…an ambitious state-of-the world address that delivers on an emotional and visceral level."
— 4 stars, MOJO

"Impossibly brilliant second album. Listen to In The Future and you'll probably care about this band for a long long time"
— 4.5/5, THE SUN

In The Future "eclipses their previous output and hits a consistent note of righteous force."
— WIRE magazine

"…heady, heavy and brilliantly executed: stoner rock for the masses."
— WORD magazine

SOURCE: JagJaguwar

I hate cover records…but

CAT POWER
JUKEBOX
MATADOR

I've made it my entire adult, musician life never joining a cover band. It's simple: Other bands have already cashed in on the material. Why would I cover someone else's material at a pittance of what they're compensated? ’Nuff said.
So why can't I stop listening to the new Cat Power covers record? It started moving me the moment 'New York New York' started playing.
Yup. A Sinatra cover.
Go Figure.
One word: Remarkable!

Check it out here.

SOURCE: Zelo

From Seth's Blog…

Workaholics

It was hard to imagine someone being passionate about mining coal or scrubbing dishes. But the new face of work, at least for some people, opens up the possibility that work is the thing (much of the time) that you'd most like to do. Designing jobs like that is obviously smart. Finding one is brilliant. [READ MORE]

DON'T FORGET TO GET THE DIP BY SETH GODIN.
IT WILL IF NOT CHANGE YOUR LIFE, IT WILL
CHANGE FOREVER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT
WHAT YOU DO.

SOURCE: SethGodin.typepad.com

Albert Schweitzer: Artist

Artist Statement

Quirky characters is what I paint. Much of the time,
I let spontaneity and being open create the characters first. I later then organize these beings and put them in an environment where they live and interact with each other. The use of fluid lines and splashy shapes make up the paintings and sculptures. I use bright colors to add cheer
to the sometimes dark and ominous states of some of these characters. At times, these images are autobiographical,
and sometimes they are of people I know or have experienced. It is my intention that I paint a world that
is filled with the various states of the human condition
and how they relate to the rest of the world.

— Albert Schweitzer

SOURCE: AlbertSchweitzerArt.com

This just in from Wired…

Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details




An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at the bottom behind the keyboard. "It's unbelievably thin," said the source.

SOURCE: blog.Wired.com

"From the Gutter to the Glitter…"

Introducing the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

Since 1995 the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has traveled the world, bringing its unique hybrid of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, and sideshow to theaters, clubs, colleges, and festivals. The company has produced innumerable cabaret shows, custom performances for special audiences, all-ages and family productions, and sophisticated adult shows. Over the last five years the company has begun developing more theatrical productions, including 2001's Buckaroo Bindlestiff's Wild West Gender Bender Jamboree, 2003's High Heels & Red Noses, and 2005's From the Gutter to the Glitter: A Night Out with the Bindlestiffs.

[GO TO THE SITE]

Separated at birth

Multiple Emmy-nominated actor Oliver Platt (left) and
up-and-coming new media instigator and
unofficial Genesis visual biographer Lou Spirito.

SOURCES: IMDB.com, LouSpirito.com

Crispin Glover. Enough said.

SOURCE: hifilofi via YouTube.com

The secret knowledge of gamers…

15 Minutes of Fame:
Noor the pacifist

I prefer doing stranger stuff, as opposed to grinding high-end instances. Once, my 70 mage was in Southshore, and someone was asking directions to Ghostlands in zone chat. I told him how to go through EPL. Then I clicked on him, and he was something like a level 12 Draenei hunter. I asked him why he wanted to go there, and it turns out he wanted a red cat for a pet -- so I escorted him through EPL, and he only died a couple of times getting there. I've also done a few quests on PvP servers with non-hostile Horde players (not pre-arreanged or anything), such as the mechanical chicken escort in Feralas (twice, so we could all get credit)

Does anyone have a Gamer-toEnglish translation handy?
Just checking.

SOURCE: WowInsider.com

Reel Geezers

SOURCE: ReelGeezers@YouTube.com

1, 2, 3…

SOURCE: YouTube.com

I heart Flash!

Badgers
(Badger, badger,
badger, badger.
Mushroom, mushroom!
Snake!)

by J. Picking


SOURCE: AlbinoBlackSheep.com

Sleazy McQueen

“It was simple, really; each month, he and his Evil Twin Maxula would hire world-renowned deejays willing to play for bargain prices and two-bit haybed accommodations to play for the two of them and one or two other townsfolk, and each month the pair would lose a few hundred more dollars.”
[READ MORE]

SOURCE: myspace.com/SleazyMcQueen

"Karate was actually a dynamic and exciting band"

Karate
595
[Southern; 2007]

If there was ever a band that struggled to overcome sounding cold and mannered, Karate was it. Guitarist/singer Geoff Farina's deeply considered Donald Fagan-meets-D. Boon noodling, aching yet oblique lyrics, and clean, almost skeletal guitars hardly made for sexy listening-- unless you somehow associate aural-hotness with post-structuralism or wet shoes. So it's a surprise that 595-- Karate's first live album-- is so warm and energetic.
[READ MORE]

SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

Charlie Skinny Neck

Charlie stops by the mcglinch-cave every once in a while.

He of small head, long skinny neck and beady black eyes…

SOURCE: McGlinch.com

Strange sightings in Second Life, indeed!

DID YOU KNOW THAT:

Second Life avatars can fly, which is convenient when buildings float above the ground.

Who knew?
I sure as hell didn't.
Damn it!

SOURCE: VillageVoice.com

What rating would you give to the movie of your life, so far?

SOURCE: FilmRatings.com

A Relevant topic…

SOURCE: RelevantMagazine.com

"Where websites do battle"

Jelly! anyone?

Jelly started in NYC in February of 2006 when roommates Amit and Luke realized that they loved working from home, but they missed the creative brainstorming, sharing, and camaraderie of a traditional office. (Office politics, not so much.)

So they started inviting friends to come work from their home one day a week. They soon found that working in close proximity to new and interesting people every couple weeks resulted in new ideas and interesting conversations.

Emboldened by their early success, they made it a more regular thing. Jelly was born.

SOURCE: workatjelly.com/

Announcing the definitive slogan for 2008

"User experience as art:
where is it?"


SOURCE: twitter.com/everyplace

A standout in a year filled with amazing Canadians

Fond of Tigers
Release the Saviours
[Drip Audio]

by David Nadelle/TinyMixTapes

Very quietly in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jesse Zubot is building his empire with Drip Audio, a label that releases an odd contingent of jazz, ambient, and experimental bands, many of which feature the master violinist himself. In Fond of Tigers, Zubot is one part of a seven-strong post-rock, experimental jazz juggernaut.

SOURCE: TinyMixTapes.com

Eureka! Albums of 2007

SOURCE: tinymixtapes.com

…obviously!

This just in from…

Zen formalwear daily

Do what you want and success will follow. It’s true, but it’s also completely irrelevant. It’s what you do next that really matters. Imagine you worked like hell to make something cool. People start catching wind of what you've done, and before you know it, you're rich and famous. You revel in the success. All eyes are on you. You're the new hotness and everyone wants to know what you're going to do next. So what do you do next? You flop. Your reputation descends, and your success rapidly dwindles. Everything you do just makes things worse, spiraling you down the drain. People start thinking maybe you never had it in the first place, or you got lucky. Nobody likes you anymore, and if anything you're worse off.

SOURCE: Atomicwang.org

This just in from GapingVoid…

It's Blogumentary, Watson!

He sees blog people

Chuck Olsen is the founder of Minnesota Stories, called one of the best videoblogs by the New York Times. He is the producer-director of "Blogumentary," the first documentary film about the rise of political and personal blogs. His work has screened at the Walker Art Center, Harvard University, and on renegade laptops all around the world. He is the Minneapolis correspondent for Rocketboom and works as a freelance producer, videographer, editor and educator.

SOURCE: blogumentary.org

Tricky, where you at?

SOURCE: brownpunk.tv/trickyblog

This just in from Seth Godin's blog…

Who you know

One of the mantras of networking (and the many social networking sites that people are flocking to) is that it matters who you know. The goal of having a thousand or more friends online is that you're well known. Connected. A click away.
I wonder if there's a more useful measure: who trusts you?

SOURCE: Senthgodin.com

Thank you, Qburns…