Wow!

SOURCES: From a game called Crayon Physics.
[via Jackson Fish Market via Amit Gupta's Blog]

Highly recommended!

SOURCE : The Ruby Suns

What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?

"When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation."

SOURCE: Osho Zen Tarot

Zelo's Word-of-the-Week is: Bollocks!

"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in English, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrases "Bollocks to that!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" expresses a distaste for a certain task, subject or opinion; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration, pleasure or approval.

Perhaps the best-known use of the term is in the title of the 1977 punk rock album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Testimony in a resulting prosecution over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense".

SOURCE: Wikipedia

New kid on the block

Read a review here.

Does this album cover make me look fat?

While at SXSW, take a moment…

…to reflect about the recent passing of famed drummer and Austin resident, Buddy Miles.

George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970.

As a teen he gigged with his father’s band, the Bebops, and with Preston Love, Sr. and Lester Abrams. He first made it in New York, hooking up with Wilson Pickett. He jammed in the Village with Eric Clapton. His big break came when Michael Bloomfield plucked him for the Electric Flag, a blues-rock band Miles still considers the best he ever played in.

Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."^[6]

A memorial concert will take place on March 30 at Threadgill’s on Riverside Drive, South Austin.

SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Reader, news reports

File this under funny

PHOTO: Goldtoe

SOURCE: GoldToe.net

SXSW Interactive

Jemina Kiss
taps into
SXSW
and the
future.




SOURCES: SXSW2008, The Guardian

Idaho spells relief

Perhaps one can trace the proliferation of what's been dubbed sadcore to the imminence of the millennium, the bleak consensus that the twentysomething generation is destined to be worse off than its predecessors or the technology-accelerated breakdown in interpersonal communication. More likely, this oh-so-Caucasian progeny of the blues has found its niche because the only thing that feels better than complaining about your lot in life is hearing someone else grieve about the things that make his or her existence even worse than that. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: The Trouser Press,
IdahoMusic.com

Say hello to artist Joe Concra

Joe Concra
Inside the Kingdom
74" x 82" oil on canvas

From an article on the artist that ran in Chronogram magazine:

One Fine Day

…You never start with a good idea. You just start with working. The idea comes later. There's never a finished painting that doesn't have four or five paintings underneath it that were complete failures. If I hit one out of 75, I'm really happy.

SOURCES: JoeConcra.com, Chronogram

Of migraines and things…

Shaking It Off
By Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy is primarily known as the lyricist, lead singer and guitarist of Wilco, one of America’s most popular and critically successful rock bands. He is also a lifelong migraine sufferer whose headaches were for decades compounded by bouts of depression and panic disorder. In 2004, Tweedy suffered a collapse and entered a rehabilitation clinic in Chicago to treat his conditions and a resulting addiction to prescription painkillers. In Tweedy’s estimation, his new found ability to treat and manage his depression and panic has helped him to remain migraine-free for the past four years. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: NYT

BarCamp Orlando vision

Annual 3 Day A Cappella Music Festival

RESTON, VA – March 7, 8, 9, 2008 – Over 100 of the best professional a cappella singers from Germany, Austria, Canada and the United States will take the stage at South Lakes High School for the annual 3 day a cappella music festival, “CASA’s East Coast A cappella Summit” from March 7 to 9, 2008. The a cappella groups will use only their voices to perform leads, harmonies and to vocally imitate a virtual orchestra of sounds – including jazz trumpet, classical strings, distorted electric guitar and a full drum set. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: MMDNewsWire.com

Boy band mogul admits to being an idiot

Lou Pearlman, the man behind boy bands 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is set to plead guilty to a $300m fraud scheme, prosecutors have said. In a plea agreement, the music mogul has admitted running scams that defrauded investors and major banks for more than 20 years. Mr Pearlman entered a not guilty plea last year, but is scheduled to reverse that in court in Florida on Thursday. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: BBC News

FROM PAZZ & JOP 2007: Grow Up Like a Rock Star

The "rock star," as we traditionally think of it, is scarce on this year's Pazz & Jop ballots. The mega-famous icon clutching a guitar and singing about heartache or fucking or partying or escape or revolution; the prophet whom we come to for concrete answers instead of riddles and viral videos and cryptic website codes. Maybe there's a dearth this year, given the lack of new offerings from Dylan, Beck, Green Day, System of a Down, U2, or Johnny Cash. Or maybe we're prisoners of our own self-awareness. [READ MORE]

— Christopher R. Weingarten

SOURCE: Village Voice/Pazz&Jop 2007

Roger Black

SOURCE: RogerBlack.com

Kelefa Sanneh, Ariel Levy Join New Yorker

New York Times music critic Kelefa Sanneh is leaving the newspaper to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, according to an internal memo distributed yesterday. (Radar had reported a rumor to this effect.) Also heading over to 4 Times Square is New York Magazine contributing editor and writer Ariel Levy, who has already posted the news to her personal web site.

SOURCE: The New York Observer

Bjork makes 'free Tibet' gesture

Bjork has a track record of courting controversy and surprising her fans The Icelandic singer, Bjork, has caused controversy among fans in China by shouting "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of a concert in Shanghai. The cry followed a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence is considered taboo in China, which has ruled the territory since 1951. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: BBC News

Blues guitarist Jeff Healey dies at 41

Legendary blues and jazz guitarist Jeff Healey has died, his publicist said Sunday. The Canadian musician had battled cancer his entire life."It was something he fought with considerable bravery," his publicist, Richard Flohil, told Newsnet late Sunday.
Healey, 41, had lost his eyesight to a rare form of the disease, Retinoblastoma, at the age of one. [READ MORE]

SOURCE: CTV.ca