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I guess this is net kitch, hunh ?
Mugsy (Capt. Fork) from the old
Uncle Floyd Show keeps the fire burning for Floyd Vivino, master humorist.
More Terry Riley links from the
Cortical Foundation , interview and add' links @ qaswa, and some other links from music search
Terry Riley has been putting a bunch of new old stuff out lately. Latest I've heard was a late 60's piece commissioned for a disco. He puts mean loops and reverb on the soul 45 "Your no good" and it runs 20 min's or so.
Best of all is "Music for the Gift" where he puts the hurt on wild Chet Baker riffs / another piece on the same disc includes a radio narator talking over the entire begining of a live stage performance "...and we can see from here someone is placing objects on the strings of the piano, ......ping..plink...bling.bling...skrunk....
excuse me, I belive that the performance is already underway, so we return you now to the stage where........"
NYC text artist Kenneth Goldsmith also has a radio show on fmu where he features art as music and music as art (concrete poetry/music concrete, etc) here are his *avante* links and these are his playlists (archived for your listening pleasure / and yes, kenny loves Marianne Nowottny).
from the grass-roots news desk :
Doug's Action Alert #1 UPDATE: Oppose John Ashcroft
There is a lot of good news to report. An unprecedented coalition
of 20 progressive activist groups has banded together to lead the charge
against Ashcroft's nomination. They include Alliance for Justice, Handgun
Control, Human Rights Campaign, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
NARAL, NAACP, People for the American Way and the Sierra Club. They have
set up a website HERE which contains all kinds
of valuable information on Ashcroft's record and how to proceed with our
grassroots effort. Additionally, the Million Mom March has set up a website HERE and People for the American Way has set up a
website HERE which includes an on-line petition
you can sign. I heartily recommend that you visit all these sites, take in
as much info as you can, and then follow their action recommendations.
A new Newsweek poll taken this weekend found more Americans against
Ashcroft's confirmation than for it, even though they generally support
Bush's other nominees. See: Here for more
details. This is exciting news because it shows we are not shouting in the
dark. This issue has touched a nerve with a lot of people. Senator Barbara
Boxer of California became the first U.S. Senator last week to announce that
she would, indeed, oppose the Ashcroft nomination. And many other
Democratic Senators are indicating they are leaning against him, including
Joe Biden of Delaware and Charles Schumer of New York. Democrats had strong
words against Ashcroft on the weekend talk shows like Face the Nation,
indicating that they're tuning in to the American people's hostility to this
right-wing extremist.
So, what's next? THIS WEEK IS THE BIG WEEK, my friends. Ashcroft's
nomination proceedings start tomorrow. He is expected to make a long
opening statement promising that he will faithfully uphold laws he formerly
opposed. He has been receiving coaching all weekend long over at
Bush-Cheney Transition Headquarters. Trent Lott and the right-wingers are
turning up the heat by forming a coalition of right-wing activists IN FAVOR
of Ashcroft, and they are just beginning their grass-roots effort. What
does that mean? IT MEANS CALL, CALL, CALL! And sign the on-line petition
at opposeashcroft.com. And, if you haven't sent out your handwritten
letters yet, GET THEM OUT TONIGHT! All U.S. Senators' offices will be
closely tracking the volume of mail, email and calls they receive both for
and against Ashcroft this week. THE STRENGTH OF OUR GRASS-ROOTS EFFORT IS
KEY to putting Senators on notice that we do not take this nomination
lightly and we will not stand by while Bush tries to eradicate our civil and
human rights with right-wing nominees. Write, email and call. This week,
it's all a question of volume. The more times you call and the more people
you can get to call, the better.
The Ashcroft nomination is shaping up to be the first real political battle
of the Bush White House. The strength of our opposition will send a strong
signal to Bush how much he can expect to get away with over these next four
years. It is up to us to tell the Democrats and the Republicans that we
expect them to hold true to Bush's promise of a non-partisan, non-divisive
administration. It is up to us to tell the Democrats and the Republicans
that the American people expect moderate nominees and that we will not
accept radicals on the courts or in the Justice Department.
Finally, if you still have questions about the role of the U.S. Attorney
General, I would like to suggest an article from MSN which describes just
how important the position is: HERE
Please feel free to pass this message along to any of your friends if you
think they might be interested. For those of you who would like to send me
comments or questions, feel free to respond.
Sincerely,
DOUG HAXALL
Blue Note crowd sees the downside of James Brown.
Legendary soul man James Brown provided a New Year's Eve fireworks show of
his own.
His bizarre behavior stunned a highbrow crowd at the Blue Note jazz club with
actions that included: an on-stage rant in a bathrobe; going into the crowd
to confiscate a front-row showgoer's camcorder, angrily throwing a patron's
chair ala Bobby Knight and saying he had been communicating with the pope.
Dozens of showgoers, including a local TV reporter, were seen lining up for
refunds during the show.
"Never seen anything like it in my life," said one perturbed reveler who
clearly did not share the spirit demonstrated by The Godfather of Soul in his
signature hit "I Feel Good."
Things started going badly early. Revelers were told to arrive at 6 p.m., but
the doors didn't open until 7:15. At 9:15, Brown in a bathrobe was spotted
engaging in a heated debate with management off to the side of the stage.
A few minutes later, Brown was seen having words with two women at a table
near the front of the stage. When the two women got up and left, Brown went
to their table, tossed one chair and kicked the other. Then, with his arm, he
swept everything off their table: beverage glasses, party favors, etc.
At 10:15, he returned to the stage in his bathrobe, demanded management turn
down the sound and told the crowd that they had probably noticed he was
"pretty agitated because these people are trying to take advantage of me." He
mentioned that he had been paid $30 million for the performance but that he
had given back "all the money."
When he eventually came on stage in a suit, he dressed down his drummer at
one point, and raised more eyebrows when he said the pope had contacted him
and said he -- the pope -- was no longer going to hold audiences with people
because he couldn't attract the number of people "that James Brown could."
Calls to the Blue Note's local and New York corporate offices for a response
were not returned.
Wednesday, January 03, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
COLUMN: NORM!
"Music is far older than our species."
What is it about "form following function" that architect Frank Gehry doesn't get !? All those Titanium tiles used for Bilboa's external skin required silicon based fire-proofing ! Some got spilled, now it looks like hell. What an asshole and how defensive can you get ! It takes a design this problematic to fuck up a Titanium sheathing system ! Brings to mind the Statue of Liberty incident wherein restoration workers pee'd right on her shoulder and it wound up making an oxide statement Warhol could die for.
Czech Milan Hlansa founder of Plastic People of the Universe, dead from cancer @ 49
"Rock 'n' roll is the medium to express the situation of man in this world and the world to come,"
"We don't do the music just for the sake of the music. You must be the author of your own life."
-M.H.
The hair of one of Hungary's most popular pop stars has been stolen from the
hospital where he died earlier this week, it has been reported.
Jimmy Zambo, 42, known by his fans as the "King", died on Tuesday after
accidentally shooting himself in the head at home with a pistol.
Zambo's long hair was shaved off before surgeons could operate on his brain,
although they failed to save him.
The hair has now disappeared, the Hungarian daily newspaper Blikk said,
quoting hospital officials.
Singer of the year
Zambo's fans have said they would pay large amounts of money for the star's
hair.
According to police reports, Zambo fatally wounded himself in the head at
his home in Budapest in the early hours of the morning.
He had fired his 9mm Beretta out of a window but failed to realise a bullet
was still in the chamber when pulling the trigger a second time.
Zambo was voted Hungary's singer of the year in 1993 and had won awards for
the best record of the year on several occasions.
His 2000 album Christmas With Jimmy has been Hungary's top-selling record
for many weeks.
Platinum
Since March 2000, Zambo had also hosted his own popular show on commercial
TV station RTL-Klub.
"He was one of the most professional showmen with whom it was always a
pleasure to work," commented Imre Szabo Stein, RTL-Klub's director of
communications.
The singer, whose real first name was Imre, had won the hearts of many
Hungarians since coming to prominence.
He started his singing career in the State Radio Children's Choir.
>From 1982-86 he moved to the US to try his luck on the club circuit before
returning to Hungary. All his albums since have gone platinum.
Zambo is survived by his wife and three sons.
Here lies Dick Shawn .
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Further, toward the Black Mountain College.
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