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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 .
flic vids
flic factoids
Skull and Bones
more bones...
what more bones.....
dem bones......
Further, toward the Black Mountain College.
BMC
60's poets
project
"Garbolagist AJ Weberman has done it again ! This time looting super star Chan Marshell's (aka: CATPOWER) garbage can. Seems he found two noteworthy documents, a set list from a recent show and a page from her agenda. We share the wealth as follows. "
-b
Set List :
Quit Looking At Me
I'm Sorry
Maybe I should Wear a Veil
I'm Sorry
Shouting About Repression
I'm Sorry
Whoops
Life As An Oral Report
I'm Sorry
How To Get A Lot Of Attention While
Acting As Though It's The Black Plague
I'm Sorry
There's Nothing To Me. Yet The World Hangs
On My Every Complex Moove - I Love It
I'm Sorry
How To Assemble A Credible Band
I'm Sorry
Famous Drummers
I'm Sorry
Matador Pays for My Shrink
I'm Sorry
Matador Paid For My Drum Machine
I'm Sorry
Tomorrows Interview Schedule :
10:00 am - MAGNET (make sure to mention southern upbringing)
11:30 am - RAYGUN
12:30 pm - Close eyes, run finger down a list of hip Free-Jazz Musicians, stop, open eyes, form new band
3:00 pm - PUNCTURE MAGAZINE (act uninterested, devalue self, daydream, end w/ a profound statement).
4:00 pm - Examine Inner Self on the air at WFMU
6:00 pm - Dinner w/ SPIN (dont forget to pick at food)
7:00 pm - SPIN Photo Shoot )dont forget to apply fake cold sore)
9:00 pm - Attend Rave at the MATADOR Offices
complete text stolen from : THE CIMARRON WEEKED #0006 (music zine) w/o permision (po box 820206, memphis tn 38182)
I'd like to send a shoutout to our local NYC goddesses over at Temple of the Goddess
NYC artist JZ8 gave up art to run his Middel-Finger corperate empire.
Nested somewhere inbetween mark pauline and the mit gizzmoe olympics (worse than both but on tv twice a week) is battlebots
. Any one catch the "junkyard wars" marathon over thanksgiving ?
Future location of the next Dick Shawn tribute site. !
"Hello everyone,
My movie "Until the Day I Die" has won the popular vote at Pioneer Theater
short film festival and they will be showing it 5 times a day for 6 days!!
It is starting this Friday through next Thursday. I hope you can check it
out.
Pioneer Theater
155 E. 3rd St. (at Avenue A)
Tel:212-254-3300
Call for schedule.
Friday the 15th - 21st."
rock god Samoa
ltd edition chicken mcnugette in the shape of.....
They've been calling it Groundhogs Day since the election but last night Greenfield on cnn mentioned another one going around, "The Sienfeld election", you know the election about nothing. But he was actually able to trace it down to a single episode. The one where Georges family celebrates Festifus (sp?). Festifus, celebrated in the holiday season culminates with the anual, "Airing of the Grievences"....he went on to run down the two very familiar D an R lists.
Last night Jeff Greenfield on cnn sited a republican report which described Gores "Blue" won states as "The Porn Belt". Equating liberal pro "freedom of speach" areas with porn concentrations.
From todays NYT "In Stress of Recount, Complaints get Bizarre" by Lynette Holloway - Plantation Fla.
......Matthew C. Rhoades, 25 a research analyst for The Republican National Comitee, said that on Friday he saw a Democratic counter in the room eating a chad, the piece of the punch-card ballot that is supposed to fall out when a voter punches in his choice.
"We couldn't find a camera," Mr. Rhoades said,"and we were about to sweep them off the table. But right before that, a Democratic counter put one on his finger, joking around, held it up and then threw it in his mouth."
Her Name is Kathy and she works for Jeb
Katherine Harris no stranger to controversy
By Dara Kim
Nov. 13, 2000
| TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A Harvard-educated blueblood from one of
Florida's wealthiest families, Secretary of State Katherine Harris is no stranger to
controversy.
She's been investigated for campaign finance violations and criticized for spending
state money jetting around the world, spending up to $500 a night for hotel rooms in
Washington. She's also been one of George W. Bush's most prominent political
supporters, campaigning for him in Florida and elsewhere.
Harris placed herself in the middle of the increasingly partisan
struggle over Florida's 25 electoral votes Monday with her
public announcement that all 67 counties are required by law
to wrap up their recounts by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
She sits as one of six elected members on the Florida
Cabinet, which with Gov. Jeb Bush, decides on issues
ranging from the mundane to the momentous affecting
schools, the environment and other statewide concerns.
As secretary of state, Harris oversees elections, the state's
historical and cultural resources and also keeps the state's
public records. She makes $106,000 a year.
"For what is probably the easiest of the Cabinet positions,
she's made it awful difficult," said state Democratic Party
spokesman Tony Welch.
In her first two years on the job, Harris spent $100,000 in Florida tax dollars on foreign
trade missions to places like Barbados and Brazil as well as the Sydney Olympics. Her
travel expenses were significantly higher than the other five Cabinet members and
three times more than Gov. Jeb Bush.
Harris defended her travel, saying she has brought millions of dollars of international
trade to the state and established cultural ties such as a cooperative ballet between
the state and Mexico.
Sandra Mortham, the incumbent who lost to Harris in a nasty Republican primary in
1998, said every secretary of state emphasizes their own key areas of concern.
"For me, it was elections, and it was to get the elections online and on the Internet,"
Mortham said. "Katherine has decided that she wanted to move the office more into
the area of international relations."
Ben McKay, Harris' chief of staff, said Harris was too busy with Monday's court hearing
to return calls.
In 1994, Harris became implicated in a campaign finance scheme surrounding her first
run for public office. She was forced to reimburse $20,000 after state investigators
discovered that employees of Riscorp, Inc., an insurer, were improperly reimbursed
for their contributions to her 1994 Senate campaign.
She said she had no knowledge that anything was amiss with the contributions.
This year, Harris approved a taxpayer-financed public service announcement featuring
retired Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf, a Bush ally, urging Floridians to vote. She
received criticism for spending the public's $30,000 to finance the ads, which aired
during the final month of the presidential campaign.
McKay said Harris' office asked Schwartzkopf, as a prominent Floridian, to make the
ads months ago, after Gloria Estefan and Tiger Woods turned down the request.
Harris, 43, earned a degree in history from the all-female Agnes Scott College in
Georgia, received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard and she
studied art and Spanish in Madrid, and philosophy and religion in Geneva.
Her grandfather, citrus magnate Ben Hill Griffin, served as a longtime legislator. He was
also a friend of former state Republican Party chairman, Tom Slade, who hand-picked
Harris for her Senate run. Her cousin, J.D. Alexander, is a state representative.
The Cabinet job, one that has been largely ceremonial, is being abolished after Harris'
current term, which expires in January 2003.
Harris, who is married to businessman Anders Ebbeson, listed her net worth as more
than $6.5 million as of December 1999, according to her latest financial disclosure.
Associated Press
Palm Beach County suspends hand count By Jackie Hallifax
Nov. 14, 2000 | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) --
With a deadline fast approaching, judges in three Florida cities are deciding the fate of
recounted votes while Republican George W. Bush's legal team weighs whether to
appeal to a higher federal court.
Amid the swirl of legal maneuvers, officials in Palm Beach
County voted 2-1 on Tuesday to delay their manual recount
until they can clarify whether they have the legal authority to
proceed.
The county, a Democratic stronghold, had planned to count,
by hand about 425,000 ballots -- exactly one week after
voters first complained they were confused by their ballots.
Their outcry unleashed a political tide that froze Florida's 25
electoral votes and left Americans waiting to see who their
43rd president will be.
"The opinion we have received is that this manual recount is
not authorized by Florida statutes. It is my understanding that
an advisory opinion is in fact binding on this board," said
Judge Charles Burton.
Burton had opposed the canvassing commission's earlier decision to order a hand
count.
A federal judge who turned away Bush's initial effort to stop the recounting agreed
Monday the stakes couldn't be higher.
"I believe these are serious arguments. The question becomes who should consider
them," said U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who declined Bush's request
for emergency federal intervention and ruled the issue was best left to local courts.
Among the critical issues to be resolved in local courts -- whether counties can
continue recounting votes beyond a 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline set by Florida's
Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harris.
In Tallahassee, a judge expressed doubts about the deadline as he weighed a
request from Vice President Al Gore and two counties to give more time for
recounting that could stretch into the weekend in Palm Beach County.
Leon County Circuit Judge Terry P. Lewis repeatedly questioned Monday why the
state had set the Tuesday deadline when absentee votes can continue to be counted
through the end of the week. "What's the good of doing a certification ahead of time?"
Lewis asked. He also questioned how a large county could ever get a hand recount
done within seven days since voters have three days before they even have to
request one. Lewis was expected to rule Tuesday.
Republicans argue the manual recounting should be ended because the process is
prone to abuse and political bias. Democrats hope the recounts will help Gore pick up
enough votes to overcome Bush's narrow lead in the state, which an informal
Associated Press tally put at 388 votes.
On other legal fronts:
--In West Palm Beach, a judge is considering the lawsuits of voters seeking a new vote
in their county. The voters argue the punch-card ballots they were given on Election
Day may have confused them enough to mistakenly vote for Reform Party candidate
Pat Buchanan when they intended to vote for Gore.
--The Florida Democratic Party sued the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on
Monday evening, challenging the board's method of reading the ballots. The party
wants "pregnant chads" -- dimpled fragments not detached from the card -- counted
as votes.
--Democrats prepared to go to court in Broward County to overturn a decision by
officials there not to order a countywide manual recount. The county's canvassing
board decided Monday against the recount, after counting a sample of votes by hand
in three precincts and finding no major discrepancies.
"We intend to file litigation seeking judicial relief from this decision, which we think was
based on an erroneous legal decision sent down by the secretary of state,"
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jenny Backus said.
While Volusia County sought to wrap up its second recount, officials in Miami-Dade
County -- the state's most populous -- were to vote Tuesday on whether to conduct a
recount requested by Gore's campaign.
Bush's legal team is weighing whether to escalate a fight it began in federal court. The
options include appealing Middlebrooks' decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
in Atlanta, or possibly going to the U.S. Supreme Court on an emergency basis,
according to Republican officials familiar with Bush's strategy.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the possibility that
Republicans would seek to expand voter recounts to other Florida counties where
Bush fared well was "perceived as unlikely" at this time because deadlines for
requesting such recounts had expired in many counties.
Bush's lead lawyer sounded his main argument against further recounting on Monday.
"The process, to sum it up, is selective, standardless, subjective, unreliable and
inherently biased," Theodore Olson argued.
Senior Gore adviser Warren Christopher, a former U.S. Secretary of State,
acknowledged that the legal back-and-forth "seems to be getting a little bit
argumentative," but said his side believed the recounts were the only way "to defend
the rights of the voters of Florida to have a fair outcome."
Associated Press