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People always ask me, "Why do you give scarves to Keith?" and "Where do you get the scarves that you give to Keith?". So many people have asked that I decided to create a separate page to explain the idea behind the skull scarves.


In the summer of 1997 I bought a black scarf with white skulls on it at a local "world" store (now out of business) called Macondo. I bought the scarf because I thought it was cool and it reminded me of Keith. I wore that scarf to my first show on the Bridges To Babylon Tour in September of 1997 in Columbus, Ohio. I had no intention of giving it to Keith until a security guard broke my camera for taking pictures of Keith. I was so angry, but determined not to let the broken camera ruin my first show of the 97-98 Tour. Then it dawned on me that since the "Bridge" was not yet built, the Stones would be walking right by me on the catwalk. I was 20th row last seat next to the catwalk. This was the closest I had ever been be to the Stones. Maybe I could give Keith this scarf? Not bloody likely as they say, but worth a try.

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nellie lutcher - lake charles boogie - this 1952 dittie features ms lutchers rippin good stride piano styin'. this is texas/lousiana swamp roots-rock at its best melding jazz, blues, boogie woogie rock and roll and that velvety thing that only rubs off from hangin' with the king cole trio.


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This dedication peaks in Mr. Belott's "Found Images," a DVD presentation of 1,000 snapshots that Mr. Belott retrieved from eBay or the Salvation Army. As fragments of scores of anonymous lives flash before your eyes, you may consider pledging to never pick up the camera again, however great the urge. ROBERTA SMITH

the shelf pieces displayed in the slideshow indicate a rather indiscriminate process in choosing a theme for the photo groupings. bad snapshots arnt interesting or fun. there are on average 35,000 photographic offerings up for grabs on ebay at any given minute day in day out for years now. its easy to buy junk in bulk. the challenge is finding lots of the good stuff before they're broken up for piecemeal sales.


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maps of louisiana


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house of antique hardware

historic house parts

liz's antique hardware

van dykes restorers

crown city hardware


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on NO shotguns

In the 19th century, local craftsmen devised structural techniques that allowed houses to stand securely on the city's pudding-like alluvial soil, and to survive in the region's notoriously humid climate, with its insects, termites and mold. In place of the heavy, water-absorbing brick-between-post construction that had been used earlier, or the brick masonry common on higher ground in the city, they began using light balloon frames, self-reinforcing structures of two-by-four joists that could be raised above ground on brick or stone piers. For these frames they used local cypress wood, which resists both water and rot, and for secondary woods they favored local cedar, which is nearly as weatherproof as cypress, and dense virgin pine.

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"We worked very closely to meet the call of the L.M.D.C.," Mr. Bernstein said in an interview. "There was a reason we were picked. This is what they were looking for."

Neither the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation nor Governor Pataki, who was in Shanghai, had seen the report yesterday.

Stefan Pryor, the corporation president, said, "Any judgments that are made prior to the I.F.C.'s submission would be premature."

A leading critic of the museum, Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the pilot of the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, said there was nothing the International Freedom Center could do to make itself palatable as a tenant at ground zero. "They don't belong there," she said yesterday.

Her criticisms began with the opening gallery. "So the very first experience that the visitors will get when they come from Cedar Rapids, Portland, Ore., and Tallahassee, Fla., was not how we experienced 9/11 but how the people, say, in Bangladesh experienced it?" she asked.
gratuitous use of emotion button pushing city names : grand rapids, portland, tallahassee and then bangladesh. (!?) geez, thats cold.


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"you cant believe the irony that you may be watching your own demise right on tv. its post modern in a kind of a way"
people on jet blue in flight and in their seats watching their air emergency (a landing gear problem) on satellite tv as they passively participate in the emergency on tv are then interviewed afterwards describe watching the emergency and switching back and forth to other shows for distraction. seen live (taped) this am on cnn.

The back of each seat on a JetBlue plane is equipped with a small television set. As passengers watched, live, in-flight broadcasts of MSNBC (see video tape) and Fox News began to show their airplane. Ash glanced at the television of the passenger next to him: "At first I just thought, 'Of course, Fox News,' " he said, discounting the story as sensationalized. "But then it was on MSNBC." People started to worry. "It was so eerie watching ourselves," Ash said. "It was unimaginable…. We heard people speculating about this and that. It was so odd." Somehow, being on the TV news "made it a big deal." Passengers reacted with a range of emotions — some quietly upset and concerned, but most very calm. A few began laughing. Ash joined them. Once he saw the humor of it, the sense wouldn't leave him: "It was just such an absurd situation," he said. But his humor faded as he listened to television commentators talking about the flight.

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ohio flood lot


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The Trust is working with Congress to secure federal historic-tax incentives for people who want to rehabilitate their houses. Specifically, Trust staff are working to amend existing incentives to rehab hurricane-damaged historic commercial buildings; develop a new tax-credit program for rehabbing owner-occupied historic houses; and create a two-year, $60 million fund that would offer grants to help save properties listed in, or eligible for listing in, the National Register of Historic Places.

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new york night


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zombies / sometimes / intro takes, 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6

bedaz'
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japanese upside down house


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27a


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travel bob


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hillbilly music source & symbol


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September 14, 2005

The Return of UbuWeb

UbuWeb is back. After a summer of rebuilding, the site is back with thousands of avant-garde MP3s and is chockfull of new content including:

Music With Roots in the Aether: A seminal series of interviews and performances concieved and realized by Robert Ashley in 1976, consisting of 14 hours worth of video and audio. Subjects and performers include: David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley says: Music with Roots in the Aether is a series of interviews with seven composers who seemed to me when I conceived the piece-and who still seem to me twenty-five years later-to be among the most important, influential and active members of the so-called avant-garde movement in American music, a movement that had its origins in the work of and in the stories about composers who started hearing things in a new way at least fifty years ago."

The Charlotte Moorman Archive: UbuWeb is proud to host the audio archive of Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991), containing hours worth of unreleased works and collaborations by Nam June Paik, John, Cage, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Terry Jennings, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jackson Mac Low, David Behrman, La Monte Young, Sylvano Bussoti, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Giuseppe Chiari and others. The selection is curated by Stephen Vitiello, with special thanks to Barbara Moore / Bound & Unbound.

People Like Us: The Complete Recordings 1992-2005 UbuWeb now hosts the complete works of the UK-based People Like Us. The brainchild of Vicki Bennett, these hundreds of MP3s feature solo works and collaborations with Matmos, Negativland, Wobbly, The Evolution Control Committee, Ergo Phizmiz, Irene Moon, The Jet Black Hair People, Xper. Xr., Messer Chups, Kenny G and Tipsy.

Christof Migone: Montréal-based Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, psychopathology, performance, video, intimacy, complicity and endurance. UbuWeb is pleased to present an audio retrospective of Migone's work, both solo and with collaborators. Also featured here are numerous writings by Migone, including a book-length work, La première phrase et le dernier mot, which is comprised of the first sentence and the last word of every book in Migone's library.

Also:

Glenn Gould "Radio Broadcasts and Radio Plays, 1967-1981", MP3

Walter De Maria "Cricket Music / Ocean Music" (1964/1968) MP3

Furious Pig "I Don't Like Your Face" (1980) MP3

Michael Snow "Sinoms" (1989) MP3

Derek Beaulieu "an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic" (PDF)

Group Ongaku "Music of Group Ongaku", 1960-1961 (Takehisa Kosugi, Syuko Mizuno, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone), MP3

Öyvind Fahlström "Manipulate The World!" (1963) and "The Holy Torsten Nilsson" (1966) MP3

Yoshi Wada "Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile" (1982) MP3

Lasry-Baschet Chronophagie "The Time Eaters" (mid-1960s) MP3

Mairead Byrne "Some Differences Between Poetry & Stand-up Comedy", 2004 (PDF)

Carlfriedrich Claus "Lautaggregat" (1995) MP3

DJ Food "Raiding the 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (starring Paul Morley and a cast of thousands)" (MP3)

Morton Feldman "Selections from the Feldman Archive at SUNY-Buffalo" (MP3)

Herbert Huncke "From Dream to Dream", 1994 (MP3)

Guy Debord "Le manque d'un avenir nécessaire" (lecture on Surrealism), 1957 (MP3)

Marshall McLuhan - Dick Cavett Appearance, 1970 (MP3)

Dan Graham / The Static (Glenn Branca, etc.) Live at Riverside Studios, London, 1979 (MP3)

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good bye to the international bar on 1st avenue. i remember the international at its original location on the north side of st marks btwn 1st and a. the landscape wall murals obliterated with burnt orange patina of steeping in a century of nicotine tea. years of yellow to brown nyc tabloids inexplicably stacked in tied bundles in the corner. three almost dead dogs everpresent. a little dog more almost dead than the rest on a cushion right on the bar in front of the tender - the bar short enough that she didnt have to pry off her stool to serve. the almost dead owner or twos would sleep in there after they shood everyone off at closing time. it smelled heavily of almost death too but the drinks were cheep and the company elegiac. then it moved around the corner to 1st ave next to mcdonalds with the next generation of heirs to title catching a brief decade or so of second *cough* ...wind. alec morton used to work there ill ask him wus up next time i see him.


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zaha ha via selma


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"every body hollerin' goat"

Othar Turner lived in the small Mississippi community of Gravel Springs, located not too far from the nearby towns of Senatobia and Como, about an hour south of Memphis. He spent most of his life within these same few miles, working his farm and playing his music. He was born in Rankin County, Mississippi in 1908. His parents had separated prior to his birth and it wasn't until he was nearly four years old that he met his father. Othar always held an interest in music. As a young child he played the harmonica and would beat on a 50-gallon lard can for a drum.

He first heard the sound of a fife at age 16 from a neighbor named R.E. Williams and was enchanted from his very first listen. The neighbor gave Othar his first fife and the boy would practice it constantly. His mother disapproved and told him to stop, but Othar continued whenever she was away from home. When she discovered that he had kept up the fife, she broke the instrument. Othar had studied the fife so intently, he was able to remember where the finger-hole positioning was and began to make his own fifes from the cane he found near his home, using a fireplace poker to burn the holes. Othar continued creating his own homemade fifes throughout his entire life.

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realtor dot com is a good resource for looking at pictures of vernacular architecture for sale all over the country. it also serves as an instant appraisal of local markets. i was wondering how NO would fair after the flood but im not familiar with how the market was prior to the flood. what is apparent is how bottom heavy the housing market is. the houses for sale only show up on page 83. thats after 82 pages of rental listings and empty lots for sale.


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Levee failure reason for 'complete destruction' of St. Bernard Parish
posted: 09-13-2005


NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Officials say the "complete destruction" of St. Bernard Parish apparently was caused by levee failure along the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a 76-mile-long shipping channel.

Army Col. Duane Gapinski, who is in charge of pumping out the area, said the levee built in 1963 is 17-and-a-half feet high.

The Army Corps of Engineers believes up to 90 percent of the levee is damaged. That levee is in front of St. Bernard Parish.

The parish president estimates no one will be allowed to return to that parish for four months and it could be next summer before some people can go back to where they used to live. There is damage from oil as well as water.

26,000 homes - a total loss - here we go...


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Scanlonville Cemetery, which dates to 1870, is a public graveyard that was never formally abandoned, wrote Mikell Scarborough, the Charleston County master-in-equity, in his Sept. 6 order. According to South Carolina law, abandoned cemeteries can be relocated to make way for development.

"From a preservation standpoint, this is an exceptional victory," says Michael Trinkley, director of the Columbia-based Chicora Foundation, Inc., who testified at a weeklong trial in June. "This is the first time we have had such a significant victory in cemetery preservation, particularly for African American cemeteries."

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