Jan
4th
Wed
4th
After all, the world needs yet another blog. Desperately.
Who is me? Why, me is a guitarist + singer in:
and:
Serial FB refugee, loves swimming, hiking, and all tha aminals. The views I express here are mine alone and not necessarily those of my bands, my cat or any other rational entity.
Here is something wonderful and great:
Here is something awful and stupid:
Elizabeth Warren for Senate
Here’s a link to a Democrat I find worthy of our support. She should be in the senate, and I think she will be.
Folitics
Of course now the fun begins and they screech about cutting taxes on the rich or there wont be any Christmas. And closing schools and opening jails or baby Jeebiz will haz sad. It’s a special season, the GOP primary, a great upwelling of generosity and joy. I just hope they can find a way to “cut” taxes on the rich, that would be a trick, seeing as the richest of the rich have recently been firehosed with bazillions of public dollars, in reward for all the crimes they did! Yay! They must be given more, so it’ll all trickle down. Librials just don’t get it. Now about that birth certificate.
Jan
3rd
Tue
3rd
Some East Bay Rubbish I Liked in 2011
Lae Charles and DJ Dave. What’s not to love about this?! The SoCal Whole Foods Parking Lot track and vid, and the Berkeley answer to it, and then the Berkeley Enough thing are as hilarious and fun as they are well crafted and original. Instant classics all, and it’s great to see these guys pop. There’s an article and interview in Berkeleyside that covers the story. Hey they even name drop Josephine Street! That’s the Berkeley street where myself, and my fellow Uptones Paul Jackson and Emily Jayne AND Fashion Slaves bassist Eric Knight, all grew up on. Are we Berkeley enough?
For the record, I think the Kreayshawn viral hit “Gucci Gucci” is hot. It’s irreverent and fun and clever and infectious. I like things like that, and it’s homegrown too. This is something she and her friends invented and created. It’s as legit as anything it needs to compete with in today’s dreary mainstream; The music is tight and there’s refreshingly no auto-tuned chorus. I’m down with Oakland kid Kreayshawn. She’s blowin up like catnip, I follow her like Twitter! Why you actin’ bitter? Hehe..
There’s a new proggy hard art trip rock band called Rubbish. Now I’m predisposed to like a band called Rubbish, but I’d like them better if they were a “kick-ass heavy rock band made up of the refuse of Primus, Bluchunks, Walrus, 3rd Rail, and Band #6.” Which they are, they are! Their music is tight and crunchy and gnarly and clever and I like ‘em. They’re playing a gig this Saturday in SF. Here’s the event page on FB. Go forth and rock.
So there’s a few bits from hereabouts that I liked in 2011.
And if you think you had a bad hangover on Jan 1, just be glad you’re not Pynoman! Here’s Alex Carlin’s gang’s ode to the worst hangover ever had by man or Pineapple.
Happy 2012!
Dec
31st
Sat
31st
Any moment we are not amazed and grateful for the simple fact of our existence on this lovely, improbable planet, is a moment we are not paying attention. It happens to all of us. I judge no one. We live, as we dream, alone. And that’s why friends are the greatest, sweetest miracle. My “God” is: the totality of all of us, and all of nature, and the whole infinite, incomprehensible universe, which composes us, nurtures us, consumes us and meanwhile baffles us. We are lucky to have a moment, with our senses, to perceive it at all. Happy new year. Be safe and have fun.
Nov
18th
Fri
18th
Talk about the best of times and the worst of times. We have the coolest tools and toys humanity could ever dream of. Science fiction is reality as we video chat and anyone can publish what they want and make it available to the world in the time it takes to type this. At the same time, the transfer of wealth away from those who most need it, into the hands of those who need it least, has been made more efficient and speedy. I see more destitute people on the street this year than last, and not just the mentally ill who were put out on the street by Ronald Reagan, or drunks who can’t help themselves, but sober, capable people, who simply have become desperate by circumstances beyond their control. Somewhere a nice diamond necklace purchased with bailout money sits in a drawer.
Nov
3rd
Thu
3rd
Oct
30th
Sun
30th
I have read a few friends’ comments recently, in which they question why people are saying “elections are not viable solutions” to our urgent problems. Here’s the most articulate answer to that question that I have found yet - by U of O professor Gordon Lafer. A good read. And indeed, after the Democrats proved when they had a majority in both houses and the presidency, they obey the 1% and abandon the 99% just as reliably as Republicans. The difference is the Dem’s use more polite language, and better grammar as they reward banks for notorious felonies. The Repub’s are perhaps more honest in that they point at the middle class and poor and laugh and sneer and say “fuck you, losers,” while the Dem’s pretend to be our friends.
