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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Mon, 01 Nov 2004
Musica
So, Saturday (in my aspect as audio engineer at Hanovers) I got to
work with a band called Back
Porch Mary. Go see them. Not only are they some of the nicest guys
that I've worked with in nearly thirty years of doing this, they are
in the top five hardest working bands I've seen ever,
and that list already includes people like James Brown, Frank Zappa, Little
Feat and Joe Ely. They play like some microbiologist took equal
measures of DNA from Eddie Cochran, Webb Wilder, Joe Satriani, Buck
Owens, Dwayne Allman, Randy Newman, AC/DC, Tony Joe White, and Hank
Williams -- and successfully created a master race of musicians.
If you give them your money, they will earn it. They don't play
Austin much; they tour like a homeless supercaffeinated long-haul
trucker. But they're playing Hanover's again on January 14th. Mark
your calendars.
Just one of the best bands ever. Five star, unreserved
recommendation. Heck, I'll refund your money if you're
dissatisfied.
Posted at 11:01 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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No, Bush Can't
Andrew Tobias has turned
into a wonderful daily read. Today he directs our attention to Yes Bush Can, an organization that has been on the road this year stumping for the preznit. Today, this is the lead from their banner page:
Yes, Bush Can, an
independent group dedicated to communicating Bush policies directly to the
public, has abandoned its campaign and is officially endorsing John Kerry for
President.
Before changing sides, the Yes, Bush Can team drove around the
country supporting the
President in a campaign bus they had equipped with sound and light systems, confetti
cannons, and various props and costumes. They gave dozens of stump speeches,
distributed campaign videos and "USA Patriot Pledges," and performed
patriotic songs to audiences across the country. (See http://www.yesbushcan.com/media.shtml
and http://www.yesbushcan.com/pledge.shtml.)
Last week, the group officially
split with Bush. "In the course of our travels, we ended up learning more
about Bush's policies than he wanted us to know," said Harmon Spellmeyer,
one of the Yes, Bush Can team. "We came to see that this administration is
a catastrophe for most people."
Before breaking with Bush, the Yes, Bush Can team
worked earnestly to support him. They went to
the Pacific Northwest to promote Bush's Healthy Forests
Initiative--and discovered it was enabling the logging industry to cut down our
last old-growth forests. They visited a nuclear power plant in Ohio
to promote Bush's domestic security policies--and found no one in the guard
booth to meet them. In western Pennsylvania,
while promoting the President's energy policy, they learned that it allows coal
emissions which kill 23,000 people a year. Finally, while defending Bush's war
on terrorism, they found out that even Donald Rumsfeld feels the Iraq War has made the
world a more dangerous place.
After many similar discoveries and
much internal turmoil, the Yes, Bush Can group arrived at the difficult
conclusion that they could not continue their work. At a press conference
Tuesday, in order to demonstrate how profoundly they are rejecting
their former boss's ideas and policies, they defaced and abandoned the
campaign bus they had purchased and outfitted.
Posted at 08:05 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Handy
Move On has provided a nifty
little
PDF Election
Protection Card that you can print out and give to your friends,
family, and neighbors who may be subject to intimidation at the polls.
Posted at 07:50 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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