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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Fri, 29 Sep 2006
Da Blues
JC sent this one along. It's perfect.
A Blues Woman responds.
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Mon, 25 Sep 2006
Sorry For The Silence
Been busy with much work, much preproduction on upcoming stuff, and
being kind of contemplative in the in-betweens. There's a lot of stuff
that I could be writing about, but I just kind of prefer to
mull some recent developments privately in my own way. Sometimes
trying to be the wise old philosopher just completely sucks,
and I simply don't feel like it right now.
[ Note: oops. The below is Sunday the first. Come to it, it will
be amazing. ]
One thing that I would like you to know about is the Don
Walser Memorial/Benefit today at Threadgill's. Don's funeral is this
afternoon, and then everyone is going to come to Threadgill's Beer
Garden and celebrate his life and legacy. Hayes Carll, the South
Austin Jug Band, and "Others" will be performing. There's a ten dollar
cover, 100% of which goes to the Walser family to assist them with
their expenses.
Just a heads up; today is likely to be one of those magical Old Austin
reunions that are talked about for years and remembered fondly.
It starts around 4:00 PM and goes on 'til around 9:00 PM.
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Tue, 19 Sep 2006
Awr!
Avast, ye landlubbers! Tuesday be Talk Like A
Pirate Day. Awr! So be holdin' close to the mains'l and be talkin' like
a pirate lest ye be walkin' the plank to Davy Jones Locker! Awr!
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Fri, 15 Sep 2006
Now. Take A Look At This.
Breathing Earth is scary.
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How Is This For A Lede?
Arctic meltdown is speeding up... sea ice is vanishing faster than
ever before... polar bears face extinction... and America's top
climate scientist warns we only have a decade to save the planet
Read it here.
Pass it along to someone who thinks that
psycho-hippie-environmentalists are causing the polar ice caps of the
planet Earth to melt away.
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Tue, 12 Sep 2006
Strange Days
First, I didn't write about 9/11 yesterday because I have no desire
to memorialize 9/11. You'll just have to bear with me here; my views
on this are likely to piss off just about everyone.
I think that we should memorialize 9/12 — the day that the
world came together. 9/11 is about a group of theocracy-deranged punk
criminals with box cutters who pulled off a very dramatic act of
suicidal vandalism and murder. It was a criminal act, and should have
been treated as such. On 9/11, we were shocked.
On 9/12, we were one people, world wide, and, properly, good solid
police work was being done to find those responsible. We were all
family on 9/12/2001. We were not afraid, we were full of love and hope
and courage, and we —
billions of us — were determined to make our world safe
from evil, together, as one.
And then, the tiny men, the so-called "leaders" of our country
purposefully turned 9/11 into an act of "terrrism" for political and
monetary profit, and we gave the perpetrators of the act
exactly what they wanted. We were led into a cultural panic,
like so many sheep, by men who found it to be useful to encourage such
behavior. We have savaged our constitution, almost destroyed the
ideals that this country was founded upon, and incurred the enmity of
the world with our swaggering drunken-teenager-with-a-gun schoolyard
bully behavior. We have destroyed our soul.
We had a chance to bring the world together as one human family,
for the first time in history. We have done the opposite. It makes me
physically sick when I think about it too much.
So, no, do not ask me to memorialize 9/11/2001. It is the
darkest day in the history of this country. But not for the reasons
the talking heads on CNN and Fox tell you.
Support your troops. Get them the hell out of there and let the
policemen do their job. We are manufacturing "terrrists" wholesale,
every day, right now.
Seen?
Me and five other guys just did some of the best creative work of
our lives. It's the most satisfying project that I've done in
years. And It'll be publicly available on Friday.
They are called American
Graveyard, and I trusted them to deliver, and they surpassed my
most hopeful dreams. I am proud of that, and really happy to have
helped.
Please have a fine day, all.
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Mon, 11 Sep 2006
Heh -- Hi There
The computer's been dead for a week, and I have been as busy as a
one-armed paper hanger in the meantime. Sorry for the silence.
The only things that I have to report right now are: (a) Leon
Russell has a great band, great songs, and zero stage presence these
days; (b) Friday will be a wonderful world music show at Threadgill's,
and (c) American Graveyard is going to be releasing an extraordinarily
good album this week. I am busy mastering it today.
More soon.
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