Didja Know ?

Random Revelations for ya:

Didja know in the Dallas-Fort Worth TX metro area alone, there are 21 high school football stadiums that seat 10,000 or more.

Didja know that the Pittsburgh Steelers only have their logo on one side of their helmets because the equipment manager got tired and only wanted to do one side. It became a novelty, and is a tradition to this day.


Hey didja know sending an email that could "annoy" is now a federal crime ... yep turns out that cancer laden windbag Arlen Specter got us a law about that now. Saw this news via the so deep & thick it's dangerous WFMU website...

A guy named Declan McCullagh's wrote an article article, Create an e-annoyance, go to jail, that quotes the relevant language he found:
"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."



Didja know that the world's first telegram was sent on May 24, 1844 by it's inventor Samuel Morse. His message, "What hath God wrought," was transmitted in a crudely digital code from Washington DC to Baltimore.

oh, and didja know that Western Union has stopped sending telegrams after 145 years... if you wanna know what a telegram is you instant messaging fiend ... Google it up kiddo...

Speaking of Google, the internet giant with market valuation of approx 130 billion, couldn't find a staffer from their 5000 or so to attend the Congressional Human Rights Caucus lasterday in DC... Also refusing to show up were Yahoo, Microsoft & Cisco. Said irked Republican Congressman Lantos who presides over the district where many of Google's multi-millionaires reside "These massively successful high-tech companies, which couldn't bring themselves to send their representatives to this meeting today, should be ashamed,''.

Google's current absurd market valuation ( about half of software king Microsoft) ironically now surpasses that of Intel, making them the 2nd largest valued tech company. Now without Intel's chips on whom their technology runs, it be hard to imagine why anyone would need any Google at all.

I found a cool website called Show And Tell Music that has lots of classic exotica style album covers from the 50s & 60s... So many groovy space age bachelor pad rarities in one place, it's like being in tiki heaven's Thrift Store...here's a sample



Chaino and His African Percussion Safari - The Jungle Chase

anyhow, not only is the guy jam packing the web with cool LP's , he's even reissuing some of these gems on his own label, and helping out this coy coquettish Bay Area folk duo called the Pillows....

Pillows - Quick Fix ( from debut on ShowAndTellMusic.com )

Speaking of local bands, these local guys were playing at Amoeba the other day when I was there, but I had stuff to do... so I left...here maybe you'll enjoy em more than me...

Rogue Wave - Salesman At The Day Of The Parade



Now here's a local Bay Area band that I always dug, always had a good time with at Bar BQ's and Bars, and wouldn't pass up a chance to catch again if they'd give it another go around... Jawbreaker



Sluttering is from the Dear You album that came out on DGC shortly after the band toured with Nirvana for a spell, it recently was reissued by the drummer's label Blackball...Save Your Generation was on the same record, but this is a live version recorded at one of their last shows in Seattle circa May 1996... Kiss The Bottle is from a board tape from a 1993 gig at CBGB, the song immortalizes my neighborhood stomping grounds and where all of us get liquored up way too much, and has long been one of my heartbreaking faves... I recently heard the Foo Fighters covered it as a B-side...

and lastly, Into You Like A Train, hey I think it's a Psychedelic Furs cover...go figger



Jawbreaker - Sluttering ( May 4th)


Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation

Jawbreaker - Boxcar

Jawbreaker - Kiss The Bottle

Jawbreaker - Into You Like A Train


some of above links courtesy the cool site called LiePaper.com

Anyhow, I saw that Billy Corgan has put some version of Smashing Pumpkins into effect and "signed a new management contract". The organizers of Lollapalooza are trying to get him to headline their upcoming event in Chicago this summer...

if only Billy & his bands were as cool as the songs he covers...

Smashing Pumpkins - Cinnamon Girl

Smashing Pumpkins - Rock On

Zwan - Number Of The Beast


Kano & Low Deep are featured on Vice's new U.K Grime compilation coming out this week...

here's a track called Get Set

Kano & Low - Get Set


and i guess since it's practically freaking friday, Ima gonna toss some miscellaneous tracks at ya to either enjoy or ignore depending on your worldview... have a wild weekend....

Mekons - Punk Rock

Tom Waits - Poor Edward

Avengers - End Of The World

Lee Scratch Perry - Dub Voodoo

Diamond Nights - Destination Diamonds

E40 ft Keak Da Sneak - Tell Me When To Go


and I'm gone...

Coachella Lineup Announced...2,245 Dead... Mom Arrested

So I ended my last post just a couple daze ago with the words "Is This A Great Country Or What ?"

and y'know... this rhetorical quandry was further confirmed when I read about Cindy Sheehan being pounced on in the House of Representatives last night within a minute of removing her jacket. The Mom was rushed outta the nosebleed seats like a ticking timebomb by a cop shouting "PROTESTER!" before The Coward In Chief's "State of The Union Address".

Yes, it is a apparently a crime to wear a t-shirt saying "2,245 Dead...How Many More?" in what Rep. Lynn Woolsey called the "People's House"...

Then we all take a surreal hit of baby Bush, the greasy back slapping scion of a Nazi/Saudi linked oil dynasty who would then lecture America about being "Addicted To Oil"...


Said Sheehan herself in a sad statement following her arrest...

After I had my personal items inventoried and my fingers printed, a nice Sgt. came in and looked at my shirt and said, "2245, huh? I just got back from there."I told him that my son died there. That's when the enormity of my loss hit me. I have lost my son. I have lost my First Amendment rights. I have lost the country that I love.

Where did America go? I started crying in pain. What did Casey die for? What did the 2244 other brave young Americans die for? What are tens of thousands of them over there in harm's way for still? For this? I can't even wear a shirt that has the number of troops on it that George Bush and his arrogant and ignorant policies are responsible for killing.

It's a well known fact that Bush and his faithful gestapo fear the free expression of anyone that might disagree with them.

The Coward In Chief who somehow managed to get Rep. Murtha and Sen. Kerry's war records questioned when he went AWOL is not going to take any potential shit from some Mom on the loose. CBS 4 in Denver has some details from a recent exclusion of some folks from a Bush appearance where a man impersonating a secret service agent forced three people out of a speech for having a "No Blood For Oil" bumper sticker on their car.

y' know it's just darn Sickening !


The Loved Ones - Sickening


Swiss banking officials have finally agreed to begin looking into former Chilean dictator Augustin Pinochet's reputed 27 Million worth of secret accounts. The former dictator has yet to explain how he managed to get hold of many millions of dollars when his annual salary as Army officer never exceeded $15,000 US dollars. It's assumed that the tax dodging general used his position as a middle man in arms deals and reaped the benefits off the tops of government contracts via kickbacks. Authorities have found secret accounts belonging to Pinochet and people close to him in Spain, Argentina, Switzerland, the United States, Chile, Britain, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. Pinochet's wife and daughter also face tax evasion charges, his daughter was indignant upon returning to Chile from the US after a failed bid for political asylum. Lucia Pinochet claims she was badly treated by US Immigration officials, who handcuffed her and made her wear prisoner garb before she withdrew her application for asylum in the US that was challenged by Chilean officials.

Now for some music...

Capsoul: An idea who’s time has come

here's some long out of print early 70's stuff from Columbus Ohio's obscure Capsoul label, recently made available again through a distro arrangement via the Numero Group. Bill Moss is/was the mysterious blue collar Berry Gordy behind the label who brought these gems to light originally on 45s, and now it's like time travelling to get a chance to hear these old school groovy grooves again...

Bill's struggling lil' label went belly up in 1974, and these tracks are remastered off of original 45's scored on E-Bay, because the master tapes were long ago destroyed in a flood. Bill claimed he was blessed with common sense, and went on to serve on the Columbus School board for decades until 2003, and he finally died at age 69 last August, getting to see his records rediscovered and reissued shortly before his passing.

Bill Moss - Number One (My Daddy Said, You Oughta Be A Man)

Marion Black - Who Knows

Ronnie Taylor - Without Love

To hear a little bit more about this reissue project, and from label founder Bill Moss... head over to NPR over visit the Numero Group website...

Another Numero Group reissue/rediscovery is Miami's long lost Deep City label, a repository of long forgotten funk & soul from the late 60's. During the Deep City era of 1964, the label laid down a funky foundation in the hot South Florida heat, launching the careers of Betty Wright, and Clarence "Blowfly" Reid amongst others. Producer Willie Clarke ran Deep City with Johnny Pearsall, who would go on to work for TK Records... Perhaps they should be canonized as the real Miami Sound Machine, doing it to death when the producers of the bass heavy Estefan era were still on training wheels, these guys helped build disco from scratch.

Them Two - Am I A Good Man

Helene Smith - Thrills & Chills


so are ya one of them Coachella lineup fans? me, I don't like discos, nor discos that force attendees into being herded into line for $5 bottles of water while standing around in the desert...not so dark, not so much... but hey if'n it's all the same, here's some sample music from some of the folks expected to make the scene in Indio CA this April...

Cat Power The Greatest


Damian JR Gong MarleyWelcome To JamRock

Tool - Sober

Lyrics Born ( featuring Joyo Velarde ) - You Love Me So Bad

Lady Sovereign - Adidas Hoodie

Zutons - Nightmare pt II

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence ( unauthorized remix )

Sleater-Kinney - The Wilderness

that's all ffffolkssssss

Happy State of The F%$king Union To You & Yers

Happy State of The F%cking Union To You & Random Revelations For Shizzle My People...


Wanna hear more of that rabid rabble rouser, big fan of our prez , yes it's 70-something Harry Belafonte addressing thoegathered at last week's Bush Commision Tribunals in NYC?

Give Em Hell Harry !!!!


Harry Belafonte - At Bush Commission

The notable musician, actor and human rights activist stated in his opening remarks he hoped to help save the soul of our nation, noting: "It is important when all the instruments of government collapse, we go in the final hour, to the most important line of battle: the people themselves."

Harry has been lambasted lately in the right wing media for calling Bush the world's greatest terrorist, despite evidence that the Bush ideology has put hundreds of thousands in early graves.

Belafonte, who rose to fame in the 50's as a friendly Folksy Calypso singer was the first African American to win an Emmy, and was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement in this country. He helped organize the We Are The World single with Quincy Jones in the 80's and has been a critic of US foreign policy for many years, particularly with regard to policies in his native Carribean & in particular regarding Cuba.

Here's an interview Harry did with Democracy Now about his visit with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela where he called Bush a Terrorist...

Belafonte on Democracy Now

here's a classic

Harry Belafonte' with Odetta - Hole In De Bucket Dear Liza

and here's harry with the track he's best known for

Harry Belafonte - Day O

Comedians Cathy Griffin and Al Franken are celebrities who've come out against the War, yet have gone on USO tours to Iraq, and love performing for the US troops. They also wonder why the most vitriolic vocal war hawks like Rush Limbaugh & Bill O'Reilly have stayed safe & sound at home. Franken's comment on Sylvester "chicken shit" Stallone is worth clicking this short video link alone...Play Clip



Newsdesk.org, just published a story on January 30, 2005 about how legal music download services are making inroads, but P2P still outdoes em all... <http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000475.php>

Speaking of legal downloads...
I haven't even had a chance to listen to it, but I found this & maybe you wanna kill some time... instead of fetuses...

That's right Anti-Abortion fans, pack yer i-Pod with this pro Judge Alito tuneage courtesy of Pro-Life dot com... here's yer MP3

Daniel Sisco - Worth Fighting For

here's another fave of you fans of legal travails and our court system

Peter Tosh - Legalize It

anyhow... I had a long weekend with too many highlights & lowlights galore, and I'd go on & on...but I'm exhausted and I promised I'd get to bed before 6am for the first time in daze...

so while i head off to my beddy bye... you can listen to some tunes...

see ya when the vampire awakes...

scrambled playlist of no particular order


Nine Inch Nails - Bite The Hand That Feeds ( Bitrot remix )

The Magic Numbers - She IS (Tim Buckley Cover)

Pretty Girls Make Graves - The Nocturnal House ( from new CD coming in April )

Cat Power - The Greatest ( featuring Teenie Hodges!)

Sepultura - Convicted In Life ( new track)

La Rocca - Sing Song Sung ( upcoming Irish band )

The Sounds - Painted By Numbers ( artsy Swedish rockers)

Les Savvy Fav - The Sweat Descends

Iron & Wine w/ Calexico - Prison Route 41

Tra la La - The Girls Say

Animal Collective - Winter's Love

2600 - Off The Hook ( Renowned Hacker Geek Mag Podcast )

gotta go... I'm fading hard...

is this a great country or what...