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Henry Rollins 3-22-08 Olympia, WA
Morning after pill
he spoke for almost 3 hours took maybe 2 sips of water
there's no one missing him when he's on the road, his agents crack the whip when he's not
currently renting a BonJoviMobile ~ black tour bus ~ somebody committed suicide by jumping out in front of it once ~ formerly owned by Poison's Brett Michaels ~ had to put on the HazMat suits and burn everything clean inside

"When in doubt, head for the smoke"
does not take vacations ~ vacations imply that you are "vacating" from something that sucks ~ he takes adventures when he's not working his ass off writing or touring
his idea of an adventure? Islamabad, Pakistan 2007 Only way to get a visa to Pakistan is via Dubai, so he went to Dubai. His hotel in Islamabad is like a medieval fortress, layers of walls and guns. Everywhere he goes, he gets out on foot to meet the locals. He was in Pakistan when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated ~ Islamabad was locked down ~ Rollins talked with people burning tires in the streets, mourning her death
Other places Rollins has been recently? Syria ~ Beirut, Lebanon ~ Terran, Iran ~ anywhere that the MAN tells him he shouldn't go ~ no tour guides except the state-sponsored/required one in Iran ~ even manages to give the Iranian guide the slip ~ the Iranians Rollins meet think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is kooky but say we have no finger to point given our own leadership situation ~ in Beirut: hires a Taxi Driver for a day to show him the real Lebanon, not globalization ~ goes to the Taxi Driver's house get WIRED on Lebanese coffee, alarms the Taxi Driver's wife and two kids but gets invited to dinner anyway
http://www.henryrollins.com/website/dispatch_beta/2008/01/02/12-26-07/

"You're pretty intense"
talks about performing with his heroes the Ruts ~ what's left of them at least... "Staring at the Rude Boys" (note: must track down), ~ acting like a dork when meeting Iggy Pop for the first time (great Iggy impersonation)~ many stories of acting like a fan-boy when meeting his heroes, played a priest guarding the gate of hell in a straight to DVD movie (with Cuba Gooding Jr of all people) (note: must see)

"Mullet Guy"
Everyone you meet is just the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. Whatever shit you have in your life, somebody out there has got it 100 times worse. The Subway Sandwich Guy (making "Sandwich Talk") is working on a sandwich salary has a daughter who is foster care bound. The Mullet Guy with the Lion Mane stops on the side of the road to help you change your flat tire. Stereotypes and cynicism are bullshit ~ a defense mechanism so that you don't have to dig deeper or spend any thought at all.

"When you get into your 40's any 17-year old can kick your ass"
If I have a hero other than my Dad and Mom ~ it's Henry Rollins
I think everyone in Olympia smokes ~ that's all I got

Redesign the Wired.com Logo, Dungeons & Dragons-Style | The Underwire from Wired.com

Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax

rip mix burn: against me!

RIP MIX BURN: AWAKENING

"A flourishing of Calypso creativity, a dramatic period in Trinidad's history and an audio engineer inspired these exciting tracks, originally released on Cook Records between 1956 and 1962. Emory Cook used innovative recording techniques to capture the active interplay between calypsonians and their audiences. We hear classic song-duels between calypso legends like The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Melody, lively steel band processions, and a wide range of provocative calypso songs about life, love and politics. Live and studio recordings from Trinidad."
Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic




"With the new CD 'The Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru,' the man who compiled the music, Olivier Conan, might just be giving American popular culture a chance to hear some music that has slid under the radar for decades.

Chicha is the sound of one style of Peruvian pop music that is derived from Cumbia, a form of Colombian music, and popular in the poor, urban neighborhoods, where Conan was introduced to it.

In the 1960s, Chicha bands were borrowing sounds and ideas from English and American music and melding these with Cumbia — electric guitars and bass, Moog synthesizers and Farfisa organs all crept in. The first group of these bands came out of the Amazon — bands like Juaneco y Su Combo, and Los Tigres de Tarapoto."
The Roots of Chicha, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic

shuffleboil | The Roots of Chicha: Interview with Olivier Conan

The capacity to blunder

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music."
- Lewis Thomas, *Lives of a Cell*

RIP MIX BURN: El Guincho

El Guincho - Band To Watch - Stereogum:
"This past week we found ourself unable to stop listening to 'Antillas,' a five-minute bundle of clattering loops and sunny harmonies, from Barcelona-via-Canary Islands one-man band El Guincho, aka Pablo Díaz-Reixa, and his entirely addictive self-released Alegranza..."

MySpace.com - el Guincho - Barcelona, UM - Pop / Tropical / Club - www.myspace.com/elguincho

Pitchfork Forkcast: On Repeat: El Guincho: "Fata Morgana" [MP3/Stream]:
"He lives in a country on the peninsula that lies south of the Pyrenees. He makes music by taking small bits of sound and spinning the fragments around and around, expanding and contracting and changing them bit by bit but also hinting that they could go for quite a while if the conditions were right. Over these loops he sings, sometimes in simple, sing-songy ways, other times harmonizing with himself in a sun-speckled tone just right to soundtrack dreaming. Are we talking about the dude who sang our third favorite song of 2007? No, it's Pablo Díaz-Reixa, currently based in Barcelona, who makes music as El Guincho. And, to be fair, geography and some shared structural interests aside, the shorthand comparison with Panda Bear only goes so far. Díaz-Reixa brings several elements to the table on 'Fata Morgana'-- one of the highlights of his self-released 2007 album Alegranza, which is damn solid all the way through-- and combines them in a fresh way: a bright tropical glow to the production; the buoyant percussion and chanted vocals of Os Mutantes; a fondness for oddball samples that give the endlessly churning sound a little extra flavor. It's just over three minutes long and you wish like hell it was six..."

Tough Guy competition

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Mr. Bailey ~ peace ~ rest now

for Mr. Bailey 2003 - 2007

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To a Cat by Jorge Luis Borges

Mirrors are not more wrapt in silences
nor the arriving dawn more secretive ;
you, in the moonlight, are that panther figure
which we can only spy at from a distance.
By the mysterious functioning of some
divine decree, we seek you out in vain ;
remoter than the Ganges or the sunset,
yours is the solitude, yours is the secret.
Your back allows the tentative caress
my hand extends. And you have condescended,
since that forever, now oblivion,
to take love from a flattering human hand.
you live in other time, lord of your realm -
a world as closed and separate as dream.

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Cat by Jibanananda Das

Again and again through the day
I meet a cat.
In the tree's shade, in the sun,
in the crowding brown leaves.
After the success of a few fish bones
Or inside a skeleton of white earth
I find it, as absorbed in the purring
Of its heart as a bee.
Still it sharpens its claws on the gulmohar tree
And follows the sun all day long.

Now I see it and then it is gone,
Losing itself somewhere.
On the autumn evening I have watched it play,
Stroking the soft body of the saffron sun
With a white paw. Then it caught
The darkness in paws like small balls
And scattered it all over the earth.

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"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
~ Jules Verne

 

bachelor pad christmas: vinyl ~ swingin ~ on the rocks

"Oh, but man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what is heaven for."
- Browning


"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask"
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

reclamation project - gifts / lost / found

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daze

...or under the covers. I'm flexible.

“Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!”

Best Buy at Improv Everywhere. Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.

i'm not there