Exit Music for an In Town Move

Download "Moving Pictures Silent Films" (mp3) from "Great Lake Swimmers" by Great Lake Swimmers
Misra
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Physical Graffiti

Ioda
Originally uploaded by biwiborg.

The first known example of "modern style" Graffiti survives in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus (in modern-day Turkey) . . .It stands near the long mosaic and stone walkway and consists of a handprint, a vaguely heart-like shape, a footprint and a number. This purportedly indicates how many steps one would have to take to find a lover, with the handprint indicating payment.

Blogging On The Regular

embedding youtube videos as new blog entries is lazy blogging.

SF Podcast Meetup.

The SF Podcast Meetup has been meeting once a month for close to two years, and this thursday we are convening in a new environment for the first time in over a year. We're on a schedule, because there are bands and djs involved later in the evening, so I'm bringing a bona-fide agenda. Not a web product - we've all got our day jobs - but an agenda. Over 300 members strong, SF Podcast Meetup fuses social interaction with digital media. Our Meetup is a tool to perpetuate the use and enjoyment of digital media. We aren't just podcasters, there are podcast/rss-curious attendees, vloggers, and bloggers who regularly attend, too. After all this time, thanks to Michael Butler, we are clearly a community. The question I am bringing to the group for this month's meetup is...."now what...?" - Now that we've organized, what is next? What are your thoughts on any next steps for the SF Podcast Meetup? we are a diverse group with commmitment. We meet once a month. Some are music podasters, we've got Network Security podcasts, Psychology, Animals, 123 Listen To Me and numerous other shows in attendance. I look fwd to seeing the group with visitors and newbies alike on Thursday.



For More Info - email crazywanda at gmail and/ or check out Reload @ Upcoming.org

Technorati Tags: promonet, black fiction, halou, dna prototype, meetup, danyol, djcez, just good music, Tom Thumb

Black Fiction confirms RELOAD appearance/ Nov 30, 2006

In true web2.2 form, reload, a very grassroots party celebrating 2.0 media nuance and independent san francisco music in one venue, is taking full form. The flyer has changed twice and now for a third time. Like so many Scobleized real time blog posts, RELOAD is taking form in Real Time. Upcoming has yielded a wider base of friends than i once had, and ritual roaster has become my favorite place to dodgeball my friends. Finally a two pronged announcement: BLACK FICTION joins the family AND...Today is the cut off for adding artists. i can't accept anymore bands for Reload. There's only so many hours in the day, and Ritual Roaster is only open until 11pm. So let it be known, that 3 days before Reload, i got the call i was waiting for. Black Fiction, one of the best indie bands in San Francisco, confirmed that they indeed would like to open for Halou at the DNA Lounge this Thursday, Nov 30. the first time i saw Black Fiction, they opened for The Slip. I was there with multiple friends, many from Jambase. And i've been to their shows ever since. A real honor it is to have them play at Reload, even with 3 days to spare. Have an mp3 on Promonet :) See you Thursday, Nov 30, 2006 at the DNA Lounge in SF! (375 eleventh street. Door is 10 bucks) - now with Black Fiction!

Download "Magic Hands"(mp3)
from "Ghost Ride"
by Black Fiction
Howells Transmitter

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Inspired by Black Friday

Download "Wonderland" (mp3)
from "Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album"
by Various Artists
Kill Rock Stars

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LOST: Sawyer, Kate & HALOU?!

"ratio of freckles to stars" by Halou

Lovers: Fount on YouTube....Kate & Sawyer from LOST swoon to the sound of "Ratio of Freckles to Stars" by Halou

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The Slip and Howard Stern

I was pleasantly (and practically) shocked this morning, when The Slip got some serious love on The Howard Stern Show today, thanks to
Zoe Wilder
Zoe won a contest and used her free plug to help her favorite band, The Slip.

Zoe Wilder is giving web access/ hot naked pics to anyone who can prove attendance at one of the upcoming Slip shows (some of which are opening slots for My Morning Jacket)



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Download "If One Of Us Should Fall" (mp3)
from "Alivelectric"
by The Slip
reapandsow, Inc.

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Rumsfeldian Poetry

(the matrix is real)


On Happenings
You're going to be told lots of things.
You get told things every day that don't happen.

It doesn't seem to bother people, they don't—
It's printed in the press.
The world thinks all these things happen.
They never happened.

Everyone's so eager to get the story
Before in fact the story's there
That the world is constantly being fed
Things that haven't happened.

All I can tell you is,
It hasn't happened.
It's going to happen.

— Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 28, 2003, Department of Defense briefing

read more at
Slate.com

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A Race to Run (and Drive, and Walk)

A Race to Run (and Drive, and Walk)
Howie Denis Puts Shoe Leather to Grass Roots

By Lori Aratani
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 30, 2006; C01
Howie Denis goes door to door

Howard "Call Me Howie" Denis has been hitting the trail for almost 40 years. He first ran for office in 1967, for delegate to a mock constitutional convention. He lost.

This time, he's running to keep his seat on the Montgomery County Council, where he is the lone Republican.

In between: Five dog bites. One gun incident. A win-loss record of 6-5. The emergence and fine-tuning of the "Call Me Howie" Campaign Regimen.

There are folks in this world who love a parade. Denis, 66, loves a campaign. And if he can campaign in a parade? Best of all!

Of course all politicians will say they love the stump: Oh how they love the kissing of babies, the pressing of flesh, the mingling with "real" people.

But judging from the color-coded precinct lists Denis carries in slightly tattered manila folders and the custom arch supports he has fitted into his shoes each campaign season, you get the sense that this guy is the rare politician who really means it. Other politicians may look at their cars and think "transportation." Denis sees opportunity, which is why his silver Chevy Cobalt boasts two American flags flying from the roof and a triangular red and white rooftop sign that proclaims: "Re-Elect Denis" complete with a star to dot the "i."

There he goes up 270, behind the wheel of this un-Montgomery County setup, and other motorists stare, the way they do when they see a clown driving to a children's party.

The ";Call Me Howie" Campaign Regimen has not always been a winning strategy; there was that unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor and the failed tries at the state House of Delegates. Now, in his quest to keeping representing District 1 (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac and points in between), he's facing a tough challenge from Democrat Roger Berliner. But, says Denis, he understands that if you're going to play the game, you can't be afraid to lose.

Sometimes, he gets the one-fingered salute. Or worse.";I guess I just knocked on the wrong door" is how he perceives why a man once opened his door and waved a gun when the candidate stepped onto his property.

The key, he says, is to start slow. Eighteen months before Election Day, he starts walking precincts. A few here, a few there. Too much walking too soon can result in painful -- really, really painful -- late-night leg cramps. Denis has been there.

About six months before Election Day, he abandons potatoes and bread and embraces the South Beach or Atkins diet. More energy. And less poundage means less strain on his back and feet during those increasingly lengthy precinct walks. This season, he's lost eight pounds.

The way Denis sees it, half the battle is getting people to remember your name, particularly in this election, when the County Council candidates are down near the end of the ballot. That's why he's never been shy about trying something different. He scoffs at those who sniff at his unconventional tactics.

"At this level there's no such thing as too much," he said. "You never reach a saturation point when you're at the bottom of the ticket."

This philosophy is what led to the horse. During his 2000 council campaign, Denis was so concerned that people would forget to vote in the April special election, he contemplated borrowing a horse to ride through town, like a latter-day Paul Revere calling his fellow citizens to action. But Denis, a lawyer and Hill staffer currently on leave, had never been much of an equestrian; as a child, he was thrown from his steed and broke his leg. So his campaign staff balked at the notion, afraid he'd hurt himself again.

To this day, he still thinks it was a great idea and is currently pondering whether to try it this week.

Out on the trail one day last week, Denis pointed out a landmark of campaigns past. That hill, he said, pointing near where the Capital Crescent Trail crosses Bradley Boulevard in Bethesda. That was his favorite billboard spot. Now billboards are banned everywhere in the county. This still irks Denis. "Blight," he harrumphed.

So Denis found another way to get his name out there and, according to state board of elections records, spent about $18,000 to do it.

Taxi tops.

This season, commuters can see Denis grinning in full color on the roofs of 25 cabs cruising Montgomery County streets.

"At night," he pointed out proudly, "they're illuminated."

On precinct walks and during supermarket stops, he is pleasant but brief. The palm cards are stuffed in the left pocket of his sport coat. There's a bright red "Re-elect Denis" sticker on his lapel.

He greets people with a quick introduction and ends with "I'd appreciate your consideration."

Denis can make conversation with anyone. Upon hearing that a pair of potential voters hail from Canada, he presses them before they can scurry away.

"Where in Canada?"he asks.

"Oh, Ottawa,'' he says. "I've always wanted to go to Ottawa."

There's a bit more small talk. The woman's body language changes. She lingers. She takes a palm card.

"Democrat or Republican?"; she asks.

"Republican,"; Denis said.

She hands back the card.

"No. Absolutely not,"she says.

Such is the reality of a campaign trail where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1.

But for some, to know Howie is to love Howie.

Robert Mertz had e-mailed his request for a lawn sign. So Denis drives over to the Mertz house in Bethesda. He opens his trunk and pulls out the sign. He knocks at the door. Pamela Mertz answers.

"Robert!" she hollers. ";Howard Denis is here!"

Her husband runs up from the basement. He says, ";I didn't expect I'd get a personal delivery!"

Denis returns to his Cobalt, with the roll-down windows and the Mylar balloon, which looks tired. The interior is crammed with boxes of campaign literature. In between them, there's a small plastic bottle of Brut.

For more formal occasions, Denis has the use of a different car.

A few years ago he persuaded his wife of 20 years, Babette, to buy herself a new car, a Chrysler Sebring convertible. After all, he reasoned, who doesn't love a convertible?

But Denis had another motive.

Saturday, despite the wind and threat of rain, there he was in the back seat of the silver-blue Sebring, Babette at his side, both of them waving. A volunteer was driving, two dogs wearing Denis T-shirts followed, and Denis was happily campaigning in the Potomac Day parade.

Vote Denis

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Vote for My Dad

from the Gazette

Council’s sole Republican is running on his record
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006
by Janel Davis
Staff Writer


Howard A. Denis has survived as the lone Republican on the County Council for six years. With a record of constituent service to rely on, Denis hopes to extend his council tenure for four more years.

Denis, 66, represents council District 1, which includes Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac. His council service began with a special election in 2000, when he was elected to fill out the remaining term of Councilwoman Betty Ann Krahnke when illness forced her to resign. He was re-elected in 2002, and has become known as much for his extensive baseball knowledge and historical quotations, as he has for his stand on issues.

Denis has successfully worked with council colleagues in passing a number of contentious issues, and in some cases devising conciliation plans for both sides. He was instrumental in setting building height rules, proposed an amendment to resolve the Seven Locks and Churchill cluster school construction issues and was a key vote in fast-tracking the county’s smoking ban.

Along the way Denis has garnered the endorsements of most of the county’s civic, education, and labor organizations, including many with little history of Republican endorsements.

If successful in November, Denis’ four-year focus will include maintaining parks and the tree canopy, working with the school system to do away with portable classrooms and establishing closer relationships with nonprofit organizations. He is also lobbying for membership on the council’s Health and Human Services Committee.

Denis faces Democratic challenger and energy lawyer Roger Berliner in the general election. Berliner ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination during the 2000 special election.




Howard ‘‘Howie” A. Denis
County Council District 1
66, Chevy Chase
Republican
Experience: Montgomery County Council (2000-Present); state senator (1977-1994) Top issues: Restoring public confidence in county land-use planning, building long-awaited transportation projects, providing quality oversight of the school system budget
Web site: www.votedenis.com
‘‘My constituents are highly educated and are and have always been willing to vote for the person and not the party,” he said. ‘‘I’m also part of a tradition of being a responsive politician. I always felt that the best politics is to do a good job, no matter the party.”

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Vote For the Ump

If you or anyone you know lives in Montgomery County, Maryland - Vote DENIS tomorrow. County Council!

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The Vloggies 2006

IODAcast #10 - CMJ 2006

IODAcast: CMJ 2006

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STONER ROCK: going to see Acid King/ Boris Instead

I CHANGED MY MIND!
this is what happens when there are multiple hot shows on one night. Even better is when there are multiple IODA bands playing in one night. The Black Angels, Acid Kins/ Boris....i was torn until minutes ago. I haven't seen Boris or Acid King, and I've seen the Black Angels more than twice, so logically, i'll be at Slim's tonight.

* Acid King & Boris tonight, Wednesday 10/18/06 @ Slim's

Download "Bad Vision" (MP3, 192kbps)

Acid King is Lori S., Joey Osbourne, and Guy Pinhas. If you have not had the chance to be blown away by their immense stage presence, their gut wrenching, mind numbing, explosive live sets then chances are you wouldn't notice them walking along side you on your morning trek to work. Heck, you probably wouldn't even noticing them milling around the bar before their set, and that'd be a shame because Acid King is the definition of stoner rock. Not the stoner rock that MTV and Rolling Stone were hyping as the next big thing a few years back. This is bone rattling, ultra low end, fuzzed out, psychedelic, stoner rock. It's the music that large hairy guys who work on the line and drink PBR until four in the morning live and die for.

Formed in January of 1993, Lori S. had a simple idea which she summed up in one line for an ad she put in a local San Francisco paper. The ad simply said, “Seeking Bass and Drums to create a very large and low end sound.” With only one real response Lori had her bassist but it wasn’t until months later that the trio was completed when Lori was at a party and in despearation screamed out "anyone know any drummers?” Dubbed Acid King from satanic stoner, Ricky Kasso after reading about his story in the book "Say You Love Satan" Lori and Co. hit the San Fran club circuit scoring opening slots for some killer shows with the likes of the Melvins, Sleep, Hawkwind and The Obsessed. Sympathy For The Record Industry put out their debut EP and first full length before landing on Kozik’s Man’s Ruin Records for a handful of splits and the original release of the seminally underated “Busse Woods.”

Fast forward to the present day, a mere six months after re-releasing “Busse Woods” on their new home at Small Stone Records, Acid King has returned with an album of epic proportions. Six years in the making Small Stone is proud to present "III." Produced with the help of San Fransico's legendary engineer Billy Anderson, this is the album that Lori and Co. were born to make. Filled with thundering low end and fat ass riffs "III" will redefine the definition of the word heavy for years to come. So prepare for rock and roll destruction and keep your eyes open for the US tour this summer and Europe this fall. "III" is only the beginning.

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the Black Angels - San Francisco - TONIGHT 10/18/2006 - the independent

Wednesday 10/18 9pm @ The Independent (SF)

THE BLACK ANGELS
The Tyde
The Quarter After


download a track (below) - i've blogged about this band (with mp3s) about 4 times, but here 'tis again....

The Black Angels

The Black Angels

Light In The Attic

Download "Black Grease" (MP3, 192kbps)

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Frontier Psychiatrist

that boy needs therapy.

almost shocked

celebriy taggers,
originally uploaded by _boris.

Tags.

Goblin Cock

Bagged And Boarded

Goblin Cock

Absolutely Kosher

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The Latin Rita

,

letter to the latin american club margarita. from a girl around the block.

Dear Latin Rita,

I missed you, didn't realize it but... It was good to run into you again. I'd forgotten your sinfully delicate flavor, what is it that you posess? is it something ingrained in your very nature? how is it that in one meeting, before i'm one third of the way done getting pleasure from your taste, i forget everything around me and it's just us. Just me and you, Latin 'Rita. And what a tease you are, mimicking other margs in your dapper looks but really - the truth is - there isn't anything quite like you. I'm glad we could connect again. I know you have many lovers. So I'll remain content as one of your passing admirers - as long as you'll have me when i come for you. Thanks for being you. Just one of you is enough for me. While i dabble with alluring pinot grapes, I will not forget the joy you bring me on those spontaneous nights when i soak you up. And i want to thank you.
thank you for your potency - so i can have just one drink on the nights when i am most broke but still want to hang with the boys. You have a way of erasing my day, my memory, my inhibition, when i've had just 50% of you - and yet i always accidentally want more. You fool me - most can't fool me - so thank you for playing me the fool. Thank you for always maintaining the status quo in the mission by drawing artists in thankless businesses to your home. Thanks for leading the way to La Altena. There are no others in our neighborhood who can keep up with you. You are our one and only, Latin 'Rita. just be you. i'll come back to consume all that you are yet again, we will share time in the future. of that I am most sure. So until then...be well.


-girl around the block



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Shattner explores the Commodore Vic 20

my first computer. I think i was about 8 years old. I recently talked about it on a Podcast411 Interview, and a friend sent me this charming old ad for the vic20 back in the day.

From A Life: First Time Talking

I started the Podcast Not Shocking - it's only 15 minutes long....

here's the mp3,. Oh yes, all the xml, bells and whistles (thanks to libsyn) are just around the corner.

here are the show notes:

House Of Large Sizes

House of Large Sizes

What Are Records

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Fancey

Fancey

What Are Records

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06/93 Acoustic Sessions

Lir

What Are Records

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bumberniuk

so I'm in seattle, all hepped up on bumbershoot and carrying my favorite hard cover copy of Palahniuk's Choke (which i plan to get signed at bumbershoot during his panel session) - when it dawned on me that i might be embarking upon a very palahniuk weekend overall. The great irony, of course, is the opportunity to hang with chuck on "labor day weekend" - a sanctioned "holiday" for the worker bees of america. And, on this labor free palahniukian weekend, I'm staying with my friend Marla, who bears the same name as tyler durden's anchor in Palahniuk's more famed novel, Fight Club. It's good to see Marla, her apartment is almost as beautiful as she is - cozy, overlooks the water with an amazing skyline view, nestled on a street full of trees in Seattle's Capitol Hill. Marla is a bit shorter and smaller than me (her showerhead comes to my neck) and runs an amazing legal file sharing site - I'm serious - called Weedshare. Marla is always on the prowl for sites that are Weed friendly. My kind of woman. She may be the only woman other than Mary Hodder who will beat me to the pie-in-the-sky goal of making the cover of Wired. but most importantly, Marla loves to dance. And since it's a very palahniuk weekend, perhaps you will enjoy watching her dip the palm tree while passers by go about their day.

This gem of a video, of Weedshare's Marla is the perfect kick off to bumbering... Tonight it's out to dinner with some folks from Sarathan Records & Marla & John from Weedshare. Perhaps there's some cuisine in this city which can satisfy a girl from San Francisco. Keep emailing me about the bands you think i should see, i've been getting your notes (you know who are). on the list for the morrow: Blondie, Halou, Chuck Palahniuk, lady sovereign, deerhoof, alejandro escovedo, badly drawn boy, rogue wave, JFJO and. . . .?

Tomorrow, bumberday1, also marks the arrival of CathyCracks, who unknowingly (or perhaps knowingly) represents all my friends in vancouver who wish they were here. See you tomorrow Cathy. Get ready to represent the Van and ROCK the bumber_photos tomorrow.



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mickey avalon

packing for seattle, headed to bumbershoot. i think what i like best about this track is the way he says "one sick mothafucka."

Mickey Avalon

Mickey Avalon

Shoot to Kill Music, Inc.

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Download "Waiting To Die" (MP3, 192kbps)

Everything All The Time

it's been a while since i posted song lyrics. can't stop listening to this song today, and it's not in Promonet (yet) so....say hello to Rhapsody!

Artist: Band Of Horses
Album: Everything All The Time
Year: 2006




Title: Monsters

A tree for all these problems
they can find you for the moment
then for all past efforts
there buried deep beneath
your heart and somewhere in your stomach

and hey, transform all others
when aweful people they surround you
well hey, they just like monsters
they come to feed on me
giant little animals to feed

though to say we got much hope
if i am lost it's only for a little while

(repeat)

though to say we got much hope
if i am lost it's only for a little while
if i am lost it's only for a little while
if i am lost it's only for a little while

SF_WoW: Scrappy Hour - Tonight - 6-8pm

Fancey/ Fancey/ What Are Records
Download "Dial Jupiter" (MP3, 192kbps)

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Get Ring Tones: GroupieTunes


Join me at the Scrappy Hour?

SF WoW - holding another Scrappy Hour - looks like fun, see you there...
House of [Schlomo's] Shields
39 New Montgomery St, SF CA
August 23, 2006, 6-8 PM


thanks to schlomo rabinowitz-slutsky for giving us all a bar where we can talk about microformats, vlogs, podcasts, mogs, blogs, moblogs, world of warcraft - and feel sexy all at the same time.

technorati tags: sfwow, promonet, fancey, the_new_pornographers, sfevents, house_of_shields, schlomo_rabinowitz