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Fell into
A sea of grass
And disappeared among
The shady blades...
Children all
Ran over me
Screaming tag!
You are the one!

Greening my iPod

Download "Where's The Weed At?" (mp3)
from "Koast II Koast"
by Kottonmouth Kings
Suburban Noize Records

Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Stream from Rhapsody


technorati tags: kottonmouth kings, promonet, mp3, mp3blog

Shots Fired. Dumb Luck.

Download "Dumb Luck" (mp3)
from "Dumb Luck"
by Dntel
Sub Pop

Buy at Sub Pop Megamart
Buy at iTunes Music Store

Last night, as i was 4 8 15 16 23 42'ing (watching the only television program i actually watch on an actual tv set) there were shots fired about a block away. i heard either 6 or 7 shots, couldn't count. My roommate and i looked at each other. "that was a gunshot, right?" Right.

LOST cut to commercial as if it knew, and we heard the sound of a car pulling off, barely screeching but hauling ass. 3 minutes later: the cops arrived, i lost track of the tv show, we turned off our lights and peered out the windows to watch for what would happen next. Men yelling, a woman screamed, police sirens and lights, and yellow tape around the convenient store on the corner.

Pause. go back in time. 20 minutes before the tv programme began, i went to the convenient store to use the ATM. I bought a red lighter, walked home.


Pause. Back to the crime scene.

We watched as police interviewed men and women, one man collapsed in tears, another woman fell to her knees and two men tried to pick her up. There were the sounds of humans in pain, sadness, tears and shock echoing down the street. My roommates and i started speculating.

"maybe the convenient store clerk was shot"
"the one who just sold me a lighter? the nice middle eastern guy who has pictures of his daughter all over the place?"
"yeah"

I've been scouring the interwebs for information on a crime in the mission last night at a convenient store and have yet to find any piece of information. (if any missionites have any good links to local crime stories let me know)
what i do know is that Someone died on my block last night at the convenient store. one minute they were alive. Shots fired. then they were not. and instantly, my concerns and any problems, all in perspective. And i have risen on May 3, 2007 with new responsibility to embrace the day and days ahead. dumb luck.



Technorati Tags: the mission, missionsf, dumb luck, san francisco

Spring Fling

jackpine social club spring fling. tonight. 9pm.

music, a meat raffle, loose morals, rock & roll


9pm, annies social club, 5th & Folsom


it's on upcoming.org right here

tags technorati: jackpine social club, san francisco, music

Punch and Judy

Punch And Judy
- Elliott Smith


A wallflower, Punch talks to Judy
In a crowded corner where anybody can listen in
But they don't read page to page or speak easy
Now they're going to go say the words
In the wrong order again
They walk in a circle
Through all the sidewalk scenes
They used to be a part of one time
Now everybody just stares and whispers
Driving around up and down Division Street
"I used to like it here
It just bums me out to remember
Can't you ever treat anyone nice?
I think I'm going to make the same mistake twice"
They draw the curtain
Wait for a call
Pretty lucky if they get any kind of response at all
"Can't you ever treat anyone nice?
I think I'm going to make the same mistake twice
I'm going to make the same mistake twice"


Technorati Tags: elliottsmith, punchandjudy, everyparticular, notshocking

Vagina Power w/ Alexyss Tylor

all up in it

Web2.0pen/ Web2.Expo - Come to my discussion group, even if you aren't in SF :-)

I am leading a discussion today at web2.0pen down at the web2.0 Expo ... at the Moscone Center. The discussion is at 3pm, talking about online communities & how they interact with the digital music space. Chris Pirillo (lockergnome, gnomedex, and much much more) is down at the conference today with a live stream of his experience. Perhaps he will attend my discussion group so my awesome friends back east can catch a glimpse. I've embedded his stream so you can see for yourself. My discussion is at 3pm Pacific Time - east coast that's 6pm your time, bitches.



Technorati Tags: web2.0, onlinecommunity, web2.0 expo, coreydenis, promonet, ioda

You're all I read anymore

I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell.

- Eliot Rosewater

Technorati Tags: kurt vonnegut, galapagos, eliot rosewater, don't_drink_the_drano, the smoking man

...but that instant is over

"she said i missed you for an instant but that instant is over...technology, it needs me"

Download "Technology" (mp3)
from "Give 'em All a Big Fat Lip"
by The Whigs
ATO Records

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Technorati Tags: the whigs, promonet, ioda, crazywanda, notshocking, mylittlehomie

NotShocking006 is published to the sphere

it's true. published, enhanced, and delicious.

thanks to libsyn, you can get it here

NotShocking06: SxSW 2007 review installment 1

courtesy of Laughing Squid

Matthew Wayne Selznick asked for the podcast in raw mp3 form so he could listen on any player, and that's what Matthew Wayne Selznick gets. So this is the first SxSW review - a simple little mix tape for you. In this wrap, i reveal my favorite show at SxSW and i even play a little un-safe music..
I'll publish it tonight when i get home from work, it'll be purty and enhanced with awesome pictures and magnificent shownotes for clickable pleasures. but for a sneak peak..

here's the mp3. rock.

Technorati Tags: sxsw, sxsw2007, cheeseburger, crazywanda, music podcast, coreydenis, podcast, promonet

Bumrush the Charts - march 22

Today is March 22, which means for .99 and 2 mins of your time you can help new media prove purchasing power AND help someone go to college all at once. I've already purchased the track today. I am in. Please Join me, cc chapman, adam curry, and other new media makers and advocates - participate in Bumrushing the iTunes charts. To save a step, you can purchase the track straight from my blog right here, and the financial aid folks will still donate 50% of your purchase to edvisors.com (scholarship fund).

band: Black Lab
Track to buy in itunes: Mine Again
make life easy and click here to buy it (you will be counted in Bumrush the charts)

for more info visit the Bumrush The Charts blog.

"On March 22, 2007, a bunch of podcasters are aiming to game the charts in the iTunes Music Store for at least a day by asking everyone involved in podcasting to buy just one song, a specific song, Mine Again by Black Lab, that day. The effort, called Bum Rush the Charts, is designed to demonstrate to old media that podcasting has reach and more importantly, purchasing power."

technorati tags: bumrush+the+charts, black lab, financialaid, crazywanda, march22

flames. no burns.

well i've been involved in my first flame war since 1997 and i have to say i feel rather unscathed. you see, in between flame emails, i was busting my ass to get more publicity for a really really good cause which involves the advancement of social media and, of course, podcasting. you may have heard about it on billboard or even the podcast network...

The Financial Aid Podcast will bum rush the charts and raise scholarship funding all at once. On March 22, New Media Makers from around the world are being asked to promote and purchase one single track from itunes to prove that an alternative media campaign can chart a track on itunes. Please read more details here ...and stay tuned. The bum rush is thursday. the band is Black Lab. The buy links will go up on thursday at midnight.

flame it or fuel it, the choice is yours.

technorati tags: bumrushthecharts, blacklab, financal aid podcast, march22, itunes, promonet

eleven!

Jean Baudrillard, RIP

Jean Baudrillard, postmodern French philosopher and cultural theorist died on March 6th 2007. Baudrillard is the reason for Not Shocking's existence as documented in post number 1 (which handled Baudrillard's take on 9/11). Yes, it was Jean Baudrillard who penned simulacra and simulation. If you recall The Matrix, neo keeps his pirated disks in his Simulacra and Simulation book.

and so do i.

Actual Cactus and Pickle to Duel at IODA SxSW Party

So if you don't already know about it, The big 3rd Annual IODA SxSW bash (with the black angels headlining oh yes yes yes) is on March 14 at emo's annex from 1-6pm, NO wristbands or badges are needed, but there will be VIP wristies and if you read my blog and attend i MIGHT give you one. if you want one, just whisper not shocking in one of my ears and i'll slap something special on your wrist. Moving right along....

I am leaving for Austin within hours and am pulling an all nighter to wrap up every loose end or at least prepare some other ends for wrapping. It's "that time of year again" where the internet, indie film world and music industry invade austin. I always make rude comments about those annoying "keep austin weird" shirts so i'll try not to do that in this very blog entry. too late i guess.


And what about the cactus and the pickle duel? Well. It's not as historic as Alexander Pushkin's gruelling duel, but a duel there shall be.

many of us have had our pic taken with the pickle, and the whole phenomenon started last year at SxSW '06. My friend Kris Krug and many others have flickr documentation of our cherished act of pickle hugging & smooching. the pickle even made it to the IODA SxSW Opening Day bash in '06, where he was seen cajoling none other than Dave Mansueto from Liberated Syndication.

This is the infamous pickle and me, at the Podcast & Portable Media expo in Ontario, CA, September_something 2006.

Indeed, our friend PDilly, the podcast pickle, will be at our IODA party again this year.

but wait. there is more.






This is the Spot DJ Cactus.

And this is the Spot DJ Cactus challenging the the Podcast Pickle. Both are attending the IODA affair, and at least one of them has something to say about it:



i have a feeling the duel itself may or may not take place before apostle of hustle hop on stage which is at 4:20 pm ...on march 14. at emos annex. corner 6th and red river.


Technorat Tags: podcastpickle, ioda, sxsw, spotdj, duel

IODA SxSW Sampler

Download "Holding The Pilots / Holding The Facts" (mp3)
from "The 3rd Annual IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler"
by The Foundry Field Recordings

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3rd Annual IODA SxSW Opening Day Bash

coast 2 coast

everything just rumbled. i knew it was an earthquake, my first instinct was to stand and survey surroundings. this one was a little shakier than the last - 4.4 and it showed. nothing fell off the shelves, the cats stared at the ceiling.

Technorati Tags: earthquake, sanfrancisco, earthquakewatch

Earthquake today 2/23/07

the whole building shook at work today, 3.4 on mr richter's scale. to quote Giovanni Catalano, "I guess Locke forgot to press enter."

Technorati Tags: earthquake, sanfrancisco, Earthquake Watch

NotShocking003: Mission Control

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety.

And yet I have never left school.

- Jacques Derrida

Ghost In The Shell

great leaders cannot be ruled
Ayn Rand/ the fountainhead

have a mix tape for tuesday. podcast #2 is titled Ghost In The Shell

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Technorati Tags: promonet, ioda, controllercontroller, promonet, theslip, notshocking, crazywanda, destroyer, lyricsborn, stars, theappleseedcast, lyricsborn, mylittlehomie

morning after girl

Yesterday evening I finally got a copy of iLife '06 and Garageband 3.