Lance Bass: I'm gay
'N Sync singer worried he would harm group
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lance Bass, band member of 'N Sync, says he's gay and in a "very stable" relationship with a reality show star.
Bass and Fatone, 29, are developing a sitcom pilot inspired by the screwball comedy "The Odd Couple," in which his character will be gay.
the rest of the article is here @ cnn.com.
Nordic Lounge Weekend
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the moon is waning gibbous.
Eventually, All At Once
Joan Of Arc
Flameshovel Records
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working on it.
til then it's best said in a haiku.
Conference of many men
powerful women ignored
add more girls next year
I might annoy a few people and write a nice piece on how the indie sector of the music business got a raw deal here. I have nothing less than praise for gnomedex, filtered only by the glaring misrepresentation of the opportunity New Media affords indie industry, especially music. With two men representing the music business, and only 2 models (direct deals and major labels) (no indie label representation at all) - it's time for a little estrogen, boys. LISTENUP CHRIS: The music business is already a boys club. Must we merge that old world mentality with the new medium we are in the midst of building?
more to come. thou shalt stay tuned.
rest assured, however, that even with the critique, I learned enough to teach a class of 35 students for one full collegiate semester. And developed a crush on blake ross. could there be a better conference? A more elaborate summary is on the way. . .
for the bryght boys. i do believe you'll like this one.
Stonefruit
Halou
Vertebrae Music Productions
Download "Everything Is OK (Different)" (MP3, 192kbps)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Buy at eMusic
Brant Bjork & The Operators
it's got flaws but crunch in all the right spots.
Download "My Ghettoblaster" (MP3, 192kbps)
label: The Music Cartel
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Buy at RealNetworks / Rhapsody
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Residents of the mission district in san francisco are a most glorious extension of the black mountain poets. With all the flickr tagging, vloggerconning, moblogging, mobilcasting, and digital logging - the internet is more than the new library or new mapping system, it is a medium by which neighborhood characteristics are once again brought to light in the shadow of real-life Wal Mart domination. Digital media embraces the subjective and turns each agent into an artist, decomposing and re-recomposing itself as a palette. The mission district and the digital media artists (documentarians, really) who are congregating within it, are leading the movement - our neighborhood is our palette, "web2.0" is our tool, and the ways we manipulate each tool is yet another form of the art.
Take, for example, the sidewalks stencils as seen in flickr group sidewalk aphorisms.
The Mission is easily reconstituted as new artforms and creating a movement in digital media by simply existing . . . now the rest of the world is quickly experiencing the sidewalks & graffiti in the mission in multi tiered formats.
Photography recreates the stencils, tools on the web enable the syndication and therefore the experience. video puts it to motion. general freak factor in sf helps make it wonderful. Perhaps one or two tourists are walking around the mission, right now, looking for the sidewalk stencils they heard about/ saw on the internet. The mission is a digital palimpsest, experienced in layers and documented with indelible ferocity, in multiple mediums - written by The New Black Mountain Poets. That's us.
Thursday, June 15 - 9pm - Cafe Du Nord
Alivelectric
The Slip
reapandsow, Inc.
Download "If One Of Us Should Fall" (MP3, 192kbps)
a person (intern) was helping with some stuff, looking up a few blogs for a project, etc. and then this IM came my way...
Thx to a social space, i was inspired to dig up this shot i took in ocean beach a few years ago. and now i'm off to vloggercon...to hug the pickle and talk about rocketboom, flash, wikis, and regime change. I don't drive, but if i did, i'd want to roll up in the skullcar.
new questions for discussion:
in what ways do you experience overuse of the carbon copy?
(email replies)
turns out....
AIM is more than just an IM program.
". . .We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim IS a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling."
- Hagakure pg. 1-2
"One who is a samurai must before all things keep constantly in mind…the fact that he has to die. If he is always mindful of this, he will be able to live in accordance with the paths of loyalty and filial duty, will avoid myriads of evils and adversities, keep himself free of disease and calamity and moreover enjoy a long life. He will also be a fine personality with many admirable qualities. For existence is impermanent as the dew of evening, and the hoarfrost of morning, and particularly uncertain is the life of the warrior…"
- Code of The Samurai (pg 15) Daidoji Yuzan
