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I fnally got access to streaming player on the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today site after I installed Google Chrome. For some reason Firefox 3 Browser didn’t allow me to see it. Another one of those connectivity voodoo things I guess. I also was inspired to give it a good listen after listening to my favorite podcast-Sound Opinions review thumbs up from both Greg and Jim.

I’ll be honest and say I hoped it was more like My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Pt II than it is. It’s present form sounds like Byrne and Eno some 30 years later-much more mature, sophisticated, and relaxed. Byrne’s vocals sound great s does the production Eno provides. I have a player for it on the right side which you can listen to songs on and copy too if you like. I’m enjoying this. Only wondering if David Byrne’s building was played on this any where? If you know please shoot me a blip.

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Hush Records is offering “Deca” a free sampler of it’s bands in an effort to promote them and expose to a greater audience. I’ll either podcast or post reviews of portions of album too.

We are delighted to share a party favor from our 10th birthday party with you. It’s a rare snapshot of an invigorating cross section of artists, most of them calling Portland home. Worth noting, the majority of its 28 tracks are previously unreleased. The attention to detail shows not only in the quality of the songs, but the 30+ page pdf booklet that accompanies it.

ALBUM I
1.”Hollow Notes” - Novi Split 2. “Refining” - Peter Broderick 3. “Come By Storm” - Laura Gibson 4. “The Afterlife Pt. I” - Run On Sentence 5. “Winding Sheet” - Nick Jaina 6. “Coo Coo Bird” - Shelley Short 7. “Hiding Home” - Norfolk & Western 8. “Spring Bird” - Rauelsson 9. “Space And All Dead Things” - Corrina Repp 10. “Elephants & Little Girls” - Loch Lomond 11. “Sharra” - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan 12. “Wii Oui” - Podington Bear 13. “Broke Down” - Amy Annelle 14. “The Wagoner’s Lad” - Colin Meloy

ALBUM II
1. “Song # 4″ - Fun With Friends 2. “Petting Zoo” - Graves 3. “Your Smile” - Fancie 4. “Ridin’ For A Fall” (Young Dub) - Bobby Birdman 5. “These Blues” - Super XX Man 6. “Egg Hunt” - Reclinerland 7. “Asleep At The Wheel” - Casey Dienel 8. “The Bane Of Progress” - Jeff London 9. “Flight Cub” - Velella Velella 10. “Oh Darlin” - Blanket Music 11. “Big Eye City” - Operacycle 12. “Elysian Fields (We’re Dead, We’re Dead)” - Parks & Recreation 13. “Humm-na” - Dat’r 14. “Sleep At Last!” (Live) - Flash Hawk Parlor Ensemble

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I watched this movie on a local cable station last night. What a brilliant performance depicting a sad reality. In some ways like Schindler’s List offering some rays of hope on a very dark day. I always liked Don Cheadle and feel this was the best and fullest performance  I’ve seen him in. Don is not one of my favorite black actors, he’s one of my favorite actors that happen to be black. The saddest line in the movie was uttered by Nick Nolte’s UN Peace keeper character attempting to illustrate the level of despair in the Rwandan genocide, “You people aren’t even niggers, just Africans.” Sad how TV, movies and the media in general has desensitized us to tragedy and human suffering: feel bad for a minute, change the channel and order some Domino’s.

Don’t know what it takes to make people care-probably only affecting them on their doorstep. If you haven’t seen Hotel Rwanda I highly reccomend it. There were several excellent performances besides Cheadle’s. The woman that played his wife and a couple of others all quite good.

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I watched this movie on a local cable station last night. What a brilliant performance depicting a sad reality. In some ways like Schindler’s List offering some rays of hope on a very dark day. I always liked Don Cheadle and feel this was the best and fullest performance  I’ve seen him in. Don is not one of my favorite black actors, he’s one of my favorite actors that happen to be black. The saddest line in the movie was uttered by Nick Nolte’s UN Peace keeper character attempting to illustrate the level of despair in the Rwandan genocide, “You people aren’t even niggers, just Africans.” Sad how TV, movies and the media in general has desensitized us to tragedy and human suffering: feel bad for a minute, change the channel and order some Domino’s.

Don’t know what it takes to make people care-probably only affecting them on their doorstep. If you haven’t seen Hotel Rwanda I highly reccomend it. There were several excellent performances besides Cheadle’s. The woman that played his wife and a couple of others all quite good.

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Continuing to prove that he gets the Net-Trent and NIN offer this free EP featuring NIN and other members of the Lights in Sky tour: A Place to Bury Strangers, Does it Offend You,Yeah?, Crystal Castles and Deerhunter. Try it out and if you like it maybe go see them on tour this summer.

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I can’t pimp this band hard enough. I was just telling a friend one of the greatest live shows I ever saw was Wire back in the heady punk/new wave years (late 70s early 80s). I actually saw them two nights back to back at different venues with different mitigating circumstances. The first night was at some old theater that a local NYC radio station got a hold of to do live broadcast with the band. It was obvious by the bands antics that they were clueless as to why they were there. In fact just minutes before the broadcast was scheduled to go out live-someone from the station whispered something in singer Colin Newman’s ear. He quickly signaled to the band and it was just awesome how the power fell over them and the audience. They were totally riveting-this was still the period of their 1st or 2nd releases which were still in the Ramones 1minute 2 minute plus song length pogo marathon for a half hour or 45 minutes until everybody just dropped from exhaustion. The main difference was while the Ramones tended to channel Mad Magazine/Don Martin Wire was more in the William Burroughs vein.

The good news is that for those of you who are curious you can check out their site here and sample some free mp3 as well. The 2nd show I saw them at was at CBGB’s and as you can imagine that too was the stuff of legend. Great band that ciontinually takes risks and reinvents themselves remaining very musically aware all the time.

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Ha! Thanks Dave Winer for taking this screenshot at this point. I felt this was my funniest Tweet ever. Now I can say that I’m Twitter famous-oh boy!

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Chilli CookOff bands during the day and MJ Klein at BBQ during the evening. All in all a good day of fun, food, music and conversation.

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Some Australian jewelry company: Re:vision is making pieces out of recycled camera parts! Kudos for recycling and for using such cool objects to make jewelry from. I can think of many photographer friends that would want something from their collection.

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Seesmic Blog Test 

My buddy Jeremy Vaught aka the Seesmic Blogger Dude informed me via chat this morning that Seesmic’s new plugin for WordPress was available. This is what is showing above. So let’s give it a little road test shall we?

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