Save Net Radio

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever. By David Downs

Currently capturing 72 million listeners per month — versus 280 million for terrestrial radio — Net radio has hijacked the authority of terrestrial radio with one-billionth the resources over the last 15 years.

"Big radio's least-common-denominator approach creates playlists that the least amount of people will ever turn off. There's no personality, no edge," says Hodge. "The challenge here is to do a lot with a little."

Webcasters like Seattle's KEXP and San Francisco's SomaFM are the de facto curators of America's most avant-garde electric art galleries. Their playlists read like Next Big Thing cheat sheets for mainstream DJs, college radio stations, marketers, and advertisers. What was once a cult of hobbyists now encompasses major players like Clear Channel, which simulcasts existing holdings and compete against offerings from National Public Radio, AOL, and Yahoo.

Now this weird radio empire could all come crashing down in less than a month on what people in the industry are calling D-Day, or "the day the music dies."


On July 15, the bill comes due for a whole new set of royalties that will wipe out Net radio as we know it. No more KEXP, no more SomaFM, you name it.

A ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board back in March hiked SomaFM's royalty bill from $10,000 in 2006 to $600,000, retroactively — even though the little radio company's gross revenues were only $125,000 last year.

But SomaFM and other Webcasters are fighting back. David Downs has a good article on SFWeekly and explains the situation very well.

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What You Can Do:
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Spread the word. We ARE the media. Don't fuck with our internet radio.

Sound and Healing and Consciousness

The topic on Virato Live today was Sound & Healing. His radio program runs each Saturday from 10A to 1P.

Steven Halpern was a return guest today. Halpern's website is Inner Peace Music, where you can buy his music and listen to the samples. Nurture your soul and spirit.

Listen live or download the podcast at 880 The Revolution.

Musicovery - Interactive web radio. Pick the year. Pick the mood. And GO! Musicovery

More On The G8 Summit Protests

700 anti-war activists started a new settlement in two places on the planned bombing range at the Kyritz-Ruppiner Heide. The former command tower was painted in anti-militaristic pink, accompanied by a performance by musicians from "Lebenslaute" and over 100 clowns. Tons of accommodations for protesters. link

Here you can see underreported videos on g8tv, g8 radio transmissions, and get updates from the g8 protest timeline, see the anti-g8 camps, etc.

Links:
Dissent!-Network
G8 Podcast
G8 Protests Timeline
G8-TV
G8 Radio
Indymedia - Germany

ARTIST EATS A CORGI

In an extraordinary art event artist and animal rights activist Mark McGowan ate a Corgi dog live on the Radio on Tuesday 29th May 2007, in a protest against the Royals and their treatment of animals. The dog died at a Corgi breeding farm in Southern England and was prepared and cooked for McGowan's consumption on the Bob and Roberta Smith radio programme on 104.4 Resonance FM. McGowan says,

'I know some people will find this offensive and tasteless but i did this to raise awarness about the RSPCA's inability to prosecute Prince Phillip and his friends shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for 5 minutes and then beating it to death with a stick.'

All together now... EWWWW

Mark McGowan | Via | You Tube

Earl Greyhound

Rock critic's E F Hutton, Sasha Frere Jones, once said "Whether or not Earl Greyhound are the Next Big Thing is irrelevant - watching them will convince you that they are." Earl Greyhound



Random 10 Songs

1. Bjork - Earth Intruders
2. Bob Dylan - I Want You
3. Neenah Cherry - Braided Hair
4. Rolling Stones - Memo to Turner
5. Panda Bear - Bros
6. Patti Smith - Gimme Shelter
7. All India Radio - Four Three
8. Rickie Lee Jones - Nobody Knows My Name
9. Joseph Arthur - Diamond Ring (See Notes From The Road
10.Earl Greyhound - S.O.S listen to mp3 or watch the video on You Tube. Power rock trio is like the good stuff we used to listen to.

Negativland's Mark Hosler (and Asheville area resident) talks about intellectual property, creativity and multimedia art

Viewed by some as artistic outlaws, Negativland are either the merry pranksters of music, or the monkey wrench gang of popular culture.

For almost 30 years, the group has created striking political statements via media collages--initially in the realms of music and live performance, and now also in the area of visual art, video, books and radio--appropriating sounds, imagery and text from other sources. This sometimes got the group into hot water.

Mark Hosler, de facto leader and spokesman for the group, visited Tucson this weekend with his multimedia lecture about Negativland and its activities. "Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland," was Friday night, April 13.

As the raw material for its singular art form, Negativland uses information and the ways of disseminating and manipulating information (media), the 45-year-old Hosler says in a telephone interview from his home outside Asheville, NC, where he had shared some of his artwork in February with the locals.

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Random 10 Songs on Shuffle


1. Arcade Fire - The Well and The Lighthouse
2. Volunteer Pioneer - Separate Planes
3. Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird
4. Patti Smith - Mother Rose
5. Buddy Miles - Them Changes
6. All India Radio - Four Three
7. Steve Earle - Long Way Down To Tannietown
8. Espers - Moon Occults The Sun
9. Rolling Stones - Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby
10. Low - Breaker

What are you listening to?

We're riding a big ol' bus to the Ethics Crusade. It's tried to gather steam before but eventually petered out. It later got a bump in popularity when Janet Jackson accidentally bared her breast on worldwide television and the family values people wanted everyone involved punished severely.

The Don Imus controversy has so many layers. People are talking about it everywhere you go; you can't escape it by turning off your television. You hear it at the doctor's office, at work, in the market. It's Free Speech vs racist comments on tv and radio. There appears to be an audience for his misogynistic and racist remarks, but does that mean he should keep broadcasting because of Free Speech in our country?

The squeaky wheel always gets the grease. Big business is listening and fretting over profits so they bow to the pressure. Any disgusting slip of the tongue (or breast) is cause for the moral police to protest and boycott.

Will someone be making a list of targets for them to go after next? I like that they have to power to affect change but while they police the people of this nation, couldn't they use this kind of fire and motivation towards ending the war in Iraq?

saturday AFTERNOON me//
ooops/a glorious day in the mountains today/
been weeding/potting/pruning/toking/
grilledcheesesandwich/tea--sweet, of course/
pink sweatshorts/white ACT-UP tee/flipflops/
listening: Four Three by All India Radio/
forecast: finalfourbasketball/
wondering what i can feed my dog now/
still a study in contradictions, aren't i?/
so how about you?/

Today's Quote: If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? -- Shantideva

Round of Zimas. My treat, bitches.

Live from the electronic teat..... the Anti-War edition

* On March 19 the fifth year of the illegal, immoral, disastrous war in Iraq will begin. Activists across the country are mobilizing to mark the occasion with demonstrations, vigils and direct actions from Friday March 16 through Tuesday March 20. Add your voice to the rising call for peace: right here

* Congress is expected to vote on the bill to suspend operations at the SOA/WHINSEC in as early as May 2007. April will be a critical time for us to organize and make our voices heard.

This April 25-27, SOA Watch activists will organize local public fasts and events throughout the United States to educate the general public and members of Congress on the SOA/WHINSEC issue. link

* Activists 'Purify' Site After Bush Visit link

* 20 Arrested At SDS New York Counter Recruitment Action - link

* Do you have a protest or topical song available on the web? As of today Neil Young's Living With War website has 1430 song listings. Send your song link to: songs@lwwtoday.com

* Sign The Petition - The US Copyright Office has released their new set of rates for the payment of royalties by Internet Radio -- royalty rates so high that they will put RP and every other US-based indie webcaster out of business.

Quote For Today
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war." --Martin Luther King, Jr.

ALL INDIA RADIO

I've recently discovered All India Radio, an Australian group, and I'm really enjoying their sound. If Boards Of Canada were from India, they'd be All India Radio. Well, almost. I should quote some reviews so you can get a better idea of what they sound like.

"Sigur Ros without the vocals meets Brian Eno and Transglobal Underground. Lo-fi & ambient soundscapes & eerie ethnic street sounds." - The Age Newspaper

And, DJ Shadow meets Boards Of Canada, ambient soundscapes and lo-fi beats with some Twin Peaks & Ennio Morricone weirdness thrown in for good measure. "This is some good shit. Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in our imaginations" - Beat Magazine.

"A.I.R. takes you on a dreamlike journey-not unlike what one could imagine the results would be if K&D, Alan Parsons and Calexico were to hang in a studio for a week. Top notch" - Groove Palace Radio

I picked out some songs from their 002, Permanent Evolutions, and Echo Other CDs and bought them at iTunes after sampling them on CDBaby.com. Maybe it's something you might also enjoy.

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The American kirtan movement is alive and well in Asheville, NC.

Bhagavan Das, one of the central figures in Ram Dass' Be Here Now, returned to Asheville this week to lead kirtan at the Namaste Center on Saturday, Jan. 6. (Virato interviewed him on his radio program the last time he was in town.)

And there's Sangita Devi, a group that holds kirtan Namaste every Tuesday @ 7:30 p.m., for a donation. Info: sangitadevi.com.

This Week in Peace & Justice History is a collection designed to help us appreciate the fact that we are part of rich history advocating peace and social justice. While the entries often focus on large and dramatic events there are so many smaller things done everyday to promote peace and justice.

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December 4, 1969
President Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, and 40 U.S. governors embarked on a fact-finding mission to discover the causes of the generation gap. They viewed films of "simulated acid trips" and listened to hours of "anti-establishment rock music."

December 4, 1968
264 were arrested at a military induction center in New York City during War Resisters League civil disobedience action.

December 4, 1916
Five members of a woman's suffragist group unrolled a banner from the visitor's gallery during President Wilson's annual message (state of the union) to Congress, asking, "Mr. President, What will you do for woman suffrage?" There was no mention of the issue in his speech.

December 4, 1833
The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia. He and his brother Lewis were active abolitionists throughout their lives, including providing legal defense for the Africans who mutinied on the slave ship Amistad.

December 4, 1970
Cesar Chavez was sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to call off United Farm Workers? consumer boycott of lettuce.

December 4, 1980
United Nations agreed to establish the University of Peace and a short wave radio station, Radio Peace International, in Costa Rica.

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TERRY RILEY

One of Terry Riley's recent projects has him paired with the Kronos Quartet working for NASA. Thanks in no small part to Kronos leader David Harrington, Riley is commissioned to compose music based on radio waves collected by the Voyager space shuttle." [NASA] has done a couple of music projects before," explains Riley. "This one is based on Voyager's exploration, which flew by all of the planets. On board Voyager was a device called the Plasma Wave Receptor, which was invented by a Dr. Gurnett in Iowa. This [device] is able to receive radio waves the planets themselves broadcast, and each planet has a different sound wave."

Riley is the perfect candidate for NASA's space-age string quartets. Here on Earth, he's spent his time creating music light years ahead of his peers. Riley made his giant leap in the '60s with In C, a towering obelisk of a composition that cast an influential shadow over Philip Glass, Brian Eno and Pete Townshend (remember the intro to "Baba O'Riley" from. Who's Next?) and blurred the boundaries between classical music, avant-garde experimentalism and trance-inducing improvisation for all who followed.

Terry influenced not only Steve Reich, Philip Glass and their protégés, such as John Adams, but his influence spread out to certain European rock groups, such as Daevid Allen's Gong, Can and Tangerine Dream. In the case of these rock groups, I think sometimes Terry was the direct link."

He's been around for a long time and is still making beautiful music.

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Coast To Coast-Whitley Streiber
No matter what your beliefs are about ufos, crop circles or ghosts and intelligent life "out there" you must admit Coast To Coast is a very interesting talk radio program.

Early this morning I listened to author Whitley Strieber discussing his experiences with alien entities, some of which were incorporated into his new novel The Grays. I haven't read anything by him except Communion: A True Story but I'll have to read this one now.

George Noory interviewed Whitley Strieber last night, but he'll be back on the show with Art Bell this Sunday. Amazing stories. But are they true or not?

The Saturday show's guest is the good doctor, Rick Strassman.

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Rush Limpdick's latest drug run-in: Viagra.

Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours for possible possession of illegal prescription drugs found in his luggage, including a bottle of Viagra.

I could have gone all damn day without hearing about Rush and his schlong problems. [/shudder]

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Summer of Love Redux

ASA IRONS of the Vermont musical collective Feathers is stroking his beard. It is formidable beard; a biblical beard. He and his band mates — who mainly operate out of a rural farmhouse without cellphones, Internet, manager or booking agent — are at WNYC radio to perform their enigmatic, pixie-ish folk-rock on the long-running show "Spinning on Air." Today their instruments include a lap harp, a toy xylophone, a Middle Eastern hand drum and an acoustic guitar hand-painted with animals and rainbows.

"I'm all about the old world, man," Mr. Irons says with a mischievous laugh.

Perhaps. But he and his band mates are also about a new world: one of the most creatively vigorous strains of underground music. Initially dubbed "freak folk," it looked like a trend of the moment a couple of years ago, when two California artists, Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart, attracted attention with charmingly shaggy, deceptively whimsical, largely acoustic albums.

But the scene they spearheaded has grown steadily and expanded sonically, getting less folkie and more, well, freaky. It has also gone international. And this season — the Summer of Love 2.0 — it comes into full, wild bloom with releases, tours and festival appearances that promise nothing less than a new age of Aquarius.

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From the INBOX

GreyLodge Podcasting Company is pleased to announce our new alliance with the incredible avant-garde resource UbuWeb.

2nd Amazonian Shamanism Conference in Peru in June. A gathering of scientists and healers. Link

The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis by Paul Levy is now available for purchase online. Link

Ovi Magazine - 'Promises' is the theme of Ovi 14 and has all the usual cartoons, illustrations, poems, fiction and radio shows, along with a few extra Ovi peculiarities.

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream - www.altpr.org. In my opinion the absolute best snapshot into the daily news.

Tons of good links in the Gaia Media Newsletter.

* The Church of Reality is a religion based on the practice of Realism, believing in everything that is real. Their motto is, "If it's real, we believe in it."

* Adventurer and writer Kira Salak reports about her ayuahuasca experiences for National Geographic. Read her story and see a short video clip.

* Starhawk and Donna Read, the makers of the film Signs of the Times, about the life and work of Marija Gimbutas, have organized a series of Goddess Salons.

* The German group LightRiders are working hard on a 2 to 3 hour DVD project "The Spirit of Basel", featuring the Saturday night concert with "Akasha Project", "Stars Sounds Orchestra", and "Guru Guru", including short excerpts from the major spoken presentations. Have a first glimpse with their Teaser.

* The Vernal Equinox 2006 issue of The Entheogen Review contains "Reflections on Basel" by Jon Hanna and João Serro, but also an article entitled "Halperngate" by Jon Hanna.

* Surrealartforum is the largest Surreal, Fantastic, Psychedelic & Visionary Artist Links Gallery on the Internet. An incredible collection.

And more...

Wednesday | WebTrail - 2 Flicks on a Flickr, Coffins, "F", Nate & Di, Hanging Dolls

In May 2004, Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan hung three plastic "children" from the ancient oak in Piazza XXIV Maggio, Milan's oldest tree. The exhibit was expected to remain on the square for a month but Franco Di Benedetto, a Milanese man, was so horrified by the installation that he tried to "liberate" the dolls. He took a ladder, climbed up the tree, cut through two of the ropes with a hacksaw but fell to the ground while trying to free the third dummy. He was eventually fined and sentenced to 2 months in jail, later dropped. Link

Would you call this art? I'd fight for his right to call it art if it's his/her vision but I personally wouldn't be fulfilled creatively if I had made the hanging dolls. I do find this odd and quirky expression of art uplifting in my own strange way. Some say art is no rules, only chaos.

Stoneth's Poverty series on Flickr is very powerful and thought-provoking. Lots of street people and the homeless in downtown San Francisco are given a voice through him. Nicely done. Link

What is it exactly that listeners find so compelling about a couple of left-leaning college dropouts from Aiken, S.C. who smoke a lot of pot and have no background in radio internet technology or, for that matter, comedy? Link

Brought to you today by the letter "F". Studies reveal we read web pages in an f-shaped pattern. Interesting read with graphics. Link

Mark Dery giving a talk this Friday and among other things, he'll speak about the popularity of post mortem Victorian photographs on eBay. Can anyone please tell me who really wants to see-- let alone buy -- a picture of someone's dearly departed child in a coffin? Gruesome doesn't even cover it. Or I'm just not strong enough for it. Link

Enjoy Jilly's collages, fabric art, embellished books and more. I bet she has fun making this stuff. It's just so joyful and lively.

Psychics to Try Contacting Lennon in TV Seance
For $9.95, you'll be able to watch psychics attempt to contact John Lennon's spirit. The show will air on April 24 on pay-per-view.

No, thanks, numbnuts.

saturday morning me//
long green gauzy dress/feet bare/wild hammock hair/
three white candles glowing/windchimes blowing/
sipping espresso/listening: eathrites radio/
forecast: laundry & bush trimmer--yardwork, that is/
so what about you?/

saturday morning me//
coffee & bailey's/honey wheat bagel/
indian print long skirt/black t/black tights/
black ballet flats/old black shawl/
sore from too much too soon bike riding/
listening: Jeff Beck on the radio/
how's about you?/

BBC Radio's Virtual Druggie
How's this for a concept: an anti-drug site that actually dispenses useful, somewhat accurate information? BBC Radio One has an anti-drug site called Excess All Areas that says: "If you're partying hard, make sure you party smart. Our virtual clubber takes the drugs so you don't have to." Choose a drug from the menu for the clubber and watch the fun begin learn something. {via wmfu blog}

Link - (make sure your sound is turned down if at work)

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WFMU |> Irwin Chusid |> Outsider Music |> Key of Z

Webtrail - Prince, Absinthe, Vagina, Turfing, Rollins

Earthrites: Turfing is a newtome website I spent far too much time reading yesterday. But I'll hurry back for more. Lotsa good reading and a radio that may also be good, if I could get it to work. May be a problem on my end.

Steven Stapleton has designed the labels for a bottle of Absinthe manufactured by Absinthevertrieb . There is a limited edition of 100 in a specially designed box. Included in this box is a limited edition CD entitled Natal Moonies with the tracks Rock 'n' Roll Station (Lost Bottle Mix) by Andrew Liles and Scapegoat (Something nasty in the woodshed) by the Broken Penis Orchestra.
view absinthe jpg - (via durtro)

I'm not usually a big fan of the musician Prince, but his SNL appearance last night was pretty damn good. His first song ("Fury"?) was a great rock track that accentuated his guitar skills, but the 2nd one (Beautiful, Loved & Blessed) blew like a category 5. He's forgiven for stealing a few moves from Hendrix. Prince "Fury" Video which I searched out and found on a Prince fansite.

There's a blog called All About My Vagina featuring what else-- all things vagina. I found it on Every Woman Is A Goddess posted by Olivia, one of the bright & sassy women from all over the world who post on the group Every Woman Is A Goddess website.

"There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy, stifling state in which most people pass through life. I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, and giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case." I will turn and say to them "It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!"

And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup."

-Henry Rollins (via Dr Duke)

saturday morning me//
long burgundy flocked dress/black tights/
hot vanilla chai/wheat bagel/oj/
bedhead/get back red/what i said/
listening: of montreal on xm radio/
sandalwood & weed permeating the room/
high school all over again/
so how about you?/

Media|Music

Syd Barrett, The Swinging 60 - Pink Floyd's guiding genius walked away as stardom beckoned. On his 60th birthday, John Robb analyses his iconic status and speaks to those who remember him best such as Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd guitarist, Daevid Allen, guitarist, The Soft Machine, and others. John Robb's "Punk Rock: The Oral History", will be published shortly by Ebury. Link

What else is wrong with mainstream media? It's strictly ad revenue driven. Re: Rolling Stones' Super Bowl gig --
Some 2,000 fans were offered free tickets to get a close-up view of the gig, with one condition attached: they had to be born after 1961. Link

1967 The Best Year For Music?
It's the year always associated with the Summer of Love and now Radio 2 listeners have voted it the ultimate for music. Link

saturday morning me//
long purple slinky gown & robe/ballet flats/lap quilt/
took out the dog/got the paper/a brisk 17° F/
visine/zantac/ginseng/milk thistle/
coffee/oj/banana/g-blonde cigs/
listening: left of center on sirius radio/
hows about you?/

* How many blue and red people live in your zipcode? Following The Dollars, a Google Maps mashup that points out 2004 election donations in your zipcode. [via]

* Interactive Pimp My Nutcracker is a fun time-waster.

Quote For Today
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thich Nhat Hanh

saturday morning me//
tie-dyed pjs/lapquilt/black fleece hat/
oatmeal/hot white tangerine tea/
daughter away with drummer friends/
hubby flipping tv channel changer
faster than the speed of light/
so how about you?/

Web Trail

Best quote of the day--
"From the desert to the White House, there are so many asses being covered, it looks like a Christo art project." --Paul Krassner
Link

18th Cannabis Cup - November 20-24, 2005 in Amsterdam.
Link

November 10th - On November 10th, 2005, stand with the Ogoni people in remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Bhagavan Das will do a live interview with Virato on Asheville's The Revolution radio this Saturday morning. Link

Ben Frost Gallery - Art as freeform popculture assault. I like it.
Link

Take revenge. Shit on a pigeon.

Kate Bush's new album AERIAL will be released on November 7th. Kate's new single KING OF THE MOUNTAIN is out on October 24th. The single will get it's world premiere on BBC Radio 2 on Wed 21st Sept between 9.30am and 10.30am. [via]

She said: "I'm so pleased with everyone's work on this record. There are some lovely performances and I hope you will all feel it's been worth the wait.
Link

saturday morning me//
sipping hot green tea/half a banana/
long batik housedress/black flipflops/
braid of braids/still in a morning fog/
listening-interpol on radio paradise/
so how about you?/

{Saturday Quote}
"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."
~William Henry Channing

Proud graduate of the Dick Cheney Charm School. You gotta fucking problem with that?

Internet|Overheard

Bad Cop, No Donut! is a weekly radio segment produced by Ron Anicich at CKLN 88.1FM in Toronto about North American police brutality, misconduct and corruption. Bad Cop, No Donut! is now broadcast by a growing number of internet and non-profit, community radio stations.
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Quote Of The Week: "It's gotten to the point where I can't listen to anything; it's trashy. It's just a hundred channels of garbage all over. It's almost like a global effort to knock the sense out of you ..." — Jeff Beck

Performance
Carefully coached
Mr. Roberts won't tell us
a damn thing about his plans,
just humbly assuring you
he's a modest guy
who loves the law.

Images but no ideas,
a dagger is not pulled
an ironic villain goes unscathed.

The Democrats huff and puff
but this isn't New Orleans
andnobody's house is falling in.
--Stew Albert

Who was the first person to say "See that chicken there-- I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes out of it’s butt."

* Demonstrators arrive in Scotland today to protest the G-8 Summit. Hundreds of black-clad anarchists and anti-G-8 protesters clashed violently with police in Scotland's capital Monday, as demonstrators sought to keep up pressure on world leaders ahead of a summit of wealthy nations.

* [Watch Video]

* G8 Radio Stream

* The Guardian has a nice recap on Live 8.

* The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army is looking for fools and rebels, radicals and rascals, tricksters and traitors, mutineers and malcontents to join its ranks.

You don't need to like clowns or soldiers, you just need to love life and laughter as much as rebellion. If you think you've got what it takes then follow your nose & join CIRCA!

The Clowns have been sent in and Scottish authorities are bracing for chaos. CIRCA's latest gathering is near the G8 Summit in Scotland, July 4-8.

The First One's Free
Or, Newbie's First Trip @ Recent MindStates

Immediately following Mike Crowley's presentation, "The Secret Drugs of Buddhism," I begin a shopping spree that I will call "Operation: Tripping Balls."

My first buy of the weekend is from a knowledgeable man in a khaki ball cap; he resembles your typical organic pumpkin-patch attendant, and he delivers a $25 vial of Salvia divinorum extract.

"Can this shit get me high?" I ask him. [more »]


Recently, a Clear Channel radio station masqueraded as a pirate station called Radio Free Ohio, which feigned taking over the airwaves of other Clear Channel frequencies with rants about the bland effects of corporate-controlled radio. This was all merely a publicity stunt to promote a new Clear Channel "progressive" station--you can read more by clicking here. Clear Channel. Do they have any idea how sad they really are?

Chatterbox - New York Dolls
Thanks, Free Radio Asheville!

This is beautiful...and so is Wonkette's graphic on the story.

S.S. O'Reilly Sinks Before Leaving Port
Wanna go sailing with Bill O'Reilly on a cruise ship to discuss American values? Me, either.

An automated message at Corporate Travel Service, Inc. didn’t try to hide the fact that there was little interest in spending eight nights on boat with FOX News Channel’s top personality:

"Hello and thank you for your interest in the Thomas More Law Center Cruise with Bill O’Reilly. Unfortunately, the cruise did not have the participation that all parties anticipated. Although the guest appearance by Mr. O’Reilly and the other speakers have been canceled, the ship will still sail...”

Corporate Travel Service told Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly, Intl. that the goal was to get 800 people onboard for a Caribbean fantasy week with O’Reilly. Even though the cruise was promoted heavily on The O'Reilly Factor television program, the Radio Factor, and O'Reilly's Web site, they sold only a fraction of the tickets available.

Link; via

FCC license? Who needs it.

Commercials? Surely, you jest.

Kick-ass music? Yepper.

Go have a listen.

I'm finally able to get the streaming Free Radio Asheville on my pc. The last five songs played:

Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Mascot Mania
PG Six - Three Stages Of A Band
Murder By Death - Pillars Of Salt
Cocteau Twins - Athol-brose
Tangerine Dream - Beach theme (Live)

Step away from the dick, young people. There are evil blowjobs lurking out there...

Rush Limbaugh apologized for his use of the slang term for fellatio on-air: "[R]esponding to Gore’s statement that the [new Gore TV] network would 'reflect the point of view of young people.' Limbaugh then asked, 'What the hell is the point of view of young people? Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about.'" Yes Rush, you certainly sound put off by the thought. (Radio Ink via: peek)

saturday morning me//
a quick run/a quick trip to atlanta bread co/
for coffee & muffin reward/
listening: local radio - WNCW/
riding the lethargy xpress/
so how about you?/

Today's Quote
"Since we don't know where we're going we have to stick together in case someone gets there." -- Ken Kesey

News that the rapture has come and gone alarms many Christians. From Capitol Hill to Kansas, finger pointing and questioning: 'why are we still here?' But instead of Mr. DeLay and millions of other believers making the skyward trek, the biblical bash appears to have been an exclusive, invitation-only affair. As of today, fewer than three dozen Christians are confirmed to have been 'raptured,' leaving their rejected brethren to deal with seven years of Tribulation, a turbulent period marked by the return of the anti-Christ. Nicely done.
--By Deanna Swift (via: pesky apostrophe)

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Embarassed by the President Day, April 1, 2005

Here's hoping Falwell won't seek extraordinary measures in dealing with his viral pneumonia should the need arise. Like taking antibiotics. [more...]

The Startling Art Of Dennis Harkins

Local - There's a local meetup for Metafilter/Monkeyfilter for members and area bloggers on Friday, April 8th, 5ish at the Flyin' Frog, if any local folks can mak