art, music

DUMBO Arts Festival

Hey Bloggers, if you are into art, DUMBO will be having their 11th annual art under the bridge festival next weekend, September 28-30th. There will be art, open studios, exhibitions, installations, performances, projections, videos and lots of art with artists Jackson Martin, Alfonso Munoz, Eve Mosher, Myk Henry, Cynthia Ruse, Rashaad Newsome, Duran Jackson, Dana and Karla Karwas, NATSU, Caitlin Berrigan, Zach Gold, Vitaly Komar, Caspar Stracke, Gabriella Monroy, Aniko Erdosi, Felicity Hogan and hundreds of other artists and more art in different venues.

There will also be a Dumbo Arts Festival Afterparty with a 3-Day Draw-A-Thon at Re Bar in Brooklyn as well. 3 Nights -16 bands- 3 day draw-a-thon, Sept 28-30th, Main room gallery show of Michael Alan’s work and live music by: I love you airlines, bamboo shoots, Tim Love Lee, Bom Bomb, Todd Michaelsen, Orange Park, The Choke, Bones of Davey Jones,The Rats, Saucerboy, biz, The Krays, Umami, Supermansguestlist, used to be women. Also live music by the Hungry March Band, and jesus. Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias, produced by Grammy-winner Danny Blume, and co-produced by Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party, are Hungry March Band’s fourth album. And if you are into music, music and more music, The Deli Magazine will be having a 2 day free Deli party at the Water Street Lounge as part of the event September 28-29th. Their line up includes: spells, doom dub, cale parks, thing one, The Halcyon’s, djs till 4am and in between. Also, The Epochs, Magic Caravan, smite, Fashion show, Bluprint Clothing, Bovine Homecoming, Benzos, The Picture, The Velocet, Fhe Fatales, Danny Sleep dj’s, Then Halcyon’s dj till 4 am
And if that’s not enough entertainment as part of this gigantic arts festival; there will be dancing, dancing and more dancing. White Wave Dance Company presents their 2007 Dumbo Dance Festival and they will be kicking off the festival with a Gala Benefit and Festival Performances September 27-30th, with more than 80 choreographers and companies performed by over 400 dancers. Dance performers will include works by Terry Dean Bartlett, Arthur Aviles, Azul Dance Theater, Pascal Benichou, Betsy Miller and Dancers, Catey Ott Dance Collective, T. Lang, Push Up Something Hidden, Meg Herbert Dance, Tina Croll + Company, Anabella Lenzu/Dance Drama, Zoe Klein & David Paris and many, many others.
Have a great art, music, dance and rockin roll day.
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life

The BedBugs Are Back

After decades of hibernation, the bedbugs are back. I know because yesterdays am New York and this weeks The Villager says so. They both have bed bug articles that basically say the same thing; the bed bugs are back in New York. And the bedbugs must have reached epidemic proportions now in New York because the papers say so. And not only in New York, but across the country and across the world I have been reading that bedbugs are making a comeback. And just about every single paper that one can think of has written about them lately. Are bedbugs taking over the world? Is this the latest swarm of locusts to appear on planet earth, the scorpions that afflict man. And I also know the bedbugs are back in New York because I have heard stories lately from friends who have them in their apartments and their friends have them in their apartments who have other friends who have them in their apartment and so on and so on and so on. And I have read the bedbugs life story a thousand times by now, and I have read the “My battle with the bed bug” stories a thousand times now also, enough to know that this latest swarm does not discriminate between rich and poor or high and low. The creature inhabits all places from top to bottom. And there seems to be whole blogs and forums devoted to them now, tons and tons and tons of them. Are bedbugs taking over the world? And now there is a whole new meaning to that phrase “Good night, sleep tight. Don’t let the bed bugs bite”.
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computers

Laptops

Dell Laptops rock. I believe so because I have used them and they rock and they got style. I see them everywhere, in the coffee shops, the libraries and most offices and businesses. I know there are Dell Latitudes, Dell Inspirons, student laptop and lots of other Dell laptop models with Laptop 17″ screens and other size screens with various features. One can buy a Dell computer in Germany and anywhere around the world these days and they are also great for everything Internet. And what’s really cool about some of the Dell notebook computers that I have seen is that some of the parts like the batteries and CD drives are removable and interchangeable. Computers, what would life be like without them these days and how was life before them and the age of technology. This is a sponsored post.

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movies

Old Hollywood

I found myself watching one of those old classic movies today with Betty Davis as the actress in the film and although the soap opera was interesting, for some reason the movie started out with the psychiatrist doctor as the ultimate figure, the end all to be all who knows all and gets the final word on someone else’s life to judge, and the images of cigarettes were being smoked and displayed as being cool throughout it. And as being anti psych cia tric and anti medical model, it was interesting to see that even Old Hollywood films advertised and promoted these stereotypes of family locking up family in sanitariums and institutions such as the case today, the majority of people in psychiatric hospitals are put their by their own family. I would hope that one day forced psychiatric treatment could be abolished. Is another world possible. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

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life

The Juror Questionnaire

The Juror Questionnaire. So what’s the purpose of the juror questionnaire and what is it anyway. I received one of those papers in the mail the other day from the State of New York Unified Court System and I thought, how does the court system evens get ones name and address to mail them a letter stating come to court and testify or else. Oh, the letter goes on to say “Your name was selected at random from the voter, driver, tax, social services or unemployment lists” Is this a divide and conquer thing to use the people against the people or it this a fair way for people to judge others, and what’s the purpose of the courts anyway. Is it possible to not be on any voter, driver, tax, social services or unemployment lists anyway, and as I blah blogged about a few days ago, is it possible to have a close all courts day, month and even year or is that a whole another posting. And what if one does not answer these juror questionnaires. Is it possible to conscious object. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. No one is free when others are oppressed. And who is Excelsior and what does that court system symbol mean. Is another world possible. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

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camera

My Digital Camera

I am a fan of digital cameras. Digital cameras are all the rage these days and you see people taking photos with those silver cameras everywhere. And what’s really cool about them is that you can see the photos instantly and they do a myriad of things. Digital photography is awesome and I can praise and blah blog about it endlessly. And canon cameras rock. Those Canon PowerShot cameras can even make videos that you can post on YouTube and then the camera has another ten or so different features in addition to that. Digital cameras can make a great gift for the holidays to make the memories and share the memories. And with digital cameras one can help make the moments and memories last. This is a sponsored post.
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figures

Who Is Gandhi?


And so here I find myself again with the thought of what to write about today and wondering if I am running out of things to write about again, maybe its that blah blah blog writers block thing. And another of today’s thoughts that come to is mind who Is Gandhi? I’ve seen photos and images of that guy around a lot. How would that Internet bible dictionary Wikipedia describe him? I see him in a lot of peoples top eight on MySpace right there along with the likes of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King so I think he must mean peace as I believed he walked his life for freedom and gave up everything he had to follow peace. What an amazing man and a great soul. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.

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weather

Fall

Hey Bloggers, is it the first day of fall today according to the Gregorian calendar and the temperature outside? I figure it is either today, yesterday or maybe tomorrow. And when I look at the calendar to try and figure it out it says “Yom Kippur begins at sundown” for tomorrow and “First Quarter Moon” for yesterday. Oh, now I see it, Sunday, September 23, First day of Fall. I guess I figured it was somewhere around here as fashion week just ended as well as labor day and back to school and from the confusion of the weather of not being able to figure out whether to dress for summer or winter I guess the seasons and the times are a changing, in New York. Happy Fall.

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travel

Dial A Flight

Dial A Flight. Now that sounds interesting. Sounds like one can dial a vacation on their telephone. If you happen to be looking to dial a flight, you can do all the dialing at Dialaflight’s website. They offer stopovers and city breaks in the worlds most exciting cities. You can search for flights, hotels, cars and travel ideas at their website and you can also get short breaks, travel stopovers and cheap flights to cities such as New York, Montreal, Hong Kong, Rio and many others. DialAFlight can help you plan your vacation the way you would like. This is a sponsored post.


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water

Water?

As I was walking from the store down the street the other day, a friend who had just bought a bottle of evian water asked me, “What is evian spelled backward?” “Naive!” I answered. Wow, that’s weird. What the heck does that mean. Is that just a coincidence or could it mean one is naive for buying evian water. And for what reason could someone be naive for buying bottled water these days? Is it that environmentally conscious go green thing to save planet earth from all of the plastic bottles that are clogging its streams or is it that bottled water could really be just tap water as the back of my mind sometimes says to me and was also the case with those Coca Cola or Pepsi bottled water articles that were in the news lately. Is bottled water really bottled water and what does that mean anyway? Have a great day.

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