And so it must be that time of year again, after that Mayan calendar end of the world date and right before that globalFEST 10 festival and in between all other kinds of headline news of the day, that I find myself opening up a copy of this months New Years edition of The New York City Jazz Record to see this really big ad on page 23 for this years Winter Jazzfest that reads something like from their website as follows:

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST
Friday, January 11th & Saturday, January 12th
Arts Presenters Showcases (APAP)

Winterjazzfest.com
#WJF2013

Tentative Lineup (subject to change)…

AFRO HARPING’ A Tribute to Dorothy Ashby f. Brandee Younger
AfroHORN: The 3rd Incarnation
Alexis Cuadrado Group ‘A Lorca Soundscape’
Amir Elsafar Quintet
Ari Hoenig Group
Bobby Previte Bari Trio
Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra
Bryan & The Aardvarks
Bugge ‘n Friends w/ Erik Truffaz, Bugge Wesseltoft, Ilhan Ersahin, Joaquin ‘Joe’ Claussell
Catherine Russell
Celebrate The Great Women of Blues & Jazz w/ Toshi Reagon, Allison Miller + Friends
Charnett Moffett, Marc Cary, Will Calhoun
CHURCH f. Mark de Clive-Lowe
Claudia Acuña
Colin Stetson
Corey King and TAFFY
Dan Tepfer & Lee Konitz
Debo Band
Dezron Douglas’ Jazz Workshop
DJ Raydar Ellis
DJ Rich Medina
Don Byron Quartet
Donny McCaslin
Eric Revis, Kris Davis, Andrew Cyrille
Erik Deutsch
Ernest Dawkins Afro-Straight
Evolutionary Minded! – ‘The music of Gil-Scott Heron Re-visioned w/ Kentyah, M1 (Dead Prez), Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band’
Felix Pastorius
Frank Lacy ’10 32k’
George Burton Group
Gregory Porter
Hazmat Modine
Herbert Holler (Freedom Party DJ)
Ibrahim Maalouf
Jacob Garchik The Heavens
Jaimeo Brown’s Transcendence
James Carter Organ Trio
Jason Lindner Breeding Ground
Jason Stein Quartet
JC Hopkins
John Raymond Project
Julian Lage, Nels Cline
Kneebody
Krystle Warren and the Faculty
Leo Genovese Trio
Marcus Strickland Twi-Life
Maria Neckam
Mario Pavone with Tyshawn Sorey and Dave Ballou
Merger w/ Andrew D’Angelo, Kirk Knuffke, Ben Street, Nasheet Waits
Michael Attias Spun Tree
Michael Formanek’s Cheating Heart
Monty Alexander “Harlem – Kingston Express”
Music of Ryuichi Sakamoto by PACJE
Nasheet Waits EQUALITY w/ Vijay Iyer, Mark Helias, Logan Richardson
Omer Avital & His Band of The East
Oran Etkin
Otis Brown III
Pedrito Martinez
Rafiq Bhatia
Red Baraat
Revive Big Band led by Igmar Thomas
Rez Abbasi Trio
Roy Nathanson Sotto Voce
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Gamak
Seabrook Power Plant
Somi
Sunny Kim’s Painter’s Eye
The Big Picture feat. David Krakauer (A Sneak Preview)
The Cookers
The Fringe
Tigran
Tony Malaby Tuba Trio
Vinnie Sperazza 40Twenty
Yosvany Terry
+more to be announced soon…

BOOM Collective and Search and Restore are pleased to announce the lineup for 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST.  The festival is to be held on January 11th & 12th, 2013 in New York City.  On both nights the festival will take over six venues in the Village, Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, Zinc Bar, Bitter End, SubCulture and Bowery Electric.  This marks the ninth year of the annual NYC WINTER JAZZFEST, and the continued mission to showcase top quality jazz to industry professionals, avid jazz fans, and new audiences.

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST will feature over 70 different jazz groups during the Arts Presenters (APAP) conference.  Similar to past years the festival will provide an opportunity for artists to showcase in front of presenters, promoters, talent buyers, educators, musicians and avid fans. Over 5000 arts professionals will be in New York City for the annual Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference from January 10-14.  As there will be hundreds of showcases scheduled throughout the weekend around the city both at the Hilton Hotel and in alternative venues, Winter Jazzfest offers APAP conference attendees, and the general public, the opportunity to experience the best of today’s new live jazz and experimental music in club venue settings.  Once famed as the focal point of New York City’s rich jazz and live music scene, Bleecker Street and the Village provide for an ideal festival experience groups performing all night at six of the neighborhood’s esteemed venues within close proximity of each other.  On this night the 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST will continue to redeem the rich jazz heritage of the Village and again will bring jazz fans back to Bleecker Street.  The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST includes over 70 of today’s most interesting jazz groups from New York, Brooklyn, and beyond.

Currently new jazz groups are underrepresented, yet they are culturally essential to the continued development and future of jazz and the cultivation of new audiences for jazz.  Jazz artists need support and exposure to the significant institutional booking forum that the Arts Presenters conference represents.  Winter Jazzfest is pleased to offer a forum for presenters and music enthusiasts to experience and support the future of jazz.

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST features curatorial input from Meghan Stabile of Revive Music Group and Adam Schatz of Search & Restore.  In line with the mission of Winter Jazzfest, Stabile and Schatz continue to invigorate NYC’s jazz scenes in their own ways by promoting and supporting young and deserving new jazz artists while bringing increasingly growing audiences to the music.

Search & Restore provides a point of discovery for the new jazz & improvised music community atwww.searchandrestore.com.  Founded in late 2007 by Adam Schatz, S+R has since grown into a 501©3 non-profit organization, committed to bringing the artists and audiences of new jazz and improvised music together in new ways, while never forgetting it’s DIY roots.

Revive Music Group is a musician advocacy firm and boutique creative music agency that offers pioneering live music productions and online exposure for musicians. Revive represents musicians through artist development and global awareness, while educating and exposing younger audiences to jazz in nontraditional ways.  Visit the online hub dedicated to musicians at http://revivalist.okayplayer.com

The 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST welcomes all Arts Presenter conference badge-holders to RSVP and reserve a single discounted Full-Festival Pass to the 2013 NYC WINTER JAZZFEST by emailing rsvp@winterjazzfest.com, RSVP required.  Only 2013 APAP Conference attendees are able to RSVP.

And these 2013 NYC Winter Jazzfest and globalFEST Rocks. Have a great jazz festival day and more.

And if it’s free then it’s for me, maybe. And even if it’s at a discount then it’s for me, maybe. And so this post happens to be about freebies 2013, www.freecatcher.com and perfume samples. And just typing the words free samples, online freebies, and free trial offers has me wanting to visit that All Free Samples website to sign up for some of those free samples and complimentary products such as perfume, cologne, food, movies, music, entertainment, cell phones, books, cars and a whole lot of other products that one can think of. You can also read their Free Sample Newsletter to hear about their free samples and find All Free Samples on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ as well. And you can get those free product samples by mail. And what better way to find those deals and online freebies than on the internet. As now with the invention of online just about everything under the sun, finding those freebies can be just a website visit away.

And as I look up and around on this day it finds itself as another year that has rolled around again according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. It is a new year of 2013 from 2012 that seemingly Mayan calendar end of the world year. And we’re still here. And it is also another one of those end of the year review retrospective of a year years again. A year of births, deaths, marriages, traveling, celebrations, happiness and sorrows or what not. And time is passing by again. And it is also a Twilight Zone 24 hour marathon cancel all appointments on this New Years Day again. And so I find myself posting this quote that I came across throughout my travels in internetland on this day.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce
 

And so I found myself on another one of those tours with a friend on this day in search of that mega mini mansion of a neighborhood with one of those New York New Jersey minivans to get me there as one of those tourists in the state of New Jersey with The Palisades cliffs and that skyline of Manhattan to be found in that State of New York as its backdrop. And this one was one of those planned tours via the internet with enough reason to drag that camera out of the closet again with enough battery to get a whole ten photos out of it before the camera batteries died again. And so those photos that I found myself taking in my blogaholicness find themselves as posted above. Happy holy dayze.

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blog. And on this day finds itself as Occupy Wall Street Day 461.  And Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together, those global revolution of a movements, are still moving fast. And it also finds itself a day before that Mayan Calendar End Of The World Countdown thing, and a few days after that unfortunate Connecticut School Shooting that has since ignited the issue of gun control and gun violence and has spawned online groups such as Occupy The NRA. And so I find myself attempting to find something to blog about on this day in an attempt to maintain content for this blog and my other blog whenever blaghers block possible and also when that Google page rank update wants to send me in search of a fifth full time job. And so I find myself pulling out this vanilla folder stuffed with torn out newspaper clippings of headlines from months and I think even years ago that I once thought that I would blog about on this blog that never happened. And so I attempt to I guess mini blog those headline news clippings without commentary as if to rewind headline news time with headlines that read something like as follows in an attempt to just put this stack of news clippings away again:

1.  College students targeted in online music piracy crackdown.
2.  Take Out the Plastic and Kill it.
3.  National Guard will help protect PATH. hugh????
4.  Workers blast city’s Big Brother scheme….Something about an electronic payroll system.
5.  1 in 100 adults behind bars in U.S. prison population.
6.  Outsider Art Fair.
7.  E-waste wave heads for city….Something about televisions switching from analog to digital.
8.  Back to school.  Still coping, many Virginia Tech students return to campus.
9.  A Warning to the World.  Frogs in Danger.
10.  Van kills 2 kids in Chinatown…..  Can someone change the laws in New York City to where pedestrians and cyclists are not treated as disposable roadkill when an automobile kills them and drivers are not penalized or even given a parking ticket.
11.  Gov urges gun ban for violent mental patients…..How about urging a gun ban for every human being on planet earth.
12.  Bored? Tired of going to the same old places.  Try This! Rent a .22 Caliber Rifle…Safety Lessons Included. Such and such Rifle and Pistol Range located in New York City with an ad in a local New York City newspaper…. hugh??? can someone please banish all of these gun stores located in North America. 
13.  flavor of the week. Slim to None. Such and such gets a divorce and a veggie burger-all for less than $40.
14.  Big Bang re-created.
15.  Post-election Iran divided.
16.  Clinton Hill.  Fight for convent’s site.
17.  Columbia debates old ROTC ban…..ROTC sucks, to be trained for war in schools.
18.  Police give out stop and frisk cards….Can someone do away with this stop and harass thing.
19.  Reality Bikes.  The masses take it to the streets for the Fourth Annual Memorial Ride and Walk.
20.  Cameras on street curb crime, NYPD says. 
21.  Injustice Behind Bars….Something about USA PATRIOT ACT and ICE.
22.  WHO:  Dangerous change is coming….Something about poverty, disease and climate change.
23.  FDA allows irradiation of some produce. 
24.  The greenest choice you’ll ever make….Something about hybrid cars and light bulbs.
25.  City told to stop digging up graves in park rehab.
26.  The Bag Lady of Billburg:  Eighty percent of the bottles clogging our streets are for water.  Stop drinking bottled water.
27.  Whiting Out the Ads, but at What Cost?  The developer of Adblock Plus estimates that it has about 2.5 million users.
28.  Newton Creek Oil Spill, Greenpoint….Not sure for what reason that one is scribbled on some piece of paper.
29.  Something about kids who are not vaccinated can not go to school.
30.  Some flyer with the website http://www.nosubwaysearches.org on it.
31.  For Love of Water…Something about the whole idea of paying for water.
32.  A Month Without Shopping.  Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Credit Cards.
33.  Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself?  Of Bears, Bees and Deadly Mosquitoes.
34.  Planes, Trains or Automobiles?  Transportation Alternatives in the Face of Peak Oil.
35.  The Planet is Saved!  Well, Not Really.  5 Things We Learned This Year….And 5 More for ’08.
36.  Reconditioning.  Air conditioning contributes to global warming through both energy consumption and the inevitable release of refrigerants.
37.  A Lifetime of Misery. Animal Circuses:  Are they really worth it? The Greatest Show on Earth?  Think again…. the circus you are supporting severely abuses their animals.  Such and such a circus is hell on earth for the animals.
38.  For what reason are all of those ads in the back of weekly newspapers for pharmaceutical companies?  Psychiatry Kills.
39.   For what reason does Penn Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal seem like a war zone with polizei in camouflage with dogs and machine guns as if awaiting world war four and one is supposed to pretend that they cannot get killed by some guy standing next to them with a machine gun. Guns are the worst invention ever.  If only guns could be banished from every human being on planet earth.
 

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And in case you haven’t heard, today on planet earth finds itself of that date December 12th, 2012 or 12.12.12 according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall, the last repetitive date we’ll see in our lifetimes, or according to those doomsday sayers, 12/12/12, the last date before the end of the world 12.21.2012 Mayan calendar date, or something like that. And so what else is there that I can say about this date that has not already been said in 12 12 12 time. Well, CNN finds itself posting articles with headlines that read Once-in-a-lifetime 12/12/12 date spawns mass weddings, superstitions and RT finds itself with articles that read something like 12/12/12: Twelve must-know facts about last once-in-a-lifetime date this century with a text that reads something like as follows. Have a great 12.12.2012 day.

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12/12/12 –– the day of Harmony … or Doom?
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12. Students at Moscow State University have been given motivation to study after their professor posted a sign on his door stating, “The last chance to retake your History of Foreign Literature exam will be 12/12/12. If you choose not to take it, it will not only be the end of the world…but also the end of you.”

And if I must blogger say, I have sometimes been a fan of those reptiles throughout my travels here on planet earth. And in case you are wondering, that reptile family includes snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards and other kinds of creatures who crawl around on planet earth. And if you happen to be looking for some Reptiles for sale, Lizards for sale or a Pet Turtle, you can find them online at ReptilePad.com. They have all kinds of reptiles such as pet iguanas, pet lizards, pet water dragons, frogs, hermit crabs, pet bearded dragons, chameleons, turtles and many more reptiles breeds for sale. You can find some exotic reptiles at their website as well. And now with the age of online just about everything under the sun, one can find those reptiles without ever leaving home, or at least without ever having to leave one of those computers.

Well that was pretty neat to find myself on one of those unexpected ten minute day trips to Mill Creek Marsh today after running into a friend at the supermarket with one of those cars that she could drive to this infamous dumping ground oasis that finds itself in the middle of Secaucus, New Jersey Meadowlands. And that place was like a trip to the country in the middle of the city with the skyline of Manhattan as its background and the smell of sulphur around it that comes from somewhere. And it was a great excuse to grab that camera out of the closet to get a whole five photos out of it before the camera batteries died to post those photos that find themselves posted above. And seeing those white cedar stumps in the swamp in person that I have read about on the internet, on that one and a half mile Mill Creek Marsh nature trail was nature trail interesting. And where does that sulphur smell that finds itself around this Mill Creek Marsh come from. And this marsh still bears witness to the aftermath of hurricane Sandy with its multitude of trees that have fallen and lay on the ground. Oh, and then there’s Hoffa. Where are you.

Squat or rot. Squat the world. The Squatters are your neighbors. Housing is a human right. And all of those other slogans and sayings that used to go with that squatter movement of the Lower East Side, now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes in New York City, maybe. And so now that Tompkins Square Park everywhere movement could now be thought of as homestead or rot in the age of gentrification and the Disneylandification of a neighborhood. And so I came across this Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Facebook event invite throughout my travels in internetland on this day for their opening party at their space. And that Facebook event invite and their website reads something like as follows:

Opening Party for Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7:00pm

*Due to Hurricane Sandy and its physical damage to the museum, the grand opening party was rescheduled from November 17th to December 8th. Come celebrate the opening of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) with a party at our C-Squat space, 155 Ave C, on Saturday, December 8! The museum will be opening to the public at 3:00pm Saturday, and we will be hosting events throughout the day, including a chain-cutting ceremony, tours, and presentations by community organizers. At 7:00pm, the party will begin, with live music, dancing, food, and drinks. Hope to see you there! Spread the word and help us open this innovative history museum in style!

Grand Opening The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is officially opening on Saturday, December 8. Councilwoman Rosie Mendez will kick start the grand opening with a chain cutting ceremony at 3pm. More events will follow throughout the day, including free museum and garden tours and slideshows. The East Village’s own radical marching band the Rude Mechanical Orchestra will play at 7pm. Then at 8pm, join us for a big grand opening party, complete with music, dancing, and plenty of food and drinks. See you on Saturday, December 8!

MoRUS Grand Opening Party
Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
MoRUS Storefront at C-Squat
155 Avenue C, NYC (between 9th and 10th Streets) 

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