music

The CMJ Music Marathon Rocks

And while I am on the topic of music, according to lots of newspaper listings, The CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival is happening this week October 16-20th. And that also leads me to wonder, what exactly does the letters CMJ stand for? C Music something J. There will be music, films and panels at this event. It seems to be all rock, indie rock, all the time and more. There will be music, music and more music and bands, bands and more bands performing in venues around the New York City area such as Union Pool, Bowery Ballroom, Southpaw, Canal Room, The Delancey, The Annex, Arlene’s Grocery, The Knitting Factory, The Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Studio B, Mercury Lounge, B.B. Kings, Cake Shop, Europa, Luna Lounge, Maxwell’s, Ace of Clubs, Club Midway, Galapagos, Glasslands, Gramercy Theatre, Hammerstein Ballroom, Living Room, Pianos, Webster Hall, Avalon, Joe’s Pub, Lion’s Den, The Village Underground, The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza and more. These places rock. If you are in the neighborhood, you may want to check out the music that is part of this festival. And a lot of those bands have some really funny, cool and interesting names that are entertainment alone. Some of the bands, organizations and groups scheduled to perform as part of the festival are:

Celebration, Brooklyn Vegan Showcase, Die Romantik, M.I.A., Wise Intelligent, Me Talk Pretty, Bella Noir, Mates of State, Oh My Rockness, Meat Puppets, Finally Punk, A Place to Bury Strangers, Palomar, The Temple of Hip-Hop, The Epochs, Phonograph, Little Brazil, The End of the World, The Cops, Elizabeth Harper, Music for Ice Cream Trucks, Spinto Band, King Of Prussia, U.S.S.R., Earl Greyhound, The Insomniacs, The Jealous Girlfriends, Kudu, Roxy Cottontail, O’Death, Band of Horses, Sex With An Angel, Burnt Sugar, Devils, Chop Shop, Gold Streets, Hollywood Holt, Dirty on Purpose, Matt and Kim, Harlem Shakes, Flosstradamus, Slaves to Gravity, The Panderers, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, The Cool Kids, Catfish Haven and a ton of others. This seems like an event not to be missed. Have a great rock n’ roll day.

home

Tiles For This Floor

What kind of floor does your home, office or other place of dwelling have? Is it all about the flooring? Does flooring make a home? Can flooring be the ground, sidewalk or anywhere else outside also? In case you happen to be looking for flooring for your floor, Floorz offers everything flooring. They have laminate flooring, glass tiles, marble tiles, travertine tiles, glass tiles, stone tiles, ceramic tiles and more. You can read abut the different types of tiles and how to use them from their website. They are a great place to purchase accent tiles and glass accents for your home. They are a wholesale company with wholesale prices. They will ship directly to you anywhere in North America. This is a sponsored post.

music

Nublu Rocks

And so I went to go see my friends band, Funk Monk, play at Nublu last night. Nublu is this really cool club in the East Village where Brazilian Girls, Kudu, Forro in the Dark, Love Trio, Wax Poetics, Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris, The Real Live Show, ElodieO, Karina and a host of other bands and musicians have played at. They are an artists collective. And it seems as if I have been going to this place every so often over the years to listen to their music. And this excursion to listen to my friends band presented yet another great opportunity for me to get my camera out of the closet and play with it once again, as it seems as if the only purpose that it serves these days is to collect dust. And I set the alarm clock to stay awake for when they started playing, as club hour in this town seems to start at midnight, when most people are going to sleep, I think. And so I took photos and videos of the band in my latest experiment with this camera. One can see by the photo above and by the Funk Monk at NUBLU Video on my YouTube page, that these are the results. And Welf’s really cool electric synthesizer sounds on his horn rocked that night. Nublu Rocks. Long Live The Lower East Side.

blogging, internet

Content For This Site

And so I came across this interesting sentence in one of the comments on my MyBlogLog page the other day. “Need some “Filler” for your site when you have nothing to write about?…” And just those few words alone were enough to catch my eye and get me to reading the rest of that blog comment. Am I not alone in the writers blah blog arena in not having anything to write about and thinking up all sorts of things to write about? I sometimes find myself trying to think up enough thoughts to write about to where I find myself reciting the words of dictionaries and encyclopedias over and over and posting the same post over and over. I thought about copying other websites content but I do not think that is ethical, is it? This MyBlogLog comment goes on to say “How about a Free Online Game or Games for your visitors to play?… Send me a Private Message and I will give you all the info on how to add one of our games to your website….” Oh, games? I am not sure about adding lots of games to this blog. Does this website offer written content, as I am already trying to fill up this website with as many games, videos, poems, saying, cartoons, puzzles and anything else I can think of. Is there hope for writers blah bloggers block in the web 2.0 social media internet blogosphere?

travel

Boston

Boston, what can you say about Boston? There must be lots to say about the state of Boston. This state has a lot of history. Isn’t that where the Constitution was written? And if you want to find out more about Boston and are interested in Boston tours, the Boston Welcomes You! Visitors Guide and Directory is there to help you plan your next vacation to Boston. There must be lots of tourist attractions and things to see and do in Boston. What I remember best about Boston is that it is known for that infamous Boston Tea Party decades and centuries ago I think. And then there’s that Berklee College of Music School that a lot of classically trained musicians have attended. And isn’t this state also known as Beantown? Boston Welcomes You is a great guide for all things Boston and for information, hotels, tours, attractions, museums, sightseeing tours and much much more. They have a wonderful list of Five Must Do’s While In Boston if you are short on time in your travel vacation and the whale watching with Boston Harbor Cruises sounds really fun. The Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market sounds interesting also. It was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis and others encouraging independence from Great Britain, and is now part of Boston National Historical Park and a well-known stop on the Freedom Trail. Bostons motto is “Sicut Patribus Sit Deus Nobis” or “God Be with Us as He Was with Our Fathers”. Now that’s interesting. This is a sponsored post.

love

Love

Someone sent an interesting email to my MySpace page inbox yesterday. And the email had the words “love love love, love is the greatest therapy”. Interesting. Now that makes me think about the word love. What is it abut that word. There has been ton of things said about it throughout the beginning of time and there are another ton of quotes, sayings, phrases, poems, stories, scriptures, verses and philosophies that have been said about it since the beginning of time. Love is what makes the world go round. Without love, life can be meaningless, maybe. And many a lyrics have been sung to many a love song, and the song titles about love are endless. And many books and romance novels have been written on the topic, and they are endless. And why is the word love, evol spelled backwards? Is there some secret hidden meaning there? Is there a definition for this word. What is its meaning and how can it be summed up into one sentence, if at all? What do the horoscopes have to say about it. And regarding relationships, that’s a whole another blog posting. Loves covers all things and above all things are love. And what about divine and brotherly love. Here is an interesting verse about love, or is it charity, in the bible. Peace and love.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Corinthians 13.

anarchy

Sabotage

Sabotage? What’s a sabotage. That word came across my mind the other day as I was passing the day away. What does that word mean. Is that one of those anarchists terms. And what is anarchy, the rules are there are no rules? And isn’t that the title of that way cool Beastie Boys song. I wonder what the lyrics to their “Sabotage” song is. And that song rocks. Isn’t that the title? Doesn’t it mean to squash something, to quell something, to silence something. And what is being quashed, quelled and silenced. And what is being sabotaged. And for what reason if any at all. Again, what does that Internet Bible dictionary Wikipedia have to say about this word. Is this word listed in their encyclopedia. I should go and look that word up now to see what they have to say about it. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

shopping

Trade Shows

Trade shows? I’ve heard of those events. They have those events down at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New York City every so often. And there are usually lots and lots of booths and displays as far as the eye can see. If you happen to be looking for trade show displays & trade show exhibits and everything exhibit for your display, Camelback display offers all kinds of displays for exhibits. They have booths, panel systems,trade show furniture, light boxes, literature holders, banner stands and banners, directors chairs, flooring and other trade show accessories. You can find an online catalogue at their site for portable trade show displays and much more. This is a sponsored post.

lifestyle

Party Time

It’s the era of gentrification, genocide or just plain change of a different decade and this neighborhood, the East Village, New York City turns into Disneyland at night with it’s velvet rope, guest list, cabs, limousines and drunken people everywhere party scene. It seems like it is one of those neighborhoods that doesn’t wake up until midnight time when most people are going to sleep. It’s almost as if one needs to set their alarm clock just to wake up to party in this town. An what is it like to be a socialite on the social scene. And what about the nightclub scene, whats it like. Does one find themselves going out with friends or alone, meeting other people or not, being the social diva of the night networking away, or the wall flower blending into the wall with the wall paper. And can’t it be about posing, posing and lots of more posing to look cool for the scene. And what about those people watching events that can take place during the place of a night of partying. And it can be a great reason to play dressup and put on a fashion show also. And the music can be great. It’s Saturday day today at this moment. Saturday nite is near. Happy nite clubbing and partying.

life

The Confederate Flag

What’s the meaning of the confederate flag and for what reason is its image associatied with the division of people, nationalities, scandals and other not so nice thoughts. What do those red white and blue stars in their arrangement of an x or a cross mean. And why does the word confederate have the word fed in it. Is it a flag of the federal government. Is it a flag of the federate states, and who are the feds, the federate states. What does that Internet bible dictionary Wikipedia have to say about this flag. When I think of this flag it for some reason brings to mind images of the south, the southern states of America. For what reason is it a flag of the south and who are the southerners and what is the meaning of the south. And what about the north, east and west states. And doesn’t it have something to do with the civil war also, or some war of the 1800’s. Does it represent freedom and oppression. And who is free and oppressed. No one is free when others are oppressed. Is that a whole another blog posting? What is the meaning of that flag, and what is its origin. And what does this have to do with a No Police State.