music

Lovolution Shows

Hey Bloggers, here is an email that I received for a music event. Lovolution will be doing some great music over at the Knitting Factory. If you are in the neighborhood, check it out.

Audio Gumbo Live NYC at The Knitting Factory
Sunday August 5th,
SUN RA IMPOSSIBLE SPACE CIRCUS

7:15pm sharp:

Screening of ultra-rare 1968 film ‘Spaceways’ by Ed English featuring extensive footage of Sun Ra house at 48 east 3rd Street, NYC, plus Arkestra appearance at Carnegie Hall

Also showing: TV concert from Berlin, 1970 – outrageously psychedelic

It has been nearly 15 years since the Sun Day that carried Sun Ra to yet another world, and the waves of effect from the infinitively creative mind of Sun Ra have entered into every genre of music as we, today, are experiencing. Especially we see his more immediate influence in the musics of artists as engraving as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, Laurie Anderson, Fela Kuti and Pink Floyd. Countless rock groups and creative improvisational ambient artists have followed Sun Ra’s leads into musical revelations. Sun Ra re-set the peripherals of music’s seeming limitations with mesmerizing illuminations. And like the velocity of time travel, Sun Ra’s music becomes with every moment more magnificently vital.

On Sunday, August 5th in the Old Office at the Knitting Factory, the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus will once again perform from original charts original adaptations and interpretations of Sun Ra’s music.

Being the 3rd presentation of the Space Circus, in the past having included Sun Ra Arkestra alumni Juini Booth, Vincent Chancey, Terry Adkins and On Ka’a Davis, this promises to be yet another resplendent concert.

Visiting from Milwaukee will be Daniel Zelonky, one of today’s foremost musician archivist of Sun Ra’s music. He will be bringing along with him some groundbreaking original charts of lesser known Sun Ra gems. Also joining from the midwest will be Sean Behling and Kelly Rossum, teaming up with the NYC home team and some of the Sun Ra Arkestra contingent. Zelonky’s selections will make for a historic presentation never heard ever in the world!

On August 5th Appearing live and in person will be the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus with these artists:

Danny Zelonky,Danny Zelonky,Aaron Whitby,Sean Behling,Fred Ho,Avram Fefer,Paul Meurens,Jun Miyake,Cecil Brooks III (Sun Ra Arkestra),Dave Davis (Sun Ra Arkestra,Kelly Rossum, Dikko Faust,On Ka’a Davis (former Sun Ra Arkestra),Juini Booth (Sun Ra Arkestra),Welf Dorr,Dave Treut,Monika Heidemann,Dixie Estes,Latasha Diggs,
Abraham Gomez-Delgado.

– Plus –
Space Circus Visual Presentation by Green Dragon

Not only that:

Sunday, August 5th, Late Show in Knitting Factory’s Old Office:

Jojo Kuo Afrobeat Collective Jam at Midnight

Other hits at Knit:

August 19th, Jef Lee Johnson/ Marvin Sewell/ Ronnie Drayton
August 27th, Main Space: Sonny Sharrock / Alice Coltrane double birthday celebration
August 28th, Tap Bar: Monika Heidemann Band / Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber with Ramm El Zee.

Have a great music day.

yoga

Yogaville

As I had mentioned a few posts earlier, it’s gym time. Free gym time. And as part of my attempt to do the whole gym route for free, I thought I’d try one of those yoga classes to yoga my city living stress away. And I am not sure how I can sit in one of those classes and chant ohmmmm… to destress and calm down to bliss and nirvana when I really wind up chanting Ohhhmmmm, I owe someone two hundred billion dollars and can’t pay them back and the walls are all falling down around me and how is this class going to change that ohmmmm…and relax? And besides, how is it possible to totally be all spiritual and reach a state or nirvana and relax from cares when one can hear construction going on and the sounds of the city right outside the door and on the other side of the wall as it was in this classroom. And so in the midst of yoga posing, one tries to recreate and meditate to a yoga state on this date.

fabrics

Cover My Bed

Mattresses just aren’t the same without blankets and frilly, embroidered and matching coverings on them. If you are looking to cover your bed, Terry’s Fabrics has bedspreads, quilt covers, duvet covers, and lots of other bedding related products available for your bedroom. Terry’s Fabrics also offers custom fabrics and curtains and other accessories. At Terry’s Fabrics, you can find comfort for your bed and cover and decorate your bed to a good nights sleep. This is a sponsored post.

moon

A Full Moon

According to the Gregorian calendar, today is a full moon on planet earth. You can see it when you look at the sky. Doesn’t that full moon have some sort of meaning in the universe? Does it mean anything? Isn’t a full moon spiritual, mysterious, mythical and magical or something? Could it mean stay away from lunatics, as lunar is the moon. Could it mean beware of werewolves and watch out for the ocean waves and high tides? Is the full moon Dracula’s favorite day on the month? Does it mean a new month is here? What do the astrologers and psychics have to say about the full moon and its phases and cycles, and don’t witches like using symbols of the moon for some reason? Well, yin and yang, wax and wane, whatever the meaning of the full moon, if there is one, happy full moon day.

films, movies

The Lives of Others

Das Leben der Anderen. The Lives of Others. That is a German foreign film that is now showing in theaters in New York that I saw the other day. It won an Academy Award for best foreign film and it is one of those films I could watch over and over. The film is political, for it addresses the communist regime, the totaliarism system and the dictatorship in East Germany, then the GDR, before the fall of the Berlin wall. More so, the film is educational to me for I did not know artists and writers were under surveillance by Stasi agents, spies and informants who were sometimes even ones own wife or husband and blacklisted for being subversive under the dictatorship of the state of the Staats Sicherheit, State Security in real life as was depicted in the film. This film reminds me of the book nineteen eighty four all the way ministry, inner and outer party and one aspect of the film is that the people prevail. The music is awesome and that Sonata For A Good Man track rocks. Will another film as interesting as this ever come along. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

e cards, love, romance

Romance

And what about love and romance. That’s a touchy subject for relationships can be tricky sometimes and who wants to be alone without friends, family or loved ones. Isn’t love what makes the world go round? Well, Romantic eCards sounds fun. I always like sending those funny animated e cards for every occasion and if you are looking to send romantic eCards for birthdays, Valentines , or even Christmas, or just to say I Love You, eRomance offers several categories of free romantic eCards as every occasion can be a romantic occasion. They also offer Virtual Flowers that you can send to someone special and their cards are really fun. I can’t wait to send one to a friend myself. This is a sponsored post.

advertising, guns, media, smoking

Disney Kicks The Habit

Wow. I read this article in yesterdays AM New York and Metro newspapers that Disney has kicked the habit of smoking in its films. Disney will discourage smoking in its family oriented films. This is groundbreaking and that’s great. Now if only Disney could kick the habit of using the image of guns in its films, progress would be made. And not just Disney, every form of advertising. If only Disney and every other advertiser could ban the images of guns on their posters, commercials, films and television shows then maybe there would be hope for the state of this world. Apparently the Disney committee held some hearings about the effect of movie images on children and that the studio would place anti-smoking public service announcements of DVDs of any future films that feature cigarette smoking. Walt Disney shares your concerns regarding deaths due to cigarette smoking. That’s great. Now if only Disney, and not just Disney but other media companies, major Hollywood studios and every advertiser on planet earth could could follow Disney’s lead and share their concerns about deaths due to the use of the images of guns in advertising and kick the habit of using the images and depiction of guns in advertising and discourage the use of guns in their advertising campaigns and hold committee hearings about the effect of movie images and guns on children and place anti-gun public service announcements and messages on DVDs and in theaters everywhere, that would be great. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

jazz, music

Jazz Comes to the Bowery

And so I wandered outside last night with this digital camera I have to play around with to take photos of my friends band, Funk Monk at this really cool restaurant and lounge called Mannahatta. My friends band gave me a really good excuse to dust off the camera and use it for the night. Digital cameras are awesome and I find technology amazing these days. And so I took the above photo of my friends band just for the purpose of posting it on this blog. They are all jazz and hip hop and have played around the city at Nublu, Knitting Factory, the Williamsburg Jazz Festival, and even the New York City subway as part of the Musicians Under New York Program. And I am also taking my friend gig as an excuse to experiment with YouTubeing. How does one YouTube? Well, I made a video of them there also with this digital camera, low light and all and just posted it on You Tube with trial and error. I can now possibly become a YouTube addict to replace all of my other Internet website addictions I have going on at the moment. And that Mannahatta place is awesome with their new Summer Jazz Series and Funk-N-Flava Jazz Wednesdays. They have an open Jazz Jam session every Tuesday in July if you are in the neighborhood. Jazz, Jazz, Jazz. Play Jazz away the day.

insects

The Bugs

Fire ants? What are fire ants? Ants that are on fire? Well I just asked my friend what are fire ants and he doesn’t know either. Well if you happen to be suffering from fire ant infestations, Fire Ants Guide can help you with information about fire ant control. Their website provides helpful information and advice about various ways of getting rid of fire ant infestations. Their guide seems to tell you everything you’ve always wanted to know about fire ants and how to eliminate them. This is a sponsored post.

exercise

It’s Time

It’s time. It’s time to go to the gym for free. If you are a try and do the whole gym route for free with trial membership passes person like me, it’s time to go to the gym again. This time it’s New York Sports Clubs. I saw them out there on the street yesterday around 14th street and 6th avenue spinning that get your free one week trial membership wheel yesterday and sure enough I spun that wheel and got my free one week membership for all the free treadmills, stationary bikes, racquetball, tennis, track running ,weight lifting, stretching, personal training, exercise classes, mind, body and spirit, sauna and steam room, swimming and gymming I can get. And of course if daily life in New York is a workout already with of all the subway stair climbing, fifth floor walkup to my apartment and carrying those heavy grocery bags exercise routine then maybe you don’t want or need that gym fitness exercise routine. And if you do, there is probably someone spinning that New York Sports Clubs wheel in a city near you. Have a great day.