events, music

The Deli Magazine

The The Deli Magazine will have an All Day Deli Show during the Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival this weekend. I know because their email that they sent says so. And I have been an avid reader every so often of that Deli Magazine and its indie rock, folk scene and more when it comes to being all music all the time. You can read their NYC Top 20 with bands like Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, The Strokes, Brazilian Girls, LCD Soundsystem, Animal Collective, Interpol, The National, We Are Scientists and more. And then you can read about that CMJ 08 Music Marathon and Film Festival that is coming up in October with performances by Broken Social Scene, Deerhoof, Talib Kweli, Kid Sister and hundreds more. And that Deli Magazine usually writes about the coolest bands that play at the coolest places around that City of New York like Cake Shop, Crash Mansion, Knitting Factory, Lit Lounge, Niagara Bar, Sputnik, Union Hall, Annex, Goodbye Blue Monday, Trash Bar, Pete’s Candy Store, Bowery Ballroom, Bowery Poetry Club, Mercury Lounge, Rehab, Stain, Sidewalk Cafe, Union Pool, Arlene’s Grocery, The Shrine, Rockwood Music Hall and just about every other place to be found in New York City where there’s music to be heard. And they have just about what seems like over a zillion of every hand picked artist listed on their website from indie rock, post rock, experimental, loud rock, folk songwriters, mellow indie, lo fi, indie pop, psych rock, electronic, and almost any other music category one can think of. And so that email that Paolo sent on this day reads something like as follows:

Guys, We are having a free Deli show/party on Saturday in Dumbo, during the Art Under the Bridge Festival. There will be something like 21 artists playing from 2pm until night,paintings hanging on the walls and videos at Water Street Lounge that is a yearly event organized by the Dumbo Arts Center, lasting from 7pm on Friday 09.26 through Sunday 09.28. Over the festival weekend, art will be happening everywhere in Dumbo on the streets, sidewalks, storefronts, elevators, lobbies, the water, the waterfront, parks, nooks, crannies, delis, NY Water Taxi, and more. Along with the 65 plus new public art projects, over 100 local artists will open their studios to the public, and downstairs at the Water Street Lounge. On Saturday The Deli and SESAC will showcase 20 plus musical artists and 8 visual artists. Here’s the lineup: Clueless, Mascott, Craig Chin, Kagero, Jessica L Fenton, Lester Von Buween, Maia MacDonald, Pontus Gunve, The City Lights, Myles Turney, The Meanwhiles, Creaky Boards, Alice, Kelly Rae Powell, April Smith, Fresh Air Kids, The Feverfew, Tonearm, 55 Diet Kong,Object, Comandante Zero and Aderbat.

Have a great rockin music day

earth, life

Headline News

And even though I read the most atrocious headlines on a daily business of gun violence, and people who are losing their lives to violence, enough to make me wonder if it is the beginning of the end of the world and that the world is spinning out of control. And is it Kali Yuga of the iron age descending. And I still for some reason find myself watching movies, such as Gangs of New York, that seems as if New York politics could be founded on gangs and corruption after watching it. And An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, that seems as if it wants to talk about the end of the world also from global warming and save the world. And Basquiat, that artist whose quote in that film “Everybody wants to get on the Van Gogh boat. There’s no trip to horrible that someone wont take it”, could seemingly be real, at least in that City of New York where it seems as if every other person is an artist of some sort. And in other thoughts, what about those elections. I have heard it said that if voting changed anything it would be illegal. What does that mean. And in other thoughts again, what about that Euro News channel, that is news in Europe. It seems a completely different news than American news for some reason. And what did that news article mean when it said “A person opened fire when another person did not respond at Checkpoint Charlie and that person lost his life to gun violence for no reason at all, except for the fact that guns have been invented. And what if that person did not understand what was being said. And guns are the worst invention ever. If only guns could be abolished from every human being on the face of planet earth and from all forms of media and advertising. Does not advertising influence society. Is another world possible. Where is the world headed. No one is free when others are oppressed. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

internet, website

Build This Website

Hey Bloggers, and it is the age of technology and computers. And everything seems to be all computers and the internet these days. And everyone seems to have one of those computers to where everyone can now have their own website to go along with those computers. And it seems as if everyone, or at least a lot of people do seem to have their own website these days. And what about having ones own website. How do you find it. And once you find it, how do you build it. Well, if you do not feel like answering these how do you build your own website questions, Network Solutions can answer them for you. They offer web design to help build your website for you. At Network Solutions, you can find domain names, domain name registration, web hosting, websites, online stores, online marketing and more. You can be in the domain name game and find a domain name by searching .com, .net, .org and more at their website. You can also get your domain, e-mailboxes, Web site, and Web hosting in one package at their website. And for a limited time offer, you can register one domain name and get one free. So now when you are too busy or just do not feel like building, or figuring out how to build your own website, you can look for Network Solutions and let their experts do it for you. Network Solutions web design services offers solutions for your web design and more.

environment, food

The Land Of Fake Food

And so I realized those fruits and vegetables that are to be found in the animal kingdom and on the food chain and in most any food store that is consumed by man and humanity cold be fake, And I realized this when I actually saw fruits and vegetables that were grown all natural, without the use of pesticides and anything else. And these vegetables and fruits were most often full of holes and eaten away by worms, spiders, caterpillars and other earthly beings that are to be found in the dirt of planet mother earth. And then I went to the market to look at these same fruits and vegetable. And even the organic fruits and vegetables. And these fruits and vegetables were pristine, shiny, waxed, spotless, flawless and blemish free. How is that possible? How is it possible to grow perfect blemish free fruits and vegetables without holes in them from the creature of planet mother earths dirt. Even the organic fruits and vegetables. And this gets me to wondering, how fake is the food. How real is the food that one eats, And what bug spray is one eating. And that does not even include the meat. And what would PETA, that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals group have to say about this. Help save planet mother earth. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.

art

In Praise Of Street Artists

A friend of mine gave me this flyer of a poem titled “In Praise Of Street Artists”, by Kenneth P. Neilson. And that friend of mine was performing on the streets themselves when they received this poem. And so I thought this poem interesting to post, though I did not center it as it is centered on this flyer:

ART IS A NECESSITY, NOT A LUXURY

STREET ART

Use your senses
No need to buy
No contracts
No paid admission

See for free
Stop to talk
Or walk.

REMINDER

How can the Met forget
That Van Gogh didn’t “sell,”
Except one painting
To his brother.
if he’d been on the street,
He might have sold another

SH!

Inside the Met,
you marvel at the price.
To mention it, of course,
Is not considered nice.

CHAINED

Street art’s not chained
To auction block
Demanding bags of gold.
The wonder is that beauty
For so little can be sold.

ART IS A CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMUNITY

Have a great poetry day.

astrology, earth

Equinox

Hey bloggers, and yesterday must have been the equinox, that day of the year that has something to do with the seasons changing, the fall harvest and astrology or something. And I know yesterday must have been the equinox because an email from The Temple of Ara Mabon Celebration to honor the second harvest and the turning of the wheel that was to be found in that email inbox titled “Equinox Celebration in Central Park at 4:30 on Cherry Hill‏” said so. And what does that word equinox mean anyway. And I think that word equinox may mean equal night in another language or something, as I believe it has something to do with the day of the year where the amount of daylight hours are equal to the amount of night hours. That internet bible Wikipedia must have an entry for that word. And isn’t today the first official day of fall according to that Gregorian calendar, hence those fall winds and that latter half of the year approaching. And I thought to post that photo of that astrology guy above whose photo I have seen on the cover of that Secret Language of Birthdays book. And he seems as if he could be some magician passing to the other side, between life and death, heaven and earth or something. And that photo looks really cool. And the seasons are changing, and the times are changing. Have a great astrology, equinox, fall harvest day.

politics, technology, travel

Immigration

And on this day is Sunday, that sabbath day of rest, or is that Saturday. And yet I find myself blah blogging away for some reason on this blog. And for some reason that verse from the bible comes to mind, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head”. And that other verse, “A brother is born for adversity”. And a friend mentions to me that war is a business. Is war a business? And is it George Orwell’s statement from that nineteen eighty four movie, the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. And another friends mentions that another friend has been denied entry to that country of the United States, or deported from a country for various reasons. And what does that word immigration mean, to migrate, to travel? Does that internet bible dictionary Wikipedia have an entry for that. And I have heard horror stories of whole families being separated, destroyed and torn apart from this idea of Immigration And Naturalization Services, INS company that seems to be some form of modern day slavery to me. And what about those visas, green cards, forms, applications, petitions, employment, interviews, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, residence alien from outer space, illegal aliens, refugee, asylee, settlement, immigrant, nonimmigrant, genealogy, nationality, naturalization things. What does this all mean. Are we all not foreigners and strangers in this land. The whole idea that one can prevent another from travelling freely from one place to another on this planet of earth I can not comprehend. And has humanity become slave to computers, that modern invention of technology, to where one is no longer a human, but becomes a robot to technology, a machine, some sort of beast like thing. No one is free when others are oppressed. And so I thought to post a blog entry that I posted a while ago on this blog.:

The Passport

For what reason is the number of that passport immigration law that prohibits freedom of travel amongst humanity anywhere on planet earth, and that Section 666 Social Security Act, cashless society, national I.D., the number of your name to receive any state services and everything else in between thing, 666? Is this that save no man that he may buy or sell except that he have the mark of the beast thing in the book of Revelations. Is this written in prophecy somewhere. Did George Orwell or Nostradamus predict this? Is that a coincidence or on purpose that this law has the same number of that beast thing. And who or what is the beast, and what is that mark on ones right hand or forehead. What does that mark represent or mean, if anything. And what’s up with that UPC bar code photo that I placed in this blog entry. And for what reason do all universal product codes contain this number. What the heck does that mean? Is that the number of the beast, the number of man? And what’s that New World Order, Verichip and RFID tag thing all about. Big Brother, Brave New World and technology are here and that’s a whole another blog posting. And I have heard so many green card immigration nightmare stories about green card marriages, lotteries and green card everything else in between. Of people leaving a country and not being able to return for whatever reason. And the stories of loss of life while crossing a border, whether by land or sea. And for what reason are there boarders, divisions, restrictions, barriers and territories of land in this world. And for what reason are people not free to travel anywhere in the world without the permission of someone else. Who invented this concept. Is it possible to undo this passport, visa, citizenship, where are your papers to come here law so that everyone can be free to travel anywhere in this world. For what reason does this concept exist. And who is a foreigner. Aren’t we all strangers in this land. Is another world possible. No one is free when others are oppressed. It is Sunday today, day of God, a day of rest. Or is that Saturday, the Sabbath, Sabado. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?

computers

This Computer

Windows Vista, we all have heard of it, maybe. That’s the new operating system that usually comes with one of those new personal computers one can buy in mostly all of the computer stores. And who has not heard of those Windows operating systems, maybe someone who does not have a computer or has not heard of computers. Introducing Windows Vista Small Business Assurance, as your small business can be assured with Windows Vista. When your computer is having those computer problems and it wants to freeze and never work again, you can be assured with Windows Vista. And if you have any questions about Windows Vista you can call their customer service who will answer any questions you may have about Windows Vista. And when you buy a new PC with Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate from July 1 through December 31, 2008, you can receive free support from Microsoft. Windows Vista has many new features and is compatible with many small business applications. You can explore Windows for upgrades, downloads, features, technical support, special offers and more. And you can also visit participating retailers to find that personal computer you may be looking for to run that Windows Vista operating system as well at their website. With Microsoft, you can move to Windows Vista with confidence.

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events

The Weekend

Hey Bloggers, and it’s that weekend time again. I know because Friday is usually the end of the week as far as I know. And when that weekend makes its way around again, I sometimes find myself wondering what to do on the weekend as far as events go it that City of New York. And there is always that nonsense nyc event list from Jeff Stark that I have somehow found myself subscribing to. And that is a really cool list with lots of cool things to do each day of the week as far as events go. And I find myself posting events on this blog every so often because hey, it’s less writing sometimes. And one of those events that they have listed on their calendar for this week is as follows:

SEPTEMBER 21

Democracy in America Convergence Center

After traveling across the country to glean perspectives from artists and activists on the state of democracy, Creative Time’s year-long program Democracy in America: The National Campaign culminates in the Convergence Center: a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall mounted in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory just in time for election season. The Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory will provide an activated space to both reflect on and perform democracy and will be punctuated by speeches by artists, community leaders, and cultural critics throughout the week. As one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York, the non-traditional setting of the Armory features interiors—such as its vast drill hall and historic period rooms—that are ideal for artists presenting multifaceted visual and performing arts productions.

Artists include: Erick Beltrán, Center for Tactical Magic, Critical Art Ensemble, Annabel Daou, dB Foundation, Hasan Elahi, Feel Tank, Luca Frei, Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, Group Material, John Hawke, Sharon Hayes, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Incubate, Magdalena Jitrik, Matt Keegan, Jon Kessler, Olga Koumoundouros and Rodney McMillian, Steve Lambert, Ligorano/Reese, Pia Lindman, Rachel Mason, Carlos Motta, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Trevor Paglen, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Polak, Steve Powers, Greta Pratt, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Red76, Duke Riley, Martha Rosler, Dread Scott, Allison Smith, Chris Sollars, Chris Stain, Mark Tribe, United Victorian Workers, Chu Yun, and more.

Speeches and performances by the Yes Men, Reverend Billy, Karen Finley, Steve Kurtz (of Critical Art Ensemble), Rachel Mason, Trever Paglen, Pia Lindman, Tanya Fields (of Sustainable South Bronx), Matthew Diaz (who released the names and serial numbers of Guantanamo detainees to the Center of Constitutional Rights), Camilo Mejía (an Iraq War veteran and major spokesman against the war), Brian Holmes, representatives from Working Artists and the Greater Economy, and others.

Have a great event day

money

Debt

And that word debt seems to be in the news a lot lately, especially when it comes to the New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street, the Dow Jones, the Federal Reserve and Treasury and the United States dollar bill, as it seems to be the national economy is in debt in some sort of way. And that is the national economy. And what about personal debt, do you find yourself contributing to this national debt in some sort of way with a personal debt. Are you in debt? Do you have one of those I.O.U’s that you may owe to someone that you may find yourself hiding out from the telephone from, if the telephone has not been repossessed by that creditor by that point. Well, if you happen to be looking for debt relief, you can consolidate debt with bills.com. They can help you get out of debt and find financial freedom. Bills.com offers debt consolidation, debt relief, bankruptcy, mortgage refinancing, and loan quotes to help you get out of that debt and save money. And they can help you consolidate your bills to help save money, which you may find yourself needing with the price of food going through the roof from inflation these days. With bills.com, getting out of debt can be a website visit away.