Hey Bloggers, now this is one of those International Oddities posts that I do not find myself blah blogging about every so often. And I could have posted one of those really big marijuana leaf photos in this posting to help explain this post, but that photo is not there. And if you happen to smoke pot and like it a lot, Legal Bud at International Oddities is actually a world leader in selling legal bud. Now that sounds really, really, really, really interesting. You can save up to 75% when you buy legal buds at their website and 25 years of legal bud makes their products the best. And at their prices they just smoke the competition away. And that phone number that they advertise on their website 1-800-730-i-get-bud is actually sort of funny to me to read. And does this mean that I could actually call this number and get some legal pot without having to go outside and hide in dark corners to find. And their website is so covered with photos of really big huge buds such as Stinkbud, Skyscraper, Panama Gold, Bahli Bubble Bud, Hawaiian Bud, Combinations of all sorts of buds and more, that I experience an herbal experience just looking at their website, or do I? At Legal Buds International Oddities, you can find that herbal experience that you could be looking for and their website is all high times all the time.
Central Park SummerStage
Hey Bloggers, it’s that summertime of year again and summer festivals are happening again. It seems to be time for those outdoor concerts here in New York City and around the world again. And Central Park Summer Stage is one of those festivals that seem to happen each summer time of year in that city of New York. And that festival is happening now and it’s free. I know because this weeks Nonsense NYC list and a bunch of other publications and advertisements says so. And so I thought to post their schedule if you happen to be in the neighborhood, that Central Park SummerStage music is worth checking out, and also because, hey, it’s less writing sometimes:
Friday, June 13,Mavis Staples, Stephanie McKay,
Saturday, June 14, Vampire Weekend, Kid Sister
Sunday, June 15, Victor Manuelle and Special Guests
Friday, June 20,Comedy Central Park Featuring: Stephen Lynch and Mike Birbiglia, hosted by Julian McCullough, The 2nd Annual evening of comedy and music presented in association with Comedy Central.
Saturday, June 21, Definitely Poetry Featuring: Kokayi, Lemon, La Bruja, Will Power, JLove Calderon, A special evening of live music and poetry.
Sunday, June 22, Yael Naim, David Donatien, Piers Faccini
Thursday, June 26, Thievery Corporation (live) with Seu Jorge with Special Guests Bebel Gilberto & Federico Aubele
Saturday, June 28, Vieux Farka Toure, Fallou Dieng, Kaleta & ZoZo Afrobeat, Dj Sirak
Sunday, June 29, Mosh Ben Ari, Rupa and The April Fishes, Y-Love, DJ Diwon
Saturday, July 05, Rachid Taha, Dengue Fever, Apollo Heights
Sunday, July 6, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Afrika Bambaataa, Love Trio with U-Roy
Wednesday, July 9,Music & Film, La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul, directed by Ela Troyano
Bragging Rights: Stickball Stories, directed by Sonia N. Gonzalez, Cucu Diamentes
Thursday, July 10, Music & Film, The Harder they Come, directed by Perry Henzell
I-Wayne
Friday, July 11, Rennie Harris / Pure Movement, Francesca Harper Project
Saturday, July 12, Julieta Venegas, Plastilina Mosh, DJ Bitman
Sunday, July 13,Global Family Day!, Big Nazo, Baby Loves Salsa, featuring Jose Conde,
Cinderella Samba
Thursday, July 17, Junot Diaz
Friday, July 18, Video Music Box 25th Anniversary Concert
Saturday, July 19,Gospel Day, Donald Lawrence, Hezekiah Walker, Dave Hollister
Sunday, July 20, Santogold, Diplo, Plastic Little, A-Trak, Kid Cudi
Wednesday, July 23, Mark Knopfler, A benefit concert for Central Park SummerStage produced by Live Nation.
Saturday, July 26, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, PeepDance
Sunday, July 27, Taj Majal, Skatalites, Los Pinguos, A special concert in association with Putumayo World Music in celebration of their 15th Anniversary.
Tuesday, July 29, Crosby, Stills & Nash, A benefit concert for Central Park SummerStage produced by Live Nation.
Thursday, July 31, Richard Price, Charles Bock
Friday, August 1, DanceBrazil, Max Pollak and RumbaTap
Saturday, August 2, Roy Hargrove Big Band and Special Guests
Sunday, August 3, Janelle Monae, Little Jackie, Jose James, Gilles Peterson Presented in association with Giant Step.
Wednesday, August 6, Sonny Rollins, A benefit concert for Central Park SummerStage produced by Bowery Presents.
Friday, August 8, Jennifer Muller / The Works, Erica Essner Performance Co-Op
Saturday, August 9, Mexican Heritage Day, Kinky, Alejandro Escovedo with Strings
Pistolera
Sunday, August 10, CineFest Brasil, The House of Tom – Mundo, Monde, Mondo, directed by Ana Jobin, Maria Rita
Thursday, August 14, Los Lonely Boys, Los Lobos
Friday, August 15, Bajofondo, Osunlade & The Yoruba Soul Orchestra
Saturday, August 16, Battles, Black Dice,
Sunday, August 17, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Menahan Street Band, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
Have a great summer festival day
An Interesting Video
And someone had posted the above YouTube video on my MySpace page today. And it is such a beautiful, peaceful and poetic video to watch, that I thought to repost it. And that video above came with a message that read “I made this video a while ago. It has helped many people transform their lives”, and is called a “Live the life you love transformation movie” by cosmic buffet. And it seems to be a positive video with positive thoughts to give one a more hopeful, uplifting and more positive way of thinking. And this video could have been straight out of one of those Buddhist philosophy books and classes with it many sayings and phrases. And the photos are all so beautiful, colorful, serene, peaceful and blissful to look at with a lot of natural scenes and it can almost have one believe that the world is a perfect, beautiful and flawless place; that is before one turns on at least this computer and read the latest horrible instant news of the day and Yahoo headlines with the latest and seemingly endless atrocities of the day. And one sees images of a person holding a gun in their hand in the latest Hollywood blockbuster movie ads that are plastered on every form of advertising this day, glamorizing and influencing the world and society as if guns are a cool thing to have. Does not media, marketing and advertising influence society? Guns are the worst invention of an industry ever. And the list of horror stories and headlines of this world seem to go on and on. Where is the world headed. And so I guess if one wanted to imagine the world is a beautiful and peaceful place, this would be a great video to watch. But try not to watch any form of news after that if one wants to keep that peaceful, positive and beautiful image of a perfect world. And maybe this movie can help to transform the world to a better place. Is another world possible. Have a great video day.
This Date
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A Nublu Anniversary
Hey Bloggers, that really cool club nublu , located in New York’s East Village that I have found my way to every so often over time, must be having their 6 years annual anniversary party again this year and this week. I know because I received one of those MySpace emails from elodieO with a title that read “elodieO/Nublu Anniversary week/thursday june 26th”, and a passage that reads ” elodieO at Nublu as Part of Nublu Anniversary week followed by Didi Gutman’s (Brazilian Girls) new extravaganza plus Inflagranti, Thursday, june 26th at NUBLU9. And so I went to visit their website, and sure enough their schedule reads “Nublu 6 years”, with their schedule for this weeks that reads something like:
“ZIGMAT plays, ADELINE plays, DODO spinns DUB, Brandao and Brasil 80 with Marianni…Brasil Party !!!, DIZZY VENTILATORS plays the early set, GREG CAZ spinns, SHITTY SHITTY JAM BAND plays…, SOUNDS FOR YOUR HOUNDS plays the early set,THE BOGMAN aka Gypsy Bogdan spinns, THE REAL LIVE SHOW play, WAZZABI plays the early set…, JUSTIN CARTER spinns.., I LED THREE LIVES plays… Ilhan Ersahin, Juini Booth, Jochen Rueckert, HEART:BEAT SESSIONS plays the early set, DJ PROBUS spinns, Betty Black …with Sylvia from KUDU plays, BELL plays the early set, MOBY spinns, Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris …not to be missed !!, DEX FROM UNDERGROUND RESISTENCE spinns, HESS IS MORE plays, OPSVIK-KORNSTAD plays the early set, KINGSTON 19 and RHENOCHILD spinn, Brasil PARTY !!, VANA plays the early set, BECO selects, DIDI’S THE QUACKATORIANS plays, elodieO plays the early set, IN FLAGRANTI spinns, LOVE TRIO plays… Ilhan Ersahin, Jesse Murphy, Kenny Wollesen, WOLLESONIC plays the early set…, BRENNAN GREEN spinns.., CLARK GAYTON plays… not to miss, PYEND THREADGILL plays the early set, MKL spinns, FORRO IN THE DARK …plays the anniversary finale !!, JORGE CONTINENTINO & GUILHERME MONTEIRO plays the early set, DJ SABO spinns.
And their music rocks. Have a great music day.
Hugh?
Hey bloggers, or anyone out there in internetland, I interrupt my blogaholicness to ask the question, “Where’s Pay Per Post?” Am I seeing things, am I delusional or is my computer broken at the moment, as every time I type in their website this “Cannot find server” message appears and their page seems to have disappeared. And I am trying to remain calm as I type this blog post, though in the back of mind I could possibly be thinking “Is there life after Pay Per Post and how can I keep up my blogaholicness without Pay Per Post?” And visions of running to the ends of the earth and finding twenty full time jobs to go along with it start running through my mind. Hey bloggers, where’s Pay Per Post, and Social Spark for that matters sake also, as their website seems to have disappeared in the past few minutes also. And without those websites, how can I maintain my blogaholicness? Hey Bloggers, where’s payperpost and how can I find them again, am I seeing things or is this computer broken? And maybe they will magically reappear in the next second after I finish typing this blog post. Have a great blogging day.
Checkpoint Charlie
Hey bloggers, who is that Checkpoint Charlie guy and what is he checking anyway, as I think I may have found myself visiting him on this recent trip, travel through the airport and on many strasses thrughout Germany trips, and his visits seem to go on and on elsewhere on this planet earth. And doesn’t he have something to do with the police, security, mal militant oppression or violence or protecting property or something, or not. And was this guy born in Germany anyway. My friend said something that he has something to do with the GDR, and who is the GDR, the German Dutch Republic? And I came across this literature, program brochure during my time in Germany for the Hause Am Checkpoint Charlie, the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin, Germany. As it is written in German, I do not really understand what it could say, only what the photos could mean. And its words are “Vous Sortez Du Secteur Amerikan, You Are Leaving The American Sector”. And there are photos of police and guns, as well as demonstrations, the Berlin wall falling, the Brandenburg Gate, groups of people and tanks all over this brochure page. And does Wikiipedia have an entry for this Checkpoint Charlie guy, and what would that internet bible dictionary have to say about this person. Well, according to the brochure the Checkpoint Charlie, or the Checkpoint Charlie Museum is: “Der Checkpoint Charlie war der woht bekannteste Grenzubergang zwishchen West und Ost. Im Oktober 1961 standen sich hier amerikanische und sowjetische Panzer gegenuber, als die USA fundamentale Rechte des Berlin Status verteidigten.
Immer wieder aauch wird der Checkpoint Carlie zum Schauplatz von Demonstrationen, hier gelingen Fluchten (im Museum ist u.a. eine zu Fluchtzwecken umgebaute Isetta zu sehen) oder scheitern kurz vor dem weiben.
Grenzstrich. Am 17. August 1962 verblutet Peter Fechter im Todestreifen vor den Augen der Weltofentlichkeit.
Am 22. Juni 1990 schlieblich wird der Checkpoint Charlie in Gegenwart der Aubenminister der vier Siegermachete des Zweiten Weltkriegs und der beiden deutschen Staaten in einer feierlichen Zeremonie abgebaut”. And I do not really understand the language of that German I just wrote. Oh, and I just came across another brochure for this guy that is written in English that says “Checkpoint Charlie was an allied border patrol in Friedrichstrasse seperating the boroughs of Kreuzberg and Mitte. It got its name from being the thrid patrol post. The two others being Helmstedt (alpha and “Drei Linden” (beta).
Between 1961 and 1990 Checkpoint Charlie was the only crossing point for members of the Allied Forces, and for all foreigners to cross from West to East Berlin.
In the course of the reunification of Germany Checkpoint Charlie was demolished in the presence of Foreign secretaries of the United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the two German states. And doesn’t this guy still exist in some form or another around the world, and for what reason. Will humanity ever be free to walk the earth without walls and papers for permission from another. No one is free when others are oppressed. Is another world possible. And what does this have to do with a No Police State?
Rap Videos
Hip Hop music and videos, you don’t stop, or something like that the verse may go. And if you happen to be looking for rap lyrics, Rap Artist has just added rap videos to their rap artists and lyrics website. You can now find hip hop and rap videos as well as all of your favorite rap and hip hop artists at their website. Their website is all rap and hip hop all the time.
Another Ode To Blogging
Hey Bloggers, and I have actually posted these following passages on this blog before some time in time a while ago. And every so often I think of of these passages in my blogaholicness. And as I read them again these days, months and seemingly years later, they still seem all the more clear:
50 Signs You’re A Blogaholic
Are you addicted to blogging? You know you blog too much if:
1. You have to turn back on your way to the airport because you forgot to “tell” your blog that you’re going away.
2. You sneak off during a date to check your hit stats.
3. You update Twitter about your life more than you actually live it.
4.You think LSD is something to do with RSS or XML.
5. Your family don’t call anymore, they just check your blog.
6. You have daydreams about links from Boing Boing.
7. You pray to Steve Pavlina.
8. You eat blogging. You sleep blogging. You drink coffee.
9. You think Nike should make a shirt that says “just blog it”.
10. You would buy it if they did.
11.You’re considering naming your first-born child Scoble.
12.You start conversations with the phrase “top 10 ways to…” because you think it will get you on the front page of Digg.
13.You’re listening to the travel news and get excited by the phrase “heavy traffic”.
14.You moblog your own wedding.
15.You keep a blog ideas notepad by your bed. And you go to bed early just so you can write in it.
16.You check your Adsense revenue more than your bank account.
17.You’ve got more “blog friends” than “real life” friends.
18.You turn down invitations to go out because you haven’t yet written your post for the day.
19.You introduce yourself at parties as a “new media journalist”.
20.Your breakfast of choice is toast, cornflakes and Google reader.
21.You care more about what Technorati says about your authority than what your children do.
22.You’ve got “Custom CSS for Dummies” on your Christmas list.
23.You think the 3 Rs are Reading, Writing and RSS.
24.You can’t remember what you did last week without consulting your blog.
25.Your blogroll is longer that your cell’s phonebook.
26.You think “I wonder how this’ll look on Flickr?” when posing for photos.
27.When asked to feed the dog, you think “RSS or Atom?”
28.The only time your friends hear your voice is on your podcast.
29.You include ownership of your blog in your will.
30.You know what a blog carnival is.
31.You’ve participated in one.
32.You wonder if they do vacations at the Googleplex.
33.Under the hobbies section of an online dating profile you just put “Googling myself”.
34.Your licence plate matches your domain name.
35.Your lifetime goal is achieving a Page Rank of 10.
36.People in the street recognise you from your MyBlogLog photo.
37.You have a scorn for Xanga users normal people reserve for rapists and serial killers.
38.You refuse to wear black hats because you think it will affect your SEO.
39.You got that last one.
40.You have more than three friends with numbers in their names.
41.You’ve ever used the term “blawg” in conversation.
42.Blogger.com is banned on your office network.
43.You try to offer links as a form of payment in restaurants.
44.You start getting withdrawal symptoms when you go a day without posting.
45.You met your girlfriend/boyfriend through a blog.
46.You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam.
47.People worry about you when you do not post for a day.
48.The name Kubrick means more to you than the director of A Clockwork Orange.
49.You make the wrong post to the wrong blog on the wrong day.
50.You finish reading this and go to make a post with your own additions
And here’s that other one I posted a while back also, before I really understood what it all may have meant..
An Ode To Blogging(sung to the tune of “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin)
Oh Google, won’t you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won’t you give me a PageRank quickly?
Oh Shoemoney , won’t give my blog a big plug?
I post every day, but never get Dugg.
I like how you’re bald, but don’t wear a rug,
So oh Shoemoney, won’t you give my blog a big plug?
Oh AGLOCO , won’t you give up your little green scam?
Your members flood my inbox with lots of spam.
You know that I’m not your biggest fan,
Oh AGLOCO, won’t you give up your little green scam?
Bloggers!
Oh Google, won’t you give me a PageRank quickly?
My friends all have Adsense, but you banned me.
Blogged hard all my lifetime, trying to make money,
So Google, won’t you give me a PageRank quickly?
Have a great blogging day.
Rent A Car
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No Police State 