Goldline - just wanted to share this info graphic

Infographic by The Big Picture

Gratuitous make me smile post

Girl Talk

i think i just don't get it...

here's what i don't get: why is this person popular? i mean, popular to the point that they are paid to be on stage in front of people?

facts:
1. he mixes good music
2. he energizes the crowd

opinions:
1. he is on stimulants, lots of them as it seems
2. not anyone, but a lot of people can do what he does, especially given the equipment
3. during a performance, does he do anything other than head bang?
4. he's a dj, no matter what the screen behind him says
5. i liked/knew 80% of the songs he mixed, the other 20% was fine
6. i found it more interesting to watch the spectacle than partake
6a. i think fischerspooner and girltalk can teach a phd course in self-hype

i saw dj shadow perform (with someone else); they created 'new music' from cutting/taping records on the spot. lp's. masking tape. 2 turntables. it was crazy amazing. this was a bunch of young people bouncing around to popular music mixed together. i call that a work out, not a performance.

"The Dead" Show - April 25, 2009

About the show – here is the set list


Set 1:
Bertha
Till The Morning Comes
Little Red Rooster
Row Jimmy
All Along The Watchtower
Glory Road
West L.A. Fadeaway
Cumberland Blues

Set 2:
The Weight
Tomorrow Never Knows
Black Peter
Greatest Story Ever Told
Drums
Space
King Solomon's Marbles
Viola Lee Blues
Samson and Delilah
Donor Rap

Encore:
Ripple





I have researched Glory Road – not found in the Grateful Dead archives song list. It is a Government Mule song that was, of course, sung by Warren.(Anyone who doesn’t know – he plays guitar for the Allman Brothers along with Derek Trucks as well as his band, Gov’t Mule, and has done a lot of Phil and Friends tours)



The Beatles song is Tomorrow Never Knows, as follows:



Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying

Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining

That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being

That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing

That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing

But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living

Or play the game
existence to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning



It was on Revolver, I think, if not it was Rubber Soul. Anyway, the lyrics are especially interesting when you consider them from a Dead perspective

Writing a Friend's Match.com Profile - Kind of defeats the purpose...

First: honesty. I wasn't able to do it; to talk about myself because I am too lazy to be bothered with setting up a profile. I'd play it like I am too busy, and part of me can't believe that I signed up in the first place. Let's be honest. I didn't want to write "me" because what I write can't be completely accurate. What I write is only a portion of what is really "me". So what you're really wanting to know is: am I attractive? am I insane? am I educated and do I have my shit together?

I own a cat. I dabble in biathlons, but would like to learn that third one too. I golf, when I can, and enjoy movies. I'm a bit cynical, but I believe in something bigger and doing right by mine.

So, the real questions. Insanity is said to be doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So we're both a little insane thinking that another relationship leads to something meaningful, lasting, and worthwhile. I went to college, live in Brooklyn, and (for the time being) I'm an upcoming workaholic in Manhattan real estate. Oh, and you can judge for yourself if I am attractive, can't you.

Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team Community Forum on Quality of Life

MEDIA ADVISORY
For September 25, 2008 - Camera Opportunity!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
Ken Gleasman – Executive Board Chairman
DWSCMT/at/gmail.com

Doug Hausladen – Public Safety Chairman
douglas.hausladen/at/gmail.com


WHEN: Thursday, September 25th, 2008 6:00-7:15pm


WHERE: The Omni Hotel, The Grand Ballroom
155 Temple St., New Haven, CT

WHO:
Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team
Bitsie Clark – Alderperson, Ward 7
Lt. Marty Tchakirides - District Manager, NHPD
Win Davis – Director of Operations, Town Green Special Services District
Sean Matteson - Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office
Chrissy Bonnano – Deputy Economic Development Administrator, City of New Haven


WHAT:
Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team to hold community forum on downtown New Haven quality of life – Event to discuss and suggest solutions for residential quality of life adversely being affected by noise, litter, parking, safety, and traffic.

WHY:
Our downtown is ever-changing and stands at a cross roads in use. For years, the downtown was dominated by office buildings and shopping centers, only to see a blossoming of residential and mixed-use development in the past fifteen years. As we race to bring more residents to the downtown area, quality of life issues present in our downtown population today will only be acerbated more. How will we reconcile the residential concerns with future and current economic development in the area? How will we prepare for the influx of more residents to downtowns with ever growing demand for multi-modal street use and public transportation accessible development? We need to work together as a city, as residents, as business owners, and as
downtown patrons to find the answer to these issues.


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Consumers Call Recall on GOP Corporation's '08 Model

In an unprecedented move, consumers have demanded a recall of the GOP in 2008. According to sources, the GOP is causing people to become highly hateful and extremely irritated. The FDA recently released a report outlining the illnesses consumers succumb to by ingesting the GOP in 2008 including:

- Using fear as only method of protecting US
- Excusing hatred and bigotry
- Sarah Palin
- Digging your way out of a ditch as an answer

The move by the consumers of GOP in 2008 to publicly and collectively recall the brand outside of regulatory bodies seems unprecedented. This could leave an opportunity for Barack Obama to push through sweeping reforms and actually fix something at the federal level. Shocking, but true.

Check back in 2010 to see just how badly this GOP is doing and if they can regain any resemblance of credibility.