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Let's get it on!

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Labels: koop, loka, music

There can only be one.

Labels: bird and the bee, brazilian girls, music

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Labels: badu, bigger than the government, music, Portishead

Hell No!



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Labels: gary bartz, jazz, music, oscar brown, protest music

Mercy Mercy Mercy....

Labels: mercy mercy mercy, music

Also liked this Howling Bells tune.




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Like everything from this band. Would have used "Be My Fucking Boyfriend" here and here but couldn't find a competitive vid for combat against this strong group of fighters.

Labels: music, three band enter one band leave

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Gotterdammerung.

Labels: gotterdammerung, music

Also good live version of this song but not suitable for bloody ultimate fighting vid battle...Two band enter. One band leave. Two band enter. One band leave. Two band enter...

Labels: music, two band enter

And there shall be blood.


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Labels: music, zappa is gawd

I think that people have watched me through the history of the video war "troubles" and know that I'm quite impartial. I try not to take sides. But I must state that this EBTG vid "dizzy" is so beautiful, haunting, and lyrical that it physically hurts.

Labels: music, the troubles

I'll end the horrible bloodshed of these video wars as soon as we pull out of Iraq...

Labels: music

Labels: funny, music

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And pretty Bjork jump up and down in new predictably head spinning Gondrey video. Nice declaration for a free Mars as well.

Labels: music, pretty bjork

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Video Showdown Special: Peanuts Theme with Christmas Lights versus South Park's Merry Fucking Christmas. And so it begins...

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Labels: hey thar mister shin to ist, music, vince g rules

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Labels: music

This is the battle that had to happen. And who is better? Who is better indeed.



If you look closely at the vid, you'll notice that me and Uncle Scam are with Sammie and Hef at the party...

Labels: bring your wife, music, ramble on got to sing my song

Winner: Yukimi Nagano, daughter of hippies.

Labels: music, yukimi

Slight edge to Doug.

Labels: comedy, music, you will burn in hell for watching this post

You can go vote here. Although it would be nice if Progressives had, you know, a party that represents them.

Labels: moveon, music

I have to admit. This second describes my life fairly well, but I will fight back...

Labels: comedy, music, yeh I ride the bus Mothafucka

Fun fact: It was John Mclaughlin who got Jeff Beck into jazz rock. Beck started recording instrumental jazz rock right after he saw the legendary central park concert with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It was sort of referenced in This is Spinal Tap when the band went down its jazz rock path...And the winner is: Jeff Beck's hot bassist Tal Wilkenfeld...

Labels: mahavishnu john mclaughlin, music

I'm making a call: I think John Edwards is the best choice for the presidency. I like Obama and I think he would make a very capable president or vice president but his vote for that Peruvian free trade deal, the scare talk on social security...of course, he might think Hillary has wrapped it up and thinks this secures his rich guy money base back in Illinois but still...I would probably vote for Hillary but this would be the first election cycle in four years where I probably won't do any door to door work for the dems if she gets the nomination...Unless the GOP nominee is Tanc or Newt or somebody....

I just can't stand that "lobbyists is people" line, which, appropriately enough, was turned into an ad by the Edwards camp. Seen here in the "Oops. Our Bad" ad:

Ted Rall also has the anti Hillary analysis down:

I forgive easily. I could have let Hillary off the hook for supporting NAFTA, screwing up healthcare in 1993 and voting for the proto-fascist USA-Patriot Act. I could have overlooked her Reaganesque cluelessness about the lives of ordinary people. (Reneging on her "baby bond" proposal that Americans receive $5,000 at age 18, she now wants to give everyone a 401(k) and have the government match it "up to $1,000." Thanks to this windfall, she says, "they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that down payment on their first home." Lame idea, obviously. What I want to know is: Where can you buy a house or a college education for $1000? On the moon?)

I might have even have forgiven Hillary's vote to authorize Bush to start the unprovoked war against Iraq, though she never apologized for a cowardly (and miscalculated) act of triangulation that contributed to the deaths of more than a million Iraqis. As Tim Grieve wrote in Salon: "She has gone from 1) voting for the use-of-force resolution, to 2) questioning the intelligence that formed the basis of that vote, to 3) arguing that the Bush administration distorted the intelligence, to 4) saying she didn't regret giving Bush authority to use force but did regret the way he used that authority, to 5) saying the resolution never would have come to a vote if Congress knew then what it knows now, to 6) saying that Congress wouldn't have voted for the resolution if Congress knew then what it knows now, to 7) saying that she wouldn't have voted for the resolution if she knew then what she knows now."

Hillary's October 2003 speech to the Senate is a fair summary of her defense: "The idea of giving our president authority to act...against Saddam Hussein, was one I could support and I did so. In the last year, however, I have been first perplexed, then surprised, then amazed, and even outraged and always frustrated by the implementation of the authority given the president by this Congress." Good idea, fouled up by hyper-aggression and lousy implementation. Well, what did she expect? Bush was a warmonger, a liar who'd already attacked Afghanistan, where Osama wasn't, and sucked up to Pakistan, where he was, after 9/11. She gave him a blank check. She can't have been surprised when he cashed it.

As I said, I'm the forgiving type. I get it: Hillary can't apologize for her Iraq vote. It would make her look weak. As she said in September 2006 on ABC News, "I can only look at what I knew at the time because I don't think you get do-overs in life. I think you have to take responsibility. And hopefully, learn from it and go forward. I regret very much the way the president used the authority he was given because I think he misled the Congress, and he misled the country."

Except...except...she did get a do-over. The same president who misled her, Congress and the country, asked for her vote on yet another resolution based on phony intelligence that starts us down the path to war--this time against Iran. She had a chance to prove that she'd learned her lesson. She voted yes. Again.

President Hillary won't close Gitmo. She won't stop torturing. She won't stop listening to our phone calls. She won't stop the war in Iraq, much less in Afghanistan. Heck, she might even start a new one.

Fool you once, shame on Bush. Fool you twice, I stop thinking how cool it would be for the United States to finally elect a woman president.

Labels: john edwards, lobbyists is people, music, oops my bad

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Labels: beck, Big Big Hands, flaming lips, music

I still can't see myself voting for him but he truly does have radical ideas. He's openly against the drug war for example. I would give him a look. I'd also vote for David Cross if he ran for anything....

Labels: david cross, music, ron paul

Stunning new John Mclaughlin vids from July Crossroads guitar festival. You can sample them here, here and here. For years now J Mac's electric guitar sound had become, well, wimpy and mushy. He was probably hoping that Tony Mowad would play him (to no avail.). Here he seems to have discovered his Mahavishnu/Electric Guitarist strat sound and he sounds Godlike. He's never sounded better and this was recorded just a few months ago. Wow.

Here's one for your approval:

Labels: John Mclaughlin not Eric Clapton is God, music

Two more vids from this gifted Youtube director. Profiled earlier here. The first one I remixed and added a different tune. His original is here. It also makes me want to fuck Audrey Hepburn. Her being "dead" wouldn't stop me. That's the kind of fella I am.

The second one features a song from The Stone Roses, a band I wish had made more music.

"Samba Nexusia"
Uploaded by Steelydan

Labels: I want to fuck audrey hepburn, music, stone roses

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Labels: beatles, music, spinal tap

This is a bad jazz tune that Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Crouch and Uncle Scam don't approve of. This isn't conservative god fearing jazz.

Labels: jaga jazzist, music

Link: sevenload.com

Labels: music

Jim Hightower explains the mortgage crisis with handy toons.

And if you recall (they'll be a quiz later) Jim Hightower also explained why we're in Iraq and it's not about democracy or "helping" the Iraqi people, unless you define helping as killing about 600000 Iraqis. We're full of help over here. We're really there so that our puppet goverment can pass something called the Iraqi Oil Law, which Hightower explained here. Or as I described it earlier this is legalized plunder. Nobody talks about it, even the dems. It would be nice if they said that we're above killing hundreds of thousands of people and taking their stuff "christian" nation we are and all that....

Labels: Jim Hightower, music

Your contemplative Sonny Sharrock song for Sunday.

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Labels: music, sharrock

Saying Goodbye to Mr. Gone

Joe Zawinul b. 1932 d. Sept. 11, 2007

Whenever noted jazz police fascists like Wynton Marsalis or Stanley Crouch (and Uncle Scam Hah!) talk about all that "bad" jazz that doesn't meet their pre 1962 standard they usually refer to people like the late great Joseph Zawinul. Unfortunately for them and yet fortunately for us Mr. Z produced a lot of demanding world class work that the entirety of the imagination/vision starved Marsalis clan will never ever touch in the forever Kind of Blue continuum that they're hopelessly trapped in. (And what's sad is that they don't realize its a trap.) Z even wrote better trad standards than Wynton or what's a Marsalis tune that's as memorable as "Mercy Mercy Mercy", or "Country Preacher"? I still can't believe a white dude from Austria wrote those tunes.

Zawinul understood that the beauty of jazz is in its growth and reach. You're supposed to improvise and experiment in jazz. Bebop and smaller than Big Band ensembles used to be heresy too. Thank you Z for music that expanded my ear and blew my mind. I never needed drugs thanks to you. Not to mention music so futuristic fluid and cool that 30 years later it still sounds futuristic fluid and cool. By the way, Z isn't only the father of acid jazz but he was one of the first samplers. A fuckin' genius.

Thanks to the Youtubes you can visit the entirety of the Z canon from his days with Cannonball Adderly:

to his peak work with Weather Report and even, and I admit this as a fan, his somewhat disappointing work with the Zawinul Syndicate. Just about every song from Heavy Weather, definitely their masterpiece even though Night Passage is a beautiful album as well, is online. You can find tunes from Heavy Weather here, here, here, here and here.

As for showcase pieces, I think these two songs from Mr. Gone kind of catch Z at his best. I just wish someone had taped the 79 Weather Report that I caught at the old Stanley Theater with Jaco. Still one of the most memorable concerts that I had ever seen. I was actually not a big fan of Mr. Gone when it came out but these tunes have aged very well or maybe its Jaco's sinewy live bass lines. Z or Weather Report was never as good post Jaco. Just an opinion. (Another opinion: He probably needed another heavyweight like Wayne Shorter to occasionally tell him no.)

and River People:

You'll never be forgotten Z. I can't imagine my life without your sound.

Labels: Jazz Fascists, Joe Zawinul, music

Yet another gifted youtube director who feels like a professional. Catch the funny sax a minute 28 in...

Labels: frank zappa, music

I'm sure that Trevor used the term "noble savage" to describe gay people. I suppose when he's refused service at the pub or pointed to the gays only john he'll remain firm in his separate but equal principles.

Labels: gays not allowed to listen to this post, gil scott heron, music, noble savage music

Since Uncle Scam has opened up the sexy vid box...This is a gifted director by the way.

Labels: cat power, music, teh sexy

Labels: frank zappa, music

Don't do drugs. Do the Drug Music.

Labels: frank zappa, music

Labels: Jaco Pastorius, music, weather report

Labels: AIPAC, Iran, music

How Science Differs from Religion.



And put your faith in a scientific prediction. Just as a sidenote: atheists are not pussies and here Richard proves it.

Labels: atheists are not pussies, music, Richard Dawkins

Features my favorite female playing tuba in a jazz rock band.

Labels: favorite female playing tuba in a jazz rock band, music

An okay song that turns into a world class tune when the sax solo kicks in.

Labels: music, war

Labels: music, pinky show, radical cartooning

The Youtube version of this tune was suspended! I am inquiring. However, there's always Daily Motion. I have never seen a music video pulled from Daily Motion.

Labels: flora purim, music

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Labels: astrud gilberto, music

Not to easy to answer Uncle Scam's better than average Gillian Welch selection. At first I thought camera obscura but its not from the folk tradition. Then the Roche sisters but they're too weird. Then it came to me: Neil Young. Take that uncle scam!

Labels: four dead in ohio, music, Neil Young

Labels: music

Labels: atheism, music, superstition

Note: You have to lobby these guys to do the right thing. Even AIPAC's man in congress sees the light on Bush and War. Lobby and pester. Who knows. Maybe they'll see the answer staring them in the face.

Labels: impeachment, music, rahmbo

This is the latest version of my music channel. It currently has about 100 videos. If I wanted to be competitive with the music channels it probably needs about 300 or so. And I should add new vids to the mix all the time. I think this is the way you could create your own propaganda. Note the Chomsky and atheism clips. Just like the Geico ads. Spread the message over and over and over again.

If you're interested in creating your own radical tv station you should go to this site. The Mad Hungarian who runs this site is very cool and he added Daily Motion--where the music vids at least don't disappear--to his mix, even though you can't add too many of them. I'm curious as to what you would come up with...IN the future, ideally, you could say: "No don't watch that sucky MTV which doesn't play music anyway. Go watch AMSAT Television. That's high quality stuff." Update: It takes a minute or two to load. Sometimes it doesn't load at all...

Labels: music, Personal Television

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Labels: Art, music

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Labels: music, Personal Television

Interesting new acid jazz tune by the band called Miso. Very Portisheadish. You can download this vid here. Below: It's not shot very well but I can't get that beautiful guitar riff out of my head. "Sweet Trip" by Chocolate Matter. "Chocolate Matter" by Sweet Trip. And Yes: I directed and produced this Broadcast video, rated at two stars which I think stands for "EX cellence." And Goddamn you Reginald Hudlin. Goddamn you and BET on J to Hell. Update: If you check out Miso's site, linked above, the band actually seems to share the politics of the vid. Like the filipino bjork lead singer...

Labels: music, real acid jazz

Above: Neo alt african american rockers TV on the Radio with a backup assist from David Bowie. Well directed video. Also: Yes, I directed and produced this Broadcast video, rated at two stars which I think stands for "EX cellence." And Goddamn you Reginald Hudlin. Goddamn you and BET on J to Hell.

Labels: David Bowie. Goddamn You and BET on J to Hell, music, TV on the Radio

This is Mahavishnu Orchestra Saturday. Above: "You know you know." Forbidden secrets of the Mahavishnu Orchestra: Both Goodman and Jan "Miami Vice" Hammer were more melodic soloists than McLaughlin. Billy Cobham, after 30 years have passed, looks like he was the best composer. Below: "Dawn", which features, arguably, the greatest guitar solo ever. Right around 1:56 turn it to 11 and begin your air guitar pantomime. Also: Yes, I directed and produced this Broadcast video, rated at two stars which I think stands for "EX cellence." And Goddamn you Reginald Hudlin. Goddamn you and BET on J to Hell.

Labels: BET on J, jazz rock, mahavishnu orchestra, music

Labels: music, Ninth Gate, Take Five

Labels: jazz rock, music, Steely Dan

Labels: jazz rock, music, Steely Dan