Saw this - being "old school" as I am, I have clear memories of loving MTV - back when MTV DID play music videos.  So I always like lists like this, where I can check out newer videos - and in this case, this is easy, because all the videos are embedded on the same page, courtesy of YouTube.

Especially since I can only identify some of the 50, it also helps to expand my knowledge of the current music scene.

I saw this from C4Chaos -

Very cool functionality at Zaadz.  You can choose the song, and using "open" functionality, this uses another application - Project Playlist

Although, I have to say, some of C4's music selections are seriously sappy!!     Life By the Drop though - that is cool.

(But hey, anyone who sees my IPod would say the same. We all have those sappy songs that "get" us). 

Still, a small poke at C4 - why isn't Changes on there?  That would be perfect for this playlist!

I've received the first issue of Polysemy - I will be posting some reviews, when I get the chance, but for now, a couple of first impressions.

a.  Now that I've been blogging awhile, I'm becoming more interested in "best of" groupings - those posts that endure, or the best writings that take a form that can be used away from the computer.

Polysemy seems to me an example of this, and it's always very nice to actually have a physical representation in your hand, I think. 

I've read the first article so far - by Dan Allison.  As well as being a decent read - one of the best sentences being "The cumulative limits (narrow and broad) in our lives make the frame." - it's also interesting to see the use of images, contrasted with the text.  It definitely makes for a richer experience.

The article meanders a bit, but for me, the best point made is the importance of limits - in art, life, and technology.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest.

I've been waiting to reference this for a bit, basically until they had a blog - which they now do!

Some of my favorite creative types are creating a magazine, called Polysemy.  I'm very excited for the magazine, as all of the folks over there are bright, creative, and a deep pleasure to read. I'm looking forward to viewing/experiencing the dimensions that AREN'T so verbal, but are more visual, and in Wilberian terms, more centaurian driven, revealing in creative expression worlds of insight, passion, awareness, and exposing the Subtle realms in the everyday.

The blog is here.

Take the plunge and subscribe! 

Some great happenings for people in blogs I read, that I haven't commented on - so now is the time.

First off, Matthew Dallman, with a few other people I read, is creating a magazine called Psolemy.

Here's the first press release.

Lost of great perspective here.

I'm looking forward to reading some of what will come out of this - integrally informed artists go wild! 

I'm looking forward to the cheesy comedy channel late-night commercials about those videos...

Went to Cafe du Nord on Saturday.  One of the better venues of San Francisco, no doubt.

Of the three bands that were there, I really liked both:

Finding Stella - two amazing female voices, and decent songs, cute too.  Harder rocking than Indigo Girls, while definitely not as deep as Indigo Girls either.  A shallower but harder Indigo Girls?  Hmm, I wonder how that works...

Smithpoint - this band is at least as good as other punk-pop rockers, such as Good Charlotte, and they have fun doing it.  Their lead singer has a GREAT voice for pop - and not the typical look, even though he has the typical voice.

Miggs, the headliner.  Well, great voice, good musicianship, but it would be hard to find a group of more "self-important wankers", I would say.  (Am I too old for musicians that simply take themselves so seriously now?)

The women seemed to like them though.

I definitely recommend listening to the first two bands - and kudos to new services like Podbop, without which I wouldn't have been able to spring the low price of 10 bucks, and thus found some pretty good live music to listen to.

Is called Podbop. 

From the description:

"We podcast bands coming to your town"

Now you can LISTEN to bands that are coming to town, see if you like the voice, like the music. NOTE:  The pages are slow to load, but well worth it.

Here is the San Francisco page.


Seriously, this is a long standing problem of mine.  There is a free evening, I want to go out and here music I haven't heard - but how do you know it isn't crap?  Now you can preview! 

Now there only needs to be MORE bands listed.

I've already lined up a couple of bands I want to see.  I'll report on the results next week.

A lot of people have seen the SNL skit, Chronic(cles) of Narnia.

Now, a couple of 11 years give their own take, in their neighborhood!

I don't know myself, but looking at the statistics for this site, I am getting an extra 20 hits a day, simply from google and technorati searches, looking for Stuart Davis.

Considering that:

1. This is new - I've never gotten an extra 20 hits for Stuart Davis before.
2. I haven't blogged anything recent about Stuart Davis in 6 months.

At any rate, here is his site, from anyone who gets referred to this site, looking for him...

A Fun Friday post -

Woe betide the musical wise men, for their time has come and gone. 

Everyone's a rock snob, or no one is. 

Those out there with huge, obscure, "great" music, that think that what everyone else listens to is balls (cough, cough Salathrustra...)



What do you do now? 

Chorus:
What's this feeling?
My love will rip a hole in the ceiling
Givin' myself to you from the essence of my being
Sing to my G-d all these songs of love and healing
Want Moshiach now so it's time we start revealing

You're all that I have and you're all that I need
Each and every day I pray to get to know you please
I want to be close to you, yes I'm so hungry
You're like water for my soul when it gets thirsty
Without you there's no me
You're the air that I breathe
Sometimes the world is dark and I just can't see
With these, demons surround all around to bring me down to negativity
But I believe, yes I believe, I said I believe
I'll stand on my own two feet
Won't be brought down on one knee
Fight with all of my might and get these demons to flee
Hashem's rays fire blaze burn bright and I believe
Out of darkness comes light, twilight unto the heights
Crown Heights burnin' up all through till midnight
Said, thank you to my G-d, now I finally got it right
And I'll fight with all of my heart, and all a' my soul, and all a' my might


Watch the video here.

Rest of the lyrics here.