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Okay, my last post, but I had to do this because it is brilliant!

The Billionaires for Wealthcare struck again yesterday at the AHIP convention.

They were so good, the performance was so captivating that you can see the spectators truly enjoying the message. First, their role as billionaire supporters of the class structure of healthcare in America seems to totally bamboozle the speaker, who thinks he is being applauded...then the beginnings of outrage as the spectators see that they are being pawned, then the out rage melts into enjoyment as the sheer exuberance of the performance captivates the crowd.

Kinda Wonderful!

It makes you believe that tommorow, tomorrow, will truly be a better day!

Lunch With Soupy

 (I posted another clip as the one I originally wanted, was pulled by YouTube...this is just typical Soupy Sales with his puppet friends, Pooky the Lion and White Fang the dog...too bad the original clip was hilarious!)

One last post, I had to do this...

I just read that the comedian, Soupy Sales died today at the age of 83. Perhaps you heard of him? In later years, the dean of a thousand Friars Club Roasts, one of the corniest repositories of bad jokes on the planet. The face that took a thousand? Make that 10,000 pies.

Soupy started his career as the host of childrens show in Detroit. When I was a tyke, I started my day, before the mile walk to kindergarten at Warren G. Harding School in Northwest Detroit, I would watch Breakfast With Soupy...a bizarre ritual with dog paw hand puppets who were his pets, White Fang and Black Tooth, a cork in the wall that said "do not touch"...of course, every day, as part of the ritual, Soupy would walk over to the cork and pull it out and get squirted in the face.... then there would be screaming outside and he would open the door...only to get the ritual pie in the kisser...this went on for years...

Years went by and Soupy graduated to Lunch With Soupy...I was 9 years old and still would watch him at lunch, eating my cheese sandwich and tomato soup....one day the screams started, Soupy walked over to the door...............

Soupy had two sons, Hunt and Tony. In the late 60's, they had a band called Tony and The Tigers. Tony Sales played drumes, Hunt played bass. In the 70's they became the rythmn section of David Bowies touring bands and then the backbone of his band The Tin Machine...............

Okay, enough. a bientot!

100 Guitars

I have to take a break now. I am leaving for about 2 weeks to go to New York City.

I might have mentioned it before, but I am getting married to the girl I adored for the last 29 years.

I'm not sure where this video came from, I keep going back to it and I have wanted to post it for a while. It is a very bad pop song called Every Night from a 1964 Swiss Movie called Happy Ending. The imagery makes it all worth it!

Maybe another post before I go, but time really compresses...so if I don't...

See Y'all Soon!

Ice Cream For Crow

I just posted Captain Beefhearts 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing. Perhaps you aren't familiar with the fellow who went by the name of Captain Beefheart. He is Don Van Vliet, who now is a painter, but in the mid 60's throught the early 1980s, he was one of the most original other visionary voices of music.

A true surrealist, he created music which composed and decomposed it self as you listened to it. The blues? Jazz? Pop turned inside out? His work is still confounding and influencing generations of musicians.

This is the track Ice Cream For Crow from his last record in 1982 by the same name.

How To Create A Monster!

This is a real letter and Alex only got a detention for daring to contradict the power crazed control freak that was allowed to fuck with his mind. This is the story of my young life and how a demented nun managed to beat the fear of god out of me and instill a life long absolute contempt for authority in a matter of 5 traumatic minutes in a grade school corridor. Fuck you, Sister Mary Theonella, you still don't shit about American History...

Captain Beefhearts 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing

Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (Via WFMU)

1. Listen to the birds
That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod
Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you’re good, you’ll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush
Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil
Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the “devil box.” And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you’re bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you’re guilty of thinking, you’re out
If your brain is part of the process, you’re missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone
Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key
That’s your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He’s one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song “I Need a Hundred Dollars” is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin’ Wolf’s guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he’s doing it.

8. Don’t wipe the sweat off your instrument
You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you’re not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don’t play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine
Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can’t escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.

Trick Or Treat

Controversy still rages over the Illegal Alien Halloween costumes that were being marketed by the Target Stores. Target claims they have stopped the sales of the item, but the costume is still being sold and  the FOX Propaganda Network has chimed in recently to let us know that they find this little costume, "fantastic".

The costume can still be purchased from Amazon and The Americans For Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has called for it to be the "Most Popular Halloween Costume Of 2009"!

 In fact the President of ALIPAC, William Green has said that he would wear the costume on television if anyone anywhere would want to interview him. And why not? The stunning costume comes with an Alien Mask, a flattteringly fitted orange jumpsuit and a stylish bright green card,,,,

I think the costume is quite charming on the right person. I understand that it comes in a range of sizes, large, extra big triple XXX and Simply Gigunda. All fitted to flatter the bulging bigot within.

I would suggest that this costume be used to outfit the entire family in a charmingly themed "Halloween" Togetherness experience. The entire family of dumfukistanians can enjoy the holiday spirit of the season in their dumfukistanian enclaves, going from door to door, Trick or Treating and making starement of their beliefs at the same time.

Then they can spread the spirit of the jollity of the season amongst thir entire community.

Just be careful of Ole' Jimmy Joe Budderly at the end of the road...a little dim these days, slow on the uptake but quick on the trigger.............

Publish Post

Can I See Your Business Card? Update....

This is an update on my last post on the pawning of the U.S, Chamber of Commerce by the YES MEN...this video surfaced last night and was posted my ThinkProgress. This was a heroic prank!

Chamber Of Commerce Gets Pawned

Yesterday, the organization which pretends to be a part of the United States Government, The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce posted a release on its website stating that "They Were Declaring War On The White House" regarding the administrations climate change legislation and health care reform.

The Chamber Of Commerce has had some real P.R. Problems lately, first their touted claim that they had over 3,000,000 members was disproven and they really only were less than 300,000. Then in opposition over their anti climate change legislation stance, they have lost some of their biggest members including Apple Computers, Nike, Johnson and Johnson and GE.

Even local branches of the organization are distancing themselves from the militant anti reform stance, but the national leadership remains adamnant and is using their war chest of membership dues of over $100,000,000 to fund a fear driven advertising campaign to push their agenda.

Two big members need to be reminded that their customers are not supporters of the Chamber Of Commerce's agenda. One is UPS. You can call them and give voice to your disapproval of their policies and aske them to withdraw their membership by calling:

UPS (404) 828-7123.

The other member which needs to be reminded that their actions have to back up their environmentally concerned advertising is TOYOTA. Until they leave the Chamber of Commerce their "Green Image" is just that, an image, empty bullshit!

Today, in Washington, the guys who call themselves the Yes Men struck again. Posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they held a press conference today to announce that the chamber would abandon its opposition to climate-change legislation now in Congress. Well, that would explain the sneaky spam press release I received this morning which pointed to "chamber-of-commerce.us" instead of the actual website for the US Chamber of Commerce, at "uschamber.com." 

Here's a snip from Washington Post article about the meatspace hijinks today:

The event, complete with fake handouts on chamber letterhead, at least a couple of fake reporters, and a podium adorned with the chamber logo, broke up when a spokesman from the real chamber burst in. What followed was a spectacle not usually seen in the John Peter Zenger Room at the National Press Club: two men in business suits shouting at one another, each calling the other an impostor and demanding to see business cards. "This guy is a fake! He's lying! This is a stunt that I've never seen before," said Eric Wohlschlegel, an official at the actual Chamber of Commerce, who said he'd heard about the hoax event from a reporter who'd mistakenly shown up at the chamber's headquarters.
The fake Chamber of Commerce official, who called himself "Hingo Sembra," did not give his real name to reporters, saying only that he represented a coalition of climate activists.

Brilliant!

There's A Rep For That...

Great parody of the iPhone commercial that I see every night here in Europe.

It works for me....

Honduras

This is a stunning well executed concise explanation of the right wing coup against the legitimate governemnt of Hermano Zelaya in Honduras earlier this year done in comic book form.

I found it to be historically factual and analytically correct in showing the involvement of the American corporate and military in the history of Latin America and how the effects of the years of economic colonialization are still ravaging the social and political fabric of the Southern American hemisphere.

The party is over and we have to leartn how to play by the new rules of lose big time.

Last Exit

I stumbled upon this video by one of the most brilliant versions of Bill Lazwells experimental jazz ensemble, Last Exit by accident.

I was looking for something by the Drummer/Composer, Ronald Shannon Jackson, who has led The Decoding Society for 30 years now. I was friends with Mr. Jackson back in the late 70's and early 80's and was the Decoding Society's mover with my trusty Toyota pickup truck.

So, Ronald Shannon Jackson is the drummer in this piece. Bill Laswell is one of the great synthesysts of modern music. His bands, like Material and Last Exit have brought together musicians from different ends of the realm of music. The metal gutarist, Buckethead and primal James Brown/Funkadelic Bassist Bootsy Collins (my personal hero, role and style model) formed a lasting unlikely partnership through the influence of Mr. Laswell,

This version of Last Exit has Sonny Sharrock playing guitar and I will freely admit that I consider Mr. Sharrock was one of the most distinctive and creative guitarists in jazz. I find that people either love Sharrock or find him unlistenable. It's true that his playing could encompass extreme idyllic beauty and sheer abject existential terror within a single phrase.

This was recorded live in Bochum, Germany in 1988. Free Jazz is an endangered specie!

Stardate 10.16.2009

Captains Log, Stardate 10.16.2009....

The last position of the Starship Enterprise was a few degrees from the center of the Velcro IV Galaxy as we entered the outer planetary system of Vegas 9 and were proceeding on our mission to investigate whether intelligent life still existed on the inner planets, Hollywood and Trumpworld when the enterprise was caught in a bizarre space/time continuum. Some sort of inexplicable force has us repeating the same manoever over and over again and the computer screens look like the primitive early computer game, QuadraPong.

The ship seems to be in cloak mode and we are being forced over and over again to the same location above the Planet Earth and the computer keeps insisting that we are now in the 21st Century. Some force is bringing the Enterprise back to the same location over the continent of Europe, more exactly, over a place which was once the primitive country of Switzerland.

Scotty seems most affected as his accent has become more primitive, braying things like, "Aye Cap'n, the wee cunt's fahring air disrupter farce ay the same place, over en over! Ay dinnae touch a cunt hair on the panel."

Then we seem transported back to the same location in our time, near the Vegas system ...only to have the same mad thing happen over and over again!

The crew is getting a little crazy and Scotty wants to pick up a haggis the next time it happens."

More than a year after an explosion of sparks, soot and frigid helium shut it down, the world’s biggest and most expensive physics experiment, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is poised to start up again. In December, if all goes well, protons will start smashing together in an underground racetrack outside Geneva in a search for forces and particles that reigned during the first trillionth of a second of the Big Bang.

Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, put this idea forward in a series of papers with titles like “Test of Effect From Future in Large Hadron Collider: a Proposal” and “Search for Future Influence From LHC,” posted on the physics Web site arXiv.org in the last year and a half.

According to the so-called Standard Model that rules almost all physics, the Higgs is responsible for imbuing other elementary particles with mass.

“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

This malign influence from the future, they argue, could explain why the United States Superconducting Supercollider, also designed to find the Higgs, was canceled in 1993 after billions of dollars had already been spent, an event so unlikely that Dr. Nielsen calls it an “anti-miracle.”

Captains Log, Stardate 10.17.2009.........................................

Kill The Wabbit!

On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell asked Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) about a MoveOn-organized protest outside his Salt Lake City office, where protesters criticized Hatch for allegedly being beholden to the insurance industry because it donated a lot of money to his past campaigns.

"I'm supported by people all over the health care system," Hatch said, "including doctors, including hospitals, including insurers, including liberal people, conservative people and moderate people. Everybody knows how much money you have to raise to run for the Senate."

Then Hatch turned his fury to MoveOn and George Soros.

"MoveOn.org is a scurrilous organization," he said. "It's funded by George Soros. He's about as left wing as you can find in this country. And they're up to just one thing, and that is to smear good people. And frankly, they're not gonna smear me without getting kicked in the teeth by me."

So...Hatch says he gets donations from all sorts of people -- "including liberal people" -- but as for that supposed left-winger George Soros and that "scurrilous" liberal group MoveOn.org -- they've got a kick in the teeth coming.

A few of the blatant inaccuracies in Hatch's claims about MoveOn.org and George Soros: "MoveOn is a PAC funded by small donors - including it's almost 23,000 members in Utah. It is not funded by Soros. It is a completely false right-wing talking point. Soros gave a one time contribution in 2004. MoveOn does not accept any donations over $5,000, and the average donation to MoveOn.org Political Action is under $100."

Here's a statement from MoveOn:

Local Utah MoveOn members went to Orrin Hatch's office to question whether his opposition to health care reform is tied to the $900,000 he took from insurance interests, and what did he do? Go on national TV and threaten to kick them in the teeth. Apparently, this was easier than defending his ties to the insurance companies who have a stranglehold on our healthcare system. The people of Utah, including 23,000 Utah MoveOn members, deserve better. Hopefully, whoever Sen. Hatch kicks in the teeth is independently wealthy, in case their claim is denied by one of the insurance companies who've been funding his campaigns.

What's Hatch going to kick MoveOn in the teeth with? His highly polished rich Corinthian leather wing tips? He's beginning to sound like Elmer Fudd to me!

The Spawning

There have been indications that Rush Limbaugh is growing jealous of Glenn Beck’s success. Limbaugh recently suggested to Politico that Beck’s promotion of the 9/12 march was “cheap and disingenuous.” In the second part of her interview with Limbaugh, NBC’s Jamie Gangel asked the hate radio host what he thinks of Glenn Beck. Limbaugh responded somewhat defensively:

GANGEL: Glenn Beck — do you worry about the new guy on the block?
RUSH LIMBAUGH: No. Look, in 1988, I’m the only national conservative voice. Now look at conservative media. Look what I have spawned. Glenn Beck to me is right on daddy-o. Glenn Beck is a result of my success.

Limbaugh’s attempt to take proud procreative ownership of Beck sickened MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch yesterday morning. “What a megalomanic,” Deutsch said of Rush. “What a scary, distasteful human being he is.” Emphasizing that Beck and Limbaugh are in the business of “selling hate,” Deutsch observed, “Think about what I’ve spawned? Think about someone who even says that. Ick. Ick. Ick.”

Yeah, Donny, distasteful, but strangely, ummm....fascinating. Just think of all the bucks we could have made if we had the actual video! C'mon, you'd pay to see that!

Paint Your Toes With Bulls Blood?

I seem to have drawn the attention and ire of a lifelong student engaged in interpreting biblical verse. Not many people actually have read the bible, but they rely on people who claim to have actually read it to "interpret" what is written.

Now there is a conservative christian group who claims they are re editing the bible to fix the parts which might encourage "liberal" tendencies.

I find it disturbing that this collection of myths, slanted history, misunderstood physical and psychological phenomena which confused humans compiled in an attempt to impose order on a universe beyond their understanding is still taken so seriously.

I might find it funny, but the results have crippled the intellectual evolution of our specie.

This video brings up just a few verses which seem to have no bearing on any healthy reality imaginable. Why would a supreme being want the fat around bull kidneys?

Just asking.....

33,333

In a few moments, the blog counter will hit 33,333...what that actually represents is rather nebulous, but after 3 yeas of thebrainpolice, I think I have to celebrate.

So here is Django Reinhardt and his Hot Band back in 1936 performiong a little song named Nagasaki. Reinhardt was one of the greatest jazz guitar players of all time, still able to drop jaws with his amazingly light facile brilliant improvisation.

He is still influencing players today who can only dream of playing as brilliantly as this three fingered gypsy genius.

Of course the Hot Band was all the more hotter with Stephan Grapelli, the violinist who stremlined the sound and complimented Djangos genius with his own!

Paris was a hot bed of Jazz with clubs springing up in every basement cubbyhole available in the 1930's. The Artist, Poet and Writer, Jean Cocteau was a more than passable jazz drummer. The writer Georges Simenon was seduced by Josephine Baker. Much of this action occurred in the little Boit de Nuit, Le Hot Club, where Reinhart and Grappelli held court for years!

I am posting this for a fellow who goes by the tag TLGK. Colonel, if you stop by here...this is a very good place to begin to appreciate the real cross fertilization of jazz as it became a genre of world music very early on.

What happened in the cosmopolitan centers all over the world influenced what was happening everywhere else and music and visual art were always the avant garde of style. They led and we followed, joyfully!

Everybody Hates A Tourist

I am posting this for MikeB32000...to make up for the posting of the Star Trek, The Next Generation post with Stephen Hawking....

Here we go, the sound track is the cover of Common People, the Pulp song, by William Shatner, Ben Folds and Joe Jackson. one of those moments when pure Kitsche collides with absolute hipness and the result is sheer genius!

This is a cut from Shatners Masterpiece, the 2001 recording, Has Been.

Whewn it came out, I saw the band, Shatner, Joe Jackson, Ben Folds and a boys choir perform this live on Jay Leno and I became absolutely utterly incoherent for days!

Let's Play Fair...

This article was published yesterday, October 9, in The Boston Commons, on their website.

When I went to the comments, for some reason almost every comment had been censored by the editor. I tried to comment, but voila! My comment was censored, too. I can't imagine why. I promise, I will not censor your comment and I will kick it off with my comment.

Here is the article:

LIMBAUGH TO JUDGE 2010 MISS AMERICA PAGEANT

LAS VEGAS- The Miss America Organization says Rush Limbaugh will be a judge for the 2010 Pageant in Las Vegas.

It will be heald at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Jan.30, boradcast live on TLC.

Limbaugh will be on the panel of seven judges that will help decide who will be crowned

Miss America 2010.

The Misss America Organization said Friday when making the announcement that Limbaugh's Radio Program is in its 22nd year and is on nearly 600 radio stations with an audience of 20 million.

President and CEO Art McMaster says the organization is thrilled to have Limbaugh as a judge.

Voila, that was the article, comments , please......

There was this poker game....

There was this poker game with Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Data and Stephen Hawking....

I guess I was a closet Trekkie for years...I used to watch Star Trek Next Generation religiously, but I never saw this episode!