Hope for the Future
The Magnificent Vuvuzela!
16 July 2010
Now that the world cup is over, it’s time to get back to something a bit (excuse me) more serious…
...Tell Me it's Raining
25 March 2010
Don’t miss the Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining show at Apexart in NYC!
Curated by Bad at Sports it’s up from April 7th to May 22nd 2010.
And BTW, I have a work on paper: Squares and Humanoid (Looking Out) in this show.
Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm
HERO RATS
17 January 2010
About a year and a half ago I stumbled on the Hero Rat website and was very impressed, but as one often does I put it aside for later and forgot all about it. Until last January (‘09) that is, when it popped into my mind that even I could afford the 5 Euro (just over $7) monthly fee of adopting a rat. So I did.
Kim is one of the 5 “symbolic” rats that you can adopt, actually from what Ive gathered looking through their info there are at least 300 rats being trained or doing what they’ve been trained for. In Kim’s case this means detecting tuberculosis, which she does well! Last September in Tanzania where they work for instance these rats found 70 patients with active TB that were missed by microscopy!…
The Wiyos - Blue Drag
26 November 2009
Aqua Blues
23 November 2009
I’ve been wanting to write a few blues for the band but most of my efforts, like this one, seem to wander off to other territories…
Top 100 most powerful people in the artworld...
10 November 2009
For many reasons I’ve been ignoring the art side of this blog for some time but am beginning to feel a heavy art presence at the door and will probably be forced to let it in one of these days. In the meantime here’s a link to an article by Andy McSmith of The Independant, that includes a pathetic list of the top 100 most powerful people in the artworld.
Don’t click on that link it’s not worth your time, there are so many more interesting things to read…
The Brass Kings will be at the Third Deep Blues Festival!
18 April 2009
As summer quickly approaches and music festivals here and there boast their lame forgettable star filled programs, stumbling on this video of The Brass Kings helped balance out the media’s hype. Not all is lost folks! …
From Friday Night Bar Crawl To Fish Bone Yang...
7 April 2009
A truly amazing thing has happened this month: public spaces all became non smoking overnight! I was sure that this area would continue to let folks smoke everywhere until the end of time, just two years ago a local restaurant manager was booed out of her job for just thinking such a thing…
But with the help of lovely spring weather there we where Dave and I, in a corner cafe that was packed both in and outside enjoying a glass of wine…
Walker T/ Papa Soul Jitterbug Swing
18 February 2009
Jitterbug Swing is a Bukka White tune (in case someone didn’t know) played here by Walter T & Papa Soul. It’s to bad that it’s hard to hear all the great washboard brushing on this video but there are a few tunes on their MySpace page to listen to so check it out…
This Land is Your Land - The Obama Inaugural Celebration Concert
21 January 2009
There is a nice little article about this song, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger by Tommy Stevenson that has also been posted at truthout. As emotive as Obama’s oath giving was the next day, it was a far cry from hearing all the words of This Land is Your Land sung from the steps of the Lincoln memorial; the true moment of change?
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