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Sorry to hear this. What a great name: Panbanisha. "Pan" is the genus, but is there a translation of this full word? Bonobo is a good music project too.

Love it. My second favorite recording ever.

Live at Teatro alle Tese, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy and broadcast live October 13, 2012 on Radio 3, RAI

this. ...and suggesting that anyone is "screaming 'CONTAMINATION'" is itself an overreaction. There was never any mention of how it would affect me or other people in the original post, but if you want to go in the direction of health concerns then I'll point out the obvious: humans are not always the center of the universe. Do we know what "low level of radiation" is for a 7 pound animal over, let say, a dozen years? "State and Federal regulatory limits"? No problems...but they are "working to contact those customers to inform them of the situation and to retrieve those particular bowls..." Also, if you check the original post, you'll see that the importance of some form of proper regulation was the issue of concern.

I think the rules of the board prohibit me from printing the full article. Yeah, you're right. I suppose only a little contamination is just fine.

TERRY CALLIER. MAY 24, 1945 – OCTOBER 28, 2012

I, of course, wasn't asking (notice the quotation marks), but I find this idea of the all-encompassing "we-the-media" in even larger form a curious thing that, like much growth, has the ups and downs to weigh. Life's like that I suppose, but the importance of where and with whom the media resides is quite monumental as we're seeing with the upcoming elections. Curious as to how they'll get a website for EPIC when you consider that the two biggins - .com and .org - are already taken.

Originally, there was a video presentation postulating a media sea change in 2014, but a updated version has this media change happening in 2015. Not sure what prompted it, but the story is here. "In the year 2014 the New York times has gone offline The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned What happened to the news? and what is EPIC?"

I was tempted to place this info in the "Politics" section and rant on the importance of having regulations of which some pinheads seem to have so many problems with, but, alas, I figured that most of us have more than a few brain cells and would clearly understand. Also, not everyone here, with pets, visits the "Politics" section. from a newsletter I receive: "A foreign supplier mistakenly used small quantities of radioactive Cobalt-60 in making certain stainless steel pet food bowls for Petco, the company says. 'The affected products were found to emit low levels of radiation.' ...Customs and Border Protection agents discovered the problem during routine screening of a large cargo container..." more here Not sure what you're supposed to do with it if you have one tho.

Sometimes, it's pretty good when the applause comes during/after a non-recognizable riff. It seems more from the heart as if it hit an emotional spot. An example would be the first notes from Healing Song from Live at the East - Pharoah Sanders.

This will probably get as many comments as the obit announcement of the great Jacques Barzun (none), but Henze has died. I've had some interesting conversations with people about Henze over the years - especially with European friends - concerning his political/social ideas. His music and ideas definitely made a lasting impression. BBC announcement BBC obit

About a dozen years ago, I used to be on a forum on which Steve Roden was involved (he coined the term "lowercase"). Lowercase grew in popularity (such as it is) by way of that forum and spread. We did a few compilations. Some were directly lowercase with ambient sound catches and another series of discs involved arranged compositions using lowercase sound ideas.

Cultural Critic Saw the Sun Setting on the West

Please explain what that term means? Very quiet sound that usually sits inside ambient sound or silence. Here's a compilation (I'm on it BTW).

Well, it's just another young culture that leaves its parent's music world and marries their culture to the Western ideas that they know their parents won't like. So, in Japan, old boring Enka is dropped for J-Pop and in Korea the kids wouldn't be caught listening to Trot when you can have K-Pop while Indian teens leave Filmi or Thumri and join the Indi-Pop or Bhangra crowd. Most of K-Pop is more fashion than music - even fun music - but I think this PSY guy's motto is something like dress classy and dance cheesy which is what is REALLY needed everywhere now - hell, I think it's always been needed. ...and that SNL skit has it right on: it doesn't matter that you're dancing like a jackass - it's OK - it's fun(ny) and you NEED that - and surely there's the subtext of making fun of the serious fashion necessity of other K-Pop where these kids go to serious lengths at altering their looks for this kind of thing. "Didn't he just scream at her butt?" "You're damn right he did...we're gonna live forever!" I think that just about says it all. Doncha?

Hey, it's already over two months old, but it's still pretty funny! There's also an Ai Weiwei version (in handcuffs - ) Gangnam Style, the Ai Weiwei way

Yes, I think I've seen this around the house. She does the buying of Guinness and the like. The brewery tour was interesting - expensive, but interesting.

OK, so I picked up a bottle of this today. I hate beer and know nothing about it, but I knew that the lady of the house might be interested. There was some excitement when it poured as a dark beer and after I mentioned that I had read that it had some commonality with Tej, that seemed to register positively. As well as Tej, she's a dark beer lover - likes Guinness (we even toured the brewery and she drank this all across Ireland), Murphy's, Oak Barrel Stout, a.o. So, one gulp and she said, "That's NASTY!" I asked her to elaborate and she said, "nice pour, good head, but it's extremely bitter and has a 'skunky' (her words) aftertaste." The whole thing went down the drain. The good news? "You get to have the bottle much sooner! Bitches Brew indeed!" ®ø∂

I think I like this one more...

What? Again?

He may want to hold it in his hands and not just in his ears. Saying that, yes, a case could be made that a hard drive is just another physical container of sound. It's been years since I saw the movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth - actually in the theater the month it was released IIRC - but I think I remember a scene in it where someone (Bowie?) places some kind of a handheld globe on top of a mechanism that plays the music contained in the globe(?) I thought that was the coolest way of listening to music - to have it all available within something that could fit in your hand.

Somewhat

Have a psychedelic birthday!