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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!

Interview with the founder and digital librarian of The Internet Archive (archive.org) excerpt: Ken: One of the things I really love about the Internet Archive, and what I really admire about what you are doing, is the way that you’ve jumped over all the digital rights and copyright issues that still seem to snag and ruin almost every other conversation about archives and librarians. When did you figure out that copyright is the wrong framework for talking about these things? Brewster: Copyright is just part of the arsenal that people have to try to stop things they don’t like. The key thing I learned by doing the Wayback Machine was people are, when people see the stuff up there they’re trying to figure out are they being taken advantage of? If they feel like they’re being taken advantage of, they’ll figure out some way to cause you trouble. Copyright is just one arrow in that quiver. There are all sorts of different things you can do to try to tangle up an organization or somebody else that you think is doing you wrong. So the key thing is to try to stay such that you don’t piss people off. And so being respectful, I guess, is probably the biggest. And one of the wonders is actually out of the music world. There was a tradition that was started by the Grateful Dead which was they allowed their fans to tape their concerts and trade their concert recordings. This has gone on years and years before and I had my cassettes back in the ‘70s from Grateful Dead concerts and you just sort of knew who the top Deadheads were by how big their collection was and how few generations they were from the master copies or whatever. And we had an intern working for The Internet Archive (that was in 2002) and he said “You know, tape trading still exists and it’s just moved on to the internet.” I said “Nooo” and he said “Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are lots of other bands that do it.” And so I said “Okay, well why don’t you offer them unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth forever for free?” So we went and he wrote to the eTree community which was sort of the group that administered tape traders and said we’d be up for hosting these materials, unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, for free. And somebody from that community wrote back and said “We don’t believe you. It’s too big. But if you could do it, it would be our dream.” Which is a really good sign. So we said okay, well let’s try it. And we did it - it was a little different from tape-trading to go and hosting on a web site so let’s get somebody within the band or somebody within that community to say it’s okay. And so it wasn’t in signed triplicate, which is what your lawyers would all say to do, it was somebody within the band or something saying it’s okay to host this on the archive.org. And if anytime you want to take it back down again, we’ll take it back down again. So we started getting 3 bands a day signing up with this and about 40 concert recordings being uploaded to archive.org and it’s been going on now for 10 years. We just crossed over 100,000 concert recordings and 5,000 bands have signed up. And these are fantastic. It’s everywhere from bands that are playing in real venues – some of them are signed artists and some of them aren’t. And it’s working. So you take that whole period of time when there were all these lawsuits going and suing grandmothers and kids - just dreadful – and we’re finding that there’s a path through this. There are ways to make it so that everybody’s happy: the library, we’re happy with it, the fans are happy with it, the bands are happy with it. It seems to be all around working. And I think we just need to kind of walk through some of these doors, maybe a little slowly, saying what we’re trying to do, how we’re trying to do it. We’re not making a lot of money off of this stuff. In fact we’re making no money off of this stuff. And that was key to the Grateful Dead. And that seems to help get through things that might just be tangled up for years if we didn’t do it that way.

I've been a bit hesitant in answering this because it's difficult to put into words my dislike of opera. Even tho I've written two and was asked to write a third, I still have a problem with all of the vulgar manipulations of the voice, the grandstanding, the social conventions...and I'm just not a fan of fictional storytelling - especially of the linear type. It's really not that much different than insufferable Andrew Lloyd Webber schlock to me. I'd much rather hear Dave Burrell's version of La Boheme than Puccini's. I've had this discussion with both Cage and Stockhausen and I really am in the Cage mindset of giving it back to the Europeans.

Those damn maraschino cherries.

...and most of all how it had his son!