Ray Charles RIP
Your music repeatedly helped change MY life for the better.
Weather: Mountain snow and valley rain, all over the Rockies!
Wildlife: The birds love the way I placed the box feeder on the rail of the deck.
Let's see if it frustrates Skunky at all.
Charity Alert: Let's do this every day: The Hunger Site
Media Watch: I'm still enjoying The Scientists by John Grebbin.
(Shudder) CSpan showed video of Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral from 1973.
Sugar Hill from 1973-74 was on the satellite --
a really goofy dawg-assed voodoo/zombie flick with Robert (Count Yorga) Quarry.
So bad, it's well, BAD! (Does that mean it's really bad? YES!!)
Funky Update: Speaking of beautiful African-American women,
Starr Cullars' Enterprise band is playing Boulder, Colorado tonight,
and touring into Utah and California.
She and husband Lige Curry have given a lot to the P-Funk All-Stars over the years.
Give 'em something back, Funk-fans!
Friday, June 11, 2004
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Charity Alert: Five years and counting!: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Wildlife; I love those long-winged swallows that dart around the lake eating insects. They're erroneously named "Nighthawks."
Weather: Low clouds and scattered showers. I'm feeling well enough to go to work today.
Funky Update: P-Funk graphic artist and 420 Funk Mob performer Stozo Da' Klown (Ronald Edwards) has a very pleasant CD available on his website: STOZO'S LAND Sounds GREAT, Stozo! (He autographed a copy for ME!)
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!
Media Watch: It seems like only medium where people are telling the historical truth about Reagan's stint as "thief-in-chief" is the Internet. Most news people and commentators are simply being civil to his family, thereby enabling propagandists and liars to dominate the general mass media with their self-serving rubbish.
Wildlife; I love those long-winged swallows that dart around the lake eating insects. They're erroneously named "Nighthawks."
Weather: Low clouds and scattered showers. I'm feeling well enough to go to work today.
Funky Update: P-Funk graphic artist and 420 Funk Mob performer Stozo Da' Klown (Ronald Edwards) has a very pleasant CD available on his website: STOZO'S LAND Sounds GREAT, Stozo! (He autographed a copy for ME!)
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!
Media Watch: It seems like only medium where people are telling the historical truth about Reagan's stint as "thief-in-chief" is the Internet. Most news people and commentators are simply being civil to his family, thereby enabling propagandists and liars to dominate the general mass media with their self-serving rubbish.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Wildlife: We saw the Bald Eagle flying over the lake again -- four Cowbirds were chasing it. HEY! Those things chase ME.
Weather: It's been overcast and occasionally stormy. I have some kind of flu, not a cold.
Charity Alert: Visit these guys, and their four other sites: http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Media Watch: I can't concentrate when I'm sick, but I had a laugh or two watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I browsed through the latest Tolkien Companion, and re-realized why nobody was interested in The Silmarillion during Tolkien's lifetime, except the old professor.
He told a much more interesting story by revealing it in the background of Lord of the Rings.
Galadriel's "long defeat" was much more poigniant as a vision of deeper things.
I started reading a book of science biographies, with interlocking discoveries being the subject of each chapter.
Weather: It's been overcast and occasionally stormy. I have some kind of flu, not a cold.
Charity Alert: Visit these guys, and their four other sites: http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
Media Watch: I can't concentrate when I'm sick, but I had a laugh or two watching Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
I browsed through the latest Tolkien Companion, and re-realized why nobody was interested in The Silmarillion during Tolkien's lifetime, except the old professor.
He told a much more interesting story by revealing it in the background of Lord of the Rings.
Galadriel's "long defeat" was much more poigniant as a vision of deeper things.
I started reading a book of science biographies, with interlocking discoveries being the subject of each chapter.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Update: Some good stuff here: Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Wildlife: Ducklings by the dozen -- all over Middle Foy's Lake (mostly Goldeneyes). The Canadian Goslings on Firehouse Pond are over a foot tall.
Weather: Rainy and blustery Sunday and Monday -- I think I got a minor cold.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Not much news has been talked about, or shown, since Ronald Reagan died.
It''s all ass-kissing, all the time in the mainstream media, as if their right-wing owners and enemies will respect them for repeating GOP lies.
Trust me, a lot of stuff has gone on in the world that's had nothing to do with the late, lousy president -- except there have been complications from the actions of his mean-spirited, corrupt party affiliates.
Wildlife: Ducklings by the dozen -- all over Middle Foy's Lake (mostly Goldeneyes). The Canadian Goslings on Firehouse Pond are over a foot tall.
Weather: Rainy and blustery Sunday and Monday -- I think I got a minor cold.
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Not much news has been talked about, or shown, since Ronald Reagan died.
It''s all ass-kissing, all the time in the mainstream media, as if their right-wing owners and enemies will respect them for repeating GOP lies.
Trust me, a lot of stuff has gone on in the world that's had nothing to do with the late, lousy president -- except there have been complications from the actions of his mean-spirited, corrupt party affiliates.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Wildlife: Looked like an Osprey was swooping over our lake this morning, but it got bigger and bigger, until it turned into a Bald Eagle. Whew!
It wasn't fishing, just looking around. I hope it leaves the ducklings alone.
Weather: A thunderstorm roared over the valley yesterday about 5:30 PM. It must have been the leading edge of a front, because the temperature rose significantly afterward, and it stayed warm all night.
Charity Alert: Anybody reading this needs oxygen as much as I do: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
In the Community: The Landscapes of Tom English and The Graceful Envelope opened last night at the Hockaday Museum of Art. The calligraphy workshop is moving forward, but Tom's plein aire classes are cancelled.
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Howard and Maureine Jacobson also had an art-opening at the Kalispell Grand Hotel (I drove by to say HI, and see my work-buddy Jessica Jacobson.)
Joann Schadewitz, the manager, is president of the NW Historical Society, and a little bit of my work still remains on the hotel's site: Kalispell Grand Hotel
Media Watch: The C-Span bus was parked in Flathead Valley Community College's parking lot. I shot some video for our next Current Events show, and talked to some nice folks. Great mobile TV studio they have!
George Tenant resigned. Now the administration moonpies he was kissing up to should quit as well -- all of 'em.
It wasn't fishing, just looking around. I hope it leaves the ducklings alone.
Weather: A thunderstorm roared over the valley yesterday about 5:30 PM. It must have been the leading edge of a front, because the temperature rose significantly afterward, and it stayed warm all night.
Charity Alert: Anybody reading this needs oxygen as much as I do: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
In the Community: The Landscapes of Tom English and The Graceful Envelope opened last night at the Hockaday Museum of Art. The calligraphy workshop is moving forward, but Tom's plein aire classes are cancelled.
Hockaday Museum of Art - Prime visual arts resource in Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana.
Howard and Maureine Jacobson also had an art-opening at the Kalispell Grand Hotel (I drove by to say HI, and see my work-buddy Jessica Jacobson.)
Joann Schadewitz, the manager, is president of the NW Historical Society, and a little bit of my work still remains on the hotel's site: Kalispell Grand Hotel
Media Watch: The C-Span bus was parked in Flathead Valley Community College's parking lot. I shot some video for our next Current Events show, and talked to some nice folks. Great mobile TV studio they have!
George Tenant resigned. Now the administration moonpies he was kissing up to should quit as well -- all of 'em.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Wildlife: Two Ospreys (Fish Eagles) were checking out Middle Foys Lake -- yes, there's fish here! If they nest anywhere nearby, we can watch them feeding in the mornings and evenings.
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky.
Charity Alert: Make a difference with mouse clicks -- The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: I tuned in to Inside the Actors Studio to see a re-run of the cast of The Simpsons, before their successful job-action. Fun-eee!
Staying Current: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus update --
Tuesdays
Leviathan at The Coral Room
512 West 29th Street
between 10th and 11th Aves.
Admission only $5. Doors open at 10 pm
www.coralroomnyc.com
Wild world music and sensational circus acts take over Manhattan's swankiest under-sea adventure nightclub. This night of dancing and lounging is hosted by Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre, who bring in the hottest circus acts around. Live Bands every week and Live mermaids swimming in the gigantic aquarium behind the bar.
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FINAL WEEK!!!
Wednesday June 9
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
The Pussycat Lounge
96 Greenwich St. at the Corner of Rector St.
N, R, 1 & 9 trains to Rector St.
Doors: 9 pm
$11 to enter or just print out this email and get in cheap - just $6!
www.pussycatloungenyc.com
There is only one more week of Luckystiff in the Pussycat. That's right--only one final and fabulous debaucherous show. So come on out to the last real live erotic cabaret and drench yourself in the delightful debauchery of sexy strippers and circus stars. Hosted as always by those sultans of seduction - Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre.
* * * * * * * * * * *
June 11 & 12 2004
Drawin' the Wildcard Tattoo Extravaganza!
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
www.drawinthewildcard.com
Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena are performing sideshow feats with the Rev. Frankie Luv Traveling Tattoo Sideshow in Atlantic City.
* * * * * * * * * * *
July 9
Burlesque at the Beach
Coney Island Sideshow, Coney Island, NY
10 pm
http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml
On July 9 Bindlestiff Family Cirkus hosts Coney Island's popular Burlesque on the Beach- A revival of the most glorious and notorious of the "girlie revues" in Coney Island history. The sumptuous decor, fabulous bubble machine and swell girls make burlesque one of Coney's hottest attractions! A blend of old style burlesque, sideshow freaks, strange women, new vaudeville and toe tappin' music... its fireworks after the fireworks!!
* * * * * * * * * * *
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 1917, NYC 10009
http://www.bindlestiff.org
1-877-BINDLES
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky.
Charity Alert: Make a difference with mouse clicks -- The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: I tuned in to Inside the Actors Studio to see a re-run of the cast of The Simpsons, before their successful job-action. Fun-eee!
Staying Current: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus update --
Tuesdays
Leviathan at The Coral Room
512 West 29th Street
between 10th and 11th Aves.
Admission only $5. Doors open at 10 pm
www.coralroomnyc.com
Wild world music and sensational circus acts take over Manhattan's swankiest under-sea adventure nightclub. This night of dancing and lounging is hosted by Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre, who bring in the hottest circus acts around. Live Bands every week and Live mermaids swimming in the gigantic aquarium behind the bar.
* * * * * * * * * *
FINAL WEEK!!!
Wednesday June 9
Lucky Stiff in the Pussycat
The Pussycat Lounge
96 Greenwich St. at the Corner of Rector St.
N, R, 1 & 9 trains to Rector St.
Doors: 9 pm
$11 to enter or just print out this email and get in cheap - just $6!
www.pussycatloungenyc.com
There is only one more week of Luckystiff in the Pussycat. That's right--only one final and fabulous debaucherous show. So come on out to the last real live erotic cabaret and drench yourself in the delightful debauchery of sexy strippers and circus stars. Hosted as always by those sultans of seduction - Keith Bindlestiff and Tyler Fyre.
* * * * * * * * * * *
June 11 & 12 2004
Drawin' the Wildcard Tattoo Extravaganza!
Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
www.drawinthewildcard.com
Mr. Pennygaff and Philomena are performing sideshow feats with the Rev. Frankie Luv Traveling Tattoo Sideshow in Atlantic City.
* * * * * * * * * * *
July 9
Burlesque at the Beach
Coney Island Sideshow, Coney Island, NY
10 pm
http://www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml
On July 9 Bindlestiff Family Cirkus hosts Coney Island's popular Burlesque on the Beach- A revival of the most glorious and notorious of the "girlie revues" in Coney Island history. The sumptuous decor, fabulous bubble machine and swell girls make burlesque one of Coney's hottest attractions! A blend of old style burlesque, sideshow freaks, strange women, new vaudeville and toe tappin' music... its fireworks after the fireworks!!
* * * * * * * * * * *
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
PO Box 1917, NYC 10009
http://www.bindlestiff.org
1-877-BINDLES
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