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“Rememberings,” self-portrait by rubenshito. I’m not pessimistic; I believe in miracles.In order to make it happen, I work hard … Somehow I managed to end up without any friends. I keep thinking at some point this part of my life will pass, that I’ll make a true friend again like the ones I made in college, but I find myself alone again and again. I have a bunch of acquaintances, people I work with, and people I know on the net. I have one intimate relationship and a job. I hate my…

January 9, 2008 Uncategorized
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Don’t Let Me Down

My contribution to funky friday: Bob Moses,funky drummer, circa 1967. For proof, check the hair: Love Animal was recorded in 67-68 with this stellar cast:Larry CoryellKeith JarrettSteve Swallowand Jim Pepper. Bob grew up with best friend Charles Mingus in New York City and has played with every avant-garde jazz musician that matters since the 60s. Check Bob’s label site, Amulet Records, for more info, downloads, buy the science.

January 9, 2008 Uncategorized
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Funky Friday: Bob Moses

Once you find that your hands are still willing,you can turn a murder into art …   … and then (s)he snaps. Which is fun.

January 9, 2008 Uncategorized
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First Kill

OppressionLangston Hughes Now dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers. In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevailBut the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts jail.

January 8, 2008 Uncategorized
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HHT: Black is Back

Blair has asked Thursday become Hip-Hop Night on the MOG . Fine. Only the real true shit allowed. No damned poseurs dancing around pools with more gold on than a slave hole. Which means Jurassic 5 will have to be in the house. Stand back. What’s Golden, from “Power in Numbers (2004)”   Freedom, from “Feedback (2006)”, live on the Henry Rollins Show  

January 8, 2008 Uncategorized
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Dueling Hip Hop Night

From mersenne’s blog, Undomundo, comes a great new find: a band from Portland, Oregon called A Weather.Feather Test, title track from their EP out now:   Another track, title unknown:  According to the website, they will be working on a full-length this summer. You can download Feather Test and a couple of other tracks there. I feel so hip … I found a new pop band not on the MOG yet. Do I get a cookie? A Weather on myspace

January 7, 2008 Uncategorized
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Undomundo find: A Weather (fans of M. Ward, come here!)

You know what I love about this place? Every day I connect just a little bit more with people through the thing that moves me the most: music. This morning I discovered my twin from another mother all the way across the country loves this group as much as I do. I don’t have any of their stuff on my work computer, and I couldn’t find any vids of my favorite song of theirs, “Watershed,” but I did find this one, which is up there among my favorites. Some of the things I love about the Indigo…

January 7, 2008 Uncategorized
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The crime was looking up the truth (for Augusts)

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