The Stash Dauber

thomas jefferson

2009-07-03T17:00:00.001-07:00

the 4th of july is actually my favorite holiday, not because of all the explosions, but because i actually believe in the premise behind it: while the execution of the declaration of independence has been, shall we say, flawed, as a blueprint, i think it's pretty much immaculate. here's an interesting blog about its author.

tom robinson band in 1977

2009-07-03T06:20:00.000-07:00

apparently still topical today.

"neuromancer" at 25

2009-07-02T17:00:00.000-07:00

what william gibson's cyberpunk classic got right and wrong. from macworld.

english breakfast website

2009-07-02T16:50:00.000-07:00

what i said.

and here's an irish breakfast:

thanks and a tip o' the green derby to the magical ash for the links.

nathan brown @ blue grotto friday

2009-07-02T06:42:00.000-07:00

nathan browningham

former cheeleader/keyboarder

now guitarist/old fashioned keyboard sequencer operator/cheerleader by demand only

i moved back to fort worth recently

playing at blue grotto this friday july 3

next to sardines in fort worth

going on dead last after the dance band - shuttle -

1 am probably

if you're not too bummed come out please

thanks

oh, i had a baby a few months ago

he'll be there inhaling smoke with me

please be cool and don't call cps

also, if you're not too overstimulated in life, here are links to a few of my other failures

myspace.com/thedeadmedia

myspace.com/acidentity

myspace.com/meagerbop

myspace.com/browningham

help

buddy guy in 1970

2009-07-02T06:31:00.000-07:00

cottonmouth, texas vids

2009-07-02T01:52:00.000-07:00

insomnia again. checking out some liles vids...

star-t's bud kennedy on the rainbow lounge raid

2009-07-01T09:57:00.000-07:00

what i said.

Kat Edmonson @ Scat Jazz Lounge, 7.8.2009

2009-07-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

Kat Edmonson is a wispy-voiced singer from Austin who takes a hip, modern, almost pop approach to standards and novelties (her repertoire includes a lounged-out cover of the Cure's "Just Like Heaven"), and pens worthy originals like "Lucky" (see the first clip below) and the upful, '70s Stevie Wonder-ish "Be the Change" (the second clip). Her promo schmatter caught my eye because her name conflates those of my sweetie and one of my best friends, while her bandleader-arranger-pianist has the same handle as the leader of a Dallas whiteguy bluesband I used to sit in with a decade-plus ago. (There are no coincidences.) Back in May, she made her Fort Worth debut, opening for Boz Scaggs at the Bass Hall. Next Wednesday, she brings a group including ex-Erykah Badu collaborator Ephraim Owens on trumpet to the Scat Jazz Lounge downtown. A good reason to get out of the house on a weeknight.

my scrawl in the fw weekly

2009-07-01T08:16:00.000-07:00

another "last call" column i penned is in this week's fw weekly.

"free range kids"

2009-07-01T08:03:00.001-07:00

from roger ebert, who's rapidly becoming my favorite columnist.

from the "people outraged by police harassment of the rainbow lounge" facebook group

2009-06-30T14:46:00.000-07:00

Michal-Anne Pepper sent a message to the members of People Outraged by Police Harassment of the Rainbow Lounge.

Subject: Community Policing Forum Tonight at 7 p.m.

"Each month the FW police hold a community forum. The next one is tonight, June 30 at the New Beginnings International Church. Check out the "event page" for more information, bring a few friends, and let members of the police department know that their behavior at Rainbow Lounge was unacceptable."

neil's big file cabinet

2009-06-30T05:38:00.000-07:00

from wired. is the romance of the artifact dead? for even such a crusty curmudgeon as yr humble chronicler o' events, the instant availability of downloads is starting to look (in some cases, at least) like a reasonable alternative to crate-digging. (on the other hand, my sweetie has promised to take me on a belated b-day crawl of hpb's tom'w. hooray!)

mongo beti/mungo jerry

2009-06-30T05:26:00.000-07:00

acerbic cameroonian novelist:

one hit wonder brit jugband:

sleep reunion int

2009-06-30T05:25:00.001-07:00

from vice. is it my imagination, or is al cisneros starting to look like j. mascis?

the rainbow lounge story is national now

2009-06-29T23:09:00.000-07:00

see the daily kos. and this facebook group (yes, i heard you, tex). and the associated press. jimmy fowler will be doing a cover story for the fw weekly.

alvaro, the chilean with the singing nose

2009-06-29T17:18:00.001-07:00

i don't make 'em up, i just report on 'em. this guy played with joe strummer in the 101'ers, and in 1977, he released an album called drinking my own sperm. now there's a german documentary about him. really.

bye, sky

2009-06-29T07:14:00.000-07:00

from arthur.

cat/meatloaf

2009-06-29T06:23:00.001-07:00

thanks to farren for posting this b. kliban classic.

st. lester on captain beefheart

2009-06-28T23:03:00.001-07:00

from the captain beefheart radar station. i originally read this in the village voice. i think it was the last piece of lester's writing i read while he was still alive. thanks to t.tex for posting the link.

east side story

2009-06-28T22:48:00.000-07:00

bob seger & the last heard from 1966. somehow seems relevant to the last post.

wtf?!?!?

2009-06-28T22:37:00.001-07:00

so on the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots, fort worth police and tabc agents raided a newly-opened gay club on jennings, arresting seven and sending one patron to the hospital with a fractured skull. makes me wonder if the fort has really come as far as i'd been thinking it had in the last 30 years. a friend of ours who was downtown sunday said that when the hundred or so protesters marched past 8.0's on their way to the courthouse, "about 65 percent" of the people sitting on the bar's patio gave them a standing ovation. it will be interesting to see how this shakes out.

mo' family

2009-06-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

been listening to their live alb, a latter day release of a 1971 show when john wetton was in the lineup (before going on to king crimson, u.k. -- with whom i saw him right after moving to texas in '78 -- and, um, asia). a proggy hard rock band with interesting vox (especially when wetton was on board to back up roger chapman), ace songcraft and no showboat soloing. two, count 'em, two gibson doublenecks (6- and 12-string, bass and gtr), which might explain why it sounds as though charlie whitney has borrowed jimmy page's gtr tone. too subtle for me to get when it was new and i was trying to play like leslie west and joe walsh, but in the fullness of time, it hits just right.

random stuff

2009-06-28T08:59:00.001-07:00

i continue to be overwhelmed by the courage of people in iran, from the protesters protecting outnumbered riot police from crowds to the cleric/legislator speaking out in support of mousavi before a largely hostile majlis. it doesn't matter that mousavi isn't "our guy" -- that's not the point.

also, farren reminds us that today is the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots.

r.i.p. the ox

2009-06-27T20:53:00.001-07:00

hard to believe it was seven yrs ago today that a force of nature was stilled. i count myself lucky i got to see him on his last tour with the 'oo in y2k. (thanks, ron!) the cliche line was how bored he looked, but anyone with ears could tell you the man played enough music to carry an entahr band on his back. go easy.