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    If only because you're never going to see all these acts on the same bill again... https://twitter.com/i/live/925097701229805568
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    Kurouzu Anthony Donovan - fretless-half guitar & electronics Ian Simpson - prepared lap steel Charlie Collins - percussion & metal at the Mopomoso free improvisation afternoon event at the Vortex, London, on 19 April 2015 filmed by Kostas Chondros
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    Big City Orchestra Das - amplified objects, percussion Ninah Pixie - reeds, percussion Andy Cowitt - voice, reeds, guitar Polly Moller - flutes, percussion Suki O'Kane - percussion 15th Annual Outsound New Music Summit San Francisco Community Music Center, July 30, 2016 Big City Orchestra presents a unique version of "In a Persian Market" by British composer Albert William Ketèlbey. Composed in 1920 and inspired by Johann Strauss II's composition "Persischer Marsch", it was very popular with theater orchestras and in sheet music form, and was followed by other similarly exotic compositions such as "In a Chinese Temple Garden" and "In a Monastery Garden".
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    Lisa Mezzacappa ORGANELLE ORGANELLE is a “set" of compositions, inspired by diverse scientific processes – some enormous and unfathomable, others impossibly microscopic – that form a whole through the insights and explorations of master improvisers. The modular work draws its musical ideas from the different ways that the human body, the natural world, and the cosmos mark and “experience” the passing of time. The notes, rhythms, musical relationships, melodies, and structures in each movement of ORGANELLE are connected to theories of cell biology, astrophysics, paleontology, zoology, or neuroscience, exploring these otherwise-imperceptible phenomena through sound. The first iteration of ORGANELLE premiered in Europe in spring of 2016, with musicians in Köln, DE; Naples and Rome, IT; and back at home that fall, in Berkeley, CA at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In each presentation, the music is revised, re-imagined, and expanded to embrace a new set of musical personalities and a different performance context. New movements will be added, and old ones discarded or re-worked, to suit different configurations of musicians as the work continues to develop in the coming years. ORGANELLE also reflects my fascination with the challenges of notating musical ideas for improvisers to play (with), which for me has an interesting parallel with the ways science tries to visually represent complex, multi-dimensional systems and processes with flow charts and graphs and diagrams. The practical concern of wanting this score to be playable by any kind of improviser - a laptop electronic musician, an experimental koto player, a guitarist with nontraditional tunings - meant I often needed to find ways of visually representing musical ideas and relationships that were not confined to the traditional music staff. Many of these new graphic notations ended up having poetic connections to the scientific diagrams I was discovering in researching the content for the piece. Part I: Syzygy Lisa Mezzacappa, contrabass + Wayne Grim, electronics/sonification Part II: Percussion Quartet Gino Robair, Kjell Nordeson, Mark Clifford, Jason Levis at Exploratorium, Pier 15, The Embarcadero & Green St., San Francisco, CA
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    Hey, cool link! I saw a lot of the old 80's punk bands but never did get to see DK's. Peace, -Dave
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    Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra - vocals East Bay Ray - guitar Klaus Fluoride - bass, vocals D.H. Peligro - drums, vocals at DMPO's On Broadway Nightclub, San Francisco, Saturday, June 16, 1984
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    Fire! Orchestra Fire! Orchestra - Ritual Mats Gustafsson – conduction, baritone sax Martin Hederos – keyboards, violin Mats Äleklint - trombone Mette Rasmussen alto saxophone Finn Loxbo - guitar Lotte Anker – alto saxophone Sofia Jernberg - voice Niklas Barnö - trumpet Mads Forsby – drums Mariam Wallentin – voice Johan Berthling – bass Nate Wooley - trumpet Andreas Werliin – drums Anna Högberg - tenor saxophone Per-Åke Holmlander - tuba Julien Desprez – guitar Per Texas Johansson – bass clarinet, clarinet Andreas Berthling – electronics at A38 Ship, Budapest, Hungary, 6 June 2016
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    Maja S. K. Ratkje Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje - vocals, electronics, live processing Tord Knudsen - live visuals at Punkt Festival 2013, Kick, Kristiansand, Norway
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    Paula Temple Paula Temple - laptop, electronics at The Peacock Society Festival, 17.02.2017, Parc Floral de Paris, France
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The show "America's Toughest Jobs" is pretty good. Last night they were gold mining on a private claim in Alaska and panned and dredged a over a couple ounces in 2 days. Hippie Ben with the dreadlocks just made it to the next round.
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saw a pretty trippy show on NOVA last night about how they discovered the "black hole" at the center of our galaxy.
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Has anyone seen the "Ice Road Truckers" on History channel......NOW, those men are brave! They're up in the Artic Circle...........trucking........ Gypsy Cowgirl
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then there's also......Project Runway, Dancing w/ the Stars, Are you smarter that a 5th Grader? & DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS!!!!! (I'm waiting til they put some GD on-that'll be funny)..........xoxoox Gypsy Cowgirl

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truckin' - cuz they got their chips cashed inthey're gonna keep truckin - like the doodah man probably together - more or less in line they just keep truckin' on cuz there's so many ice roads to ride The long and winding ice road?
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I like "Whacked Out Sports"!
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Way to go Jon! .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo…') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cJim Cramer Interview Outtake Pt. 2Daily Show Full Episodes
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Premise: A high school chemistry teacher earning 42,000 a year with one child and one on the way has terminal cancer. He wants to leave his family with 748,000 dollars, the amount he figures they need. He decides to make meth with a 20 year old former student with a low rider Monte Carlo with the license plate "The Capn". Oh yeah, his brother-in-law in the small Arizona city he lives in works for the DEA. So begins his zany adventures. Won an Emmy. Good writing. Check it our, it's one of the best series on TV right now.
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I just love the way good tv shows break the mold of mutinous. This is highly recommended, and by far one of the best shows out there. Just be careful with little kids around. _____________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!
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A gourmet travel show with Anthony Bourdain, who often likes to get drunk with his hosts. Last week he went to Medellin, Columbia and wasn't too interested in the food. I wonder why?
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...has a show called "Secrets of the Dead".
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did a story on a guy in Portland who converted a small Datsun to run on electricity and his batteries give him 300 hp. He takes it down to the Motor Speedway for drag-racing on amatuer night and there's nobody who can beat him! It's so funny to watch this little electric Datsun blowing away Corvettes and Beemers and other big muscle cars in the quarter mile. They also showed an electric motorcycle built for drag racing that goes from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds !
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damn fine show produced by the BBC about long con grifters. the mother load is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/hustleseasons I suggest you scroll all the way down the list and start with season 1 episode 1. co-starring, the American actor; Robert Vaughn. enjoy! peace.
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John Stewart goes off on UCSC hiring someone to manage the Grateful Dead archive. He is incredulous that the person must have a Masters in Archiving(?!?) He asks, what does this person do all day? Pick out pieces of blotter acid from Phil Lesh's underwear he wore on the Blues for Allah tour? Can't believe nobody commented on this! (sorry, don't know how to embed the link but you can go to the website).
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on sundance channel-- this week it is with richard thompson, nick lowe, allen touissant, and levon helm! and they play 'tennessee jed'! and ray lamontaigne is a guest too. it's a neat program anyway (although i find elvis to be sort of a pain)- and this episode is really great. worth checking out. caroline
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I don't have cable, but I sure hope that comes out on DVD!
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Maybe it's just me but Loudon Wainwright III always has this psychedelic smile when I see him. Most recently he did the song, "Ramblin Blues" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and I was just thrilled with his performance. Too bad it's not up on YouTube because NBC's stupid website isn't playing that show at all (Sigourney Weaver is still awesome, btw!). They need to get whoever is doing Comedy Central's site 'cause it's the "Jam" compared to all others... even if Jon Stewart did make some douche remarks about Phil, his underware and blotter acid. *shakes fist in air, holding a sharpened pitchfork* I'm not finished with you Stewart! ; - )
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A secret cult has been discovered operating under the guise of a political satire.The 'Daily Show' hosted by notorious left-wing fanatic Jon Stewart on the subversive cable station 'Comedy Central' has been known to....Siriusly (s.i.c.) though Lamagonzo,I think there might be a bunch of folk(myself included)who for whatever reason do not have cable.If not for a few good people sharing recordings of this very entertaining show with me,I too would be in the dark....
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Did anyone catch Mickey on the History channel's "The Universe" series, spotlighting pulsars and quasars? I can't believe I hadn't posted this before now... very cool.
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Was Mickey's contribution purely musical, GRTUD? Or did he have something other to add?
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Well gonzo, Mickey showed how he found the rhythm of pulsars and quasars to be very psychedelic and with it, he was able to use those beats to express a spiritual link he was feeling by perceiving this active engagement with The Universe, in a musical manner. His part of the segment is just about half way through the program and is only a few moments long but, as is the case with Mickey, it made everything worth while!
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2nd Episode, 2nd Season 10 est. Was definitely among last year's best.
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I have seen Jon channeling Glen Beck,it's funny in a "Why are there people like Glen Beck" sort of way....Compliments from Robin Williams are high praise indeed....
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Did I see that? Did anyone else? This morning on CNN, about 6-7:00AM PST, some clips kept being interrupted with flashes of Jerry playing acoustic. I don't even remember what the storyline was, it wasn't related at all to music, or us, in any way semi-remotely connected to any Dead or awakening, etc. No commentary, no music, just flashes of Jerry. Do we have a plant at CNN, flashing subliminal pro-transformative interjections of positivity? Or is it a manifestation of collective consciousness? Or are my neural synapses misfiring again?
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My guess is it's yer head,but groovy any way ya look at it....
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...but it looks like there will be a third season. The shows were good to very good this year but they moved away from the time lapse cloudscapes and other scenes of New Mexico. Not that any of that is related to the story. It has made the series grittier. The acting is very intense and well done.
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but Carnivale did it for me. Simply a beautiful show. Oh how I wish HBO would bring it back :(
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...really sucked for the US Open at Pebble Beach this year. Give me Ian Baker-Finch and the team from the Golf Channel anyday.
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anything, ANYTHING to spare us from the inane blather of Johnny Miller... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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Yeahhh, Miller is a serious griping sourpuss. Guess he missed out on the big money during his career, huh?
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Did anyone catch Tina Fey's "shout-out" to johnman and myself on the last episode? Hahahaha! Very kewl...!
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AMC has announced a 4th season of "Breaking Bad" They will rerun the last three seasons in hour segments before then. I urge people to watch this show unless you're not into quality everything about the production values and acting. The plot-line may not appeal to some but you can't say it isn't filled with real pathos. I think it's the best thing on TV.
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Bernie Sanders laid it on the line. Extending Bush's tax cuts for the rich by Congress while cutting programs for the poor by the Republicans now in power.Now these inane assholes like Boehner and Cantor (R) majority leaders in the house and Senate, want to do away with: Social Security Medicare Medicaid Minimum Wage Collective Bargaining And much, much more that effects your children now. If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention (or are one of the rich people making more than a 100 million a year that we should lynch in the public square.) Hey folks! 3 years past on this Wall St scam pulled off by Goldman and not one person has gone to trial, never mind to jail. Bernie Madhoff wasn't guilty of mortgage-backed securities being hedged (all dogs have their day) I am proud that the only independent socialist senator comes from the state where I live. The great State of Vermont where Democracy is real. I know reading these pages not many people care, but I do. See the extended version at www.theDaily show.com
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...much anticipated and short on dialog. I think this is a great series and the characters comments during lead-up to series premiere really shows where the show is headed. Great panoramas and and scenes, cameras work edited, in New Mexico.
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Surreal show of the year: Wilfred. Starring Elijah Wood, a twenty-something loser who's next-door neighbor's dog is a guy in a dog suit who talks and smokes weed- but only Elijah sees the guy. Everyone else sees a real dog. Why this happens is NEVER explained which is part of the genius of this show. A must see. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/
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Mark Lawson interviews Gilbert & George. Wonderful to them on television again. Beautiful artists.
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Frozen Planet - the new David Attenborough series. absolutely astonishing. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 -
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....I was on tour and missed the last three (or four) episodes of Breaking Bad. Anybody know where to find it on the net?
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Bad break. I'm guessing by the question that you don't have any AMC On Demand options on your cable/satellite? I think that you can pay $2 an episode to watch on amazon instant video. There also seemed to be an indication that AMC will show something on Dec 5...but what I saw didn't have a lot of detail, no episode listing just a date and time (12 am EST).
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I do have Commcast on demand but this must be a premium, pay per view series.
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a beautiful adaption of Nigel Slater's autobiography; wonderful cook, inspirational human being, let food come to LIFE! ignite your culinary tender fireworks and seek out his books and programmes. gentle explosions on the tongue, fizz and effervescence, sticky and sweet, soft and crisp, sweet and sour, sugar and all things spice.
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i freckin can't figer frickin out how to put my picture on these thing it don't even have a freckin tape deck whats happen to us if wanted some cool hippi gear you went to cool hippi gear place and hung out as a real true hippi communitie were papa dancin bear made sure that sister dancin bear was'int bein hassled by the monster rat and made to turn the gratefuldead up so loud that only the bears would be happy come on don't everybody forget about what the music was way before letting the monster rat deskies it's money hungery untrue uglyhate in clouned hippi gear.please set a better example in the many generations of trueness in the deadheads ways and please don't desrespect were we came from and the excitement those dudes up by hieght street gave to us for free the music brothers and sisters please don't let the monster get the baby dancin bears us old time deadheads hippi gear was what ever we found crusin down billboard avenue alagateralagateralagater!!!!!!!!! come on don't be yes a phil and be true peace & rockon righton and livelong hippies becouse the wizard is very sleepy and is missin to much untrueness can't keep up with the swepin up with the not forgotten