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05/21/2011

Tweets from the edge on Judgement Day.

Filed under: Humor,Mundane Or Sublime,Pop Culture — admin @ 9:19 am

A Hunter S. Thompsonian look at the newest end times.

“It just hasn’t gotten weird enough for me.”

1. Hold still, I see you have a little bit of Rapture on your chin, I’ll get that…

2. Any good Judgement Day requires a good soundtrack. Might I suggesthttp://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht

3. I wonder if maybe the rapture already happened and none of us know it.about 3 hours ago via web

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4. @MKEIMC FLASH – The world ended 4 hours ago in Nairobi. Please make a note of it.http://tinyurl.com/TheTheTheThatsAllFolks RTabout 15 hours ago via web in reply to MKEIMC

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5. @DanteRoss After the Rapture I’ll put on my best Donald Trump face, father a love-child or two like Ahnold, and then say, “Winning!9:21 AM May 20th via web in reply to DanteRoss

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6. @MarcFrucht Uh oh, Christian Heavy Metal Band Stryper hasn’t listed any tour dates for the rest of May…8:45 AM May 20th via web in reply to MarcFrucht

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7. Some Hopi Elders say there’s little worry if you’ve been “good,” it’s more like Spring coming! http://www.tinyurl.com/springtocome8:14 PM May 19th via web

OK, Aukland, Sydney, Melbourne and the Chathams Islands are all reporting that it’s tomorrow and everything is just fine. But it’s still 5pm in Minsk and Istanbul so keep an eye out.

Wait, what if the Zombie Apocalypse happens at the same exact time as the Rapture? I’ll be so confused.

Calgon stock is way up because of their slogan “Take Me Away!”

It’s 530pm in Tehran, we’ll know something soon.

So kids all over the country are refusing to clean their rooms now, because “rapture so who cares?”

FLASH – The world has been ending in Prague now for three hours. Please make a note of it.

FLASH – The world ended 4 hours ago in Nairobi. Please make a note of it.

Oh no. Watch this. Now I’m worried.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_penLnDqIlE&feature=related

You mean we all get judged tomorrow? I sure hope Simon Phillip Cowell’s not going to be there; that old-washed-up-never-has-been.

/Lenny Bruce is not afraid…/

Who wants to go shopping? I hear there’s going to be really good sales after the rapture. And wait, isn’t it already Saturday in Japan for the past couple hours? Hmm…

Lord, please assure me we’re not all going to go like in a Rebecca Black song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Wait, I have a question is the Rapture going to be like New Years Rockin’ Eve where it happens first in Japan and then works its way to New Years Rockin’ Rapture, and then a few hours later hits Hollywood? That’s it, I’m heading to Hawaii…

Uh oh, Christian Heavy Metal Band Stryper doesn’t list any tour dates for the rest of May!

http://www.stryper.com/

Some Hopi Elders say there’s less to worry about than you think, you know. It’s not your nightmare version of “end of the world,” at all. If you’ve been “good,” it’s more like Spring coming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBPghmuV8SY

Oh man, wouldn’t that be funny if it was a typo and some stupid “expert” went and told everyone there’s going to be a rapture when really it was only going to be a big ol’ California Condor or something? LOL

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150195372931697&set=a.17303071696.8622.505636696&type=1&theater

05/17/2011

My Quahog (Is Hoggin’ The Beach:) Lyrics to a song I should publish soon!

Filed under: Academic,Food,Humor,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff — admin @ 8:26 am

Lyrics to My Quahog (Is Hoggin’ The Beach)

by marco capelli frucht

Not copyrighted yet, so please (don’t) steal…

My quahog is hoggin the beach…

He’s eaten up every and each

He eats all the snails and inhales the quails

And even the sandcastles shovels and pails

My quahog is hoggin the beach

My quahog has eaten the trees

The bushes and all of the bees

The birds in the air and the crabs in your hair

And even the dogs are now empty of fleas

My quahog is hoggin the beach

My Quahog has eaten the shops

The ones witgh the moms and the pops

He didn’t stop there he bought walmart fair share

Even firmed up the rights to the breathable air

My quahog is hoggin the beach

[SPOKEN] This song in case you couldn’t tell is called

“My quahog is hoggin the beach”

My quahog has ate up the land

He never even needed a hand

All the farms and the shores and the 5 and dime stores

With quarries and worries and slurries and hurries

So listen to my story you must understand

[SHOUTED] BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE AND HE EATS ALL THE SAND!

My quahog is hoggin the beach

My quahog is now after you

He’s willing to start with your shoe

Next is your ankle and both of your knees

But after your soul will no longer be free

I hear he’s got eyes on a child or two

My quahog is hoggin the beach

[SPOKEN] I have a question for you: would you rather be chowder or stew

This is my quarrel with clams

They multiply faster than yams

They consume and consume

Until then they presume

And take flight for your room

Eating all your perfume

[SPOKEN] Like a Quahog will do: You know how they are

When he chases your shoe and consumes it like stew

As soon as he reaches the coast with the beaches

For any and eaches.

My quahog is hoggin, the…

beeeeeeeeeeeeach.

2 good places to hear this song are:

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/8376861

or:

http://soundcloud.com/atizine/my-quahog-is-hoggin-the-beach

And a good place to watch a homemade music video I did of it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8TKn4tv1U

01/22/2011

GUITAR CLINICS & MAKING THINGS RIGHT: Blogging A Dream.

Filed under: Humor,Music and Stuff — admin @ 9:18 am

I’m 17ish living in Connecticut.

I go away to MIT (Musicians Institute) home of GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology and BIT (Bass Institute of Technology) and become this hotshot guitarist out in California. Mark Sarzo (last name changed to protect the innocent) uses my name to hold a guitar clinic at Caruso Music hoping to make bank. He plays a little guitar and we looked exactly like each other back in the little league baseball days. People used to mix us up for each other constantly. Ironic that not only did we become friends but played in a couple bands together during junior high school too.

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So apparently Sarzo had every intention of trying to teach this clinic. There were flyers all over town on telephone poles, and ads in all the local papers and magazines.

Well I’m home from vacation at the time and, catching wind of it I figure out what’s going on pretty quickly. First I was angry and hurt and confused but then a little flattered. I meditate on it and decide to show up and teach the clinic.

Is this the silliest story you've EVER read???

It’s well attended and we do make bank. Richie Caruso comes over and hands me a huge check. Mark Sarzo comes up to me and apologizing, he explains what happened and tells me some story about something really heart wrenching that I don’t know maybe it really has happened so I tell him I’ll cut him two checks from this one, half for himself and then the other half is one that he has to hand deliver to Mr. Day at Claude Chester grade school for their once a week soup kitchen. Mark Sarzo thanks me and keeps apologizing over and over until I insist I’ve already forgiven him and please stop.

_____________________

OK so what’s extra funny about this dream is that much of this is based in reality. I really did play Little League baseball with this Mark Sarzo (different last name of course) We did both play guitar and in fact he knew the principal of Claude Chester and we used to rehearse there Wednesday nights because Sarzo was in fact friends with Mr. Day.

He never defrauded me, I never donated half a clinic’s worth of money to the soup kitchen there, although I volunteered there a few times, and also my last year of high school I mentored little kids there for our school’s Key Club.

Needless to say I woke happy, content and at the same time just a little bit perplexed.

10/20/2010

Documenting A 5 Page Academic Paper

Filed under: Academic,Humor,Pop Culture — admin @ 4:58 am

Assignment #3

5 Page Yarn

Missing Nautical Devices and Ice Cream for Movie Star Namesakes.

23Mar10

The life of a “Project O” Deckhand is not always intense; but sometimes quite eventful.

Most of your time on University of Connecticut’s Project Oceanology ship will be spent swabbing aboard ship, tidying up, coiling spiral tow lines, and making sure life preservers and vests are in their correct places. There is only one head which you’ll clean if the campus custodians aren’t on duty but also plenty of litter ashore in the parking lot, and your responsibilities in the biology lab rooms include cleaning out fish tanks and making sure the water temperatures are set.

One of the most mundane jobs of a Deckhand at Project Oceanology is assuring that all the lobster pots and other traps are serviceable, inventorying which ones might be in disrepair; but not everything is this routine. Sometimes a little old lady will slip one foot off the gang plank getting stuck between the bulwark and the pier. There’s only a tiny space in between; so you might ask how could she possibly get her whole leg stuck in there? Well it occasionally happens and you’re usually the closest person at hand to help keep her calm and loosen a mooring line if needed so she can squeeze herself out.

So just how did UConn come to own and operate some floating research labs? Well, Project O (as we deckhands nicknamed the whole program) currently deploys two — and soon three — vessels but I’m only well acquainted with the one original one from my time there as deckhand back in the ‘90s. Mostly, I’m told Enviro 2, the newer one is larger, more modern and was custom-built specifically for UConn. Even though Enviro-Lab is more humble she came to Project O with some fascinating stories to tell; and I’ll just recount a few here.

She is a 50-foot wooden lobster boat which was being used as a disguise by drug runners off the coast of Pawtucket — yes, there is a long history of smuggling, bootlegging and even blockade running near Long Island Sound that goes all the way back to the middle 1600’s – until the U.S. Customs Department confiscated it in 1986 as part of President Reagan’s War On Drugs and a few years later it was donated to UConn. When Project O acquired her, the net dragging system wasn’t serviceable because of her months in dry-dock and years where the nets were only used for show. The original plan was to remove the whole trawling apparatus just using her for daytrips pulling up core samples over the bulwark from down below in Long Island Sound. But alas, at some point the new owners realized they could just as easily repair her and gain a daily catch of various wildlife and plants which could convert the ship into a mobile living history museum of sorts.

Everything from lobsters, to squid, and even spider crabs can be gathered by grade-school students who will then see them right up close and hopefully learn there’s a whole Sound full of living breathing participants in a shared ecosystem instead of only dead or almost expired food in their local supermarket. Tables, glass tanks, and Bunsen burners help her to serve as a virtual floating science laboratory; hence the name “Enviro-Lab.”

So most days she goes out and comes back on a routine schedule planned ahead of time with curriculum in mind; but sometimes Enviro-Lab and her crew are tasked with taking ice-cream to a famous scientist and exchanging her mail for her. Helen Hunt, (no relation to the movie star, but they know each other) is a leading ornithologist studying all the diseases that birds carry between Plum Island and places like Boston and New York. She believes these highly populous areas are much too close to the U.S. government containment facility. Many birds migrate up to 300 miles away regularly and Plum Island Animal Disease Center is just six miles away from the Connecticut coast line; so our Helen Hunt is afraid that the diseases quarantined on the island travel farther than the government claims because birds eat plants and animals there and then fly all over the northeast of the U.S. mingling with other plants, animals, rocks, streams and the rest of the natural world. So she lives year-round in a shelter-half on a smaller island off Plum Island’s coast doing scientific tests on everything from tree-branches to bird-droppings and then predicts how much contaminant might leak out toward populated areas each year.

Most of her grant money goes into studying Anthrax, Encephalitis, Mad Cow, and Lyme Disease so there isn’t usually enough left over for amenities such as hot water, electricity and of course television or refrigeration; which answers the question as to why we at Project O will periodically deliver news of the world and ice-cream to Helen Hunt and her interns. She prefers Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey but whenever we can’t get that she just wants a box of Neapolitan. “Plain old pink white and brown” she called it.

Now that’s still somewhat routine scheduled into day to day events for the Project O deckhand whenever there’s enough new mail; but it’s one you will come to look forward to since it breaks up your day.

And let me tell you about an even more unexpected and almost disturbing thing that happened one Saturday morning which greatly disrupted an otherwise normal day out on the Enviro-Lab.

There was a light rain. Long Island Sound and the Thames were quite choppy, so the sea was not what we would like to call “flat.” There was much fog in the harbor. Earlier in the day’s journey a captain was teaching me about the GPS and how the government mandates a few feet of random error for each and every GPS reading so that someone can’t lock-on to a military ship or aircraft. Many of the Project O captains come from a pool of local ferryboat pilots who give one day a month or entire weekends to the University pro-bono. This captain, who I will just call Horn Rims, because of the glasses he wears, was no exception.

Horn Rims handed me binoculars and asked, “What’s wrong with this picture, First Mate?” Now since the crew handling the Enviro-Lab consists of only half a dozen people, as deck hand you’re often called ‘First Mate’ because you’ll will be Captain’s assistant for all things at times when the science teachers focus primarily on teaching and chaperoning the school kids.

“Nothing comes to mind,” I told him.

“You don’t see anything missing?” asked Horn Rims, with a tone in his voice that showed he was astonished I could miss something so massive.

“Nope.”

“Well I’ll tell you,” he said, “because I’m in radio contact at all times and I already know what’s supposed to be right about there. Look again and I’ll tell you, you’ll remember it. Right about there. That’s supposed to be Red Channel Buoy #6!”

“Huh? What the…”

He explained to me that a Trident nuclear-powered submarine had hit the large can on its way back to the U.S. Navy’s lower base in Gales Ferry and likely never even felt a nudge as it collected up the entire buoy including a few links of chain that weigh about 75 pounds each!

“Yupper,” said Horn Rims, “carried it clear up the river and dropped it yonder somewhere between the Odd Fellows Home and the USS Nautilus museum as if she hadn’t been carrying anything in the first place.”

The Navy didn’t even know about it yet but the Coast Guard sure did, and that’s how Horn Rims knew, from the chatter on the radio. And the Navy was sure to hear of it soon and then go immediately into cover-up mode making sure that the New London Day never found out about it; or at least they hoped reporters would agree to ignore such an embarrassing story.

“We’ll probably see the buoy floundering around up there,” said Horn Rims, “while we head toward the Yantic river; or at least we’ll see the Coast Guard out there with their helicopters and cranes struggling with how to wrestle it back down the river to where it’s supposed to stay.”

Just then I put one leg up on one of the bench seats so I could re-tie my Teva Sandals when all of a sudden old Horn Rims gave one leg of my trousers a brisk tug.

Yes, he pulled my leg.

Like I’m pulling yours!

09/29/2010

Poems, Schmoems…

Filed under: Academic,Food,Humor,Mundane Or Sublime,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 4:31 pm
Violence impacted to society;
Embedded in life.
No capo, slide, fuzz pedal or 
Delay - no fingerpicks or 
Teleprompter, just play.
Eugene O'Neill wallops the skipper
With words and rocks the boat,
Frank Sinatra "does it [his] way"
Rooted in divine inspiration,
He claims.
Apple falls on head and
Turns lightbulb on jouncing
Thought, slurping coffee
Like a pretentious snit.
Jogging memory with a
Jarful of Jolt cola.
Orange lentils & linguini
Lodged in a sore throat.
Don't sop the heat of hot chili
With cucumber; use bread: good buffer.

Shelter Wagon is hospitality on a horse. 
Running from river to river
Haven't seen hay for 30 miles:
How come I have hayfever??

Run chasing your shadow
All morning; then you can 
Chase it home all afternoon.

http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ATI/journal.txt

09/23/2010

And how are YOU handling the FACEBOOK Outages???

Filed under: Academic,Humor,Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 2:00 pm

Collecting From the FB Crash Fiasco.

I don’t know about you, but I know people personally who simply cannot handle life, when a site like FaceBook crashes for even an hour or two. Holy cow people! Read a book or play an acoustic guitar until it comes back up.

Take back your life. You are NOT ruled by Turner Network Television; I assure you. You’re not! Oh well, until then, please share a chuckle at some of these responses to yesterday’s (and today’s) outage[s]:

flounderfish

I join Facebook for first time and it has a regional crash! 🙂 my luck 2 minutes ago via TwitBird iPad

adamkparker

I wonder why it hasn’t announced that Facebook is down? Was it a crash? Planned? We may never know. http://bit.ly/1a4tXW 12 minutes ago via Digsby

· mcdonald2009

#facebook is still down, it’s been over an hour believe it or not. I have confirmed that it’s not a full crash but still #facebookcrash 14 minutes ago via web

· leahxxlol

i love #twitter. It doesnt crash like #facebook😐 19 minutes ago via web

· atizine

I wonder if facebook crash reporting will crash twitter? Oh no, everyone will flood their way over to myspace, huh? 21 minutes ago via web

· QuietPimp

Wow…. it must some controversy over the new Facebook movie…. someone caused the website to crash21 minutes ago via txt

LaSal

Facebook crash leads to population explosion; scientific and biological evidence to appear in 9 months. 26 minutes ago via web

BeaumontBeth

#Facebook, you can crash anytime you want and I generally don’t care, but in the middle of breaking news? #angryface #sadface #punchyface 29 minutes ago via TweetDeck

3SillyKids

I love how everyone jumped on Twitter cause Facebook is down. Let’s just hope Twitter doesn’t crash or we may actually have to work. 31 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

aquart

#Facebook crashed? I’m waiting for a baby announcement on it and it crashed? NOOOO! 2 minutes ago via web

jorjfiesta

facebook crashed because justin bieber is alive 2 minutes ago via web

JordanDeCourcy

facebook has crashed and i dont have a phone, dang, looks like I will have to do my homework after all. 21 minutes ago via web

sainthero

I think all my postings on our Facebook fan page has forced Facebook to crash. That’s right, I crashed FB. Sorry. 16 minutes ago via TweetDeck

roycedegrie

I uploaded this photo to facebook and I think it may have crashed the system! lol http://twitpic.com/2qxk7r about 1 hour ago via Twitpic

johndshabe

Friendster’s time to shine now that Facebook crashed about 1 hour ago via web

ClaraTrans

Facebook just crashed my Droid. I don’t even use Facebook… That’s another reason to hate Facebook. #facebookhater about 1 hour ago via web

DrSportsFan

Looks like facebook has sort of crashed. Bummer they don’t have a goofy Whale cartoon to tide me over. Point Twitter. about 17 hours ago via web

mktgalchemist

Facebook games announcement livestream crashed all 18 of my open browser windows. #multitasking about 18 hours ago via TweetDeck

WhiteboiDre

twitter is crashed!!! #InOtherNews this just in MySpace & FaceBook is now over capacity 6:11 PM Sep 20th via web

jazziewonders

What Happened to #effin #Facebook ????? This is the equivalent to the stock market crash! The Apocalypse is near!!! about 1 hour ago via web

allisonkilkenny

The most passion I ever see my twitter feed express is when Facebook is down. 7 minutes ago via ÃœberTwitter

postsecret

BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession. @OPB 20 minutes ago via web

kristencusato

must….get….on….facebook. 10 minutes ago via web

kristencusato

I take a nap. and facebook goes away??? w.t.h.????? 10 minutes ago via web

ABC

Uninformative update from Facebook: they are aware some users having issues. Working on it. 13 minutes ago via HootSuite

whycoy

oh no, facebook is down…i’m going to jump out the window. i can’t take it. 26 minutes ago via web

ed_delafuente

Since I can’t change my Facebook status to a complaint about Facebook being down, I’m gonna complain about it on Twitter. Take that! about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck

· ClaytonWalter

Damn it #Facebook is down…. First twitter gets hacked now this…smh. All of this Internet terrorism…I can’t take it. 1:51 PM Sep 22nd via web

[ and these are just people in my own twitter circle. I bet there are even funnier posts out there in YOUR circles, eh? ]

09/21/2010

And the nominees are… [nammys]

Filed under: Humor,Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 12:49 pm

Yesterday at noon we announced the following nominees for this year’s ceremony at Seneca Falls Casino 12nov10!

Congrats to all the “noms!!”

A ARTIST OF THE YEARJJ Kent – The Other Side of JJ KentJoanne Shenandoah – Enchanted GardenJohnny Whitehorse – Riders of the Healing BandJoseph FireCrow – Face The MusicMichael Bucher – BelieveShane Yellowbird – It’s About Time

B BEST BLUES RECORDINGGet Up & Get Out – BluedogGuitar & Vocals – Larry Burnett w/Don ChapmanIf That’s All Right With You – Twice As GoodIndian Casino – Blackhawk Blues BandLet Me Be – The Graywolf Blues BandShades of Gray – Cecil Gray & The Flying Eagle Blues Band

C BEST COMPILATION RECORDINGColours of My Life – Stephanie Harpe, Jason Burnstick, W.T. Goodspirt, Don Amoro, Tewanee JospehMoon of the Drum – Terry Lee WhetstoneRise Up – VariousThe Best of Drumgroups.com NAC Compilation Vol 1 – VariousThe Night Before; The Best of David Searching Owl – David Searching OwlWalking With the Spirits – Randy McGinnis

D BEST COUNTRY RECORDINGHitchin’ A Ride – Nokie EdwardsIt’s About Time – Shane YellowbirdMoving On – John McLeodThe Other Side of JJ Kent – JJ KentSOS – QuatisiWanted Man – Victoria Blackie

E DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEARChris Ferree – UnboundCody Sunbear Blackbird – Raven SpeaksJoseph Strider – Meanings Within Meanings, Within MeaningsMarc Brown – Long Time ComingSamantha Crain – Songs In The Night by Samantha CrainVictoria Blackie – Wanted Man

F DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEARDark Water Rising – Dark Water RisingIndigie Femme – Indian SouvenirKicking Woman Singers – The 4th ComingNake Nula Waun – Always ReadySayani – Sacred FireSegweh – Segweh

G BEST FEMALE ARTISTDeborah New Moon Rising – Stories From The Social FireKelly Montijo Fink – Songs of War & VictoryQuatisi – SOSShanise – Okeymow Maskiki Vol IIITinesha Begaye – Horses Are Our JourneyYvonne St. Germaine – Turning My Day Around

H BEST FOLK RECORDINGAmor Deveras – Yolanda MartinezBelieve – Michael BucherHiding Behind The Sun – Peter SackaneyIndian Souvenir – Indigie FemmeScrapbook – Bobby Bullet st Germaine (Strawberry Island)Songs In The Night by Samantha Crain – Samantha Crain

I FLUTIST OF THE YEARJohn Bear – Pure PassionJohn Two-Hawks – Wind SongsJohnny Whitehorse – Riders of the Healing RoadJonny Lipford – Turn The PageJoseph FireCrow – Face The MusicR. Carlos Nakai – Dancing Into Silence

J BEST GOSPEL/INSPIRATIONAL RECORDINGDoo Lado Shi diyin da – Larry KaibetoneyHoop of Life – RainSong: Terry & Darlene WildmanOut of the Rainshadow – RainshadowSacred Fire – SayaniSongs of War & Victory – Kelly Montijo FinkTurning My Day Around – Yvonne St. Germaine

K DUO – GROUP OF THE YEARAllen Mose Jr. & Orion Jay Mose – Holistic BlessingsAztlan Underground – Aztlan UndergroundBluedog – Get Up & Get OutDigging Roots – We AreFawn Wood & Dallas Washkahat – ‘Til The EndInjunuity – Fight For Survival

L BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDINGA Tribute To Walter Flett – Me’tis Fiddler QuartetFight For Survival – InjunityHitchin’ A Ride – Nokie EdwardsRed River Jig – Arvel BirdRemembrance – Gabriel AyalaRollin’ Like Thunder – Douglas Blue Feather & Danny Voris

M BEST MALE ARTISTAnthony Betoney – That’s An Old SongJay Begaye – Horses Are Our JourneyGlen Ahhaitty – No More LiesKevin Yazzie – HopeLone Bear – NDN MoonMike Sullivan Sr– Love, Lies & Lullabies

N BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDINGA Time for Healing – Cecile MoosominDakota/Lakota Traditional Church Songs – Sacred HarmoniesHope – Kevin YazzieOkeymow Maskiki Vol III – ShaniseReconnected – Brian Stoner & Verdell PrimeauxUnity – Alex Turtle & Johnny Monroe

O BEST NEW AGE RECORDINGJim Boyd – Voices From The LakesSheila Applegate w/music by Joanne Shenandoah – Enchanted GardenJoseph FireCrow – Face The MusicR. Carlos Nakai – Dancing Into SilenceJohnny Whitehorse – Riders of the Healing RoadRon Warren, Dawn Avery, Ash Dargan – Red Moon

P BEST POP RECORDINGA Sunny Day – SpiritWingLifestyle Muzik – Bigg BNightwatch – SentinelSOS – QuatisiThe Liberation Sessions – MwalimWe Are – Digging Roots

Q BEST POW WOW RECORDINGBoys Will Be Boyz – The BoyzLive In Alexis – BlackstoneMany Tribes, One Nation – WarscoutOne Voice, One Nation – Thunder Mountain SingersThe 4th Coming – Kicking Woman SingersThe Elk Dreamers – Elk Soldier

R BEST PRODUCERA Michael Martinez, Lee Herrera, Mac Suazo, Tom Bee – neXt eXitFrank Waln – Always ReadyGeorge Parker – Late Night SessionsGloria Larocque – Colours of My LifeJan Michael Looking Wolf, Donald Blackfox, Shawn Justice – Breakin’ FreeRobert Doyle– Dancing Into Silence

S BEST RAP / HIP HOP RECORDINGBrainStorm – PlexI Love California – Short Dawg Tha NativeIt Comes Natural – Lady XplicitSex, Drunks & Hip Hop – Night ShieldTribal Tribulations – Chase Monchamp/Chase ManhattanVoice The Vision – Native Era Presents Arielle Tiensvold n Mista Futuristic

T RECORD OF THE YEARBelieve – Michael BucherBreakin’ Free – Jan Michael Looking Wolf BandDancing Into Silence – R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will ClipmanFace The Music – Joseph FireCrowIt’s About Time – Shane YellowbirdTrue Blue – Northern Cree

U BEST ROCK RECORDINGAztlan Underground – Aztlan UndergroundBreakin’ Free – Jan Michael Looking Wolf BandNeed Your Love – Robe WilliamsSegweh – SegwehThe Great Unknown – Eagle & HawkWe Are – Digging Roots

V SONG/SINGLE OF THE YEAR“Cherokee Smoke” – Nokie Edwards“Grandfather” – Windwalker“Lizard Blues” – Joseph FireCrow“We Are Sinixt” – Jim Boyd“What If We Could” – Eagle & Hawk“What The World Needs” – Jan Michael Looking Wolf Band

W SONGWRITER OF THE YEARBrad Clonch – Fight For SurvivalDouglas Blue Feather– Rollin Like ThunderMichael Bucher – BelieveNokie Edwards – Hitchin’ A RideSamantha Crain – Songs In The Night by Samantha CrainVince Fontaine, Chris Burke-Gaffney – The Great Unknown

X BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDINGAztlan Underground – Aztlan UndergroundFirewater – Janet RogersMoon of the Drum – TerryLee WhetstoneNightwatch – SentinelRed Earth – Lowery BegayeStories From The Social Fire – The Story Tellers

Y BEST TRADITIONAL RECORDINGCultural Legacy – Wakinyan OyateHolistic Blessings – Allen Mose Jr. & Orion JayKee-Tsa-Gya – Zotigh SingersRebuilding The Fire – Bo TaylorThat’s An Old Song – Anthony BetoneyUtopia – Todi Neesh Zhee Singers

Z BEST MUSIC VIDEOBarefeet On The Blacktop – Shane YellowbirdBreakin’ Free/Addiction– The Jan Michael Looking Wolf BandBy The Water – Donna KaySacred Warrior – Tom BeeShock Town – Jim BoydSpring To Come – Digging Roots

AA BEST WAILA RECORDING (NEW CATEGORY)Gortie & the TO Boyz – A Tribute To Augustine Lopez SrNative Creed – Cumbiafied NativezNative Thunder – Get’n DownPapago Warrior – Papago Warriors 5The Cisco Band – T.C.O.B.Tohono O’odham Braves – 25 Years of Waila Music

BB BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDINGA Sunny Day – SpiritWingAztlan Underground – Aztlan UndergroundBrainStorm – PlexRed Moon – Ron Warren, Dawn Avery, Ash DarganRemembrance – Gabriel AyalaThe Liberation Sessions – Mwalim

CC NATIVE HEART (Non-Native Artist)Big City Indians – Tribal VisionDenise Johanson – Cave SpiritsJeff Ball Band – Ghost TownPeter Phippen –Woodnotes WyldScott Tweedie – Long Island SoundWind & Fire – Mark Holland/N. Scott Robinson

http://www.nammys.org

09/01/2010

JOURNAL POEM 3

Filed under: Humor,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff — admin @ 9:09 pm
JOURNAL POEM 3
        by marco.
        previously published in a 33-poem book of
        poetry entitled "I Slurp My Coffee." (c)1995

Old Pomes. New Pomes.
Borrowed pomes; blue pomes.
Funny pomes, sad pomes; goofy and glad pomes.
Pomes pomes. pomes pomes, eat them up - yum.

Make alliteration instead of legislation.
Ah, all's well that "and's" well-
And all are about action.
Skip, jump, lay there, run, smile, frown.
Run around, skip the jumping;
Lay there down.

Who chewed a page outa my pomes?
You're not s'posed to chew:
Eat them delicately.
Luscious, yummy, soft delicious yellow pomes.
Moist, meaty, mysterious succulent pomes.
Pomes about poets, presidents, pests
And pomes full of juice.
I eat pomes.
Do you eat pomes?
Red pomes, yellow pomes, green poems.
Don't eat the blue ones.

http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/ATI/journal.txt

06/14/2010

Open Letter To NLON CG About BP Disaster Recovery

Filed under: Academic,Humor,Mundane Or Sublime — admin @ 11:49 am

Hi there,
Could you pass this along to NLON Coast Guard, or perhaps get me the address for the suggestions? My idea is to dump many sunflower seeds onto the biggest pudding textures of the oil on the surface of the water. They’re likely to soak up not just the surface oils but also soak up a whole bunch from underneath until  complete saturation.

Then use technologies you already have to scoop up tons of the filled up sunflower seeds.

And lastly you cold-press the little buggers like they were so many olives and the juice you’ll have will be a new invention of bio-diesel you’ll have helped me invent. A hybrid half “dino-diesel” half veggie oil that won’t blow up engines, never needs a preheat, and doesn’t pollute too much.

Trademark it before me just because I’m middle-class and I’ll kick your ass.

J/K, you can have it Pro-Bono as my next gift to society.

Sincerely,
Marco

03/22/2010

Sometimes You War; Sometimes You Dialogue; Sometimes You Do Both.

“Sometimes it’s a good day to die, sometimes it’s a good day to have breakfast.” — Thomas Builds-the-Fire

College teacher Julie Jennings conveys the following breaking news:

“The 3-20-10 Providence Protest has sparked a dialogue with the game’s publisher. The game-maker is starting to consider Native pre-testing of the game. Julie Jennings would like the game-maker to be invited to present to the Rhode Island Indian Council. His letter will be printed soon and he (B. Youse, a corporate owner no doubt) can be reached at byouse@cablespeed.com ”

RE: King Philip’s War role playing game.
Company Name: Multi-man Publishing.

My Opinion:

Awesome. Maybe he’ll allow a hefty portion of the outside panels of the box be words from elders of many tribes saying how they feel and strongly suggesting people learn more about not just Metacomet and Massasoit but find out more about each and every river name and street and town name. Heck there can be explanations that there are always more than one story that make up history at any time, and near the UPC label there could be a coupon for 5 bucks off at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research center. And maybe he’ll give a buck or two from each purchase to children in Haiti and Pine Ridge.

And how about a booklet listing NDN bands, artists, actors, songwriters, movie makers and all kinds of other talented people both contemporary and old.

There should be a separate booklet showing the facts that the original 13 colonies only succeeded in driving England out because native american boys were such skilled harpooners, lancers, swimmers, helmsmen and tacticians.

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I demand somewhere on the box be placed the quote that almost got John Ledyard jr. kicked out of Dartmouth where he wrote in a bluebook that he felt Uncas should be placed right up there with Darwin or Isaac Newton for his grasp of science, technology tactics and domestic and nation to nation concerns.

OK I better stop ranting or this will get too long. Let me just say that all represents how I feel so far. I don’t want this box to see light of day but if it must, this is some of the treatment I believe it should be given from beginning to end.
http://www.projo.com/news/content/INDIAN_WAR_GAME_03-15-10_46HKPR8_v28.3a62f30.html

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