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Happy Birthday To Olivia Pentell, The Actress.

Happy Birthday Olivia!
Bio and CV.

Quoting Woody Guthrie

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.
I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing.
Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly
or too this [...]

Whalies - NL’s 1st annual! 29may10

Whalie winners:
Incomplete listing from last night, minute by minute:

· Congrats 2 the following #Whalies winners last nite: Matt Gouette, Fatal Film, Weird Beards, Reducers. Many more coming up 2nite! about 18 hours ago via web
· Get Haunted wins a Whalie Award. Not sure what category. about 12 hours ago [...]

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 [...]

‘Inglourious Basterds’ Was ‘Navajo Joe??’

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is Essentially a Spaghetti Western.
By Marc Frucht

Will we ever tire of consuming Spaghetti Westerns, and what does this do to the people of the Native American nations?

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This essay will show that the 1966 spaghetti western Navajo Joe has been copied and “cannibalized” all throughout its history including last year [...]

Please Buy My Song “Frybread” And Help Haiti AND Pine Ridge

I don’t often ask favors of everyone I’ve ever met; but listen:

Even if I’ve given you a copy of my song “Frybread” for free, or even if you’ve bought it in compilations or on my CD back when I used to promote myself; could you please consider buying it off of the nammys page right [...]

Classical Guitar Lessons Online? No Way; Really?

Just so you know, online classical guitar lessons don’t actually “sux0r” as much as you would think.
Here’s a glimpse of some simple ones that should give you ideas of your own for teaching and/or taking lessons this way:

Hi ____,
How are things going with that part I of the Boceto?
Here are several youtubes of people doing [...]

Open Letter 2 A Phellow TABber.

Subj: nice work on the john mayer tab!
Hey there,
I really like the work you did on TABbing John Mayer’s Human Nature instrumental!
I was working on it too,
http://tinyurl.com/johnmayerTAB
and I see all the tab companies are trying to provide about three lines of the melody and calling that the whole thing.
It’s kind of neat that so [...]

Hey Classical Guitarist. Backpain? Get One Of These!

If you get backpain from using a footstool sometime after 2-3 hours of practicing each day, you know you would do the 4-5 hours a day it takes to be on top of your game if you could, right? Didn’t you used to do that much each day? I did, until backpain came my way.

This [...]

Two High Points From My Time At The NAMMYS This Year.

There were many high points at this year’s Nammys.  (11th annual, at Seneca Niagara casino)

Here go just two. And both take place in the elevators, believe it or not. First was riding the elevator with the late Ritchie Valens’ brother Mario and his sister Irma, and two little girls who didn’t know any of us. [...]