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04/10/2011

Liner Notes and Back Cover of Chiapaneca Rekkid. Enjoy!

Filed under: Academic,Music and Stuff,News,Pop Culture — admin @ 6:45 am

A

Chiapaneca is a tone poem

It is December 22, 1997.

A paramitlitary group called “Paz y Justicia” rapes and murders dozens of women and children

at a prayer meeting in Acteal, Chenalho, Chiapas. One paramilitary chooses to leave. He

picks up a little girl, Marcela saving her from harm. But later he is found out in the act

of helping her escape to the neighboring village and they hang him after much torture.

Aggressively they search for little Marcela but give up after a time.

There are other witnesses they weren’t able to kill.

Undetected, a guitarist sits in the bushes; waiting for them to leave. He remembers

everything he has seen.

Dedications: RIP Matt Chew, __________ [Censored], my Dad, John Ross, The Bees, Alma and you.

i dig local musicians.

UPC: 700261324746

Poet, Producer and Writer Marco Capelli Frucht wishes the four Sledge Grits

girls all the continued success that can possibly come along to match their

amazing skills and talent!!

ShoutOuts: Snark tuners, Page Capos, SIT strings, Zinky amps and the only new

guitar purchases anymore are Navatone and Godin.

Recording Studios acknowledged:

Lite Straw, Pwop, Dirt Floor.

http://www.oilpanalley.com

http://www.frucht.org

Oasis Disc Manufacturing

B

Frybread was written near Black Mesa Arizona

(Ch)Fry bread, frybread, make me some frybread

How can you be my Nana if you won’t make me frybread.

Frybread, frybread, make me some frybread,

How can you be a Nana if you won’t make some frybread.

Make me some frybread, chop up some peppers,

Make up some frybread- add some beans and cheese

How ’bout some frybread ‘n lettuce n’ tomatoes

Make it any kind of bread but make some fry bread please.

(ch)

I’ll herd the sheep for you I’ll chop the wood.

I’ll mud the roof if you’ll only make frybread

I’ll sweep the floor auntie, I promise I’ll be good.

I’ll learn a song for you but please make some fry bread.

(ch)

Wheat flour or white flour

Use any kind of flour

Heck even Jewish rye flour

But make some frybread please.

(chorus, repeat and fade…)

This song dedicated to all of Bob and Bonnie’s children.

Shouts to my Nana, my Bubbe, Ana Egge and Mrs. Laurie, (my 5th grade

English teacher at Groton Heights.)

02/26/2011

Pre-Release for CD Single.

Filed under: Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff — admin @ 9:01 pm

This CD single should come back from the printers in about 10 days. I can’t wait to rack it and stuff.

Please enjoy this music video in the meantime.

The song is Chiapaneca and it’s a tone poem. Read along the first or second time you hear this song and you should be able to envision it.

Cheers,

marco

It is December 22, 1997. A paramilitary group called “Paz y Justicia” rapes and murders dozens of women and children at a prayer meeting in Acteal, Chenalho, Chiapas. One paramilitary chooses to leave. He picks up a little girl, Marcela saving her from harm. But later he is found out in the act of helping her escape to the neighboring village and they hang him after much torture. Aggressively they search for little Marcela but give up after a time. There are other witnesses they weren’t able to kill. Undetected, a young guitarist sits in the bushes; waiting for them to leave. He remembers everything he has seen.

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.

12/29/2010

Mike Figgis’ Filmmaking Book Was Great! Here go some excerpts…

Filed under: Academic,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 8:30 am

Here are some quotes from the handy book, “Digital Filmmaking by Mike Figgis.

I really found his first person account of the transition from film to digital (Figgis made “Hotel” and “Leaving Las Vegas” and so many other movies that don’t get named as often) to be one of the best descriptions of not just what’s being done in the industry, but what each of us can do right this moment with what most of us already have!

“Mike Figgis is a man who lives and breathes the cinema… While most filmmakers are content to plod their dreary way from one foregone conclusion to another, Figgis is out there on the edge, joyously pulling off cockamamie stunts.” — Roger Ebert.

Ten years ago the professional camera was entirely out of reach to anyone other than millionaires. And now we have these things that are almost disposable.

One of the great film composers, Morricone, formulated a list of advice to filmmakers and composers. He advised that you should not change the key of your piece of music unless you have a real good reason to — because when you change the key, it makes the audience think something else has changed. the function of music is to UNDERSCORE. We use the word ‘score,’ but what we really mean is ‘underscore.’ The score should not lead but support the film, adding tension and emotional subtlety. It is UNDER the film. I have a huge problem with a lot of scores that I hear, which are definitely not under – they are OVER the film.

Opposed to this is making a digital film, where you should sort of infiltrate yourself into a natural environment, and not try to change it. You don’t stop the traffic, you don’t highlight your presence, you don’t put up a big neon sign announcing the film. It’s rather like taking a stills photograph — in a subtle way, after a while people don’t seem to see you anymore because you’re not shouting, ‘We need silence now!’ Or, ‘Stop the traffic!’ and the director’s not screaming, ‘Who let that person through?’ You just observe the environment sufficiently to knkow where to put the camera, and then you let the environment continue. The actors are then reacting to natural phenomena rather than fake phenomena.

I will never see my footage as an object — a can of film, a tape in a case, a reel of sound, a negative of a still image. Those formats are all poised to disappear. This makes me feel insecure, and I have resorted to spending days making back-up copies of all my information. I have had no choice but to become an obsessive filing clerk. I make three copies of everything I generate, and then I deposit each of the three at a different location. Why? Because in my deeply superstitious pagan mind, I have the notion that otherwise it could vanish without a trace.

What happens in America with mainstream films is that they test the film, and if it doesn’t test very well, the first thing that will be blamed will be the music — hence the hysteria of adding louder and louder strings and making a bigger noise. Maybe the answer would be to take the music off altogether and then test the film, and afterwards start gently adding it back in.

It was Sony, the great innovator, who came up with DAT – digital audio tape, a tiny but highly sophisticated tape. The first record-and-playback DAT machines were very well made, very robust, professional machines, not cheap but not fearfully expensive. And almost immediately the industry accepted it: DAT became THE format for mastering sound. Certain engineers whom I talked to at the time were horrified. ‘The quality’s great, but where’s your security? This is a tiny piece of tape in a plastic box…’ — whereas before, you were using really big four-inch-wide master tapes. DAT wasn’t invented as something to take over as the mastering format for recorded sound, but that’s the way innovation works.

…it means you can shoot at very low shutter speed, plus you can change the aperture to make a very high-contrast black and white image. Which means you can virtually shoot in the dark.

[MY THOUGHT: when I read that; Maybe the jump from 8 to super8 was bigger than any other technological advance yet, except maybe DAT]

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So yes, these quotes are all over the place, they’re just the pieces which struck me the hardest on my first read.

If you want to see most of them in their own context, almost all the pages are up at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=tTG3luLsbrAC&lpg=PP1&ots=SbKt0JfX9M&dq=figgis%20filmmaking&pg=PA56#v=snippet&q=opposed%20to%20this&f=false

and/or you can buy the book at

For so much more info about Mike Figgis:

http://www.red-mullet.com/home.html

http://www.myspace.com/mikefiggis

11/30/2010

Reply as BlogPost

Filed under: Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,Pop Culture,Tech — admin @ 9:47 am

Sometimes I go long on a reply somewhere and look it over after hitting send and realize it’s its own blog post really.

Here’s another one I believe stands on its own just fine. (I’ll try to bring forward context as well though.)

Our society is so out of control. We’ve completely lost sight of what matters until we see a great moment in a great movie or something and then we shed what, one single tear that feels like “I get it…” and then we go right back to all the unnatural things in life that we’ve been conditioned through a lifetime to think are natural.

Yikes.

I’m immersed in all these same things, but I try to be mindful at all times of concepts such as “I am not my cellphone,” “I am not my car,” “I am not my hair style,” and “I am not my body type!”

Especially while making art because those are the things that are going to continue past my own words spoken and footsteps taken, etc.

RE:

pic and quote on a friend’s post

“The funny thing is that some people reduce freedom to a brand,” Gaga said between tears. “They think that it’s trendy now to be free. They think it’s trendy to be excited about your identity. When in truth, there is nothing trendy about ‘Born This Way.’ ‘Born This Way’ is a spirit, and it is this connection that we all share. It is something so much deeper than a wig or a lipstick or an outfit or a f**kn’ meat dress. ‘Born This Way’ is about us, ‘Born This Way’ is about what keeps us up at night and makes us afraid.” –Lady Gaga, Poland (Nov. 2010)

And there was an

[IMAGE]

with Lady Gaga with a yellow phone over her left eye.

and my buddy wrote:

So so typical of today’s world: cellphone attached to our bodies as computers control, dictate every seconds of our lives…

[RElated]=[ http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com ]

10/30/2010

Violence Killed Another Friend; I’m Angry and Sad.

Filed under: Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,News — admin @ 9:45 am

For the rest of my life I will miss Matt Chew who got murdered late last night just walking home from work.

He made some of the best hand-tossed wood-fired pizza at a place called Two Wives and was also an incredibly eloquent DJ.

!

I feel angry/sad/horrified. One of the first new friends I made when I moved back here to southern New England from Oregon in ’05ish ’06ish. He and I have many common friends. Matt was incredibly kind, thoughtful and wise beyond years.

Fellow DJ PKAT PLUR sends up this mp3 because it was known to be one of Matt’s favorites:

http://pkat.plur.ca/plurtrain/ha-p-kore%20sessions/Pkat%20-%20Ha-P-Kore%209%2091703.mp3

10/25/2010

The Making Of Wampum by Marc Frucht

Filed under: Academic,Food,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff,Tech — admin @ 3:33 pm

The Making of Wampum

Marc Frucht

Anth 3451

Final Paper about Final Presentation.

December, 2009

I chose to learn how difficult it is to make wampum beads by hand in an effort to understand why people who make contemporary wampum jewelry seldom also make wampum beads.

It turns out that even the most skilled artisans can only make one complete bead after about 20 minutes of difficult and dangerous work. Power tools do not cut this time down very much because for every minute you might gain in technology, you lose just as much, if not more to broken shells. If you see beads such as these (and they are not antique:)

there is a high likelihood they will be plastic, glass or wood, but not shell. To be honest, the last technological innovation that has helped streamline the construction of wampum beads was the steel drill. As I’d said before, if you try taking the next step and electrify that drill you must be very careful to use the slowest setting; still you must bear down ever so lightly or a shell will break unexpectedly, wasting all the time you’d put in making that bead.

After I got the hang of drilling my beads, I tried using a Dremel tool at its slowest setting and I never had good results no matter how I would change my technique. I’d get 2/3 of the way into a bead or so, and it would smash, or crack.

Quahogs that people work with traditionally are about 5 inches long and 2 1/2 inches wide, with a very thick shell. It’s rare that you find quahog shells that large nowadays. After this project I learned that Quahogs are much smaller nowadays because just like Cod and Lobsters, they’ve been fished out the past couple hundred years. So the ones that are found in southern New England aren’t very large, and don’t have a very thick purple part. Often times you’re only able to make a bead that is short and narrow which wouldn’t be useful for too many other projects.

I did most of my breaking and cutting on the rocks at Avery Point’s shore in Groton, CT. Then I did most of the drilling and grinding on a picnic table in my back yard on the other side of Groton. Half way through the process on several beads, I learned that it’s best to do all of the work under the water because the dust that comes away from your product is toxic. Since my project was during early winter months, I didn’t have much choice so I kept a bowl of water near and dunked the pieces regularly, and took lots of breaks, but I wasn’t able to do all the work under the water.

I broke the first couple shells into pieces that were much too small. I found I was using a large stone and bearing down with all my might, when I didn’t need to. If you just tap lightly 2-3 times, they will break into something close to uniform rectangular pieces. Not ever piece is usable of course; but if you’re starting from a very large shell (all but one of my Quahog shells were too small to be honest) you’ll get 5 or 6 pieces that might become a bead with the traditional sizes of 8mm in length and 5mm in diameter or perhaps 7mm by 5mm.

There was a seagull who was watching me work for a very long time during one of my project sessions. You’ll see him or her in the video I presented.

http://www.tinyurl.com/MakingWampum

In picking music for the soundtrack I decided I’d only use instrumental guitar and mostly old standards such as ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess, and ‘Rebel Rouser’ by Duane Eddy. I used the melody to ‘Limbo Rock’ trying to give motion to the segment where the bird was flying across the water, but I also noticed it worked well while s/he was walking around on the rocks as well.

I insisted on using guitars that I’ve adopted and reworked by hand to in an effort to match the energy of the project itself. So the two guitars I picked are a bamboo guitar that a friend gave me because he thought it was really ugly. After accepting it, I learned that it was handmade by a guy named Jun Reputana who is a famous luthier near Ceba Philippines. Instead of mother of pearl inlay, he uses shell that he finds on the shore where he lives. It turns out he walks up and down the beach until he’s found just the right shell to go along with the guitar he’s making!

The second guitar I picked was a ’74 Castilla Strat copy, I found in a Goodwill and had my friend Zack in Westerly, RI. do all the extra recondition that I’m not good at. That’s the one I used for the stereotypical NDN sounds that I began the video with as a somewhat comedic ice-breaker.

I’m told the word ‘Quahog’ comes from the Narraganset word Poquauhock and that the Algonquin word Wampumpeag is white shell. No one seems to know what meant purple or black shell; but I have a hunch it’s going to be something like Wampumpog or maybe Wampumpaug. I chose to not include all of that in my presentation because I didn’t want to include hunches. I’ll keep researching and hope I bump into those meanings as well.

I didn’t finish the final two beads I presented on. Some of why I stopped right there was that I was running out of time; but I also recognized that I had enough to present on at that point. And perhaps showing what I wasn’t able to complete has more meaning than if I had in fact come up with my original goal of four beads, two perfectly purple, and two wonderfully white. I managed to drill all the way through one shell and had begun smoothing the cylinder down a little bit more narrow, and I was almost all the way to the other side of the second one when I noticed since I was too close to one of the sides, I’ll have the problem as I narrow that one, that I’ll run out of fiber that can be taken down. So that one is most likely going to crack, leaving me with only the one nearly finished bead.

I never worked with any Atlantic Whelk, because I wasn’t able to find any from restaurants; and no one had a lead on who else I could ask. But I learned that whelk shells give the best texture for a snowy white bead to complement with the all purple ones. I can find whelk meat in Chinese groceries, but not the shell. I’d love to find out someday where it is they dispose of their shells.

Sources Cited:

http://www.nativetech.org/wampum/wamphist.htm

http://www.peace4turtleisland.org/pages/wampum1.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/672397/how_to_make_your_own_wampum_beads.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5172118_make-wampum-beads.html

http://xingyangaquatics.en.made-in-china.com/product/IbNmPSTUqAYR/China-Whelk-Meat-Slices-4-.html

Brennessel, Barbara. Good Tidings: The History and Ecology of Shellfish Farming in the Northeast. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2008.

SEE THIS PAPER AS A WORD DOC:

http://www.frucht.org/framesbymarco/ThemakingofWampum.doc

Lastly here are a couple shameless plugs, just because this page ended up higher in google and bing for some reason.  😉

http://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht

http://www.oilpanalley.com

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 ÜberTwitter

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

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09/02/2010

Pepsi Cans & Peavey Amps. – by marco

Filed under: Food,Mundane Or Sublime,Music and Stuff — admin @ 6:14 am

Pepsi Cans & Peavey Amps.

A poem by marco

(and also the title poem of a brand new chap book…)


Peanut Butter prohibited.
Protein, fat.
Meat is best, better than
Butter.
Better, not bitter.
Meat, eat. Gnash-Gulash.

Spinach.
Yum.
Spinach and peanut butter.
Why cringe?
Spinach and PB – PB & S.
Peanut butter and spinach???
Hmm…..
Mmm…
Cottage cheese, please.
Loud raucous rock-n-roll music.

Tastes good.
Taste better than the plasma and
Saline I ate yesterday afternoon.
$15.
Mooncheese.
Meunster.
Fun with food/
Rock-n-roll.

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