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Dr. Zomb's Stereo Obscura playlist for 12/24/2010
Dr. Zomb trots out the xmat, lives to tell about it, but doesn't have the energy...
Holiday Depression 2010
jean pierre massiera bonne annee 1969 7" finders keepers
excerpt "troubled christmas" religious 7" from some thrift store
bruce haack/ted pandel excerpt intro ebenezer electric lp dimension 5
negativland christianity is stupid escape from noise lp seeland
? turkey fanfare v/vm v/a xmas 7" v/vm
electronic fly symph. first noel v/vm v/a xmas 7" v/vm
drew dobbs # 1,2 12 sins of christmas cd mindwrecker
james brown lets make xmas mean something...
joseph spence santa claus is coming ...
experts of legitimization breathe commercial ad hoc cd illegal art
ecc the christmas wrong plagiarythm nation cd seeland
drew dobbs dubcracker suite
portsmouth sinfonia orch. dance of the sugar plum fairy ...plays the popular classics lp
crafty ladies xmas 7" rudolf the red nosed reindeer
esquivel blue christmas
drew dobbs #8 12 sins of xmas cd
sonics don't believe in christmas
korla pandit merry xmas
wax audio happy xmas
3 suns ding dong dandy ding dong dandy xmas lp rca
sy mann/jj perrey jingle bells
he 5 jingle bells merry christmas lp
escape mechanism elf song droplift cd
drew dobbs helpful 12 sins of... cd mindwrecker
mel henke baby its cold outside la dolce henke lp warner brothers
the sisterhood christmas treat, peppermint
black flag gimme gimme, gimme 7" sst
excerpts v/vm v/a xmas 7"
drew d ?
wild man fischer/dr.demento i'm a christmas tree
little marcy c.h.r.i.s.t.m.a.s.
patsy raye & the beatniks beatnik's wish
drew dobbs # 10 12 sins of... cd
confidential to lisa: no, the show isn't archived for pod cast... was unable to respond to your email... thanks for your interest and we hope to get our music programming archived asap!
A Different Nature playlist for 01/03/2011
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris & Conduction, part 2 of 6
Sketches of NYC (7:29) / from Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris (Nublu, 2006)
Conduction #25, The Akbank Conduction (45:00), Conduction #26, Akbank II (7:04) / from the 10-CD box set Testament: A Conduction Collection (New World, 1995)
"Conduction #135, Sheng Skyscraper (53:34) / from "Conduction / Induction" (Rai Trade, 2007)
for a complete listing of personnel, go to the Butch Morris website: www.conduction.us
and download Conduction Chronology.
to learn more about the documentary Black February: http://blackfeb.com/
host: Andy Hosch /// This evening we bring you the second in a six part series on the music of composer and conductor Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, recognized internationally as the principal theorist and practitioner in the evolution of Conduction, and a leading innovator in the confluence of jazz, new music, improvisation and contemporary classical music. Butch's work redefines the role of composer, conductor, arranger and performer and bridges the gap between the composer, interpreter and improviser. Over the last 25 years Morris has led over 180 Conductions in cities around the world. In this second installment, we will hear conductions which feature traditional instruments from Turkey and China, along with Western instruments and electronics
This series will continue on the 1st Monday of each month (with the possible exception of April, when it may be preempted by special Membership Drive programming). Also, I am arranging to do an interview with Butch Morris which we hope to air later in the series. So tune in and get ready to check out some truly amazing sounds. Visit Butch Morris's website at http://www.conduction.us/ and also go to http://blackfeb.com to learn about the recently released documentary film, "Black February" which follows a month long series of Conduction performances in New York during February, 2005 celebrating the 20th anniversary since of of Morris' first Conduction.
The following is an excerpt taken from the book Arcana II (John Zorn, et al.) as reprinted in the liner notes to the double CD "conduction/induction" (Rai Trade, 2007). I think it is very informative to hear, in Butch Morris' own words, his description of the principles of Conduction and of his overall artistic philosophy:
"For more than 20 years through Conduction, I have had the privilege to engage and enjoy, from the inside, this intermediate space between notation and improvisation, acquiring new skills and perspectives while doing so.
The context, of course, has been polarized by history and practice: musicians and musical communities bound by notation and musicians and musical communities bound by improvisation. Yet between them is the space where a potential for new life, an expansive range of expression that has gone untouched, prevails; and where ideals and ideas incubate for the continuum of the 'musical' canon.
Conduction®: a vocabulary of ideographic signs and gestures activated to modify or construct a real-time musical arrangement (of any notation) or composition. Each sign and gesture transmits generative information for interpretation and provides instantaneous possibilities for altering or initiating harmony, melody, rhythm, articulation, phrasing or form.
Conduction concerns transmission, communication and expression; a common ground where all culture and style cohabit, not only by way of their distinctiveness, but also in how each contributes, in the ensemble, to a unique encounter. More intimately, it concerns a capacity of musicianship for new skills with new principles.
The vocabulary of Conduction is symbolic information (directives: signs and gestures) that carry definition and meaning to propel musicians toward substantive understanding and achievement. It provides the precision and the focus needed to navigate music's vast terrain.
The principles of Conduction foster, enhance and evoke the analytical reasoning of each musician's history, knowledge, intelligence, experience, instinct, intuition, expression, will and fantasy as fundamental requirement.
In Conduction, the art of composition and the immediacy of performance become interdependent -- while the language of music cultivates and integrates all vernaculars and traditions open to, and in, the ensemble.
Results are ever present: enhanced musicianship; discovery of structure and substance in the arc of the performance; the evolution of a social logic based on new reciprocities between human and music, and between composer and conductor, conductor as composer, instrumentalist and conductor, instrumentalist and composer -- and audience, attaining new levels of momentary logic and new clarities about the character of the work itself.
Now, this bridge that Conduction builds between notation and improvisation fuels interest. For with it, I can identify, embrace and exploit the weaknesses and strengths of both together and depict, in the process, core limitations in either. Conduction also requires its realization in physical, rather than theoretical, form to facilitate (new) kinds of augmentation. The logic of circumstance(s) dictates the maximizing of encounter, and the musical and social structures that grow from such encounter.
Conduction is vivacious in that it draws on the full expanse of musical design while asking of its musicians that they refine their capacities beyond style and cultural aesthetic or social difference.
There are as many rewards as questions here but none, it seems, as significant as that which opens pathways, both individually and collectively; pathways shuttered previously by custom or fear. And I refer to the exclusionary focus of most musical traditions and to the fear of compromising identity.
Conduction, however, is not in contestation with given forms as much as it seeks to supplement them with a greater appreciation of possibility -- a capacity for dialogue uniquely spurred by the moments and movements that appear and vanish.
At the same time, by stripping away predispositions to value this or that in music, we also construct a mirror to the kinds of relationships that subsist in society, and the wherewithal of music to challenge and transform them; a community in microcosm that functions via this dynamic.
Conduction is neither method nor process, but practicum that reveals only in practice and through all its metaphorical concepts.
A sonic arena utilizing every tool in its arsenal to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct with and from the basic properties of pitch, duration, intensity and timbre. Primed by an 'Extra Dimension,' which motivates us to engage and respond within, as beyond, all territory, Conduction invokes a continuum that thrives in a real-time transmission of relationships and meaning; the spontaneity and precision that we need to ignite and combust order and organization within sonic thought.
From the conductor's perspective, Conduction is the art of "environing," the organization of surrounding things, conditions or influences. It is a technique to capture and discover sonic information, structure and sub-structure, meaning, implication and expression (as we construct together) -- all primary values in our pursuit of coherence and poignancy, and the immediacy of place.
From the perspective of the instrumentalist, the musician learns that Conduction is ensemble skill, and that Conduction's criteria drive attentiveness, discrimination, understanding, perception and execution. Each sign in the Conduction Vocabulary has definition, yet within that definition each musician is obliged to qualitatively define its 'content'. The descriptive (vocabulary) thus generates prospect; and by virtue of the definition attached to each sign, each interpretation evolves by progressive self-development through historical and momentary orientation.
To contribute to Conduction, the musician reveals explicit content within the evolving work. As such, musical flexibility and potential expand as we explore a new condition of liberty to foster individual and collective freedoms in real time.
A state of risk, certainly; a distillation of immediacy, no doubt; the incarnation of a step in the evolution of music that each musician embodies – this is a goal.
Conduction is an art that flowers in contradiction (for some), ambiguity (for others) and encounter (for all involved). By constructing, deconstructing and contrasting composition at will, we forge an intermediate space, both intensive and extensive, for the evolution of ensemble music, and for a new virtuoso thus versed.
In this way, Conduction opens a range of possibility previously unknown, just barely known or in what we know all too well. After all, Conduction is a way to explore music as we make it -- a probe to mine music and the ensemble at its most basic levels.
All in all, what we have here is the evolution of a model of empirical form; a way to contribute to the musical continuum as possibility and a (new) musical responsibility where the collective determines the experience of symbolic sonic stimuli; where all forms of notation, improvisation, style and thought combine to establish a unique constellation of momentary logic (improvisation); where consciences can mature in a perfectly working precision that can never reach what is traditionally known as perfection."
Folk Espresso playlist for 01/03/2011
|Hank Payne and Claire Favro
|Shade Tree Mechanic
|Heart of the Matter
|Nick Jaina
|Strawberry Man
|Friends & Friends of Friends, Vol. III
|Jane Wright
|Long Time Comin' Now
|Southern Songs and Ballads
|Lucinda Williams
|Three Fingered Jack
|Tuustepp/Baghad Gus
|Bigger Than You Think
|Patty Larkin and Cheryl Wheeler
|Island of Time
|Mark Lemhouse
|Paper Sack
|The Great American Yard Sale
|Tom Waits
|Ol' '55
|Closing Time
|David Hidalgo and Louie Perez
|Til the Hands Fall Off the Clock
|The Long Goodbye
|Johnny Edson
|Father Time
|More Than Friends
|Andrew Calhoun
|Sea of Snow
|Where Blue Meets Blue
|Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
|The Ultimate Collection
|The Craig Carothers Trio
|Caravan Gogh
|Bliss Ball
|Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet
|Kangding Qingge / Old Timey Dance Party
|Assembly of Dust with Martin Sexton and Tony Rice
|Some Assembly Required
|Bill Morrissey
|Party at the U.N.
|Standing Eight
|Chris Kokesh
|Hell of a Year
|October Valentine
|Miguel Martinez
|Brand New Start
Dear Listeners,
Glad to have you along for the first Folk Espresso of the new year. As always, it was a fun show to put together. I threw in a few time-related songs since the passing of time was on our minds this past weekend...and I had a set for a dear friend who celebrated a birthday yesterday. I sure hope you caught the words of the very funny song, Father Time, about growing old. Leave it to Johnny Edson to make us laugh...
Keep on listenin'.
Astral Traveling playlist for 01/02/2011
|Toudie Heath
|O'Be Records
|The Q4
|Darker Days EP
|Self Released
|Hal Singer & Jeff Gilson
|Mother Africa
|Soul Of Africa
|Kindered Spirits
|Bobby Hutcherson & Harold Land
|Going Down South
|San Francisco
|Blue Note
|Milt Jackson
|I'm Not So Sure
|Weather Report
|Weather Report
|Freddie Hubbard
|Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
|First Light
|Saravah Soul
|Se Da DO
|Cultura Impura
|Tru Thoughts
|Alphonze Mouzon
|Crying Angeles
|The Essence Of Mystery
|Blue Note
|Ocote Soul Sounds
|Revenge Of The Cacaroach
|Coconut Rock
|Ocote Soul Sounds
|Tres Ratas
|Coconut Rock
|Dizzy Gilespie
|Me 'N Them
|Portait Of Jenny
|Shawn Lee & Cluctchy Hopkins
|Ancient Chineese Secret
|Coletânea Difusor de Som 1
|Leny Andrade
|Influenca Do Jazz
|Bossa Nova, Sua Historia, Sua Gente
|Foster Sylvers
|Urban Classics
Music Without Borders playlist for 01/02/2011
|An Introduction To Amiata's Secret World Vol. 1
|M Path
|The Longing
|Trance Planet Volume 5
|What Did She Say
|Funk 'n Ghandi
|Divine Chants Of Shiva
|Shiva Tandva Stotram
|Divine Chants Of Shiva
|Funk 'n Ghandi
|Funk n' Gandhi
|Funk 'n Ghandi
|Omar Faruk Telbilek
|Tantra Lounge, Vol. 5
|Orient Expressions
|Dera Sor
|Tantra Lounge, Vol. 5
|Oualahila Ar Tesninam
|The Rough Guide To Planet Rock
|Third Planet
|Trance Planet, Vol. 5
|Etran Finatawa
|The Rough Guide To Planet Rock
|Ba Cissoko
|The Rough Guide To Planet Rock
|Tantra Lounge, Vol. 5
|Zion I
|North Star
|Atomic Clock
|Zion I
|Signs Of Light
|Atomic Clock
|Reflection Eternal: Talib Kweli & HiTek
|So Good
|Revolutions Per Minute
|At The Same Time
|Cook Book
|Night Owls 5: Bird Flu
|Mic Crenshaw f/Proper Respect
|That Glue
|Under The Sun
|Erykah Badu
|New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
|Erykah Badu
|The Healer/Hip Hop
|New Amerykah: Part One(4th World War)
|Ancient Astronauts f/Azeem & DJ Zeph
|We Are To Answer
|Kabanjak f/Azeem
|Tree Of Mystery
|I Don't Want To Work Today
|Tree Of Mystery
|Shawn Lee
|Fade Up(Instrumental)
|Sing A Song
|Balkan Beat Box f/Victoria Hanna
|Adir Adirim
|Balkan Beat Box
Portland Yiddish Hour playlist for 01/02/2011
|Paul Shapiro
|Tzadik Records
|New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
|Struttin' With Some Doner Kabob
|Fresh Out the Past
|Paul Shapiro
|Dunkin' Bagel
|Tzadik Records
|The Renaissance Players
|Los Guisados de la Berenjena
|The Sephardic Experience, Vol. 4
|Celestial Harmonies
|Eretz Zavat Chalav
|Heart Beat
|Oyster Albums
|New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
|Coney Island White Fish
|Fresh Out the Past
|New Orleans Klezmer Allstars
|Mo' White Fish
|Scott Gerber
|Songs of a Jewish Cowboy
|Peisachke Burstein
|From Avenue A to The Great White Way
|Meat Street
|Citizen Boris
|JDub Records
|Fresh Off Boat
|JDub Records
Hosted by Liz, featuring an interview with Nigel Savage, founder and executive director of Hazon, a Jewish environmental organization. For more information about Hazon, go to http://www.hazon.org. For more information about Hazon's local chapter here in Portland, go to http://portlandtuv.org.
Also lots of great food-related music. Happy 2011!
Higher Reasoning Reggae Time playlist for 01/02/2011
|Who I Am
|mp3 single
|Born Free Music
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Baldhead Riddim version
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Prince Alla
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|Brother Culture
|Spiritually Equiped
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|All I Want
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|The Cure
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|Severine Vaena
|Little Sister
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|Raldo Asher
|Give Thanks And Praises
|Kinyama Sounds Presents Reggae Dishes
|Kinyama Sounds
|el Majebri
|el Majebri
|Antes del Fin
|Sonido Anti Sistem
|el Majebri
|Antes del Fin
|Sonido Anti Sistem
|Martin Zobel & Soulrise
|Rise Up
|One Future
|Irievibrations Records
|Martin Zobel & Soulrise
|The World Keeps Turning
|One Future
|Irievibrations Records
|Beautiful Soul
|mp3 single
|Born Free Music
|See Me
|mp3 single
|Born Free Music
|Soulmedic w/MASH Unit
|Re Lion Live
|Now You Know
|Jah Kebra Music
|Whom Shall I Fear
|Now You Know
|Jah Kebra Music
|The Truth
|Now You Know
|Jah Kebra Music
|Gideon Soldiers
|Now You Know
|Jah Kebra Music
|Soulmedic ft-Jah Sun
|Greatest Friend
|Now You Know
|Jah Kebra Music
|Mercy Dub
|10" Mercy Riddim EP
|King Dubbest
|Jah Rueben Mystic
|Take A Look
|10" Mercy Riddim EP
|King Dubbest
|Ras Zacharri
|Jah Rule
|10" Mercy Riddim EP
|King Dubbest
|Mark Wonder
|mp3 single
|Charlies Records
|Lutan Fyah
|Ras Always
|mp3 single
|Charlies Records
|Soom T & Disrupt
|Jungle Of Peace
|Ode To A Carrot
|JahTari Records
|Soom T & Disrupt
|Boom Shiva
|Ode To A Carrot
|JahTari Records
|Soom T & Disrupt
|Wee Rant
|Ode To A Carrot
|JahTari Records
|Soom T & Disrupt
|Puff The Police
|Ode To A Carrot
|JahTari Records
|Roots Intention Crew
|mp3 single
|RIC Music
|Ras Myrhdak
|Give Praises
|The Culture Riddim
|Blue Sky Productions
|Nations Of War
|The Culture Riddim
|Blue Sky Productions
|Conscious Rasta
|Fresh Poulp Records
|FC Apatride Utd
|Firing In
|Firing The Truth
|Urban Sedated
|FC Apatride Utd
|Firing The Truth
|Firing The Truth
|Urban Sedated
|FC Apatride Utd
|Nah With 'em
|Firing The Truth
|Urban Sedated
|Jah Fabio & Dada Yute
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Baldhead Rasta
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|For My Family
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Sister Cassie
|Some Rasta
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Natty Rag & Oge
|Children Of Zion
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Revolution Time
|Baldhead Riddim
|DJ Pensativo & Estudios Manifestos
|Midnite-I Grade
|The Bringers
|Jah Grid
|I Grade Records
|Midnite-I Grade
|Kin Dread
|Jah Grid
|I Grade Records
|Midnite-I Grade
|Under Management
|Jah Grid
|I Grade Records
|Midnite-I Grade
|High Place
|Jah Grid
|I Grade Records
|Midnite-I Grade
|Jah Grid
|I Grade Records
Nekropolis & The Confessional playlist for 01/02/2011
|Eastern Sunz
|Treadmill of Production
|Corroded Utopia
|Michael Franti
|Listener Supported
|Stay Human
|Twinkz & T.Webb
|Your Sickness
|Local Portland - 2010
|Winkz Productions
|Merry Clayton
|Gimme Shelter
|Strange Games & Funky Things Vol. 5
|Bill Summers
|Brazillian Skies
|Strange Games & Funky Things Vol. 5
|Calibro 35
|Titornana Quelili Di Calibro 35
|Believe in Something
|Time is Now
|Everything is Under Control
|Everything is Under Control
|Dayton Sidewinders
|Slipping into Darkness
|Cold Heat - Heavy Funk Rarities 1968-1974 Vol. 1
|Grace Jonze
|Jolie Holland & Joel Hamilton vs Kasai Allstars
|Tradi-Mods vs: Rockers
|Budos Band
|Crimson Skies
|The Budos Band III
|Sweet Snacks
|Chicken in your Face
|Submit to the Chip
|Giles Peterson
|Dizzy Rascal/I Luv You
|Giles Peterson
|Trente Moller
|silver Sufer Ghost Rider Go
|Into the Great Wide Yonder
|In My Room
|Dandy Warhols
|Welcome to third world
|Earth to the Dandy Warhols
|Emika "Drop the Other"
|Daedelus Fragments into a Thousand Little Pieces
|Ninja Tune XX Vol. 2
|Ninja Tune
|Twin Sister
|All Around and Away we go
|Color Your Life
|Infinate Best Recordings
|Beta Band
|Dry the Rain
|The 3 Ep's
|Superfurry animals
|Justaposed with You
|Rings Around the World
|Procol Harum
|A Salty Dog
|A Salty Dog
|Kelly Touch the Stars
|Moon Safari
|If Bwana/Lisa Barnard Kelley
|Ditto Lisa
Tonight featuring l;ocal Portland artist Twinkz & T. Webb http://www.reverbnation.com/winkzmusic.
An Amazing cover of Gimme Shelter by Merry Clayton from a compilation CD called Strange Games & Funky Things Vol. 5
Check out Timebomb www.brandtimebomb.com
Everything is Under Control - that's what Coldcut said.
Jazz Rap 2 playlist for 01/01/2011
|Les Mc cann
|What's going on
|talk to the people
|Donny Hathaway
|" " "
|Marvin Gaye
|" " "
|What's Going On
|Wm DeVaughn
|Be thankful
|Be Thankful
|Kenny Garrett
|Happy People
|Happy People
|The Blackbyrds
|Happy Music
|City LIfe
|Donald Byrd
|Sister Love
|Street Lady
|K. Garrett
|Back to where.
|Simply Said
|Bob Baldwin
|For YOu
|Bheki Mseleku
|One for all - All for one
|Stevie Wonder
|Perfect Angel
|You tube
|Lonnie Plaxico
|Climb Every Mountain
|West Side Stories
|Dexter Wansel
|What the World is coming To
|Very Best of...
|Philippe Saisse
|Ready to Go
|Grover Washington, Jr.
|Things Are Getting Better
|Best is Yet to Come
|Vivian Green
|What is love
|A love story
|The Crusders
|It happens...
|free As the wind
|Ronnie Laws
|you knew
|dream a little
|Craig Cooper
|touch tone
|touch tone
|Lee Ritenour
|youg caught me smiling
|Sly Stone
|""" """ """
|George Howard
|""" """ """
|There is a riot
|Grover Washington, Jr.
|Best is yet to come
|best is yet to come
|Etieen Charles
Music from the True Vine playlist for 01/01/2011
|Bill Monroe
|Jerusalem Ridge
|Bill Monroe
|First Whipporwill
|Bill Monroe
|Dog House Blues
|Bill Monroe
|You'll Find Her Name Written There
|Bill Monroe
|Bluegrass Stomp
|Bill Monroe
|Going Back to Old Kentucky
|Bill Monroe
|Walking in Jerusalem
|Nashville BG Band
|Mike Compton, Dave Grier
|Ashland Breakdown
|Mike Compton, Dave Grier
|David Grier
|The Old Hotel Rag
|David Grier
|Smith Chapel
|Rubber Dolly
|Foghorn Stringband
|Danville Girl
|Greg Clarke
|Georgie Buck
|Rabbit Foot
|Billy in the Low Ground
|Ron Kane
|Back to the Ridge
|Vivian Williams
|Dance All Night
|Hazel Dickens
|Love Me or Leave me Alone
|Hazel Dickens
|Won't You Come and Sign for Me
|Hazel Dickens
|Hills of Home
|Spring on the Hill
|Alabama Jubilee
|St. Elinor
|Del McCoury
|Lonesome Hobo
|Del McCoury
|1952 Vincent Black Lightning
|Del McCoury
|I've Endured
|Del McCoury
|Working on a Building
|Del McCoury
|Asheville Turnaround
|Del McCoury
|Prisoner's Song
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|Pick up the Blues
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|Lovin' Pretty Women
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|A Ramblin' Man Is a Ramblin' Man
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|Tennessee Blues
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|Turn Up the Bottle
|Steep Canyon Rangers
|Orange Blossom Special
|Laurie Lewis
|Diamond Joe
|Laurie Lewis
|Laurie Lewis
|Hard Luck & Trouble
|John Reishmann
|Bishbash Falls
|John Reishmannn
|Lonesome Dove
|John Reishmann
|Bluegrass Signal
|Bryan Sutton
|NElia's Dance
|Tim O'Brien
|Climbin' Up a Mtn
|Hot Rize
|Untold Stories
|Tim O'Brien, Dirk, John Harmann
|Raleigh and Spencer
|Bryan Sutton
|Bryan Sutton
|Decision at Glady's Fork
|Stanley Bros
|Bound to Ride
|Stanley Bros
|With Whiskey and Wine
|Stanley Bros
|Darling Do You Know Who Loves You
|Stanley Bros
|No Letter in the Mail
|Stanley Bros
|16 Years
SongCircle playlist for 12/31/2010
|Bob Dylan
|Days of '49
|Self Portrait
|Randy Newman
|Dayton, Ohio 1903
|Live in San Francisco 1974
|Woody Guthrie
|1913 Massacre
|The Zombies
|Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)
|Odessey and Oracle
|Patti Smith
|Peace and Noise
|Rickie Lee Jones
|On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
|Rickie Lee Jones
|Dave Alvin
|Blackjack David
|Charlie Daniels Band
|Summer of '68
|Land that I Love
|The Stooges
|1969 (Original John Cale Mix)
|The Stooges (Deluxe Edition)
|The Stooges
|1970 (Single Mix)
|Funhouse (Deluxe Edition)
|Ringo Starr
|Early 1970
|Photograph: The Best of Ringo Starr
|Robyn Hitchcock
|Storefront Hitchcock
|The Clash
|Super Black Market Clash
|Ana Tijoux
|Clear (reissue)
|Sexcrime (1984)
|Greatest Hits (UK Edition)
|The Temptations
|Psychedelic Soul
|Winter Storm '98
|Introducing Cadallaca
|Conan O'Brien
|In the Year 2000 (snippet)
|Late Night with Conan O'Brien
|Dan Bern
|Zager and Evans
|In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)
|Nipper's Greatest Hits
A Categorized Program Not playlist for 01/01/2011
|Hank Williams
|I'll Sail My Ship Alone
|Wedding BellsMind Your Own Business
|Mothers Best
|Lovesick Blues
|My Sweet Love Aint Around
|Jerry Rivers
|Fire On The Mountain
|I Saw The Light
|Closing Theme
|Luke The Drifter
|Everythings Ok
|I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
|Where The Old Red River Flows
|Alabama Waltz
|I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
|Black Mountain Rag
|I Heard My Savior Calling Me
|Deck Of Cards
|Just Waitin
A Categorized Program Not playlist for 01/01/2011
|Hank Williams
|Lovesick Blues
|Mothers Best
|Noboby's Lonesome For Me
|Twin Guitar Polka
|GatheringFlowers For The Masters Bouquet
|Eighth of Janurary
|Cold Cold Heart
|Move It On Over
|Lonesome Whistle
|Long Gone Lonesome Blues
|Hey Good Lookin'
|I Can't Help It
|Why Don't You Love Me
|A Mansion On The Hill
|Moanin' The Blues
|Southern Harmony
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The Little Details
Running Time: 127 min.
Production Date: 2 / 13 / 2007
Director: William H.
Cast: Harmony, Jamie Elle, Naomi, Rebecca Linares, Sophie Dee, Anthony Rosano, Billy Glyde, John Strong, and Mark Ashley
The Short Story
Initial Expectations: William H. has been turning out some great movies that deserve a heck of a lot more attention than they're getting. I can't help but look forward to this one.
Initial Reaction: It's a great anal cream pie and milk enema movie.
Who Should Watch It : Fans of anal sex and milk enemas
Who Should Avoid It: Anybody wanting group sex
The Technical Stuff
Audio /Video Quality: The technical aspects are nicely done. The audio is clear and well balanced, even when William H. chats with the cast, and I didn't notice any background noises. The video is nicely presented in the full frame format. It's well lit with just a hint of grain and some nicely smooth camera motion.
Music: There's a bit of music with a fairly standard dance beat for the tease portion of each scene. Each time it disappears as soon as the cock comes out.
Menus: The main menu works a bit of animation together with a clip from the movie and the boxcover still. The chapter menu shows some nice care, and lets you choose a scene based on a small clip of each scene and the name of the girl in it.
The FeatureWilliam H. has returned with another fetish. Actually, this time he's giving two fetishes for the price of one bringing in both anal cream pies and milk enemas for each and every scene. He starts each scene out with a little dance like he does in the Big Wet Asses series, and then moves on with the sex that works in a few milk enemas.
|Scene 1 � Rebecca Linares and John Strong
Hot raven-tressed covergirl Rebecca starts things out in a see through black bra with black and and turquoise panties. She shows off for the camera before passionately kissing John as he mixes in a little appreciation for her tits and then lets her drop down to get his pants out of the way so she can eagerly suck his cock. John mixes in a little pussy licking for her as she blows him, and then kisses her passionately while spooning her pussy. John also gives her ass some good hard spooning before letting Rebecca get on all fours so he can fill it up with milk and she can spray it all over. He moves on to give her a good hard shithole spearing doggie style with Rebecca taking a few very nice tastes of it before sliding her ass back on his cock reverse cowgirl style. She sucks the cock clean again before getting back up for the anal cowgirl ride, and after he picks her up to fuck her ass in midair John lays her back down to lick her pussy and fuck each of her holes missionary style. John lets Rebecca show off a few gapes, and finally busts a nut in her ass for her to squeeze back out. Afterwards she lets him fill her ass up with milk one more time for her to squeeze back out to rinse herself out.
This is a smoking hot scene. While Rebecca flew under my radar for quite a while, she recently exploded onto it. She looks fantastic here and turns out one heck of a smoking hot anal scene. John really pounds her ass throughout the scene, and she takes it all with great vocals and a look that she enjoys almost every single moment of it. They move nicely between the positions, and John looks to put some nice care into making sure Rebecca's getting pleasured as well as he is with the little breaks to lick her pussy. The anal cream pie looks nicely real and the milk enemas are also well done. This is a great scene to start the movie off with that once again leaves me needing to see more of Rebecca.
|Scene 2 � Harmony and Mark Ashley
Hot dirty blonde Harmony starts her scene out in a sexy red and black bra and panty set with black lacy boy shorts and black stockings showing off for the camera before she bends over the couch to see how much greenish milk she can fit in her ass. Of course she squirts it all back out as she works to empty the bottle in her ass before Mark arrives and slides his cock into her ass from behind. He pounds her ass from behind and fucks her face while also mixing in a little titty fucking. Mark moves on to fuck each of Harmony's holes missionary style, and looks like he might even finger her pussy to a squirt while fucking her ass. Harmony also gets up for a cowgirl ride for each of her holes and shows off some nice gapes before taking the reverse cowgirl anal ride as well as a load in her ass. She cumfarts it back out onto the floor and laps it up while giving plenty of nasty looks at the camera. Afterwards she lets Mark give her a few more green milk enemas.
This is a hot and nasty scene. As usual, Harmony looks fantastic and takes a cock in the ass amazingly well. She and Mark have great chemistry here as well as some great vocals, and the possible squirt took the scene up yet another notch. This is another winner of a scene.
|Scene 3 � Jamie Elle and Anthony Rosano
Cute little brunette Jamie starts her scene out in a cut off pink mesh shirt with a little chain necklace, black shorts, and pink and black fishnet stockings. She chats with William H. about how her tummy and her bottom are hungry, and when she tries to give her bottom a bit of milk determines that she needs some help. When William calls for help Anthony arrives with a hard cock and helps feed her ass a nice bottle of milk as well as lapping at it a bit. They sixty nine so he can eat Jamie a bit more while she takes his cock into her throat before she moves up to ride him reverse cowgirl style. Anthony continues to fuck her pussy through cowgirl, doggie, and missionary while Jamie mixes in a little more cocksucking before Jamie finally gives up the ass reverse cowgirl style. She sucks him clean when she hops off and mixes in a little titty fucking before getting up for another reverse cowgirl ride. Anthony unloads in her ass, and after she squirts it out and takes a quick taste, gives her a few more milk enemas.
This is a pretty good scene. I've really come to like Jamie's scenes lately, and here I was very happy with it as it started out as it let her be a very sexual woman rather than working the little girl aspect that I will admit that she does very well. Although she does a good job here, my problem is that there just isn't much anal sex here. The scene started off very nice with Jamie talking with William, but the focus here seemed to be on pussy sex more than anything. This isn't a bad scene, but it just can't keep up with the rest of the movie.
|Scene 4 � Naomi and Billy Glyde
After dancing around in a little black mesh outfit and panties, the action moves to the kitchen where Naomi and Billy kiss before he tongues her ass and fills it up with some pink milk for her to squirt back out. He leads her out to a bright colored couch next where Naomi helps him out of his shorts to happily suck his cock. She gets up to ride him cowgirl style before laying back for him to fuck her missionary style. They exchange a few oral favors before Billy fucks her from behind in each of her holes and lets her impale her ass on his cock reverse cowgirl style. Finally Billy pops in her ass and she pushes it out to have a taste.
This is a pretty good scene. Naomi and Billy have very nice chemistry, and she takes his big cock in each of her holes without a problem and with some nicely believable vocals. The only thing that really holds the scene back is that Naomi pretty much looks like crap here. I'm not sure she has half the ass she did a year ago, her face looks almost bony, and you can easily count her ribs and see more bone definition than muscle definition with her dress on. It gets pulled up to show some tummy, but I think more than anything it was to bunch it up around the ribs so it wasn't as noticeable. The scene was also held back just a tad by the greatly reduced amount of milk enemas. This is a pretty hot scene, but I can't help but hope that Naomi was paid in food and a trip to a food nutritionist.
|Scene 5 � Sophie Dee and John Strong
Hot busty brunette Sophie shows off some of what she brings to the party in a sexy black mesh top and panties before things cut to John kissing her hard on the mouth while she strokes his cock. Sophie gets down to suck John's cock a bit before getting on all fours and letting him give her a pink milk enema as she giggles away. They take to the couch for him to spoon her pussy before rolling around a bit so she can ride him in both cowgirls. Sophie lets him spear her shitpussy reverse cowgirl style as he fucks some leftover milk out of her ass before sucking him clean and letting him spoon her ass. She sucks John's cock clean again before letting him fuck her ass doggie and missionary style. Finally Sophie has John nut in her ass before she squirts it back out and and takes a few more milk enemas.
Sophie and John help Blow it Out Your Ass to end on a very high note. Sophie has a great body and takes it in the ass extremely well. I love her little giggles as John fills her ass up with milk and her enthusiasm to do more of them. That mix of fun and nastiness really won me over here, and left me hoping to see more of Sophie in the future.
Blow it Out Your Ass is a darn hot fuck flick. As usual, William H. has a great eye behind the camera, and does a very nice job blending camera angles so you get to see not just the penetrations and the reactions, but nice mixes of distance shots where you can see both and close-ups of each. As usual, he also appears to have put some very nice care into choosing the cast, as there isn't a bad choice here. John Strong easily leads the male cast by helping to turn out the two best scenes in the movie. He starts it with Rebecca Linares and ends it with Sophie Dee, both times having great chemistry with the partners while turning out a very energetic fuck with a partner who's nicely vocal and natural feeling. Surprisingly, Jamie Elle ended up being the weak link here with a scene that was fairly light on the anal. Naomi also fell a bit short looking like she hasn't had more than a handful of food in the last three months as well as being very light on the milk enemas. Blow it Out Your Ass is a hot anal cream pie and milk enema movie that's every bit as good as one would expect from William H.
The Extra StuffThe photo gallery lasts nearly five and three quarter minutes with about eight seconds per full screen capture which ranges from okay to poor. Normally Elegant Angel takes some very nice stills, and that leaves this gallery feeling very disappointing. Trailers are included for Jada Fire is Squirtwoman, So You Think You Can Squirt?, Big Black Wet Asses 6, Big Wet Asses 10, Squirt in My Gape 2, and Latin Booty Worship. There's also weblinks, cumshot recaps, a pair of bonus scenes, and extra footage.
The bonus footage lasts just under three minutes. You get a little extra footage with Rebecca taking it up the cornhole as well as plenty of Harmony getting fingered and fucked. There's nothing that seems too wrong with the footage, and it ends up a nice little extra.
|Bonus Scene 1 � Flower Tucci, Sierra Sinn, and Mark Ashley
The first bonus scene comes from Squirt in My Gape. Flower and Sierra start things out sharing a kiss in pink mesh tops as they work Sierra up to a quick squirt with a pair of toys. When they pull the toy up to suck it, Mark moves in to give them something better to suck with the girls eagerly teaming up on it while giving him some great eyes. Sierra moves up to let Mark play with her until she squirts down on Flower as well as letting him fuck her from behind. Flower gets on all fours so they can work on her holes with tongue and fingers before Mark fucks her doggie style with Sierra behind her to capture as much of Flower's showers as she can. Flower lets Sierra have a technical DP fucking her ass with a vibe as she rides Mark cowgirl style as well as reaching in to stretch it open as Sierra squirts repeatedly. The girls team up to suck him clean before Flower pile drives Sierra's ass with a toy while riding Mark reverse cowgirl style so she can squirt in her gaping ass. Flower even moves Mark back to her asshole so she can take the other end of the toy in her pussy before they each take a taste of ass and trade places. The girls keep squirting as they stack themselves up for Mark to work his way between their holes missionary style before Sierra gets down to take his seed all over her face and in her mouth with Flower arriving to take the last little taste before having Sierra swap it over to her. Afterwards, Flower stretches Sierra's ass open and drops the cum into her gaping ass before sucking it out and dropping it back in again.
This is a darn hot and nasty scene. Flower and Sierra seem very nicely matched in their energy and nastiness while Mark plays to both of them extremely well. He never shows a preference towards either of them and seems only to want to see how many times he can make each of them squirt. That chemistry drives the scene extremely well, and its helped out even more by the nastiness and how well the girls squirt. There isn't a lot of them squirting into each other's gapes, but there is plenty of squirting and anal action. This is a hot and nasty scene that's every bit as good as I hoped for.
|Bonus Scene 2 � Sandra Romain and Mark Ashley
Hot brunette Sandra starts out the second bonus scene, which comes from the fantastic Big Wet Asses 8, shaking her ass and giving the camera a little show in a camo bikini and clear over black porno pumps before sliding down her shorts to get her ass nice and wet. The action moves to Sandra standing over Mark's face so he can admire her from below while stroking his cock. She pulls down her shorts and shoves them into his mouth before squatting down to smother him with her ass and make him lick her holes. Sandra leans forward so Mark can have a little oral pleasure as well, and he works her to a couple orgasms with his fingers while she sucks him. They move to the couch for Mark to fuck Sandra's holes missionary style before he lets her be on top with a cowgirl ride. Sandra moves up for a little more oral action before sliding back down to impale her ass on his cock reverse cowgirl style. Sandra hops off for a little more sixty-nining and to suck it clean before getting on all fours for her ass to get nice and wet as well as both her holes fucked doggie style. They mix in a little sidesaddle before returning to the doggie fucking with Mark finally popping on Sandra's fantastic ass.
This is a smoking hot scene. Not only does Sandra look great, but she takes it in each of her holes as good as ever. The scene is also helped by some fantastic chemistry between her and Mark, with Mark looking like she was taking so much out of him that he might pass out at any moment. It's a great thing to see in a sex scene, especially since Mark has been showing himself to be one of the best woodsmen out there. This is a fantastic scene that shows why William H. should be getting a heck of a lot more attention than he seems to be getting.
The Down -n- Dirty Sex Stuff
Themes: Straight, tease, anal, milk enemas, ass to mouth, cream pies (anal), titty fucking, cum farting, swallowing, and rimming (male > female)
Raincoat Factor: Borderline extreme
Condom Usage: None
The Bottom Line:Currently, many of Elegant Angel�s DVDs can be found online for between about $15 and $25 with most stores offering them for under $20. If you're a fan of anal cream pies or milk enemas, this one's going to be well worth the money. The sex is hot with every girl taking a few milk enemas and an anal cream pie finish. The technical aspects are well done, and there's also some nice effort put into the extras. This is yet another William H. winner that shows all the care one has come to expect from Elegant Angel.
Note to Elegant Angel: Thank you for putting such consistent care into your DVDs lately. It does make a big difference.
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Rev. John Lindell says that while homosexual tendencies may be natural, they should be restricted like some other natural tendencies.
Through science we are learning more and more about the human animal. One of the things we are learning is that homosexuality is not a choice. It is natural to some people. Natural like blue eyes, brown hair, being tall, short. We do not chose to be gay.
You compare our "tendencies" as you call them to greed, deceit, gambling or chemical dependence. How very offensive. I don't have to judge you. God will do that.
You say your mission is not to hate. Sociological studies have shown that your type of rhetoric does foster hate. It feeds people who look for a reason to hate or harm others.
In loving the very special man in my life I am carrying out part of the great commission from Christ.
According to you, we have a natural tendency, but it should have no legal protection. You chose your religion and you have protections. You even get to preach your ideas freely not only in the vocal sense, but you aren't taxed because you are a church.
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On Medicare, an even more substantial problem, Republicans should propose more substantial solutions, along the lines of the Ryan-Rivlin model — only phased in more quickly (while grandfathering in current beneficiaries). Medicare's broken system — which is a major reason why the costs of Medicare and Medicaid have risen 33 percent more, per patient, than the costs of all other health care in America — should be transformed into a sustainable system in which the government (meaning, the taxpayer) continues to be the payer, but future Medicare beneficiaries (and whichever current ones freely decide they'd like to switch) get to take the money they are given and use it to buy a private plan of their choice. This will give seniors more control, will give everyone involved the incentive and opportunity to pursue, or provide, good value, and will therefore lower health costs without reducing the quality of care. In many cases, these reforms would actually lead to higher quality care, as providers are now often rewarded financially for not getting the diagnosis right the first time and instead putting patients through unnecessary tests or procedures.
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In short, Republicans should force President Obama to make the case against needed entitlement reforms that the CBO scores as — finally! — making a real dent in our federal deficits and debt, rather than letting him make the case against entitlement reforms that the CBO scores as not doing much good at all over ten years. If Republicans are to go down the road of entitlement reform — as they must — they must go boldly.
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What is Grindhouse? Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez discuss the films that inspired their horror double feature GRINDHOUSE over at Yahoo. I wonder why they keep giving yahoo all this good stuff while ignoring the sites that are really into this kind of thing and cover it day to day? Go check it out.
Grind House – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies.
From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. Grind House will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director.
Tarantino's film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the grind house - it'll tear you in two.


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A bucket full of fail: How the world's journos fudged Thailand fried chicken story
Never before has a story about fried chicken resulted in so much fail. It all started on May 28 when Andrew Spooner Tweeted this pic:
Just to recap: it's a pic of a restaurant called Hitler that probably sells fried chicken. When Andrew posted the snap, the Twitterverse reacted with a somewhat modest outpouring of witty remarks and sniggers. It wasn't the first time Hitler had popped up in an unexpected place in Thailand. There was little more to say about the matter. So it had really been forgotten until the Daily Mail came along on July 5 with its story headlined Fried chicken takeaway called 'Hitler' opens in Thailand and comes complete with logo of Nazi leader in a bow tie. Yikes!
Leading into the story, we got these two bullet points:
- Bizarre restaurant opened last month in Bangkok
- Images of Hitler have also been seen on t-shirts in Thailand
Then the fun really began:
Thailand's obsession with so-called 'Nazis chic' just won't go away – and now a fried chicken takeaway called Hitler – complete with a logo showing the Nazi leader in a bow tie – has opened its doors.
The bizarre restaurant opened last month in Thailand and images of it are doing the rounds on Twitter as shocked customers take photos of the offensive eatery.
At this stage, I may as well point out a handful of things:
The restaurant isn't in Bangkok
Amusing Thailand posted the picture, submitted by someone using the handle Volker, along with a caption saying it's in Ubon Ratchatani, about 300 miles from Bangkok.
It didn't open last month
The pic on Amusing Thailand is dated March 12, 2012. Andrew's pic is from May just past.
There are no images of it doing the rounds, it's just this one pic
The pic posted by Andrew is the only one "doing the rounds".
Nobody has been taking photos of it because it isn't open any more (update: at least in this guise)
A user on the Thai Visa forum writes:
The photo of that supposedly "recently opened" fried chicken fast food joint in Bangkok is actually from a fried chicken restaurant in Ubon Ratchathani and at least 2 years old! Needless to say that this shop has CLOSED DOWN long, long ago (due to copyright infringement, by the way, because it had used 'Col. Sanders').
Things aren't off to a good start for the Daily Mail's article, apparently written by "Daily Mail Reporter". It gets worse, though:
Londoner Andrew Spooner, who spotted the takeaway, tweeted: "Very bizarre Hitler Fried Chicken shop in Thailand. I kid you not. Complete with pic of Hitler in bow tie."
Andrew didn't spot the takeaway. He tweeted the pic. Then we get a quote from "Alan Robertson, 43, who lives in Bangkok":
"The place opened last month and nobody quite knows what to make of it.
"I went in for a bite last week and got some fried chicken, which was pretty good, and asked the guy behind the counter why it was called Hitler."
"He just shrugged his shoulders and said the owners had thought it was good image."
ORLY, Alan? If it opened last month, there must have been a break in the space-time continuum because Andrew's Tweet is from May and the Amusing Thailand post is more than a year old. Did the Daily Mail make the quote up? Probably.
The media wasn't done yet, however. The Sun also picked up the story along with Huffington Post's Ron Dicker, who wrote that KFC is planning to take action against Hitler Fried Chicken, even though it likely doesn't exist.
"We find it extremely distasteful and are considering legal action since it is an infringement of our brand trademark and has nothing to do with us," a spokesman for KFC parent Yum! told The Huffington Post in an email.
Again, our friend Alan Robertson makes an appaerance. There's also a reference to the supposedly new trend "Hitler chic", which of course is neither new nor much of a trend.
Never ones to miss out on a scoop, the Bangkok Post then hashed together a story based on the Daily Mail's effort.
Images of the restaurant taken by shocked customers are making the rounds on Twitter, according to a report on Friday in the Daily Telegraph in London.
There is no story, at least that I can find, on the Daily Telegraph's website, so I'll assume that's just one of a number of successive blunders. Again, we have "images" taken by "shocked customers" "doing the rounds", none of which is true.
Andrew Spooner, a Bangkok-based journalist who spotted the restaurant, tweeted: "Very bizarre Hitler Fried Chicken shop in Thailand. I kid you not. Complete with pic of Hitler in bow tie."
Andrew Spooner is not Bangkok-based and he didn't spot the restaurant. Alan Robertson again shows up. For someone who more than likely isn't real, he's been getting a huge amount of publicity. (Alan, if you are real, I'll publish a full apology.)
The Bangkok Post apparently felt so ashamed of the story that it decided to delete it from its website in the hopes that maybe nobody would notice. It's still available on the mobile site at the time of writing, though.
Numerous other media outlets have also picked up the story, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to write a correction. Meanwhile, the comments sections of various newspapers have come alive with vitriol directed at Thailand, Thais and all the rest.
So how did so many people get so many things wrong with this story? It pretty much comes down to laziness. Thailand gets a lot of bad press for all kinds of reasons, but this is one of those times when it's the journos who have well and truly bodged it up.
Unless of course there really is a chicken shop in Bangkok called Hitler and Alan Robertson ate there last week. If that's the case, I'll stand corrected.
Not only did the Post delete their story, they also posted this one blaming everyone else for starting the fail ball rolling:
A widely circulated story about a fried-chicken restaurant in Thailand bearing the name and image of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler is stale news.
The story was first published on Friday in the London-based Daily Mail, one of the world's most visited news sites, and was picked up by the Bangkok Post among countless others.
The story has a basis in fact but the 'Hitler' restaurant has long since undergone an image makeover as the owner wanted to avoid criticism of any Nazi association. The Daily Mail observed that Hitler's image has appeared and continues to appear in many unusual places in Thailand.
The restaurant is in Ubon Ratchathani, not Bangkok as reported by the Daily Mail. Today it is known as 'H-ler' and bears a different sign, a local correspondent in the northeastern province said.
The picture used in the Daily Mail story was taken sometime in 2011 and copies have appeared in various online forums including Amusingthailand.com.
Andrew Spooner, a Bangkok-based journalist, expressed bemusement at the exposure the old news had received. "My tweet from a couple of months back about Hitler Fried Chicken in Thailand is in Daily Mail," he wrote on Twitter yesterday.
Andrew Spooner, however, remains a "Bangkok-based journalist", despite living in London. And his Tweet is from today, not yesterday. But I'm just nitpicking!
This pic from May 2011 may or may not be the most recent incarnation of Hitler Fried Chicken. I have no idea if this is the same place or not. I have no clue about anything in this story any more. (Update: This place does, however, have its own Facebook page, complete with pics and map.)
Addendum 2:
Here's a pic from 2009 posted on a forum when the restaurant was known as UEU (h/t: a reader):
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Bangkok Post's original story is still there on their mobile site. Since then, they've published a revised version http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/358663/hitler-chicken-off-the-menu which, in time-honoured Post fashion, admits none of their own errors. The revision is as near as they ever come to publishing a correction. So much for their [cough] journo's adherence to the Thai Journalists' Association Code of Conduct:
#2 – Provide only accurate news information and arrange to correct those found to be inaccurate.
Still, #5 reads: Perform duties for the greatest benefit of the public and restrain from seeking self-gain and from being an instrument of any group of people. – the second part of which they breach daily, so why expect anything quaint and trivial like accuracy or accepting responsibility?
That Hitler thing… I just found it on FB, tweeted it as a funny 2months back and forgot about it.
To see it in Mail, Sun, Huff Post and god knows where else today was extraordinary.
No idea who put them on to it and I'd not approached them nor they me before publication.
I did send Mail some corrections today but they didn't respond. I also pointed out that they couldn't have spoken to someone in Bangkok as the restaurant was in Ubon and that I hadn't taken the photo anyway.
Absurd but there you go.
At least Huff Post gave my book a plug… ;-)
I think the original from 2009 is here: http://www.harmonycentral.com/t5/Amps/Thailand-KFC-Rippoff-Hitler-Chicken/td-p/20987373
Thanks a bunch for the clarification!!
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So there was fried chicken joint that used Hitler as an icon, right?
In Thailand there seems to be an acceptance of use of Hitler's image as a symbol of things other than hatred and bad things, right?
I really think the rest is really just cutting teeth.
In large parts of the world, in particular in Asia, Hitler is just seen as the guy who waged war on the British Empire, and as far as their perspective on history goes, that makes him a good guy. An added bonus is that he built his empire (with the de rigueur accompaniment of slavery and genocide) slap bang in the heart of Europe, instead of doing it to them, like the Brits and Yanks did.
A simplistic and flawed view? Absolutely. But then ask anyone in the US about WW2, or indeed any other aspect of world history, and simplistic understanding of the issues would be a major step up!


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- 08-19-2009
August 19, 2009, 2:40 pm
I have some E 7016 electrodes and need to refresh why I got them.
Have looked on the internet and not found anything that clearly
explains what they are at least in terms of why one would choose them.
I know they are a low hydrogen rod sort of simular to E 7018 but
without the iron powder in the flux. So I am thinking one might use
them where you would use E 7018 , but where you have to start and stop
a lot. That is they may be a lot easier to restart than E 7018.
While asking about electrodes............ I have not found anything
on the internet about Nassau Polaris 18 electrodes. Can find Nassau
and Polaris, but nothing about Polaris 18.
August 19, 2009, 3:43 pm
- Richard Smith
August 19, 2009, 4:08 pm
Re: E 7016 electrode
7016's will run on AC. All the properties of a Basic
(limestone-based) flux welding rod and you can run it on a simple
robust hard-working AC welding transformer. Obviously, they run
perfectly on DC too.
If I remember rightly - 7016's have less slag than 7018's so are
better for some root-run and positional welding. I believe that for
welding oil-rigs for the North Sea in the 1970's a special low-slag
7016 was developed to make root-running to code quality manageable.
Don't know why you don't hear of 7015 (low-slag no-iron-powder Basic
electrode), when it isn't a problem for 7018's that only run on DC
(some exceptions?).
Richard Smith
August 19, 2009, 4:28 pm
August 20, 2009, 12:43 am
Re: E 7016 electrode
I submit that there are really only two varieties, they are those that are
free (or near free, like trade for other low value 'stuff") and those that
require an exchange of real (?) money. The free ones (can) work for most
everything we do, and the others should be reserved for critical or actual
(real money) paying work.
If you are near where any real work is being done then a lot of 'stuff'
falls off trucks.
When free, even exotics can be made to do quite simple work.
Never throw anything away, a real tradesman can always 'make do' with what
they have available.
Just my .02, YMMV
- Gunner Asch
August 21, 2009, 2:24 pm
August 22, 2009, 1:18 am
Re: E 7016 electrode
My observation is that if you throw it away, you will need exactly that in
three days or less. It has happened enough times that now it's gospel, and
my wife is accusing me of being a hoarder. But yet, she doesn't mind when I
come up with something from "The Sanford Yard" (as she calls it) to use
instead of going to that horribly expensive steel supplier. Picked up 800'
2.5" electrical underground PVC today for free. Plus eight sweeps. Now I
can wire my shop/container area.
- Gunner Asch
August 22, 2009, 3:45 am
August 22, 2009, 11:37 am
- Martin H. Eastburn
August 19, 2009, 9:44 pm
August 20, 2009, 7:46 am
Re: E 7016 electrode
B & H-7016 is a medium coated basic type hydrogen controlled electrode
producing a tough and ductile weldmetal.
* Ease of operation in all positions.
* Smooth and stable arc which is easy to strike and restrike.
* Easy deslagging.
* Finally ripped bead with regular profile.
* X-ray quality welds.
* Weldmetal possess excellent mechanical properties and is highly
resistant to cracking.
Thanks, I had looked at the Lincoln and Miller web sites , but did
not find anything that explained why one would choose 7016. I think I
must have gotten these rods after using some 7018 where the beads were
very short and the material was thick( requiring many restrikes )
Either that or I got them at Boeing Surplus 8-) after they were
chucked for being exposed to humidity.
- Denis G.
August 19, 2009, 10:02 pm
Re: E 7016 electrode
The MSDS for the Polaris 18 electrode is listed on Rockmount Nassau=92s
website: http://www.rockmountnassau.com/msds1.html , but it doesn=92t
provide more detail. Maybe it=92s a discontinued product. They have an
800 number, so maybe a call to them will answer your question about
its applications..
- fran...123
August 23, 2009, 11:10 pm
Re: E 7016 electrode
Hey Dan,
I just happened to find about them in a downloadable pipe welding manual at
Lincoln website. A little late but remembered this thread. It seems they
are for root passes in pipe using low hydrogen electrode. Usually it seems
cellulosic electrode is for root pass. Though this is for a more strong
than the weakest pipes it seems. No 7018 in this section of the literature.
Try one and see if it isn't a deep penetrating or fast freezing low hydrogen
Low Hydrogen Electrodes for Pipe Welding
Lincoln 16P (E7016)
Specially designed for vertical up welding of pipe. The thin coating of
the 3/32" (2.4 mm) size allows for its use in root pass welding. Can be used
in grades X-52 through X-65. Because of its unique burn-off
characteristics, it is recommended for welding of open joint gaps.
August 24, 2009, 2:21 am
- fran...123
August 24, 2009, 9:18 am
Re: E 7016 electrode
this link is on the page or a page about their version of 6010 or 5P
then you find this text
which seems to paste real tiny buy maybe you have all your newsgroups in
plain text so it is normal.
For vertical up and vertical down pipe welding technique,
request Lincoln bulletin C2.420, Welding Pressure Pipelines.
upon putting C2.420 into their search box I highlighted this text out of one
of the results and pasted it in.
What I copied straddles pages 32 and 33
I would expect using the basic technique you could amass quite a few similar
pdf files in a folder which are much easier to find than figuring out how
you found it last night. one might experiment with changing the numbers
like 2410 and 2420 and see what you get.
August 24, 2009, 10:50 pm
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August 24, 2009, 12:32 pm
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By Shawn Stone
of God
by Fernando Meirelles
Set in Rio de Janeiros most violent slumthe ironically named
City of GodFernando Meirelles dynamic film is a cinematically
ecstatic chronicle of a neighborhood that goes from bad to
worse over a span of three decades. (By the end of the picture,
the City of God resembles one of Dantes lower circles in
hell.) A volatile mix of real personalities, actual events,
folklore and mythic narrative flourishes, City of God
is by turns shocking, bloody, hilarious and tragic.
The story is told through the eyes of Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues),
a would-be photographer whose brother died a gangsters death.
The film opens with a virtuoso chase sequence that starts
with street kids and a chicken, and ends with the chicken
and Rocket pinned between ridiculously well-armed gangsters
and cops. The rest of the movie is told in flashback. The
joke is that when, at the end of the film, the story catches
up to the events leading to the opening sequence, the audience
is so inured to fates capriciousness in the City of God we
expect everyone will diecops, gangsters, Rocket and
A classic outsider, the good-natured Rocket couldnt turn
to crime in his worst moment; theres a sweet sequence in
which he intends to commit a stick-up, but cant because everyone
he meets (a friendly transit worker, a beautiful girl and
a guy with good pot) is too nice to rob. Most everyone else
in the film is some kind of thief or killer.
The social texture is richly evoked. One of the first gangsthe
Tender Trioare teens with more bravado than brains, and
a sensibility more akin to Robin Hood than Tony Montana. To
them, its like the Wild West; Meirelles underlines this with
the then-dusty, open vistas of the neighborhoods first incarnation.
Hardly more than boys, they hold up propane-gas trucks and
supermarkets, throwing cash to the crowds and dreaming of
bigger and better crimes. As the ghetto becomes more densely
developed, taking on a forbidding urban feel, innocents like
these are displaced by far more ruthlessand even youngercriminals
with a grasp of both organized terror and the economics of
the emerging drug trade.
From The Public Enemy to Menace II Society,
poverty and a society in disarray have made for trenchant
social commentary. In this tradition, City of God makes
its points beautifully. Poverty breeds crime; crime begets
a breakdown in civil order and opens up a variety of lucrative
career paths to vicious sociopaths. Only one aspect is missingwomens
lives in this world. As in traditional Hollywood gangster
films, theyre strictly objects of love, lust or violence.
Early on, the presence of a tart-tongued gangster girl (the
vibrant Roberta Rodriguez Silvia) is refreshing, but she quickly
disappears from the picture, and no other woman takes her
If its believable social milieu were all the film accomplished,
City of God would be interesting. It is also delirious
entertainment: It moves like a high-speed freight train. Though
heavily loaded with characters, incidents, flashbacks and
flashforwards, City of God is lightning-paced and utterly
purposeful. The combination of assured storytelling and indelible,
kinetic images keeps the audience fully engaged over the entire
two hours. Its just great filmmaking.
Time Is Killin Me
The Hunted
by William Friedkin
Dont be taken in by the particularsTommy Lee Jones and Benicio
Del Toro go mano a mano under William Friedkins direction.
Yes, The Hunted is a fast-moving, graphically primitive
actioner boasting Friedkins French Connection-style
chase scenes, here occurring on foot through the scenic forests
and cities of Oregon, and with knives instead of guns. But
thats all it is. Jones is the manhunter and Del Toro is the
killing machine who slips a gear. Their conflict is simple,
bloody and meaningless. The screenwriting team of David and
Peter Griffiths have come up with half a movie between them.
The opening sequence is set in the ethnic slaughterhouse of
Kosovo, 1999. Aaron Hallam (Del Toro), a U.S. assassin, infiltrates
the Serbian command post and stealthily butchers the head
executioner. He later suffers from battle stress, and back
in the States, he stalks and kills two elk hunters, apparently
confused by their high-tech scope rifles. As L.T. (Jones),
his former instructor, says, The physical part of killing
is easy. The difficult part is turning it off. An interesting
comment considering the recent build-up in CIA Special Forces
operating outside of military jurisdiction, and the idea of
covert operatives responding irrationally to fears of terrorism
at home is an intriguing one. But Aaron, it turns out, is
just a wacky, if lethal, animal-rights crusader. L.T., now
a wildlife conservationist in remote British Columbia, is
brought out of retirement by the CIA to track Aaron down before
the Feds nab him. Connie Nielson is the FBI agent who gets
the films best two minutes when she tracks the tracker with
a simple subterfuge.
Hunted is too mechanical to bear comparison to The
Fugitive, although Aaron does give the feds, the CIA and
L.T. the slip with skillful wiliness. Why Aarons letters
asking for help were never answered is never addressed. Instead
of motivation, the film relies on groaningly obvious symbolism,
such as the sight of Aaron hiding behind a concrete fountain
(the waterfalls of the urban jungle). Instead of a plot, the
film has a song, the biblical Johnny Cash version of Dylans
Highway 61. The song ties in with L.T.s fatherly attitude
toward his boys, as he calls his trainees, and provides
a coda that substitutes for an ending. Before that final lyric,
however, the films bloody literalmindedness climaxes with
a prolonged knife fight. He who lives (covertly) by the fillet
blade, apparently, dies by the fillet bladealthough you wont
find that one in the CIA training manual.
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Cody Banks
by Harald Zwart
Its easy to wax nostalgic about the James Bond films of the
60s. Not only did they feature the oh-so-suave Sean Connery,
who, not incidentally, acted the part as if he got the joke,
but the crises and the gizmos used to quell them were decidedly
simple, straight out of any teenagers seventh-period fantasies,
and not so much a love affair with hard, crystalline technology.
So its rather fitting that the latest, quasi-installment
of that series is Agent Cody Banks, in which teenager
Frankie Muniz, playing the title role, is an undercover CIA
agent trying to save the world from sinister types Brinkman
(Ian McShane) and François (Arnold Vosloo) with an old-fashioned
mix of suction-cup sneakers, magic watches and rocket-powered
skateboards and snowboards.
The glitch is, hes got to get close to the girl, Natalie
(Hilary Duff), and while Cody may be fearless when it comes
to rescuing a tot trapped in a careening car, his attempts
at conversation with the opposite sex result in their asking
him whether hes in special ed.
Directed by Harald Zwart, Agent Cody Banks is a smart,
well-paced and surprisingly funny homage to both spy films
like the 60s Bonds and matinee fodder like The
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. What works best about the
film is that its fantasy is precisely the type that most teens,
indeed, most youngsters, can and do envision. Much like the
more imaginative Spy Kids series, Cody Banks
features likeable, smart youths working with their wiser adult
associates, and yet having to deal with mundane things like
homework, chores and Drivers Ed.
Muniz is well-cast, as is Duff, who is no dimwitted damsel
in distress. The pairs dialogue is quite funny, especially
when Cody makes his initial, tongue-tied forays into friendship.
The movies best surprise, however, is Angie Harmon as Codys
handler/mentor Ronica Wells. If the powers-that-be ever attempt
another Avengers movie, Harmon is perfectly poised
to play the indominatable, yet highly fashionable, Emma Peel.
Agent Cody Banks tiptoes into naughty territory when
Harmon, dressed in a knockout red pantsuit and stiletto heels,
comes to retrieve her protégé from the locker room. Temperatures
rise as Codys friends do their wise-ass best to simultaneously
impress and intimidate this imposing goddess, who finishes
them off in short order. Ronicas developing friendship with
Cody is believable, so much so that this viewer and her would-be
secret agents actually hope for a follow-up adventure.
Dirty Rat
by Glen Morgan
a remake of the 1971 horror film of the same name, is an indefatigably
unpleasant little movie. Like its nearly worthless predecessor,
it tells the story of Willard Stiles, a young man who conscripts
an army of willing rats into avenging the thousand insults
and humiliations heaped on him by a hostile boss and domineering
mother, who seems to be the living incarnation of Psychos
Mrs. Bates.
Unlike the original, the remake builds no empathy for the
ghoulish Willard, who looks like he squeezed from between
the pages of Edward Gorey or Charles Addams. The cartoon image
is worsened by Crispin Glovers over-the-top performance.
It is a far scream from the delicate, nuanced work of Bruce
Davidsons Willard in 1971. Making a very limited cameo by
way of a photograph and a painting, Davidson appears as
Willards dead father (whose death must have been a liberation
from his twisted family). The only face in the film that looks
truly human or humane, the Davidson reference only highlights
the deficiencies of Glovers work.
The new film does excel or exult in creating an atmosphere
of decay, which is lovingly sustained from the opening credits
to the dumb denouement. It would seem that the production
designer, director of photography and makeup artist must have
had perversely good times supplying details to make audiences
feel queasy, and it is difficult to name the most sickening
aspect of the film. Mrs. Stiles thick, dirty toenails are
probably more off-putting than R. Lee Ermeys too-white teeth
and Glovers snotty nose. But it is more likely the incessant,
almost fetishistic evidence of rat droppings that finally
makes one wish the entire excremental excess masquerading
as a thriller would end.
As for the rat pack, they are a largely cute lot when not
shown in apparent CGI hoards, and they are far more appealing
than the humans. And their penultimate attack is handled more
realistically here than in the original, where it appeared
that mice were being thrown onto Ernest Borgnine. If only
they had better toilet manners.
The sole tense scene involves a hapless cat, the only character
about whom one truly gives a rats ass. The rest of the show
is the filmic equivalent of d-CON rodent bait.


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Azure DocumentDB offers the following key capabilities and benefits:
Ad hoc queries with familiar SQL syntax: Store heterogeneous JSON documents within DocumentDB and query these documents through a familiar SQL syntax. DocumentDB utilizes a highly concurrent, lock free, log structured indexing technology to automatically index all document content. This enables rich real-time queries without the need to specify schema hints, secondary indexes, or views. Learn more in Query DocumentDB.
Tunable consistency levels: Select from four well defined consistency levels to achieve optimal trade-off between consistency and performance. For queries and read operations, DocumentDB offers four distinct consistency levels: strong, bounded-staleness, session, and eventual. These granular, well-defined consistency levels allow you to make sound trade-offs between consistency, availa
bility, and latency. Learn more in Using consistency levels to maximize availability and performance in DocumentDB.
Fully managed: Eliminate the need to manage database and machine resources. As a fully-managed Microsoft Azure service, you do not need to manage virtual machines, deploy and configure software, or deal with complex data-tier upgrades. Every database is automatically backed up and protected against regional failures. You can easily add a DocumentDB account and provision capacity as you need it, allowing you to focus on your application instead of operating and managing your database.
Elastically scalable throughput and storage: Easily scale up or scale down your DocumentDB JSON database to meet your application needs. Scaling is done through fine grained units (collections) of reserved SSD backed storage and throughput. You can elastically scale DocumentDB with predictable performance by creating more units as your application grows.
You can use DocumentDB to store flexible datasets that require query retrieval and transactional processing. Application scenarios may include user data for interactive web and mobile applications as well as storage, retrieval, and processing of application JSON data. A database can store any number of JSON documents, as DocumentDB is well suited for applications that run at scale on the internet.
Azure DocumentDB manages data through well-defined database resources. These resources are replicated for high availability and are uniquely addressable by their logical URI. DocumentDB offers a simple HTTP based RESTful programming model for all resources.
The DocumentDB database account is a unique namespace that gives you access to Azure DocumentDB. Before you can create a database account, you must have an Azure subscription, which gives you access to a variety of Azure services.
All resources within DocumentDB are modeled and stored as JSON documents. Resources are managed as items, which are JSON documents containing metadata, and as feeds which are collections of items. Sets of items are contained within their respective feeds.
The image below shows the relationships between the DocumentDB resources:
A database account consists of a set of databases, each containing multiple collections, each of which can contain stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, documents, and related attachments. A database also has associated users, each with a set of permissions to access various other collections, stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, documents, or attachments. While databases, users, permissions, and collections are system-defined resources with well-known schemas - documents, stored procedures, triggers, UDFs, and attachments contain arbitrary, user defined JSON content.
Azure DocumentDB exposes resources through a REST API that can be called by any language capable of making HTTP/HTTPS requests. Additionally, DocumentDB offers programming libraries for several popular languages. These libraries simplify many aspects of working with Azure DocumentDB by handling details such as address caching, exception management, automatic retries and so forth. Libraries are currently available for the following languages and platforms:
|.NET library
|Node.js SDK
|Node.js library
|Java SDK
|Java library
|JavaScript SDK
|JavaScript library
|Server-side JavaScript SDK
|Python SDK
|Python library
Beyond basic create, read, update, and delete operations, DocumentDB provides a rich SQL query interface for retrieving JSON documents and server side support for transactional execution of JavaScript application logic. The query and script execution interfaces are available through all platform libraries as well as the REST APIs.
Azure DocumentDB supports querying documents using a SQL language, which is rooted in the JavaScript type system, and expressions with support for rich hierarchical queries. The DocumentDB query language is a simple yet powerful interface to query JSON documents. The language supports a subset of ANSI SQL grammar and adds deep integration of JavaScript object, arrays, object construction, and function invocation. DocumentDB provides its query model without any explicit schema or indexing hints from the developer.
User Defined Functions (UDFs) can be registered with DocumentDB and referenced as part of a SQL query, thereby extending the grammar to support custom application logic. These UDFs are written as JavaScript programs and executed within the database.
For .NET developers, DocumentDB also offers a LINQ query provider as part of the .NET SDK.
DocumentDB allows you to write application logic as named programs written entirely in JavaScript. These programs are registered for a collection and can issue database operations on the documents within a given collection. JavaScript can be registered for execution as a trigger, stored procedure or user defined function. Triggers and stored procedures can create, read, update, and delete documents whereas user defined functions execute as part of the query execution logic without write access to the collection.
JavaScript execution within DocumentDB is modeled after the concepts supported by relational database systems, with JavaScript as a modern replacement for Transact-SQL. All JavaScript logic is executed within an ambient ACID transaction with snapshot isolation. During the course of its execution, if the JavaScript throws an exception, then the entire transaction is aborted.
If you already have an Azure account, you can get started with DocumentDB in the Azure preview portal by creating a DocumentDB database account.
If you don't have an Azure account, you can:
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