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A gnarly night at the movies
Including The Wedding Plan, A Dark Song, and Baywatch
Matthew Lickona 4 p.m., May 26
Famous Former Neighbors Song Contest!
Last year, the song "Overheard in San Diego" by Cathryn Beeks and Sven Erik Seaholm became that comic strip's heavily-promoted and oft-played theme song at www.sandiegoreader.com.
Record and submit an MP3 song called and about Famous Former Neighbors at http://www.sandiegoreader.com/famous-song
All entries will be playable on the Reader website – public votes a winner on March 24.
Winning performer gets their name and URL published with every FFN comic strip in 2010, website spotlights, and a gig showcase at the Ruby Room!!
Winner will be announced at the OVERHEARD AND FAMOUS IN SAN DIEGO ART GALLERY RECEPTION on March 29 at the Ruby Room, where the winner will be invited to perform on an all-star bill that includes Bart Mendoza, True Stories, Wendy Bailey, Cathryn Beeks and more!!
Winner keeps all song (and bragging) rights – we just want to be able to post it all over the Reader website, along with your name and links to your performer pages!http://www.sandiegoreader.com/famous-song ***************************************
Press illo to play the Overheard song!
IT'S DONE!!!! And growing every hour....
If you wanna see a list of over 1,900 San Diego bands, with links to full profiles, photos, discographies, articles, MP3s, etc, checkout http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/search/
Believe it or not, you can click on ANY LOCAL MUSICIAN'S NAME (around 4,900 musicos listed!) and bring up bios of every notable band they've ever been in! Try it here with Rob Crow ---
AND, if that wasn't cool 'nuff, click on an instrument, say like this here link to "Drums" - BAM, a list of EVERY DRUMMER IN SAN DIEGO!!!
We've been working on this massively cross-linked Local Music Database for over two years now, covering a century of San Diego history --- if you're a local performer who wants to add or edit a page, go to http://www.sandiegoreader.com/band/edit/
More soon!!!! JAS
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Rappers Parker Edison and Jay Smith, aka the Numberman, teamed up in 2007 to form Parker and the Numberman, with a debut EP The Talented Tenth named after the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. "We like to mix the fluid lyricism of Charles Bukowski with the street corner observations of NWA," says Smith.
The group's video for their song "What About Your Block" was recently accepted into the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, which oddly enough happens in L.A. from February 25 through March 4. "We paid $300 to enter, and then you buy a package to get your project seen. We'd like to raise $2,500 for the Gold package, so we can have booth space, VIP passes, a page on the Festival website, and hotel fare."
To that end, Parker and the Numberman's gig at the Wit's End on Saturday, February 6, is a Festival fundraiser. "I was thinking about wearing a tuxedo, 'cause I usually wear jeans. Rapping in a tux would be a bit special. We're also planning on selling schwag bags with one-of-a-kind P&T t-shirts in them. We'll probably also get a donation bucket, write 'Hollywood or Bust' on the side, and pass it around like church deacons."
What if they don't raise enough for the Gold package? "We'll have to settle for the Silver or Bronze. I think the Bronze package gets you a table with a chair. With the Silver package, you get two chairs. And some ice water."
http://www.myspace.com/parkerthenumberman http://www.sandiegoreader.com/bands/parker-and-the-numberman/
CARLY SMITHSON'S EVANESCENCE RELEASING FIRST SINGLE<p>AntiMusic.com reports: We Are The Fallen unleashed their first single, "Bury Me Alive," exclusively via the digital domain on February 2nd.
The fivesome is comprised of the original members Evanescence, guitarists Ben Moody and John LeCompt along with drummer Rocky Gray, joined by American Idol finalist Carly Smithson on vocals. Acclaimed bassist Marty O'Brien (Disturbed, Static-X) rounds out We Are The Fallen. Check out a free download for the acoustic "Bury Me Alive" here
The group is already preparing to give fans a live taste of the reportoire fueling their upcoming Universal Republic debut album, due out later in the year - hitting the road in support of Finnish rock stalwarts H.I.M. The extensive, 28 city tour launches in Philadelphia, PA, on March 26th, hurtling through multiple major cities such as Boston, MA, on March 28th, Cleveland, OH, on April 1st, Chicago IL, on April 9th, Los Angeles, CA, on April 23rd, and winding down in New York City on May 7th. - more on this story
"...Christmas Island, from the growing San Diego lo-fi scene, crafts scenester beach-party tunes."
Quotes like above in the new New Yorker are puzzling - San Diego finally getting national acclaim for something as inconsequential and ultimately fleeting as its paint-by-number "lo-fi scene" is like how Lady Godiva, reportedly one of history's greatest beauties and a prodigious tax-battler and renters-rights activist, is only famous for that one horsey ride....just sayin'....
Wednesday 2/3 - The Onyx Room is where we'll be every other Wednesday - 8:00 The Cathryn Beeks Ordeal, 9:00 Holding Air Hostage, 10:00 The Otisturbine, 11:00 Tommy Graf - Pretty incredible line up this week, don't miss it! NO COVER!
Thursday 2/4 - Winstons in OB for Happy Hour, acoustic music and catching up with Kate. 5:00 Colin Clyne, 5:30 Juls, 6:00 Speaking Idly, 6:30 Crystal Pollard , 7:00 Charlie Imes, 7:30 Billy Anne Crews - NO COVER
Friday 2/5 - Homegrown Live at Anthology continues the first Friday of each month. This Friday you'll hear Allegra, The Donnis Trio and Guava Belly from 10pm to midnight, LIVE on 102.1 KPRI - or you can be in Little Italy for all the fun! Check out www.anthologysd.com for tickets.
Artist of the Week: Don't miss Allegra, The Donnis Trio and Guava Belly at Anthology this Friday night. I'll be hooking up a few of you with the guest list this week so keep an eye out for my announcements on Facebook.
Link of the Week: Since I've decided that 2010 is the year I start a healthier lifestyle I've been trying new things and am SO HAPPY I discovered Holistic Traditions Acupuncture in La Jolla. I've been twice now and am feeling better already, not only physically but mentally. Sara Sas is incredible and I have to thank Regina Leonard for the tmp. Check them out at www.holistictraditions.com - I'll keep you posted on my progress...
Steve Covault has posted photos of our first Music Mixer at The Onyx Room in his Listen Local Gallery (yes, we have our own Gallery!) so go forth and check them out! The next mixer is February 28th. If you'd like to bring your stuff, drop me a line!
The Acoustic Alliance takes place at Brick by Brick on Sunday, February 21st and will feature 3 songs each from Charlie Reicksick, Coco and Lafe, Jeffrey Joe Morin, Craig Furnivall, Chad Cavanaugh, Regina Leonard, Aaron Kimball, The Cat Family, Benjamin Myers, Rusty King, Bass Hamza, and Summer Mencher, plus intermission entertainment by Three Degrees Off Center beginning at 6pm. This show is good times!
The Songwriter Sleepover happens the weekend of May 21st at Lake Jennings in Lakeside and you won't want to miss it. Camping, songwriting, playing and relaxing by the lake. $20 includes camping on Friday and Saturday night, wood, water and S'mores. Limited space and it's filling up fast, folks. There are only 12 spots left so reserve yours today!
Two legendary groups with San Diego connections return!
Feb. 5 / The
Feb. 19 / Ron Silva & The Monarchs
Two legendary groups with
Nashville Ramblers, led by Carl Rusk (guitar) with Tom Ward (bass) and Ron Silva (drums) stage a rare reunion show at The Tower Bar on Feb. 5. Their song "The Trains," first released in 1986, is now considered a power-pop classic and was included in the Children of Nuggets box set from Rhino Records. Meanwhile the trio has also spent time as members of other noted combos such as The Crawdaddys, The Gravedigger Five and Mystery Machine.
Then on Feb. 19, Silva and Ward return with the recently reunited, Bay Area based, rhythm & blues combo, Ron Silva and the Monarchs. This time out, Silva is frontman and the group features another
Friday, February 5, 2010
Ron Silva & The Monarchs
Friday, February 19, 2010
The Tower Bar
(619) 284-0158
+ guest DJs Tony The Tyger and Action Andy
LOCAL SINGER MAKES TOP 10 ON CHINA'S POP IDOL TV SHOW - Over 100 Million Viewers Cheering On Nikki Nova of Liquid Blue!
Nikki Nova, a vocalist with Liquid Blue, has beat out some of the best singers from around the world to reach the Top 10 in MN Idol, which was broadcast on live TV to over 100 million viewers over the last week of January, 2010.
Nikki's achievement is all the more impressive when you consider she does not speak any form of Chinese but has sung throughout the competition in a dialect called "Minnan," out-performing a host of native speakers. One judge describes her performance, "like having Celine Dion sing a Minnan song on stage." The Minnan dialect is most popular in Southern China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
The seven-strong indie-rock-dance group Liquid Blue is officially the "World's Most Traveled Band," having performed in over 100 countries across six continents. And now, one of their "Blue Girls" has become the first American to reach the Top 10 of Asia's version of American Idol. They were the first band from the U.S. to sign to a Chinese record label.
Liquid Blue was "certified green" by the County of San Diego in 2009 and is likely the very first certified GREEN act in America. They performed at the Beijing Olympics CCTV Kickoff Concert in 2008.
Liquid Blue's music is a mixture of dance and rock, featuring eastern Indian instruments such as tablas, sitars, and kanuns. They recently released the single tracks "Dominate" and "Earth Passport."
Jumping Turtle Still Has Some Bounce by Jay Allen Sanford
"The Jumping Turtle is not going out of business," says owner Matt Hall, despite having lost his most recent appeal to keep the City of San Marcos from revoking his venues' entertainment permit ... (more Jumping Turtle )
With songs like "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "Love Look Away," the cover art makes this seem like a transvestite musical.
Walking OUTLET store, maybe...
"With a name like Burpo, he's GOT to be good..."
"Hon, we're gonna need a bigger can of Raid!" Is there no end to bugs who wanna be Beatles?
Ethel Merman's disco album - you can't make this sh-t up, people.
Brady kids go solo, sometime after Peter's voice stopped breaking but before Marsha found a bra that fits.
"Is that a gun, or are you just happy to see me?" What, no post-coital cuddle??
Everybody has that one wacky Uncle....
If ever an album cover needed to take its own advice...
Uh, so you're saying this music makes cats scream?
Wow, how'd they get a picture of Shakira's feet???
Betcha didn't know that old school acid jazz artists cooked up their own acid?
Good gawd, is...is this album's title being squeezed out of someone's butthole?!
WHAT is this a "Sound Track" TO?!
Doesn't look like SHE's enjoying the Sounds of sax..."No sax tonight, dear, I have a headache..."
PREVIOUS WTFs - http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2010/feb/02/worst-album-covers-ever-strange-bizarre-and-butt-c/
First off, thanks to everyone who made it out to The Casbah last Thursday for our 501(c)(3) event. We raised $2,000 and are extremely grateful to Tim Mays and The Casbah, Martian Horses, Joel P West, Jamuel Saxon and all of you who came out to support. This money will help us buy a case of disposable cameras, prepare for a big Art/Music event on June 12th and launch our Membership Program this spring.
If you didn't make it out that night, or you have blurry memories from the crazy dance party Jamuel Saxon and friends provided, click here for some footage.
More exciting news! Sezio will launch a weekly, hour-long radio program this Friday on Legit Radio. Focusing on hometown and national talent, Sezio's hour-long program will feature a mix of music, cocktails, weekend events and special guests. We're stoked to be working with Chris Cantore, Dave Brown and all of
the great folks behind the Legit community. So tune in this Friday at 2pm to LegitRadio.com.
Following their December release of Homes & Houses, Oceanside-based Longstay has taken a weekly residency at Beauty Bar for the month of January. We caught up with the soulful rock quartet to investigate their beginnings, new record and the online maze they constructed to download their digital treasures.
Longstay plays their last residency night at Beauty Bar tonight! Check out their feature here.
Calling all collectors of vinyl records! San Diego-based Revolver Boutique has lost its lease on its warehouse and is now liquidating one of the nation's largest collection of vinyl records – one million pieces in stock – all up for immediate sale.
"We lost our warehouse and must liquidate this enormous vinyl record collection,"
The diverse collection of music covers everything from rock and jazz to even classical and pop music. Most of the record inventory covers the span of the 1950s to the 1980s, but the album collection for sale pretty much has something available for every music lover.
"We are willing to take options on medium size to large size orders of these albums," Galvez said. "We are even willing to work with the buyer to help sort the albums or even help move them. No appropriate offer will be rejected."
Revolver Boutique acquired the record collection in the takeover of San Diego-based vintage clothing and music store Thrift Trader. Thrift Trader was an active purchaser of vintage vinyl records in the greater San Diego area and stored the extensive collection in a local warehouse.
"They were buying 10,000 or more vinyl records per month," Galvez said. "It's easy to see how this diverse collection of records grew to more than one million albums very quickly."
For more information on the extensive collection of more than one million vinyl records, or to make an offer to acquire the inventory, please contact Gabe Galvez with Revolver Boutique at 619-507-5946 or via email at gabe.galvez@
For more information on Revolver Boutique, please check out their brand new website at http://www.revolverboutiques.com.
Revolver Boutique
Phone: (619) 507-5946
Email: Gabe Galvez - gabe.galvez@
RELATED ARTICLE: The Day I Sold My Albums to Off the Record
A trailer has been posted for the upcoming Blink 182 documentary titled The Blinkumentary. The film was put together by Handsome Randsome and aims to document the band's 2009 tour and the events leading up to it. check it out here
This is the third documentary to feature the band - the earlier films were:
Blink 182: The Urethra Chronicles
face="Arial">AntiMusic.com reports: Newly christened Grammy winner Jason Mraz has spent the past thirteen years performing everywhere from local coffee shops to stadiums with his Taylor guitars. Along the way, Mraz has released three studio albums, several EP's and live albums including the recently released Beautiful Mess - Live on Earth DVD/CD. Mraz's live shows have garnered critical acclaim around the world and his albums have earned multiple Grammy nominations. Late last year, his hit single, "I'm Yours", set a music industry record for the most weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
In early December, Mraz visited the Taylor factory to meet with the company's design team and to complete work on his own Taylor model, the Jason Mraz Signature Model (JMSM).
The JMSM is based on Mraz's go-to guitar, a Taylor nylon-string NS72ce, a guitar he says "nurtured a whole album's worth of songs" and in performances, "gave me a way to communicate with the audience without a guitar standing in my way. It felt like it was part of me, it was a part of the energy that I wanted to put out there."
Crafted from a back and sides of Indian rosewood and a top of Western Red cedar, the JMSM includes key design touches provided by Mraz. The fretboard inlay, in Mexican cypress, features the phrase "Be Love" set below a design that features a triangle within a circle, which mirrors a forearm tattoo he got in July 2009.
"I chose this symbol simply because I want to be whole in mind, body and soul," Mraz explains. "I think that's a divine trinity there. What is 'Be Love' but cutting out the middle man. You don't have to have a certain someone to be loved. You don't have to have certain conditions to have love in your life. You can just be love. So, it's basically a practice of unconditional love, a practice of unabashed generosity." - more on this story
Sea Wolf burst into 2010 in the Twilight: New Moon movie, with their song, "The Violet Hour." This followed the release of the band's sophomore album, White Water, White Bloom, on Dangerbird Records, as well as a national headline tour.
On February 3, Sea Wolf will team up with The Album Leaf for a West Coast run that will stretch as far north as Vancouver and culminate with a hometown show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. Sea Wolf's orchestral pop narratives will serve as a perfect primer for The Album Leaf's dreamy and cinematic soundscapes. Alex Brown Church, aka Sea Wolf, will also be guest hosting MTV2's "Subterranean" in the coming months.
Heralded by Amazon.com as one of the Top 100 albums of 2009 and described by the Austin-American Statesman as "an eclectic brand of indie-folk in the vein of the Decemberists," White Water, White Bloom, is a masterful marriage of vivid storytelling and intricate instrumentation. Relix exclaimed: "Church and his fellow musicians craft an overwhelming sonic landscape that is almost visually palpable."
The Album Leaf officially began in 1998 as the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, who had performed in several other local bands, including Swing Kids, the Locust, and GoGoGo Airheart.
When the band formed, LaValle had been playing guitar in the post-rock instrumental band Tristeza. Being a multi-instrumentalist, he began playing drums for San Diego band Gogogo Airheart during downtime in the fall of 1998.
LaValle played his first official Album Leaf show at the Che Cafe in the winter of 1999. Band members for this show consisted of Rafter Roberts(of Rafter), James Lehner (of Tristeza), Leilani Clark (of the Straight A's, also with LaValle), and Benjamin White (of Gogogo Airheart).
The band won Best Electronic at the 2008 and 2009 San Diego Music Awards.
Dusty Springfield - Once Upon A Time 1964-1969
Small Faces - All Or Nothing 1965-1968
Herman's Hermits - Listen People 1964-1969
Gerry & The Pacemakers - It's Gonna Be All Right 1963-1965
The Invasion Arrives March 23, 2010
Over forty-five years after the Beatles sparked the legendary 'British Invasion' that forever changed the face of popular music, Reelin' In The Years Productions, in association with Voyage Digital Media, is proud to announce the release of the initial four DVDs in the new British Invasion series. The four titles are Dusty Springfield - Once Upon A Time 1964-1969, Small Faces - All Or Nothing 1965-1968, Gerry & The Pacemakers - It's Gonna Be All Right 1963-1965 and Herman's Hermits - Listen People 1964-1969. Distributed by Naxos of America Inc., all four DVDs will be available separately and as a deluxe boxset featuring a bonus fifth disc with over 2 hours of additional content.
Produced by Reelin' In The Years Productions, each DVD features complete 1960's television performances filmed at the time the songs were hits and while the artists were at the height of their careers. Interspersed between the performances, original band members and others who helped create their classic music, talk about each song and recount special moments in the history of the group. In addition, all performances have been transferred from the original master tapes and include best-possible video and remastered audio. Each DVD also includes a 24-page booklet with insights and essays by noted rock historians as well as previously unseen photos and memorabilia. The series, originally released only in the UK in September of 2009, has received both commercial success and critical acclaim, with four-star reviews and inclusion in many year-end "Best Of 2009" lists in the British music press.
Reelin' In the Years is the San Diego-based company that has produced some of the most highly-regarded anthology DVD series including the four-volume, GRAMMY-nominated American Folk Blues Festival series, the multi-platinum selling Definitive Motown series (Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) and the award winning Jazz Icons series. As in all of their projects, each DVD is produced with the full support and cooperation of the artists or their estates.
Notes about each of the four individual releases:
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD - Once Upon A Time 1964 - 1969
Features 20 definitive complete television performances by Britain's greatest pop diva including "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," "Son Of A Preacher Man," "Wishin' And Hopin'" and "I Only Want To Be With You." Dusty's story is told through new interviews with
SMALL FACES - All Or Nothing 1965 - 1968
In the mid-1960's the Small Faces challenged the Who, Kinks,
GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS - It's Gonna Be All Right 1963 - 1965
The first band ever to have their first three singles top the British charts, Gerry & The Pacemakers rivaled the Beatles in the early years of the British Invasion. Their first official anthology DVD features 17 classic complete performances including the smash hits "How Do You Do It?," "I Like It" and "You'll Never walk Alone" as well as the timeless classics "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying" and "Ferry Cross The Mersey." Also included is an interview with Garry Marsden that was conducted exclusively for the DVD at Liverpool's legendary Cavern Club. Bill Harry, founder/publisher of Mersey Beat, the music paper that originally chronicled the Liverpool scene, also tells the band's story both on screen and in his accompanying liner notes.
HERMAN'S HERMITS - Listen People 1964-1969
The DVD is their first official anthology chronicling their meteoric rise melding a traditional British music hall influence with good time rock 'n roll. Among the 22 full-length performances are all of their biggest hits including "I'm Into Something Good," "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter," "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" and their later evocative masterpieces "No Milk Today," and "Listen People." The Herman's Hermits' story is told by original members Peter Noone, Keith Hopwood, Karl Green and Barry Whitwam as well as in the accompanying essay by GRAMMY-winning music historian
(David Peck with Elvis Costello, courtesy Reelin' In the Years)
David Peck's Reelin' in the Years Productions maintains an archive of over 10,000 filmed musical performances, as well as representing others with footage to license for broadcast or video releases. VH1 probably couldn't make shows like I Love the '70s and Behind the Music without Peck's ever-growing database of footage.
Peck told staff writer Dave Good about how the Reader played a role in his Grammy-winning career as a music video archivist.
"I was in Off the Record one night. I was 18 at the time. The guy who worked there turned me on to all these great Stones videos. This was '84, when video collectors were underground. There was no YouTube; there was nothing. Collecting videos was a swapping thing. So he turned me on to this great rare stuff — the Stones playing with Muddy Waters — and that's when I got the bug and started collecting."
"In '86, John D'Agostino, who was then writing for the Reader, wrote an article about me as a collector, and it kinda went from there. I started doing research and consulting on projects. By '98, I started representing video libraries, and now I have amassed the world's largest library of music footage."
Peck once told me a great story about locally-shot footage that includes longtime local DJ Jim McIness.
Reelin' holds a piece of historical footage featuring McInnes, which it has licensed for use to VH1. "I got ahold of a piece of film that was shot at a backyard party here in San Diego , around 1981," he says. "Weird Al Yankovic was there, before he really broke big, when he was still doing 'Another One Rides the Bus' on [syndicated radio show] Dr. Demento. Jim is playing with him, and he's playing Weird Al's accordion and somebody comes by and spills beer on the thing. Weird Al got really upset with him, because it was a brand new accordion! And Jim is just shrugging his shoulders, like, 'hey, it's just an accordion, not a Les Paul,' but Weird Al wasn't laughing. Shows which one of them actually had the sense of humor, huh?"
McInnes explained to me in a phone interview "What happened was that my friend tried to pour a beer in my mouth while my hands were occupied trying to play accordion for the first time, and it spilled into the [instrument's] bellows. [Weird] Al was a good sport about it - he'd just had the accordion cleaned!"
TOM DELONGE'S sd HOUSE JUST GOT A LOT CHEAPER - Mark Hoppus says the neighbors are a-holes
The single-story house, first listed for $6.25 million in 2007, sits on 1.1 acres in a gated golf community of Rancho Santa Fe, about 25 miles north of San Diego. The guitarist and vocalist paid $5.5 million for the house in 2005 with his wife, Jennifer, an interior designer who redecorated the home. The five-bedroom, five-bath house of 6,500 square feet was built in 2003 and comes with a pool. The DeLonges are looking for a bigger property for their family, according to their agent, Laura Barry of Barry Estates.
I guess it makes sense that rockers as rich as the guys in blink 182 can afford to deep discount. "I guess this is growing up..." and all that, dontcha know.
So it's kind of a hoot to discover that in 2007, three years before Tom DeLonge opted out of homeownership in Rancho Santa Fe, the debut album by +44 with Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker included a track dissing Hoppus' former neighbors in oh-so-upscale neighborhood.
His rage against the Rancho is mainly directed at the neighborhood's homeowners association. Hoppus told newstimeslive.com "There's a song called 'Lillian' on the record that's about people that try to control other people's lives...And there's a place in San Diego called Rancho Santa Fe, which is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in my life. It's country sides, rolling hills, there's trees everywhere. It's this gorgeous place, and it's filled with some of the most backstabbing, evil, just bitter, bitter people in the world."
"The homeowners association is very strict and it's strange because everybody who lives there is very wealthy…They're just bitter and it's a sour, sour community. The woman who started the homeowners association there is a woman named Lillian. So it's kind of about people trying to control one another."
Hoppus seems pretty bitter and sour himself, judging from the tune's lyrics:
"The place I used to live, made me feel like a tourist - I couldn't coexist with the cold and suspicious - When the last remaining left was starting to filter - It seemed the perfect time to step into the future
Your heart is no grave to be perfectly honest - Your mouth's a smoking gun -And you smile while your twisting the knife in my stomach - Until everything is gone - Take all you can from me I've got weak constitution - I'm led so easily So easily
I left it all behind, in the dead of last winter - I left it all behind, but the question still lingers - So long forgotten friends, no, you don't know the difference - Between love and submission, and I'm not that obedient
I expect the next +44 album will include a tirade against Hoppus' Porsche mechanic ("Fixed my air with faulty parts, now my leather interior smells like farts").
In a recent Modcam, Tom DeLonge revealed the tracklist for the new Angels and Airwaves album LOVE, according to AbsolutePunk.
The site reports that album will be offered as a free download and will be followed up with a physical release that contains 30 extra minutes of music used in the LOVE movie.
Track Listing 1. The Flight of Apollo 2. It Hurts So Badly 3. Young London 4. Epic Holiday 5. Clevor Love 6. Triumphant 7. Hush 8. Dear God 9. Hallucinations 10. Atomic 11. Seque (sunshine) - AbsolutePunk
Antimusic reports: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan is not only hard at work on new music of his own; he's busy inking bands to be on a brand new label. The eclectic label will feature a diverse roster ranging from underground punk legends The Germs to 60s psychedelic rockers The Strawberry Alarm Clock as well as The Electric Prunes, Starchildren, Fancy Space People and YaHoWha 13.
The announcement was made in the following blog entry on Wednesday:
A quick update on the Pumpkins recordings for Teargarden By Kaleidyscope: We have 5 songs mixed and another song is tracked and ready to be mixed. Song number 2 should be ready for download within the next 2 weeks. I will let you know when we have a solid date.
Billy and I are happy to announce the birth of our record label! The name of the label will be made public soon. (We need to make sure that we have the name rights before we can announce it.) We are very excited to be collaborating with amazing artists that have made a huge impact on the underground music world... From the psychedelic garage rock of the 60's and the punk rock insanity of the 70's and 80's to the post-punk Pleiadian power-pop that is now. - more on this story
Because who can get any work done with all THIS going on????
Mo 2/1: Bruce Willis, Ne-Yo
Tu 2/2: John Travolta, Shaun White, Ben Harper & Relentless7
We 2/3: Sarah Silverman, Jeremy Renner, Nneka, a Top Ten List presented by Paris Hilton
Th 2/4: Jamie Foxx, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Thicke
Fr 2/5: Jack Hanna, Joe Wong, the Swell Season
Mo 2/8: TBA
Tu 2/9: Jennifer Garner, Sade
We 2/10: Jessica Biel, Christoph Waltz
Mo 2/1: Jessica Alba, John Shuster
Tu 2/2: Pre-empted
We 2/3: Jessica Biel, Jimmy Fallon
Th 2/4: Wanda Sykes, Evan Lysacek
Fr 2/5: Bill Maher, Gretchen Bleiler
Mo 2/1: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joel McHale, John Mayer Trio (R 6/4/09)
Tu 2/2: Norm Macdonald, Jim Gaffigan, Neko Case (R 6/11/09)
We 2/3: Kobe Bryant, William Shatner, Incubus (R 6/17/09)
Th 2/4: Adam Sandler, Peter Sarsgaard, Kate Voegele (R 7/20/09)
Fr 2/5: Rachel McAdams, Mindy Kaling, Diane Birch (R 12/4/09)
Mo 2/1: Evangeline Lilly, Caitlin Upton, Katharine McPhee (R 1/14/10)
Tu 2/2: Serena Williams, Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse, Lady Antebellum
We 2/3: Dr. Phil McGraw, Nick Jonas, Demetri Martin
Th 2/4: Eric Dane, Kourtney Kardashian, the Bravery
Fr 2/5: Ozzy Osbourne, Barry Manilow
Mo 2/8: Eric Dane, Kourtney Kardashian, the Bravery (R 2/4/10)
Tu 2/9: Jamie Foxx, Dave Salmoni and animals, Ryan Bingham
We 2/10: Emily Blunt, Bryan Greenberg, the Editors
Th 2/11: Patrick Dempsey, Lake Bell, Greg Giraldo
Fr 2/12: Mark Wahlberg, the "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue cover girl, Dashboard Confessional
Mo 2/15: Patrick Dempsey, Lake Bell, Greg Giraldo (R 2/11/10)
Tu 2/16: Topher Grace, Sade
We 2/17: Tracy Morgan, Brad Paisley
Th 2/18: Robin Thicke
Fr 2/19: Lauren Conrad, Wale
Mo 2/1: Jim Parsons, They Might Be Giants (R 12/11/09)
Tu 2/2: Rosie Perez, Switchfoot (R 1/4/10)
We 2/3: Jason Segel (R 1/8/10)
Th 2/4: Chris Kattan, Tina Brown
Fr 2/5: Claire Danes, Jill Scott
Mo 2/8: Pierce Brosnan
Mo 2/1: Rosario Dawson, Tony Siragusa, New Kids on the Block
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Here's a sneak peek at the cover art for the full-color Runaways issue of Rock 'N' Roll Comics, which will be released to tie in to the Runaways movie --- www.myspace.com/rocknrollcomics
Rock 'N' Roll Comics: The Runaways with Joan Jett and Lita Ford
Writer: Spike Steffenhagen, Jay Allen Sanford
Artists: Joe Paradise, Larry Nadolsky
Rock 'N' Roll Comics presents the Runaways, the '70s jailbait rockers whose story is wild and crazy enough to merit both a feature film starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning and an even more revealing no-punches-pulled comic book bio! Three complete full-color stories chronicle the rise and fall of the Runaways themselves, as well as going far beyond the bio-pic to also cover the solo careers of band stars Joan Jett and Lita Ford.
Scripted by rock 'n' roll historian Spike Steffenhagen (Kiss: Comic From the Elder) and San Diego Reader columnist Jay Allen Sanford, this lovingly illustrated edition features art by Joe Paradise (Overheard in San Diego) and Larry Nadolsky (Deposit Man). Unauthorized and proud of it!
Here's a sneak preview of the story and art -----
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ROCK 'N' ROLL COMICS - The Led Zeppelin Experience:
The Led Zeppelin saga is one of the wildest in rock history, and this graphic novel pulls no punches in dramatizing the backstage, behind-the-scenes story. From their early days as the New Yardbirds on through their rise to superstardom (and controversy), all five issues of the original Rock 'N' Roll Comics series are collected in one rockin' volume, with art by Scott Pentzer (Razor), Marshall Ross (Deepest Dimension), David Neer (Sports Superstars), Francois Escalmel (Frank Zappa: Viva La Bizarre), and others. The collection also includes update material, bringing the saga up to 2010.
Here's the first look at the cover art for the 300 page graphic novel Rock 'N' Roll Cartoon History: The Sixties, shipping summer 2010 from Bluewater Productions. www.bluewaterprod.com -- www.myspace.com/rocknrollcomics
The Pink Floyd Experience: All five issues of the Rock 'N' Roll Comics series The Pink Floyd Experience have been out of print and in demand for over fifteen years. As showcased in Pink Floyd's own official box CD set Shine On, the Floyd comics chronicle rock's most enigmatic psychedelic warriors, from their early dayz with stoner icon Syd Barrett, through their split (and later reformation). With art by Marvel and DC star Ken Landgraf (Wolverine, Hawkman, Nightwing & Flamebird, etc.), the collection also includes update material, bringing the saga up to 2010.
Hard Rock Heroes: What goes together better than comics and rock music? With almost 300 pages of Rock 'N' Roll Comics, Hard Rock Heroes goes WAY beyond Behind the Music, to tell the real life, behind-the-scenes stories of rock's most heavy hitters. Creators include Stuart Immonen (Superman: End of the Century), Ken Landgraf (Wolverine), Jay Allen Sanford (Overheard in San Diego..), Todd Loren (Beatles Experience), Scott Pentzer (Razor), Mike Sagara (Ninja High School), and many others.
Hard Rock Heroes is a book-length pictorial history, covering bands like Guns N' Roses, Metallica, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Motley Crue, Poison, Megadeth, Pantera, Anthrax, Motorhead, Sammy Hagar, and more. The cinematic stories are realistically drawn, researched from countless photo and video archives, with an encyclopedic eye toward visual accuracy, dramatic flair, and journalistic depth.
Also includes the never-before published "missing" Rock 'N' Roll Comics #8 from 1990, on Skid Row. The lack of an eighth issue has vexed collectors and catalogers for years – exactly 20 years later, the story can finally be told, and collectors can finally own ALL the Rock 'N' Roll Comics!
As a bonus treat, Hard Rock Heroes also features the Motley Crue comic story from their official box CD set Music To Crash Your Car To II, released in 2004 and written and drawn by original Rock 'N' Roll Comics creators Lyndal Ferguson and Larry Nadolsky. Shipping February 2010.
"Great ideas, like the marriage of rock 'n' roll and comics, have the half-life of Uranium and will always be popular," says series co-creator Jay Allen Sanford, who has worked on over 200 reality-based comic books and thousands of similar cartoon strips for the San Diego Reader, as well as for magazines like Rip, Spin, and Oui. "The folks at Bluewater clearly have their fingers on the same pop culture pulse that enabled the original Rock 'N' Roll Comics to become one of the top-selling indie comics of the '90s. Truth is often stranger than fiction...and certainly much more interesting!"
The Beatles are bigger than ever, now available online for the first time digitally, on the Vegas stage in "Love," and in the new Beatles: Rock Band video game. Now comes the most comprehensive and encyclopedic illustrated Beatles story ever, the Beatles Experience! Over 200 pages, dramatizing one of the most compelling tales in pop culture history, drawn from thousands of photos and interviews, meticulously researched and featuring stunning art by Mike Sagara (Rock 'N' Roll Comics) and Stuart Immonen (Legion of Super Heroes, Ultimate X-Men).
Covering the Beatles' lives from birth and beyond their breakup, dramatized in dialogue and scene recreations more akin to a film bio than a mere documentary, the Beatles Experience also includes a Chronolog timeline going down each page, with encyclopedia background and footnotes detailing related events happening at the same time in the world, in music, and in the Beatles' own tumultuous and extraordinary lives.
The Led Zeppelin Experience:
The Led Zeppelin saga is one of the wildest in rock history, and this graphic novel pulls no punches in dramatizing the backstage, behind-the-scenes story. From their early days as the New Yardbirds on through their rise to superstardom (and controversy), all five issues of the original Rock 'N' Roll Comics series are collected in one rockin' volume, with art by Scott Pentzer (Razor), Marshall Ross (Deepest Dimension), David Neer (Sports Superstars), Francois Escalmel (Frank Zappa: Viva La Bizarre), and others. The collection also includes update material, bringing the saga up to 2010.
Legendary keyboardist Al Kooper has played with Dylan, the Stones, George Harrison and countless others, but he still has time to beef about local music reporters like Buddy Blue and a certain Reader columnist... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/jan/29/the-return-of-black-heart-procession-plus-anya-mar
UNEXPECTED BEATLES ART - The Fab Four turn up in the oddest places... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/jan/29/the-return-of-black-heart-procession-plus-anya-mar
WEIRD BEATLES MERCHANDISE - WTF were these licensors (and bootleggers) thinking... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/feb/06/my-brunch-with-yoko-plus-weird-beatles
MY BRUNCH WITH YOKO - Brunch with a Beatle bride... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/feb/06/my-brunch-with-yoko-plus-weird-beatles
YOKO ONO COMICS AND STORIES - When Johnny Met Yoko, with dialogue and captions paraphrased from published Lennon interviews. Plus John Lennon: A Life in the Day
... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/feb/06/my-brunch-with-yoko-plus-weird-beatles
LENNON OR McCARTNEY?? --We asked 25 local performers about their fave Beatle (and why), and got some surprising (and frequently revealing) answers...http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/dec/13/we-asked-25-local-musicos-lennon-or-mccartney
CELEBRITY HOUSE HUNTING IN SAN DIEGO - Real estate broker Jeff Paiste has squired several famous musicians around San Diego in their search for decent digs to lease or rent, including Bread frontman David Gates and the late George Harrison.... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2007/sep/13/celebrity-house-hunting-in-san-diego
JOEY MOLLAND/BADFINGER INTERVIEW - Badfinger's last man standing, Joey Molland, reveals more about the tragic story of Badfinger, as well as meeting and working with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Todd Rundgren, plus the Concert for Bangladesh, and more. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/21/x-jam-cancellation-controversy-plus-how-i-snuck-in/
THE DAY JOHN LENNON WAS SHOT - Local celebs share their recollections of December 8, 1980, plus guest essays from Al Kooper (who was recording with George Harrison that day) and others.... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/jan/25/john-lennon-12-8-1980-we-ask-local-celebs-where-we/
LEGO ALBUM COVER RECREATIONS! Those wacky kidsters at toyzone.com put together this great tribute to OCD Legoholics everywhere... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/jan/29/the-return-of-black-heart-procession-plus-anya-mar
Exclusive preview and new interview with one of the creators/performers behind the new internet Trek series - click for more ---http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2009/oct/04/happy-rons-hormonal-harem---loving-san-diegos-musi/#
READER EXCLUSIVE - For the first time anywhere on the web, here's the promo trailer for Star Trek: The Continuing Mission, episode six: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/audioclips/66/
The Twilight Zone made it's TV debut 50 years ago, on 10-2-59 - we asked local musicos to tell us their own favorite Zone episodes --- (more "What's Your Favorite Twilight Zone?" )
THE ROCKETEER AND OTHER FAMOUS '80S COMICS BEGAN RIGHT HERE IN SAN DIEGO - Here's a detailed history of local Pacific Comics, who recruited comic superstars like Jack Kirby to create one of the first successful indie comic book lines. Pioneers in the fight for comic creators' rights and royalties, former employees and operators reveal how they did it, and what went so terribly wrong...
THE KOMPLETE KISS KOMIX KRONICLES - Comprehensive collection of stuff I've done about working with Kiss on a comic book series in San Diego, along with a bunch of never-before-seen artifacts from the Kiss Komix archives AND an article by Kiss comic author Spike Steffenhagen, offering his own very-different take, ala Rashomon, on the same events I describe in my essay...
ROCK 'N' ROLL COMICS: THE INSIDE STORY - In 1989, San Diego's Revolutionary Comics ("Unauthorized And Proud Of It") launched Rock 'N' Roll Comics, featuring unlicensed biographies of rock stars, most of which I wrote. Some performers, like Frank Zappa and Kiss, were supportive, while others like New Kids On The Block considered our comics akin to bootlegs and sued. In June 1992, publisher Todd Loren was found dead in his San Diego condo, brutally murdered...
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK VS REVOLUTIONARY COMICS - The inside story of how a hugely successful boy band tried to sue local-based Rock 'N' Roll Comics over an unauthorized biography of the group, sparking a court case that established, for the very first time, first amendment rights for comic books. Illustrated by comic superstar Stuart Immonen (Superman, etc.)...
OVER A MILLION CARNAL COMICS ARE IN PRINT - Here's how and why we made some of the top-selling erotic comics of all time, right here in San Diego, including what Gene Simmons has to do with it all, backstage tales of porn stars, and more confessions of a comic pornographer...
COMICS AND CENSORSHIP - DON'T BE AFRAID, IT'S ONLY A COMIC BOOK - A local-centric history of comic book censorship, and the fight for the rights of comic creators...
TWILIGHT ZONE AND STAR TREK WRITER GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON PRESENTS - The inside story of a local horror comic book series featuring Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, plus sci-fi king Larry Niven, Zap Comix co-founder Spain Rodriguez, Matthew Alice artist Rick Geary, Vampire Lestat painter Daerick Gross, yours truly JAS, and many more...
THE BIRTH OF IMAGE COMICS: INSIDE STORY OF A LOCAL PUBLISHING POWERHOUSE - Illustrated tale revealing how Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and local comic artist Jim Lee (the Punisher, etc.) conspired to create the ultimate creator-owned comic books...
Down the Slippery Slope - Arrested For the Crime of Viewing Manga
On March 30, 2004, when Dwight Whorley found the Japanese website of Fractal Underground Studio via Yahoo and clicked on a couple of the thumbnail images... ( http://comipress.com/special/miscellaneous/down-the-slippery-slope-the-crime-of-viewing-manga )
"Before It Was The Gaslamp: Balboa's Last Stand" - Cover story 6-21-07: In the late 70s/early 80s, I worked at downtown San Diego's grindhouse all-night movie theaters, for the owner of the Pussycat Theatre chain, Vince Miranda - this detailed feature recalls those dayz, the death of the Balboa Theatre, etc.
"Battle Of The Peeps" - feature article about a weird gig I had in the mid-'80s, running a strip club called Jolar, for the nation's second biggest pornographer, Harry Mohney (Deja Vu Showgirls founder).
"Field Of Screens" - Cover story 7-6-06: Complete theater-by-theater history of San Diego drive-ins thru the years, including a few which screened X-rated fare for awhile.
"Pussycat Theaters - When 'Cathouses Ruled California" -- for the first time, the detailed inside story of the west coast Pussycat Theater chain of adult moviehouses, which peaked in the '70s but later died out. Told by those who actually ran the theaters!
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OVERHEARD IN SAN DIEGO - Several years' worth of this comic strip, which debuted in the Reader in 1996: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/galleries/overheard-san-diego/
FAMOUS FORMER NEIGHBORS - Over 100 comic strips online, with mini-bios of famous San Diegans: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/photos/galleries/famous-former-neighbors/
SAN DIEGO READER MUSIC MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/sandiegoreadermusic
JAY ALLEN SANFORD MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/jayallensanford
Man, that's so "pop punk." Writing an "angry song" about living in Rancho Santa Fe. None of Black Flag's members wrote songs about that abandoned church they lived in during the late 1970s, if I remember correctly. I guess the "homeowner's association" for that community was pretty cool, though.
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Rascal Flatts, 'Why Wait' — Story Behind the Lyrics
The Boot sat down with songwriters Neil Thrasher and Jimmy Yeary to discuss Rascal Flatts' current hit, 'Why Wait,' which the two co-wrote with Tom Shapiro. For Neil and Jimmy, a bulk of the song's inspiration comes from their better halves — Lana Thrasher and Sonya Isaacs-Yeary (of The Isaacs).
Jimmy: I showed up to a writing appointment with Tom Shapiro, and I didn't have an idea that day. Right before I walked in Tom's office, I got a text message saying he had to run by the studio to close a mix and he was going to be about 40 minutes late. I was like, 'Phew, I've got time to come up with something.' What I like to do is turn on my digital recorder and whatever happens I'll get on tape – maybe it's something magical. I still have the recording of the melody to 'Why Wait.' In my head, I just thought up that opening lick. Tom came in from closing the mix, and he loved it. He thought it would make a tremendous Flatts song. He told me he was writing with Neil the next day. He presented it to Neil, and Neil loved it. We got together the following Friday to write it.
Neil: We were at Tom's office. We all got together, and we started talking like we always do before we write. It all initiated really from Jimmy – the melody and the feel. Jimmy came up with the opening signature guitar lick. It was really good. He was humming this melody over it.
Jimmy: Sonya and I were newly married, so all I could talk about was that. I had just completely told our story about us deciding to get married after dating for only three months. Then Neil told me about how him and his wife had gotten married quickly.
Neil: Lana and I actually eloped. We are always pulling from that experience when we write, and we did again with this song, especially.
Jimmy: We decided to write 'Why Wait' because it was certainly something we both could relate to since we both got married so quickly. After we finished the song, it got demoed a week later. We knew the Flatts were going in the studio soon. Sonya and I went on a Caribbean cruise. We had no cell service for a couple of days. I knew they were cutting songs, and I had no way of calling anybody back home to find out if I had gotten this Rascal Flatts cut. We finally dock, and we get some phone service. I called, and my publisher said, 'Congratulations on your Rascal Flatts cut.' I'm hootin' and hollerin', and Sonya hears me and starts hootin' and hollerin'. It was an incredible moment.

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by Carolyn Wakeman Featured Image: James Welling, 8147, 2016. Inkjet on rag paper. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York Several of the boldly evocative photographic studies created for the Florence Griswold Museum's fall 2016 exhibition In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum direct the viewer's gaze to the nearby Lieutenant River. Once […]Read More


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He'll take that message to rallies and ads in South Carolina and scattered February 5 states, trying to keep the momentum rolling, as if New Hampshire never slowed it down. He'll make a show of superdelegates, including some of the 100-plus already declared for Clinton, switching to support him. He'll hold online fundraising efforts and brag about the grassroots results.
Clinton, relatively low on cash, would likely have to cede California to Obama, and concentrate on keeping the party base — particularly African-Americans — from deserting her.
If California polls show Clinton maintaining her lead there, Obama will be forced to fight from behind in the Golden State. Rather than maintaining the high-minded rhetoric (think of Patrick as he rode his huge post-primary lead over Kerry Healey), Obama will have to sharply define reasons to choose him over Clinton — including specific attacks against her, which run the risk of backfiring.
Perhaps more important, the more time he spends trying to rally excitement in California, the less time he's doing it elsewhere. Far more than Clinton (or almost any other candidate in memory), Obama's success depends on the wildfire excitement that only his personal presence can create.
Meanwhile, if Clinton is able to play defense in California, she can rely on her superior national organization — and her secret weapon in the African-American community, Bill Clinton — to lock down her victories elsewhere.
So keep an eye on the California polling, and watch for signs of the candidates' reacting.
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Chamber Looking to 'Soar to New Heights' in Year Ahead
The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce says its goal is to help the community soar to new heights in the year ahead.
The Chamber's year starts on July 1 and incoming Chamber Chair Brian Akin spoke about the Chamber's goals for the next year at last month's Chamber of Commerce banquet, held at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa.
The theme for the Chamber in the year ahead is "Soaring to New Heights."
Akin said like a successful flight, community development requires things like preparation, communication, and planning for the unknown.
He added that doing all of those things requires the efforts of everyone in order to ensure success.
"My challenge to every individual that is here today is to figure out your part and contribute," said Akin. "My challenge to all of our leaders, and there is a room full of you here, is to determine our community's perfect angle of attack, just like an airplane taking off."
Akin will take over as Chair on July 1 from outgoing Chair, Lee Ellen Fields.
Fields said she feels that the Chamber has had a very successful last 12 months accomplishing a number of goals.
"The first was to strengthen the financial position of the Chamber," said Fields. "The second was to increase contact with members and the third was to better manage our tasks with limited resources. I am happy to report we have seen progress in all three areas."
She points to increasing the Chamber's rainy day savings fund, adding more members, increasing contacts of existing members by Chamber Ambassadors, and making the Chamber's billing process more efficient as examples of those successes.


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The business class seats will be slashed down in 34 Airbus aircrafts, including A 319s and A 320s, said sources.
Air India has also decided to give its properties located in Mumbai and other cities on rent in a bid to increase its earnings.
The meeting comes following the government's plan to extend a relief package of at least Rs 10,000 crore, including Rs 6,600 crore worth of equity infusion.
According to official sources, the package will be considered shortly, so as to include it in the general budget.
The ailing airlines is likely to get a Rs 10,000 crore package including additional equity of Rs 6,600 crore and other support in 2013, said sources.
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UBS Financial upgrades Open Text (OTEX ) to buy.
Analyst Martin Cecchetto says second-quarter earnings per share on an adjusted basis was 30 cents, at the high-end of guidance. Cash flow from operations was strong at $12 million.
He says third-quarter earnings per share guidance of 24 cents to 28 cents was light, vs. 30 cents consensus, but $108 million to $112 million third-quarter revenue guidance is in line.
Cecchetto says while March guidance from enterprise content management (ECM) vendors has been uninspiring on average, he's a getting more positive indication from system integrators than he was in late 2004.
He notes President and COO John Shackleton is to become CEO in July. He sees $1.11 fiscal 2005 (ending June) adjusted earnings per share and $1.35 fiscal 2006 earnings per share. He ups his $23 target to $25.


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This is a book discussion group where we can talk about different ways of being a hero, as shown in these two books. Flush is another of Carl Hiassen's books for young readers. (Remember Hoot and the movie by the same name?) Son of Neptune is the second in Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series. (Remember The Lightning Thief?) We will have some interesting ways to explore and compare these stories, with games and food and scavenger hunts. You can read one or both books. We will have a limited number of extra copies of the books at the library, starting in late June or early July. Call ahead to reserve your copy.


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A word of warning to a to anyone suffering RSD and/or CRPS.
The website MDjunction appears to be colluding with promoters of a scam medical device to deceive potential patients.
The device is called the "Calmare" -- aka "scramber therapy," "MC-5A," "TEMPR" -- and is NOTHING but an ordinary TENS device (check FDA filings for further information) that is promoted using outrageous, unproven claims about its ability to "scramble" nerve signals and thereby block pain.
They even claim that it can "retrain" the brain so that the therapy, in effect, "heals" the pain.
It is all patent nonsense.
The device was "invented" by a character named Giuseppe Marineo -- a fraud who has claimed at various times to possess a "MD,DSc," "MD,PhD," and/or a "PhD" degrees yet who likely has never even attended college.
There is absolutely NO scientific research that would support any claim that the device can send a "scrambled" signal along any nerve.
The company that sells the device -- Competitive Technologies -- is a "penny stock" bordering on bankruptcy despite marketing the device for over four YEARS via scientific meetings such as ASCO as well as via popular outlets such as USAToday. They even went so far as to make a ridiculous infomercial with Terry Bradshaw which can be found on Youtube.
Now it appears their desperation may have driven them -- or perhaps the few clinics offering the therapy -- to infect various pain message boards with spam postings promoting the device.
In MDjunction's case, group leaders "jpcrps" and "cfthb" appear to have been engaged in some fashion to facilitate the scam:
They have censored all posts criticizing the device as well as posts complaining of the device's ineffectiveness.
They also engage in "bumping" -- posting for no other purpose than to keep the thread at the top of the list.
Reading their comments makes it pretty obvious that these people aren't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts.
My own efforts have managed to get these con artists as well as the device banned from a few pain forums.
The main point here is -- don't believe anything posted on a pain forum, no matter how "real" and sincere it might seem. There is no way to know who these posters are or what their motivation is.
And it can be said for ANY therapy -- talk it over with your family MD BEFORE you spend any money.
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#1 Consumer Comment
Calmare Effective for Neurological Pain
SUBMITTED: Friday, July 22, 2016POSTED: Friday, July 22, 2016
I cant speak for these other disorders since I am not familiar with them. However, I can speak for Chronic Migraines, Parkensons, Alzhiemers, Traumatic Brain Injury and Chemical poisoning of the brain. I have used Calmare for a combination of many of these conditions. It has been a life saver for me and nothing short of extraordinary. It put my pain back into remission when nothing else worked. Whether, this works on all these other disorders. I just really can not say. However, for the ones I listed above. The treatment has been amazing.
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#2 Consumer Comment
Same scam start again
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, April 29, 2014POSTED: Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Calmare is taking yet anothr run at success the medical field. The studies are in, and it failed. We all know of the hundreds of undocumented success stories that are told through the faces of four people. What is the truth. Well being a true RSD/CRPS patient, I have been actually warned away from wasting time and money on this by a Doctor who has one in his practice. The Calmare scandal is taking another run at the internet. We see the same stories and any rebuttle is deleted and muted by the and burried pages deep in google, by bullcrap wordpress websites with no foundation.
The studies show there are holes in the story. Any early type one patient can go into pain free periods. It's normal. This scam is run by bogus fundraising events on gofundme and BS doctor interviews on an online arena, by one person, who by the way owns stock. He also claims to be cured. As a patient, that is in 24/7 suffering, there is no worse shame then giving us false hope. To much propoganda to even consider this to be anything more then just another shot by a shady, to say the least, executive team at CTI. Do your homework.
At first I was a patient looking for help. My first thoughts were what a shame to give patients false hope. In the end I find the truth to be just a bunch of stock pumping. This entire thing was a waste of time and a great deal of stress for me, and I think I have suffered enough already. Shame on any doctor who involves themselves in this sham. You should really look at the lives you hurt with false hope, not the ways to recover your losses on the equipment. I can buy an Empi 300 and some pads for under 500 and get the same if not better and safer treatment at home. How dare you pump this as real, when you know that it is just glorified tens unit.
I will finish up by saying these things are fact and can be proven. I challange you to come at me with lies, give me a reason to put you out there and expose you.
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#3 REBUTTAL Individual responds
I beg YOUR pardon!
SUBMITTED: Friday, August 09, 2013POSTED: Friday, August 09, 2013
Vallan - in your first paragraph in the "I beg your pardon?" post, you said you tried to post nothing but links. This is just completely untrue, and you know it, and the admins can prove it because they have your posts. The links were fine, and the admins said they were fine. That wasn't the problem. The problem was all the innuendoes and half-truths and outright falsehoods that you posted that accompanied the links, and your callous indifference to the board community and their needs and the stated purpose of the board. The links were NOT removed until you were banned from the board after due process and in keeping with board rules.
Re MDJunction being "fraid" [sic] of people seeing the links - they were certainly NOT afraid that people would see your links - indeed, quite the opposite - they welcomed them and said so, and you can still see that on the thread (although your posts were removed after you were banned). More defamatory, false statements from you, and it's easy to show you're wrong - look at the thread.
Re your "The fact is that the board simply censors ANYONE who posts ANYTHING critical of the device." Again, as I said in my first post, this is completely untrue, and can be easily shown to be untrue. Anyone who goes to the two Calmare threads on the board will see both positive and negative posts about the treatment from a variety of posters. Why do you keep saying this when you know it's false, and it's easy to show it's false? It's very wrong of you to do this.
Re your statement that it's not covered by insurance - again, this is untrue. More and more insurances are starting to cover this treatment. I wrote a 5-page letter to Health Net, our insurance company when my daughter got the treatments, asking them to cover the treatment since it works well for many people and would save them millions of dollars on treatments and medications (my daughter was scheduled for a spinal cord stimulator, which would cost at least $60,000, plus a lifetime of drugs and other treatments. Instead, we paid $2500 for Calmare and she is in remission and off of drugs completely). It took a while, but two weeks ago, I got a letter from Health Net, and they covered it. And it's not just Health Net - there are other companies that are covering it. Not every company will, but more and more are. Yet you keep saying this, despite the fact that you have no proof. That is really wrong.
Re your "Indeed, why does anyone need to be a RSD victim to post? How do they prove that?" Of course no one can prove anything on the internet. Shall we all turn off our computers and go home? Of course not. We all just need to use our judgement. As far as why someone needs to be an RSD victim to post - because that is the purpose of this particular board, and when people sign up, they agree to abide by the board rules. You said you did NOT have RSD, and despite this, they let you post quite a bit before finally banning you, and then only because of the continuing problems with the tenor of your posts. If you had shown respect to the community, I'm sure they would have let you keep posting. Multiple members were complaining about you, and you were finally banned, and only then were your posts removed. It's pretty arrogant of you to complain about people with a horrible disease wanting a support community with people dealing with the same problem.
In summary - your posts continue to be filled with innuendoes, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, and it's easy to demonstrate this. They malign a treatment for a horrible disease that has helped many people. You even brag about shutting down discussions on this treatment, when you should be ashamed of doing this - people should at least have the opportunity to make up their own minds about it. Go ahead and post your links - no one has ever complained about that, and information is important - just drop the innuendoes and half-truths and falsehoods that go along with the links, and abide by board rules for whatever board you sign up with.
And I would like to state again that I have told the leaders at MDJunction that I will provide access to my daughter's medical records to them - both her regular doctor and her Calmare doctor - if they need that information to combat people like you. Her regular pain doctor can verify both her diagnosis and the fact that she is now in remission, and he has no connection with her Calmare doctor. I will also provide proof to them that Health Net has covered the treatments. Now would you please stop with your know-it-all attitude and the innuendoes and half-truths and falsehoods, and provide your links in a manner in line with whatever board you're posting on (which you agree to do when you sign up with a board, btw). You have useful information, but so do other people, and it's wrong to try to shut down discussions.
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I beg your pardon?
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, July 31, 2013POSTED: Wednesday, July 31, 2013
I beg your pardon but I TRIED to post nothing but links but they were still REMOVED despite my not including any comment whatsoever with them.
For example, I tried to post a link to the most recent publication -- the ONLY blinded, randomized, and controlled study currently available -- by Dr. Campbell wherein he demonstrated that the calmare not only was NOT effective a controlling pain but it couldn't even be distinguished from a "nontherapeutic" sham.
That link was removed -- why?
Why would "MDJunction" be fraid any pain sufferer might see that?
Indeed, why does anyone need to be a RSD victim to post? How do they prove that?
I posted links to several blogs where REAL RSD sufferes documented their FAILURES with the device and the posts were all REMOVED.
The fact is that the board simply censors ANYONE who posts ANYTHING critical of the device.
How can posting FACTS about the device, the Italian con man that invented it, and the deceitful company that sells it be wrong?
Why would it be harmful to reveal that the Florida distributor of calmares -- Bert Bertman -- is an ex-con who only a few years ago got out of the pentientary after serving time for MULTIPLE counts of fraud involving a penny stock scam?
I would think a potential patient might like to have such information before deciding to pay 2-4 THOUSAND dollars for a treatment that ISN'T covered by insurance.
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#5 REBUTTAL Individual responds
Vallan is right - don't believe things on forums - including what he says on a forum!
SUBMITTED: Friday, July 26, 2013POSTED: Friday, July 26, 2013
I am a member on MDJunction and was involved in the discussions with Vallan at MDJunction, and would like to set the record straight, as Vallan has said some things that are wrong. Sadly, his falsehoods about Calmare will very likely lead to condemning some people to lifelong pain, so I hope he will reconsider his position.
1. Re Vallan's "They have censored all posts criticizing the device as well as posts complaining of the device's ineffectiveness.". This is so COMPLETELY wrong that I wonder he even said it. If anyone goes to the Calmare threads at MDJunction, especially the first thread, they can read for themselves both positive AND NEGATIVE comments about the treatment. Before Vallan showed up, we were having a courteous and balanced discussion of the treatment, where people shared both positive and negative experiences with it, and the moderators were fine with it.
2. Re Vallan's claim that Calmare clinics/company is "infect[ing] various pain message boards with spam postings promoting the device." I'm guessing that he's referring to me, because I'm the one that started the thread on Calmare because of how well my daughter responded to it. My daughter had RSD, a horrible pain disorder, for almost a year before we found out about Calmare and decided to try it, because prestigious institutes like the Mayo Clinic are looking into it. She is now in remission and out of pain, and is growing stronger daily. When we got back from the treatments, I wanted to share this information with other RSD patients, because it took hundreds of hours of internet research before we found even a single mention of Calmare, and I wanted to at least have a mention of this treatment available for other people to consider. This treatment is non-invasive and painless, and the doctors using it have very good success with RSD patients. However, I found that for some strange reason, discussions about Calmare often get shut down, and that's why it's hard to find a mention of it on discussion boards. This made me furious, because I know first-hand how horrible this disease is, and it's horrible for people to shut down discussions of it so that people looking at discussion threads don't hear about it and can't even look into it for themselves. Anyway, that's why I've persisted in writing about Calmare, despite the efforts of people like Vallan. I think that people should at least be able to hear about it and make their own decisions.
I don't receive any benefit at all from sharing my positive experience with Calmare, except the hope that it might save at least one other person from RSD, a disease so horrible that its nickname is "the suicide disease" because people with RSD will sometimes take that tragic way out because they can't take the horrible, body-wide, 24/7 lifetime pain anymore. On the definitive medical pain index, RSD pain is higher than any other type of pain. I can't prove that I'm teling the truth, since it's just an internet forum, but I have told the administrators at MDJunction that I would be more than happy to provide them contact information to both my Calmare doctor and my regular pain doctor (non-related to Calmare) to verify both my daughter's condition and the fact that she is now in remission due to Calmare treatments. So Vallan is wrong; I am no spammer. I hope he will seriously consider what he is doing, and the terrible ramifications that it has, and choose to stop trying to shut down Calmare discussions, and let people be aware of this treatment and decide for themselves.
4. Re the "bumping" - I post periodically to keep people updated on my daughter's progress. She came out of remission after 3 months (this is typical) and then had 4 more treatments and is back in remission. And yes, I partly post to bump the topic, because there is only one thread on it, and there are multiple threads on other treatments, and I want some other mother who is desperate about her daughter's terrible condition to be able to at least see ONE thread on the subject and do her own research and make her own decision.
5. Re the group leaders facilitating the "scam" - what Vallan doesn't share is that this discussion board is for RSD patients and their caregivers, and Vallan, by his own admission, is NEITHER. His posts were allowed until multiple members started complaining about them, and then finally begging the leaders to stop him. This is a support group for people with a terrible disease, and he was being really obnoxious and causing a lot of stress, and the leaders dealt with it over a period of time.
6. Re Vallan's "don't believe anything posted on a pain forum, no matter how "real" and sincere it might seem. There is no way to know who these posters are or what their motivation is." I agree, as long as he changes "pain forum" to "ANY forum", including this one. I mean, why believe anyone, including Vallan? And what is really strange to me is why Vallan is so strongly against this treatment - the ONLY times he posts on MDJunction are when Calmare comes up, and he ONLY posts negative things about Calmare, and he does NOT have RSD. It's very strange - this is a rare disease, and an even rarer treatment. He mentions motivation - what is his motivation?
So in summary - yes, we have to be careful to not believe things on ANY forum without doing some research. And Vallan, you need to do more research, because you are wrong about this treatment. One of the group leaders has a PhD in medicinal chemistry and was correcting some of your talking points, yet you told him he was wrong!?! I suggest that you at least contact some of the doctors that provide this treatment and see if they will share some of their information with you. And yes, go ahead and share some of the links you shared - that part was fine - but please stop the nasty innuendoes and conjectures that also filled your posts, and PLEASE stop trying to shut down discussions on it. That is just tragic.
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There is a rather astounding rumour doing the rounds in football that when Venky's purchased Blackburn Rovers they were completely unaware of the existence of the system of relegation.
Despite this apparent lack of due diligence, and perhaps more by accident than design, following a 2-0 win over Sunderland it now appears likely that, despite all expectation to the contrary, they will not have this harsh reality brought home in brutally practical fashion.
It took him 50 games, but last night Steve Kean finally enjoyed back-to-back wins as Blackburn manager.
That he has lasted this far into his reign is as much due to the stubbornness of Venky's as his own resolve under considerable fire, but finally it appears Blackburn have stumbled across a formula that, while far from perfect, may prove sufficient for now at least.
The win over Sunderland takes Blackburn six points clear of relegation with nine games remaining. Given the paucity of quality at the bottom of the table, that could almost be enough.
Certainly, cautious optimism appears to have replaced overwhelming pessimism as the prevailing emotion around the club.
"Not only have we got back-to-back wins but back-to-back clean sheets," Kean said on Tuesday night. "We have worked hard on that aspect. I think we can catch (the teams above) and with confidence and consistency in the team, which we can feel with abundance, we can start to look up.
"There is still a lot of football to be played and we looked at this month as an opportunity to put points on the board and possibly put a little bit of gap between the teams around us. Looking now at the last 11 games we have got 17 points and to keep chipping away and keep adding points is encouraging."
If Blackburn do avoid what, before Christmas, appeared to be almost certain relegation, there is no doubt it will be a huge achievement for Kean, who earlier this season felt he had to employ a bodyguard following antagonism from disaffected Blackburn fans.
He remains a man with a public approval rating that would make Nick Clegg cower in fear, and ironic cheers of "Kean for England" were still heard on Tuesday evening.
Yet, for now at least, there are no chartered planes flying over Ewood Park with banners reading "Steve Kean out!" trailing behind them; no home-made posters in Pune calling for his dismissal; and the dog with a "Taxi 4 Kean" tabard - a fine sartorial choice for any discerning canine - also remains in the dog house (incidentally, say what you want about Blackburn's protests this season, but they have been nothing if not imaginative).
Kean has been subjected to some of the most sustained, vitriolic abuse ever seen in the Premier League from fans who never wanted him, never trusted him and are still laced with scepticism.
And despite Blackburn's recent renaissance, they have every right to remain cynical.
Clearly promoted above his station, the manner in which Kean replaced Sam Allardyce still seems a touch unsavoury, while as a Venky's appointment he is the public face of an organisation that no longer responds to its fans or gives them the clarity they deserve.
Kean may keep Blackburn up, but can you really make the case that they are in a better position than they would have been had Allardyce remained in charge?
Early Doors recognises Kean probably felt he could not turn down the chance to manage a Premier League club - and that's fair enough, relatively few get such an opportunity after all - yet the stigma of his early months in charge, when he all too readily seemed to assume the shape of a Venky's stooge, will prove hard to shift.
The end of last season was horrendous, as was the first half of this one, yet Kean, always obedient to his bosses, was incredibly handed a new contract.
It was that moment that so perfectly crystallised concerns amongst supporters that the partnership of Venky's and Kean was somewhat detached from reality. Which other clubs would have dished out an improved contract despite such a wretched run of form? Not many, ED suspects, and for good reason.
His public statements have also been suspect on occasion. When Kean claimed in June that Blackburn would be in the Champions League in three or four seasons it appeared to be more clumsy rhetoric from a man who had swallowed the promises of the club's owners, promises that rightly seemed ludicrous to fans expecting a prolonged relegation battle.
It was borne of the same mentality that saw Venky's confidently assert they were going to sign Ronaldinho or David Beckham. No one believed it at the time, and it looks more and more ridiculous in retrospect.
Yet despite all the antagonism, the public relations failures and the numerous defeats, Blackburn and their beleaguered manager have stumbled through, thanks in no small part to the goals of Yakubu and the electricity of Junior Hoilett, and suddenly salvation is within their grasp.
Kean has attributed an improved run of form to a more collegial atmosphere at Ewood Park.
"I think the fans are seeing the just rewards for their efforts in getting behind the team," Kean said on Tuesday night. "We win together and lose together but they are starting to see some performances and some points.
"There's been times this season when [the atmosphere] has been a bit fragmented. But, of late, over the last 11 games the amount of points we have picked up, all the way back to Liverpool away and Manchester United away, the travelling fans and the atmosphere inside the ground has been exceptional. That gives us a platform to go and perform."
Hostilities have been suspended to a degree for now, but back-to-back wins, and likely survival, will not paper over the cracks for long while Venky's and Kean remain in charge.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Did we lose?" - After regaining consciousness, Fabrice Muamba asks his father Marcel the result of the FA Cup sixth-round tie that was postponed after the midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch.
FOREIGN VIEW: "You have few players who dominate like this, but he does it. You can compare him perfectly to (Michael) Jordan. The day that Leo Messi overcame Cesar, we've had a game from that era. Leo has entered history. Those who knew Cesar have told me that he was exceptional. It's all been said before about Messi. He doesn't only score goals, he scores great goals; each one is better than the last. We are seeing the very best in action. I'm sorry for those who try to take his throne but this kid is different, better, we are excited to have him." - Pep Guardiola rightly waxes lyrical about that man Messi after the Barcelona forward broke the club's all-time goalscoring record with a hat-trick against Granada last night. He now has 234 for the club and just the 54 this season.
COMING UP: We put Swansea's Gylfi Sigurdsson under the microscope, while we spend 60 Seconds with former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli and Jim White also files his latest column at 1pm.
There are plenty of games on tonight, the most important of which sees Manchester City host Chelsea in the Premier League at 7.45pm as Carlos Tevez prepares to make his return to competitive action. Tottenham host Stoke, Liverpool travel to QPR and Arsenal take on Everton.
There are also three games in the Championship and, in Spain, Cristiano Ronaldo will try and turn the attention back on himself when Real Madrid visit Villarreal at 9pm. We will have live coverage of all these games.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- After a shoulder injury and subsequent surgery ended her rookie season, redshirt freshman Andraya Carter is anxious to begin again at Rocky Top.
Carter, a five-foot-9 guard from Flowery Branch, Ga., started her first five games as a Lady Vol last year and played in seven contests before a labrum tear in her right shoulder short-circuited the makings of a standout freshman campaign. She averaged 5.3 points, 1.9 assists, 1.6 rebounds and 1.3 steals per contest and shot .900 from the free throw line and .367 from three-point land in her curtailed debut season.
Carter initially was injured vs. Miami on Nov. 18, but not before dropping 16 points on the #24/23 Hurricanes in Coral Gables. She scorched the nets by draining four of five threes, four of four free throws and tallying three assists and as many rebounds in 28 minutes in the key early-season road win.
In another fine performance, Carter turned in 36 minutes of duty at Georgia Tech in her second college game, with many family members, friends and former high school teammates looking on. While she scored only four points, she added four assists, four rebounds and a steal and played solid defense while committing only one turnover on the offensive end as Tennessee claimed the first victory of the Holly Warlick era.
Those efforts and the positive impression Carter left on the coaching staff, her teammates and fans during her limited playing time a year ago have everyone in Big Orange Country excited about her return to the court.
Not only does she have four years remaining to play at Tennessee, but she enters the campaign as a freshman with tangible college game experience and the knowledge she gleaned from sitting on the bench next to the coach staff for the 28 contests she was unable to play.
Coach Warlick is certainly glad to have Carter back on the court as the 2013-14 season approaches and the Lady Vols embark on the Grind For 9, with the goal of making the NCAA Final Four in Nashville their final stop during the 2013-14 schedule.