There is no later. This is later.

new blog post has a link to my new Muxtape

Playlist is as follows:
♥ Lightspeed Champion-Dry Lips (I would have NEVER guessed this guy looked like this.)
♥ Bikini-1234 (Okay this is a Feist cover by a Hungarian rock band? Hmmm...maybe? Related: Feist singing this as a counting song on Sesame Street on YouTube--it's AWESOME. "Chickens just back from the shore" are the best part!!)
♥ Wakey! Wakey!- Apology Song (This song cracks me up because it mentions a ton of Missoula landmarks. It was written by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, he's from MT.)
♥ The Dresden Dolls-Mandy Goes to Med School (Another absolutely impressive song, lyrics-wise. Pay careful attention! "the lights are staying out but no sweat I've got aim like a mack truck/guess how many fingers ok guess how many more i can fit there")
♥ Nick Cave-Cannibal's Hymn (Who doesn't love this guy?? With lyrics like this, you MUST. And that voice...ah.)
♥ The Pretty Things-The Good Mr. Square (an older UK band, this one really reminds me of Portland for various secret reasons)
♥ Manu Chao-Bongo Bongo (I dare you to listen to this song and not want to dance. We were introduced to Manu Chao by Ted Lowe [brother of the late Alex Lowe, world's best climber] back in Missoula and his music remains in our regular rotation.)
♥ Louis Armstrong/Radiohead mashup-What a Wonderful Surprise (It's so natural when you hear it...trust me.)
♥ Bon Iver-Skinny Love (As much as I try not to like this song, I just love it--a lot.)
♥ Ben Sollee-A Change Is Gonna Come (classic Sam Cooke cover, very well done)
♥ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-Shuffle Your Feet (Not the sound I was AT ALL expecting from a band with this name, but I think I'm onto something with these guys.)
♥ Warren Zevon-Carmelita (Ah, Warren. RIP. Very few people can make heroin addiction sound this romantic. We worship at the Altar of Warren, here at Casa Blankenship. The love was handed down to Keith by his dad and I adopted Warren soon after I met Keith. This is a Dutch bootleg recording and Jackson Browne is playing the piano and singing backup vocals.)

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Oy h=boy

Keeping it apolitical, I went with geography instead...
Independence Day 2008 Muxtape
Enjoy!  And be safe with firecrackers!

• Bob Dylan – Mississippi
• Steve Earle – Ft. Worth Blues
• Loretta Lynn – Portland Oregon (Duet With Jack White)
• Four year bender – New Orleans Lament
• Bobby Charles – New Mexico
• Neko Case – Train From Kansas City
• Rocky Votolato – Montana
• Neil Young – Albuquerque
• Jay Farrar – California
• Whiskeytown – New York Angel
• Ray's Vast Basement – California's Gone
• Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
  
  

Here's a link to my mixtape that I made for whatever exchange Boz et al are doing.  It's only Part I---I was going through songs alphabetically and stopped early, so stay tuned for a Part II.  I've been thinking about doing something like this for when I move to Idaho.  Like a really lame on-demand radio station.  Anyway, these are all songs that I am psyched to hear if they come up on my shuffle on my Creative Zen.  I turn these up to 11.

1. AC Newman-Miracle Drug.  Frontman for The New Pornographers.
2. AA Bondy-Mightiest of Guns.  I could listen to him sing anything.  Acoustic with great lyrics.
3. Antony & The Johnsons- The Cripple and the Starfish.  I love his voice, you might not.  It may be an acquired taste.
4. Atlanta Rhythm Section- So Into You.  How can you not want to get busy with this on??
5. Augie March- One Crowded Hour.  Okay, seriously.  You must listen to this one.
6. Black 47- Funky Ceili (Bridie's Song).  Celtic rock band from New York.  Apparently this one was on high rotation on MTV for a while, but I don't watch TV so cut me a break.
7. Bob Dylan- Mississippi.  My favorite Dylan song to sing along to.
8. Bobby Bare- Don't Think Twice.  Whatever era he fits into, I pretend I live there sometimes. 
9. Britt Daniel- Bring it On Home (Sam Cooke cover). A great cover of a great song.  Britt Daniel of Spoon (had to get some Portland flavor in).
10. Clem Snide- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances.  A sweet cover of a Daniel Johnston song.
11. Easy Star All-Stars- Karma Police (Radiohead cover).  This reggae band covers Pink Floyd, Radiohead etc.  I like.
12. Elvis Perkins- While You Were Sleeping.  Son of Anthony Perkins from Psycho!  He can really sing.
13. Fleetwood Mac- What Makes You Think You're the One.  My feelings on Fleetwood Mac are mixed but this one gets to me.
14. Four Year Bender- New Orleans Lament.  I like everything I've heard from these guys. 
15. Gipsy Kings- Aven, Aven.  Opening track from their album Roots.  Who doesn't love the Gipsy Kings?!
16. Horse Feathers- Hardwood Pews.  Another local Portland band.  I heart these guys big time.  3-piece band.
17. Hot Chip- Sexual Healing (Remix).  Another Get Busy song.  Turn it up!
18. Iron & Wine- The Devil Never Sleeps.  Everybody bitching, “There’s nothing on the radio"
19. Jim James & Calexico- Goin to Acapulco.  Wish I was going...
20. Josh Ritter- Bandits.  I like this one and it makes me laugh--double bonus.
21. Kanye West- School Spirit.  I am pretty ambivalent about Kanye, except for this one. 
22. Soulsavers-Revival.  I was listening this on the way to take the GRE.  I think studying would have helped more.
23. The Eels- It's a Motherfucker.  For when you have to say goodbye. 

Midly amusing. 
If blasphemy is amusing to you. 
(And it is to me.)

LOLTheist

halp!

1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls
2. You tag 10 people.
3. You CANNOT tag someone who has already been tagged.
4. You have to let the people you tagged know that they've been tagged.
5. These are the rules they must be repeated every time.
6. THERE MUST BE PHOTOS! AT ALL TIMES!

I was tagged repeatedly before Labor Day weekend and now I'm so late on this.  So I'm not tagging anyone.
I feel this is a particularly nerdy list, so no giggling.

Donald Sutherland (young and old versions)


Keifer Sutherland (not so much The Lost Boys version, but...)


David Duchovny (not just The X-Files, though that's a goodie)


Robert Duvall (again, young and old versions---Apocalypse Now and Lonesome Dove)


Jessica Lange (young and old, up until the plastic surgery got ahold of her...The Postman Always Rings Twice....grrrrr)


James Dean (just watched Rebel Without A Cause for the first time a few weeks ago...wow)


Peter Krause (a heartbreaker in Six Feet Under...when he buried Lisa---oh, man)


David Letterman (great dresser, smart, hilarious, I even like the scruffy version in a baseball cap)


Marlon Brando (the young, fit Brando---apparently I have a thing for bi guys [see J. Dean])


Neko Case (that voice)

Someone please tell me this isn't happening.

Local activists Mark and Deborah Kuhn say a Buncombe County sheriff’s deputy invaded their home and used excessive force in responding to a complaint that the couple was desecrating an American flag. The flag, which they’d hung upside down on their porch as a protest, had several statements pinned to it, including a photo of President Bush with the words “Out Now” on it and an explanation that the upside-down flag is a traditional distress signal. (link)

A picture of George W. Bush was also pinned to the flag with the text “Out Now” printed underneath. The Kuhns apparently desecrated the flag by pinning signs to it, not by flying it upside down. (link)

Jonas Phillips is the third resident of Asheville, North Carolina to be arrested in recent weeks for displaying a pro-impeachment sign. (link)

YouTube of the local news

What's going on????

Bruce Elmore, an Asheville lawyer and state president of the ACLU, is representing the Kuhns on the criminal charges. Deborah Kuhn said they do not plan to take civil action against the Sheriff’s Office.
Elmore said his clients were simply practicing expressive conduct protected by the U.S. Constitution and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The First Amendment is meant to protect unpopular speech, not popular speech, he said.
“I’m surprised that a National Guard officer and deputies with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department are not aware that the Supreme Court has declared statutes which criminalize desecration of the flag unconstitutional when the act is involved in expressing a belief, which this clearly was,” Elmore said. (link)

Here are the rules:

1) Only list 8 facts.
2) You must then list 8 TAGS at the end of the post. This means you must name 8 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.***
3) Go comment on their profile and tell them to come read yours! Mark demands participation.


DVL sent this to me and I thought about it all day and I still couldn't come up with anything.

1.  I lived in Alaska, twice, before 1st grade.
2.  I can (and like to) pick things up with my toes.
3.  Wellbutrin saved my life last year.
4.  I want to spend more time with my parents.
5.  Foods I can't live without: ketchup, chocolate, corn.
6.  I am afraid of taxidermied animals.  Very afraid.  Especially large ones.  Can't be in the same room as one.
7.  I didn't really have to study in college.  So grad school scares me a little.
8.  I've lost over 50#s since 2001.

Everyone else has already done this, right?  So I'm not tagging anyone.  Maybe Lazlo.

There's DJMark and DJTomdog, of course.  They play great music we should hear but can't get on the radio.  Radio sucks, we know this. 

And I just discovered a new add-on for Firefox: the PagePlaylist.

(Basically, it looks at any page you are on and if it has mp3s or links to mp3s, it will stream them in a handy Flash-based overlay.  It's awesome.)

Now I'm on the hunt for the sites that have great mp3 links.
So far:
Lost in the 80s
Aurgasm
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (currently featuring an excerpt from the first audiobook release of Slaughterhouse-Five)
Headphone Sex
Culture Deluxe
Of course, 3hive
The always-interesting Music for Maniacs

And TofuHut has a directory of sites with mp3 links---it's where I found most of the above.

If you know of any other great mp3 sites, let me know.

    Has anyone else read this?

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.

The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.

An imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is 'plausible and would challenge United States national security in ways that should be considered immediately', they conclude. As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.

Last week the Bush administration came under heavy fire from a large body of respected scientists who claimed that it cherry-picked science to suit its policy agenda and suppressed studies that it did not like. Jeremy Symons, a former whistleblower at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said that suppression of the report for four months was a further example of the White House trying to bury the threat of climate change.

Senior climatologists, however, believe that their verdicts could prove the catalyst in forcing Bush to accept climate change as a real and happening phenomenon. They also hope it will convince the United States to sign up to global treaties to reduce the rate of climatic change.

A group of eminent UK scientists recently visited the White House to voice their fears over global warming, part of an intensifying drive to get the US to treat the issue seriously. Sources have told The Observer that American officials appeared extremely sensitive about the issue when faced with complaints that America's public stance appeared increasingly out of touch.

One even alleged that the White House had written to complain about some of the comments attributed to Professor Sir David King, Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, after he branded the President's position on the issue as indefensible.

Among those scientists present at the White House talks were Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He said that the Pentagon's internal fears should prove the 'tipping point' in persuading Bush to accept climatic change.

Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the Meteorological Office - and the first senior figure to liken the threat of climate change to that of terrorism - said: 'If the Pentagon is sending out that sort of message, then this is an important document indeed.'

Bob Watson, chief scientist for the World Bank and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, added that the Pentagon's dire warnings could no longer be ignored.

'Can Bush ignore the Pentagon? It's going be hard to blow off this sort of document. Its hugely embarrassing. After all, Bush's single highest priority is national defence. The Pentagon is no wacko, liberal group, generally speaking it is conservative. If climate change is a threat to national security and the economy, then he has to act. There are two groups the Bush Administration tend to listen to, the oil lobby and the Pentagon,' added Watson.

'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.

Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.

Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'

Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,' he said.

'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile.'

So dramatic are the report's scenarios, Watson said, that they may prove vital in the US elections. Democratic frontrunner John Kerry is known to accept climate change as a real problem. Scientists disillusioned with Bush's stance are threatening to make sure Kerry uses the Pentagon report in his campaign.

The fact that Marshall is behind its scathing findings will aid Kerry's cause. Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secretive think-tank dedicated to weighing risks to national security called the Office of Net Assessment. Dubbed 'Yoda' by Pentagon insiders who respect his vast experience, he is credited with being behind the Department of Defence's push on ballistic-missile defence.

Symons, who left the EPA in protest at political interference, said that the suppression of the report was a further instance of the White House trying to bury evidence of climate change. 'It is yet another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.'

Symons said the Bush administration's close links to high-powered energy and oil companies was vital in understanding why climate change was received sceptically in the Oval Office. 'This administration is ignoring the evidence in order to placate a handful of large energy and oil companies,' he added.

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SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE …

opening credits:
Warrior – Matisyahu

waking up:
The Farthest Lights –Freedy Johnston

first day at school:
Amityville - Bizarre

falling in love:
Spanked  - Van Halen

breaking up:
Julia – The Beatles

prom:
Rescue Me – Y&T

life’s okay:
Fingerprint File – The Rolling Stones

mental breakdown:
Alexandra Leaving- Leonard Cohen           (so true)

driving:
Take Me I’m Yours - Squeeze

flashback:
Turn On The World – Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

getting back together:
Wrong Way - Sublime

wedding:
Everything Sucks - Descendents          (!!!!!!)

birth of child:
Heartbreakin Man – My Morning Jacket

final battle:
L.A. Woman – Days of the New

death scene:
Tainted Like You – Smash-up Derby (from the album What the Fuck Is Going On?) 

funeral song:
Unknown Title—Track 12

end credits:
Georgia On My Mind – Ray Charles

• listening to RadioDread
• emptying camera
• filling up mp3 players
• grocery shopping
• packing
• napping (Keith)

PS: the sunrise this morning was awesome
the fog lasted until noon in some parts of the city



And Lazlo wanted to see why I was hanging out the window.

CASSVILLE, Wis. -- The three men arrested for allegedly digging up the grave of a woman who died last week in Grant County are also charged with attempted sexual assault. According to a criminal complaint, the three men were charged with digging up the grave at the St. Charles Catholic Cemetery in Cassville with the intent to have sex with the victim's body.The grave that the men are accused of trying to dig up belonged to Laura Tennessen, 20, of Cassville, who was buried last week after being killed in a motorcycle crash on Aug. 28.The men were formally charged with attempted theft and attempted third degree sexual assault.Radke allegedly confessed and said that the incident was an elaborate plan to have sex with the corpse. He told authorities that Nicholas Grunke asked him to help dig up Tennessen's grave and take the corpse back to a pre-selected location behind his house with the intent to have sex with her.Authorities said that Radke said that the three stopped at the Wal-Mart in Dodgeville on their way to the cemetery and bought condoms.If the three men are convicted, they could face more than five years behind bars for both the misdemeanor theft and the attempted sexual assault, which is a felony.The bail for Radke was set at $1,500. For both Nicholas and Alexander Grumke, bail was set at $1,000.
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Florida Man Dies After Girlfriend Douses Him With Gasoline
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A man died from second and third-degree burns days after his girlfriend, who also was his former sister-in-law, doused him with gasoline, authorities said.


Drug bust yields $3.25 and a bicycle
Reginald E. Farrington, 40, of 703 N.C. 54 was charged with maintaining a late-model Next Avalon Comfort Bike for selling crack cocaine.  Police nabbed Farrington as he ran into some woods in the Northside neighborhood. He might have escaped on his seven-speed Comfort Bike, but the chain fell off with police in hot pursuit.  Police took custody of $3.25 in cash, along with Farrington's two-wheeler, which police estimate to be worth about $20.  "It wasn't in great shape," said Officer D.N. Britt of the Chapel Hill police.

Police charged Farrington with obtaining property by false pretenses, resisting arrest and cocaine possession with intent to sell, even though they did not find drugs on his person. Britt said police were acting on a witness statement and declined to comment further, pending investigation.

Deputy rescues seniors from pot plant

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) - A Yavapai County sheriff's deputy patrolling a senior housing development outside Prescott Wednesday spotted a 5-foot-tall marijuana plant growing between two residents' driveways.
Deputy Justin Dwyer got out, identified the plant and interviewed the residents, spokeswoman Susan Quayle said. They told the deputy they thought the plant was "just an attractive weed, and they had been watering it because it looked so nice."

Woman sentenced for Bible coke smuggling August 8, 2006

HUNTINGTON, Ind. --There was more than Good News in Amy Duckworth's Bible. Duckworth, 28, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for smuggling cocaine to her jailed husband inside two Bibles.

Here's how you can save your songs on Pandora.

Don't say I never gave you nuthin.

(It's a tad complicated for technewbies like me, but it only took like 20 minutes for me to figure it out, so give it a shot.)

Recent keyword activity leading to LGGST:

• hot pink tacos
• tacos sardine
• buzznet tweakers
• jobs for lds ex cons
  

Anyone out there know anything (good bad otherwise) about Salem, OR?  There's a mildly intereresting job opportunity there, but before we get too serious about it, I want to know what kind of a place Salem is.  So speak up!!  I'll do my online research, but I like word-of-mouth better.

We are still thinking Portland, but Salem is close and it's all so up in the air right now.  I supposedly have a phone interview coming for an office assistant at a yoga studio in Portland, but I'm not putting all my eggs in one busket. 

My assistant is currently moonlighting at PuppyTherapy.com.