Flash insanity and FB with pre-intel chip Apple OS users

What has Adobe worked out with Facebook. All pre-intel chip Mac G4s, laptops, towers, et and OS 10.5 will not allow Flash content to play on Facebook, while watching on Youtube or other sites streaming the content work fine using the Flash player 10. This doesn't add up. Meaning all pre-intel chip Apples, OS 10.5 or before, are expected to enjoy a limited edition of FB - less any flash content, while all streams fine from Youtube. What a cram down!

Occupy Broadway Big Hit! OWS Lives On and Beyond

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Occupation Broadway was smashing success.
Saturday performance went well with
“Bye Bye All Those Wall Street Lies”
parody on '71 hit "Miss American Pie," and
"We Shall Overcome."
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So Bye, Bye all those Wall St Lies.
The 99 percent is here and ready to RISE!
And them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and lied
Singing this'll be the day Wall st died.
Sining this'll be the day Wall St. died.

A long long time ago, I can still remember
How my bank teller used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance,
That I could make those dollars dance
And maybe I’d be happy for a while
But Fall ‘08 made me shiver,
Mountains high of toxic paper .
More bad news on the doorstep
with globalized economics.
I can't remember if I cried,
When I read about how Bernie Lied!
But something touched me deep inside,
The day – that day, that Wall street died/cried.

Did you write the book of hope
And do you have faith the Fed can cope?
If the senate tells you so?
Now do you believe in toxic loans?
Can bank bail outs save your simple home?
And can you teach us how to think real slow?
Well, you know some ---------- 1 percent,
Ran the banks on shorts without even a scent.
Some sat back and smiled,
While the markets fell a mile!
We were a lonely first class one time bunch.
With a lot of hope, not on some Wall St dope.
I knew we were running with little luck,
The day that Wall St died.

Now, for 200 years we've been on our own,
Where no toxic moss grows on a rolling stone
But that's not how it used to be,
When Goldman Sachs sang for FDIC
In a coat they borrowed from AIG
When the showdown stage lights grew dim.
Oh and while the SEC pants were down
Madoff stole the all time crown.
The congress couldn’t sort,
An mp3 from a CDO.
While commissions paced - the traitors danced
The DOW fell down beneath Euro trance.
Most counted pennies in the dark,
In the days, as Wall St died.

Learning some new songs !

History like nothing I've ever.... back in the days of the Midnight Special shows channek 4 - Don Kirshne???

Reachin back and reachin back. tryin to understand it.

From here to eternity...

Catfish Memories and More

Totalism to Nothing

Some 20 years ago I had a collision with instructions from my music theory professor, Paul Des Marais, (mind you a hard elbows distance from fellow student and young newlywed name Jake Heggie who recently just married the highly esteemed piano virtuoso and teacher Johana Harris) on what was an assignment in altered chromaticism involving 12 tone rows and retrograde inversions.   My “misunderstanding” evolved into my theoretical conception that “no pattern” or motif sequence was in any regards to be repeated in any context, therefore leaving the motif subject to no repetition in any regard whatsoever during the course of the entire piece, as far as it’s original form or  statement was  concerned, but  with the exception of designation in a displaced homophonic manner but then, and only then, for the purpose of designating a cadence or otherwise, but never in original color or serial origin. 

The outcome was such as reflected in this recording, listen here.  I’d like to suggest this theoretical form as a an alternative to the highly publicized school Kyle Gann, Mikel Rouse and the like have come to coin as “Totalism” and perhaps a bit of “Nothingism,” nonetheless! And therefore a nod to the king of "nothingisms!"

South Park on Facebook Fun

To all my friends, or lack thereof on Facebook.



See show here

Concert Promotions Dark Days Ahead

A few weeks ago in "A New Darkness on the Edge of Town" and discussing the Bruce show at Giant's stadium, I alluded to a change on the horizon for big concerts and stadium shows, as we once knew them.. The below On the Media interview with Concert promoter John Scher directly addresses this "phenomenon" and characterizes such as the "dark ages" for concert promotion in years ahead. And I couldn't agree more. (although i don't agree with his theory as to why ticket prices are so high these days. It's my impression if promoters saw people scalping 35.00 tix for 150.00, promoters got savvy and simply cut out another middleman. Did staging acts really see "that" much of an increase in their take home ?

A New Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Last night I saw my first, and probably last, Bruce Springsteen concert at the Meadowlands. Why ? Because it just couldn’t be beat. Just couldn’t. A perfect night! Temperature. And as if staged, the falling rain started to “lightly” sputter before Bruce could pull his guitar cord after finishing the last song.

They band played the album “Darkness On The Edge Of Town,” start to finish, to mark the series of album shows performed over the last week in the Wetlands. “Promise Land” lit the night with the diehard NJ audience articulating every chorus like a well-oiled machine. Bruce was among “his” people. And they gladly sang along with all their hearts. It was his hometown, the Meadowlands, Friday night. I’ll never forget it.

The HD video screens brought profound realism and intimacy for the distant viewers less fortunate to make it down to the floor. I’d be very surprised if the show(s) isn’t going to be coming out on DVD, because it was a historical performance in many a context. The cameras and real time cuts clearly suggested something worth owning in the future.

It’s hard to imagine the boss turned 60 just a few short weeks ago. But if there were anyone that could exemplify 60 as the new 40, Bruce is it. But what amazed me more than the great show last night, was the NJ audience and fans. Those fans, I believe, are truly a class of their own. From the early tailgater goers to the SRO elbow to elbow folks on the floor and stage center. They are a unique bunch. But what one ought to question, I’m afraid, is whether in times ahead, will subsequent generations ever come to know an act that could command an audience as I witnessed last night? And my sense is that this, what I saw last night, the performance and all, is the waning crescent of a distancing star.

As AOR, album oriented rock, and the era of how artists were developed since the time of the Beatles, and how major labels populated the majority of the airwaves, it’s my impression eventually this sort of “phenomenon” I witnessed Friday night will eventually be a thing of the past. Just a memory. And Bruce may well be among the last to command an audience that size, as such, again.

With CBS and other major labels no longer tooling the minds of pop culture, and what “pop culture” once was, it would seem their mastery in how greats like Bruce came to be will eventually lessen in time. And the stardom like I saw last night, will similarly diminish due to how the advent of the Internet, mp3s and social registries like Myspace and Facebook compartmentalized how major record labels operated for over a century.

Oct 3, 2009

Old hangs, friends, lovers and nites of all the rest. Thanks CM and NP. - it took some time.