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I Music Issue We (Version)

You want to be chummy and have fun in a team dynamic, but when shit goes down the producer has to be on hand to defuse it.

I know what it's like to be in a band

I know what that energy feels like and how awesome that is. ...

I feel like I'm the fifth Beatle, really helping the band.

I just want to be a part of the team.

You're a musician, you're presented with the problems of music and how to make things sound good

I'll ask for demos ahead of time

I'll listen to a song and I'll look for moments that get me.

I'll try to make that happen more often.

I've disassembled bands and put them back together, and other times it's just about getting out of the way and letting it happen.

I try to make people feel comfortable

I've had bands literally fight in the studio

We were just getting ready to record, he walks out, goes into the bathroom and walks in wearing a tennis dress, in drag.

You're getting the evil eye from someone.

I just did a record with Crime & the City Solution

I just mixed a record with the Kickstand Band too.

I just finished the Duende! record.

I'll be doing a new record in November with Dean Fertita.

I did a bunch of his last record.

I really like the way the Ruiners record came out

If I die tomorrow, I'm good.

They're real young and it's got a good Detroit vibe to it.

I've been recording Bixy Lutz and they're phenomenal.

I think that we are all very much into songwriting.

We take pride in it.

We all have the common goal to write the best songs we can.

We're not just looking to rhyme a bunch of shit and run around acting goofy.

We want to write a song that can touch somebody.

We don't want to half-ass anything.

I think we're a little grittier and gloomier because of where we are. I'm from River Rouge, which is a downtrodden area, so you see the darker side of life.

I'm just talking about what I see — just doing social commentary.

I've been back in Detroit for about five years.

I was gone on and off for about 10 years, but I'm from Detroit. Now, I live in Corktown.

I think that I write visually based songs.

I sat on my porch, watched and wrote.

I was born and raised in Detroit with good Midwestern qualities.

I have spent most of my career working by myself.

I think [working collectively] allows you to get out of yourself a little bit.

I enjoy working with people, whether I'm working on a car or painting something, anything.

I like the camaraderie, and it makes things a lot easier.

You want it to affect everybody, all different groups of people.

I'm always on the prowl for somebody who will stir me inside.

You have to come out and spend some time in the writer's nights.

I think it's just a complete lack of really giving a shit, to be honest,

‘we don't give a shit' attitude.

We give a great shit about writing songs, arranging them and how things go.

You'll likely loose the downbeat or the singer might spasm-kick his stand away and sing-shout the rest of the song off-mic, or the guitarists might improvise a new solo or two.

I dunno, the word ‘jazz' and us ... probably sounds really weird, but.

We've got enough songs to play a full live set.

We just go up there and it's an absolute good time for us.

You can't just stand there, especially as the singer.

You move and you move more and you reach a level when you can just go beyond ... it... that, that's the not giving the shit part.

I expect him to drop dead at any point, actually.

I wouldn't be able to play.

You can't scream like you scream or jump off of shit and land on your knees anymore.

I don't think I could adjust to that, I really don't.

They come out in business suits for a song, dashikis for another, and dressed as thugs for the next song.

They're just as much different worlds for their songs to inhabit.

I am Nokbai, that means "peace," in our language called "Opian."

I am Sensu, which means "war."

I am Kensah, "love."

We came together in the name of creativity years ago.

We are a band of vocal, auditory and visual innovators sourced from a tribe of ancient freedom fighters known as "The Black Operation."

We are the new breed of Opians, and the torch is in our hands.

We are representatives of his lineage.

We carry on the tradition of King Legend's greatest attributes.

We represent the three sides of King Legend that he fought within himself: peace, war and love — Nokbai, Sensu and Kensah.

We have all experienced a creative baptism in complete darkness in order to sharpen the strength of our unified light.

I feel that the intellectual lectures took our state of thinking to another level.

We performed among Noble Prize-nominated neurologists and world-famous entertainers.

I don't want to make party music, I don't think ... ever,

I want the focus to be the music, not the party.

You couldn't come up with a better description of the forthcoming full-length debut, Worm Food.

You can't really dance to any JQ jams

They now have three local filmmakers wrapping up music videos.

They strolled out and laid waste to the little bar and the few attendees with their hook-heavy pop-rock.

We always listened to music driving to and from the shows, and we had a lot of things in common.

I was thinking that it'd be so cool to have a band with her.

I wanted to write fun, short songs.

I wonder why as hard as I try

I'm still thinking of you tonight 

I'm still thinking of you tonight

We're a three-piece and we try to keep the music within the realm of possibility

I think it affects the music

I live in a shared house and, in the city, we can get away with a bit more.

You can do that in the suburbs, but the Lager House is less than a mile from my house.

I'm not at the Lager House all the time, but it does make things easy.

We were just at the Halloween show at the Crofoot last night and it was almost unbearable, there were so many people there.

I can't whine and complain that people won't come out to see music because obviously they will.

You have to sweeten the deal a little bit.

I know that's a bit gimmicky, but we're new at this anyway.

I don't know if ice cream pairs well with excessive drinking.

I hope that's not 100 percent true, but it's going to be an experiment with our new album.

We decided it'd be perfect, so we messaged the guy that owns it,

You're hit all the harder by her chops and artistry.

I don't have to be overtly sexual to sell a song

I'm extremely proud of Ashaki

You know, she started out with [Harold] McKinney and Teddy Harris

I was about 8 years old, I asked my uncle if I could join the choir

I kept bugging him and he finally said OK,

I got up there in my little pink dress, and I sang my solo.

I wasn't nervous.

I was smiling and looking at people.

I told Harold that I needed to put together a band and I needed to find a good piano player.

I didn't think I was good enough to the point Harold would want to play with me.

I had to step up my game.

I was going around with all these people, all and they did was perform year-round.

I did a tour of Eastern Europe in 2009-2010 with Diana Krall, and each night I would just turn the back of a tour bus into a lab.

I had my [Akai] MPC, my Native Instruments Machine, and I would just create all night.

He's certainly more than capable, but he's not going to force it merely because that's what people want him to do.

I enjoy playing and producing all types of music.

I've known Marcus since I was 3 or 4 years old

I'd say from, 7th grade to 11th grade, I studied jazz with Marcus each week.

I don't think so.

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Fast Money Round 1

Apple howling money

cold

Chaingang Cobb vacuum thief

snow map

  Athletes

eat

vegetables bats umbrella

  Buying a house swiss

cheese apple sink

drain rattle

  Dances liver cinnamon

fish birdhouse TV

mosquito sit by fire

suspenders snickers

  Canada popcorn

apple ate the apple

body

  Mall coliseum garbage

sex niagra falls

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Internalizing Offshoring Pt 2: To wit -- photos of amazon.com warehouses in the UK and US. These products don't exist until we conjure them up with our desire.

#warehouse #diy #prosumer #convenience

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No matter how many neologisms one can craft and no matter how many rationalizations of "how this will effect us all remains to be seen," the fact is we're internalizing labor costs under the guise of convenience and quasi-DIY. As Biscuit noted: "What if I'm a 75-year-old man. I can still drive fine, but I'm wealthy and would prefer to have my gas pumped -- for a service fee and maybe even a tip? I can't even do that anymore. Those places don't exist!"

and on and on and on...

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Hmmm...Still thinking through this one: Silly in a place with such low density? Fun opportunity with the downside of being a really low priority? Potential for random engagement very, very high given the right parking spot choice? Potential for sitting on your ass in a really weather-exposed area for no goddamned good reason if you choose like a dumbass? Then again, there's a low barrier to entry -- like a couple bucks and you can have a place that sits on the venn diagram intersection between public, private and corporate. Rebar's license agreement is ridiculous (and, seeing as they're based in the crucible of synergisticmarketingprofitunities of SF, completely understandable), naturally, with all its assumptions that people will jsut take an event like this and use it for commercial purposes.  Awwww..."Fuck it, let's just tailgate!" ? Pro-zen Cons abound!

From the site (should a link-click put you over your daily limit): 

"PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public places. The project began in 2005 when Rebar, a San Francisco art and design studio, converted a single metered parking space into a temporary public park in downtown San Francisco. Since 2005, PARK(ing) Day has evolved into a global movement, with organizations and individuals (operating independently of Rebar but following an established set of guidelines) creating new forms of temporary public space in urban contexts around the world."

#parking #parking day #rebar group #public space #fun

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townsquare/barstool

Town Square designed in Paradise and

entertainment air shopping

Recorded first thing I did. Call my mom.

Screamed. Pitched a no.

Screaming.

An open public heart. Used other names for gatherings.

Whatever you choose you

help here deciding between standing by.

Acquiring

media developing focused

on properties

operating markets.

Shop all

zillion things all styles huge budgets.

Featuring pleasant not like stunning

walkways village like

shopping any other center.

Selection without support

great back with support, back.

Located a world-famous summer

international each

festivals eacH.

Send smoke

all pictures U student party

C student contributer

send all.

-6.2.12 w/ kfd. 4 kfd. 

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IF NECESSARY, I WILL CAPTURE HIM WITH A LASSO. I HOPE THE RAIN STOPS TOMORROW.

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ADMIRAL HOODAT! DISCOVERED BY VIRTUE OF A MAGICAL ANIMAL LEADING THE WAY THROUGH THE FOREST. SHE WAS WAITING WITH CLATTERING BEAK AND FLESH-SHREDDING CLAWS. SHE WAS FRIENDLY AS HELL.

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The common denominator is zero, where the heart beats (no one means to circulate his blood). - John Cage, Silence

#cage #silence #beginning #effort #work #blood

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This really says it all — the panicking public, the cubicle-bound Emergency Management and Public Affairs, the LEGO-y TV weatherfolk. No wonder the new NOAA storm warning system was effective. That and its said something like “Those who survive will not recognize the area after the catastrophic devastation”!!! Also teamwork!

#tornado #weather #LEGO #Fun! #panic #calm #destruction #catastrophe #warning #danger #death #devastation #apocalypse

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Minding the Gap II - Old Boy Speaks

"June the twenty-third [1813]-Towards evening, we anchored off a small village, called Sandy Point, at the bottom of St. George's Bay... Immediately opposite to the village of Sandy Point, stood a village of about twenty Indian wigwams.

Mr. Massery [Messervy], the constable and chief man of this place, came on board, with information that the whole of the settlers in St. George's Bay had for two days been kept in a state of the greatest alarm, in consequence of their having mistaken our ship for an American cruizer. Precautions had been taken against a surprise; and the whole of the Indians on the opposite side of the bay were actually under arms, to oppose our landing. However, we soon succeeded in quieting their fears; and upon hoisting our Union-Jack at the main-top-gallant-mast head, we received a visit from the Chief of the Micmac Indians... '

Independent of the colony of Micmac Indians, there are, in St. George's Bay, thirteen families of Europeans, or their descendants, who have been born in this place. Owing to a contrariety in their religious opinions, eleven ' of them are called English families, and the remainder are denominated French; the former styling themselves Protestants, and the latter Catholics. We inquired into the method of performing the marriage ceremony, and , interring the dead: and were informed that the Crusoe-looking being, whom we had met with upon first entering the place, possessed a licence from ''' St. John's, to perform the functions of a priest. "He was the only person residing there," they said, "who knew how to read!" and he officiated at all the religious ceremonies of both Protestants and Catholics.

The whole of the white population did not amount to more than one ., hundred and twelve persons: and estimating the Indian colony at ninety-seven, St. George's Bay may be said to have contained about two hundred > and nine souls altogether, including English, French, Indian, women and children."

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"Is Your Mother Home?" - BMG/Plaslaiko 

I keep thinking I'm going to get to saying something more distinctly thinky about this jam and video. Then I just listen to it again and again and that cancels out the "thinking" part of my brain and then I have to start all over. Like a creepy-funky junk food loop. 

#BMG #Derek Plaslaiko #Interdimensional Transmissions #Better Made #Detroit #Suburbia #synthesizer #snacks #pop #smallbag #where you stay?

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Minding "The Gap" and toward a past, fumbling and humbly:

"Older 'Sand Scratchers', the real Sandy Point residents, recall that as children they swam in ocean water and lay on the fine sandy beaches, caught the ferry boat run by Priam Power to St. George's, hauled wood over harbour ice from Flat Bay and Barachois Brook, walked to Black Bank over the frozen harbour and helped harvest bumper crops of potatoes and hay from the sandy soil. They remember too the ice boats which reached speeds of up to forty miles an hour and the two-story fish sheds along the waterfront built by visiting Codroy fishing families who lived in the upper stories. They know they have been part of a unique community and culture, once of major importance on the West Coast of Newfoundland, and a way of life which is rapidly disappearing."

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March 31, 2012. Library Bookstore, Ferndale, MI

"Superhero. You Are Making Me Hungry" - "Steve Jobs" by Walter Issacson.

"To Do. Toledo. To Done" - "Oblivion" by David Foster Wallace.

#Pome #poem #bobm #bomb #drop #ferndale #library #handyside #jobs

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TXT/DSGN COLLABORATION WITH JAMES ALLEMAN  FOR AN UNFINISHED CONTEXT. ER, CONTEST.

#poster #collaboration #text #art #design #google #theft #appropriation #smoke #electicity #james alleman #chris handyside #detroit #michigan #2011

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Mostly predictable, I suppose. But nice to have it captured visually, nonetheless.

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The World Factbook. The public-facing product of CIA intel can't help but let some if its intent and tone seep through in the seemingly-objective content. Even Canada reads as chock full of "profit-unities" for your entrepreneurrially/militarily ambitious local empire.