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The bluejay likes to land on the head of the buddha. he's studying the yard newly cut. through dense trees I see first baptist white spire near the end of the old post road. copasetic satisfactual wind in the trees chimes.

Albert Glinsky biographer of Theremin had some bits to share on Christopher Lydon’s Open Source Radio show. Show includes music, and interviews with thereminists. Dapper Christopher cannot help but break up theremenist Pamelia Kurstein into charming giggles upon giggles. Said Glinsky of the discovery .. Originally he was actually in a Soviet Laboratory about 1919. He was building a meter to measure gas density. And he put on some headphones and decided he would add a whistling tone that would change based on the density of the gas. As he brought his hand closer to the device, the effect was like that which you can have today with an old rabbit ear antennae TV where the picture reception goes in and out as you assume different positions in the room. Based on your position in an electromagnetic field. Now I'd heard that he was just listening to vaccuum tubes one day. Playing with the voltages or some similar. Then he built an instrument just to make sounds. Started with a pedal a...

It's rainin' inside a big brown moon How does that mess you baby up, leg Eatin' a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut Don't stop now, baby, let it all hang out. Billy Cunningham was in the Memphis band The Hombres when he wrote those lines. Ooops, no. Billy Cunningham was in the Memphis BoxTopss. But his brother B.B. was in the Hombres. To me, there could hardly be any bit of writing more in synch with the tenor of the Basement Tapes of Dylan and the Band. Slipshot, off-the-hip, Boccaccioan. In tune with some eternal slapstick mode. Dylan and the Band were down in the basement in 1967 putting out similar. [Last time you said Rabelisian; what is with you?] Sometimes I have wondered if Dylan didnt hear Let it all Hang it out when he was composing the Basement oevre. Griel Marcus focuses on 1967's Ode to Billie Joe by Bobby Gentry as the magnet that attacted Bob and the Band to revisit off-beat country talk songs [I am a Teenage Prayer, The AllAmerican BOy, Teen Angel .. ...

Was listening to old [1969~] Fairport Convention doing version of Dylan’s Million Dollar Bash. Now I’d always heard that song start out as The big dumb blonde With her wheel all gorged And turtle that friend of hers With his checks all forged … Way Fariport does it is like so: The big dumb blonde With Gorgeous George And turtle etc… I check it on BobDylan.com and that’s not what they have. They have something closer to mine The big dumb blond With her wheel in the gorge And turtle etc… Which makes more sense but loses the Rabelaisian [humorously satirical] blues vaudeville Americana double-entendra that suffuses The Basement Tapes. Still the Fairport take is interesting because Dylan’s Chronicles starts out with him at a Minn. Arena where Gorgeous George comes in with [atleast one] blond on his arm. And eyes young Bob as if to say you can take over any time. Which is also funny cause I remember him telling a very similar story when I think he got a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award....

It's a ground turkey universe this a.m. We all go out to rack on the meat wheel. But there’s a guy who thinks he's doing pretty good. And the lord has given Jack the blessing to witness the swimming hairy green tweet goslings on the Hammond Pond. Good morning spring blues; how you do struggle on, nature, behind the white castle macy's and the bloody container store. Redwing in my face. And shaky wonder on rippled water. Ah. But. Cylinders bang and carbon on rubber tires on dusty adopted highway say get to work, chum. I am a hustling old raccoon is what I am. I see me – my guts and feathers all balled like road kill turkey by the side. While old community center cat in summer whites jaunts along too. Keep eyes on road and hands on wheel. Listen to Mozart. Don't forget to breathe. Squint. But don't blink. Cause you'll miss it. -jv

Mashup Interview with Jonathan Marsh WSO2 Oxygen Tank Jonathan: The term mashup apparently comes from musical styles where recordings from different sources are combined into a new piece. On the Web it means consuming information published from multiple sources and integrating it into a new information stream. The repurposing of information to the needs of an individual or interested community is part of the Web 2.0 trend about decentralizing power. Until recently, Web publishers had fairly complete control over how the user experienced the content. But consumers have increasingly opted for technologies that give them the power -RSS gives users the ability to publish their own content, and to consume published information in more ways than just visiting a Web page.