Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
My DB Cooper Inside Edition Adventure
I did the field production (including interviews), not the story. It aired 5/21/07.
My KMHD Playlist 5/26/07
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show theme
10:03 PM Stan Bock Ensemble The Godfather You're Check's In the Mail
10:11 PM Maceo Parker Splashin' Southern Exposure
10:23 PM Janice Scroggins Bethina Janice Scroggins Plays Scott Joplin Vinyl
10:29 PM Max Morath The Chrysanthemum--An Afro-American Intermezzo Max Morath Plays Scott Joplin Vinyl
10:34 PM Eubie Blake The Baltimore Todolo The 86 Years of Eubie Blake From Vinyl
10:39 PM Mac Potts Untitled Unreleased Mac plays all instruments
10:47 PM Dexter Gordon Cheese Cake Go From vinyl
10:53 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Band ? Unreleased Live at Cafe Paloma, March 11, 2007. Thanks Wayne!
11:03 PM Bernard Herman All the Animals Come Out At Night Taxi Driver Soundtrack
11:07 PM Willlie Ruff/Dwike Mitchell Chelsea Bridge/Upper-Manhattan Medical Group Strayhorn Vinyl with Tom reading
11:16 PM Gil Evans Orchestra Orange was the color of her dress then blue silk Live at Umbria Jazz
11:25 PM Ruff/Mitchell Passion Flower Strayhorn Vinyl
11:32 PM Pink Martini Cance e Dance Hey Eugene! a Phil Baker tune
11:36 PM Dan Balmer Rain Thanksgiving
11:42 PM Nancy King & Steve Christopherson Perennial Proximity Vol.1
11:46 PM Oregon Spanish Stairs Oregon In Moscow
11:51 PM Joey Baron Time To Cry We'll Soon Find Out
12:04 AM Miles Davis Right Off A Tribute To Jack Johnson Vinyl
12:30 AM Miles Davis Yesternow A Tribute To Jack Johnson Vinyl
12:58 AM Extremo the Clown Finale Extremo and Friends
10:03 PM Stan Bock Ensemble The Godfather You're Check's In the Mail
10:11 PM Maceo Parker Splashin' Southern Exposure
10:23 PM Janice Scroggins Bethina Janice Scroggins Plays Scott Joplin Vinyl
10:29 PM Max Morath The Chrysanthemum--An Afro-American Intermezzo Max Morath Plays Scott Joplin Vinyl
10:34 PM Eubie Blake The Baltimore Todolo The 86 Years of Eubie Blake From Vinyl
10:39 PM Mac Potts Untitled Unreleased Mac plays all instruments
10:47 PM Dexter Gordon Cheese Cake Go From vinyl
10:53 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Band ? Unreleased Live at Cafe Paloma, March 11, 2007. Thanks Wayne!
11:03 PM Bernard Herman All the Animals Come Out At Night Taxi Driver Soundtrack
11:07 PM Willlie Ruff/Dwike Mitchell Chelsea Bridge/Upper-Manhattan Medical Group Strayhorn Vinyl with Tom reading
11:16 PM Gil Evans Orchestra Orange was the color of her dress then blue silk Live at Umbria Jazz
11:25 PM Ruff/Mitchell Passion Flower Strayhorn Vinyl
11:32 PM Pink Martini Cance e Dance Hey Eugene! a Phil Baker tune
11:36 PM Dan Balmer Rain Thanksgiving
11:42 PM Nancy King & Steve Christopherson Perennial Proximity Vol.1
11:46 PM Oregon Spanish Stairs Oregon In Moscow
11:51 PM Joey Baron Time To Cry We'll Soon Find Out
12:04 AM Miles Davis Right Off A Tribute To Jack Johnson Vinyl
12:30 AM Miles Davis Yesternow A Tribute To Jack Johnson Vinyl
12:58 AM Extremo the Clown Finale Extremo and Friends
Thursday, May 24, 2007
A Column by David Vest
"I don't understand these people!"
So You Thought They Were Gonna End the War
by David Vest
Welcome to the Show, kid.
The Democrats have "surrendered" on Iraq. Liberals are "shocked." And all the innocents who didn't know any better, didn't see it coming, feel "betrayed."
Poor Duncan Black, better known as "Atrios," is nearly at a loss for words: "People hate Bush, hate Republicans, and hate this war," he protests, and yet the Democrats caved!
"I don't understand these people," he wails.
Precisely.
Keith Olbermann, using the same tone of humorless, near-postal anger he uses in every commentary, no matter the topic, calls the Democratic rollover a "Neville Chamberlain moment."
I prefer to think of it as a teachable moment.
At a time when even conservatives have come to loathe Bush, when people who thought he was going to round up all the "illegal aliens" and deport them are so upset, they think impeachment's too good for him, the Democrats labor to craft legislation "acceptable" to him.
Liberals have already spent six and a half years loathing Bush -- longer if they live in Texas, a state whose statutes are said to recognize two classes of persons: Fuckors and Fuckees.
(Republicans and Democrats, the big shots, belong to the former class. You and I belong to the latter.)
There is nothing particularly wrong with loathing Bush. It only becomes a problem when it prevents progressives from finally figuring out that the people they're really going to end up having to fight are the Democrats.
As Big Walter the Thunderbird used to say, "Sho' is tough."
Right now, both major parties are playing dodge ball with the planet, trying to avoid "ownership" of Iraq. The only way at this point to "own" the war is to stop it, and there is no serious move afoot to make that happen.
Having used antiwar sentiment, and disgust over Katrina, to regain control of Congress, the Democrats have no intention of relinquishing power. They all "support the troops," who are being asked to "lay down their lives for America" in far Mesopotamia -- but you didn't expect these people you elected to lay down their political careers for the good of the country ... did you?
Of course not. Already Michael Tomasky is praising the Dems for practicing "smart politics," as though winning the White House in 2008 were far more important than "merely" ending the war in Iraq.
How quickly "put us into power and we'll change things" becomes "put us into power and watch it change us."
For the corporate powers behind the candidates, the rule is as it ever was: from time to time, things have to change in order to stay the same.
But (someone protests), can't you at least admit that the Democrats are better than the Republicans? And if you love the country, or care about the world, aren't you obligated to support the lesser of two evils, even if it's only slightly less evil?
To which I reply: What's really evil is being forced to choose between people on the one hand who support the war, and accuse anyone who questions it of "helping the terrorists" -- and people on the other who oppose the war, criticize the war, pledge to the end the war, and then vote to keep it going.
Or being asked to choose between the village idiot and someone who's consistently outsmarted by him.
Once upon a time, Bill Clinton filled the Interior Department with "environmentalists." Bush filled it with oil company hacks. Who was more honest?
Lo and behold, when they cut down the old growth forest, it didn't make much difference to the trees and the rivers and the critters, whether oil company insiders or professional environmentalists were sitting at the desks in Washington. Eight years of Clinton-Gore, two terms of Bush-Cheney: the toxic dumps remain, and only the rhetoric has changed, to protect the naïve.
Demonstrably now, it makes no difference to the war whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress. Do you suppose the shooting will end, on the day when a refined, well-spoken Democrat, who reads poetry perhaps and scorns the religious right, and who doesn't embarrass us when receiving foreign dignitaries, succeeds the bumbling oaf Bush?
Think so? Or do you suspect people will soon be wailing, "I don't understand these people! They control Congress, the White house, and the military! Why don't they stop the war?"
Perhaps apologists will go on CNN to reassure us: "The president wants to stop the war, really. But first she has to form a consensus, and set her legislative agenda in Congress, and build up her political capital. And when, not if, she wins re-election, then in that second term she'll be free to act, and she'll have that mandate, and I think you'll start to see some movement on ending this war."
Sound about right?
Look. Millions of people marched in the streets trying to prevent the invasion of Iraq, long before Bush sent a cruise missile into a Baghdad neighborhood trying to "take out" Saddam Hussein with one wild lunge, like the man who shot Liberty Valance. Without result, in either case.
People marched and listened to speeches and then went home. The opinion of the multitudes counted for nothing. No one in power saw the slightest need to pay attention to them. They're still not paying attention. Why would they, as long as those bags of money keep coming in through the transom?
The system is broken. It can't be fixed. As long as the Fuckors run it, it will continue to be utterly unresponsive to the will of the Fuckees.
The system tolerates, even welcomes antiwar people, but it co-opts them if it can. Just as the oil companies co-opted Earth Day, and just as the nuclear power industry hopes to turn global warming into a wholly-owned subsidiary.
In one party, if you're antiwar, you can get a job as Rudy Giuliani's foil.
In the other one ... well, if you still "don't understand these people," what's it going to take?
As the great working class poet Charlie Musselwhite says in "Black Water," the devastating post-Katrina anthem from his CD Delta Hardware:
"Hello America -- are you ready for more?"
First published here: counterpunch.org
David Vest can be reached through his web site at www.rebelangel.com. A new CD featuring him, "The Last of the Best: Live Recordings by the Paul deLay Band," will be released on June 12.
Buy it here.
So You Thought They Were Gonna End the War
by David Vest
Welcome to the Show, kid.
The Democrats have "surrendered" on Iraq. Liberals are "shocked." And all the innocents who didn't know any better, didn't see it coming, feel "betrayed."
Poor Duncan Black, better known as "Atrios," is nearly at a loss for words: "People hate Bush, hate Republicans, and hate this war," he protests, and yet the Democrats caved!
"I don't understand these people," he wails.
Precisely.
Keith Olbermann, using the same tone of humorless, near-postal anger he uses in every commentary, no matter the topic, calls the Democratic rollover a "Neville Chamberlain moment."
I prefer to think of it as a teachable moment.
At a time when even conservatives have come to loathe Bush, when people who thought he was going to round up all the "illegal aliens" and deport them are so upset, they think impeachment's too good for him, the Democrats labor to craft legislation "acceptable" to him.
Liberals have already spent six and a half years loathing Bush -- longer if they live in Texas, a state whose statutes are said to recognize two classes of persons: Fuckors and Fuckees.
(Republicans and Democrats, the big shots, belong to the former class. You and I belong to the latter.)
There is nothing particularly wrong with loathing Bush. It only becomes a problem when it prevents progressives from finally figuring out that the people they're really going to end up having to fight are the Democrats.
As Big Walter the Thunderbird used to say, "Sho' is tough."
Right now, both major parties are playing dodge ball with the planet, trying to avoid "ownership" of Iraq. The only way at this point to "own" the war is to stop it, and there is no serious move afoot to make that happen.
Having used antiwar sentiment, and disgust over Katrina, to regain control of Congress, the Democrats have no intention of relinquishing power. They all "support the troops," who are being asked to "lay down their lives for America" in far Mesopotamia -- but you didn't expect these people you elected to lay down their political careers for the good of the country ... did you?
Of course not. Already Michael Tomasky is praising the Dems for practicing "smart politics," as though winning the White House in 2008 were far more important than "merely" ending the war in Iraq.
How quickly "put us into power and we'll change things" becomes "put us into power and watch it change us."
For the corporate powers behind the candidates, the rule is as it ever was: from time to time, things have to change in order to stay the same.
But (someone protests), can't you at least admit that the Democrats are better than the Republicans? And if you love the country, or care about the world, aren't you obligated to support the lesser of two evils, even if it's only slightly less evil?
To which I reply: What's really evil is being forced to choose between people on the one hand who support the war, and accuse anyone who questions it of "helping the terrorists" -- and people on the other who oppose the war, criticize the war, pledge to the end the war, and then vote to keep it going.
Or being asked to choose between the village idiot and someone who's consistently outsmarted by him.
Once upon a time, Bill Clinton filled the Interior Department with "environmentalists." Bush filled it with oil company hacks. Who was more honest?
Lo and behold, when they cut down the old growth forest, it didn't make much difference to the trees and the rivers and the critters, whether oil company insiders or professional environmentalists were sitting at the desks in Washington. Eight years of Clinton-Gore, two terms of Bush-Cheney: the toxic dumps remain, and only the rhetoric has changed, to protect the naïve.
Demonstrably now, it makes no difference to the war whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress. Do you suppose the shooting will end, on the day when a refined, well-spoken Democrat, who reads poetry perhaps and scorns the religious right, and who doesn't embarrass us when receiving foreign dignitaries, succeeds the bumbling oaf Bush?
Think so? Or do you suspect people will soon be wailing, "I don't understand these people! They control Congress, the White house, and the military! Why don't they stop the war?"
Perhaps apologists will go on CNN to reassure us: "The president wants to stop the war, really. But first she has to form a consensus, and set her legislative agenda in Congress, and build up her political capital. And when, not if, she wins re-election, then in that second term she'll be free to act, and she'll have that mandate, and I think you'll start to see some movement on ending this war."
Sound about right?
Look. Millions of people marched in the streets trying to prevent the invasion of Iraq, long before Bush sent a cruise missile into a Baghdad neighborhood trying to "take out" Saddam Hussein with one wild lunge, like the man who shot Liberty Valance. Without result, in either case.
People marched and listened to speeches and then went home. The opinion of the multitudes counted for nothing. No one in power saw the slightest need to pay attention to them. They're still not paying attention. Why would they, as long as those bags of money keep coming in through the transom?
The system is broken. It can't be fixed. As long as the Fuckors run it, it will continue to be utterly unresponsive to the will of the Fuckees.
The system tolerates, even welcomes antiwar people, but it co-opts them if it can. Just as the oil companies co-opted Earth Day, and just as the nuclear power industry hopes to turn global warming into a wholly-owned subsidiary.
In one party, if you're antiwar, you can get a job as Rudy Giuliani's foil.
In the other one ... well, if you still "don't understand these people," what's it going to take?
As the great working class poet Charlie Musselwhite says in "Black Water," the devastating post-Katrina anthem from his CD Delta Hardware:
"Hello America -- are you ready for more?"
First published here: counterpunch.org
David Vest can be reached through his web site at www.rebelangel.com. A new CD featuring him, "The Last of the Best: Live Recordings by the Paul deLay Band," will be released on June 12.
Buy it here.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Pink Martini---The Concert and Afterparty
I have a frame of reference. I've seen Pink Martini a dozen times over the past ten years and I have never seen them better than they were at The Schnitz on Tuesday, May 15.
Period.
As I wrote in my livepdx article Thomas had a difficult time with "Hang On Little Tomato." Everybody knew something was not going well, but the band has such good will that we put up with the years of delays and looked forward to their second album.
Why they couldn' t have just put out a concert album in the meantime escapes me. When "Tomato" was released, we all said nice things about it, but many of us hid our disappointment. Count me in on that. I did an Art Beat TV piece on China Forbes around the release, and in it I avoided that disappointment.
Come to find out Thomas was just as dissapointed.
That's why it was such a relief to find "Hey Eugene!" to be so bright and full of happiness, even in the sad songs. That vibe carried over to the concert at the Schnitz. China was in great voice, Thomas was lively and gay (I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. I meant it in the old fashioned way.) He's one of the few people who is gay and gay.
The first half of the concert was made up of tunes from "Eugene," done perfectly, not as note for note replicas but almost. My favorite from the album was my favorite in the show, "Cance e Dance," a gorgeous Brazilian-styleded tune by their bassist Phil Baker. The tempo was slightly faster in concert. The David Yorke Ensemble was on stage to help and Phil played rhythm guitar. I could have gone home after it was over and been completely satisfied.
After the concert, at the afterparty in Bluehour, I told Phil I thought it was one of the most beautiful tunes I had ever heard. I thought he was going to cry. I meant it.
After the intermission, Thomas introduced March Fourth Marching band saying he wanted to run away and join them. They played four tunes by themselves, complete with dancers, stilt and otherwise. No fire dancers allowed in The Schnitz, however.
They began with "Space Hole" their signature tune, accompanied by a hula-hoop dancer of great dexterity, ingenouity, grace and humor.
They stayed on stage for "Das Vedanya Mio Bambino," Pink Martini's language mashup which ends with the chorus of "The Happy Wanderer."
The band played older tunes which did not sound dated or shopworn, but rather familiar and sweet. It is always fun to see percussionist Brian Davis workout on the traps for the band's swring tune. Their encore was (take a wild guess) "Brazil," which was accompanied by all of the guest artists. Thomas told me one time that he could play "Brazil" until the day he dies.
We don't mind.
When we walked up the stairs to the afterparty at Bluehour, China was at her most slink-ely lucious sitting outside the door and holding court. I was very gratified when she thanked me for the Art Beat piece I had done on her. She said he had always thought about calling but never did. Well, um…I appreciate it, no matter when it comes.
Inside was a madhouse. Somehow we found a couple of seats next to OBT's Christopher Stowell's table. Chatted with Northwest Film Center's Bill Foster, hugged Thomas and got drinks.
It was full of the beautiful people, hair done perfectly and dressed in Pearl Chic. All of a sudden, in walked the members of March Fourth, still in their band unis and making Bluehour seem more like Portland.
Bassist/singer Belinda Underwood slinked in looking lovely and hanging with pianist Benny Green. I told him how unusual it was to have two former Betty Carter pianists in the same town. Darrell Grant is the other.
A couple of small but tasty martinis later, it was time to go.
Period.
As I wrote in my livepdx article Thomas had a difficult time with "Hang On Little Tomato." Everybody knew something was not going well, but the band has such good will that we put up with the years of delays and looked forward to their second album.
Why they couldn' t have just put out a concert album in the meantime escapes me. When "Tomato" was released, we all said nice things about it, but many of us hid our disappointment. Count me in on that. I did an Art Beat TV piece on China Forbes around the release, and in it I avoided that disappointment.
Come to find out Thomas was just as dissapointed.
That's why it was such a relief to find "Hey Eugene!" to be so bright and full of happiness, even in the sad songs. That vibe carried over to the concert at the Schnitz. China was in great voice, Thomas was lively and gay (I'm sorry. I couldn't help it. I meant it in the old fashioned way.) He's one of the few people who is gay and gay.
The first half of the concert was made up of tunes from "Eugene," done perfectly, not as note for note replicas but almost. My favorite from the album was my favorite in the show, "Cance e Dance," a gorgeous Brazilian-styleded tune by their bassist Phil Baker. The tempo was slightly faster in concert. The David Yorke Ensemble was on stage to help and Phil played rhythm guitar. I could have gone home after it was over and been completely satisfied.
After the concert, at the afterparty in Bluehour, I told Phil I thought it was one of the most beautiful tunes I had ever heard. I thought he was going to cry. I meant it.
After the intermission, Thomas introduced March Fourth Marching band saying he wanted to run away and join them. They played four tunes by themselves, complete with dancers, stilt and otherwise. No fire dancers allowed in The Schnitz, however.
They began with "Space Hole" their signature tune, accompanied by a hula-hoop dancer of great dexterity, ingenouity, grace and humor.
They stayed on stage for "Das Vedanya Mio Bambino," Pink Martini's language mashup which ends with the chorus of "The Happy Wanderer."
The band played older tunes which did not sound dated or shopworn, but rather familiar and sweet. It is always fun to see percussionist Brian Davis workout on the traps for the band's swring tune. Their encore was (take a wild guess) "Brazil," which was accompanied by all of the guest artists. Thomas told me one time that he could play "Brazil" until the day he dies.
We don't mind.
When we walked up the stairs to the afterparty at Bluehour, China was at her most slink-ely lucious sitting outside the door and holding court. I was very gratified when she thanked me for the Art Beat piece I had done on her. She said he had always thought about calling but never did. Well, um…I appreciate it, no matter when it comes.
Inside was a madhouse. Somehow we found a couple of seats next to OBT's Christopher Stowell's table. Chatted with Northwest Film Center's Bill Foster, hugged Thomas and got drinks.
It was full of the beautiful people, hair done perfectly and dressed in Pearl Chic. All of a sudden, in walked the members of March Fourth, still in their band unis and making Bluehour seem more like Portland.
Bassist/singer Belinda Underwood slinked in looking lovely and hanging with pianist Benny Green. I told him how unusual it was to have two former Betty Carter pianists in the same town. Darrell Grant is the other.
A couple of small but tasty martinis later, it was time to go.
KMHD Playlist 5/19/07
Listen to my show every Saturday night from 10pm to 1am on KMHD 89.1FM in Portland or kmhd.fm on the web.
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show theme
10:02 PM Don Cherry Birdboy Multikulti
10:06 PM Gordon Lee & the Gleeful Big Band Bitter Wind Flying Dream
10:21 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Disingenous Firefight Unreleasd live recording @ Cafe Paloma, Seattle
10:29 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Love, Love Love Unreleased live recording @ Cafe Paloma, Setttle Thanks Wayne!
10:36 PM Mary Lou Williams Leo Zodiac Suite
10:39 PM Mary Lou Williams Scorpio Zodiac Suite
10:42 PM Mary Lou Williams Aquarius Zodiac Suite
10:47 PM David Murray Evidence Fo Deuk Review Amiri Baraka reading his poem
10:53 PM Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy Duke's Fantasy Twiight Dreams
11:05 PM Weather Report Teen Town 8:30 live...tune by Jaco on vinyl
11:11 PM Stanley Clarke Vulcan Princess Stanley Clark From Vinyl
11:16 PM Conjunto Berretin Afiches Tangamente Portland band
11:26 PM Astor Piazzola Milonga Del Angel Tango Zero Hour
11:29 PM Orquestra Electronica Berretin Lunes Electro Tango Portland Band/ Alex Krebs
11:32 PM Liv Warfield Embrace Me Embrace Me Portland's own.
11:35 PM John Abercrombie Love Song Timeless
11:40 PM Fred Hersch & Bill Frisell My One and Only Love Songs We Know
11:46 PM Azimuth Dream/Lost Song Azimuth 85
11:52 PM Wayne Horvitz' Sweeter Than the Day Sweeter Than the Day Sweeter Than the Day
11:59 PM John Coltrane My Favorite Things Afro-Blue Impressions
Listen to "In Deep" next week from 12midnight to 1am.
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show theme
10:02 PM Don Cherry Birdboy Multikulti
10:06 PM Gordon Lee & the Gleeful Big Band Bitter Wind Flying Dream
10:21 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Disingenous Firefight Unreleasd live recording @ Cafe Paloma, Seattle
10:29 PM Wayne Horvitz Sweeter Than the Day Love, Love Love Unreleased live recording @ Cafe Paloma, Setttle Thanks Wayne!
10:36 PM Mary Lou Williams Leo Zodiac Suite
10:39 PM Mary Lou Williams Scorpio Zodiac Suite
10:42 PM Mary Lou Williams Aquarius Zodiac Suite
10:47 PM David Murray Evidence Fo Deuk Review Amiri Baraka reading his poem
10:53 PM Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy Duke's Fantasy Twiight Dreams
11:05 PM Weather Report Teen Town 8:30 live...tune by Jaco on vinyl
11:11 PM Stanley Clarke Vulcan Princess Stanley Clark From Vinyl
11:16 PM Conjunto Berretin Afiches Tangamente Portland band
11:26 PM Astor Piazzola Milonga Del Angel Tango Zero Hour
11:29 PM Orquestra Electronica Berretin Lunes Electro Tango Portland Band/ Alex Krebs
11:32 PM Liv Warfield Embrace Me Embrace Me Portland's own.
11:35 PM John Abercrombie Love Song Timeless
11:40 PM Fred Hersch & Bill Frisell My One and Only Love Songs We Know
11:46 PM Azimuth Dream/Lost Song Azimuth 85
11:52 PM Wayne Horvitz' Sweeter Than the Day Sweeter Than the Day Sweeter Than the Day
11:59 PM John Coltrane My Favorite Things Afro-Blue Impressions
Listen to "In Deep" next week from 12midnight to 1am.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
KMHD Playlist 5/12/07
Listen to my show every Saturday night from 10-12 on KMHD 89.1 FM Portland or kmdh.fm on the web.
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show Theme
10:02 PM Charles Mingus E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too Blues and Roots
10:08 PM March Fourth Marching Band Space Hole March Fourth Marching Band Portland's own
10:16 PM James Blood Ulmer Are You Glad To Be In America Are You Glad To Be In America
10:19 PM Pops Staples World In Motion Peace In the Neighborhood
10:23 PM Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson Winter In America The First Minute of a New Day
10:34 PM Pink Martini Tempo Perdido Hey Eugene!
10:44 PM Moises Santana Alegria Rough Trade Guide to Brazil: Rio de Janiero
10:47 PM Revelacao Narinha E Eu
10:50 PM G.R.E.S Beja-Flor A Saga de Agotime Samba de Enredo
10:55 PM Mono Bloco Rap de Cartao Postal ? Brazilian set courtesy Brian Davis
11:02 PM Reggie Houston Pass Me Not O Gentlr Savior The Gospel Saxophone of Reggie Houston
11:11 PM Original American Jazz Quintet Nevermore In the Begninning 1956
11:21 PM Alvin Batiste Bat's Blues 1980 Southern University Jazz Ensemble LP provided by Reggie Houston
11:26 PM Alvin Batiste The Latest Marsalis Music Honors Alvin Batiste
11:31 PM Rebirth Brass Band Just a LIttle While to Stay Here Mardi Gras In New Orleans
11:33 PM Storm Large Sacred Love Vasectomy Remixed by Auditory Sculpture
11:38 PM Jack DeJohnette Silver Hollow New Directions
11:47 PM Pink Martini Cance e Dance Hey Eugene!
11:51 PM Bill Frisell When I Fall In Love Have a Little Faith
11:53 PM Allen Toussaint Sweet Dreams Connected
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue Show Theme
10:02 PM Charles Mingus E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too Blues and Roots
10:08 PM March Fourth Marching Band Space Hole March Fourth Marching Band Portland's own
10:16 PM James Blood Ulmer Are You Glad To Be In America Are You Glad To Be In America
10:19 PM Pops Staples World In Motion Peace In the Neighborhood
10:23 PM Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson Winter In America The First Minute of a New Day
10:34 PM Pink Martini Tempo Perdido Hey Eugene!
10:44 PM Moises Santana Alegria Rough Trade Guide to Brazil: Rio de Janiero
10:47 PM Revelacao Narinha E Eu
10:50 PM G.R.E.S Beja-Flor A Saga de Agotime Samba de Enredo
10:55 PM Mono Bloco Rap de Cartao Postal ? Brazilian set courtesy Brian Davis
11:02 PM Reggie Houston Pass Me Not O Gentlr Savior The Gospel Saxophone of Reggie Houston
11:11 PM Original American Jazz Quintet Nevermore In the Begninning 1956
11:21 PM Alvin Batiste Bat's Blues 1980 Southern University Jazz Ensemble LP provided by Reggie Houston
11:26 PM Alvin Batiste The Latest Marsalis Music Honors Alvin Batiste
11:31 PM Rebirth Brass Band Just a LIttle While to Stay Here Mardi Gras In New Orleans
11:33 PM Storm Large Sacred Love Vasectomy Remixed by Auditory Sculpture
11:38 PM Jack DeJohnette Silver Hollow New Directions
11:47 PM Pink Martini Cance e Dance Hey Eugene!
11:51 PM Bill Frisell When I Fall In Love Have a Little Faith
11:53 PM Allen Toussaint Sweet Dreams Connected
KMHD Playlist 5/5/07
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
10:03 PM Pink Martini Ojala Hey Eugene!
10:06 PM Pink Martini Everywhere Hey Eugene!
10:09 PM Mac Potts Tipitina Unreleased
10:23 PM Sonny Rollins Someday I'll Find You Freedom Suite
10:26 PM Dexter Gordon Number Four Daddy Plays the Horn
10:31 PM Mel Brown I Want a Little Girl Mister Groove Sweet Baby James Benton
10:38 PM Miles Davis Maiysha Get Up With It Miles on trumpet and ORGAN
10:41 PM Mose Allison One Room Country Shack Back Country Suite
10:57 PM John Callahan Purple Winos In the Rain Purple Winos In the Rain Yes, the cartoonist
11:02 PM Curtis Salgado & the Stillettos You're Gonna Make Me Cry Rose City Blues Festival The Album Vinyl
11:08 PM Chris Thomas King Da Thrill Is Gone From Here Dirty South Hip Hop Blues Tabby Thomas also vocals (his dad
11:13 PM The Down Band Ghost Jazz Unreleased Derek Sims trumpet/ Keith Schreiner keys
11:16 PM Skip vonKuske Intuit Intuit
11:21 PM Zoe Keating legions (reverie) one cello x 16: natoma
11:25 PM Vernon Reid Uptown Drifter Mistaken Identity
11:28 PM Daily Fog David Vest unrelesed
11:32 PM Mahavishnu Orchestra A Lotus On Irish Streams The Inner Mounting Flame
11:38 PM Carla Bley Dreams So Real Dinner Music Vinyl
11:44 PM Miranda Martino Secate (Wake Up) Canto Morricone Arranged and conducted by Maestro Morricone
11:48 PM Wayne Horvitz Love Love Love American Bandstand
11:53 PM Julee Cruise The Space For Love The Voice of Love Written and produced by DAVID LYNCH!
11:56 PM Ennio Morricone Love Theme Soundtrack Cinema Paradiso
11:58 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
10:03 PM Pink Martini Ojala Hey Eugene!
10:06 PM Pink Martini Everywhere Hey Eugene!
10:09 PM Mac Potts Tipitina Unreleased
10:23 PM Sonny Rollins Someday I'll Find You Freedom Suite
10:26 PM Dexter Gordon Number Four Daddy Plays the Horn
10:31 PM Mel Brown I Want a Little Girl Mister Groove Sweet Baby James Benton
10:38 PM Miles Davis Maiysha Get Up With It Miles on trumpet and ORGAN
10:41 PM Mose Allison One Room Country Shack Back Country Suite
10:57 PM John Callahan Purple Winos In the Rain Purple Winos In the Rain Yes, the cartoonist
11:02 PM Curtis Salgado & the Stillettos You're Gonna Make Me Cry Rose City Blues Festival The Album Vinyl
11:08 PM Chris Thomas King Da Thrill Is Gone From Here Dirty South Hip Hop Blues Tabby Thomas also vocals (his dad
11:13 PM The Down Band Ghost Jazz Unreleased Derek Sims trumpet/ Keith Schreiner keys
11:16 PM Skip vonKuske Intuit Intuit
11:21 PM Zoe Keating legions (reverie) one cello x 16: natoma
11:25 PM Vernon Reid Uptown Drifter Mistaken Identity
11:28 PM Daily Fog David Vest unrelesed
11:32 PM Mahavishnu Orchestra A Lotus On Irish Streams The Inner Mounting Flame
11:38 PM Carla Bley Dreams So Real Dinner Music Vinyl
11:44 PM Miranda Martino Secate (Wake Up) Canto Morricone Arranged and conducted by Maestro Morricone
11:48 PM Wayne Horvitz Love Love Love American Bandstand
11:53 PM Julee Cruise The Space For Love The Voice of Love Written and produced by DAVID LYNCH!
11:56 PM Ennio Morricone Love Theme Soundtrack Cinema Paradiso
11:58 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
Thursday, May 03, 2007
What Ever Happened to Michael Moore?
A couple of years ago he was a hero, standing up to power, standing up to Oscar, standing for what's right. Anybody seen him lately? Like at the mall? Or a 7-11? Or in line at the movies?
Wasn't he supposed to be coming out with a documentary on the health care system? Last I heard he was still looking for people who had been abused by it. How hard could it be to find that?
And I used to get emails from him all the time. Not to me personally, but his email essays were frequently brilliant, and always funny. I haven't gotten one in I don't know when.
Did he quit? Is he sick? On vacation? Did he have a motorcycle accident and is on the sidelines in a cast? Is he running a Dodge dealership in Flint? A deli in Manhattan?
Did he just get sick and tired of the fat jokes? Of all the jokes? Does he have documentarian block? Did he run out of money? Is he out skiing in Aspen?
Was he bought by the oil companies and is coming out with "The Wonderful Story of Standard Oil and How It Helps Mankind?"
Is he writing for Hugo Chavez and doesn't want to come back? Did he leave the country like many of us talk about doing?
Was he so bummed by the 2004 election that he decided to get out of the business?
I mean I haven't heard him on Air America. He doesn't seem to show up on Ed Schultz. Has Olbermann asked him to be on? Hell, he doesn't even take advantage of being on the air with a hot chick like Stephanie Miller.
Where have you gone Michael Moore? Didn't we line up in front of all those theaters? Did we not love you enough? Our nation turns its bloodshot eyes to you.
What's that you say? His new doc is going to Cannes? Why the hell didn't I get a call about this? See what happens when they get a taste of the good life? They forget their friends. Well, I only met him once but you know what I mean.
This also appears on huffingtonpost.com
Wasn't he supposed to be coming out with a documentary on the health care system? Last I heard he was still looking for people who had been abused by it. How hard could it be to find that?
And I used to get emails from him all the time. Not to me personally, but his email essays were frequently brilliant, and always funny. I haven't gotten one in I don't know when.
Did he quit? Is he sick? On vacation? Did he have a motorcycle accident and is on the sidelines in a cast? Is he running a Dodge dealership in Flint? A deli in Manhattan?
Did he just get sick and tired of the fat jokes? Of all the jokes? Does he have documentarian block? Did he run out of money? Is he out skiing in Aspen?
Was he bought by the oil companies and is coming out with "The Wonderful Story of Standard Oil and How It Helps Mankind?"
Is he writing for Hugo Chavez and doesn't want to come back? Did he leave the country like many of us talk about doing?
Was he so bummed by the 2004 election that he decided to get out of the business?
I mean I haven't heard him on Air America. He doesn't seem to show up on Ed Schultz. Has Olbermann asked him to be on? Hell, he doesn't even take advantage of being on the air with a hot chick like Stephanie Miller.
Where have you gone Michael Moore? Didn't we line up in front of all those theaters? Did we not love you enough? Our nation turns its bloodshot eyes to you.
What's that you say? His new doc is going to Cannes? Why the hell didn't I get a call about this? See what happens when they get a taste of the good life? They forget their friends. Well, I only met him once but you know what I mean.
This also appears on huffingtonpost.com
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
My Radio Playlist April 28 KMHD and www.khmd.fm
Listen every Saturday night from 10 to Midnight at 89.1 in Portland or on the web.
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
10:03 PM Pink Martini Tempo Perdido Hey Eugene!
10:07 PM Pink Martini Hey Eugene! Hey Eugene!
10:14 PM McCoy Tyner Moment's Notice Supertrios Tony Williams on drums
10:20 PM Jim Pepper/Claudine Francois Trio Crepuscule with Nellie Camargue Monk tune
10:25 PM Neville Brothers Tell It Like It Is Neville Brothers Live at Jazzfest 2005 I was there in the audience slow dancing Karen.
10:31 PM The Meters Welcome to New Orleans The Meters Reunion Jazzfest 2005 I was thisclose to the stage.
10:46 PM Reggie Houston and the Charmaine Neville Band Brother Can You Spare a Dime Live at Jazzfest 2006
10:57 PM Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians Sky Keeps Cryin' Live at Jazzfest 2006
11:07 PM Pink Martini Bukra wba'o Hey Eugene!
11:10 PM Pink Martini City of Night Hey Eugene!
11:14 PM Pink Martini Dosvedanya Mio Bambino Hey Eugene!
11:22 PM Eric Dolphy Miss Ann Status
11:29 PM Bebel Gilbert Simplesmente Bebel Gilberto Remixed Start of Snuggle Set
11:35 PM Tom Waits Somwhere Blue Valentine
11:38 PM Oregon Beneath An Evening Sky Oregon In Moscow
11:44 PM Beliss Trees Beliss
11:49 PM Pink Martini Tea For Two Hey Eugene!
11:57 PM Mahavishnu Orchestra A Lotus on Irish Streams Inner Mounting Flame
10:00 PM Wayne Horvitz Duke Monologue
10:03 PM Pink Martini Tempo Perdido Hey Eugene!
10:07 PM Pink Martini Hey Eugene! Hey Eugene!
10:14 PM McCoy Tyner Moment's Notice Supertrios Tony Williams on drums
10:20 PM Jim Pepper/Claudine Francois Trio Crepuscule with Nellie Camargue Monk tune
10:25 PM Neville Brothers Tell It Like It Is Neville Brothers Live at Jazzfest 2005 I was there in the audience slow dancing Karen.
10:31 PM The Meters Welcome to New Orleans The Meters Reunion Jazzfest 2005 I was thisclose to the stage.
10:46 PM Reggie Houston and the Charmaine Neville Band Brother Can You Spare a Dime Live at Jazzfest 2006
10:57 PM Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians Sky Keeps Cryin' Live at Jazzfest 2006
11:07 PM Pink Martini Bukra wba'o Hey Eugene!
11:10 PM Pink Martini City of Night Hey Eugene!
11:14 PM Pink Martini Dosvedanya Mio Bambino Hey Eugene!
11:22 PM Eric Dolphy Miss Ann Status
11:29 PM Bebel Gilbert Simplesmente Bebel Gilberto Remixed Start of Snuggle Set
11:35 PM Tom Waits Somwhere Blue Valentine
11:38 PM Oregon Beneath An Evening Sky Oregon In Moscow
11:44 PM Beliss Trees Beliss
11:49 PM Pink Martini Tea For Two Hey Eugene!
11:57 PM Mahavishnu Orchestra A Lotus on Irish Streams Inner Mounting Flame
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