Slow and Sweet

Dualing Jazz

Fredly concentrates

Eyob makes a mess

I don’t know what I’m doing

Hudson has a great story about SMELOLAND and there similarities to Gilligan’s Island, Hilarious!

http://scotthudson.blogspot.com/

 

“The Religious Right dislikes both abortions and homosexuality. But who has fewer abortions than gays?” — George Carlin

The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is an interactive concert featuring local visual artists and musicians.
 
Four talented Sioux Falls artists, Scott L. Ehrisman, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia & Jamie Scarbrough, will create several paintings on canvas while listening to the region’s premier Jazz and Blues Bands — Dakota Jazz Collective & Urban Blues. The five-hour event includes three 45-minute sets of unique performance art. After the event, the paintings will be available for sale. A DVD of the event will be available in the following weeks.

“We have high expectations for this film as a public educational tool,” Sioux Falls artist Scott Ehrisman said.  “The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is being independently produced by the artists and musicians involved. We are very proud of this aspect.”  “This event will exhibit the relationship between visual art and music,” Eyob Mergia said, “and hopefully evoke cultural awareness by presenting the artistic diversity in our community.”

WHAT: The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art
WHERE: The Riverwalk, Harvester Building, 196 E. Sixth St., Sioux Falls
WHEN: Saturday, October 7, 2006
 • 6 p.m., Doors open
 • 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Performance: DJC will play 1st set; UB will play 2nd set; jam session for final set.
 • 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.: Musician and artists interviews, painting auction.
COST: $10 at the door, ALL AGES. FREE appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available for those 21 and over.
INFO: fb.art@sio.midco.net or www.25dp.com/blog/?cat=1

PRODUCER: Scott L. Ehrisman
DIRECTOR: Chris Carlblom

Dakota Jazz Collective is: Jim Speirs, Chris Janzen, Matt Hackett, Joel Shotwell and Bob Gripp
www.jazzsd.com

Urban Blues is: Jess Christen, Fred Epstein, Dave Wood, Dave Fermenich and Derek Snow
www.myspace.com/theurbanblues

Dedicated in memory of Razmik ‘RAZ’ Mkhitarian, Sioux Falls biggest Jazz Fan

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Check out some of my T-shirts, etc. Makes a perfect gift. (Not sold in stores)

www.cafepress.com/25dp

 

 

How ironic just a few days after Halloween and the celebration of The Day of the Dead that we host an election, and in SD, it couldn’t be more appropriate. It makes you wonder how many extremists will be in our state campaigning for the abortion ban. It also makes you wonder what kind of economic impact all these kooks spending money in our state have? But like most EXTREMIST Christians, they shop at Wally world and make bologna sandwiches in their $35 a night hotel room squallers.

 

 

I BLOG on a couple local conservative sites. Mostly to see what the ignorant are up to in our state. What I love the best is the names they call me. These are a few:

• Pseudo-commie

• Europe lover

• Socialist

• Leftist

• Union backer

Europe lover (this is my favorite). It’s fun to read their ‘Opinions’ I call them that, because they have no facts to backup their arguments, resort to name-calling and then use morality to prove they are right. My favorite was this line by Greg Belfridge “Abortion should be illegal because it is wrong!” Um, ok, that argument is good enough for me, though there is mountains of scentific proof a fertilized egg doesn’t form into a human being until several weeks after conception. Greg also went on to say “I became a Catholic because of Abortion.” Um, ok, again. I guess it had nothing to do with Jesus dying on the cross for your sins, etc, etc. I found that comment a bit strange, I found it even stranger that a Christian wouldn’t even use the bible to back up his arguments. I was going to write him back and say “I became a deist because of NASCAR.” Makes sense, right?