I’m a big fan of Bad Brains. When I heard they released a new album, I was kind of sketchy, I mean WTF, they haven’t done anything good since ‘Quickness’. ‘Build a Nation’ is f’ckin raw. This album puts any other hardcore band to shame. Period. I haven’t listened to a lot of Hardcore for years because it is kind of boring, but when you have talented musicians playing this style of music, it changes your tune. BB are famous for being the ‘talented’ punk rock band. In fact a lot of punk rock/hardcore bands did not like touring with them because of their skills, they also knew it and were dickheads about it. I thought ‘Build a Nation’ would suck, on the contrary. From the first track this CD is balls out, they throw in some trad reggae tunes in there just to relax the mind a bit, which is nice, and pretty good, in a Damian Marley sense.

If you like their old stuff and are into Pantera and Slayer, you will dig this shit. Rawk!

Some friends and I headed to Omaha Wednesday night to see Lucinda at an outdoor amphitheater at Harrah’s casino. Sorry about the bad photos, they wouldn’t allow camera’s in so I had to use my phone camera. Lucinda played requests for the most part, which was cool, and the guitarist from the Eels was in town, so he played a couple of tunes. Some hot MILFS high-fived me when she closed with ‘Joy.’ It was a good concert for the most part, it was really humid and Lucinda had a hissy fit about not having a fan ‘Who do I have to f’ck to get a fan around here.’ She later apologized. She played stuff from most of her albums, so that was cool.

The most bizarre point of the evening was when this freak started staring at me and one of my friends at the concert. We recognized him from SF and finally realized he was a prominent lawyer. We both know him from previously working at a company he invested in. What was wierd was him and his wife talked about us and sneered at us for a long time, to the point where it got so uncomfortable I almost told the f’cker off. We finally moved, which was great because we got to sit front and center.

What a freak! It’s nice to get away from Sux Falls, but when you see people from the same town (that you don’t like) it can ruin an experience. But he didn’t afterall, so he can go f’ck himself.

 

I ususally laugh about this kind of shit and move one.

A.L. L(st)ink:

Editorial art show
In conjunction with the Sioux Falls showing, editorial cartoonists from the region contributed work for an exhibit in the lower-level gallery. Their show is called “Lowbrow Lowdown on the Prairie.”

Deb Klebanoff, Arts Council executive director, smiles and mock-cringes when talking about the editorial cartoons since they contain opinion and satirical pieces about area subjects and politicians.

“But people have seen these in the newspaper, so they know it doesn’t necessarily express the opinion of the Art Council,” she says.

Meet some of the local artists during a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 12.

I want to clarify, I was asked by Ken Alvine to be in this exhibit, it wasn’t my idea. I vowed a few years ago not to display in publicly funded facilities within SF for this reason. This constant contempt and ridicule towards local artists that are ‘different.’ Yet anytime I turn on Channel 16 that stupid ‘Diversity’ commercial is playing. Well guess what, diversity is about lot more then race, religion and culture, it is about different ideas. I don’t think our mayor or governor follow the rules, so I point it out for all to see, I really don’t care what the ‘arts council’ thinks.

 

I wish Steve the best of luck, though I think he has never had the gonads to stand up to the Wash Pav’s board of trustee dictatorship, I still think his heart was in the right place. I wonder if the Steinbeck Center will let him have a concert by Hank III or the Rev.?

CEO of Washington Pavilion to leave
By Staff Reports
Argus Leader
Published: August 2, 2007

Steven Hoffman, the CEO of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science for the past decade, has accepted a position in California and will leave his job at the Sioux Falls facility, officials announced today.

Hoffman will become CEO of the National John Steinbeck Center in Salinas Calif., effective Oct. 1.

“Over the last 10 years Steve has successfully guided the Washington Pavilio
from just a shell of a building to the pre-eminent arts organization in the region,” Raven Industries CEO Ron Moquist, who is chairman of the board of trustees of the Washington Pavilion, said in a statement.

Moquist has appointed Sandra Pay, vice chairperson of the Pavilion’s trustee board, to form and head a search committee to find Hoffman’s replacement.

He always knows the right thing to say . . .

http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/?p=1583

Monday night was a treat. Neil (bottom pict) and Daquiri were at Nutty’s North. Though Neil was the headliner and Daquiri was his opener, I’ll have to admit I like Daquiri better. He sings Karoke and made up shit. He also has an old school overhead projector that he put transparency drawings on for backdrops.

Great Show!

Something that has baffled friends and I over the past few years is the great FREE entertainment at the The Front Porch Stage at the SE Fair. Every year they bring in a couple of great acts and the only price is the admission to the fair. This year two notable performers:

– Wednesday, Aug. 8: Paul Renz Quintet, a national jazz guitarist wonder.

– Thursday, Aug. 9 & Friday, Aug. 10: Special guest, Brave Combo, a renown Grammy-award winning polka-rock band that’s been heard on “Prairie Home Companion.” They’ll be featured during a live broadcast from the Front Porch Radio Show.

Brave Combo will be the special treat, trust me on that. I suggest you see them both nights!

First off, I think most people would agree that when minors are exposed to pornography, it isn’t healthy for their psyche, BUT if grown, mature adults want to watch that stuff in their hotel rooms, that is their business. I’m not one to defend Lodgenet or the porn industry, because the porn industry doesn’t have the best reputation, but I am a defender of the 1st Amendment, and when we start policing adults that are LEGALLY viewing this material, I have to say we have gone to far.

What I can’t figure out is why would this organization TruthAboutLodgeNet.com go after a PAY PER VIEW business, when you can see this stuff for free on Primetime, any night of the week? Sure there isn’t any nudity, but the sexual inuendos are there. In fact there is a lot of garbage on TV that doesn’t have to do with sex at all.

People need to realize we live in a FREE society, mind your own f’ckin business.

 

 

I found this info on the Abstinence Clearing House website, in the ‘resource library’ area:

 

LATEST NEWS : OBAMA ON SEX ED: “THE RIGHT THING TO DO”
POSTED: JUL 19, 2007

Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood last week that he supports sex education for kindergarten children, bringing a sharp rebuke from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Without mentioning marriage, Obama quickly added, however, that he didn’t want his own daughters to view sex as a casual activity. Planned Parenthood itself advocates explicit instruction in areas such as terminology and the definition of family for early elementary students that would offend many of their parents.

Romney countered with a strong statement of support for abstinence instruction in the classroom.

Though most of this is TRUE, the statement “Planned Parenthood itself advocates explicit instruction in areas such as terminology” is questionable. That is a very vague statement to make. When I researched my art/grant project about sexuality, I went to PP for research. In their lobby they had many brochures for teens and their parents about sex, guess what was on the first page of these brochures ‘abstinence’. As for explicit terminology, I hardly think words like ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ are damaging to young kids, and if you are a parent that is offended by those words, maybe you shouldn’t have procreated.

Stop the bullshit.