802 Music Video

That's right. Vermont's featured rappers dropping a hot one.

Hilarious

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Hmmm

I'm pretty sure my blog has been spammed a few times now in the comments section. Rodrigo made a comment today. It was Portuguese or Spanish, hard to say which. I know one fact though...I can't really read either. I clicked on his link though. As far as I could tell it appears he wants me to buy a customized t-shirt of my blog. Of course for all I know he could have been telling me about some new dope stock that is going to go through the roof tomorrow, some new drug that's not cialis or viagra but does the same thing, or he's a Portuguese/Spanish prince and he's got millions and millions of dollars tied up and if I could just provide him with my bank account number he'd give me 20 million.

So it sounds like I'm going to be real rich in a few days, have an amazing stock portfolio, and never be flaccid again. I gotta say...I'm looking forward to the future!!

Or I'm just going to get a t-shirt with a picture of my blog on it.

Dribble

Let's see. What's been going on. Well the Vermont Mountaineers season has begun. I took my new camera along and got some pics.





Pretty cool!

Unfortunately they lost the game and now stand at 5-6 after today's 4-0 win against Stanford. 2 games back.

The other night I was up at the tower again and got some good sunset pictures. It was cloudy, but nice. I could hear the baseball game going on which was fun and it was clear from the cheering when the Mountaineers had something good happen. I sang Take me out to the ball game ... as I took a few pictures as well. Nice evening.

Wilco - You Are My Face

Song off the new album, Sky Blue Sky.

Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul

Toots has got soul!! I got to see these guys again on Saturday night at Higher Ground. Great show, excellent energy, and they had the whole place dancing. Great to see them again and when they come back I'll go again. Yes, it's a music video, but that's the song I wanted and the live versions just weren't as good. Either the sound quality was poor of the filming was poor.

Let's see. Been awhile and I've got some posting to do. So I'll get to that today in a little bit. Got my new camera and I'll add some new pics soon.

Headed home this weekend for a graduation party. Should be a good time.

Then the big weekend happens. Boz and Amelia are coming up from Richmond on the 28th - 29th. I'm definitely excited about that and it will be great to see them. It's been a year since I've seen Boz and 2 years since I've seen Amelia. I think that's right. We're going to see Wilco on the 29th at Shelburne Museum and then Dylan on the 1st. Sounds like the start of a great holiday weekend. We'll see what else the weekend holds. I've got a few ideas...

Genarlow Wilson

It appears people are finally getting pissed enough to start doing something. Check out this article from the Huffington Post today. Please follow the link they provide and send the Governor of Georgia a complaint about how truly despicable this situation actually is. I did.

Huffington Post Article

ESPN article with some more information.

Infuriating

So later last week I found this story about this 17 year old kid, Genarlow Wilson, in Georgia who is serving a 10 year prison sentence for receiving oral sex from a 15 year old. It was taped and the 15 year old girl even said in court it was consensual. Yet Wilson was found guilty and the sentence is a mandatory 10 years in prison and he has to get listed on the sex offender registry. They were 2 years apart!!!!!

So Wilson has now served 2 years in prison. They changed the law shortly after he was sent to prison partially because of his case, yet they didn't make it retroactive. So he's sat in jail for 2 years for something I would say nearly everyone did in high school. Maybe not the video taping part. But be real. In the original article they also said if they had actually had sexual intercourse he wouldn't even be in any trouble if I recall correctly.

Anyways a Superior Court Judge ruled today that Wilson can be released from prison. Victory!! Not so fast. The Georgia Attorney General has appealed the judge's ruling. So now he sits in prison still.

Amazing. It's this kind of thing that makes me more outraged than almost anything. What kind of incompetent racist jerk was the original judge who sentenced him to prison or this Attorney General for that matter? As sad as it is, I think it's safe to say that if Wilson were white this wouldn't even have been any thing I'd have heard about. Because he wouldn't be in prison. They would have just said oh it's two kids messing around.

That's despicable behavior on all fronts Georgia. Get your shit together, it's 2007. Ah... racism alive and well in today's society.

Today's CNN article

Jackson Browne is amazing!!

photo courtesy of the Times Argus.

What a phenomenal concert. It was basically a greatest hits show with several other songs thrown in including a cover of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money." It's amazing music can bridge so many generations. Pretty cool to sit there and see one of my dad's musical heroes with him sitting one chair over. If only Nate would have been there it could have been a true family event.

Photos weren't allowed, so I didn't bring my camera in. So all I can do is post this photo courtesy of the Times Argus. Here's a link to their article too. Times Argus Jackson Browne write up

Jackson Browne-Running on empty

The countdown has begun. Tomorrow night at 8pm, Jackson Browne, Barre Opera House.

Jackson Browne - Lives In the Balance

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Loud Prayer"

Our father whose art's in heaven
hollow be thy name
unless things change
Thy wigdom come and gone
thy will will be undone
on earth as it isn't heaven
Give us this day our daily dread
at least three times a day
and forgive us our trespasses
as we would forgive those lovelies
whom we wish would trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
too often on weekdays
but deliver us from evil
whose presence remains unexplained
in thy kingdom of power and glory
oh man

Colin Hay - Beautiful World

Great Song!!

Scrubs

I find this to be probably either the best or one of the best shows on tv these days. I can't truly explain why, maybe it's the slapstick humor or the surreal day dream scenes that run throughout an episode. Either way. It's damn funny to me.

Plus I hadn't heard this Bell Biv Devoe song in forever. That brings me back to about 6th grade.

Xavier Rudd - The 12th of September

Best one man band ever? Most likely.

If you like this and get a chance to see Xavier Rudd anywhere you should go. It's an experience to see one person create so much music.