He's Gone

one of those moments in one of those nights that makes me wish I were there - and, yeah, we don't need to document everything and we should live in the moment and appreciate our mind's eye & it's lovely memories - but I'm sure glad someone captured Tara Nevins from Donna the Buffalo doing He's Gone by the Grateful Dead w/ BK3 @ Toad's Place this lusty month of May = because it sure makes us smile. ..

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Friends

"This afternoon with you was something like a letter - the kind that someone writes but never sends." ..

and another good line in this one. ..

"Like Christmas on a river - without a boat or Christmas Tree." ..

Hell, they're all good. ...
=== "These things inside me they repeat like broken records - spinnin' pretty somethin' behind my eyes." ..

Best of the Roses,
Giovanni French
&
the new everyday media

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Happy death-day Elvis = Rusted Root "Suspicious Minds"

I've always liked Suspicious Minds from Elvis since I was a kid - along with Heartbreak Hotel these were two of my favorites from "the King." Rusted Root does a real nice rendition of this song on Stereo Rodeo and live. .. Happy death-day Elvis. ..no one quite ate banana, bacon and PB&J sandwiches like you.

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&
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New Media Madness: an everyday art

Ali Velshi to be replaced by Ashton Kutcher Tweets & clips: 2.5 anchors

Financially the past decade has been a mess.

 

Hope arrived,

 

deflated.

 

Talking heads positioning themselves

to capitalize on anxiety - the condition

of being unemployed without hope.

 

Can daddy retire now? Is daddy diversified

enough? .. .

 

But nothing is new under the sun.

You can't tell me anything different

I know the thing for people like me

- is to wait it out - so let's have fun

while being spoonfed financial NEWS

 

The other nite @ the Teen Choice Awards

Ashton Kutcher was giving money lessons

on how to stay out of debt & not be a slave

The next day CNN $money give him a deal

to replace Ali Velshi on American Morning

everyday with Tweets & clips & two women

= it's now called = 2.5 anchors

 

 

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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "mosshead7@" <mosshead7@>
To: morningshow@dve.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:34 AM
Subject: Ashton Kutcher called "patriot" by Billy O'Reilly last nite

For his "pin heads and patriots" bit Billy O had a clip of Ashton Kutcher @ Teen Choice Awards. ..Billy O determined the new lead of 2.5 Men, Ashton, was a patriot for spouting this message: "hey, man, listen, listen, listen, I don't know how many of you people buy shit on credit cards - but, look, man, if you don't have the hard cold cash to pay it off don't go up with the shit house" . ..
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: mosshead7@.
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 6:09:19
To: am@cnn.com<am@cnn.com>
Reply-To: mosshead7@
Subject: Intellectual(s)

Being herd into colleges and universities and getting a conventional degree or two continued by more spoonfed information flowing along "down by the old mainstream" doesn't make some one an intellectual.

How about being noted for outside reading in your classes? How about challenging professors? How about being a leader with your peer group? How about being well rounded enough to communicate with a variety a of people type?

And how about knowing people play for keeps - it's cut throat.

How about turning off the bickering on TV and throwing on some old vinyl?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Food For Thought: Where Would We Be Today Without Social Media? + KellyEvans & LeighGallagher Vs. Juliet Huddy

Food For Thought: Where Would We Be Today Without Social Media?

 

 

How would your world, and the world as a whole be different without Twitter and Facebook?

 

 

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 P.S. i think i may add WSJ's Kelly Evans and Fortune's Leigh Gallagher to upcoming Top 100 Hottest Women of the New Everyday Media in e-book New Media Madness: an everyday art (coming soon on mystrawhat.com)after seeing them doing it Early Saturday on CBS. .. and it's Juliet Huddy "pretty in pink" back and Fox & Friends weekend. ..

 

 

Jeff Tweedy Thinks "Bon Jovi Ruined Music"

My love for Jeff Tweedy has been strong and now it's all-the-way confirmed = yes, someone thinking on the same strand of web in the cosmic web of life. ..

I like and relate to the lyrics, music, imagery and all Jeff Tweedy invokes on his albums and live performances. I don't feel that way about Jon Bon Jovi = no connection. And like Tweedy's saying, "I just don't even understand." ..

R.E.M. - Try Not to Breathe (Piano)

for Amy 27: forever young

for Amy 27: forever young

 

 

1971 dead flowers @ Marquee Club  mick taylor solo = bonus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osoeMtSbxtU

 

&

 

Amy by RYan Adams ---

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOuMkrL0qUY

 

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New Media Madness: an everyday art 2011

Happy Birthday To Me: New Hope

I was having a good sleep in my car
In the parking lot of the Showboat Casino Hotel
I said, "I remember you! You drive like a PTA mother."
You bought me draft beer, in a plastic cup.
I'm feeling thankful for the small things today.
I'm feeling thankful for the small things today.

Happy, happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me, and to you.
Happy, happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me, and to you.

I'm feeling thankful for the small things today.
I'm feeling thankful for the small things today.

I said, "I remember you! I crashed your wedding.
With some orange crepe paper and some Halloween candy."
Sometimes I wish I were catholic --- I don't know why.
I guess I'm happy to see your face in a time like this.

Happy, happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me, and to you.
Happy, happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to me, and to you.

Happy birthday baby, to me.
Happy birthday, to me.
Happy birthday, to me.
Happy birthday, to me.

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Classic Beautiful Rocker Girl: Happy July Birthday Weekend

I took these pics of Liz Berlin from the photo pit @ The L.A. House of Blues w/ her band

Rusted Root on her birthday July 2006

Classic Beautiful Rocker Girl: L.A. House of Blues 2006

Classic Beautifil Rocker Girl in Action: L.A. House of Blues 2006

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Wilco-Alone (Alternative Version)

Pretty Girl

What a little gem. ..

And, yes, there are only 10 Songs on this album 12 Golden Country Greats = what a gem.

Since Elektra paid for Ween to record in Nashville with bonified studio players I wouldn't call it a parody album. .. I mean, Ween doesn't have a genre. .. so just like a NY Times article today in the Sunday edition Arts & Leisure section was making the cutting edge argument that today's pop doesn't really "pop" in terms of doing and, definitely not defining, anything new but it's a mix of the last few recent decades and different genres and styles from those 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. .. That's why bands like Ween and Rusted Root = who you will find at any current big music festival this summer and seemingly always on tour for the past 20 years (both from Pennsylvania and started around the same time) just keep on keeping on = they were never darlings of any one genre = and, in fact, frustrated the record executives who just wanted their one hit song from an album that clearly was branded as a formula to shift a certain number of units (yawn). .. So, there you have it this Sunday = Pretty Girl by Ween = ( i know this will make you smile and hum along). ..

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the new everyday media

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New Media Madness: an everyday art 2010 - 2011

Bandwagon

Nothing makes the raindrops
Sparkle like the sun
Quite like a band wagon
Once it's begun

Bandwagon,
It's right here in the song
Bandwagon,
Won't you sing along

Bandwagon,
It's not like I just made this up
Bandwagon,
Once it starts you can't get enough
(without it you'll never get along)

This ain't a one trick pony, it's gold
Ain't no politician - I'm just one of you
Better buy it too before it's all sold
Don't jump on it now - you're a fool 

Bandwagon,
It's right here in the song
Bandwagon,
Won't you sing along

Bandwagon,
It's not like I just made this up
Bandwagon,
Once it starts you can't get enough
(without it you'll never get along)
.... .... ....

Nothing makes the raindrops
Sparkle like the sun
Quite like a band wagon
Once it's begun

(Draft 1: Written 5:53am 7/13/11
-inspired by an unwritten AC/DC tune)

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New Media Madness: an everyday art 2010 - 2011

stories i'm following

 

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: John French <mosshead7@>
To: cnnnewsroom@cnn.com; redeye@foxnews.com; today@nbc.com; info@bwe.tv; info@theinsider.com; info@newseum.org
Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 9:25:02 AM
Subject: stories i'm following

Restaurant says it has heard enough, bans kids

'Parents have gradually diminished their cooperation,' owner says

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43718876/ns/business-small_business/

 

Hines Ward Arrested, Charged With DUI

+7

The Steelers star wideout runs into trouble in Georgia.

 

Weekend Winner: Gwyneth Paltrow in Itty-Bitty Bikinis

Xposure(2), Fame

Guess some GOOP — plus a little Glee — does a body good! Gwyneth Paltrow proudly flaunted her fabulous bikini body over the weekend while vacationing near the island of Sardinia with her children, Apple and Moses. The 38-year-old actress spent Friday on a yacht with her kiddies (plus their godfather, Steven Spielberg) wearing a strapless red bikini top and matching bottoms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best of the Roses, John

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Subject: True Story (this one). ..  

a True Story (This One)

me in Los Angeles, California shortly after what I'm talkin about

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Johnny <mosshead7@>
To: morningshow@dve.com
Cc: the-Pomp-a-Rino@kdka.com
Sent: Wed, July 6, 2011 9:04:29 AM
Subject: Riveting Voice of Local Sports = a "Pomp" Story

I had arranged for a golf foursome at Chartiers Country Club one summer's day.

This golf foursome consisted of the president of Bayer Corporation (the German, Dr. Attila Molnar), Bob Pompeani - riveting voice of local sports, Mike Speranzo - Mr. Small's, Drowning Clowns, Pro-Am Skater, and me -your everyday guy.

Some, including myself, may have thought this was a motley crew. I was a little nervous about how this would go and if I could pull off a good time.

Next thing you know, a couple holes in, Bob Pompeani and Dr. Attila Molnar, the German -president of Bayer Corporation, are talking smack on each other. ..Speranzo wastes no time joining in and Bob and Speranzo form this allegiance against the German and the two of them start chest bumping like they're Pittsburgh Steelers after a great play --- which, eventually, in a show of good sportsmanship, they kindly included Dr. Attila Molnar (the German) in after he would make a good shot.

The four of us had a blast.

And, for Speranzo and me - and, I believe the German too, a very cool highlight was Bob Pompeani lending his riveting voice of local sports to provide commentary on our shots - play by play like.

It was an awesome day I'll never forget.

Best of the Roses, John Conte

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Chautauqua Lake Me in July a Couple Years Ago - Chautauqua Inst.

July. .. fireflies, picnics, swimming, fireworks, music, hard work, holidays, sun, storms, independence, freedom. ... what a great month = my birthday month. ...

Best of the Roses, John

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Today I Raise My Glass and Toast to.... .... ....

July me @ Bemus Point, NY

Today I raise my glass and toast to the real freedom(s) of Independence Day and am thankful & grateful for those who justly set-it-up in accordance with Natural Law (John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rosseau being two intellectual, philosophical thinkers & writers to draw from) and those who bravely have fought and continue to fight for us everyday. .. Happy 4th of July everybody.



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July 3rd Marks the 40th Anniversary The Doors' Jim Morrison Death

r.i.p.

July 3rd Marks the 40th Anniversary The Doors' Jim Morrison Death, We Remember Him Now With Five of the Most Surreal Theories Surrounding His Passing

​
July 3rd marks the 40th anniversary of the Doors' legendary frontman Jim Morrison's death. Fans worldwide will celebrate his life and his massive contribution to music--just imagine how many bands now owe their sound to the Doors--with tribute shows, exhibits, and even ceremonies. The Rock and Roll Emporium in Huntington Beach marks this day with a special memorial event featuring an extensive exhibit of rare artifacts spanning Morrison's entire career as a poet, artist and musician.
"With 2011 being the 40th anniversary of the death of Jim Morrison, we wanted to host a memorial celebration of his music, life and legacy," said Andrew Kirby, managing partner of The Rock and Roll Emporium. "We've gathered artifacts from the very beginning of his career as a film student to hand-written poems including one of the first songs he wrote while living on a rooftop in Venice Beach, to a collection of more than 400 rare historic photographs. This is a great chance to own a piece of history from one of the most notable and iconic bands to come out of Southern California."

You'll find the Original Bail Bond sheet signed by "James Douglas Morrison" from his arrest on suspicion of indecent exposure during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami's Coconut Grove section in 1969, a collection of rare photographs by Ron, Raffaelli, Henry Diltz and Joel Brodsky, rare concert posters, gold records, autographed items, original tribute artwork, and original poetry written in Jim Morrison's hand including the lyrics to the song "Moonlight Drive" from The Doors' second album "Strange Days" which was released in October 1967. 

So much has been written and speculated upon surrounding Morrison's life and death. He was reportedly found dead in a Paris, France apartment he had sub-leased in 1971. His 'wife', Pamela Courson, was the first to discover the body in the bathroom, where he lay in the bathtub, naked and half-submerged. Following his passing, there was a series of bizarre and convoluted events, probable conspiracies, strange coincidences and surreal news reports stemming from the three-day media blackout after he died. Officially, his death was listed as "heart failure," but before heading to Paris, his doctor reported him to be in excellent health.

Now, on the 40th anniversary of his death, we look at the self-perpetuating mythos that has developed and enveloped the facts with five of the most surreal theories surrounding Morrison's passing.

5. Many believe that Morrison faked his own death and dropped off the grid with a new identity--and apparently Morrison himself had repeatedly planted the seeds which would lead to this sort of speculation. At the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1967, he apparently started suggesting that he should pull a "death stunt" to bring national press attention onto the band. Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek has said, "If there was one guy that would have been capable of staging his own death -- getting a phony death certificate and paying off some French doctor... And putting a hundred and fifty pound sack of sand into a coffin and splitting to some point on this planet -- Africa, who knows where -- it is Jim Morrison who would have been able to pull it off."

4. Morrison also told writers on more than one occasion that he could see himself "radically changing careers, reappearing as a suited and neck-tied businessman." Elektra Records' founder Jack Holzman's assistant Steve Harris even remembers Jim Morrison asking what might happen if he were to suddenly "die," how might it affect business, record sales, the press, and would people believe it?

3. J. Prochniky's Morrison biography, Break On Through, explores the occult rumors surrounding his death:
"... Another supernatural-based theory is that Morrison's body had been driven to great extremes by the spirit of the shaman he believed had entered his body as a child on that New Mexico highway. When this spirit or a demon its talents to influence the world, it abandoned Jim and left him a physically wasted and mentally exhausted man who felt betrayed with no desire to go on..."

2. Apparently anthropologist Allison Bailey Kennedy went as far as associating Morrison with Orphic mystery cults and their initiatory uses of various spider venoms, which release the "deuende in Gypsy tradition -- the dark soul that burn incandescently like a cicada, immolating itself in fiery passion."

1. The most surreal occult theory surrounding Morrison's death is revealed in No One Hear Gets Out Alive by Sugarman and Hopkins:
"... Other theories abounded in Jim's close circle of friends. One had him killed when someone plucked out his eyes with a knife ("to free his soul", as the story had it). Another had a spurned mistress killing him long distance from New York by Witchcraft..." Plucked out his eyeballs with a knife? How horrifying.

The Rock and Roll Emporium's memorial celebration starts on July 3rd with the unveiling of the "Moonlight Drive" lyrics and continues with a candle lighting at Surf City Nights Tuesday July 5th.

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Jimbo Covert (NFL Great) from Conway, PA and FREEDOM HIGH + Jack Ruby defense case

re: the Pitt Vs. Penn State University renewal of rivalry + Jack Ruby defense case

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: John Edgar English III <mosshead7@>
To: morningshow@dve.com
Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 7:49:11 AM
Subject: Jimbo Covert from Conway, PA and FREEDOM HIGH ...

JIMBO!!!

 

He's a graduate of Freedom High and from Conway, PA (biggest push-button railroad in the U.S. ..once in the world) and where my father ran a little law firm for 50 + years in which in his early years my father was called down to Texas to be a legal expert on the Jack Ruby case when Ruby shot Oswald for shooting JFK. The reason my father was there was because of a big case he won which garnished national attention - McNaughton ruling - big insanity case. .. Ruby's lead Attny Melvin Belli did not follow through w/ my father's suggestion of "patriotic insanity" and is probably why Belli lost.  And, yes, until this day when asked my father still maintains that it was pure coincidence that Ruby was there with a gun and got that close to Oswald = no conspiracy. (he then got into P.I. and medical malpractice).

 

P.S. You're the best radio morning show in Pittsburgh = almost as good as Kiran Chetry on morning TV . ...

 

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: John French <mosshead7@>
To: am@cnn.com
Cc: cnnnewsroom@cnn.com
Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 8:04:55 AM
Subject: Kiran Chetry for a Tuesday

Kiran Chetry has such a Smoking RED HOT delivery for a Tuesday June 14th ... In fact, if such a Smoking RED HOT delivery for a Tuesday June 14th were twin lobster tails I'd split her open and have her sizzling on the grill and then eat her on the dining room table after drizzling her in butter in front of my wife ...

 

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