I can see Eddie Vedder & Mavis Staples doing this w/ Neil Young = Bruce Springsteen - Fire (with lyrics)

I can see Eddie Vedder & Mavis Staples doing this w/ Neil Young

Bruce Springsteen - Fire

Tweets @NewEdayMedia + Ray Lewis Vs. Heinz Ward; Scarlett Johansson sounds off on marriage; And “ a little something extra”

 ‏@NewEdayMedia #wonder what media network will pick-up Ray Lewis gone from the Ravens. Will he be next to a real hero like Heinz Ward of the Steelers Mic'd?

Scarlett Johansson sounds off on marriage: "It has no relevance to me right now" http://huff.to/UIDLwY

 

And “ a little something extra” = really worth it, tho. ..

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

 

 

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NYC @Upper WestSide show #awesome Michael Glabicki & Liz Berlin pic = RustedRoot @ Stage48 Best of 2013 New Year Roses

NYC @Upper WestSide show #awesome Michael Glabicki & Liz Berlin pic = RustedRoot @ Stage48 Best of 2013 New Year Roses .

RustedRoot @ Stage48 January 1, 2013 @  605 W 48th St  NYC 10036. United States

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

Predictions 2013

Predictions 2013

Well, this is just awesome.

What I’ve learned from the past few years I can use to help predict as experience and not just some fancy pants intuition. If you’re going to predict on a somewhat visited blog w/ a peahen mention of a GMA ego manic co-host for the weekend & its way crazy ego driven husband w/ a questionable past of various relationships involving impregnating prominent women for social & economic climbing to maybe try and bring fair credibility to his wanton financial & economic status of being viewed as a concrete master & guru of both within democratic party politics & its big corporate brethren = well you better be able to take any heat from connections of WhiteHouse Peter O & GMA Biana G are gonna throw @ you when you openly announce being holed-up playing guitar relaxing @ the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton by the river off the main-drag of commercial Georgetown dressed in original authentic & organic faded Levis & an organic cotton tee which read “We Belong to the Earth, Earth does not Belong to us – Chief Seattle” and a ShadyBrady Northern California straw hat (@$250.00). Moreover, better be able to take the heat all-the-way home. ..and pass the slanderous inquisitions which people who hate you for having a perfect dream life they wanna use to cut you like a knife like with inner jagged thrusts of the justice system.

So, if you’re gonna do a publicity ballsy publicity stunt = Well, you better hope your colonoscopy comes out clean (and you’re true, good friends really do love you and find it effortless to describe your good, genius & character). ..

Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,

New Media Matters

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Celebrating Top100 Hottest NewEverydayMedia Women of 2012 = all-access @ mystrawhat.com

Celebrating Top100 Hottest NewEverydayMedia Women of 2012 @(click here on this link for immeadiate all-access) http://mystrawhat.com/newmedia12/INDEX.html … Best of New Year Roses, Grazie. ..

Contrast & Comparison Piece: Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead and The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whining and Phony Outrage = 2 Most Recent Books I read over the holidays 2012 – 2013.

 

 

There are a few of you who may openly represent the majority and may be like, “first off, why are there even books published on Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead and The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whining and Phony Outrage? And, why did you read them. What’s wrong with you?!”

 

 

And, that’s the first similarity. Both books not only use the phrase, “lock step and barrel” but explain why outside of a military mission applying this mentality to business and journalism and an open free society, in general, is a perilous recipe to follow for low productivity and eventual failure. For if every citizen followed the “lock step and barrel” mentality with every neighbor on their street, on their block and their city – what would be the difference then from living in North Korea?

Neither The Grateful Dead or Greg Gutfeld could have been birthed by a place like North Korea. They would both be targets of national pride for letting their “freak flags fly.” But being Greg Gutfeld should not be a crime here in the free Western World – let alone Manhattan – and the Grateful Dead should not have been a target for the Nixxon administration (unlike Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, G.W. Bush who did not use its reach of power to crack-down on the Grateful Dead and massive audiences in stadiums & arenas across the country as the Grateful Dead and Deadhead Nation born in the sixties & early seventies really flourished and picked up speed on down the track in the 80’s and 90’s and was truly an iconic juggernaut - allowing them to be the most money making touring act of the time). Furthermore, if there were no Greg Gutfeld or Grateful Dead, there would be no trickle-down-effect.

“Really,” you ask?

Well, yes. For example, back in the early 70’s even a “roadie” for The Grateful Dead made $100,000.00 and had healthcare! And, of a common amount, but certainly not value, Greg Gutfeld’s “roadie” side-kick on one of his shows on Fox News Channel makes $100,000.00 today in the 21^st century. (But, hey, Bill Schulz lives in Greg’s basement in the old fruit cellar so in Greg’s defense Bill Schulz doesn’t have to pay for Manhattan rent. So, given that, $100,000.00 in the 70’s and $100,000.00 in 2012 may be a fair wage to try and compare for essentially the same job requirements). Not to mention that when the Grateful Dead toured = tens of thousands of people not only attended the shows each night & day but a big percentage of those tens of thousands of fans toured around the country with the Grateful Dead as both consumers and entrepreneurs in whatever town or city the next show was located. (I know in 1995 when the Grateful Dead played Three River stadium in Pittsburgh, PA with Rusted Root as its opening act = I personally spent money in downtown Pittsburgh on a hotel room for me + friends for two nites + I may have had a veggie burrito & bottled Heineken in the parking lot from some DeadHead who sat-up-shop there to make enough money for gas to get to the next show of “summer tour”). And, just recently, Greg Gutfeld had two bus tours promoting his latest book The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whining and Phony Outrage bringing huge crowds into bookstores across the country (however, it’s probably not appropriate for me to describe what was being sold in-the-parking-lot-scene of out of the trunks of vehicles by the type of entrepreneur Greg Gutfeld’s trickle-down-effect sprouts).

So, where Greg Gutfeld is a practicing libertarian and for that takes heat from both parties and The Grateful Dead was a target by those too paranoid to quite dig the perceived trumped-up “counter culture movement” and survived a ton of heat – rather than fold and just pack-up-shop – both Gutfeld and The Dead have let their “freak flags fly” and have created prosperity for themselves and those around them.

And, yet, they are both very different. For instance, whereas The Grateful Dead did not attend Uni @ Berkeley they were very much responsible for inventing that Birkenstock lifestyle of those attorneys, doctors, professors, scientists, engineers & journalists who loved to attend Grateful Dead shows in Berkeley --- Gutfeld attended Berkeley and hated those attorneys, doctors, professors, scientists, engineers & journalists who put on their Bikenstocks, patchouli & tie-dye shirts and attended those coveted Grateful Dead shows @ Berkeley.

Greg is hated by liberals. The Grateful Dead adored by such liberals as Bill Clinton himself. There’s a YouTube video of Bill Clinton emotionally talking about the death of the Grateful Dead’s lead guitarist & spiritual leader, Jerry Garcia.

In Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead points out for a successful marketing team, you must be made-up of different types and be able to roll-with-the-punches looking for new business models & ways to get the word out to an audience. The Grateful Dead had a mailing list in the early 70’s thats database was filled with tens of thousands of fans eager to receive personalized information from the band – also receiving access to the best seats in the house for upcoming shows before a middle-man-scalper gobbled them up or were merely left up to a ticketmaster to sell you - which in the 80’s turned into an email list. Greg Gutfeld has also used new media as a vehicle to let his audience in on insider information on him & his activities with an interactive website called The Activity Pit http://activitypit.ning.com/video/greg-gutfeld-anthem-1 + certainly has surrounded himself with a team made up of different styles of thinking & experience. Tune-into either of Greg’s shows on FNC, Red Eye (which appears at 3 a.m.) and The Five (which appears at 5 p.m.) and you’ll see just how different these people are for a roundtable forum with Greg as the leader. (The result = a product more edgy than any D.C. “think tank” or professors lounge at Brown).

True diversity is good. And, true tolerance is good. These books and their subjects couldn’t exist without true diversity and true tolerance within a culture.

In conclusion, although these two books and their subjects are very different from each other they both celebrate the philosophy and freedom of “truth, justice & the American way" that deserves to be celebrated at its fullest.

For if we all were the same and targeted for being different, it certainly would crack-down on the opportunity to make more money than your neighbor or co-worker and advance in business, politics, culture & government and life in general.

Best of New Year Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com

Greg Gutfeld: Not Afraid of My Own 2 Cents @# The Necessary "Joy of Hate"

Not Afraid of My Own 2 Cents @# The Necessary "Joy of Hate"

Greg, after picking-up your latest bad habit called “The Joy Of Hate” I am about halfway through your latest book "The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage"  this Xmas Eve. ARE YOU ON DRUGS?! Really, either you're on drugs or you're a genius. .. (or both, I guess, considering the last 3 presidents have been recreational drug users + JFK “hittin’ it up for his war torn & fray back”). @ any rate, you're surely breaking new ground here 1). by having this book published 2). having it "in your own words" w/ out some paranoid editor over your shoulder saying "no we must take this out --- you can't publish that like this" ... So I am here to declare it is so far funny, compelling, raw-truth (@least according to you), + my fingers hurt from holding it it's that cutting edge & smokin’ red hot & henceforth I can't put it down (literally or figuratively). Cheers, Old Sport. ..

We'll always have the CAF in Emmaus, PA discussing common grounds of the Organic Harvest grounds of Rodale Inst. (in which you and my family got paid from). ..

 

Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com

What tasty wine excites Diana Falzone to report "it is dancing on my tongue." ???

Find out what tasty wine excites Diana Falzone to report "it is dancing on my tongue." ... also the one wine expert looks a lot like the character on Modern Family, Cameron Tucker, played by Eric Stonestreet

How to pick the right wine glass

video.foxnews.com

Wine experts Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen help us pick the right glasses to match the different types of wines.



Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com

The Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By off of December's Children (And Everybody's) has a direct connection to W.B. Yeats' poem "Among School Children."

"December's Children (And Everybody's)" by The Rolling Stones .... "Tears Go By" has a direct connection to W.B. Yeats' poem "Among School Children."
@#TheEdSullivanShow

Best of Christmas Roses,
New Media Matters: an everyday art
@ mystrawhat.com

Smarter Than Humans: The Gentle Genius of Bonobos = "make love, not war"

And in a broad brush stroke = what time was that we were more civil? ...Before our ancestors turned a tree branch into a club to kill someone or seriously wound them? The Bonobo are more civil than we are.

In fact, the Japanese scientists who have spent the most time working with wild bonobos describe the species as extraordinarily peaceful, and De Waal has documented how bonobos may often resolve conflicts with sexual contact (hence the "make love, not war" characterization for the species).

 

Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,

New Media Matters: an everyday art

@

mystrawhat.com

how's things where you are?. .. "Get Off This"

how's things where you are?. ..

Yeah, forget about the NHL. 6 Rows back for HOCKEYRobert Morris University vs. Penn State University

I didn't attend hockey school in Pitsburgh @ one-on-one with Pat Price @ the Ken Schinkel Hockey School for nothing #having knee surgery @14 (thank you Kelly L. & J.M.). .. There are a lot of resources for HOCKEY around the-hood nowadays. .. "All these cats with holey jeans,
Dirty hair and titty rings
Say, "What's your scene, man? We got these questions...
Is it true that you have sold your soul?"
I say, "Hey man, I don't know
Lend me a quarter won't you?
I'll call my accountant."

Let's get off this
And get on with it
If you wanna change the world
Shut your mouth and start to spin it
Get off this
Get on with it
If you wanna change the world
Shut your mouth and start this minute"

Diana Falzone = Gorgeous

 

If I were a teen again now I'd have this blown-up as a poster on the wall of my room and, well, since I'm not here it is on my blog The New Everyday Media

Diana Falzone = Gorgeous


Best of the Roses,


New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com

don't forget to tune into RedEye @ 3 a.m. on FNC: Takes off shoe

don't forget to tune into RedEye @ 3 a.m. on FNC (they may mention mystrawhat.com again)

Me, I'm waiting so patiently
Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore

hair and make-up tonite for FNC's The Five: Dana Perino (former WhiteHouse rocker)

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "mossheadFRENCH77@yahoo.com"
To: thefive@foxnews.com
Cc: TheJoyOfHateBookTour@foxnews.com
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:22 PM
Subject: hair and make-up tonite for FNC's The Five

I like Dana's hair and make-up tonite. .. It looks like the skills of the eye of Maureen Walsh. .. It seemed to help accentuate Dana's points she was just making. .. What Wallace Fowlie would say in his book Dionysus in Paris: Contemporary French Theatre "the moment of communion" ... Where lighting, writing, delivery, feeling of viewer all comes together clicks and makes an inexplicable sense for everyone. ..

Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,

New Media Matters: an everyday art
@
mystrawhat.com

In Bed with a College Girl: What a SAP? Huh. Here's what I was up to. ..

JAC JR @ Indian Cave Crows Run 1990: Hunting Jacket, turtleneck & Flannel by Ralph Lauren 

Here's what I was up to in the early 1990's. What a SAP? Huh.

Jacky Jukebox

Words by John Alan Conte Jr. & Music by Kurt M. Knaus

I wrote the lyrics to this song after blissfully waking up in the bed of this girl in Milwaukee, Wisconscin in a top floor apartment nearby my dorm-room. It was such a beautiful morning and nightbefore. I wrote these lyrics and had a basic melody and then when I transferred into Penn State University @Uni Park from Marquette University my friend Mike Durr had this really cool roomate Kurt M. Knaus who played guitar. After a few days of hanging out and discussing music, politics and pop-culture mass media = Kurt had the music and the chorus and we played it @ a few parties in front of girls and his big-room. The poem appears in the only non-published book of mine called In This Place: a book of the nineties Though noted many poems from this book was material I used for the many “live” poetry readings I did around the country and which lyrics used for “live” shows & recordings @ Live Wire Recordings (Fl.) with the Deerfield Beach, Fl. Band Post Face – This material was also compiled with other poems to make up a selection Mr. Burns @ Freedom Area High had me read to his honor & non honor English classes in 1996 (simply called Poems for Freedom High). ..

Jacky was a jump start jukebox – loved his rock N roll

Success pouring out from the stories he had been told

Runnin’ w/ the wild crowd – seeing diamonds in the snow

Sittin’ back in time so he could watch the young grow old

Sun shine lit days - the clouds they never came

Until he saw his friends standin’ still not doing what they will

Where’s the American dream of hot dogs and Chevorlets

Of growing up to be president - just like USA made

Jacky died to live it – Jacky always was the show

Gather together to people to do the right that we know

(Kurt added the chorus and contributed all of the music)

Uh – Oh, oh – oh, jump start his world 3x

Uh – Oh, oh – oh, jump start his world

 

 

The Story of the Narcissus Flower

(I wrote this in Spring of 1993 walking down College Ave @ PSU, Uni Park. The poem appears in the only non-published book of mine called In This Place: a book of the nineties Though noted many poems from this book was material I used for the many “live” poetry readings I did around the country and which lyrics used for “live” shows & recordings @ Live Wire Recordings (Fl.) with the Deerfield Beach, Fl. Band Post Face – This material was also compiled with other poems to make up a selection Mr. Burns @ Freedom Area High had me read to his honor & non honor English classes (simply called Poems for Freedom High). ..

 

Looking into the water

What did I see?

Penetrating time

I fell in love w/ me.

You came by

&

Tried to pry me away

But looking deeper inside

Defiant I stayed

 

Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,

New Media Matters: an everyday art

@

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1970's Keep America Beautiful Crying Indian PSA

the only tattoo i ever wanted was the face @ the end of this PSA on my arm


best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses,

new media matters: an everyday art
@
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CIA Trail of Fire

When love twists the eyes
Of a spy in the calculus of desire

We prove to be like a pair of doves
Merely met with the basic instincts

Of what instruments create fire

 

 

 

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Best of the Roses but not rose colored glasses, jC

written yesterday @ dusk by me

 

 

Paula Broadwell allegedly threatened to make Jill Kelley “go away,” the New York Daily News reported Tuesday, in the latest twist in a sex scandal that has ensnared top U.S. national security officials.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84078.html#ixzz2ClsZAheo