Kings of Leon - Red Morning Light (Later 2003)

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Wilco- Too Far Apart

9:30 Club: D.C.

D.C. = Oh, Oh, OH = HO!!! the 9:30 Club How Seedy = How D.C.

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Reliable Sources

Almost every Sunday before or during reading the NY Times on Amazon's Kindle I watch Reliable Sources on CNN w/ Howard "Howie" Alan Kurtz. (born August 1, 1953) is an American journalist and author with a special focus on the media. He is host of CNN's Reliable Sources program, and Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast. He is the former media writer for The Washington Post. He has written five books about the media. He has been described as the nation's "most influential media reporter".

Since 1998 Kurtz has been the host of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, a cable television program that explores the standards, performance and biases of the media. Kurtz leads the scrutinizing of the media's fairness and objectivity by questioning journalists of top news organizations, including those at CNN. The show premiered in 1992 when it originated as a one hour special to discuss the media's coverage of the Persian Gulf War.

His books remind me of the type I read in my "Mass Media" classes studied @ Penn State University (Main Campus): Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers; Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time; Spin Cycle: Inside them Clintons & their Propaganda Machine; The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street's Game of Money, Media and Manipulation; Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War.

Aside from Red Eye w/ Bill Schulz & Greg Gutfeld Reliable Sources is up there w/ being the best of smart & savvy TV = "good stuff" ...

This morning on Reliable Sources Howard used the term "New Media" in a conversation about the huge FaceBook IPO and how FaceBook and New Media are turning people on to content otherwise traditionally held and delivered by Newspapers, Magazines and TV NEWS from traditional journalists. The discussion plainly stated that FaceBook redefines the meaning of "friend" and New Media is redefining how content is delivered, shared and received.

One of the guests suggested that getting NEWS from friends is an old concept and, however unfortunate or, fortunate, I guess, is simply how some people just get there NEWS and are informed. He continued that New Media is a way for individuals to pull-up on their own the "good stuff" they want and to ignore the content traditional media sources deem "newsworthy" for our consumption and deliver to us everyday.

The topic came to close w/ Howard Kurtz referring to traditional content providers of newsworthy status as "the Dinosaur Media."

HO!

In Monitoring the Media, the conversation then turned to the current case of overzealous gossip used as reporting in a story about Yale QB Patrick Witt and his Rhodes scholarship withdrawal. Howie connected how failing to know all the facts and just going on suspicion and gossip is beyond irresponsible for a so called credible NEWS outlet as it basically just slandered some one's reputation on a national level - or how many of us still read the NY Times. Yes, the NY Times has backed off its scandalous account but, hey, the damage is done.

Sure it's easy to believe that an athlete like a Yale QB could be accused of a violent assault of an unwelcomed perverted sexual nature --- (I know as a young student I wouldn't take a ride from a wrestling coach and I still wouldn't as a grown man) but one would think that a credible NEWS source like the NY Times is more responsible in reporting - and not just dealing gossip for a catchy headline to make a quick buc!

What's the message here?

Logic is a useful tool to know in the world of computing and computing power --- however, to really empower one's self in this world of New Media is to know the other type of logic taught by philsophers and attorneys that can view stories, content, articles and recognize "the Straw Man" and "the Bandwagon" and "the Slippery Slope" and "the Appeal to Celebrity" arguments.

I mean, if more and more we're accepting content shared by our friends on FaceBook and Twitter (or on the front porch or in the school parking lot, Starbucks, the club) as NEWS then don't you want to recognize an agenda driven piece to determine if something is just paltry, petty gossip or something actually newsworthy and credible from Reliable Sources?. ..

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Americans in Paris

A great book = enlightening, elating & helps cast off the veil on human potential that's more than just newsworthy but capable of incredible heights which become part of the tapestry of our own history (like Martin Eden by Jack London = you're almost frightened by the raw blinding truth once the veil is cast off). .. Wow, a good thing. Good things. The book is called The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

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Roses for an Anchor Segment

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: mosshead2016@.com

To: thefive@foxnews.com
Cc: redeye@foxnews.com
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: Roses for an Anchor Segment

Dear Greg, it's time for the new everyday media's roses for an anchor segment.

Karin Chetry received a dozen roses from a Mr. John French and the new everyday media (+ his strawhat$$$.com) once @ FNC + once @ CNN for a total of two times and two dozen --- FNC's Megyn Kelly has also received a dozen as well.

Out of Kimberly and Dana which one do you think I should have roses delivered to @ FNC's offices c/o The Five? If it's Kimberly place your right hand on your chin w/ you index finger casually pointing @ Kimberly while simultaneously your right leg is crossed over your left knee and the big toe of your right foot is pointing to Kimberly as well --- and if it's Dana then place your left hand over your chin and use pointer finger to nonchalantly point @ Dana while simultaneously your left leg is crossed over the right knee and your left foot is in a pilates point to Dana.

And, yes, still working on e-book New Media Madness: an everyday art and looking at @ St. Valentine's Day launch (or, around there = it's a real masterpiece and thanks for your editorial guidance like you did @ E.T.).

Rosebud - a RYan Adams Tribute to Jerry Garcia (words, music + videography by Ryan Adams)

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Sunday NFL Countdown: Big Surprise for the 15th of January 2012

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John French <mosshead.com>
To: "sundaynflcountdown@espn.com" <sundaynflcountdown@espn.com>; "sportscenter@espn.com" <sportscenter@espn.com>; "scoop@huffingtonpost.com" <scoop@huffingtonpost.com>;

Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:35 AM
Subject: Sunday NFL Countdown: Big Surprise for the 15th of January 2012

I knew San Francisco would upset the Saints (I called that to my wife). .. And No surpises that Brady & the boys picked apart Timbo and the Broncos.

 

The Big Surprise?!?! I'm totally digging what Keyshawn Johnson is wearing on Sunday NFL Countdown for the 15th of January 2012.

 

The suit is a total classic and something you can wear to the Duquesne Club for a World Affairs Council luncheon or to a gala for...

 

However, here's where Keyshawn Johnson "pops" and takes everyday tradition to the next level of savvy & smart = that shirt & tie combo w/ the classic suit is "key" for setting ones-self apart from the herd and says, "I am not a robot who just falls in-line and just gives up all their rights in exchange for services and a promise to be taken care of. .. I am a trailblazer. a good man & leader". ..

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To: "friends@foxnews.com" <friends@foxnews.com>; "cnnnewsroom@cnn.com" <cnnnewsroom@cnn.com>; "scoop@huffingtonpost.com" <scoop@huffingtonpost.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:02 AM
Subject: Vote Ron Paul

 Please don't dominate the rap, jack, if youve got nothing new to say.
If you please, dont back up the track this trains got to run today.
I spent a little time on the mountain, I spent a little time on the hill
I heard someone say better run away, others say better stand still.

Now I dont know, but I been told its hard to run with the weight of gold,
Other hand I have heard it said, its just as hard with the weight of lead.

Who can deny, who can deny, its not just a change in style?
One step down and another begun and I wonder how many miles.
I spent a little time on the mountain, I spent a little time on the hill
Things went down we dont understand, but I think in time we will.
Now, I dont know but I was told in the heat of the sun a man died of cold.
Keep on coming or stand and wait, with the sun so dark and the hour so late.
You cant overlook the lack, jack, of any other highway to ride.
Its got no signs or dividing lines and very few rule to guide.

I saw things getting out of hand, I guess they always will.
Now I dont know but I been told
If the horse dont pull you got to carry the load.
I dont know whose backs that strong, maybe find out before too long.

One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.

 

Vote Ron Paul

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1OFAbhtTak  

 

 

Vote Ron Paul

Halls of Aniquity

How's everything where you are???

 

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From: "mosshead@oo.com" <mosshead@oo.com>
To: cnnnewsroom@cnn.com; americasnewsroom@foxnews.com;
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:43 AM
Subject: Halls of Antiquity
Staring at the corners of
Academy and Commerce.
On the one corner stands
The museum. Its exterior
Smells of experience and
Imagination. But then again,
I'm crazy. Like a lazy American
President being interviewed,
Again. Down the street from
The cloud factory exists the
University - taking my picture,
Again. What do you hope to
Doctor, a future for yourself.
Headlights in the rain at
Breakfast like flashlights and
Flashbulbs, 10:30a, in your face
For the cameras for broadcast
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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The Rolling Stones, Happy 1972

Stetson Kennedy - Billy Bragg and Wilco

I done spent my last three cents
Mailing my letter to the president
I didn't make a show, i didn't make a dent
So i'm swinging over to this independent gent
Stetson kennedy
Writing his name in
I cain't win out to save my soul
Long as smathers-dupont's got me in the hole
Them war profit boys are squawking and balking
That's what's got me out here walking and talking
Knocking on doors and windows
Wake up and run down election morning
And scribble in stetson kennedy
I ain't the world's best writer nor the world's best speller
But when i believe in something i'm the loudest yeller
If we fix it so's you can't make money on war
We'll all forget what we're killing folks for
We'll find us a peace job equal and free
Dump smathers-dupont in a salty sea
Well, this makes stetson kennedy the man for me

Words: woody guthrie (1950) - music: billy bragg (1997)

The Little Willies - Easy As The Rain

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Science Shows Global Consciousness Peaked Hrs. Before Plane(s) Hit on 9/11: (explains my stirring premonition, conclusion, prayers)

This is not surprising for me as I can easily entertain that "time" is not the pounding beat behind it all in the universe. In fact, sometimes I can easily see that time was an invention of man to march to man's decree(s) and for fashionable, sporting men & women to purchase a piece like a Catier and state to everybody "yes, I got the time, you see."

 

Laird Hamilton once explained to Eddie Vedder that he can successfully surf the big wave with help of a song that he's "been into" at that time of his life in which he listens to over and over and over again = and when he's conquering the big wave (or "riding it") he pulls-up that song that he's played over and over again over his stereo and within his mind and he uses this to "slow down" time so that he then "has time to do his thing."

 

Sure, it may be easier for one to understand the NeuroScientists and Theoretical Physicists than the stoned language of surfer-boy, Laird Hamilton, who dropped out of high school and wears flip-flops like all-the-time. .. So, let's not change course but rather depictions. .. (Prediction, prediction = what's your depiction?). ..

 

 

New research is discovering that thoughts can fly across space and that we all may be part of a global consciousness. Scientifically, a sixth ...

This gentleman below and his random number generator discovered that human consciousness (people sitting next to the machine and paying attention to its function) has an effect on the numbers being randomly generated. He began a network of colleagues around the world with these machines running every second of everyday and reporting back to a main server in his lab where he analyzes the data and levels of global consciousness around the globe.

 

9/11 was one event that had the highest level of global consciousness (awareness and thoughts).

 

However, what is really interesting is that this peak in global consciousness began well before (4:30am)that first plane hit lower Manhattan in an act of terror by bad, violent, evil men (fundalmentalists).

 

This helps explain why after midnite I was stirred out of my bed (out of sleep) and was compelled to wrap a blanket about my shoulders and torso and stand out on the front porch = perched, looking at the moon. I actually didn't find this act peculiar but rather the moon in front of me and the energy I was feeling all around. I came to the conclusion that no matter what evil men think and do to try and extinguish good in humankind by violent measures and decrees that light will always prevail. Light and life will go on.

 

Sixth Sense - 02x05 - Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman ...
► 43:07► 43:07	www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiFY-lmaKa4  2011 - 43 min - Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole will explore the deepest mysteries of existence - the ...

 

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Wet Paint Hydration

Wet Paint Hydration

Feelin' kinda blue
I'm now overdue
With a shower
I can lie to you
Let's be honest
(When) a crowd is 2

Take me down
Thru the cellar door
Pick me up when
I'm on the floor
Sing for me like
You did before
I'm still thirsty
Yeah I need more

She's fixated
With the fix
Last time I saw her
She was on top of it
I wanna lie but
It's so far away
I wanna die but
It's just another day


written 3:30 a.m. - 4:00 a.m. Dec 6th 2011
Dedicated to Remi Spencer
Like Greg Gutfeld said last night (or well this early early a.m.) = "Remi Spencer = She's so hot, she's banned from hockey games (you know, she'll melt the ice). "..


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Twitter Accounts Suspended & Deleted and The LA Times Sunday Conversation = Another Week of New Media Madness: "an everyday art" Right Here. ..

Maybe the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are truly a team and do not like to have one of its cheerleaders gaining more attention than the others? Whatever the case the end result is that Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Melissa Kellerman found instant internet fame when she was knocked down on the sideline by tight end Jason Witten during the team's game against the Miami Dolphins on Thursday.

When Kellerman’s Twitter account was suspended soon after she tweeted about the incident, reports spread that it was a move by the Dallas Cowboys. However, Cowboys’ director of public relations Rich Dalrymple said Kellerman was not forced by the team to delete her account.

"The Cowboys organization does not get involved in the administering of twitter accounts for players or cheerleaders," Rich Dalrymple told The Hollywood Reporter.
Dalrymple added that "Melissa made her own decisions regarding her account over the weekend." On Monday, Kellerman’s account was reactivated, but her Tweets are now protected.

"The Dallas Cowboys might accidentally tackle cheerleaders on the sidelines, but they would never tackle a DCC's twitter account," she wrote. "Cowboys did not 'force' me to deactivate. I chose to spend the Thanksgiving wknd with my family.......& not my twitter account."

Kellerman, who has been on the team for four years, is from South Carolina. Her profile on the Cowboys website says she is interested in being a child specialist and working in hospitals, an elementary special education teacher or a wedding event planner.

The Great One and The Great Daughter just hanging out. .. Apparently Wayne Gretzky would like his 22 year old daughter to spend more Hollywood Nights with him than posing for provocative pictures to post on line via Twitter.

Paulina Gretzky, the 22-year-old daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, had dabbled in pop music and acting before finding her true digital media calling: Posting provocative photos on social media. She never became a music sensation, but she became an Internet legend.

Paulina Gretzky's Twitter feed has been deleted, and David Graham of the Toronto Star pieces together a timeline that suggests Wayne Gretzky may have encouraged it?

Maybe the same way that the Dallas Cowboys did not force Melissa Kellerman to shut down her Twitter account but may have encouraged it.

One person of the New Everyday Media you can count on to continue to follow on Twitter, FaceBook, and various blogs around his 3 a.m. TV show Red Eye and his other new TV show he co-hosts at 5 p.m. without being shutdown or suspended is the feature of the L.A. Times Entertainment section this past Sunday.

Provocative?! Just look at this pic of Greg Gutfeld when he was Senior Editor of Men's Health Magazine. Of course, Greg is now a fashionista looking like he's right out of Picadilly Square or some bar Chelsea bar in Manhattan but nevertheless he is inspiration for New Media Madness: an everyday art. If I could have an editor, I'd have Greg over me on many long nights and early mornings.

The conversation with Greg Gutfeld in the L.A. Times does a decent job depicting his provocative genius that defies everything out dated and boring about the NEWS and multi media that some of get sick of being spoonfed like arrogance from a pulpit you're paying lots of money to endure.

Sure, you can change the channel on Greg if you'd rather have someone in a suit sitting in an old comfy anchor chair behind a dazzling desk speaking at you = however ratings show that a lot of us would rather join in on the conversation with Greg Gutfeld and his new everyday media outlets = as Greg's 3 a.m. show Red Eye (which airs at 3 a.m.) makes toast out of any other NEWS show on Prime-Time other than Billy O'Reilly's show.

I surely don't agree with everything Fox News Channel does but I do agree with its decision to give Greg Gutfeld the space & freedom to do his thing. ..

The Sunday Conversation: Greg Gutfeld http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/27/entertainment/la-ca-conversation-20111127

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