Cover Me Up by Rusted Root off the new album The Movement (on tour now) = listen here @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehu617s2Sjg
Drowning Clowns will be opening for Rusted Root when they roll through Pittsburgh, PA Nov. 7th = Will be a real great show as Liz Berlin and Dirk Miller are in Drowning Clowns with some real mighty fine players & friends like MIke Speranzo, Frank Spadafora, "Shaggy" and pro-skateboarder Evan Smith (what Evan lacks in age & experience with the rest of the band he sensibly balances with disciplined maturity). I would describe Drowning Clowns as global-cosmic-music skateboarders can use for their pro videos and have viewed millions of times -Americana.
Rusted Root The Movement Fall Tour
Friday, October 18, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Has the GOP Finally Gone TOO Far?: Gov’t Shutdown = the U.S. Blues
Has the GOP Finally Gone TOO Far?: Gov’t Shutdown = the U.S. Blues
This morning at Starbucks there was a petition for customers
to sign in opposition to the political theatrics in D.C. causing a shutdown of
federal services. The CEO of Starbucks himself started this and I saw it happening "live" on CNN yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia and today in my own backyard.
States are forced to act like they have separate sovereignty
in absence of federal funds to pay for things like park rangers and pay for it
themselves at hot spots that bring in huge tourist tax dollars for them and
their constituent small business owners who need this day to day over-spill
revenue tourism creates for the local economy.
Our precious veterans are showing up at sentimental
monuments for the psyche of the U.S. Military and casting aside “Gov’t shutdown”
barricades in an act of civil disobedience and manning these places themselves
so they may be celebrated everyday for everyday people. (One guy who looked
like a “tea bagger” said, “as long as no one is victimized here and people are non-violent & low-key & respectful there won’t be any need for law
enforcement anyway – if we all just act responsible, we’ll all be OK. Hell,
there are even some guys around here who already started maintenance. I myself
love landscape architecture and been eye’n this place up to improve it from
what they been paid to do.”)
Christian churches are using their fresh garden harvests to
give-away and serve as foodbanks for all the hungry families who need
subsidized either because they were on a federal program or they’re a younger
couple with kids who bought that big home in the suburbs and daddy lost his
job.
In Colorado, the first commercial crop of hemp in 56 years is
harvested to help struggling desperate farmers, and demand is high. One problem: It's illegal in the eyes of the
federal government.
Last year things got tricky.
Colorado, along with Washington state, legalized recreational marijuana. When a
state law conflicts with a federal law, the feds win. But in the case of
small-scale marijuana use, federal authorities have been advised to back off,
letting local jurisdictions handle the issue through regulation, according to a
recent Justice Department memo.
Hemp was legalized under Colorado's
Amendment 64, but more as an afterthought, says Eric Steenstra, president of
Vote Hemp, a national advocacy group. State lawmakers were directed to come up
with a plan to regulate hemp farming, and that authority was given to the
Colorado Department of Agriculture.
"It should not be treated like
a drug, it should be treated like corn," says state Sen. Gail Schwartz, a
Democrat and chair of the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee.
For years hemp was widely grown in
this country, even promoted by the government during World War II. But it
eventually fell out of favor, and the last known commercial harvest was in
Wisconsin in 1957.
Colorado's rules for hemp farming
are still being determined and will not go into effect until next year.
Has the GOP gone too far?
Are the “tea baggers” anarchists –
do you agree with Democrat Harry Reid on this?
“‘Anarchist’? Why in the
world wouldn’t I use the term anarchy?” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., in a CNN interview. “That’s what they are. They’re anarchists. They
don’t believe in government — at any level. … They’re anarchists, just like
they were at the beginning of the 20th century. … They’re not blowing up
buildings and they’re not killing people. But they’re throwing monkey wrenches
in the wheels of government.” That a reporter parroted the line almost verbatim
explains why Obama and the Democrats believe they will win the PR battle over
which party voters will blame for this partial government shutdown.
Anarchists. Indeed I say.
What’s next are one of
these libertarian-republican hybrid strain of “tea bagger” gonna agree with
U.S. Attny General Holder the top-cop and state that targeting non violent low
level marijuana users is NOT a good use of federal dollars and local cops should
not being tapping into NSA’s database supposed to be used exclusively under
FISA guidance and not to track the movements of “love interests” running parallel
surveillances to guarantee a bust for anything they happen to “randomly” do
that's illegal.
Are traffic stops like that
constitutional when they have nothing to do with terror and yet local
enforcement tapped into the “switch” in NSA’s D.I.C.E to target and track and
bust “love interests.”
Should something like this
be made to “go away.”
I know one thing if a Putin
and his bare chest come to Sewickley to try and “wrestle” me, I want the
federal government to protect and serve me.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Friday, October 11, 2013
No Matter Who You Are If You're Famous & in Pittsburgh, ...
In case you're famous and hanging out in Pittsburgh to get that pretty gritty Prodigal Son vibe found on the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet album and you're caught daydreaming of a steel guitar engagement enjoying yourself lost in all the moment has to offer don't worry, man, someone will eye you up & down and mutter what's known as "yinzer pride" and chatter in their own official language, "jagg-off!"
Welcome friends ;)
Hey man, You're famous. You can deal with that shit all day and still rock out 110%
so, "I guess it don't matter, anyway." --- (jerry, morning dew)
And if you slip and are appalled at the rudeness and audacity of someone that looks like that chattering "whatever." .. Well Nietzsche says, "take every compliment as a slap in the face and every insult as a compliment."
Famous 101.
Best of the Roses,
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
#Newsworthy
Welcome friends ;)
Hey man, You're famous. You can deal with that shit all day and still rock out 110%
so, "I guess it don't matter, anyway." --- (jerry, morning dew)
And if you slip and are appalled at the rudeness and audacity of someone that looks like that chattering "whatever." .. Well Nietzsche says, "take every compliment as a slap in the face and every insult as a compliment."
Famous 101.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Coffee Thoughts: Confessions
Sure.
I did not
do it.
So many people along the road
have given me a copy of
"The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
but I never read them or even started it.
Sorry.
It's been that way with me and especially
then when it was important to me to develop
my own voice as a poet, as a person and
try and transcend and progress as a be-ing.
Therefore, whether a film, book or band
there came a time when I realized to be
a salmon swimming up stream against the
current that I had to share the pop of the
moment but avoid being part of that burst
which oft leaves people empty & unhappy.
I was like that with the band Rusted Root
which I dig very much still to this day as
they continue to tour two decades later. I
have even told this to the lead singer Mr.
Michael Glabicki. Just couldn't jump on
the band wagon because PennState frat
brats were diggin' on them + Phish.
It took me a while but once I saw them
under a blanket of stars in the early 90's
on the lawn of Penn State Uni = I knew.
But, yeah, despite being considered a very
cool guy and "Zen like" #peaceful #calm
I have never read that book. I guess advice
like "if everyone was jumping off a bridge
would you have to too to be one of them?"
That stuck with me and along those lines
+ a doctor teaching me existential philosophy
101 I thought it would be better as an
individual.
Then reading case law and writing briefs
in "Individual & Minority Rights" I figured
I was really better off reading that than
"The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" during
my college years = proving me well in my life.
Sorry, I didn't read your book.
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Interrogating Questions for Real Rock & Roll Fans: Questions for the Real Deal
"Can you keep it simple, can you let the snare crack?" ... ... ... ...
Best of the Roses,
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
#Newsworthy
Eddie Vedder is in Pittsburgh pre-pre-pre Opening show tune up for another Pearl Jam tour. ..
What brand of cigarettes does Eddie keep on an amplifier case on the side of the stage?
Ok, don't know that one?
...
Here's a second chance:
What does Eddie keep on an amplifier case on the side of the stage next to his Natural American Spirit cigarette box beer or wine?
What brand of cigarettes does Eddie keep on an amplifier case on the side of the stage?
Ok, don't know that one?
...
Here's a second chance:
What does Eddie keep on an amplifier case on the side of the stage next to his Natural American Spirit cigarette box beer or wine?
Red Red Wine
me after a rock n roll show
What's this from ... "I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement" ....
What song is the from ... "1920 when he stepped to the bar, drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar."
This is from Jeff Tweedy and Wilco: "Can you keep it simple, can you let the snare crack?" ... ... ... ... from album A.M.
Rolling Stones Let It Bleed "I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement" ....
Brown Eyed Women from The Grateful Dead archive
"1920 when he stepped to the bar, drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar.
1930 when the wall caved in, he made his way selling red-eyed gin."
1930 when the wall caved in, he made his way selling red-eyed gin."
john alan conte jr.
&
the new everyday media
BIGnewEdayMedia coming soon to mystrawhat.com (featuring original poetry & top hottest of new everyday media 2014)
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