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Not sure where I live anymore. This is sobering.
Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com.

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Our old friends at CSC Security got rough with a fan at the Bowl at a Radiohead show, then noticed they’re being filmed. Key quote: “That shit’s going to be on YouTube. We gotta get that tape.”  That led to a chase of  filmographers off Bowl propery, down Highland and into traffic. Upon catching them, [...]

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Play & read: “Cover Me” - Bruce Springsteen
I’ve seen most of the funny/bad album covers threads out there many, many times. People are always forwarding the same ones around. Plus, in the old days, Dave was always an expert at finding crazy CD Baby ones from the Musicmatch Zion mainframe.  But, thanks to WFMU, I [...]

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Listen while you read: “If 6 Was 9” - Jimi Hendrix Experience
Those who were there — and those who weren’t — remember 1960s in the United States with a romantic fondness, using broad-stroke words like “idealism,” “freedom,” “discovery,” and of course “peace and love.”
I was surprisingly not present for any of the 1960s in the [...]

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Play this: “Alligator Wine” - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
It’s just another day in the Valley:
“That’s kind of the problem with wild animals - they do grow.” - Kathy Davis, assistant general manager of Snark & Sarcasm the Los Angeles Animal Services Department
Alligator found in Valley home - LA Daily News.

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“Advance Cassette” - Spoon
I took a bikeride in the Valley on a scorching summer afternoon. I rode by this wonderful bit of “found art” near the 170 overpass on Chandler. There was a drug deal going on, so I just kept on going of course. But, an hour later I circled back on the return [...]

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Listen and read: “Copy Cat” - P-Funk All Stars
Never up on politics as much as I should be, I’ve always thought of  Joe Biden as “that guy who plagiarized his speeches” in the 80s. “What a jerk,” I thought. But, shame on me for letting a single incident color my judgment of the man’s long [...]

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Music to read by: “Cameras in California” — Kirk Wheeler
“Thanks for nothing,” I say to the editor who writes headlines like “Photog Allegedly Assaulted 3 Aspiring Models“  This salacious story of a man arrested for allegedly luring girls to motel rooms under the premise of photographing them to make them stars — only to then [...]

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Just a heads up to my ol’ chillout fans that right now Amazon is giving away this free MP3 sampler from the impressive world/chillout label Six Degrees, with The Orb and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and others. I’ve always been impressed with Six Degrees Records since my days as a chillout radio DJ for [...]

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Play this while you read: “Give It To Me Baby” - Rick James
Rumored iTunes Music Subscription: $130 Per Year | Listening Post from Wired.com.
On the off chance that Apple Corp. is deliberately floating this trial balloon of an iTunes subscription plan out to the blogosphere to gauge the reaction and see if people would pay, [...]

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