July 2010
59 posts
Man Faces Up To 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping... →
so-treu:
robot-heart-politics:
azspot:
The ACLU of Maryland is defending Anthony Graber, who potentially faces sixteen years in prison if found guilty of violating state wiretap laws because he recorded video of an officer drawing a gun during a traffic stop. In a trend that we’ve seen across the country, police have become increasingly hostile to bystanders recording their actions. You...
Trans Model in French Vogue →
doubleque:
Beauty comes in the packages we are use to..and those that we are not.
She is beautiful…and brave…
"Summer of Sean" Progress Report #1
I’ll get the less positive stuff out of the way first: despite releasing a new album on Tuesday and getting paid from my day job on Friday, I have less than $20 to my name right now. Between my electric bill, my cell phone bill, my instrument rental bill, and the posters I printed to hang up around the city for my next show, yesterday’s paycheck disappeared before I even left the office. ...
“People hate her, they really do. Did you know that to Yoko someone is a verb in...”
– Courtney Love on Yoko Ono, 1993. (via aduelwillsettlethis) (via fuckyeahyokoono) (via thecurvature) (via inopia) (via kyn) (via jimstolz) (via classybroad)
Yoko Ono will always and forever be the truth.
Late Night Listening: "Gimme Back My Red Pen" →
Last night, the Afrolicious ‘blog posted the opening track of Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace, “Gimme Back My Red Pen.” The song is unavailable anywhere else on the Internet! Please take a listen, and peruse the rest of the ‘blog, as it’s full of good and interesting content.
“Hey man, I just want you to know that I respect you a lot for standing up front...”
– A MySpace message that a local band sent me two weekends ago. I’m gonna try to get them added to a show I’m playing in September.
“If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under...”
– assata shakur (via beejeweled)
Dear unrequited lovers
dearmeat:
I’m sick of all the songs and all the films about unrequited love. They all seem to imply that the object of someones affections doesn’t give a shit and frankly that’s bullshit. Okay okay it may not be gracious or modest or whatever to own up to someone having feelings for you who you don’t feel the same way about, it may even seem big headed but it actually sucks. I care very deeply...
“I’m not having people slag off Brix. Her contribution was amazing – she took the...”
– Mark E Smith, interview with Stephen Dalton, Vox, June 1991 via Rock’s Backpages. (via fuckyeahthefall) (via postpunk)
This quote intrigues me because MES manages to assert his dominance over the band (which I expected him to do), while praising a former member AND attacking sexism (which I...
New Album Out Tomorrow; Philly + Oakland Bands...
As you probably already know, tomorrow is the official release date for Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace, the first Cocker Spaniels album in six years. I’ve already received 13 preorders, which I plan to mail tomorrow morning. I spent a lot of time last week working on the commemorative ‘zine about the making of the album. Finding visual artifacts to put in the ‘zine was...
“I really don’t want to offend anyone by watching them. Some people really get...”
– Teenage Michael Jackson (via hellyeahmichaeljackson) (via ijmonmon) (via musicxmakesxmexhigh) (via jdgreensoul)
jettimasstyr:
Jett I. Masstyr- The Nitty Gritty...
“Now you must understand here that The Cocker Spaniels is not Steely Dan. Their...”
– From a post that Jeremy Jarratt, perhaps my biggest fan in the entire world, wrote about Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace.
No wonder they targeted her →
zuky:
From Nanette at Serenity: an expedition:
Shirley Sherrod’s husband is Charles Sherrod. Yeah, that one. A SNCC organizer of the Albany Movement. Who was recently interviewed as part of the 50th anniversary of the SNCC. Talk about paying their dues. Who, along with Shirley, apparently was involved in a long-running court case involving Black farmers that was recently settled - which...
Six Days Until My Album Is Released!
This past Sunday, I performed a free show at the Parlor in Austin with local band Sissyface and El Paso band Am I Awake? Sissyface was the original headliner of the show I played at Trailer Space last month, but they canceled due to their drummer’s inability to get the night off from his job. The band acquitted itself on Sunday evening with a splendid set. They’d noticeably improved since I last...
The Cocker Spaniels: 2010 - A Crunk Odyssey →
As of today, the new version of the Cocker Spaniels’ official website (www.cspaniels.com) is FINALLY ready for public perusal!
You can read my biography; keep up with new shows, releases, projects & developments; download mp3s from both of my albums; read what the press has written about me so far this year; pre-order Sometimes You’ve Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace, which will...
Tour Blog, Dog: Oh Cocker Spaniels →
I received a brief shout-out from the drummer of Rodeo Ruby Love on their tour ‘blog. Please support them if they play your city!
“20s are sucky ‘cause you don’t know who you are and there are too many learning...”
– iAM Brandi L. Bates: Life Begins at 30
This quote speaks to my own experience: I’m 29 years old, and I feel as if I’m slowly shaking off the albatrosses of the last decade, and finally gaining the momentum I’ve longed for.
10 Days Until My Album Is Released!
I’m typing this entry from my first-ever laptop, a Dell Latitude D620 which I’ve named “Cookie.” My five-year-old desktop recently stopped working after a few of the capacitors on its motherboard blew out. Unfortunately, it would’ve cost me more to replace the motherboard than to buy a new computer, and doing the former wouldn’t have upgraded my desktop to current standards anyway. Therefore, I...
“We’ve had two people knocking on our door today. Both times myself and one of...”
– The Marriage Of A Dead Blog SING!: Interesting Things I’ve Noticed About Living With Girls
the problem w/ telling people what to do.
dopegirlfresh:
1) they don’t have to do it.
2) they probably didn’t ask you.
3) why aren’t YOU telling YOU what to do?
4) shut the fuck up.
this is for me, as much as it is for everyone reading it. lol.
“I’m with Gene; as a nerdy black kid who was accused of “acting white” on a...”
– Some Thoughts on “Acting White” | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via bowfolk) (via so-treu)
After thinking about this quote long and hard, I can honestly say that the only people who have directly accused me of “acting White” are 1) my mother, in a...
“The ironic thing is that if a Republican had been elected in 2008 and carried...”
– The Conservative Side of Barack Obama (via azspot) (via darkmovesoflove) (via blackcladespresso) (via themarriageofadeadblogsing)
I recommend reading the entire article. 