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NPR takes a look at Buddy Guy, the man who bridged rock and blues, his career and influence, which is all captured in his new retrospective collection. Bonnie Raitt, John Mayer, BB King and Keith Richards lend a hand. Listen Here

Thanx for the intro - and welcome to BK. I have posted a jpg of your myspace site for those who are interested

The Washington post reported so the other day...and now the SanFranciscoGate chimes in.

they do make a fine scotch whiskey

NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube Inc., the popular online video sharing site, said on Wednesday it hopes to launch a service for wireless devices within a year. Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and co-founder, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company. "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device, it's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mind-set we're dealing with, it's a natural transition," said Hurley. Read more at Yahoo News

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MetroActive interviews Lou Reed: SO I'M on the phone, talking to Lou Reed about the moment in rock history when feedback was invented. My music- nerd needles are in the red, as you can imagine. My synapses are firing in rapid succession. I've reached some kind of rock-fan nirvana. We're throwing out names of the '50s rockers who claim to be the guy who accidentally punched a hole his amp, thus creating the first electric-guitar distortion. The late Paul Burlison from Johnny Burnette's trio made the claim to me personally one night over drinks that it was him, on the road, with a pencil. There have been many others; I mention that Dick Dale is one of the suspects, as well. Reed scoffs. "Not Dick Dale. That's just surf music." "I know," I say. "But I think he claims to be the one." "Well, he can say what he wants," Reed replies, "but you hear it on 'Rumble.' Link Wray, there's no mistaking that sound. But it's true, a lot of people say they were the one who put a hole in the amp. That would make a great research contest." Read More

NEW YORK -- NHL Interactive Cyber Enterprises (ICE), the digital arm of the National Hockey League (NHL), today announced a multi-year deal to provide NHL video content to Google Video. The NHL will provide in-season full-length games on delay to Google Video at http://video.google.com/nhl.html. Google also will receive select NHL classic games. In addition to the game content, the NHL also will work with Google to allow certain NHL themed user-generated content on http://video.google.com/nhl.html. This is the first time Google Video has worked with a major professional sports league in such a manner. Read more at NHL.com

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Patricia Santangelo wouldn't concede in her fight with record companies that accused her of pirating songs over the Internet. Now the companies are hoping for an easier tussle against her kids. Five record companies, represented by the Recording Industry Association of America, filed a lawsuit in federal court in White Plains on Wednesday against Santangelo's son and daughter Source

Google is poised to overtake Britain’s main TV channels in the race for advertising revenue, underlining the internet’s challenge to traditional media. The internet search company’s advertising revenue in the UK is expected this year to surpass Channel 4’s anticipated 2006 take of £800m. Within 18 months, it is forecast to overtake ITV1, Britain’s leading commercial TV channel and the country’s biggest single recipient of advertising revenue, according to Mindshare and Initiative, two top media buying groups. Source: FT.com

Prince fans, fire up that Little Red Corvette and head for Las Vegas: the purple one will be performing there every weekend starting Nov. 10. The diminutive rocker will play Friday- and Saturday-night shows at a nightclub inside the Rio hotel, spokeswoman Alissa Kelly said Wednesday. ... Prince joins a growing contingent of songsters who have settled in Vegas hotels as regularly featured acts, including Celine Dion, Elton John, Barry Manilow and Toni Braxton. Source: Breitbart News

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Shaker chairs and tables are expensive! DudeAsInCoolsVille is ranked 3rd in the region and 50,854th in the world for Most Compassionate Citizens....apparently, we don't suffer fools

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 — A substantial majority of Americans expect Democrats to reduce or end American military involvement in Iraq if they win control of Congress next Tuesday, and say Republicans would maintain or increase troop levels to try to win the war if they hold on to power on Capitol Hill, according to the final New York Times/CBS News poll before the midterm election. The poll found that just 29 percent of Americans approve of the way President Bush is managing the war in Iraq, matching the lowest mark of his presidency. Read more at NYTimes

VISTA, California: The largest skateboard ramp in the world can be found on a 12-acre farm north of San Diego among the green foothills of the San Marcos Mountains. ...Approximately 360 feet long, the ramp height reaches 75 feet at its apex. That is where riders begin their run, speeding down a 180-foot-long roll-in to a ramp that launches them across a 70-foot gap with trapeze netting below. Landing on a 27-foot sloped section, they then boost up to 50 feet above the ground from a 30-foot quarter-pipe. Read More

Lou Reed - The Dirty Boulevard

Here are the lyrics, courtesy of Lyrics Freak: Pedro lives out of the wilshire hotel He looks out a window without glass The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet His father beats him cause hes too tired to beg Hes got 9 brothers and sisters Theyre brought up on their knees Its hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man But thats a slim chance hes going to the boulevard Hes going to end up, on the dirty boulevard Hes going out, to the dirty boulevard Hes going down, to the dirty boulevard This room cost 2,000 dollars a month You can believe it man its true Somewhere a landlords laughing till he wets his pants No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard Give me your hungry, your tired your poor Ill piss on em Thats what the statue of bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, lets club em to death And get it over with and just dump em on the boulevard Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard Going out, to the dirty boulevard Hes going down, on the dirty boulevard Going out Outside its a bright night Theres an opera at lincoln center Movie stars arrive by limousine The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of manhattan But the lights are out on the mean streets A small kid stands by the lincoln tunnel Hes selling plastic roses for a buck The traffics backed up to 39th street The tv whores are calling the cops out for a suck And back at the wilshire, pedro sits there dreaming Hes found a book on magic in a garbage can He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling At the count of 3 he says, I hope I can disappear And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard I want to fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away I want to fly Fly-fly away (fly a-) Fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...) Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away) Fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away)

The Aquarium Drunkard posted an mp3 to this song on his blog tonite, which led me to search for the video at Youtube. New York is one of Lou Reed's best 70' albums when socially conscious musings ruled the day - I wish it still did.

Austrian DJs and producers dZihan & Kamien make beautiful global music. Their eclectic style mixes Western electronica, hip hop beats and exotic Eastern music, a hybrid of Arab and Indian music which is both mellow and intoxicating. You can check out this cut as well as some others at their new MySpace Page Here is something from Youtube in the meantime:

Andras Schiff recently gave a two plus hour lecture on Beethoven's sonatas and we are fortunate enough to be able to provide them for you right here

Coffee reduces risk of type 2 diabetes NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows. This "striking" protective effect was seen in former coffee drinkers as well, Besa Smith and co-investigators at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla report. "The growing body of literature definitely suggests strongly...that there is something there," she told Reuters Health in an interview. Just what that something is isn't clear, but it's probably not caffeine, she said, because the effect has also been observed with decaffeinated coffee. Read more at Yahoo News