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Saturday, March 5, 2005

Sound of the Day
Sound of the Day - March 5 2005 - OpenPodcast.org #1216. URL - http://soundoftheday.blogspot.com [OpenPodcast.org]
3:52:04 PM    

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How About A 'Social Security Podcast'?
Here's an article from Yahoo News about President Bush's plan to promote Social Security reform.

The White House wants to reach younger workers. How about a podcast? I'm a taxpayer. We're all funding Bush's tour, not to mention paying FICA taxes - so why not cut back on the advertising and travel expenses and put the message out on MP3 or high quality AAC? - Editor
3:35:25 PM    

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Hawaii UP
New Podcast - HawaiiUP. Podcasting in paradise. Music, musings, food, family, and whatever else comes to the mic. -Subscribe here [ipodder News]
1:33:37 PM    

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(Joie de Vivre)

Joie de Vivre posted a photo:

By (Joie de Vivre). [words - Everyone's Tagged Photos]
1:30:47 PM    

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Photo, Found in a Box [7]
Photo, found in a Box [7]. Well, this happens when you start playing war games.

Dortmund

Writing on the back of the top picture: The gap straight ahead used to be 'Brückners Wirtschaft'. Corner of Schwanen- and Weiherstrasse.

Bottom picture: Snapped from 'Haus der Jugend', corner of Holzhofstrasse across to Reinoldikirche. [The Cartoonist]
1:25:18 PM    

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The Who
--- It is said that the first guitar feedback ever to make it to record was on "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," in 1965. The Who told stories within the confines of a song and, over the course of an entire album, pushed boundaries. How big of a story could be told? And how would it transmit (pre-video screens, etc.) to a large crowd? Smash the instruments? Keith Moon said they wanted to grab the audience by the balls. Pete countered that like the German autodestruct movement, where they made sculpture that would collapse and buildings that would explode, it was high art. ---

Article - The Who by Eddie Vedder. Illustration by Josie Jammet.
12:30:55 PM    

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Blogs For Small Biz
Blogs for small biz. "The blog as business tool has arrived," proclaims the Wall Street Journal's Riva Richmond: While any size company can use such a strategy, small businesses may benefit most: Blogs offer little-known small businesses name recognition, and the chance to boost... [seattlepi.com Buzzworthy]
12:13:37 PM    

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From Arizona State Senator Harry Mitchell
Dear Mr. Santoro,

Thank you for contacting my office regarding Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1036. I appreciate your concern on this issue.

I, too, have serious concerns about this bill. SCR 1036 was heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee and passed out of the committee with 5 ayes and 3 nays. This resolution is likely set to be debated by the full Senate early next week. When it does make it to the floor, I will be voting against this measure. Clean Elections gives anyone the opportunity to run for office, people who may have not been able to afford to run in the first place. Clean Elections opens up a system that many people find closed and complicated. It allows the public to be involved, and it gives more options to the voters. Losing this institution would be a major loss to Arizona and to the voters at large, and I will do whatever I can to defeat SCR 1036.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact my office again.

Harry E. Mitchell State Senate District 17
12:08:35 PM    

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Dust Jackets
A picture named joyce.jpgOh My. This comes via the incredible Patrícia and is fab: Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947. [The Cartoonist]
12:04:42 PM    

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Podcast For Martin Denny
Longtime Musician Martin Denny Dies in Ohau.

The Father of 'Exotic Music' has passed away in Honolulu

Another bit of Hawaii's music history fades with the passing of master musician and Hawaii resident Martin Denny, one of the founders of Exotica Lounge music. I accidentally discovered Martin Denny's music while searching for mellow tracks to play on the newly installed sound system in our newly installed hot tub. During a Google Image search for album cover art, I stumbled across a series of unusually erotic retro covers by someone called Martin Denny. They were all very high art for the period - displaying the same suggestively posed model in Afro-Caribbean-Hawaiian sets rather than the usual white-guys in bad suits or dumb-blond in a bad bikini photo. This lady was definitely NOT your sister, neighbor or gym teacher.

Martin Denny's music was just as original. In a reaction to the bland steel-guitar and tiny bubbles that dominated the popular 'Tiki' lounges of the time, Denny mixed the rhythmic sounds of music from across the tropical latitudes with jazz, sound effects, hypnotic drums and his trademark bird calls to create what became known as 'Exotica'. His lush cinematic arrangements made World music popular among the post-war Playboy bachelor-pad crowd of the '50s and '60s.

Today we call this 'Lounge Music' and it's popularity has brought the music of Martin Denny to the attention of many new fans. You can count me in.

HONOLULU (AP) Longtime musician Martin Denny, who was known for his unique exotic sound, died yesterday at his Hawaii Kai home. He was 94.

Denny created a sound that he described as a fusion of Asian, South Pacific, American jazz, Latin American and classical. He was particularly known for his song and album entitled ``Quiet Village.''

Musicians Association of Hawaii president Michael Largarticha says the world has lost one of its great popular musicians. He says Denny was active and performing until just shortly before his death.

Largarticha says Denny had a good life and a long and very successful career.

More info at: LINK
The Evolution of 'Exotica': LINK [MacHelp From Maui]
8:04:12 AM    

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