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So anyway, I could do the whole, sorry for my absence thing, say I’m going to be around more ect. but I think we’ll just skip it this time.  I will say there is a ripe harvest of blog materials out there in the world right now, and if I wasn’t habitually waking up at 2 in the afternoon, maybe I’d blog more than I have been.  Be the change you want in the world.  Somebody famous said that.  But anyways, I saw this news broadcast on youtube tonight, and I just can’t keep it to myself.  I am not familiar with the case in discussion, and it sounds like a very sad one, but but isn’t this one of the strangest video concepts ever? Reporter in the parking lot holding a cellphone up to a microphone? Whoever came up with that I’d like to shake their hand.  Its dark black comedic genius.

Melissa Huckaby phone interview CBS 5 News about Sandra Cantu

WAIT A SECOND!!! did he trick her?  Is that what this is?  He didn’t tell her she was on speakerphone.  Or am I losing it?  This shit is nuts.

Tonight, come to Verdugo Bar in Eagle Rock where I’ll maxing wax with the Harrington bros for the Bang-Ga-Wrong party.

Still early in my Buenos Aires extravaganza, I’ve seen good things. Dick El Demasiado, the Dutchman, has a strange, and worthy take on Cumbia. ¿Cumbia Villera? ¿Cumbia Experimental?

Today Incase launched the Bang-Ga-Wrong mix I did for their artist colaboration with Steven Harrington. I grabbed a bunch of 45’s from Steven’s collection and put together a mix of early dancehall, dub and roots reggae as a supplement to Steven’s Incase Bag.

Bang-Ga-Wrong Tracklist

0:01 Intro (’Original Sound’)
0:25 Eccelton Jarrett, ‘Turn On The Heat’
2:25 Cocoa Tea, ‘Young Lovers’
4:49 Conroy Smith, ‘Original Sound’
6:41 Courtney Melody, ‘Screechie Across The Border’
9:33 Pinchers, ‘Agony’
11:44 Little Jon, ‘Fade Away’
14:00 Admiral Bailey, ‘Big Belly Man’
15:32 Drum Break (’Whats Going On’)
15:54 Al Fingers, ‘Whats Going On (Truth & Rights Remix)’
19:11 Ecceltron Jarrett, ‘Rock Them One By One’
21:00 Break (’Cuss Cuss’)
21:09 Barrington Levy, ‘Here I Come’
22:06 Roots Radics, ‘Cuss Cuss’
23:06 Anthony B, ‘Warrior’
23:55 Barrington Levy, ‘Come’
26:16 Augustus Pablo, ‘Java’
28:29 Barrington Levy, ‘Murderer’
30:02 Flourgon, ‘Jump Spread Out’
31:40 Keith & Tex, ‘Stop That Train’
33:54 Gregory Issacs, ‘Night Nurse’ + Harry J All Starts, ‘Liquidator’
35:54 Junior Delgado, ‘Sons Of Slaves’
38:38 Upsetters, ‘Flashing Echo’
39:54 Daddy Lizard, ‘Run Girl Run’ + Black Uhuru, ‘Happiness’
42:43 White Mice, ‘Youths Of Today’
44:22 Outro (’Youths Of Today’ + ‘Original Sound’)
Download “Bang-Ga-Wrong” (53.1MB MP3). Also available in the Incase Podcast.

russ in his apartment bathroom

This young President:

This young President:

Oh, Tina. I’ve said it about Lil Wayne, and I’ll say it about Tina Fey. Usually, there is a see-saw relationship between quality and popularity. When things are widely popular it means there’s been too many cooks with dirty hands in the kitchen for anything to come out right. When things are good, they are often under-appreciated and obscure. But ever so often, when you least expect it, something that is really good, gets really popular. Like the Beatles, or Seinfeld or Obama. In these special instances, what is great is rewarded with proportional praise and success. With “30 Rock,” I don’t have to wonder what everyone sees in “How I Met Your Mother,” and when people say (usually with their mouth full) “I don’t watch TV ’cause TV sucks,” 30 Rock must be cited as an exception. Like Woody Allen, Oranges, jacuzzis and Sade’s singing voice, somethings are inherently good.