I Think I Just Made Water In My Pantaloons

Uh, quick gift idea for anyone reading this. I just found out so now you just found out, I am Soooo sure, right? So with that being typed in I can resume my day of chasing the potty surfer.



now do it in the potty

Quick Shout Out

In case I never mentioned it Helado Negro is the newest addition to the myriad of musical screams in the night. Anyone has the chance to make their thoughts heard to the rest of the world and this cat is definitely making his mark on the world. I am extremely proud of him and I wish him the best of luck for all the years he has left to come and hope to sit in one day with him whilst he forges on throughout the storm that is music. New release is out on Asthmatic Kitty Records Tuesday of this week that means you are late go and buy it, NOW!

Helado Negro Past Shows | iCal | RSS
Friday 2009-12-11	State X New Forms Festival Den Haag, Netherlands Set: 11:50p
Saturday 2009-12-12	Folk Art Now Festival Bremen, Denmark Set: 10:00p
Sunday 2009-12-13	Cafe Video Gent, Belgium Set: 9:00p

Don't BullChet A BullChetter

I like a good fairy tale like the next person but I can't swallow a full on lie when confronted by it. The top 3 lies: (in no particular order)
1. I was just coming over to pay you the money I owe you.
2. Ok, this is the LAST drink and then we leave.
3. I'm just going to put the head in for one second, that's all.

I just spent a couple of days thinking about what direction this [blog] should head in and I have decided that the format will not change, the music section will get bigger and I will still tell people like it is. There is no room for being politically correct and tip toeing around because the truth has to be heard and dammit all to hell if I am going to censor myself. By the way I was pleasantly surprised to find a hidden movie on the Zune this week. An Academy award winning regular ass movie was hidden in plain sight, mislabeled of course, this was handed down to me by Estorio who has the worst spelling ever and apparently has problems reading. He was a product of whiskey and Rush. God's own blueprint handed down and left out in the rain so that all the ink ran together and they just threw shit together half-assed. The movie was "Unforgiven" and the plot was thin but sustaining. It was just long enough and moved fairly quickly like a summer storm. The characters were likable and full of hubris. I was satisfied with the conclusion and maybe the last person on earth to watch it but isn't that always the case. I banned the Academy Awards years ago after Fight Club was snubbed. They pretended it never happened so I in turn pretend that The Illustrious Academy Of Motion Pictures does not exist either. Regardless of the fallout created by the Academy I throughly enjoyed the movie and it does merit rewatching so I will purchase it, whenever I get some money.


"OYE,HEAVY DOOTY"
the broke ass sessions









The Zune has been blowing up with the oldies lately which is not a bad thing. Featuring the talents of Earth,Wind and Fire,Supertramp,Electric Light Orchestra,Sade and Thelonius Monk are a few of the artists that have been making this fools day passable. A virtual feast for the earhole. New mixpod playlist is coming out of this,trust me.


now go and ef the eff off...

Good-Bye To "El Coronel"

I had tried my fathers number since Wednesday night to try and wish him a Pre-Happy Thanksgving Day salutation and all that chet. Two phone calls and three e-mails later he calls me on the Sharon tonight to announce his trip to the eastern part of the U.S. A welcome trip since his recent brush with Diabetes, he brushed by Diabetes and Diabetes had to call in sick for the next couple of weeks. But seriously he did whip his ass into shape after being diagnosed. He also survived a near fatal 1200 sugar count bout in which he almost croaked according to the doctors. Tough as a coffin nail my old man, he definitely is a fighter. That's why when he called me tonight he seemed weird and out of sorts and his voice was kind of small on the other line like he had wrecked his truck or something. He said "I'm sorry I haven't called you but my brother called on Thanksgiving also to tell me that my dad died." I coughed a little and he said "But he was 97 so his life was full." I heard that but his voice lied a little. My grandmother had died 2 years ago and he had flown back to the motherland for that funeral so it was weird for him to hear it second hand from his brother I guess. My memories of my grandfather were real few because I had not grown up with him. The divorce really fucked things up so I was not privy to the delights of hanging with him but my fathers stories were more than enough to keep his spirit etched readily in my mind.(my favorite story is of my grandfather in EPCOT,everything there was made like shit and could be made better in Ecuador he repeatedly told my father about a million times) He presented himself to me as "The Colonel" and I was more than happy to oblige the old man because I had heard the stories of him from my uncles. He was a genuine HARD ASS, to say the least and his reputation for a disciplinarian was unchallenged. He ruled with an iron fist and many fell under his blows. I wasn't very close to him but he seemed to like me mainly because I always snapped to attention and saluted him even when I was a teenager. He got a kick out of that I suppose. So when my father is feeling bad it seems like I should be strong for us and kinda bring something out that makes my grandfathers life seem more real. So I offer these few memories to share. And some music.

Buenas Noches Coronel


"OYE,HEAVY DOOTY"
the colonels album






An excellent soundscape to quell the 2012 tsunami sized wave of utter helplessness of facing ones own mortality or not. Enjoy at a high decibel level. And don't worry, this too shall pass.



now go poo in the potty

My Vinyl Weighs 2 Tons

Vinyl People from Howard Silver on Vimeo.

I started collecting records when I turned 11 and I have never looked back. The very first piece of vinyl I bought with my own birthday money was Billy Joel "Glasshouses". There was definitely something empowering about being able to contribute to the Saturday morning record sessions conducted by my father on his direct drive Marantz turntable. I remember being mesmerized by the tiny reflective balls illuminated red by some mysterious light source emanating from the insides of the turntable. I imagined them as little blobs of oil out of the lava lamp my uncle Victor had in his apartment years ago. The weekend play list my father spun was seemingly endless, especially if we had company. It was a toss up if you really were trying to nail down a genre that was my father's favourite but it teetered between Motown and Rock Latino most days but in the evenings he slowed it down for the ladies with some Sergio Mendes and Sad Bastard Music that they listened to in Ecuador lamenting their lost loves and such and such.

I have currently amassed a collection so incredibly huge and ever propagating that it has moved into the realms of insanity but I am always looking for more.Enjoy the video.




now fudge yourself

Happy T-Day

I was totally drawing a blank for turkey day until the Japanese saved my blog.

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Big Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2 directions


AP FILE - This May 31, 2007 file photo, shows a view of the LHC (large hadron AP – FILE - This May 31, 2007 file photo, shows a view of the LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at … * World's Largest Atom Smasher Slideshow:World's Largest Atom Smasher By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 43 mins ago


GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said. The true test will be in first two months of 2010, when scientists plan to start colliding protons to see what they can discover about the makeup of the universe and its tiniest particles. The Large Hadron Collider has been advancing faster than expected in its startup phase that began Friday night, said Rolf Heuer, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. "It went much faster than foreseen," said Fabiola Gianotti, who speaks for the Atlas experiment, one of four major detectors in rooms the size of cathedrals about 100 meters (300 feet) underground. "We're all very happy." It is possible that some unintended proton collisions began Monday or will occur soon at the places where the two beams cross as a side-effect of trying to synchronize the timing of two beams. Intentional proton collisions could begin within the next 10 days, mainly to check how the machine is working, said spokesman James Gillies. Ultimately, the collider aims to create conditions like they were 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang — which scientists think marked the creation of the universe billions of years ago. Physicists also hope the collider will help them see and understand other suspected phenomena, such as dark matter, antimatter and supersymmetry. The collider was started with great fanfare Sept. 10, 2008, only to be heavily damaged by an electrical fault nine days later. It has taken 14 months to repair and add protection systems to the machine before it was restarted. The protons on Monday were traveling at almost the speed of light — 11,000 times a second in each direction around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel under the Swiss-French border at Geneva. Initial signs are very good, physicists told a news conference. The beam is of superb quality, with the protons tightly packed into hairlike lines and guided by some 1,600 superconducting magnets — some 15 meters (50 feet) long — operating at temperatures colder than outer space for maximum electrical efficiency. So far the machine is operating at 450 billion electron volts of energy, which is relatively low compared with its design capability of more than 14 times that. It soon will overtake the world's current most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago, which operates at 1 trillion electron volts, or TeV. Myers said the CERN collider should be ramped up to 1.2 TeV by Christmas. CERN might decide to make the first collisions at the current low energy or at 1.2 TeV, but that will be more for calibration purposes than for making scientific discoveries, he said. Physicists said the discoveries could begin in the first half of next year when the collider reaches 3.5 TeV. CERN is hoping to have the first collisions at that energy in January or early February, said Gillies. "That would really mark the start of the research program," he said. Myers said the collider may even go up to 5 TeV before the end of 2010. Tejinder S. Virdee, a physicist from London's Imperial College who represents more than 2,000 scientists on CMS, another of the experiments with its own detectors at CERN, said it could take several years before the collider discovers the elusive Higgs boson, a particle that theoretically gives mass to other subatomic particles, and thus everything in the universe. That is because the Higgs boson is believed to be hard to see and needs powerful energy to be revealed, Virdee said. "This is going to take a few years," he said. Director-General Heuer said CERN was being as cautious as a driver would be with the first production model of a new car. "We'll never accelerate this the first time with a kick-start to its maximum velocity," he said. Once it is tested out, he added, "we can open windows into new physics and that could happen already next year. It depends on how kind nature is to us."