Monthly Archives: June 2008
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew's Power Trio made another stop at the Cat's Cradle last night.

It was an excellent show, as is expected. And everything I said about his August show could be said about this one. Adrian was mesmerizing, Eric Slick remains a fantastic drummer, and Julie Slick makes most other bass players look timid and clumsy.
It was much the same show as the previous one, though they had one or two brand new songs, and they pulled out a couple I'd never heard him do before: "Future Vision" and "I Remember How to Forget".

Adrian and Julie Slick
Great show. But man... I'm too sleepy to write anything else, this AM...
Amazing Discovery!
Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925.
Turns out, it had just been moved to the California coast.
The fate of the cast-iron tower was uncovered last year by lighthouse researchers and reported by Colleen MacNeney in this month's edition of Lighthouse Digest.
Amazing! Can you believe there's a magazine called "Lighthouse Digest"? No really, there is! And it's been around for more than one month!
The Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Genie of the Lamp
Ugh in comments, goes for the long-form funny, and scores big:
The Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Genie of the Lamp
In December 2000, after winning her first election to become the junior Senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton was strolling alone on a beach in the Caribbean, thinking about her aspirations to become President. As she neared the end of the beach, far away from her hotel, she noticed light reflecting off something rolling around in the surf. She walked into the waves and picked up what appeared to be an old, rusted lamp, with an inscription of some kind. As she tried to rub some of the rust off to get a better look at the inscription, the lamp suddenly spewed a great cloud of smoke that animated itself in the form of a great genie. The following conversation ensued:
Genie: Who is it that has freed me from my long confinement?
HRC: Um, that’s me, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Who are you?
Genie: I am the Genie of the Lamp! Hillary Rodham Clinton, for doing me this great service, I grant you 12 wishes. What do you wish?
HRC: 12 wishes?!!? Really? Wow, you know, I really really want to be President of the United States, but I think 2004 is too soon for me, so I will be running in 2008. And I’m sure that by then the Republicans will have so ruined the country that there is no way a Democrat can lose, so I only have to claim the Democratic nomination to take the Presidency. So, here is my first wish Genie, in late 2007, I want to have a multi-million dollar lead in fundraising over my closest rival.
Genie: It will be done.
HRC: Oh, and in case that’s not enough, I also want Bill and I to have made, say, over $100 million between now and then.
Genie: That also is not a problem.
HRC: Great, also, I want my name to be the most recognizable name in Democratic politics at that time!
Genie: Of course.
HRC: Super. I’m glad I met you Genie. Let’s see, I also want my biggest rival for the nomination to be…African-American!
Genie: It shall be.
HRC: Oh, and let’s not only have him be African-American, but have him be of mixed racial heritage, with a white mother and African-American father.
Genie: As you wish.
HRC: What else, what else, oh! I also want his last name, well, maybe that’s too much, his middle name to be the same as someone the United States has gone to war with twice.
Genie: Easily doable.
HRC: Well maybe the last name thing wouldn’t be too much, how about this, I want his last name to be almost the same as that of the first name of the biggest terrorist in the world!
Genie: A simple matter.
HRC: This is fun! Okay, um, I also want him to have written an autobiography in which he admits to doing cocaine.
Genie: You are truly devious Hillary Rodham Clinton, so it shall be.
HRC: And I want him to have gone to a church with a pastor who says crazy things on videotape like “God-damn America!” and have that tape played over and over and over on national television.
Genie: I believe that’s two wishes, Hillary Rodham Clinton, both granted.
HRC: He should also have an absentee father who was a Muslim! No offense Genie.
Genie: None taken, a Muslim he shall be.
HRC: I want to start off the primary campaign with a huge lead in the superdelegates!
Genie: Done.
HRC: And finally, I want to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for President in 2008!!!
Genie: I’m sorry Hillary Rodham Clinton, but that is your 13th wish, you only have 12.
HRC: Oh. Well, that’s okay Genie, I’m sure with all those other wishes I’ll win easily in a landslide.
Obama Daps
I.M.P.
Obama Wins, Clinton Denies
Republicans thank Hillary for her gifts.
Screeeeech
WuTang Chess Club
Start Your iPods
The call went out. The iPod responded:
- John Coltrane - We Like To Boogie
- Undisputed Truth - Got To Get My Hands On Some Lovin'
- A Tribe Called Quest - Keep It Rollin'
- Shellac - This Is A Picture
- The Beatles - Octopus's Garden
- The Coctails - Starling
- Midlake - Mr. Amateur
- Radio Birdman - We've Come So Far
- Mission Of Burma - Forget
- The Coctails - Sun Is Down
And it was good.
