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Pics from the Soul Kitchen 10th Anniversary Show at WAMC's arts center are apparently now online at TheHiddenCity.com. Just saying.

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Pics are up from this week's Unity Stage show at the BTCam.

By the way: the beat box came out of the closet that night.

UPDATE: The audio documentation of live Liquefy is at the Bootleg Blog.

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After trying a couple of hacks and funky feed laundering, Del.icio.us seems to be the most efficient way to feed you with Reality Based News. No cutting, no pasting, no HTML: I point and click in Firefox and it's delicified, and feedburned shortly after to appear on this page. Easy.

So the latest news will always feed right here at the bryanthomas.com home page. Top o' the sidebar to ya. But you can also get it at del.icio.us/bt1soul. Or grab the Del.icio.us RSS. Or the Feedburner RSS.

Or deliciousify however the kids are deliciousifying their sc.rump.del.icio.us feeds these days.

(Thing is: this news don't taste so good.)

The archive the day's news feed will be updated nightly and maintained by Jennifer herself at realitybasednews.wordpress.com (And yes, Jennifer's still tweaking the page, give her a break.) But the latest greatest stuff will be at the bryanthomas.com, thanks to Del.Icio.Us and Feedburner.

Peace,

B.

PS: Thanks to everyone in the house last night at Unity Stage, and to the folks who helped continue the party late night at Lark Tavern. Pics and audio tomorrow.

And as a tease: guess who's sporting the full bad-ass beard these days?

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Unity Stage
Wednesday, September 13, 8:30 p.m.
The Mason Hall. 120 Madison Ave. Albany, NY.

(And nope, no Spike Wednesday night, just little ol' me.)

Peace,

B.

Labels: music

For the fifth anniversary, Fallen is now available for download at the Bootleg Blog.

And Reality Based News is back online.

Peace,

B.

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Why? Because I'm in the mother effin' H-O-U-S-E.

So, apropos of this week's adventures in TV propaganda, the Bootleg Blog now offers Diznee for download, written and recorded in 2000 for the previously unreleased Tele Sessions.

Photo: Jesus' General.

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Baghdad morgue's revised toll for August undermines claims of steep drop in violence

Baghdad's morgue almost tripled its count for violent deaths in Iraq's capital during August from 550 to 1,536, authorities said Thursday, appearing to erase most of what U.S. generals and Iraqi leaders had touted as evidence of progress in a major security operation to restore order in the capital.

Wow. Tripled? That's really surprising. A week or so ago some conservatives were all over the claim that the recent increase in the U.S. troop presence in Bagdhad had directly resulted in a sharp decline in violence. I wonder how that could have happened? Must have been an honest mistake.

U.S. count of Baghdad deaths excludes car bombs, mortar attacks

U.S. officials, seeking a way to measure the results of a program aimed at decreasing violence in Baghdad, aren't counting scores of dead killed in car bombings and mortar attacks as victims of the country's sectarian violence. In a distinction previously undisclosed, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said Friday that the United States is including in its tabulations of sectarian violence only deaths of individuals killed in drive-by shootings or by torture and execution.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

At least the Baghdad economy is thriving with new business, right?

Coffin maker Abbas Hussein Mohammed opened a new shop in Baghdad to cope with rising demand. Last month the capital's morgue received 1,536 victims of violence. Photo Credit: By Khalid Mohammed -- Associated Press

Hat tip - Atrios.

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I'm a little black boy crying in a blue sky...

This cover of Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow" is also from Wafers and Wine, but it was originally recorded on a cassette 4-track for 1997's A Tape of You, a collection of covers by Joni's Internet fans. Legend has it that a copy of it made its way to Joni, which is why I tacked the "Joni's gonna hate this" bit at the end, with the sample of her laughing.

Saw her two years later playing "Black Crow" at the Day in the Garden Woodstock reunion show, summer of '98. With my hero Brian Blade on the drums. And my head exploded. I had a sober hallucination that she was singing "black boy" instead of "black crow," just like in my version. And my head exploded again.

(Also: you know the rules with the Bootleg Blog: this is an old, home-brew, four-track job, so the crappier the recording, the better, right?)

Direct Download: 060813_black_crow.mp3
Bootleg Blog Category: Covers

UPDATE: I'm going to start cross-posting the Bootleg Blog to the front page so you don't miss 'em. Coming this fall: outtakes from the pre-Ones and Zeros "Tele Sessions" (2000) and more four-track fun with cuts from 1995's "Bleed."

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