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I Love You, Petty, and Favre

When a commenter caught my eye with this I was thinking Richard Petty, not Tom. But I dig Tom Petty and no doubt Favre so if you are in the Big Apple this summer check this out:

An Official Selection of the Midtown International Theater Festival and pending acceptance into the New York Fringe Festival, “I Love You, Petty, and Favre” is a heart warming and heart breaking love story about a Wisconsin couple that spans 25 years.  The main character, Brian, is an obsessed Packer fan, so much so that he marries a girl named Brett.  Brett in turn, has her own obsession with music, mainly that of Tom Petty.  Sports fans will certainly enjoy this play, particularly those that love Brett Favre.  In a hilarious and memorable scene, Brian takes his 3 year old son and 5 year old daughter to their first football game.  In another, Brett fulfills Brian’s fantasy by throwing on the pink jersey of his favorite player and putting on a “show”.  A touching and funny story about love, football, and music, it is a show that that anyone can enjoy.

“I Love You, Petty and Favre” runs July 14th – August 10th.  Tickets and official showtimes soon to be available.

Big Blue Weekend: Waltrip and Love

Blue will be the color but hopefully not the tone as Kevin Love faces off in NCAA Sweet Sixteen and Michael Waltrip avoids the walls of Martinsville.
Turns out Kevin's uncle is Mike Love of the Beach Boys and of course everyone knows Mikie's brother.
So the Blue of the Bruins and the Blue of NAPA will be the colors to wear and root for this fabulous weekend! 'Wouldn't it be Nice'

RS.com: Matt Taibbi on Mike Huckabee, Our Favorite Right-Wing Nut Job

Don Imus has been extolling this article from Matt Tiabbi on Mike Huckabee which below is an excerpt that will draw you to click for the whole thing in Rolling Stone Magazine:

"I'm glad you're here," he told me. "I finally get to tell someone who cares about Keith Richards."

Before I could respond, Huckabee plowed into a long and very entertaining story — one that included a surprisingly dead-on Pirates of the Caribbean-esque impersonation — about how Richards and Ron Wood got pulled over for reckless driving while on tour in Fordyce, Arkansas, a million and a half years ago, in 1975. Richards ended up getting a misdemeanor conviction — an injustice that stood for thirty-one years, until Huckabee, a would-be rock musician himself, stepped in and pardoned Richards last year.

"It's a long process, pardoning," Huckabee said, placing a hand on my shoulder. "It takes a lot of paperwork. And the funny thing is, people said to me afterwards, 'Governor, you'll do that for Keith Richards, but you wouldn't do that for an ordinary person.' And my answer to that is always, 'Hey, if you can play guitar like Keith Richards, I'll consider pardoning you, too.'?"

Huckabee, who in recent years has lost 100 pounds, has the roundish, half-deflated physique of an ex-fatty. With his button nose and never-waning smile, he looks slightly unreal, like an oversize Muppet. I was so taken aback by his appearance that I checked his hands to make sure they had the right number of fingers. After the Richards tale, he went on to tell me about the band he plays bass for, and how he has jammed with the likes of Percy Sledge and Grand Funk Railroad, and how he prefers John Entwistle to Flea's slap-and-pop style of bass-playing. Ten minutes later, driving away from the fund-raiser, I caught myself thinking: Hey, this guy doesn't seem like a total dickhead. I can almost see him as president. . . .

Then I woke up and did some homework that changed my mind. But I confess: It took a little while. Huckabee is that good.

AddiTune Software Analyzes your iTune Playlists and Recommends Additions

If you have a Mac and use iTunes you may want to see what this program makes of your playlists and what new music fits your tastes. ZuD would have but was reluctant to allow such an invasion, you may not mind. Let us know how it works out...

ZuD'S Shaking His Booty

After a wild weekend of football gambling, ZuD exercises his knees before the Bookies come break them.

Download shake_your_booty_down.mov

Common Threads Can Unite Closeted Hippies

As a blogger I always am thinking of things held in common with browsers so I get readers and subscribers and advertisers.
But, as a Hippie, I have direct and distinct avoidance tendencies to that, that is common.
An automatic reflex to reject that that is common or popular.
So you can see how a Hippie blogger may be pulled and twisted possibly demented at times as one searches for blog post subject matter.

Before I came out of the closet as a Hippie
My common threads were sports, tech stuff, and music and I could ride those topics pretty easily as they bring great passion and joy to me.
But now that I have revealed my true stripes I am having a harder time being Joe the Jock, or Myron the geek or …. can't think of a music name stereotype.

Harry the Hippie by Bobby Womack is the song that finally awoke the sleeping hippie within me, for those not familiar, he was a mildly popular rhythm and blues, soul singer from the late sixties early seventies.

I have the track in MP3 format and Download harry_hippie.2.mp3

so you of later generations can appreciate what music played with real instruments and voices that sang and productions facilities that used vacuum tubes that glowed and hummed as they captured what real music was.

I drifted there didn’t I?
My point is the common threads that are easy if you want to gossip about Britney or rave about the Patriots or what that new TV show is going to do are all so much easier to do and that my mission and purpose, the revival, reinstating and value of hippiedom is a great challenge. So I could use your help be it in commenting to these posts or submitting your photos of what your hippie life looked like back then and what you look or live like now.

Closeted hippies live a twisted existence and we must help each other by sharing our double lives and yet preserve the core values of what it is to be a hippie.
Be proud my people, we are a dying breed of mankind and must reveal ourselves to the future generations so they can see the value and richness we abide by and possibly learn from our experience.

AT&T's Webcast of Pearl Jam's Performance Censored

From Pearl Jams' Website:

LOLLAPALOOZA WEBCAST: SPONSORED/CENSORED BY AT&T?

After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T during the "Blue Room" Live Lollapalooza Webcast.

When asked about the missing performance, AT&T informed Lollapalooza that portions of the show were in fact missing from the webcast, and that their content monitor had made a mistake in cutting them.

During the performance of "Daughter" the following lyrics were sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" but were cut from the webcast:

- "George Bush, leave this world alone." (the second time it was sung); and

- "George Bush find yourself another home."

This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media.

AT&T's actions strike at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and hears through communications media.

Aspects of censorship, consolidation, and preferential treatment of the internet are now being debated under the umbrella of "NetNeutrality." Check out The Future of Music or Save the Internet for more information on this issue.

Most telecommunications companies oppose "net neutrality" and argue that the public can trust them not to censor..

USA Todays' accounting of the incident report it was a mistake and not AT&Ts fault. To Quote:

AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said that the silencing was a mistake and that the company was working with the vendor that produces the webcasts to avoid future misunderstandings. He said AT&T was working to secure the rights to post the entire song — part of a sing-along with the audience — on the Blue Room site.

AT&T provides the cellular backbone for the iPhone. ZuDfunck hopes they are true to their word and don't purposefully infringe on anyones creative works in the future.

iPod Nano Killer? 16GB Zen V Plus, Debuts

Creative unveils smallest 16GB media player

About to buy an iPod nano? Hold that thought.

Creative has just released its 16GB Zen V Plus, a teeny black and white media player -- measuring just 2.7 x 1.7 x 0.6 inches -- that can store roughly 4000 songs.

As with Creative’s previous 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions, this 16GB Zen V Plus features a 1.5-inch OLED color screen to see album art, photos or video clips, such as camcorder footage, music videos, video podcasts, and so on.

The Zen V Plus offers line-in recording (and includes the necessary cables), so users can record songs from another source such as a portable CD player or other MP3 player -- without the need of a PC at all. It also auto-senses when a song is finished and a new one starts and will separate the new files accordingly.

By comparison, the iPod nano’s highest capacity is 8GB (about 2000 songs) and cannot play videos or record from another source.

Other interesting Zen V Plus features include a built-in FM radio (with 32 station presets) and integrated voice recorder for capturing lectures, interviews, reminder notes or million-dollar ideas.

The 16GB Zen V Plus is available online for $249.99.

By Marc Saltzman for USA TODAY

Danielle Peck

Danielle Peck

Available on Rhapsody: 2 albums, 11 tracks

The first signing to Toby Keith and veteran country-music executive Scott Borchetta's Big Machine/Show Dog Nashville label, Danielle Peck boasts an impressive set of pipes that could make her a fan favorite sooner rather than later. Released in September 2005, her first single, "I Don't," is an intense but clever ballad that plays off similar subject matter to Lyle Lovett's "God Will." "Jesus loves you," Peck sings to an errant ex-partner in her smoky, North Carolina-accented voice. "I don't."  Rhapsody link

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