Yeah, the cool kids scared me away from another blog.....meanies...

...but I have sung / read / played music on exactly ONE commercial, and I still get / love this. Pay was equal to about 10 coffeehouse gigs, though....

Canuknotusa @ 1:

Again, because it was deleted by C&L censors, the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died. Is it because he isn't American that his death wasn't noted on this site? Or is it because John Amato doesn't understand Jazz?

You funny!

There's somethin' odd goin' on with the site. I've got a feelin' it's related to WordPress. I keep gettin' the "Error 404: Requested page not found" message. There are 228 comments on last night's Pelosi Open thread, yet everything after comment 212 comes and goes(I'm tryin' to have a conversation w/someone there, so I know there are 16 more comments there!).

And, Canuknotusa, I don't think the site monitors are around tonight. They probably took the holiday off. But, hey, they deserve some rest.

Andy K @ 5:

Oh, yeah, and when I hit "Refresh Comments" all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there's a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Glad someone else is havin the same problem, I thought the NSA was playin with me! :-)

I can't take this anymore! Merry Christmas/belated Winter Solstice(damned moder calendars!), everyone!

GNA!

Andy K @ 7:

suckerforpuns @ 6:

Andy K @ 5:

Oh, yeah, and when I hit "Refresh Comments" all of the comments disappear. And when I send this comment there's a 50/50 chance the internet will stop. All of it.

Glad someone else is havin the same problem, I thought the NSA was playin with me! :-)

Honestly, my best guess is that Amato's go-to tech person is gone.

And when I posted that last one every comment disappeared. I had to backdoor through a thread that wasn't givin' me that "404 Error" message.

I dunno if you were here in the HaloScan days, suckerforpuns, but this type of thing happened at least once a week back then, for about 2 months, before Amato went to WordPress. I miss one thing about HaloScan- you could use Gravatars. That made it easier to find people you were conversin' with.

IT's Me! lafin gas!

Jesus, lafin', wtf? Never mind, save it for the next time. It's after midnight, and I worked my ass off today! Then I wrapped the few presents I could afford- fuckin' economy....I'm frazzled.

And Stanley, I don't wanna know how you know what you know, but I'm sure you know of what ya speak.

Good to be here at the same time as the two of ya! :D

That said...goodnight!

I didn't come here tonight to blogwhore tonight, so I won't tell you Andy. GN to U2!

Give the Jew Girl Toys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40qTXlNJj9s

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

OliverDreams @ 18:

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

Ron Paul is also a peace candidate.

The cocaine/crack apartheid debate continues.
The Pentagon flip-flops on our progress in Iraq. Another case of too little, too late for Bush. An Iowa voter tells it like it is.

Did anyone hear? Is it true that G.W. put Santa on the no fly list?

Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

This session was funny, but you should try to get the tape with Pepe (what's his name?). the guy who can fart on cue, in different tones, actually play a tune you can recognize with his ass. Anyway, they had him in session for some nitwit's idea of a background tape for a bit of animation, and they went over it, and over it, etc.

By the 50th time you hear the producer say, 'Can you fart like.....?'. or 'Could you fart a little higher?', even though it's not funny in itself, you end up on the floor.

PassedPawn @ 26:

Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

They're waterboarding him to get the location of his workshop and the names of the elves.

>> Does anyone know if its true that G.W. put Santa on the no fly list.
>
> Yes and on top of that Santa was just black-bagged and sent to gitmo.

Yeah he got busted for importing snow from the North Pole -

http://tbsn.thesequencers.us/?p=51

Here's what happened to him once they captured him -

http://achorn.blogspot.com/2007/12/cartoon-of-day_21.html

It is now Christmas on the west coast of the US (never seen it, made it to Nevada thus far but i share the time zone.)

This is the one time of the year we all get to say nice things to each other in this country and i will be Goddamned if i am going to let the moment pass without having my say.

This blog is a community of shitheads, idealists, revolutionaries, naysayers, antagonists, status quo seekers, pot heads, alcoholics, poets, writers, cretins and geniouses. We have Trolls, High School Students, Scientists, Musicians, an occasional politician, Lawyers, geeks, freeks and housewives.

Are we the "Left?" Or are we a smattering of people too frustrated to sit in front of television and attempt to digest the crap they try to shove down our throats? I have no fucking idea, so don't ask me.

I do know this: I love fighting here. I love arguing here. Without this community of people i would be isolated, alone and i would feel powerless.

To the Trolls who attempt to disway us and to the learned who stear us back i want to thank you all for what you bring and wish you the best today and always.

Merry Christmas. The holiday is not a bad idea even though using a man who died over 2000 years ago (if he ever existed at all) to control us and send us into battles and wars is a really really bad idea.

Merry Christmas Stan Rosenthal, you Christian, you! :)

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to one and all!

I mean, I *LOVE* folk that worship the first long-haired hippie!!!!

Yes, Stan. You are.

gene, it reminds me of the Saturday Night fake commercial, about the Christmas bows. Shows all the bows, then the husband gives the wife like a brand new Lexus and it doesn't have a bow and she's going like: Where's the bow?

for LG -

Cledus T. Judd: Grandpa Got Run Over By A John Deere -

http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.2115780&variant=play

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=track&id=tra.9952030&remote=false&pa...

Good night, Stan. May the force stop pushing us around.

Did that sound forced?

May force become a thing of the past.

May the force stop beating prisoners...

OliverDreams @ 18:

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

And if we're not true Christians!!!!????? ..............Just funnin' ya. Merry Christmas all.

This can make everyday seem like Christmas: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

I wish Everybody here a Happy Christmas Season! Your website is and will remain one of my absolute favourites and the comments here are wiity, intelligent and interesting. Keep up the good work and thank you for your work and dedication!

Merry Christmas

Watching CNN the Newsier channel this day. They are talking about the current dialog of faith based language used so far in the politics, the Holiday vs Christmas, and the first amendment, you know the part about separation of church and state.

The challenge is growing to identify what America is really going to be. The question is starting to beg the electorate for not a divine leader, but a divine understanding in leadership in this ideal with this separation, because history is telling us it is not easy, because we are all mortal.

Hillary Clinton displayed this in a very personal observation on the CNN debate the other day. To me this solidifies Hillary’s understanding of this problem. Were, Obama and Edwards talked about faith but did not hit the target even with snit remarks and faith based jingles, they both just blew by the basic in understanding were leadership is in this separation. It was simple, personal and individual, for all of us no matter what the world thinks. The minority triangle, Gay’s, Black’s, Latino, should totally appreciate that ideal, it resonates up with the basics of our Constitution.

The founding fathers were considered brilliant, and thoughtful, however, as we all reflect in time about those minds that forged to divide church and state, more over not to establish or promote any single religion, how in the heck are we going to do it, and survive through generations? The questions just latch on one after another.

Study and debate, kick the ideal around a little bit, talk to people and share ideals we will all succeed.

Here is a short story, Riding around with a few associates while conversation was roaring, laughter was loud wild, a cute female driver. One of the fellows had the latest and greatest IPOD video, audio, you know ear plugs and all. They where passing it around and talking. However, I did not understand a word they are saying. Just knew they were talking about the music and impressed by it. Cool. I was the only white guy in the vehicle, stayed quiet and silent through the whole thing looking out the window. Thought maybe I would get chance to see this new technology, no it didn’t happen. So, in contemporary social real time what did I learn? Answer: Better ask some questions and find out whats going on, is this conversational samurais, certainly zero Samaritan nothing happening here.

By chance, one of the black guys came along with me, as we parted in our travels. I had a question about the “Black Culture”, why do Black men call themselves “Dogs”, like in conversations one can hear the term “hey dog how you doin?”. Or, observing the IPOD “Check this out Dog”. I felt disconnected and needed some answers for that. Well, the Black guy was a history major happy to explain a whole lot, more then expected but appreciated. This Black Guy took me through a mental journey though the origins of “The Dog Language”. Started from George Clinton who he claims is the first to introduce rap or wordplay in rhythm, cadence, or what one calls hip-hop, Jay-Z and a huge list of others.

Still looking up stuff about rap, and wordplay. I did not mention though that most frequently when riding in the streets over hearing loud music in the summer time invariably winds up being songs about hate, fortification, that word play the best of what one could consider nothing more then “cursive swift talk”. Or social hate.

Obama, as a Black President it occurred to me no one asked him how he might address this social issue. Right in our back yard wide spread in America belligerent cursive language is sold over the counter that could never be played on radio. A social tragedy doing nothing more then generating a economic culture with a hatful rhythm that’s snappy and mantra, all connected to drugs misery, plainly a huge social dysfunctional Black society trailing to suicides, murder, theft, sex, and prison.

There is a growing perspective that as a Legal law teacher at the University of Chicago, Obama would make the effort to address this. That’s a question that needs to be asked. Perhaps he was too busy, or just ignored it. Thinking about it one could place this dilemma as severe as the torture debate that is going on now. It’s all disgusting, way too suppressed by the Mainstream Media. Actually, when one takes a hard look at this Black rap word-play culture that is largely “Swift Cursive Hate Language, why isn’t Obama taking a leadership role to address this? If Obama can’t get the back yards cleaned up, how is he going to change the world?

Vote Democratic 2008 vote Hillary Clinton.

joze46 @ 57:

CNN and Hillary in the same post.

You lost me at CNN.

and take Hillary, PLEASE!!!!!!! She's rupert murdick's candidate! Do some research. My xmas wish to you: a perspective!

joze46 @ 57:

Merry Christmas

Watching CNN the Newsier channel this day. They are talking about the current dialog of faith based language used so far in the politics, the Holiday vs Christmas, and the first amendment, you know the part about separation of church and state.

The challenge is growing to identify what America is really going to be. The question is starting to beg the electorate for not a divine leader, but a divine understanding in leadership in this ideal with this separation, because history is telling us it is not easy, because we are all mortal.

Hillary Clinton displayed this in a very personal observation on the CNN debate the other day. To me this solidifies Hillary’s understanding of this problem. Were, Obama and Edwards talked about faith but did not hit the target even with snit remarks and faith based jingles, they both just blew by the basic in understanding were leadership is in this separation. It was simple, personal and individual, for all of us no matter what the world thinks. The minority triangle, Gay’s, Black’s, Latino, should totally appreciate that ideal, it resonates up with the basics of our Constitution.

The founding fathers were considered brilliant, and thoughtful, however, as we all reflect in time about those minds that forged to divide church and state, more over not to establish or promote any single religion, how in the heck are we going to do it, and survive through generations? The questions just latch on one after another.

Study and debate, kick the ideal around a little bit, talk to people and share ideals we will all succeed.

Here is a short story, Riding around with a few associates while conversation was roaring, laughter was loud wild, a cute female driver. One of the fellows had the latest and greatest IPOD video, audio, you know ear plugs and all. They where passing it around and talking. However, I did not understand a word they are saying. Just knew they were talking about the music and impressed by it. Cool. I was the only white guy in the vehicle, stayed quiet and silent through the whole thing looking out the window. Thought maybe I would get chance to see this new technology, no it didn’t happen. So, in contemporary social real time what did I learn? Answer: Better ask some questions and find out whats going on, is this conversational samurais, certainly zero Samaritan nothing happening here.

By chance, one of the black guys came along with me, as we parted in our travels. I had a question about the “Black Culture”, why do Black men call themselves “Dogs”, like in conversations one can hear the term “hey dog how you doin?”. Or, observing the IPOD “Check this out Dog”. I felt disconnected and needed some answers for that. Well, the Black guy was a history major happy to explain a whole lot, more then expected but appreciated. This Black Guy took me through a mental journey though the origins of “The Dog Language”. Started from George Clinton who he claims is the first to introduce rap or wordplay in rhythm, cadence, or what one calls hip-hop, Jay-Z and a huge list of others.

Still looking up stuff about rap, and wordplay. I did not mention though that most frequently when riding in the streets over hearing loud music in the summer time invariably winds up being songs about hate, fortification, that word play the best of what one could consider nothing more then “cursive swift talk”. Or social hate.

Obama, as a Black President it occurred to me no one asked him how he might address this social issue. Right in our back yard wide spread in America belligerent cursive language is sold over the counter that could never be played on radio. A social tragedy doing nothing more then generating a economic culture with a hatful rhythm that’s snappy and mantra, all connected to drugs misery, plainly a huge social dysfunctional Black society trailing to suicides, murder, theft, sex, and prison.

There is a growing perspective that as a Legal law teacher at the University of Chicago, Obama would make the effort to address this. That’s a question that needs to be asked. Perhaps he was too busy, or just ignored it. Thinking about it one could place this dilemma as severe as the torture debate that is going on now. It’s all disgusting, way too suppressed by the Mainstream Media. Actually, when one takes a hard look at this Black rap word-play culture that is largely “Swift Cursive Hate Language, why isn’t Obama taking a leadership role to address this? If Obama can’t get the back yards cleaned up, how is he going to change the world?

Vote Democratic 2008 vote Hillary Clinton.

yes hillerys a grand old gal, since shes partial to corporation money and never turned down money even when it comes from rupert murdock but im sure she wouldnt let the corporations that feed her be of much influience on her when it comes to seeing the rest of us get our constitution restored , and as shes said , im going to bring the troops home , of course only after i leave enough troops to protect our interests in iraq ,you know like that oil thats ours under bagdad, so she said ill leave some troops in iraq to guard that nice new embassy haliburton built and enough to guard the twelve permanent bases we had built ,oh and enough to train more iraqys and an quick reaction force to quell any upriseings there, so be prepared to welcome the five guys thats left that she can spare in iraq, and i cant wait for hillerys health plan to kick in, the one where everyone gets free health care, oh wait thats what kucinich wants , not hillery, and wont it be nice when she cuts off that tax break bush gave the rich, gee i just wish it was more then just rolling back half of that tax break to thoes who dont need it, well thats it for me im voteing for hilley !

xoites defends Constitution @ 19:

Canuknotusa @ 1:

Again, because it was deleted by C&L censors, the great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had died. Is it because he isn't American that his death wasn't noted on this site? Or is it because John Amato doesn't understand Jazz?

As a frequent if not constant visitor to C&L i find this statement insulting. Not because a Canadian said it, but because anyone said it.

I had a hell of a hard time trying to comment on this site today. I removed my cookies, my history, i emptied my cache. I just wrote an entire four paragraphs on another thread only to lose it because my name was not in wordpress because of what i had done earlier.

Technical difficulties happen and it is frustrating. You want to jump to the conclusion that it is censorship, go ahead. If you want to jump to the conclusion people here hate Canadians well that's just wierd, eh?

Glad to see the site is back up, what i wrote before and lost was much more interesting and impassioned. Such is cyberspace.

It's amazing all the contortions folks go through when tech problems arise. Remember, the brilliant brains that conceived all the electronic wonders we use were evolved from reptilian ancestors, and those elements still linger in the genes. So the next time you run into a glitch, get on all fours before your screen, scratch the floor vigorously as if you were try to dig yourself a nest, shout 'Grawk, Grawk, Grawk', spin around in a circle three times, and Voila!, you'll find everything works fine.

Except your wife, if she happened to observe you.

Edwin @ 52:

OliverDreams @ 18:

For all of the true Christians out there:

Merry Christmas to all.
Peace on Earth. Good will towards men.

And we all know who the only peace candidate is.

Dennis Kucinich 08

WTF. 'True' christians can't read, so who was this post for?

And if we're not true Christians!!!!????? ..............Just funnin' ya. Merry Christmas all.

You know, now the 'Good', and 'Bad', mean the same thing, Santa musta been all effed-up last night trying to decide where to leave lumps of coal, and where to leave long-range WiFi antennas and edible condoms.

Conyers does NOT care about Wexler’s Petition to start Cheney impeachment hearings!

Read the transcript from Democracy Now.

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/from-democracy-now-interview-...

He will NOT allow impeachment hearings to take place.

Conyers knows that Pelosi will undercut the efforts of impeachment rather than helping to build a bi-partisan coalition to impeach.

Conyers knows that Pelosi will again be Speaker of the House next year and she will take him off the Judiciary Committee if he goes against her wishes. It’s a “lose-lose” for him and impeachment.

Let’s help him and the rest of the members of the House of Representatives by removing an obstructionist Speaker. It can be done and must be done to start the impeachment process.

http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html

see videos: Most Subscribed Directors of All Time, RepresentativePress?

pookapooka is **dead** on here... I've sung commercials for over 20 years now, and these sessions are pretty close to the norm. I'm also a pro photographer, and this video reminded me as much of commercial shoots as it did vocal sessions.

It all depends completely on the studio I'm singing for and how much creative control they exert over the project. My main studio is nothing like this; however, I've been in sessions where the talent was raked over coals simply because the Creative Director was in the house and had no clue of what he was actually looking for.

...and, yeah - most star talent get big-time breaks on number of takes and pitch accuracy! Funny stuff.