Bad Penny

[Dillinger]

Re: Well....

Dill? Amazing history. I've often wondered if there was a "History of the Internet - Time Line" sort of thing. I know nothing really. Your info is very interesting. But this thing I'm currently doing is just a goof - I don't know how long I may remain a shut-in. For now though I kinda like it - it's keeping things a bit simpler.

Not a history of the internet so much as a concise history of web based chat.

Now - if you're interested in a history of the INTERNET ... hmm... I remember it like it was yesterday *a far off look in my eyes*... yes.. yes... Tim Berners Lee and I were sitting around drinking Mountain Dew and eating Ho Ho's when Tim said to me...

 

[Cheri]

Sparkbaby, who luvs ya?

Spark, you crazy fuck! What the hell are you doing just staying here, posting here, quarentened here instead of flittering throughout the Lit world and leaving bits of Spark wisdom like dog piles here and there. I say delete this fucker and return to regular programing, i.e. starting your half crazed threads, chasing trolls and generally spewing shit where ever you'd like! Besides this is boring and one thing you NEVER are Sparkluvmonkey, is boring.
Although tell your Shebabe to come back cause I love what she did with the whole CB thing eons ago. Tell her I'll give her squirting lessons....~weg

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Kasha -

Don & Mike are really DC guys - I've been listening for years and have even made contact - see my old Story of Raymond Burr thread. They just recently penned a contract which allows them to broadcast 2 days a week of so here from NYC - but most of their days - not to mention their wives and kids are in the DC area. Same company as Howard Stern - Infinity/CBS - just a different station. They are great - are they not? Virginia boys. Just like me - only now in NYC - just like me.

Cheri/Crazy - here I be. Only.

The Shebabe will return.

Waiting for the big snow - had two TV shows cancel over the next two days. Hope it's big. I love snow storms.

Later - tomorrow.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Congrats to Man O Safety.....

I love kids and have 3. I wish I had a girl. Jealous! Enjoy!

 

[Siren]

He wont see your congrats here....

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Uh Siren? No duh.

I do have a huge ego - but I'm a sweety too.

I am Uber Oz.

The joke is my ego and my ego is the joke.

Go watch Andy Kaufman.

Wanna wrestle?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Besides Siren (and to everyone else who fails to get it)

Why do you think I chose "Bad" Penny?

My goal is for all to hate this thread.

It's starting to work.

hah! Gottcha.

 

[Siren]

I love Andy

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

No have not yet Siren but will......

I'll search for it but that's one of the things I'm trying to get away from - you could post it here you know - "copy/patse" it would make it easier for all - not just me.

But I do read other's stuff - like I've stated - just don't have the time or desire to work that hard - call me lazy, call it ego - call it both.

This is my world - I call the shots.

Nanny - nanny.

 

[Siren]

As you wish Uber man

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Good Morning all.....

NYC snow report: None (so far)

And that got me thinking once again about what I casually reffer to as "the inate ignorance of your average intellignet human." The inate ignorance that allows them - humans - "to be correct," even when they are not.

Excitement. Getting excited over something. "The Nor-Easter is coming!!!!!!" I started hearing about it early last week. The slow build of information, building and building over the week until it got nutty crazed over the weekend. Then - whoops - well - we're kinda wrong (especially down south) - but, but now - take a look at the erosion problem at the shore. Get the remote trucks to the beach - show us some waves God damn it.

Excitement - it seems most, average smart humans - like it, especially when it comes to weather - but not limited to the weather - they'll take excitement where ever they can find it - or have it fed to them.

Journalists, being human - are no different - except that - they work in a business where excitement sells. So all of a sudden you've got an average human, who likes/thrives/loves to get excited - selling excitment too. And since "it's normal" then it's not wrong. It's not unethical.

This is where "being normal" and the human arrogance of "if it's normal, it's right" - is to me, way fucking wrong.

Let's pretend I was the news director at a TV station and I said - "let's report what we know" - and we can even report "what we don't know." Let's keep it honest and straight forward - let's try to not - excite anybody.

I'd be fired. But I do have the inner satisfaction of knowing - that I am smarter than they. Simply because I don't allow my arrogance to stiffle my intellect.

Just one example of Uber Spark thinking. It won't ever make me famous - or any money - but I know that I'm right. And now I betcha you think I am too.

Of course this is why - you can't beleive anything you read or hear - even this.

Wow - I hope you didn't get too excited over this.

 

[CreamyLady]

Good morning, Sparky. I'm still waiting for measurable rainfall. It seems our oversaturated ground won't be able to take the predicted 3"-5", and it was due to hit last night. It isn't raining now, either.

Yawn.

On the other hand, the jasmine in the front yard is really amazing; scent wafting in with every breeze.

 

[TN_Vixen]

mornin' sparks

~kiss

 

[Dillinger]

Only a couple inches of snow this morning - but its starting up again and they're saying we can expect 2 to 3 feet. I'm in Connecticut, btw.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Good shit - bad shit.....

In only the past few minutes too....

Good: A guy calls me and says he will buy my old Caddy on the 17th - sight unseen. Yeah! I will miss the old girl though.

Bad: I just found out from our HR folks that ever since my pay checks went direct deposit - 10 years or so ago - that all my annual bonus monies have been direct deposted into my X-wife's account. It ammounts to thousands of dollars. No, of course "she never noticed it," - hey, my dumb ass didn't either. Man! I just always thought I was over spending around Christmas. Shit!

 

[CreamyLady]

Well, Sparky, I'm afraid Gil's phrase really applies this time.

Oh, shit. Oh, dear.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Robben Ford - another great guit player.

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Robben Lee Ford, 16 December 1951, Woodlake, California, USA.

A jazz, blues and rock guitarist, Robben is the most celebrated member of the musical Ford family. His father Charles was a country musician, and his brothers Patrick and Mark are bluesmen, playing drums and harmonica, respectively.

Inspired initially by Mike Bloomfield and Eric Clapton, Ford's first professional engagement was with Charlie Musslewhite in 1970. He formed the Charles Ford Band with his brothers in 1971, then backed Jimmy Witherspoon from 1972-74. He toured and recorded with both Joni Mitchell (as part of L.A. Express) and George Harrison in 1974, the resulting exposure bringing him a considerable amount of session work. In 1978, he formed the Yellowjackets with keyboards player Russell Ferrante and also found time to record a patchy solo debut, Inside Story. The early 80s saw him performing with Michael McDonald and saxophonist Sadao Watanabe ; in 1986 he joined the Miles Davis band on its tour of the USA and Europe. Talk To Your Daughter was a triumphant return to his blues roots, and picked up a Grammy nomination in the 'Contemporary Blues' category. In 1993 he recorded with a new unit, the Blue Line featuring Roscoe Beck (bass), Bill Boublitz (keyboards) and Tom Brechtlein (drums).

Ford plays cleanly in an uncluttered style (like Mike Bloomfield), but occasionally with the frantic energy of Larry Carlton.

Check out "Talk to Your Daughter." Sparky.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

ANother one of my hero's - maybe the biggest because I knew him....

Danny Gatton -

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"He's been called the 'World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist,' but what famous guitarist could outplay him?" - Guitar Player magazine Mar. '89

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[Sparky Kronkite]

Two Cool....

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[Sparky Kronkite]

Ah..... just piss on it.

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[Sparky Kronkite]

I believe that I have mentioned that I'm a Patriot!

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[Sparky Kronkite]

Tell me - if you know.......

Do "straight male escorts/gigalos - for females exist?"

They must - right?

But I've searched and searched on the web and nothing - virtually all gay. At least I can't find any who are US based. It seems that there are tons in Australia and the UK.

What gives? Anybody know?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Tell me - how to ya shoot 20 or so kids and only kill 2?????

When are these nuts going to learn how to shoot?

I mean - I'd rather be dead than mamed.

These kids need lessons.

Just kidding!!!!!!!

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

James Blood Ulmer

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Free jazz has not produced many notable guitarists. Experimental musicians drawn to the guitar have had few jazz role models; consequently, they've typically looked to rock-based players for inspiration.

James "Blood" Ulmer is one of the few exceptions--an "outside" guitarist who's forged a style based largely on the traditions of African-American vernacular music.

Ulmer is an adherent of saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman's vaguely-defined "Harmolodic" theory, which essentially subverts jazz's harmonic component in favor of freely improvised, non-tonal or quasi-modal counterpoint.

Ulmer plays with a stuttering, vocalic attack; his lines are frequently texturally and chordally-based, inflected with the accent of a soul-jazz tenor saxophonist. That's not to say his sound is untouched by the rock tradition--the influence of Jimi Hendrix on Ulmer is strong--but it's mixed with blues, funk, and free jazz elements. The resultant music is an expressive, hard-edged, loudly-amplified hybrid that is, at its best, on a level with the finest of the "Harmolodic" school.

Ulmer began his career playing in funk bands, first in Pittsburgh (1959-64) and later around Columbus, Ohio (1964-7). Ulmer spent four years in Detroit before moving to New York in 1971. He landed a nine-month gig at the famed "birthplace of bop", Minton's Playhouse, and played very briefly with Art Blakey. In 1973 he recorded Rashied Ali Quintet with the ex-John Coltrane drummer, on the Survival label.

That same year he hooked up with Ornette Coleman, whose concept affected Ulmer's music thereafter. The guitarist's recordings from the late-'70s and early-'80s exhibit a unique take on his mentor's aesthetic. His blues and rock-tinged art was, if anything, more raw and aggressive than Coleman's free jazz and funk-derived music (a reflection, no doubt, of Ulmer's chosen instrument), but no less compelling from either an intellectual or a emotional standpoint.

In 1981 Ulmer led the first of three record dates for Columbia, which helped to expose his music to a wider public. Around this time Ulmer began an association with tenor saxophonist David Murray, violinist Amin Ali, and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. As the Music Revelation Ensemble this intermittent assemblage (with various other members added and subtracted) would produce a number of intense, free-blowing albums over a span of almost two decades.

Ulmer's work has varied in quality over the years. In 1987, with the cooperative group Phalanx (George Adams, tenor sax; Sirone, bass; Rashied Ali, drums), Ulmer drew successfully on the free jazz expressionism that made his name.

Generally, however, Ulmer's interest in "out" jazz waned in the '80s and '90s, to the extent that his music became progressively more structured, rhythmically regular, and (arguably) less inventive. Much of his later work bears scant resemblance to the edgy free jazz he played earlier. Nevertheless, '90s recordings with the Music Revelation Ensemble showed him still capable of playing convincingly in that vein.

Just some more Blood on the tracks from the Sparkmeister. Check out Blood's earlier stuff. Too way cool.

 

[CreamyLady]

Re: Tell me - how to ya shoot 20 or so kids and only kill 2?????

When are these nuts going to learn how to shoot?

I mean - I'd rather be dead than mamed.

These kids need lessons.

Just kidding!!!!!!!

Sparky, some things are beyond joking. The violent death of a child, two children, is one of them.