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So good, I had to do it again.

Here I sit, in my comfortable chair, slowing going blind, with a dish of antipasto in front of me and a song in my ears. I realize I have become addicted to Google Video. Here is one of the finer moments: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7566539394950322025 My, how tasty the sopressata and fontenella! Happy Holidays, Pigs!

Some of the lads and I checked out X at Roseland Friday night. Shit, that was the best rock show I've seen in a looong time. Billy Zoom, DJ Bonebreak and John Doe laying it down! They did all my faves from Under the Big Black Sun. Great show, great songs, great punk chicks who are now my age and look it, too. And Tim Robbins got up on stage and sang! I saw him scurrying out the door after the show and had to pat him on the back and thank him for singing. He mumbled something like "Thanks.." and ran off into the night. Stupendous.

Neil had a birthday, but one of his influences passes away... Link Wray Dies in Copenhagen Updated 09:10 PST Mon, Nov 21 2005 (Associated Press) Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock 'n' roll who inspired such legends as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townshend, has died. He was 76. Wray died November 5 at his home in Copenhagen, his wife and son said on his Web site. No cause of death was given, but his family said his heart was "getting tired." He was buried November 18 after a service at Copenhagen's Christian Church. "While playing his guitar he often told the audience, 'God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play,'" his wife, Olive, and son, Oliver Christian, wrote. "We saw you go with God, you were smiling." Wray, who played in his trademark leather jacket, developed a style considered the blueprint for heavy metal and punk music. He is best known for his 1958 instrumental "Rumble,...

Dec.9 at Roseland. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Who's with me?

Neil is 60 today! Holy crap. We must all page homage.    This guy has some great info links on Neil: http://www.thrasherswheat.org/wheatfield.html

This is ridiculous: NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York's busy Penn Station returned to normal on Friday after a rush-hour false alarm caused by a suspicious substance found in a soda bottle near Amtrak's ticket counter, authorities said. CNN article

Go Billy, Go! Yahoo News

I've been watching for the past week. What the fuck is wrong with both the local and federal govts??! Everyone knew the storm surge was going to overwhelm the levees on Sunday, yet the local government didn't have a contingency plan for the levees bursting other than to bring people to the Superdome? Holy Crise! Where's Rudy??! Bush didn't send out ships until Wednesday??! What the fuck? Those ships should have been sent out Sunday night. At least compassionate cities like Houston and San Antonio have stepped up to the plate. But what about the corporations? Like GreyHound can't send a few hundred buses to help bus people to these relief cities??! What the hell?! I gave some money to the Catholic Relief fund, but it is total madness that Bush can throw ALL our money away on IRAQ and not give a shit about the poor folks (and they are poor) who made the unfortunate choice of waiting out the hurricane. These folks paid taxes ALL THEIR LIVES to have no suppo...

Well this sucks. http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/aug05/20050822_bobmoog.html

Great stuff, boys. I will try to get the audio bytes out tonight for yas. UPDATE : Jam is now available: http://www.stormpigs.com/sounds/20050720.mp3

http://www.solio.com/html/index.html

Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil's Minor Works

Sorry I've been taking a while with the bites, lads. I've been ripping my infrastructure apart for the last month and have gotten it somewhat stabilized. First should be the 5/24 jam and then the 6/23 jam. Snoofed

http://www.triplexgoldteeth.com/

I was in a Van Halen mood over the weekend and stumbled on this site with some great, albeit poor quality, old videos of them: http://www.classicvh.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Video_Archive/Live_Videos Check out Ice Cream Man for some serious David Lee stupidity and Hang Em High for speed rock. Michael Anthony is a great bassist and backup singer and Eddie is incredible. As much as DLR gets goofed on, the band is just so hot. There is a classic interview in Japan on the home page of the site, too.

I was in the mood to do some graphics, so here's what resulted:

Here's an amusing little site I came across the other day: http://www.buckfush.com Also, check out this animation from another Johnson, no less! How's that for the lattice of coincidence, Stu? http://www.jameswjohnson.com/movies/bushman.htm

This tickled me fancy today: from artist Jeff MacNelly