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Hey folks!

Good news. The Young Rapture Choir CD is now available from Raven Marching Band Records. This album is an amazing collection of songs written by Laura Veirs, and performed by a choir of school children in Cognac, France. It was recorded live in April 2006 by Tucker Martine. The packaging is all handmade and it’s a wonderful recording.

This is a lovely, limited edition cd — we only made 3,000 — so get one quick at http://www.ravenmarchingband.com/store for $15.

You can also pick one up at west coast shows in September if they last that long.

If you want to listen to a track, visit the Young Rapture Choir online.

• http://www.myspace.com/youngrapturechoir

You can also read Laura’s blog about the concert at

http://journal.nonesuch.com/journal/2006/06/young_rapture_c.html

In other news, Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton made a music video with Laura earlier this year. Check out her film to “Magnetized” which is posted at the following link.

• http://lauraveirs.com/laura/QTmagnetized.mov

And make sure to keep an eye on those west coast tour dates. They are coming up fast. We’ll see you soon.

xx clyde

http://www.lauraveirs.com

Every so often you want to know more about real gypsies.  This film is where to start when that time comes round again.  Romanian gypsies portray themselves in Gajo Dilo.  The crazy stranger in question is not a gypsy but a visiting young Frenchman, played by the wonderful Romain Duris.

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This weeks free i-tunes down load is the song ” Are You With Me?” released by the band Vaux. I like the song, it’s a little hardcore for my tastes but I can see my self mosh pitting to this. It’s not my favorite music but being a fairly open minded person I can find a place for it in my musical library. I give this song an 6.8 on pies listening pleasure scale.

Snakes on skateboards

would not wear helmets

nor would they swing

hatchets, but snakes on

snowboards might

if they had just visited

Love Land’s Phallus Garden

French vexillographers circulate the national library,
protesting flag desecration, too many windows, and cardboard
sunscreens. Fireworks on the Fourth of July promise.
Celebrate Independence Day With A Drink.

tags: banana, bananas, blueberries, blueberry, flag, fourth of july, fruit, independence day, july 4, july 4th, patriotic, patriotism, raspberries, raspberry, red white and blue, stars

Today’s terms
tags: , concert, music, political criticism, politics, show, the sun, they might be giants, tmbg
echo through pine walls
stretch sun along desire’s coast

Is there a term already for what I am about to do?
OK, here goes:

bad knockoffs of cheap pop
Oops! I Did It Again
Richard Thompson
strange sense of humor
Last.fm, despite the suggestion here
stream it from NPR, go buying.

****KCRWmusic
Toxi
The Chapin Sisters
Top Tune
Britney Spears
episode 175
Coverville.

**** Britney in wax at Madame Tussaud’s
pretending to do hard math
some fan with a Brit photo on his refrigerator

Now here we have what we might call in the poetry world “Plunderverse” www.poetics.ca/poetics05/05betts.html
except that I haven’t used the stolen phrases to make something
new of yet. I’ll work on that for tomorrow. The question today
is will these terms alone generate some traffice to this
brand new site??

Don’t these Mainich Daily News editors think they’re the shit when they get to combine “bondage” and “rope” in the same headline.

Yes, as it turns out, “freedom of expression®” is a trademarked term. And, yes, as it turns out, somebody’s been cease and desisted for using it.

Super heros gotta go too, ya know?

Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP

crucifixion

Ryan pointed out that the titles for Thank You For Smoking are pretty interesting, then he followed up with a pointer to some font spotting at Typographica.

Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4. more.

Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics? so named by Edward Tufte. In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte’s site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines.

Cool. Here’s a PHP library and accompanying documentation wiki.