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L*E*I*F

If you are not pissed off you are not paying attention

About Me

RIP JAMES BROWN

My Interests

Music, I am a bass player by trade and I also pick at the 6 string some. I am currently playing with the Magazines along side my wife Sara, Tom Sanford & Big Steve. See our myspace page and check out: www.themagazines.org. Watch out, we are ready to do some damage. Record label? We don't need no stinkin label! Thanks to Rob, Dougie Doug and Josh at the Space Shed for all the studio time!:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: My good old days bands include the Zen Coyboys, JOY JELLY, The Hypnogajas, Holliston Stops, Puppybus, The Von Trapps and The Aquafleshes. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::To distract from the impending geopolitical meltdown I like to hike, collect TIKI stuff/crap, raise a lot of cats, hamsters and fish and follow the NBA- GO LAKERS! My heart pumps motor oil (Redline synthetic of course) I have a '65 K-Code Fastback Mustang, a '66 Lambretta SX200 and a '04 Subaru WRX STi. I have been dreaming of adding a '75 Ducati 750 SS to the stable one day.

I'd like to meet:

Regis Philbin

Music:

The Meters, Woody Guthrie, Edwin Starr, James Brown R.I.P., Bootsy Collins, Funkadelic, P-Funk, Donald Duck Dunn, George Clinton, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wright and The Watts 103'rd Street Rythm Band, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Richard Cheese- Lounge Against The Machine baby!, DK, Hendrix, Mingus, Afro Man, Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, Zepplin, The Beach Boys, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Radiohead, Hampton Hawes, Monk and many more.

Movies:

Repo Man, Spinal Tarp, Up in Smoke, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, South Park Bigger Longer Uncut, Suburbia, Road House, you gotta love Pat Swaze- a true renaisance man:

Television:

Aqua Teen, Brak, Going Tribal, Colbert Report, ALF, White Shadow, The Venture Brothers, Harvey Birdman, Inuyasha

Books:

The Trial (little known factoid: Kafka was a work comp claims examiner) Cosmos: Carl Sagan, Post Office: Bukowski, The Dharma Bums: Kerouac, The Unfair Advantage: Mark Donahue, The Twilight of the Idols, The Will to Power: Fred Neitzche, the Dune books: Frank Herbert, In Search of the Cradle of Civilzation: George Feuerstein and lots of history/archeology stuff.

Heroes:

Russ Fiengold! John Conyers, James Jamerson, People who are NOT repbulicans, Bootsy Collins, James Brown RFK Jr, Keith Olberman & Bubba: he was not perfect, but a hell of alot better than Bush.

My Blog

Ohio 2004 election fraud convictions

Election staff convicted in recount rig By M.R. KROPKO Associated Press Writer © 2007 The Associated Press CLEVELAND  Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 ...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:09:00 PST

More on the Fairness Dcotrine

I am loving the fact that our Democratic Congresspeople are trying to re-establish the Fairness Doctrine that Reagan got rid of in the 80's. Here are some quotes from Raw Stories recent enterview of D...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:52:00 PST

Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine!

Please check out this great article from Charlie Reina at the Huffpo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-reina/bring-back-the-f airness-d_b_39003.html Snip: "Under the Fairness Doctrine, fair and ba...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:42:00 PST

RIP James Brown

I am glad I got to meet the man before he met his maker. JB had an enormous impact on my life, those days spent listening to "In the Jungle Groove" with my old Jungle Clown Buddies in college&nb...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:10:00 PST

Radio is Broken- will the FCC ever fix it?

Y'all know how much I hate what Corporate Consolidation has done to the music industry- there is hope that the Dems who now control congress will fix it. My fingers are crossed! Link: http://www....
Posted by L*E*I*F on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:58:00 PST

Iran/Contra alumni still plague America 20 years later (Cheny,Bolton,Gates ect.)

John Negroponte, the man who organized secret death squads in Nicaragua for Reagan back in the 80's was appointed to be the US Ambassador to which country in 2004? Answer: IRAQ Hmmmmm- how many d...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:48:00 PST

Canned Hunting- one of the worst things ever invented

Remember when Dick Cheny shot his friend in the face while he had been drinking? Did you know that he was supposed to be shooting pheasants with clipped wings that were released from a box 20 feet in ...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:46:00 PST

The

More Mexican Nationals have died in the war on durgs this year than US soldiers in Iraq. I quote Tony Newman: "As long as there are huge profits to be made, there will be people ready to kill ove...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:04:00 PST

End of the Empire

A great read- a history of the Neo-con movement: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=138154
Posted by L*E*I*F on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:16:00 PST

Magazines @ The Derby 11/2/06 & The Glass House 11/4/06

November gig-o-rama! We are playing at the Derby on Thursday the 2'nd, we go on at 9 PM so you can still get home and go to work on Friday. Cover is $6On Saturday the 4'th, we are playing at the Glass...
Posted by L*E*I*F on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:46:00 PST