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Sad Horse Video – 4 Songs Live at Valentine’s 6/10/08

June 28, 2008 3:56 am

by Mike Burnett

I caught Sad Horse for the first time at Valentine’s a couple weeks ago, and they rocked it. As did Experimental Dental School, but I wasn’t able to snag any video of them. Next time!

Here’s 4 songs in just over 4 minutes from El Caballo Triste (as they are known to their large fan base in Cuba):

Sad Horse play July 2nd at Slabtown.

Blazers Draft Recap

June 27, 2008 1:38 am

by Mike Burnett

Joe Freeman has a great recap of the draft day for the Blazers over at Oregonlive.com. It looks like things are looking up for the Blazers with the addition of a killer young point guard in Jerryd Bayless, the return of Rudy Fernandez from Spain, the much-anticipated debut of fellow blogger Greg Odin, and a lot of power in the 2009 draft as well.

First, the Blazers bought the draft rights to the No. 27 overall selection from New Orleans and later spun that pick (Kansas’ Darrell Arthur), along with No.33 (Memphis’ Joey Dorsey), to Houston for the draft rights to Nicolas Batum, a 19-year-old guard/forward from France.

The Blazers ended the night by trading the draft rights of the NBA Development League’s Mike Taylor to the Los Angeles Clippers for a second-round pick in 2009, and by trading the No.36 selection, center Omer Asik of Turkey, to the Chicago Bulls for three future second-round selections.

In between, Pritchard made his biggest splash, acquiring Bayless, one of the Blazers’ top draft targets and among the top freshman guards in college basketball last season. The Blazers landed Bayless — and fourth-year forward Ike Diogu — by trading reserve point guard Jarrett Jack, reserve forward Josh McRoberts and the draft rights to the No. 13 pick (Brandon Rush of Kansas) to Indiana.

Link to article

Robert Schneider of Apples in Stereo Is In Fact Weird

June 25, 2008 2:20 pm

by Mike Burnett

Robert Schneider, singer and songwriter of The Apples in Stereo, demonstrates his non-pythagorean scale, which is a scale based on irregularly placed notes. The lower range of an octave’s notes are further apart in pitch, while the upper range’s notes are spaced more closely. The note spacings are based on natural logarithms, which are irrational numbers (non-terminating decimals to us non-math people). Apparently Schneider was all nuh-uh to π and √2, and chose instead good ol’ e on which to base his scale. Yeah…

I just like the part when he gets to the chords.

I’m currently downloading New Magnetic Wonder, the 2007 album on which the scale is sparsely featured, from eMusic, but the CD version comes with information about constructing the scale for use with a MIDI keyboard controller (like Schneider is doing in the video).

You can read what Robert Schneider has to say about the scale here. Sadly, there’s a dead link to a Quicktime documentary on that page, but it might be included with the CD.

Slutty Hearts Footage

June 24, 2008 4:59 am

by Mike Burnett

Last month I recorded an entire Slutty Hearts show at East End, and after getting through finals and the task of editing all the footage, I’m happy to say all 9 songs are uploaded to Youtube and ready for your consumption.

Here’s a sample:

Barack Obama Opts Out of Public Matching Funds

June 19, 2008 2:01 pm

by Mike Burnett

Barack Obama announced today that he will forgo public matching funds — a first for a presidential candidate since the system’s advent in 1976.

Obama’s video announcement and donation page
NYTimes.com article

Man On Bicycle Tackled, Tasered By Police

June 11, 2008 5:55 pm

by Mike Burnett

Via Bikeportland.org:

A Portland man says he was tackled, pushed off his bike, and then tasered repeatedly by a Portland Police officer in Southeast Portland last night because he didn’t have a front light on his bike.

Link to article.

Tonight Watch The Fall With Director

June 6, 2008 4:06 pm

by Natron

Just the other week I had a blast seeing a Q&A with Michael Showalter after Wet Hot American Summer, and well, it seems we have another Q&A in PDX tonight!

The Fall, which promises to be the best psychedelic movie of the year (or at least the best Pan’s Labrynth look-a-like), is screening with the director Tarsem Singh in attendance tonight at the decidedly un-cinephile Fox Tower. Its downtown, its corporate, but they play good stuff and this is a good night to attend. Plus, Freaky Outty of Snap! fame works there, so be sure to give him a hollar after you say hello to Tarsem.

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2:37 pm

by Mike Burnett

Tomorrow night:

SAT JUN 7

VENABLE ALL STARS

Elizabeth Venable, Matt Hall and Kristina Davies will do 3 sets at anewly recycled restaurant/bar/venue in No-Po:

@ The Liberty Glass // 938 North Cook St. 97227 ((pink house on the Mississippi Ave hill (formerly Belgian Embassy, formerly Purple Tooth, formerly Lovely Hula Hands.. THAT PLACE!))

9pm // $FREE

And Tuesday:

Sad Horse

Dah – “55 Dollars”, Live at The Liberty Glass

June 5, 2008 12:34 am

by Mike Burnett

Here’s one of my new favorite musicians, Dah, playing at one my new favorite places, The Liberty Glass (just off Mississippi and Cook in North Portland).

Dah is playing again tonight (Thursday June 5th) at The Liberty Glass, which by the way serves Powers whiskey and Triscuit nachos, and is open until 2:30AM most days.