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Hello all,
I just thought I'd let people know that I am a musician. Of course I have neither a band or enough background to start recording, but still I practice and learn and create. As a person who had a minimum wage job, I know what it's like to be on a limited budget, thus I have my collection of low-end instruments as pictured above. I figure the only time one needs a flashy nice instrument is when they actually want to impress their audience after they have won them over to come to their concerts. I use my cheaply made instruments the same way people who buy shiny ones do, but I didn't waste large quantities of money on mine. Instead, I have a small beat up electric guitar from '95 that was a hand me down from my sister, a Squire J-Bass, and an Ibanez acoustic (non electric) all of which are th only things I need to thrive and learn things in the musical world. I would just like to emphasize the difference between wowing everybody with your nice things, and wowing them with creativity. I feel the latter is more important.
~J

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Interesting podcast

There's a little guitar shop in Milwaukee that likes to have fun talking about what they know best over coffee while recording themselves. It does not update very frequently, but these guys make it lengthy, entertaining, funny, and informative. Episodes range between 40 minutes and 1 hour and 20 minutes. They also divided a video podcast and audio only podcast for those without interest in downloading entire video files.

http://www.wadesguitarshop.com/Podcast/GuitarShopPodcastHome.html

enjoy,

J.

Some places that seem cool to go to and dine

These are a couple cool places for eating from. One's a bit nicer than the other, but it's all about your mood.


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plane crash rattles college professors.

Thursday, Feb. 5th 2009

A plane leaving LaGuardia airport crashed minutes after take-off. On board were two professors of a college here in Ermon. Lyndon State College Professors John Dumont and George Johnson were on board Hightail Flight 1001 when the Airplane suffered an engine malfunction.

Of the 45 people on the flight, 40 survived including the two professors. Their trip to NY for a conference seems to have gotten them into quite a predicament.

Fortunately they were unharmed and were able to catch the next flight back to Ermon. We are grateful that they were unharmed, and pray for those who were lost.

a quick explanation of the music aspect of this site

Hey all,
I'm going to let you know about the musical aspect of this blog. So far it's all been politics, politics, politics. The fact is, that's not all we do. I handle reviews and descriptions of local bands playing in the Burlington area and sometimes a little closer to our state's borders. Let me explain the site design briefly:

We wanted something that would look professional, but not stuck up. So we agreed to the current layout from the options. In addition, many of you may have realized the Salvador Dali painting of the Day on the side. This is because surrealism art is definitely the best thing to juxtapose with politics and music. The Talmud quote at the bottom is because our representative is Jewish, and we always like to do something for him because he does miracles for us. We thought it would be a gesture of fairness to have wisdom from his people's texts for him to glance at whenever he checks up on our site. We're working on a slideshow of our area to put up, and intend on adding some local music to the site. Until then, we are linking anybody interested in local music to Big Heavy World. They have an awesome radio station as well called "The Radiator" It's 105.9 in the Burlington area. They simulcast on their website in case you are too far away to pick up their station. Not too long from now, we'll be working on making sure that every local band is recognized.

Thank you, and we (being us and local musicians) look forward to and appreciate your attention.

He spoke in a grateful tone.

Benreiny gives thank you address as first action in office.

It was noon today that new Prime Representative Benreiny addressed his supporters with a heartfelt thank you. "It's been a pleasure running for you, and it'll be a pleasure meeting your expectations, maybe even going well beyond them," Benreiny chuckled. He reiterated his campaign promises, which among other things included his new strategy to foreign relations with both Ewamshire and Aine. He plans to hold several conferences with Overseer Tatecha of Ewamshire and Liberty Protector Een of Aine. In addition, he pledges to make sure the survivors are properly taken care of seeing as many of them are amputees or somehow impaired emotionally, physically, or mentally by the horrible events.

Shortly after the speech Benreiny was seen joining a group of survivors in discussion. One survivor in particular, identified only as Jayco, seemed to have an influence on Benreiny. He left with Jayco in heated discussion, blowing off his security personnel for a little education we can only presume.

As of yet, we can only wonder if Jayco will be influencing Benreiny's decisions in office, and if his influence would be beneficial.

P.R. Benreiny, may you know your path to be built from our needs. Please tread swiftly.