2007 August | buzz twang

hilly kristal kicks a hole in the sky

August 31, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

CBGB founder Hilly Kristal has passed away after a long battle with lung cancer. He gave an interesting and heartfelt interview recently, in which he is obviously aware that the final curtain is upon this part of his journey. Farewell. The closing of CB’s was a sore spot for me for a lot of reasons- [...]

Hump Day Music Interlude

August 30, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Stereophonics…Traffic from Live from Dakota. Shades of Neil Finn to be sure… We all face the same way, still it takes all day,I take a look to my left, pick out the worst and the best,She paints her lip, greasy and thick, another mirror stareAnd she’s going where? Another office affair? to kill an unborn [...]

while my guitar gently weeps

August 28, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Acoustic version of the Beatles White Album classic. Just George Harrison and guitar. A measure of just how much the world has changed. The first time I heard this version was from a bootleg LP that I bought down on 8th Street here in Manhattan about 22 years ago. It wasn’t easy to find actually. [...]

dumberness as art form

August 28, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Whenever I want to find out what the current lies on a given topic might be, I head on over to the house that inbreeding built. And, it would seem, so do others. Just like McDonald’s, ‘ol Bob Owens can be counted upon to provide a consistent product. And, for those of us who crave [...]

Remember the pipe bomb terrorists?

August 28, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

A few weeks ago, the right wing world was hyperventilating over the arrest of two middle eastern college students in North Carolina. Apparently the men had “pipe bombs” or “fireworks” or “explosives” (depending upon who was telling the story) in the trunk of the car they were driving near a US naval base. Open and [...]

Iraq the Drama: How to destroy a country and a people

August 28, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

The great legacy of the Bush presidency will be how they fought so hard for a war and then had no clue how to fight the war. New from the past few days… U.S. tax dollars used to finance killing of U.S. soldiers. Think about that for a few seconds… Feel that lump of bile [...]

name that tune

August 25, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

DJ Scotch Egg’s Scotch Bach, video directed by Steve Glashier… buzz-twang : news and views : blog

"bomb somebody in Iran"

August 23, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Don’t forget to Sign the Open Letter and Tell the networks not to follow FOX down the road to war. Pass it on. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Bill Moyers Journal – The Rove Legacy

August 19, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

Will comment on the Rove Presidency soon… buzz-twang : news and views : blog

uptight, short sighted narrow minded hyprocrites

August 16, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

gimme some truth by john lennon… (and a nice guitar solo by George Harrison.) buzz-twang : news and views : blog

The United States of Debt

August 15, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

The great measure of a truly strong nation is its economic power. A strong military is valuable, but severely limited as we are seeing unfold in Iraq. The base failures of the campaign in Iraq are economic and social. Put simply: there are no jobs, there is no infrastructure and thus no real process of [...]

the dick, the maliki and the antichrist

August 11, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

From McClatchy: …behind the scenes, however, the president’s top aides have been engaged in an intensive internal debate over how to respond to iran’s support for shiite muslim groups in iraq and its nuclear program. vice president dick cheney several weeks ago proposed launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in iraq run by the quds [...]