Dangerous. . .

. . . write, call, shout NOW!!!

SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.

Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they will fatally damage the free and open Internet.

The entertainment industry understandably feels threatened, and well they should.  But instead of forcing potential consumers to pay for the crap they come up with why don't they explore improving the quality, the delivery and the price of their PRODUCT!!!!

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Growth, maturity, evolution. . .

(From "Reflections on the Art of Living", A Joseph Campbell Companion, Selected and Edited by Diane K. Osbon, © 1991 The Joseph Campbell Foundation)

". . . When I was about sixteen years old, in prep school, and knew I was losing my childhood faith, I resolved that I would not quite the Catholic Church until I knew why I was quitting, that is to say, until I had dissolved the symbols and knew what they referred to and meant.  The whole thing wasn't over until I was twenty-five years old and in Germany.  I spent nine years working everything out, and then it just dropped off like a worn-out shirt.  That's the knowing thing.  If you don't know what the hell that symbol is saying to you, then it's just there as a command, and there is going to be more and more of this hanging on.  If you can't use your mind in this rather complex field, I don't know how you are going to work it out.

You become mature
when you become the authority for your own life.

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Pppppplease!. . .

RAY JOZWIAK Provides the Piano Prelude playing a preposterously paced program precluding the ponderous and pedestrian postmortems practiced proactively by poseurs

at The Brewer’s Alley Songwriters Showcase on Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 7:30PM

Brewer's Alley Restaurant & Brewery (Songwriters Showcase-Upstairs)
124 North Market Street
Frederick, MD 21701

Telephone: 301-631-0089 Fax: 301-631-1874
http://www.brewers-alley.com/

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Miles and Miles of quotes. . .

(Quotes from Miles Davis. . . )
"I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?"
Davis attended a reception in honor of Ray Charles at Ronald Reagan's White House in 1987. This was his reply to a Washington society lady seated next to him who had asked him what he had done to be invited.

"If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow."  During an interview, after growing aggravated about questions on the subject of race.

"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."  On being called a legend.

"Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin"

"Who's that motherfucker? He can't play shit!"
on Cecil Taylor

"You a motherfucker."  a compliment to Chick Corea, who thought he was about to be fired.

"He plays like somebody is standing on his foot."  on Eric Dolphy

"He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll."  on Prince

"Why'd you put that white bitch on there?"
To George Avakian after seeing the cover chosen by Columbia for Miles Ahead.

"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played." and "I love Pops" (Louis' nickname)
on Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.

"I’ll play it and tell you what it is later."   During a recording session for Prestige, on the album "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" (1956).

"Listen baby, when I say later, I mean it! Later!"  After being approached by a relentless interviewer.

"There are no wrong notes."  My ego only needs a good rhythm section.

On being asked what he looked for in musicians.  "When you are creating your own shit, man, even the sky ain't the limit."

"Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth."  Davis was questioning the increasing length of John Coltrane solos, and Trane answered "I don't know how to stop."

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

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Bowled over . . .

. . . Dude

". . . I didn't evaluate music or entertainment for its sophistication, its level of technique or virtuosity or any of that stuff;  and still don't, for the most part.  My preferred entertainments are ones that quite simply MOVE me.  I can't always explain why, nor should I have to, but if I am moved in some small form or fashion, I deem it desirable.  And it doesn't have to move me the first time I hear it like 'love at first sight';  only in this case, at first 'listen'. In fact, some of the most rewarding (or MOVING) music that I now appreciate most did not bowl me over the first time I heard it. . . "

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Sounds funny. . .

 . . . but it's true.  It's a party with live, original music.

It's almost here. 

Who? OHO (Jay, Dave, Ray with guest vocalists Lisa Griffee and Kelly G), Easy Cowboy (w/Matt Rose), Jason & The Butchers and El Sledge (+)

What? Shlongtasm 2012; each band will perform a 25-30 minute set

Where? Joe Squared Pizza (133 W. North Ave. at the corner of North Ave. and Howard Street, Balto., MD 21201; phone: 410.545.0444)

When? 9:00 PM till closing, Friday January 20, 2012

Why? To celebrate El Sledge (+) manager, Dan Long, to rage against the dying of the light (“It’s a cold stare at humankind masquerading as happy beer-hall music—Lift your flagon to this, you f*&k.’”-Stan Ridgway), ingest some delicious pie, & to quaff steins brimmed with delicious, foaming hops-infused beverage. 

Limousine (by OHO)

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GENERALizing. . .

. . . about the rich or the poor gets us nowhere . . .

Mitt Romney says that since our current President practices the "politics of division" (he obviously lives in a cocoon),  many intelligent (maybe that's the missing element) Americans are quite conscious of the existing rift between rich and poor in this country.  Pew Social & Demographic Trends found 66% of Americans see strong conflicts between the two groups, and a full 19% more than did in 2009.

Almost half of the people interviewed said they thought rich people are rich because they were born into rich families or know the right people and a comparable percentage thought the rich earned their riches through hard work, ambition or education. 

Well, both groups are correct.  And like any other group of two or more human beings, within each of those rich populations there are good, honest, principled people and there are lying, cheating, dishonest charlatans as well.

Much like the perception that rich (sometimes not-so-rich-yet conservative, white-collar-middle-to-upper-middle-class) people hold that poor people are poor because they are lazy and therefore do not work hard, have no ambition and are as a result (or as a cause) have no education.  And they are right also. . . that is about SOME poor people.  But if they are speaking of a group of two or more poor people, they are not considering the good, honest, principled people who have tried but have suffered setbacks, disadvantages, discrimination, bad luck, bad circumstances or bad timing who have not been able to attain the success that some may THINK these poor people could have attained.

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