Monday, July 20th - Musical Mondays at Jack London Square – Bobby Young
This summer, Jack London Square is holding a two month series of Musical Mondays. Jack London Square hosts live musical entertainment to enjoy while playing favorite board games. Check out chess, checkers, scrabble and much more. Build up an appetite and check out the prefix dinner menus that the JLS restaurants will feature to help you ease into another work week. This event will be held from 5:30-8:00 pm at the foot of Broadway in Jack London Square.
Tuesday, July 21st – Oakland City Council Meeting
Among other items, the Council will be discussing seeking public and private funding to improve parks, establishing the Oakland Tourism Business District, increasing fees for parking garages and monthly swim passes, and various grants. But the real fireworks should happen during the item that’s not really agendized, the Army Base. Instead of discussing who to award the Army Base contract to, they’ll just be discussing when to agendize a discussion of this – either for their special Council meeting on July 28th or something after recess. Both Larry Reid and Ignacio De La Fuente walked out (at different times) on last week’s Rules Committee meeting, which is why this discussion is happenign at the full Council meeting. See the full meeting agenda and check out my post about how to watch and understand City Council meetings if you need some guidance on how or where to view the meeting. The non-ceremonial parts of the meeting start at 7pm at the Council Chambers in City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza.
Wednesday, July 15th – MTC Hearing on Oakland Airport Connector Funding
This Wednesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) will be voting on $140 million in funding for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC). This vote will be one of the last votes on funding for the OAC, yet BART has failed to provide accurate information on projected ridership and a bus alternative. We are urging MTC not to approve this funding until BART can answer questions that advocates have been asking for months. Please join us at 10am at MTC Headquarters, 101 Eighth Street near Lake Merritt BART. For more info, visit OaklandAirportConnnector.com.
Thursday, July 23rd – Wellstone Democratic Club Meeting
The Bay Area Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club will present and discuss “Reforming the California Budget and the Process for Change” at its monthly meeting. The panel consists of San Francisco Assessor Recorder Phil Ting of “Close the Prop 13 Loophole”, www.closetheloophole.com, who states, “California cannot continue to mortgage the future to protect corporate tax loopholes for commercial properties” and proposes adopting a split-roll strategy so that corporate property taxes can increase while homeowners retain their low rates. The panel also includes, UC Berkeley Professor of Linguistics, George Lakoff, who will discuss the ways Californians can begin to frame the debate in which this difficult change can be made. The meeting will be held at the Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street in Oakland. The program begins at 7:30 PM following a potluck and business meeting at 6 PM. For more information, visit the club’s website.
Friday, July 24th – Fourth Friday Summer Nights: The Secret Garden
This summer, the Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate is hosting free movies on the fourth Friday of each month. This month, they’ll be showing The Secret Garden. Via V Smoothe, “The grounds open at 6 PM for picnicking and wandering. Music is provided before the movies, which begin around 8:30, once the sun sets. And if you don’t have a car, no problem! AC Transit line 45 drops you off maybe a 10 minute walk (or less, depending on how fast you walk, I guess) from the Estate and runs until midnight.” The estate is located at 2960 Peralta Oaks Ct.
Saturday, July 25th - 2nd Annual Bike for Life
Healin’ From Killin’, a Bike Ride For Peace – from Lake Merritt to DeFremery Parkm, led by SCRAPER BIKES. Ride starts at 2pm from Lakeside Park, 468 Perkins St. Party begins at 3pm at DeFremery Park, 1651 Adeline St. Featuring food, prizes, skateboard exhibition, turf dancing, and performances by the Trunk Boiz, Queen Deelah and special guests! Find more info at www.bikes4life.com.
Saturday, July 25th - Craft Bazaar at Pretty Penny
The Parlour Gallery and local vintage haunt, Pretty Penny, are joining forces to highlight emerging bay area talent with their first ever Craft Bazaar. The bazaar will be a day focused on a small number of handpicked local fashion and craft designers and their amazing fares. With an intimate feel, shoppers will have the chance to get know each artist and what goes into their designs, while enjoying some great music. Join in the support and come see how talented your neighbors really are Saturday July 25th from 11am to 7pm at Pretty Penny, 5488 College Ave.
Not usual viewing of mine, but today I found myself passing the time watching Ray Mears. For those who do not know, Ray Mears is, well, the modern day action man in some respects. Man vs nature, legendary outdoor survival expert and extreme conditions handler, Mr Mears is the companion to have when you go camping. Yet today, he struck me with one solid sentence that really can be applied to any person, anywhere…”It is not what you know, but how you apply it”
I guess this statement can be used in the context of not just a profession, but also any event. For example, you may be the most knowledgeable medic or have the broadest understanding about teaching in a classroom environment, but actually being put in a situation where a satisfactory outcome means you have to apply this knowledge can be more challenging than one may assume.
Experience must play a huge part in how well you apply this knowledge. School/college/university leavers have (we hope) a great range and depth of knowledge in what they have studied, but how effectively can they go into a work environment and apply this tacit knowledge as successfully as someone who has been working in the industry for 20 years?
Graduate training schemes give graduates a thorough basis of adapting from an academic theory base, into hopefully a more practical level. So maybe it is important for all degrees/college courses and even school courses to have situation based teaching methods?
Just my idea anyways…
I dont know why but this just made me hate Taylor Swift even more. I dont like her music and I just dont like her stupid innocent teenager look. That monologue song was so stupid and wow you really got back at Kanye.
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This fail is too recent and ridiculous to not post.
Note: I am now going to reference Elizabeth Lambert in all future failtastic moments – because she makes me that mad and because I can.
ps I will most likely never get this self-righteous again.
Flashback to the Spring of 1977. I’m 9-years-old – getting ready to turn 10-years-old, and I’m hangin’ out with my friends down by the creek at the bottom end of Red Wing Lane in Lanham Maryland. One side of the creek I ruled. I was in charge. The territory was known as ‘Chris Day Valley’, and it stretched for as far as my imagination would allow. On the other side of the creek my friends ruled, and their territory was known as ‘Wolf Pack State’. Our two territories neighboured each other, and we were friendly nations. See – even back then I was mastering geographic boundaries !
As I was compiling the paragraph above (and wandering around on the web) I believe that I may have discovered two friends of mine (simultaneously) from that neighbourhood and that time period. I’m gonna try to connect with both of them. I see their pictures (avatars) online, and they look very much as I remember them from over 30 years ago. One of them lived in the last house on the street right before the creek and the two ‘territories’. The other lived in a house just behind mine, and he was one of my first good buddy friends.
Playing on the radio back in the old neighbourhood up and down Red Wing Lane was a lot of Disco music. ABBA (from Sweden) weren’t really a Disco act, but they got with the times when they had to. The result was their only # 1 smash stateside and perhaps their most memorable anthem of the era. It’s “Dancing Queen” ! RE-LIVE !
It’s time for another Top 5 Friday
Good Friday Hip Hop! If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I try to get at least one top 5 list in every month. Today I will countdown the top 5 trends in hip hop production for 2009.
5. The Airhorn
This has been a mixtape staple for years but only recently are we hearing it in actual songs on purpose. It originated in Reggae dance halls as a like a call to the dance floor. I remember hearing in a mixtape I got in like ‘01 from Canal Street in NY. Then I would hear it from Dj’s at parties (probably because half of their stuff came from mixtapes). Obviously Drake’s Forever was the linchpin song that demonstrated this trick but I heard some others this year as well. Even Young General wanted me to throw it in Headbanger Boogie.
4. The Drumma Boy Sound Effect
Even though Put On by Young Jeezy was the summer anthem for 2008, in 2009 everybody started biting Drumma Boy’s (the prodcuer of the song) style by inserting that electro synth build up sound effect into every damned song. My understanding is that it was supposed to be his signature tag but I guess it doesn’t work if everyone else does it.
3. Synthesizers
I suppose this was more of a carryover from 2008 but I think the death of Michael Jackson and the trend of 80’s throwback kept it going. In the last month I can’t turn on the radio without feeling like the line between hip hop, pop, techno and electro has been blurred beyond recognition.
2. Hi Pass Filtered Ad Libs
This is also known as the “telephone” effect. Obviously we were first introduced to this on B.I.G.’s Warning. But now it’s like people can’t make a song without having at least one track of vocals passed through the filter. Even singing vocals. That Sean Kingston song is a perfect example. Melodies or some sh*t like that.
1. The Triplet Kick
The staple song for the year on this one would be Every Girls by Drake, produced by Tha Bizness. It’s essentially an extra kick between a double. It’s really simple but I’ve heard it so much that I don’t understand why this never happened before. Timbaland used to do it all the time but when he did it with a bunch of other off beat type rhythms. These are like your basic 1,4,7,11 patterns (on a 16 step based sequencer) but done on a 1/32 as to be able to add that quick triplet. It’s funny because I know Jason is reading this right now and has no idea whatI am talking about.
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there is more to the uk than leona, joss and amy.
i’m not getting into estelle’s rant about whether white girls can claim soul. i’ve barley heard adele or duffy but from the snippets i haven’t managed to avoid, i would think we’re in danger of confusing soul, which they may well have a claim on, with r&b, which is the category estelle et al would fall into.
but her point about the under-represented existing soul/r&b artists in the uk is true. some – beverley knight, jamelia - are often persuaded to stray into pop territory to raise their profile. i would say there’s a huge talent chasm between those two however. somehow i don’t think anyone will be talking about jamelia in a few years, no matter who she’s slating. bitter 30 something brummie with cheating footballer husband – now that will not be a good look.
corinne bailey rae – young and foolish
craig david and kano – this is the girl
estelle – 1980
keisha white – out of my hands
lemar – someone should tell you
lisa maffia – bad girl
nate james – universal
taio cruz – backseat love
terri walker – flirtin’
winta gordon – surveillance
