The electric bass has been the channel through which anything became jazz and jazz became everything….. Here’s a taste of a few masters.

A solo a la Marcus Miller:

Justice Groove by Stanley Clarke on the Arsenio Hall Show!

Teen Town by Jaco Pastorius a la Weather Report….

John Patitucci with Chick Corea and Vinnie Colaiuta…. (skip to 2:50 mins for Patitucci solo)

If there’s one website that has my back it’s Grist.org, a highly recommended site for anyone with a sense of humor (or in need of one), a heart (or in need of one), and a care for the environment (…..or in need of one).

How about a little taste of Grist with the Ask Umbra column (she’s like the female version of me; and she’s BRILLIANT!!!).

I don’t know about you but I miss being an orangutan. At least some of us still have their hair.

At any moment someone will appear with a brilliant piece of literature and speak words of wisdom that will shift the course of many lives and minds. And so it happens again with, my new hero, Michael Thomas, author of Man Gone Down, winner of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Be sure to view this video of Michael Thomas at the Boston Book Festival. And enjoy the book.

When your own words just aren’t enough, it’s time for a new favorite band:

3OH!3

GET TO KNOW THEM:

TRY TO ENJOY THE MUSIC, “Holler Till You Pass Out”:

(found via Maud Newton via her friend Michael, thanks guys!)

I can’t be saved, he says… because it’s just a game? Oh no. We have to kill Pokemon. And every other fantasy too.

Luckily I found an 8 year old who’s not playing Pokemon. But he’s pretty “sick” to his stomach over homosexuality. He says the gays are “going to hell!” But no sign of Pokemon in the Bible:

Can I get an amen?

You ever have a crush on a comic?

Major news network headlines provide some interesting choices in language and quotes immediately after President Obama’s speech at the UN today:

FOX News:

Obama: U.S. Does Not Recognize ‘Legitimacy of Continued Israeli Settlements’

Obama’s stark declaration, which drew applause, was coupled with a call for Palestinians to end their “incitement of Israel.”

[Oh, FOX, why are you so filled with hate? Out of the 40+ minute speech you had to go straight for the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Trying to pick a fight tough guy?]

New York Times:

At U.N., Obama Sets New Tone, but Problems Are Familiar

[Everything is always familiar at the NY Times! They already know everything, past, present, future. They're like an old wisdom keeper with a touch of pessimism; they're the nation's grandpa.]

CNN:

Obama: World failing to deal with challenges

[CNN should be DSHS!, Dismal Shocking Holy Shit! But bravo for brevity as usual.]

Washington Post:

Obama Challenges World Leaders in U.N. Speech

[Simple, neutral, a touch of hope. Nothing like a good challenge.]

ABC News:

Obama to the world: We can no longer go it alone

[Here here! Sounds like a battle cry or folk or soul song? No, we can no longer go it alone. Baby, can we sit down and talk a while, we need to work this world out a little. You know how I like it. Yes, just like that.]

Yahoo! News:

Obama to world: Don’t expect America to fix it all

[Like, OMG! Do you really, like, think I'm going to clean up all this mess?! Yahoo! and News are two words that shouldn't be too close to each other.]

Wall Street Journal:

Obama Calls for New ‘Era of Engagement’

[Clean, big, grand, perfect quote. Don't expect R. Murdoch's lemmings to follow with flattery though.]

BBC:

Obama urges world to stand united

[The BBC always has the "world" and "united" in mind. They're just so nice with their cute little accents.]

USA Today:

Obama: ‘We share a common culture’

[It's not USA Today without something "common" and totally bland.]

LA Times:

Obama urges U.N. to rein in reflexive ‘anti-Americanism’

[Do people in LA really know what the word "reflexive" means? It took them long enough to understand 'anti-Americanism'.]

Huffington Post:

Obama Speech: Time For A “New Era Of Engagement”

[Huff Po, sleek and easy like an iPhone 3GS, it's hip internet news at its best. Why would I say something so stupid? Because it's not really that stupid. Huff Po conveniently posts the entire text of Obama's speech (it's mammoth and awesome, even if you can't read).]

Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

Damon Weaver, an 11 year-old reporter for Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary school’s KEC TV station, delivers stealth questions in an interview with President Obama on education, bullying, basketball skills, and french fries and mangoes.

In a heated moment, Mr. Weaver insists on having french fries and mangoes everyday for lunch, the President says no and goes on to school Mr. Weaver on where mangoes are grown. Mr. Weaver, upset at the President’s response, fires back with a trick question, trying to catch the President off guard. Mr. Weaver says: I know that as President, you get booty calls alot, how do you handle that? Mr. Weaver threw out the bait in one of the first real tests of the President’s character. The President is about to answer the question then he stumbles, turns a deaf ear and asks Mr. Weaver: As President, I get what? Mr. Weaver rephrases the question: Bullied a lot? The President clarifies: Bullied, you mean people say mean things about me? The President, playing a game of naivete, successfully rewrote the question himself and avoided a mammoth scandal.

Mr. Weaver, again goes for the jugular and draws an admission from the President that he, in fact, cannot dunk a basketball. Don’t believe it? See it for yourself, our President can’t dunk…………..

Four stars for Mr. Weaver’s reportorial savvy.

An article in this week’s New Yorker Magazine, Message In a Bottle, by John Colapinto, reports of David de Rothschild’s latest green venture to sail across the Pacific ocean in a boat made of plastic water bottles. While media loves paying attention to the good stewardship of people who have tons of money, like Mr. de Rothschild, heir to the Rothschild banking family of England, the news rarely shines on the underlings who have already done the deed. Rothschild’s “oceanic eco-crusade”, as Colapinto calls it, has already been conquered. » Read more… «

Ever wonder where rap is going? Ever want to love rap? Strap it on with Team Facelift…

More at Team Facelift’s MySpace page

If you find yourself getting excited looking at the photos on Bend Me Over, it’s not because they’re full of naked bodies, it’s because they are stunning works of art. In each photo the body sings electric (to quote the title of the 70s jazz fusion band Weather Report, The Body Sings Electric (a great band that got better with Jaco Pastorius)). The site pays great respect to the human figure and its desires, be them moral, oral, floral, rural…. So without further ado, your eyes get the prize (and do bookmark this link:  Bend Me Over

And if you want to follow what’s becoming an interesting study in sexual boundaries and tolerance, be sure to follow Bend Me Over on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bendusover 

Followers lose steam as the photos change their lean. Is a sexual revolution upon us? Will the Puritan sinners repent or be bent… over?    

Stay tuned to Attention Limited for a deep penetration analysis at a later date.

The name Vince Schlomi doesn’t come without some quality drama…… check out the The Smoking Gun’s mug shots 

It’s brilliant to see a comedian dissolve the credibility, piece by piece, of a former hedge funder turned media money advisor trick-star. The John Stewart & Jim Cramer unedited interview gets the best link this week. Stewart CRUSHES Cramer. A must see.

Good guys, bad guys, accusations, beautiful language gymnastics, retention, bonuses, billions of dollars, and the threat of wealth—it’s a good old testimony, AIG CEO Edward Liddy takes the heat.

Paraphrasing ACT I

LIDDY:  We’ll lose the good guys who can get us out of this mess, these are retention bonuses, we cannot afford to lose these people, these bonuses will keep them.

EVERYONE ELSE:  Why are you rewarding people who got us into this mess with bonuses, bad, bad, bad boy, give it back. Show us who the bad guys are, we’re coming to get you.  The American people are coming to get you.    

ATTENTION LIMITED:  Mr. Liddy, where will the top dogs at AIG go if they don’t get their retention bonuses? Will they actually be able to get another job? Isn’t it hard to get a job today?

ATTENTION LIMITED ADVISORY COMMITTEE:  The top dogs at AIG don’t need a job, they’re filthy rich. We’re at the mercy of their wealth and their need for more.

CUOMO:  Give me the names of the top few people who did this to the country!  

To be continued…

Good video link, grab you cup of coffee or tea, pint of ice cream or bag of popcorn:   

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-16531

New to Twitter? It’s fascinating. Easy to use. And horribly unnecessary for most people who don’t need to sell themselves or be followed. This super link video with the hot bomb Daily Show mom ~Samantha Bee~ will tune you in on all things twit…. 

Yes, it takes a lot of water to produce a lot of things. Yes, there’s tons of water wasted everyday. Yes, our bodies are mostly made of water. Yes, the world is mostly water too. Yes, we need to fix the problem. 

Let’s start with the paper coffee cup and all that surrounds it. 

In another fascinating article from OurWorld 2.0 (one of the cleanest, sharpest, most effective websites out there), Mark Notaras and Raj Raghavan tell us how the paper coffee cup is mounting up in our environment, our bodies, and how it’s effecting the world’s water flow. 

Super Link Thursday goes to: Sad demise of the paper coffee cup

Please enjoy this link with a ceramic coffee cup or, if you’re “on the go” use a stainless steel cup that will last forever (even through the next ice age for our future progeny to use).

As for Starbucks, they do some fair things and make an effort to spread good will, but if they don’t eradicate the paper coffee cup and wasteful water use for production of their coffee, then the problem will worsen.

VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY. Boycott. Buycott. Now’s the time to spend right.

Chances are the author of the blog and book, Stuff White People Like, Christian Lander, is a white guy himself who is experienced in all things White. There are a three words to sum up the success of his book/list and acknowledge it’s precarious future: bourgeoisie, bohemian, recession. When you combine bourgeoisie and bohemian you get a list of things White people like, however, when you add the word recession to that mix you get stuff White people like but cannot afford because they’re no longer bourgeoisie. You can’t deny Lander’s list of stuff white people like isn’t accurate. And you can’t deny him some good old Super Link Thursday attention. We can all still afford to read, so when you’re done perusing the help wanted listings on your public library computer, check out:  stuffwhitepeoplelike.com

You got to love a president who likes telling the people what they’re doing with our money and where they’re trying to steer the country.

This week’s Super Link Thursday goes to RECOVERY.GOV 

Recovery.gov ought to be part of your weekly reads. Whether you are part of the most devastating economic crisis of all time or just an ordinary Joe who wants to know where his tax money goes, check in with Recovery.gov like you check your bank statements or the shoebox under your bed.

If so choose, you can also “Share your Recovery Story” —tell the government how the Recovery Act is affecting you! (Just note, you have to enter your home address… if they want to respond, how bad could it be, maybe you’ll win dinner with the Obamas!!!)

There’s nothing like an American government live on the internet.

Joaquin Phoenix is on David Letterman, a golden performance that turns the televised world upside down. More performers and people in general need to take chances like this, it’s the risky business of art and life and these days no one has anything to lose. This is a clip you’ll never forget, and hopefully you can live by the underlying morals of it all. Laugh, enjoy, question. It’s subtle, it’s present, it’s about time people are getting real.

A cute girl in a tiny kitchen impersonates a pig, cures the meat, seasons the ragu, and tops the dish off with some fatback. One of the more entertaining cooking demonstrations out there, Jill Santopietro, a cook and recipe tester for the New York Times is doing a real peasant dish in a true peasant fashion. The only advice from Super Link Thursdays: next time you bump your knee on the cabinet in your small kitchen, add some theatrics…….either ignore it like a tough Neapolitan woman or throw your hands up and curse a few saints or your dead husband and maybe hit the stove with a spatula… What would be a serious triumph is if she tries to collaborate with another person in her tiny kitchen, it would be an acrobatic feat, a culinary ballet. Then again, the tiny kitchen jammed with cooks is like every professional kitchen, studio kitchen, and many family kitchens out there right now. This girl is hardcore, keep an eye out for her, she’s going to change the face of the cooking show. 

Super Link: Tiny Kitchen: Eggs in Purgatory

Clipped from New York Times

What comes to mind when we think of greed is often: money, power, sex, and oil. Let’s make sure we don’t leave out the United States’ thirst, literally. 

“In Fiji, one Fiji Water factory produces more than a million bottles daily for the United States, while ‘more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water’.” – Our World 2.0 

Some like to keep their hands in their pockets like they’re hanging out at the country club. Some like to keep their hands behind them like they’re proud of what they did and wish people noticed them again. Some keep one hand in their pocket and the other at their side because that’s where their hands were when they left the bingo party. Some like to keep their hands at their sides ready to attack preemptively when their ears are in danger of being flicked. And some like to keep their hands awkwardly in front of them like they’re the new kid in school wondering if they’re going to be liked.