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August 31, 2005
New Hall of Fame MP3 - Ooo Wee!
Chicago's own Hall of Fame, Ooo Wee! the mp3!
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HTML Character Entity Reference - Special Characters
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For all you HTML coders out there who wish to spice up your Web pages, blogs and forums with special characters
HTML Character Entity Reference
Character entity names & entity reference decimal equivalent—HTML GEEK LOVE!
Want a quick reference for HTML Named Colors and Gray Shades? You got it!
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August 30, 2005
Ferrari Enzo Encounter
When you think of performance cars there are a few that automatically pop into your head, Lamborghini and Porsche for instance; but none make such an impact as the Ferrari Enzo. To understand what type of impact this magnificent car creates you have to go back to its roots and to the man, which created a movement, Mr. Enzo Ferrari.
To learn more about the history of Mr. Enzo Ferrari open this link: Enzo Ferrari Biography
Last weekend I had an encounter with a 2003 Ferrari Enzo, when it suddenly pulled out in front of my Yukon. I tried to keep up but the car handled the curvy street as if my SUV was in park. After a mile or so I had the opportunity to catch the machine. That only happened when it was parked getting gas.
I have to say the encounter left me memorized enough that I had to pull up next to the car. I didn’t want to frighten the owner but driving a car like that I am sure he gets many more of my kind pulling over to stare.
Maybe one day when Bigbaer.com reaches the levels of an MTV.com I can afford to dish out $700,000, but right now I am good with my Yukon.
Specs:
660 Horsepower
6.0 L V12 Engine
6 Speed manual overdrive
8 MPG (City) OUCH!!!!!
12 MPG (Highway)
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Jen Gloeckner - Miles Away, closer than ever
Jen Gloeckner's Miles Away album continues to retain a top spot on my personal playlist. Listen to the following Real Audio tracks to hear why. Jen is amazing.Jen Gloeckner (Miles Away) [ Nothing Personal | Mountains | Hazy Sky ]
Enjoy the lushness…
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August 29, 2005
PUFFY AMIYUMI "Joining a fan club" video
Come on, you know you like 'em… Here is the Puffy AmiYumi Joining a Fan Club video: Quicktime | RealVideo | Windows Media Enjoy! Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi!
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August 16, 2005
Deep Dish - George Is On TOUR!
01 Sep 2005 - Ibiza, Spain - Yoshitoshi @ Pacha Along with Dean Coleman. Official 'George is On' tour date.
02 Sep 2005 - Antwerp, Belgium - Cafe D'Anvers Featuring Dubfire. Official 'George is On' tour date.
03 Sep 2005 - Zurich, Switzerland - Club Q Featuring Dubfire. Along with Dean Coleman. Official 'George is On' tour date.
03 Sep 2005 - Miami, USA - Space Featuring Sharam. Along with Dean Coleman. Official 'George is On' tour date.
04 Sep 2005 - Toronto, Canada - Labour of Love Official 'George is On' tour date.
15 Sep 2005 - Ibiza, Spain - Yoshitoshi @ Pacha CLOSING PARTY!!! Along with Behrouz. Official 'George is On' tour date.
17 Sep 2005 - Athens, Greece - Venue Club Official 'George is On' tour date.
29 Oct 2005 - Los Angeles, USA - Monster Massive Official 'George is On' tour date. Along with Roger Sanchez, John Digweed, Behrouz, Nic Fanciulli, Judge Jules and more.
25 Nov 2005 - Chicago, USA - Soundbar Official 'George is On' tour date.
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August 15, 2005
Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio - Love is the Answer
Dwight Trible is a legend on the quiet, a retrospective waiting to happen. Over a remarkable career, this Los Angeles native has worked with everyone from Bobby Hutcherson and Charles Lloyd to Harry Belafonte. He is the vocalist with the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet and is also the vocal director for the Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a Los Angeles institution with a history stretching back forty years and an active engagement in the city’s Black community since the Watts Uprising.A couple of years ago Carlos Niño (best known over here as one half of Ammoncontact) invited Trible onto his radio show and from there a friendship and musical journey began. As Trible puts it, “you have to be careful what you say to Carlos, because he makes it happen!”. A chance comment about making some kind if hip hop record set Niño off on the journey which led to “Love Is The Answer”.
Enthused by the power of Trible’s vision, Carlos started speaking to the new luminaries of the LA scene about collaborating with this elder statesman and before he knew it he had an LP which combined sixties-inspired avant garde/spiritual jazz with the hottest beats the city had to offer. Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Madlib, Daedelus, members of Platinum Pied Pipers, Jay-Dee - wherever he went, Niño found only enthusiam and the project began to take shape…
From “Equipoise” on which Sa-Ra revisit 80s synth funk and give it their signature loping twist, through “Freedom Dance” (from Trible’s some-time drummer, multi-instrumentalist Dexter Story) with its Stetsasonic-meets-Fela vibe, on into the sheer oddness of Madlib’s “Waves of Infinite Harmony” the more straight-up boombap of “The 10th Jewel” (featuring the one and only Brother J of X-Clan fame and Sa-Ra’s second production contribution), to the mellow, looping guitars of the title track and finally through a last third that probably peaks with the incantatory “Musician’s Union” (by Ammoncontact) and the beautiful “Constellations” (which grew out of a piano loop contributed by Scott Herren to the Piano Overlord project), this is a record of pure sonic invention and all round goodness.
It is also, given Trible’s involvement, a record which is unfashionably lacking in cynicism, one which truly believes that “love is the answer” to the world’s ills. If the time, effort and beauty which result from these inter-generational collaborations are anything to go by, the great man might even be right...
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August 14, 2005
Sports @ BIGBAER.com
Best place to check out a baseball game?
Chicago Cub’s Wrigley Field
Are You Ready For Some Football! Most loyal Fans?
Green Bay Packers
Who do you think will win the World Series?
Chicago White Sox?
New York Yankees?
Boston Red Sox?
Oakland Athletics?
St Louis Cardinals?
Atlanta Braves?
That’s all we need to hear players holding out and bitching about their salaries, come on T.O. I know you are just trying to feed your family, $14 Million a year? How DO you manage?
Hey Donovan McNabb, you should be more worried about your stamina than Brett Favre’s comments! …Looking pretty sluggish big guy.
Hey Gary Sheffield, The Reporters Don’t Get You Because They’re White?
This guy should just continue to shoot up the 'roids, what an idiot. He just opened up his big mouth again. He just recently claimed that the white reporters don’t get his point of view because he’s Black. No. Because YOU’RE AN IDIOT!
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Chicago's Fordham Spire - Will it be be built?
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August 13, 2005
Laura Veirs Year of the Meteors
"Veirs' songs qualify as poems: careful, word-conscious, narrative, neither foggy nor overwritten, and tend to give you a take on regular life experience that you don't quite expect." -The New York TimesA Seattle resident by way of Colorado, Veirs' background in geology and kinship with the rugged landscape meld together with her punk performing roots to form an unusual musical outlook. Her recordings have elicited overwhelming praise in the U.K., where the Independent called Carbon Glacier "the most enthralling album I have encountered this year's benchmark by which future Americana releases will be judged" and Mojo said, "Laura Veirs might be the bridge between the alt-country ghetto and the Sheryl Crow-revering mainstream." Veirs spent most of 2004 touring in support of her Nonesuch debut, the hauntingly beautiful Carbon Glacier. She then worked her way around the States, where she was still just being discovered. The experience was at times heady, other times grueling, and she incorporated it into her new songs. Year of Meteors is no ordinary travelogue, but it will definitely take you on a remarkable journey. But don't mistake Laura Veirs for a singer-songrwriter. This is a band record: a fertile collaboration between Veirs and her studio band, the Tortured Souls (who often play live with her). Produced by Tortured Soul band member Tucker Martine, Year of Meteors' lyrics include dream-like images of sky and sea, punctuated by guitar bursts, handclaps and melodic keyboards and strings. In addition to Martine's percussion and "beats" the album features Steve Moore (piano, organs), Karl Blau (bass, guitar, vocals), and Eyvind Kang (viola). Don't miss Laura on tour with Sufjan Stevens this fall: 9/7New York, NY @ Joe's Pub 9/8Somerville, MA @ Somerville Theater* 9/9Montreal, QC @ Cabaret La Tulipe* 9/10Toronto, ON @ Trinity - St. Paul's Centre* 9/11Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre* 9/13Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom* 9/14Newport, KY @ Southgate House* 9/16Chicago, IL @ Metro* A video for the track "Galaxies" is being directed by Terri Timely (Joanna Newsom, The Wrens). e-card: Laura Veirs Year of the Meteors
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August 11, 2005
Brandi Carlile Throw It All Away Mp3 Download and Desktop Wallpaper
Brandi Carlile Fall Apart Again video streams
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August 10, 2005
GILLI MOON & WARRIOR GIRL MUSIC: Females On Fire
There is just something about Gilli Moon and Warrior Girls… Check it out: Females On Fire
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August 09, 2005
Video-C Celebrates Its 5th Birthday
Video-C, the UK’s most exciting digital music video portal, is celebrating its 5th birthday with a complete site redesign that brings new and enhanced functionality to the site. The redesign puts the consumer first, making it easier for music lovers to find, buy and watch, their favorite new music videos. [ Read it: Video-C Celebrates Its 5th Birthday: A Revamp & Exclusive Oasis Competition ]
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August 08, 2005
Tracy Chapman Where You Live
Where You Live
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August 07, 2005
Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club Dies
Ibrahim Ferrer
In 1999, Ferrer was featured in one of a string of albums that followed, Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
Two other well-known members of the original Buena Vista group, singer Compay Segundo
Ay Candela Lyrics
Ay candela, candela, candela, me quemo aé.
Ay candela, candela, candela, me quemo aé.Puso un baile un jutía, para una gran diversión.
De timbalero un ratón, que alegraba el campo un día.
Un gato también venía, elegante y placentero,
'Buenas noches, compañero'
siempre dijo así el timbal
'Para alguien aquí poder tocar,
para descansar un poco'.
Salió el ratón medio loco,
'también voy a descansar'.
Y el gato en su buen bailar, bailaba un
danzón liviano.
El ratón se subió al guano, y dice
bien placentero:
¡Y ahora si quieren bailar, búsquense
otro timbalero!Ay candela, candela, candela, me quemó aé.
Oye, Faustino Orama' y sus compañeros,
necesito que me apaguen el fuego.
Margarita llama pronto a los bomberos para
que vengan a apagar el fuego.
Oye, si estás perdida llama a los siete ceros,
y asi vendrán más pronto los bomberos.
Ay candela, candela, candela, me quemo aé,
mama ¡Aaaay!Tilán tilán
Didilán didilánMargarita que me quemo
Yo quiero seguir gozando
La candelame está llevando
Me gusta seguir guarachando
Esta tarde venimo' acabando
Como quiera venimo' tocando
La mujer cuando se agacha
Se le abre el entendimiento
La mujer cuando se agacha
Se le abre el entendimiento
Y el hombre cuando la mira
Se le para el pensamiento
De tí me gusta una cosa
Sin que me cueste trabajo
De tí me gusta una cosa
Sin que me cueste trabajo
De la barriga pa'rriba, de la cintura pa'bajo
Mira se quema, se quema, mama
Mira se quema, se quema, oye
Mira mama que me quemo
Mira llama pronto a los bomberos, para que
vengan a apagar el fuego
Mira que el fuego me está quemando
Y yo quiero seguir guarachando
Mira se quema Báyamo, mira que Songo
está que arde
Mira se quema La Maya, mira ese pito
que suena.
Malaguën está que corta mama
Santiago de Cuba está que te mete en llamas
Se quema, se quema, se quema, oye, mira
me quemo, me quemo.
Mira que me quemo, oye, yo quiero
seguir guarachando.
Mira mama que yo vengo quemando.
Faustino Orama' tú está acabando
Mira se quema, se quema
Pero mira mi mami se quema
Oye se quema, se quemaOh fire, fire, fire, I'm burning!
Oh fire, fire, fire, I'm burning!
A rodent put on a dance for some great amusement
He chose a mouse as his drummer, to play for the whole day.
An elegant and amiable cat came along too,
'Good evening my friend'
He said to the drummer
'I can play too,
And you can take a rest'.
The mouse left the room half-crazy,
'Now I'll have to go and rest!'
And the cat played a lighthearted danzón in his delightful way.
The mouse got up on the palm-tree roof and announced politely:
'And now if you want to dance, find yourself another drummer!'[English translation]
Oh fire, fire, fire, I'm burning!Listen, Faustino Orama' and friends,
I need someone to put out the flames.
Margarita call the fire-men quickly, to put out the flames.
Listen, if you are lost, dial seven zeros,
That way the fire-brigade might turn up.
Oh fire, fire, fire, I burnt myself,
Mamma, ay!Tilán, tilán
Didilán didilánMargarita I'm burning
I like it, I can't stop
The fire is taking me with it
I don't want to stop
This afternoon it'll be time to end
We'll carry on playing as we choose
When a woman bends over
She opens her mind
When a man looks at her
His brain just stops
I like one thing about you
It's not hard to see
From the belly down, from the waist up
Look, he's burning, burning, mama
Look, he's burning, burning, mama
Look, mama, I'm burning
Look, call the fire-brigade, tell them to put out the fire
Look, I'm burning up
But I don't want to stop
Look, Báyamo is burning,
look, Songo is a blaze
Look, La Maya is burning, listen to the whistle blowing.
Malagüen is in trouble mama
Santiago de Cuba can set you alight
He's burning, burning, burning, listen
look, I'm burning, I'm burning.
Look, I'm burning
I can't stop myself.
Look, mama I'm burning up.
Faustino Orama' you are coming to a close
Look, he's burning, he's burning
But look, mama, he's burning
Listen, he's burning, he's burning.
Ibrahim Ferrer, Ay Candela!
Candela (Son/Tumbao), a composition by Faustino Oramas. Candela is a song of the guayabero style of singing which talks of everyday life. Listeners of Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club will not forget Ibrahim Ferrer's rendition of this rousing song. [ Ibrahim Ferrer (Wikipedia) | Ibrahim Ferrer Biography ]
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August 03, 2005
Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi - a Sweet Summer Tour
Back in the U.S.A. - A Sweet Summer Tour with Japanese Pop Group PUFFY AMIYUMI
No, they aren't just cartoon characters from that popular Cartoon Network show! Japanese singing dou Puffy Amiyumi are real, and their music has been putting smiles on adult faces around the world for many years. Now they are back in the U.S.A. and on tour.
- 8/18 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
- 8/20 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
- 8/22 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club
- 8/24 - Boston, MA - Somerville Theatre
- 8/27 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
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August 02, 2005
Rafael Palmeiro "Dumb Ass"
Rafael Palmeiro Dumb Ass!
What gets me about this Jabronie is that its not like he has just started using the roids. I mean this is the same guy that a few months back testified in front of Congress that "I never used steroids period." What a dumb ass! Another thing, which is funny about this mess, is that in the beginning of the season he wasn’t hitting anything, he needed 78 or so more hits to get to 3,000. Looks like he juiced it up to get his numbers.
He should of have done it gracefully get the 3,000 hit, even if it took an entire season, its not like he wasn’t going to Cooperstown, 3,000 hits, 500 Home Runs. Dumb Ass! Your not going to Cooperstown now.
For more log on towww.espn.com
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Meat Beat Manifesto at the center
Jack Dangers is the veteran composer and sound sculptor behind Meat Beat Manifesto. His constantly evolving musical invention has generated a long string of futuristic classics, God O.D., Strap Down, Psyche Out, Helter Skelter, Radio Babylon, Edge of No Control, and It's Music.
As a premiere remixer, producer and sound designer, he has played a seminal role in designing tomorrow's music today. Get ready for Meat Beat Manifesto's At The Center.
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August 01, 2005
CBGB's future in doubt, artists rally
Iconic rock club CBGB is in dire straits due to unpaid back-rent and possible eviction. For many rock stars and legions of New York club goers, CBGB was where it was happening. Read it: Life During Wartime for CBGB - This Must Be The Place
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Lil Kim's Naked Truth
Love her or hate her there are few who have not heard of hip-hop n' rap diva Lil' Kim. In the music business longevity is a measure of success. So is notoriety. Lil' Kim has achieved both. Lil' Kim To Reveal The "Naked Truth" On Sept. 13th
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