Monthly Archives: January 2009

falling in on itself

has anyone else noticed that myspace has a lot of odd behavior? i get messages from friends and try to reply and the site goes down. i get an email notice that say, luci martin has a new blog entry (which i highly suggest you subscribe to). i click to go there and it goes

more social networking

i finally got around to setting up a facebook page. its not that i am lazy or didn’t think its important. well yes i can be lazy but i honestly didn’t want to be responsible for updating yet ANOTHER website. that would make four plus twitter. i under-use twitter and the MOS sites as it

oh yes we can can

im supposed to be fixing some plug-in issue but i took a break to listen to this. producer/writer allen toussaint who wrote this song was working labelle at the peak of their success (lady marmalade) around the same time (early to mid-seventies) this was recorded by producer david rubinson.  its interesting to note that labelle

Mr President

Mr President Originally uploaded by uegmusic Here is a picture of President Obama taken in his limo The Beast at his Inaugural Parade January 20th, 2009 CE. (Thank you Dale for this picture-because y’all KNOW I wasn’t out in that cold LOL)

waste not want not

Embedded video from CNN Video

Where Were You?

Inaugural @ the Sports Bar 3 Originally uploaded by uegmusic i decided i wanted to share the moment in history of president obama’s inauguration with other people. i decided to stay local and had heard that starbucks was doing a deal with universal/msnbc to broadcast coverage of the day’s events in their stores. i figured

since i first saw the virus snow TI last year, it has been on my acquisition list once i have a need for it (hopefully later this year). here is a thoughtful video review of the piece that is pretty extensive.

its gearing up i just saw an ad online at politico.com for a hop hop inaugural ball. i wasn’t going to let that ad go by unclicked.  one thing i noticed is the proceeds are “going to charity.” it really helps the cause if the charity is mentioned because some folks may or may not

when i was jeffrey osborne’s MD (let’s just say band leader), i got a call in late 1984 asking me if i wanted to do a show with the band in DC in 1985 for an inaugural ball.  my first reaction was NO. but then i had to remember that christmas was going to stretch

there is an article on cnn.com about a black sharecropper from mississippi who is two generations from slavery. i was thinking about my own family tree earlier today on my mother’s side of the family. i know my great grandparents were one generation from slavery. but it wasn’t something that would’ve been talked about to