Congrats. You’re seeing the site from the new location.
If you can’t see this…well, those people will see this in a day or so.
Today we moved the site to the new hosting service. Things should be smoother from here on out.
We hope.
Anyone besides me noticing any performance increases?
Normal posting to continue tomorrow.
The other day the band Live came up on the Drive-by Truckers mailing list. I was 18 when Live broke into the Tampa radio scene with “Operation Spirit” of their Four Songs EP. Now, I’m willing to admit it, at the age of 18 I was pretty easy…talk bad about god and I’ll probably like it, and “Operation Spirit” played right into that. Nowadays I’m a little more discerning, but I still like the song- a lot. So, either it’s a good song or it really plays on my nostalgic memories of a simpler age. I am gonna stick with it being a good song.
I was disappointed with the full-length album that contained “Operation Spirit”, Mental Jewelry, but still bought Throwing Copper the day it came out. It opened with the last Live track I would ever like, “The Dam at Otter Creek”. They went on to write numerous Top 40 hits and have enough Platinum albums to get a set of custom Grillz out of ‘em, but, IMO, they are still just an earlier, grittier Creed of Mud or something…but those 2 songs. Damn.
I hadn’t heard either of them in a decade or so so I decided to pull ‘em both of my favorite p2p network, and then I decided to share them with you. Turns out, these guys still tour…who knew.
On this day in 1957, U.S. Customs agents seized 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem, Howl being imported in the United States by a London printer on the grounds of obscenity on the basis of the line:
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy
The confiscation resulted in an obscenity trail against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poem’s new domestic publisher. Clayton Horn (a Sunday school teacher) was the judge for the case and had achieved notoriety earlier that year for sentencing five shoplifters to a screening of The Ten Commandments. The defense brought literary expert after literary expert (9 in total) to the stand to testify to the poems literary and social importance and on October 3 Judge Horn ruled the poem was of “redeeming social importance” and Ferlinghetti was cleared.
Today I thought I would post the audio of Mr. Ginsberg reading Howl as well as my three favorite Howl references in song. I hope y’all enjoy.
Dan Bern – Wasteland
They Might Be Giants – I Should Be Allowed To Think
Meg Lee Chin – Nutopia
Meg Lee Vs. Hanzel Und Grety – Nutopia (remix)
We have been aware of all the “Can Not Connect To Database” errors the site has been generating as well as the overall sluggish performance the site has shown and trust us…it has been infinitely more frustrating for us than y’all. After waiting and hoping our current hosting service would get their shit together we have officially given up.
A new hosting service has been paid and the transfer shall begin shortly. If things go well this will be seamless and there will be no interruption of posts. If things, as they often do, fall short of well then you know what’s up and we’ll be back to normal except faster and with 100% less errors as quickly as possible.
Cross your fingers.
-ninebullets.net
Podcast