http://www.arkansasrockers.com/profiles Recently updated profiles from ArkansasRockers.com en-us Hey, I'm going to be in Fayetteville Monday thru Thursday -- I'm mostly going to be busy Tuesday & Wednesday teaching creative writing & meeting w/ MFA students, but I'll be giving a reading at Giffels at 8pm Wednesday night, and will be pretty open Monday evening, and late Tue/Wed, I think.            http://www.arkansasrockers.com/tony When the new Titus Andronicus album is all that you listened to on Friday, you know you are going to drink way too much and wake up with a hangover the next day. Welcome to the shit - show. That's Mike Avery in the photo, not me. I've been meaning to take some new photos of myself for various websites, but I haven't gotten around to it. A picture is worth a thousand words and this was my Friday night: Samantha, this is for you if ever anything was ever for you.  Vert Is Dead = Chris Senn. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/justingoetz Magnesium Isotopic Composition of the Moon   it’s the name of a lecture i probably won’t be attending, but i really like saying it   Magnesium Isotopic Composition of the Moon   great blues on the following link including shouts out to little rock and fayetteville.  http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-313/   April 9th three bronze eighth notes will be laid on the beale street walk in memphis commemorating Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside, and Otha Turner.  wow.  their children now grown and musicians in their own right will be performing that night at the new daisy.  i’ll be there.  hope you can too.  if you don’t know Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside, and Otha Turner, check ‘em out.   the south is rising.  no time for haters.  this is about love.   love you http://www.arkansasrockers.com/stacy Shaner–I liked both of those games.  I like the noises RBI makes when you throw strikes and I remember there was a Bases Loaded player who played for Jersey (?) named Becker who always started fights.  As kids we used to call him Becker Becker the Black and Decker Pecker Wrecker.  I figured they played at the Jones Center.  I want to hockey. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/Mitch I too am a fan of the clean out - although we a lost a few goodies that I know are still readers.    Brian Abel is back in Fayetteville?!  That house show sounds fun, man.  Oh, Fayetteville, why don't I have a portal to you?  Today, I'm spending the day in bed.  The new job jitters are exhausting and last night I slept for fourteen hours after a long, tiring week.  Hanging out in bed, reading and watching stupid videos on the internet has been awesome.   Now it's time to entertain myself through culinary experimentation.    http://www.arkansasrockers.com/miranda http://www.arkansasrockers.com/cyberratt http://www.arkansasrockers.com/johnmark http://www.arkansasrockers.com/drwells origami critters is pretty good, but i wore out the revolver red side of that tape. lumpia.  ——————————————— want a southern vacation.  swamps, beaches, live oaks.  savannah, sea islands, outer banks, wakulla springs.    ——————————————— new life plan:  quit job.  lay around playing banjo til the money runs out.  then panic. booking UK tour for May.  Any limey contacts appreciated.   http://www.arkansasrockers.com/allison .. : : : : : : basilwolverton@gmail.com http://www.arkansasrockers.com/zack Mitch: Yeah they started up three or four years ago, I thought it was an intramural thing. They play at the Jones center rink in Springdale. thier jerseys are awesome.    I’ve been messing with R.B.I. baseball, and Bases loaded. Both of which are infuriating to play now Chad: I need to get on making my time machine so I can check that out.   Went with a friend of mine to go see his grandfather who’s in hospice care. Bob used to hire us in the summers to take care of his big chicken operation he had. we’d walk the houses taking out the sick or dead chickens and we’d trim trees by one of us standing up in the bucket of the tractor loader with a chainsaw, all of this with a getto blaster somewhere blasting something shitty. He’s in real bad shape, beaten cancer a few times over the years but I think he’s just exhausted from it now.  One of the nurses mentioned how they’d had a rough go of it that day from losing three patients in the morning back to back,  We get him out of bed so he can sit up, and he has a seizure. Which wasn’t such a jarring expierence for me and my friend but I really felt for the nurses. they looked ready to get done with Thursday for sure. It also comes as a suprise to me whenver I lift people in that state, how light and boney they tend to be, everytime it catches me off guard. bleh.   Watched "Law-abiding citizen" tonight. It was pretty okay for the most part. the ending is super duper lame.     http://www.arkansasrockers.com/Shaner     The London Beer Flood occurred on this day in 1814. At 6:00 on a Monday evening, a torrent of beer came rushing through the streets of the St. Giles district of London.   It started at the Horse Shoe Brewery at Tottenham Court and Oxford Street, where there were huge vats of porter perched on top of the roof. They contained beer, which had been fermenting right there for months. The wooden vats were enormous — some as tall as 22 feet — and were structurally supported by large iron hoops, dozens of them. They sat on the roof of the Meux Brewing Company, each of them containing hundreds of thousands of liters of beer.   The largest vat had started to strain under the weight and pressure of all that porter, and on this day, around 6:00 p.m., one of the iron hoops gave way and all the porter in the 22-foot-tall vat came gushing out. There were about 600,000 liters of beer in there, and when the vat burst and all that beer came exploding out, there was a chain reaction and the surrounding vats on the roof also burst. More than a million liters of beer toppled the brewery’s brick wall (it was 25 feet tall) and began flooding the streets of St. Giles.   People came out onto the streets of St. Giles with mugs and buckets and pots and pans to collect the free beer; others leaned over and drank directly from the streams gushing down the streets. But many people were injured by the torrent and sent to the hospital, where inpatients smelled the beer and nearly rioted to get their share.   Nine people died. About half were children who drowned or sustained fatal injuries from the flood, which had also crushed the roofs of buildings near the brewery, adding heavy timber to the gushing rivers of beer. One man died a few days after the flood from alcohol poisoning. Trying to prevent all of it from going to waste, he had drunk a lot of beer in the span of a few days. People brought a lawsuit against the Meux & Company Brewery, but in court the flood was ruled an Act of God, and the brewery was not held legally responsible.   —From the Writer’s Almanac, Oct. 17, 2009     Birds of My Neighborhood Cedar Waxwing White-Breasted Nuthatch Tufted Titmouse Common Flicker American Robin Killdeer Housefinch Blue Jay Eastern Bluebird Mourning Dove Northern Cardinal Brown-Headed Cowbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Greater Roadrunner Great Horned Owl Cooper’s Hawk Pileated Woodpecker Red-Headed Woodpecker Red-Shouldered Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Ruby-Throated Hummingbird American Crow House Sparrow European Starling Great Blue Heron Dark-Eyed Junco (slate-colored) http://www.arkansasrockers.com/chads http://www.arkansasrockers.com/sam Time's up.       Time to get someone else to water the garden for a few days and go find some jagged adventure for the little lady’s birthday.  http://www.arkansasrockers.com/PLACEHOLDER Oh, hai. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/cletustboone http://www.arkansasrockers.com/AiLien http://www.arkansasrockers.com/big+momma Last night I remembered Fabergé. Reading in bed and looking at a picture book of ancient Greek things, mainly incised bronze mirrors and granulated gold jewelry, I was reminded of a pair of silver earrings I had had in fifth grade; the large hoops hung in three parts, a tail with two hind legs, an abdomen with two front legs, and a cat head, with tiny silver beads placed to separate the flat sheets that would softly wiggle from side to side. This girl, Fabergé, hissed with indignity, "You spent hours at the mall picking out those?" This, coming from someone who coveted my rubber Keroppi pencil and who was prepared to trade her entire pencil collection for it even though the eraser was completely rubbed away and entirely flat. There were long vertical stacks of garishly painted giant truck tires at the far end of the playground in which we, Fabergé and I, were small enough to hide, not within the middle of all the tires, but within the hollow of each tire at a horizontal slant with respect to the ground. In junior high, this slightly forgotten egg rolled down the hallway and found me out, ecstatic to hear that I had won in a physical fight with another girl. But, she had gotten the wrong Natalie. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/natalie Sentences can be rainbows. biking is so awesome!!! Only complain about the things you can’t change.   http://www.arkansasrockers.com/JointMasterWizard http://stereogum.com/286301/damien-jurado-arkansas-stereogum-premier/mp3s/     http://www.arkansasrockers.com/autumn http://www.archetypeproductions.org http://www.arkansasrockers.com/will Back in the Natural State     slowly working my way through…   http://www.arkansasrockers.com/mollyd http://www.arkansasrockers.com/matt  When I examine the things that bother me in the world I have to admit that my life is pretty sweet right now. French clergy during the revolution.... I can't come with the appropriate to google this for the results I need. I just want to find out if they were taxed and what social class of people who went into the clergy came from. I watched The Road last night. I'm just a real wimp when it comes to scary movies. I almost had seizure when they went into that plantation house. THat slippery pile of entrails in the first half hour of the movie keeps making me massage the left side of my torso just to make sure my liver is intact. No gracias. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/graceannsmith     Shane- do you ever get mad that Farmville makes it look so easy??   I got unemployment benefits- this is a good thing, but it still makes me feel like crap. Also taking the test to be a census worker today. It pays well, which is nice since yr essentially just walking around Chicago counting people.       Unemployed, but I still want to get a new touring bike.                                     http://www.arkansasrockers.com/lindsey I got the first two numbers right in the Powerball on Wednesday.  It looked so promising when I began reading the numbers off on the screen.  I play the same numbers every time.  I discovered these numbers on the back of a fortune cookie from a Chinese restaurant in Chicago.  I had the Garlic Chicken in Spicy Brown Sauce.  It was delicious.   Blonde Vader *********** *********** http://twitter.com/sneakybeats   Silver Swirly *********** Blonde Vader *********** no longer a highly monitored robot grinder …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2010 is the year of 30110443H http://www.arkansasrockers.com/sneakybeats Getting the good kind of cabin fever. I got the fever!   Facebook virgin.           Slide it on, my man. Slide it on. http://www.arkansasrockers.com/smiller how can I not share "the best graph ever?" http://www.arkansasrockers.com/alannah I'm falling in love with Detroit. This city is amazing.  ooo I just found out President Obama will be speaking at this year’s commencement at U-M. I can’t say I’m not just a bit giddy about the prospect of seeing him on my graduating weekend.  ooo I’m at the iConference in Urbana-Champaign. It’s my first "real" conference that I’m presenting anything at (well, I’m on a panel) and it’s pretty interesting so far. iSchools are fascinating. Today I heard iSchool rockstars like Marcia J. Bates, Prue Dalrymple, and Jonathan Grudin. It’s fun and exhausting. ooo Meredith (and others?):  This may not really be relevant to your conversation but it reminded me of my family history.. I’ve never heard of the beans and german chocolate cake (though I can actually see how that’s pretty good!) and we’re from the other side of the cotton pickers, my mom’s parents owned a cotton farm for several generations (my mom still owns part of it) in the Arkansas Delta but migrants, blacks (she was the last segregated class) and tenant farmers were a big part of my mom’s young life. Some of the food I remember from her family is Hummingbird cake, church recipes, lots of coffee pots (for bridge playing), and stories of the swamps. What I remember from my dad’s family (from Northeast Arkansas, Cave City) is hardscrabble farms (that eventually got sold in the Depression, only to have the family return as tenant farmers of their own land) and a grandma that taught home-ec and had several sets of dishes for dinner parties (and a first edition print of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" which I now proudly own). Both my roots are deep Arkansas and the family traditions are fascinating. ooo At the beginning of this new decade, settling down into the Michigan routine I can’t help but feel very happy and content. I’m excited about graduating. I"m (really!) excited about getting married. I’m excited about finding a new place to live and seeing what adventures lie ahead in this next installment. What a great feeling!  http://www.arkansasrockers.com/prettyemmy "Please help me I've had to listen to Animal Collective b-sides and Jandek for the majority of my life to date." http://www.arkansasrockers.com/CarlSpackler