Surgeon General Testimony

Wow, this is getting more coverage than I'd expected. Apparently, the Bush administration is secretive and political, even with regards to science. The administration has issued a denial though.

Heard about it on the radio coming home yesterday.

And it's being blogged and covered in Salon.

O yeah, and Koop was there too.

Houstondopebandroundup!

Such weird stuff ends up on Youtube...

The Mike Gunn "Liska"
[Larry Liska is the LPQ's drummer.]


Linus Pauling Quartet "Switzer"
["Almaron" is The Mike Gunn's 3rd album.]


Walking Timebombs "Junkyard Dog"



The Red Krayola "Hurricane Fighter Plane" (2004)



And kind of a weird thing, with the drummer from 60's Houston band Bubble Puppy:


And a very weird thing with Kenny Rogers:



And if you made it through all that... Your reward is:
Rusted Shut "Shot in the Head/Not Far from It"

Whoa, Duuuuuuude...

Theoretical physics is bunk!



All this quantum uncertainty, multiverses, and two-way temporal causality, even the big bang's always seemed a little shaky to me. String theory? That one will be highly regarded in 100 years... One thing that never seems to be acknowledged is how much of this "spooky action" could be the result of imperfect measurements.

But these people talk about all this stuff with the confidence of those who considered our flat earth the center of the universe.

I'll just quote one part of this interesting article:

Now if you take that view - that the universe is a gigantic computer - then it leads immediately to the conclusion that the resources of that computer are limited. The universe is finite. It's finite because the speed of light is finite. There's been a finite time since the big bang. So if we have a finite universe, we have a computer with finite resources, and hence, finite accuracy. So once you recognize that the universe is a gigantic computer, then you see that the laws of physics can't be infinitely precise and perfect. There must be a certain amount of wiggle room or sloppiness or ambiguity in those laws.

Sure, first you accept that the universe is a "gigantic computer," then you realize all computers have limited resources, I mean the speed of light is finite, and there you have it, the law of physics can't really be depended on... Simple!

Anyway, this guy's got a point - maybe humanity, having evolved in forward time, is through observation, creating a universe (through backwards time) with the necessary physical laws to allow life to evolve. Simple!

Independence Day, 2007

Happy Birthday, America!!!

Curtis/Jam

Working on a couple of big things for the 'Shtank.

But found a couple things on The Jam/Curtis Mayfield connection.

"Move On Up" cover:



And a two-part interview with Curtis, done by Weller in 1988! Link is a whole YouTube Funk/Soul documentaries Playlist.

More soon...