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A Couple of Things,

First, jefitoblog has a Stevie Wonder Bootleg up from 1974 in London. Pretty random but cool.

Second. The Twilight Singers show last night in Brooklyn at Warsaw (the Polish got some kickass beers) was top-notch. Mark Lanegan was a special guest coming out do to four songs. On his first song, "Live With Me" he and Duhli began an awesome version of Leadbelly's In The Pines though the band obviously took its take from Nirvana's Where Did You Sleep Last Night version. Otherhighlights were when a guy threw ice at Greg Duhli and Duhli responded telling the guy to pour his drink over his head at which point the audience member revealed that he was on crutches. THe singer informed him he better have two of those things if he wanted to consider winning a fight a viable possiblity. Awesome, picking on the crippled, just does not happen all that much and sometimes it is well deserved.
The band was in true fighting form with gothic classical like music playing before they took the stage as well as prior to the encore. Eastern European-esque candles on the amps and even cooler, cup holders on the microphone stands. I'm a fan so am obviously biased but thought they were awesome.

iTunes has a 5 song exlcusive EP entitled A Stich In Time which features the beforementioned Lanegan sung Live With Me. If you are looking to get your Twilight on this may one way to go. I also recommend highly the new album Powder Burns and from a couple of years ago Blackberry Belle (Great name for a song and an album).

Third, I have just read that former Supreme Court Justice and love of my life, Sandra Day O'Connor recently told a conference that all nine of the Supreme Court Justices had "received in the mail 'a wonderful package of home-baked cookies' that contained 'enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court.'" (Quote taken from the New York Times).
What the fuck is wrong with people? Assuming no liberal would send cookies to all nine justices, but would shelter the obvious Ginsburg, Breyer, Kennedy and maybe Stevens from the deadly recipe and shoot for the obvious, why would a nutcase (God-loving right wing, dare I say it Republican or Anarchist) want to get all the members when the deck is surely stacked in their favor, even if they are an Anarchist? That is a waste of cookies and provisions. The cookies were accompanied by some pretty obvious death threat letters giving off the conclusion that no rat poision was needed nor were the cookies actually intended to be eaten. I am a little surprised that Scalia, the firmest interpreter of the big C on the high court, didn't eat the cookies anyway to spite the sender, but then again he is a big believer in taking people at their words. To encounter the entire article on the baked goods terrorism plot on our nations judicial epicenter hit the Times up. I'd link it but my safari is being a baby today and I should have used Firefox for something like this.

Finally, what is up with O.J. Simpson? We know he needs the money but there have to be a bunch of rich ex-fratboys who would love to pay to play a round of golf with this guy. Why call more attention to yourself that you have killed the mother of your children only to get away with it. His big break wasn't a football career, or the Naked Gun movies, it was not spending the rest of his life in a fucking prison cell. So why even tempt it? Killing somone and getting away with it in this country is a Norman Mailer American Dream. And he did it, like a Nike ad. There's nothing included in that dream about rubbing it in everyone's faces ten years thereafter. Hopefully people will tune into the Fox special get their fix and not buy the book. Remember every book sold is a royalty in this guy's pocket and that of his publisher, Judith Regan, whose reasons for publishing are all over the web today. I thought the $$ was going to go to his kids she says. Contracts usually can direct where money is going to end up when paid so if the one her and O.J. have executed doesn't direct the money to those unfortunate children she's just as much a liar as O.J. Only she hasn't killed anyone. Except maybe the career's of authors. But they may have deserved it.