Frank Zappa - San Ber'dino & Black Napkins

What did you do today?

Gypsy Jazz has infected me!

For those of you that know me, know that I have been getting into gypsy jazz more & more... In my estimation, Angelo DeBarre is the heir apparent to Django himself!

Adrian Belew Electronic Guitar Instructional Video

...you should be more like him...

The Secret Powers of Time

Starless

King Crimson



One of my favorites!

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The Crazily Expanding Political Money Universe

If Citizens United was the Big Bang of a new era of money in politics, here's the parallel universe it formed: rapidly expanding super-PACs and nebulous 501(c) groups exerting their gravitational pull on federal elections. A group's size in the chart below is based upon all known fundraising or spending since 2010…so keep an eye out for dark matter. Come back for regular updates.



Reposted from motherjones.com

When you shop, do you wonder where your money really goes?

Checking Influence is a new tool from the Sunlight Foundation that you can use to find out how companies you do business with every day are wielding political influence through lobbying and campaign contributions. Checking Influence helps you be an informed consumer and citizen.

Just add Checking Influence to your bookmarklet bar and then go to any web page that has bank transactions (wherever you do online banking, like your banking site, credit card site, or Mint.com). Then, just click on the Checking Influence bookmarklet in your toolbar.

Checking Influence will find the company names in your list of banking transactions and show you the “influence data” for the corporations it can identify — including political campaign contributions and what lobbying the corporation conducted.