Check Out dissent’s Primal Deconstruction


So one of the reasons why I’ve been so bad about blogging lately is that I’m quite obsessed with learning everything there is to know about running a record label — in this case, the everluvin’ Wide Hive Records.
It’s part of my graduate research at SFSU, and my experience will also supplement a couple books I’m in the process of writing…
Anyhoo, our latest release is dissent‘s

Primal Deconstruction.
There are three different tracks you can check out in MP3 format.
It has been our experience during the course of my research that our downloads only increase as we increase the number of free mp3 tracks samples we give away on our website. (just to be clear, these are complete versions of these songs 🙂
Also, our number one and number two itunes downloads for the month of May 2005, were the two we’ve been giving away for free for almost a year. Interesting.
Anyway, more on all that later…just give it a listen for now, and tell me what cha think.
interested peeps: I’d be happy to send you an advance cd. Email me at lisa@widehive.com

I’m Back — Guess I Took A Blogging Vacation…

Well, I didn’t plan it that way, but July was a month off for me and my blog.
Well I’m back. I’ll be blogging more regularly and podcasting in a week or so. I’m real excited to be back.
For the first time in my life, I had to rearrange things so I could spend more time in front of the computer!
I see all hell has broken loose in the mean time – with Bolton’s confirmation as UN leader and Roberts up for a Supreme Court spot, so it’s not like I don’t have anything to talk about…
But I’m also getting back in to one of my previous missions of helping Americans understand how they are being cheated out of their side of “the copyright bargain.” I’ve decided that we need to be more aggressive about this issue. Instead of just stopping the term from being increased, we need to start rolling it back to something reasonable, like 50 years or something.
I’ll also be publishing some of my research papers from school that I’ve been working on this summer (the other reason I went A.W.O.L. last month.)
ok talk soon!
lisa

How Do You Create French Accents In Illustrator?

Hey I’m wondering if anyone knows how to generate special characters in Adobe Illustrator.
thanks!
Update 7/7/05 9:53 pm — you guys are the greatest – by 1:51 am this morning – I had the answer to this. (Thanks Carl and Bill!):

Where’s The Good CC Licensed Stuff?

I’m producing a new weekly podcast for RU Sirius’ new venture, Mondo Globo. The focus will be a combination of Copyright developments and Creative Commons licensed works.
I’ve been fishing around all the directories for good stuff, and I’ve found a few gems, but it’s slow moving listening to every track one by one.
Then I remembered that I should ask you to send me links to CC-licensed stuff you already know is good.
Hand it over! 🙂
Okay thanks,
lisa

52 House Members file FOIA Request For Downing Street Minute Docs

On June 30, 2005, Representative John Conyers (you may remember him as one of the few congressmen who actually investigated the numerous voting irregularities in the 2004 Presidential Election), along with 51 other members of Congress, have filed a FOIA request seeking any and all documents and materials concerning the Downing Street Minutes and the lead up to the Iraq War. They also requested that hearings commence on the Downing Street Minutes.
Boy, I sure hope this thing picks up steam.
Here’s the article in RAW Story that contains a scan of the request itself (5 pages with all the signatures).
I’ve also loaded the scans to my server here.

Come To The Last SCOUT June 29

Remember to come as my guest — and bring friends.
It’ll be quite a show. More info here.

Opening at 9:30pm Each the Beat Boxer performing with DJ Quest
Then from 10-12:30:
Variable Unit w/Special Guest Hosts:
Zealous and Prophet

Felonius: One Love Hip Hop
(Soulati, Infinite, A kid named Keith and D. Wolf)
Ho Flow and Mic Blake and their whole vocal crew from Bop City Pacific
(Caitlin Cornwell, Dawn “Dee Dee” Hilgesen, Christi “KiKi” Hilgesen)
Mark Stretch
(Foreign Legion)
El-Rock
Phame
Joe Con

Won Way
V.E.R.A. Clique
(Anderson Ray & Macsen Apollo)
Marquand (beatboxer)
From the Delinquent Monestary Crew:
Complexity, Lush One, and Ajaxx
Audio Tracks –
Video Tracks

Davu (Poetry Slam Champion)

Shania D.
Nameliss
Hilary Star
Plus More Guests TBA

Video Interview With Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch At SCOUT – Reports Of Foreign Legion’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Prozack Turner and Marc Stretch

Here’s a short clip (5 MB) explaining how Foreign Legion is anything but dissolved, and the complete interview (22 MB) from last week’s SCOUT at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco.
I had some interesting conversations with these guys off camera, and I must say, they were mighty real – whether talking about the pros and cons of being signed to a big label (Turner) or comparing the social networking architectures of Friendster and MySpace (Stretch).
Both Zack and Stretch are plannnig to drop back by in on either June 22 or June 29, but nothing is confirmed yet.
These last two shows are going to be special like that — in addition to the announced performers, there will be a lot of past peeps dropping back by to rekindle…