Aku Aku

Acid Mothers Temple at Bottom of the Hill

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Acid Mothers Temple is coming to Bottom of the Hill next Saturday (the 12th). I've seen them at the BotH before, excellent show if you like wall of sound psychedelic rock. It's get real, um, cerebral, and withstand the onslaught sort of stuff. Reminds me of my favorite haiku:

taifu semaru
hama ni ryoma no
futokorode

a typhoon bears down
on the beach stands Ryoma,
arms folded

- Kinoshita Michiteru

From The Haiku Handbook by William J Higginson:

"When a typhoon is coming people scurry about, tying down this, closing that, barring doors and windows. Michiteru sees, or envisions, one man who stands calmly, watching the approaching storm. The man seems like Sakamoto Ryoma, a hero of Shikoku [...] who helped lead a movement to reform the government toward the end of the feudal era in Japan. The poem may be taken as an allegory for Ryoma's calm in the face of increasing Western interest (the "typhoon") in "opening" Japan."

AMT is a Japanese collective, sort of a musical psychedelic commune. You never really know which of them is going out on tour, from what I hear.

Check out their MySpace page for a couple of samples http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple

QotD: Luxury Wish List

If money were no object, which five luxury items would you rush right out and buy? 
Submitted by lorilyn.

How timely! I just posted about one of the items, the Phoenix 1000 Luxury Submarine. Hmm, let's see, four more.

1. The Tesla Roadster. A 100% electric car that does 0-60 in 4 seconds and goes 250 miles per charge-up.
2. A house on the north slope of Potrero Hill with views of the Bay and a two car garage.
   
3. Yahoo!
4. A cruise around the world for Mie, Tesla and I on the Queen Mary 2
   

sorry, your senator needs more storage

I just called my congress critter to voice support for H.R. 2060 (Save Internet Radio). The office was closed but constituents could leave their name, address and comments in her voicemail. Great ...except her voicemail was full. I know she's probably off to Syria or something, but isn't somebody trying to check her messages? I don't know how much storage congressional voicemail has, but you'd think it would be more than your standard AT&T account.

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the phoenix 1000 luxury submarine

Sub and mini-sub

Did you even know they made luxury submarines? I didn't, but I guess it makes sense. When I realize my dream of becoming a super villain I'll be looking for something like the Phoenix 1000. It's a couple hundred feet long, has a  transparent saloon so I can swim with sharks with a highball in hand, has living space for a dozen or so minions and it even has a Mini Me dockable sub for those last minute escapes! It's ~$78 million dollars, but that's chump change when you can hold the world hostage. Mwuahahahaha!