mojave desert pole 

Link Wray

Guitar legend Link Wray died on November 5th 2005 due to heart failure. Famous for his instrumental songs "Rumble" and "Jack the Ripper", Link Wray is known for being the first musician to experiment with the sounds that pioneered rock and roll and punk styles. Link virtually invented fuzz tone by deliberately punching holes in his amplifier speakers. He was also a true pioneer of the use of distortion on instrumental rock recordings. Additionally, Link Wray developed the "power chord" style of rythym/lead guitar years before Pete Townshend utilized it in early Who recordings.

Go to Link's official site: here

The Blue Hawaiians: Live at the Lava Lounge

Saturday, October 1, 2005, at the Lava Lounge Hollywood:

The Blue Hawaiians release party for new CD "Live at the Lava Lounge 2".

...what are you waiting for?

Pete Townshend in blog-space...

Mr. Peter Townshend is now an active blogger at www.blogger.com

He will begin serial-posting of his novella "The Boy Who Heard Music" and accepting comments beginning

24 September 2005 at 1600 UTC (1700 GMT).

Bravo, Pete! And welcome to Marshall McCluhan's nightmare...it's really not all that scary, yet...

newly recorded tune...

if you enjoyed the original 1963 version of "Latin'ia" by the Sentinals, then you just might like dp's remake-home-studio-version titled "Latin'ia 2005". you can locate (and download) the mp3 at dp's myspace place:

http://www.myspace.com/dpsurfmaster

standing on water

from Universal Resource Locator for Sector Seven (the exact center of the universe) blog

standing on water
walking on styrofoam
moving through time and space
like a Bach Sonata
in a wetsuit
reverberation echoes
inside water tubes
like old-time laughter
that I long-ago
forgot all about

originally posted by dave p on monday july 19, 2004, 11:55 am pst

SG101 group compilation CD cover...cowabunga! 

surf guitar 101: member's song compilation

Surf Guitar 101 now features an MP3 compilation of 33 member's surf tunes.

Each MP3 was created and submitted by a member of the Surf Guitar 101 web-community.

The compilation is located here.

Please download the MP3s to help webmaster Brian conserve bandwidth...and enjoy the reverberation!

a cool tale of post-modern urban rebellion (by patrick)

From the Padd E. Boy Blog

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

There Will Be No More Questions - One Small Rebellion, In My Own Fashion

Just this morning I walked into Starbucks for some tea, and the spiffy, short spikey-haired alternative guy started aksing me a million questions, like they always do at Starbucks, trying to prove some point about super duper really good service: Would you like a sleeve? Would you like honey with that? Room for cream? Do you want this? Do you want that? in that annoying happy little overly caffeinated Starbucks voice.

And so I, like the cool tea-drinking tough guy I am, blurted out - "OK, no more questions, just give me the tea." This clearly shook the young coffee maker, as well as the other customers in line. People go to Starbucks for that very reason, to express identity in their special unique combination of cup sizes and coffees and flavors and foams and milks, to show the world who they really are. No one 'just wants a damn drink." The Starbucks order of things had been altered. I had dared to disturb the corporate American cofffee house chain universe. I rebelled in my own fashion against the very standard and protocol of all that is Starbucks: fifty five million ways to server fifity million different goddamn drinks. Just gimme the fucking beverage, would ya??!!

The guy got flustered, looked for a way to save face, did his best to hold back giving me some me lip, which I am sure he wanted (and had a right) to do. Instead, he joked a little, "would you like water with that?" "Yeah, I said, preferably hot." Then, he had forgotten which kind of tea, so I nicely reminded him, feeling a little sorry for him. I've never been a very good tough guy. And, I don't think tough guys drink tea.

- posted by Patrick @ 11:31 AM

desert botanical garden, palm springs california, may 2005 

killing bugs

a cool little article about killing bugs from The Daily Elightenment

"All beings tremble at violence. Life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should neither kill nor cause to kill."
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)

Even among many Buddhists, who agree that it is right to respect life, sometimes find it hard not to swat insects and other "pests" - doing so habitually, out of irritation and lack of mindfulness. Perhaps we should place ourselves in the shoes of these tiny creatures. Are we not much larger "pests" to them, who irritate them much more than they irritate us, especially with our gestures of violence? "Pests" is a relative term then, depending on the angle you view from. The problem is not the pests, but our lack of kindness, which leads us to see them as pests. We can either be "pests" to each other or friends with one another - Why not respect each other instead? Live and let live.

But what about "dangerous pests" which can cause disease? Well, is it not our fault of not keeping the house clean that attracts them? How can we invite them to leave, if we must? Never underestimate the practice of radiating Metta (Loving-kindness). Remember the case of the Buddha using Metta to calm an angry elephant stampeding towards Him? Even insects, which are very sensitive to energies, can sense your well wishes, and decide to "make way" for you.

tiffany's rainbow 

sista p eating toast 

mojave river at rock springs road feb 2005 

meet the BitchBoys

okay...I'm back on the davep-blog after a short-fucking-technological-SNAFU.

...just borrowed a fucking CD from Dawn: the BitchBoys "...in heat"

...the BitchBoys are the fucking greatest instrumental surf band to ever come out of Slovenia.

...the fucking greatest surf band in my cd player right at this moment in time.

...why don't you fucking find their CD or MP3 and fucking hear for yourself?

...you ever heard a surf version of the fucking Rolling Stone's "Paint it Black" with the "Theme from Dr. Zhivago" stuck right in the fucking middle?

...you will if you check out the fucking BitchBoys right now!

...fucking great.

...fucking BitchBoys.

book excerpt: "the karma of mid-life crisis"

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?" -The Buddha

The following is an excerpt i noticed at www.thedailyenlightenment.com ...I haven't read the book yet, but this excerpt looks interesting...I might pick up a copy...-dp

"...So each of us has two forces at work inside us: an embryonic wisdom that wants to blossom from the depths of our being, and the imprisoning weight of our karma; an unconditioned awake presence that wants to connect fully with life, and our conditioned personality patterns that narrow our perception and keep us half-asleep. From birth to death, these two forces are always at work, and our lives hang in the balance. In youth, our green life energy is usually stronger than our habitual patterns. We are still flexible, our habits have not totally solidified, and we imagine that we can overcome any obstacles standing in our way. Yet every time we repeat a habitual reaction, we wear "grooves" in our psyche. By the time we reach old age, these grooves have themselves become inflexible, stuck, set in their ways.

Somewhere in midlife the weight of karmic accumulation starts to overpower our life force. Midlife crisis is the realization that time is running out and our karma is catching up with us. At that point, we can no longer just get by on our youthful energy. Unless we bring our larger intelligence and awareness to bear on our defensive postures, they will harden further, freezing us into a living rigor mortis. This cannot be emphasized too strongly: If we do nothing, our karma will bury us."

from: Journey of the Heart by John Welwood

forthrightness and betrayal

forthrightness and betrayal
such beautiful opposites
doppelganger mirror vision
Alice's world in dreams
da Vinci written code works
alieves and belays
lovingkindness
away

forthrightness and betrayal
similar means, such dissimilar ends
honesty lacks much truthfulness' stake
dishonest actions hidden behind ego's sake
not written down it takes
nor speaking virtual land line of late
recorded deceptions
subtle perceptions
decieves

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Petra Haden: Who Sells Out

petra haden: the who sells out

...after a long (and tiring) holiday break, I return to blogging.

...for your edification, I present Petra Haden's latest project...a total recreation of "The Who Sells Out"...but, with a groovy twist...Petra "plays" all the instruments a capella...that is she does the whole album with her voice only...sounds interesting.

...read all about it: here