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Blondie under a full moon

The Damned

Blondie/Debbie Harry

Moz

Bauhaus/Peter

Devo w/obey sticker on guitar

Devo

Devo

Devo

Devo

Jay Aston/GeneLoves Jezebel

The Meteors

Missing Persons

Missing Persons

 

Let Her Run (Official Video) - JD Hardy/ JD Hardy At The Bourbon Room

 

When #musicmaven9 first began hearing about Country music's "Bad Boy from Bakersfield" and all the plans that were in the works for him, we decided to sit back and let his music take JD on a magical mystery soiree into his vision and making it work in Hollywood.

During his show at Hollywood's Bourbon Room, JD Hardy played a rocking' Country set of his originals such as "Let Her Run" which really epitomizes what Country music is all about and Hardy also threw into the set Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine"in order to pay homage to his high powered, Grammy winning, record executive and manager Vicky Hamilton.

Hamilton and Hardy took a working jaunt to Nashville, Tennessee recently to play a gig there at The Basement for "New Faces" night and then they began working on some material of Hardy's at the infamous and legendary "Cash Cabin." The "Cash Cabin" is where John Carter Cash's mother June Carter Cash recorded a Grammy winning album titled "Press On" under the watchful eyes and trained ears of the irrepressible Hamilton. During those sessions Country talents Rodney Crowell and Marty Stuart were jamming right along with Cash.  

#musicmaven9 cannot wait to hear his new material recorded under the aegis of John Carter Cash and a very talented bunch of Country music denizens such as Trey Call. Wonder what Hardy will call it? His most recent album is titled "Killer" which resonates.  During his set at the Bourbon Room he was repeating phrases like C'Mon Back and was throwing the label of "Outlaw Country" around just a bit.

Whatever the title Hardy dubs this effort, I'm sure it will live up to his  "Bad Boy of Bakersfield"  reputation and his penchant for creating authentic and unique sounds.

The only thing that #musicmaven9 asks is that Hardy keeps his boots and Stetson on for all photos. It was too much of a shock to see Hardy in a cap and tennis sneakers for #musicmaven9 to wrap her head around.

We did find the decor of the Bourbon Room delightful, interesting and very male but done up tastefully and was a nice place to do some drinking. This was our maiden voyage into the dark recesses of the Bourbon Room.  

As I recently reiterated in a message to Orville Peck "just because I am known primarily for Rock and Rock N' Roll (there is a difference) doesn't mean that I cannot make the crossover to Country the same way that some Country artists cross over to Rock N' Roll/Rock...case in point Hardy doing "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses and doing it very well."  

It all kind of reminded me of Gram Parsons' "Cosmic American Music" in its play on Rock N' Roll/Rock music as well as Country and how much influence Parsons' had upon his fellow musicians such as The Rolling Stones. Maybe Hardy is the same kind of force as Parsons was to music.

Orville Peck, Shania Twain - Legends Never Die (Official Video)/Orville Peck at The Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara

I first heard Orville Peck while shopping at Black Luck Vintage in Yucca, CA.  The proprietress was playing it on her jukebox and I was entranced by his voice.  His crooning takes me to a cross between Elvis, Roy Orbison and Chris Issak.

That was two years go and I finally saw him in concert in Santa Barbara, CA on April 26, which is my mother's birthday, at The Arlington theater. I brought my recently widowed friend Gabi so she could enjoy a night out.

The opening act was a fledgeling band that call themselves Teddy and The Rough Riders.  For those that don't see the historical significance of this name let me explain.  President Teddy Roosevelt had a band of brothers that he called the rough riders.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" Roosevelt is credited with saying.

Roosevelt is credited with founding The Rough Riders with White House physician Col. Leonard Wood prior to becoming President.  The rough riders helped fight the Battle of San Juan Hill which helped to win the Spanish American War.

The band Teddy and The Rough Riders hails from Nashville, Tennessee where they've been working on an album. The band has a long way to go before they'll be headlining a concert.  My companion kept looking at me like "why did you bring me here for this." I explained that she had to wait for Orville Peck in order to receive the full effect that comes from a headlining act.  I also explained that their music was lacking in beats that pull you in, a backbeat that clenches the deal and lyrics that catch your interest.  In other words a fledgeling band who will learn the ropes traveling and watching Peck.

The excitement of the crowd that arrived in time to see Peck perform was joyful and in the mood to party...Peck did not disappoint.  Peck brought it! This appearance was a make-up gig because the original show was cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

This tour was dubbed The Bronco Tour and would be spending a lot of time touring in California.  The Coachella for both weekends, The Stagecoach Festival, Pappy & Harriets and The Palomino Festival in Pasadena, CA July 9 to name just a few.

As Peck bobbed out onto the stage sporting a braided, fringed mask and some very nice fitting western wear the crowd went wild and stood up for the entire set.  I was thinking "nice ass."

It was nice to see that Peck had a female in his band and she appeared to be playing bass guitar and sang duets with Peck.  My companion turned to me and said "isn't it nice that his wife plays with him."  I tried hard not to laugh because she wasn't his wife, in fact he is gay.  This fact was what Billboard Magazine chose to put in the first paragraph in the first line of a story about Peck. SMH.

Anyway, the crowd stood up for the whole entire set of Pecks which my fancy shoes, not cowgirl boots, would not allow me to do so I only stood up for my favorite songs.  My companion complained about their standing for the whole show and I told her that is pretty standard at gigs these days...standing.

The funny ha ha thing is that I've never seen so many boots and Stetsons in Santa Barbara in all the years I've been hanging out there, working and living there for around seven years.  There isn't even a Western store in Santa Barbara since Jedlickas closed down some time ago.  

The crowd was large mixture of younger and a bit of older such as myself and Gabi.  Yeah, we're old farts.

My very favorite song in Peck's set is all of them! My very favorite song by Peck in general thus far is "Legends Never Die" which is why I selected it as the featured video. 

The Deadening by Deborah Hanon & Ministers of Culture: Give it a try

We first heard Deborah Hanon at a nightclub where her band, Lost Pilots,  did a cover of "Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith and she had me hook line and sinker.  Our fondness for Smith is no secret and was the subject of a column for the nohoartsdidtrict.com a few months back.  

At an interview that we conducted later on we found out that Hanon is a big fan of Smith's music. We've read the same books and own the same music.

"The Deadening" by Hanon and Ministers of Culture offers up a narrative that would make Smith proud. The music, beat, cadence all comes together to offer up a fine piece of story telling.

When we went to a record release party at the Club Lingerie for Hanon and her band back then we missed out on meeting up with Metal Maven Vicky Hamilton.  Hamilton was there in support of Hanon and much to our chagrin decades later wondered how we missed her.

Hamilton has her own record label now and this tune is released on her "Dark Spark" label.  "The Deadening" is available on music streaming platforms.

Justice For Gabriel Fernandez

 I've never been one to protest, rally or march unless it is very important to me and Gabriel Fernandez's rally for justice was very dear to my heart.  In fact, there is a blog about him that I wrote when I found out that the Social Service workers were let off without charges.

The rally took place at 210 N. Temple Street on 6/2/21 where that evil bitch of a mother to Gabriel had filed a petition to the court for a lighter sentence.  This was something that I felt that I had to do because when I sent letters to my representatives about Gabriel and the how the system failed him not one of them answered...not a peep. In the blog I asked a huge question...why bother having mandated reporters and mandated reporters workshops if the very people that are supposed to protect a child ignore the reports.  This is a law...which is posted in my prior blog.  

If teachers can be prosecuted for failure to report suspected child abuse than so can social workers. They should not have charges dropped and be given immunity.  What/who is the system protecting? Why are they turning the other way on this?  

Too many children have died as a result of the Social Service Department's  in Los Angeles, CA failure to act upon reports filed by mandated reporters.  The list of children murdered by their mothers and their lovers is long and shows a pattern of neglect by the system that teachers and other mandated reporters are supposed to report to by law.  If they don't they can be prosecuted.  

These murdered children were not just murdered, they were brutally tortured for days on end.  And yet, the system that mandated reporters are required to report to have failed to liberate these children from these monsters and have turned a blind eye.

It was reported that the social workers on Gabriel's case falsified their reports regarding his abuse and yet were allowed to go free and given immunity.  

There is a movement to recall George Gascon from his position as the District Attorney of Los Angeles because of his liberal policies such as taking felonies and creating misdemeanors and then freeing the prisoners.  One person that I spoke to told me that when he was the DA in San Francisco, CA he left it in such a mess that people speculate it will take years to fix and that he plans to implement the same policies in LA that he implemented in San Francisco.

I am wondering if he aspires to Kamala Harris' job as California's Attorney General.  What a travesty that would be.  People have criticized Harris for the job she did when it came to cannabis and prosecution.  She was upholding the law at the time.  I doubt if Gascon could do the job half as well as Harris did.

I urge those reading this to write to our Governor, your State Assembly representative and your State Senate representative and express your frustration that our system is fractured, ask what's the point of having mandated reporters and training for mandated reporters by law if the people that the mandated reporters are to file complaints with ignore the complaints and falsify records with immunity. Flood the system and document.

We need to put the system in check by asking questions and sending copies of our communications to the press so that they can see where the flaws are.  Rallying for a cause is good, but you need to create a paper trail.  

I tried by sending Governor Newson, State Assembly member Luz Rivas and State Senator Hertzberg.  Not a peep from of any of them.  No one addressed this travesty of judicial incompetence/malfeasance.  I certainly didn't expect Luz Rivas to have nothing to say when so many Hispanic children are being murdered by their parent/s.  

For the record: the last rally I marched in was in 2017 and it was the first Woman's March in downtown LA in protest of the pussy grabbing #45; I am a pre-school teacher at a movie/television studio and have worked for the same company for over 18 years;  I have worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District's Indian Education Program as an instructor and have been a commissioner on the American Indian Education Commission.  I have worked to rid the LAUSD of Indigenous Mascots and won as well as kept the Red Line subway out of the San Fernando Valley and out of Sacred Ground. As a result, the SFV has the above ground Orange Line.

 

One Way To Bust A Crooked Politician

 All the time you see people writing a lot of allegations about this politician or that politician being crooked on social media.  Some posters will even go as far as to say what they are being crooked with, but not one iota of proof/evidence. 

Allegations are just talk.  You need to have evidence to back up your allegations.  If you don't have evidence then you need to word you accusations differently. One way that you can catch a crooked politician is with paperwork.  Paperwork from the system itself is the best way to garner proof of your suspicions.

One time many years ago I accidentally stumbled upon the easiest way to get proof of wrongdoing. I was pissed at my landlord and got tired of hitting a brick wall so I went to the County Tax Accessor's office to get a print out on him via property tax records.  

When the clerk was handing me the info, she said hmmm this property sold way below market value.  Sure enough fishing around for similar properties in the area all were much higher except for my landlord.  He happened to be an officer of the court so it didn't take a lot of genius to figure out what had transpired.

The matter was handed over to some very smart attorneys to finish off.

Now with the homeless comes a whole new scheme.  It isn't totally illegal, but is unethical here in Los Angeles, CA and is as bad as insider trading as far as I am concerned. 

These days there are more homeless than ever before.  The problem began when President RWR decided to get rid of federal funding for the mentally ill and psych facilities.  Since then responsibility has been shifted around to avoid directly solving the problem. 

Our politicians across America haven't entertained the idea of putting funding back and rewriting laws to accommodate the shift in funding.  Some of these politicians got wise and realized that if they did nothing except open their towns to "camping" out in the neighborhoods that are in their cities that property values would go down.

Once the property values in certain areas go down, then they could buy up the properties at rock bottom prices and resell them for many times more than what they paid. Sometimes it is to developers and other times it has been to the very same system they work for.  In some of those cases it was land to build homes for the homeless. 

A few of Los Angeles' politicians have gotten caught up in a scandal that involved land and developers awhile back. 

I like to call these carpet bagging opportunists Real Estate Barons.

You probably know of a few where you are.  It isn't limited to a political party in particular.  It crosses the spectrum of politics.

Let's review.  You go into your County Tax accessor and ask for info on a particular address/addresses. When they hand you the paperwork ask them for the fair market value.  If something seems askew, then do a title search by name.  If you have the address/addresses handy use those.

This service is not for free.  You will have to pay for the info, but at least you'll rest easier knowing that you are going to catch an unethical Real Estate Baron.  

The X-Files Men In Black Wants Mulder The Earth Has A Secret To Tell/The Truth Is Out There

As we sail into the harbor of a new X-Files season it becomes evident that the "Men In Black" are not fooling around.  They mean business at whatever the cost.  As we have explored, what they've done to those members of the military that encounter Unidentified Aerial Phenomena/UAP, it is their job to clean up/scrub anything that leads back to any kind of trail or evidence of an Alien presence in our realm.
It wasn't until April, 2020 that the Pentagon decided to release actual footage of UAP sighings in the midst of a deadly Pandemic called COVID-19.  This was a call to arms for this investigative journalist.  News that we knew existed all along, due to our own sightings, had finally been handed over by the Pentagon's UAP Task Force.  This task force had been funded by an organization crafted by Blink-182's Tom DeLonge via his "To The Stars Academy."  This "academy" just celebrated its 5th anniversary. The "academy" had funded the task force to the tune of $22 million dollars as was previously reported.
As far as we were able to ascertain a fellow by the name of Luis Elizondo was the person that ran the UAP Task Force up until a few years ago when it was suspended officially.  Elizondo has offered up that the person he reported to was the then US Secretary of Defense former General James Norman Mattis known by some as Mad Dog Mattis. Mattis has a reputation as a no nonsense kind of leader that one could believe in and follow without worrying about improper protocols or ill-conceived maneuvers. How was Mattis tangled up in this once web of deceit? Did he give the orders? Or was he just a messenger to #45 and is why he has called for a "Space Force"? Mattis served as the USSOD from 2017 to 2019 when he abruptly resigned. This is a man that served in the military for 4 decades and is considered a legendary icon and is greatly revered for his military prowess, integrity as well as his honorable intentions.  Level headed, logical, tactical are just a few words that have been used to describe Mattis.
At this moment we have asked DeLonge for an interview in order to suss out the answers to our questions and are waiting to hear back from his organization.
Next we will move into the sphere of the "Syndicate" which is made up of DC pols of which "Smoking Man" is a member. From there we will go into the significance of the "Alien Virus" also known as the "Purity Virus" and "The Black Cancer" by the Russians.