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Detroit: public misdirection in art

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:24:31 GMT

A growing downtown Detroit has been in the works for years now with new buildings being built as old ones are being redone. We can see such examples on Woodward. As nice as this is on our eyes the outlying areas continue to suffer along with the economy and the very important Detroit public school system.
Art flourishes in the city through its music scenes that are underground to most of us, but to our overseas neighbors it's their aboveground delight.
A delight in art work and culture has been covered up in Detroit. Due to local corporate advertising, Robert Wyland's painting of whales has been covered up by a Jeep advertisement in order to fund the redevelopment of the building.

In a growing city this piece of art work has found itself hidden in order for progress to come about. While our history and culture is being hidden behind drapes, abandoned buildings like the Lafayette are hosting striking new art in it's windows.

This last photo shows a painting of the late Detroit City Council woman Mary Ann Mahaffey. Through her years of service she was known for working for those who had less and struggled to keep afloat. Mahaffey's memorialized painting almost seems unjustified in such a spot but maybe someday it may find itself next to a painting of Wyland's uncovered whales.

Rhythm Gallery now download - able

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:39:28 GMT

That's right 10:30 till midnight. Wednesdays it's the Rhythm Galery on CJAM.

hosted by myself, Adam Francesconi
This weeks co host is a former CJAM host of pulse radio Ange Loh!

.The Bamboos - Tighten Up
.Jermias Santago - Heavens Piano
.Povo (nicol conte rmx) - You Are
.John Arnold - The Timeless
.Mike Grant - Shari Vari
.The Basement Boys -That Jazz
.Innerzone Orchestra - People Make The World Go Round KDJ rmx
.Nicola Conte - Fuoco Fatuo
.Gabriele D'Andrea & Andy Funk - First Class
.Nomo - If You Want
.Latin Blues (unkonkn artist)
.Common - All Night Long
.Dubfire & Sharam - Like House For Chocolate

This week we venture into the world of jazzy electronic music. From the broke funk style of John Arnold to Nicola Contes jazzy groovey sounds. Take a break from regular radio. Take a break from regular music.

Listen to part of the Rhythm Gallery by clicking here.

global. warming.

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:05:10 GMT

an inconvinent truth.

if you thought about going to see the al gore movie you best get on your bike and get there... The movie is very informative and scared me a few times at the way in which this global fiasco is progressing.. Al lays out the facts and shows the warning signs that are infront of our face. Check it out, the film was a wake up call for me.

http://www. climatecrisis .net

the 2005 national cheeto eating champion of

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:11:11 GMT

Degrassi high school Bill Stephenson stopped by the Rhythm Gallery this past week to hang out with us!

Click here to listen to an hour of the program!

Wednesdays 10:30 - 12 am . house . soul . jazz . techno . CJAM 91.5 FM

listen to the interview with bill stephenson!!!

the interview with bill stephenson

the playlist is up at -->>
RhythmGallery

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Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:36:28 GMT

It was another long weekend! It was good to see everyone again... were getting old too. I hardley even danced all weekend!

sally... who's your tiger?!

CJAM Jammies.

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:41:16 GMT

It's time for the yearly CJAM awards!

I'm up for best electronic show, so take some time and vote for the Rhythm Gallery!

go here to vote for your favorite shows.

http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_jammies2006.html

http://www.rhythmgallery.com

Best of the Week.

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:27:01 GMT

Text message conversation of the week...

{clip}

girlfriend - no, i'm being serious. we need to talk.

me - oh, about us?

girlfriend - no, it's about something important.

{clip}

: P

you...

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:32:39 GMT

You make me want to dance to bongo music.

short story of the day

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:00:16 GMT

"I Love you!!" says alex manogian...
"you keep saying that and keep saying that" rebutted
amanda "but every time i see you, you're busy smelling
your hands and combing your hair into a loop."
Alex quickly pulled his jittery fingers away from his
nose and stuck them in his back pocket.
"Well..." thought alex on how best to resolute this
cituation that had become more common in the last
month. "Well... I Love you more than my nose."
silence fell upon their gazes for 23 seconds...until
Amanda broke it with... "Well... i love you and your
nose but it's driving me fucking nuts."
they kissed and entered Alex's 1979 Cornado and went bowling.

beck ***

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:57:18 GMT

the new album is great.. 2 and a half stars out of a possible 2 and a half stars.

Jammies

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:23:30 GMT

CJAM 91.5 fm is having it's yearly awards show "the jammies"

Tom and I are up for best electronic show.. (the rhythm gallery)
so go vote at http://www.cjam.ca

also vote for "queer radio" for best talk show.. good guys, i cut up their show and do lots of funny bits with it.

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:31:01 GMT

the dj shit licker persona was put on hold last night so that i could play some real music. i ended up playing a super late set at the fi-nite gallery after the derrick carter party..
it doesn't get any better than playing in a loft with people dancing while you over look the city.
it was recorded.. i'll have to see how it turned out because the eq's on the mixer were absloutly jacked up.

my new dj persona: avil for booking.... now

Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:38:10 GMT

-DJ Shit Licker-

that's right comming off his opening gig last night dj
shit licker is ready to clear dance floors with his
unique musical selections...

if you'd rather not hear it the "licker" will most
likely be bringing it to the party... bruce
springstein, that koko moe song, and debbie gibson!
remember the dance floor is always open when S.L.'s
unique style and sultry baratone voice greets you from
the moment you walk through the door.

everyone has a such unique things to say about last
night like jenny here... "wow, he fuckin' sucked."
and kim... "i never knew hewy lewis and the news and
dont worry be happy could be mixed together in such a
shitty way. he keeps true to his dj name and that's
something you dont necessarly have to respect but just
reconise that it is in fact shitty."

- the licker

no subject here.

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:57:22 GMT

i quit drinking.
i'm not sure what that means either.
maybe for ever. maybe for a while. or maybe for a while and then in moderation.
i'd like to quit for ever and then go to some sort of non-addictive non-distructive form of coke.

read one book - buy three more.

david sedaris - me talk pretty
jonathan franzen - how to be alone
elkhonon goldberg - the wisdom paradox

i'm big on books with spirituality, science, and people who write about their screwed up lives.

i've fallen into some real good books lately.
today my eyes came across "the wisdom paradox" and a dream from years ago poped into my head. it created a mild deja-vu so i decided to look at it then buy it. The book seems to be a sciencey version of an intuition book i am reading.
-a line from the wisdom paradox-
"If our mental seeds are sown through curiosity and exploration early in youth, and experience in more mature life tends and nutures the mental crop, then wisdom is the harvest of mental rewards that we can only truly enjoy in what Frank Sinatra famously called 'the autumn of the years.'"

v - day... what to expect

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:54:02 GMT

v - day : what to expect

off to spend a very romantic heart felt valentines day at my parents house.

i expect to find:
my dad passed out on the couch watching episodes of gunsmoke he's already seen. when i go to change the channel he will grogerly say "no, dont change that i'm watching it... " ... again.

mom will be in my old bedroom with the green shagg carpeting either watching american idol (if it's on) or QVC shop at home.

the dogs will be running to the back door 7 times an hour to be let out. 3feet away from the back door where my dad sleeps he will yell out for me to let them out all 7 times provided my mom isn't on a QVC shopathon break.

i will be in the front room watching the pistons, yelling, and getting up 7 times an hour to go to the back door. between this i will be randomly throwing balls through out the house for one dog to chase after while the other just sits there and stares at me saying "i've been sitting here for 8 minutes now can you scratch my stomach or what?"

happy v day... i must go.. i'm late.

ocd for the whole family

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:51:03 GMT

I've traded in sleeping during the normal hours for reading...

I found an awesome genre of book: obsessive compulsive people who write about their obsessive compulsive lives.
I’m sucked in and on my 3rd book in a week. These books are better than the time i tried coke twice.

so far 'devil in the details' by Jennifer Traig has been the funniest.

But I just started reading a pretty popular book by David Sedaris 'Naked'. It's just killing me the way he puts his OCD routines of light switch licking and forehead shoe tapping in such comedic light. I’m only on page 17 and it's shaping up to be one of the funniest books I’ll have read.

'Magical Thinking' by Augusten Burroughs get's an honorable mention.

I worked with a guy who had OCD pretty bad. He had to be medicated because he would get so worked up and nervous about going into work that by the time he actually got there he was throwing up all over the place. Humm maybe he never heard of forehead shoe tapping to calm the nerves?

laid off!

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:37:36 GMT

okay i'm officaly laid off.. so that means tune into cjam 91.5 today. 2:30 to 5 pm for the rhythm gallery..

todays feature: tortured soul live from movement 04 (live house music. .yumm)

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 00:10:57 GMT

ashley simpson is having the acid reflux blues and dickey's hitting his 25 year old prime... will he samba in her pants and cure her fever or will they just get trashed and hit the wall?

the works this wednesday. : P

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:27:42 GMT

skipped out of work a bit early today to catch john kerry down at my old school macomb community college. yes sir my alamer mader or what ever you call it... i call it the place where i got two college credits and failed the rest with honors.

it was a fun night, the campus was absloutly packed with people trying to get into the gym to see kerry. they ended up opening a second bulding so that everyone could hear.
the speach was alright. everyone was pretty pumped by it. I had pretty much heard all of it before so it was just nice to see it live.

bon jovi did an acoustic set before kerry came out. i called my mom who had voted for bush a few days earlier. she's a big fan of mr jovi, so i let her take in some of it then said "that's enough for you, you bush supporter." then hung up on her.

later i shared a half a stick of gum with a cute political kerry supporting female.

in sort of related news: a guy from work is getting to know me a bit more and a few days ago said "you can afford a therapist right? well why dont you get one then."

(_|_) go team! nov. 2nd election party at my place!! (_|_)

debate . beer . and beat the bush supporters with a spoon.

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:02:25 GMT

that's right the debates are tonight! everyone is invited to my place if they would like to get drunk watch them and yell or whatever.. (bush supporters welcome ; >

it looks as tho these debates could be a bunch of crap. (32 page contract of rules that must be followed via the candidates). tho it should be a good one anyhow... topic is homeland security and the economy i think...

i live at 11 and greenfield 586.405.5452

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:58:36 GMT

a new commercial for the "anti-bush" party we are doing.

http://www.deepheatdetroit.org/commercial.mp3

shopping for you...

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:09:04 GMT

Dollar Store:
two: candle holders that look like flowers
two: red cranberry sented candles

Drug Store:
one sympothy card: "we regret the loss of your husband on this sad day"

Happy Birthday Mom!

Okay i must admit, shopping for my mom's 61st birthday was a bit flawed. Sure my dad isn't even dead nor does he look it most of the time. Probaly not the best joke for a 61 year old lady but something different had to be done. What i had done tho was at the end wished her a very happy b day and that if dad had gotten out of line and thought about messing up such a joyous day to wave this card in his face to calm him down.

I knew the card would be a hard sell to the b day lady and the family. and hell it was, i got weirder looks from my family then i normaly do.
upon opening the card the look on my mom's face was original. muscles flexed her skin in a pattern i had never seen before. confusion, curiosity, and probaly a quick look at dad just to make sure he's still around.

keys to a good day at work

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:08:51 GMT

*dont put two full coffee's in the bad coffee cup holder.

*do drive safely and responsibaly.

*dont try picking up your spilled coffee's while doing 80 mph.

*do follow the directions to work when they say to turn right

*dont swear at yourself many, many times loudly for turning left.

*do give half spilled coffee's to co-workers for comming in really late.

*dont tell them they acually rolled around on the floor a bit before you were able to pick them up.

*do explain to co-workers "wow, I spilled coffee all over my car but their's still some in here for you, i love you and may we drink this as a peace offering together."

have a good day at work. i sure did.

Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:15:15 GMT

it looks like this might be one of the last radio shows i'll get to do for the cjam (wednesday 2:30 to 5 pm 91.5fm)..
so here's some clips and music i put together for the program.

http://www.deepheatdetroit.org/showmixup3.mp3

should be an odd show.. i think tom still plans on raffling off my virginity.... and hell if i'll let my purity rest in the hands of this don king like human being called tom desmond!

Oprah man... oprah..

wet dreams do come true...

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:43:13 GMT

they sure do...

I'm djing A party in NYC for 6 hours straight on a boat. juyly 17th

oh yea and i got a page on my pager today.. confused the hell out me, i couldn't figure out where the hell that ringing sound was comming from.

btw. here's the ship i'm playing on.. ha ha.. http://www.fryingpan.com