phorbesie

the acorn, hilotrons, acres, lure are getting a lot of recommendations...are any of you skanks in these bands or have a friend/contact within that you could put me in touch with, post haste? i'd appreciate it as i'd like to talk to a person not an email, time is of the essence gracias.

mattm there is a huge amount of wealth in myanmar, kept by a very few people. there are military everywhere and force is used often. i also saw slave labour when i was there did you not see any of this? not to mention they are heavily supported by china, who have a sizeable military, i'd assume. anyway the whole situation is a lot more complex than you make it out to be. aside - i think people can choose to call the country whatever they want and neither way is really right or wrong. for instance, i call it myanmar but not because i like the government there. burma is just a name as well, given by another ruling party. but when i was there, all the people there called it myanmar. it is a more historical name, closer to the "true" name of the country if you will. so if the opposite was true when you were there (not sure when that was), then i don't think there's much of a consensus.

that is really sad huli, i'm so sorry. hang in there.

where's wilson?

bouche i put in a $60 bid for 3* and got the Hilton Doubletree which is the closest one to the venue. why don't you try so we can stay at the same place!

betterbidding.com i was checking there last night and saw some 4* went for around 70-80, but one went for 65!

let me know how your pricelining goes bouche...we're in but i have yet to pull the trigger on tix/hotey

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post em up

tom waits david byrne phil&friends

eh?

hehe the very first thing velvet said to me when we met was "do you own a cell phone?" (lol) i said "no, do you need to make a call?" he said "no, just checking". i thought it was a bit odd for a first remark (i just made a funny... bit odd ) but now i know why he asked me out....and the rest as they say....

totally spaced on this

when i was at neil young in toronto and writing down the setlist this dude was like "are you actually writing down the setlist?" i said yes. he rolled his eyes like i was an idiot and said "you know that you can find this online tomorrow right? i can look it up on my phone here". i was like, yeah buddy i know. kids these days just don't get it.

beaker!!

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i hate the ottawa jazz festival website so much. i'm sure the tickets will be less than 50$ each (as per montreal) but i can't find out easily from the site. i like metropolis though. i think i'll still hit that one up.

lots of good stuff! montrealjazzfest.com i'm especially psyched for opening night SALIF KEITA - VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ DOUBLE BILL Mali takes centre stage with two of its major artists: Salif Keita, global star of African music, intense political activist, friend of the Festival, recipient of the Carlos Jobim Award in 2006, creator of the brilliant M'Bemba; followed by Vieux Farka Touré, son of the legendary Ali Farka Touré, a singerguitarist inspired by the talent and charisma of his father who knows how to move us with his elegant Saharan blues. Bamako meets Montreal!

OK cool. i didn't realize paypal had high fees, i've only used it maybe twice in my life.

so basher do you gots me covered? lemme know the total and i'll paypal ya. i hope we'll be pre-partying, so you can hang on to my ticket till then woooohoooo!!

US pilots who flew aid to Myanmar get virtual hero's welcome By Eric Talmadge, The Associated Press UTAPAO AIR BASE, Thailand - Flying into Yangon, U.S. marine Cpl. Bryan Hampson looked out the windows of his C-130 cargo plane at an expanse of marshland covered with a thick, brown blanket of water. As the plane broke through the clouds, the crew members didn't know what to expect. His flight Tuesday was only the second one that Myanmar's military junta - often hostile and suspicious of outside interference - had allowed the U.S. military to fly into the cyclone-devastated country. What awaited was virtually a hero's welcome. "They kept telling us thank you and shaking our hands," he said of the 40 Myanmar people who unloaded by hand the 9,000 kilograms of emergency supplies on board. "They were really friendly toward us. They were excited to see us." After strong appeals from Washington, Myanmar allowed the second and third U.S. military flights in on Tuesday and appeared to be willing to accept more, said marine Lt.-Col. Douglas Powell. Powell said the first flight Tuesday carried blankets, water and mosquito nets. The second took in an 11,200-kilogram load. The two flights came after Myanmar allowed a U.S. air force C-130 cargo plane into Yangon, its main city, on Monday. "They were very polite, very professional," Capt. Mark Hamilton, the pilot of Tuesday's first flight, said of the Myanmar officials who met the plane. A Myanmar air force officer even came aboard the plane and took snapshots of the cockpit, he said. "But the military mostly stood off to the side," Hamilton added. He described the Yangon airport as being in good condition. "They could fit quite a few large planes in there," he said. "The only issue is the offload." Powell said a Boeing 747 aircraft arrived at Utapao Airbase in Thailand on Monday night to replenish the supplies available to fly in to Myanmar. Though the flights are military, the aid aboard them is being provided by civilian relief authorities. The U.S. has pushed hard for the junta to let U.S. troops play a big role in relief operations in the aftermath of the cyclone, which has killed tens of thousands and severely affected an estimated two million people. The U.S. military, which already has forces in the region for its annual Cobra Gold exercise, has 11,000 troops, at least four ships and potentially dozens of cargo planes nearby that are ready to start assistance operations. Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of U.S. Pacific Forces, flew into Myanmar on the initial aid flight Monday to try to persuade the junta to relent. Keating said the U.S. military could provide 90,000 kilograms of supplies a day, which would be a massive boost to the lagging relief efforts. The military could also ferry aid workers to the hardest-hit regions, which remain hard to reach. But Myanmar state television said navy commander in chief, Rear Admiral Soe Thein told Keating that basic needs of the storm victims are being fulfilled and that "skilful humanitarian workers are not necessary." The operation, named Joint Task Force Caring Relief, will not go ahead without the approval of Myanmar's military rulers, who have so far refused a broad range of help offers because they fear foreign meddling in their domestic affairs. That stance - as bodies remain scattered around the countryside and hundreds of thousands of refugees are in need of food and shelter - has generated howls of criticism from around the world. "I wish their government would accept our aid more than they have already," said Hampson. "We'll come in and give them the aid they need to help their people, then we'll leave."

yay! that's wonderful. now make sure to lock it up properly mkay?

sweet, thanks guys!

Kanada Kev, if you be buyin tics later in TO can you grab me one, pretty please? i'll paypal ya i get mad at crazy charges.