NEW BLOGS OF NOTE

Keeping with the great themes of this blog, one is political, one is musical.

The New Mexico Politico with Aaron Henry Diaz is the work of a 19-year-old student from Las Cruces who says, "My family has a long history in New Mexico politics and I aspire to carry on the tradition." Diaz doesn't seem completely aligned with either party, saying right now he can't decide whether he supports Bill Richardson or John McCain for president. (Thanks to blog scout Mario for finding this one.)

A new music blog worth noting is produced by the Future of Music Coalition, which features "issues at the intersection of music, law, technology and policy." I'll check this one every time I need a shot of outrage about the musical industrial complex.

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My story in today's New Mexican about the latest plans of Rebecca Vigil Giron can be found HERE.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 29, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
El Kabong by The A-Bones
Red Lips, Red Eyes, Red Stockings by The Red Elvises
El Microscopico Bikini by Los Straitjackets with Cesar Rosas
Voodoo Trucker by Deadbolt
Baby Blue Rock by The Cramps
Throw a Boogie/Black Betty/Just a Little Bit by Scott H. Biram
Drunk Stripper by Bob Log III
Drive You Faster by John Schooley

Clean-up Woman by Betty Wright
Another Woman's Man by Little Royal
The Jungle by Diablito
Hey You by Evil Enc Group
African Twist by Stacy Lane
Get Out My Life Woman by Lee Dorsey
Ape Man by Aaron Neville
Sweet Skinny Jenny by Esquerita
Action-Packed by Ronnie Dee
Little Girl by John & Jackie
Monkey by J.C. Davis
Palolo Valley Girls by Da Mokettes & The Incredible Q Band.

Iggy Pop Set
All songs by Iggy Pop except where noted

Trollin' by Iggy & The Stooges
Real Cool Time by The Stooges
Gimme Danger
Dogfood
No Fun by The Ridiculous Trio
Wild America
One For My Baby

As Long As I Have You by Detroit Cobras
Come on in This House by John Hammond
Come on Up to the House by Tom Waits
Out of Left Field by Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
People get Ready by The Chambers Brothers
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

GORDO GOES TO SPACE AGAIN

Although James "Scotty" Doohan is getting all the headlines for having his ashes blasted into space, also aboard that rocket were the ashes of Leroy Gordon Cooper.

A little perspective: Scotty was an imaginary spaceman. Gordo Cooper was the real thing, one of the original Mercury astronauts and, the first Okie in space.

He piloted the last flight of the Mercury program (Faith 7, in 1963) and in 1965 commanded Gemini 5, becoming the first man to make a second orbital flight.

From his NASA obit:

Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. flew the troubled and suspenseful third flight of the Gemini program in August 1965. The goal of the mission was to prove astronauts could survive in space long enough to perform a lunar mission, which takes eight days. During their eight-day mission, they experienced a number of problems with power systems, thruster fuel, venting gas that caused the spacecraft to roll, and more in a seemingly unending series. But they stayed in orbit for almost 191 hours, 122 orbits in nearly eight days, and got themselves and their spacecraft back intact.

Growing up in Oklahoma in the 1960s, I had three major Okie heroes: Roger Miller, Mickey Mantle and Gordo Cooper.

This strange little story about sending Cooper and Doohan's ashes into space (along with the ashes of about 200 others) just reminds me how much I wish we spent the money we spend on stupid wars on exploring space.

TORNADO BENEFIT

Santa Fe Brewing Company next Saturday (May 5, 2007) is hosting a benefit for the city of Clovis, which was hit hard last month tornados.

All door proceeds from the "Caught by the Wind" show will go to the United Way of Clovis. To donate online CLICK HERE.

According to a press release from SF Brewing, volunteers are needed to help stage te event. Email Jeff if you can volunteer.

Saturday's going to be a great day for music here. Dengue Fever is playing at Quadstock at the College of Santa Fe that night. I'm going to try to make both. (And the Drive-By Truckers and Alejandro Escovedo are at the Lensic the night before.)

Santa Fe Brewing has done a great job bringing music to this town. (For example, Robert Earl Keen is tonight and John Hammond, who has a cool new album, is coming May 25). I'm glad they're getting involved with helping people too.

And hell, Clovis was where Buddy Holly made most of his magic. WE OWE THEM! (I believe theb ghost of Buddy spoke to me a coule of weeks ago when I was in Clovis. I was at Twin Cronnie Drive-In eating a chili dog, listening to my iPod on shuffle when "That'll Be the Day" came on. It was a sacred miracle!)

The Caught by the Wind line-up includes:


The JEFF STRAHAN BAND
AMAZING LARRY
BILL HEARNE & Friends
BUSY McCARROLL & the Ambassadors of Pleasure
The GEORGIE ANGEL BLUES BAND
LUNA de PLATA
LOVE LIES BLEEDING

$10 COVER -- ALL AGES
2 PM to Closing

GREG PALAST IN SANTA FE

My interview with author/jounalist and under-rated humorist Greg Palast can be found HERE.

When I spoke to him on the phone Tuesday morning I reminded him that we had spoken about now-indicted former Sen. Manny Aragon and his ties with the Wackenhut (now GEO) private prison corporation a couple of years ago. That led to Palast referring to Aragon as "the little pustulous pimple that stood out" over other local politicos.

Apparently "pustulous" is a word that his been on Greg's mind lately. Looking at his Web site this morning I found it used again, though this time applied to "The pustulous press jackals may tear at (Alec Baldwin's) flesh."

Palast is speaking tonight at The Lensic Performing Arts Center.

Tickets are available at the Lensic box office, 988-1234, or online at www.ticketssantafe.org. It's $10 for admission and $24 ticket includes a copy of his new book Armed Madhouse. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at the theater.

The book signing starts at 6 p.m., his talk at 7 p.m.

COLON WINS DEM CHAIRMANSHIP, WEH REELECTED GOP CHAIR

According to the Associated Press, Brian Colon won the state Democratic Party chairman race.

The AP quotes Dem spokesman Matt Farauto saying Colon got 295 out of 384 votes. Former state Rep. Michael Olguin of Socorro received 68, while former state party staffer and current blogger Gideon Elliot of Santa Fe took 21 votes. The Democrats met in Las Cruces.

On the Republican side, Col. Allen Weh won re-election with a margin of 183 to 137 over Earl Greer. The GOP met in Albuquerque.

FINAL WORD ON THE SC DEBATE

Various thoughts from what the Albuquerque Journal calls the "so-called Blogosphere" and hats off to Larry, who said the debate was one of the worst he'd ever seen as far as formats go. My story is HERE.

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, April 27, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
Daddy Was a Preacher But Mama Was a Go-Go Girl by Southern Culture on the Skids
Last Rebellion by Angry Johnny & The Killbillies
Race With the Devil by Gene Vincent
Sneakin' by George Weston
Hot and Nasty by Black Oak, Arkansas
Things You Do to Me by Hank Williams III
The Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum
Killin' Time in Texas by Gurf Morlix
Old Faithful by Bill Hearne's Roadhouse Revue

The Night That Porter Wagoner Came to Town by Tabby Crabb
Satan Gets the Gold by Porter Wagoner
Suburbia by The Riptones
Wrong Side of the World by Johnny Bush & Justin Trevino
Hollywood Hillbilly by Dale Watson
Sucker For a Trucker by Milly & The Sequins
One Has My Name by Jerry Lee Lewis
Got U on My Mind by The Watzloves
Molly Married a Traveling Man by Uncle Dave Macon

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS SET
All songs by DBT except where noted


Where the Devil Don't Stay
Wallace
The Boys From Alabama
I Met Her in Church by Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
The Living Bubba
Hobo by Patterson Hood
Sinkhole


I Was Drunk by Alejandro Escovedo
Cat and Mouse by Ry Cooder
Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain by Carla Bozulich
Try Me One More Time by David Bromberg
No Demon by Jorma Kaukonen
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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DEBATE ANALYSIS

Here is my analysis of Bill Richardson's performance at last night's debate. CLICK HERE

You can find my live blogging of that debate by scrolling just a couple of posts down.

STATE CHAIRMAN BATTLES

Yikes, I thought the race for state Democratic chairman was getting interesting.

But the GOP contest between incumbent Alllen Weh and Earl Greer is getting interesting too, according to Mario Burgos' blog. Getta loadda THIS:

April 26, 2007

Lou Melvin
RPNM Rules Committee Chairwoman
5150-A San Francisco NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109

Dear Lou -

In accordance with Rule 10 of the Bernalillo County Republican Party Supplementary Rules, the following State Central Committee Members from Bernalillo County are not in good standing.

Please consider this a formal challenge of the following State Central Committee members:

Christopher Atencio
Mario Burgos
John Butrick
Samuel Carnes
Whitney Cheshire
Diego Espinoza
State Representative Justin Fox-Young
Elaine Henederson
Wade Jackson
Enrique Knell
Fran Langholf
Vickie Perea
Patrick Rogers
Patricia Rush
Dianne Shams-Avari
Matthew Stackpole

Mario raises the possibility that C de Baca is supporting Greer against Weh, but that's not certain from the post.

The plot thickens. Mario, who ran against C'De Baca for Bernalillo County GOP writes:

I made a decision in that race to focus on Mr. C' de Baca's performance failures, but I also made a decision not to attack him personally. I choose not to point out Mr. C' de Baca's criminal conviction from 1996:

Here’s what the Albuquerque Tribune (7/24/96) reported about C de Baca’s 1996 bid-rigging conviction in California:

Fernando C de Baca, 58, of Albuquerque pleaded guilty Tuesday in San Diego County District Court to conspiring to inflate bids for asbestos removal at two malls owned by the Hahn Co. of San Diego. One of them was Coronado Center in Albuquerque.

(C de Baca, acording to Burgos, told The Albuquerque Tribune that the California Superior Court later dropped the charges.)

But here's my favorite:

I also decided not to bring up the fact that the Executive Director,
employed by the Bernalillo County Republican Party and hired by Mr. C' de Baca, spent Election Night partying with Patricia Madrid supporters at her "Victory" Party. Or, the fact that this same individual, proudly has posted pictures on his personal website of himself posing with pornography star Jenna Jameson while wearing a t-shirt advertising her website.

The chairmanships of both parties will be decided Saturday.

Here's an Associated Press story from earlier this week about those races by Barry Massey. CLICK HERE

Stay tuned.