New James Bond plot: The founder of Bit Coin Satoshi Nakamoto, was an American that passed away leaving his massive stake in the crypto-coinage dormant and unreachable. But a hard drive is found in a garbage dump in Nigeria where an enterprising teenager realizes what he has on his hands. He accesses Satoshi’s stake and …
Month: December 2017
BITCOIN CRASH: I was just telling someone yesterday, that if I had anything that gained 5 times it’s value I would sell half of it, and see what happens with the rest. Start with 5, you have 25, sell half you 7.5 more than had when you started and 12.5 in your pocket. But then …
IT FINALLY HIT ME: OK, I am finally in the Christmas spirit thanks to Bing Crosby & Irving Berlin…and a local television producer named Conrad Denke. Tonight, from our living room I got to watch Stephanie Anne Johnson and I host Band in Seattle’s Christmas Special. The show culminates with my duet of Slow Jam …
We have been sold out of these ‘Slow Jam for Christmas’ singles for an entire year. But Kyle Ledford and his Soniphone Records are cutting me 100 more next year. This time in this new format called Stereo. This 2018 will be the greatest adventure yet. A return to Jamaica to shoot the ‘Free Your …
Tonight as I hibernate like a honey bear, and tidy up The Staxx Brothers Global Headquarters, I am living up to this vow. I vow to listen to every one of the 10 $1 Christmas records I got for Megan’s mom Laurie Leer last year. I chose these ten wisely, but I also had a …
Is Steve Pool if KOMO the greatest Weatherman of all time? His career numbers are staggering. And who can forget when he hooked up with Bruno Mars on his show Front Runners back in 1992? Dude has been doing Weather so long in Seattle he was predicting weather on D Day. This is a selfie …
LeBron James, like his predecessors Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, is a star whose appearance in any city draws fans to an NBA arena like pilgrims to Mecca, and like the latter, he is a sight to behold in person at least once in your life. Accordingly, there were a lot of LeBron …
Well WTF? Who has heard about the lost invention, Starlite? It’s one of those stories that seems like the plot for a science fiction film and a comedy, but it’s actually kind of a tragedy. You feel like this a hoax…but tell me this isn’t too strange to be fiction: An eccentric (yet marvelously talented) …
Books are powerful, but it’s really how you use them that counts. I am no Warmonger but I love the message of Art of War, because its great theme is that best move on the battlefield is to never have to go to the battle field. Now that doesn’t mean appeasing to a stronger, or …
In the buildup to last Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, even the most gushing admirers of rookie 49er quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo anticipated a rough time. The Jaguars had allowed the fewest points and passing yards of any team in the NFL, and their defensive line, nicknamed “Sacksonville,” was so …
If Extra Terrestrials took a knee during the National Anthem, maybe more Americans would care that the Department of Defense confirmed the existence of UFOs via The New York Times. Redneck #1: “You little f_ckers need to respect the f_cking flag. Our troops fought and died so you lazy sons of b_tches had something fun …
Articles like this one, are why paying $20 a month for The New York Times is a nice investment. Maybe the news we get for free is typically hot garbage for primarily that reason. Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html Why pay for news? Because this story about the …
Remember when bands were super depressed in the 1990s but everything was pretty awesome? That’s clinical depression. Listening to Nirvana unplugged with Megan Lueck on the late night tip. My heart goes out to those dealing with that struggle. …also the 90s were awesome. Yet today I also dig doing back strokes in Olympic swimming …
The most unbelievable part of quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo’s fledgling career in San Francisco is that it happened at all. In any other league, a player of such other-worldly talent would never have been traded for anything less than a king’s ransom, and yet the New England Patriots let the 49ers have him for a 2018 …
Golly, the late Adam West had some superb comedy cameos in the later years of his life– the mayor on Family Guy, appearances on The Simpsons and King of Queens come to mind– and this song for an upcoming Dr. Demento recording is another humdinger of comic brevity for TV’s classic Batman. Give it a …
At the age of five Alice Merton started taking classical piano lessons, four years later she was introduced to vocal training. After spending many years being classically trained, Alice discovered the art of songwriting through one of her high school courses in Germany. She then went on to study songwriting and pursue her dream of …
I have been tending lately to fixate on artists for a while, given the wealth of video on YouTube. I have spent time looking for new, i.e., old, material from Alice in Chains, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Don Rickles, Sam Kinison and others. Recently, I researched the early 1970’s video catalog of Joe Walsh. …
Here’s the bio Brains Gad requested to promote our shows in Jamaica: Seattle songwriter Davin Michael Stedman is best known as the lead singer of The Staxx Brothers. His work with the emerging British act Sherlock Soul is also presently garnering him acclaim. But it his work in Jamaica as an emerging solo artist that …
Chi Ching Ching is this generation’s brightest talent combining his strengths: dance and vocal performance. He is gearing up for his 2018 debut album Turning Tables and dropped the LP’s first single “Rock Di World” on Friday, Dec 15th, 2017.
This year I got to host Band in Seattle‘s Christmas Special with my friend Stephanie Anne Johnson. Tune in December 23 at 8pm and 11pm on CW11 Seattle – KSTW and again on Dec 30 at 8 & 11. The Christmas Special is one hour long, as apposed to the usual 30 minute time slot… …
Hey Donny, There’s a New Santa in Town… We might not love our President this Christmas, but our Santa Claus is on point. Obama is still young, he has accomplished more than any of us, and yet…he still gives us hope we might reach our own potential as he did. I hope Obama gives the …
In light of last Tuesday’s special election results, we now know that if a Republican gets outed as a child molester in Alabama, he might actually lose an election by the landslide margin of one and a half percentage points. This was also with the Democrat, Doug Jones, running a vigorous and intelligent campaign and, …
You might have heard that I started a band in Britain called Sherlock Soul that is dropping our first single on Christmas Eve. But have you seen the Sherlock Holmes robot John Loud made to celebrate the release? John is a very talented sculptor, MC, and star of his Tales of a Time Lord radio …
NBA super teams reflect the spirit of our economy. The haves and the have nots. Like our economy the f_ckery is accelerating and it’s damaging the true competitiveness that well regulated capitalism provides when more individuals and companies can compete. I like Golden State but what a Cartel! Monopolies are emerging, even if the NBA, …
I just watched Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown episode in Lagos, Nigeria as I sipped homemade Hot Chocolate on this cold December night. Lagos. This is where I will be one year from now. I am not passing up on this opportunity to visit West Africa. I have accepted that invitation. As I got a glimpse …
Do you have what it takes to be a spy? Do you have the physical ability to be completely forgettable? We are talking Spies, not the classic Military traitor like Benedict Arnold or Michael Flynn. This is 007 stuff. Can you walk into a room full of 15,000 people like Steve Miller and entertain them …
I love my friends but I don’t believe them when they tell me this Flynn / Trump thing is a Nothing Burger. This is like if Richard Nixon had the KGB breaking into DNC offices. You know, instead of those Cuban agents Nixon soon wished the CIA would have left for Fidel, to feed to …