In a tip of the hat to the now married Mouy and Ian (w00t!), I thought I’d compile that list and open the floor up again for more more more! Anyone game?

Again, props to Coudal Partners for the inspiration.

Quick rules refresh: Combine the name of a band or musician with the name of a book or vice versa. Coudal’s site bent the rules more than I’ll allow so don’t go bastardizing shite!

The List (so far..)

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zero7 habits of Highly Effective People
The Old Man and the Sea & Cake
National Velvet Underground
Big Black Beauty
The Flying Burrito Brothers Karamazov
The Doobie Brothers Karamazov
The Bacon Brothers Karamazov
The Allmann Brothers Karamazov
The Chemical Brothers Karamazov
The Dust Brothers Karamazov
The Beach Boys from Brazil
The Beastie Boys from Brazil
The Petshop Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazilian Girls
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Theft
Al Green Eggs and Ham
The Dangerous Book for Boys to Men
KRS-1 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Love in the Time of Choler-Abba
A New Earth Wind and Fire
Cujo Strummer and the Mescaleros
Jimmy Eat World According to Garp
Interview with a Vampire Weekend
Everclear and Present Danger
Three Cups of TRex
The Sorcerer’s Stone Temple Pilots
Cat Power of One
Cat Power of Now
Of Mice and Men at Work
Arcade Fire Starter
Slaughterhouse Five for Fighting
The Woman in White Stripes
Cinderella
Steppenwolf
A Midsommer’s Night Dream Syndicate
All Quiet on the Western Front 242
System of a Down and Out in Paris and London
Oliver Twisted Sister
Flaming Lipstick Jungle
Aimee Mann of La Mancha
Three Musketeers for Fears
Lovely Bones Thugs & Harmony
Shiny Toy Guns, Germs and Steele
Amy Winehouse of Spirits
Field of Dreams Syndicate
The Fifth Elemental Organic Chemistry (book, too?)
The Rolling Stones of Ibarra
The Dark Tower of Power
Children of Men Without Hats
Carrie Underwood
Eight Men Outfield
The Church of Dead Girls
The Color of Waterboys
horton hears a whootie & the blowfish
kanye west side story
billie holidays on ice
coldplay it again sam
At Play in the Fields of the Lords of Acid
The Scarlet Letters to Cleo
A Clear and Present Danger Mouse
Rabbit Run DMC
Moby Dick
Moby Dick Dale
Love and Rockets in the Time of Cholera (stretch?)
Curious George Clinton
Running with Scissors Sisters
The World is Flatt & Scruggs
The Diary of Anne Frank Black and the Catholics (I like the dual religiosity)
The Diary of Anne Frank Allison and the Odd Sox
The Diary of Anne Frank Sinatra
Beastie Boys from Brazil
Corey Heart of Darkness
Green Hills of Afrika Bambaataa
BB King Lear
Midsummer Night’s Dreamland
Romeo Void and Juliet
Lord of The Ringo Starr
Rough Stone Rolling Stones
Cat Empire of the Sun
A Face in the Crowded House
Far From the Madding Crowded House
Gang of Four Past Midnight
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Brothers
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Good bye Pownce, I loved you for this short period of time. You were more useful to me than Twitter and I’m not sure what’s out there to replace how I used your site. You were more than a glorified Twitter and I always felt it was an unfair comparison.

Things that made it rock:

• Groups
• Private / Public messaging
• File sharing
• File embedding like vids and photos
• Desktop app
• A willingness and confidence to allow badges linking to my other social avenues

Looking back on my thread of Pownce notes offers a fun snapshot of what I found interesting in 2008 and what music I shared with the group I dubbed “music snobs.” Supposedly, the pownce group is batching my archive and I’ll be able to download it soon. It will be like a shoebox of goodness – bits and scraps of links, tunes and photos.

Good luck, Leah, Daniel and Mike. I think Kevin Rose will be just fine. He mostly twittered anyway!

Yes We Can

Originally uploaded by let5ch

There’s more excitement in the air about an election than any other time since I’ve been of voting age. From accounts I’ve read, Reagan’s election had similar buzz but this one has so much energy.

I’m grateful Obama won without controversy, especially since there were rumblings about ACORN and “buying” votes. If this contest had been closer, things could have turned ugly.

OK Dems, you now will have keys to the country car for at least the next couple years. Drive safe and get us SOMEwhere. Please.

One of the highlights was sitting around the campfire playing Booking Bands with my wife Jennifer and our friends, Mouy and Ian. I first learned of this little brain exercise when I heard Jim Coudal speak at the SXSWi festival this past March. When the floor was opened for questions, Coudal said any questioner needed to open with a booking band. I took it a step further by adding Hollywood to the mix: Interview with a Vampire Weekend at Bernies (if you follow the link to Jim’s speech, my question is on there at 37:10).

Basically, try to combine a band name with the title of a book (or vice versa). Coudal described the creative process occurring in your brain as massive rolodexes where you might lock on a band name and then begin rifling through book titles trying to find a match.

One thing all four of us realized is that we all need to read more. Needless to say, the game never ends. I spent most of Monday randomly sending IM’s with Mouy when one of us would come up with another one. I started writing down our list and I’m sure I didn’t get everything from around the campfire. So without further ado….

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zero7 habits of Highly Effective People
The Old Man and the Sea & Cake
National Velvet Underground
Big Black Beauty
The Flying Burrito Brothers Karamazov
The Doobie Brothers Karamazov
The Bacon Brothers Karamazov
The Allmann Brothers Karamazov
The Beach Boys from Brazil
The Petshop Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazilian Girls
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Theft
Al Green Eggs and Ham
The Dangerous Book for Boys to Men
KRS-1 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Love in the Time of Choler-Abba
A New Earth Wind and Fire
Cujo Strummer and the Mescaleros
Jimmy Eat World According to Garp
Interview with a Vampire Weekend
Everclear and Present Danger
Three Cups of TRex
The Sorcerer’s Stone Temple Pilots
Cat Power of One
Cat Power of Now
Of Mice and Men at Work
Arcade Fire Starter
Slaughterhouse Five for Fighting
The Woman in White Stripes
Cinderella
Steppenwolf
A Midsommer’s Night Dream Syndicate
All Quiet on the Western Front 242
System of a Down and Out in Paris and London
Oliver Twisted Sister
Flaming Lipstick Jungle
Aimee Mann of La Mancha
Three Musketeers for Fears
Lovely Bones Thugs & Harmony
Shiny Toy Guns, Germs and Steele
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Leave a comment with yours!

It’s a great exercise to try out because you’re drawing your creativity from a deeper place within.

It’s been quite some time since I had visited but Stefan sent out a polite email announcing his completion of the 2nd 100. The public evolution of his illustration style has been fun to observe. Over the course of time, he’s built up a great following, been featured in some prominent pubs like Wired, Business Week and the Onion. All of this because he did an idea just to do it. This passion of his has turned into books, DVDs and surely it’s been an exposure vehicle to win new business for his design profession.

Well done, Stefan. You’re an inspiration.

I don’t feel like Hugh left us all high and dry, especially since he’ll keep his blog going and continue to draw cartoons.

What I’ll miss from his tweets are some of the “finds” he passed along either from other twitterers he followed or interesting articles he came across. We just won’t get that from his blog. He followed a LOT of people, much like Robert Scoble does. Used in this fashion, Twitter can quickly consume your day if you’re not prudent with your time.

I met Hugh at SXSW this year and he was both friendly and attentive and these traits could be what drove him away from Twitter. You just can’t have THAT many personal contacts without sacrificing something else. Maybe he will come back to Twitter and use it like some suggest: as a way to blast 1-way communications. That would be grand, but in the meantime, I know where to find the cat and I look forward to more ‘tooning.

[UPDATE] Late on the 15th, Hugh re-emerged in the Twitter universe and started slinging some serious mud at folks who were dragging his name, reputation and “brand” through some other serious mud. It was acerbic and today (the 16th) it looks like he removed the nasty comments from his Twitter thread (if that’s possible).  The drama continues.

My parents were about to visit and I wanted to ask Gary for some hidden vineyard gems in Sonoma. He and a bunch of other internet intelligentsia were in Sonoma a couple weeks ago and I attended a party at De Loach where Daniel Burka of Pownce and Digg told me his favorite visit of their day had been to Forth Vineyard. Wondering if there were other places I shouldn’t miss, I sent Gary an email which he promptly forwarded to Wine Library’s Wine Director.

Forth Family Vineyard

Ian’s list was extensive and sure enough, Forth made the list. I contacted a couple and everyone responded with gracious replies. Gerry Forth replied that though they don’t have their own tasting room, he’d be happy to meet my parents personally at their co-op tasting room and gave me his cell # to pass on.

About 4 hours later, I’m talking to my dad and he’s raving about what a great guy Gerry was and how interesting his whole story is.

So, a public shout out and thank you to everyone who helped; you have an advocate for life.

I could have shot photos of this all night, but here are nine that I feel turned out s’alright.