Today is David Gilmour’s 64th Birthday. {David Gilmour..you know..from Pink Floyd} Anyway, as I was listening to this on the way to work, this morning, the lyrics made me think of The Medical Mart that we probably will never see in Cleveland. But at least we had a voice concerning how to pay for it.

The lyrics:

” What shall we use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk?
How shall I fill
The final places?
How should I complete the wall…”

Here is a link to  live version of the song, from 1980:

Happy Birthday, David. From The Rock N Roll Capital of The World!

Hmmmm:

Fresh off the internets, Will Butler, Regine Chassagne and Jeremy Gara of the Arcade Fire will be playing a free show in support of Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign this Monday night at The Beachland Ballroom. ..

I Rock Cleveland: Arcade Fire Members to Show Support for Obama With Free Beachland Show on Monday

I’ll be keeping my eye on this. It’s a cool idea:

the long anticipated *lottery league* draft was held this past super saturday at asterisk gallery.

**brief synopsis: start with 170 willing participants from various bands from northeast ohio. choose teams [bands] by pulling number out of a hopper, go five rounds until all teams are chosen without having a band member that was in a band previously with.
next part of this process will give the 33 new bands 6 weeks to write songs, practice/rehearse and the last process will be to perform live at the top clubs in cleveland…**

welcome to the sissybar: the cleveland lottery league

Jared at the Rule of Next blog posts it before I can:

From Tim, CEO and Founder of Pandora:

“I’m coming to Cleveland on Thursday, February 28th to host a Pandora get-together. This is a chance for me to share the story of Pandora and to talk directly with you about the service. I’m eager to hear about the things you like/don’t like, what you think we should build next, and more generally your ideas on digital music.

I’m writing ahead of time to get your suggestions of where to hold the get-together. We’re looking for comfy, intimate places that can accommodate at least 150 people for a group discussion. Community theaters, music clubs, and old movie houses have worked great so far…

Angie is helping me plan the event and is excited to get your suggestions…

Any suggestions on a venue that would accommodate 150? I adore Pandora, and it’ll be great exposure for the venue and a chance to show off Cleveland. Maybe the Rock Hall?

Rule of Next » Pandora asks for Cleveland’s help

And listening to:
Never On Sunday from the album “Greatest Hits” by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Regarding Joe Cimperman:

One of the points I touched on in my last post is that Cleveland may just not be a nightlife town. The only reason I come to that conclusion is that I see a lot of people in Cleveland down on nightlife, and it appears to me as if our so called “leaders” are leading the crusade against that awful, evil nightlife with the kids and the music. People shouldn’t party to have fun; they should only have good, clean fun in surburbanite-approved daytime yuppie-style activities. Won’t that be nice? ::vomits::

Nightlife can potentially contribute many positive things to a city, if only a city learns to embrace that and learn to emphasize the positive while diminishing the negative, but demonizing nightclubs is not the way to go about that. Nightlife can be as much a source of musical inspiration as the Symphony or Playhouse Square. Yet, by being rejected, nightlife becomes the refuge of the rejected people. Sometimes they lash out.

So, how do we take advantage of nightlife? First, we must embrace it, in it’s whole, despite some faults. Almost two years ago, Mayor Daley of Chicago issued a proclamation celebrating the city’s nightlife history as the home of house music…:

Music On Your Pizza » Cimperman: Still Down On Nightlife