Did anyone else notice the excitement of the Boise State cowbell player last night?…

Come on. The camera man was standing 4 feet in front of you and you couldn’t even crack a smile? What about a wave to mom and dad? She spent all of high school practicing, hoping to finally make it to the “big stage,” and she gets stuck banging a bell with a stick.

I think she is sad because she didn’t make the cut for the 160+ dance team. There’s always next year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd5NaJS1IuA

AHAHAHAHAHhahahahHahah!!!! Okay, so I was at my boy, Alberto’s house earlier this evening and we were watching the NCAA Fiesta Bowl being played between Texas Christian University and Boise State. At half-time, the Boise State marching band took the field, and performed. Somewhere near the beginning of the performance came the HIGHLIGHT if the entire game!!! The camera zoomed in on a guy playing the xylophone and a girl playing the cow-bell. I first just laughed because the girl had a miserable look on her face. But my friend, Will Ramsey started cracking up, saying something about, “chameleons got nothin’ on her!” and continued to laugh histerically. So we took advantage of our 21st century DVR technology and rewatched the scene. Pandemonium ensued!!! Okay. So the cow-bell has a little eye problem. I really hate to make fun of her, but maybe she did it on purpose. One of her eyes moves to the side, while the other stays focused straight ahead!!! I kid you not! Check the video! The whole room was cracking up as we watched the thirty seconds of video like ten times in a row. I hope you enjoy this insanity as much as we did.

UPDATE – We’d like to apologize, it has come to our attention that she is blind and that we are all jerks. Love is blind and so is she.

If anyone watched the halftime show of the Fiesta Bowl, you know exactly what’s about to happen. Oh yes, oh yes:

Sad Cowbell Girl.

I love you Sad Cowbell Girl and I thank you. Thank you for the first internet meme of 2010. We all thank you.

UPDATE:  StateStSports would like to offer our sincerest apologies, as we were unaware that this young lady in the Boise State band is actually blind.  We commend her for her courage and musical ambitions.

Poor girl.  Yet another person humiliated by YouTube and masses equipped with video cameras on their phone.

Not technically a cowbell, but close enough in our book.

Number 1 cowbell moment in history.

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult

A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles

Down On The Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Drive My Car – The Beatles

Grazing In The Grass – Hugh Masekela

Groove Is in the Heart – Deee-Lite

Hey Ladies–Beastie Boys

Honky Tonk Women – The Rolling Stones

Low Rider – War

Mississippi Queen – Mountain

Photograph – Def Leppard

Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers

We Didn’t Start The Fire – Billy Joel

You Can’t Do That – The Beatles

Wishing everyone a prosperous, fabulous and harmonious new year. 2010 is here!

My personal wishes for the new year:

• To help reignite the Northwest Electronica scene
• Give more solo music performances
• To fully harness the power of my latest analogue synth
• Jam even more new music on my iPod
• World peace, and of course, more cowbell.

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with David Rotsztain

Saturday January 30, 2 – 5 p.m.
Cost: $120 per person

Learn how to make chevre, paneer, blue cheese, cheese curds, yogourt and kefir. David Rotsztain, Organic Farmer and Cheesemaker, will lead participants through the various stages of the cheesemaking process from culturing to l’affinage (ageing). The workshop will emphasize a sort of ‘natural cheesemaking’, with a focus on simple, hands-on techniques that can be easily reproduced at home. David will also discuss the history, science and practice of cheesemaking, the politics of raw milk, rennet free cheeses and dairy ferments. Oh, and there will be lots of cheese to eat too.

Breaking the Pig – Whole Animal Butchery Class
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February 8, 6 – 9 p.m.
Cost: $120 per person

A demonstration of whole animal butchery and how each muscle is best used for retail, restaurants and the home cook with a full discussion of farming practices, and the challenges of bringing local product to market. Students will learn the how to identify good pork, how to utilize tertiary cuts and be more economical in their own kitchens.

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Saturday February 13, 12 – 3p.m.
$120 per person

Your hands-on cooking class includes:
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• Bread and biscuits to take home

Classes take place at The Stop’s Green Barn, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St., Barn #4. All proceeds benefit The Stop’s programs that fight hunger, build hope, and inspire change.

To sign up contact Danielle at 416.652.7867 ext 250 or danielle@thestop.org

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Chef Chris Brown creates an intimate, five-course dining experience for you to savour under the stars at our fabulous greenhouse. Wine pairings include the best from Niagara’s wine region.

Or if you want to experience life in a professional kitchen, join the kitchen crew and help prepare the feast.

Food for Change Dinner Series – Thursday February 18th

For guests
Price: Meal only $75, with wine pairing $120
Time: Hors doeuvres served at 6; dinner served at 6:30 p.m.

For Kitchen Crew
Price: $100
Time: Slotted preparation begins at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. or 3p.m.  and ends around 11 p.m.  All meals and drinks provided.

To sign up contact Danielle at 416.652.7867 ext. 250 or danielle@thestop.org

To learn more about The Stop’s Food for Change dinner series, click here.

Watch for more information on other upcoming Food For Change events with guest chefs:

January 21: Special Guest Chef Jesse Vallins from Trevor Kitchen & Bar

February 1: Special Guest Chef Mark Cutrara  from Cowbell



It’s all fun and games until someone gets smacked in the face with a brass bell typically used to attract cows to a desired location.

Mississippi State University police detectives are searching for a male suspect in the assault of a student with a cowbell amid the post-game celebration at last Saturday’s Egg Bowl game against arch-rival Ole Miss.

This is all according to The Starkville Daily News.

The victim had some friends from Ole Miss with him in the stands, and, after MSU won the football game, some verbal sparring occurred with the suspect that turned violent, culminating in the victim being struck with the cowbell, Massey said.

“It split his head open pretty badly,” said Massey, who would not comment on whether alcohol may have played a role in the incident.

We’ll comment on whether or not alcohol played a role in the incident: Yes. Yes. Yes.

Dear SEC,

It is one thing to allow MSU to blatantly illegaly use artificial noise makers, but when they start using the things as weapons, well that is just unfair. As long as MSU gets their cowbells, we fully expect to be allowed into the next SEC Football Game we attend with nunchucks and brass knuckles. They are a great accent for cheering and a perfect punctuation for an epic rivalry beatdown.

I'm sorry, did my victory fist pump catch the side of yo FACE?

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On their European tour, I’ve had the possibility to make photos of this great and fast rising group from ‘Nueva York’ USA… La Excelencia. With their ‘Salsa Dura’ and incredible rhythms they put the whole crowd on fire! The location this time was the ‘Harmonie’ at Bonn, Germany. On their tour they also played in Berlin, Stockholm and Rome! For more info you can always look at their website!

Thanks guys… and enjoy the pictures!

Also a special thanks to Jean and Christopher to make all this possible!

Green Day performs East Jesus Nowhere with Will Ferrell on CowBell – SNL

I’m not sure if i’ve made myself clear, but i truly, deeply, lustfully love Billie Joe and he is the only one on my “list“.    My sister and I went to Ikea last week and on the way down, I confessed to her that I was hoping we’d run into him and his family there.  He lives in the east bay.  Ikea is in the east bay.  The Armstrongs are moving into a new house.  People need stuff from Ikea when they move.

Irrational as that may sound, it could happen.  So i always dress nice for Ikea.

(incidentally, i truly admire his wife, adrienne, and would be almost as gaga over her as i am him, if and when we accidentally bump into each other at Ikea)

(and another thing, it’s obvious in the video that Will Ferrell had never heard this song.  -10 pts for his tragically unhip faux pas)

Rock on Fatty, Rock on!

Yes…. so Mt. Tabor park has many friends… in fact… maybe too many friends.  I preface this blog post with some humor because while it’s not really a slam against SE Portland (Ha! Alia!) it’s more of a comical observation of how life across the river is well… different.

Many of you know… or don’t know, I’m working over @ Warner Pacific college.  That said, it’s over in SE Portland.  SE Portland is a different world.  Likely in the olden days of Portland lore I’m sure the suburbanites spun stories of orcs and trolls guarding the bridges from man coming across with their machinery or disease.

"Stay off my land!!"

But honestly, maybe that’s a stretch… and maybe that’s because I was watching the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy last Friday/Saturday (extended editions) and watched them in less than 24 hrs.  Anyways…. observations.  People in SE (South East if you haven’t figured it out by now) Portland march to a different tune/beat or drum.  I’d like to say that their moto is “More cowbell!”.  Why do I say that?  Well— examples of this:

I head into work regularly between 11am and 12pm.  After I get off I-84 and head up 60th street to division, I see more people out at coffee shops, walking dogs, bike riding or just chilling.  It prompted to me to write this post because I have to wonder what the hell these people do?  Not only that— but Mt. Tabor.  Warner Pacific is right up against the south side of Mt. Tabor park and all day… ALL DAY I see people in the park walking, walking their dogs and do other “non-work” duties that makes me wonder how do they get away with this?  Can I start getting away with doing this?  Where do I sign up?

I’ve had this conversation with other people @ Warner in fact and the general consensus is… no one knows how there can be a large number of people in or around Mt. Tabor ALL the time.

So I suppose if the Oregon state government got desperate for workers… Mt. Tabor is a place to start looking for raw talent right?

If you happen to live over in SE Portland, I’d love to hear from you and your perspective.  Maybe you have the same questions I do or perhaps… you’re one of the aforementioned raw talent just looking for a job.

More later.

-A

So at work this morning, I set the printer display to read “Needs More Cowbell” and left it for th day. Just now, my co-worker texted me saying, “Someone couldn’t print and they asked why it said it needs more cowbell” Haha. Classic.

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Randomly discovered this on Beatport and it’s fuckin sweet. SO MUCH COWBELL. Enjoy!

Martijn ten Velden & Afroboogie – Cowbell (Original Mix)

“Free Energy” is a song that mimics it’s name in every facet possible. The first few lines of the song demonstrate this beautifully: “We’re breakin’ out this time. Makin’ out with the wind. And I’m so disconnected. I’m never gonna check back in.” Adorned with cowbell, this song conveys a carefree attitude, sure to make the youth in us all come out.

Throughout this song, instruments are stacked upon one another until the chorus finally hits you with a bang. It’s so catchy, you can’t help but get this song stuck in your head, whether you like it or not. For some reason, this song is even more satisfying while driving in the car.

So, put the windows down, put your hands in the air and just let go. After all, ” We are young and still alive.”

Love,

OCV

P.S.  Check out the music video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thWJ53kS43U

If I fail my Exam, I’ll tell your pimp to fire you. Anna Goldstienberg.

So recently I’ve been taking my bell (think hotel service bell) around with me in public. It pretty much instantly attracts attention (mostly confused, amused and positive) and starts conversations. It’s like that time I wore a party hat in public and interesting people talked to me randomly and I got free ice-cream.

I’ve recently been looking up various instruments that I can also add to my arsenal for personal use. So far i’ve bought an airhorn, and considering a whistle (sold by a non profit charity, also the design is pretty rad). I bought a friend a old school bell town criers used to use. Shit, that would have been awesome, oh well.

Instrument-wise, i’ve been quite harsh on my selection of possible instruments to use in my current instrument addiction phase. I’m considering get a trumpet (mainly to make fun of Timmy Trumpet), mini piano, loudspeaker, a cowbell and an accordion (i’d rather not spend over $100 for a joke).

So far i’ve rejected the following ideas:
tambourine (I’m not a hippie)
Bagpipes (This would just be annoying and an inconvenience to carry and learn to play, not that it requires any skill to play or anything…)
Claves (I’m not a monk)
Kazoo (Yeah.. No)
Maracas (I actually own a pair, though it is very ‘boy from oz’)
Bongos (you can only create like 5 beats on a congo and they all sound average)

Segue
Yesterday I went to the Nas concert with Q*bert and Supernatural. I prepared for Supernatural by trying to find random objects that would throw him off guard. Fruit or vegetables… meh, meat… hmm possibility, powdered soup mix… hmmm very random, No Salt (alternative low sodium salt substitute).. Bingo. The chick at the counter fucked up the sale and put the item through as bird food, nicely done, you can’t even type a few numbers on a register and realize that ‘No salt’ isn’t bird food. Enjoy your failed life. Technically since the price (and Item) was wrongly scanned I should have got the item for free, meh. I took $100 cash out, told her she fucked up the scan and she ignored me, nice, I saw it as an atm fee and left.

Went to a friends place, watched them make pizza, got several messages from another group of friends to hurry up and come to their place, left, ran to the concert, they still weren’t there, ran into several more friends, they finally came, Q-bert came on, Supernatural came on and this:
He freestyled and rapped for a while, Cool, But as he was about to finish, He told everyone to dig into their pockets and that he would freestyle about anything he grabs. He sees my ‘no salt’ and confetti and says “this guy came prepared”. Q*bert drops a beat and Supernat grabs by items. He freestyled an awesome verse about confetti that I can’t remember at all and then swung the box and confetti went everywhere. The crowd went wild. The he started to freestyle about my ‘No Salt’. Amazingly he freestyled a really witty verse about “no sodium for this guy” or something and threw it back to me. Crowd went wild.

He moved on and did a few more awesome verses, then I remembered I had my bell in my pocket. He grabbed it and said “…I never stop rocking til I hit that bell”
*ding*. Crowd went wild. I asked the security guy to give my bell back and he was being a capital dick and wouldn’t return it. I looked through my phone and found a photo I took of it a while back and showed it to him, he reluctantly gave it back.

Nas came on next, He was pretty awesome.
(I’m assuming that was the shortest review for a headline act ever)

Actually:
There was this woman right? and throughout Nas, she kept extending her arm and yelled Nas. This would seem normal right? but in her fingers was a friendship bracelet. I’m …pretty sure Nas has been offered just about everything, from sex, drugs, drinks, etc, But this woman thinks that Nas will go down and get this looped yarn from her. Ridiculous.

Met Sampology and Charlie Hustle after the show and they found my items amusing and took a photo, then I got a picture with Supernatural after the show, holding onto my no salt, confetti and bell.

The kids I were with decided to go to the valley, I had shorts on, but reluctantly went, on the way I threw confetti and made a trail of ‘no salt’ and even gave it a taste. ‘No salt’, No thanks. I’d take high sodium content salt anyday.

They wanted to go to Alhumbra, the security guard wouldn’t let me in, I was tired anyway but thought I might as well try to talk my way in just for the hell of it. I said the guy in front of me had shorts on, the guard goes “oh shit” and tells him that he can’t come it. I say “ooh… shit. I didn’t mean it..”, the guy had an European accent and was confused and upset that we was getting kicked out. I said to the bouncer that it was he’s last day in Australia and that he has cancer. I don’t think he heard me becuase he still wouldn’t let him in. Later the door chick let both of us in. I let her touch my bell-end.

Inside was pretty boring to be honest. I left everyone as they went to a different club. Apperantly they went to Gloria Jeans after I left, how gangster, Cafe after a Hip Hop show…

On the way home I met some people I knew that went to the concert.

The end.

Don’t be afraid…there’s a cowbell here to keep evil spirits at bay! Oh, and thick mustaches.

En av de bästa låtarna som finns. Och killen vid 04:40 visar att Cowbell-sketchen i SNL med Will Ferrell inte var helt ute och cyklade angående konstiga bandmedlemmar som står för konstiga ljud.