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Join us for an AMAZING night of music with Ronzoni Calzone's Acoustic Rock & Roll Revue AND the musical stylings of Dianne Nola!

Friday February 1st doors at 7PM

7PM: Ronzoni Calzone Acoustic Rock & Roll Revue

8PM: Dianne Nola

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Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language, in fact it’s the 3rd most commonly spoken language in the world (after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish). Interestingly enough it’s the number 1 second language used worldwide – which is why the total number of people who speak English, outnumber those of any other.

But whilst it’s the most widely spoken language, there’s still a few areas it falls down on (strange and bizarre punctuation rules aside). We look at 25 words that simply don’t exist in the English langauge (and yet after reading this list, you’ll wish they did!)

1 Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut

2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude

3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

4 Bakku-shan (Japanese): A beautiful girl… as long as she’s being viewed from behind

5 Desenrascanço (Portuguese): “to disentangle” yourself out of a bad situation (To MacGyver it)

6 Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.

7 Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love

8 Gigil (pronounced Gheegle; Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute

9 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid

10 Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

11 L’esprit de l’escalier (French): usually translated as “staircase wit,” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it

12 Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery

13 Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): A look between two people that suggests an unspoken, shared desire

14 Manja (Malay): “to pamper”, it describes gooey, childlike and coquettish behavior by women designed to elicit sympathy or pampering by men. “His girlfriend is a damn manja. Hearing her speak can cause diabetes.”

15 Meraki (pronounced may-rah-kee; Greek): Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. It’s when you put something of yourself into what you’re doing

16 Nunchi (Korean): the subtle art of listening and gauging another’s mood. In Western culture, nunchi could be described as the concept of emotional intelligence. Knowing what to say or do, or what not to say or do, in a given situation. A socially clumsy person can be described as ‘nunchi eoptta’, meaning “absent of nunchi”

17 Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation

18 Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions

19 Schadenfreude (German): the pleasure derived from someone else’s pain

20 Sgriob (Gaelic): The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky

21 Taarradhin (Arabic): implies a happy solution for everyone, or “I win. You win.” It’s a way of reconciling without anyone losing face. Arabic has no word for “compromise,” in the sense of reaching an arrangement via struggle and disagreement

22 Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively

23 Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbor’s house until there is nothing left

24 Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods

25 Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways,’ referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language

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I'll be performing my Acoustic Rock & Roll Revue LIVE @ HIGH STREET STATION CAFE Saturday 1/12/13. I'll be opening the show so get there early, the Cafe will be open from 7AM. I go on at 7PM so DON'T BE LATE and DON'T MISS IT! I'm opening for Sonic Boomerang, check out their website http://www.sonicboomerang.net/sonicboomerang/Welcome.html

Still reeling from the presidential election results, Mr. Burns takes a few minutes to explain the upcoming fiscal cliff.

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Sand castle artist Calvin Seibert manages to construct nearly impossible shapes from one of the world’s most delicate mediums. While Colossal has seen its fair share of art made with sand I’ve never seen anything so perfectly angular and geometric. See much more of his work over on Flickr. (via fasels suppe)

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Cthulhu Mythos is creepy and thus perfect for Halloween. A word of caution though, unless you’re reading Hello Cthulhu comics or playing a game of Munchkin Cthulhu, it’s not cute-scary. It’s intended to be a horrific mind bending scary. Grab one of Lovecraft’s books or any other book from the shared fictional universe, sit down, read it and then be prepared to not want to sleep that night.

Neptune's Son

Floating dreaming

Watching yearning

Mind burning

Daydreaming daydreams

Always thirsting

Never quenched

Ocean calling

Watery arms

Reaching flowing

Always

Always

To the Sea...

A Dial 911 Productions Remix

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In response to various requests for a HQ Audio version of Whale Song, I've recorded this new take + video.

An ode to my own watery Piscean nature, and dedicated to the Pisces Tribe on tribe.net

The piece consists of a few different motifs about the whale, the song starts out with lonely whale calls from the depths echoing out into infinity, then changes to a floaty whale ballet theme section.  The first guitar solo floats gently along the ocean tides.  The second solo represents the rushing water as the whale dives deep into the depths.

Filmed live @ Green Room Studios

Guitar performance by Dial 911 (a.k.a. Ronzoni Calzone)

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FIVE FABULOUS FEMALE WRITERS!

THREE TERRIFIC BANDS!

FOUR FANTASTIC VISUAL ARTISTS!

In celebration of Sunday Streets Berkeley, Blow Salon will be hosting a book reading. Serena Toxicat, Christine Lape Berger, Sumiko Saulson, Rain Graves, Desdemonna Ekaterina Gare-Frantisek and Rebecca Wilson will be reading, and we are still looking for others to read... others like YOU.

Rain Graves will be reading from FOUR ELEMENTS, her forthcoming book with Linda Addison, Marge Simon, & Charlee Jacob, due out by Halloween from Bad Moon Books (limited ed., and trade paperback).

Sumiko Saulson will be reading from her debut novel, SOLITUDE, a science-fiction/apocalyptic horror tale about diverse individuals who find themselves in a San Francisco seemingly devoid of all other human life. (Iconoclast Productions)

Serena Toxicat is tentatively scheduled to read from dark fantasy novella "Evangeline and the Drama Wheel", the tantalizing tale of a traveling band of human/animal/out of this world musicians and their trials and travails.

Desdemonna Ekaterina Gare-Frantisek will be reading from her forthcoming release, Requiem Project: Part I Heretic (short stories and poetry) Part 2 Redemption (novel) (Release Dates: Heretic October 1, Redemption December 21st.) - Requiem Rose Publications.

And Rebecca G. Wilson, professional music and fashion blogger is added to the roster! She is a mom, freelance writer over the years for the Nose, Juxtapoz, Punk Globe and now a fashion blogger for luvcatz.com. She will be reading her short work "Ice Cream".

That's five fabulous females reading. Count 'em. FIVE.

Please let Jil M Girvin know if you would like to read or perform at this nearly day long event. You can reach her at 510-508-6020.

There will be music: Stagefright, Protea and Ronzoni Calzone - Acoustic Rock & Roll Revue.

The following artists will be exhibited at the Blow Salon in October and be on display at the time of the event:

Jessica Greaux, Nancy Holliday, Angelica Spurgigo and Anthony Gordon.