Banana Peel
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Mon, April 6, 2009 - 12:49 PM
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April 1, 2009 ACME MUSIC RELAUNCH LOCAL ARTISTS SUPPORT THEIR EAST OAKLAND MUSIC SHOP Art Opening Featuring: John Middle, Cassandra Auker, Bethany Ayers Jazz Performance Saturday, April 11, 2009 4PM to 8PM Music Shop and Gallery Open Monday thru Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm. Acme Music 3715 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94619 510.530.7234 Visual and Jazz music artists come together to help jazz drummer, music shop owner and East Oakland neighbor, Jay Rose, 83 years old, to keep the doors open during difficult economic times after nearly 40 years in business. An art opening and jazz reception on April 11, 2009 marks the relaunch of Acme Music in the Laurel District of Oakland. The show and relaunch of the store, organized by artist/DJ/musician Phonic Thee Bomber (aka John Middle), brings together works by himself and two other notable artists from Acme's neighborhood, Bethany Ayers and Cassandra Auker, in order to bring new life and attention to the struggling music shop. "I first became involved with Acme Music because I was curious what is this place anyway? There's sheet music and bits and pieces of things for sale and well-known jazz musicians just hanging out with Jay and giving lessons to kids from the neighborhood," says Phonic. "It's classic, just like its name. This place is a hidden gem, a real old school neighborhood place founded on the love of music and community. Classic." When owner Jay Rose started Acme Music in the '70s, he was working at his shop in East Oakland six days a week in a t-shirt and drumming at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco wearing a tuxedo in the evenings. Health problems have slowed his drumming down. Competition from on-line retailers and mega-stores has hurt business, as has the downturn in the economy. Then there was a devastating fire in which wiped out most of his instruments and stock and forced him to give up 2/3 of the shop space that he rents on MacArthur Boulevard in the Laurel District of Oakland. At age 83, Rose, who opens the shop at 10 am and works until closing six days a week, remains positive, "I love music and I love people." Phonic and Rose have become good friends. "I like the idea of community, and Jay and this shop embodies that idea. Jay knows everyone. People, including famous jazz folk, come in just to hang out. There's a lot of history in this place and in the people, we can't let that magic be forgotten." Acme sells sheet music, lesson books, instruments and accessories, and provides repair. Still, the core of his business has always been the lessons provided by talented and noted jazz musicians. The event is free and is open to the public. About the Artists Phonic Thee Bomber people.tribe.net/kingshag Phonics approach to the creative process is characterized by an emphasis on massive productivity with materials that are readily and easily accessible, i.e. glitter, broken glass and magic markers, with methods arrived at auto▴didactically. His prolific output has resulted in the completion of literally thousands of original mixed media and digital works. As a club DJ he held residencies at some of the most well known club nights in San Francisco such as Club Universe, Asia SF, Club 181 and 177 Townsend. He has also opened for major groups such as Crystal Method and Parliament and DJ for the X-Games. Phonic set up a production company and web based record label EzLuv and teamed up with Oakland based charity, Little Kids Rock and began promoting events characterized and informed by a love for all genre's of music that were altruistic rather than profit oriented. Bethany Ayres www.bethanyayres.com Ayres received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1996 from The Center for Creative Studies in Detroit Michigan; and her Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1998 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, PA. Since moving to California in 1998, she has shown her work in museums and galleries in Philadelphia, New York, Montana, Oakland, Emeryville, San Francisco, Sacramento and Salem, Oregon. She has been represented in Oakland by Esteban Sabar Gallery; and was named Best Artist in the East Bay Express 2006 Best Of edition. Cassandra Auker www.cassandraauker.com Auker, raised in Hawaii, started painting at age four and studied painting and sculpture in Italy, as well as at Boston University, San Francisco Art Institute, and Mills College. She is also currently involved in interior design, video, dance, holistic health and theater. She is inspired by nature and the tropics, as well as her own emotional landscape and the striving for ideal composition. "I use Oil, Acrylic, Watercolors, Found Objects, Pen, Pencil--I like pretty much everything." For more information about the show, contact Phonic Thee Bomber johnmiddle@sbcglobal.net 510.418.7195 Acme Music 3715 MacArthur Blvd Oakland, CA 94619 510.530.7234 
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Mon, December 3, 2007 - 10:00 PM
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by Phonic August 3, 2007 I've been hiding behind a cut and paste smoke screen for some time insofar as my blog is concerned. My WIFE....is carrying our baby ... something that warrants personal attention. WE are half the way there .... (Cue pregnant pause.....) yes half the way there. the Mummy (to be) glows radiantly as she swells and mutates..... (errr .... well put) take out foot... then mouth re-shut). a son in her tum slowly INCUBATES. Annette put out her shingle... And designed A world full of glow and tingle for her, our dog and mememe Our love will reign ETERNALLY. (STILL - A future together requires some assembly.) The work is the reward is the celebration no need for tea breaks or procrastination. Me? Passion drunk and hug giddy . From despair Annette, hid me. So I proceed. through a hall of mirrors riding sine waves and vectors of experience. This chaos theory algorithmically Life goes on IN 3D. Graphically... For you For me. Equilibrium kissed me full on the mouth. Turn yr oscillator off....ff. Our friction Kinetic. The sum dwarfed its constituent parts. A frown buried in Joisey with Jimmy Hoffa? Sub in giggly puddle jump in Holy Water Big love for a son Big love for a daughter. I came from the East. but rose with the North. Live now on coast left cos the West IS the best My troubles went South of them I'm bereft. Forced rhyme? It's that time. I shall not write another line. But one more thing... (uh huh...spew forth) You will never hear me say this but... "Thank you weird ultra advanced alien manipulator" of my fate.... Hear the words of yr Tomogachi here. AGREED! (here here) and so say all of us. tee hee hee “Yr script writing shows signs of improvement.” Somewhere yr tentacled agent brags.... "It is now in development." Development! (Switch track...) Abominally.... IN the womb. Mums love shack an amniotic sac Our featured attraction still kicks back. But is COMING SOON (there's no going back) We were wed on A BLUE MOON The LAST DAY OF JUNE FIREWORKS FLEW then went boom boom bright lights lit up a "sulky gloom" who then slunk off back to his tomb. Happy Revery cos every day forth you'll be with me along with a scheduled... Delivery For Xmas forever for YOU AND ME our love made flesh OUR KID.. Baby.
HELLO MY NAME IS
BANANA
Why Banana Peel?
1. Vaudevillian comics were called "Bananas". The top comic, usually the house comic, was the "Top Banana". The comic that took the prat falls, like slipping on a banana peel, was the "Third Banana".
Bananas are yellow.
Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
The AMAZING Bananahhh!!!!
Pseudo Psychic.
My TestimonialsNovember 15, 2006
To slip on banana peel is to experience one of life's more sublime pleasures.
So smart. So sexy. So funny. So unique. She is the mas in X-mas and the chocolate in Halloween. She is the ram in the ramalamadingdong. She puts the bong in the reggae song. She puts a smile on my profile. Watch our for this one ..... If she was Hitler......I would Seich Heil.
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