The sound quality on the YouTube clip is a bit harsh, but I just couldn’t resist sharing Perez Prado’s tambourine moves with you all. What’s shaking your tambourine today?
The Spin I’m In: Partial to Prado |
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| By: Donita Sparks Friday June 20, 2008 3:00 pm | |




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Hey hey everyone!
Hi, YoungJess!
Where are you now, Donita? Did you get a burger at Maxwell’s?
I’m jazzed because I finally found one of my favorite art videos from the 80s, Doug Hall’s “These Are the Rules” at the mediaburn web site. So I scraped it and uploaded it to YouTube. Hadn’t seen that in about 23 years – only had memories. It holds up!
And tomorrow is the Portland Flat-track Roller Derby Semifinals, so that’ll be a kick.
Hey: good road book is Mike Edison’s “I Have Fun Everywhere I Go.” You probably have run into that guy now and again. Fun fellow.
Greetings to Young Jess and all Firepups!
It’s hot as hell here in LA.
Finitfinito is doing some political work today so he won’t be here.
Hey swag!
Hello Donita! How are you?
Hey there :D
a band called Le Futur Pompiste is shakin’ my tamb lately… they sound a lot like Komeda…
It was nice to see you in Cambridge/Boston btw…nice meeting you too!
Been hot as hell in Austin, TX also. Will still be in July, for sure.
FWIW, is there anywhere in the country where it isn’t hotter than hell (except for maybe the Pacific Northwest) on this longest day of the year/first day of summer.
Upper 90s here in South Central Texas.
Hey YoungJess ! :)
Hey there thor!
hey Donita– this is how i am trying to feel today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q
Hi Donita, I am looking forward to your show in August at Dante’s in Portland.
WOOT!
Hi swag!
Cool video, I’ve never seen it. I like the suede glove hammer.
I didn’t eat at Maxwell’s at all. I had no time. It took us over an hour to park our van on a very crowded Frank Sinatra Blvd. The club didn’t save us a parking spot.
Hi thor,
Do you have a linky poo for the band?
Very nice meeting you as well sweetie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6YEUcTxGeY
a nice live clip of LFP
Aloha, Donita and fini…!
I even did a little write up on the new album and tour at my place the other day.
Showing my age here but this is the Ian Drury tune I’m most familiar with> (Sorry Young Jess, but you can’t click through on this one) :})
jane harman in the wapo:
“My constituents are saying ‘don’t cave in’,” said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), the former chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But Harman noted that the standoff with Bush last year over FISA had resulted in the Protect America Act, a temporary bill without several key provisions that today’s legislation contained.
but I said, they can screw themselves and voted for it.
hey Donita– this is how i am trying to feel today.
This is how I *am* feeling today. And the background perfectly catches my mood..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mlKf9jo-A
The Doors.
Bonjour guys & dolls & Donita! I’m happy to see you here Don ’cause I suppose you are f***g tired. It’s cool to know you are back home. I’ve heard of some troubles in Pitsbrugh and it’s sad. There is assholes everywhere…
Hey cactus !!!
I thought at first you were using this Doors tune
…Sugar! No tambourine stuff right now…;-S
Hi everyone.
What happened?
Hey Thor! You see, I’m back after my little “fight” with my FDL “profile” :-) It’s cool ’cause when I saw your impressions about the Stellar shows, I was very frustrated I can’t say anything…
As they say in Hoboken, it’s Sinatra’s world – we just live in it.
thank you for the tunes this afternoon. lord knows today has been a bruiser in congress-land.
probably more apropos – but I refuse to quit.
I’m
stupidfunny that way…Oh I’m not quitting by any means.
But even continuing the fight, it fights the before and after.
I have to get going now, have a great weekend everyone!! :)
See ya Jess.
Donitaday!
Let me send a big FUCKOFF to chertoff, Hoyer and the rest of the Corp. Dems.
If Miss Sparks is still here, she will tell that maybe… I have seen a comment on Donita’s Myspace of a girl who siad “sorry about last night in Pitsburgh and a cool friend I have on myspace tell me some drunk guys have throw beers on Donita and the other Stellar ones and a fight was on. I know these things happen very quickly etc…but I’m surprise that nobody from there (security or barmen or owner…) didn’t move. And the Stellar ones have to fight bravely…and win!!;-)
dam, n i didn’t git picked as a roadie either :’(
i dig the bo diddley
That sucks. :-( A couple of weeks ago in a “Spin” there were some videos of musicians on stage (for instance Axl Rose and Shirley Manson) dealing with “fans” that throw stones, started brawls or spit at the musicians.
…Oh, I was talking about Myspace and if you click on my name just above this comment you will go on my page. I have nothing to “sell”. I’m there for our girls, especially. There is 3 L7 albums and 2 Stellar albums (thanx to some good myspace-friends;-), all “public” so if you don’t wanna be my friend :-( or don’t have a profile there, you can take any pics you want.
Yeah buddy. Those kind of guys don’t have anything R’n’R for me. Stones!
Why that? You seem to be a faithful one…Maybe it’s about time?…
I was talking about faithfulness and I see Mr Finito is not here, strange…
See Donita’s comment up top @ #3…
I’ve seen Bo Diddley a few years ago, was very cool (with Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis)…
faith is for the weak.
Oh! Thanx, I ALWAYS missed a thing around here ;-)
Wow! glad you caught them!
No faith in Don, then?!;;;-)
It’s because I’m an old kid…
lol, yeah, i am one without faith.
old kid or old soul?
(don’t speak to loud please, I think Don is maybe sleeping after this 2nd USA invasion;-)
You tell me, boogie-boy! ;-)
Hey Godnita! If you are still here, the best souvenir of the Tour, or a little magic moment, please…
She’s out at the pool, coolin’ her heels, Id bet on it.
I just clicked on your mySpace link… hehe. Nice profile.
Thank you very much, Mr cat! :-)
Cool pic to imagine! 8-)
It’s a little cluttered up, but that’s MySpace.
So could you .. add this to the page? I posted this earlier. Feel free to reduce it in size.
Pleasy pleasy. :-)
I will add it with pleasure, it’s beautiful!! :-)
Dude, thats awesome!
yeah nice drawing!
The drawing is on the second Stellar album, original size. Bravo and thanx, buddy ;-)
Thanks you all. I’m off now. See you next week.
I close with a video by The Folksmen, the folk answer to Spinal Tap.
Bye Cat-Boy…
c*
The drawing is on the first page of the album…s’il vous plaît! (if you please!) ;-)
I’m off too guys, it’s late here in L belgium 7 ;-) and I have some little things to do before “dodo”… See you, take care, peace,
El cactoosssss!;-*
repeat: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jlOi2ONyEQU
In this modern hurly-burly world where people everywhere are always saying “More cowbell!”–I’m glad someone finally remembered the lowly tambourine.
any body here