Happy Birthday Yahoo Serious


Yahoo was born on this date in 1953. I haven’t seen Young Einstein since it came out. Has anyone seen it recently? Does it hold up? In case you were wondering, Yahoo is still doing movies, and he hates Yahoo! because he claims they stole his name.
Plagiarism is a form of flattery some say. Well maybe in some cases, if carried out by other artists. But a bunch of marketeers have destroyed the uniqueness of a name. They’ve blanded it, McDonaldised it! Worse actually. There were hundreds of thousands of people in the world called McDonald. There is only one person called Yahoo. There is only one real Yahoo and no amount of mass marketing can ever change the facts or the history.

Off to the Franklin

I’m off to take the kids from the summer program to the Franklin Institute, where they’ll whine about the fact that they have friends who get to take field trips to Six Flags. But then I’ll say, “Well those friends won’t have an opportunity to spend time in a planetarium then, will they?” which will be followed by the rolling of their eyes and a muttering under their breath of, “You corny, Coach Rome.” Nonetheless, I’ll be out of commission until this afternoon, when I’ll get your stinking photos up on the site. In the meantime, our good friend the Lovely Ginger will be guest editing at Foobooz, as Trivia Art is kicking it in Portland, Maine this weekend. And you can read about the time I got dunked on, if you haven’t done so already. I’ll catch ya this afternoon.

Interview with Grammy Award Winner Aaron Levinson

aaron2I met Aaron through a CD exchange club I belong to, and really dug his musical selections. Then I got to talking to him, and he’s one of those guys you can listen to for hours because he has a vast wealth of musical knowledge that spans from rock to jazz to hip hop to merengue. He works in the music biz as a producer (He won a Grammy for his work on the Spanish Harlem Orchestra and Ruben Blades “Across 110th Street” Album in 2005) and also spins occasionally, and tonight will be at Chifa starting at 10 p.m. spinning a wild mix of Salsa, bossa nova, cha cha cha and much more in a show he calls La Maquina del Tiempo. I’m gonna try to make it there after quizzo if anybody wants to go. 

JGT: What does La Maquina Del Tiempo mean?  

AARON: La Maquina Del Tiempo means The Time Machine. Tonight you will be hearing the past of Salsa, Mambo and Cha Cha Cha from Puerto Rico, New York and Cuba from the 60’s & 70’s with a couple of licks of Latin Jazz, Boogaloo and Cumbia thrown in for good measure. Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, Sonora Poncena, Bobby Valentin, Ruben Blades, Pacheco and Celia Cruz. This is Golden Age Salsa for dancers and listeners alike. Expect dance floor fillers, classics and rarities that will have you dancing on the lawn.

JGT: When did you decide you wanted to get into the music business?

I always wanted to be in the music business but my first real gig was as a dj/engineer on WRTI when I was in high school. I’ve never looked back. My first record label job was with Inner City records in NYC as a Freshman in college at The New School For Social Research

JGT:  When you’re not Deejaying, what kind of music related enterprises are you involved with?

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Scoreboard from Last Week, Brought to You by Mastershake

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O’NEALS

  1. Don’t Vote for Pedro 114
  2. Why is John’s Rum Gone 106
  3. Savage Henry 105
  4. Dork Sided 92
  5. Let’s Not Finish Last 86

BARDS

  1. Stimulate Your Prostate 96
  2. Team Angus 78
  3. Wise Latina Females 77
  4. Strong, Durable, Dyke 76
  5. Lazy and Lucky 72

LOCUST RENDEZVOUS

  1. The Jams 92
  2. Quiz on Your Face 91
  3. 1022 86
  4. I Drink Blood 82
  5. My Mom Says I’m Cool 81

BLACK SHEEP

  1. Hurtin’ Bombs 100
  2. Satan’s Minions 99
  3. Duane’s World 98
  4. Let’s Hope Pedro Did Steroids 89
  5. Baron Munchausen 88

UGLY AMERICAN

  1. L. Ron Hubbard’s Diabetics 113
  2. The Axis of Evil Knieval 107
  3. Urban Achievers 103
  4. Duane’s World 99
  5. ??????

BARDS

  1. Brain Nachos 91
  2. Colon 83
  3. Pedro Martinez & the Astronauts 75
  4. Vinit Drinks Bad Santas 66
  5. Stimulate Your Prostate 66