Davey G and the Keyboard for Best Solo Music Artist!

(photo by Ashley Sauers)

Dear Readers,

It’s time for the Best of Baltimore! Vote for Davey G and the Keyboard!

In the past, I have never done this, but this year I feel the time is right. With 7 years of playing as Davey G and the Keyboard, I feel like nothing would please me more than to be named the City Paper Best of Baltimore Solo Music Artist. But I need your help.

The City Paper Best of Baltimore Reader Poll is open until August 31. Best of Baltimore is the time when various services and artists are recognized for their good work. The rules of the poll are that you must fill out answers for at least 25 categories, you cannot repeat the same answer in more than three categories, and you must fill out the information about who you are and where you live.

If you are a fan go ahead and vote for me! Or maybe you live in the area and are filling out the poll and haven’t decided who will be your choice for that category (Pick me! Pick me!). Or maybe you want me to do the same for you--I will! If you have a category that you want me to promote for you in Best of Baltimore (other than Best Solo Music Artist) just e-mail me or leave a comment on my blog or myspace page (wherever you may be reading this from) and I will push your category for you.
Please go ahead and take ten minutes to fill this out.

http://www.citypaper.com/bob/poll.asp

Thank you so much for your support! Please tell your friends and vote for Davey G and the Keyboard for Best Solo Music Artist!

Davey G and the Keyboard
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com
To hear my music:
http://www.myspace.com/daveygandthekeyboard

The One Month Hiatus Debriefing.

I didn’t want to panic anyone, but I basically took the last month off from Davey G and the Keyboard. I didn’t practice, record, write, or, for that matter, even take my keyboard out of the case after the last show at the Sidebar. Breaks can be tricky, as sometimes they just sort of start and then go on forever, but I think this one was necessary, and my future projects will be better for it.

A few announcements:

*Have you ever wanted to get your hands on old issues of the Davezine (the self-published fiction ‘zine I have been writing for the last 12 years) but don’t know how? Well…I have rectified that problem. For the first time ever, issues 1-12 (including issue 9.5) are available via my Davey G Catalog. All prices have the postage included.
I’ll be adding CD’s to the catalog soon, updating when I can. If you have any suggestions or there are any bugs, let me know--my web skills are what they are, so…I appreciate any feedback.

*I have restarted work on Low Level Bureaucrats 3, which will eventually come out in Davezine 13. It will be the end the Beatown trilogy, a plot line that has carried through since 2005 in Davezine 11.

*Davey G and the Office Supply E.P is still available (as are all my CDs) on the website. Keep an eye out for news of the Davey G CD Release Party (this November!) for my upcoming “Chairman of the Keyboard” CD. Initial response to the new songs gives me reason to believe this fourth CD will exceed all expectations. I think by the fourth time around, I probably am starting to get some idea of what it is I’m doing.

Thanks for reading! I will have a new show announcement coming soon!

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

“Orioles Fans Have a Reputation for Being the Best behaved Fans in Baseball. We Trust you will uphold that reputation.” or…Giuliani Time Part 3

I am a Baltimore Orioles fan. Every game I attend at Camden Yards, this message is shown on the JumboTron: “Orioles Fans Have a Reputation for Being the Best behaved Fans in Baseball. We Trust you will uphold that reputation.”

And it has never really set well with me to be considered “well behaved.”

Football fans are not well-behaved. They are drunk, loud, obnoxious, most definitely not well-behaved. They never, ever, flash a message like this over at M&T Bank Stadium (btw, for all future writings I will call it Raven’s Stadium, as I hate hate hate corporations that name stadiums) during Raven’s games.

But this post is not meant to criticize the fans. This is a post about the management.

Just this message, shown during every game, like Communist propaganda, is an insult to me as an American. (I know, hyperbole, but bear with me.) Management, like the old Soviet state, has a great interest in keeping the fans docile, and passive and apathetic. It helps to distract us from the fact that the team has not put together a winner in 10 years. It helps to avoid nasty little incidents like the big walkout of last year, during which a thousand fans dressed in black walked out of the stadium at 5:08--“5” for Brooks Robinson and “8” for Cal Ripken.
I witnessed a refreshing sign of fan anger when I saw the O’s play a few weeks ago, right before Sam Perlozzo was fired, when upset fans stood up and booed, MERCILESSLY. They booed bad fielding. They booed poor hitting. They booed Sam Perlozzo coming out of the dugout to yank the starter. They booed, swore, and got mad. They were not acting like “the best behaved fans in baseball.” They were acting like human beings, pushed too far, made to suffer too long, like the little kid who is sick of the bully beating him up and taking his lunch money--they fought back.

Oppressive Governments, and Oriole Management, like it when people do not question their actions. They like it when people trust their leaders. They like when people sit at home and watch TV and just accept their lot in life. At the Yard, they like it when you sit, cheer when they tell you, and otherwise keep your mouth shut: Behave.
For a game that drapes itself in the flag and patriotism and the National Anthem and God Bless America, it really doesn’t seem very American to me.

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The Davey G Archive!

Dear Readers,
Coming soon--the Davezine/Davey G and the Keyboard Archive!
That’s right: every Davezine ever made will be available on-line. I am working on the catalog, which will contain Davezine issues 1-12 (including the rare issue 9.5) as well as all of my CD’s as Davey G and the Keyboard.
You can finally complete your collection of “Davey G and the …” products!

Please check back--this will launch very soon!

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

Stuff I'm Reading: Why People Believe Weird Things

Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer lays out arguments refuting psychics, creationists, holocaust deniers, and all sorts of other bs artists in an enormously entertaining book promoting skepticism. Skepticism does not mean you doubt everything, he explains. Rather, it is the Missouri “show me” kind of thinking, which basically means don’t believe anything you can’t prove. He discusses fallacies of reasoning, hallucinations, bad thinking, and ultimately gives me some hope that one day the powers of light and reason will prevail in this world.
He explains why science really is of fundamental importance; how creationists and holocaust deniers misuse and abuse science to promote pseudo-science. Science is the promotion of knowledge, and is rife with conflict and competing theories. Pseudo-science uses these conflicts to say “See. They’re wrong!” without ever getting that this is the very essence of science: disagreement, aiming toward the common goal of gaining knowledge, rather than keeping one view point and never, ever, ever changing it.
Lately, after I have delved into issues such as pseudo-New Age thinking, reading about Amway, and maybe just generally losing my mind in a mild haze of mumbo jumbo, this book was a cold drink of water, reminding me of who I am and what I believe and that it is in fact okay to question everything. It is such a refreshing restoration of my faith in humanity to realize that there is a reason for believing…in disbelief.





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Transformers Movie

Transformers is about a group of robots with the ability to transform into automobiles and various other mechanical things, who come to earth to find the Allspark, the source of power and creation on their world, which was long since decimated by war.
This is a wet dream for anyone of my generation... (continued here)
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all my comments... http://imdb.com/user/ur15766810/comments

Monday...an important Davey G post!!!
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IMDB.com for future movie reviews

Lately I have been putting my movie reviews up on IMDB.com, and now I would like to direct readers to this site for all future reviews. I realize the blog hasn’t been about Davey G and The Keyboard stuff lately, but I still feel like I have a lot to say regardless. I will put part of all reviews here and if anyone is interested in the whole thing you can click on the link. Enjoy any and all my reviews on IMDB.com!

Sicko

Sicko may be Michael Moore’s best, though I will always hold Roger And Me close to my heart. I’ve never seen another film that so effectively makes me laugh while making a point about something horrible, like the U.S health care system…
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http://imdb.com/user/ur15766810/comments (all my reviews)

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