Larry Winfield.com: Sundown Lounge podzine

Sundown Lounge is a laid back (and often explicit, you bet your ass...) weekly podzine of music, spoken word, progressive politics, weird science, and occasional vignettes from the west coast open mic scene, etc. Physically, I'm in rapidly gentrifying downtown Los Angeles, but metaphysically, my toes are in the sand and the sun is ablaze with deep hues, and a few poets and musicians and scientists have dropped by my beach house to hang out and jam, as the surf whispers nearby...

The Open Mic Stage accepts spoken word and music files for play.
Max of 3 audio pieces, please - MP3, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis files, OR 2 - 3 pieces recorded onto a good quality audiocassette. 4 minutes and under per piece is preferred, unless it's really good. Include a short bio and a photo, if possible.

Via Email: sundownlounge "at" larrywinfield "dot" com
Via Snailmail: 121 E. 5th St., #302, Los Angeles, CA. 90013.

Playlists:

Sundown Lounge No. 223 - July 30, 2010, Duration: 57:56

"A Stranger tells of Helen" - Brentley Frazer

Geeknotes: Chicago Poetry Transitions, Brother Love, Going Mobile

Open Mic Stage:
"Ode to Tokyo - Remix" - The Vangarde
"The Rom Rebellion" - The Crooked Fiddle Band
"Out Of Control " - Tin Alley
"One Second" - Bellusira
"JUST LIKE A GYPSY" - Tina Mckinstry
"She Lies" - TroubleKarmaFlow
"Circles" - Bumblebee
"Double Life" - Juke Baritone

Map Room: Wisconsin School Cuts Crime By Changing Menu, High Doses Of Controversial Chemical BPA Discovered In Paper Receipts, Japan’s Future Threatened by Strict Immigration Rules, Risk of Earthquakes in the U.S. Midwest May be More Widespread Than First Thought

Venue Verite: "Re: 20BARS STRONG II" - JAMES ARON GRAY, Australian Poetry Slam Champion Omar Musa

Music Bed: "Governor Wren" - Bremen Town Musician, "Finding Vini Reilly" - Andy Salvanos

Sundown Lounge No. 222 - July 23, 2010, Duration: 51:29

"KOSAS BONITAS PARA L1L N3NA" - M3XICAN POW3R DJ CA

Geeknotes: Don't Wait Animate, Stars Go Dim, Kindred Souls, CRAM VOLUME 9, Free Book

Open Mic Stage:
"HIP HOP HIGH" - ECHO
"The Race (live)" - Judah Israel Michael
"Life's Misery" - Selegna Sol
"I dont care where your going now" - St. Louis and The Beat-Up Mustangs
"BEAUTIFUL THING" - INNER CITY SOUL
"Bossa Blue" - Chris Standring

Map Room: Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Suffers Record Breaking Collapse, Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight, New Energy Technologies to unveil see-through glass SolarWindow

Venue Verite: "Area 5150 - The UFO Take Over Mix" - UFOverdriver

Music Bed: "Acoustic Blend ft. Rob Ritchert," "A Distance Within" - Saint J

Sundown Lounge No. 221 - July 16, 2010, Duration: 62:13

"SICKEST PUNJABI RAP" - Vic Crack

Geeknotes: Billy Nankouma Konate at Hooked On Drums in Chicago, Alien Encounters - An Atlanta SF Celebration of Authors of Color, eBook Update

Open Mic Stage:
"Shah e Mardan" - Jawid Sharif
"Lab de" - UCP rApPeRz
"Kal-Jug Nai" - Taal
"Meray Naseeb Mein" - Zafar Iqbal Zafri
"Ishq Junoon Deewangi (Drive Mix)" - Dee-j DK Aazee
Lima Sahar on Afghan Star
"Dig" - The Overload
"Marsia" - Shakib Mosadeq

Map Room: Researchers Discover Gene Pattern That Predicts Who Will Live the Longest, Black Inventor Reveals Two Amazing Energy Saving Inventions On CNN, The Secret to Running and Swimming Faster – The Position of Your Belly Button, Scientists Prove Which Came First — The Chicken or the Egg

Venue Verite: Sahar Adish: The Power of an Afghan Girl's Education - International Rescue Committee

Music Bed: "MAD" - Nabeel.k "Sand Castles" - Amr Kashmiri

Sundown Lounge No. 220 - July 09, 2010, Duration: 50:02

"A Spy" - Spy vs Spy

Geeknotes: Catgut Does The Story Times, Download Stars Go Dim For Free, Rusty Wright Band, Garageband Goes Bye Bye

Open Mic Stage:
"Mahalo" - The Sunny Boys
"The Collector" - Skip Heller
"Surf Babe" - Alamantra
"Beyond The Black Hole" - The Number Sixes
"Moorean Moonbeams" - Robert Drasnin
"Dig The Unified Theory!" - The Alcazar Hotel
"Surf Party (live)" - The Ghost Waves
"The Big One" - Si Si Si
"False Data" - One Fathom Down

Map Room: RoseStreet Labs Triple-Layered Solar Panel Catches Full Solar Spectrum, How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks, America’s First Electric Highway

Venue Verite: "Soul on a Wave," a Surfing Documentary - poshportia62

Music Bed: "Spruce Goose!" - Basemint, "Back to Da Mouseville" - B-Sea Surfers

Sundown Lounge No. 219 - June 25, 2010, Duration: 52:29

"Dark Horse Pictures" - Andy Hopkins
"look but dont touch, wu mo" - Ghost Dawg

Geeknotes: Authonomy Writing Fiction workshop, ONYXCON 2, YouWriteOn Book of the Year on TV Book Club

Open Mic Stage:
"YesssYourVibeOnDub" - SistaSara
"Tood N' Ely" - Cherry Brakewells
"Spiders Roar" - Sharron Levy
"Every Yesterday" - Yanju
"Simple Things (EP Version)" - Julie Collings
"3 Style Ft. B Marvel" - Treble Clef
"Trackside Pussy" - Zen Motel

Map Room: First Cell Phone Radiation Law Passed in San Francisco, Europe Will Be Powered By Solar Panels in the Sahara Desert Within 5 Years, Scientists Create ‘Plastic Antibodies’ to Fight Antigens

Venue Verite: "God Bless America" - Victoria Mosley & The Sublimes

Music Bed: "Gurtu monks V Piggyback Orchestra" - The Gurtu Monks, "Open Hat" - Guerillasound

Sundown Lounge No. 218 - June 18, 2010, Duration: 56:53

Japanese poetry waka
"Beautiful Music" - David Whitaker

Geeknotes: BP State of Emergency Anthology, Bleach Anime Series, eBook Update

Open Mic Stage:
"Ganare (Remixed by Dj Nojima)" - Donna
"DOMO1" - Bateira
"Orange Range (Thank You)" - Japanese Music
"Song of the Apple, by Hachiro Sato" - Hanafubuki (Yoko Shibata)
"What's New in Saitama" - Sanmi
"Here We Are (live)" - ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate)
"Empty Brass Statues" - Grendel Angst
"I Kill Wyvern v.2" - Die-In-Sin Detroit
"It's All About Love" - Monkey King

Map Room: Coming Soon, One-Shot Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer, High Heels can Ruin a Woman’s Health, Scientists Produce Liver from Stem Cells, Girls Reaching Puberty Before Age 10 – A Year Earlier Than 20 Years Ago

Venue Verite: "Rum and Snow" - Yukio Tsuji

Music Bed: "Sonofafatboy" - Herbsquare,
"May 2010 Totem DJ Mix" - Do Shock Booze

Sundown Lounge No. 217 - June 11, 2010, Duration: 47:30

"I'm a Monster (Intro)" - Rafael Casal

Geeknotes: Hooked on Drums, Tara Betts Book Signing at Mixed Roots Festival

Open Mic Stage:
"Rosa" - Kindness and LiesKindness and Lies
"I Mean That" - Sick YG
"Waste It On You" - Jamie Lynn Noon
"Sunspot Jonz - Hug Bacardi" - Nima Fadavi
"You Are Dirty Water" - NOVA
"Stay Black & Die" - DLabrie

Map Room: Air Pollution Ups the Risk of Sudden Heart Attack, Wave of Labor Unrest in China Signals End of Cheap Labor, New Peanut Created That Could Free Millions of People from Fear of Deadly Allergic Reaction

Venue Verite: "Slouching Towards Oakland" - DJ Matt Werner
"Poetry of San Francisco" - killingmylobster

Music Bed: "Feel Me - Radio Edit" - Breck Stewart, "Dung Diggiity" - eotomusic

Sundown Lounge No. 216 - June 04, 2010, Duration: 51:22

"Side Stop *Harpaz VS. Moon Special Jam" - Armageddon Jam

Geeknotes: Band Pluggers, eBook Update

Open Mic Stage:
"Tukenir Careler" - Mecal Mahlas Deli Filozof
"Emma" - Emmanuel Jal
"Rje3na" - Underash Band
Cynthia McKinney, from Gaza Flotilla 2009
"Bari" - c-van
"Yalli sawtu" - Raghad Songs
"Yama Layali Ft. David Vendetta" - Haifa Wehbe

Map Room: Safest Car Ever Built Destroyed by the U.S. Government, Transforming the Wind’s Vibrations into Electricity, Are Cell Phones to Blame for the Disappearance of Honey Bees?

Venue Verite: Gaza Flotilla - Democracy Now Interviews Retired Army Col. Ann Wright on Israeli Claims of Deadly Assault

Music Bed: "Incognito (featuring summertime)" - Rendezvous, "Life Is A Test" - Yahel

Sundown Lounge No. 215 - May 28, 2010, Duration: 55:24

"Toure NKrumah Lumumba" From "The Wind of Change: The End of Colonialism in Africa"

Geeknotes: Sergio Mayora "Moves On" From Weeds, eBook Update

Open Mic Stage:
"Wade3 El Kanoon" - Ahmed Rock
"How Come" - Chizzo
"Wolwe" - Sesling
"About A Girl" - Carter's Window
"Shokomilo" - M-Lake
"Technicolour" - jacSharp
"Abidjan On Meurt Ensemble Act 1" - Ourfa Wolf
"Impulse" - MUNK
"Instrumental 3" - Infatigables de Ouagadougou

Map Room: On the webpage - Kevin Costner's Oil-Separating Machine, Bacteria Found in Garden Soil That Can Make You Smarter and Happier, A Chain Reaction of Space Junk Could Destroy Communications on Earth

Venue Verite: Patrice Lumumba, a history lesson posted by Infamousnowman

Music Bed: "Songs From The Season Labs" - Polygon Ring (Kahvi)

Sundown Lounge No. 214 - May 21, 2010, Duration: 49:34

"Neighbor Boys" - Crankshaft

Geeknotes: Working the eBook

Open Mic Stage:
"Draw" - Matt Stevens
"The Great Unknown" - StoneOcean
"They Grow It" - Team Smile and Nod
"Still a Surprise" - Buddhuza
"Stormy Night" - Matt West
"Back Home" - Syd
"Gnoi Degop" - Mujaji

Map Room: Nano-Spiders: DNA Robots that Could One Day Be Walking Through Your Body, Spacecraft To Test Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity, Girl Grows Two New Kidneys After Old Ones Fail

Venue Verite: "Remoter" - John Franklin Dandridge,
"Pretend To Be A Man" - Charly "the city mouse" Fasano

Music Bed: "Upon Moving Sand" - Audio Cephlon, "Still" - Kuniklo (Kahvi)

Sundown Lounge No. 213 - May 14, 2010, Duration: 56:39

"Romantic Issues" - Strait Laces

Geeknotes: Band Pluggers, The eBook

Open Mic Stage:
"Tambourine" - Alta Mira
"Foggy Dew" - Cady Finlayson & Vita Tanga
"Hum Along - Amplification" - Chapman
"Julian" - Nadia Kazmi
"The Gathering Storm" - Luke Parkin
"Verdade Vencera" - Taína Asili y La Banda Rebelde
"1-4-3" -Million Dollar Mouth
"Workin all the Time" - The Pimps of Joytime
"Got To Be Free" - Purple Tree

Map Room: Tesla-Inspired Bladeless Wind Turbine Could Generate Power Comparable to Coal Power Plants, A UV Water Pitcher Kills 99.999% of Germs in Drinking Water, Using DNA to Replace Silicon Microchips, Bird Washing Machine Cleans Oil Covered Birds in 7 Minutes

Venue Verite: From Poetry Cram 8 - "Mamie Till's Lament" - Mary Kaye, "Untitled (SB 1070)" - Luis Pelayo

Music Bed: "Yoctosecond" - Jim Black (Kahvi)

Sundown Lounge No. 212 - May 07, 2010, Duration: 60:40

"Chuck Norris On Drugs" - Sum

Geeknotes: Big Poetry Cram On WBEZ, Thisisnotanexit, Inner Circle Black & White Summer Causal

Open Mic Stage:
"Stand Tall" - The Dirty Heads
"Moving Slowly" - Phathom
"Decrescendo" - RX Bandits
"Sweet In Your Body" - Heart Pharmacy
"She so nasty" - Mega Slim
"bumpin' uglies" - Tubby Boots
"Only Questions" - International Farmers
"Detox" - SCROTE

Map Room: Cellphone Payments – An Alternative to Paying with Cash, A Step Closer to Personalized Genetic Medicine, Pokeberries Could Be the Key to Spreading Affordable Solar Power Around the World, Listening to Prayer Shuts Off Brain Activity Responsible for Scepticism

Venue Verite: "Chief Broom vs Neil Cassady" - Bezus

Music Bed: "wavetables & warfare" - emulator_island, "katalyste" - kobra, "Mourning" - David Fauvre Band

Sundown Lounge No. 211 - April 30th, 2010, Duration: 49:54

"The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)" - Great Big Sea

Geeknotes: Smog Veil Plugger, Você Me Dá Video Premiere, The Campaign Network

Open Mic Stage:
"All You Fascists Bound To Lose" - Woody Guthrie
"Protest Song" - SCANLAN
"Union Hall" - Foreign Born
"6174" - Don't Wait Animate
"atomic worker's union" - F4fake
"Daughters and Sons of Labor" - Josh Lucker
"Worker Bee Status ft. BS" - The MC Faceman
"A Social Worker's Nightmare" - Breather Resist
"May Day (Album Version)" - Diego Bernal

Map Room: $3 Hand-Powered Suction Device Quickly Heals Wounds, Drinking Too Much Pop Linked to Premature Aging, ‘Corn Smut’ – Revolting Fungus That Could Make You Younger and Healthier

Venue Verite: "Banks of Marble" - Pete Seeger

Music Bed: "A Day In May" - Kristofor Graber "Fruits of Her Labor (as the Martels)" - Cromagnon Man

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When you're telling someone about a website without benefit of pen and paper and mention the URL, isn't it clumsy to have to spell out the non-domain part? "http://www." Instead, I use the word "dub" as verbal shorthand that implies the code. So, my site's URL is mentioned in conversation as "dub, larrywinfield.com." When the URL doesn't have "www" in it, just use "slash"...