Mixed Messages

I'm David Ocker. If you only see one of my pictures or articles below, please click HERE to view the Message Mixture.

My main blog is Mixed Meters (at Blogspot)

My picture blog is Mixed Meters (at Flickr)

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Jul 11

Cement Flag With A Blue Device

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(click to see the whole flag)

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Jul 09

“ I find myself happily warbling about wanting a Jewish husband on the bus home. “Kosher food is pricey,” I sing gaily during the weekly shop at Sainsbury’s, while the checkout girl bleeps through my prawns and pork pies and gives me a suspicious look.

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English journalist and bass vocalist Neil Fisher from his article Chorus of disapproval: the complaints choir in the Times (of London) online version. Found via.

Apparently Complaints Choirs (groups of people singing their negative comments about the world around them in front of audiences) were invented in Finland and are popping up all over. Here’s the Complaints Choir Worldwide website.

Mr. Fisher belongs to a Jewish complaints choir in London and the line “Kosher Food Is Pricey” should be sung to the melody of “If I Were A Rich Man”

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Jul 08

Pasadena Sign #14

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Located on Colorado Blvd.

Click picture to see the whole sign.

Click here to see the previous Pasadena sign. Then click there, somewhere, to see the previous previous one. Then click on the previous previous one to see the previous previous previous one. You’ll soon get the idea.

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Jul 07

“ I am a mighty hunter of wild fowl, operatic librettos and attractive women.

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Composer Giocomo Puccini - whose sex life it turns out is vastly more interesting than his operas. Read this article Scandalissimo! Puccini’s sex life laid bare.by Adrian Mourby in The Independent.

Found via.

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Jul 06

Blue Lights

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Jul 04

Three Swords - Architectural Version

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Click the picture if you can’t see all three.

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Jul 03

“ He had good hair.

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Frank Zappa talking about Albert Einstein in this interesting video interview, part four of seven.

Found via

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Jul 02

Grate Rust

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Click to see the whole grate. The grate hole.

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Jul 01

CWCW

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(Crow With Crossed Wires)

Click to see all of CWCW

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Jun 30

“ an fun interview of the muy importante left-coaster Art Jarvinen. Art has been a big factor in helping shape what’s come out of CalArts (and Cal, period) lately, and Art’s own music and interview heard in this show perfectly show off much of what California/West-Coast/Southwest music has been concerned with these last 30+ years

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from this article by Steve Layton at Sequenza 21 about this radio show called In The House which is hosted by people who are not really named Kalvos and Damian.

Click here to read every Mixed Meters post which mentions Arthur Jarvinen, the muy importante left-coaster.

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Jun 29

Green and Round

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Click to see the whole circle of green.

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Jun 28

Medallion on Colorado Boulevard Building

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Who is this guy and why is he plastered on the side of a building?

Click to see the whole picture.

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Jun 26

“ You want to put Paul McCartney in your band? We can do that. This is Guitar Hero for grown-ups.

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Jeff McIntyre, a former TV network marketing executive, author of the stage-play Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here and employee of Zenph studios, quoted in this article, Live, again in the Raleigh News and Observer June 26, 2008.

Read more in this Mixed Meters article “Art Tatum Performs Live - June 2008”

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Jun 25

Equal To The Love You Make

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Can’t see the whole END. Click on it.

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