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Remembering Katie Reider

August 22, 2008 0 Comments Tags: local, music.

“Let this be her legend, let this be her voice,
let this be her vision, let this be her choice.
To remain as we knew her, strong and poised,
as the one we love.”

- Katie Reider, Her Song

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It’s been a little over a month since this world lost a beautiful soul named Katie Reider.

I invite all of my readers to watch this video made by my good friend Kiersten. It’s a brief look back at her life— filled to the brim with love, friends, and family.

After you finish the video, please visit 500Kin365.org, where you can download 9 of Katie’s songs for only $1 (of course you can always donate more if you wish.) All proceeds benefit Katie’s partner Karen and their two sons, who were left with massive medical bills not covered by insurance.

If you want to do even more for Katie and her family — tell 3 of your friends about Katie’s music, send a quick email with a link to 500Kin365.org. Through your message, her music and spirit will remain with us forever.

We miss you Katie!

Can’t see the video? Click here.

We’ll Miss You Katie.

July 14, 2008 0 Comments Tags: local, music.

07/24 UPDATE: The NY Times has written a great story about Katie’s life, it’s an excellent article very much worth reading.

Also, a memorial service for Katie Reider will be held at 11am this Saturday (July 26th) at Crossroads Church, 3500 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hope to see you there.

Katie Reider
1978-2008

A friend and favorite musician of mine (and many of my friends) passed away this morning after a courageous two-year battle with a mysterious illness called a Myofibroblastic Inflammatory Tumor.

It’s about the saddest ending one could conceive of for one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever met. Everyone knew Katie. She made us all feel like her close friends. Everyone would swear when she was singing, she was looking right at them and nobody else.

But it’s not her ending we must remember, it’s her life and her spirit. She touched sooooo many people’s lives. So many friends from different parts of my life were connected through her music. It’s amazing what one person can do.

There will be a candlelight vigil for her tonight at 9pm at the Goodale Park Gazebo. I hope some of you read this in time and can join us.

Most importantly— Please help her music live on. Listen to it yourself and pass it on to a friend.

We love you Katie, and will miss you. Your family will be in our thoughts.

Stop your life for 64 minutes and watch this.

July 16, 2007 0 Comments Tags: 9/11 Truth, awesome, f--- the war!, history, human rights, music, political, WAKE UP.

WE.

Inspired by Arundhati Roy’s “Come September” speech, this documentary was created.

It’s 64 minutes of music, life, death, war, peace, history, future, everything. It’ll knock you over… but when you get back up, you’ll be stronger than ever.

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”
- Arundhati Roy

Friday news clips

July 13, 2007 4 Comments Tags: 9/11 Truth, impeachment, music, political, technology.

NY Firefighters Release Video Telling the Truth about “America’s Mayor”: Rudy Giuliani

In this thirteen minute documentary produced by The International Association of Fire Fighters, fire fighters, fire officers and family members give dramatic testimony about Giuliani’s leadership failures — before, during, and after 9/11. Their dramatic stories tell how Giuliani failed to provide the FDNY with radios that worked, which led to the deaths of 121 fire fighters inside the World Trade Center’s North Tower because they were unable to hear orders to evacuate.
Bush: Insurgents in Iraq same as 9/11 attackers

This of course means that members of the Bush Administration, among others, might be the Iraq insurgents (?)

“The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that’s why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home.”
Barbara Boxer says Impeachment should be on the table

“This is as close as we’ve ever come to a dictatorship. When you have a situation where Congress is stepped on, that means the American people are stepped on.”
Royalty fee ‘to damage net radio’

Listen to Last.fm and XM online while you still can.

First they came for internet radio, and I did not speak up because I didn’t listen to net radio. Then they attacked internet neutrality, and I didn’t speak up because I had no clue what that meant. Then they came for the entire internet, and I did not speak up because surely they can’t take that away! Then— we were totally f—ked.
Fans of the police state, you will love this one:

Some cops start beating a guy that ran out on the field at a soccer game and the crowd actually stand ups against it and attacks the police! Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKK9EjEEG_Q

Patty Griffin in Columbus April 29th!

March 30, 2007 0 Comments Tags: awesome, music.

Tickets just went on sale. I was obsessively hitting refresh starting at 8:59a and guess what seat I got?

Front row, center.

See the red circle? That’s me!!!!!

This makes me so incredibly happy that I won’t even bit@h too much about the $15 worth of Ticketmaster charges. They have a monopoly on the music industry and rob us blind, we all know this already. I paid $50 and I don’t care. It’s Patty!!

Live @ …my house – 7:20am

March 19, 2007 0 Comments Tags: f--- the war!, local, music, political.

What a great day/night that was! And better still, the Dispatch fulfilled their promise, check it out:

Vocal minority calls for end to Iraq war
Lack of involvement by most Americans outrages activists

Thanks to Meredith Heagney for covering this! She didn’t use any of mine or Sherry’s quotes, but that’s okay. She did quote Bonnie! And what great exposure for World Can’t Wait!

One of the things Bonnie said:

“I have a feeling we’re probably going to do this again next year, and probably many years to come”

…I think I said about the same thing, she asked how long I’ve been involved with the Iraq war protests and I told her, SINCE THE BEGINNING and (pardon my language) it’s so f—king depressing that we have to do this for a FOURTH YEAR. We sure as hell better not be doing this on March 18th, 2008. There is just no excuse. As our group says.. The WORLD CAN’T WAIT any longer!!

I realize my updates got boring at the end and I just posted pictures (cop out, I know) but it was the rum’s fault. I’m gonna go back through today and fix some spelling mistakes and add some linkage. But it was the rum that made the drive-by bullhorning with Jamie, Aaron, and Jesse so much fun. Hope you enjoyed that OSU!!

I heard a vicious rumor that at one point I was walking down High St. with Jesse’s bullhorn telling people they needed to wake up NOW, that they couldn’t hit the snooze button on 9/11 Truth!! HAHA, I gotta get me one of those bullhorns! Or maybe that’s a bad idea… too dangerous? I don’t know… Sherry, what do you think? My next investment?

I have some more photos to post, including Bob Fitrakis, his wife, and Connie dressed up as V, and some great ones of Cultural Relativity, my new favorite band (”9/11 was an inside job, who cares, let’s drink some beer!”) I’ll try and get those posted at lunch.

I suppose it’s off to the real world now…

Live @ Little Brother’s – 8:22pm

March 18, 2007 0 Comments Tags: f--- the war!, local, music, political.

Last hour :-(

Tom Harker a.k.a. Ukulele Man just performed, now it’s Megan Palmer, can’t go wrong with a violin!

Kerry’s heading out, boohoo. :-(

Sounds like Jamie and Aaron are going bullhorning for 9/11 Truth after this wraps up, so WATCH OUT Columbus, we’re not done yet!

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