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- Buying a home after bankruptcy is possible, but the buyer needs to be patient, and wait at least two years after discharge or dismissal of the bankruptcy before applying for a home loan unless he is prepared to pay fifteen or twenty percent down in cash. |
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- Bankruptcy exemptions are used when a person files for one of the chapters. |
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- Bankruptcy info can be a very important part of the filing process and finding alternative ways to solve financial issues without choosing this option. |
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- Bankruptcy software offered online for purchase includes the ability to file the documents electronically. |
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- The advantages of bankruptcy are why many people seek this as an option. |
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- Continuing the collections of 80s classic comic strips. () |
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- Autobots, checkmate! Based on the classic 1980's cartoon and action figure line, this amazing set features the Autobots and Decepticons facing off in a struggle for dominance on a chess board. The board measures 3 1/2-inches tall x 17-inches wide x 17-inches long. Each piece measures approximately 3 1/2-inches tall. Piece breakdown are as followed: |
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- The reluctant leader of the Autobots. Based on 1986's animated classic Transformers: The Movie, this colorful miniature head bust spotlights the emerging leader of the Autobots-- Rodimus Prime. Beginning as the aptly named Hot Rod, this hesitant self-doubting Transformer is converted by the Autobot Matrix of Leadership into the immensely powerful Rodimus Prime. This leads to the eventual defeat of Unicron and the Decepticons! |
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- Classic robots, big heroes! The Transformers Robot Heroes assortment includes 8 individually packaged mini-figure 2-packs for kids of all ages, and wave 3 revision 1 features characters from the original Transformers cartoon series! This assortment includes: 1x Optimus Prime vs. Ravage, 1x Rodimus vs. |
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- A number of years back, SPIN Magazine reported on a group that was touring the U.S. under the name Frankie Goes To Hollywood. It featured none of the original members of the band, but had somehow found a legal loophole that allowed them to use the name and perform the songs of that iconic '80s group. Ever since I read that, I have become fascinated with similar revivalist groups, of which there are plenty. |
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- While sitting in the KMHD studio after midnight playing Miles' Get Up With It.... Guitarist Margaret Slovak can't catch a break. A couple of months ago she released For the Moment, a beautiful album of tunes she recorded in New York City with twice-Grammy-nominated pianist Fred Hersch, bass player Michael Formanek and drummer Michael Sarin. The problem is that she recorded the album in 1989. I don't know why that's a problem, but she's finding media folks cool to the idea of covering recordings that are 17 years old. |
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- I’ve been wanting to see the two bands headlining the show this Friday at the KPSU-sponsored music venue, The Modern Age, for quite some time: The Black Black Black and Here Comes a Big Black Cloud. The Black Black Black has two things that I love in a band: a danceable backbeat and vocals that make me worry about the condition of the singer’ |
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- One of my favorite discs of last year was The Ancestral Swamp, a quiet, unassuming and positively brilliant folk/blues effort by Michael Hurley. This gent from Astoria, despite resounding praise from critics like Robert Christgau and well-regarded musicians such as Cat Power and Devendra Banhart (whose record label Gnomonsong released Hurley's latest album), has flown pretty far below the cultural radar for the past 20 years or so. That he has remained an icon amongst folk aficionados and folk music's modern interpreters seems to fit with Hurley's eccentric persona ... |
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- While still wondering what on earth (or in space) made Reggie Houston sound like Darth Vader in slow-motion when he called in to my KMHD radio show on Saturday night during my interview with Mary Flower…I'm still shaking my head about that... Okay, let's get this out of the way, and hopefully I'll never have to deal with a Craig Marquardo item again. Although he authorized respected publicist Alex Steininger to release information that said that KMHD was going to broadcast the Portland Music Awards, and ran an ad in Willamette Week that said the same thing, no deal with the station had ever been finalized. In fact, KMHD will not be airing the awards due to various reasons, and that's official from the boss hisself. |
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- A message in my email box apprised me of the fact that one of my favorite local acts, Boy Eats Drum Machine, an act that had already made the transition from solo project to full band experience, was going back to being a solo entity. As front man Jon Ragel said in his e-mail: I've decided to commit to BEDM as a solo turntable-driven entity. This means that I will be focusing on my DJ-oriented material and taking the music of BEDM out there as a one man band. Is the world really ready for a singing DJ? |
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- While I continue to devour Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, the best book on the history of jazz I've ever read... The first glimmer of warmth and sun is in. Negotiations are underway for the 2008 Waterfront Blues Festival. They're working on getting the Pine Leaf Boys, the Cajun/Creole band from Southern Louisiana and featuring the amazing fiddler/accordionist Cedric Watson. Other New Orleans bands in the plans are a Stanton Moore trio and Alan Toussaint, who is in San Francisco on July 6. |
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- The November 2008 election will be my second time voting in a presidential election, and I’m hoping that it will be a more rewarding experience this time around. Listening to the candidates elaborate on their platforms during the recent primaries, I awaited the coming of a new list of buzzwords. This year, the most prominent word seems to be “change. |
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- 2008 is already shaping up to be dubbed The Year of the Slow Burn — at least when looking at the Portland music scene. Two albums by local artists that have come out/are coming out this year rarely raise the tempos of their songs above a lackadaisical shuffle, stitch their songs together with the utmost of care, and feature some of the most beautiful songs that you're likely to hear this year. The first is the self-titled disc by the band Carcrashlander, led by Cory Gray, a multi-instrumentalist who revels in the discomforting aspects of life — |
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- While sitting in the Pharmacy Café listening to the Meters on WWOZ (that's in New Orleans, y'all)... Two vivid memories from New Year's Eve on the Barfly Bus: 1) horns blown in my ear, and 2) climbing to the top of Rocky Butte at midnight carrying a bottle of champagne, along with Jen Lane and the rest of the people from the bus, reaching the top and saying, "This is just too f---ing cold, let's go back to the bus and ... |
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- Ok, I admit it. I like the rain in Portland because it gives me an excuse to stay inside and drink coffee and listen to quiet singer-songwriter or folk music. Sure, I enjoyed sitting on my parents California deck in a swimsuit on New Years’ Day, drinking gin & tonics in the sunshine. |
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- Thank your lucky stars for the upcoming Children of the Revolution festival happening Saturday and Sunday at AudioCinema. Seriously. I know we're in, you know, Portland and all, and this city definitely doesn't have a shortage of things to do, but when dance parties like Hot Mess at Tube, Juicy at Rotture and Regeanomix at Ground Kontrol are your best options for weekend fun (which are all great ... |
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- While the listening public still has their collective mouths open after I played the Chi-Lites on my KMHD show…. There was an album missing from my best of 2007 last week. I could make up a plausible reason (lie) why, but the truth is I just spaced on it. So shoot me. The album I left out was Pink Martini's Hey Eugene! |
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- Been listening to a lot of that "old-timey" or "Americana" music lately, have you? |
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- While most kids are still out for winter break, some teenagers are studying hard through the holidays. Rock hard. Students of the Paul Green School of Rock will be tuning their instruments and preparing for tonight’s Best of the Northwest Concert at the Wonder Ballroom. In this Northwest-themed show, School of Rock students will perform the songs of bands hailing from the region: |
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- This Friday, December 28, the Portland Radio Authority presents SNAP!--a 90’s Dance Party at Branx in Southeast Portland. I have been waiting for this day for a long time. Maybe I haven’ |
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- Wow, what a slow week. And I mean really slow. It seems like most everywhere is kind of on an extended lock down for the between Christmas and New Year's gap. No shows worth noting, no records being released (unless you count the physical release of the new Radiohead, but you've all heard that already, right?). |
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- Tonight, the Portland chapter of a group called Classical Revolution will be performing a free show at the Someday Lounge. The group, an extension of a similar troupe in San Francisco, aims to take classical chamber music out of the stuffy concert hall and into spaces usually reserved for rock music. Tonight's show will include performances of Shostakovich's String Quartet #8 and Bach's Cello Suite, as well as a chance for the performers to play pieces of their own choosing. For a taste of Classical Revolution PDX's history and their ethos, here's an e-mail interview I did with founder Mattie Kaiser: Tell me how Classical Revolution ... |
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