Emerson Salon One Year Anniversary

A little last minute notice. Emerson Salon is turning One this Saturday. If your in the area stop by and celebrate with us. 7pm to 10pm

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Third Eye Blind (Stephen Jenkins) Performing A New Song

New Third Eye Blind, how exciting! Check out this new song called "One In Ten"

Stephan Jenkins sings "One in Ten" from Gothamist on Vimeo.

Stephen performing "Motorcycle Drive-bye"

Stephan Jenkins sings "Motorcycle Drive By" from Gothamist on Vimeo.

These videos were taken at the Gothamist office, you can watch the rest of them here.





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The Seattle Light Rail Has Arrived

Check out some of these pictures and videos from around Seattle
Video of the Light Rail by Linda Jeanne

by Mike Bjork

by LeeLeFever

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Amazon Kindle 1984 update

Amazon released it's reasons for the deletion
From CNET

" the books in question had been published illegally--and not by the publisher with U.S. rights for these books, which are still under copyright protection in this country"

I understand the situation though I still feel deleting peoples books for any reason is not right. In all honesty I still love the concept of the kindle but this situation has made me more cautious. What do you think about the 1984 debacle.

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I Take Back Any Nice Things I Ever Said About The Amazon Kindle & Ebooks

From The SciFiWire and NYTimes

I take back any nice thing I ever felt about Amazon!

Got a Kindle? Think you've got a copy of 1984 on it? Don't be so sure about that.

Hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners had their electronic copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 deleted from their e-book readers overnight, according to David Pogue's tech blog over at The New York Times.

It seems that the publisher which had offered these electronic editions changed its mind, and so Amazon remotely deleted those books from people's Kindles and refunded the purchase price to their accounts. But ... didn't the Kindle owners who'd bought and paid for these editions own them? Apparently not.

Per one of Pogue's commenters, "It's like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we've been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table."

It's like if EMI decided they didn't want online mp3s anymore and one morning I woke up to find my entire itunes EMI collection gone. Who cares about the money! No more Kindle ebooks for me.


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DayBreakers Trailer and the best use of a Placebo song

I love Vampires, so when I saw this trailer I was instantly hooked, the concept is great and it has a solid cast...But what really sold me on it was the use of Placebo in the trailer. Amazing!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayYiMygqlfo

Song you hear at the end is Placebo covering Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill"

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Music Recommendations: Passion Pit "Sleephead" & Frankmusik "Rehab (amy winehouse cover)"

Passion Pit "Sleepyhead"


Frankmusik - Rehab


If your on Blip.FM add me
http://blip.fm/alexgarcia

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Movie Review: 500 Days Of Summer

"500 Days of Summer" comes out this Friday, it was my favorite movie at the Sundance Film Festival. Easily the best romantic, not a love story but really is with a great soundtrack that includes The Smiths, movie of the year. Go See It!

FYI, I also wrote up a full review for the Kulture Blog which should be up on the site Thursday or Friday. Look for it at http://www.kulturblog.com

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This weekend the BIG East Pike Street Sale!!

Babeland has put together a pretty amazing 2 day event this weekend. The BIG East Pike Street Sale going on July 17th - 19th.

You can find discounts all up and down East Pike this weekend including Emerson Salon which is offering both 10% off and another 10% off if you bring in some canned food for NW Harvest. More about the Emerson Salon sale here and more about Babeland and other discounts here.

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Vittana - Students in school one loan at a time

There is an amazing new non profit called Vittana, which is kind of like Kiva for student loans.

Their mission statement is:

Our mission is to bring student loans to the developing world through the power of person-to-person micro-lending.

I am really excited for Vittana because I am a huge fan and believer in micro lending, the concept of everyone having the opportunity to help another person. Not just for the wealthy but for everyone, even another student who gives up a few lattes and donates $25 to help another student in another country. I have seen the success and impact non profits like DonorsChoose have had in the classrooms and I am excited to see what Vittana will do for student loans in the developing world. Take a moment and check out Vittana.org

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