Thanks to Scott Scarboro for the heads up:
The Terrastock Music Festival
Four-day event coming to Louisville June 19-22, 2008.
Early-Bird tickets will be on sale soon.
Volunteers needed. E-mail: erica@terrascope.co.uk.
Terrastock is named because of its roots as a supplement to the print and online music magazine, "The Ptolemaic Terrascope", founded in England by Phil McMullen in 1989.
Terrastock VII 2008 is being planned and hosted by The Fuzz Boutique, LLC and Mellwood Arts Center with the support of local businesses. Terrastock will be held at the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center at 1860 Mellwood Ave. Visit the website.
Thursday: 7p.m.-11:30 p.m.
Friday, Sat., Sun: Noon-11:30 p.m.
Who's playing so far:
Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno featuring Pikachu (Japan)
Rob Sharples (UK)
Ignatz (Belgium)
MV & EE
Grails
Plastic Crimewave Sound
Antietam
Tanakh
Bevis Frond (UK)
Wooden Shjips
Insect Factory
Dead Maids (formerly Monster Bastard, UK)
United Bible Studies (Ireland)
Linus Pauling Quartet with special guests
Motorpsycho (Norway)
The Photographic
Marissa Nadler
Mono (Japan)
Sharron Kraus (UK)
Bardo Pond
Pelt
Major Stars
Windy & Carl
Kinski
Paik
Jack Rose
Tara Jane O'Neil
Damon & Naomi
Black Forest/Black Sea
Sapat
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
The 36th annual Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops announced
The 36th annual Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops are scheduled for June 29 – July 11 at the University of Louisville.
The workshops are open to beginners and advanced students, and have in the past drawn more than 400 students from 42 states and 26 countries.
Applications are being taken now, and students are encourage to apply early. Piano slots fill first.
The workshops' namesake, Aebersold, is an award-winning jazz educator, who since his retirement from U of L, has continued to host the workshops. Many of the workshops' 70-plus instructors are award-winning musicians in their own right: guitarist Dave Stryker, pianists Andy LaVerne and Steve Allee, saxophonists Don Braden, Antonio Hart, Eric Alexander and James Moody, bassists Rufus Reid and John Goldsby and drummer Ed Soph.
Free recitals by faculty are held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings at U of L’s Comstock Hall; student concerts will be held in both the Comstock and Bird recital halls beginning at 1 p.m. on both Fridays.
Two large concerts will be held at 8 p.m. on July 2 and 9 at Masterson’s, 1830 S. Third St., (502) 636-2511. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 Louisville Jazz Society members and $5 students/camp attendees, and are available at the door the night of show. Advance tickets are available at the U of L School of Music box office beginning June 29. Call (502) 852-0522.
For more information on the workshops, phone the Aebersold staff at (812) 944-8141 or visit their website.
The workshops are open to beginners and advanced students, and have in the past drawn more than 400 students from 42 states and 26 countries.
Applications are being taken now, and students are encourage to apply early. Piano slots fill first.
The workshops' namesake, Aebersold, is an award-winning jazz educator, who since his retirement from U of L, has continued to host the workshops. Many of the workshops' 70-plus instructors are award-winning musicians in their own right: guitarist Dave Stryker, pianists Andy LaVerne and Steve Allee, saxophonists Don Braden, Antonio Hart, Eric Alexander and James Moody, bassists Rufus Reid and John Goldsby and drummer Ed Soph.
Free recitals by faculty are held at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings at U of L’s Comstock Hall; student concerts will be held in both the Comstock and Bird recital halls beginning at 1 p.m. on both Fridays.
Two large concerts will be held at 8 p.m. on July 2 and 9 at Masterson’s, 1830 S. Third St., (502) 636-2511. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 Louisville Jazz Society members and $5 students/camp attendees, and are available at the door the night of show. Advance tickets are available at the U of L School of Music box office beginning June 29. Call (502) 852-0522.
For more information on the workshops, phone the Aebersold staff at (812) 944-8141 or visit their website.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Louisville musicians play benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims
Thanks to newoldtymer for the heads up.
From New Orleans Times Picayune Music Blog:
"On Jan. 10, members of two great Louisville bands will join forces with other musicians for a benefit concert at the House of Blues Parish Room in New Orleans for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Jon Langford and Sally Timms of The Mekons, Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket, Charles Bisell of The Wrens, Kimya Dawson (who recently contributed eight songs to the hit movie Juno), Timothy Bracy of Mendoza Line, Janet Bean of Freakwater and Craig Klein, Matt Perrine, Eric Bolivar & Bert Cotton of Bonerama will perform. Showtime is 9 p.m.
This concert benefits Sweet Home New Orleans, an umbrella organization for 14 non-profit agencies serving New Orleans' music community that provides relocation, housing and social services to musicians in need.
For more information, e-mail info@SweetHomeNewOrleans.org. To learn more about SHNO please visit Sweet Home New Orleans."
From New Orleans Times Picayune Music Blog:
"On Jan. 10, members of two great Louisville bands will join forces with other musicians for a benefit concert at the House of Blues Parish Room in New Orleans for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Jon Langford and Sally Timms of The Mekons, Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket, Charles Bisell of The Wrens, Kimya Dawson (who recently contributed eight songs to the hit movie Juno), Timothy Bracy of Mendoza Line, Janet Bean of Freakwater and Craig Klein, Matt Perrine, Eric Bolivar & Bert Cotton of Bonerama will perform. Showtime is 9 p.m.
This concert benefits Sweet Home New Orleans, an umbrella organization for 14 non-profit agencies serving New Orleans' music community that provides relocation, housing and social services to musicians in need.
For more information, e-mail info@SweetHomeNewOrleans.org. To learn more about SHNO please visit Sweet Home New Orleans."
The Wilders
Thursday, Jan 17
Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium
The Wilders
Thursday, Jan 17
Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium
8pm
$10 advance / $12 door
Tickets available at Porter's Box Office, ear X-tacy and Ticket Web, www.jimporters.com or www.wilderscountry.com
Thursday, Jan 17
Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium
8pm
$10 advance / $12 door
Tickets available at Porter's Box Office, ear X-tacy and Ticket Web, www.jimporters.com or www.wilderscountry.com
Black Mountain announce tour dates
Vancouver psych-rockers Black Mountain have announced a slew of dates in '08, and Louisville is included among them
Jagjaguwar Records announced the dates today. The group will return on Friday, March 7, to Headliners Music Hall (1386 Lexington Road, 584-8088).
Complete dates follow below. For more information, check out the band's website and MySpace page.
01/31/08 Seattle, WA - Neumo's w/ Yeasayer, MGMT, Howlin' Rain
02/02/08 Portland, OR - The Doug Fir w/ Howlin' Rain
02/04/08 San Francisco, CA - The Independent w/ Howlin' Rain
02/05/08 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour w/ Howlin' Rain
02/07/08 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Howlin' Rain
02/08/08 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress w/ Blood on the Wall
02/13/08 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree w/ Blood on the Wall
02/15/08 Atlanta, GA - The EARL w/ Blood on the Wall
02/16/08 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle w/ Blood on the Wall
02/17/08 Chapel Hill, NC - The Local 506 w/ Blood on the Wall
02/19/08 Washington, DC - The Rock and Roll Hotel w/ Bon Iver
02/20/08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Bon Iver
02/22/08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom w/ Bon Iver
02/24/08 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs w/ Bon Iver
02/25/08 Portland, ME - The Space Gallery w/ Bon Iver
02/26/08 Muncton, NB - The Manhattan w/ Bon Iver
02/27/08 Halifax, NS - The Marquee Club w/ Bon Iver
02/29/08 Montreal, QC - La Sala Rosa w/ Bon Iver
03/05/08 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace w/ Bon Iver
03/07/08 Louisville, KY - Headliners w/ Bon Iver
03/09/08 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light w/ Bon Iver
03/10/08 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ Bon Iver
03/27/08 Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret w/ Ladyhawk
03/28/08 Regina, SK - The Distrikt w/ Ladyhawk
03/29/08 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's w/ Ladyhawk
03/31/08 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room w/ Ladyhawk
04/01/08 Calgary, AB - The Warehouse w/ Ladyhawk
04/05/08 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom w/ Ladyhawk
Jagjaguwar Records announced the dates today. The group will return on Friday, March 7, to Headliners Music Hall (1386 Lexington Road, 584-8088).
Complete dates follow below. For more information, check out the band's website and MySpace page.
01/31/08 Seattle, WA - Neumo's w/ Yeasayer, MGMT, Howlin' Rain
02/02/08 Portland, OR - The Doug Fir w/ Howlin' Rain
02/04/08 San Francisco, CA - The Independent w/ Howlin' Rain
02/05/08 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour w/ Howlin' Rain
02/07/08 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Howlin' Rain
02/08/08 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress w/ Blood on the Wall
02/13/08 Birmingham, AL - Bottle Tree w/ Blood on the Wall
02/15/08 Atlanta, GA - The EARL w/ Blood on the Wall
02/16/08 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle w/ Blood on the Wall
02/17/08 Chapel Hill, NC - The Local 506 w/ Blood on the Wall
02/19/08 Washington, DC - The Rock and Roll Hotel w/ Bon Iver
02/20/08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's w/ Bon Iver
02/22/08 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom w/ Bon Iver
02/24/08 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs w/ Bon Iver
02/25/08 Portland, ME - The Space Gallery w/ Bon Iver
02/26/08 Muncton, NB - The Manhattan w/ Bon Iver
02/27/08 Halifax, NS - The Marquee Club w/ Bon Iver
02/29/08 Montreal, QC - La Sala Rosa w/ Bon Iver
03/05/08 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace w/ Bon Iver
03/07/08 Louisville, KY - Headliners w/ Bon Iver
03/09/08 Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light w/ Bon Iver
03/10/08 Nashville, TN - Exit/In w/ Bon Iver
03/27/08 Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret w/ Ladyhawk
03/28/08 Regina, SK - The Distrikt w/ Ladyhawk
03/29/08 Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's w/ Ladyhawk
03/31/08 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room w/ Ladyhawk
04/01/08 Calgary, AB - The Warehouse w/ Ladyhawk
04/05/08 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom w/ Ladyhawk
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Q&A: Brett Ralph of Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue
Q&A: Brett Ralph, leader of the Kentucky Chrome Revue, interviewed by LEO's Kevin Wilson
LEO: Tell me a little bit about your formative years...your first exposure to music...what led you to create your own ...
Brett Ralph: Most of the records around the house when I was growing up were my mom's: Barbra Streisand, Perry Como, Englebert Humperdinck, that kind of stuff. My dad had a few Buck Owens and Hank Williams records, but they didn't grab me until I got a bit older.
The one record that totally mesmerized me from the start — and that I played over and over — was Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe LP. It was funny, it was dark, it was funky, it was sad, and it suggested complex stories with a minimum of words. That record, more than any other, shaped the songwriter I would become — minus the "minimum of words" part.
I probably never would've made music of my own, however, if not for punk rock, and I'll be forever indebted to Chris and Mark Abromavage for taking a chance on me, as well as Irvin Ross for hooking me up with Malignant Growth in the first place, not to mention driving me to practice three times a week until I got my driver's license.
I initially approached Mark as a songwriter, suggesting that the band might want to use some of my lyrics. "If you wrote 'em, you oughta sing 'em," he said. That was all I needed to hear.
LEO: Why is it that the difference between punk and country (when either is at its best) is smaller than most folks would imagine?
BR: Maybe because most good music has certain classic elements, like energy, authenticity, adventurousness and attitude. And, of course, most all of the finest country musicians were rebels and mavericks: Hank, Merle, Cash, Loretta, Waylon. They definitely shook up the Nashville status quo as surely as the Ramones or the Pistols shook up the rock landscape of the mid-1970s.
Let me say this, though: The last thing on earth I want to do is to make "cow-punk" music, crap like Jason & the Scorchers, where you just take a country song and speed it up so that it becomes a parody of Southern expression, a cartoon cowboy on crank. I prefer the trail blazed by my bandmate Catherine (Irwin) in Freakwater — take fairly straightforward country songs and update them by introducing contemporary lyrical themes or more bombastic arrangement elements. Or just play them with such simmering ferocity that it feels like punk rock even though, on the surface, it's quiet and sad.
LEO: How is this project different from your previous work?
BR: Well, ever since I saw footage of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, I'd dreamed of leading a big band. Wink O'Bannon thinks that this is an attempt to create a maelstrom of music into which I can disappear. There's probably some truth to that — I definitely see my primary role as the songwriter, providing the blueprint for the gleaming cathedrals (or raggedy shacks) to be built by the musicians at hand.
This band represents the first time I've had free rein to realize my vision as a songwriter without having to wrestle with my bandmates over the direction of the project. Now, of course, we don't do every song I write, and if someone in the band hates a song, or simply isn't into it, we won't do that one. I don't mean to suggest that the songs aren't shaped by the contributions of the players. When we're working up the songs, everyone contributes to the arrangement, the approach we take to the song. But the band is called Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue for a reason, you know?
LEO: How were you able to piece together such an impressive cast of like-minded musicians?
BR: I'd like to think that it's because I'm fun to work with, and that people like my songs and are excited about singing and playing them. But I am awed and humbled by the quantity and quality of musicians who have been willing to play on my record and/or in the live band.
Watching Will Oldham and Peter Searcy — who had never sung on a record together before — sing whoo-whoo-whoo's on "Grandpa Was a Hobo" was a magical moment. Being able to sweet-talk Jolie Holland into coming out to Shelbyville to lay down some fiddle mere hours after I'd met her amazed even me. Getting an approximation of the full breadth of Wink O'Bannon's lyrical gifts as a guitarist onto tape — not just the bad-ass gun-slinging he's famous for — is something I'm proud to have elicited. I guess I can be pretty persuasive when it comes to getting the music in my head out into the world.
LEO: Who will be in the ensemble for next week's show?
BR: Mark Hamilton: lead guitar. Catherine Irwin: acoustic guitar, vocals. Kirk Kiefer: keyboards, vocals. Brett Eugene Ralph: lead vocals, guitar. Chris Reinstatler: drums. Daryl Sullivan: bass guitar, vocals.
Catherine, of course, also plays in Freakwater and releases solo records on Thrill Jockey. Mark Hamilton does session work and plays with virtually everyone in Louisville; I most recently saw him backing Tyrone Cotton. Kirk Kiefer plays in Bad Blood and the Uncommon Houseflies; his primary creative endeavor, Yardsale, just released its third CD. Chris Reinstatler played in VRKTM until its recent demise and also plays with the Pet Pervs, Bad Blood and The Hired Hand. Daryl Sullivan has played previously with Dead City Rejects, Cherub Scourge and Sean Garrison's Five Finger Discount.
LEO: What does the future hold for Ky. Chrome?
BR: After replacing two members in our first six months, the new band really seems to be settling in. I think we all really enjoy playing together. I'm excited to keep exploring different rhythms; recent songs have had a Latin feel to them, mixed with a kind of circular Joy Division pattern. For the first time in my life, songs are coming to me as rhythms as much as melodies or lyrical ideas. I attribute this to working with Chris, whose drumming I've totally internalized by this point. I'm also hoping to do more with the vocals in the future — get everyone in the band to sing and turn Kirk loose to start coming up with arrangements for layered background vocals. He's got a really great melodic sense, and we haven't really taken advantage of Daryl's abilities as a singer yet. Hell, I've never even heard Mark sing! And I'm eager to get an electric sitar into Catherine's hands. We've been toying with the idea of "going electric" — that is, having both Catherine and I switch to electric instruments. Then we'll truly be in the grand three-guitar tradition of Love, Skynyrd and Moby Grape, though I imagine that we'll leave the soloing to Mark.
Also, I'm in negotiations with MayApple Records, an Americana label in Springfield, Mo., and it looks like they'll be releasing Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue. Incidentally, MayApple was started by Mark Bilyeu, leader of Big Smith, who we're playing with at Air Devils Inn, along with my favorite Louisville band, Virgin Flame.
Catch Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, Big Smith and Virgin Flame on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008 at Air Devil's Inn.
LEO: Tell me a little bit about your formative years...your first exposure to music...what led you to create your own ...
Brett Ralph: Most of the records around the house when I was growing up were my mom's: Barbra Streisand, Perry Como, Englebert Humperdinck, that kind of stuff. My dad had a few Buck Owens and Hank Williams records, but they didn't grab me until I got a bit older.
The one record that totally mesmerized me from the start — and that I played over and over — was Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe LP. It was funny, it was dark, it was funky, it was sad, and it suggested complex stories with a minimum of words. That record, more than any other, shaped the songwriter I would become — minus the "minimum of words" part.
I probably never would've made music of my own, however, if not for punk rock, and I'll be forever indebted to Chris and Mark Abromavage for taking a chance on me, as well as Irvin Ross for hooking me up with Malignant Growth in the first place, not to mention driving me to practice three times a week until I got my driver's license.
I initially approached Mark as a songwriter, suggesting that the band might want to use some of my lyrics. "If you wrote 'em, you oughta sing 'em," he said. That was all I needed to hear.
LEO: Why is it that the difference between punk and country (when either is at its best) is smaller than most folks would imagine?
BR: Maybe because most good music has certain classic elements, like energy, authenticity, adventurousness and attitude. And, of course, most all of the finest country musicians were rebels and mavericks: Hank, Merle, Cash, Loretta, Waylon. They definitely shook up the Nashville status quo as surely as the Ramones or the Pistols shook up the rock landscape of the mid-1970s.
Let me say this, though: The last thing on earth I want to do is to make "cow-punk" music, crap like Jason & the Scorchers, where you just take a country song and speed it up so that it becomes a parody of Southern expression, a cartoon cowboy on crank. I prefer the trail blazed by my bandmate Catherine (Irwin) in Freakwater — take fairly straightforward country songs and update them by introducing contemporary lyrical themes or more bombastic arrangement elements. Or just play them with such simmering ferocity that it feels like punk rock even though, on the surface, it's quiet and sad.
LEO: How is this project different from your previous work?
BR: Well, ever since I saw footage of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, I'd dreamed of leading a big band. Wink O'Bannon thinks that this is an attempt to create a maelstrom of music into which I can disappear. There's probably some truth to that — I definitely see my primary role as the songwriter, providing the blueprint for the gleaming cathedrals (or raggedy shacks) to be built by the musicians at hand.
This band represents the first time I've had free rein to realize my vision as a songwriter without having to wrestle with my bandmates over the direction of the project. Now, of course, we don't do every song I write, and if someone in the band hates a song, or simply isn't into it, we won't do that one. I don't mean to suggest that the songs aren't shaped by the contributions of the players. When we're working up the songs, everyone contributes to the arrangement, the approach we take to the song. But the band is called Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue for a reason, you know?
LEO: How were you able to piece together such an impressive cast of like-minded musicians?
BR: I'd like to think that it's because I'm fun to work with, and that people like my songs and are excited about singing and playing them. But I am awed and humbled by the quantity and quality of musicians who have been willing to play on my record and/or in the live band.
Watching Will Oldham and Peter Searcy — who had never sung on a record together before — sing whoo-whoo-whoo's on "Grandpa Was a Hobo" was a magical moment. Being able to sweet-talk Jolie Holland into coming out to Shelbyville to lay down some fiddle mere hours after I'd met her amazed even me. Getting an approximation of the full breadth of Wink O'Bannon's lyrical gifts as a guitarist onto tape — not just the bad-ass gun-slinging he's famous for — is something I'm proud to have elicited. I guess I can be pretty persuasive when it comes to getting the music in my head out into the world.
LEO: Who will be in the ensemble for next week's show?
BR: Mark Hamilton: lead guitar. Catherine Irwin: acoustic guitar, vocals. Kirk Kiefer: keyboards, vocals. Brett Eugene Ralph: lead vocals, guitar. Chris Reinstatler: drums. Daryl Sullivan: bass guitar, vocals.
Catherine, of course, also plays in Freakwater and releases solo records on Thrill Jockey. Mark Hamilton does session work and plays with virtually everyone in Louisville; I most recently saw him backing Tyrone Cotton. Kirk Kiefer plays in Bad Blood and the Uncommon Houseflies; his primary creative endeavor, Yardsale, just released its third CD. Chris Reinstatler played in VRKTM until its recent demise and also plays with the Pet Pervs, Bad Blood and The Hired Hand. Daryl Sullivan has played previously with Dead City Rejects, Cherub Scourge and Sean Garrison's Five Finger Discount.
LEO: What does the future hold for Ky. Chrome?
BR: After replacing two members in our first six months, the new band really seems to be settling in. I think we all really enjoy playing together. I'm excited to keep exploring different rhythms; recent songs have had a Latin feel to them, mixed with a kind of circular Joy Division pattern. For the first time in my life, songs are coming to me as rhythms as much as melodies or lyrical ideas. I attribute this to working with Chris, whose drumming I've totally internalized by this point. I'm also hoping to do more with the vocals in the future — get everyone in the band to sing and turn Kirk loose to start coming up with arrangements for layered background vocals. He's got a really great melodic sense, and we haven't really taken advantage of Daryl's abilities as a singer yet. Hell, I've never even heard Mark sing! And I'm eager to get an electric sitar into Catherine's hands. We've been toying with the idea of "going electric" — that is, having both Catherine and I switch to electric instruments. Then we'll truly be in the grand three-guitar tradition of Love, Skynyrd and Moby Grape, though I imagine that we'll leave the soloing to Mark.
Also, I'm in negotiations with MayApple Records, an Americana label in Springfield, Mo., and it looks like they'll be releasing Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue. Incidentally, MayApple was started by Mark Bilyeu, leader of Big Smith, who we're playing with at Air Devils Inn, along with my favorite Louisville band, Virgin Flame.
Catch Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, Big Smith and Virgin Flame on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008 at Air Devil's Inn.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Top 10 Quotes of ’07
--1. ''Don't tase me, bro.'' -- Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, while being hauled away by campus police during a speech by Sen. John Kerry.
--2. ''I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.'' -- Lauren Upton, South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map.
--3. ''In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country.'' -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at Columbia University in New York.
--4. ''That's some nappy-headed hos there.'' -- radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
--5. ''I don't recall.'' -- former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to congressional questions about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
--6. ''There's only three things he (Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.'' -- Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates.
--7. ''I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.'' -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, referring to Vice President Dick Cheney.
--8. ''(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.'' -- Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men's room.
--9. ''I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.'' -- Sen. Joseph Biden referring to rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.
--10. ''I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.'' -- Former President Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration.
--2. ''I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.'' -- Lauren Upton, South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen America contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map.
--3. ''In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country.'' -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at Columbia University in New York.
--4. ''That's some nappy-headed hos there.'' -- radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
--5. ''I don't recall.'' -- former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' repeated response to congressional questions about the firing of U.S. attorneys.
--6. ''There's only three things he (Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.'' -- Sen. Joseph Biden, speaking during a debate for Democratic presidential candidates.
--7. ''I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.'' -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, referring to Vice President Dick Cheney.
--8. ''(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.'' -- Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men's room.
--9. ''I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.'' -- Sen. Joseph Biden referring to rival Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.
--10. ''I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history.'' -- Former President Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration.
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