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Trans Texas Corridor announcment today

From Dallasblog.com

Today we find out what land the Texas Department of Transportation has its eyes on for the proposed $184 billion Trans-Texas Corridor. Officials will be releasing the study area, plus a 4,000-page environmental impact statement, at a press conference at D/FW International Airport today.
TXDOT will identify a ten-mile-wide area, which will be the focus of additional studies, to determine the final route for roads, rail and utilities in the corridor. The principal study area is mainly along Interstate 35 from the Mexican border through Central Texas to the Oklahoma border, but alternative routes are also being considered that would shift the superhighway into East Texas.

I’m guessing the route will be somewhere between I-35 and I-45 and will go right through Ellis County. I’ll post more as I find out.

Morning quotes

“Ah the blogosphere – the place of little accountablility” – Eric Lidji
“The President said recently that Americans are addicted to oil. I’ve been addicted to a lot of things, but I didn’t know I was addicted to oil. Now I’m going to get off of it as soon as possible.” – Willie Nelson at a press conference in Carl’s Corner Saturday.

Get your jazz trance on


Thomas* posted some info on an album by Jonah Dempcy/Revolution Void.
From Milieu:

Revolution Void is a project by producer and jazz pianist Jonah Dempcy, mixing jazz and breakbeat. You may remember acclaimed musicians who decided to produce drum and bass, and it turning out as complete garbage: nothing there for jazz fans, nothing there for drum and bass fans. Increase the Dosage, however, combines breakbeat and melodic electronica in a charming way that makes for something not only worth listening to, but also something you’ll keep coming back to for years to come.
With bass by Matthew Garrison, sax by Seamus Blake and Darryl Estes, and guitars by Nicolas Manel, there’s a lot of serious musicians contributing some excellent material to the album. This, and careful production, makes Increase the Dosage an exceptional package. Surprisingly, it’s free to download, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license.

It’s a great jazz/trance album. Especially from a 21 year old producer. And you can download the whole mix for free from the website.
The downside is that I had to do a weird conversion on the ID tags to get it to play in Windows Media or Yahoo Player. I had to tell my computer to open each file in iTunes and then went to Advanced > Convert ID3 Tags before it would play in my media player. But otherwise, great album. Check it out.

*Someone should invent a patch for blogger that lets you do a keyboard shortcut for common links and phrases. But thanks again Thomas for another great headsup.

POD to play Rey Mesterio in

I’m getting anxious for Wrestlemania XXII tomorrow night.
POD will play Rey Mesterio’s entrance into the ring.
From WWE.com:

P.O.D. to play Mysterio to the ring at WrestleMania
When Rey Mysterio hits the ring at WrestleMania for the biggest match of his career, P.O.D. will be there to perform his entrance theme, “Booyaka 619.”
The versatile and accomplished band P.O.D. has become an MTV juggernaut with such hit albums as The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, Satellite and most recently,Testify.
After the performance on April 2, P.O.D. will bring their unique sound to a new recording of Rey Mysterio’s “Booyaka 619” entrance theme. The track will be featured on the upcoming WWE/Columbia Records release, Wreckless Intent, which will arrive in stores and online nationwide this spring.
P.O.D. is a natural fit to perform Mysterio’s infectious entrance music not just because of its musical style; both P.O.D. and Rey proudly hail from the “619” — San Diego, Calif.

WWE has also used POD’s Boom for Saturday Night’s Main Event last month and has used their music for several other promos as well.
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EDIT: See POD play Mysterio in
Order the new WWE album with the song on it
Order Wrestlemania XXII