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- This past week, Vaseline launched a controversial Facebook application that encouraged users to lighten the appearance of their skin. The application was targeted at users in India, who were asked to upload their profile photos and whiten their faces.
- You are about to miss another free ringtone from CAKE! We are just about to release one later this week, so sign our mailing list as soon as possible, or risk being left behind yet again. (We don't share our mailing list with anyone or anything.)
- CAKE's friend Charlie Louvin is now wrestling with pancreatic cancer. Let's all hope the best for him.
- Congress has passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, but the task of transforming our economy into one of shared and sustainable prosperity has only just begun. Structural reform will come not through the sweep of a single piece of legislation but with new, innovative economic models that better reflect the democratic values of this country. The good news is that some of these transformative ideas are already taking root. Here are five ways to build a more just economy that Americans are experimenting with across the country.
- Do you live in Seattle, WA? Are you sick of huge, shitty banks like Chase? Get a free dinner!
- Many common skin rashes are caught in hot tubs in which bacteria thrives in the moist wood. Solution: a vinyl liner.
CAKE has finished soundcheck.
Charlie Walker with Roger Miller and Buddy Emmons!! Pick Me Up On Your Way Down.
- Agriculture in the United States is undeniably dependent on an immigrant workforce. Three-quarters of all crop workers working in American agriculture were born outside the United States. According to government statistics, since the late 1990s, at least 50% of the crop workers have not been authorized to work legally in the United States.
Farm workers are ready to welcome legal U.S. residents who wish to replace them in the field. The U. F.W. will use their knowledge and staff to help connect the unemployed with farm employers. Just fill out the form and continue on to request a job application.
- What!?! You haven't seen Heavy Metal Parking Lot?!!
- Getting sunnier and sunnier in Columbus, OH.
- Will the rain stop before tonight's outdoor show in Columbus, OH?
- Too much carbon monoxide. Study shows it's actually worse INSIDE cars than riding a bike or walking along the side of the road. When you drive, keep a window open.
- CAKE now in Louisville, KY.
- Will Wall Street lobbyists succeed in killing derivatives reform? Not yet.
- Dreams of falling and struggling are usually caused by lying in an awkward position or in an uncomfortable bed.
- Three of CAKE's favorite artists in their prime, on SHINDIG!
- For those of you who are wondering, CAKE is finished with the new album, and is currently setting up channels of distribution from its own label, Upbeat Records. This will take some time, but rest assured that the music itself is finished and ready to be heard. To those of you who want samples of our new work, please sign our e-mail list to be informed about our next free ringtone release, coming shortly.
Here are the upcoming CAKE shows during July, August & September:
July 1 - San Francisco @ The Independent (Tel-Hi fund-raiser)
July 10 - Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
July 11 - Indianapolis @ The Vogue
July 12 - Columbus @ LC Pavilion
July 13 - Pittsburgh @ Palace Theater
July 15 - Danbury, CT @ The Ives
July 16 - Lowell MA @ Lowell Summer Music Series
July 17 - Newport RI @ Newport Sunset Series
July 18 - Greenfield, MA @ Green River Festival
July 25 - San Diego @ 91X X-Fest - Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
August 5 - Anchorage @ The Moose's Tooth
August 21 – Oakland @ Art & Soul Festival
Sept. 10 - Quebec City @ Envol et Macadam
Sept. 11 - Montreal @ Olympia
Sept. 12 - Burlington @ Higher Ground
Sept. 13 - Clifton Park (Albany) @ Northern Lights
Sept. 15 - Philadelphia @ Mann Music Center
Sept. 16 - New York @ Ramsey Playfield
Sept. 17 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place
Sept. 18 - Boston @ The Orpheum
- What?! A huge sale still going on at the CAKE Store? Nearly everything is discounted??! And the sale is ending this week??
- CAKE now roaming the streets of SLC.
- One of the five CAKE stickers posted in the streets of Rome has been found! In November 2009, an offer for a year of free concert admissions for two at any or all CAKE shows, was presented to any listener who could find one of the stickers. One sticker was recently found by treasure hunter Alexei Popov on the corner of Via dei SS Quattro with Piazza del Colosseo. Thank-you Alexei for your diligence, and congratulations!
- Congratulations to the CAKE Major Yankees on their second place finish during the 2010 RCLL season and qualifying for the Tournament of Champions. Good luck in the postseason!
- On May 30, 2010, at 10:06 a.m, the direct cost of occupying Iraq and Afghanistan hit $1 trillion. And in a few weeks, the House of Representatives will be asked to vote for $33 billion of additional "emergency" supplemental spending to continue the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. There will be the pretense of debate - speeches on the floor of both chambers, stern requests for timetables or metrics or benchmarks - but this war money will get tossed in the wood chipper without difficulty, requested by a President who ran on an anti-war platform. Passing this legislation will mark the breaking of another promise to America, the promise that all war spending would be done through the regular budget process. Not through an off-budget swipe of our Chinese credit card.
- In the June mailing list raffle, Mike C. of Midvale, UT (pictured on the right) has won an autographed vinyl single of "I Will Survive" b/w "Rock 'N' Roll Lifestyle." Congratulations Mike.
- Warming a car for two or three minutes in cold weather is no longer necessary; today's cars need only seconds of idling time before driving.
- It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of water toxic to wildlife.
- A quick fix for a squeaky floor is powdered graphite inserted into the joint between the boards or, in a pinch, talcum powder.
- In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had acquired certain traditional markers of maturity by age 30: leaving home, completing school, full-time employment, marriage and family. In 2005, the figure had plummeted to 27 and 39 percent, respectively, according to the MacArthur Research Network.
- BP is dumping over one million gallons of toxic chemicals into the ocean to break up the oil before it hits the shoreline - with the EPA's approval. 12 less toxic and more effective chemical solutions are available, so why did BP go with the most toxic brew? Is it because they have ties to the manufacturer?
- Expecting a child soon? CAKE recommends the 1974 version of It's Alive and/or The Business of Being Born. We never thought babies could be so scary and we never thought we'd see Ricky Lake giving birth. Life can surprise you sometimes.
- The sun has gone down and the moon has come up, and long ago somebody left with the cup. Somebody who was five.
- CAKE backstage, about to perform at Carroll University.
- Cigarette butts are designed to take a host of poisonous chemicals out of the cigarette smoke. But these chemicals accumulate in the filter, and when that filter is floating in the ocean those toxic chemicals leach out and harm animals. An San Diego State University study found that "just one filtered cigarette butt had the ability to kill half the fish living in a 1-liter container of water." Many smokers incorrectly believe that cigarette filters are made of biodegradable cotton. In fact, cigarette filters are made with cellulose-acetate, a type of plastic that never fully decomposes. Because cigarette butts float, they get taken out to sea by the tide or by wind and rain. Like Styrofoam takeout containers, once in the ocean, this plastic tends to accumulate in giant garbage gyres, like the Pacific Garbage Patch 1,000 miles off our coast.
- Several years before the all-female band The Runaways, there was Sacramento's Fanny.
- According to news reports last week, even though our tax dollars are still being funneled into their coffers, big Wall Street banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo probably won't owe a dime of federal taxes. Forget the fact that Bank of America pulled in more than $119 billion in revenue during 2009. Forget that the taxes we pay this year are still funding their giant bonuses through swap deals and indirect bailouts. Banks like BofA may get away with not paying a dime of federal taxes for 2009. How do they do it? Well, we know that Bank of America has operated more than 100 offshore tax havens recently - most of them in the Cayman Islands. And we know they spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress for special perks and loopholes. Demand that BofA CEO Brian Moynihan publish his bank's tax returns online.
- Hey, where IS our magic carpet to new hopes, new dreams, and a better way of life for the future? Magic Highway, USA.
- A report last spring by Deloitte Center for Health Solutions said 750,000 Americans travelled abroad for medical care in 2007, and forecast that number would rise to six million by 2010. That trend far outpaces the number of Canadians coming to the U.S. for medical treatment.
- John McCrea feeling much better after seeing magical Hawaiian rainbow.
- John McCrea has a high fever. Hoping to recover before tonight.
- CAKE now en route to Hawaii, relaxed by United Airlines' meticulous attention to detail and passenger comfort.
- Congratulations to Barbara A. of Buffalo, NY. She is April's winner of our mailing list raffle! For raffle eligibility, simply sign the CAKE mailing list on our news page!
- False killer whales are disappearing from Hawaiian waters faster than the Hawaiian monk seal, and humans are the reason. They are the only known animals for whom sharing is the rule, not the exception. Once they’ve caught and killed a big fish, they politely pass it to each other intact, even though they could easily swallow it. Eventually one whale takes a bite and passes it on to the next one, who does the same. No other animal does this.
- Can you make your dad cry?
- For anyone capable of separating public life from private life, and enjoying great work by someone who might be a real creep, CAKE heartily recommends Roman Polanski's suspenseful and skillfully directed political thriller, The Ghost Writer.
- Boring day for dogs in the CAKE studio today.
- Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because they have no health insurance. Here are some of their stories.
- Scientists argue that power is corrupting because it leads to moral hypocrisy. Although we almost always know what the right thing to do is - cheating at dice is a sin - power makes it easier to justify the wrongdoing. Find out why.
- The GOP subjected the Senate to more filibuster votes last year than in the 1950s and 1960s combined.
- Xan McCurdy working in the studio today.
- "A recent poll found that only two percent of Tea Partiers are aware that the president enacted the largest middle-class tax cut in history. A staggering 44 percent, by contrast, believe that Obama has increased their taxes -- and only 16 percent blame the current economic catastophe on Bush, who ran up record deficits by slashing taxes for the wealthy."
-- Tim Dickinson
- Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages. Health risks aren’t confirmed, but some (not all) studies of frequent cell phone users suggest increased risks for brain and mouth tumors and children’s behavior problems. Until scientists know much more about cell phone radiation, it’s smart for consumers to buy phones with the lowest emissions.
- Placard in studio bestowed to CAKE by US Marine Corps. CAKE working today on a drumtrack especially designed to support our troops.
- Carrots, sweet potatoes and dark yellow winter squash are suspected by the National Cancer Institute to be linked with the reduced incidence of lung cancer.
- CAKE is working all weekend to supply songs to angry listeners who threaten to steal our entire new album in one giant gulp unless we stop with the political posts.
- It is illegal for a company to fire employees just before retirement to save paying them benefits
- Decaffeinated coffee can lead to a higher stomach acid secretion than regular coffee, causing heartburn and indigestion; the effect is felt with doses as small as half a cup in some individuals.
- CAKE now adding the pedal steel guitar.
- According to a recent report, the sound of a barking dog inside the house is one of the best defenses against burglary.
- Among heterosexuals under age 50 in major U.S. cities, the group with the lowest statistical estimates for AIDS infection is white men, living in Chicago, age 20 to 24.
- According to new research, within four hours of consuming fatty foods a man's testosterone level is reduced significantly; hence his sexual appetite and ability to perform is also reduced.
- Fifty percent of all Americans will have a car stolen from them.
- Before hiring a lawyer, sophisticated clients demand written resumes detailing the lawyer's background, education and experience, not to mention some references.
- 42% of Republicans currently think their state should secede from the United States of America, or think it is a matter open to debate.
- Over a half of Republicans currently don't think Obama was born in the US or think it's a matter open to debate.
- Selling crap newsonline, and claiming that it has medical value, is illegal. This is just and proper, because it’s wrong to con sick people out of money. Yet it’s so profitable to do so that it remains a flourishing business. Report medical quackery to the FDA.
- CAKE will be performing at the Pipeline in Honolulu on April 2-3. Pipeline concert tickets are available at the following retail locations ($1 facility surcharge): Pipeline box office, located at 805 Pohukaina St. Honolulu, HI 96813 (rear of the venue, right hand side) Tel. 808-593-9603 e-mail: events@Pipelinecafehawaii.com.
- An old CAKE video you've probably never seen.
- If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared?
- Congratulations to Jacob Ingram of Overland Park, KS. He is February's raffle winner! Jacob will be receiving an autographed poster from our recent appearance for The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation in San Francisco, CA. You too can win future month's prizes by joining our mailing list.
- Holy Cow! The Department of Justice approves Ticketmaster + Live Nation. Time for musicians to start selling their own tickets online?
- Recent management and conservation issues have arisen concerning false killer whales in Hawaiian waters. Two demographically isolated populations have been identified, a small (estimated 123 individuals) island-associated population around the main Hawaiian Islands (hereafter Hawai‘i insular stock) and a larger (estimated 484 individuals) offshore population (hereafter Hawai‘i pelagic stock). Individuals within the Hawai‘i insular stock regularly move among islands and have been documented at distances of 110 km offshore. Less is known of movements/range of individuals from the Hawai‘i pelagic stock; one group has been documented 42 km offshore and individuals likely move beyond the Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone. No information is available to assess trends in the Hawai‘i pelagic stock. For the Hawai‘i insular stock, a significant decline in sighting rates from aerial surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003 suggests a large decline in population size. Other available evidence also supports a decline in population size for the insular stock: a reduction in sighting rates from boat-based surveys since the mid-1980s, lower than expected survival based on photo-identification data, and much higher sighting rates and larger group sizes in a 1989 aerial survey compared to boat-based surveys since 2000. False killer whales in Hawai‘i feed primarily on large game fish that are also the target of commercial and recreational fisheries. A number of potential conservation threats have been identified. Individuals from the Hawai‘i insular stock have elevated levels of persistent organic pollutants. Three of nine individuals sampled had levels high enough to potentially influence health. Because of the overlap between false killer whale diet and commercially harvested fish, reduced prey size or abundance could influence false killer whale foraging success or nutritional levels. Significant declines in body size and/or catch per unit effort have been documented for several false killer whale prey species in Hawaiian waters. False killer whales have been documented taking fish off lines in both nearshore and offshore fisheries. Depredation of caught fish may lead to retaliatory shooting by fishermen although, given potential fines and penalties, such shooting is not likely to occur where it may be witnessed; thus there is no information available to assess the potential for this to influence population dynamics. With the overlap in diet with commercially and recreationally harvested fish, the potential for hook ingestion, either from depredation or from free-swimming hooked fish, is relatively high. Based on studies elsewhere, hook ingestion would have a high likelihood of leading to mortality. Bycatch may occur in nearshore kaka line or shortline fisheries that use similar, but shorter gear to offshore longline fisheries, but there is no observer coverage of nearshore fisheries. False killer whales are the most frequently recorded bycaught cetacean in the Hawai‘i-based offshore longline fishery. Rates of serious injury and mortality have exceeded the potential biological removal (PBR) levels since bycatch rates and population levels were first available in 2000. Bycatch rates are underestimated as they do not take into account individuals that are not positively classified as to species or individuals that may break free with gear attached before being documented by observers. A number of research recommendations are presented to help reduce uncertainty and to clarify factors that may be influencing the population trajectories of both the Hawai‘i insular and Hawai‘i pelagic stocks, as well as to provide information that could be used to reduce bycatch rates or otherwise mitigate anthropogenic impacts on these populations.
- 140,000 different species are now going extinct every year--a rate 100 to 1,000 times greater than the average extinction rates throughout the Earth's history. That's one species every three hours.
- Severe frostbite is caused by numbing of the skin so that a sufferer will not be aware of the damage taking place; permanent disfigurement and possible amputation are the consequences.
- Whales save seals from Orcas?
- Bright indoor lighting has been proven to reduce the incidence of mild depression during winter months.
- Compensation arrangements with lawyers can be an hourly rate, a contingency fee (payment depending on the case's outcome), a flat fee, or an agreed upon retainer. Most perilous is the hourly rate, which gives an attorney an economic incentive to drag out the proceedings.
- CAKE is in the studio, getting ready to shred now.
- Foods from which international travelers are likely to get diarrhea are those with sauces, salads, buffet items, or anything moist that sits at room temperature.
- The 30 year obesity epidemic in the U.S. has finally reached a plateau!
- Humidifiers have few real benefits, but if they are not cleaned regularly they may spread common infections or make those with respiratory ailments feel worse.
- CAKE's Vincent Di Fiore is now tracking euphonium.
- Are you tough enough to grabble?
- Six in seven white collar criminals are never charged with the crimes they commit.
- The average public library has less than 1% of the volumes written in the last 100 years.
- This new year, add a request for a "mystery item" from the CAKE Store. For only $5 you'll receive a shirt, hat or sweatshirt from our backstock of discontinued merchandise (while supplies last). No one is guaranteed anything in particular, but give us your size in case and be surprised.
- CAKE has landed in Seattle.
- CAKE entering Seattle.
- As a general rule, if you are feeling worse instead of better after forty-eight hours on a drug, you are on the wrong medication.
- Roller skating, basketball, billiards and baseball produce the most injuries of all sports.
- Be very careful about The Angriest Dog In The World.
- CAKE recommends humor.
- Since the IPCC released their Fourth Assessment Report in February 2007, NOT A SINGLE national or international scientific body has maintained disagreement that "most of the warming over the last 50 years is due to human activity."
- CAKE still can't seem to finish the album.
- Charles Dickens always aligned his bed to face north. He also faced north whenever he wrote.
- 1200 imported limos in Copenhagen? Perfect.
- A person uses 72 muscles to speak a word.
- There are nearly seven billion human beings living on the Earth and the population is increasing by more than two people every second, 200,000 every day and nearly 80million every year. Each extra life needs food, energy, water and shelter.
- CAKE values your continued interest in the CAKE STORE. Our effort to provide substance is ongoing. As always, there is free shipping with orders of $60 or more. To further show our appreciation, this holiday season we're also adding a free MOG poster with orders of $75 or more.
- Did you really think you were going to get a decent health care system? Here are the Senators who are most bought and paid for by insurance company money.
- The United States creates twelve times the average monthly tonnage of garbage during the month of December.
- CAKE working in the studio today.
- Congratulations to Devin Nanni of Richardson, TX. She is the December winner of our mailing list raffle! Devin will be receiving an autographed poster from our recent appearance on the Etown radio show in Boulder, CO.
- CAKE rehearsing now for the show tonight at the Blue Lamp (9.30PM).
- Good things happening in the studio today.
- CAKE believes in the value of hard work today.
- The CAKE STORE is offering special limited edition New Year's Eve T-shirts designed by Aesthetic Apparatus.
- Available now in the CAKE online store: Limited Edition 11"x17" Glow-in-the-Dark moon posters designed by Aesthetic Apparatus especially for our upcoming New Year's Eve show in Seattle.
- President Theodore Roosevelt would be happy to know the brown pelican is back from the brink of extinction.
- Currently there are at least five CAKE stickers posted in public places in the "eternal city" of Rome, Italy. Be the first to find one of them, send us a photo including precise location to info@cakemusic.com, and you will win free concert admission for two during the entirety of 2010!
- Aquacalypse now.
- CAKE RAFFLE - Congratulations to Gerry Gartland of Haddon Township, NJ. He was chosen randomly, through the November mailing list raffle, to receive some gladiator wrist armor. This item was worn during intense battle footage in our video, "Rock and Roll Lifestyle." .Sign our mailing list to receive free ring-tones from our upcoming album, and to be eligible for this free raffle.
- GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH HOLIDAY SALE! Don't let your plastic water bottles end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch. Instead, purchase our durable, reusable "Lonely Spaceman" Klean Kanteen for only $15 dollars, now through the end of the year in the CAKE STORE.
- Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.
- So that the US can become more consistent, CAKE wants to end socialized police and fire protection now! Let the magic of free market competition improve all services!
- "A poll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago received replies from 3,146 of the 10,257 polled Earth scientists. Results were analyzed globally and by specialization. 76 out of 79 climatologists who "listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change" believe that mean global temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and 75 out of 77 believe that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures."
- Conscience? Lieberman's wife Haddassah worked for a health care/pharmaceutical lobbyist?
- What?! You've never watched I, Claudius? CAKE wholeheartedly recommends it.
- California's per capita energy consumption levels have remained about the same since the 1970s--while every single other state saw their levels rise by up to 40%.
- Saturday, October 17th, is Home Movie Day. Find the Home Movie Day event nearest you.
- CAKE RAFFLE - Congratulations to Clay Bourgeois of Vidor, TX. Through our monthly raffle he has won a Yankees jersey from the team we sponsor at Rancho Cordova Little League. Our handle cakemusic.com is decaled on the back. To be eligible for one of many prizes, sign the CAKE mailing list.
- Listen to Killer Whales in real time. Right now.
- Pseudorca, or false killer whales, are large toothed whales that live in the tropical and sub-tropical open ocean. In Hawaiian waters there is a small, fast diminishing, population that are long-term residents. Pseudorca have long-term bonds. They share their prey, not only with their companions, but also with humans.
- Blue Cross of Massachusetts employs more people to administer coverage for 2.5 million New Englanders than are employed in all of Canada to administer single payer coverage for 27 million Canadians.
- Americans toss out 7 million tons of clothing and footwear annually.
- Holding a cell phone just 6 inches away from your head reduces the absorbed electromagnetic radiation 10,000 fold.
- Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large U.S. health-insurance companies: +87
- Nearly a third of all health care costs are associated with wasteful administration. Fully $350 billion a year could be saved on paperwork alone if the U.S. went to a single-payer health care system -- more than enough to pay for the entire system.
- CAKE RAFFLE - An autographed copy of our last "Prolonging the Magic" cassette goes to Evan Laundrie of Anaheim, CA. To be eligible for one of many prizes, sign the CAKE mailing list.
- Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers know that the company is a sponsor of a major climate-change-denying, union-busting, pro-mountaintop removal Labor Day rally staged by Massey Energy in Logan, West Virginia?
- Less than 3,000 Americans died on 9/11/2001. This year over 18,000 preventable deaths will occur resulting from lack of basic health insurance.
- Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman analyzes why there is probably no hope for healthcare in America.
- Americans buy about three billion household batteries annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency—and nearly all of them end up in landfills. The next time you need to power up your gadgets, choose rechargeable batteries.
- With the UK economy in shambles, everyone expected the Labour Party, headed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to be defeated soundly in the next elections there. However, US Republican Party attacks on the British National Health Service as part of their campaign to discredit US health care reform are receiving wide coverage there and are causing a backlash. The NHS is so popular in the UK that virtually all politicians, including conservatives, support it, but British Conservative Party links to the US Republican party are causing it to lose popularity quickly.
- According to the American Cancer Society, those who have never acquired a cigarette habit live seven years longer than a smoker.
- A sure sign that you are more physically fit now than before is a marked increase in the amount of perspiration during a rigorous workout.
- It is not unusual in a developing girl for one breast to develop before the other; however, it usually evens out within a year or two.
- Teasing or shaming a fearful child has been shown to bring on chronic withdrawal or belligerence
- Mild exercise of stiff joints, though painful at first, can cause a substantial easing of arthritic pain within two or three weeks.
- CAKE RAFFLE - This month's raffle winner Jeff Newman of La Mesa, CA, will receive a signed limited edition Never There single which includes extra songs and a video. If you haven't signed our mailing list, do so now to be eligible for random gifts from the band.
- Find and support independently owned stores in your neighborhood. Just enter your zip code and choose a type of store.
- The bluefin tuna is being grossly overfished, and is on its way to extinction. The reason? Vanity.
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