Revisiting an old medium

I have been enjoying listening to a local radio station here in L.A. area for the past few weeks. The morning show has an interesting disc jockey (Joe Escalante, Esq.) who was in the 80's punk band "The Vandals". He is one of the few, from the scene in Orange County / Los Angeles punk scene, that did not get stuck in the muck that most bands, and band members back then fell into. Actually some of my favorite old bands from then are more popular now then they were back then. A few of the real great ones broke up as members went to college and put those careers ahead of the band.

Joe is one of those who went to college, and he became a Lawyer. Good choice for someone in the music business. But he has expanded his talents to many areas (wiki link here) (Joe's Escalante web site here). He has some great legal advice and insights for band members, writers, artists, producers, and documentary/independent films. On Fridays Joe hosts "the Barely Legal Radio Show" they take calls from people in bands etc. that have legal questions, on indie 103.1 (webcast here). Some of the other DJ's include Henry Rolands (from the band "Black Flag") and Steve Jones. ( I don't care much for those two musically)

Today I was listening to them talk about a Joe Strummer benefit concert and a limited edition poster. Got me thinking of all the artwork I use to do for bands and their flyers, logos, and much more. I miss that style of artwork. I got sorta anti-hippie, anti-political, and at times some in your face glimpses of history. The later was an attempt (that worked well) to attract attention and discussion. So I decided today to try and get back into doing some of the artwork that I enjoyed so much. My artwork has been very stagnant for the last few years. A couple years ago, I did start some excellent pieces that have multi dimensions (layers). One I like will cost me $500.00 just to create the original. I will post some updates on my progress next month.

Well I have been very busy with work lately and should have some free time soon. So I am very tired and will be signing off for now thanks all. - Ian Bach

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Here is a picture from when I was a wee lad. I am on the left side of me Mum. My sister is sitting in the right of the picture. My dad is taking the picture. This is at the Grand Canyon. I was lucky my parents loved to travel.

Never give up never surrender

I decided that because there is so many times that I want (or need) to vent and times I just want to get stuff off my chest. It is bad to keep stuff bottled up inside and publishing my personal life on my counter terrorism Blog is not the place for it.

I don't want to distract from my goals here about creating awareness and bring real News, and News about good things that the Media doesn't talk about.

I also want to keep this Blog focused on my most important goal of exposing terrorist propaganda and creating awareness.

I also plan to start to add info here on yahoo360 on how to stay safe while surfing the web, how to ignore/block unwanted comments from jerks, and mean people. I will attempt to teach how to keep you and your computer safe and clean from spyware, viruses, phishing, bank scams, and identity theft.

So I am not sure if anyone wants to see the other side of me but I decided to create a Journal Blog. It feeds to my dot com (www.ianbach.com).

The Address for the Journal is http://www.ianbach.com/journal/

I lived with Mormons for almost 3 years back when I was young about 19-21. They are good people and the focus on family life and personal wellness. This is something that should be praised. They are taught to be very ethical, honest, good humans. One thing I learned was that they promote writing a Personal Journal and I do believe and all of them or anyone who keeps a journal will tell you that it helps them in many ways. - Ian Bach

Saudi Arabia Agrees to Write Off 80 Percent of Iraqi Debt

By Steven Mufson and Robin Wright

Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 18, 2007; Page A18

Saudi Arabia has agreed to forgive 80 percent of the more than $15 billion that Iraq owes the kingdom, Iraqi and Saudi officials said yesterday, a major step given Saudi reluctance to provide financial assistance to the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.

But Iraqi Finance Minister Bayan Jabr said in an interview that Russia was holding out on debt forgiveness until talks begin on concessions that Russian oil and gas companies had under Saddam Hussein. Russian Embassy officials in Washington declined to comment late yesterday....

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