Roman Edirisinghe

Sunday November 26th, 7:00 pm (the day before Jimi Hendrix’ 64th birthday):

New York-based Sitar player Dawoud will offer the first performance in his home town in 25 years! Also featuring local talents Jesse Sheehan (tabla /saxophone), Roman Edirisinghe (percussion / bass), Steve Peplin (bass / guitar).

Please visit Dawoud at mysticjaz.com or myspace.com/renegadesufi to get a sweet taste for his exceptional musical style.

Club Timbuktu
520 East Center Street
Milwaukee WI 53212
Tel : (414) 265 7000
clubtimbuktu.com

Whoever thought that putting an outdoor mall in Wisconsin was a good idea is a complete idiot. When I was a kid, I enjoyed going to Bayshore Mall, but now it’s a joke. Nicole and I walked around the place, freezing in the wind, and decided we would never return. It is a travesty to have to put on your winter coat between stores. Perhaps the building designers were trying to drop a hint to Wisconsinites: you are all fat people who don’t exercise enough, so here is a shopping center where you can pretend to enjoy the lifestyles of cool places you wish you could live. The catch: you have to actually get out and walk around in the freezing cold to reap the benefits.

Suckers.

I’m ever surprised and disappointed by the lack of voter turnout. It just seems silly that people choose not to vote, for whatever reason, then spend their lives complaining about the very things they could have voted about.

Perhaps we take things for granted in this country. Perhaps if we lived under a dictatorship we might realize what we had…

On a positive note, it was nice to see a line of unregistered first-time voters stretching out of the voting hall. There is hope.

Searing African grooves, featuring Oumar Sagna, Jesse Sheehan, Didier Leplae, Joe Wong, Thacher Schmid, Roman Edirisinghe and others…

520 East Center Street
Milwaukee WI 53212
Tel : (414) 265 7000
www.clubtimbuktu.com

Waiting here at George’s Tavern in Racine, Wisconsin. We were supposed to be on 2 minutes ago, but there are some issues with the sound system, so we’re waiting ’til they’re ready for us.

Nice place. They (or someone near here) has free wifi, so I plugged right in, so to speak.

This is a sort of farewell gig for me and Holly, as we’re both departing the core group of the One Drum collective. What a sweet farewell it will be. This lineup features Cory Coleman (vocals, dundun & bass), Kristin Urban (vocals & percussion), Cecilio Negron, jr. (drums, congas, vocals), Holly Haebig (vocals & guitar), and yours truly on guitar and vocals. Poor sound guys. It’s 8:43 pm and they’re still fiddling with the system.

This is where the fans & the musicians both learn patience.

According to Wikipedia, 33 is:

• the largest positive integer that can not be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers.
• the atomic number of arsenic
• the “smile to the camera” word in Spanish, as is “cheese” in English. Diga treinta y tres (“Say thirty-three”) is the same as “Say cheese”
• a recurring, important number to the Freemasons, used often in their sacred rituals

33 was also:

• Jesus‘ alleged age at his crucifixion in 33 A.D. (historically unverified)
• The age of Alexander the Great when he died

For the sake of amusement, here are Biblical references:

• Genesis 33, Exodus 33, Numbers 33, Deuteronomy 33, 2 Chronicles 33, Job 33, Psalm 33, Isaiah 33, Jeremiah 33, Ezekiel 33

And from Islamic Holy Q’uran:

• Surah (chapter) 33, Aayah (verse) 33

33 in 69 languages, in order of complexity, highest to lowest (from A Playground of Thoughts):

1. Huli: ngui ki, ngui tebone-gonaga tebira
2. Ndom: tondor abo mer an thef abo ithin
3. Nimbia: gume bi ni tanran
4. Hindi: tayntees
5. Tzotzil: ‘ox lajuneb xcha’-vinik
6. Ainu: rep ikasma wanpe etu hotnep
7. Alamblak: yima yohtti tir hosfi hosfirpat
8. Nahuatl: cem-pöhualli-om-mahtlactli-om-ëyi
9. Malagasy: telo amby telopolo
10. Yoruba: metalelogbon
11. Welsh (Traditional): tri ar ddeg ar hugain
12. Breton: tri / teir ha tregont
13. Manx: tree-jeig as feed
14. Scots Gaelic: trì deug air fhichead
15. Georgian: otsdatsamet’i
16. Danish: treogtredive
17. Javanese: telung puluh telu
18. Latin: tr?gint? tr?s
19. French: trente-trois
20. Zulu: amashumi amathathu nantathu
21. Basque: hogei ta hamairu
22. Arabic: thalâthata wa thalâthûn (masculine), thalâth wa thalâthûn (feminine)
23. Ganda: amakumi asatu mu ssatu
24. Maltese: tlieta u tletin
25. Assyrian: klaay-‘td’laa
26. Kurmanji: sî û sisê
27. Dutch: drieendertig
28. German: dreiunddreißig
29. Swahili: thelathini na tatu
30. Ojibwa: nisimidana ashi niswi
31. Italian: trentatré
32. Spanish: treinta y tres
33. Swiss French: trente-trois
34. Tigrinya: selasan-selesten
35. Turkish: otuz üç
36. Balkan Romani: tránda-te-trin
37. Hungarian: harminchárom
38. Tagalog: tatlumpu’t tatlo
39. Polari: trey dacha and trey
40. Scots: thertie three
41. English: thirty-three
42. Norwegian: trettitre
43. Swedish: trettiotre
44. Sukuma: makumiadatu na idatu
45. Hawaiian: kanakoluk?m?kolu
46. Finnish: kolmekymmentäkolme
47. Estonian: kolmkümmend kolm
48. Romanian: treizeci ?i trei
49. Ancient Japanese: misodi amari mitu (ancient), misoji amari mittsu (modern)
50. Kiribati: tenibwi ma tenua
51. Wolof: ñetta fukka ak ñetta
52. Croatian: trideset-tri
53. Seneca: së niwashê së
54. Indonesian: tiga puluh tiga
55. Mandinka: ta? saba ni? saba
56. Wu Chinese: ??? sezhekse
57. Tok Pisin: tripela ten tri
58. Vietnamese: ba mu’o’i ba
59. Igbo: iri ato. na ato.
60. Thai: s?hm sìp s?hm
61. Welsh (Modern): tri deg tri
62. Aymara: kimsa-tunka-kimsani
63. Cuzco Quechua: kinsa chunka kinsa-yoq
64. Chinook Wawa: klone tahtlum pe klone
65. Mandarin: ??? s?nshi s?n
66. Japanese: ??? sanjû san
67. Cantonese: ??? saam¹sap⁶saam¹ (Cantonese has six tones, and they are given by numbers after syllables. The tone number means: 1 – high level, 2 – high rising, 3 – middle level, 4 – low falling, 5 – low rising, and 6 – low level.)
68. Esperanto: tridek tri
69. Tongan: tolu tolu

Blogger Gene Smith has a list of 33 things on his blog, Atomiq.

The Tr?yastri??a, or the Heaven of Thirty Three Gods, is referenced in Buddhist Cosmology.

Today is World Vegan Day, the Day of the Dead (Día de Los Muertos), Samhain Day, and All Saints’ Day.

Can you guess anything else about this day?