"art can't just be a rear-view mirror, it also has to have a headlight out there, pointing to where we need to go"
apparently he likes jay-z's american gangster... take that chuck d! (who i recently saw, and was talking shit on jay-z... mad respect for both of em, btw...)
my sister, a sophomore in high school, pretty much summed it up here. from the post "say to yourself, "i can survive anything for an hour and a half" because you can... ... define everything yourself... ...life is too crazy, too unpredictable, too significant and insignificant to take too seriously"
i'm a white male of upper-middle class background. i've noticed this has some perks. so have the lolcats. based on peggy mcintosh's "invisible knapsack".
don't miss the end.
via daily kos coverage of obama's huge poll gains.
these appear to be among my most listened to songs in itunes. i haven't always kept track, so i'm not sure how far back this is accurate (probably only a year or two) but i find a certain theme among them. i can't describe it, but perhaps you could hear it...
(mp3) the cocteau twins - "throughout the dark months of april and may" from "victorialand" i don't even listen to this group beyond this tune... several albums i heard bored me to tears. this song is a beauty though, even with the indecipherable lyrics...
(mp3) nass marrakech - "yo mala" from "sabil 'a salaam" my gangsta rapper friend digs this one. beautiful tune with unearthly (earthy?) percussion. very mellow, and drops in the krakeb after many minutes...
(mp3) burnt friedman & the nu dub players feat. patrice - "life is worth dying for" from "can't cool" i can't sing the praise of this tune enough. if you only download two, this is one of them. the best track by burnt or patrice, and has a catastrophic bass drops each time before the chorus. absolutely tremendous production quality, relevant vocals, creative execution.
(mp3) dudley perkins - "falling" from "a lil' light" (produced by madlib) not really a rap tune, but then dudley is not really a rapper, he's more a poet, a singer, a prophet, a stoner. true words, dope beat.
(mp3) capleton - "stand tall" from "more fire" i played this album like crazy up until i found out capleton was wicked homophobic... apparently i still play this track, and apparently capleton has signed some pledge to be nice to gays...
(mp3) donovan - "the river song" from "hurdy gurdy man" i'm a bit biased because my son's name is river, but i find this to be the best donovan tune, and quite beautiful. i like the way he says"over rock and stone"... it's cute, in a scottish sort of way...
(mp3) dj vadim feat. diane - "they say" from "the soundcatcher" cool housey tune with middle eastern percussion, indian vocal samples, and diane spitting some true shit.
(mp3) delroy wilson - "better must come" from "better must come" classic reggae tune. huge organs. great singing.
this next recording is beyond music:
it's spirit. please take the time to read the short bio here to understand what forward kwenda is doing in this piece. it was recorded in 1999 on a mountain top in a nature reserve of zimbabwe.
(mp3) forward kwenda - "23 minute excerpt from an mbira spirit ceremony - tadzungaira & gonamombe rerume" from "ellipsis arts - trance 3"
UPDATE: fixed broken link all tracks.
this interview (from the intelligent, anarchist, infoshop news) with derrick jensen had some good chewables in it. he used the term "paper revolutionary" to describe himself and others, theorists, etc... i can't find any other uses of it on google, but it's a good term. i didn't finish "a language older than words" but it was a great mix of violent memoir, eco-critique and nature oddities. laura and i get a lot of use out of his ten rules of writing from "walking on water: reading, writing, and revolution". (which mumia abu-jamal calls "almost brutal in it's honesty) four of the rules are "don't bore the reader", but the one that sticks with me is "you want the reader to be thinking about what you want them thinking about and not what you don't want them thinking about" there is some grey area there, but i don't think jensen misses that...
this quote is from the interview: "I got interviewed for Green Anarchy a few years ago. And the way I started the interview they asked me if I’m a green anarchist and I said “you know? I don’t give a shit. If you want to call me that that’s great, but what I really care about is living in a world that has wild salmon, and living in a world that has no dioxin in a mothers breast milk, a world that has icecaps, whatever, and if that makes me a green anarchist, great, if it makes me not a green anarchist, great.” It’s the same with anarchism ... I have problems with labels anyway. I mean it took me years before I’d call myself a writer. People would say “what are you” and I’d say “I’m a person” and that felt really precious to me. So yeah, I’m a writer, I’m an anarchist, I’m an anarcho-primitivist, whatever you want to call me, whatever, but then I’m a capitalist for that matter; I mean I sell books, I have a little publishing company. So yeah I’m a capitalist and damn proud of it. Whatever."
also, jensen uses the same booking service as m1 from dead prez, the institute for applied autonomy and the beehive design collective, all of which deserve their own post some time...
there is an explanation in the comments here, but try and figure it out first...
switch heads on some of these links, people...
sometimes spin can backfire. (RE: obama's "bitter" comment)
wind powered mobile sculptures. (beautiful theo jansen work)
news about america imported. (international news sees u.s.)
ten beautiful indian roads. (yes india, not "indians")
favorite world music blog. (flamenco, sufi, asian albums)
incredible piano scale resource. (i like "double harmonic")
lloyd kahn, "shelter" writer. (posting book scans soon!)
bendy and flexy images. (kid dances for laughs)
clear-cutting hidden from the road. we aren't permitted to see the devastation we do. reminds me of the $15,000 matching grant the (inaccurately named) "friendship development association will give in my neighborhood of pittsburgh. they only award it for facade work! not for greening your building, not for repairing necessary utilities, just for making the neighborhood more inviting to corporations or white, upper-class "artists". anyway, here is an appropriately titled (and beautiful, but appropriately somber) philip glass tune:
(mp3) philip glass - "facades" from "glassworks"
btw, for those that know me, this would be obvious, but... i'm almost impenetrably optimistic. i'm having a great time while writing this, oddly enough. but the picture did piss me off.
this video from the movie "crossing the bridge" - the sound of istanbul inspired me to pull out my father's old clarinet. after some help from laura's parents, who are visiting, i was able to get some of the lower register. anyway, watch the video, especially note the kiss at 57 seconds, and the oud playing later on when someone (in turkish) explains that the term flamenco came from "flamo mengue". istanbul was great when we visited. the secular turks are a blast. this photo is laura in front of a huge pillar in the blue mosque.
also, not to be missed... selda. psychedelic anatolian protest funk from turkey's joan baez? these two tracks are from this record from the awesome finders keepers records. i really want this other album, but haven't poneyed up yet. i wonder where that phrase comes from? anyway, selda... wow. loop-mining here people...
(mp3) selda - "yaz gazeteci yaz"
(mp3) selda - "karaoglan"
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