randomly catching an interview with Dr. Maté back in the spring of 2010 totally changed my life. if it wasn't for the good doctor's insightful words i never would have began the introspective psilocybin based summer benders that helped me deal with all of the personal emotional turmoil that the past 2 years have introduced to my generally healthy psyche. beginning to independently dissect my own history has been unbelievably liberating & helpful. the general population being either thoughtful or mindless sheep are lost in the age of consumer capitalism. people need to engage some serious introspection to better understand the true mechanics of how we make decisions, the basis for the ways we interact with the outside world, why we mistreat ourselves & others.
perhaps working as a preschool teacher has colored my opinions on the way that we raise our children in the modern world...but it actually kinda seems to have just reinforced many of my previously held beliefs...(in fact one of the craziest things is the link between why i am crazy & work as a caregiver!)
Friday, December 24, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The New Jim Crow
both of the 2 parts of legal scholar, author, & seemingly all around lovely & thoughtful person Michelle Alexander's democracy now interview discussing how her book delves into the new age of legal institutional discrimination...aka america's new caste system [notice its caste not class...there is no escaping your caste]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
SPLIT (The New International Co-Op Compilation)
so apparently i work so hard that i somehow forgot that this compilation was coming out! its a little something from my german friends over @ stigae music put together with 2 other netlabels [Another Chance Records from Espana & CUNTROLL based out of Russia].
in the spirit of workaholism i'm posting this link without having listened to any of the songs (except the 3 that are mine of course!),but i'm almost positive that my experimental european musical contemporaries can keep it groovin...
please feel encouraged to let me know if my assumption is correct
in the spirit of workaholism i'm posting this link without having listened to any of the songs (except the 3 that are mine of course!),but i'm almost positive that my experimental european musical contemporaries can keep it groovin...
please feel encouraged to let me know if my assumption is correct
H o m a g e
ok, so i am not a salesman or a corporate stooge, but since Image-Line's FL Studio software has been one of the best things in my life for the past 6 or 7 years i figured that i would give them a shout & people reading my blog a link to how i make musical madness...+ you know you might as well buy the full, legal, stable version.
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Best Skater EVER!
marc johnson is my favorite skater. i just saw yeah right! & this guy murders everything!
literally the cleanest rider that i have ever seen. of course i'm no skate video fiend, but i know that mj is a bad motherfucker.
enjoy!
Saturday, August 21, 2010
LIVE!!! from Albany Park...The New Band
in case you've been wondering what mr. daylight has been up to this summer dig this live clip from the new band
Saturday, July 3, 2010
New World Water
big maude barlow keeps it hella real & really scary with some ridiculously ominous statistics about the current & future state of the global food & water systems.
when the chickens really come home to roost we're all gonna wish that our problems were as easily solved as the ones characters face in Dystopic, post-apocalyptic movies like mad max.
Maude Barlow heads the Council of Canadians which is Canada’s largest public advocacy organization. She’s also founder of the Blue Planet Project. This is a part of what she had to say @ Toronto's Messy Hall in opposition to the g20 summit
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Live from the Frontlines of the End of the World
this may be the most honest & insightful piece about bp gulf coast disaster that anyone has produced so far.
the 1st interview is with a member of the u.s. coast guard & its difficult to tell if he's just being candid because he's caught off guard by the questions or if he's simply naive. either way his honest explanations are welcome & definitely more than a bit upsetting.
the real meat of this piece is mr. dean blanchard, a resident of louisana's gulf coast & the owner of the largest shrimp business in the area. dean is incredibly knowledgeable & agonizingly honest. this man is hitting us with the realest of talk & he desperately deserves to be heard.
it always seems that every mainstream news outlet reports this story as some sort of semi-tragic novelty about bp's ineptitude at capping the oil well instead of seriously discussing the vast destruction & dealing with the fact that this is one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in human history. comparable environmental destruction has occurred in the past, but those disasters only laid the groundwork of oceanic sickness that bp is turning into a plague.
the 1st interview is with a member of the u.s. coast guard & its difficult to tell if he's just being candid because he's caught off guard by the questions or if he's simply naive. either way his honest explanations are welcome & definitely more than a bit upsetting.
the real meat of this piece is mr. dean blanchard, a resident of louisana's gulf coast & the owner of the largest shrimp business in the area. dean is incredibly knowledgeable & agonizingly honest. this man is hitting us with the realest of talk & he desperately deserves to be heard.
it always seems that every mainstream news outlet reports this story as some sort of semi-tragic novelty about bp's ineptitude at capping the oil well instead of seriously discussing the vast destruction & dealing with the fact that this is one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in human history. comparable environmental destruction has occurred in the past, but those disasters only laid the groundwork of oceanic sickness that bp is turning into a plague.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Jamie Lidell "Rope of Sand" music video
a lil bit mo painfully beautiful soul music from jamie lidell
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
M E X I C O
if i ever have a bit of "free time" i'll be sure to share some of my thoughts on mexico...until then drink in the unbridaled thoughtfulness & old school journalist masculinity that is charles bowden as he breaks down the bloodshed, drug cartels, & international governmental ineptitude going down in Murder City aka Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Just In Case You're An Idiot
& haven't been paying attention to the dramatic changes in weather patterns that have been taking place throughout your lifetime there's a new quantitative scientific study that will spoon feed you the facts about how hot its been getting.
in fact its been so hot that the last 10 years have been the warmest ever recorded!
its been so hot that the temperature of the globe has increased 1.5 degrees F since 1880!*
the title links you to the article on science daily, but you can also get more info via the new york times & democracy now [for all of you that need another reference for the research paper you're citing my blog in!]...here a preview of the ny times article by leslie kaufman:
"The finding by the association, a United Nations agency, corroborates research by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which has already said that its measurements show that the period from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since modern instrumental recording of temperatures began in the 1850s."
we're all doomed!-)
*in the 1980's the data said that @ least 3 of the hottest years in recorded history were in the 1980's...in the 1990's the data said that @ least 5 of the hottest years in recorded history were in the 1990's...its a shame that many people do not appear to appreciate the realities of our lifetime
in fact its been so hot that the last 10 years have been the warmest ever recorded!
its been so hot that the temperature of the globe has increased 1.5 degrees F since 1880!*
the title links you to the article on science daily, but you can also get more info via the new york times & democracy now [for all of you that need another reference for the research paper you're citing my blog in!]...here a preview of the ny times article by leslie kaufman:
"The finding by the association, a United Nations agency, corroborates research by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which has already said that its measurements show that the period from 2000 to 2009 was the warmest since modern instrumental recording of temperatures began in the 1850s."
we're all doomed!-)
*in the 1980's the data said that @ least 3 of the hottest years in recorded history were in the 1980's...in the 1990's the data said that @ least 5 of the hottest years in recorded history were in the 1990's...its a shame that many people do not appear to appreciate the realities of our lifetime
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Inappropriate Music [live aware mix] by blackdaylight
so what's going on with all of these new blackdaylight songs?
they are purposefully crazy, but i think that somewhere along the way i lost control of the wheel & the music has just been doing its thing without me.
it feels almost unfamiliar yet completely enriching...like i'm on the cusp of really tapping into some sort of artistic self actualizing action!
its like how visual artists & the tao te ching describe the feeling of not doing anything & simply allowing the process to happen.
its dangerous because its totally uncertain.
i keep thinking that i would never listen to any of this music unless it was by someone that was known for doing a specific style & this sound was a definite departure from the expected. i keep thinking that...& now i realize that's exactly what's going on with me [but i am completely divorced from most people's artistic radars so its not really the same]...
del says something like: "but music is there without you or me we just manipulate for better or worse..." & that's one of the most eloquent descriptions of what the new songs have been like.*
~dammit! now i feel anxious about sounding pretentious on a blog that no one really reads any way...ha!
art. life. tragedy. comedy.
*...here's the entire last verse that i was attempting to quote: from deltron 3030's "madness":
Simple minded people always poin't the finger
To bring it to a close as if life is their role, their path
When all paths are intersections
It all depends on the persons perception
When I'm mad as fuck you get shot
& To some its bad luck
I believe you held something back for too long
It grew strong
And enegy has its own will
And people think they make music still
But music is there with out you or me we just manipulate
For better or worse so let it situate
I get to make records and dough
Paid out the ass hole
And still seen as another face on the totem pole
Conquer, my sponsors are monsters
And everybody thinks that I owe them one
I'm glad I love music and life
cuz it's easy to see the pain and strife and end it all tonight
I'm caught in the grip of the city . . . M a d n e s s
del says something like: "but music is there without you or me we just manipulate for better or worse..." & that's one of the most eloquent descriptions of what the new songs have been like.*
~dammit! now i feel anxious about sounding pretentious on a blog that no one really reads any way...ha!
art. life. tragedy. comedy.
*...here's the entire last verse that i was attempting to quote: from deltron 3030's "madness":
Simple minded people always poin't the finger
To bring it to a close as if life is their role, their path
When all paths are intersections
It all depends on the persons perception
When I'm mad as fuck you get shot
& To some its bad luck
I believe you held something back for too long
It grew strong
And enegy has its own will
And people think they make music still
But music is there with out you or me we just manipulate
For better or worse so let it situate
I get to make records and dough
Paid out the ass hole
And still seen as another face on the totem pole
Conquer, my sponsors are monsters
And everybody thinks that I owe them one
I'm glad I love music and life
cuz it's easy to see the pain and strife and end it all tonight
I'm caught in the grip of the city . . . M a d n e s s
Devolutionized [live] by blackdaylight
something i just began on a work-a-holic style bender...straight from my mind to the world...aaahhh, the delight of internet cross-self-referencing!
eliminated limitations [live beta version] by blackdaylight
upon repeated spins i am quite proud of this song & all the other noisy , high bpm pieces that i've been slinging together in a recent fit of deconstruction-ism...
deconstruction with these audio sketches is not explicitly a dismantling of the structure of a my style, but instead simply a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. the 2010 songs have appeared fast & hard. they're primitive & crazy & challenging & they have really grown on me.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Inequities Like A Motherfucker
THE FACTS:
*$* For every dollar of wealth owned by the typical white family, the typical family of color owns only 16 cents. And for single women of color, the wealth gap is far wider.
*$* Nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth, meaning their debts exceed all their assets. The median wealth for single black women is only $100; for single Hispanic women, $120. This compares to just over $41,000 for single white women. About a third of single Hispanic women and one-fourth of single black women have no checking or savings account.
*$* Today there are more African Americans under correctional control, whether in prison or jail, on probation or on parole, than there were enslaved in 1850. And more African American men are disenfranchised now because of felon disenfranchisement laws than in 1870
THE EDITORIAL: unrealisticly flowery speeches about sticking together & bootstrap economics fall on deaf ears in the face of the myriad of legal discriminatory practices employed by nearly all u.s. institutions. in an age where employees are subjected to credit checks for lower-middle class jobs the people must advocate for themselves.
in the episode of democracy now below amy goodman & juan gonzalez dive deep into the ever widening wealth gap in the u.s. & discuss the symptoms & solutions with Mariko Lin Chang, chief author of the study “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America’s Future”, C. Nicole Mason, Executive Director of the Women of Color Policy Network at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service @ NYU, & Michelle Alexander, author of the new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
dig what these sisters have to say about what is essentially 21st jim crowism & check out the full study to digest all of the other facts & figures @ Insight Center for Community Economic Development
i even took the time to embed the videos into smaller chunks for all you cyber wisdom seekers on the go
& here's a lil somethin' about what happened to ACORN one of the unfortunately few organizations that work to end poverty in a real way
remember if money is the root, then poverty is the handmaid of oppression. the modern caste/class systems must end if anyone wants even an illusion of security & freedom.
fight back
*$* For every dollar of wealth owned by the typical white family, the typical family of color owns only 16 cents. And for single women of color, the wealth gap is far wider.
*$* Nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth, meaning their debts exceed all their assets. The median wealth for single black women is only $100; for single Hispanic women, $120. This compares to just over $41,000 for single white women. About a third of single Hispanic women and one-fourth of single black women have no checking or savings account.
*$* Today there are more African Americans under correctional control, whether in prison or jail, on probation or on parole, than there were enslaved in 1850. And more African American men are disenfranchised now because of felon disenfranchisement laws than in 1870
THE EDITORIAL: unrealisticly flowery speeches about sticking together & bootstrap economics fall on deaf ears in the face of the myriad of legal discriminatory practices employed by nearly all u.s. institutions. in an age where employees are subjected to credit checks for lower-middle class jobs the people must advocate for themselves.
in the episode of democracy now below amy goodman & juan gonzalez dive deep into the ever widening wealth gap in the u.s. & discuss the symptoms & solutions with Mariko Lin Chang, chief author of the study “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America’s Future”, C. Nicole Mason, Executive Director of the Women of Color Policy Network at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service @ NYU, & Michelle Alexander, author of the new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
dig what these sisters have to say about what is essentially 21st jim crowism & check out the full study to digest all of the other facts & figures @ Insight Center for Community Economic Development
i even took the time to embed the videos into smaller chunks for all you cyber wisdom seekers on the go
& here's a lil somethin' about what happened to ACORN one of the unfortunately few organizations that work to end poverty in a real way
remember if money is the root, then poverty is the handmaid of oppression. the modern caste/class systems must end if anyone wants even an illusion of security & freedom.
fight back
Friday, February 26, 2010
blackdaylight: raw & uncut
this is one of the 1st dj mixes i recorded using the hercules rmx console. as the title implies it is a very raw blend of mostly live & unreleased instrumentals...enjoy!
Monday, February 15, 2010
D O O M
we're all doomed.
surviving 2009 definitely cemented this uncomfortably obvious fact in the forefront of my sphere of being.
its not pessimistic. it is freeing. i think it was voltaire who said: "to the thoughtful mind life is comedy to the confused mind life is tragedy" but i'm not sure it was him & even if it was that particular heavily quoted dead white man i'm fairly sure that i paraphrased the actual quote.
anyway i like give up because i have my head in the clouds & heart in the gutter [perhaps an errant j* davey quote] so for all of you that share this gift/affliction i present the art of give up
A Blast From The Past: Brother West Says...
definitely not kanye for those that were hoping for some neo hip hop assholery. this is a clip of Dr. Cornell West from way back in september of 2009 discussing the release of his long-awaited memoir, “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud”.
there was definitely something specific about this interview that made me bookmark it & save it for all these months. what it is i cannot remember, but i'm sure it gave me a quantum of solace during a very difficult personal adjustment period. if nothing else its worth watching for Dr. West's delightfully thoughtful pontifications on life
there was definitely something specific about this interview that made me bookmark it & save it for all these months. what it is i cannot remember, but i'm sure it gave me a quantum of solace during a very difficult personal adjustment period. if nothing else its worth watching for Dr. West's delightfully thoughtful pontifications on life
its been a long time......
i shoulda left you with some deeper thoughts to sift through.
its no secret that 2009 the worst year of my life. for a myriad of reasons 09 was so inexplicably awful that it stifled me creatively & almost made me completely disappear from the scene.
many months & one album later i've returned to the horus set with new personal revelations that were very randomly spurred by Dr. Gabor Maté in his democracy now interview from this morning...the monday after valentine's day 2010...perhaps the good doctor's perspective will further enlighten some of you as well
its no secret that 2009 the worst year of my life. for a myriad of reasons 09 was so inexplicably awful that it stifled me creatively & almost made me completely disappear from the scene.
many months & one album later i've returned to the horus set with new personal revelations that were very randomly spurred by Dr. Gabor Maté in his democracy now interview from this morning...the monday after valentine's day 2010...perhaps the good doctor's perspective will further enlighten some of you as well
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