Real Talk with Dr. Gabor Maté

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!)

the 2010 release: blackdalyight - LOST

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]

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

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.

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!

Scarlet Monk & Her Orchestra featuring blackdaylight on beatbox LIVE! @ The Albany Park Art Festival in Chicago

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

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

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.

clean energy now or there will literally be no tomorrow