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!
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