The world, politics...beauty in unexpected places....music, writing, photography, and painting...I love them equally...(but I'm a painter only....)
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." — Noam Chomsky
I read somewhere;
"The people shouldn't fear the Government, the Government should fear the people..."
Zach De La Rocha...
Music:
Amy Winehouse, Erykah Badu, Sade, Billie Holiday, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Portishead, Skye, Beth Gibbons, Tricky, Thievery Corp, Tracy McMillan, Maria Calderon, Dos, Firehose, The Minutemen, & Mike Watt, Fishbone, Rage Against the Machine, Zach de la Rocha, The Nightwatchmen, Bob Forrest & Theloneous Monster, Concrete Blonde & Jonette Napolitano, Perry & Satellite Party, Janes Addiction, X, & John Doe, The Knitters, Hope Sandeval & Mazzy Star,Pegy Gaile, The 'Chili Peppers, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Miles Davis, Mozart at Midnight.....
This video is Mike Watt w/Dave G on drums, Pat Smear & Eddie V... Jane's Addiction's Stop Bob Forrest recently; Cereal SongThelonious Monster's Try video
Movies:
The movie "V"....
Amy Winehouse's "Rehab"
Motorcycle Diaries, Basquiat, We Jam Econo (Minutemen) Documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Downtown 81, Born Into This (Bukowski), Gordon Parks' Half Past Autumn, Barfly, Repo Man, Factotum, Snatch, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Borat...silly comedies...
Television:
The Henry Rollins show, Rome, Deadwood, The Wire, Charlie Rose, Iconoclasts, Tequila TV, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report...
Books:
Ham on Rye by Bukowski, (also Hollywood, Pulp, Post Office, Women, well, all his novels), On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, (the classics)...bios of artists, musicians, & just plain hero's; Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, Gordon Parks Half Past Autumn, Basquiat by Phoebe Hoban, , Ernesto "Che" Guevara's final Bolivian Diary...
Here is a brilliant speech by Barack Obama during the 2004 Dem National Convention
Heroes:
Danny, who still keeps me laughing. My family... and then there's Zapatista Comandante Ramona, Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Charles Bukowski, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos, Gordon Parks, Al Gore & everything green...
***This is what we don't know is happening at the border...
