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Uncle Kamu

Oi Niho Ka La....Brownskin Son of Makaha

About Me

34 y.o. soul survivor straight outta Deepest Darkest Makaha Valley (Mak Val, nukka!). Now residing in the cushy hills of affluent Manoa Valley (Man Val) while I get my masters in Urban and Regional Planning, hoping all the while that my ghetto pass wont get revoked. Undergrad in Hawaiian Studies so gohead with that wack shit, crakker!

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My Interests

Everytin...Hawaiian Culture, Thought Provoking Music , Thought provoking lit, running and swimming, zen meditation and yoga, health food and awa, planning and community economic development theory, and so on and so forth. Oh yeah, and beer. and football.

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Music:

Top Albums- Spring Arises: ---Mia Doi Todd- All of her stuff--- Jose Gonzalez- In Our Nature--- Beat Conducta: Vol.1 and 2--- Savath & Savalas/Prefuse 73: All--- Jean Grae: Attack of the Attacking Things--- Damon Aaron: Ballast--- Mataji Booker: Songs--- M.I.A.: Kala,---- Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk. If You Are Feeling Sinister. Push Barman to Open Old Wounds. Yesterday's New Quintet: Yesterday's Universe Bjork: Medulla Mum: Finally We Are No One The Evens: Get Even Sufan Stevens: Seven Swans Songs Ohia: Ghost Tropics Coil: "Time Machines" Thighpaulsandra: "Double Vulgar" COH: "Above Air"........................................................ ....Recent Faves: Black Sun Productions "Opperata Amorale", Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions "Bravarian FruitBread", "Game Theory" The Roots; Prince Billy "The Letting Go", Living With Osuwu and Hannibal; Bitches Brew era Miles Davis, Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat", Nico "The End", Current 93 "Black Ships Ate the Sky", Six Organs of Admittance "School of the Flower", Sun O))) "Black One", OM "Variations on a Theme", Trinity Roots "True", Bim Sherman "Miracle", Nurse With Wound "Songs for Lilitu", The Grey Album, Common "Be", Halau o Kekuhi "Uwolani", Krishna Das "Door of Faith", Lupe Fiasco's mixtapes, Kekuhi Kanahele "Kekuhi", Unoffical 9th wonder beats tape, Iron and Wine "Woman King", Fela Kuti "OMOO"............Permanemt Faves: Country Comfort. Gabby. War. Billy Holiday. Coltrane. George Helm. Big Island Conspiricy live...Peace to the new wave of Hawaiian Music: Kupa ..Aina, Kamau, Moemoea and da Kelli Heath/Tiffa Cruz/Candy Dias trifecta...go rip those culturally bankrupt, sellout, ig'nant "Jahwaiian" monkeys a new bleeding asshole.....mspmb src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t5rNWWKCoZk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash

Movies:

Best films seen this month:"Darjeeling Limited", "The Fountain", "Mary Antoinette", "The Royal Tannenbaums", "The Science of Sleep", "Maya Dern's Collected Works". ........................................................ Fav's anything Kurosawa, Steve McQueen

Television:

The drug of the nation, feeding ignorance and spreading radiation. College sports (footballs almost done. sob.) Sunday night cartoons. Futbol. Mcneil News Report. sbout it.

Books:

Currently Reading/Read: The Fall (Albert Camus), Ka Mooleleo o Hiiakaikapoliopele [Ma ka olelo Hawaii!! Kepakepa no ko..u olelo Hawaii :( ], Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard), The Collected Plays of Oscar Wilde, A Flash of Lightning in the Darkness of Light (Dalai Lama), The Magus of Strovolos. ............................................................ ....Recent Faves: History of Magick; Zen Training Principles; Book of Lies; In the Skin of a Lion; The Khazaki Dictionary; Riding with the Lions; The Buddhist I-Ching; The Complete Works of William Blake; Wind in the Willows; The Last Man by Camus; Holy Blood, Holy Grail; Ursula LeGuin's "The Earth Sea Chronicles". Jack Kerouac's "Desolation Angels". The Prophet. Umberto Eco's "The Island of the Day Before". Hunter S. Thompson's "The Great Sharkhunt", Cormac Mccarthy's "Blood Meridian", "Suttree" and "The Crossing". Joe Hadleman's "The Guardian" and "Forever Peace", Tolkeins "Unfinished Tales", Arthus Machen's "Hill of Dreams"and the collected poems of Gary Snyder. Like good non-fiction like Autobio of Gandhi, Natural Capitalism, Ruling Chiefs and the Art of War

Heroes:

Moms and Pops, My Younger Brothers, Grans and Gramps, My Peers, My Dear Friend Melissa Rose Berona and the whole Berona family, George Helm, Aukelenuiaiku, Umi, Lili..uokalanai, Robert Wilcox, Boki, Liliha, Kekuaokalanai and his wahine, Maui, Pele and Hi..iaka, Che, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Arthur Ashe, Ian McKaye, Gary Snyder and the Buddha are but a few of many.

My Blog

16 days till........

(click link, suckaz)http://www.amazon.com/Gea/dp/B0013FMLQ2/ref=sr_f3_5?i e=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1203225861&sr=103-5*lights candle, pours self cup of wine*...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:43:00 PST

Hands down the funniest shit I have read this new year--- Read up folx

World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud AhmadinejadGENEVAIn what observers are calling an unprecedented opportunity for the international community to express its grievances against Iran's controversia...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:55:00 PST

Music Survey.... Good stuff.

..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>..>Songs In The Key Of Life (Childhood-Adulthood)Song You Believe Your Parents Conceived You To:some type of vocal jazz that is on late night radio Song...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:01:00 PST

Fuck being an extra in someone elses play...

i believe that everyone has within them a story that could be the material for a timeless classic. Not to sound like a Hallmark add or anything. But truly, our lives have stories that would fill the s...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:23:00 PST

The Death of a (Real Estate) Salesman

I just read an article about the housing market "cooling" down here, and it made  me feel a bit, how shall I say, psychopathic. Here's why. Land, in a place that has extremely finite resources an...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:43:00 PST

China-Huna-Moku

Rare Mirage Lasts for 4 Hours off East China Shore     2006-05-07 19:57:23      Xinhua (A mirage appears off the shore of Penglai City in ...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Wed, 10 May 2006 01:57:00 PST

Talking with Paikea....

Taken from: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=40030 # Whales Have Their Own Syntax That Uses Sound Units To Build Phrases That Can Be CombinedThe songs of the humpback whale are am...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:57:00 PST

Death to the bored

I see and hear people use the term "I'm bored" with depressing frequency recently.  It is indicitive of the throw away culture that we currently find ourselves in that fosters this. Too much rubb...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:25:00 PST

Natural Capitalism

Need hope? Read this book on this website and incorporate it into your daily life. Then tell someone to do the same.  It is the work of environmentalist Paul Hawkins and it is a logical, doable a...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:30:00 PST

Where is Harrison Ford when you need him.

    Phillip K. Dick is missing   This file photo shows a reporter with Russian TV's Channel 1 interviewing an android version of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick at the NextFest ...
Posted by Uncle Kamu on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:21:00 PST