All interesting, I assure you.
Do you ever wonder what you did to deserve being placed amongst so many people who have their heads up their asses? Is it a breakdown in perception on your own part or are people really that blanked out in the head that they drive down the road sucking on a lattee in a 3 ton SUV while yapping on a telephone about the newest thing Kanye West said.
I'm blown away at how sucked into the media we are. The irony is that I'm writing about this here of all places. I guess that if I put it onto a piece of paper somewhere, it would have absolutely zero chance of being read.
Is anyone else out there a little concerned about these things? Am I being freakishly obsessed?
I'd like to meet:
And I want to shake the hand of the woman who wrote this:
I watched from my window, not on television, as the twin towers fell. As shocked as I was, I felt that this was not my problem as a black person. The people who worked at the World Trade Center were mostly white men, and so they had nothing to do with me as a black woman.
When there was an outpouring of grief and donations from every corner of the United States, I said to myself, If those planes had flown into a housing project and the victims were poor blacks and Latinos, people in Missouri wouldn't give a damn. When I heard that there had been over $1 billion in private donations, I asked myself where was this money before? Why hadn't it been donated to help the homeless, children who do not have access to an education, people who do not have access to healthcare? Here we have people rushing to write checks to people whose families will be taken care of by insurance or their employers.
To me, 9/11 was just another example of the American paradigm of deservedness and white entitlement. We are not all Americans; the white investment banker, the white fireman, the white police officer, the white EMT, they are Americans.
-- Name withheld
Music:
good music exists in pockets. tampa is not really one of those places, all we have here is death metal and top 40s bands. I miss texas for that very reason.
musical diversity has been in death throes since the Mtv mentality took hold. Clear Channel, Cox, the RIAA, Mtv, Fuse... they all exist to force feed us crap, telling us what's next. Beware indie rockers, emo kids... you are next.
i hate labeling music in categories smaller than rock and roll, jazz, blues, hip-hop, electronic... you get the idea. i dig on more lyrically creative bands and groups with innovative ideas. music is life; it connects us and divides us and when it is good enough, conquers us.
. Aesop Rock
. Afghan Whigs
. Amon Tobin
. Ambulance Ltd.
. Animal Collective
. The Aphex Twin
. The Arcade Fire
. Archers of Loaf
. Augustus Pablo
. Autechre
. Beans
. Lurie Bell
. Black Heart Procession
. The Black Keys
. BLO
. Blonde Redhead
. Boards of Canada
. Breeders
. Buddy Guy
. Built to Spill
. Clouddead
. The Butthole Surfers
.
. Calexico
. Calla
. Johnny Cash
. The Chantells
. Cibo Mato
. John Coltrane
. Compay Segundo
. Crooked Fingers
. Cymande
. Miles Davis
. Death From Above 1979
. Doctor Octagon
. Duke Ellington
. Earl Hooker
. Estrella 20/20
. Faceless Werewolves
. The Flaming Lips
. Gescom
. Gogol Bordello
. Gorillaz
. Gospel Swingers
. Groceries
. Guided By Voices
. The Helio Sequence
. The Hot Snakes
. Howlin' Wolf
. Ibrahim Ferrer
. Interpol
. Jane's Addiction
. Joao Gilberto
. John Spencer Blues Explosion
. Kahimi Karie
. The Kills
. King Crimson
. The Kodiaks
. L7
. Led Zeppelin
. Luna
. Steven Malkmus
. Mandarin
. Massive Attack
. Meat Beat Manifesto
. The Melvins
. Modeski, Martin and Wood
. Wes Montgomery
. Mr. Lif
. Muddy Waters
. Gilberto Oliva
. Patato
. Pavement
. Pixies
. Prefuse73
. Peaches
. The Pillows
. Richie Hawtin/Plastikman
. Riddle of Steel
. RJD2
. R.L. Burnside
. Robson Miguel
. The Roots
. Santana
. Shpongle
. Sigur Ros
. Sleater Kinney
. Son Volt
. Sonic Youth
. Sparklehorse
. Squarepusher
. The Sparrows
. Strapped
. The Sugarcubes
. Sub Oslo
. Ted Leo and the Pharmacysts
. This Damn Town
. Tortoise
. Toshack Highway
. Twilight Circus Dub Sound System
. The Velvet Underground
. TV on the Radio
. Violent Femmes
. Yeti
. Ween
. Wilco
Movies:
Cheesy kung fu. Kurosawa flicks. Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Evil Dead series, Bowling for Columbine, Raising Arizona, School of Rock, Better Off Dead, Buena Vista Social Club, Black Orpheus, Ringu, Dune, Monty Python, A Better Tomorrow, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Better Luck Tomorrow, Jackie Chan, Kill Bill, Lost in Translation,Zatoichi, The Big Lebowski,Bob Roberts, George Romero's "Dead" movies, Eddie Izzard, The Life Aquatic, One Upon a Time in the West (1969, Bronson)
Books:
The Baroque Cycle, Lord of the Rings, Journey to the West, Lovecraft, Sandman, Neuromancer, Beowulf, Frank Herbert's Dune series, Cryptonomicon, Tao Te Ching, A Brief History of Time, Saul Williams, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Neitzsche, Siddhartha, Fehrenheit 451, Salvatore, Brian Green -- The Elegant Universe, Chuang Tse, Alan Watts, Benjamin Hoff, Douglas Adams, David Sedaris, Robert Heinlein
Heroes:
Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report and the rest of Pacifica Radio , one of the only completely non-commercially funded radio stations in the country.
sock thieves and curtain killers.
and whoever made this: