the long winding road

long road

soap

The future is not what it used to be

the meaning of burning man

hilarious

meeting his teenage self

please explain this

danse macabre

flying

Classic Cohen

Halleluia

Rufus Wainright


and the original
Leonard Cohen

the nothin song

you don't need a weatherman to know ...

not dark yet ...

it's all good

Father Death Blues


and some good advice ...

the giving tree

Tom Morello

house gone up in flames


until the end


the Nightwatchman, 'One Man Revolution'


home of the brave


no one left

physics

flower


chess


not knowing

L ego maniac

Compost in Peace

life the universe and everything

vacation dreams

Road trippin'

furry happy monsters

given good manners, you will go far

the designer's intention

after the garden is gone

gardeners on a mission

suburban permaculture

CSA

seeing the universe

Prophet or Crazy

"Don't Call Me Crazy on the Fourth of July..."

So why DID the FBI have a file-full of his mail?

itsa thankless job

Bootsy

Winter in America by Gil Scott Heron


We Almost Lost Detroit by Gil Scott Heron


Three Miles Down by Gil Scott Heron

in honor of Al Gore

"If your baby has a fever you take her to the doctor.
When the doctor says 'You need to intervene here', you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me its not a problem.'
If the baby's crib is on fire, you don't stand around speculating that the baby is fire retardant.
You take action.
The planet has a fever."

--Vice President Albert Gore, testimony before Congress, 3/21/2007

Schools

if you want a revolution, grow your own food

hope is a word

Permaculture

hope is an idea

The revolution WILL NOT be televised.

Chavez shines a spotlight on Neo Liberals and Neo Cons - what we've done in the name of economics over society.

dreamtime

Everyone Deserves Music, I'm Not Alone, Hello - Bonjour

poem

Sustainable Ag

Sustainable Diet (MSU CSA!)

Lucky's Cafe

MOBY

Allotments in London

Urban Homestead

Sustainable Lifestyle

Beautiful food

How to buy veggies

Salad veggies

Salad spinning

mercy seat

mother, father, please explain

Lennon and Ono for Peace

Hair peace.

living in the car

Annihilation by Zack

Capitalism or die

Is an economic system rigged for the elites more important than everyone else's life?

White and Nerdy

Wonderful world

Henry Ford was a fascist

Another Brick in the Loo

undercover art

street art

stickers

Socialiste

SOCIALISTE by RENAUD

J' peux pas dire qu'elle était vulgaire
Ou arrongante
L'était même plutôt au contraire
Elégante
Comme une tartine de confiture
Dans l' café
Comme un graffiti sur le mur
Des W.C.

J' l'ai rencontrée dans une manif'
Pacifiste
Ça castagnait sérieux avec
La police
J' m'étais fait mal en balaçant
Un pavé
J' m'étais foulé la ch'ville du bras
Le poignet

Elle était socialiste
Protestante et féministe
Un peu chiante et un peu triste
Institutrice

Croyait qu' le matin du grand soir
Allait v'nir
Croyait au grand souffle d'espoir
Sur l'av'nir
Genre de conn'ries qu' déjà quèqu' part
J'avais lues
Dans Minute ou dans un journal
Je sais plus

Elle m'a parlé d' Bernard Tapie
Enthousiaste
M'a dit qu'il avait du génie
Et d' la classe
J'ui ai dit: t'as raison, Ginette
C'est Karl Marx
En plus balèze, en plus honnête
En plus efficace

Moi j'étais rien-du-toutiste
Anarcho-mitterandiste
J' sais même pas si ça existe
Mais ça m'excite

Pi elle m'a dit qu'elle avait des
Relations
Qu'elle était potes avec un pote
A Tonton
Qu'elle avait dîné y a un mois
Chez Jack Lang
Que Guy Bedos avait r'pris quatr' fois
De la viande

J'ui ai dit qu' moi j' fréquentais plus
Les salons
Que j'avais connu Charles Hernu
En prison
Qu' j'avais bouffé une fois dans un
Ministère
Qu'objectivement c'était meilleur
Chez ma mère

Elle était socialiste
S' méfiait des écologistes
Détestait les communistes
Et les dentistes

J'ui ai dit: Ginette, faut plus m' parler
D' politique
On va finir par s'engueuler
C'est classique
Comment veux-tu que j' sois d'accord
Avec toi
J'ai d'jà du mal à être d'accord
Avec moi

Elle m'a dit: J' m'appelle pas Ginette
D' toutes façons
J' m'appelle Simone, si ça t' fait rien
J'ai dit: Bon
Pi faut qu' j' m'en aille, faut que j' retourne
Gare de Lyon
Avant qu'on m' vole ma mobylette
Ça s'rait con

C'est comme ça qu' ma socialiste
Qui avait si peur des voleurs
M'a largué en pleine manif
A cause d'un vélomoteur
Comment tu veux changer la vie
Si tu balises pour ton bien ?
On peut pas être à la fois
Un mouton et un mutin

On peut pas être à la fois
Et au four et au moulin
On peut pas être à la fois
Jean Dutour et Jean Moulin

Google translation:

I cannot say that it was arrogant
Was even rather on the contrary
Elegant Like a slice of bread and jam
In the coffee
Like a graffiti on the W.C. wall

I met her in a pacifist demonstration
That serious (castagnait?) with
The police force

I had been done badly while (balaçant) a paving stone
I had pressed the (ch')city of the arm the wrist

She was a socialist
Protestant woman and feminist
A little shitting and a little sad
Teacher

Believed that the morning of the great evening
Was nigh
Believed in the large breath of hope
On the air

Kind of (conn') laugh that already (quèqu') share
I had read
In Minute or a newspaper
I know more.

It spoke to me about Bernard Tapie
Enthusiastically
Said to me that he had genius
And class

I said: have you reason, Ginette
He is Karl Marx, only
more (balèze), more honest, more effective

I was nothing-of-toutiste
Anarchist-mitterandiste
I do not even know if that exists
But that excites me

Pi he said to me that he had
Relations
That he was pals with a pal
With Uncle
That he had dined there one month
At Lang Jack
Guy Bedos had eaten four meals

I said that me
I attended more Living rooms
That I had known Charles Hernu in prison
That I had puffed out once in one Ministry
That objectively it was better

My mother was a socialist
Was wary of the ecologists
Hated the Communists
And dentists

I said: Ginette, it is necessary to speak
to me of policy
One will finish by an argument
It is traditional
How you want that I would agree
With you
I have (jà evil) to agree
With me

She said to me: I am not called Ginette
In all ways I am called Simone,
if that does anything to you

I said: Good Pi is necessary that
I from go away, is necessary that
I turn over Gare of Lyon
Before my Mobylette is stolen

That (rait) idiot
It is like that
that my Socialist
Who feared robbers
Released me into full demonstration
Because of a motor cycle

How you want to change the life
If you mark out for your good?
One cannot be at the same time
A sheep and a mutineer.
One cannot be at the same time
With the furnace and the mill.
One cannot be at the same time
Jean Dutour and Jean Mill.

Jung

the psyche is not obligated to live in time and space alone...

and

Theseus

theseus

Shaman - War on Drugs

Oldie

uptown girl

why

hold back the years

get up

blast from the past

25 or 6 to 4

what i like about you

stupid song, catchy tune

muppets

Cash and Big Bird


DeNiro and Elmo












kermie


gonzo

...the loss thereof

religion

dedicated to Joe Biden, they took him out so quickly

black bush

on wearing black

bliss or Babbit?

Learn to recognize what gives you joy.

graceland

paul simon

you can call me Al

Africa

toto

yinyang

Irish ways

Sinead O'Connor


Once upon a time there were
Irish Ways and Irish Laws
Villages of Irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning

Then the Vikings came around (1)
Turned us up and turned us down
Started building boats and towns
They tried to change our living
tried to change our living

Cromwell and his soldiers came (2)
Started centuries of shame
But they could not make us turn (3)
We are a river flowing
We're a river flowing

Again, again the soldiers came
Burnt our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in their fields
Working for livings
Working for a living

800 years we have been down (4)
The secret of the water sound
Has kept the spirit of a man
Above the pain descending
Above the pain descending

Today the struggle carries on
I wonder will I live so long
To see the gates being opened up (5)
To a people and their freedom
A people and their freedom

Once upon a time there was
Irish Ways and Irish Laws
Villages of Irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning

Notes
(1)
The first documented Viking landing took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in 1170 the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both politically and economically. They created trade
routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first towns in Ireland,
including Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed opposition in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish population had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and Scotish settlers and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a metaphor for Irish
History flowing like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes both images of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th century and also of the present day prison camps in the North
of Ireland which at the time the song was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the subject of much political campaigning
including Hunger Strikes by the inmates.

genius

Belushi and Ackroyd

Mr. JB and the Blues Brothers:
I'd rather go to Hell filled with unrepentant sinners like the Rev. JB and Mr. John Belushi than to a Heaven filled with all the Gerry Fords and Pat Robertsons in the world.
Looking back, my life was affected by the joy and humor and music of sinners in such good ways, and only darkened and burdened by professional politicians and religious leaders. What is that saying to me?

David the gnome

a little redemption song for the tomorrow people

ziggy marley and chieftains Redemption song


ziggy marley tomorrow people

Pete Seeger talks about impeacement

Cointelpro

the bangles

walk like an egyptian


manic monday

evolution

south park evolution

people are people

depeche mode

a few memorable moments

JB

and

and

and

And
saying what 90 percent of all Americans say: I'm tired of standing still, I want to move ON, have a job, pay MY bills, take care of my OWN business.

the godfather of soul

Mr. James Brown