Sunday, August 7, 2016

Massive Attack - Paradise Circus

I don't know what it is about Massive Attack... They really have something, don't they?

It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip

Love is like a sin, my love
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with her eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again

It's unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable
Oh well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip

Love is like a sin, my love
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again

Friday, May 6, 2016

Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff

If you want to really understand the problems the United States is facing, take an hour to do so. It's not that complicated - especially the way this guy, Richard Wolff, explains it. Regardless of how you may feel about socialism, he gives a brilliant, interesting, understandable, and even fun explanation of how the America got herself into such a horrific economic situation.

Maybe you don't mind them, but I much prefer to skip the horribly boring 7-minute introductions.

Thanks, Tony.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Greening the Middle East (2009) - Geoff Lawton

The first five minutes or so of this is one of my all-time favorite youtube video - the original "Greening the Middle East". It's mostly images with voice-over describing the amazing 3-year experience these guys had basically turning hell into heaven in the Jordan desert.

After the original, a patchwork of additional footage was appended showing the project site years later and how it had degraded in the time since the project ended. Then at about 19 minutes in, the scene shifts to their "sequel", The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project and several other locations in the general area. It goes on with personal accounts and video imagery. There are some cool points from time to time, which I'll try to list under "Notes" (below) when I watch it again.

Note:

  • 19:00 - The Jordan Valley Permaculture Project
  • 32:50 - Geoff starts a cool little speech about permaculture spreading
  • Tom Shadyac at Tower of Youth

    This link to Tom Shadyac at Tower of Youth opens a new tab starting just after the introduction.

    Quotes:

  • The human body is a cooperative. Nothing in the human body takes more than it needs. If it does, we have a term for it - it's called cancer. A cancer is something that just takes and grows without limit, and then it will eventually kill the host and the body will die. Our economy is based on a cancerous philosophy.
  • When the Berlin wall came down, nobody saw it coming... Just ideas had accumulated and mounted up behind that wall and created a pressure - an energetic pressure - and one day that wall fell.
  • Saturday, March 12, 2016

    Dan Deacon - When I Was Done Dying

    When I was done dying my conscience regained
    So I began my struggle a nothingness strained
    Out a flash made of time my new form blasted out
    And it startled me so and I burst out a shout
    At which my legs ran frantic like birds from a nest
    And I ran until drained leaving no choice but rest
    So I fell asleep softly at the edge of a cave
    But I should have gone in deeper but I'm not so brave
    And like that I was torn out and thrown in the sky
    And I said all my prayers because surely I'll die
    As I crashed down and smashed into earth, into dirt
    How my skin did explode leaving only my shirt
    But from shirt grew a tree and then tree grew a fruit
    And I became the seed and that seed was a brute
    And I clawed through the ground with my roots and my leaves
    And I tore up the shirt and I ate up the sleeves
    And they laughed out at me and said "what is your plan?"
    But their question was foreign I could not understand
    When then suddenly I'm ripped up and placed into a mouth
    And it swallowed me down at which time I head south
    So I said
    Hey ya e ya
    Hey hey hey
    
    Well I woke up to see them, these two mighty steeds
    With their mouths grinning wildly expressing my needs
    As they stood there above me, being flanked on each side
    I felt no need to fear them, no reason to hide
    So I reached up to touch but they faded too soon
    Yet their mouths still remained and stacked up towards the moon
    How that ladder of mouth waved so soft in the night
    And I looked up in awe at that beautiful sight
    And I dreamt about climbing into the night sky
    But I knew had I touched them they'd mouth back 'bye bye'
    So I got up and walked down the path in the dark
    And there deep in the distance my eye caught a spark
    Of a crab twice my size with incredible strength
    Oh it greeted me kindly and then we all drank
    And we drooled out together right onto the ground
    And the ocean grew up quickly right up all around
    And the earth looked at me and said "wasn't that fun?"
    And I replied "I'm sorry if I hurt anyone"
    And without even thinking cast me into space
    But before she did that she wiped off my own face
    She said better luck next time don't worry so much
    Without ears I couldn't hear I could just feel the touch
    As I feel asleep softly at the edge of a cave
    But I should have gone deeper but I'm not so brave
    I said
    Hey ya e ya
    Hey ya e ya
    Hey ya e ya
    Hey hey hey
    

    Thanks, Brian

    ...and thanks, nita, for this amazing interpretation...

    ...and this commentary.

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