SubscribeMarch 23rd, 2012
when it’s good to be human
I suppose there are many wonderful things about being human but some of them exist on that precarious blade that is our desire to surprise and effect each other.
Some of this is not so good. I go get the train or the bus and in the crush of people moving I know there is one there that has done something horrific, beaten his wife, or or betrayed her friend. But there is also someone who helped a person in real need and then just left, not wanting the honor or attention that comes with “hero”.
And on that bus: there is someone there whose hands can turn pigment into splendour and objects into sound-frenzied maenads jumping to a unified rhythm. Then, I remember, it’s good to be human today.
So much of this later, more comforting, form of being sapiens has been made possible by social media. The flash mob, for example.
In a time when there are so many of us, instead of getting people to concerts and coffee shops for music and readings, you simply go to where they already are. Brilliant really. Go in, play, delight, and leave. A moment of actual “sapiens” for everyone.
December 5th, 2011
awesome on a number of levels
via EG on FB – thanks
November 26th, 2011
love this steppin
November 16th, 2011
try this
I’m assuming most of you don’t know ASL well enough to follow much of what is being said in this performance. So if that’s the case, try this. Mute your system and just watch them. Not just their hands, but all of them. How they move, how they use space and their bodies in space. See what you get. Write down somethings about how they feel, what they are communicating to you.
Then turn up your volume.
I bet the sound track isn’t too much of a surprise.
October 2nd, 2011
awesome/art/music
This comes from Playing for Change. Satchita is also really good. You can visit their website too.
September 8th, 2011
she is awesome
Her name is Carol Kaye. She’s a studio bassist and very interesting woman.
via Gregory Spatz
September 4th, 2011
frog and snake on Lux Aeterna
Totally the best use of Lux Aeterna I’ve ever seen. And funny. And puts humans in their proper place as far as the drama of life goes.
via Wimp
July 31st, 2011
Baaba Maal – the joy and energy of life
I have some music of Baaba Maal on my ipod but I hadn’t seen the vids that go with them before today. What wonderful joy in the sheer physicality of life.
July 22nd, 2011
peyote songs and David A. Groulx’s poetry
I walked and walked today. After 15 days my headache has lifted. I came home to Toppah and Yazzie singing and Groulx speaking from his book Under god’s pale bones.
Start this video and while Toppah and Yazzie are singing read the poem by Groulx. You’ll get a sense of how well I feel today.
Drummer's directions They are making the sound of the rain they are making the sound of the rain four singers are calling across the sky eyes closed mouths open they are sitting in the four ways of the wind singing that we will get our bearings
(by David A. Groulx)
June 20th, 2011
Ondar and Willie Nelson – where has my country gone
Also so cool.