Malian music = DNA of the Blues, and this guy was the master.
Spreading Digital "ALOHA!"
What these guys are about:
Follow these guys at Korduroy.tv
Also - Wow! time for me to get a 5/4/3 wetsuit and journey on North…hopefully rockin’ to Kasabian:
NORTH * from GotSurf.ca on Vimeo.
Lunches for Henry David Thoreau
New York Public Library is about digitize Henry David Thoreau’s map of Walden Pond, so we can all “digitally” walk through it. One question, are they gonna show on the map where he was staying in his mom’s backyard (while she was bringing him lunches) while he was “roughing” it? I kid, I kid. Great writer, great book, but his mom brought him his lunches:
Article here
L.A. Freewalls
Flee with the wind
‘As the crow flies
ridin’ trains with magpies
birds jealous, know why?
just because my view’s high.
Pick a pail o’ maggot dust
where to spread? here, I trust
The dirt is wet, I’m dryin’ out
my sight, my soul is cryin’ out
sell me hope, skip the rope
scrub my sins with lawdy’s soap
Wait now, are ya there?
Insane, gotcha where?
Leave me blind in the light,
write until I get it right
with the wind
with the wind
Flee with the wind, my friend.
- El Cuad 2012
Artwork by Rui Ricardo http://www.rui-ricardo.com/
IF
A friend of mine (thanks, Kim) posted this video of Dennis Hopper reciting “If”, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, on the Johnny Cash Show:
for the full poem, click here
Down the Rabbit Hole...Gonzo-style
Buy some books, profits go to charity. Watch the Hunter S. Thompson inspired video:
Good Books - Metamorphosis from Buck on Vimeo.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - how d'ya feel bout that One?
I couldn’t have said it better myself…thanks, Neil.
Ted talks
Who is Joseph Kony?
Whoa, if you have 30 mins, please watch this video. It’s a campaign to raise awareness about the horrors committed by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army:
Learn more here
But, on the flip, and there’s always a flip, The Guardian UK has an article critical of the of the Charity organization, and the use of the Ugandan soldiers, whose crimes are nothing to laugh at: you can read the article here
Another counter here
and Kony2012 campaign rebuttal to the critics here