Everything We Do Is Music
In Sao Paulo (by LoisInWonderland)
Swoon (by jakedobkin)
My recent brief experience with Google+ (or plus.google, as the URL says in reverse polish) has led me to some observations about how we might be shifting our personal and collective use of tools, and thereby our sense of self in the increasingly media-augmented world we inhabit.
Google+ is a…
Beyond Sound
The recording process is always an interesting one. Getting the right sound, ensuring that the levels are set so that you don’t peak, putting across a vibe and, ultimately, nailing the take. I want every note heard to be human, not digital. Because it’s emotion we ultimately feel on many levels when we’re open to vibration beyond sound.
The first track and possible album title of my next album is The Devil’s Angels. I’m not ready to post tracks yet, but, here are the lyrics:
The Devil’s Angels hover/Lift off to victory smothered/Lengthy competition signals/Old ways dying and brittle
Power conceived by a master/gorging on it faster and faster/Reverence turns cold in an instant/Shackles strangling resistance
Security strikes at the fearful/under guise of protecting people/who by rules they’re creating/from this axis in time, proliferating
Survival of joy is the mission/From mountains to ocean and between them/Evolving from next generations/learning fast than those who create them
Tomorrow’s questions go answered?Glory of past we wish to capture/Meaning we seek through existence/is challenged continually and frequent
So all goes to hell and to heaven/All cries from laughter or wailing/All suffers misinterpretation/All the Angels’ Devils simply hope for…
A photograph of sunlight reflected by waterways across the central United States, as seen from the International Space Station in November of 2003. The scene looks southwest from above Lake Michigan across the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, towards Texas near the horizon. At least two of the smaller lakes at bottom, near the Illinois River, are cooling ponds for nuclear power stations.
Fishbone is the most talented and ridiculously entertaining band to never “make it big time”. Everyday Sunshine should have been a massive hit in its day.
Yeah, I know I’m late to the game on this one. But I finally had some time to sit and listen. If you’re a fan of either the original or of The Lips, it’s more than worth a listen. They keep the integrity of the original but updating it with angst, agitation, and modern sounds. Truly great! Hearing Henry Rollins say “I know I’m fucking mad” is genius. Check some song samples at this link…
James Brown - Super Bad 1971… when I toured, we used to rock this in the van, shaking it at 75 mph down long stretches of midwest highway on our way from east coast to west and back. good times!
(via mikehudack, ilovecharts)
I wonder what this chart would have looked like between the world wars, or while the British Empire was waning, or during the Napoleonic wars, or while Rome ruled the Western world.



