disaster set list for cincy show

(eclipse sample)
human contradiction I
human contradiction II
(??? sample)
new song
(philip pullman sample)
lightning strikes
death at an early age
(pro immigration student protestor sample)
research
(nola housing project sample)
this is where we’re from

bromelain

Both Justin and Dylan recommended this for helping with my sprained ankle.  Apparently its some kind of enzyme.  Dylan says its derived from Pineapples.

eerie nola spraypaint

These are examples of the eerie spraypaint markings that I saw on many houses in nola when we were there on tour.  They were one of the more haunting reminders of all the tragedy.  I found these photos on flickr.

dim sum

My friend Patrick made blog post about the lack of good dim sum options in central PA and better alternatives in DC.

This is the comment I’d make if his neat homespun wiki/blog software would let me:

One very prominent childhood memory is eating dim sum at a frantic restaurant in Toronto’s Chinatown with my Dad’s side of the family.  Relations with them always seemed tense, but they definitely smoothed over food.  My dad is the same way, I guess.  One time, my band went out for vegetarian dim sum in Philadelphia, along with my parents.  My father is typically stern and frugal to a fault, but during the meal, he was super-sociable and at the end, he paid for everyone.  This left one bandmate asking, “What the hell happened to your dad?”

podcast #1

So I decided that I would try to make a little podcast radio show. This is the first attempt. The idea is to pick songs that kind of follow the things I’ve been doing and thinking about. The first show is songs that I discovered or thought of from my most recent trip out of town, to Detroit at the beginning of the month, and things I’ve heard in the last few weeks from around Bloomington before I leave town again tomorrow.

Set 1 – Detroit

  • Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Heatwave – Motown Legends Girl Groups Comp (Motown)
  • Boxcars – Shadows – Demo CDR (Self-released)
  • Violence and Tragedy – Above All – Breaking Ground Mixtape Comp (Detroit Summer Collective)
  • The Gibbons – The War On Terrorism Part One – Hope, Inc. (Salinas)
  • Blair – Into Darkness – Jet Black White Noise (Self Released?)

Set 2 – Bloomington

  • Matt & Kim – Silver Tiles – S/T CDR (that comes in the envelope with stamps, stains and postmarks) (Self-released)
  • Shapes & Sizes – Islands Gone Bad – Self-titled? (Self-released?)
  • Gal & Lad – Gardener – Demo CDR (Self-released)
  • Lemuria – Piranha – Self-titled (Art of the Underground/Standstill)
  • Mt. Gigantic – Raechel and her Children – Old Smiler (Friends & Relatives/Harlan)
  • Ganglion – Internal Compustion – Of The Deep (Self-released)

To listen, use the links below:

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awake, misguided

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all to many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world-wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.”

“When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missles and misguided men.”

– MLK Jr.

Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West

This radio piece is pretty awesome and its pretty interesting to hear someone articulate pretty reasonable ambivalence to someone that me, and most of the folks that I know go kind of gahgah over. 

Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West:

19-year-old Laquoia Simmons had a big night a while back: she met and interviewed Professor Cornel West, the famous ‘interpreter of the African-American experience,’ advocate for social justice, philosopher and critic. She reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and discusses what it was like to be an ‘at-risk’ young woman meeting a writer who writes so much about the so-called ‘at-risk’ population.