The resistance is not primarily a clash of arms ... The resistance is in the drums, not in the spears; it is in the music, in the rhythms lived by communities whose myths and ways continue to nurture and sustain them.
Male
30 years old
the great wide open of the ghetto, the belly
United States Minor Outlying Islands
drumming, the blues, music that turns on both the spirit and the meat, shape-shifting, long naked walks thru the woods (alone), ritual, mysticism, martial arts, mythology, dismantling oppressive systems, hitting bottom
Music
tinariwen, ali farka toure, dr. john, nass marrakech, taraf de haidouks, ozomatli, raquy and the cavemen, mad sheer khan, kila, vaartina, carlinhos brown, musafir, corey harris, tom waits, ledbelly, cyro baptista & beat the donkey, nusrat fateh ali khan, huun-hur-tu, war, ojos de brujo, mamady keita, led zeppelin, arrested development, creedence clearwater revival, mercan dede, shakti, indigo girls, counting crows, warsaw village band, sixteen horsepower, woven hand, busker kibbutznik, hassan hakmoun, tarika, bob marley, hossam ramzy,
Movies
Fight Club, Baraka, Latcho Drom, Djembefola, the Reckoning, Tran De Vie, the Neverending Story, the Matrix, Dead Man, Princess Mononoke, 12 monkeys, Once Were Warriors, Rabbit Proof Fence, Smoke Signals, Buena Vista Social club
Television
Television commercials and television shows both promote the purchase of commodities. Advertisers and television networks don't want viewers to go out and search for the answers on their own. They want to provide the answers on television. If your head hurts: buy Advil (or some other pain relieving drug). Is your stomach growling? Drive your Pontiac to Taco Bell or Burger King. Are your dishes dirty? Get some lemon-fresh Joy. Every guy wants a fast Acura and every girl wants to look like the women on the NBC television show Friends. Watch the Dallas Cowboys' Deion Sanders score a touchdown, watch the replay (Sponsored by Coors Light), then watch Deion do an advertisement for Pizza Hut.
Television is promoting a lifestyle. It is a virtual reality that advertisers and networks seek to promote in order to gain additional revenue.
What is advertised is whiteness, a value beyond cleanliness; sterility, the avoidance of all germs; sudsiness, a cosmetic factor; and brand, a surrogate community loyalty."
While watching television, the viewer is not seeing the world as it is. He or she is looking at a world created by advertising. Television programs are put together with the conscious attitude of promoting a consumer society.
"If forty million people see a commercial for a car, then forty million people have a car commercial in their heads, all at the same time," Mander says. "This is bound to have more beneficial effect on the commodity system than if, at that moment, all those people were thinking separate thoughts which, in some cases, might not be about commodities at all."
But what makes television different from other forms of advertising, is that the viewer has absolutely no control over the images. Sure you can change the channel, but you're really only watching more of the same. The images come at you at the pace of the advertiser; the viewer just watches passively. While reading the newspaper, you don't have to look at the ads, you can turn the page. In that same newspaper, if you want to find a coupon for Ranch Style Black Beans, you will look and seek it out. You can read the first few lines of a billboard sign, then turn away.
However, when you watch television, the only way to escape the images is to turn the machine off. The medium of television is controlled by the sender, not the viewer. Images just flow, one after the next.
"If you decide to watch television, then there's no choice but to accept the stream of electronic images as it comes," Mander says. "Since there is no way to stop the images, one merely gives over to them. More than this, one has to clear all channels of reception to allow them in more cleanly. Thinking only gets in the way."
The multitude of technical events and special effects that saturate the viewer throughout an average dose of television occur with such rapid frequency that any response is essentially eliminated. "Since television images move more quickly than a viewer can react, one has to chase after them with the mind," Mander says in the book.
"Every advertiser, for example, knows that before you can convince anyone of anything, you shatter their existing mental set and then restructure an awareness along lines which are useful to you. You do this with a few very simple techniques like fast-moving images, jumping among attention focuses, and switching moods," he explains.
Television watching is not active, it is passive. Both the viewer's mind and body do not react, and cannot react. Mander calls television imagery a form of sleep teaching.
One researcher interviewed by Mander explains: "The horror of television, is that the information goes in, but we don't react to it. It goes right into our memory pool and perhaps we react to it later but we don't know what we're reacting to. When you watch television you are training yourself not to react and so later on, you're doing things without knowing why you're doing them or where they came from."
Books
The book of Exodus, the Gospel of John, the psalms,anything that william blake ever touched,the prophetic imagination--walter bruggemann, The culture of make believe--derrick Jensen, the coming of the cosmic christ--matthew fox, Ishmael--daniel quinn,The Grapes of Wrath---steinbeck, The Hunchback of Notre Dame---victor Hugo, the power of myth--joseph campbell, Mesnawi--Rumi, the gift--Hafiz, the book of Enoch, the Katurran Odyssey--teryl whitlach, dune---frank herbert, jitterbug perfume---tom robbins, peter pan---j.m. barrie, the singer trilogy---calvin miller, the silmarillion--jrr tolkien, the violence of love---oscar romero, god's revolution---eberhard arnold, for the beauty of the earth--stephen bouma-predigar, jesus the rebel---john dear, the little flowers of st. francis, the prophet--khilal gibran
Heroes
jesus of nazareth, john the baptist,
crazy horse, babatunde olatunji, nana vasconcelos, william blake, st. francis of assissi, rumi, hafiz, shams of tabriz, black elk, martin luther king jr., leornard peltier
tabu's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
the root chakra
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
Occupation:
nomad of the asphalt desert
tabu's Companies
Black Hand Warriors Percussion Militia Philadelphia, PA US big chief There is no division among us.
life
psalters philadelphia, pa US king of bongo heavy cavalry
2003-present
Dirty Water Medicine Bags New Orleans, LA US Root--Doctor deep and low
anutha zone
tabu siftin thru the dregs Posted at 5:35 PM Nov 19 view more
About me: The boundaries of our country, sir? Why sir, on the North we are bounded by the Aurora Borealis, on the East we are bounded by the rising sun, on the south we are bounded by the procession of the equinoxes, and on the West by the Day of Judgement.
thankyou so much for coming to journey's end music fest and playing. as always it was wonderful to see you again and i'm so glad you got to see this spot of heaven where we landed. come again! gwen
According to the Bamana people in Mali, the name of the djembe comes directly from the saying "Anke dje, anke be" which literally translates to "everyone gather together"
You can either turn chaos.. exhaustion.. terror into something beautifull.. some processional explosive coming.. some calling to the ground of our sky.. or you can fall back and let it all happen without you
