Coded Language, Breakbeat Era, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Afghan Whigs, Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Ken Andrews, KJ Sawka, LTJ Bukem, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Rich, Skip Heller, Gilbert Castellanos, Anthony Wilson, Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Lamb, Nirvana, The Grateful Dead, Soundgarden, Bjork, Luscious Jackson, Bob Dylan, Coldcut, Wormhole, Hum, Virginia Coalition, Aloke Dutta, Ram Trilogy, The Police, Sting, Amon Tobin, Screaming Trees, Astral Projection, Sky Cries Mary, I Mother Earth, Alice In Chains, Janes Addiction, Tuatara, Bauhaus, Joy Divison, David Bowie, Ani DiFranco, Celtic Cross, Mystery of the Yeti, DAG, Curve, Zap Mama, The Roots, Blackalicious, Tom Vek, The Noisettes, Ryan Doyle-Drummer, Chris Cornell, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Human Cargo, Jah Lion, Rico, Aswad, Steel Pulse, Toots and The Maytals, Fablous Five, Israel Vibrations, Death Cab For Cutie, Aquasky, Skapel, Trancenden, Shpongle, Dizzy Gillespie, RJD2, Stevie Wonder, Supreme Beings Of Leisure, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flanger, Unwound, The Caulfield Sisters, Polar Bear, Stanton Moore, Skerik, Bobby Previte, Garage A Trois, Explosions in the Sky, Gift of Gab, Tekat, Bonobo
Movies
funny ones
Television
HGTV, Style Network, Comedy Channel (mainly for Daily Show & Steven Colbert Report) & Oxygen...I know typical girl shit
Books
Madam Secretary, The Giving Tree, The Missing Piece, One Fish - Two Fish - Red Fish - Blue Fish,
About me: I love my Slingerland, my husband & my bands. Check us out here at...
The American Daisycutters & http://www.myspace.com/bwreckband
And on another note here's a little something that I believe in...
So I have a practical suggestion for those of you who are principals, superintendents, school board members, and teachers: Go home from here and revise your core curriculum. Yes, teach the three Rs; teach the ABCs; make sure your kids learn algebra, biology, and calculus. But teach them about the American Revolution - that it isn't just about white men in powdered wigs carrying muskets in a time long gone. It's about slaves who rose up and women who wouldn't be denied and unwelcome immigrants and exploited workers who against great odds claimed the revolution as their own and breathed life into it.
Teach your kids they don't have to accept what they have been handed. Teach them they are not only equal citizens under the law, but equal sons and daughters - heirs, everyone - of that revolution, and that it is their right to claim it as their own. Teach them to shake the torpor that has been prescribed for them by calculating elders and ideologues. Teach them there is only one force strong enough to counter the power of organized money today, and that is the power of organized people. They are waiting for this message; the kids in your schools have been made to feel as victims, powerless, ashamed, inferior, and disenfranchised. Tell them it's a great big lie - despite their poverty, circumstance, and the long odds they've been handed, they have the power to make the world over again, in their image.
I was at the Presidio in San Francisco yesterday. That former military enclave beneath the Golden Gate Bridge is now a marvelous and beautiful center of vital commerce and civic purpose - saved from exploitation and despoliation by citizens who rose up on its behalf. On the wall of one of the main buildings I came upon a painting of an enormous deep blue wave with white caps against an equally blue sky. The artist's inscription beneath the painting reads: "This human wave expresses the concept of people at the bottom rungs of society waking up to using their united strength to claim their universal rights to economic, social, and environmental justice."
Put that in your core curriculum. It's America 101.
Hey Maria, sorry I dropped off of the Para page for a bit, and maybe missed an opportunity for the sounds to be heard. It was a rough summer - hope all is good out West way.
I've updated and added a new piece. Let me know what you think,I'll send you the mp3...
Hope you can come support the L.B. Art House! 100% of proceeds go to KOOS. 2 Dj's, complimentary sangria & vegetarian food. See you there? -K p.s. Those are my hands!! ; )
