DVB, John Pilger, Paul Jay, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Paul Foot, Mark Steel, Mary Harron, Barbara Kopple, Oliver Stone, Alan Parker, Ken Loach, George Clooney, Darren Aronofsky, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Edward D Wood Jr, Tim Burton, German Expressionism, French New Wave, Alfred Hitchcock
Feminism, listening to The Fabulous D Show, pop culture references and in-jokes, big black thick clothes in winter, Julie Christie, coffee shops, conversation, the Washington Post and Guardian and Independent and Toronto Star newspapers, retro, art for regeneration, Tai-Chi, German expressionism, sustainable resources, double entendres, using the freedoms we still have, fruit tea, veganism, hemp, burlesque, political satire, self-deprecating dancing, Janeane Garofalo, co-operatives, owning next-to-nothing, Chikara wrestling, using Adium cross-platform messenger, equal opportunities, Atomika comics, public transport, Hayley Mills, valuing time more than money, being a Firefox loyalist, Ram Kaichou and Triple 6 DDT, transgenderism, public speaking, roller derby, meeting people, seeing places, playing Grand Theft Auto, traveling, campaigning, protesting, Anjelica Huston, laughing to the point of tears, Ju-jitsu, agitprop, Possum and Spy Guy comic books, smiling at the nonsensical silliness of the world, reading Power Slam magazine, downloading movies and music, parties, sipping soy mochas on the run, complete and utter irreverence, cities, Batman fan fiction, Natasha Hughes and the Doncaster Rovers Belles, supporting hometown team Doncaster Rovers, supporting Toronto FC, using the trusty MacBook Pro, stirring the pot, learning French, theatre, going to museums and galleries, ecosocialism, playing Unreal Tournament, debating, creating, playing bongo drums badly, exhibits in derelict buildings, taking photos, reading Red Pepper magazine, playing soccer, drinking coffee made by a French press, seeing the Sheffield Steelers, minimalism, being home alone skimming the paper, learning, teaching, going to gigs, moving on, moving forward, writing pro wrestling soap opera story-lines since age 14 and not growing out of it.
Music
Adam Baranello, Adele, Alanis Morissette, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Alvarez Kings, Anti-Flag, Arctic Monkeys, Asian Dub Foundation, Au Revoir Simone, Bare Knuckle Soul, Barenaked Ladies, Bat for Lashes, The Beatles, Beck, The Be Good Tanyas, The B-52's, Bif Naked, Bill Callahan, Billie Holiday, Bison, Blondie, Blur, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Broadcast Zero, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, Camille, Chomsky Allstars, Chris Isaak, Cibo Matto, The Clash, Cobra Starship, Coldplay, Colin Vearncombe, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, The Dandy Warhols, Dead Kennedys, De La Soul, Delirium, Depeche Mode, Diana Krall, Dixie Chicks, DJ Yoda, The Doors, The Droops, Duke Ellington, Eagles, Edith Piaf, Elvis Presley, Emily Loizeau, Eurythmics, Faithless, Feist, Filter, Firesuite, The Flaming Lips, Foo Fighters, Friends of Dean Martinez, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Garbage, Gillian Welch, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Grace Jones, Groove Armada, Harry Connick Jr, Hawksley Workman, Heather Nova, The Henrys, Honey Root, Hootie and The Blowfish, Hooverphonic, Horace Silver, Horrorpops, The Hot Puppies, Human League, Ian Brown, Imani Coppola, Insane Clown Posse, Jack Johnson, The Jam, Jamiroquai, Jane Siberry, Jarvis Cocker, Jenny Lewis, Jenny Owen Youngs, Je$us Loves Amerika, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Jo Hamilton, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Josh Ritter, Joy Division, Joydrop, Juliette Lewis, Junior Boys, Karima Francis, Kate Bush, Kathryn Williams, Kimya Dawson, Kings of Leon, Kula Shaker, Lacuna Coil, Lady GaGa, Lamb, Lasgo, Leila Josefowicz, Leonard Cohen, Levellers, Lily Allen, The Long Blondes, Lorraine Ayensu, Louis Armstrong, Lou Rhodes, The Luchagors, Luscious Jackson, Manic Street Preachers, Martha and the Muffins, Martha Tilston, Maddy Wyatt, Matthew Good, Mazzy Star, MC Lars, Mellow Harmony, Micah P Hinson, Micatone, Moby, Modest Mouse, Moloko, Monkey Swallows the Universe, Morcheeba, Morrissey, Muddy Waters, Muse, Nada Surf, Needledrop, Neil Young, N.E.R.D., New Order, Nina Simone, Nitin Sawhney, Norah Jones, NWA, Of Montreal, Otep, Patsy Kline, Paula Cole, Pauline Taylor, Peaches, Pete Seeger, Phenomenal Handclap Band, P!nk, The Pipettes, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Poe, Portishead, The Postal Service, Prana, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Propagandhi, Pulp, The Puppini Sisters, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Razorlight, Regina Spektor, REM, Richard Hawley, Rilo Kiley, Rosie Brown, The Sex Pistols, Sheryl Crow, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinéad O'Connor, Skin, Skunk Anansie, The Sleepy Jackson, Sloan, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Spheres of Chaos, Spokes, St Germain, The Stoops, System of a Down, Talking Heads, T-Bone Burnett, They Might Be Giants, Tracy Chapman, Vacuity, Vanessa Carlton, The White Stripes, Willy Mason, Willie Nelson, Woody Guthrie
Movies
About Schmidt, Abwärts, Adam's Rib, The Addams Family, Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, American Psycho, Angela's Ashes, Ararat, Arlington Road, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Babe, Back to the Future I & II, Bagdad Cafe, Batman Returns, Battleship Potemkin, Beetlejuice, Beyond the Mat, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, The Big Sellout, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Blade Runner, The Blair Witch Project, Bobby, A Bout de Souffle, Bowling for Columbine, Boyz N the Hood, Brief Encounter, Bullet Boy, Burma VJ, The Cable Guy, Calendar Girls, Casablanca, Chaplin, City of Angels, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Constant Gardener, The Corporation, Crash, Crazy People, The Crow City of Angels, Dances with Wolves, Death to Smoochy, Deliverance, Dick Tracy, Dobermann, Dogma, Don Juan de Marco, Downfall, Drop Dead Fred, East is East, Educating Rita, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, El Commandante, The Elephant Man, Enemy Image, Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room, Erin Brockovich, Escape from Alcatraz, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything's Gone Green, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Falling Down, Fast Food Nation, Fight Club, The Fighting Cholitas, First Blood, The First Wives Club, The Fog of War, Franklyn, Frost/Nixon, Gandhi, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Good Night and Good Luck, The Goonies, Grand Canyon, Gran Torino, Grease, Greendale, Hannah and her Sisters, I Heart Huckabees, Heathers, Heaven, Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows, In The Loop, It's a Wonderful Life, JFK, La Haine, Lawrence of Arabia, Les Quatre Cents Coups, The Life of David Gale, Loser, Mallrats, Maltese Falcon, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Man on the Moon, Mars Attacks!, Matrix trilogy, Max, Metropolis, Midnight Cowboy, Midnight Express, Moonstruck, Mystic River, Natural Born Killers, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, North by Northwest, Office Space, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, A Perfect World, The Philadelphia Story, Pierrot le Fou, Platoon, Prayer of the Rollerboys, The Princess and the Warrior, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Private Parts, The Quiet American, Rain Man, Rear Window, Requiem for a Dream, Romeo + Juliet, Run Lola Run, Scarface, The Shawshank Redemption, Shirley Valentine, Shortbus, Shut Up and Sing, Skin Deep, Singin' in the Rain, Sleepy Hollow, Some Like it Hot, Souvenir of Canada, Star Wars series, Super Amigos, Swingers, Syriana, The Take, Tank Girl, Thelma and Louise, They Live, Throw Momma from the Train, The Truman Show, 28 Days Later, Unprecedented, USA vs Al-Arian, The US vs John Lennon, V For Vendetta, Wal-Mart - The High Cost of Low Price, War, Inc., Watchmen, Watership Down, West Side Story, Whistle Down the Wind, White Heat, Who Killed John O'Neill?, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wild at Heart, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Withnail and I, The Woodsman, The Wrestler
Television
Al Jazeera, 'Allo 'Allo, Blackadder, Bottom, Bread, Bremner Bird & Fortune, Cold Feet, CSI, Dad's Army, Dr Katz, Drop the Dead Donkey, Family Guy, Fawlty Towers, Fraggle Rock, Gilmore Girls, Have I Got News For You, The Hour, House of Cards, Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, J-Pod, Little Britain, Malcolm in the Middle, Mock the Week, Monday Night Raw, Monkey Dust, Newsnight, The New Statesman, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Profit, Q.I., Red Dwarf, Shameless, The Simpsons, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Trailer Park Boys, Twin Peaks, Twitch City, The Wonder Years, The Young Ones
Books
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker, Burton on Burton by Tim Burton with Mark Salisbury, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, Foley is Good (and the real world is faker than wrestling) by Mick Foley, Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland, Imperial Ambitions by Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian, J-Pod by Douglas Coupland, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Life After God by Douglas Coupland, Love All the People by Bill Hicks, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger, New Rules by Bill Maher, 1984 by George Orwell, No Logo by Naomi Klein, Original Zinn by Howard Zinn with David Barsamian, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, Shopped by Joanna Blythman, The Silent Ark by Juliet Gellatley, Speaking Out Louder by Jack Layton, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Weapons of Mass Deception by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
Heroes
Aliza Dichter, Bill Hicks, Cindy Sheehan, Donald Watson, Democratic Voice of Burma, Fareena Alam, George Sand, Harriet Taylor Mill, Helen Steel and David Morris, John Lennon, Jesse Ventura, Kevin Gillan, Lesley Boulton, Malcolm Kendall-Smith, Martin Luther King, Maya Evans, Mitch St. Pierre, Thomas Paine, Victor Hugo Daza
Jay Baker is a British media activist and social entrepreneur; a documentarian, writer, vlogger, blogger, campaigner and university dropout who has lived in the United States, Canada, Britain, and Spain. As a child surrounded by the upheaval of the miners' strikes in tumultuous times for South Yorkshire, and abused by pupils and teachers alike, he was pulled from the school system and taught at home by his mother while his father worked 12-hour shifts at the local factory. His creativity nurtured, and with a sense of social justice, his path was set. After quitting his Media degree, he went on to become its only student working in the media, setting up and successfully running his own non-profit NGO for five years before founding SilenceBreaker Media collectives in both Britain and North America.
Jay Baker’s work has involved actively participating in urban regeneration projects, speaking at schools, festivals, and conferences, filming and editing awareness-raising videos for community groups, organizing and emceeing anti-racism concerts, making issue-based documentaries, talking on podcasts and radio shows, writing blogs, publishing zines, recording vlogs, painting, campaigning, and - most notably - writing, directing and producing the controversial feature-length “science-fact B-movie” Escape from Doncatraz, releasing a compilation of his previous writings as a book called Soon To Be Banned and his second book, Pissing in the Mainstream. He currently attends the prestigious School for Social Entrepreneurs and is working on his next film, Return to Doncatraz.
He has written for independent newspaper The Mule, the award-winning zine La Bouche, and has been highly rated and published in The Blog Paper. He also edits the newsletter known as The Silence Breaker. Other dubious honours include being featured as a "public enemy" on fascist website Redwatch, having numerous scathing songs written about him, guesting on BBC breakfast radio shows four times, having a “trading card” made of him at one university, and being the subject of a poem as part of D Shellhammer’s book, Like a Goat in a Hail Storm.
Passionate, provocative, and sometimes even polarizing, Jay Baker wears his heart on his sleeve and has spoken publicly at conferences, universities, high schools, and festivals to audiences of thousands. When he’s not talking, people are often talking about him anyway. If you’d like to receive rates on him speaking at your event, email jaybaker(at)mediaactivist.com
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who isn't competitive. Anyone who communicates directly. Anyone with principles. Anyone that thinks critically rather than wasting time watching eMpTyV or reality shows. Anyone who isn't an Intellectual Capitalist who perceives diplomatic discussion and debate instead as a battle to be won. Anyone who realises every single human being has at least one thing in common with them. Anyone who isn't a bunny-boiler obsessing over me. Anyone that loves those little moments that don't even involve you but still possess the power to make you cry. Anyone who isn't a Toilet Seat Intellectual. Anyone who isn't intimidated by intelligence. Anyone who isn't a Navel-Gazing Leftist. Anyone who realises we are all unique, and that's what makes us all the same. Anyone that doesn't work jobs they hate so they can buy crap they're told to want but don't actually need. Anyone who doesn't further justify your decision to remove them your life by being spiteful afterwards. Anyone not wrapped up in a bubble of domesticated consumerism, therapy, and apathy. Anyone who realises "it's just a couch!" Anyone that doesn't just wait for their turn to speak but actually cares. Anyone who doesn't claim to love you, then lie and cheat and steal. Anyone who isn't just a highly-packaged symbol of over-wrought self-perception. Anyone who isn't sycophantic. Anyone who finds it strange that some men won't go down on women on their period, but will eat an egg for breakfast (think about that for a moment). Anyone who doesn't think the latest trends, mainstream or alternative, are important. Anyone not part of an incestual clique of "free love" which is forgotten later on anyway when backstabbing commences. Anyone who doesn't think romance is reserved for literature. Anyone who doesn't try to keep up with the Joneses, or the Hiltons or the Beckhams. Anyone that actually looks upwards while they walk, tripping over just to get a look at a beautiful sky. Anyone that doesn't think that poor is cool. Anyone who uses their given talent for positivity not negativity. Anyone campaigning for issues of importance. Anyone that knows Internet Profiles Are Not Enough.
well u were distracted enough to comment on it right? i mean just becuz your level of studies supersedes the masses... doesnt mean this isnt important for others who are just waking up.. see children watch this and most parents DONT KNOW how sinister a little MTV video actually is.. or how this seemingly small thing (number one selling artist in the world) plays into the bigger picture of programming.... SHE is the distraction.. not this little video.. eyez back on the prize Jay..
Hey couldnt recieve ur msg coz my phone on myspace decided 2 turn gay on me, yes i own the only transexual mobile phone in the world that it has more mood swings than a woman.. Lol x
Darling As my new MySpace friend, I am including you in something exciting--I just won the SILVER SCREEN ACTORS SHOWCASE AWARD from the NEVADA FILM FESTIVAL for my new legit FEATURE FILM! NATASHA KIZMET: THE MOVIE! It has been called BORAT MEETS CANDY and I want your feedback, and the feedback of your MySpace friends! You would be doing me a big favor if you would post this comment so people would know to go the the "My Videos" section of my profile to watch the trailer and the other scenes I have posted. This is my market research as to how well we have done. The film is being shopped as we speak by a major film agent, and we are entering it in Film Festivals! This is exciting, and thanks SO MUCH for your help!!
If you want to help market the film, or get on the list to order the DVD when it comes out at a discount, email me at natasha.kizmet.the.movie@gmail.com
Also,my movie features a sequence with a Belly Dancing show that I did under my belly dancing alter ego of Raya--TEMPTATION OF BELLY DANCE. It has been called the most artistic and sensual live belly dance DVD ever!! Please have a look, and visit the DVDs web site!
Below is a video of Nigel Potter's song,
No More War (Upon The Green Earth) that is part of the Mantra Of Peace
music compilation. I constructed this video for Nigel because it's an
important song with a very popular sentiment that has been an anthem
for a very long time.
I hope you will watch and appreciate all of our efforts to bring about messages in peaceful artistic means.
Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War Continued aggressions of the Chilean state has led the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), a radical indigenous Mapuche organization, to formally renounce their Chilean citizenship and declared war on the government. The declaration was issued on Oct. 20, the same day that two trucks belonging to the El Bosque forestry corporation were intercepted by CAM and set on fire in the province of Malleco. As reported by the Latin American Herald Tribune, “the attacks, which began at 1:10 a.m., came hours after five Mapuches were formally indicted under a Pinochet-era anti-terrorism law for similar assaults carried out Oct. 11 near the city of Victoria.” The declaration, much more than a symbolic gesture, comes at a time of increasing violence against Mapuche children and youths, particularly over the past three months, when Mapuche communities began reclaiming illegally occupied lands in the region of Araucania. For instance, according to the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), on Oct. 16 “a large group of police, for as yet unknown reasons, began to fire pellets and tear gas canisters” in a school in Temucuicui, Araucania. “Several children suffered pellet wounds and had trouble breathing,” Hundreds of Mapuche and non-Mapuche activists protested the attack on Oct. 23—including several children, who carried the empty canisters with them as the marched in Temuco, Araucania’s capital.
Thanks so much for being my friend, Media Activist Jay Baker™!
I am stopping by to say "hi" and to remind you that in addition to MySpace, you can visit with me on Twitter and Facebook. I also have a personal blog on StockValues.
I write mostly about farming/gardening and stock/bond investing, but also anything else that rattles my cage. Please stop by when you get a chance.
