pretty awesome.
in love,
ge
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Christian the Lion
Here's the back story on this one (taken from youtube):
In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. 'Christian' was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast...
A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.
It was an emotional reunion: "He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders."
My friend Sadie showed me this one....totally awesome.
in love,
ge
In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. 'Christian' was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast...
A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in a huge enclosure and to sleep in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Nine months later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya. This clip is of their reunion at that time.
It was an emotional reunion: "He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders."
My friend Sadie showed me this one....totally awesome.
in love,
ge
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
School of Seven Bells
ok, so every once in a while i go on a mission: find a new favorite band. this quest, taken up at least twice a year, has proven successful time and time again. here is a list of past winners:
the arcade fire
iron & wine
yeasayer
bon iver
thao nguyen
lewis and clarke
lata mangeshkar
the list goes on and on. well, yesterday, the mission struck. a fire was lit in my heart, and i wasn't going to stop searching the internet until i found something worthy of listening to non-stop for the next several months. thankfully, the universe responded in kind with School of Seven Bells. upon first listening to "Half Asleep" on my dinky little headphones in the library, i was rather impressed. i thought, "wow, maybe these guys are really good." later in the nite, i found myself in keith's room, and we began sharing music. it wasn't long until i brought up School of Seven Bells. we proceeded to listen to "Half Asleep" on his most excellent computer speakers at top volume, and all of a sudden, everything made sense: this is it. these guys are it.
so, if you listen to this music once and you go, "eh, kind of repetitive, a little simple, a little trippy," i understand. but do yourself a favor and mellow out using whatever techniques you deem necessary and put on Seven Bells at top volume with good speakers and try to tell me your life didn't just change a little. the two female vocalists are twins....twins i tell you! they found Benjamin Curtis (any relation to JE?) by watching him play on stage. they fell in love with his playing and he fell in love with their singing (who can blame him).
the last song, "iamundernodisguise," is their new single...and it is arguably their best song!!! they are opening for Black Moth Super Rainbow on May 21 in Chicago!!!! we gotta go!!! it's going to be awesome!!! and it's only 12 bucks!!! caitlin, can me and some friends crash at your place?
oh, and read the lyrics. and visit their myspace page for three other incredible tracks called "Prince of Peace," "TranceFigure," and "Chain." they are all incredible:
http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
ok. enough jibber jabber.....listen to the music!
in love,
ge
Lyrics to Half Asleep:
Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours tills gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
Lyrics to connjur:
How does someone with nothing end
up with so much to show for it
All kinds of people, places, and things
Your cheap doormats and decorations
And to think it was all just a dream
One fantastic hallucination
Keep on polishing your golden
wall of trophies and self portraits
We'll just smile and wait till he knocks off
your designer rose colored glasses
And you'll see what we see - nothing but
old dust, peeled paint, and broken glasses
A simple imprint, imagine
I was the hill we walked
I was the walk that swung from your leg
I was your words that cast in my thoughts
Those who say dream are just dreams
say words end when you can't hear them
Listen closely as they fade
and witness the worlds construction
Lyrics to My Cabal:
My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for one night
Possibilities
baited with personal inconvenience
Every time he feels
that baited resistance tugging at his sleeve
he struggles to find who
he struggles to see why
He's weary with a weight
so often confused with authority,
but who's?
He sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
I want to know why
paper is so different
And what happens once these
promises incubated hit the air
I want to know why the
air becomes so thick and impenetrable
and why another set of rules apply, why?
My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for night
Lyrics to iamundernodisguise:
I am neither breather nor speaker
I am neither walker nor sleeper
I am neither sister brother son nor daughter
Solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water
I am under no disguise
the arcade fire
iron & wine
yeasayer
bon iver
thao nguyen
lewis and clarke
lata mangeshkar
the list goes on and on. well, yesterday, the mission struck. a fire was lit in my heart, and i wasn't going to stop searching the internet until i found something worthy of listening to non-stop for the next several months. thankfully, the universe responded in kind with School of Seven Bells. upon first listening to "Half Asleep" on my dinky little headphones in the library, i was rather impressed. i thought, "wow, maybe these guys are really good." later in the nite, i found myself in keith's room, and we began sharing music. it wasn't long until i brought up School of Seven Bells. we proceeded to listen to "Half Asleep" on his most excellent computer speakers at top volume, and all of a sudden, everything made sense: this is it. these guys are it.
so, if you listen to this music once and you go, "eh, kind of repetitive, a little simple, a little trippy," i understand. but do yourself a favor and mellow out using whatever techniques you deem necessary and put on Seven Bells at top volume with good speakers and try to tell me your life didn't just change a little. the two female vocalists are twins....twins i tell you! they found Benjamin Curtis (any relation to JE?) by watching him play on stage. they fell in love with his playing and he fell in love with their singing (who can blame him).
the last song, "iamundernodisguise," is their new single...and it is arguably their best song!!! they are opening for Black Moth Super Rainbow on May 21 in Chicago!!!! we gotta go!!! it's going to be awesome!!! and it's only 12 bucks!!! caitlin, can me and some friends crash at your place?
oh, and read the lyrics. and visit their myspace page for three other incredible tracks called "Prince of Peace," "TranceFigure," and "Chain." they are all incredible:
http://www.myspace.com/schoolofsevenbells
ok. enough jibber jabber.....listen to the music!
in love,
ge
Lyrics to Half Asleep:
Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours tills gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
Lyrics to connjur:
How does someone with nothing end
up with so much to show for it
All kinds of people, places, and things
Your cheap doormats and decorations
And to think it was all just a dream
One fantastic hallucination
Keep on polishing your golden
wall of trophies and self portraits
We'll just smile and wait till he knocks off
your designer rose colored glasses
And you'll see what we see - nothing but
old dust, peeled paint, and broken glasses
A simple imprint, imagine
I was the hill we walked
I was the walk that swung from your leg
I was your words that cast in my thoughts
Those who say dream are just dreams
say words end when you can't hear them
Listen closely as they fade
and witness the worlds construction
Lyrics to My Cabal:
My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for one night
Possibilities
baited with personal inconvenience
Every time he feels
that baited resistance tugging at his sleeve
he struggles to find who
he struggles to see why
He's weary with a weight
so often confused with authority,
but who's?
He sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
I want to know why
paper is so different
And what happens once these
promises incubated hit the air
I want to know why the
air becomes so thick and impenetrable
and why another set of rules apply, why?
My cabal, he sleeps outside
pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won't you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for night
Lyrics to iamundernodisguise:
I am neither breather nor speaker
I am neither walker nor sleeper
I am neither sister brother son nor daughter
Solely in my chest is my heart a drum of water
I am under no disguise
Monday, March 23, 2009
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
i literally cannot believe how good this is. Ali Khan sings Qawwali music, praise songs to God from the Sufi tradition. my dear friend, pete, just sent out an email to a bunch of his friends with a video from this performance. watch the master at work and let him move you...at the 8 minute mark, your whole life might change
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_fateh_ali_khan
in love,
ge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_fateh_ali_khan
in love,
ge
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Stephen, I'm glad we're friends...
Walt Whitman dance party with woodland creatures at 2:36...
Salt at different frequencies...yeah, it's science...
Salt at different frequencies...yeah, it's science...
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
More Sunni Patterson
sunni patterson tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. sometimes, her anger startles me. but then i remember what she is talking about, and i realize that it is my own complicity that makes me uneasy.
why is it so hard for us to accept the fact that the universe is asking us to undergo a complete and total revolution? why is it so hard for us to support each other in this journey? what must be done to make it happen, to do the work that needs to be done, individually and collectively?
in love (and questions),
ge
why is it so hard for us to accept the fact that the universe is asking us to undergo a complete and total revolution? why is it so hard for us to support each other in this journey? what must be done to make it happen, to do the work that needs to be done, individually and collectively?
in love (and questions),
ge
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Louis CK
This is a pretty funny segment on how funny entitlement is and how spoiled some of us are.
I hope you're well.
in love,
ge
I hope you're well.
in love,
ge
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Severn Suzuki at the 1992 UN Earth Summit
this is such a powerful video. her words are so true, so real. we must start acting boldly, yes? perhaps you already do.
how do you act boldly for the world and the people who inhabit it?
how do you listen to those who are too often silenced or ignored?
how do you fall short of the radical lifestyle you envision?
how do you continue on despite the setbacks?
or better yet, how do we do this together? how do we forgive each other for falling short? how do we encourage each other to keep going?
in love,
ge
how do you act boldly for the world and the people who inhabit it?
how do you listen to those who are too often silenced or ignored?
how do you fall short of the radical lifestyle you envision?
how do you continue on despite the setbacks?
or better yet, how do we do this together? how do we forgive each other for falling short? how do we encourage each other to keep going?
in love,
ge
Monday, March 2, 2009
Herman Dune = Awesome
thankfully, i found these guys a second time. several months ago i saw these videos online but lost track of where i could find them. then, tonite, while procrastinating, they came upon me like a spring rain of contentment. puppets. pop music. trite, catchy lyrics. dancing children. nothing is better.
in love,
ge
in love,
ge
Sam Cooke
everything is good about sam cooke. let his voice shake loose your bones...and your heart. these are two of my favorite sam cooke songs of all time. the first one is the best version of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" that i've ever heard. the second one is, "Bring it on Home To Me," and Pete Weiss and I used to sing it in the Union Square Subway station to raise money for Obama. It's a doosy.
there's so much good sam cooke out there, i feel bad just posting two videos but youtube has a surprising shortage of good videos featuring him. bummer.
however, these do the trick.
listen to that voice...nobody sounds like that.
thank you, sam.
in love,
ge
there's so much good sam cooke out there, i feel bad just posting two videos but youtube has a surprising shortage of good videos featuring him. bummer.
however, these do the trick.
listen to that voice...nobody sounds like that.
thank you, sam.
in love,
ge
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