Michael Franti. He is a good man. Amazing. This is a video of him singing his song Hello Bonjour at the Power To The Peaceful concert in San Francisco that he hosts every year. Check out some of his other music...he has also recently made a film called I know I'm not alone where he traveled to the war zones of Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This wasn’t a USO green zone sponsored visit – Franti and his team organized a trip that would take him to the core of the red-zoned, war torn neighborhoods of Baghdad, the West Bank and Gaza Strip armed with only a guitar, video cameras and the intent to experience first hand the human cost of war. Throughout his journey he shares his music with families, doctors, musicians, soldiers and everyday people who in turn reveal to him the often overlooked human cost of war. Out of this expedition, Franti has produced and directed a compelling documentary film titled I Know I’m Not Alone. With its guerrilla style footage captured in active war zones, the documentary is unlike the many academic and politically driven pieces in the marketplace, instead offering the audience a sense of intimate travel and the opportunity to hear the voices of everyday people living, creating and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation. Check it out.
Wal-Mart is bad (but we already knew that). This post is about how Wal-Mart is, and goes about being, 100% anti-union. Unions represent the people. Keep your right to have a say in your working conditions, hours and wages; keep your right to obtain decent benefits; keep your right to strike without losing your job; be a union!
Waking Ned Devine is a great Irish comedy. The plot line is simple: Man dies of shock. Man had just won the lottery. Fellow townsfolk find man...and his lottery ticket. Fellow townsfolk try to claim the lottery money. Mind you, my synopsis does NOT do this movie justice. I just suck at writing movie reviews (unless I hate the movie, then, of course, I can just about always convey my feelings of resentment in a cheerfully eloquent way). I digress...Anyway, this movie doesn't have anyone you're likely to know, unless you are familiar with Irish actors. You could call this dark humour, I suppose...very upbeat dark humour...Of course, Irish humour can be synonymous with dark humour a lot of the time. So really, it all depends if you're Irish or not. So, I recommend this movie...to everyone.
I live on a boat. Someone outed me once...as a boater. Hah. kills me every time I think about it. My dad is considered "homeless" by the state because he lives on a boat. That always kills Peter to hear that. I wonder if it was a houseboat, would it still be considered homeless? Because it's a sailboat. 37 feet (or around there). It was crafted in Japan. It's really pretty neat. It's small, so don't ask to stay over if you need a lot of space.
Today it was 111 degrees here in good old Antioch. 111! It was a low of 105 at 8pm. Absolutely amazing and at the same time (sadly) not very surprising. In England it was 100 degrees for the second time in their history! The first time being August of 2003 when it soared to a record 101. Can you believe it? 100 degrees...in England! The average temperature for England in July is a nice 70 degrees. Oh, and lest I forget the bit about Southern England which is now experiancing the worst drought in over 100 years. Of course, Britian has the longest running set of temperature records in the world, dating back to 1659; which is how we know these things. What are people thinking is the culprit in this? What is to blame? What could be a very likely possibility? That's right. You guessed it. (And if you didn't, shame) Global Warming! Oh, but keep that hush hush. Just between you and me. Because we all know, global warming does not exist!
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