THE UMX BLOG will see changes in 2009, and though you don’t know it, we have begun already! I’d talk allll about it, but in an effort to reduce the amount of words I type each day to around 500,000 or less, I will not introduce or explain this video except to say it is one of many that will be featured here in the coming year and that it will be followed up in a couple days with Episode 2.
I CAN’T THINK of a more uplifting message than this: Put your time, energy, and heart into something and the energy will return. It will grow, it will propagate, it will continue. And this lesson can be found in events both small and large.
HISTORY REVEALS PATTERNS and patterns reveal truths. Truth is not always beautiful. Sometimes it is very brutal and bloody, like freedom. Freedom is a time for music and so is war. A revolutionary hand can strum a guitar or wield a machete. Or both.
MALVERDE: La luz esta en saber, en el poder entender. Que mientras no habres los ojos no vas a poder ver…
TODAY I FEEL THE NEED for sun, sand, brass, movement and joy. This song brings me back to a few places, one of them being Miami Beach. In the Pacific Northwest skies this morning there is more than enough gray, so we won’t delve into any more discussions on duality and dichotomy. Tu mamí tenía razón! Dance! And then dance some more!
KEVIN: The Cross Road has been on my mind lately. Not because I feel that our President-Elect, Barack Obama, is at The Cross Road in the sense of selling his soul to become President, or that he is “out alone after dark” in his new role as leader of the United States. Both possibilities are there, to be sure, but that is not what concerns me now…
HERE’S A SHORT PERFORMANCE by the not-yet-renowned Luna S. Herrera, reprising a duet she performed with the Virtual Tracy Chapman in 2007. For the 2008 version she chooses a recorder instead of keys and experiments with many finger positions and one or two notes. Okay, maybe one.
YOU ASK ME am I happy? Well as matter of fact, I can say that I’m ecstatic, ’cause we all just made a pact. We’ve agreed to get together, joined as children in Jah! When you’re moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star…
A LINE OF THOUGHT going around today is the idea that while we all want change badly and see this election as heralding or potentiating important change, we are the ones who have to bring this about. And not just by participating in politics, but every day, in many ways.
THE DAY IS HERE! It’s time for the first change of many and it’s all very exciting. I feel like it’s early Christmas morning over here in the dark Pacific Northwest morning. I’m shakin’ the boxes! I’m smelling the pine needles! Warm red-gold-green-blue glow on my face! My heart is full of hope and a feeling of renewal.
HERE’S A LITTLE MUSIC with confrontational soul. Here’s a little textual feeling taking a confrontational role. Hearing about a silver spoon in the mouth at birth and privilege I begin thinking about how it infects thinking and how it infects all our thinking potentially. Which leads me to thinking about those choosing to vote third party right now, or who are still “Undecided.”
THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY of art and music created solely by the citizens who are feelin’ this change continue to impress me with their unsolicited works of support for Barack Obama. Here’s a well made jammie called “Vote for Hope” by Mc Yogi. Goes well with coffee. And tea!
SAVE THIS PAGE for las horas esta noche cuando la energía is ramping up and you are gettin loose you betcha cuz here is some Republikan-shattering love-infested color-bestreaked and papaya-shaking música para ti!
ECHOING A RECENT musical post built on the NezDualityEngine™ we again give you two sides of the coin from which to choose, or perhaps of both become imbued. OH SNAP, as I said 100% Feliz Fuel in this bad boy’s tank.
HEY HEY It’s Friday! And that means the typical workweek ends and spirits rise and here at UMX it means music (sometimes) and today, a long table, un hombre hugging his guitarra, and very energetic and beautiful mujeres in interesting eyewear dancing to strains of sweet brass and singing beautiful palabras. ¡Disfrute, señoras y señores!
House of Nezua
the XOLAGRAFIK theater!
