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Your Weekly Vinyl Reminda! [23Jan2010]

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

YOUR WEEKLY VINYL REMINDA! This one is beautifully decorated with imagery, heart, and those glimpses of humanity that bobby d. is so good at giving us.

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EVO-lution!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

INDIGENOUS LEADER AND MAN OF THE PEOPLE, Evo Morales sweeps to victory again. It is a huge win for people power, for people-oriented politics, and the indigenous, as well.

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My People Will Have Degradation, and Your People, Cardigans.

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

HERE’S A BIT OF GALLOWS AND HOLIDAY HUMOR, Addams Family style, addressing the fallacy of Thanksgiving fables.

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Your Friday Vinyl Reminda! | 28 de Agosto, 2009

Friday, August 28th, 2009

WELCOME ONCE AGAIN to your Friday Vinyl Reminda! Let’s kick off our Viernes with a short splash of sweet, sweet music as it can only be experienced on vinyl. First one to name this song in the comments wins a chocolate coffee bean that I will eat in your honor.

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Meringue-Coup Friday!

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

IT’S FRIDAY, and one of the oldest blog traditions I can think of is where we shake out the spirit with la música! I don’t always follow it, but I think it arose out of an organic need. So many of us follow such dire happenings day after day…it is taxing. We must fight on! And also, we must dance.

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Which Side Are YOU On?

Monday, May 4th, 2009

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A SIDE. Life contains as much nuance as there are sizes of raindrops. But in la lucha para justícia, there is no nuance but only making a decision on whether you will stand with the entrenched powers that be, or the people suffering in the wake of those powers.

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Golden Feather [Wednesday Roost-Blogging]

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

SHOULD I PAINT MY FACE?
Should I pierce my skin?
Does this make me a pagan
Sweating out my sins…

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music for the national rummage sale

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

SOME FOLKS INHERIT STAR-SPANGLED EYES.
Ooh, they send you down to war.
And when you ask them, how much should we give?
Ooh, they only answer more! more! more!

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Weekend Música – Oppression

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

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.

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BREAKING: I.C.E. Served Deportation Papers by F.I.R.E!

Friday, December 5th, 2008

FLAGSTAFF, AZ: At approximately 10AM on Thursday December 4th, Flagstaff Immigrant Rights Enforcement (FIRE) confronted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a daring raid, serving a notice of deportation to ICE representatives at an ICE Management meeting.

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Victor Jara and Che Guevara

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

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.

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Yo Solo Busco Mi Destino…

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

MALVERDE: La luz esta en saber, en el poder entender. Que mientras no habres los ojos no vas a poder ver…

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World Out of Balance

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

KOYANISQAATSI: The greatest event in the history of mankind has occurred recently, and has been largely missed by both the media and academia. Beyond the headlines and every day crises of international events, a deeper shift in human affairs has occurred: Humanity no longer exists in the natural world, we are no longer connected to it.

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¡La Vida es un Carnaval!

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

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!

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Beautiful Life, Beautiful World

Friday, November 21st, 2008

¡VIERNES! And we usher Friday in with a Psychedelic Palate Cleanser. No peyote needed! Continuing a recent tradition here at UMX, I offer you a double-feature YouTube in a mestizolicious manner of recognizing the duality that is (at least in my experience) at the core of human existence and perception.