This isn’t that much fun…..
So here’s someone with a strong opinion that has a few interesting perspectives to check out, fairly alarming if it’s even slightly true……
Testing sharing from website
I’m doing this so that I can bypass putting my content on Facebook and other sites directly, and instead keep ownership by posting it on MY site, then sharing it out….in doing so I hope to sytart my own movement away from having other sites own my content, at least outright anyway, and bringing control of what I do back in to MY world.
Gotta start somewhere…. right?
Statistics related to Japan Nuclear incident.
Got this from my friend Jon Christopher
The recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates that eight cities in the northwest U.S. (Boise ID, Seattle WA, Portland OR, plus the northern California cities of Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley) reported the following data on deaths among those younger than one year of age:
4 weeks ending March 19, 2011 – 37 deaths (avg. 9.25 per week)10 weeks ending May 28, 2011 – 125 deaths (avg.12.50 per week)
This amounts to an increase of 35% (the total for the entire U.S. rose about 2.3%), and is statistically significant.
Of further significance is that those dates include the four weeks before and the ten weeks after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster. In 2001 the infant mortality was 6.834 per 1000 live births, increasing to 6.845 in 2007. All years from 2002 to 2007 were higher than the 2001 rate.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_wk/wk_cvol.html
Just saying.
A response to a Lefsetz Letter
RE: “This is our country” – http://www.lefsetz.com and the replies to your earlier posts regarding the AZ law.
I don’t see much of the music “lefties” in my day to day as a working L.A. musician.
The idea of a majority of artist-types being lefty or liberal is WAAAYYYY off, in my experience many of those replies reflect what I see these days, this weird kinda libertarianism that’s rooted in the most strict Rand-ian principles from like 7th grade.
Nuance, humanity, understanding and empathy take a far back seat to rigid adherence to ideals that are not only impossible to actually implement in the real world, but would only work in fiction, which is where they were popularized.
Here’s the thing, although while I was touring my records I would often get angry, (sometimes extremely and close to violent) responses to my political views, the rabid frothing right-wing anger I currently see from my fellow musicians is what I find the most disturbing. And I feel like it reflects the same shift in the music being produced…in other words, the type of thinking that gives you 60’s era CSN, Dylan, Mitchell, Baez etc al, does NOT jibe with the current working music landscape, but rather the kind of lockjaw-ed, pissed off, rigid, corporate minded, and “I’ll get mine and FUCK you” kind of thinking that I now see so much of amongst working musicians works pretty well in the current music environment.
I think that’s not surprising, and I think they both shape and strengthen each other.
It’s never been that kind of mind that was a creative force. That kind of mind has always been behind the scenes, predictable, a follower, a sideman, a seller, a middleman. The creative mind tends to be an outsider, open, fluid, interested, humane and unpredictable.
Of course those are HUGE generalizations and many exceptions can be found, but it reflects what I see around me.
You can use my name, if they know me they already know what I think.