Another cop who killed a black guy not indicted. Protests, but no rioting that I heard about. C is either conservative or contrarian. M is def. a liberal. I remember in ’92, my boss called me at work saying that the cops who beat King were not guilty. I asked him if the rioting had started yet…the next day I was at the ARCO refinery in Carson, and I could see the columns of smoke rising from South Central. I left work early.
I’ve had a bit of a financial setback. If you’re a human and reading this, please tip me. We’re going to have to watch our pennies for the next month or 2. I woke up very early because of it, and after mulling things over, I daydreamed and wrote some lyrics. Unfortunately, I didn’t put them to paper. I think I’m going to start putting them to paper, then to music-probably just guitar and automated bass and drums. Maybe piano. Low tech folkie singer-songwriter stuff-I have all the right gear. Who knows? by this time next year, I might be famous! That would be a hoot-going out on the road at 53…
Now it’s Tuesday-now it’s Wednesday. Busy weekend and week. Friday was quiet, Saturday went to a memorial service for the baby. E picked me up, and we went to a Christmas fair at the expo center-lots of junk, but I got to sample wine & booze, including a delicious eggnog liqueur. Church Sunday, shopping, slacked on cleaning. Monday, back into a client drama, S to dentist, met them in Gladstone, looking for assembly clothes. Same Tues, good performance review, cleaned & laundry, woke up early, dreaming about being in a car with girls, listening to a station that cuts off songs.
And now Thursday. Gamelan was ok, but I’m messed up on the imbal on Djagung-Djagung. Dreamed about watching a performance, annoying narrator, E yelling “Shut up,” security coming, E leaves, I go downstairs, come back after I find out the play lasts 4 hours, they’re throwing squishy balls around, and water. Christmas party tonight, on a boat, and it’s going to be windy.
Links: State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability, Republicans ‘dedicated with utter servility’ to the needs of the 1 percent, The Intellectual Condescension of White Liberals, 5 Reasons America Should Be Ashamed of Itself, The Wages of Global Capitalism, The Danger of American Fascism, The Right-Wing Myth That America Was Originally a Theocracy Is So Wrong, Democracy Crisis: We Are Enslaving Ourselves to Illegitimate Power, The Irony and the Ecstasy, The Obama Recovery Has Been Miles Better Than the Bush Recovery, Conservative Lies About Why the Economy Is Finally Recovering, A Multi-Billion Dollar Secret, China Passes US To Take Number One Spot As World’s Largest Economy, Propaganda Has Triumphed over Journalism, Are We Becoming a Theocracy?, How Would Today’s Republicans Treat Jesus?, A Society of Captives, Why Millions of Christian Evangelicals Oppose Obamacare and Civil Rights, Can the Left Launch Its Own Tea Party?, America’s Obscenely Rich Know Full Well That They Are Destroying America, How We Can Release Ourselves From the Tyrannical Grip of Corporate Power
Listening to: Harold Budd, Filter, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, Coyote Oldman, Hole, French Frith Kaiser Thompson, Hawkwind, Dead Can Dance, Anne Dudley, Beck, art bears, Peter Gabriel, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Burning Spear, Neu!, fIREHOSE, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, Franz Schubert, Rage Against The Machine, Rob Zombie, Rage Against The Machine, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tabla Beat Science, Anugama, Wendy Carlos, Jean Michel Jarre, Ravel, Flaming Lips, Johannes Brahms, art bears, Herb Ernst, Grateful Dead, Amethystium, Steven Halpern, Adam Trainer, Anne Dudley, Thomas Dolby, U2, Nirvana, Echoes of Nature, AC/DC, DOCKTA VALKUS, Grateful Dead, Golden Earring, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Rush, Philip Glass, Rage Against The Machine, Morphine, Tool, Jefferson Starship, Pat Metheny, Grateful Dead, Anne Clark, Augustus Pablo meets The Upsetter, Century of Aeroplanes, Brian Eno – David Byrne, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Clash, A Beautiful Machine, adrian juarez, Grateful Dead, Babe The Blue Ox, Djinnestan, Michael Stearns, Tao Te Ching, Steve Winwood, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tuxedomoon, Kansas, Brian Parnham (with Steve Roach), Peter Gabriel, Bach, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, The Art Of Noise