Basia Bulat will be on Austin Tx this friday, and i don´t had my visa or passport, so... life sucks!
I just had a very strange dream, i was on my new job and one of my coworkers was Basia Bulat, and she was playing oh my darling in a break hahahaha :) kind of cool isn´t.
for those who still don´t know anything of Basia, i leave the video in the knight, unfortunally they didnt make a video of my favorite song; when i was a daughter.
Well. i can´t go to austin thie friday, but i will be at chocolate´s house in the stereo total show!!! XD
But i really prefer the indie-like-folk music :(
Espero les guste el video, la banda es muy buena, son unos chavos de mty.
Mucha suerte y esperemos seguir viendo cosas de calidad.
Saludos.
ya saben solamente una donacion de 125 dolarucos para que se patrocinen unos collares de moleculas! yo quiero el de la serotonina!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhh jajajaja no se me ocurre regalo mas ñoño y mas chingon en toda la faz del mundo.
Imaginaos es el collar de la felicidad! :D
Serotonina Rocks the world bien machin!
Por cierto, si me estoy burlando un poco, pero fuera de burla, en esta web apoyamos al 100% a Erowid, Mindsurf, Cannabiscafe, Wikipedia y todas aquellas web/causas pacificas que creen en un mundo mejor.
En un mundo de paz y luz.
Si alguien puede y quiere apoyar, es una buena causa.
Hello beautiful world,
Today I want to take the chance to thank the beautiful world. The world is so beautiful and perfect, so whole and sound. I love this world, this beautiful and good earth, -so much. I am so thankful to all the people and all the places of earth. When I understand and realize where everything comes from I feel deeply thankful. Most of all I am thankful to the water. I love the water so much and I vow to respect and care for the water. I know that what each person does makes a difference. And even though I am only one small person, I know that each heart radiates a center of joy. I know that what I do and that what everyone does makes a difference. I know that everyone has power whether we like it or not and we have to be responsible. I vow to live my life in a new way. A way that is not toxic. I will change my relationship completely with the elements of the earth, the plants and the animals, the air and the sea, the soil and the sand. This way we will all end war. Peace comes through each one ending it. Each person.
I love this world with all my heart! I wonder how mystery of union is perfect. Today I was thinking about the salt crystal. What is the difference between the salt and the soil? I was realizing that the ground of being is unified! Complete union between all life! But then what is the meaning of differentiation?
The cause is celebration, the meaning is celebration, the future is celebration!
Celebration is liberation!
Love between all people!
Respect for all consciousness! all life!
Planetary Peace!
All of these are within our grasp,
we just have to claim our own lives, our own time, our own creativity,
our own undivided unity with all being,
we all belong-
and through our circle with each other we
rise together!
peace,
together,
forever,
and ever,
and now!
love,
becky
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Letter from Becky Stark and the Lavender Diamond.
I just Love them
Is Peace Enough?
Old people cry, young lovers smile and cynical hipsters get confused when she’s onstage. What is Lavender Diamond’s love-and-ecology frontlady BECKY STARK up to?
By Jay Babcock, with photography by Mark Frohman & Molly Frances
Originally published in Arthur No. 26/Sept 2007
Recently Becky Stark and her mother dropped in on Arthur’s Thursday social at a pub in Los Angeles. Talk about the fruit not falling far from the tree: Diane Stark, an ordained minister serving at the Unity Church of Practical Christianity in Grand Rapids, Michigan, effortlessly owned the place. At a table of Becky’s friends, she told stories about her own mother, a spiritualist who gave public lectures on metaphysics in the ‘40s and completed an unpublished book entitled The Meaning of Love. She talked about working as a stripper on Sunset Boulevard in the mid-1970s; about witnessing Martin Luther King, Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech; about her own life philosophy (“I like to act as if I’m inside a fable”); about how you should hold a loved one when she’s asleep; and, of course, about Becky being born (“She was happy to be here”). Then someone put on Link Wray and it was time for the Stark women to dance—or, as Diane put it, “have a conversation at the energetic level.”
If that doesn’t explain Becky Stark, here are some other true stories. One of the first books she read was a collection of Ghandi’s writings given to her by a friend of the family who was active in the nuclear freeze movement. She joined the League of Women Voters at age 7 and in seventh grade, traveled through the Soviet Union with 13 other American kids as part of a cross-cultural exchange initiative called “Peace Child.” The three-week tour included a stay with 500 Soviet kids at a Young Constables youth camp on the Volka River and participation in a youth choir performance opening for American poodlerockers Skid Row at the Moscow Peace Festival in Red Square. (“Peace Child” was the title of a hit song in Russia, and Becky can still sing it on demand.) From eighth to tenth grade, Becky was the head writer, anchor and host of Kids’ Point of View, a weekly 20-minute television show sandwiched on UHF between the World Wrestling Federation show and Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. At 14, he started a local youth chapter of the National Organization of Women. As a teenager, she developed her five-octave range by studying modern and romantic opera (as well as Tin Pan Alley and other classic American pop music), but her opera singing career was ended when her body failed to develop the large lung capacity required to sing at a professional level. She studied Russian as a Comparative Lit undergrad at Brown, and dance at the Merce Cunningham Conservatory in New York City. In 2000, Time Magazine published a photograph of Stark wearing a bright yellow dress levitating in front of riot police during a protest march at the Democratic Convention. In 2003, she toured across the country with Xander Marro, performing “Birdsongs of the Bauhauroque,” an operatic fable/comedic poem involving puppetry, keyboards and costume drama. Returning to Los Angeles, Stark worked a series of comical dayjobs and started performing solo as Lavender Diamond and doing stand-up at the Imrov and other comedy clubs
Over the next two years, Lavender Diamond evolved from a one-woman act into a four-piece symphonic folk-pop band featuring composer Steve Gregoropoulos on piano, Jeff Rosenberg on acoustic guitar and Stark’s boyfriend, the cartoonist Ron Rege, Jr., on drums. The band’s sadness-and-ecstasy four-song EP The Cavalry of Light was self-released in 2005. At ArthurFest that year, they played into the sun with such beauty that left many (including poet Charles Potts) teary-eyed. During the next year, as they were recording with Vetiver/Brightblack Morning Light/Devendra Banhart producer Thom Monahan, Lavender Diamond were signed by the legendary Geoff Travis to Rough Trade in Europe and then to Matador in North America.
Imagine Our Love, Lavender Diamond’s debut full-length, was released earlier this year to the kind of divided response the band has often received live. Stark’s Lavender Diamond persona is unique: think of a cosmic grade school teacher, or maybe Mary Poppins, returned to talk to you later in life, heartbroken at first to have to remind her former pupils about the importance of sharing and respect for Nature, but happy to encourage you to do better, using music, humor and imagination. When Stark sings “You broke my heart” over and over, pointing her finger directly at specific audience members, it’s a loaded—transgressive, even—move in a culture built on evading responsibility; you can see how it might not fly with every jaded urban hipster. But Lavender Diamond’s music is for the entire school, not just the kids too cool to be there. It’s pop music for peace, simple songs pitched somewhere between Linda Ronstadt, Jefferson Airplane and Yellow Submarine. Or, as Stark says, “It’s lovesongs to the world.”
Here’s part of our recent conversation.
Arthur: So many people think you’re being ironic. Does that bother you?
Becky Stark: I thought our music was simple enough for anyone to get, and so it’s kind of confounded me when people think we’re joking. Why on earth would we do that? Every time anyone asks if I’m serious about celebrating peace on earth I have to say, “Are you seriously asking me that question?” For real. I’m the weirdo? For talking about peace? In the midst of a horrific insane war? What? What have things come to that people think it’s a joke to play music that celebrates peace? I guess that in the performance of Lavender Diamond I am trying to create an antidote to the degradation of our times—it’s like we are trying to run an interference pattern. It’s pretty extreme, and maybe that’s why people think it couldn’t be sincere. I think it’s our responsibility to be understood. Maybe some people think we’re kidding because we look silly. Well, I’ll have to work on my delivery and fashions so that we are taken more seriously. Maybe I’ll have to start wearing all grey and black and frowning! Seriously…maybe we just have to be more elegant…? More sexy? We’ll keep working on it. I probably need to be more dignified and not as loopy. If we’re being misunderstood, it’s because we’re not being powerful enough or intelligent enough in our communication.
Arthur: Talk about the source for the title “Imagine Our Love.”
Becky: Ron [Rege, Jr.] was reading Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh and came across the phrase “imagine our love” in a passage about covering the world with loving prayer. Thich Nhat Hanh is a peace activist from Vietnam who was brought to the U.S. by Martin Luther King, Jr. in an effort to end the Vietnam War. Peace Is Every Step teaches how to cultivate the strength and power of a loving heart, about love and communication. How to be a peaceful person—a warrior of peace. He talks about how the people he was with in Vietnam had to heal from the war. It is very beautiful and inspiring and heartbreaking. He’ll be at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles leading a peace walk in September. Peace is every step!
Arthur: Is peace enough?
Becky: Yes. That’s the definition of peace, I think: understanding that we already have enough. Peace, by definition, is enough.
Arthur: What do you think music is for?
Becky: Music is for celebration, for having a great time. Music is like touch, language and medicine: it’s for healing, for uplifting. Music is a source of strength for people in a time of trouble. Music gives people a way of expressing joy and sorrow. Music is for communicating poetry and new ways of living and being, for communicating ideas of how we can transform our world and guide it into liberation of the mind and spirit.
Arthur: The whole world seems to be getting stupider a la Idiocracy’s predictions. Have we entered a new Dark Age, and if so, how can smart people—the ones who aren’t sharks or demagogues—survive in a devolving situation?
Becky: We have to be smarter. We have to grow. We have to evolve ourselves consciously—by being part of the consciousness revolution. We have to build the understanding of the nature of consciousness until it is understood as a fact like the world being round. People have to understand the reality that all of us have power and responsibility and that everyone matters. Everyone is you. The paradox of your own individuation—how at once your life can be whole and part, like a grain of sand—is a source of great pleasure and mystery. What a glorious paradox! It is liberating to discover that your life has meaning, whether you like it or not.
It’s a good thing that our terracidal economies are coming to an end, because our ways are not sustainable. We have to build new models that work so that when the current idiotic models come crashing down, we can be ready with the new ones. An end is a beginning. We have to build the new beginning! We have to be mischievous and intelligent. We have to build templates and demonstrate how to live in a sustainable way. That way it’ll be all figured out and everyone can just copy. We have to make harmonious living delightful. And exciting. And awesome. We should make eco-amusment parks. We could have rides like “It’s a Small World After All”—but everything demonstrating harmony with nature and sustainability. The energy sources for the rides will be transparently built as attractions. We’ll have the artists and engineers create gorgeous, exciting attractions around the energy sources, so that the kids are mesmerized! We’ll have murals, laser light shows. People can come with their families and have a delightful, uplifting, exciting, healing experience that is all powered by the sun and the wind.
I think that if we put our minds to it we can figure out ways to heal our environment.
Sometimes I think about public healing rituals for the earth, holistic remedies for planetary toxicity, like our toxic urban rivers. Maybe baking soda would work? The best way to treat completely toxic water is to run it through a system of plant filters. A lot of ferns. Another powerful way to filter water is to run it down a path in the shape of a figure 8—it oxygenates the water. In China, they build gigantic figure 8 sculptures in the parks. I’d love to start an eco-village community that’s built around urban river water usage. That way we can figure out how to clean our rivers and live with them again and teach everyone else to do it too.
And—also—I think the way to progress/survive is to practice radical compassion, to relate to the world in a completely non-adversarial way. It’s a waste of energy to be against anything or anyone. We have to stop wasting energy. Change our energy source. Change our relationship to nature. Change our relationship to each other. Redirect our energy source from fear to love. From limited to unlimited. Perceive no enemies and no limitations. I have a feeling that we can come up with all the solutions we need.
Arthur: But aren’t some people more responsible for what’s going on than others? Like the rich and powerful, for example. They seem fundamentally different to most people.
Becky: I love the rich and the poor just the same—it’s the middle class that’s the problem! Just kidding. It is true that sometimes it is staggering to witness the way that the rich go on with lives involved in the accumulation of power. But the rich aren’t the only ones in the death grip of the paradigm of domination and control—everyone is! Well, not everyone—but a lot of people are. Time to give it up! Sure, debutante balls and Wall Street culture are weird and corrupt but your question smacks of bigotry. Everyone needs healing and needs to grow. We have to stop dividing the world! Stop it! The only way to solve the world’s problems is for everyone to work together and love each other no matter what class you come from. I have friends who are homeless and friends who are billionaires. I used to have a lot of class rage but I’ve given it up completely. I grew up in a poor family, on the wrong side of the tracks (literally—the train tracks were down the block), but I can’t stand all this bigotry. It’s a cult mentality, a false reality. So, stop it. The most beautiful and gentle soul I ever met, who taught me chess and tai chi, inherited billions of dollars when he was 21. He died of a drug overdose on the street a year later. He was so lost. I think if people would have embraced him in our community he wouldn’t have gone astray. Who knows what would’ve happened if he hadn’t died? Maybe he would’ve used his money for good. It hurts my heart, all this dividing everybody up. If you think the rich are different from everybody else, you are operating in the paradigm of domination and control just like all the other idiots! When the earth becomes so toxic nobody can live on it, the rich die too! No one escapes!
Sorry, but you made me mad with that question. Don’t pull that shit. There’s no time to fight.
Arthur: Speaking of dividing up: why aren’t Lavender Diamond playing all-ages shows? It seems like all you played on your last tour were over-21 bars and nightclubs.
Becky: We realize that our music resonates for people of all ages so we’re playing as much as possible at all-ages places. We’re organizing a tour to schools where we’ll play with the student bands and choirs. But I do like club shows, though, because you can be more wild and dark.
Arthur: You once told an interviewer “dancing should be the number one priority of the nation.” But I’ve never seen people dancing at your shows!
Becky: Maybe Lavender Diamond is part of the problem! People do dance at our shows, but not enough. These days I always wish before the shows that we were making a dance party, but it’s true that we are definitely not making a dance party. That’s why our next record is definitely a dance party record. But yes, Lavender Diamond is part of the problem until we start to make better dancing music. Maybe we need help from the DFA, or M.I.A. Or I could help them, Donna Summer style…?
Arthur: Who are your favorite dancers? What are your favorite dances?
Becky: In terms of historical dancers and choreographers, I love Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine, Maria Tallchief, so many great dancers from the 20th century. Busby Berkeley! I would love to make a musical film with David Parsons’ choreography. I love Ryan Heffington. I want to do some Gene Kelly-style duets. I really love the Singing in the Rain dance, the dance from the end of Lili, and the dances from West Side Story. I love the dead doll pas-de-deux from the ballet coppelia. I love the Balanchine Firebird dance—it’s psychedelic! Twentieth century ballet is so extreme. I like folk dancing too: the polka, the waltz, the do-si-do, square dancing, all the hip-hop dance grooves. I like West African dances—they organize their dances according to ritual purpose, so there’s a marriage dance and a crop dance and death dance and so on. And in Mali they don’t differentiate between the word for language, medicine, and dance. Everyone dances, it’s like yoga—healing codes and positions for your body. It’s like the opposite of ballet. West African dance is all down and ecstatic; ballet is lifting up and is really masochistic. I like ballet but I like the folk kind, not the masochistic high art style. Although I do really love to watch the great ballerinas, with them it doesn’t seems to be about suffering but is about ecstasy. And I want to dance with Patrick Swayze! The dance from Dirty Dancing. That reminds me that tango is the best dance ever. I also like meditative dance like tai chi.
And—I love Mecca Andrews. She is my favorite dancer, she dances in our video. I can’t wait to make more dances with her. Also I love the way Miranda July dances, she’s a great dancer. I love the way my sister dances and my mom dances. I love the way Ron Rege, Jr. dances, he’s a great dancer! I love the way Maximilla [Lukacs] dances!
I guess I really love the way that everyone dances. Everybody is a great dancer!
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Originally published in Arthur No. 26/Sept 2007
Estoy preparando la reseña del concierto de Goran Bregovic en la ciudad.
No se me desesperen, espero terminarlo entre hoy y mañana.
Saludos.
Estoy tan feliz que mi felicidad no cabe en mi.
Amo a Nacha Guevara.
Recuerdo que fue con la música que crecí, en la casa se escuchaba a Nacha Guevara, a Ricchi Poveri, a Lusiano Pavarotti, a Alfredo Zitarrosa, a Bach, Chopin, Strauss, y cosas así..
Es la música y el mundo en el que crecí y en el que, en algún momento creí.
Con el tiempo me aleje de ello, pero a veces, cuando la partida se aproximaba, quería recuperar esos recuerdos.
Violeta me recordo "La nausea" y me hizo ver, cuan mal lector soy, si se me saltan recuerdos y detalles tan importantes...
Pensandolo bien... ahí deben estar guardados.. guiando mis dedos cuando escribo o dictando el rumbo que mis sueños seguiran.
Decia de "la nausea", lo complicado que es tratar con los recuerdos, por ejemplo la carta, el hecho de que no hay que leer la carta porque se pierde el sentido de la misma y que por no leerla la relegamos lentamente a "olvido".
"Declaro la guerra contra mi peor enemigo, que es, que es:
Olvido."
Hace años inicie una guerra contra Olvido.
Parte del programa de batalla, era recolectar las memorias o las piezas del pasado perdido.
En ellas estaba Nacha Guevara, junto con los otros nombres que mencione.
Así que descargue música de ella.. y .. y.. no tengo palabras para describirlo.. darme cuenta que el sentido lúdico siempre ah sido una parte muy importante de mi vida, es algo que me lleno de orgullo.
La ví, a la Sra Guevara, aquí en mty.
No puedo decir cuan feliz fuí, a pesar de que no fuí con quien quería: Selby.
Compre los boletos y mi amiga Violeta estaba llorando porque quería entrar a ver a nacha y no tenía boletos.
(no se confundan, esta es otra Violeta diferente a la primera mencionada)
entonces le dije a Selby, oye a ti no te gusta tanto Nacha, mejor le doy el boleto a ella.. jajaja y como Selby andaba con dolor de cabeza me dijo, si mejor, porque me siento mal.
Asi que le di el boleto pero Violeta ya habia conseguido y le dio el boleto a Luis.
Asi que termine llendo con Luis.. quien resulto ser amigo no solo de Violeta, sino de la hermana de Selby.. pinche mundo pequeño...
Violeta y Selby no se conocian, las conocí separadas pues.
Esa vez canto: Te quiero.
La grabe en el celular y cantaba por las noches:
"Si te quiero es porque sos, mi amor, mi complice y todo...
y en la calle codo a codo... somos mucho mas que dos... somos mucho mas que dos"
Nacha vuelve, ahora al DF, la ciudad de mis sueños.
Selby no vuelve.
Violeta ahora vive en el DF y estudia en la unam.
De Luis no sé nada, al igual que no sé nada de Barbie, la hermana de Selby.
Violeta (que me recomendo el libro) anda en el espacio en estos momentos, y espero no tenga frio.
Yo alisto mi dinero y mis maletas... ¿quién lo sabe? podría ser la última vez que me tope con la Sra. Guevara.
Hoy en la noche voy a la Fiesta de GG.
Invité a Eriqua al concierto.
Espero poder ponerles unos mp3 de guevara pa que escuchen.
Saludos!
Te invitamos éste viernes 17 de agosto a la presentacion de SISMO PRODUCCIONES!!!
VIERNES 17 DE AGOSTO
UNDER KABARETT, oaxaca 137 col.roma
$45.00 cover
9:00 pm
LOS MEFFISTO (propuesta de reactor)
LOS ABOMINABLES 80¨S (proyecto alterno de A-boo (6mdw)
SABADO 1o de Septiembre
DADA X, bolivar 31, 2º piso, centro historico
Outfit electro $35 pesos
General:$45 pesos
9:00 pm
CID PROJECT (presentando su mas reciente material que será editado en Europa)
LUCIFER CHRIST (proyecto alterno de AMDUSCIA,presentando nuevos temas)
ALEX LUG ( proyecto electroclash)
AMBIEN BY: SEELENMORD
saludos
SISMO PRODUCCIONES 
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Amo a Lavender Diamond.. y obvio a Becky Stark!
hello friends!
Hello everyone~
We hope you are having a beautiful summer!!
It is the perfect time for celebrating!
We hope you are enjoying your days!
We want to invite you to some upcoming celebrations!
For anyone in LA~ tonight!!
Come to the outfest at the echo! We're playing at 10:30~ !
Come and dress up! Be grand!
Come as you are!
I've been magic some magic charm necklaces for you! I'll have them tonight at the echo!
And tomorrow we're playing at the Orange County Museum of Art!
And then on Saturday at the Siren Festival on Coney Island!!
In September we're touring with the New Pornographers in the U.S.!
And soon we will have more tour dates to announce! Dates in Europe!
We are so excited to come to other places around the world! We promise we will come soon!
So- we'll see you! Thanks to everyone for your perfect love!
Remember to keep up the good work!
Peace on earth forever and ever and now!
Love,
Lavender Diamond**
Ayer escuche casi todo el disco de Dolores.
No me gusto nadita.
Predecible.. si acaso una canción me llamo la atención...
Fuera de eso.. nada..
Creo que The cranberries debieron dejar de grabar después del segundo disco y hubieran dejado un muy grato recuerdo.
Hay que saber retirarse chavos. Al menos en lo personal, no me gusta.
Creo que tendre que olvidar mi regla de oro y borrar los mp3...
Estoy en shock....
nada puede superar esta primer extasis.
Primero, Yann Tiersen estara en el festival, lo cual es bueno.
Pero de pronto cuando me encontraba en la idea de hacer o tratar de hacer algo por verlo... veo que....
VIENEN NI MAS NI MENOS QUE LOS TIGER LILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
esta es una de mis bandas predilectas, pocas bandas han provocado en mi una empatia tal....
Solo Human Drama, Les Elles y en este caso Tiger Lillies.
Asi es que no importa que tenga que hacer.
Yo DEBO ESTAR AHI. Y AHI ESTARE.
les dejo la reseña de los tiger lillies:
Asesinato, prostitución, blasfemia, zoofilia, escatología, son la oferta de The Tiger Lillies y su brechtiano cabaret punk, performance donde lo trágico, lo sagrado y lo sucio se disuelven en risas estentóreas. El espectáculo posee un aire de circo decadente: un acordeón, la voz aguda de Martyn Jacques (contratenor), el maquillaje, el vestuario y la gestualidad carnavalesca, confluyen en caótica armonía. De su lúdica irreverencia brota la flor del humor negro: “No deberían permitirme cantar mis canciones de inmundicia a una audiencia decente, pero me siento orgulloso cuando ofendo a la gente.” Si la locura escribiera canciones serían éstas, y si la muerte tuviera una sonrisa, sería cálida y negra como la de The Tiger Lillies.
Recomendación para el día de hoy:
Iva Bittova.
Especificamente : Paraskeva
Eh aquí la letra.
Es que eh estado un poco fuera ultimamente.
Creoq ue continuaré un poco alejado por un periodo corto de tiempo.
Después la caida y finalmente regresare de forma muy triste a hacer de esto algo continuo.
Pero...
Pero mientras tanto estoy muy feliz.
Recomendacíon para hoy.
The Shroud - She
Por algún motivo eh vuelto a Human Drama, con una dolorosa necesidad.
Como siempre, Human Drama es una necesidad.
Eh aquí tres hermosas canciones de la banda.
Cuando conocí a Indovina, temblaba de pies a cabeza.
Recuerdo que le dije: Thanks, your music helps me out in a very sad moments of my life.
Y el dijo algo asi como: No, thank you for youre words, that´s why i like to play music. I never thought about the other when i writte, but is always good to know that my music can help other people.
Obvio le subí la moral al cabron.
Remember Well
