04/20/09:
i'm an uncle now.
presenting Oden Godzilla Annabi:
04/01/09:
ok, so i've been
watching a ton of agricultural documentaries recently. A
company called Monsanto keeps coming up. They're like the
Skeletor of agriculture. Unfortunately, there's no He-Man.
I just found a movie that comprehensively
focuses on Monsanto. I know I've been urging readers of
my website (all 3 of you) to watch some of these movies
(the Future of Food, the Corporation, Flow), but really,
i've gone so far as to find this one on both YouTube
& Google
video where you can even download the file.
Or you can rent / buy it on dvd. The World According
to Monsanto. You deserve to know what you're
putting into your bodies, and who exactly is responsible
for it. Hell, i'll even embed the thing if you feel like
watching it on my website.
On a related note, Obama is a complete
tool. I don't know that we can as a society undig
ourselves from our current position. I've come to realize
how powerless we the proletariat are in the face of global
capitalism.
No amount of public outcry will change the
flow of global economics. the world faces many intensely
troubling problems as a result of the strangle hold capitalism
(aka greed) has on our leaders. It is impossible
for industry to have continuous growth, and to pursue such
a thing can only come at the expense of the people, and
the planet. Complete economic collapse seems like our best
chance at a new beginning...if only we get so lucky.
In the meantime, spend your money more intelligently,
huh?
Fuck Wal-Mart!
Fuck genetically modified foods!
Fuck bottled water! (it's
no cleaner than tap water, and less regulated. meanwhile
you're directly supporting the privatization of water.)
this is it. this is all i can do to help.
i hope some of you are listening.
Also, I recently painted
this for my unborn nephew Oden Godzilla Annabi:
my kitty
is a cutie pie.
Podcast still
under construction.
03/04/09:
Shows coming up
next week. I'm running one, and playing in the other.
Also, check out this music
video by Rainbow Arabia. Another of their songs will be
on the next podcast...which is coming sooner than later.
02/17/09:
Oh hey, looky here:
soon to be available for purchase.
02/3/09:
if, like me, you
don't watch the super bowl, then you probably missed this
exciting exciting trailer. can not wait.
01/30/09:
as a concerned global
citizen, over the last few months i've been trying to inform
myself on a myriad of pressing issues that humanity faces.
i've been watching some really great documentaries that
i recommend, such as The
Future of Food, and The
Corporation. i just finished another called
Flow.
While all of these films are related to
similar issues of globalization, unsafe agricultural practices,
and the exploitation of lower classes, Flow
specifically focuses on the privatization, and pollution
of shrinking global water supplies.
I highly recommend you educate yourself
on these issues, and all of the films I mentioned should
be at the top of your netflix queue. I realize that it's
hard to deal with problems so much bigger than us as individuals,
but the first step to changing these problems is education.
at
the very least I think we can all agree that everyone on
the planet has a right to clean water, right? please sign
this petition to the UN, which urges them to add an article
to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, establishing
access to clean and potable water as a fundamental human
right.
click to sign.
01/27/09:holy crap i love the new
animal collective album.
check out their new video. totally rad.
they'll be touring through albuquerque on
june 1st. tickets on sale now. yay.
01/22/09:
happy birthday to
me. old ballz.
my plans fell through, so here's a birthday
present for the two of you who still check up on me. it's
a new music video from Fever
Ray, a side project from one half of the
Knife. the video lacks a point as far as i'm concerned,
but the song is beautiful, and so is the cinematography.
fyi, Yoda's House
is on hiatus. We'll return to live performance in a couple
of months. In the mean time I'll be working on getting
some recordings polished for future album releases, and
doing some physical art. I'm excited to be switching gears.
It's been too long (approx. 18 months) of non
stop performances, each set starting from the ground up
with new material and shifting membership.
look for a new podcast in
february, and i'll try to share some of the new art as
i produce it.
01/04/09:
so, sorry about
my absence. my computer had a meltdown right before tour,
and then i was on tour, and then the holidaze continued
to distract in the best possible ways.
am back. just got this ish running again.
resuming regular irregularity forthwith.
click the pic to see the Yoda's House tour
photos:
11/04/08:
DID YOU VOTE YET? There's a chance they're actually going
to count them this time around.
With almost a month with no updates I better pull out all
the stops. And so, election day special...here are some
things I'd like to share with you :
which, if you didn't know,was in response to:
New
kitty! Meet Captain Kiwi Ibanez Spaz. A munchkin
/ selkirk cross breed known as a lambkin. Click the picture
to see more adorableness. We got the captain on Nov. 1st.
Not sure if it's a boy or a girl yet, but it's 7 and a
half weeks old.
and here's that podcast that i promised over a month
ago. better late than never, yeah?
featured artists: me you like
i - i was looking west, pantaloof
- at least fear, AMERICA audio collage
(backing music, lost in hildurness - give
a medal to the tired), rainbow arabia
- omar k, hecuba - YES, storsveit
nix noltes - nevenstinko horo, damon
albarn - sunset coming on, yoda's
house - buoys, uncle owen aunt
beru - a rabbit in the snow
the Halloween show was pretty rad. we debuted
Skeletronica, the stop motion film that nick, james and
I have been working on for the last few weeks, and our set
was really solid. Smashan did a wonderful set before us,
and Jenny did some really great physical work. Q Staff are
amazing to work with, and their space is wonderful.
