Judy Collins: Turn! Turn! Turn!
Great video from 1960 of Judy Collins and Pete Seeger singing “Turn Turn Turn,” Seeger’s folk version of Ecclesiastes. I like this version a lot better than the Byrds’.
Great video from 1960 of Judy Collins and Pete Seeger singing “Turn Turn Turn,” Seeger’s folk version of Ecclesiastes. I like this version a lot better than the Byrds’.
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder wants to give away everything he owns. And he means everything, He’s actively in the process of divesting himself of over $6 million dollars of his wealth and look at him. Look at the expression on his face. Look at his smile! THIS is something money cannot buy… enlightenment.
“My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,” he told The Daily Telegraph. “Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.”
Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck. His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these. “For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness,” he said. “I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years,” said Mr Rabeder.
But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling. “More and more I heard the words: ‘Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life’,” he said. “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing.”
However, for many years he said he was simply not “brave” enough to give up all the trappings of his comfortable existence. The tipping point came while he was on a three-week holiday with his wife to islands of Hawaii.
“It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is,” he said. “In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn’t met a single real person – that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real.”
He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. “I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty,” he said.
Suddenly, he realised that “if I don’t do it now I won’t do it for the rest of my life”.
Mr Rabeder decided to raffle his Alpine home, selling 21,999 lottery tickets priced at just £87 each. The Provence house in the village of Cruis is on sale at the local estate agent. All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt “free, the opposite of heavy”. But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. “I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul.”
Believe me, I’m sure like many of you I wanna kiss this meme goodbye, but this time Hitler’s ranting against the cultural happenings in our own backyard: Eli Broad, MOCA, that museum’s controversial appointment of Jeffrey Deitch...Mike Kelley‘s “incomprehensible bullshit.”
A once-aspiring artist himself, Hitler manages to ground this rant a bit better than the others (as opposed to the one against, say, Watchmen’s missing space squid).
(via AFC)
It’s always a happy thing to come across some hitherto unknown (to me, anyways) fragements of seriously demented vintage psychedelia. In this case it’s these clips from Pierre Clémenti‘s (shot in ‘67, released in ‘75) “Visa de censure no. X” with a stunning score by the catchily named Delired Cameleon Family. Dig the low-rent quasi -Jodorowsky stylings !
(thanks Tony Coulter !)
They’re approaching carnival season over in Europe, so, in true Rabelaisian style, that means it’s time to mock and jeer the powers that be. The above float, for Cologne, depicts Barack Obama as a Fort USA-guarding cowboy, while Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads towards him a nuke-containing Trojan horse. Ha! The float below shows Obama bending over for Lady Liberty. That’s also for Cologne, not, as one might assume, for last week’s festivities in Tennessee.
Barack Obama And Silvio Berlusconi Feature On Satirical Carnival Floats In Europe
Last month, while digging up some info on April Gaede’s new white-power matchmaking effort, I noticed Stormfront hosts a film review forum—an active one at that! Here are some snips from the What’s Your Favorite Racist Movie thread:
* You really need to watch “Birth of a Nation”. A 1915 movie that was so powerful that millions of White Americans joined the Klan. And the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson called it “history written with lightening”.
* All the ‘racist’ movies I’ve ever seen like Mississippi Burning always depict the whites as bad so I’ve given up watching them. The underlying message in these movies is always “Those evil Klan in the deep south are at it again and should leave the ‘innocent’ black man alone”.
* I’m not trying to flame here, but I don’t see how any pro-white person would like American History X. It was NOT made to make us look good. It was made by New Line Cinemas, total Jewish filth. I mean, they guy changed his beliefs, left “the movement”, betrayed his people in the end - what kind of message is that? And I know not everyone on here is a skinhead, but as a former byrd and somone who has mostly skinhead friends - that movie was a VERY inaccurate portrayal of what a REAL skinhead is. Real skinheads do not play coloreds for the right to a basketball court.
* Aliens [jew promoted race-mixing and the terrible results…]
* Tropic Thunder. Makes fun of blacks and retards!
* Blazing Saddles.
Check out this upcoming Genesis Breyer P-Orridge PANDROGYNY screening:
This year’s Panorama will present 18 feature films in its main programme, 16 will screen in Panorama Special and 20, in its Panorama Dokumenteseries. Of these films from 29 countries, 31 are world premieres, and 17 are directorial debuts.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was interviewed at length about her PANDROGENY project with her Other Half Lady Jaye by Jake Yuzna last y-era. The interview was integral to the research for this movie which has PANDROGENY and related means of perception as its central themes. If you can’t see it in Berlin, keep a look out for it. Change and R-Evolution are not easily catalyzed, but although PANDROGENY might seem the most difficult and less populist of all the Breyer P-Orridge and One True TOPI Tribe’s projects in Cultural Engineering, it is in fact having an impact in all sorts of locations and media. Last Y-era Breyer P-Orridge gave Lectures at Rutgers University, New York University (twice) and previously at the School of Visual Arts, NY and New School, NY on Pandrogeny. All were packed. At Rutgers we were told we broke the attendance record for a lecture in the Universirty Astory there! So do not assume this is too esoteric to be understood or relevant. In fact PANDROGENY is the natural endgame and conclusion of T.O.P.Y. and in fact everything we have done, activated and thought since we began way back in 1965 making poetry as litter to beautify the streets on Solihull, Warwickshire, England. Everything possible to imagine is possible to manifest in what appears to be material, social reality (though we nicknamed that “nonesensus reality”). Find the film. Find your SELF. Tell us of other projects you feel we should make people aware of via our webpage. We want to use this website to publicize and support projects, tracts, wo-manifestos and other projects that we believe in or feel people ought to have a chance to be aware of…
(Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: A Pandrogynous Film at Berlin Film Festival)
Check out this MSNBC photo slideshow of pictures of Earth taken from the International Space Station. Incredible.
This report on Pentagon genetic engineering is rather, eh, eerie, wouldn’t you say? This is how Captain America was created, you know. And just about every comic book experiment-gone-wrong villain, too. Hell, the whole Weapon X program. Nothing tasteful can come of this!
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”
Of course, Darpa’s got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they’ll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create “tamper proof” cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, “similar to a serial number on a handgun.” And if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. In case Darpa’s plan somehow goes horribly awry, they’re also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch.