Music and Spirituality
Posted on April 16, 2009
I got this email in my inbox today:
| Your Name | Justin St. Vincent |
| Your email address | ——-@xtrememusic.org |
| Subject: | Emcee Lynx: Music/Spirituality Interview |
| Message: | Dear Emcee Lynx, I hope all is well – my name is Justin St. Vincent, Editor of Xtreme Music, and a new and exciting series exploring “The Spiritual Significance of Music”. I’d love the opportunity for you to e-mail your response, around 200+ words, to the question: “What do you believe is the spiritual significance of music?”
For more information and a preview of this online portfolio, please feel free to explore Xtreme Music: where music meets spirituality: www.xtrememusic.org Blessings and Best Regards, Justin St. Vincent Xtreme Music ———@xtrememusic.org |
So I went and took a look at his website. Apparently he’s going through and systematically contacting as wide a range of musicians as he can in one genre at a time, asking them all the same question, and then posting al their responses. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that there’s a sort of general Christian slant to his project, at least Christian Musicians were one of the first groups he did an interview set on, but I figured it doesn’t take long to write a short article like what he asked for and – worst case scenario – I get a post for this blog out of it, so I might as well put something together.
Here’s what i came up with:
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Tea Parties
Posted on April 15, 2009
So it’s Tax Day, once again, the annual deadline for Americans to pay Uncle Sam his Protection Money to keep him from sending his goons to break our kneecaps or reposess our homes. This year I’m glad to report that my official legal income was small enough that I had no tax liability, one of the few advantages of being a starving artist I suppose.
What makes this particular tax day interesting is that, thanks at least in part to the urging of Fox News and corporate-sponsored Astroturf (fake grassroots) organizing, there are “tea parties” happening in hundreds of cities all over America to protest Obama’s bailout and the absurd amounts of debt that the Dems are adding onto the already absurd deficits left by Bush. Apparently it wasn’t enough for the ruling class to run up trillions of dollars in deficit spending to pay for 2 wars over the last 8 years, now that they’ve got a brand new puppet in place our corporate overlords have decided to keep right on spending our money to enrich themselves! I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I’d be lying.
And, when people get outraged – as they should – the corporations set up a fake movement. Unlike in France and the UK where working class rage at being robbed by the government to finance corporate bailouts has erupted into serious militant and autonomous protests, all America can manage is a made-for-tv series of staged event sponsored by the same corporate elites that got us into this mess. Just another in an endless string of puppet shows, to let everyone who’s pissed at how we’ve been robbed rant and rave as much as they like without actually changing or challenging anything. And then, through the magic of Spin, the corporate media will portray that outrage as a Conservative backlash. Ha! As though conservatives were the only ones objecting. Just about every genuine leftist I know (and no, democrats aren’t leftists) is pissed at the bailout. Ya’ll may remember that I even wrote and recorded a song about it a few months back. And I’m hardly the only one who’s been speaking out on this issue.
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Benefit for Tristan Anderson this Friday in Oakland
Posted on April 12, 2009
Thanks to Indybay’s calender – I just found out about this. If you’re in the bay area and can make it, please be there.
| Title: | Benefit for Tristan and CSF- Ferment Change on the dance Floor |
| START DATE: | Friday April 17 |
| TIME: | 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM |
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| at the Oakland Noodle Factory Union St & 26th St (entrance on Union) West Oakland 8pm-2am Friday April 17th |
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| Event Type: | Fundraiser |
| Contact Name | munc |
| Email Address | grow.your.own.food [at] gmail.com |
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| Ferment Change! on the Dance Floor!
Brass Liberation Orchestra A benefit for Oakland’s own: at the Oakland Noodle Factory $10-$20 |
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