Birth control

I just found aphids on one of my plants. The easiest way to get rid of these tiny dudes is to get ladybugs, who eat them. Since my plant is inside I've been looking into other ways to deal with them, working off the assumption that my housemates aren't that down with a beatle infestation in the kitchen.

I don't know yet what I'm going to do with the aphids, but I did find out that ants love this sweet juice that aphids squirt out. They love it so much they farm aphids and protect them from nasty ladybugs and slurp on their precious.

The other important thing about aphids is half the time they breed sexually, but the other half, the females just make new aphids by themselves. It gets super crazy because sometimes a female aphid will have an emryonic female aphid inside of her, who also has an embryonic aphid inside of her. It's called telescoping generations.

My other favorite animal that breeds asexually is the bdelloid rotifer. There hasn't been a boy bdelloid rotifer in like 40 million years.

Mo-rock-o fever

Last summer i went to morocco for a month to look for musical inspiration and encounters with kif smoking masters of the mystical lifestyle. but of course i ended up being blown away by the pop music.

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CLEARLY those hoodie robes are the pinnacle of casual desert wear, made famous by george lucas but brought to you first by morocco's berber mountaineers.

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sublime frequencies is coming out with a dvd of moroccan music, this trailer shows a gnawa maalem singing and playing a guenbri, then a bunch of different groups that i got to see play in the jemaa al fnaa in marrakech every night!! it's truly burning.

this country is so hot right now, so be sure to check it out sometime before the end of the world

Benzbounce

SSHHAAAANG A LANG
BRAND NEW LEMONADE VIDEO

THIS SONG AND ONE MORE COMING TRUE PANTHER SOUNDS AS SOON AS LES AUS GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER. UNTIL THEN....YOUHAVETHISGIFT

Evapotranspiration recovery system

Purple Urple Baker showed me his school yesterday. He's studying evolution explosions! I hope the bees have some good evolution explosion genes so they can stop dying.

This professor at Columbia wants to build farm skyscrapers. Instead of taking up lots of space and being far away, farms would move into skyscrapers around cities. The skyscrapers would take in sunlight and sewage and spit out clean water and food for cities. I'm into it, and I would like to turn my house into a little farm skyscraper and have a pet chicken. But then I got weirded out when I looked at the diagrams and all the people in them are wearing lab coats. I'm into science and labs and lab coats, but it's like this weird remove from actual farming, that the people in the diagrams in the special skyscrapers are very clean and looking at machinery and not touching the plants. Last month Colorado started this program where prisoners do the labor on farms. They had to start it because they have such strict immigration laws and no one else would work on the farms. It bums me out that food production is so removed from every day life that the only people who do it are people in lab coats or prisoners. And that's because we don't even want to talk about how fucked up our relationship to immigration is.

Wait I didn't mean to be a bummer I just wanted to talk about FARMS IN THE SKY!!

Is it summer yet?

8 Ball & MJG feat. Outkast- Throw your hands up

bout it bout it

i'm gonna die

Bunker Down

PHEW!!!!! Discovery of the TED Conference's selected uploaded lectures has led to a riveting and overwhelming afternoon. The world is your DATA FIELD ALL YOU NEED IS AN OPEN EYE TO NAVIGATE IT!
Hans Rosling's voice is like a syringe injecting numeric methamphetamine into a flaccid membrane. YOU WILL BE UP ALL NIGHT!

More TED videos HERE- available in HD no less. The blog is no laughing matter either.

p.s. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

<3 cute <3

There's a whole new genre of special tunes coming out now about Knut, the baby polar bear being raised by zookeepers at the Berlin zoo.

Cute!

I Love You, Ono

I've seen Omer playing music on Valencia street since I was a little tiny-tot. A few times I've made the grave error of asking him about some of his music only to be held Hostage for 1/2 an hour by circular, psychedelic VH1 behind the music style anectdotes. I bet it's hard playing music all day every day especially if you're getting drunk the whole time. I would probably just play the same song over and over for extended periods, which is kind of what he does in person. Then he talks to invisible music reporters about his compositions.

About a year ago he started laying out little hand-painted CDrs for sale with a pricetag of 20 DOLLARS. Feeling brazen and brave I approached him asking for one and got the "Artist's Price" (significantly cheaper) and DANG A LANG I am so happy!!! When of his songs for the Boomtown comp there were hints of a special Secret. Newsflash- HE IS A MAN OF MANY SECRETS. For instance, did you know that in the 80's he was convincted of breaking into Yoko Ono's apartment and leaving love notes? Me Either! Did you know that he's been a guest on Howard Stern and Beyond Vaudeville, the show that eventually became Oddville??? The most important secret is that he knows his way around some tunes! A few covers, a few originals occasionally supplemented with some THROAT SINGING or Whistling! A few of the songs are about a girl named Celena who he says is being a jerk to him so he wont put her in his songs anymore. I can't remember if this album is the one called "The Reason for Love" or "The Reason for Government" but whatever the reason it is RIGHT.

Omar Travers- Caught in a Dream
Omar Travers- Ragtime
Omar Travers- Selena
Omar Travers- Only Want You
Omar Travers- Doors/Batman Cover (for CHRIS!)

I'm very curious to see if this music will have an appeal for people that haven't had the visceral aesthetic experience of witnessing this Neon-jacket bedazzled man singing his songs day-in-day out so please let me know what you think.

Digital Pogs

While not quite the MOST Socially Irresponsible Song in history mainly because it's so adult contemp (coffee metaphors??? Candy shop would be too much) and I sort of hate Yung Joc so I'm a lil conflicted but this song is Unde(a)niable and I'm in a coffee shop and I'm going to go listen to rap and dance all night, so hey what can I say?????? IT IZZ TOO CATCHY!!!

Yung Joc- Coffee Shop

Yodship Destroyer

Father Yod was a spiritual guru/cult-leader/health nut in the late 60’s and early 70’s based his operations around his health food store located in the hills of L.A. Hippie Capitalist??? Yes. You might have guessed by the length of his beard but Father Yod was a really smart guy. The clearest indication of this is that he got most of his followers from Beverly Hills which means that his orgy prayer rituals were very very well financed and berry berry glamorous. Since everyone in a cult was jamming out electrically in the early 70’s, what does a smart guru do with all of his Beverly Hills money? Buy TONS and TONS of musical equipment and lots of sweet recording equipment. Also something like 53409812093 GONGS from all over the world so everyone can get involved in an epic way. Then eat a million lentil tofu dogs or whatever and record all of your jams and turn them into totally mindblowing records that influence everyone from Acid Mothers Temple and Sonic Youth to Stone Temple Pilots (I made the STP part up). Also, he enlisted Sky Saxon into his jam cult which means that the free-form scary and evil jams sometimes have some melody and POP to them. I am also guessing that there were lots of spicy babes involved in this thing. Unfortunately for us none of the following jams have Sky Saxon and thus are not melodic or spicy but actually really intense and a little bit creepy so I recommend listening to them with a friend or parent or else maybe you will be recruited into the cult. Just kidding I think he’s dead now you can’t do that. Is Sky Saxon still alive? I bet he’s pretty wild looking. I am writing this blog OFFLINE so all of the information is what I remember from Aquarius friend and the pictures of Father Yod I have seen where he is surrounded by gongs….like this one….

OPEN UP THE JAM JAR AND TASTE THE TART AND ZESTY JAM,
YOU COWARDS!

Ya Ho Wah- Ho (from Penetration)

Father Yod- Yodship Suite 3 (from Yodship Suite 3: In Praise of Our Father)

Father Yod and the Spirit of '76- Side B (from Kohoutek)

YOYOYOYOYOYO I found a song with Sky Saxon on it! YES!!!! IT IS BONKERS!

World Peace Band- I am in Love With Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Door's Fans Angry Backlash!!!

I put this Video up on youtube a while back of my friend Coomers singing "Back Door Man" on Karaoke. It's nothing too special but under the Description I put "I hate The Doors" and "Jim Morrison Licks Balls". I know hate is a strong word, and i probably don't HATE the doors...well maybe i kind of hate them a little bit, i dunno...the point is- the HATE that DOORS fans on youtube spit back at me was VENOMOUS. Here's the comments and emails i got regarding the posting of this video. They are AMAZING

MDM1993- "I don't understand how you hate them! They are the most influential band ever! You should hang out with the doors hating idiots who wouldn't know music if it bit them on the penis! Jim Morrison frowns upon you."

Smolley28- "Well, just continue listening to New Kids on The Block."

babycxinha- "comme on people,we can't judge people that don't like the doors..they were the band that you love to hate!!
people don't like them,because the doors express what you truly feel,but some people preffer living in lies than accept the facts...I LOVE DOORS!!THEY ROCK!!
by the way..sorry about my english."

doorsfan1233- " HOW DO YOU HATE THE DOORS!?!? go die"

baked91- "if you hate The Doors then go eat some pop rock and drink some coke then light your self on fire get in a car and then have some one blow it up it"

DangerousBastard- "If you hate the Doors it means you got no taste in anything and are probably better off dead. w00t!!"

incarnator- "any1 who hates the doors should just go die in a fire"

americandiablo- "Hate The Doors? I HATE you and hope you die"

a couple people even took the time to send me personal messages! gotta love it.

ThatFrogNamedEd- "I hate you. The Doors is an amazing band, they are lyrically, poetically and psychologically more advanced than most bands that ever have or ever will come to be. You should kill yourself."

monstermaskus- " You hate the Doors??!!

Yeah well what sort of music do you listen to?

50 Cent? d4l?

Get a life!"

Headphones for My Sammie

I go to a dentist's office downtown that is owned and operated completely by nice Russian Babas. A couple of days ago I was down there, and in the midst of receiving one of several filling, mouth all agap, helpless and vulnerable like a little baby bird they asked me if I can speak English without an accent. Sure I said SURE no problem! The dentist is embarrassed that all of them have such rich Russian accents so she asked me to record their outgoing answering machine message "Hi you've reached the office of [REDACTED] we can't answer the phone please leave a message! Mi Gavorim pa Ruski!" My mouth was very numb and funny I think the message sounded good though. How will this novel lilt affect business???

Gomorrha- I Try to Change This World
Strawberry Path- Mary Jane on My Mind

War In the Terraces

Thomas Mapfumo is performing at Yoshi's TONIGHT but barring some spectacular offer or mystical intervention (SERIOUSLY I AM VERY OPEN TO THIS PLEASE GIVE ME A RIDE PLEASE) I'm not going. So we will celebrate the Lion of Zimbabwe here on this very blog! We're at his show right now! He's performing music that spans his entire career as a revolutionary genius in Zimbabwean music!

Hey there Chachi you may heard heard my name before (1, 2) but I am incredible! I am a severed Mapfumo dreadlock and I will tell you quite a story. Mapfumo was raised a traditional Shona but started playing music around his teens. His big break-fast innovation was integrating traditional Shona melodies and tunes with Western electric instrumentation. He transposed melodies typically heard on the mbira to guitar and BANG little melodies to make you cry! In the 70's he played music and did odd jobs to support himself. He was asked to perform as part of a hotel band where he met a totally swinging righteous band called THE ACID BAND. They got along and fell in love. So Chimurenga music was born- "MUSIC OF STRUGGLE". As a dreadlock I will testify that Thomas is not a passive man and was thusly thrown in jail for the provocative lyrics he laid over his tunezzz. The music was adopted as a sort of rally cry during the 1977 Shona revolution against white-majority rule. That revolution was called PUNK. Just kidding, that's not funny. Songs like Pfumvu Paruzevha (Trouble in the Rural Areas) spoke to Shona and incited them to revolt before honkies could even figure out what he was saying. Things have been pretty consistent for him since they figured out what he was saying though- in and out of jail, all records banned from Zimbabwe, abuse, censorship, etc. etc. But the Thomas Mapfumo keeps playing music and releasing radical records and continues to speak about the governmental oppression and chaos that still plagues Zimbabwe.

As some of you already know Zimbabwe is right on the verge of crossing over from totally fucked to batshit totally fucked crazy. The cannibal charge is as always spearheaded by a tragically inefficient government that spends most of its time bulldozing slum settlements or crushing student protesters. The music, now made by an exile, is upbeat but delicate and melancholy (like the Smashing Pumpkins sort of but BETTER). The self-reflective poetic spirit makes him seem like a real rarity and mighty spirit who has put up with an infinite amount of dungarees, not just another potent name for the mush pot. ENJOY!

Thomas Mapfumo-Shumba (from Shumba)
Thomas Mapfumo-Pfumvu Pa Ruzevha (from The Chimurenga Singles)
Thomas Mapfumo- Hwa Hwa (from Hokoyo with The Acid Band)

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