johnhdavis / inundation records

Donations Needed to Bring Yefri Home

(Pictured above: the parents of Yefri Sorto-Hernandez. You may find the Go Fund Me page raising funds for his bond here.) Over the last six months, I’ve been part of a network of concerned educators, family members, activists and allies that have been working to gain the release of a group called the NC6 from…

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June 29, 2016

Migration, NC6 / Free Wildin, Politics

Barack Obama, CCA, DHS, EndDetention, ICE, Kimberly Pineda Chavez, National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild, NC6, Not1More, Stewart Detention Center, Wildin David Guillen Acosta, Yefri Sorto Hernandez
Top 40 over 40.21: Gary Numan live at Moogfest

The first New Wave / Post Punk song I ever fell in love with was Cars by Gary Numan, which came out when I was in 5th grade. I used to listen to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown every week with a friend and we’d write the sequence down in a notebook. Then I would…

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June 5, 2016

Music, Top 40 Over 40

Autogeddon, Cars, Gary Numan, Heathcote Williams, Live music, Moogfest, Top 40 Over 40
Outdone

I’ve produced some things in music I’m quite proud of. But nothing that can touch this awesome quilt my mom just made for a mouse. Easily the best thing my family has ever created! Here’s a little clip of Masoch from our set at Pinhook in Durham last Saturday night…thanks to Mom for the creative…

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April 26, 2016

John Davis and The Cicadas, Shows and Events, Spare Parts
Musical Metal

One of the pleasures of having moved to Durham is the spirit of musical camaraderie I’ve enjoyed here. One current partner in sound is Justin Blatt, who plays viola and violin with the Cicadas. Today he sent me a recording of him playing one of the many metal sculptures he makes in his shop. If…

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April 17, 2016

John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, Visual art, Work In Progress

Acme Food & Beverage Co., Cambridge, Carrboro, E, El Pulpo, John Davis and The Cicadas, Justin Blatt, Thalia Zedek, The Pinhook
NC Shows and Thank You Midwest

We had a lot of fun playing in Columbus Ohio, Chicago Illinois, and Bloomington Indiana last week. Thanks to The Owl, The Big Room Bar, and Landlocked Music for hosting us. If you are local to or visiting NC, there are some intermittent local shows coming up: first a solo acoustic show at…

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April 7, 2016

Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, Politics, Shows and Events, Site News, Uncategorized

Allen Callaci, Arcana Bar Durham, Big Room Bar, E, John Davis and The Cicadas, Landlocked Music, Local 506 Chapel Hill, Marshawn McCarrell, Shows and Events, Simon Joyner, The Pinhook
Support Alerta Migratoria NC

As a follow up to my last post about ICE raids in North Carolina in general, I’d like to post a link to a GoFundMe campaign to support Alerta Migratoria NC. We at the Durham Association of Educators have been meeting with them to look for advice on how to respond to the recent case…

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February 27, 2016

Education, Migration, Politics, Uncategorized

Alerta Migratoria NC, Durham Association of Educators, education, El Centro Hispano, ICE
Please Call ICE to Stop NC Deportations

ICE has recently kidnapped 5 high school students in North Carolina for deportation, one of them at Riverside High School here in Durham. Please consider calling them in Washington to urge them to release these students, who are now being held in a jail in Georgia. They could be deported at any time. MoveOn.org also…

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February 14, 2016

Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, Mental Health, Migration, Politics, Uncategorized

Alexander Cockburn, Anabel Hernandez, Anxiety Disorders, Barack Obama, Brian Hoffmann, CAFTA, CARA Pro Bono Project, Deportation, Drug Policy, Durham, Durham Association of Educators, Durham Public Schools, Greg Grandin, Honduras, ICE, Los Angeles Unified School District, Migration, NAFTA, Peter Dale Scott, PTSD, Wilden David Guillen Acosta
Support GLBTQ Staff & Students in DPS

I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6 – 7:30 pm. The event is sponsored by the Education Team of the Durham People’s Alliance, whose board I’ve just started…

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January 27, 2016

Current Events, Education, Mental Health, Uncategorized

Anti-Homophobia, Durham Association of Educators, Durham People’s Alliance, LGBTQ Issues, Safe Schools North Carolina
Bacon Sheds Light on Pork

One of the ironies of teaching students to read on their own initiative outside of school is that the heavy work load of teaching can make it hard for teachers to do just that themselves. This is something I try and resist as much as possible, and it gets easier when I have some time…

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January 24, 2016

Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Current Events, Economics, History, Politics

CAFTA, David Bacon, Durham, East of Salinas, Goldman Sachs, Immigration, Mexico, NAFTA, North Carolina, Oaxaca, PBS, Public Education, Smithfield Foods, The Right to Stay Home, Tobacco, Veracruz
New Cassette Released Today!

If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day. It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize. The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures…

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November 8, 2015

Anti-Neoliberalism, Cassettes, Music, New Releases, Shrimper Records, Site News

Cassette Releases, Dennis Callaci, Lo-Fi Lives, Shrimper Records, Simon Joyner, Unread Records, We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize