Tag: Feminism

• Top 40 Over 40.31: Oumou Sangare’s Massive “Seya”

  This album made a big impression on me when it came out in 2009. At the time, I was mostly listening to music on the car radio, and WERS in Boston played it frequently. I wasn’t going to record stores or shows or playing instruments much at that time, though I was writing a lot…

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  July 5, 2021

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  Amadou Et Mariam, Analog Africa, Diabar, Dimanche A Bamako, Djilbathen Sambou, Feminism, Gestu de Dakar, Neil Young, Oumou Sangare, Patriarchy, Prairie Wind, Senegal 70, Seya, Syllart Label, Top 40 Over 40

• serpentwithfeet 4Ethers

  I’ve seen a lot of people on social media giving props to Carrie Fisher for speaking out about mental illness, which wasn’t as common when she started doing it as it is now.  I remember Carrie equally for being sarcastic and mean in a way that few women celebrities are allowed to present themselves to…

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  December 28, 2016

  Mental Health, Music, Production

  Blisters, Carrie Fisher, Feminism, four ethers, Gender, mental health, serpentwithfeet, Tri-Angle Recrods

• Top 40 over 40.18: Peter Hughes and Dipa Ma

  I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma:  she had a Honda that was running perfectly, and that had proven to be very reliable over the years. Nevertheless, she found the car boring.  She found herself eyeing…

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  December 14, 2014

  Buddhism, Disability, History, Mental Health, Music, Politics, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Wisecracks

  american empire, Awakening Truth, Chile, Dipa Ma, Fangio, Feminism, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Juan Manuel Fangio, Music, Peter Hughes, Pinochet, Salvador Allende, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Vipassana, Vipassana Hawaii

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a…

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• World on a Wire

  As I keep track of the unfolding struggle over the FCC’s proposed creation of a corporate “fast lane” on the internet that would regulate non-corporate media to second class status online, I’m reminded of the film World on a Wire by Rainer Fassbinder, which I watched on DVD a couple of months ago.  Despite being…

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  May 24, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Film, History, Politics, Uncategorized

  Amanda Hess, Astrid Taylor, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Democracy Now, Digital vs. Analog, Feminism, Films, Gravity’s Rainbow, History, Jesse Jackson, Jessica Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Neoliberalism, Politics, Poor Democracy, profit margins, Race, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rich Media, Robert McChesney, The Real News Network, Thomas Pynchon, World on a Wire

• Top 40 over 40.14: Susan Te Kahurangi King

  This series of posts is mostly about musicians who had growth spurts after 40, but today I’m posting about a visual artist I read about today thanks to Alastair Galbraith, whose records I very much admire.  I consider his album Mass to be among the finest in our genre. Alastair posted a link to a…

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  October 12, 2013

  Disability, Mental Health, Top 40 Over 40, Visual art

  Alastair Galbraith, disability, Feminism, mental health, sexuality, Susan King, Top 40 Over 40, visual art

• R.I.P., MCA.1

  I’d like to express my respect for the late MCA’s work by sharing some thoughts his passing brought to mind about an aspect of his life that many of referred to but few focus on at length, which is his interest in and practice of Buddhist teachings.  I didn’t learn about Buddhism from MCA, and…

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  August 11, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts

  Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Eric Lott, Feminism, Folk Implosion, Food Justice, Mass Incarceration, MCA, Race, The Dharma

• To the victor go the spoils…

  The record producer Joe Boyd visited a studio in a former eastern block country shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The engineers there proudly showed off what they thought was a state of the art newly acquired reverb unit they had acquired from some western engineers who visited their studio.  When Boyd asked…

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  April 22, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, History, Music, Politics

  Capitalism, Cold War, EMT-140, Feminism, IMF, Joe Boyd, Left media, Music, Politics, Sex Trafficking, USA, Washington Consensus