Category: Random

Earthist Music: Deacon Blue “The Hipsters”

“I was standing by the shore, pulled by the deepest blue.”

This week’s selection comes from Amy Mayers, who says:

I need to be near water. When I need a short break and some healing, I turn on “Hipsters” by Deacon Blue. It never fails to give me an internal “ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” (exhale and relaxing 🙂 ). It also reminds me to keep daring!

(Who’s going to hook us all up for next week? Send me your Earthist Music selection at timzimmdc@gmail.com)

Have a great weekend.

The Hipsters

All, all those waves
And that old sun
Shining

So drive
Drive to the coast
And let the water
Surround you

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining

Friends, who needs friends?
When there’s a road
And an ocean

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining

When I let the dream
Die slowly down
Did I do it right
Or was I wrong?

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining, falling
Glistening, diving…..

Earthist Music: “We’ll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one’s been”

This edition of Earthist Music, to kick off the weekend, comes from Phil Demers, who listens to Lateralus, by Tool, when he is feeling the weight of his journey. “It reminds me to keep going,” he says.

What music inspires you to do the right thing? To care? To fight for new values? Send it in (timzimmdc@gmail.com), with a brief note about why you chose it, and I’ll feature it on a Friday.

In the meantime, go full screen and crank up the volume.

Lateralus

black then white are all i see in my infancy
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me
lets me see
as below, so above and beyond, i imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason
push the envelope
watch it bend

over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
withering my intuition, missing opportunities
and i must feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines

black then white are all i see in my infancy
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me
lets me see
there is so much more and beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities
as below, so above and beyond, i imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason
push the envelope
watch it bend

over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind

feed my will to feel this moment, urging me to cross the line
reaching out to embrace the random
reaching out to embrace whatever may come

i embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected
enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired
to fathom the power
to witness the beauty
to bathe in the fountain
to swing on the spiral
to swing on a spiral
to…
swing on a spiral of our divinity and still be a human

with my feet upon the ground i move myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in
i feel it move across my skin
i’m reaching up and reaching out
i’m reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me
whatever will be willed on me
and following our will and wind we may just go where no one’s been
we’ll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one’s been
spiral out… keep going
spiral out… keep going
spiral out… keep going

Leopard Seals Are Cool

Well, we knew that already. But there is no reason not to revel in it.

Not quite sure what this one is up to. But the seal’s size of pretty impressive, and that kayaker will remember his paddle with a leopard seal for a long, long time.

Just The Facts: US Defense Spending v. Rest Of The World

If this isn’t an argument for revisiting our spending priorities (and taking a massive chunk out of defense and investing it elsewhere, like education, R&D (especially alternative energy), infrastructure, you name it) I don’t know what is.

Our bloated defense budget survives on inertia, scaremongering, and the power of the defense lobby. It has very little to do with the actual threats, or the militaries, the United States faces.

Earthist Music: “Hope You’re Not Angry If I Disagree”

Well, I was about to post something on the Marine Mammal Protection Act. And then I thought, what the hell, the weekend is almost here, what about some music.

So here’s Eddie Vedder singing “Society,” a song that I love because it goes right after and laments the materialism and contradictions of our short-sighted, destructive, culture. Crank it up. Think revolutionary thoughts. Revel in your disagreement. And I’ll see you next week.

[PS: Please send me music which reflects your values, and inspires and motivates you, and I’ll start posting it as a regular feature]

“Society”
(originally by Jerry Hannan)

It’s a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won’t be free

Society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me

When you want more than you have, you think you need
And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space

Society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you’re not lonely without me

There’s those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keepin score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you’re startin’ from the top
And you can’t do that

Society, you’re a crazy breed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
I hope you’re not lonely without me
Society, have mercy on me
I hope you’re not angry if I disagree
Society, you’re crazy indeed
I hope you’re not lonely without me

Moment Of Zen: No Orca Trainers Here

A wide evening view to Måbødalen in Eidfjord municipality, Hordaland, Norway, in 2011 August. The view has been captured from the eastern end of the valley. Photograph by Simo Räsänen (User:Ximonic)

From the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Pictures Of The Year.

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