Gogol Bordello - Wanderlust King

Musik

Ethanol?

Ethanol has become almost an easy way out for politicians and auto makers to look like they are supporting measures to slow climate change, and work towards a healthier environment. However, there are arguements as to whether this is true or not. Some argue that that it actually uses more energy and fossil fuels to produce than it save. Either way, I think that people are counting on this too much. There are technologies that raise the efficiency and environmental impact of cars much more than just using bio-fuels. If you want more information about this issue and to take some action with auto makers, follow the links below.

TAKE ACTION: http://www.coopamerica.org/takeaction/fordandgm/index.cfm Let auto makers know that they can't rely on ethanol as being the only solution to reducing the environmental impact of cars.



Here are some other ethanol information sites.

Pro-ethanol: http://www.ethanol.org/

http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/pdfs/factfict.pdf



Scientific article discussing research on ethanol:

http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/pdfs/estreviewofethanollca.pdf



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol One interesting point brough up in this article, and I am sure can be found elsewhere, is that the US doesn't have the farmland available to meet its energy needs with ethanol. So, even if the critics are wrong or overstating inefficiency, it can't e the only solution.



It is my opinion that people are putting too much weight into this fuel. I don't think enough people in the public sphere are advocating for a more diverse approach. We shouldn't put all of our eggs in one basket.

Weather

Give me everything mangled and bruised, and I will make a light of it to make you weep, and we will have rain and we will have begun again.
-Deena Metzger

The rain on my car is a baptism, the new me, Power Lloyd, my assualt on the world begins now. -Lloyd Dobler "Say Anything"

What I love about the quotes above, is that I used to go walking in the rain (sans umbrella) all of the time, and for whatever reason, it really did help give me some perspective. I think it must be the sensualness of being in the rain, the feeling of the drops as they hit you, and how the world really seems to stop or slow down during a good rain.

As the sun illuminates the moon and the stars, let us illuminate one another. -Anonymous (although I am not sure how the sun illuminates the stars... it is a good sentiment.)

Coexistence

I was at a talk the other evening, and an audience member asked a question where they wanted to know what people could do to make different cultures living next to each other in Mongolia have a relationship of that is better than coexistence. The speaker, who is Tuvan, and who lives in Mongolia, basically said what more do you want? If you try to look for more then you are making the situation more complex and making the solution more complex. What I want to know, is what is wrong with coexistence? Should we be working towards a monoculture throughout the whole world? What is this utopia that is not coexistence that they are thinking of? I wonder what the question asker understood under the term coexistence.

More Found Poetry (from a fridge) and quotes

Austere passion suffers willingly,
squirming as if hewn
lest it lapse into morosely screamed platitudes,
boorish and dead
like my miasmic smile

They throw verbose missives
temerity blindly sireing
shardes of festooned ersatz
red, green, purple,
Ink shimmers, ebbs, dries, vapid
dizzy, hearts empty
bleeding viscous madness
riven by limpid metaphor
taught looms of rhythmous pain.


Here is a poem I wrote. I wrote it to deal with the complex emotions and questions about existence I had, when I saw the Body Worlds Exhibit in Berlin, Germany. It is an amazing exhibit, if you ever get the chance to go, take it. It is beautiful, thought provoking, educational, fascinating and disturbing (is a good way) all at once.

D) Construction of...
Seele, sēle, Sē(u)la, Sē(o)la, *saiwalō, sāwol, soul.
origin unclear
looking, srчing
wo?
Книги, shhhh…apes, shifts of light and colour.
alma, âme, anima,
woher?
Adams attracked and repel
Chemicals excite and hindrcurrentz jump and spark,
Wohin?
i blink

Enthüllt
Yard upon yard of tubing,
Rold and fol dead in on itself
WaidnIŋ
nair-o-wing
bee gining and ending
fiberz con tract ænd ex. Pand:
entspannt
fluids phlow & collect
sir faces glide againsteachother
friction
non-fickshun
ent-schöpft
eye can’t blink

Lachen, (h)lahhan, lahhēn, *hlah-ja, hlæja, *klak-, to laugh
In hale, ex. Hail
Vibrations
Musclz contract
Kemikls re: lease
contagious?
Musslz x-pænd and cont racked
Moor vibrations
Oþer frequwensees
Swēt reelease
Resonance frequency (Hz = s-1)
Biological/evolutionary
Sounds ↔ the release of neurotransmitters
Reys/par tickles of liet hIt the lens
Focuses lite on newve endiŋz
Hart beets faster
Pressure increases
Blut floez to skin surf ace
Aye, eye, i lose my…thought

Frau, mann, wo(man)
Wood cry for leaves
w/o conscious ness?
Aye, lose and gain adams
Parts of mē becum ðεm
ðe be come me
du ðē re: member?
Eye in that leeph
Trapped between layers of cork
Ming gling w/sand and bacteria
Parts of me blō with the esssse
i am eaten
nu laif
them, я, wir
ΑΩ = ∞
кто bin I?

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but my learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - I have lost the source.

"In my family there was much speaking and much silence. The speaking of words flowed from the speaking of our silences."
"What then is silence?"
"It is being. Spoken language and silence are keys."
"Keys to what?"
"To communication."
"What do you mean by communication?"
"At-oneness. Each individual IS a word. As you are a word to me."
[As we are all words for one another.]
-From: Sophia House by Michael O'Brien

Renting

Last week I was over at a friend's house. We were both getting tired, and so I was just about to get ready to go, when my friend's carbon monoxide alarm went off. I can see why people die from it, because it doesn't seem like an emergency. My friend was just going to go to bed (luckily for the alarm). If she had she would have been dead by morning.

We went over to the land lord's apartment and told him about it, and all he said was to air it out until morning. How is that going to solve the problem? Why was he not freaked out? If his tenants were to die because of him not taking care of his building, he could have been in serious trouble. What is even scarier about the situation was that when my friend's roommates came home and called the fire department (we didn't know who to call), the fire department said that the carbon monoxide wasn't from my friend's apartment. They checked the other units and the one below her apartment was at double the level of carbon monoxide that would cause an alarm to go off. It was seeping through the floor and caused my friend's alarm to go off. Luckily the people in that unit were not home...Going back to the land lord's reaction to the situation. He almost started fighting with the firefighters, and he wasn't going to let them into the other units to make sure that they were safe. What was he thinking??? Who cares about other people's lives, I'm embarrassed that the fire department had to be called? I will leave comments about the general state of humanity to the reader.