Will Earths tombstone read…

Naom Chomsky is this worlds foremost critical thinker and social protagonist and we should listen to him more. In this video he lays down a very bleak prediction for what is going to happen to our way of life as we know it if we continue on the path we are on now.

Will we heed his warning? My fear is that as Albert Einstein once said “those of us who know the most are most worried of the future” So take a look at this poignant video and I’d love to hear some of your thoughts. If you’re interested to hear more on Naom Chomsky you should see the Library section on the blog Vaults of Imouthes.

In closing it was William Butler Yeats who wrote in his poem ‘The Second Coming,’ “that the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

Will our utter complacency be our final downfall?

Last.FM Personal Radio Stations

I’ve mentioned Last.fm here before and today I want to discuss one of the sites best features. It’s the ability to listen to my choice of categorised music within your browser

As I use their service I am given the option of choosing which songs I like best. These then become available for you or anyone else on the web to listen to. If you visit my profile and click on the ‘Play Loved Tracks Radio’ button you’ll be treated to a selection of songs from my personal favourites list.

Other options are to listen to “Neighbour Radio,” neighbours are listeners Last.fm has found with similar tastes to me and by clicking on this button you can listen to their favourites. Finally clicking on “Play Personal Radio” will let you peruse a more random assortment of music. See what you think.

Naom Chomsky Quote

If we had the honesty and the moral courage, we would not let a day go by without hearing the cries of the victims. We would turn on the radio in the morning and listen to the voices of the people who escaped the massacres in Quiche province, and the Guazapa mountains, and the daily press would carry front-page pictures of children dying of malnutrition and disease in the countries where order reigns and crops and beef are exported to the American market, with an explanation of why this is so. We would listen to the extensive and detailed record of terror and torture in our dependencies, compiled by Amnesty International, Americas watch

Jet get owned

Warning: This article is posted with even more self praise than usual. Beware!

Soul Rock is a genre I’ve come to define for my own listening pleasure. Artists I’ve listed in this grouping include Powderfinger, Springbok Nude Girls, Just Jinjer, The Doors, Ezio, Radiohead, The Killers, Counting Crows, Gomez…

By placing songs, artists & albums in this genre I’m assured that my iPod will never again mistakenly cue music born solely out of a commercially motivated derivative of previous creative milestones set by legendary artists whose wonderful music is today recycled into digestible portions of jingle priced rock.

Artists in my Soul Rock genre make music from the pit of their stomach because of a natural compulsion to do so and I’d listen to the sound of that digestion any day over bands like Jet. Soul Rockers attempt to make unique experiences of their music and even when uniqueness is not ultimately achieved it certainly doesn’t parade itself so. They reference their inspirations by means of an om-age in the album notes, not by blatantly ripping off riffs and beats from the source and dressing up like legends gone by. Dianna Ross, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, Oasis, AC DC have all fallen prey to the mockery that is Jet and everyday Australians couldn’t care loss so long as they get to clap their hands and say yeah!

I have flaunted my disregard for their brand of rejuvenated rock for many years now and it pains me more to say that I’m often caught humming their tunes but that’s what I hate about them so much! I made a bold prediction to a friend a few years ago that following their first album ‘Get Born’ they would never again succeed and turns out I was right. Has anyone even heard so much as passing wind about their latest offering ‘Shine On’ didn’t think so.

So it was with rip roaring laughter and a hefty pat on my own back that I enjoyed the following review from Pitchfork media Review – Shine On. I then went on to read pitchforks take on Jets first album and laughed even harder!

Hope you enjoy and Jim, told you so!