internet video

apologies to our faithful readership for the inactivity lately

-we’ve been busy “conceptualizing” with bdcga.wordpress.com

we’ve also been a bit obsessed with trying to get internet video working.

even tho we only have an intermittent internet connection, we’ve found for instance that we can get today’s “Democracy Now” using the Miro player, very fast; it takes less than 5 minutes to torrent the  +/-400 Mb of today’s vodcast at our local hotspot

right now i’m about to try boxee on kubuntu jaunty, and we’re also testing Livestation

of late we have been appreciating al Jazeera, The Real News, and the Onion News Network, among other broadcasters…

our current opml (subscriptions) file can be found at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddbnvf6k_6hj6pvcfs- we’ll try to keep it current (5/6/9):

Biodynamic Cannabis Growers Association

ah finally

there’s a biodynamic cannabis growers’ association !

we have been waiting for this for a long time!

proud to say we’re the first 2 members, with many more to come!

TPB wins again!

this award is for “probably the best behind the scenes/making of featurette for any movie ever”, for Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty, Behind the Scenes
broken into 3 pieces over at TPB Central, here’s piece 1:

and the winner is… Trailer Park Boys!

yes it’s probably the greatest “tv show” ever!

combining many of the the best elements of The Wire, Reno 911, and City of God/City of Men, this is the show that north america can send out into space as an example of the best programming it can offer to date.

Robb Wells (Ricky), Mike Smith (Bubbles), and Jean Paul Tremblay (Julian), the boys of sunnyvale trailer park

most so-called  reality shows skew whatever they are looking at through their tvworld, synthetic “mainstream” perspective… like great drama of whatever form, this show both entertains and reveals …anyone curious about what life is really like in canada or the u.s. can get the full and accurate picture right here.

i’m not gonna say too much and wreck it for you.. suffice to say that both the themes and the details cut across any class and most culture lines… it’s basically a big agglomeration of trailer parks here!

netflix has the dvd’s with better video and sound, but you can also catch the entire series on YouTube whenever you want. TPBCentral has all the episodes of all the seasons, plus many extras.

don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of it, even tho it’s been around for like, 10 years. it’s from canada! we’d never heard of it either til corry and trevor from netflix told us about it last month (good work boys!)..

we use the mozilla plug-in DownloadHelper to get the episodes onto our computer, then we watch them with Mplayer for a bit better viewing experience than watching right on youtube

Blood Ulmer interview from 1998

more blood!

on Perfect Sound Forever, a nice chat with Jason Gross from last century
http://www.furious.com/perfect/bloodulmer.html

PSF: How do you see jazz today?

JBU: It ain’t going nowhere. The thing to do in music now is to celebrate the praises of the Creator. That’s what anybody has to do with playing any instrument. Just try to celebrate this. That’s all. No more songs about how you feel about the rain or how the band’s looking or what you had for breakfast. It’s time to celebrate the Creator.

also from Sinziana2

more from Sinziana2:

on a group called “guitar Archipelago” on multiply,

Blood Ulmer’s “Wings” live @ zürich jazz festival volkshaus swiss radio, 1988
james “blood” ulmer, guitar, vocals
bill laswell, bass
ronald shannon jackson, drums

http://guitararchipelago.multiply.com/music/item/3207/James_Blood_Ulmer_-_Wings_1988

celebrating our new multiply.com account

soul rebels, "true revolutionaries"

(we’re thanking our new friend Ronald for precipitating this maroon lectroid development)

our new multiply.com site

http://maroonlectroid.multiply.com/

and our first music stream over there, a great Wailers recording from 1973

The Wailers at KSAN, 1973

as you listen you’ll be glad the recording is in .ogg format

the site requires you to get an account to access the music, but it’s easy!

* and I-member http://www.wailers.com/ *

check out another multiply.com site with great music, Sinziana2. bookmark this one and never lose it! the companion to this site is mec fais tourner les skeuds (also called “mes musiques a moi“); actually, make a special folder in your bookmarks fto hold these 2 together plus Sinziana2′s page on LJ , and write yourself a backup note on a wall somewhere just in case (take the wall or piece thereof with you if you move) – i did!

for instance:

Ornette’s Body Meta on Sinziana2(multiply)

a Bill Laswell discography with links on Sinziana2

(by which you could find, say The Third Power by Material, or Bernie’s Funk of Ages on mftls)

Be grateful and thank the nice people!

welcome

welcome, welcome, welcome

even though this space, spaces like this, are virtual, that doesn’t mean they’re not real. we can feel the difference, the freedom in this space, virtual or no! we hope you can too…

we’ve been on a quest, for awhile, and it has to do with freedom… not in a simplistic sense of course…although pursuing the subject of freedom can take you deeper, and deeper, into simplicity, spiritually speaking.  a great reference for this subject is andrew cohen’s embracing heaven and earth

you’re invited anytime the spirit moves to come visit us in our gathering-spot on IRC, the channel is #maroonlectroid on freenode.net. right now the topic is set to “freedom”, which means you’re free to speak anything that comes from the heart of I-self

visit our chatroom

if you’d like to learn more about IRC, there’s a good intro at wikipedia

you’ll want to get a “client” program if you don’t already have one, we like Pidgin, which works on nassty windowss as well as better platforms like linux. also a good option is chatzilla, which runs with mozilla browsers (like flock2 i guess) on any platform

Pidgin also speaks Instant Messaging  languages, so have the option of using any of many other IM systems with Pidgin too…

you’ll notice a couple of IM addresses for us there in the sidebar for your convenience, african.disturbance@gmail.com is our googletalk contact, or try #366542100 on ICQ

also look for maroonlectroid on twitter
and friendfeed

Hello world!

yes we think we’ll move our blogs over here

this one used to be http://maroonlectroid.blogspot.com, now it’s http://maroonlectroid.wordpress.com

the other one used to be messagefromyard.blogspot.com, now we’re hoping it’ll be messagefromyard.wordpress.com

something about blogger… like people say it’s great for getting started, but we’ve been feeling cramped over there

this feels better already

thanks, blogger

thanks wordpress!