Monday, March 12, 2012
John, I'm only dancing, she turns me on... don't get me wrong...
Well, Annie's pretty neat,
she always eats her meat
Joe is awful strong,
bet your life he's putting us on
Oh lordy, oh lordy,
you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!
(CHORUS)
John, I'm only dancing
She turns me on,
but I'm only dancing
She turns me on,
don't get me wrong
I'm only dancing
Oh shadow love was quick and clean,
life's a well thumbed machine
I saw you watching from the stairs,
you're everyone that ever cared
Oh lordy, oh lordy,
you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!
CHORUS (x2)
Dancing,
won't someone dance with me?
Touch me! Ohhh!
she always eats her meat
Joe is awful strong,
bet your life he's putting us on
Oh lordy, oh lordy,
you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!
(CHORUS)
John, I'm only dancing
She turns me on,
but I'm only dancing
She turns me on,
don't get me wrong
I'm only dancing
Oh shadow love was quick and clean,
life's a well thumbed machine
I saw you watching from the stairs,
you're everyone that ever cared
Oh lordy, oh lordy,
you know I need some loving
I'm moving, touch me!
CHORUS (x2)
Dancing,
won't someone dance with me?
Touch me! Ohhh!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Blood Memories: Utopian Longings of Decolonization
In an effort to maintain composure—to keep all my shit
together—I choke down the lump in my throat. What might happen if I just slightly
open my lips? That tightly wound ball of everything that I can’t say,
everything that I don’t know how to say . . . might bubble up my throat, filling my
mouth with thick foam. My cheeks would burn from the empty dryness of having so
much to say, nothing to say, no way to say.
I have recently become overwhelmed with a great feeling of
loss, absence—a void—a void in my history, in my self. I have the sticky nostalgic
residue of a past I have never known on my fingers.
The dark hills of my body have been invaded, mined.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of lush trees
Slashed, ripped up from my thick soil
Bloody roots, my roots, the roots of my people ripped up
from my thick skin.
My skin is thick from hundreds of years of the hills of my
body being invaded, exploited.
The roots of my trees, of my people, are severed and bloody.
Their blood, the blood of ma Grand-mere.
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
I dream of a big breasted brown mama holdingme.
I grasp her charcoal hair and bring it to my face. Her oils
seep into the pores of my lips and I smell
the orange peels on her sweet breath.
She rocks me, and I nestle into the rugged ravines of her
arms.
She collects the waves of my bloody tears in her mouth as
she thanks
God. Thank God
she has let me come home to her,
Her in me.
Her dark eyes tell me she is healing
me. She plants seeds in my soul to grow back
the lush trees that shade my heart.
And hers is pulsating with the blood of my children.
Violation, exploitation, rape.
I can hear the faint rattling of all our pain in the heaving
of her chest.
And I feel our Struggle, our Survival, our Resistance
in all her veins.
I dream of a big breasted brown mama holdingme.
My body obeys the Kompa rhythms of her steady time—
she makes me move.
With her I can be soft, and tender, and strong, and speak in
tongues.
Whispering tongues that crack the barriers of silence,
Whispering tongues that scream—
REMEMBER ME.
She brings me into her body’s warmth and I search
her familiar folds.
I make love to her with the coded memories on my skin.
We make love with the coded memories on our skin.
She collects the waves of my bloody tears in her mouth as
she thanks
God.
She has let me come home to her,
Her in me.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
2012 TED Prize Winner
http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/
For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.
The 2012 TED Prize is awarded to….the City 2.0.
The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably.
The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity’s collective wisdom.... http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/
the video... http://thecity2.org/splash.php
and PS: Arizona's very own Kyrsten Sinema gave a TED talk this year!
Kyrsten Sinema, politician
“Politics are but don’t have to be rancorous,” says Kyrsten, a former Arizona state senator (about to run for Congress), human rights activist and LGBT political leader. “If we focus on relationships, find our shared values, we can win unlikely wins in unlikely places.” Kyrsten tells the story of how she defeated Senator Russell Pearce’s draconian anti-immigration bills by finding shared values with politicians and companies who would normally not be on her side. “We have to be willing to work with people different from ourselves in order to make politics work,” she says. “We must unite and conquer.”
http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/ted-fellows-talks-a-full-recap-of-mondays-sessions/
For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.
The 2012 TED Prize is awarded to….the City 2.0.
The City 2.0 is the city of the future… a future in which more than ten billion people on planet Earth must somehow live sustainably.
The City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity’s collective wisdom.... http://www.tedprize.org/announcing-the-2012-ted-prize-winner/
the video... http://thecity2.org/splash.php
and PS: Arizona's very own Kyrsten Sinema gave a TED talk this year!
Kyrsten Sinema, politician
“Politics are but don’t have to be rancorous,” says Kyrsten, a former Arizona state senator (about to run for Congress), human rights activist and LGBT political leader. “If we focus on relationships, find our shared values, we can win unlikely wins in unlikely places.” Kyrsten tells the story of how she defeated Senator Russell Pearce’s draconian anti-immigration bills by finding shared values with politicians and companies who would normally not be on her side. “We have to be willing to work with people different from ourselves in order to make politics work,” she says. “We must unite and conquer.”
http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/ted-fellows-talks-a-full-recap-of-mondays-sessions/
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