इफ यू लाइव इन ला!

For those that live in LA/OC and surrounding counties. Check the site out below:

THIS IS NOT IKEA

It is things like this that we should be supporting, local, small, organic business models. These ventures are what will and can create micro economies that will pull is through and eventually out of this recession.

As the motto goes, we all need to be thinking GLOBALLY and acting LOCALLY. Keep your money flowing through local business! Nowhere else is this more important than with food consumption. Do your best to buy from local farmers markets/ wholesalers. Without your support, these family farms will be chomped up and spit out by the massive agrobusiness monsters that are taking over our food supply. Wake up!

And buy your furniture second hand if you can, and if you must turn to monster corp, then try and make sure the products are manufactured in the U.S.

Lets make some fucking REAL CHANGE, we cant rely on elected officials to do it for us.

MOVE!

THIS IS NOT IKEA

न्य

If you havent already seen the below movie, you need to stop whatever you're currently doing in life to go watch it. I was at one of the first showings in Irvine a few months back and this film blew me away. Its a movie you watch and continue to ponder for days to come.







go.

लेट्स मीत हियर

to all friends and lurkers, etc.

lets all take a week off from our lives and meet here. lets buy some bhang lassi and some bhang cigarettes and take a camel ride into the desert, lets get lost, build fires, and sleep under the stars. lets do that before its too late, before were too old, before our backs and our butts are aching with age. lets go. send me dates ill be the first one there.

न्यू म्यूजिक

the new antony and the johnsons is very very good. his voice never stops amazing me. please support this man and his music.



also, im sure most of you are already down but please start listening to beirut, start first with 'the gulag orkestar' and then start into ' the flying club cup'. this is important to follow in this order so as to witness the way the music becomes more and more refined. ok that is all.

amputee band

We were walking through the middle of the jungle. Angkor ruins, Siem Reap, Peoples Republic of Cambodia. The cicadas are screaming like syrens. Its near deafening.

Up ahead is a group of men, filthy and playing old brass instruments and make shift drums.

Theyre all missing either a leg, an arm, or there eyes are sunken into there heads and non existant.

The sign in front of them reads: Cambodian Victims of Landmines Band.

And you know you're in the shit.

These were taken in Cambodia, at the Preah Khan jungle temple at the Angkor ruins in Cambodia... Its curious what nature can do to man made intrusions. Its almost like an overzealous decorator. It makes for beautiful pictures:

some signage

asia is a funny place. it is so extremely diverse and large (understatement). weve now spent a bit of time on this continent and the one thing that continues to make me laugh is the double edged sword that has become the 'backpacker' community. it has created an entire economy of its own in so many asian countries, because asia is so comparably cheap for westerners to squat around in. heres some examples of the battle between maintaining cultural identity and keep the 'backpacker' machine in motion.

teh edzamples:

this kid.

i remember taking this picture and feeling a small bit of sadness. this tribe has been marginalized by the thai and laos government. similar to the native americans in the US, they have small plots of land left over for these people and its like an implied cage.

they were so beautiful. the whole tribe.