Blues Around My Bed
by J. C. Burris
J.C. Burris - Blues Around My Bed
J.C. Burris - Blues Around My Bed
A thousand points of light for the homeless man
We gotta kinder gentler machine-gun hand
Got department stores and toilet paper
Styrofoam garbage for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, Got roads to drive
Keep on Rockin in the Free World
Love is Blindness - Jack White (U2 Cover)
Heavy metal unites Jews, Muslims across Middle East
Heavy metal is a growing genre in the Middle East and North Africa. Orphaned Land pioneered a style that fuses heavy metal with traditional Middle Eastern instruments, melodies and rhythms. In so doing, they managed to not only tap into a regional aesthetic sensibility, but also to demonstrate that the Jewish people have roots in the Middle East, and that engagement with globalization does not necessarily have to lead to the erasure of local culture.
Singing in English, Arabic and Hebrew, Orphaned Land has peppered their lyrics (which often deal with the struggle of light over darkness) with quotes from the Torah, New Testament and the Koran… >continue<
Derek Trucks ~ Sahib Teri Badi
“For night is the mechanism by which mere mind is converted into mere sexuality, mere sexuality into mere mind, and where these two abstractions hostile to life find rest in recognizing each other”
- Walter Benjamin
Paint It Black… by some not so Vestal Virgin
Yesterday, after a game of chess, Brecht said: “If Korsch comes we shall have to work out a new game with him. A game in which the positions do not always remain the same; where the function of the pieces changes if they have stood for a while on the same square: then they become either more effective or weaker. Like this, the game does not develop; it stays the same too long.”
- Walter Benjamin, Reflections (Conversations with Brecht)
Nothing has a Spirit that is grounded within itself and indwells in it, but each has its being in something outside of and alien to it. The equilibrium of the whole is not the unity which remains with itself, nor the contentment that comes from having returned to itself, but rests on the alienation of opposites. The whole, therefore, like each single moment, is a self-alienated actuality; it falls apart into a realm in which self-consciousness as well as its object is actual, and into another…
- Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit §486
“It is in fact in the life of a people or nation that the Concept…has its complete reality. Reason is present here as the fluid universal Substance, as unchangeable simple thinghood, which yet bursts asunder into many completely independent beings, just as light bursts asunder into stars as countless self-luminous points…”
- Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit §350
“…the living essence of the matter has been stripped away or boxed up dead… This monochromatic character of the schema and its lifeless determinations, this absolute identity, and the transition from one to the other, are all equally products of the lifeless Understanding and external cognition.
§52. The excellent, however, not only cannot escape the fate of being thus deprived of life and Spirit, of being flayed and then seeing its skin wrapped around a lifeless knowledge and its conceit…”
- Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit