Truckin' : Inside the Grateful Dead's Tour Bus

Truckin' : Inside the Grateful Dead's Tour Bus

The Grateful Dead Bus was found on a obsolete road known for prostitution ,drug handling and other atrocities in the North Dallas Location.

The Grateful Dead's Tour bus circa 1967-1985.

Inside the bus;the roof of the bus covered in posters.

A short photo story on feminism and sisterhood

 A photo story on feminism and sisterhood.
Re-defining the strengths of feminism based on color and nature of being a woman.

Abby holds a rosary and has the words my choice as a defilement of free choice of reproductions vs. the "christian" pro life activist.

Sisterhood:A photo that proclaims the strengths of feminism based on the motive of color.

Feminism is about being vulnerable as it is about being strong.It is about feeling beautiful as it about reclaiming your power.

The Spiritual Resonance in Musical Transcendence.

The Spiritual Resonance in Musical Transcendence.

At the time during the '60s  many bands were endorsing in spiritual reimbursement as part of the cultural revival .Mostly  bands like the Beatles ,who found their awakening in Middle Eastern spirituality.George Harrison ,especially was the most involved in the teachings of guru, Yogananda. Their music was then greatly impacted by their spiritual involvement,such as the use of the sitar and tabla which came from India . As a result ,George Harrison's single debut All Things Must Pass is strongly, religiously devoted.

 In 1979,  Bob Dylan troubled about his religious identity, became a religious advocate. After what he said was a vision, in which Jesus pursued him to be a prophet of his time being as a great rock icon to then influence the masses. In 1979, he released  Slow Train Coming ,a very gospel inspired debut in which he lost many fans yet gained a few more.

Patti Smith , someone whose music is largely affiliated with her Jehova Witness upbringing, has always infiltrated her music within the teachings of the Bible.Aside from the revoking opening lines of song Gloria ,from album Horses which she sang, "Jesus died for somebody sins but not mine", in which she proved to be part of the nihilism-aesthetic-period.The period in which the music generation was known as  CBGB .The CBGB generation established the aesthetic punk scene,by which they rejected any social conformations, firmly secular ,and were political cranks. Smith however, true to her faith wrote songs as "Waiting Underground", and "Jubilee" .In 1978,she named her third album Easter ,after the religious holiday.

All these musical icons  were plausible of spiritual negotiation.Then there was Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground with his abstract hunger for spirituality.  Lou Reed was not known to be a spiritual seeker ,but rather known for his decadence-prestige-persona.Reed's resonance for spirituality was not in the terms of enlightenment. He simply and reluctantly stumbled upon "the gospel" from time to time. Times when the Velvets wrote songs with feelings in relation to religious conceptions such as pain,sin,lust,love,redemption,and freedom.Within that time they came to release songs such as "Beginning to See the Light", "I'll be your Mirror ","Jesus", while "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes" have religious connotations and implications.

Nihilism in music ,in the form of secular gratification,was what they  encouraged.As artists often seek to revolt the establishments of the elite that undermined their world.They however found that in the indulgence of the conscious-spirituality they gained to obtain transcendence of a God. A transcendence that was communal as their idea of promoting their art for love and coping of life.

George Harrison-My Sweet Lord

The Beatles-Across the Universe

The Beatles -Inner Light

Bob Dylan-Pressing On

Bob Dylan-Gates of Eden

Patti Smith-Mercy is

Patti smith-Waiting Underground

Patti Smith-Jubilee

The Velvet Underground-beginning to the Light

The Velvet Underground -Jesus

 The Velvet Underground-I'll Be Your Mirror

Poem To David Bowie

Death:01/11/2016


To David Bowie

Far above the world
this planet is much  blue ,
there's nothing you can do.

Your nebula waltz,
once entranced us to dance.
 You've left that stance,
gave your last dance.

enamored entrance
were your red giant days,
drawn in by vibrant stance.

lighting king,
your strokes were far from this world.
Ascended within the rest of us,
set standards for new gods.

Made the ridiculed mind
the chosen one.
Undefined by gender,
reinvented free love.

King of beauty,
has made his leave.
The elusive universe waits for thee,
white darf star  ,
white glow descends you.
will never forget you.

Inside Amy Schumer : Feminist Queen

Inside Amy Schumer: Feminist Queen

Amy Schumer newly television show is great for all feminist.She herself is the clever director and writer for the show.


The show is different from any other show in that it doesn't require keeping up with episode after episode, as every episode is different.Every episode is a hilarious tale of Schumer's personal experience with men or just a certain  situation.One will not find oneself bored. All episodes aside ,are induced with Schumer's feminist based comedy sketches and man-on-the-street interviews  making  more realistic and relate-able to the masses.

Schumer's open depiction of her sex encounters and relationships with men,nullify her more as a feminist than anyone on television.She is all against slut shaming and sexism, and does so in a way that is sublimated to amplify humor.

Here are my analogies of Inside Amy's Schumer first four episodes to make my point.

In Episode 1:Bad Decisions, Amy tells a hilarious parody like ,portrayal of a one night stand and the way both sexes react after.It is painfully hilarious in that it is damn right truthful in  how both sex roles react to the situation.In the episode Amy overly exaggerates the reaction of both sexes reactions.In Bad Decisions, the female played by Amy,the day after one night stand  over fantasies and romanticizes about her prior hook up date.Meanwhile the male's character  after the hook up,,is one of a careless ,forgetful, inconsiderate asshole.

In Episode 2:Sexting, she plays a character that is baffled by sexting and it's often absurdities.It explains that while sexting might be the new on tech, whack off technique for men, it is often a burden for women.She especially focuses on how hard it is for  women to take the perfect 'sexy picture' or nude to pleasure the minds of hyper-cyber-perverted men.

In Episode 3:A Porn Star is Born, Amy stresses that porn has always been a man based ,sexist industry.In the episode she plays a porn star set back in the twenties, where she is playing a porn star in a heavily sexist industry.

The episode also includes brilliant and hysterical feminist based parody, music videos.Thrown with make fun of sexist ideals, such as the medias obsession with big asses and men's constant babble of the  natural no make up female,fantasy ideology.

In Episode 4:Last Fuckable Day,Seasson 3 ,she with special guests Tina Fey,Julia Dreyfus ,Patricia Arquette, they discuss how sexist and harsh the entertainment industry is with the aging of female celebrities.In the episode group of comedians argue that it's Patricia Arqutte's last fuckable day, as she is too old to be "fuckable" in the Hollywood spectrum. The episode addresses sexist standards, that while Hollywood women have a limitation to their screen time roles, men  stay forever golden and limitless to such.

Amy Schumer, in line with other female comedian contemporaries , like Amy Poehler ,Tina Fey and Mindy Kailing.Women who have fought the naive stereotype that women can't make someone crackle on Television .These inspiring women are disclaiming all stigmas about women directing and writing their own comedy.

Blurred Lines:The Little Things Against Women in The Media

Intro:

It has become almost impossible for  women to enjoy most forms of entertainment because of sexist roles or comments directed towards women in these outlets.

Sometimes a women can find themselves so engulfed in a certain  show or with the work of an certain artist-musician, who in turn doesn't regard respectable roles in their work for women.

I think most women have been victims of such contradictions to their own faith as feminists or just plain women who feel they should be respected.

Women these days are psychologically driven to enjoy most big screen movies,shows and music by men or other women who fail to these how certain derogatory roles and name calling hurt women.

Even the tiniest of things start to add up ,like the way women should maintain themselves.

Just the other night I was hanging out with my male friend when I got an itch in my winter-no-shave-very-hairy-legs, as I lifted my pants sleeve to scratch .I then  felt ashamed as he had seen them.

While he only laughed because I had unthoughtfully pointed them out I felt ashamed,almost disgusted with myself.That kind of mentality is all the result of male based oppression of how a women should maintain themselves in order to be seen as attractive and "presentable" to the world.

I honestly think how it's totally fucked how women's first sign of puberty is regarded as disgusting while males is encouraged for their ego.

Feminists based celebrities and Tumbler hipsters have fought the clean shaven women ideal.Such celebrities as Miley Cyrus even dyed her pit her florescent colors as a form of rebellion.

While I myself have yet to gain the courage of letting it all grow out.I'll probably need some form of therapy first.

However I am well aware and against the pink tax that makes most women's products at a higher expense for their "high-maintenance packaging".Like how fucked and sexists can that get?

Why are National Musicians Ignored in American Media Outlets?

While most American based bands are amazing ,there has been a rise in the bouquet of talent from all over the world recently.

In the past there has been the  cultural influence/ clash of other national bands rising to the scene.However in America it has always been that if they don't speak the glorified langue they're not really worthy of consideration.

You might think I'm culturally misinformed and that in fact a large majority of Americans are culturally considerable of national talents.However not many of those talents are being represented in our media outlets as worthy of our time.That's understandable of us to not acknowledge national sources for talents, when they don't speak or propose ideas we can't  fully understand yet we still shouldn't miss them all together.

South Americans ,Europeans,Asians gorge on our culture influence so much that they care to grasp it's complexities .American musicians have and always will be the great landmark of the free ,bohemian pop star embodiment.After taking from the another English based country ,England the mother country of nation infatuation with rock and roll (the Beatles) that changed us and the whole world taste in music.

The Beatles revolutionized America as they did with other countries,mainly European but they still had a great effect on music widely.That same influence has remained the same since the sixties.If music and culture is not flowing from  the US  its been thrown back from the UK and of course that weird occurrence of Canada.It's hard to take in consideration non regional culture if we have nothing to do with it yet if you do you will be more culturally informed and will know of artists no one knows about. Artists that are just as good than American artists but always different.

To start you off here's a few of my favorite nationals.

Just click the links bellow:

O Terno 

nationality:Brazil

Melody's Echo

nationality:France

CSS

nationality:Brazil

Pond

nationality:Australia

Sigur Ros

nationality:Iceland

Siddharta

nationality:Mexico

Boogarins:

nationality:Brazil