Sunday, June 28, 2009

Michael Jackson: Earth Song


Wow!

Found this posted on MyCrazySexyLife.

This 1996 song by Michael was #1 in UK, but Epic Records never released this in the US.

Very powerful song and video. I watched this at least ten times today!

From TreeHugger:
"Here's what Jackson said of the song:
I remember writing Earth Song when I was in Austria, in a hotel. And I was feeling so much pain and so much suffering of the plight of the Planet Earth. And for me, this is Earth's Song, because I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the Earth. And with the ecological unbalance going on, and a lot of the problems in the environment, I think earth feels the pain, and she has wounds, and it's about some of the joys of the planet as well. But this is my chance to pretty much let people hear the voice of the planet."

RIP Michael.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Village Interviews: Howard Schoenfeld

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
7:30 PM
MNN - Channel 67

Dear Friends:

Happy Fathers Day to all fathers and to those who have/have had them!

This evening, Wednesday June 17, at 7:30 on Channel 67, I am re-airing one of (I think the best of) three 29-minute programs of interviews I did with my late father in the late 1990s on Manhattan Neighborhood Network about his extraordinary life and those he knew in Greenwich Village in the 1940s and 50s, including Delmore Schwartz, Kenneth Patchen, Dylan Thomas and James Baldwin. I interviewed him in front of the White Horse Tavern, Chumley's (now gone) and the site of the former Federal House of Detention on West Street where he was held for resisting the prewar draft in 1940. This is a great picture of the Village in the 1940s and 50s.

If you are in Manhattan and have access to Time Warner, you can see this Wednesday June 17th, at 7:30 PM (EDT-that's NYC daylight savings time) on channel 67. On the RCN system, that should be channel 85 or near it.

If you are outside of Manhattan, anywhere in the world, and you have a good high-speed connection on your computer, you can go to MNN- What's On Now or to MNN and click on channel 67 to see it at the same time.

Sometimes MNN does screw up broadcasts, but usually they air things without too many problems.....Be patient.

Best,
Jason

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Max Keiser: Explains the Zig Zag

Max Keiser of The Oracle predicts some heavy Zag this summer:

Monday, June 8, 2009

My New Sun Spot . . . .

My new very private sun spot in the back yard, surrounded by trees.

So that I can get my vitamin D . . . . everywhere.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Village Interviews: Tuli Kupferberg

JUNE 3, 2009
7:30 PM
MNN (Click on Channel 67)

Dear Friends:

Attention Fugs Fans!

The following can be viewed on any high-speed computer anywhere or on TV in Manhattan:

This Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30 PM, on channel 67 on my shoestring cable show, Famousx2, I am re-airing the third of three 29-minute programs of interviews I did with Tuli Kupferberg, peace activist, weirdo cartoonist and poet and songwriter and singer with the Fugs, in 1999 on Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

This is one of my favorite episodes of my program. In his apartment with streaming through his Soho apartment window onto his face, Tuli talks about his famous Fugs' songs "Morning" (a mournful masterpiece written at the end of a love affair), "Nothing", "CIA Man" and "I'm Doin' Alright". He discusses what he thinks about the current state of politics and technology and about the demise of the Village and Soho. He displays the "non-achievement award" given to him by his associates in the Unbearables poetry group. Then, on Spring Street, we observe Tuli selling, at X-mas time 1999, bootleg tapes of the Fugs, his hilarious cartoons and other bizarre items. Nobody walking by seems to know who he is. Serendipitously, while complaining about the cops, he is confronted by one. You really should try to catch this funny episode.

Warning: Tuli mumbles his words in some parts, so you will have to crank up the volume during those sections.

If you are in Manhattan and have access to Time Warner, you can see it this Wednesday at 7:30 PM (DST-that's NYC Daylight Savings Time) on channel 67. On the RCN system, that should be channel 85 or near it.

If you are outside of Manhattan, anywhere in the world, and you have a good high-speed connection on your computer, you can go to MNN: What's On Now or to MNN and click on channel 67 to see it at the same time.

Sometimes MNN does screw up broadcasts, but usually they air things without too many problems.....Be patient.

Best,
Jason