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.

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

Max Keiser: Explains the Zig Zag

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

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.

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

My Anti-Cancer Treatments: Dark Chocolate

Good news for chocolate lovers: eating dark chocolate (more than 65 percent cacao) can slow the growth of cancer cells:

Dark chocolate fights cancer.

Chocolate compound stops cancer cell cycle.

Chocolate-cancer fighting connection, new findings.

Chocolate ingredient may stop cancer cell division (stopped breast cancer cell division).

Chocolate: A cure for cancer?

So go ahead . . . . indulge.

Warning: Dairy cancels out the anti-cancer effects of chocolate, so I avoid milk chocolate and don't wash dark chocolate down with my (anti-cancer) raw milk.

Vacation Pictures: Cape Cod

Some pictures I took last week at Race Point Beach in Cape Cod:

Village Interviews: Jay Dee Daugherty

WEDNESDAY, May 20th
7:30 PM
MNN, Channel 67

Dear Friends :

Happy May 19th, birthday of Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ho Chi Minh, Augusto Sandino & Lorraine Hansberry!

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

This Wednesday (tomorrow), May 20 at 7:30 PM, on my shoestring cable show Famousx2, on Channel 67, I am re-airing the first of two half-hour programs of interviews I did in 1998 with Jay Dee Daugherty, drummer of the infamous Patti Smith Band. This is one of my really good outdoor interviews, one with a man who is very shy when you first meet him, but who is very kind, interesting and funny. Jay Dee, like many of those who made the glitter into the punk/new wave generation of the 1970s, was an upper-middle-class kid, in his case from southern California, who rejected his straight-jacketed upbringing and hit NYC, especially downtown, to become a hit. Jay Dee is just about the nicest and most modest guy you can meet, a good compliment to the audacious Smith, whom he is still in awe of. The two still play together at times.

In this installment, Jay Dee and I walk from the Jefferson Market library past what used to be Trudi Heller's, go inside Electric Ladyland Studios, where Horses was recorded and end up in front of the Hotel Earle at the corner of Washington Square, where Jay Dee and so many other characters used to stay back in the day. Along the way, Jay Dee talks about his coming to NYC with Lance Loud and the Mumps, his encounters with David Bowie, Television and others, and his falling in love with the character and artistry of Patti Smith the first time he saw her perform. He talks about the recording of Horses.

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 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

Faux Painting: Glazed Walls and Woodwork

Here are the pictures of the completed laundry room:

Village Interviews: Hayden Planetarium

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th
7:30 PM
MNN (Channel 67)

Dear Friends :

This Wednesday (tomorrow), May 6th at 7:30 PM, on my every-other-week shoestring cable show Famousx2, on Channel 67, I am re-airing the footage I shot at the old Hayden Planetarium on its last day of operation on January 5th, 1997, before it was demolished by the Museum of Natural History trustees using their frontboy astronomer Neil Degrasse Tyson, who is a good astronomer and a nice guy but a shill.

As I predicted in the program I edited a few months later, the new Hayden Planetarium, built over the following three years, lacks the charm or pedagogical skills of the old one, and the skyshows are high-tech but bland and more than four times the price of the shows of the mid-90s, when one could encounter a true diversity of races and classes in the planetarium (and the Museum), unlike now.

Although the Museum of Natural History has a shady history of serving elites and as a front for imperialist ventures in the so-called Third World, by the time of the 60s and 70s, when I was a regular visitor of it and its planetarium, it had become an institution that was relatively affordable and, more importantly, responsive to the minority and working communites of NYC through numerous low-cost or free cultural events and science-education workshops. One found all kinds of working and middle-class people involved in these virtually every week. Now, like the Space Program itself, the museum serves corporate and commercial interests and has regained its patrician atmosphere and prices. I should not be surprised to learn that it is involved in a consultative or R-and-D way in the militarization of space that has been quietly increasing for some years now in both the private and public sectors.

Anyway, for those of you who remember and perhaps were introduced to the wonder, beauty and even democratic implications and potential of outer space and astronomy through the grand but inviting (almost) a common people's hall that was the Old Hayden Planetarium, you will appreciate seeing these shots of what you remember. I have added appropriate outer-space themed jazz, rock, classical and other music to alleviate some of my bad camera work. LOL.

Ad Astra!

Last summer, the last time I aired this, the computer stream was not working. This morning (Tuesday), it is, so that is a good sign for tomorrow.

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