Lately, I've been having these horrific dreams. The kind of nightmares that wake you up in a cold sweat. I can't really find an answer, or a reason for these dreams. I go to bed at a reasonable hour, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't eat a whole lot of mushrooms. I just have these, really, truly scary, horrible, nightmares.
How do you encompass the compassion that you have for another human? How can you shoot someone? How can you end a life? What does it take to harm another living, breathing, thinking being, human or not? What is in the minds of someone who can stab a child, rape a cripple, slit a horse, murder someone, someone who is a single mother of a young child...someone who is struggling to support someone they love, someone who is going through there own problems, struggles, tribulations. How is it? What makes someone turn like this? Maybe the mind is so complex, or maybe it is so basic it simply sits on the tip of our egotistic noses.
When I lived in Brooklyn, I used to have this argument with this girl that the tap water in NYC is extremely clean, the cleanest in the world, even as far as good for you. Now I was on the premise that no tap water is clean, it is in fact, filthy. By filthy, I don't mean full of human waste (it very well could be, correct me on this) but rather, full of chemicals, and bleaches that shouldn't go into anyones bodies, not even her more pronounced self. There is a lot of speculation going into tap water, there are people who approach it from the angle that tap water is processed locally, therefor saving thousands of pounds in carbon emissions that would potentially destroy the eco-system with nation shipping, or in the case of artesian waters, international. Now this is a wise and educated approach. Obviously you should not support global shipping on something as luxurious as bottled water. Not to mention the plastic that is used taking upwards of five hundred years to compost. However, you do not have to sacrifice your health and well being and substitute the element that makes up the most part of you for highly bleached water. You have two options.
1. Buy a water purifier. There are a couple different approaches to a water purifier. You can get some that simply taps right into your existing faucet, or you can buy a pitcher that you fill up as it filters.
2. Buy local. This way is less cost efficient, but supports your local economy. Which you should already be treating like gold, or perhaps, Iridium. But you already new that.
My pick? Always buy local. If you have invested interest in the well being of this country, which, if you haven't noticed, is completely going for not, fast. If you do make this wise decision most areas have a local water supplier. If not in your area, pick the closest to cut transportation and shipping emissions.
Onwards to music. What do M83, Yaz, Mogwai, The Tuss, and Ladytron have in common? Well, I dunno. But they all sound pretty good these days.
I posted my all time favorite two Mogwai tracks. I don't LOVE this bands, but I LOVE these songs. I know, I know, one is white noise and one is a remix...how insulting.
Ladytronica is still the proverbial godess of semi-seductive, resistant electronica... I have no idea what I mean by that. I just picture them playing whilst the fine residents of England protest the Queen or something. Errr...
As for M83, I promised no tracks. But, uh...oh, you just need to hear it. Jaw is still dropped.
The Tuss? Aphex Twin? Oh, the enigma. Not.
Regardless, interesting stuff to get all tangled up in your ear drums.
Dear old, Yazoo. This song is covered alot, but will never sound as awesome as the wonderfully simple original. Give me some drums, a synth or two, and someone who will sing about yearning love past by.
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