14/8/2012 @ 15:24
tags: audio video people Nine:Fifteen Right I Will
tags: audio video people Jeremiah Jae
From Brainfeeder newsletter:
“There’s a lot music that celebrates making money, and splurging if you have it. I’m inspired by those messages but at the same time don’t feel empowered. Money has set values, but to me there is no limit on human value. I’m rich without being rich. Even as we struggle, we grow. You are money. Invest…”
So waxes Jeremiah Jae on the subject of “Money”, the first single from his epic Brainfeeder full-length Raw Money Raps. Over soft focus guitar loops and spaced out snaps, Jae flips from sun-bleached croon to a rapid, beat-riding flow, to a chopped & screwed slur that practically oozes codeine.
These three vocal personae represent the song’s three perspectives, says Jae, “1) The rich man expressing his disconnection with material life, 2) The poor man’s emotional struggle attaining and losing money, and 3) the dreamer whose objective is making money by any means necessary.”
26/11/2011 @ 11:41
tags: james wolcott ows people text
Interesting read about Occupy Wall Street, by James Wolcott in Vanity Fair. Excerpt:
Awakened this morning to the news that deep in the shame of night the New York City police, under orders from billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, swarmed upon the activist campgrounds of Zuccotti Park and uprooted Occupy Wall Street, removing tents, tarps, and sleeping bags, arresting scores of resisting protesters and strong-arming journalists, and heaving the thousands of donated books in the O.W.S. library into dump trucks, which as a piece of political optics evoked the tactics of authoritarian regimes, though it was later learned that the books were safely stored. (Here is a firsthand report of the library confiscation by Stephen Boyer at the Occupy Wall Street Library site.) A court order was issued instructing the city to let the protesters return to the park, but this afternoon it stood empty and surrounded, a barren symbol of Bloomberg’s third term. And now comes word that the protesters are being allowed back into the park in an orderly single file, like the customers at Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi restaurant, but with the proviso that tents, sleeping bags, generators, and other installations are now prohibited, leaving O.W.S. at the mercy of winter, shorn of necessities and insulation. If the forced evacuation of Zuccotti Park was the end of chapter one in the O.W.S. saga, chapter two has begun, and we shall see if new life has been breathed into the movement now that the powers-that-be have shown their seizing hand.
