Feb 23, 2010

The Feminine Mystique

   

Woman
   will define herself... naturally. 
   will talk/walk/live/&love her images. 
   her beauty will be. 
   the only way to be is to be. 
   Man, absorb her. u don't need
   music to move; your movement toward her
   is music 
   & she'll do more than dance.

-Haki Madhubuti

Feminine Mystique by MixMaster E on Grooveshark



 
















Peace


:::MIXMASTER E::::

Feb 8, 2010

..the mystery of ourselves..


~Nasa scientists have just discovered what they believe is fresh evidence of life on Enceladus, one of Saturn's seven moons~

We all wonder about life & its origins whenever we gaze upon a cloudless, starlit sky. Theories abound from Charles Darwin's "Origins" to Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University whose new research "overwhelmingly" supports the view that human life started from outside our Earth (he claimed microbes from outer space arrived on Earth from comets, which then "multiplied and seeded" to form human life). It's mind-boggling to ponder the possibilities, no matter how wayward they may appear. We (humans) are indeed mysteries to ourselves in many respects. This reminded of a strange song Stevie Wonder made entitled "Saturn" from his classic, "Songs in the Key of Life" where he uses the planet as a metaphor or trope for humanity's proclivity towards war and division. How strangely ironic Stevie's symbolism now appears in light of NASA's latest discovery.......



OneLove

::MixMasterE::

Feb 6, 2010

The Unknowns Who Mattered



Every year during Black History Month, I've noticed how the mainstream media parades the same cast of heroes for us to honor & appreciate--Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglas are all celebrated & rightfully so. After all, people of their kind were not supposed to dream far less become anything more than what the larger white majority felt they could be. Dehumanization was systematic and became the 'natural order of things'. With such a tortured backdrop, it's a wonder that African Americans accomplished as much as they have in so many spheres of endeavor. What has always intrigued me personally are the stories of the lesser-known, unheralded heroes who worked brilliantly in the shadows and never got the credit they deserved. I recently watched a HBO movie, "Something The Lord Made" which exemplifies what I'm speaking of. It illustrates the pioneering work of an African-American, Vivien Thomas, who pioneered the field of cardiac surgery with a procedure to alleviate a congenital heart defect. Sufferers faced brutally short life expectancies & his genius revolutionized a new procedure to change that.

Stories like these litter the American landscape and they need to be told. The lazy-minded habit of regurgitating the same biographical sketches of well-known historical figures, though instructive, needs to stop. A little work and imagination is all it takes.

::MixmasterE::

Don't Believe The Hype!

Hip Hop music can take several trajectories, but the dominant one is the trend-altering commercial one which has its moments, but for the most part, we are all the poorer as there is so much more to Hip Hop than the acquisition of material objects & the pursuit of the flesh. As I've mentioned before, the best of Hip Hop is seldom heard on plantation radio, but for those of you who keep an ear to the riveting underground sound & know where to seek it, you know what's up! Give me Immortal Technique or Mos Def over Lil Wayne & Jay-Z any day. Intelligent lyricism with clever hooks is where it's at! Here's a small dose I concocted in the lab......


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The New Corporation

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