Sunday 29 September 2019

BLUE FEZ


I believe that sex 
is one of the most beautiful 
natural, wholesome things 
that money can buy

steve martin



B L U E  F E Z
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and sounds cool - turned up 
after dark

a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut



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Sunday 22 September 2019

BLACKFACE - the perfect storm



The irony is stupefying.  Our Liberal champion, Justin Trudeau getting caught with his pants down (or should I say with his blackface on).  Conservatives nationally are relishing the scorn like it’s the first documented reckoning of a lofty libtard caught up in his own self righteous bullshit - perfect.  Narcissus personified and forced to look at his own true reflection, and it's a dark one.  Finally! Retribution for the man with the plan … the boy wonder who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.  Serves him right, right?  


I'm a Canadian, and I am hurting ...










The shame is especially taunting because contemporary Liberalism has defined today’s code of conduct around race and gender equality (yes, and thus the irony).  What’s ok to say (even think) and what is frowned upon, even cast out has been 'normalized' and made painfully clear by the left over the past 20 years.  We humans have healed from our divisions, only to return to us ten-fold, two decades later like a pissed pit bull and biting us hard on the leg.  

How convenient, this blackface thing - perfect.  Times have changed.  I don’t even know what to call people of color anymore because we’re not even supposed to see that in a person.  They’re people just like we are, so distinguishing features have become almost invisible, irrelevant/nondescript.  I love Canada. That said; the all encompassing payback prevails. Almost predictable, the cycles in history.  Here we go again.  This, is an easy target.  

It's a simple argument and quite reasonable actually ... if you’re going to make the rules … you have to live by them yes? … 20 years ago you say?  Laughable ... you lose!  


That my friends, is what makes this 
the perfect storm









And so, clocks back to 2001.  To Vancouver’s West Point Grey Academy, a private school where Justin Trudeau once taught; son of a Liberal Prime Minister, yada yada.  A tad flamboyant; some people wondering if he was (ahem) gay.  What was obvious is that he was more feminine than most 30 year old men (which made him a bit of an odd-ball but no need for discussion). There was some speculation that he actually 'inhaled' (and may even still) but it's never been proven. Ok, beyond those measly details; what could possibly go wrong?  

It’s an Arabian Nights themed costume party and Justin goes as Aladdin.  At the time?  Harmless.  The event was a celebration.  His costume rivalled all in attendance but that’s Justin, wanting/needing to make that big splash.  It’s what was in his very nature that propelled him to become the country’s 23rd Prime Minister; that exuberance and fearless confidence.  Little did he know, that he would be condemned because of it, 18 years later (conveniently 4 weeks before the election) for being a hypocritical racist ... and a liar!  

Slam dunk - over and OUT!

Ok, maybe someone should have just told him at the party, that what he was doing was unacceptable, wrong … even embarrassing but no.  Many of those in attendance were middle eastern or south Asian - students, parents, teachers and staff.  Why didn’t they warn him?  Why wasn’t he reprimanded in that moment?  Why didn’t the school speak up and have him removed?  Why wasn’t he fired, right then and right there?  It was Vancouver West even; a pillar of Liberal ideology manifest in a Canadian urban epicentre.  Was it a cover-up?  Conspiracy?  Was it because he was Pierre Trudeau’s son??  Answer:  all of the above.   

The square peg fits into the square hole
and the round peg fits into the round hole









Why did he agree to be photographed if his intent was racist?


The fact that he has done more to help immigrants/refugees live more fulfilling lives since; having embraced multiculturalism more than any other Prime Minister in Canadian history is also ironic.  I’m thinking it says something about the man that no one wants to look at right now because all they see?  is blackface.  Doesn’t matter.  

The divisions are black. We have never been at such odds.  I wonder why?

When I was 9, I dressed up as an Indian - oops apologies, I mean native Canadian (war paint, feathered head dress, tomahawk - the whole bit).  It was a costume.  Justin Trudeau is as racist as I am Ojibwa.











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Saturday 21 September 2019

ALEPPO


all the war-propaganda
all the screaming and lies and hatred
comes invariably from people 
who are not fighting

george orwell


A L E P P O
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optimized for night vision

think of it like it's a painting, that moves
and sounds cool - turned up 
after dark

a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut



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the longer I live inside them
the better they become









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Friday 13 September 2019

DRONES


target acquired, maintaining position
awaiting instructions

let's get this fire goin'


D R O N E S
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optimized for night vision

think of it like it's a painting, that moves
and sounds cool - turned up 
after dark

a jim lamarche remix
from the album THREE LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut
remix - pat metheny w/anna maria jopek & ron allen
(are you going with me)



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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind 'drones'



it was a dream I had
3 nights ago


giant drones flying over a forest fire
only they were just fanning the flames
taking pictures like photo-ops
for those flying them below
at a safe distance


waking at 3am ... wow - pitch black
youtube search - "drone, forest fire HD"
finding this stuff - sleeping a few more hours

drifting thinking

music - need music - next morning
thinking jazz, LA circa 1980-82
almost tribal - spooky machinery
with a female voice preferably
right - warsaw - what's this?

some vintage metheny and a quiet session 
with polish vocalist anna maria jopek
 (that went totally under the radar)
  I added some flute samples
and some simple EQ/automation
a little nip & tuck

it's the sound of angels 
hovering over trippy rhythms
blended w/the chaos

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browns and yellows
blacks and whites



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Saturday 7 September 2019

THE FUNERAL


why is it that we rejoice at a birth 
and grieve at a funeral ... 
It is because we are not the person involved

mark twain



T H E  F U N E R A L
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optimized for night vision

think of it like it's a painting, that moves
and sounds cool - turned up 
after dark

a jim lamarche remix
from the album THREE LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut


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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind 'the funeral'

no one knew ... what was in the will
except his lawyer

he's worth billions, a basket case - pill popper widow (write-off) 
2 smart sons/bros (on the make) who have never worked a day 
one (estranged) evil uncle (hot mistress) and well ... Jacob
the oldest brother - not the sharpest knife in the drawer 
and thus the VW ... that he washes every day
long story/doesn't matter
anticipating his tidy sum
right


could go any number of ways
depending on who does what
to whom

in this undisclosed interim


(ok my interpretation)









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Friday 6 September 2019

HUNGER GAMES


this is the moment 
when we must come together to save this planet
let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world 
where the oceans rise and famine spreads 
and terrible storms devastate our lands

barack obama




H U N G E R  G A M E S
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optimized for night vision

think of it as a painting, that moves
and sounds cool - turned up 
after dark


a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut


read more of Jim's blog posts here 











listen to the album ONE LIFE 
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/ 


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>






FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind 'hunger games'

thanks for getting this far
this one is 2 years old
I found it trolling the bottom of my youtube channel

I don't think I ever posted it
no record of it in my blog that goes back ages
I listened to it and thought "wow - it's not bad"
resurrecting it and now officially here


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