Saturday 28 January 2023

CHINA (a commentary on false narratives)



China!

I'm not sure if you've noticed but 
it's in the news every day now.
mainstream media 
is on board  

doom is approved

 

Today? Saturday May 27, 2023 - CBC headline reads 
Thinking the 'unthinkable' (translation: if you're not, you better start)
A preparation for dire consequences w/the ongoing indoctrination (narrative) 
that conflict is imminent.

The message is loud - the message is clear.
We need to be actively preparing for war!



NOW!







Shake it up, then watch the fruit fall from the tree.

Right, ok. The sordid story is actually decades old. I remember hearing Reagan and both Bush Presidents, even Clinton mumbling rhetoric around the Chinese threat, then more recently in 2016 when Trump was elected. The orange man turned up the volume to 11. Time to rawk!

Trump poured gasoline on the fire and his base have been subscribing to the scare ever since. Hook, line & sinker - welcome, to the con. In the first few months of his Presidency ranting & raving about CHINA! Day in and day out spewing the mantra on the evil in the east and how they threaten America's livelihoods by flooding our markets w/their 'cheap crap', while much of what was/is in his product line (clothes, suits, jewellery & accessories) are in fact made there. 

Hypocrisy? Off the charts. My thinking? These politicians really don't care about foreign interference. If anything? They welcome it! It just pumps up the fear factor which plays nicely into their hands. It's the all too familiar Populist power-play. Shake it up, then watch the fruit fall from the tree. Collateral damage and a pool party later.

Here in Canada it was never even a thing UNTIL Conservative Party watchdog Pierre Poilievre entered the picture, becoming the CPC leader and has been capitalizing on it ever since for political gain; running with the ball that Trump passed to him 5 years ago. Hey. Worked for the Donald right? Maybe it can work for ME too! Time to spin that wheel!

Ok kids ... so if you haven't yet received the memo, let me bring you up to speed ... we're f*cked AND it's all Justin's fault! CHINA! Now say it after me ... CHI-NA.

We've just been through a 3 year global pandemic and global inflation eating us alive but no. We need war to make it right. It's in our DNA. Front line challenge in Ottawa. Nuclear decides.







Soft on China? Soft in the head.

First it was the Huawei 5G security threat, then the frikkin' balloons, then the 'foreign interference' now from China in a full throttle campaign filling the news cycle daily while Poilievre sits back w/that adolescent grin and rubs his hands together. Perfect plan.


The narrative solidifies ...

Nuclear war? It's inevitable. The threat is more real now than it's ever been. Strap in and strap ON! It's gonna be a rough ride folks and the media? All over it. America's top military minds are casually throwing around the likelihood of a nuclear exchange w/China or Russia in the next 2 years over Starbucks coffee and danish pastries in Pentagon boardrooms and we're complacently accepting the probability like it's just what we may need to do? Insane.

Yes AND Justin Trudeau? Oh he's IN on it! Guessing Xi Ginping is paying him off while 'socks' fudges the truth and desperately tries to squirm out of a public inquiry on foreign interference and the election meddling that threatens our 'democracy'. Interference that HE orchestrated.

False narratives are in abundance and calling anyone out on any one of them has become a violation of our freedom of speech. Fact checking misinformation has become a game of 'pin the tail on the donkey' because the accuracy of information is only relevant/applicable to one's beliefs, so it's like living in the wild west. Anything goes. 

Fake news, fake science & fake money. Take your pick. You can be rest assured of this - it's a shaky showdown and our blackface PM is at the heart of the conspiracy. 

You can bet yer bitcoin on it! 






 

You snooze? You lose!


That said, I do believe that China is far from innocent and that there is quite likely ongoing interference in play, so yes ... some truth there BUT ... really? War? More nukes??
Our misinformed, complicit ignorance is truly frightening.

My observation is that the rhetoric/spin being implemented in our leader of the opposition's plan for Canadian domination is far greater than China's alleged threat for world domination ever was. It's a scare tactic and it's working! Millions served! The lemming theory comes to mind as the narrative continues to expand (now fuelled by our national broadcaster).

Yep, finally! Canadians are tuning in and turning on to the abuse that China represents. Our precious 'freedom' is on the edge of extinction unless we wake up and prepare for the inevitable conflict that's right around the corner. We're snoozing, so we're losing.

It's just a matter of time. Thank God we have Pierre Poilievre on our side. A real savior. Here to take care of business and jettison the bad guys out of existence. 

Our destiny as Canadians ... is in his hands.



 




EPILOGUE

Honestly? If we ever go to war w/China?
It won't be because they wanted world domination
or any real control/influence over us.

It will be because we provoked it ...
Because we wished it.












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Thursday 26 January 2023

DREW




still january

I began 2023 w/a long listen to Goldfrapp
front to back, 7 studio albums
gravitating for the most part
to their first 'felt mountain'
then a more recent 'tales of us'
listening to each multiple times
over the first few weeks

I've selected 3 songs, remixed here
my favourites



another remix of a remix

third in an alison goldrapp trilogy













D R E W
volume up . 720p


a parting thought production
optimized for night vision




pull up the blindsopen the door widefeel the cold arrivein my bones














optimized for night vision



a jim lamarche remix
an alison goldfrapp trilogy
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8



source music: alison goldfrapp & will gregory
from their 2013 album 'tales of us'





visual - phoria (red)
directed by trewan howard, heb hardwick 
& thom novi 
















see/hear the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


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




read more of Jim's blog posts here 






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Monday 23 January 2023

UTOPIA 23



when I'm with you
there's no reason
there's no sense



another remix of a remix

PART 3 - alison goldfrapp trilogy













U T O P I A  2 3
w/stranger 23 bottom
volume up . 720p


a parting thought production
optimized for night vision



it's a strange day
no colours or shapes
no sound in my head
















a jim lamarche remix
an alison goldfrapp trilogy
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8



source music: alison goldfrapp & will gregory
from their 2000 album 'felt mountain'





pictures - boogie nights 1997
directed by paul thomas anderson
new line cinema 







S T R A N G E R  2 3 

volume up . 720p












optimized for night vision



a jim lamarche remix
assembled in logic audio and final cut


source music w/alison goldfrapp
from the 2013 album 'tales of us'





















see/hear the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


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




read more of Jim's blog posts here 






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Tuesday 10 January 2023

WICKED SHAME



she would rather live in a lie
than be alone



C K D  S H 2 3
volume up














optimized for night vision
remix of a remix

a lil disco dance, down at the OK Coral
back in the saddle
a celebration
w/friends




a jim lamarche remix
(w/chillion feat. seren)

music by chris isaak
from the album TWO LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8




read more of Jim's blog posts here 














listen to the album ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE
(play all)




C K D  S H 2 3










Monday 9 January 2023

ROGUE RIVER





may the stars carry your sadness away
may the flowers fill your heart with beauty
may hope forever wipe away your tears
and above all, may silence make you strong

chief dan george
'ancient warrior' - kung fu - 1972




R O G U E  R I V E R
volume up/720p













optimized for night vision


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

featuring the roland system 8


source music:
douglas appling - greenland
 




photographed by gerard de thame for
tanita tikaram - twist in my sobriety
from the album 'ancient heart'
WEA Reprise Records UK, 1988
















The story behind Rogue River
point aux roches '73


woodstock - jan. '23

I'm not sure 
how tanita tikaram's '88 classic 'twist in my sobriety'
& doug appling's newer haunted mix 'greenland' 
entered my orbit 
within minutes of each other - right
like they just fell in my lap
at the same time - ok

happens sometimes
I have lotsa lines out w/random returns
rearranging some
fun

still, too easy - I'm suspicious
time to return to camp, take a nap
and think this through








the land was dry and game was scarce
worse, we were surrounded by cherokee

connecting some dots, hearing one then seeing the other
download accordingly, in & out of logic & final cut
I just put one on top of the other
I did very little actually
beyond blending them

little nip & tuck
is all










I grew up as a kid watching
chief dan george on TV back in the early 70s
he was on shows like kung fu, daniel boone & bonanza
TV star (big deal)

he was the first (kinda cool) 'indian' (redskin) who was good ...
calm, compassionate, wise
first impression

kind - (me like kemosabe)

at 12 confused, gawking up at my screen thinking ... 
who removed them?
why?

half thinking, because that's what they deserve
the other half thinking otherwise
 


U.S.


ALTIPLANO BOLIVIA








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read more of Jim's blog posts here 
see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/




see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/




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


a parting thought production