Tuesday, 17 May 2022

RUSSIA VS. THE WORLD



Ukraine is the teenage girl who wants to leave home and join a rock band because her boyfriend is the guitar player.




R U S S I A  V S  T H E  W O R L D


 


Ok, someone help me out here.  There’s a war in Ukraine and I just don’t get it.  They’ve been flirting w/NATO (essentially the U.S.) for a decade by slowly/quietly importing U.S. sympathizers & financiers running the show now (lovers sneaking through the bedroom window when parents are asleep & crawling into bed with their little girl); wanting to be part of ‘the west’ (promises of money, jewels & gold) and the Motherland (USSR/Russia) is saying no (foot down)!  How is that fair?  Better question?  Maybe it’s none of our business OR is it?  Ah, poor Ukraine needs our help. Sounds suspect to me. 


Sounds more like the U.S. would like to set up shop (missile launch sites pointed at Moscow) right in Russia's back yard, while raiding the pantry (billions in resources there). Is it any wonder Mother Russia is pissed?  It's just common sense.











Ukraine is the teenage girl who wants to leave home and join a rock band because her boyfriend is the guitar player.  Parents need to let go at some point yes?  Question is … what are they holding on to?  Answer: that little piece of the world/them, that they can still call, theirs.  Even better, why are we even there?  Why are we interfering?  


So whatever. Ukraine saying they’ll become neutral if the motherland backs off BUT, US/NATO continuing to supply them w/state of the art war toys?  Sorry but WTF??  What do you really think is going to happen here?  Oh right.  Once Putin takes Ukraine, then he’ll want all the Baltics then maybe ‘world domination’ like Hitler wanted? Just STFU! 


NEWSFLASH: dictators are abundant here too, only they wear $10K suits and sit in board rooms (benefitting from 'legally' tricking you while convincing you that the bad guy? ... is over there - pointing), so just don't give me that but ... but horse shit.  What’s most disturbing?  We are on the brink of WW3 only this time nuclear! Freedom you say? You are being fooled (hook, line & sinker)!  This pandemic winding down?  Multiply that nightmare by 1000!  All their fault tho right?


Worth it? Yes. To a select few (and their hundreds of millions of devoted followers), convinced that their interests are protected by their patriotic virtue, freedom fighter fortitude. Dictators all look & sound different and they're everywhere (not just Russia). Our dictators are just a whole lot less obvious but equally deceptive & cunning.  I am left with one overwhelming sentiment here ...


Leave them alone!  It’s none of our frikkin' business FFS.  They were in Cuba in ’62 (our back yard) and it pissed us off and we threatened them w/nuclear and they left!  They don’t get to feel the same now?  If nothing else?  Hypocrisy is abundant in the west and the Military Industrial Complex remains hungry. Money & power rules. It's a trillion dollar investment. Regular exercise is required.  We don't own them. Let Ukraine remain neutral, oh and NATO?  Get the fuck OUT of there!

in closing:


Throwing rocks at a hornet’s nest can only go bad.  Our future is in the hands of a few dozen men who want & need to break them & take what they think is theirs. It was never yours ... doesn't belong to you.


Let it Be. (Mic drop)


















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Monday, 16 May 2022

WAR FACES - trilogy





a third world war is closer than it's ever been
this makes the cuban missile crisis
look pale in comparison


Richard Kemp
former British Commander
(on Sky News, Sydney, May 16/22)













quick shout out to Alex, who suggested 
I do these bite sized appetizers



war faces rising
dog fight
dead end



a 3 part mini-series
may 2022


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 optimized for night vision


remixes by jim lamarche
from the 3 part mini-series - WAR FACES
from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut
featuring the Roland System 8



RUSSIA VS THE WORLD
an op-ed commentary (follow up discussion)









WAR FACES
a 3 part mini-series
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Thursday, 17 March 2022

DRONER BONER


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Wednesday, 16 February 2022

LET'S PARTY



when all is said and done
there's really only one option left
ok, I'm thinking



LET'S PARTY
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Friday, 11 February 2022

POV



FREEDOM
is relative
to a point of view



P O V
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from the album TEMPLE REDUX

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Friday, 4 February 2022

THEATRE MOUSE



I carry on the show
and play my favourite part
but in the silent rows
no crowd will feed my heart

story below



T H E A T R E   M O U S E
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music composed & performed by
mark clifford


voice: michael kelly

tape restoration: rod phelan












sweet salvation
the story behind theatre mouse
it is with fond remembrance


a 40+ y/o tape
buried in the back of a closet, dusty
longshot; maybe rod can save this
I mean, no one has heard this
in decades

old friends can make things happen 
still passing the torch & hoping for the best
if anyone can salvage it?  It will be rod
a familiar focus, in quiet deliberation 
days later and

ok, holy shit
rod flawlessly snags theatre mouse
just after baking the tape & immediately before 
the crumbling oxide it's on 
disintegrates forever on his revox 
what are the odds? ... and so

here we go










my old friends & 70's musical cohorts
are once again, collaborating
mark & I played in 3 bands together
and recorded stuff when we studied at
music industry arts
in london ontario

rod phelan, a mentor of us both back then
and did the sound for BOND in '79
when mark & I were in it
visionary


in late '77, I talked mark into leaving school early
to join me in major hooples in kitchener
big show - transport, road crew
floyd, supertramp & elp prog covers mostly
a ridiculous production - a blast

.

after a roller coaster year,
he returned to fanshawe to finish his final year 
and recorded this masterpiece
w/vocalist & songwriter extraordinaire - michael kelly
at springfield sound just outside london ontario




T H E A T R E   M O U S E








epilogue


mark finished MIA and then joined BOND
w/me for another year before I shifted
into studio mode; both still here
42 years later
cool

both still w/a fractured appreciation
of magic - recognizing early on
when it's about to arrive, knowing
there's a good chance
of a revisitation
or not

like, if it happens it's because it was meant to
doesn't? wasn't supposed to be
kind of attitude - miss that

.


honesty?
it's even more relevant now
the old man in the empty house
his best performance

theatre mouse







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