“My Favourite Orbiting Object”

Another early, very unfinished mix of an instrumental piece from the ever perilous “David Archer Band” project.

Just havin’ some fun.

My Favourite Orbiting Object

My Favourite Orbiting Object
David Archer Band (6:39)

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Bad Company

 

 

“Our position is always that we always follow the law as we understand it, and more importantly, we always follow the law as it has been interpreted.”

Stephen Harper (bold added)

 

This is what happens when our Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets to hang out with the one he admires most, wishes to be like, in fact the one person Harper would really rather be: George W. Bush.

While the rest of the world is holding on by our fingernails and even atheists are praying for the safe end of the NeoCon nightmare, Harper is likely thinking Aww I missed all the fun.

Just as the right wingers seem to view Orwells’ 1984 as an instruction manual on effective governance rather than a desperate warning, Harper is probably one of the few humans on earth who looks to Bush and the NeoCon cabal as an inspiration and a source of such wonderful ideas as unitary executive, illegal spying, extraordinary rendition and all the other neato stuff that stupid Canadians won’t let Harper do but which he is doubtlessly trying to do anyway.

Right wing politicians have to lie. Almost all the time. If they told the truth they would never be elected again. Many of us hope that someday the general voting populace will come to understand this and we may then see a return to the traditional conservatism that reflects community values and actually conserves something aside from an individual’s opportunity to lie, cheat and steal for profit.

“Our position is always that we always follow the law as we understand it” is Bush speak for I am above the law.

A splendid example of Michael Kinsley’s definition of a gaffe as a politician inadvertently telling the truth.

And as for following the law as it is interpreted, I shudder to think what creepy little John Yoo type Stephen Harper is turning to for legal interpretation.

Stephen Harper is not who he appears to be.

“Something From Nothing”

Something From Nothing

Something From Nothing
Music and Lyrics by David Archer (4:29)
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From my 2004 recording ”Underground Sun”. A song about birth, death and life.

Something From Nothing

The sun fades over the horizon
Your time is a pocket full of gold
The words you choose, the time you lose
Such a dream for a child to behold
Her love proves there are no illusions
As you swim to the surface of the pool
And the salt in the night and the fire inside and
These dreams could be real

If I could make Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have
Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have

The river is all that you imagined
And the water is deeper than your soul
A distant blue, you know it’s true
You know it’s more than you ever could have hoped
All through the night you were courageous
I heard you swear you’ll never yield
And the blood is your own and your heart is of stone and
These dreams could be real

If I could make Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have
Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have

Was I somebody else when the river was dry
Was I thinking of you or the ice in the sky
Was there more to the story than the story I heard
Is there more to your love than those three little words

If I could make Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have
Something From Nothing
That’s all that I have…..

 

 

 

 

Who is David L. Grange? (Update Jan 09)

 

    

O’BRIEN: Don’t you think, though, that however you interpret all this, what is going to happen now is, you enter a stage where Saddam Hussein, who is an expert at these cat-and-mouse, 11th-hour games, is going to play this brinksmanship game as he has done in the past with these inspectors, and he’s just playing for time? So do you perceive this extending out well into the spring?

GRANGE: He’s going to try to do that, obviously. I mean, he’s a — just like you said, he’s an expert at denial, at deception, at dislocation, at disruption. So he’s going to continue to do that. And I — you know, the — for him to declare on the 8th of December that he has no weapons of mass destruction, when there’s clear evidence that he does, I mean, there’s a violation right there. I mean, he’s already violated it. (Bold added)

   

 It is my view that a supposedly intelligent, savvy, in the loop, high achieving military go to guy like David Grange knew full well that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when he slopped out this sorry excuse for the truth in a November 16 2002 interview the supposedly independent analyst had with CNN’s Miles O’Brien.

 Perhaps inspired by the forensic examiners who seek to find genetic traces left behind at a crime scene, and in light of David Barstow’s New York Times expose’ – Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand  - on the Pentagon’s psyops assault on the truth and reality using retired senior military people and the ever eagerly complicit mainstream media, I thought I’d go back to 2002 to see if former Brigadier General Grange was on the level when he offered his “independent” expertise to the world in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

 For reasons beyond me now, I wanted to believe what he said, even though I have a lifetime of good reasons to distrust people who have managed to worm their way into a position of delusional authority over others.

 However, I can clearly recall twinges of doubt and misgivings roiling restlessly in the back of my mind whenever I heard him speak.

 I am now certain that all those ugly twinges were my smarter, not so easily fooled sub-conscience trying to warn me of the logical inconsistencies, the furtive, hastily corrected or hurridely re-worked verbal mis-steps and gaffes that even the most skilled sociopathic liar – as I now believe Grange to be – must always leave behind as they navigate the treacherous rocks of illusion just as any other common criminal leaves the aforementioned traces and strands of DNA at any other crime scene.

 His words, his body language, his eyes must have all been screaming out signals that, alas, only become clear to me as I go back and read the transcript of his words after the revelations in the NYT article.

 And if someone were to tell me that the CNN interviewer was reading off the same script, I’d be inclined to believe it.

 If I imagined that he had the capacity to feel such a thing, I would assume David Grange would be filled with humiliation, guilt, remorse and regret at his role in the Bush Crime Family’s endeavors and in being caught and nailed so clearly and publicly as a deeply dishonorable man.

There are sociopaths among us, many of them, and to the naked eye they look just like David Grange.

 

Update January 3rd 2009

David Grange is all over CNN covering the Gaza bombardment and invasion. Just a note to remind readers that Grange is a proven liar. No doubt his  military expertise is impressive, but whose lies is he being paid to mouth this time?

We will probably never know, but we do know one thing:

This guy is not worthy of our attention or our trust.

Proven liars on scale of Grange should not be listened to.

Tune him out.

John Stewart

“Oh I’m believing, believing
Believing, that even when I’m gone
Maybe some lonesome picker will
Find some healing in this song”

 

 

No maybe about it John.

“Midnight Silver Bullet”

Midnight Silver Bullet – David Archer

Midnight Silver Bullet – David Archer (4:45)
Underground Sun 2004

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Midnight Silver Bullet

The street lights throw shadows that reach out for you
The cold heart of love is unbroken, undamaged, untrue
A pale white angel disappears through a door
And you know you’ll follow ‘cause you just can’t take anymore

I’ll be leaving tonight in the last train
On the Midnight Silver Bullet
All my dreams have come down like a hard rain
On the Midnight Silver Bullet

A vanishing silhouette
In a down town hotel
And I know you won’t forget
This could be heaven and this could be hell

I’ll be leaving tonight on the last train
On the Midnight Silver bullet
All my dreams have come down like a hard rain
On the Midnight Silver Bullet

The flash of a neon sign, the only light in the room
And you’ve found you’re pale white angel, but she leaves too soon
And the wind blows the curtains
but there’s not a sound from the street
Now and forever, white light and white heat

I’ll be leaving tonight on the last train
On the midnight Silver Bullet
All my dreams have come down like a hard rain
On the Midnight Silver Bullet

Bedazzled

Carina Nebula courtesy NASA and STScI

 

Having watched part of the Obama – Clinton ABC debate last night and clips and highlights today, and having read wildly divergent opinions of the same event (eye witness syndrome? or just good ‘ol partisan politics?) from the left, the right and – from those who sometimes claim the podium of neutrality or balance – the supposed center, my only observation today is in questioning the nature of what appears to be a mighty, mighty level of ego and hubris evident in the debate presenters and moderators who seem unable to distinguish the event and the news from themselves.

 Although Stephanopoulos and Gibson are most certainly offenders, this particular pathology has infected the entire mainstream media.

<Whoosh>

 Don’t worry though, armed with your own personal moral gyroscope, the enforced skepticism required to retain sanity in the modern world, a reasonably reliable bullshit detector and all that we have learned from decades of an all out assault of marketeering style (lapel pin) power of suggestion – otherwise known as brainwashing (Hussein) – go ahead do your damnedest, throw it all at me, Ha!, the mass market manipulators (elite) have hit their glass ceiling, they have spawned their own worst nightmare – a citizenry growing immune to their machinations (turn it up, louder sharper sounds will get their attention! Ha! we don’t even need your attention, we claim squatters rights in your brain!!) - armed with all that, it is just possible to navigate your way through the mine-fields of spin, counter-spin, lie and counter lie and utter, utter nonsense (because there is no better word) that awaits you each day should you decide to plug into the information super-string highway.

Prepare to be dazzled.

<Whoosh>

<Ping>

Loon Theory’s View on Wikipedia

 

If you can’t figure out how to safely and effectively use this tool, then I’m sorry, there is little or no hope for you.

Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation

Debunking The Wikipedia ‘Brain Surgery’ Myth

Wikipedia in the Newsroom  

Thou Shalt Not Use Wikipedia

Wheelharp

Based on the Hurdy Gurdy, this amazing instrument is a work of art visually as well as sonically.

The Artist/Artisan/Craftsman who created the Wheelharp is Jon Jones, courtesy Lumberjocks.com. 

You can  view this very cool gallery of some of his work.

Hat tip to OddMusic.com

Mountaintop Removal

Mountaintop Removal Video

 

 From the FAQ page at ILoveMountains.org :

Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

The US Environmental Protection Agency defines mountaintop removal as follows:

“Mountaintop removal/valley fill is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are removed, exposing the seams of coal. Mountaintop removal can involve removing 500 feet or more of the summit to get at buried seams of coal. The earth from the mountaintop is then dumped in the neighboring valleys.”

 
The sheer anti social pathology at the heart of the act of mountain top removal coal mining for profit leaves me stricken, speechless, stunned and saddened yet not all that amazed at what goes on under the black ops banner of business and the de-regulated marketplace.

Dogmatic conservatives would probably call it the Topographical Enhancement Protocol or some such asinine, painfully transparent doublespeak or “Newspeak” that appears to be one of the few lessons the hard right wing managed to learn from George Orwell.

 

 Appalachian Voices

Ilovemountains.org

 

 

Pangaea (The Tides of Europa)

“Pangaea” from “The Tides of Europa” by David Archer – (3:56)

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The second part of the five song cycle written for acrobatic theatre, modern dance or some other visual element.