Vid by Bill Finnegan on Current screening room about Wangari Maathai’s conservation effort. Watch it and do greenlight it so it can appear on current tv.

Is OMO biodegradable?

Short Excerpts
”
The performers were the women in the Philani Mothers choir. The
cassette was titled the Philani Mothers Lyrical Health Messages. The
message in this song for example deals with the value of breastfeeding.
It’s called “Ncansisa”.

The Philani Mothers choir recording project was completed in 1998.
Thousands of cassettes were distributed according to plan. And when
Peter Raeburn returned to London, he got to thinking.”

”
Peter Raeburn collaborated with British-Indian producer and musician
Nitin Sawhney on this remix of “ncansisa”. The full album “Township
Sessions” will be released in the US next month.”

**Nitin Sawhney’s collabo/remix with the Philani womens choir sounds good. And by good i mean big smile, that little chill good.
I
liked Sawhney’s music, i have only heard the CD “Broken Skin” (afew yrs
back). I would says its the world fusion type, he is one of those guys
that are hard to categorise (which is cool). As multilayered as you can
get.
Township sessions should definitely be interesting, looking forward to it.
You can pre-order on Amazon, link The release date is Oct 18th.

For info on the philani project click here

The
writer of ‘Where is America’ and ‘The open Road’ will be on Kiss 100FM
sometime this week, Hope FM ON Thursday, Family (what is cooking)TV
this week and Books and Bookmen later in the week.
Two book signings. One at Grand Regency (Thursday) and the other one at Nakumatt Juction (Karen) Friday.

(pole for the bad link, its now corrected)

I had written once about
attending Damian Marley’s concert, well his CD “Welcome to JamRock” is
a blast. If you like dancehall this is a must have. The song
“beautiful” features Bobby Brown. Other tracks i liked were
“Confrontation”, “Move!” “All night” with Stephen Marley, “Hey Girl” is
tight. “Road to Zion” Features Nas. Nice.
You can preview “in 2 deep” on honeysoul and the rest of the songs you can listen on the link above.
He has some tour dates remaining for the fall, check if your city is on the list here.

BTW thanks Irene for passing this along, I have edited some bits:
Kenyatta Day Oct 22nd Minneapolis:

Tenth anniversary of Kenya �??95
as Kenyatta Day 2005. Professor Apoya from Michigan will talk on the
legacy of Jomo Kenyatta and then the people�??s parliament will follow
with a fiery discussion of the new Kenyan constitution. Kenyan food will be catered – ugali, sukuma wiki and Nyama au kuku fry.

San Francisco based Kenyan movie director Mike Wanguhu will not only premier his new movie Hip Hop Colony
shot on location in Kenya but will also be on hand to discuss the
movie. The movie is about the Kenyan entertainment industry and the
topic of discussion will be Is contemporary Kenyan music an importation of a foreign concept or an extension of Kenyan culture? The movie has been featured in several American film festivals and is being screened in London this week.

Starts at 2:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm with the movie.
venue:The
Upfront Event Center in Brooklyn Center . The charge for the entire
program, including the guest speakers, food and movie is only $20.00.
Tickets need to be obtained in advance

10:00
pm, kick off at Blue Nile with Samba Mapangala of Orchestra Virunga
(famous for the songs Vunja Mifupa, Virunga and Malako) performing
upstairs. Dj Top Donn (Donald Owino), Kenyan deejay based in Chicago,
IL will be on hand with the best Kenyan music downstairs.
$15.00 in
advance and $20.00 at the door. People with advance tickets will be
given priority as we will most likely have a houseful.

Because people will start arriving on Friday 21^st,
we have arranged for a special entertainment session for the evening at
Blue Nile in South Minneapolis. Marimba Africa Band will entertain us
with Zilizopendwa upstairs and Dj Top Donn will be downstairs. Friday�??s
admission is only $10.00 at the door.

Check www.KilimanjaroEntertainment.com

**Checked for the address of the event center: came up nada, if you have it please post in comments and i will update.

Out East this past weekend and was stuck to the Current channel. It has interesting pods that are pre-voted on their website. The idea is to have viewer submitted content and viewer influenced programming(the greenlighting thing). The pod on the devastation of Katrina and how Red Cross volunteers are making a difference was especially good. Speaking of volunteering, kudos to Carol for taking time to go and help with the medical care of the Katrina victims. I totally applaud you! ( i really should do a specific post abt this, but let me just mention it here…things have a way of getting hectic)

Al Gore spearheaded Current TV check out more info on wikipedia. It is available in select markets, and yeah, i will be pestering my local cable company to carry it…will find out if i have to pay extra

For you filmmakers (ahem Akiey) anyone can submit (if you havent already).

Being able to watch a piece about street jugglers in Bogota… Its a brilliant thing.

gif via nanitek

Your answers on the previous post were hella funny!

Guess how come the leaf is suspended…

Driveway
moment twice this week, listening to npr’s summary of the confirmation
hearings for John Roberts to be the Chief Justice of the U.S.
What stood out yesterday were Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s
questions regarding how John Roberts felt about women, whether he did
have an ‘acerbic pen’ or did he actually believe that women should not
be equally remunerated in the workplace (or something like that).
You can listen to the summaries on the link above…
I was gallavanting about, but i think he avoided the question
Today’s
summary also included Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s wrestling with just how
important her vote is (she is the only woman on the senate judiciary
commitee). I havent been watching the proceedings closely enough to
offer much, though i suspect jjray has…Your thoughts please? Especially regarding privacy and womens rights.

Oh and today they mentioned that John Roberts once referred to mexican immigrants as

“Illegal Amigos”

Well,
I stopped by my local blockbuster video rental store this evening. I
knew precisely which sappy movie I wanted to watch today. Looked around
and didn�??t spot it at first, walked around the store quickly (those who
know me know that when I say quick, I do mean quick) circled back to
where I thought I saw it the last time and found no copies on the
shelf. Went over to the checkout counter and the gentleman helpfully
asked, �??How can I help you?�?�

Me: I like your shirt that is nice! Crash was a great movie.
(He
was wearing a black t-shirt with rent Crash ***** �??A knockout!�?� written
on it. Crash was printed in white, the rest of the words in a kind of
seafoam green.
Him: Yeah! It is a wonderful movie.
Me: Could you check for me if someone has returned a copy of �??Wedding Date�???
Him: Oh yeah I have a copy available right here�?�
(he walks over to the other checkout counter and retrieves the movie.)
Is there anything else I can help you with?
Me: Well�?� if I could have your t-shirt…
(I know I shouldn�??t have, but it just tumbled out of my mouth! the words kind of hang in the air…)
Do you have some extra shirts?
Him:
Well, you do have to work here in order to get one, (he is still
standing there while I fumble around for my card which I didn�??t find, I
could see the wheels turning in his head)
Me: (slightly dejected look ) oooh o.k…
Him: You know what? We do have some extra, you just cant wear it in here.
Me: (Beaming) Really? Wow!
(really beaming now when I realize he just asked me what size i would like omg) Small please.
(He
walks over to the back of the store, comes back with the shirt and
proceeds to check out the movie by asking for my last name, then asks
to confirm my first name)
Thank You!
Him: Would you like a bag?
Me:
Yeah sure (damn, why did I say yes? The man just gave you a free
t-shirt, why do you need a bag to put the movie and the t-shirt? Well,
its too late I already said yes. He puts everything in the bag and I am
still beaming like a nonsense.I mentally made a note of his name, and
that he was the manager)
You totally made my day, thank you.
Him: You are welcome, you just cant wear it here.
Me: Sure, sure, I wont. Thank you!

(I
exit with a huge smile that would probably chase away the gathering
clouds; it was just about to rain. That it still hasn’t poured as i
type this is not lost on this very happy girl)

Yeah Rent Crash ****”Knockout!”

music video by Burning spear on ifilm “Walk“.It reminded me of Kenya. We just have to keep walking, pause and laugh abit as we move on.

image is from KJ’s Head on corrishon

Incase you missed it… Dancing Matt,
be sure to watch where he is dancing in Kilimanjaro, Tsavo kenya with a
giraffe in the background, a forest in Uganda, and when a little kid
joins him for a sec in Seattle. cute

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