Author: dp

December 27, 2013 Inspiration

Inner Worlds Outer Worlds….amazingly insightful documentary.

Are we are all connected?? If you don’t believe it, you just might after you watch this documentary. From the primordial big bang to the ubiquitous selfie our journey continues, yet the simplest essence most have forgotten or taken for granted. This documentary sums up the interconnectedness of us all. Watch all four segments. “One consciousness, one source….you are the U in universe.”

“Inner Worlds was created by Canadian film maker, musician and meditation teacher Daniel Schmidt. The film could be described as the external reflection of his own adventures in meditation. Daniel came to meditative insights, he realized that these same insights were discovered over and over in spiritual traditions around the world and that all traditions share a common mystical underpinning. He realized that it is this core experience that connects us not only to the mysterious source of all creation, but to each other as well.” – Inner Worlds Outer Worlds

December 25, 2013 Commentary, Inspiration

Loving this new Peter Joseph series

If you are a fan of Zeitgeist the movie and know a bit about the concepts behind it, you will really enjoy these shorts by the Zeitgeist director Peter Joseph. In plain speak and a good sense of humor, he tackles some powerful issues  like democracy, economics, Consumption Vanity Disorder, The War On Nature, and more in this ongoing series called Culture In Decline. Here is part 1 which define democracy or the illusion of democracy we have in America today.

March 13, 2011 Commentary, Live Shows

What a week

Its been one intense week…we are sending positive healing wishes to the people of Japan especially those of the North East region, and helping by making donations to The Red Cross. The earth has shifted on its axis and the coastlines are being redefined.  Mother Nature has asserted herself as queen and will rule as we continue to redefine what is meaningful in our lives.

Here in the states we are watching the unravelling of the human tsunami Charlie Sheen who has flipped the media on its head either by deft hyperbole or a personal manic überman disorder. Whether or not we believe what we see there is truth and lessons to learn, and one hell of a post modern anthropological conundrum.

In NYC our immediate world was much different.  We enjoyed an amazing night at The Bowery Electric with our friends at The Passenger NYC, The Dead Exs, The Fieros, and The Othermen. We toasted the week with a healthy shout out and airplay of The Dead Exs “More Stuff” on East Village Radio. Pretty sweet for just a couple of kids having fun. Here are some pictures from the event from the amazing Kristin Viens and even more here.



February 28, 2011 Uncategorized

Dancing the blues

So the whole reason I started the Dead Exs was to give people a chance to dance to the blues.  The delta blues started way back in the juke joints of the south…there was no amps, no light show, no gaga, just a feeling and a need to shake off a day in the fields with a party…Here is what Wikipedia says. “Juke joint music began with the black folk rags (“ragtime stuff” and “folk rags” are a catch-all term for older African American music[7]) and then the boogie woogie dance music of the late 1880s or 1890s and became the blues, barrel house, and the slow drag dance music of the rural south (moving to Chicago‘s black rent-party circuit in the Great Migration) often “raucous and raunchy”[8] good time secular music. Dance forms evolved from ring dances to solo and couples dancing.

We played a raucous show in NYC last night and were so stoked to see a bunch of kids dancing and singing to a couple of inspired musicians: one playing slide guitar and the other thrashing a drum kit.  So duly inspired, I set off today to find some examples of dancing to the blues. So moving forward I would have to say the general theme shall be: have fun and get air.

With Love,
dp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An instructional vid from our friends in Portand….Spicy!

February 9, 2011 Uncategorized

Check out NYC/LA rock & roller Trip Loon’s The Dead Notes

Trip is a guy I have really enjoyed hanging out with in NYC at Don Hill’s and St. Jerome. He embodies the kind of restless rock n roll refugee spirit within the firm ideals of a young man coming up in the world starved of passion and grit. He is overwhelmingly positive and has a virtual catalog in his mind of music and artists that made this genre change the times. Have a look at what he’s up to on The Dead Notes.

February 8, 2011 Uncategorized

Everyone complaining about the half time show….isn’t this a sign of the times…?

Like it or lump it, these are the times.  Mainstream is dead and the superbowl half time show is the death knell of careers.  Here’s Rob Sheffield’s take in Rolling Stone. Did anyone else notice that when Christina blew the words, she got angry and really blasted the National Anthem out….?? I thought she actually hit that moment of passionate frustration that often fuels some damn good music and in her case a pretty rocking vocal.