new night music

The first person at vocalo.org to add nightscientist as a friend is one of their onair personalities: she includes Kurosawa and Sergio Leone films in her list of "likes" so we made her a song. I didn't have any good clips of the aforementioned but I did find the soundtrack to Karajishi Botan which is a great series of yakuza movies featuring Japanese actor Takakura Ken.

I hope Ayana likes it. If anybody else out there is looking for his or her own personal theme song, you know where to go....

Ozzie Guillen, Man of the Cloth

I had actually forgotten that Ozzie Guillen is a babalawo; I think Irete Yekun told me this. This is a great article from the LA Times two years ago. They go to great lengths to give several examples of players and coaches saying "it's not like the religion is going to make you a better player." No, it's not like that, LA Times. But if you are a good baseball player, you don't want your bus to have a flat tire, you don't want another important player to get sick, and you don't want the weather to favor the other team. Ifa works in broad but hidden strokes. Oh, and Orunmila's never wrong.

Mike Ness rockin' the frogmobile

I just scrolled through the whole first page and saw the Social D picture. Is it just me, or does Mike Ness have a Citroen tattooed on his abdomen? Not very cholo, or whatever he's goin' for, but hey, I suppose when I write songs for Johnny Cash, I can get Doug Henning in a dune buggy tattooed on my abs and everyone else can fuck off, right?

missy where'd ya get that box?

Looking up info on These Are Powers (sorry, myspace makes me dizzy, so I can't push a band's myspace page, but look it up anyway) I stumbled across this awesome photo:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00008NUQU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Anyone know what kind of boombox that is?

check out vocalo.org

Take a moment to check out vocalo.org; it's a project of WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio, and seems to work in a very similar manner to Current TV in that the content (i.e. what you hear) is largely user-created. Vocalo.org (or 89.5 if yr in Chicago) has a way-fresh vibe to it, and reminds me a lot of how London radio sounded in the summer of 89 when Soul II Soul was booming out of every car on the street.

modern, urban spirituality

Are you tired of getting doors closed in your face because you don't want to sign up for a lifetime subscription to whatever people are offering you? Me too. Give a dude a break.

Ever wondered if you can have work without pain? Baseball without the spitting? Religion without all the hatin'?

You can. Just go out there and take it. Read books, talk to everyone you can, volunteer to help. Swallow your pride for a few minutes and listen: there are teachers on every street corner.

nightscientist comes from a specific place, a specific cosmology, and maybe you don't want the whole burrito. It's okay; take a bite and get back to us when you've figured out whether you like it or not.

We want to help, and we want your life to get better, through music, through art, through family, through truth, through friendship.