BWLP Digital Enz, Alternate Orbit Gallery, April 2011

New Favorite Things This Week...

the Swans.

Rialto Cinema Cerrito.
(yes, you can see a kid's movie AND have a Deschutes)

Nation's grilled cheese sandwich, with everything.

Lululemon- Cow Hollow.

DJ Modesty Hip Hop show no. 198 (mark our words THIS will go down as a classic broadcast- if you do not know who DJ Modesty is and you LOVE hip hop, find out about his work and you will not be disappointed!!!)

Michael Franti's Power to the Peaceful Festival in SF this September 2011.
You've been warned.

New bwlp song: Flowers.
(wax demo limited copies, coming to indie record shops near u fall 2011)
(we apologize in advance for being 'boring' for not posting a sample here, coming soon!)

and last but not least,

Tracey Thorn.
(s k i l l s, people, S K I L L S.)

BWLP Spring Podcast is Up.

We Up.
















With a break in the action of ‘everything’
it’s time for a new episode of Birds Who Like Pomegranate Mixed Media Music Magazine.

I’m your host, b.phlecksi parmella a.k.a Portal 369 of Emetic Landscape, a.k.a bwlp. And today’s selections get blended by dj frank niao.
The music this month comes to theme unusual times and travails in wierd media scaffolds. This month from our Digital Ends section: Featured artist, Gift Giver, as well as other West Oakland graf specialists- for this month’s slide show.

Do you ever wake up with tears on your pillow? Joy or sadness?

A compelling set of thoughts for me today,
reminds me Pearl S. Buck’s, The Big Wave, a story set in Japan after a tsunami.
Something that speaks to the constant threat of fire and quake of volcano and the unpredictable waves of sea- instilling a fearlessness around death.

life being as it is and valuing the moment.

well, here’s to a moment in time,

set listy:

b.phlecksi parmella speaky introduction, empire doing invaders, apollo brown doing bridge through time, muneshine doing two way street, roxanne shante and marley marl and kangol kid doing the roxanne roxanne phenomena explained, hymalai doing wazuhiru, lm1 doing berlin (future engineers remix), nikki minaj doing young money, phineas and ferb and candace missing out on a busting feeding frenzy, gang colors doing no clear reason, jubei doing alignment (boddika remix), world class wrecking crew doing surgery (dr. dre) the classic fo yo’ ass version from 1985, freddie joachim doing from now on, phase2 graf history interview frank niao remix, eddy meets yannah doing the bring back, intermetric doing nocow, king boom doing blue groove, solar9 featuring redeyes doing sinistar, jose james doing maide vale park bench people, souled doing kick the bucket, rainchild and empire doing metropolis, jondis doing for sake.

catch you out there at a dj boof’ near you.
peep us out.

BWLP

Tommy's on NPR Today

Pacific Standard Time,
Today on KQED, 10 AM
NIIIIICE.
When the audio posts for this...you gotta get it.
It's the i$t!
-b

It's all about the Bay, yo.

The Row Back Series Rebroadcast of the 2008 Equinox pt.2

We decided to give you all a little some' some' from 2008.
It's nice to look back and see being tuned in with the 'times' in a quality way
gets a little dap.
just a little.

Our Favorite Things As of Late

Having a 6 year old keeps my ears and eyes in the game.
Teaching 4th grade keeps my daily in the game.
Running 5 days a week keeps my heart in the game.
Seeing life throughout West Oakland keeps my soul in the game.
Fish tacos in the marina keep my euphoria in the game.
Street art sensibilities challenge my paradigm of the game.
Love is not a game but a practice...

("...that's right, we talkin about 'practice' ")

Dang. Go Mario Chiodo...(really, my kid's gonna freak when he sees that I was actually next to the original Star Wars frozen Han Solo form that Boba Fett ship he wants!) Tacolicious, Phineas and Ferb, Rooky Ricardo's record shop, Endless Canvas....and About the World!

Now, it's time to throw on that Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry record Dick gave me a deal on over at Rooky Ricardo's record shop
[my waaaaay, totally, new favorite...add it to your vinyl to-do-list!]

yours truly,

b freaking phlecksi gosh durnit parmella.
(time to get my spring break ON!!!!)

donuts anyone? (dilla's of course...)

From the Bay, Our World Right Now, Today from NPR

By Steven Moss

Nuclear meltdown in Japan; revolts in Africa and the Middle East, with our military active on three fronts; multi-billion dollar budget deficits cratering local, state and federal governments; millions out of work. Are we nearing the apocalypse, or a new age foretold by the Mayan calendar's December 2012 end?

More likely the world is just reaping what it's sowed. The Japanese catastrophe has hewed close to a Godzilla movie: nature unleashes the radioactive monster created by human folly. Populations held under the thumb of cartoon dictators finally had enough. America, tethered to the Middle East by petroleum pipelines, is trying to settle the angry young men in Libya and elsewhere down, ushering them away from the oil fields by distributing their favorite toys: guns and bombs. Look at that pretty explosion. Our economy? Countrywide, Madoff, and the banks took care of that.

Aside from military action, politicians' response to these alarming events has been oddly surgical, focusing on whether just the government's fingers and toes should be amputated, or might it be better to simply shoot the government in the head so we can hurry back to our private compounds. That vision-thing is absent, unless the vision is of a hobbled government waiving its crutches and yelling "cut that out" as monopolies and mega-corporations pick the pockets of the poor, while the rest of us play Angry Birds on our hand computers.

Through the rubble of government deficits, shafts of light show potential pathways to a future we might actually want to live in. California's energy policies are stumbling towards a more reliable and sustainable era. The federal stimulus package signaled that collective action can be taken in the midst of crises. And citizen-leaders are reclaiming underperforming schools and ill-tended green spaces, through literal grassroots efforts supported by a mix of public and private dollars.

Whether our travails have a spiritual dimension -- and really, what doesn't -- or are purely human made, our response should be the same: praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Whereby "praise" might mean stop poking at your iPhone, and wake up to what's going on; and "ammunition" comes in the form of adopting public policies that create the kind of world we want for our children.

With a Perspective, I'm Steven Moss.