December 14, 2012

Vitamin B

Image by way of wikipedia.

I just finished watching the new Bob Marley documentary and it made me realize how much his music has meant to me over the years. The first time I heard Redemption Song it pretty much stopped me in my tracks.

Once I "discovered" Bob, years after most people had, I devoured all his music I could find. West Virginia and Jamaica are obviously different places, but both have been colonized in their own way by Babylon.

Marley's music has a powerful combination of radicalism and spirituality that has given many people the world over the courage to get up/stand up. It's been too long since I gave Bob a serious listen but that's about to change. I highly recommend it as there's nothing better to lively up yourself.

HOW DID I MISS THIS New York Times column about zombies, apocalypses and such?

NOT AN APOCALYPSE, NECESSARILY, BUT BAD ENOUGH. I'm referring to climate change. That's the bad news. The good news is it looks like more people are starting to take it seriously.

GOAT ROPE ADVISORY LEVEL: ELEVATED

1 comment:

  1. Up on a ladder
    Doin' a job
    Herd the message tones
    Coming from the prophet Bob

    Took a look around me
    At the real situation
    Sank deep, sank deep
    Into an Irie meditation

    West Virginia Rastafari
    Trumpetin' the positive words
    For it's not too late
    West Virginia Rastafari
    Comin' to ya, yeah we're comin' to ya
    From the third world state

    Meet me on a corner in West Virginia
    Maybe then we can retribalize
    Reap some magic off the roots of creation
    Start living in a future we can realize

    West Virginia Rastafari
    Trumpetin' the positive words
    For it's not too late
    West Virginia Rastafari
    Comin' to ya, yeah we're comin' to ya
    From the third world state

    And we're singing
    Jah love in the Rasta Plan
    Leads the every deed of a Spiritual Man


    Donna The Buffalo

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