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:

Hollowdweller said...

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