¡¡¡ bastidas !!! ¡¡y más!!

Now here is a band that is currently blowing my mind and my circuitboards : BAstidas from Los Angeles.

Here’s a live clip of them playing at SXSW this last year.

luna llena

it’s cold outside. been cold. was a dark morning, because of the spring forward.  even some light rain. something that i’m particularly into is getting around on my bike.  living in lincoln heights makes it easy to do so too. walking to get around in lincoln heights is also ridiculously easy.

now i rode home from CSULA earlier today, around 8pm. the temperature was 55° but i’m sure much cooler with the windchill of going 15-20mph. was it cold, oh yes. but then again i felt amazing after doing so. the blood flowing, the body responding, the full moon hanging over my head. some things can’t be quantified.

having spent some time in a environmental studies type of course earlier in the evening, i realize that as much as environmentalism tries to place nature beyond quantification, it is more and more veering into that direction; with such things as environmental economics. i think that some things should not be quantified. if certain things exist outside of the market even up to now, so be it. my ride home could be quantified as some bicycle advocates want to do so that it can made valuable to those whom the market reigns above all. i reject that. this is the recuperation of an action that should be escaping the market, not perpetuating it. such is the greenwashing of capitalism.

i do not believe that riding a bicycle is revolutionary, such as having a personal garden is not revolutionary in it of itself. [ i overheard some anarchists @ last year's LA Anarchist bookfair thinking that bicycle riding is.]these two actions are sometimes not even a choice for most. they are a part of a way of life because with out them life would be difficult.

diatribe over. flip tape now.

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