This is going to be something so real, so soon. Original work and actual things of interest coming soon.
Electric Yoga is an experimental practice that fuses the energy of electronic music with the discipline of a Vinyasa based yoga class. Also it’s super fun and awesome.
I attended Electric Yoga at a small studio near Union Square and had such an amazing time both in a fun way and in a great/focused practice kind of way.
The next one is June 9 and although I’ll be at Starscape Music Festival, I’ll throw in a little yoga to keep the flow throughout the raaaggggeeee.
Photo by Sadhu Music
97 year old Irwin Corey spends all day panhandling on 35th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue. He uses all the money to buy medical supplies for Cuban children. A HONY fan sent me on a mission to find him after reading this article about him in the NY Times: (www.nyti.ms/qrbzED)
I’m going to find him this week.
“My story? Well… I style hair, I’m a go-go dancer, I used to be a lady, things like that.”
I love people. I love this city. I love the people in this city.
I watch the embers burn, trying to decipher their language. As if they’re speaking to me. As if there’s some ungodly truth behind each flaking bit of ash.
I hate the smell of cigarettes. I hate smoking.
But, still, I inhale bit of nicotine and carcinogens and traces of fatal poison, and I feel a rush of mild euphoria overcome me, a feeling that is both familiar and unknown.
Wind tears through my red American Apparel hoodie, stabbing the skin underneath. I try to ignore it as I exhale and examine the shapes my smoke and breath take. Then, I just watch the burn shifting my gaze between this warm cancer stick and the flood of city lights glowing below.
Something is coming. In a city like this one how can it not? In a world like this, every moment is full of possibilities. Maybe I’ve been trying to control the wrong situations. Maybe it’s time to let go. Come at me, universe.
Finally took a break from EDM to let myself feel more complex emotions…
1. klout
2. brand identity/loyalty
3. new media
4. directly linking my online and IRL personalities
5. the democratization of everything
6. failure
7. my growing independence and control
8. the idea that my parent’s safety net has to go away before i gain full control
9. commitment
#YOLO
And, yes, I say it with absolute sincerity.
HELLO, AND WELCOME. IT’S GOOD TO SEE SO MANY SMILING FACES IN THE PEWS TODAY. NOW, IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE GET BACK TO GOOD OLD FASHIONED CHRISTIAN VALUES IN THIS COUNTRY, AND I THINK THE BEST WAY WE CAN DO THAT IS TO FOCUS ON THE PARTS OF THE BIBLE THAT OCCUR BEFORE CHRIST. THAT’S WHY WE’RE CHRISTIANS. BECAUSE CHRIST ISN’T IMPORTANT. WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE PRIMITIVE, SUPERSTITIOUS, DEPLORABLE PARTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT THAT ALLOW US TO BE AS FAR REMOVED FROM THE NAMESAKE OF OUR CHOSEN RELIGION AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO DO THINGS LIKE EXPLAIN GAY PEOPLE OR ECONOMIC DISPARITY TO OUR KIDS WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY SHITTING ON THE POOR AND REDUCING WOMEN AND BLACKS TO THE LEVEL OF PROPERTY, STRIPPED OF THEIR HARD-WON RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
WHAT WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT DO IS ACKNOWLEDGE THE TEACHINGS AND WISDOM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS THE BOOK OUR RELIGION DRAWS ITS NAME FROM. THAT WOULD JUST BE SILLY, AND WE’D HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO … EVERYONE, BASICALLY, FOR BEING ENORMOUS, UNREPENTANT ASSHOLES WHO PLACE PERSONAL PROFIT AND COMFORT OVER THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF THE MANY.
I CAN SEE A LOT OF YOU HERE TODAY ARE GOING TO START ASKING THE SAME KIND OF QUESTIONS THAT GOT JESUS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE, AND I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU: WHAT ARE YOU, SOCIALISTS? STOP ROCKING THE BOAT. IF YOU HAVE A CONSCIENCE THEN THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON. AMEN.
Preach! Amen.
Joachim Garraud shared my write up today, and I am now the happiest little raver on the planet. Je t’aime, Joachim, et merci beaucoup!
http://edminsider.com/steve-aoki-joachim-garraud-rock-umf-2012/
