The history of America’s science fictiondon’t take my word say it with picturesman the life boats spaced out missionsonly the Pentagon has money for winchesand a screw come loose in the trenchesa vote for either or’s natural selection

channel choices, tunnel vision pilots

elect evangelical bargain basement schism

wall to wall cars throughout the solar system

can you buy your way past the world bank

K-9 shoppers as long as you don’t think the

whole Big Bang’s yours including the kitchen sink

the sky’s the limit while there’s enough to eat

keep your foot on the gas and remain in your seat.

 

12/2003.

Several crews of guerrillas have been meeting recently to record their creative work, including a group collaborating with Bomani "D-Mite" Armah at Park Triangle Productions.  Featuring Ken Quam (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Jessica Philie (backing vocals and lead vocals), Kristen "Drum Lady" Arant (oboe, djembe, backing vocals, vocal arrangement) and Shahid (lead vocals), two recently mixed-down GPI anthems include:

• "The Baghdad Blues," an anti-war blues song
• "Bumpin' in My SUV," a funk groove addressing global warming and American hedonism

In San Francisco, the Collaborative Arts Insurgency (CAI) kicks it at the corner of 16th St. & Mission every Thursday night.  The community's been rockin since the summer of 2003, and welcomes new comers with open arms.  If you're in the Bay Area at any point, check it out!  

Here are some links for further information:

• An article in the SF Bay Guardian by Julia Scott (date unknown, but likely sometime in 2004)
• Video of the May 18, 2006 lyrical gathering
• Audio of the August 25, 2005 lyrical gathering
• A CD featuring 18 tracks by CAI poets.  [Check out #14, by hip-hop flautist Greg Patillo , who's since moved on to New York City, where he and other SF expats kickstarted The Fuse]
• Video from MC Lynx
  
• "The Living Poets," a poem by CAI stalwart James Marchetti
• A photo depicting the CAI's charismatic pandemonium in May, 2005
• A flyer and event announcement about an October, 2005 show 
• Reflections of a participant in September, 2005
• Relections of a frequent passerby (date unknown)
• Reflections of a passerby in August, 2005
• A rant distinguishing the CAI from the poetry slams derided by the author

Click here for audio.

[Shout out to Jessica Philie for verse #3]

Graduated from high school
wanted not to be abused, a tool,
I needed money to get me my piece of paper
signed up for the White Man’s military capers.

Surprised to find myself on a transport boat
shipped across the wide, blue Atlantic moat.
You know the rest of the tale she wrote
or maybe then again you don’t. (See, I’ve been)

Got off the boat in a base in Basra
saw people everywhere, running around, lost and found
a colonial country getting slowly beaten down

Off on a convoy, in a Humvee
every twenty seconds, dodging RPGs
paying elevated fees to contractees
all the pills they got can’t stop the shakin in my knees (since we’ve been)

Driving up north in the Sunni triangle
feeling pride in a flag starry spangled
suddenly I find myself in metal tangled
from my hip what used to be my leg now dangles

my buddy’s in the driver’s seat, his body incomplete.
Where he sat before, now sits a piece of meat.
The flag on his coffin folded nice and neat,
in the wintertime, his widow won’t get enough heat (‘cause we’ve been)

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http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/10440.php

Olivet (H.A.T.s in the Square)

    "…it reminds me of the eulogy that Rabbi Yakov Perin gave for Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in 1994. He said, “One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.” ….I want to say that it's very deeply painful to me as a Palestinian that while Palestinians in Gaza are demonstrating,…to urge the resistance not to release the soldier until their prisoners and hostages held by Israel are released,… what all Israelis have to realize is that the age of colonialism has ended." — Ali Abunimah

audio: MP3 at 10.4 mebibytes

http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2006/07/olivet___h.a.t.s_in_the_square___loud_ruffa1b.mp3

(download torrent)

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/torrents/olivet___h.a.t.s_in_the_square___loud_ruffa1.mp3.torrent

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Upstart Radios Mindwalk: 31: Driving to Baghdad

Summary: This episode features audio of convoys and patrols by US & UK soldiers. Sounds of beating victims from the recent whistleblower video from the UK set to Klaus Nomi. William S Burroughs, Raymond Lafferty & Jody Paulson chime in, including Skits by Kanye West, US Soldiers on patrol, Rev. 99, Jody Paulson, US truck convoy, Lord Patch (lawrence y braithwaite), Charles Bukowski, Vera Lynn, Girl on Sybian, Iraqi Victims Reprise

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/mindwalkthirtyonerevb128.mp3

http://www.live365.com/stations/lennonvideo

T U R N T A B L E I N T E R R O G A T I O N T E C H N I Q U E S

    In the beginning was the word and the word was bass. And the bass was good and Gawd saw that it was good and Gawd said and Gawd left plenty. Gawd left notes and files and jams and cycles…. and Vico saw
that Homer saw and Virgil heard and cyphered the story of blindness and
loss of self and he turn Us all into brave warriors who feared nadathin,
and refused to forget and stepped to fate like like yänkee and
fadayee,– lawrence ytzhak braithwaite — "T U R N T A B L E I N T E R R
O G A T I O N T E C H N I Q U E S"

audio: MP3 at 3.4 mebibytes:

http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/good_violence__d.u.n._.mp3
How Fast Does Light Travel . mp3

sidebrow: mez en braithwaite

http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/a006-braithwaite-01.php

http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/pdfs/braith-breeze-01.pdf

sidebrow: http://www.sidebrow.net

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