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  • May 20th, Erotic Art Show

    I will be creating an installation at the next Erotic Art Show on May 20th at The White Room in Nanaimo. Details are secret, but I will say that you can expect something very interactive. Candy Apple Creative Arts is putting it on. Or….taking it off? Here is the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/988163121318989/

  • Hicks quote about tv

    “Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye” – Bill Hicks

    I’ll extend this thought to mean television programming. Networks have an interest in programming what you think – even beyond the obvious consumer objective. Sure they want you to buy those things, but moreover they want you to think you are inadequate, ugly, and incapable. It’s the mind-controlling capitalist oligarchy that wants to take away your *amazing immense* power. If you subject yourself or your family to this programming, there is a major theft occurring. Knowing about it is the first step to recovery! At least hit the mute button when the commercial break comes on. “Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.” -Terence McKenna

    In television production school I learned that the show is produced and broadcast at mid-range frequency. Full-range frequency is reserved for the commercial breaks. This is why the commercials seem louder than the show.

  • 45 minutes of non-stop music, TRNN, and some classical

    All over the place with many different sounds.

    00:00-42:00 Nonstop music (see tracklist below)
    42:00-51:00 The Real News Network. How is Canada like the US when it comes to foreign policy?
    51:00-58:00 Classical music

    Listen to the episode here

    Here is the music that played
    Bibio – A Tout a l’heure
    Bibio – Feeling
    Com Truise – Colorvision
    Lusine – Two Dots
    Mrid, Kawtar Sadik – Salat Ala Nabina
    Generationals – In Green
    Fred Thomas – I Heard You Say
    Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin – Since you Stole my Heart
    Radiation City – The Clod and the Pebble
    Rainier Maria – Big Man
    Forro in the Dark – Voce Nao E Insubstituviel
    Forro in the Dark – Indios So Norte
    The Real News Network, How is Canada’s foreign policy different or the same as the US?
    Chopin – Etude No. 12 in C minor, Op 10
    Max Richter – The Departure
    Chopin – Waltz in c Sharp Minor, Op 62

  • Local Only Radio Show

    Today the show is on a hundred-mile diet.

    An hour of tunes from musicians in Nanaimo or Victoria

    Here is the file

    Carmanah – I did it all for you
    Carmanah – Roots
    Blue Moon Marquee – Shading Tree
    Carolyn Mark – Flaming Star
    Carolyn Mark – Not Like the Movies
    Painted Fruits – Gender
    Painted Fruits – Mechanical Rhythm
    Great Speckled Fritillary – Polar Star
    Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
    Wolf Parade – Solders Grin
    Wolf Parade – Lousy Pictures
    Aaron James and the Black Water – Fear II
    Harp’Axe – She’s Got
    Harp’Axe – Get Out

  • War is obsolete

    ” We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be “you or me,” so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete. This has never been done before.” -Buckminster Fuller, 1981

    Last Thursday, Justin Trudeau said he was urging the UN Security Council to investigate and find out exactly who used the chemical weapons in Syria last week. He said we should find out, and he was right. The Syrian military said it wasnt them. Russia said it wasnt them.

    That night, Donny Trump launches a bunch of missiles at a Syrian military base anyway. Some hit the target, some dont….hitting elsewhere and causing major fucking damage.  Civilians killed. He did this even though it’s officially undetermined who made the initial chemical attacks.  Some people believe it was actually instigated and funded by the US to give them an excuse to start bombing shit. History has shown, it’s not impossible to imagine this. So maybe Trump did know after all.

    Friday, Justin Lie-deau said he fully supports Trump in his action. WTF, dude.  You’re really living up to your sentiments that you’re happy to relinquish Canada’s progress to falling “in line” with whatever everyone else is doing.  Did you have a nice few days in New York City last week? I’m sure they’re treating you well. So disappointed in this guy. He could have been a hero on the right side of history. Or maybe he was just a groomed shill from the start.

    AND WTF MAINSTREAM MEDIA!? People are trusting you to tell them the truth of the matter.  Instead, almost every media outlet is celebrating the perpetuating of circumstances that ALWAYS result in children dying.  The message being that this is some form of justice.

    This really pisses me off.

    I urge you to read some truth about whats really happening in Syria.

    From the Intercept, this is Glenn Greenwald

    From truthdig.com, this is Chris Hedges

    Here are some photos of Syria before they dropped the US dollar and basically renounced being involved with Unites States ten years ago. (coincidence?) What did the US have to say about that? They knowingly armed an extremist-dominated insurgency to weaken the Syrian government, which prolonged the war in that country and strengthened ISIS and Al Qaeda.

     

  • Dollar bills compilation

    Dollar bills compilation

    Opening fund-raising efforts with a 45-minute set of non-stop music about money!

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    To make a donation to CHLY’s funding drive, visit chly.ca/donate

    (more inspiring things coming later)

Lookit! An Instagram!

This is it!