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Here's mine: I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE
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Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.
"I Know I'm Not Alone" video is a compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages, and Franti's intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael's guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilience and sometimes horrific experience of what it's like to live under the bombs and military occupation.
With its guerrilla style footage captured in active war zones, the documentary is unlike the many academic and politically driven pieces in the marketplace, instead offering the audience a sense of intimate travel and the opportunity to hear the voices of everyday people living, creating and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation.
Here's a 10 minute preview of this documentary...Michael Franti - I Know I'm Not Alone
REVIEWS
"Watch this film then insist that Michael Franti becomes President of the United States!"
-Anthony Minghella (Academy Award Winning Director, English Patient, Cold Mountain)
"Michael Franti is the most important artist recording and touring today who has yet to reach the mass audience. The subjects he sings about are totally genuine and derived from personal experiences."
-Chris Blackwell (Founder-Palm Pictures, Island Life)
"Michael's (Franti) a modern minstrel weaving stories of war and occupation into his heart of peace, giving us hope, not just tears. The film is powerful, honest, and touching."
-Serj Tankian (Musician-System Of A Down)
"Michael Franti so easily embodies the kind of artist we must all yearn to be, forever connected to the heart of the people and always giving us something meaningful to dance to, even and especially, in the face of war and despair."
-Saul Williams (Musician, Actor, Poet)
"I Know I'm Not Alone" is an antidote to despair. With soulful music and boyish charm, Michael Franti sings his way through two brutal occupations--Iraq and Palestine, breaking through the hate and revealing the oneness of our human family.
-Medea Benjamin (Founder-Global Exchange)
Rating: 4 stars
NEW INTERNATIONALIST Magazine, UK
Peace
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Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar.
"I Know I'm Not Alone" video is a compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages, and Franti's intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael's guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilience and sometimes horrific experience of what it's like to live under the bombs and military occupation.
With its guerrilla style footage captured in active war zones, the documentary is unlike the many academic and politically driven pieces in the marketplace, instead offering the audience a sense of intimate travel and the opportunity to hear the voices of everyday people living, creating and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation.
Here's a 10 minute preview of this documentary...Michael Franti - I Know I'm Not Alone
REVIEWS
"Watch this film then insist that Michael Franti becomes President of the United States!"
-Anthony Minghella (Academy Award Winning Director, English Patient, Cold Mountain)
"Michael Franti is the most important artist recording and touring today who has yet to reach the mass audience. The subjects he sings about are totally genuine and derived from personal experiences."
-Chris Blackwell (Founder-Palm Pictures, Island Life)
"Michael's (Franti) a modern minstrel weaving stories of war and occupation into his heart of peace, giving us hope, not just tears. The film is powerful, honest, and touching."
-Serj Tankian (Musician-System Of A Down)
"Michael Franti so easily embodies the kind of artist we must all yearn to be, forever connected to the heart of the people and always giving us something meaningful to dance to, even and especially, in the face of war and despair."
-Saul Williams (Musician, Actor, Poet)
"I Know I'm Not Alone" is an antidote to despair. With soulful music and boyish charm, Michael Franti sings his way through two brutal occupations--Iraq and Palestine, breaking through the hate and revealing the oneness of our human family.
-Medea Benjamin (Founder-Global Exchange)
Rating: 4 stars
NEW INTERNATIONALIST Magazine, UK
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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This is a short summary of the documentary which i found very interesting, as well as funny in parts. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g3cD6RV4Rb8
fuckin..peas... fuck sake... i dinnae like peas.. *spits*
I love Hearts of Darkness about the making of Apocalypse Now
And you're not leaving here without me, I don't wanna be without
My best... friend. Wake up, to see you could have it all
Check out "Sir! No Sir! The G.I. Revolt"
http://video.google.ca/url?docid=-6778006324418913071&esrc=sr2&ev=v&len=2967&q=No%2BSIr!%2Bduration%3Along&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.ca%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-6778006324418913071&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-6778006324418913071%26q%3DNo%2BSIr%2521%2Bduration%253Along%26total%3D215%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D1&usg=AL29H22CCI1niKKCt4ZKoxMwOrgKWfDo1w
And "Rageh Inside Iran"
http://video.google.ca/url?docid=554201962695917482&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len=5370&q=in%2Biran%2Bduration%3Along&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.ca%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D554201962695917482&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D554201962695917482%26q%3Din%2Biran%2Bduration%253Along%26total%3D2693%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H20C2JKqrgEEfPpBH4wc4hVHRBZg2g
I'm also partial to lectures and conferences
http://www.beyondbelief2006.org
I like this one. seems to be a generational thing with hatred towards the US. the newer (mid 20s or so) seem to like "western" culture but they arent really allowed to
I posted a thread titled this..the bit torrent version was a much nicer on the eyes.
Really good watch. I love documentaries on other countries.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Ahnimus should watch this.
http://www.guba.com/watch/2000989072
there was one i watched recently about an area in africa and how a giant fishing industry ran by russians and middle easterners kept brutally exploited the locals.
the poor people there lived in horrendous conditions. i never really bought the idea that they lived much better before the fishing guys got there, but it did show how unchecked, unregulated industry can ruin a country.
does anyone know the name of this?
Which is why war against Iran may be detrimental. If we wait, Iran will look alot different in 20 years. Otherwise, we might just be creating a new generation of haters.
Nihilism is nothing new to me Nietzche.
This is like that film "What the BLEEP"
It's hypocritical of it's self within the first 5 minutes.
"There is no absolute knowledge"
That sure sounds like a claim of absolute knowledge to me.
Then, why go on to talk about anything at all? Why mention physics, electromagnetism, or anything else involving knowledge?
He seems pretty absolute in his claims about electromagnetism.
"Anyone who claims absolute knowledge is opening the door to trajedy."
The problem with his entire perpsective is defeatism. It gets you no further ahead, and that is a trajedy.
Watch the film. You've long proven yourself to me to be a psuedoscientist, a fake, a fraud, a laughable charlatan with limited knowledge of your subject. How dare you presume to challenge Bronowski? My complaint against you isn't personal, it's academic and professional. You're a con-artist, and a damned poor one outside of this little board.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Sir No Sir is great, great movie loved the look back on Vietnam. I love docs from foreign lands.
PAPER CLIPS
It began as a lesson about prejudice... What happened next was a miracle
Plot Outline:As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.
Trailer to Paper Clips.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I wish they would release the first one on DVD. I haven't watched it in years.
I have to add both Paradise Lost docs.
My husband and I also watched this this weekend. Not that I wasn't aware of most of it, it was still very disturbing.
Those are some pretty tall words for such a short guy.
You don't even have a clue what I am Fins. I talk about this stuff over dinner.
Case-in-point, I had dinner with a physiology major today and we talked about the content of my latest reads "Brain-Wise" and "The Engine of Reason, The Seat of The Soul" by Pat and Paul Churchland respectively, two professors at UCSD.
My dinner date stated "You need to go to university" and I said "I dunno, then the pressure is on to remember what I read" and she replied "But, you remember it all already and you are basically doing it without the instruction or the degree."
I even question the textbooks. I'm not afraid to fire off an email to some professor/author of a university/textbook and question something in their book/paper. I do it with a solid enough understanding that they humor me with a reply.
Go back to twanging your banjo and leave the thinking to the thinkers.
The preview was fuckin A
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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You're talking to a literary critic. I have three degrees. You have none.
Congratulations!
Perhaps you can tell me the standard delay between a stimulus and a readiness potential then?
Or maybe you'd like to take a crack at explaining how the V1 striate cortex encodes for projections to V4.
Or maybe, you are just a literary critic and don't know a damn thing about brains.
Did you checkout the .....Bomb The World video posted from the march in DC? Tell me what ya think of this one? I'm seeing his shows in Times Square, NYC....Norfolk, VA.....Richmond, VA....and Philly, PA.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I could do what you do, and provide critically inept paraphasings of links:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=65109BEE76D6792CDB3FDAA3471E0FC8.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=85825
http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980799422&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=980799422.pdf
Get the point?
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I could answer both of those questions I asked without consulting any sources. I know. That is the point.
You know what you know, which is how to be a literary critic. You got 3 fancy papers to back it up, congratulations. I have knowledge backing up my knowledge and when I talk, it's evident. You have the bug of academia, the holier-than-thou complex all too common.
"You are a pack of neurons" - Francis Crick (The Astonishing Hypothesis)
You want to challenge that knowledge, shoot yourself in the brain. Otherwise, stick to what you do know and respect those that know otherwise.
It was good. I like the level of punch his drummer gets dials in on the snare.
He's got a bit of funk and Caribbean patois going on in there. I can play that kind of stuff quite well so I like to jam to it.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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I'm pretty sure Baraka is smarter than me or Fins.
I'm pretty average really............I'm just a better 'con-man' than Ahnimus. Ha ha.... Just kidding guys
Dunkman mentioned the Heart of Darkness doc, I loved that one too.
but the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel Boorstin
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
~Albert Einstein
I actually like the documentary in the end. It doesn't really have anything to do with me though.
There are a few points I disagree with Bonowsky, but mostly it's on fallacious inferences, such as "Heissenberg's uncertainty princple" I don't think it has a damn thing to do with pattern recognition or human communication skills. That's a straw bridge, IMO. Nor do I agree with his entire interpretation of quantum mechanics.
But what he says at the end "when people believe they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality"
Bingo!
That's what tips the scales in favor of science as the best method for aquiring information about reality. That is the entire point of this documentary.
In that regard, I am in line with Bonowsky, not against him.
I also like the Nova special tracking each and every step of pregnancy within the womb. I think Time magazine did an article on the woman that they used within the study. It was really amazing.
Have a good night.