sense of doubt

Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Monday, June 29, 2020

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1959 - AFROPUNK - Musical Monday for 2006.29

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1959 - AFROPUNK - Musical Monday for 2006.29

Just a short post of shares today, and instead of a music mix I made, I am sharing one by AFROPUNK.

Most of this content comes from AFROPUNK except athe K'NAAN and Nelly cover (sort of) of Pink Floyd's "Is Anybody Out There?" Though it does not really strike me as a cover despite having hte same name.

After days and days of labor intensive posts, I am keeping this one simple, as I have work to do.

But, damn, isn't that image up top so dope?

This is

https://afropunk.com/2020/06/dua-saleh-decries-police-violence-on-body-cast/

DUA SALEH DECRIES POLICE VIOLENCE ON “BODY CAST”

By Nathan Leigh

June 2, 2020

Lately I’ve had plaster on my mind
County ain’t on shit they got bodies on the line

Every day the situation calls for a new anthem. Dua Saleh’s “body cast” is exactly what we need right now. The Minneapolis artist and activist’s latest is a hard-hitting paean to the conflict, trauma, and tireless fight for justice. The video enumerates the names of unarmed Black people killed by police while the artist declares: “we will not accept any more.”

Dua Saleh is donating 100% of proceeds from Bandcamp purchases to the BlackVisions Collective. They explain “This is a song I made with Psymun last year and intended to save it for a project in the future but I can’t wait that long with what is happening in my city of Minneapolis. This song is about police brutality and injustice. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Black Visions Collective (https://blackvisionsmn.org) who are mobilizing their efforts for real change. All of the names listed in this video were unarmed black people killed by police in recent years. Please consider donating more than the suggested price (if you’re able to) Thank you.”

Grab the track and make a contribution at:
https://duasaleh.bandcamp.com/track/body-cast

ZOË MODIGA TELLS A ZULU FAIRYTALE WITH HER NEW ALBUM, ‘INGANEKWANE

By Thembela Ngayi

June 26, 2020

Inspired by the theme of self-reflection explored on her beloved debut album Yellow: The Novel, Zoë Modiga’s anticipated sophomore offering of Inganekwane, translated “Zulu fairytale” goes further into this introspection to reveal messages of identity.

The production on Inganekwane is handled by Banda Banda and along with Zoë, they produce a melting pot of Western African rhythm, layered in folk guitars, Southern African sensibilities, heartfelt Zulu storytelling that evokes intention to transform.

The first offering from the album, “Lengoma,” is the re-introduction to a new sound and new journey as she explores the traditional West and Southern African influences paired with communal celebratory lyrics. Featuring lead singer of Urban Village, Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, this song is for the times. A song for healing, for dancing, and truly a song for all people.

“Much like the colour yellow connected us to the “Yellow” era [do you mean “her yellow era here?], the cow serves as the official emblem of this offering”, Zoë explains Ingakwane’s album cover:

“As a child, I had a quiet and thoughtful disposition and I created worlds for myself as I felt quite alienated from reality very early on. I would visit my paternal grandmother where I was fascinated and drawn to the nature of cows. I would stare into the eyes of cows and watch them chewing the cud and I’d feel as though it was a moment of true divinity with an overflowing peace. I would later learn that cows bare much cultural significance by providing food and clothing, they are our sense of wealth, our sacred offering, our inspiration for song and storytelling. I realise now that truly, they are at the heart of our memory and history as a people.”

And so, Zoë chews the cud with this love letter, asking that we rise to our giant selves by remembering all that we truly are.

The album boasts collaborations with South African Grammy-winning studio engineers, Papi Direste and Oyama Songo, American Grammy Winning mixing engineers Carlos Bedoya and Marc Urselli and Grammy-winning mastering engineer Jose Blanco.

Zoë Modiga’s Inganekwane released on June 26 on all streaming platforms.

https://afropunk.com/2023/03/black-women-pushing-the-right-buttons-a-look-at-black-women-behind-the-boards-as-sound-engineers-producers/

Words byTHEMBELA NGAYI

History is made by those who stop waiting for an end to oppression and seize their rights themselves. From Stonewall 51 years ago to the uprisings of today, Direct Action gets the goods. As we enter the intersection of Pride and Black Music Month and a pivotal moment in history, our latest mixtape celebrates the activists and artists that inspire today’s heroes.

01. Intro: James Baldwin, 1968
02. The Muslims – Gentrified Chicken
03. Interlude: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), 1967
04. The Colours That Rise – Atmosphere (ft. Yazmin Lacey)
05. TIE and the Love Concept – Life Is Not a Waiting Game
06. Body Count – Point the Finger
07. Algiers – Liberation (Outkast Cover)
08. Interlude: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, 2015
09. Angel-Ho – Woman Call
10. Stiff Pap – Bus Boy
11. Mourning [A] BLKstar – Mist :: Missed
12. Interlude: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1968
13. SPEW – Fight the Power
14. Baby Got Back Talk – Back to Before
15. Trash Talk – Something Wicked
16. Interlude: Assata Shakur, 1992
17. Ganser – Bags for Life
18. Interlude: Tamika Mallory, 2020
19. Danny Denial – Everything Is Terrible
20. serpentwithfeet – A Comma

Words byNATHAN LEIGH

AFROPUNK · AFROPUNK Mixtape #066: Direct Action

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2006.29 - 10:10

- Days ago = 1823 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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I am Christopher Tower the gmr

I am Christopher Tower (or Chris), and I am a writer of stuff. I grew up in Michigan; I now live in the Portland, OR metro area. I play Ultimate, ride a bike, and supposedly educate college persons while myself being educated in college. I am married with two kids, a beagle, a curly lab, and a fiesty pug/frenche mix. I like sushi. I love all SF, fantasy, comic books, D&D, board games, and Gnosticism. I am a Jungian. I am currently studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Walden University.

SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.