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Background, poem text, and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/09/charles-bukowski-reads-friendly-advice-to-a-lot-of-young-men/

Charles Bukowski reads his "Friendly Advice To A Lot Of Young Men"

It Won't Stop (feat. Chris Brown)

Sevyn Streeter - It Won't Stop feat. Chris Brown

You can watch the full video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtw62Ah2zY 

A Rock, A River, A Tree
Hosts to species long since departed,
Mark the mastodon.
The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
Of their sojourn here
On our planet floor,
Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom
Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully,
Come, you may stand upon my
Back and face your distant destiny,
But seek no haven in my shadow.
I will give you no hiding place down here.
You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness,
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spelling words
Armed for slaughter.
The rock cries out today, you may stand on me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A river sings a beautiful song,
Come rest here by my side.
Each of you a bordered country,
Delicate and strangely made proud,
Yet thrusting perpetually under siege.
Your armed struggles for profit
Have left collars of waste upon
My shore, currents of debris upon my breast.
Yet, today I call you to my riverside,
If you will study war no more.
Come, clad in peace and I will sing the songs
The Creator gave to me when I
And the tree and stone were one.
Before cynicism was a bloody sear across your brow
And when you yet knew you still knew nothing.
The river sings and sings on.
There is a true yearning to respond to
The singing river and the wise rock.
So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew,
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek,
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the teacher.
They hear. They all hear
The speaking of the tree.
Today, the first and last of every tree
Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the river.
Plant yourself beside me, here beside the river.
Each of you, descendant of some passed on
Traveller, has been paid for.
You, who gave me my first name,
You Pawnee, Apache and Seneca,
You Cherokee Nation, who rested with me,
Then forced on bloody feet,
Left me to the employment of other seekers--
Desperate for gain, starving for gold.
You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot...
You the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru,
Bought, sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare
Praying for a dream.
Here, root yourselves beside me.
I am the tree planted by the river,
Which will not be moved.
I, the rock, I the river, I the tree
I am yours--your passages have been paid.
Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage,
Need not be lived again.
Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream.
Women, children, men,
Take it into the palms of your hands.
Mold it into the shape of your most
Private need. Sculpt it into
The image of your most public self.
Lift up your hearts.
Each new hour holds new chances
For new beginnings.
Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness.
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
Here, on the pulse of this fine day
You may have the courage
To look up and out upon me,
The rock, the river, the tree, your country.
No less to Midas than the mendicant.
No less to you now than the mastodon then.
Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning. 

Maya Angelou Speech
On the Pulse of Morning


Maya Angelou - "On The Pulse of Morning" at Presidents Bill Clinton's Inauguration 1993

Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/02/patti-smith-jack-kerouac-last-hotel/

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Patti Smith reads Jack Kerouac's "The Last Hotel"

Here is the new mixtape by Jahcoozi.
Tracklist:
1. Jahcoozi - Day In Day Out
2. Gonja Sufi - Ageing (Dam Mantle Remx)
3. James Blake - Klavierwerke
4. Rhythm & Sound feat. Cornell Campbell - King of My Empire
5. Jahcoozi - Read The Books (Tayo Remx)
6. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX - Ur Soul & Mine
7. Girl Unit - IRL
8. Ramadanman - Glut
9. Jahcoozi - Speckles Shine ( LV Remx)
10. Blawan - Iddy
11. Mark Pritchard - Heavy As Stone
12. Robot Koch - Lights
13. Martyn feat. Space Ape - Is This Insanity
14. Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX - NY Is Killing Me
15. Appleblim + Peverelist - Over Here
16. Bidjoi Sisters - Chantal

 Also check out the remix album - 'Nearly Naked: Barefoot Wanderer Remixes' available to buy from itunes now.  

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/nearly-naked-barefoot-wanderer/id431061341

Tracklist:

1. Read The Books (Tayo Remix) *
2. Speckles Shine (LV Remix) *
3. Barefoot Dub (Clintwood Plattfuss Remix) *
4. Read The Books (Ikonika Remix)
5. Barefoot Dub (Ramadanman Refix)
6. Lost In The Bass (Cee Remix)
7. Barefoot Dub (Grodio Remix) *
8. Barefoot Dub (Stereotyp Remix)
9. Barefoot Dub/Close To Me (Clickbox Remix)
10. Barefoot Dub (Object Object & Raw Milk Remix)
11. Close To Me (Milanese Remix)
12. Barefoot Dub (Mr. Statik Barefoot on Thorns Remix) *
13. Hologram Honeys feat. Infinite Livez
14. Watching You (Deadbeat Stalker Dub)
15. Rumours *


Mother Perera's - Jahcoozi Mixtape

How to be a winner- Zig Ziglar

OP 𓅛 mix 6 - Nicolas Jaar - (BBC Essential Mix 2012)

For full poem text, plus Eliot on idea-incubation and the mystical quality of creativity, go here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/26/t-s-eliot-on-creativity/

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T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

AFTER DARK 1

Juno Plus Podcast 45: Bill Kouligas 

Read our interview with Bill here: http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2012/10/11/juno-plus-podcast-45-bill-kouligas/

Tracklisting:

1. Das Projekt -Δt* ‎Bugo - Schligo ‎(Ata Tak)
2. Rene Hell - Untitled (PAN)
3. X-103 - Thera (Axis)
4. Mnemonists - Gyromancy (Dys)
5. Helm - New Untitled (PAN)
6. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disingenuousness Ii (Alt Mix) (PAN)
7. Rrose - Wedge (Eaux)
8. Claude Young - Changing Factors (Frictional)
9. Delroy Edwards - When The Glue Won't Burn (L.I.E.S.)
10. Kyle Hall / Funkineven - Night (Wild Oats)
11. Madteo Feat. Sensational - Very Sweaty Palms (Kassem Mosse Remix) (Meakusma)
12. Metasplice - Decant (Morphine)
13. David Prescott - Walking In Slow Circles I (Generations Unlimited)
14. Willie Burns - The Overlord (The Trilogy Tapes)
15. 69 - Ladies &amp; Gentlemen (Planet E)
16. Lee Gamble - Nowhen Hooks (PAN)
17. Jar Moff - Commercial Mouth (PAN)
18. Theo Parrish - Any Other Styles (Sound Signature)
19. Severed Heads - Gashing The Old Mae West (Ink Records)
20. Objekt - Porcupine (Hessle Audio)
21. DJ Stingray - Imping Is Easy (Unknown To The Unknown)
22. Él-G - Four Acts Amazon (Alter / Hundebiss)
23. Silent Servant - Utopian Disaster (End) (Hospital Productions)
24. Mohammad - Liberig Min (PAN)
25. Pita - Get Out (Mego)
26. A.C. Marias - Drop (Dome Records)

Juno Plus Podcast 45 - Bill Kouligas

Sylvia Plath reads "A Birthday Present." Written in September of 1962, recorded in October. Background and full text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/29/sylvia-plath-reads-a-birthday-present-1962/

Sylvia Plath Reads "A Birthday Present" (1962)

The Synchronicity - Stanford Graduation Speech by Steve Jobs

Excerpt from a Cornell University reading courtesy of PennSound. Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/14/adrienne-rich-on-love-loss-happiness-creativity/

Adrienne Rich reads from "Twenty-One Love Poems" (1985)

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Empower Hour with Tony Rush 04 Feb 2013

1980 was an incredibe year for London’s experimental music scene with many different strands. Recommended Records were rereleasing the first two Faust LP’s, L. Voag had found ‘the way out’, Swell Maps were ‘in occupied Europe’. Throbbing Gristle and other industrialists were giving plenty of live actions. Nurse With Wound had just released their first LP, as had This Heat. The other great LP on Piano Records by Steve Beresford was also on the shelves. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the capitol Adam Bohman was making his first recordings working with two budget cassette recorders. Bunhill Row was the first complete album of material, but whilst the aforementioned artists were pressing up their recordings and making them easily available via Rough Trade or the Recommended Records ‘shop’, Adam’s releases remained in tiny cassette editions made for friends or exchanged on the mail art network.
So here for the first time is Bunhill Row, released as it should have appeared at the time - on vinyl.
It must be said that this is quite unlike any of Adam’s other releases, and quite unlike his work with Morphogenesis, or his work as one half of The Bohman Brothers. This is ‘songs’ - 30 in all, and the main instrument used is a trumpet (an ordinary trumpet), along with other acoustic instruments and a vast variety of objects and junk, much of which is still part of the Bohman armoury. The overall feel sits somewhere between R. Steevie Moore and Caroliner, but this is British of course. Somehow it all works, and all in all, opens another window on to the incredibly fruitful astral alignment that occured over London at this time.

Adam also has a solo CD on Paradigm Discs, and also appears on 'Variations - a London compilation' the first CD released on Paradigm Discs. The only other solo CD by Adam is on Mycophile


Adam Bohman - The Milk Chocolate Soldier (from Bunhill Row), Paradigm Discs (PD 19)

Background and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/21/ernest-hemingway-1954-nobel-speech/

Portrait of Hemingway by Yousuf Karsh

Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954

Drake ~ Girls Love Beyonce Feat. James Fauntleroy

Audiobook Excerpt of Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday, written and read by Apolo Ohno

Zero Regrets Audio Clip

Audiobook excerpt of Nothing is Impossible, written and read by Christopher Reeve

Nothing is Impossible Audio Clip

Her wonderful 1993 children's verses, illustrated by Jean-Michel Basquiat: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/life-doesnt-frighten-me-maya-angelou-basquiat/

Maya Angelou reads "Life Doesnt Frighten Me"

Lil Wayne's daughter, Reginae, releases her first single, Daddy's Little Girl.


Maya Angelou reads "Life Doesnt Frighten Me"

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