Concept song BLACK DIAMOND was written during the lockdown with the purpose to open people's mind and heart in order to give more awareness about what we have been experiencing. Black Diamond represents people's courage and strength to face the pandemic with a new consciousness to create a brighter future.

LYRICS:
Hey Girl! Ah!) Lockdown
(Yeah!) Break it down!
Black, Black, Black Diamond (Ah!)
 
(So special… Ah Ah!) I feel like a Black Da Diamond (Yeah you are!)
(I think I’m really hard to find) Deep inside my Soul (You’re working through me!)
 
Me and my Girls are hanging out Tonight (Hanging out Tonight)
And I just wanna feel alright, (Got to feel alright) (Hey Ladies!)
But I’ve got you right here in my Sight
Luanna, please plug my Guitar in!
 
Black, Black, Black Diamond. Black, Black, Black Diamond
 
(Yeah!) (There’s more to you than that) You’d be like a Black Diamond (No Judgement)
(You’ve got to know the Truth behind) They’ve mesmerised your Mind (Now you’re living through me!) (Mmm…)
 
In a not far World we started to fall apart (To fall apart)
Event Horizon like a Blackhole, Blackhole. No we’ve got no Time!
I’m glad I’m mad, you don’t fool me
I’m happy even when all I’ve got is just a cool Beat
If you believe there’s Something Else just listen to this! (You ain’t ready!)
 
Black, Black, Black Diamond.
 
(It’s such a Shame) Cause you could be like a… (Black, Black) Diamond (You know!)
(You’re lost in your own Artefact) What have you been told? (You are just not like me!)
 
People sleeping not dreaming (Unhappy, in Despair)
Missing out on real Love and in Pain
Your shambled Life will never relieve the Hole in your Heart you are hiding in Vain
(Hey) Can’t you see the big Picture? (Come on)
Before you live you just die
Or would you rather look in the Mirror to tag yourself your next Lie?
 
(Disease)
Pride, Greed, Wrath and Envy
Lust, Gluttony, Sloth (Yeah)
You can’t free your Body (And Mind)
If you don’t free your Heart (And Soul)
 
2021 dwelling in the Night you are lost
Mass Hypnotisation has never been so fast
(Chaos)
I’ve been here in this Universe, twice
And I’ve learnt that if you don’t break the Mold
Again, you are gonna pay the Price. (Got it?)
 
The cellular Process has just begun
 
You’ve got to get ready and you’ve got to fight for your Rights!
All Black Diamonds rise!!!
 
(Free like Dust trapped in your own Maze
Unchained Slave yeah you just won’t last, no, no!)
 
Mars, Venus, Jupiter, 3, 6, 9…
 
Here we come like a Black Da Diamond
A Gleam in your Eye ain’t Gold

BLACK DIAMOND

Black Diamond

William Faulkner and the Civil War - Michael Gorra

The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  That’s Barbara Dane and The Chambers Brothers playing ‘It Isn’t Nice” their version of the popular politically charged gospel and civil rights song.  I hope you’re enjoying a wonderful Saturday morning.  So great to be with you today, following, of course,  another excellent Community Chat with Gary Cohen, and good morning and welcome to the Not Old Better Show on KSCW. 

As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living series, we have another excellent interview today for you with author, historian, award-winning, Pulitizer Prize finalist writer Michael Gorra.  Michael Gorra will be presenting at the upcoming Smithsonian Associates program via Zoom, Sept 27, 2021, and details, and more information can be found on our website, and we’ll be talking about another author, William Faulkner.  

He was an uncompromising modernist, a great chronicler of the American South, and inspiration—as well as an immovable obstacle—for the generations of writers who followed. William Faulkner (1897–1962) stands as one of the greatest, and one of the most problematic figures in American literature.

Faulkner was Mississippi-born—a white man of his time and place who did not always rise above it. Yet his work also provides a burning account of the intersection of race, region, and remembrance: a probing analysis of a past that we have never yet put behind us. He set almost all his work in what he called an “apocryphal” territory, the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County in northern Mississippi. He carried characters and plotlines over from one book to another, as if the land itself were sprouting a story in which everything and everyone was connected. 

Michael Gorra will be reading to us from his new book, ‘The Saddest Words,’ so stick around for this enlightening, historical interview with Michael Gorra.  

My thanks to Michael Gorra for his time, expertise, and thoughtful preparation in joining me today. My thanks to   My thanks, always, to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show.  Of course, my thanks to you, our wonderful Not Old Better Show audience here on KSCW.  Please keep your emails coming to me at info@notold-better.com.  Remember, let’s talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  Thanks, everybody.

"But what really matters in his Mississippi isn't finally the lost war, the Lost Cause; nor is it the quarrel between the mythic grace of the Old South and the grasping hands of the New. What matters are all of the wasted years since. What matters is the century between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The legacy--the final meaning--of the Civil War lives on in the things undone, the work unfinished and the wounds unbound; it lives in the continued resistance to any attempt at amelioration. It lives in our quarrels; it lives today in the battle of the blue and the red."

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#573 William Faulkner and the Civil War - Michael Gorra

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02. Dauwd - What's There [Pictures Music]
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04. Scuba - Latch [Hotflush]
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01. Desroi - Vessel (original mix) [Voltage]
02. Re:Axis - Weaving (original mix) [Planet Rhythm]
03. Setaoc Mass - Don’t come and find me (original mix) [SK Eleven]
04. Re:Axis - Beyond illusion (original mix) [Planet Rhythm]
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06. Alexander Kowalski - The voiceless part 2 (original mix) [Propaganda Moscow]
07. Temudo - Bully’s dead (original mix) [Hayes]
08. Sleeparchive - Stuffed birds (original mix) [Sigma 5 Audio]
09. Vil - Clue (original mix) [VXSM] 
10. Nørbak - Collective disbelief (original mix) [Warm Up]
11. Kwartz - Frontline (original mix) [Polegroup]
12. Selección Natural - MG0039 (original mix) [Polegroup]
13. Lewis Fautzi - State of pressure (original mix) [Soma]
14. D.Dan - Sun over I-5 south (original mix) [Lobster Theremin]

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Anna Lembke MD - Dopamine Nation

The Not Old Better Show Author Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show is brought to you by Raycon Everyday Ear Buds

Our smartphones are turning us into dopamine addicts, addiction expert Professor Anna Lembke says.

As chief of Stanford University's dual diagnosis addiction clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke has treated patients addicted to everything from heroin to water (yes, you read right), and she refers to the smartphone as the "modern-day hypodermic needle".

Her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence examines how we can beat our digital dependencies, with its central thesis attempting to find out why with more abundance than ever, we remain less happy than we were in the past.

In my conversation with Dr. Anna Lembke today, we’ll talk about her new book "Dopamine Nation,” defining dopamine, and the interconnection between pleasure and pain, and how that connection helps explain addiction. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter, the chemical messenger, that's most connected with processing, rewarding pleasurable behavior. The more dopamine a drug or behavior releases, the more addictive it is. Dr. Lembke is a psychiatrist who's the medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Dopamine is the key here, the key to pleasure and pain.

That of course is our guest today, Dr. Anna Lembke reading from her new book, Dopamine Nation about pleasure and pain.  Dr. Lembke will illustrate today how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. You’ll hear about the lived experiences of her patients, which are the gripping fabric of her new book. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. My conversation with Dr. Lembke shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.  Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone, Dr. Anna Lembke.

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#579 Anna Lembke MD - Dopamine Nation

Soldiers and Dioramas - Brigitte Blachere

Smithsonian Associates, The Not Old Better Show Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  I’m Paul Vogelzang and it is so great to be with you following another excellent Community Chat with Gary Cohen.  We have an excellent show today here on KSCW, very timely and important, with our guest today,  Smithsonian Associate, Brigitte Blachere.

In the early morning of December 27, 1941, Royal Air Force aircraft and British army and naval forces surprised and quickly overtook German troops positioned on the Norwegian islands of Maaloy and Vaagso. This first true combined tri-service operation carried out by British forces was intended to damage German morale and to engage German forces defending Norway that might otherwise be deployed on the Eastern Front. The raid, codenamed Operation Archery, successfully destroyed German coastal defenses and resources on the islands, including oil and fish factories, a power station, stores, and ships.

Seven Samurai, director Akira Kurosawa’s influential 1954 film set in war-torn 16th century Japan, traces an unexpected partnership between a team of masterless samurai and a poor mountain village in need of protection from raiders. The action-packed epic is filled with scenes of training, attacks, and counterattacks—all accompanied by plenty of mud, horses, swords, arrows, and firearms. The story realistically reflects complex relationships among farmers, samurai warriors, and bandits, with some characters based on historical figures. Creating a village diorama and engaging in strategy games pitting samurais against raiders bring this film to life on a miniature scale.

Explore pivotal battles recounted in history, film, and classical mythology in miniature through these specially designed Fall and Winter Adventures. Each session includes four hours of live online instruction with Al Gaspar and Taliesin Knol.

Themed sessions focus on discovering the history of a significant encounter; facilitated diorama construction in which participants make their own terrain boards; and virtually simulated conflicts using troops of 1/72-scale soldiers in war games that offer vivid insights into military strategies.  Find out more on our web site, but listen to our guest today as we’ll talk about soldiers and dioramas and more with returning guest, Brigitte Blachere.

My thanks to Smithsonian Associates for their ongoing support of the show.  My thanks to you, my wonderful audience here on KSCW, please talk about better.  The Not Old Better Show.  Thanks, everybody and see you next week.  Remember, you can find everything on our website: notold-better.com

Soldiers and Dioramas - Brigitte Blachere

Oh my gosh, we all remember that scene from the Hitchcock film, ‘Psycho.”    Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on KSCW.  I’m Paul Vogelzang and it is so great to be with you following another excellent Community Chat with Gary Cohen.  We have an a really neat show today here on KSCW, very fun and exciting, with our guest today, Rachel Franklin, Doctor of Musical Arts, and we’re discussing film and music, part of our Smithsonian Associates series.  

The great film director Norman Jewison said:
"The marriage of the moving image and music is perhaps the most powerful visual communication we have.”—

Film music can inspire and romance us. It can make emotional statements that a script simply can’t, subvert a plot with a completely different subtext, and inject irony, fear, or humor when there is apparently none on screen. Music can salvage a bad movie and make a good one great.

Great film scores by composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Ennio Morricone, and John Williams have engraved iconic scenes into our collective memory with their extraordinary music, even if the rest of the movie might have faded.  We are listening to Bernard Herrmann’s Alfred Hitchcock ‘Psycho” film soundtrack with “The Knife” scene music and music from the finale of the film.

Join us today with popular speaker and concert pianist Rachel Franklin in our conversation that explores the stories behind some of the greatest film music ever composed. We’ll be discussing the purpose of a fine score and how it both supports and transforms the film.  Rachel Franklin will play selections from each of the films we discuss, so fasten your seatbelts…it’s going to be a fabulous ride!

Please join me in welcoming to the Not Old Better Show on KSCW, jazz and classical music pianist, composer, Rachel Franklin.  

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#582 Film & Music: The Heartbeat of Film - Rachel Franklin

Shaky -Sum Shake

Shaky - CC's

if you were a flower, 
i would be the bee. 
if you were paint, 
i would be concrete. 
Even if this road is steep, 
would you walk it with me ?
sobriety, you know it doesn’t come cheap.

Shaky - CC's

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