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Redemption Song - movies, music & thoughts - 051014 -
Pacific Heights | African Highlife! | Survivor's Guide to the Energy Crisis | Starhawk: Who Will Take Out the Garbage: A Report from New Orleans

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MOVIES --


- TONIGHT -


Pacific Heights (1990)
Patty and Drake buy their dreamhouse in San Francisco and rent out the ground floor apartment to Carter Hayes, who seems to be an ideal tenant, until he stops paying rent, refuses to leave and barricades himself in the apartment.
Starring: Matthew Modine, Melanie Griffith, Michael Keaton
Director: John Schlesinger


above quote[s] from netflix

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MUSIC --


African Highlife! - - great grooves, man


West Africa Highlife Band [image hosted by associatedentertainment.com]

it was great - one time i was speaking with Ken Okolulu [in the middle of the picture there] of Kotoja and West Africa Highlife Band, and we discovered that we had a very close mutual friend from Nigeria, also living here in Amerika

google "African Highlife"



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THOUGHTS --


- LINK[S] OF THE DAY -


Survivor's Guide to the Energy Crisis
By Jeremy Rifkin, The Boston Globe
...It appears that the president and his team do not understand the enormity of the energy crisis facing the United States and the world. The White House clearly needs guidance. The president should download the just published European Union Green Paper on Energy Efficiency ( europa.eu.int/comm/energy/efficiency/index_en.htm ). The paper lays out a detailed survivor's guide, a roadmap of what every individual, family, community, and country - including the United States - can do to cushion the cost shock of rising oil prices...


Starhawk: Who Will Take Out the Garbage: A Report from New Orleans
It's like a scene out of a post-apocalyptic movie--a crowd of people gathered in the street outside the local tavern in the Bywater district of the Ninth Ward. The lower Ninth Ward, a few blocks away, is the scene of the worst destruction, but this eclectic neighborhood, one of the centers of alternative culture in New Orleans, has fortunately escaped heavy damage. Still, roofs are off, houses are molding away from the inside, and the streets are piled with garbage that, six weeks after the hurricane, has not been picked up...


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