“Sad Songs” by Collis Browne - February 14th ❤️
In February we’ll be releasing my next album, with songs old and new, original and borrowed.
So many of the most beautiful songs sound “sad”— although i don’t always hear them this way 🪽the space can allow so many other emotions to come along with the sadness: hope, reverie, sweetness, catharsis, and yes even happiness.
All sadness, and happiness for that matter, is about Love — whether coming together or tearing apart, drifting apart — love for people, ideas, passions, places, animals, anything that makes us feel alive inside.
What a gift to perform at joes pub last month ; bringing exploration and so much grounding energy leading to this project. We are very excited to see how you will experience Sad Songs YOUR WAY!
My youth has guided me being right where I am today đź’The Punk scene has influenced the radicalism in my life. Being a teenager in the early 90's meant that Punk had split into 2 major camps: crusty punks v hardcore kids.
Crusty punks think the most obnoxious stereotype of angry chaos with a splash of white supremacy and hardcore where all the overthinking radical ethics and queer feminist emo kids- I've kept this and the best thing about Punk is not aesthetic but the impulse to reject decorum in any sense, choosing radical imagination and radical living.
Community, we could not be more excited to announce that tickets are now live for our Rave For Lebanon, coming up on June 5th.
We’re bringing you 12 hours of music on the rooftop and in the warehouse of @lohibar . The venue can hold over 1,000 of us, which means that we have the opportunity to raise over $50,000.
This is a moment for us to reclaim how powerful we are when we come together. To remind ourselves that showing up can and SHOULD be joyful, vibrant, and healing.
Have you watched the news about what’s happening in Lebanon and wondered what you can do? We have an answer. You can show up, and dance. You can bring all of your friends, invite your neighbors, meet new people on your block and bring them too.
You can be a part of something so big, so powerful, and so joyful that it will change the way we party.
Share this, get your tickets, and tell your friends. We love you all, and can’t wait to see you on June 5th.
Daily reminder that words matter and the term “ethnic cleansing” was created as a more palatable way to say genocide.
Forced displacement is genocide. “Evacuation orders” are genocide.
Still feeling the power of the first live audience taping of EIP TV this past May day, and thank you so much to all who came and participated!
Everything is political. And everybody knows it. And everybody knows that everybody knows. So now our big question is: what do we, the overwhelming majority who share fundamental values of freedom and equality, who know that everybody wants change, do with the .1% of humans who are truly cruel and unusual psychopaths, and the 1% power-hungry sociopaths who gather round them, and the 10% of eager bureaucrats of psychopathic systems... What are we going to do to take power?
First, we gather, to build networks of trust and solidarity and shared cultural values. Then, we exercise our rights to free speech and freedom of the press, and we must also keep imagining together, because oppression seeks to destroy imagination. And then we Go On. We go on speaking our visions into being. We go on living in joy and sacred resistance.
Antisemitism is part of white supremacy: Indigenous people of Lebanon and Palestine (and their supporters) defending their homes from invasion cannot be antisemitic against their oppressors. In fact it’s often the most antisemitic people who are pro-Zionism.
As Theodore Herzl wrote, “the anti-Semites will be our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies”
What’s your favorite “and on the third day he rose again” story?
(Yes not all of them are a 3-day death, but they are all about yearly cycles of life)
