Ringo’s Birthday Wish July 3, 2008

Ringo plays a nifty little video on his website with his request…

Ringo’s Birthday Wish List – “Peace & Love”

Ringo was recently asked by Access Hollywood what he hoped to receive for his upcoming birthday (July 7th).
Ringo’s answer was unconventional, he said, “just more Peace & Love.”

Then he expanded his wish further, “it would be really cool if everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say “Peace & Love.”

Wherever you are in the world, join him in making the peace sign and saying, singing, shouting, whispering, signing, writing or quietly thinking one simply beautiful and universal message:

“Peace and Love”.

While some will do this on their own other folks may be gathering at Abbey Road in London; Capitol Records in LA; Strawberry Fields in NYC.

Peace & Love

Truth about Cindy McCain July 2, 2008

Cindy McCain is a Thief

Vote Democrat! June 22, 2008

All along the watchtower June 6, 2008

“All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.”

–Bob Dylan

The Restarts May 31, 2008

The Restarts are a wild bunch of genius minds with a touch of Ramones rock.
Check out their videos on youtube, their myspace page, and their website with Mp3’s

My adopted son is their tour van driver!

Karmapa makes TIME! May 18, 2008

The World’s Next Top Buddha

Farenheit 9/11 sequel May 14, 2008

CANNES, France (AP) — Michael Moore is taking America’s temperature again.

Michael Moore won the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival with “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Moore, who won the top honor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival with “Fahrenheit 9/11,” plans a followup to resume his examination of the nation’s status in the world in the years since the September 11 attacks.

“Fahrenheit 9/11,” the only documentary to top $100 million domestically at the box office, was a harsh, hilarious critique of George W. Bush and his administration in the wake of the attacks.

The as-yet-untitled followup will have a longer-term approach, film executives overseeing the project said Wednesday.

“That movie was about a moment in time, a specific moment,” said Nick Meyer, president of Paramount Vantage, which is co-financing the movie with Overture Films.

“We don’t view this movie as bashing anyone. I think it’s going to take a look at where America is right now in relation to the world. It’s not going to be about the issue of the war. It’s about where we are and what our role is.”

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Danny Rosset, chief operating officer at Overture, said the movie will be scheduled for release domestically in spring 2009, soon after the changing of the guard when Bush leaves office.

Overture will release the film in the United States, while Paramount Vantage is handling overseas distribution.

Paramount Vantage is shopping the film around to international buyers at Cannes, which began its 12-day run Wednesday.

Torch goes to Everest May 5, 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7384476.stm

The torch makes it’s way to Everest.
FREE TIBET!

Jane Fonda speaks on Activism May 5, 2008

JANE FONDA’S
SPEECH ON ART & ACTIVISM FOR
V-DAY NEW ORLEANS…April 13th, 2008

Oh mercy, oh my—it feels like when the levees broke it blew the lid off the ninth ward and Parrish unleashed these voices, these poems, these words, these doves of peace, these attitudes –power and solidarity. I don’t know think they knew what they were unleashing. And I say “they” because it wasn’t the natural disaster that did it, it was man made—it was negligence and lack of caring. That broke the levees.

I don’t know about you but I’ve been rocked to my core and I’m so grateful to Eve and V-day for creating this chance for all of us to witness the power of the women of New Orleans. Their words, their poems and songs gave voice to all the women from all the corners of the world that have been represented here so beautifully—the Congo, Kenya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Croatia, Serbia, Phillipines and it has enabled us to understand in our bodies, in our cells what sisterhood and solidarity feel like. That’s what art does. No woman no cry. Everything’s gonna be alright.

Read entire post at Roshi Joan Halifax’ blog

Sean Penn on Bruce Springsteen May 2, 2008

Todd Heisler / The New York Times

Bruce Springsteen

By Sean Penn

In the chain of our responses to the most influential art, or artists, of our day, there is a link for most of us, an image. One could describe it as a honey-drip, slow-motion picture. We see one hand passing a baton into another, the influences of the influential. And in that rite of passage, Bruce Springsteen is no exception. But perhaps more than any other living artist, his personal work and the personality of his singular voice conjure the smaller hand of his own youngest days. The hand of a young man whose shoe soles walked the sands and streets of the Jersey Shore, humming, dreaming, hiding. The shy thoughts, and the bold heart thumping ever harder, his hand drawn to enter into our picture to pass that baton to the guy we call the Boss.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one’s life and craft. In contemporary American music, Springsteen, 58, is its most enduring and robust giver. Whether in a song or an appearance on The Charlie Rose Show, you always get a sense of personal truth, humility and passion. A sense of humor, a sense of rock ‘n’ roll and a raconteurism once solely the domain of tribal chiefs. But chief comes from chieftain. And that’s just not an American word. Boss? Now that comes from boss man, and if this guy ain’t the boss…man, nobody is.

Penn is an actor and director. His most recent project was Into the Wild