Dan Godston

YouTube video by Pavement - Topic No More Kings

Pavement says, “No More Kings” youtu.be/KoJ2tOaqML0?si=ZQIAjzEeYjXaStQc

Abolish ICE. Abolish the DHS.

LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.

LAPD Won’t Do Immigration Enforcement — But Will Shoot You With Rubber Bullets for Protesting ICE
theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...

It was amazing to walk around at Cahokia Mounds State Park, to think that Indigenous people founded and built a huge urban settlement with dozens of platform mounds here a millennium ago.

Miles Davis statue and mural in Alton, IL. I’d driven downstate last Fri to attend my graduate commencement at McKendree U, wanted to stop in Miles’ hometown

We invite you to join WLP during its next Session on Listening—Tuesday, April 22nd (10 pm UTC+0 / 5 pm UTC-5). What can be done to cut through the noise of today’s world? How do we find truth and understanding amid the chaos? Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening

“…I’m just not telling them what to do. You can interpret it however you want, but you know the basic idea of what it means, the basic idea of what all these signs and gestures mean, and you have to interpret it in every moment.” — Butch Morris bombmagazine.org/articles/199...

Looks like part of a fireplace grate or something that goes on a railroad track

Observatory Station: open call from Cities and Memory & Barbican Observatory Station is an open call for field recordings for a brand new installation at the Barbican Centre in May 2025.

📢 Would you like your field recordings to be heard at the iconic Barbican Centre in London? We’re hosting an exclusive call for our community to provide the recordings for a new commission as part of the Feel The Sound exhibition.

Submit recordings by 30 April 📆 citiesandmemory.com/observatory-...

Lynda Barry’s “Syllabus” is fantastic

Imagine if laws were passed based on what can empower people and make communities safer, rather than what profiteers and revanchist nuts want

How to Ruin a Country Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

We’re joined by @stephenwalt.bsky.social discussing the unravelling of the US as the world's strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors which has driven down the dollar as Brand America faces growing boycotts around the globe. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Show Up Chicago · Indivisible Chicago The Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago hosts this monthly community gathering/panel show/happy hour at Chicago's most highly evolved saloon. This month our guest speakers are **Ed Yohnka,**...

🍺🎙️ *Against the Law: Inside Trump's Attack on Law & Lawyers* Live panel discussion hosted at Hideout. This month, Show Up Chicago features Ed Yohnka of ACLU of IL and Professor Sheila Bedi, Community Justice & Civil Rights Clinic at Northwestern U law school. Monday, April 28th, 7 pm. Info/Sign-up:

NAISA is pleased to launch its 2025 Call For Submissions on the theme “Sound Culture.”
Deadline May 31, 2025.
Categories: Sound Art/Electroacoustic, Sound+Image, Radio/Transmission Art, Interactive Installation
naisa.ca/opportunitie...

getting ready #handsoff

WLP seeks practitioners to submit proposals for the Official 2025 World Listening Day Theme — one that cuts through the noise of today’s world, which encourages deep listening, meaningful communication and empathy. Have an idea? Submit it at the link below! worldlisteningday.org/wld25/

You're invited to join WLP for its next Session on Listening -- "Field Recording and Electronic Music -- with Detroit-based sound artist Rebecca Goldberg: Tuesday, February 18th (11 pm UTC 0 / 5 pm UTC-6). Register for this program at linktr.ee/worldlistening

Let’s put that deranged ketamine addict in one of his rockets, send him on a one way trip to Mars so he can colonize it. He wants to be emperor — let him be emperor of Mars

YouTube video by The Twilight Zone The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man

“A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines, because they displeased him…” — Rod Serling youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?...

These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.

I’m gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
The people in this world
Are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
— Woody Guthrie
youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns (Treble Clef) Digital Edition (PDF)

Have you read / played Yusef Lateef’a Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns? That chart is reproduced in the book. yuseflateef.com/store/index....

Are you familiar with Jim Marshall’s work? “Show Me the Picture,” (film doc about JM). He photographed Miles Davis boxing, John Coltrane in Berkeley jimmarshallphotographyllc.com/node/13

“Space is not only high, it’s low. It’s a bottomless pit.” — Sun Ra

The Charlottesville Jazz Society & WTJU present the 2025 Mingus Awareness Project @ The Front Porch on Feb. 2nd — with The Adam Larrabee Trio & John D’earth Quintet

If you see a warthog with big ears carrying a penguin and eagle in its jaws…

Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.

Join the call! We're looking for sound artists & musicians to take part in our biggest project of 2025, Sonic Heritage!🏛️

Remix and reimagine 200+ field recordings of amazing UNESCO World Heritage sites & explore the role sound plays in the world's most famous sights.
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/

He’s Chucky-Regan MacNeil AF