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Messiah Remix Goes Off!!!
“DJ Holy Ghost and special guest appearance from MC David Rodigan”
Hahahaha! Check the poor kid in the front pew who’s silently hating his parents for being born. But wait, it gets better!
Check it out in full screen on YouTube.
Another class link from Kenny!
GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008
I’ll be hiking the Laurel Highlands all next week which I’ve been ridiculously excited about for months… but I wish I wasn’t missing this…
The 7th Annual
GAIAN MIND SUMMER FESTIVAL
~ Summer Solstice / Full Moon ~
Wednesday, June 18th to Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Four Quarters, Central Pennsylvania, USA (directions)
Extended dates – gates open Wednesday!
Join us for five days and four nights of Transcendental Dance in the open air – truly, a magical event which has established itself as an annual summer tradition for the global Trance Tribes!
(Thanks Tins!)
Moss and Pixie's School Bus Conversion
The Enchanted Gypsy is one of the most beautifully crafted family homes I’ve ever seen, and an extraordinarily wonderful way to live. A dream life and a life’s dream for me… so inspiring! I literally can’t wait to get started on building and lovingly customising my own bus home to absolute perfection, painting the outside with dreams… and of course, never forgetting to change the bus destination sign as we embark on each new adventure.
Here are my favourite pictures of the interior and exterior:
(all images will take you to a larger version if you give them a click)
La Vida de Vagabundos Americanos
I have a bit of an obsession with The Dead Man Street Orchestra – a close group of hobos / musical gypsy’s who catch rides on freight trains across the country and play their hearts out on the streets for fun. If you’re living in the warm South this winter you might be lucky enough to stumble on them.
I don’t think I could just go travelling with these guys for a few months and ever be the same again. The photos promise that.
This lifestyle is contagious – check out this amazing gallery I found of other kids travelling by train. When I first came across these pics I thought they were the Deadman Street Orchestra but an anonymous commenter helped me out.
Musical influences:
“Beans, Rum, home made instruments, trash percussion, gypsy fiddle, sing a longs, old folks, trampin folks, young folks, workin folks, bums who ride for free, free time, free music, free morning coffee, rollin cigerettes, tuning A quarter 1/2 step sharp, loveable black and red dogs, back porches, sushi, and beans, a cold beer in a hot boxcar, and a tune ya just wanta play all day…”
The entire Dead Man Street Orchestra album is available in mp3′s and won’t cost you a single bean of course! Recorded in the woods at Mutant Fest this year.
see also an older post about:
The Dead Man’s Street Orchestra
and another gallery post about them I cant find right now but plan to put here later. (Let me know if you know where it is!!)
Win an African Kingdom
www.royaljozini.com
Prize: Site 173 at Royal Jozini Big 6 is 4000m² in size and nestled in the bushveld between the water of Lake Jozini and the majestic Lebombo Mountains in Swaziland.
Why Renting Might Be Better Than Buying A Home
According to popular belief, buying a home is a sound investment to take you into retirement, and renting is considered a waste of your hard-earned money. Having grown up and lived now in three countries where the landlord is king this belief has always been ingrained in my brain. In countries like the UK it is quite common and considered very sensible to not only own a home at home but abroad too and to keep expanding your property portfolio. I have heard that in many countries, like Germany and the Netherlands, renting for life is far more common and there is little to no societal pressure to be a homeowner.
Millionaire Mommy Next Door has an interesting argument for renting we don’t often hear:
I calculated the total cost of living in our [purchased] home. Due to our sweat equity, our mortgage balance was very low … but once I added property taxes, insurance, maintenance and, especially, lost opportunity costs (home equity not available to earn money), it became very clear that our shelter “need” was costing us too much in life energy.
Her arguments are based on solid calculations and they are guaranteed to astound you. She discovered that your home purchase doesnt even break even after 30 years!
via Lifehacker
Wall Street Journal,
Your Home Isn’t the Nest Egg That You May Think It Is:
“Economic studies have demonstrated over and over that houses (1) cost more than most people make when they sell and (2) rarely match the long-term returns of stocks or other investments.”
“The costs of owning a home — buying it with a long-term mortgage and then paying taxes on it, insuring it, repairing it, renovating it — sap most of what most homeowners think they make in price appreciation.”
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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