Black Lives Matter.

After reading and thinking about other people’s thoughts and ideas on how to fix this- Here’s some stuff that will maybe get me canceled but hear me out. We have a race problem no doubt, but especially after seeing all of these horrific police videos, we clearly also have(and have always had) a police problem. They are intertwined and also separate. This is maybe something like what the “I don’t see color” people are trying to say even though it just comes off as racist.. Institutional racism also doesn’t see color. Sadly I think we need police. There are too many mfers I don’t trust out there to not have them and we don’t want right wing 2nd amendment nra militia dudes doing the policing for us. Evil is in the world, as we have seen many times, and not just in our government and the greed of the ruling class. Rapists, scammers, con people, human traffickers, hackers, identity thiefs, deed pirates(?) etc...Most “crime” however, probably even in some of these instances, is not a product of evil. First, we need better cops, and better policing. Cops who can think, assess, empathize, help people, and can uphold justice, who don’t beat the shit out of people and uh, don’t see color. We need anti violence policies and more conflict de-escalation training, way way more. We need cops to protect and serve everyone and not just the rich and powerful. We need an extremely high standard to serve as an officer of the law because it is a VERY hard job. We need to be able to respect them so they can respect us. We need to be able to hold them accountable but also we need to be able to understand when they make a mistake because it is not fair to expect someone to never make a mistake. Unfortunately police mistakes cost lives. Some of us probably have family who have been on the force, my great grandfather was apparently a cop in NYC and died from an injury he got while on duty, hopefully he wasn’t an asshole but thats totally irrelevant. I’ve had plenty of encounters with shitty cops, in many of which, no make that every single one, I definitely benefitted from my white privilege and I can’t recall ever being physically assaulted in any way. If I was black in those situations, I would almost certainly have ended up in prison or maybe dead. I’ve also met some really nice cops, some POC, while working in the DA’s office and other jobs, who just deal with horrible shit all of the time but still manage to be sweet positive people. I think this is what some of the “all lives matter” people are trying to say even though it is extremely dismissive and disrespectful of institutional racism black people face every day- none of us truly understand what being a cop is like in these times, and there has been a lot of reform(effective or not) in the past decade or so. Even that asshole in Montgomery County, I can almost see where he’s coming from, but he is a fascist turd and definitely part of the problem. I’m not trying to be a pig apologist and the ACAB people are totally justified, but have you met all cops? To quote Boots Riley: “The only way for cops to feel like they are doing the right thing- the only way for them to function in their job- is for them to subscribe to racist notions of violence, crime, and poverty- even if the cop themselves is Black or POC.” We need social justice and prison reform. We need to prosecute the crimes of the ruling class. We need to decriminalize addiction and poverty. We need mental health treatment. Then we need to divert resources currently going to brutalizing citizens forced into those crimes for other things like libraries, schools(start teaching about race in america early on), arts, science, healthcare, etc. We need real leadership and not a tyrant idiot going on and on about “law and order” aka more police brutality, institutional racism, poverty and thus crime. We need to give these cops a better chance to not make a mistake. We need to thank them for the sacrifices they make and for putting their lives on the line to protect people and for improving communities when they engage with them the right way. We need to end police brutality. We need to end militarization against citizens. We need to fix the problems that cause police brutality and we need to not blame all cops for those problems. We need to recognize that minorities are victims in this society that forces police to victimize them, and we need to end that. We need justice for George Floyd, Freddie Gray and Breonna Taylor and all the rest whose lives were taken so tragically and neglectfully and we need these incidents to stop happening so frequently that we can barely keep track or take note of them. Of course we need to educate ourselves and vote, in local and national elections. I honestly don’t know how we can end racism which is REAL and scary and sad, so we just need to rally together against it, often, and say it, just fucking say it: BLACK LIVES MATTER- and do our part in confronting it and addressing it in ourselves(I have) and our friends and families, keep an open mind and LISTEN to the voices of minorities, LGBTQ, etc...until one day it eventually dies out. Whatever we do we gotta do it right now. And a lot of white people are probably thinking hey, I exist, I matter and I have a voice too which is true, but our voices don’t really matter right now. Though I do hope some folks have read this wether they are white, black, men women, red, blue, or whatever in between. Why do I feel like I have said all this before?

Cheap Extermination

Hello readers. It's been a while. 2012 has been an amazing year so far. I am very excited to announce a film I did the Sound Design for called "Cheap Extermination" has been selected to screen at the Midnight Shorts Competition as part of the 2012 SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. It was directed by my good friend Minka Farthing Kohl.

Cheap Extermination Trailer (short) from Minka on Vimeo.

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12563/

New zine announcement coming VERY shortly!

Japan Benefit

Third in a series of Benefit shows I am doing this weekend to raise money for the disaster relief effort in Japan. Awesome lineup come check it out and support a worthy cause!

HOUSE OF SHAME

A poem I wrote while living in Tokyo in 2007.


Disaster can strike at any moment
I can live with it but I won’t look at it

Burnable by night
Intense inhale by day

Shut the door and listen
To the inaudible

Panic may hurt you
Especially after drinking

I converse with illusions
And stay up late believing in them

I walk in the path of falling objects
Yet remain unharmed

Unable to let my hair grow
At the mercy of the Tokai

There’s a price to pay for silence
And thinking of ourselves

As we fly over this planet of a silent sun
Like the wind blowing through the trees at night

Trapped in this house of shame
Will there be anyone to hold you as it falls

I HATE MOVING

But Flying Lotus is helping.

Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-Workers from Warp Records on Vimeo.

One of these days I will find the place I can stay in for a while, you know? But who wants to be stuck in the same place forever? If you understand what I'm talking about, maybe we should talk about living together...

Amazing Bollywood Youtube Videos and the Amazing Comments People Post About Them

From the film Jaanbaaz, Sri Devi performs the song "Har Kisi Ko Nahin Milta" ...I have recently been doing some deep youtube research on the subject of the Illuminati and its use of popular figures in the entertainment industry to corrupt the people of the world and steer their souls towards satan, or whatever...But I had not been exposed to any international examples of Illuminati subliminal manipulation...Until now:

ssehram
2 weeks ago
The Vatican Snake in RED... The WOMAN in
red... DEVIL.... This how India was "OCCULTED" by Illuminati Zionist from
Zionist Devils...  You got what you asked for guys.. enjoy.. War, cigars,
Drugs, Adultery, Alcohol, Music- worse than drugs and Psychotoc Diseases... end
is already here... The few who follow The Right Path still HOLDING guard...

ssehram
2 weeks ago
SRIDEVI ... is definitely an ILLUMINATI
plant.... looks NOT Indian but a SUBLIMINAL "indian" name "sridevi".... how
could we get this DUPED? The Woman is Totally.. ILLUMINATI clone.... Totally
"European Nazi Zionist Clone"... DUPED.. on Big Screen..!!!!!!!!!!!

A truly chilling insight, Mr. Sehram. It is the brave souls such as yourselves who open our eyes to the evil practices of those who would wish to plant demonic imagery in our minds. What's even more commendable is that you have completely eliminated the possibility of missing the message, by deliberately emphasizing with quotations several phrases such as the harrowing: "European Nazi Zionist Clone." Totally.


Although I have a feeling this 1996 film called Dushmun Duniya Ka is not nearly as sweet as this clip from it (and really couldn't make much sense if this is a real clip from the movie), the track is nothing less than tight in all of its chill-dub-psych-funk stoniness. The comments however, have sparked a vague interest in the film's plot, which from what I can gather is a dude's struggle to quit smoking weed.

smartom1
1 year ago 4
this song was played atleast 100
times in a day by us in 1996 ...we were all lost in the world of nasha and is
was duva duva all the time but now when I watch it i realise the reality how
bad is drugs its ok just to taste it for fun but friends pls dont continue pls
quit drugs...overall an awsome song understand the meaning and quit drugs right
now and everything will be fine its possible to quit yes its possible

1298086
6 months ago
smoky time song...cant
forget

This clear contrast of sentiment speaks to the tendency of internet commenters to argue and bicker behind user names and avatars with the rage of a blasphemed deity. One friend pointed out to me the severity of this rage when he likened a furious anti-haters rant by recording artist Dam Funk at a recent concert to a "youtube comment reply." The examples are plentiful; I urge you my friends to simply bring up some of your favorite youtube videos and scroll down through a few comments, or just surf some random videos and see how much more entertaining they become.

Oscar Wilde

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

-Lord Arthur Savile's Crime