Inspire

This spoke to me and I thought it nice to share it today:

"To lead a life in which we are inspired and can inspire others,
our hearts have to be alive'
they have to be filled with passion and enthusiasm.
To achieve that, we need the courage to "live true to ourselves."
And to live true to ourselves,
we need the strength of mind not to be swayed by our environment
or be obsessed with vanity and superficial appearances.
Rather than borrowing from or imitating others,
we need the conviction to be able to think for ourselves
and to take action from our own sense of responsibility. "

Daily Encouragement From Poet Laureate Daisaku Ikeda

A Bite of SFSounds

here are few things, sounds from san francisco...

Our very own Ink co-blogger and talented singer-songwriter musician Ian was interviewed recently on KFOG Radio now avail on-line

Mystery Music Men of Myspace.
They call themselves the Negative Divine.... if they are still going by this name they seem to disappear and reappear every so often under different names.
Developing songs like "Ellis and Jones".

TMODM-Turn Me On Dead Man
- yes, we still like them...from Technicolour Mother, Her Planet is Love
On Emusic and the review below.


Review by Megan Frye, All Music Guide
San Francisco's Turn Me on Dead Man's second album plays like a journey into space. The album blends the headbanger-worthy riffs and hooks of stoner metal with the spacey nostalgia of psychedelic prog rock and the loud, raw energy of alternative rock. Guitarist, sitarist, and frontman Mykill Ziggy's detached vocals and effects pedals give the album a feeling of floating aimlessly in space. Technicolour Mother explodes with the exceedingly distorted prog rock instrumental "Child in the Sunburst Pyramid" and never lets up. The album is divided between melodies and full-on metal assaults. "Pharmaceutical Rainbows," with its onslaught of a suffocating heavy metal solo, sounds like it's ripping a black hole into outer space. On the other hand, "Galaxina" and "Her Planet Is Love" are sweet, but no less loud and distorted, with candy like vocals. Turn Me on Dead Man define their own genre, and Technicolour Mother is pure enjoyment. Advice: listen to this one loud; really loud.

Hollywood Antics

This is pretty hilarious! Below excerpted the first part from Joel Stein's Opinion Column in the LA Times, this one entitled "How Jewish is Hollywood?"


Stein:
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

For the rest visit http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,4676183.column

Skincare Gods and Goddesses

We can definitely say these professionals are providing services and products that truly deliver results. A shared passion about their work; continuing to develop new techniques and products that reach beyond.

The best facial experience to be found on earth, we have concluded, is in San Francisco at Le Sanctuaire, www.lesanctuaire.com . Founded by Goddess, Rebecca Whitworth who has been in business for over 15 years and constantly keeps it fresh. Rebecca incorporates many different elements into a very superb overall treatment, hot stones, minerals, aromatic flower essences.
You and your skin will be transported into a very new dimension, and the H'uile De Grace is worth treating yourself to afterwards.

Designed for both men and women, l’huile de grace penetrates deep into your skin to provide the nutrients and cellular building blocks that enhance your skin’s health while providing a healthful glow and youthful appearance.


L’huile de grace is crafted from 100% natural, cold processed ingredients that have never been heated or chemically altered in any way from their original form.

L’huile de grace contains the very best documented essential oils in the area of skin regeneration and preservation, including certified organic Helichrysum (Corsica), Neroli (Tunisia), Geranium (Madagascar), Rose Otto (Turkey), wild crafted Frankincense (Somalia), Vetyver (El Salvador) and Cardamom (Guatemala).


Rocky at Golden Aromatherapy has crafted a most amazing face cream mainly consisting of very pure rose and lavender and other blessed essential oils and elements. Skin perfection. For the lotion and other essentials from Rocky - www.goldenaromatherapy.net

Thunder Love

Is the latest from Jai Uttal. I personally am a deeply devoted fan of his music. Def. recommend this one. Along with LoveLand and Music for Yoga (per below Thunder Love info). All available on-line (Itunes/Amazon)


BACKGROUND on Thunder Love
Love can take many forms—the physical, the emotional, the spiritual among them. Each can stand alone in a beautiful way, but when the myriad types of love entwine, truly revelatory things can occur—as they do throughout Thunder Love, the long-awaited new album by world music voyager Jai Uttal.
"I feel like this album is about opening up to love-finally," he says. "That involved letting go of a huge part of me that said 'I don't deserve love,' or on really bad days, 'love doesn't exist.' For me, it's taken big catharses to change those deep internal patterns. I've immersed myself in a great number of spiritual practices, but truly embracing human life...that's what brought me through the times of terrible darkness and addiction."

Upcoming Events

(photo: Kendall Whelpton)

March 1st
Open Studio, 1-5pm
Artist Reception, 5-8pm

(photo courtesy: Mitchell Glotzer)

Featuring "Man-I-Fest"

Lifesize mosaic mannequin from artist Sofia Harrison
other artists work showing:
Bren Bataclan
(Of the Smile Project)
Lynn Bridget
(Mandala Art)
Robyn Holmes
(Abstract Assemblage)
Scott Kildall
(Interactive Video Installations)
Alison Hart
(spoken word)

Open Studio Dates/Events

Sunday March 15th, 1-5pm, Followed by Messengers Screening

Thursday March 19th, 6-8pm, Artisan Wine Tasting

Sunday April 5th, 1-5pm, Artist Reception, 5-8pm

ink Studios
NoHo Arts District
11135 Weddington Street
220
North Hollywood, CA 91601
info-at-inkit-dot-com
Artists

(photo: Kendall Whelpton)


(photo: Kendall Whelpton)

Varnished: Not?

If you are looking for the Ink nail varnish products or other items, you may order via
Ink Yourself or info-at-inkit-dot- com with your request.

They Want to Rock

A line-up of bands comprised of tech geeks by day come out to rock in support of Music Education (Bay Area'sMusic in Schools Today) - Dec 3rd at the Great American Music Hall.

Tix are $60.

All Silent Auction Items Benefit Music in Schools Today, check them here Including guitar signed by Joe Satriani.
We will report in again, post performance.