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If I were to die, I want that to be my walk-in song -- 'Alabare' but Bloco style, and you have to change 'a mi Señor' to 'Danielito.'
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My Privilege Is Showing
Thought I would share the spoken word piece I wrote for MOONLIGHTVSN’S RISE UP! show last Saturday night tonight for World Poetry Day. Peace
My Privilege Is Showing
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I stand before you
With my privilege showing
From top to bottom
Head to toe
In this penis-wielding body
Feeling like a somebody
Truly, I can’t deny
Or try to hide
That all of my male entitlements show
And I stand here
With my privilege showing
With all my entitlements, and knowing
That this is the only “me” I know how to be
But this “me” asks that you lend him an ear
And know that and see that I’m here
for you
Dear mother
Dear mother I’m here on my feet
I’m sharing my beat
And it’s all for you
Because somewhere along the way
Or maybe just the other day
You told me what you knew
All about what it’s like to be you
And you opened my eyes
To things i could or would never realize
Ever, not on my own
Not in this skin or with these bones
Because my privilege is showing
But there you were, sowing
The seeds of enlightenment
Straight into my brain
And raising the strain
Of the song you’ve been singing
A melody ringing
Of a day when you would see peace
And justice kiss
And together we can reminisce
About all the struggles that got us here
That this son of yours was an ally, most sincere,
and when we get there I want can say
With all my heart
That I was there for you
And I’m here for you
Dear sister
Dear sister or should I say
The biggest resister I know
Fearless persister and relentless insister
You who so boldly
Rose up and told me
My privilege was showing
My entitlements, growing
And you wouldn’t sit just by
To do nothing and die
It was you who’d rise up
To the man and defy
All of his impositions
And lead oppositions
With your girls at your side,
And all those who would not abide
By draconian stresses
And unctuous caresses
But biggest of all your successes
Was when you taught me to say
That I could be something
That I didn’t think was meant for me
That I could be antipatriarchal too
Even with my privilege showing
And my entitlements growing
That this brother of yours was your ally in the struggle
And together we faced trouble
So that with all of my mind
I could selflessly say
That I was there for you
And I’m here for you
Dear lover
Dear lover of my present, past, and future
Perhaps to no one else is my privilege more apparent
And my entitlements more transparent
Than to you with whom behind closed doors
I can share more of the things we can delight in
And we may deliberately brighten
The shadows of all the things that hurt us
And have rendered us cold and callous
It is to you I want to make a solemn promise
A covenant divine
But not one to be faithful to you for all time
Not that in sickness and in health, together we’ll make the climb
Not to share with your every dime
No, this is a promise to never cross that line
Where my skin meets your skin
In a manner most unkind
To bring myself to a halt
Before resorting to assault
Because though life may never be sublime
Among the work, the murk, the quirks,
the perks, the jerks, and the overtime
I will try to get for us together
What we want, what we need, what we deserve
And I know that there come a time when
That will no longer be me for you
Or you for me
But still I will be proud to have been your ally for a time
That we were good during the bad and better in our prime
And still be able to say
I was there for you
And I’m here for you
Dear stranger
Dear stranger I need to come clean
this feminism stuff is not always obvious to me
Feminism, girl power
Your power, women power
All words i can get behind
Words i can agree with
Words i can stand by
But I don’t know always know where they come from
So forgive me for what happened this morning
you were just trying to get on the crowded train,
and there would have been space
if only I had taken off my bag,
but instead I just looked you in the eye with my big space-taking-up bag
on my space-unaware body,
and you couldn’t get on the train
And you had to get off and wait
And I probably made you late.
But I swear I’m a nice guy
If only you’d give me a try
I’m not always so disagreeable on trains,
But I know that I still benefit in numerous ways
from a history that for centuries has treated maleness as the default
And as we walk together on this asphalt
I didn’t always know my privilege was showing
And my entitlements were slowing
You down
But I swear that i’m trying
To stop classifying
You as you and me as me
And your stranger ally be
And though you don’t know my name
And I don’t know from where you came
I could still say I was there for you
So I say it again
I stand before you right now
With my entitlements showing
And you probably think that at this point
My privilege is overflowing
I tried very hard to stop talking about me
And start talking about you for a minute
But I couldn’t
Because the truth is I’m still learning
Taking it all in and sojourning
Through all the riff raff of life
Through the noise and the strife
To be a better ally
To rally those like me nigh
To give meaning and action
To the words of the causes
Like RISE UP and make no pauses
For together we rise
Together we burn
Together we link arms, hearts, minds, and eyes
And overturn
Systems of opression and narrow-minded regression
And RISE
© 2017 Erik Villegas
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What's your favorite Radiohead album and song?
Favourite album is In Rainbows and favourite song is Everything In Its Right Place.
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This video should have WAYYYYYYY MORE views.
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Alice Rose // Last Happy End // Official Music Video
To be seen
to be heard
to be sure
to be sure
#Vimeo#animation#projectionmapping#projection#ice#abstract#musicvideo#flowers#lennygrade#motiongraphics#indie#music#inspiration#christiandiekmann#independent#alicerose#lasthappyend#design#fraurichter#electronic
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The Chemical Brothers, “Sometimes I Feel So Deserted”
Dare I call this my 2015 summer anthem?
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Sleater-Kinney, "A New Wave"
(0:02) Looks simple enough... Looks real enough...
(0:10) OK, this is happening!
(0:28) This video comes with unicorn posters!
(0:59) WHOAWHOAWHOAWHOAWHOA YES!
(1:10) World's colliding.. Not sure how much of this I can take before I melt away... Also, this is exactly what we need right now!
(1:40) Lyrically, this song is killin' it too! Rousing and hectic!
"So let's just drown the room with this love
We can drain our love of power, power
Steal from the makers who have made us
Leaving nothing to devour, devour"
(2:19) And just when I thought this video couldn't get any better, we've just been thrown into full riot mode!
(2:45) I really want to watch this on a bigger screen
(3:05) Does this really have to end?
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This has never happened to me, but I know the feeling all too well...
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This is the first time I’ve ever laughed out loud at a Vine.
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From the album, "Destination: B-Sides," available for pre-order now on limited edition vinyl on Spartan Records. Pre-order on limited edition vinyl: http://spr.tn/maebsides
I officially can't go on with my day. This just happened. (3.0) is a very apt description of this reinvented track. How they just dropped this on the world right now is beyond me. I'm really glad they did, though.
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Perfection.
James Hersey, "Coming Over (Filous Remix)"
t.o.l.d., "Lucifer's Eyes"
To be heard in succession of each other
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Smoke Season, "Opaque"
Current mood: Tuesday in October
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Jarbas Agnelli, "Birds on the Wires"
Please don't feed the birds. Actually, please do.
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The Barr Brothers, “Love Ain’t Enough”
From the band:
Love Ain’t Enough is the song that happens when you give up on giving up on love. Either one has some kind of epiphany, or it becomes too exhausting to fight it anymore. The title is kind of misleading, as it draws from the preceding state of mind, one in which the heart is less open, insatiable. This song is optimism. We were inspired by Steve Reich to create a pulsing bed of harp, marimba, banjo, dulcimer, and other percussion, over which the guitars and vocals can rise and fall.
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Official audio for the Flume Remix of Arcade Fire 'Afterlife'
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This is a remix I did back in 2007 of The Zombies classic "Time Of The Season"
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