WAKE UP! IN YOUR FACE!!!

WAKE UP! - UPCOMING SHOWS IN JANUARY

WAKE UP! UPCOMING GIGS AT "THE STONE" & "ISSUE PROJECT ROOM"
THE STONE - 1/18/11 - 10:00PM - corner of ave C & 2nd st. $10 cover.
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM - 1/19/11 - 8:00PM - 232 3rd st. 3rd floor,brooklyn NY 11215 -(at the old american can factory) - $5 cover. (718) - 330 - 0313.

CELEBRATE the Winter Solstice Eclipse!!

it's been 456 years since an eclipse has taken place on the same day as a winter solstice...
some say this planetary alignment-- which is also includes other alignments with the center of the galaxy, occurring with constellations: gemini and sagittarius-- could play out to be a very special time--let's find out tuesday, 12/21/10!!!




*photo, courtesy of realitysandwich.com

defining the REBEL in us all...

author/psycho-spiritual revolutionary, daniel pinchbeck, quotes albert camus' book
"the rebel":

We don't know when or if we will reach the critical threshold where a current of rebellion becomes a wave and then a mass movement. As Albert Camus discusses in The Rebel, when a person can compromise no further, they resist, and when they resist, their rebellion brings about inner transformation, leading them beyond themselves. "When he rebels, a man identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity is metaphysical," Camus writes. At the unknown point where people can no longer bear to be controlled or enslaved and begin to resist, they discover something supra-personal within themselves, a source beyond the personal ego. They discover their willingness to sacrifice -- even if it costs them their lives -- for a principle, for justice, for freedom.

Resistance leads to rebellion -- to a complete identification with values that go beyond the individual, that define human nature in its essence. "What was at first the man's obstinate resistance now becomes the whole man, who is identified and summed up in this resistance,"Camus writes. The ruling elite employ teams of experts in social psychology and neuro-linguistic programming, trained in places like the Tavistock Institute, in order to keep the multitudes from recognizing their own interests in a movement of unified defiance. Despite these intensive efforts, it could happen anyway.