The HighLife

The Roots -  How I Got over

Be careful when following the herd,
or you could end up being another sheep led to slaughter.

                   

"Is it right to kill a man
who killed another man
to show that killing a man is wrong?"
-anon

  



Sorry
I must apologize
If this pathetic attempt at a story-telling
Spoken word poem don’t rhyme
But
Sometimes metaphors hide behind similes
Leaving me leaning head first pressed against the bark of a tree
Blindfoldedly dreaming of words to describe
Every Nigerians frame of mind
The transformation of broken English into this Canadian disaster of an accent
Accentuated but the exaggerated pronunciation of every word
At the tip of my tongue
Has left me tongue-tied
De-hydratedly dried
Dying inside
Every time I try to tie ten dollars to my debt card
And deposit 9.5 litres of Blood-stained petroleum Gas
Into the gas chamber of my 2002 ford Taurus
You can call me
Komi-haurus
The Nigerian heliographical symbol
Exposing the horrors
The truth before us
Before us came Royal Dutch Shell workers in luxurious buses
Not bustling through the Niger Delta like a bunch of disoriented tourists
But touring the Ogoni Land in search of Natural resources
They took their drills
And their high-tech tricks of technology
And pumped our ancestors out the ground
This time around
They built refineries to refine ways to pass
Our fore-father through their pipelines
And we are Tired

Tired of constantly contemplating ways to promote peace
In a place where peace is just as hard to find
As a piece of land unaltered and polluted
From oil spillage
Spilling from broken pipelines
From broken promises of reparations
And when we broke those pipelines to liberate the spirits of our forefathers
They said we were trying to sabotage their money making business
They tried to desensitize and silence us
Like putting a silencer on an Uzi
They hung Saro Wiwa by his neck
And while he swung like strange fruit on our TV screens
They tried to muffle up our screams by pouring acid on his body
To make sure he was dead
I Read
In the New York Times
That they settled out of court
For roughly 15.5 million dollars
This is just a fraction of what they make in a day
The day has come for Royal Dutch Shell to pick up her shit technology
Take a shit in the Piss tank and get the fuck out of our system
Cuz we are TIRED!
-Komi Olafimihan {Poetic Speed}

komiolaf.com

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age

For those unaware of the rare quality of funk and soul in and around New England, it might be partly because you've never heard the Galactic Fractures radio show.  It's hosted by PJ Gray and broadcast Sundays 2-4pm on WMFO 91.5FM .  Whether it's PJ spinning or one of the several amazing DJ's to have graced the decks at WMFO, the quality speaks for itself.  So do the archives, dating back to 2001.  The Galactic Fractures website might be exactly what your music library is lacking.  I'll jumpoff with two sick shows from the archive. The rest is in your hands. Start digging....

DJ Claude Money - 07/03/07

DJ Bogart - 09/30/07

Jameson's Irish Whiskey

Orbit - Dirty Mouth Test #37

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The Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 to 20