MOTILE - FOR DIM HANDS

Leaking Lights presents the new collection of songs by Motile (Francisco's musical project). The 12 songs complete For Dim Hands, an album recorded from September 2009 - December 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.

You can download it for free from here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=41VITA20

Listen with headphones! And if you're kind enough, your opinion on the comments would be much appreciated!!

Tracklist for For Dim Hands

1. Noli's Erosion

2. Former Crowns

3. Schist Streams

4. Ocean Stretch For Dim Hands

5. It Comes, A Need

6. Wind On a Grey Trail

7. I May Not Be

8. Inflow

9. Spine (Nomadic Poem)

10. Mimesis

11. Before Roots Are Ancient

12. Tide (The Guards)

GODS&MACHINES/ ADULTS/ KIDS/

GODS & MACHINES

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ADULTS

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KIDS

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TVB

TROY VON BALTHAZAR makes beautiful music. I saw him last night @NBI, Berlin. There was only one big red spot. And he did magic.

IF MEN COULD MENSTRUATE by Gloria Steinem

A white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only thing it really does is make the more subject to ultraviolet rays and to wrinkles. Male human beings have built whole cultures around the idea that penis envy is "natural" to women - though having such an unprotected organ might be said to make men vulnerable, and the power to give birth makes womb envy at least as logical.

In short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it.

What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?

The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:

Men would brag about how long and how much.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.

Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.

Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days," and Robert "Baretta" Blake Maxi-Pads.)

Military men, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve in the Army ("you have to give blood to take blood"), occupy political office ("can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priest and ministers ("how could a woman give her blood for our sins?") or rabbis ("without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean").

Male radicals, left-wing politicians, mystics, however, would insist that women are equal, just different, and that any woman could enter their ranks if she were willing to self-inflict a major wound every month ("you MUST give blood for the revolution"), recognize the preeminence of menstrual issues, or subordinate her selfness to all men in their Cycle of Enlightenment. Street guys would brag ("I'm a three pad man") or answer praise from a buddy ("Man, you lookin' good!") by giving fives and saying, "Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!" TV shows would treat the subject at length. ("Happy Days": Richie and Potsie try to convince Fonzie that he is still "The Fonz," though he has missed two periods in a row.) So would newspapers. (SHARK SCARE THREATENS MENSTRUATING MEN. JUDGE CITES MONTHLY STRESS IN PARDONING RAPIST.) And movies. (Newman and Redford in "Blood Brothers"!)

Men would convince women that intercourse was more pleasurable at "that time of the month." Lesbians would be said to fear blood and therefore life itself - though probably only because they needed a good menstruating man.

Of course, male intellectuals would offer the most moral and logical arguments. How could a woman master any discipline that demanded a sense of time, space, mathematics, or measurement, for instance, without that in-built gift for measuring the cycles of the moon and planets - and thus for measuring anything at all? In the rarefied fields of philosophy and religion, could women compensate for missing the rhythm of the universe? Or for their lack of symbolic death-and-resurrection every month?

Liberal males in every field would try to be kind: the fact that "these people" have no gift for measuring life or connecting to the universe, the liberals would explain, should be punishment enough.

And how would women be trained to react? One can imagine traditional women agreeing to all arguments with a staunch and smiling masochism. ("The ERA would force housewives to wound themselves every month": Phyllis Schlafly. "Your husband's blood is as sacred as that of Jesus - and so sexy, too!": Marabel Morgan.) Reformers and Queen Bees would try to imitate men, and pretend to have a monthly cycle. All feminists would explain endlessly that men, too, needed to be liberated from the false idea of Martian aggressiveness, just as women needed to escape the bonds of menses envy. Radical feminist would add that the oppression of the nonmenstrual was the pattern for all other oppressions ("Vampires were our first freedom fighters!") Cultural feminists would develop a bloodless imagery in art and literature. Socialist feminists would insist that only under capitalism would men be able to monopolize menstrual blood . . . .

In fact, if men could menstruate, the power justifications could probably go on forever.

Taken from: http://www.mum.org/ifmencou.htm

In my heart a flower dies slow

Beneath the starry sky we lie

Drowning in your watery thighs

Don't speak

I can hear you

sonGs

PODCAST (download here): sonGs - new working link

Podcast by Michael Carli and Francisco Soares

Pictures by Giulia Essyad

Tracklist:

1. Bat for Lashes - Glass

2. Pixies - Gigantic

3. Animal Collective - Grass

4. Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook

5. Phoenix - Girlfriend

6. Royskopp - The Girl and the Robot

7. M.I.A. - Galang

8. Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On

9. Bjork - Generous Palmstroke

10. No Age - Genie

11. Pavement - Gold Soundz

12. Micachu - Golden Phone

13. Yeasayer - Germs

14. Beach House - Gila

15. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

16. Antony and the Johnsons - Ghost

17. Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby

18. Vashti Bunyan - Glow Worms

19. The National - Gospel

20. The Microphones - The Gleam, pt.2

21. Slint - Good Morning, Captain

22. Antony and the Johnsons - The Great White Ocean

LAST STATEMENT

In Texas, justice still appears in the form of ignorant punishment.

The executions can be seen as a list in the website of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Name

Age

Race

Date of Execution

Along with this list, the last statement of the "offenders" is online... a statement that is now global, that is now an open letter to the world.

We were both very touched by these statements, and it became the two pieces we present here. The first piece is by Giulia and the second one by Francisco.

You can visit the website here.

RED

berlin/mauerfall/zwanzig jahre/

kommunistisch/demo/hackescher markt/

ludmilla/schwanger/tatutata/