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Monday, October 26, 2009 


Hi everyone, I posted a new episode to my podcast, Marc Mac podcast. Please click the link below to view it. http://marc4hero.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-10-24T14_06_49-07_00 See you there! - Marc


New 4hero Podcast.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 

Current mood:  awake


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in between the lines - marc mac


Available now on iTunes & Other Stores, Marc Mac’s In Between The Lines Hip-Hop EP Featuring T.R.A.C, Roshin of Notes to Self, Phonte of Little Brother/Foreign Exchange, Preach & Voice. For More Info Visit The Omniverse Records Site.


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PHONTE "Take A Trip"


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T.R.A.C "Radio Heroes"


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Preach "I'm Outta Here"


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Roshin "This Life"


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Voice "Roll The Dice"


Currently listening:
Gold
By Jackson 5
Release date: 2005-09-01
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 

Current mood:  amused
http://xenophilius.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/tentacle-ufo-spotted-night-before-carnage-at-conisholme-wind-farm/

Tentacle UFO spotted night before carnage at Conisholme wind farm

Posted by Xeno on January 6, 2009

Has the tenacle UFO got something to do with the broken blades at Conisholme? ENGINEERS from Ecotricity are working to establish how a 20m blade mysteriously fell off a turbine at Conisholme wind farm - but residents have their own conclusions. It is believed the a blade fell off the 89m turbine and another was left badly bent on Sunday January 4.

Speculation has continued amongst residents in Conisholme and the surrounding villages with some saying they saw strange flashing tentacle shaped lights above the wind farm on the night before it happened.

Mr John Harrison, Saltfleetby described how on Saturday night, January 3 he looked out of his landing window to see a 'massive ball of light' with 'tentacles going right down to the ground' over Conisholme wind farm.

"It was huge" he said "At first I thought it must have been a hole where the moon was shining through but then I saw the tentacles – it looked just like an octopus.

tentacle-ufo-wind-farm-lenny-montana

"It was an incredible site; I have never seen anything like it before. I have no idea what it was, all I can say is what I saw". …

I don't think this UFO can be explained as being damaged parts of the wind turbine. The bent blades would not extend all the way to the ground, nor would they emit a ball of light. Flying spaghetti monster? Ball lightning?

The reporting on this is not impressive. The article is a big insinuation lacking relevant facts. Was the broken turbine on fire at any point!? How far away from the UFO was the observer? How long did the sighting last? Where there any other eye witnesses? How did the sighting end? Did he observe the wind farm the next morning in the same direction of the UFO? Was the UFO exactly over the wind farm where the broken turbine was later found? The whole article seems like a propaganda piece designed to frighten people about wind farms.

It isn't working, by the way. Here is the vote on 1-6-09:

Do you think wind turbines are safe?
66% YES
34% NO

Ask the 34% if they'd rather have a nice safe nuclear plant instead.
This isn't the first trouble at this wind farm. Here is some damage from 2007:

http://www.richarddows.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/turbine7.jpg

It is somewhat octopus looking…

Here is another report:

Reports of a large bang and flashing lights skimming across the sky on the night a turbine on Conisholme wind farm was damaged have been told.

Mr Stephen Willows and his wife, Dorothy who live in Fen Lane close to the Conisholme wind farm have told the Leader how Stephen was startled in his sleep by a loud bang at 4am Sunday morning.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3104/2403053449_55a4afb7b6.jpg?v=0

It is believed the damage which has left one of the massive blades missing and another bent out of shape happened at some point on Sunday night.

They also reported how on Saturday night, Dorothy and two friends were travelling to Louth by car, when Dorothy looked up at the sky to see lights travelling in a strange fashion across the sky towards the wind farm.

Dorothy said: "I don't believe in UFO's but it was a low flying object. This light seemed to be in the distance, and then it seemed to skim across the sky towards the turbines.

"It might not be connected, but it is just how your mind works when something like this happens – you think, could that have been the noise Stephen heard, or was that to do the light I saw? But until we know what has happened for definite it is very hard to say".

The couple went to the scene to have a closer look, and like many residents, take photographs of the damage. But, when they arrived at the scene, they were shocked to find they had little evidence to go on.

"When we got there, there was nothing to be seen - not even the propeller on the ground" added Dorothy.

"Those blades are pretty sturdy – we saw them when they were being constructed – whatever has hit them has made quite an impact. I was shocked to see that there was no debris left".

The company, Ecotricity have since sent engineers down to establish the cause of the damage to the turbine. - louthleader

Perhaps an oil company is using some flying platform based electromagnetic beam weapon against the turbines? Wind farms need radar and counter measures. Fire on one of them and the rest of them will shoot you out of the sky with surface to air missiles, for example.
Currently listening:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary Edition
Release date: 2002-03-19
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Monday, December 29, 2008 


Hi everyone, I thought you might enjoy my podcast: Marc Mac podcast

- - Marc




The Soul Arranger (Part five) - the sould crates.

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Monday, January 07, 2008 

Current mood:  chill

Long time since I blogged but I figured i better let people know what's up. 1st off I wanna wish all ya'll a happy new year and I also want to say thanks for the support through 2007. I know it's a bit late but I been down with some super heavy flu bug that i caught while in Russia at the end of last year so sorry to everyone for not being at the end of year Co Op session. Yeah those last days of last year where pretty heavy, i was doing a lot of movements and got really run down. Big Up to all the peope that came to the 'welcome To Detroit' parties in Holland in December they were nice and it was great to hang out with PPP, Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Louis B and the full cru. Meetting those cats gave me a simular feeling to when I first met Mad Mike, Kevin Saunderson and Theo, Detroit folk have just got a really good vibe. This aint no name dropping I'm jus shouting out some good people. Oh and shout out to Madlib and Kareem you guys beat me to the record store (you know the spot) but I got some nice stuff anyway. btw found a wicked spot in Moscow also very nice.

Right.. the best thing about 2007 was the birth of my daughter "Shayna" some of you may have seen her in the 'morning child' video.. well she was still just a bump in mommys tummy then. Fatherhood the second time round feels as good as the first.

So 2008, wow....  lots to do lots to see, funny cos for someone that dosent like flying I still end up doing a awful lot of flights every year and this year I hope to make it to the US, do a few gigs, hit some record stores and hang with some good people.

ps

bring on the new season of Heroes.

Marc

 

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Vintage
By Jay Dee
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 

Current mood:  sad

From a personal point of view Alice Coltrane was a true inspiration. In 1997 we tried to track Alice down because we wanted her to be a guest on our 'two pages' album; we never managed to get hold of her in time. Alice inspired me to write tracks like 'Conceptions' & 'Planeteria' and lead me to use more ethnic instruments in my productions. Whenever I think of real cosmic spiritual Jazz (Jas) music Alice will always come to mind. RIP Alice Coltrane.

Alice Coltrane, 69; performer, composer of jazz and New Age music; spiritual leader

By Jon Thurber, Times Staff Writer
January 14, 2007


 

Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer and composer who was inextricably linked with the adventurous musical improvisations of her late husband, legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, has died. She was 69.

Coltrane died Friday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center in West Hills, according to an announcement from the family's publicist. She had been in frail health for some time and died of respiratory failure.

Though known to many for her contributions to jazz and early New Age music, Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now located in Agoura Hills. A guru of growing repute, she also served as the swami of the San Fernando Valley's first Hindu temple, in Chatsworth.

For much of the last nearly 40 years, she was also the keeper of her husband's musical legacy, managing his archive and estate. Her husband, one of the pivotal figures in the history of jazz, died of liver disease July 17, 1967, at the age of 40.

A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp onto the jazz bandstand. Her last performances came in the fall, when she participated in an abbreviated tour that included stops in New York and San Francisco, playing with her saxophonist son, Ravi.

She was born Alice McLeod in Detroit on Aug. 27, 1937, into a family with deep musical roots. Anna, her mother, sang and played piano in the Baptist church choir. Alice's half brother Ernie Farrow was a bassist who played professionally with groups led by saxophonist Yusef Lateef and vibes player Terry Gibbs.

Alice began her musical education at age 7, learning classical piano. Her early musical career included performances in church groups as well as in top-flight jazz ensembles led by Lateef, guitarist Kenny Burrell and saxophonist Lucky Thompson.

After studying jazz piano briefly in Paris, she moved to New York and joined Gibbs' quartet.

"As fascinating — and influential — as her later music was, it tended to obscure the fact that she had started out as a solid, bebop-oriented pianist," critic Don Heckman told The Times on Saturday. "I remember hearing, and jamming with, her in the early '60s at photographer W. Eugene Smith's loft in Manhattan. At that time she played with a brisk, rhythmic style immediately reminiscent of Bud Powell.

"Like a few other people who'd heard her either at the loft or during her early '60s gigs with Terry Gibbs, I kept hoping she'd take at least one more foray into the bebop style she played so well," he said.

She met her future husband in 1963 while playing an engagement with Gibbs' group at Birdland in New York City.

"He saw something in her that was beautiful," Gibbs, who has often taken credit for introducing the two, told The Times on Saturday. "They were both very shy in a way. It was beautiful to see them fall in love."

Gibbs called her "the nicest person I ever worked with. She was a real lady."

She left Gibbs' band to marry Coltrane and began performing with his band in the mid-1960s, replacing pianist McCoy Tyner. She developed a style noted for its power and freedom and played tour dates with Coltrane's group in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo.

She would say her husband's musical impact was enormous.

"John showed me how to play fully," she told interviewer Pauline Rivelli and Robert Levin in comments published in "The Black Giants."

"In other words, he'd teach me not to stay in one spot and play in one chord pattern. 'Branch out, open up … play your instrument entirely.' … John not only taught me how to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely."

After his death, she devoted herself to raising their children. Musically, she continued to play within his creative vision, surrounding herself with such like-minded performers as saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson.

Early albums under her name, including "A Monastic Trio," and "Ptah the El Daoud," were greeted with critical praise for her compositions and playing. "Ptah the El Daoud" featured her sweeping harp flourishes, a sound not commonly heard in jazz recordings. Her last recording, "Translinear Light," came in 2004. It was her first jazz album in 26 years.

Through the 1970s, she continued to explore Eastern religions, traveling to India to study with Swami Satchidananda, the founder of the Integral Yoga Institute.

Upon her return she started a store-front ashram in San Francisco but soon moved it to Woodland Hills in 1975. Located in the Santa Monica Mountains since the early 1980s, the ashram is a 48-acre compound where devotees concentrate on prayer and meditation.

Known within her religious community by her Sanskrit name, Turiyasangitananda, Coltrane focused for much of the last 25 years on composing and recording devotional music such as Hindu chants, hymns and melodies for meditation. She also wrote books, including "Monumental Ethernal," a kind of spiritual biography, and "Endless Wisdom," which she once told a Times reporter contained hundreds of scriptures divinely revealed to her.

In 2001 she helped found the John Coltrane Foundation to encourage jazz performances and award scholarships to young musicians.

In addition to Ravi, she is survived by another son, Oren, who plays guitar and alto sax; a daughter, Michelle, who is a singer; and five grandchildren. Her son John Coltrane Jr. died in an automobile accident in 1982.

jon.thurber@latimes.com

 

Currently listening:
Journey in Satchidananda
By Alice Coltrane
Release date: 25 March, 1997
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Friday, January 05, 2007 

Current mood:  sad
Category: Music

Lyrics from one of my fave JB song. How baaad is this??? dam....

King Heroin
by James Brown

Ladies and Gentlemen
Fellow Americans
Lady Americans
This is James Brown
I wanna talk to you about one of our
Most deadly
Killers in the country today
I had a dream the other night, and I
Was sittin' in my living room
Dozed off to sleep
So I start to dreamin'
I dreamed I walked in a place and
I saw a real strange, weird object
Standin' up talkin' to the people
And I found out it was Heroin
That deadly drug that go in your veins
He says:
I came to this country without a passport
Ever since then I've been hunted and sought
My little white grains are nothin' but waste
Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
I'm a world of power and all know it's true
Use me once and you'll know it, too
I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
I can make a good man forsake his wife
Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
I can make a man forsake his country and flag
Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
Some think my adventure's a joy and a thrill
But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill
In cellophane bags I've found my way
To heads of state and children at play
I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam
I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg
Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
So now, no, my man, you must (you know) do your best
To keep up your habit until your arrest
Now the police have taken you from under my wing
Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king?
Now, you must lie in that county jail
Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
So squirm -- with discomfort -- wiggle and cough (hack!)
Six days of madness, hah! You might throw me off
Curse me in name! Defy me in speech!
But you'd pick me up right no if I were in your reach
All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
Hear now! younng man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
Don't be afraid, don't run! I'm not chased
Sure my name is Heroin! You'll be back for a taste
Behold, you're hooked!
Your foot is in the stirrup
And make -- haste!
Mount the steed!
And ride him well
For the white horse of heroin
Will ride you to Hell!
To Hell!
Will ride you to Hell!
Until you are dead!
Dead, brother! Dead!
This is a revolution of the mind
Get your mind together
And get away from drugs!
That's the man!
Back! Back

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Hell
By James Brown
Release date: 28 February, 1995
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Sunday, December 31, 2006 

Current mood:  rushed
Category: Music

Right! 9.16pm UK time, about to hit the road see what's going down.

Have a good one...  bye bye 2006.

dam I'm late now...

Peace.

 

Currently listening:
Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975
By James Brown
Release date: 23 July, 1996
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Sunday, December 24, 2006 

Current mood:  hopeful
Category: Life

Hope all things get better next year.

Marc

Currently listening:
The Essential Mahalia Jackson
By Mahalia Jackson
Release date: 02 March, 2004
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 

Current mood:  grateful
Category: Life

Water may be spurting on Mars
Mars Global Surveyor photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years. Liquid water, as opposed to the water ice and water vapor known to exist at Mars, is considered necessary for life. The new findings heighten intrigue about the potential for microbial life on Mars.

 

Been waiting years for this headline.


 

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Food & Liquor
By Lupe Fiasco
Release date: 19 September, 2006
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