Lenny Gonzalez

Everything is a conversation. Even a still photograph.

[Abbey Road @AbbeyRoad]

Rest in peace Steve Albini.

We'll always regret not accepting your job application back in 2003!

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[Good Willsmith @GoodWillsmith]

this clip of Otomo Yoshihide ripping guitar on a seemingly mild-mannered variety show kills me. when the camera cuts to the hosts like 😅😅

オーネット・コールマン「ロンリー・ウーマン」をモチーフとした即興演奏 ✅ improv with motif from “Lonely Woman”

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

André Braugher pulled off an amazing feat betwixt Homicide; Life On The Street, & Brooklyn NineNine-establishing himself first, as a dramatic actor of extraordinary power in Homicide,then playing completely against the type HE established for dazzling comedic effect in NineNine.

[Good Willsmith @GoodWillsmith]

u cannot deny that we're living in a golden age of cellists in the ~experimental music sphere~. cello stock is soaring. u could honestly only listen to weirdo cello albums all the time & there would be enough to sustain u & it would all be sick

[KingBritt @kingbritt]

Wise suggestion: Archive your favorite videos, articles, photos from the web by any means. Make PDFs, download what you can, because over the next few years many things will start to disappear. Many resources will disappear. These will be the archives the world will need next. ❤️

[LOW @lowtheband]

In honor of Mim and it being a year, this weekend, since her death, I say

STOP THE MURDERING AND WAR.

After growing up on a farm and knowing death, and then watching someone close pass away, it is UNFATHOMABLE, trying to comprehend why anyone would cause such suffering.

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

Every sphere of culture is turning into a blood feud between two rival mobs (notice that it's ALWAYS a binary opposition) whose driving ambition is to annihilate the other.

The very people of influence and power who should set constructive examples and work to counter this, are now the worst culprits. Let's all recognize that individuals need to have the freedom to follow their own conscience and express deeply held values—but this means, of course, that they also extend the same right to others. That's what happens in a democracy and a healthy culture.

We shouldn't need to say this. But, unfortunately, we need to say this.

[Entropy Stereo @entropy_stereo]

URGENT: Email your members of Congress to call for a ceasefire and open up a corridor for aid to Gaza NOW https://t.co/npMXQedQtj

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For decades, Palestinians demanded that the world acknowledge the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to create a European Jewish ethno-supremacist state in their place.

They were ignored, ridiculed or accused of hating Jews. Now we see the result.

Unless we learn from history we are condemned to endlessly repeat it.

Which is why most Westerners will keep quiet as Palestinians are murdered and driven from their homes once again – because we have been trained by our leaders and media to assume that speaking up in support of freedom and dignity for all equates to antisemitism.

[Benzi Sanders @BenzionSanders]

By far the most powerful Israeli response I have seen.

This 19 year old girl survived the horrific massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri.

This is her message to her fellow Israelis and to the world.

Watch the whole thing.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

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A joint statement by Israeli human rights and civil society organizations 👇

[Majid Freeman @Majstar7]

🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:

‘My God.

So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'

For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.

What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?

A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?

I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.

This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.

6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.

We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’

#Palestine 🇵🇸

[Lenny Gonzalez @millennyem]

@netvids Thanks for sharing this.

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Same. It is so brilliant I can't write about it. It's just too freaking perfect on every level.

[tommy guerrero @tommyguerrero]

New album !
digital release today!on all digi platforms. Many thnx!
🎉🎸🎶

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

(1) I always liked "Freefallin'" by Tom Petty but I'd never listened to it properly. This morning I was in a taxi, stuck in traffic, when it came on the radio, its chimy guitar riff like a cross between the Byrds in its brightness and The Velvet Underground in its repetition

[KQED @KQED]

“It was damn, damn satisfying that I could claim my terrific identity and show everyone my intelligence,” typed Jacob Rock, when asked about what it felt like to finally be able to communicate in words.