A Clinton Cult (Baptizes Napoleon's Nightmares In Stars)

"My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Dominque (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, making me laugh

 

"It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture."

- Maya Angelou, my babysitter back-in-the-day

 

Starchild,...is a divine alien being who came to earth from a spaceship (his arrival is "the Mothership Connection") to bring the holy Funk (with a capital "F": the cause of creation and source of energy and all life) to humanity. As it turns out, Starchild secretly worked for Dr. Funkenstein, the intergalactic master of outer space Funk, who is capable of fixing all of man’s ills, because the "bigger the headache, the bigger the pill" and he’s the "big pill". Dr. Funkenstein’s predecessors had encoded the secrets of Funk in the Pyramids because humanity wasn’t ready for its existence until,...everyone is on the One.

Starchild’s nemesis is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk ("Sir Nose Devoid of Funk"),...Sir Nose attempts to end the Funk because he is too cool to dance. He is the master of the Placebo Syndrome, which causes unFunkiness (a combination of stupidity and no dancing). His goal is to place the minds of all humanity into a state called the Zone of Zero Funkativity. Starchild, on the other hand, uses his Bop Gun to achieve "Funkentelechy" for all humanity. With the Funky powers of the Bop Gun (which are augmented by the Flash Light....Shine the light on them suckas!!!), Starchild causes Sir Nose to reach Funkentelechy, and find his Funky soul. He then dances away the night.

- George Clinton's Mothership Connection (1979 - South Central, Los Angeles' soundtrack the year I graduated High School) predicting NewAge's rise ("the Placebo Syndrome") would lead whites (Sir Nose) off course until modern man (Starchild) identified the problem (using the Flashlight) to show Nose the way to true freedom (The Funk).

 

"Never learned to swim,


Can't catch the rhythm of the stroke
!

Why should I hold my breath?

Feelin' that I might choke!"

Things ya blow through, 
because of things ya swim through

Why hold your nose to spite your face?

With the rhythm that makes you dance to 
what we have to live through

You can dance underwater and not get wet, OH!!!

- "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)", Mothership Connection's happy conclusion, when the spirits of "Atlantis" (the Atlantic Slave Trade) force Sir Nose's dance floor discovery:

That to address what's bubbled up from under the sea ("What we have to live through"
) doesn't have to get anybody killed ("wet").

Naked Ain't Poor, A Black Jesus, Scientology In Harlem, Brown Men In Jail, And The Numbers Don’t Support Fear

Jamie Oliver’s Classism: 

The Naked Chef is not the right person 

to teach the poor how to eat well.

Villagers kill infamous PNG cult leader 

known as Black Jesus

What the Daily News Left Out of its Story 

on Scientology in Harlem

“Only Brown Guys Go To Jail”

Numbers Don’t Support Fear Of Black Men

Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership 

Lands in the Smithsonian

My Head's In My Hands (In Case I Make A Run For It)

THERE'S A FEW PEOPLE TO WATCH RIGHT NOW - THIS IS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST WITH HIS FIRST ALBUM:

Earl Sweatshirt: Doris

NOT NEARLY EXTENSIVE ENOUGH, BUT IT'S ONLY A COLUMN:

The Rise of Self-Taught Artists

EVERY DAY, ONCE A DAY, JUST TO GET IT OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM:

‘To Hell With Them’

THIS IS JUST THE CRAZY - LET'S SEE THE GOLD BASE:

EXCLUSIVE: Pictured close-up for the first time, Scientology's secret 'alien space cathedral' and landing pad in New Mexico desert 'for return of followers after Armageddon on Earth'

 Follow any individual instrument or part and this weird song becomes even more fascinating with repeat listens,...

One Nation Under A Groove (Everything Is On The One)

Politically speaking, when it came to maintaining the status quo - whatever the status quo was - it was George Clinton who has easily been the most dangerous man in America,..

Messy: Working At The Height Of Our Power's Like That

This is Talking Heads, featuring members of Parliament/Funkadelic with King Crimson's Adrien Belew, doing "Crosseyed & Painless" - easily the best, and most sophisticated, bit of songcraft in their entire collection. And this particular performance in Rome was a beautiful train wreck of epic proportions. My God, what a mess. I've loved it for over over three decades now.

This is an awesome band, operating with everything turned up to Eleven, and I can't help but think this is a perfect example of what's what wrong with my country today:

We've forgotten how to be,...this. 

As we glide to giving the fucking Mormon Tabernacle Choir the stage, we're also running from what makes us so fucking awesome - the sheer incomprehensible, multi-platinum clusterfuck that is America Unleashed. Look at that crowd. I bet - whether in Rome, or Africa, or Los Angeles - no one could do more than stare with their mouths open and dance because they had no friggin' idea what to make of it! It could ONLY have come from here. And we're throwing it all away for a sense of order? Please.

 "I'm still waiting"? 

 No I'm not - my country is leaving without me,...

 

Oh Please, Bill, Don't Be Silly: Barack Obama Is Looked On As A Magic Lightworker, Remember?

"Do they look at him like some prize brown baby?"

-- Bill Cosby, asking how the media regards Barack Obama, on Politico.com.