most.beautiful

omega vibration, conscious reggae, action and no words; alika has certainly become the most important woman in latin reggae. her story goes back to the hardcore hip-hop band: actitud maria marta which she left a couple of years ago and then turned to rastafari enlightenment. she has released a couple of albums with her band nueva alianza and now sista alika is back with new material: "razon, meditacion y accion" touring latin america.
her website is very simple with design and programming but powerful in content. check out all of the goodies you can find in there: vegetarian recipes, planting your own food methods, rastafari related texts, a great deal of links to reggae sites and the universal declaration of human rights.
i don't know if she's touring outside latin america, but if you manage to find out a venue she's playing at near you, storm down and go see beautiful mighty empress alika. big up black woman!!!

alika and nueva alianza official site

alika audio samples

freak.brothers

1968 was an important year in modern civilization; all across the world major events happened and austin texas was no exception. gilbert shelton created a true anti-establishment attitude and the low social standard that latter hippies would be caught in through the adventures of 3 truly distorted characters. several decades have passed and the fabulous furry freak brothers are still one of the best counter-culture publications that have been around in the comic world.

be sure to check these links and become inmersed in rip off press' most succesful comic... more fire!

the freak brothers' factory store

freaknet: a tribute to the ffb

and please check out this amazing guide to amsterdam!

drawing.restraint.9

back from amsterdam, i got lots of ideas of things to post here that i saw there like the freak brothers comic (spoiler for next post). however, bjork is news again and i couldn't help but spread the word that matthew barney's drawing restraint 9 is out now and she has made the soundtrack for it. selmasongs proved that bjork has a wider-much deeper understanding of music itself and of it's interaction with image. if lars von trier's idea of a score was understood by her perfectly... i can't even imagine what she has done for her husband's movie.

drawing restraint 9

buy the soundtrack at amazon.com