This is the first song off our new album, The Continuing Adventures of the 23rd Century in ... The 23rd Century. In this song, our worst fears from the last album come true, and before we know it we have serious problems to deal with. Less

A non-stop 60s guateque-party selection for your love! from no-no-nó!dj(Spain). http://audioblog-a-gogo.blogspot.com Less

Off of the Willie Horton Hears A Who CD 1996 EVERYONE knows who Abbie Hoffman is – or if they don’t they should. The man practically invented demonstration-as-performance-art. He drew attention to problems that were plaguing our society at the time like our involvement in the War in Vietnam, urban decay, the need for health care for the elderly, substandard living conditions in our inner cities. One of the last times he was arrested was because he and his fellow-activist son, Andrew, were giving out needles to junkies in public – as a way of helping combat the spread of A.I.D.S. But, sadly, Abbie couldn’t get a post-Gordon Gecko, 80s world to listen to his message of “Change starts with you”. When he took his life in 1989 it signaled the true end to the 60s counter-culture revolution. One of it’s most positive and strongest voices had silenced itself – frustrated with the corporate globalization of our culture. America, Inc. – and equally frustrated with a mass populi that just didn’t seem to care. I remember hearing him on the Howard Stern Show talking about Live Aid – and he made a great point: sure it’s good to help starving people around the world – but he felt that our media and government were turning our attention to far away places – at the expense of those less fortunate in THIS country – it was more glamorous to hold a benefit concert for people in Africa than it was to confront the ugliness in the depressed mountain towns of Appalachia or the cyclical poverty that self-perpetuates itself in our ghettos and slums of every major U.S. City. You might not have agreed with everything he said – or even the way that he sometimes made his point – but this was a man who truly laid his life on the line for his personal beliefs – along with his personal health, reputation and even personal fortune. And regardless of which side of the fence you stood on you HAD to admire the man for that. This song is dedicated to every starry-eyed dreamer who ever wanted to make his or her little section of the planet just a LITTLE bit better for their fellow man and woman. Amen Brutha, Amen Sistah. Kenn Rowell Less

Poet Lorna Dee Cervantes reads a new poem, “A Viet Nam War Poem (The First Draft)” written December 6, 2006. Visit her blog at lornadice.blogspot for this and more poetry, prose and news. You can also visit her at MySpace and read the poem on her blog there. Less