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This mix is all about the words so listen up - starts off dark moves into a message of hope then ends with two bangin' tunes
System Addict - Plump DJs
Rich Rule Us - Rennie Pilgrem
Champagne Priest - Beats Persona Breaks Re-Dub The Sonic Deviant
Believe - Meat Katie, Elite Force
The Preacher - Pyramid (UK)
You Must Find Strength - BSD
Now Is The Time - - Freestylers
We Control - Hyper
Violence (The Rogue Element Remix) - Nitro
Emit/Collect (Rennie Pilgrems remix) - Zero
Originally posted by myself at Sidekick Comics
Not so long ago I visited a comic book shop for the first time in a long time. One thing jumped out at me, or I should say, one man. Wolverine. His image seemed to be on almost every shelf. In 2008, Wolverine was ranked #1 out of "Wizard Magazine's Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time" and was ranked #4 of "Empire Magazine' 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters". His popularity has reached such a level that he is used on the front of comics in which he hardly features.
Wolverine is a character created by Marvel over 30 years ago. He is a member of the X-men team and is one of the few of them to be included in every media adaptation of the X-men franchise, including film, television and computer games. Too popular to be left out he is featured in both the New X-Men and the Uncanny X-men teams. He is the only one to have starred in his own computer game and is now the subject of his own, soon to be released, big budget movie. Marvel recognized how much they used him when Wolverine appeared in an issue of What The?! where he is just trying to have a quiet day fishing and going insane because of all the other characters keep appearing and trying to get him to guest-star.
It is easy to dismiss his popularity as being a product of his no-holds-barred attitude and savage ferocity. However, I believe that there is a deeper and subtler reason...
I have recently turned 28. I did some research about the supposed spiritual significance of my 29th year and found an interesting coincidence between western astrology and the Chinese Book of Changes the I Ching..
The artist is Michael Oswald - short Michael O. He is a great digital artist from California. His skills brought him on the cover of Advanced Photoshop Magazine. Check out the rest of the series at -
http://abduzeedo.com/great-girl-manipulations-digital-artist-michael-o
They are awesome!
One of my favourite poems is The Wasteland by T.S Eliot.
Here is a section from it.
"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
It is a poem written out of the fragments of other poems. It describes the breakdown of traditional religous symbols and the resulting spiritual malaise. I read it at a time when I was deeply aware of my own and others soullessness.
An excellent article discussing it can be found here
http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/hist14.php
However, I broke through the veil of confusion and doubt that once surrounded me and have discovered a world view that inspires and fulfills me. I believe that it was only through wandering the wasteland that I discovered the subtletys and nuances that continue to give me a sense of wonder and awe. The phoenix captures this idea of rebirth and resurgence. Hence, the phoenix from the wasteland.