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I hope everyone’s weekend was good. I spent most of mine over at the Oakland Coliseum watching professional bull riding. I’ll have some fun audio posted in the next day or two. But in the mean time lets celebrate America in a different way. During my travels through the Internet I came across the FBI files for Malcolm X and it’s actually an interesting set of documents to read through. So, if you want to download the files you can visit the link I found HERE.

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I attended the 2008 “Exhumed to Consume” show last night featuring my favorites Carcass and Suffocation. Suffocation kicked ass live as they always do. Unfortunately I missed Aborted but Carcass was solid. Carcass took some fun verbal stabs at Bay Area “classic” band Metallica and gave some much deserved praise to another local fav, Exodus. I recorded the show but I’m still working on leveling the sound out for the Suffocation part (man, those guys crank some serious bass). Anyway, to hear a little montage of in-between Carcass songs – including a loud boo from the crowd in the direction of those supporters of corporate money, Metallica – check out this short clip.

I just finished this months edition of the Imagine 2050 audio blogcast. You can listen to it here. I had a heck of a time finding someone to interview this month and ended up interviewing a friend of mine. It’s not the best program but at least I’m done with it . My deepest thanks to Ken for his time and openness.

A close friend and colleague of mine is having his first film screening in New York September 20. The film is called “Uprooted” and closely follows a family as it looks at the story of forced displacement of Afro-Colombians in the country of Colombia. It’s a gorgeously shot film and equal parts tear-jerking and hopeful. I strongly encourage you to see it. For more on the film and screening dates, do visit the film’s site: www.uprootedthemovie.org. It will also be screening at the San Francisco Latino Film Festival in November 2008.