PUNK ROCK music be all like...

(Paloma Reloaded) PUNK MUSIC be like May 15, 2026: Enjoy my content? Please consider becoming a Patreon or, optionally, fund the research through BuyMeACoffee. ☕ Thanks! ✨ palomareloaded

• What's punk rock got to do with Buddhism?
• LA punk rock FUN with Social Distortion
• Punk rock: American Hardcore (film)
• Is punk dead? The Punk Rock Museum
• Rock in SLC Punk (film) and the Kalama Sutta
• The most punk rock girl in the world(?)

Punk rock born out of hating ego

(MaxxUnitt) Punk rock was born from hating these bands

Whole new worlds of music(k)?

(RYM Charts) The best album of every punk genre (75 genres)

Alt Music Center: Open Mic Night (5/13)

Instrumental given to LA Fire-impacted musicians? Yes, thanks to AltadenaMusicians.org. Now they are serving the Altadena, Pasadena, South Pasadena (the three Denas), Sierra Madre, and all the foothill and surrounding valley communities.

"Burning Down the House," Altadena Musicians/Quazar and the Bamboozled

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  Will the Eaton Fire destroy us?

  Open Mic Night, 7:00-9:00 pm
• Altadena Music Center (BYP)
• 1260 Lincoln Ave. #1300
• Pasadena, CA 91103
• (Sign up starts at 6:30 pm)
• FREE to attend, free to participate

Altadena Music Center | Pasadena CA | Facebook

Mission

Download on the App Store

Thank you to the amazing Brandon Jay. Introducing Instrumental Giving powered by Altadena Musicians – our registry app where musicians can list the gear they lost in the LA Fires – and donors can help to replace them through gifting or purchasing directly. Think of it like a wedding registry for musicians. (And it’s tax-deductible!) Help Help Musicians - Donate your instruments Who lost it all in the Eaton Fire | Altadena musicians by donating instruments to those who lost them in the Eaton Fire. Download the app to get started: altadenamusicians.org

Finally, NEW Lana Del Rey music (video)

(Lana Del Rey) "White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter"

Now, finally, Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift has more to copy, lift, and blatantly ripoff. Thank you, Lana. TayTay may have been running out of ideas for her next mega-corporate release.

SLIPKNOT is leaving. For recovery?

(Rock Feed) Clown reveals future of [burnt out] Slipknot

Best song of 2025: Artemas 'Kiss'

It was a contentious year, with many votes for Kenya Grace's "Strangers," which would have won had it not been for the fact that it came out earlier and only broke through later. LIVE / BBC

Kenya Grace performs "Strangers" live at Glastonbury 2024

(Living in Fiction) Hard rock cover of "Strangers"

YUNGBLUD "Strangers" (Kenya Grace cover) in the BBC Live Lounge

Artemas: "i like the way you kiss me" (LYRICS VIDEO)

Artemas (musician): Artemas Diamandis (Greek Αρτέμας Διαμαντής [1]) was born Sept. 23, 1999, and is known mononymously as Artemas. He is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.[2] He is best known for his singles "If U Think I'm Pretty" and the viral "I Like the Way You Kiss Me" [3]. He is signed to the record label 10K Projects. More

The British song doesn't work at normal pitch and has a horrible video

How long is 'NOW'? Intro to Metaphysics

How Long is Now? | Intro to Metaphysics 🪐

Suck it up, Devi Cup.

(exurb1a) Help Ex do this full-time if deranged enough (and thanks kindly) ► exurb1r. Anxiety anecdote: This one took about two months to make. A lot of that time was faffing around with a Word document. Not even sure what the point of the script was, but anyhow -- today, very excited to be finally uploading and being rid of the thing.

There I was doing a bit of last-minute polishing in the video editor and suddenly I notice I've deleted half the video in the timeline. Just gone. I reload the old save file, but it's too late. I've written over it already.

I am a cat lady.

About a month of work gone in three seconds of mis-clicking. I'm not sure how far back in the day I made the mistake, and did I mention that the file is so large now that the undo function locks the video editor up almost every time? There's only one option left: tentatively keep hitting undo and just pray this doesn't lock the editor up otherwise ALL GONE. And just pray the buffer remembers far back enough to restore the sequence I deleted otherwise ALL GONE. There I sat for 30 minutes hitting Ctrl-Z as gently as I could, sweat dripping from my furrowed brow.

Even the mice who live in the walls of my apartment were coming out to watch and bite their fingernails or claws or whatever it is mice have, their cheese untouched, their traps empty... Anyway, everything was fine even if I almost soiled myself. The undo function worked, and I briefly felt good about living again for the first time in ten years. I am an idiot. Please don't be an idiot like me. Back stuff up, I beg ye.

Music used ► Queen of the Night - Patrick Hawes, Grace Davidson Swan Lake, Act II - Tchaikovsky - • Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Act II, No. 10) Lavender Fields - Aysedeniz Gokcin Dawn of Innocence - Nathalie Bonin. And of course here's your mystery link: • Scavengers Reign S01E03 - Pollination...

New book of depressing poems: inyurl.com/27fdfh63 (may need to change your region). Other stuff: Books what I wrote, yo ► amazon.com/Exurb1a... For sending personalized insults ► exurb1a T-shirts, mugs, and sadness ► teespring.com/stores/exurb1a. I also make horrendous music ► exurbia-1.

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• Landmark discovery: Giant fossil pre-dating dinosaurs found
• Exurb1a, Dec. 5, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Eaton Fire film: 'All the Walls Came Down'

• Laemmle.com; AP.org; LARCRO.org; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

A star is born: Yoga, dancing; Pilates...

An Experience of Enlightenment

Anyone who has ever danced or done yoga postures (asanas) has to marvel at the impossibility of Assam's 8-year-old BINITA CHETRY, who blows even jaded judges away with the most flexible dancing audition ever on the show.

It's one thing to be able to bend. It is a whole 'nother to have this much poise, balance, creativity, and élan. Is this what ancient dancers did to bedazzle visitors in far-flung kingdoms?

Do frog pose for 100 years to get ready to dance. - Next, let's work on strength and balance.

Hobert: Hey, I can dance AND sing.

In the little book An Experience of Enlightenment, there is a kingdom at the nexus of two great rivers in Northern India (perhaps the Brahmaputra and Saraswati). And there a temple dancing girl lives until a handsome traveling stranger comes through the area and wins her heart. But her jealous handler won't stand for it. One is reminded of that strange tale retold by a European after a seance in the book's true story.

• How does she do it?! | Britain's Got Talent | Facebook

BOOK REVIEW: I read this little book in Finnish, and it was a vivid, charming, and interesting experience of [spiritual] search[ing], enlightenment, and meditation. The book was published a long time ago, and it seems rare to find personal experiences of women of this age on the path of meditation (without being lifestyle-obsessed). Source (rare book)

• 8-year-old wonder dancer from Assam sets British talent show on fire and earns plaudits from judges
• What happened? Did Binita Chetry win Britain's Got Talent Series 18?

Aubrey Hobert: "Sue Me" Pilates

AUBREY HOBERT (born 1999) is an American singer and songwriter from NYC. After co-writing several songs with Gracie Abrams on her 2024 album The Secret of Us, Hobert released her debut single, "Sue Me," in 2025. Her debut album, Who's the Clown?, was released on Aug. 15, 2025. More

Yeah, but can a girl play a guitar?

(Tina S) Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd movement)

Yeah, Aubrey, okay. Thank you. Next. NOBODY was prepared for this 8-year-old's power on Britain's Got Talent Replay. Aug. 23, 2025: An 8-year-old dancer from Assam, India, may look sweet, but she performs with the power and ferocity of a tigress. Her unique routines combine breathtaking yogic acrobatics with fierce martial arts moves, set to epic, cinematic music. From embodying "Wonder Woman" to unleashing her inner feline power, she takes control of the entire stage, even dancing on the judges' desk in a stunning display of girl power.

• Who is Binita Chetry? Meet the 8-year-old sensation taking Britain’s Got Talent by storm

Mermaid Island: "Freaks"

• Who's your favorite punk band? Mermaid Island. Why? Heard them on Heidi and Frank: Stay or Go
• Heidi and Frank Podcast - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
• What about "Sicko Mode" as trap-metal by trans MaryJaneDaniel?

A Late Summer Night's Dream (poetry)

As the summer winds down, the Altadena Library is having its Open Mic on Monday, Sept. 8th at 6:00 pm at Callisto Tea House on Washington and Altadena Dr. (Open Mic Night, Monday, September 8, 2025, 6 - 7:30pm - Programs — Altadena Library District) FREE

• Callisto Tea House, 1359 N Altadena Dr. (Map)

• Aveson Black Box Theater
• 3051 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena, CA 91001

Tuesday is the Odes to Altadena Poetry Workshop. All are welcome as this enclave returns to its rich history of art, activism, and writing. FREE

Bestselling author Janet Fitch will be reading! Thursday marks the return (from its usual summer hiatus) of Mandy Kahn's Deep Dive Poetry & Fiction at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS.org) historic mansion's Religions of the World Library on the next hill over, above Glendale, next to Griffith Park, at the eastern entrance to Hollywood (Tinsel Town proper). FREE

• PRS.org (Calendar)

Altadena Poetry Review Celebration
Saturday is the massive Altadena Poetry Review Celebration (2024-2025 Virtual Edition) at the Altadena Main Library Community Room featuring poets published in the anthology, including Mary Anne Berry, Don Kingfisher Campbel, Hazel Harrison, Ron Koertge, Noriko Nakada, Anna Mixtlan, Thelma Reyna (Golden Foothills Press), Lynne Thompson, Pam Ward, Alene Terzian-Zeitounian + OPEN MIC. Hosted by Altadena Library Co-Poets Laureate Sehba Sarwar and Lester Graves Lennon. (This event will be livestreamed at youtube.com/AltadenaLibrary for anyone wanting to tune in remotely). FREE

• Altadena Poets Laureate - Altadena Poetry Review Celebration - The 2024-25 Virtual Edition, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, 3-5 pm
• Altadena Library District | Altadena CA | Facebook
• Altadena Library District (@altadenalibrary) • Instagram
• AltadenaLibrary (@AltadenaLibrary) / (Twitter) X

Of course, the whole of the community will be at Eagle's Hall for the free festival "Regrow Altadena" walking distance just down the hill along the miraculously unburned Christmas Tree Lane. (Both are on the same street at the same time, one on Woodbury, the other on Mariposa). The music and dancing from one may echo up and disturb the poetry readers if they whisper at the mic all NPR-style, so speak up or deliver those poems and attempts at haiku (haibun) as if they were spoken word with verve.

• Poetry and Garden - Poetry and Zine Workshop with Xitlalic Guijosa, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, 11am-1 pm
• Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum Events | SeatGeek
• Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Burning Man Day 5, going strong, silent

Burning Man at night 2025!

(Breeze Offroad) Aug. 29, 2025: BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada - 🔥 Burning Man is a week-long, radically creative gathering held annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. It’s not a music festival, not a trade show, and definitely not an average [basic b*tch] party. Well, then, what is it? —It’s a temporary city built from scratch by tens of thousands of active and creative participants who come to share art, ideas, and experiences. #burningman2025 #burningmanfestival #blackrockcity

The 2018 Orb at Burning Man. 📷 @rosacrespo #burningman

• Our de facto correspondent (Escaping Normal Life) has gone silent. Are we worried? No. Maybe he's having a near death experience or something life-altering. The show must go on. Readers want to know, so here's the update:

Burning Man has an "Orgy Dome"?

BURNING MAN 2025 ORGY DOME: On August 27, 2025, it was revealed that the desert festival's "Orgy Dome," which had been a popular and active free love party scene at the festival since 2003, had collapsed due to sudden and very strong desert winds [61 ("Burning Man's Orgy Dome has been destroyed")]. It was afterwards announced that the sex tents would be restored [62]. Gates also closed on different occasions due to bad weather, with at least one festival attendee being electrocuted [63]. More

• DISGUSTING! The Burning Man they DON'T want anyone to see (rare footage)
• What is Burning Man? — (Mr & Mrs Adventure)
• (Clevver News) 18 OMG things no one knew about BM

(Jesse) Some couples really know how to live it up at Burning Man

Going FURTHUR with Burning Man (doc)

(ABC7 News Bay Area) Burners defend Burning Man after days of challenging weather conditions

Did anyone ever think to fly a drone over BM at night? Jeffrey V did.

Trailer: Mad Max predicted the world would one day come to this

• Miriam Isa, Clevver News; KTVN 2 News Nevada, Burning Man going strong, Aug. 28, 2025; Dubera, Burningman X Playground 2023; Breeze Offroad, Aug. 29, 2025; Jeffrey Ventre; The Hallucinarrator full documentary; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

HELP: Ekaterina Sky's Altadena Mural

Contact (ekaterina-sky.com) || Contact | (ekaterina-sky.art)

Help wanted: We need your participation to create a better world, save the planet, and heal!

Altadena Mural Project is planned for Thursday, July 24, 5:00 pm through Saturday, July 26, 9:00 pm, on Lake Ave. in Altadena, LA County. RSVP to see full location details.

• Ekaterina Sky - Impact Artist - Muralist (@ekaterina.sky.art)
• Ekaterina Sky | Facebook
• VIDEO: Ekaterina Sky (IG)

Full Project Overview

🌍 FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

I paint by inspiration, downloading visions.

YOU are invited: Be part of the Prayer for the Earth Mural Project in Altadena. This is a community art offering for healing, hope, and reconnection.

Through the invitation of John Hopkins and Sev Dhar of Oh Happy Day Vegan Café and Grocery in Altadena, we welcome you to join the creation of Prayer for the Earth — a mural that honors grief, inspires renewal, and reminds us of our deep connection to nature and one another.

This project is a space for community healing, artistic expression, and collective visioning.

• JOIN US: partiful.com/e/MS6y8u2DAFrgzoX2v0Bz

✨ How You Can Participate

(Final schedule to be confirmed — all events will take place during the weekend of July 25–27)

Ekaterina Sky, a contemplative and inspired artist | Les Belles et les bêtes

Prayer for the Earth Mural Weekend: July 24–27, 2025

Final schedule to be confirmed

FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

🔨 Wall Building and Assembly - Thursday, July 24th (4:00-9:00 pm): Help construct the mural wall (building and assembly of portable wall) — the physical and symbolic foundation of this prayer for the planet.

🎨 Background Painting Days - Friday, July 25th (3:00 pm base painting begins: Join in painting the mural’s first layers. No experience needed — just bring your heart and hands.

🕊 Intention and Prayer Writing - Saturday, July 26th (all day, taping and painting the background): Gather with us to write personal and collective prayers for the Earth and Altadena — adding soul to the mural’s core.

🌿 Final Reveal and Community Celebration - Sunday, July 27 (3:00 pm intentions, prayer writing; 5:00-9:00 pm, sealing prayers and community celebration): Join us for a closing ceremony with sound healing, community talks, spoken word poetry, and music as we unveil the finished mural together.

Next Zoom meeting: Wednesday, July 23

• Final logistical Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4827388921?pwd=VFNETGtuejlzMDZUQXU4VWVsZHArZz09
• Meeting ID: 482 738 8921
• Passcode: 0hk6Wc
• When: Changed to Wednesday July 23, 2025, 5:00 pm–5:30 pm (Pacific Time - Los Angeles)
• Previous Zoom: Altadena Fire Mural coordination

🌍 Supported by:

• LA Designers @Climatedesignersla
• Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Meetup)
• Los Angeles Climate Week @laclimateweek
• Collidescope Foundation @Collidescopefoundation
• Plant Based Treaty @plantbasedtreatyla @plantbasedtreaty
• Soul Force Project @soulforceproject (live music).

Join me now on Partiful.com

We welcome more partners, volunteers, and local community members to help bring this vision to life. If YOU care about Altadena post Eaton Fire, the Earth, or the power of collective healing — this is your invitation. Whether you build, paint, pray, or simply witness, your presence will leave a mark.

With care and gratitude,

Ekaterina Sky (ekaterina-sky.com)

Visual Artist and Creator of Prayer for the Earth

• RSVP: JOIN: partiful.com/e/MS6y8u2DAFrgzoX2v0Bz

Meetup RSVP (free):

• (Disclosure Project) HELP WANTED to create healing mural after Altadena fire with Ekaterina Sky, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) HELP WANTED to create healing mural after Altadena fire with Ekaterina Sky, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) HELP WANTED to create healing mural after Altadena fire with Ekaterina Sky, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

• Help wanted creating Ekaterina Sky's mural
• FULL: Ekaterina Sky's Altadena Mural 2025
• Art through healing: It's Magic, This World (Pasadena Library)
• Art — Altadena Library District (Art-Display-Policy PDF)
• JOIN: partiful.com/e/MS6y8u2DAFrgzoX2v0Bz
• Ekaterina Sky, Altadena Mural 2025 (ekaterina-sky.com), Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Help wanted creating Ekaterina Sky's mural

Fellow Los Angeles Fire victims, navigating through Altadena and seeing murals on some of the remaining walls is encouraging. From the ashes of our communities, people are offering art as visual support.

Wisdom Quarterly is inviting artist Ekaterina Sky, who once had a studio in Lincoln Heights, to form a group (art collective) to adorn another wall.

She envisions people affected by the fire coming together to set intentions for Los Angeles and the planet and create a mural.

This is to express loss and instill a sense of wonder and hope, bringing community together to envision a new world.

• DETAILS: Prayer for the Earth: A Mural for Healing, Unity, and Environmental Renewal, Altadena, Los Angeles (canva.com)

The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees

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If interested in participating (or know of an available wall), please contact Ekaterina and us at:

• Email: artist@ekaterina-sky.com
• Instagram: ekaterina.sky.art
• Website: ekaterina-sky.com

Altadena Mural Zoom Logistics Meeting

UK-based street artist creates animated GIFs using street graffiti (mentalfloss.com)

• When: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 5:00–6:00 pm (PDT)
• Where: us06web.zoom.us/j/4827388921?pwd=VFNETGtuejlzMDZUQXU4VWVsZHArZz09

• Painting may begin on July 18, 2025, depending on this Zoom.

For this interactive art project and installation, we are partnering with Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots, The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees; PasadenaWeekly.com; Oh Happy Days Vegan Cafe; and others.

• RSVP and message Ekaterina and Seven to participate:
• (Disclosure Project) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Attention artists, HELP WANTED creating mural in Altadena with Ekaterina Sky, Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 11:11 AM | Meetup

Amazing art of Alex Grey; Ekaterina Sky (ekaterina-sky.com), canva.com, Voyage LA Magazine (photos, 10/21/24), text by JP, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Meetup), Wisdom Quarterly