Will UBI "work"? All music and art and writing is free right, cuz it's on the Net; End of Rock; Revolution in the Air; Script progresses, HB 91

A friend recently observed I've been more prolific 

Anybody up for a game of William Tell? No? Why not?

I've got dead aim.

and wondered if it has to do with sitting a lot in airports last three weeks. Apparently so.
But I do have a few tidbits this week, and will be on vacation next week, so we'll see.

First, A whopping Giant Happy Birthday to my dear Uncle Stuart, who turned 91 this week. 91. Wow. And Prince checked out at 57. Sorry Uncle. not being a rock and roll star means you live past the train's departure date. Hope to see you this summer.

I hear more and more about a Universal Basic Income. Like you, I have an initial hesitation at the idea. But in actuality, given how f******  up the Powers That Be have made things, 

Good Movie. 

Do not go see your banker right after watching this.

it might be a viable solution. And it can work. While we will always have to earn our daily bread - hunger is built in - it doesn't have to be "work" and there are many ways to contribute.

 More discussion here.
Sometimes by not contributing at all.

Fav quote of the day: I reckon 10% of employees don't even contribute to their employers, let alone society. If they did absolutely nothing, it would be a bonus - other people could do something useful rather than fixing their fucked-up shit.

Couldn't have said it better myself. I have generally thought that after startup mode,  around 10-15% of the company keeps the rest afloat. 80/20 rule I think. IBM seems to be implementing that wrong.
Certainly was the case for me this week.

Uhm, no names - you know who you are. 

Back to the value of work. 

We devalue content and products by refusing to pay for the work it takes to create and maintain them. 

Think about that. Do you pay for online content? I do for some things. Years ago a friend and I agreed to stop bootlegging software, and also to never pay more than $99 for a piece of software (this was 1984). I found the stuff I paid for had more value than the stuff I took for free. And I've pretty much kept to that since.

I know, you're shocked, Shocked! to hear that. 

But it's true.

Paying an artist for their work is one thing. Payola is another.

"The system’s set up so almost nobody gets paid."

If you don't, how do you expect to continue to get it. Oh, right, see above. Hmmm.

Bob Dylan was asked what killed Rock and Roll in a recent interview in AARP of all places.  He's 74 for F***'s sake.

“Racial prejudice has been around awhile, so, yeah. And that was extremely threatening for the city fathers, I would think. When they finally recognized what it was, they had to dismantle it, which they did, starting with payola scandals. The black element was turned into soul music, and the white element was turned into English pop. They separated it […] Well, it was apart of my DNA, so it never disappeared from me. I just incorporated it into other aspects of what I was doing. I don’t know if this answers the question. [Laughs.] I can’t remember what the question was.”

Interviewer: It was jarring how he tossed it into the conversation so casually, a fun little tidbit, like, oh, by the way, real rock barely saw the 60’s before it was hijacked, fractured, and packaged to different demographics (of color).

There's Revolution in the air.

WASHINGTON, D.C—The sustained, daily civil disobedience at the Capitol by demonstrators denouncing the capture of our political system by corporate money is part of one of the largest and most important movements for social justice since the Occupy uprising. Join it.

Six hundred of the protesters have been arrested, and I was among 100 arrested Friday.

The protesters, organized by Democracy Spring, have converged on Washington from across the country. Young. Old. Black. White. Brown. Native American. Asian. Christian. Jew. Muslim. Buddhist. Atheist. From the left. From the right. Some marched for 10 days along a 160-mile route from Philadelphia to Washington.

On Friday, about a dozen protesters who had slipped into a tour group to get into the Capitol used zip ties to bind themselves to each other and to scaffolding inside the rotunda. They remained until they were arrested. In addition, scores of other protesters were taken away by police during the day.

“We the people demand a democracy free from the corrupting influence of big money and voter suppression,” they shouted. “We demand a democracy where every vote is counted and every voice is heard. Democracy Spring!”

The hundreds of arrests this past week have been largely ignored by a corporate media whose lobbyists, along with those of other corporations, are a familiar presence on Capitol Hill. The mass media’s blackout of the largest number of arrests at the Capitol in decades is one of innumerable examples of our corporate coup d’état. And until corporate power is overthrown—and it will be overthrown only from the streets in sustained acts of civil disobedience—the nation will continue to devolve into an authoritarian police state. Corporations will continue to strip us of our remaining rights, carry out the deadly assault on the ecosystem, impoverish workers, make a mockery of our democracy and cannibalize what is left of the country. The system of corporate power is incapable of reform. It must be destroyed.

And the only way I know to change it is to (re)turn to local communities. Period.
Speaking of which:
I finally met with my video client for the local Community DV shelter project. 
Great meeting and we should be moving ahead. Great lady and we organically came up with new ideas and a plan. Loved it. Next up we'll start filming. Mostly done in interview style. Updates in a few weeks.

How convenient

How did he determine that:

Too Obscure?

Off to Kauai for a much needed vacation:

There will be zip-lining - so stay tuned for pictures of D and I upside down.
I'll also be recording a close friend's wedding. THAT should be interesting.

Take care.