OMG I made it on time! Finally. So this week:

I haven’t been able to stop listening to both Fugazi and M.I.A. (I’m pretty sure Ian McKaye is always on my TILTs in some form or another!). This week I’ve been listening to Fugazi’s ‘Red Medicine’ and ’13 Songs’ – both are excellent, but the latter is absolutely brilliant in my opinion. I also finally got M.I.A.’s first album, Arular and have been listening to that along with Kala.

I got to watch American Hardcore. It was pretty damn inspiring, if a little depressing towards the end. Great energy.

I ordered the new platEAU album, Gort Spacebar – I blame the insanely awesome Gort music video for this. That in addition to the beautiful cover art kind of rendered me powerless to Subconscious Communications. I got to listen to 2 tracks from the new Download album Helicopter (Pilots Requiem & Propeller) and was totally blown away so I will get that next week! Anyway, here’s the cover art I was talking about, I wish they had desktop wallpaper-sized downloads somewhere!:

And today I finally finished reading Jonathan Mead‘s wonderfully inspiring free ebook – The Zero Hour Workweek. I’ll let the text from that speak for itself:

“This may seem kind of crazy, but I think the world actually needs you to get paid to do what you love…

I believe it’s our personal responsibility to help shift the paradigm of work to a new definition. One of meaning, contribution, sacredness, and enjoyment.

So, I don’t think what we’re really looking for is a four hour work week, automated income, or early retirement. Those things might be nice, but they still don’t get to the point.

That’s because they reinforce the idea that we need to escape from work, when all work really is is the exchange of value with others. We obviously need to contribute and provide others with value to get paid, and to live, but that’s only part of it. Deep down, we all desperately want to contribute. We want to participate. We want to help. We want to be heard. We want to be involved, immersed, and we want to share with others.“