#floyd westerman

[nero-neptune]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 2.02 “The Big Kiss”

“A great search is one of the most important events of a man’s life.”

#northern exposure #northernexposureedit #noexedit #uservintage #grandmastv #userrobin #userbbelcher #cinemapix #janine turner #darren e burrows #john corbett #john cullum #elaine miles #floyd westerman #myedit

[mywifeleftme]

346: Various Artists // What Now, People? 2

What Now, People? 2 Various Artists 1977, Paredon

Paredon was an activist record label founded in 1969 that specialized in protest music, largely American acoustic folk with a good helping of releases by international leftist artists. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution and the model of “People’s Singers” like Joe Hill and Pete Seeger, Paredon put out about 50 releases over their 20ish years in operation. The mid-‘70s compilation series What Now, People? (three volumes between 1976 and 1977) was a musical magazine intended to stimulate development of new protest songs for marches, rallies, labour meetings, etc. by providing complete lyrics, chords, and commentary from contemporary folk singers.

The back of the included booklet asks the purchaser to mail back a “political record review” in the form of a questionnaire. It’s a little late for me to field questions 7 through 9, which concern suggesting record stores and radical organizations who might be interested in carrying Paredon stock, but I’ll do my best with the others.

1. HOW DID YOU FIRST HEAR ABOUT THIS RECORD?

I found a copy of it in the used section of Phonopolis Records, on Rue Bernard, Mile End, Montreal, Quebec in 2021.

2. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO IT POLITICALLY?

I have always liked the “musical magazine” concept, and the notion of making a body of political songs accessible for people to not only listen to but learn how to play themselves (in the manner of The IWW Songbook) is very cool. On a level of pure politics, it’s hard to disagree with the lyrics’ notions that America must become more egalitarian or it will consume itself morally, environmentally, socially, and psychically. (Thankfully this is no longer a problem today.)

I’m not sure the emphasis on ‘60s-style folk was the strongest tact however. The late ‘70s was an era with no shortage of powerful protest music, but this collection largely eschews R&B and even rock (with apologies to Red Shadows’ limp Chuck Berry rewrite “Anything Good”). While the veteran Seeger’s “If a Revolution Comes to My Country” grapples with both the promise and challenge of political change in an immediate way, the efforts of the lesser-knowns mostly feel like they’re roleplaying as the firebrands of a prior era. The most genuinely “revolutionary” sounding pieces are those that come from outside the coffee shop scene, like Cuban Amaury Pérez Vidal’s ode to Puerto Rican independence “Siempre con Puerto Rico” and Dakota Sioux activist Floyd Westerman’s “B.I.A.” song—perhaps because these artists had much more direct connections with revolutionary political movements than most of the whites here.

3. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE BOOKLET?

Fantastic. It’s a great and in some ways inspiring souvenir of the era, and I wish more artists would include the chords and lyrics to their songs.

4. HOW HAVE YOU USED THIS RECORD?

I don’t believe that What Now, People? 2 would be of much use at a contemporary organizing meeting or rally, so largely for scholarly interest; for enjoyment of some pretty folk numbers (Dee Werner, Dorie Ellzey); for yet another reminder of the circularity of political struggle.

5. WHAT OTHER RECORDS SHOULD BE MADE?

Paredon’s focus on bringing (at the time) difficult to find foreign artists to American audiences will stand as their greatest aesthetic achievement, and I wouldn’t have been upset if there were more. Perhaps some more overtures to Black activists and musicians might’ve led to a more dynamic result with this record in particular.

6. WHAT NOW, PEOPLE?

There is no shortage of protests to go to, letters to write, plans to make. Hopefully we’ll see each other out there, with songs in our hearts.

346/365

#pete seeger #paredon #smithsonian folkways #amaury perez #r. crumb #floyd westerman #protest music #musical magazine #american indian movement #music review #vinyl record #'70s music #folk music #protest songs

[timlaughlin]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE - 2x02, THE BIG KISS.

#northernexposureedit #tvedit #northern exposure #ed chigliak #one who waits #darren e. burrows #floyd red crow westerman #mine*

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

They told us we would see America come and go. In a sense, America died from within, because it forgot the instructions for living on Mother Earth. This is the Hopi belief, it's our belief, that if you don't have a spiritual connection with the Earth, and you don't understand the spiritual reality of how to live on Earth, chances are you will not make it.

Everything is spiritual, everything has a morale. Everything is spiritual. Everything has a spirit. Everything… everything was brought here by the Creator – the one Creator. Some people call Him “God,” some people call Him “Buddha,” some people call Him “Allah,” some people call Him other names. We call Him “Concachilla”… “Grandfather.”  We’re here on earth… only a few winters. Then, we go to the Spirit World. The Spirit World is more real than most of us believe. The Spirit World is everything.

The world of the soul is everything. Most of our bodies are water. To stay healthy, you need to drink pure water. Water is sacred, air is sacred. Our DNA is made of DNA just like the tree, the tree breathes what we exhale, we need what the tree expires. So we have a common fate with the tree. We are all of the Earth, and when the Earth, its water, and its atmosphere are metamorphosed, the Earth will make its own. The mother reacts.

In the Hopi prophecy, it is said that storms and floods will get bigger and bigger. It's not bad for me to know that there will be big changes. It's not negative, it's evolution. When you see it as an Evolution, you understand that the time has come, nothing stays the same. You should learn how to grow something. This is the first connection. You should see everything as God, realize that we are a family. No never ends. Everything is life and there is no end to life.

- Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, South Dakota native musician, actor and fighter.

[Native Americans] [link]

#Native Americans #Floyd Red Crow Westerman #Native American #quotes #the world of the soul #the spirit world

[northernexposuregifs]

I think I can help you.

#northern exposure #90s television #90s tv shows #nx #ed chigliak #darren e. burrows #one who waits #floyd red crow westerman #2x02 the big kiss

[protoslacker]

Lenny Kravitz - How Long Have You Been Blind (Harry Belafonte Tribute)

Lenny Kravitz

Paying tribute to my friend Harry Belafonte with his timeless song “How Long Have You Been Blind”. Rest in power, King.

The song was written by Floyd Red Crow Westerman.  Lyrics via Antiwar Songs.

#music #lenny kravitz #harry belafonte #floyd red crow westerman #freedom songs

[20y2]

NORTHERN EXPOSURE 2.02 The Big Kiss

#the big kiss #nx 2x02 #northern exposure #ausgerechnet alaska #doctor en alaska #floyd red crow westerman #one who waits #darren e burrows #ed chigliak

[filmjunky-99]

d a n c e s w i t h w o l v e s, 1990 🎬 dir. kevin costner 'Dances with Wolves Decides to Leave the Lakota'

#film #western #native #Dances with Wolves #dances with wolves 1990 #Kevin Costner #graham greene #Rodney A Grant #Floyd Red Crow Westerman #Kicking Bird #Wind in His Hair #Ten Bears #Dances with Wolves Decides to Leave the Lakota

[northernexposureonly]

#one who waits #marilyn whirlwind #nx 2x02 #the big kiss #northern exposure #ausgerechnet alaska #doctor en alaska #floyd red crow westerman #elaine miles

[sloshed-cinema]

Clearcut (1991)

“Someone has to pay.”  But who, and in what form?  If we’re talking about reality in this sort of affair, those who foot the bill are often First Nations peoples, their land footing the bill as mining and logging companies pillage with abandon.  But in his anger, lawyer Peter Maguire wishes for something bloodier.  Perhaps it’s turn of phrase or frustration, but newcomer Arthur is all too willing to partake in the lawyer’s wish to exact his pound of flesh from the owner of the mill.  Potentially Wisakedjak, a chaotic trickster entity, he is wholly freed from what Peter would consider to be his moral compass.  He brings the two White men through a forested hell, pressing their endurance and choices to the limits.

In many ways, Clearcut shares parallels with Robin Hardy’s Wicker Man.  Arriving at the beginning in the same fashion by seaplane, Maguire is an ineffectual neoliberal lawyer rather than a devout Catholic policeman.  He goes through a discovery process of local customs, enduring a fiery baptism of his ordeals and expressing moral outrage at what he sees.  Clearcut approaches its central issue with more shades of grey than Wicker Man, forcing the viewer to consider moral ambiguity in fighting for large-scale issues such as environmentalism.  Maguire begins as an awkward ally figure, stumbling along the way, but holding what he believes is a campaign for a noble cause.  Yet he is still part of the legal establishment.  As the film goes on, his character becomes darker, from condescending savior to willfully silent bystander.  His lack of action does nothing but further a cycle of suffering.  This film can be contextualized by something like the Oka Crisis, but in more contemporary reading bears in mind the scope of atrocities committed at residence schools finally being brought to light and acknowledged after so many years, which makes it all the more chilling.

Sweat lodge sequences form the majority of the most performative horror in the film, linking the experience to native customs.  Maguire’s first ritual follows the orthodox practices, but leads to a nightmare as he prays with rage and anger.  Arthur/Wisakedjak enacts a dark parallel of this at the characters’ lowest point, substituting heated stones and steam for toxic smoke and libations with the pipe for severing his fingers and cutting his flesh.

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘appeal’.

The road is mentioned.

Someone tumbles down a hill.

The beeper goes off.

BIG DRINK

The suitcase appears onscreen.

A hallucination sequence begins.

Someone gets tied up with duct tape.

#drinking games #clearcut #horror #horror & thriller #folk horror #canadian cinema #ryszard bugajski #graham greene #floyd red crow westerman #ron lea

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Dances with Wolves 1990

#Dances with Wolves #Kevin Costner #Mary McDonnell #Graham Greene #Rodney A. Grant #Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman #Tantoo Cardinal #Robert Pastorelli #Charles Rocket #Maury Chaykin #Jimmy Herman #Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse #Michael Spears #Jason R. Lone Hill #Tony Pierce #Doris Leader Charge #Tom Everett #Larry Joshua #Kirk Baltz #Wayne Grace #Donald Hotton #Annie Costner #Conor Duffy #Elisa Daniel #Percy White Plume #John Tail #Steve Reevis #Sheldon Peters Wolfchild #Wes Studi #Buffalo Child

[lecameleontv]

La mini-série Comanche Moon (2008) avec l’acteur Ryan Merriman.

Distribution : Floyd ‘Red Crow’ Westerman, vu dans l’Ep. 1.09 dans la série Le Caméléon ...

source : imdb

Alias Jarod enfant/adolescent dans la série Le Caméléon Alias Jake Hamilton dans In The Rough Alias Ian Thomas dans Pretty Little Liars.

#comanche moon #2008 #ryan merriman #cbs #floyd ‘red crow’ westerman

[4trackcassette]

#Tunes #Floyd red crow westerman #Spotify

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[All Natives United]

* * * * *

There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth. — Floyd Red Crow Westerman

[alive on all channels]

#quotes #Floyd red Crow Westerman #All Natives United #Alive On All Channels

[northernexposuregifs]

They're better with cheese.

#northern exposure #90s tv shows #90s television #ed chigliak #one who waits #shelly tambo #darren e. burrows #floyd red crow westerman #cynthia geary #nx #2x02 the big kiss

[entheognosis]

The water is sacred. The air is sacred. Our DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree. The tree breathes what we exhale. When the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales, so we have a common destiny with the tree… We are all from the Earth.

Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

#first nations