Week wit Maluca

Maluca came to LA this week and I was fortunate enough to hang out with this beautiful, dominican, punta blasting, mambo killing, big haired babe. She performed several shows and all were pretty wild. I hooked her up with a custum hologram city sweatshirt designed by my friend Jose. Look for it, its hot! Black with red tassels. Heres a video of one of her performances, look closley you can see me on the side of the stage wiln out.

Maluca "El Tigeraso" LIVE @ DANCERIGHT 7/2/09 from Miles Wilkerson on Vimeo.

Honduran crisis, and confusion

I was in Honduras a few weeks ago and the political tension was high. President Zelaya was making drastic changes that were upsetting the economy. He was raising the minimum wage up to incredible highs. You may think that this sounds great for the poor; however, their economy can't support it. Thus, the employers had to fire more employees. So, instead of making more money, they now make no money. Not dope. Zelaya then tried to change their constitution to remain in office, (something that happened in Costa Rica when I was there) the people and congress were getting restless. (note: the Honduran Constitution has been changed previously) Talks of a coup began. This all seems pretty straight forward, but it gets complicated. The US has a huge presence, including a military base, in Honduras.(wrong in my opinion) The coup was lead by Gen Romeo Vasquez who was trained at the US army School of the Americas. In my opinion this school is all about imperialism. It also seems that with such a large US presence the US would have know about the coup. Barrack Obama, (along with Hugo Chavez) has come out against the outing of Pres. Zelaya. I'm pretty sure Obama could have stopped it with a phone call or two, though that wouldn't have been right either. (non interventionism please) Seems like the US is riding the fence or playing for both teams here. I just want to know who really was behind all this and what the Hondurans really want. Anybody know? I just hope the Hondurans come out on top here, but judging from history they will get screwed.

To live and die in LA

So, it has been ages since my last post and this is due, in part, to my travels to London and then to Central America. I have now moved back to LA and am here to stay, for minute anyways. I am back on Yo Gabba Gabba and applied to a recording engineer program. Hopefully that all works out. Here are a few pics I took on my move back to LA:

Start the new year right!!!

In this day and age of suckness we all must make time to get our boogie on; so I made a mixxx tape for y'all! Download foe free at: http://www.zshare.net/audio/53605288e900c6f5/

it goes as follows:

1. Calle 13 feat. Cafe Tacvba -Nadie Como Tu (toy selectah remix)
2. Cherry De Tropix - Oi
3. monksphere - monktime
4. M.I.A./Mylo - Sunshowers (luminfire edit)
5. Dj Zuki - Trubaci Cik Cik (Reggaeton remix)
6. Radioclit feat. Esau - Wena
7. Boy 8-Bit - Suspense Is Killing Me
8. Hostage - Shake It
9. Megatrons- Rock the Planet
10. Dj Marlboro - Vampiro
11. Jamtech Foundation feat. Mr. Vegas - Hot Fucker
12. monksphere feat. Cisko - "World Dance"
13. Ice Cube - You Can Do It (Bass Kleph bootleg)
14. Radioclit - Divina Gosa (Switch remix)
15. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit remix)
16. Crookers - Il Brutto (Mustard Pimp El Burrito remix)
17. Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (Dj Tameil Gypsy Theme remix)
18. Dj Sega - Get Em
19. Dj Big H - Kuduro Ki e Confuson
20. Radioclit - Secousse (Crookers remix)
21. Dj Tim Dolla - Digital Cable
22. Uproot Andy - La vida Vale La Pena
23. Born 2wice feat. Bun B - 7 Executioners
24. Bjork - Joga
25. Cut Copy - Eternity One Night Only
26. Moondog - You The Vandal

The American Agenda

I just finished a film called "The War on Democracy" by John Pilger. It was pretty amazing and affected me deeply. This film discusses how the United States Empire has treated Latin America in the past 50 years. I was astonished. The United States has backed, directly as well as indirectly, several military coups throwing out democratically elected presidents and replacing them with dictators. "Go U.S.!" It has happened in Bolivia, Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, and Venezuela to name a few. The United States government and it's corporations don't give a rat's ass about democracy or freedom; all they care about is economic power. If a country becomes nationalistic and doesn't meet our economic agenda, we screw them over hard. I also watched a speech by John Perkins in which he discuss his role as an economic hit man. They basically make countries corporate economically or they take them out and replace them with someone who will. We need big change people and the key is education. (and probably ak 47s) What are your thoughts people? I want to know.

Gay marriage can be so gay.

I live in L.A. and right now there is a very heated debate about prop 8 and the legalization of gay marriage. Yes on prop 8 means a ban on gay marriage, No means no ban. I say to everyone No on prop 8 and No on Yes on prop 8. I find a bigger problem here. Why does the government get to decide what marriage is? Marriage was always a religious action and it wasn't until about a hundred years ago, in the u.s., did the government even get involved. Why would a heterosexual married get more benefits than a homosexual couple? I don't think that should be the case. If prop 8 doesn't pass it takes away rights from certain adoption agencies and religious sects. That is not fair either. If gays want the right to get married....guess what, they have it. They can get married to someone of the opposite sex just like I have the right to have a civil union with someone of my same sex. If a civil union has access to all the same benefits, then whats the deal? Churches are happy and Gays are happy. In my opinion, if you're not religious than the only reason for marriage is tax benefits and possession issues in a divorce. If you take away the governments role, than its just for divorce issues. Thats lame. I say some kind of contract should be made up by the Justice of the Peace or something about possessions and thats that. The sacred rite (and I do mean rite not right) of marriage left to the religion of your choice. I would love to hear anyone's opinion about this. I'm not as educated as I could be. I have more gay friends here in L.A. than not and we've talked about it. They, of course, are against the ban, which is fine. We still hang out and get along fine. (and they jokingly admit gay marriage will lead to more divorces and thats it lol) Look, I love my gay friends a lot and I want them to be as happy as possible. This isn't about bigotry, this is about the government and its infringing actions on our freedom.

To those that don't want to waste their vote....

People say that if you vote for a third party its a waste. That is complete bullshit. Voting isn't about picking a winner; its about picking someone you believe can guide this country in a positive direction. We need change people and neither Obama nor McCain will provide any major positive change. Some say, "Well, you got to just pick the lesser of two evils." THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS, ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!!! I was watching Ron Paul and Ralph Nader on Wolf Blitzer and Wolf actually asked that question. Ron Paul responded, "Evil is evil" Nader said, "The lesser of two [evils], isn't good enough for the American people." There is another option folks. You don't have to decided which of the two douche bags you hate less. Third parties can offer a lot. I got my absentee ballot and proudly voted for RON PAUL. Granted, he's not with a third party and actually isn't running anymore, but he has the answers to all the tough problems. You don't have to vote for Ron Paul (though you should) but just look at these for points: Foreign Policy (get our troops home and stop imperialism), National Debt (budget and live within our means and stop inflation), The Federal Reserve (get rid of it or least make some serious changes, but just get rid of it) and Privacy (screw the patriot act and revise fisa) Most of the third party candidates got it figured out on those four things. So anyways, I say to everyone, DON'T WASTE YOUR VOTE! ESPECIALLY ON MCCAIN OR OBAMA!! Try and refute me on this. (I'm not saying go out and write in you neighbor cause he's cool, but there are other candiadates that are better.)