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I Challenge You!

amy published on April 12, 2010 in celebrity and zeitgeist. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

Heeeey SuperForest!

As you might know, I work for Reverb, makin’ the music world more eco-friendly. After many months of hard work, we’ve launched a big, huge, and hopefully inspiring challenge that I want to share with you!

Here’s the deal: every two weeks, one of the Green Music Group Founding Artists will challenge you to take a simple eco-friendly action. You’ll share a photo of yourself taking that action, and in return you:

  1. Get loads of good karma points.
  2. Make me proud.
  3. Qualify to win that challenge’s prize.
  4. Are entered to win a Honda Insight Hybrid.

Not too shabby, right?

Our first video challenge comes from Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band. He’s challenging you to sign up for a community service project, which you would probably do anyway, because you’re SuperForesters.

I’m so excited to see how much we can accomplish when we realize that we’re not in this alone! If everyone makes one change, does one good deed, takes one action, together we can do so much. I can’t wait to see everyone’s photos. I’m taking these challenges, too, and will be sharing my achievements and road blocks over on the Challenge site. I hope you’ll join me.

Love,

Amy

P.S. I’m heading off on our Campus Consciousness Tour tomorrow with Ben Harper & Relentless7, and I’ll be sharing some thoughts with you from the road! Stay tuned… first stop, Northern Illinois University!

SuperForest Soundtrack: Jovanotti Edition

patricia published on April 11, 2010 in art and celebrity. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Hi hi SF,

I like Italian musician Jovanotti a lot, and one song I particularly like is “Fango” (featuring Ben Harper). Check out the tune and I’ll reproduce a lyric translation:

(I can’t find an embeddable version of the video, but you can see vids here and here – is nice!)

Fango

I know that I’m not alone

Even when I’m alone, I know that I’m not alone

Under a sky of stars and satellites

among the guilty ones, the victims and the survivors

a dog barks at the moon, a man looks at his hand

it looks like his father’s hand when as a child he would take him effortlessly and lift him up

the view from up there was beautiful

he would throw himself on the things before thinking about it

his hand was tiny but it seized the whole world

and now the city is a foreign film without subtitles

the stairs are like slides, ice on everything

the television says the streets are dangerous

but the only danger I can really feel is to stop being able to feel anything

the scent of the flowers, the smell of the city, the sound of the scooters, the taste of pizza

the tears of a mother, the ideas of a student, the possible crossroads at a square

but stay with your aerial pointed toward the sky – I know that I’m not alone

I know that I’m not alone, even when I’m alone

I know that I’m not alone, and I laugh and I cry and I fuse with the sky and the mud

The city (is) a foreign film without subtitles

a pot in which pieces of dialogue are being cooked

“how are you?”, “how much is it?”, “what time is it?”, “what’s going on?”, “how is it going?”, “who would have thought so?” and then “see you later”

the other person can feel we are alone, and if you make a mistake you become an outsider

a six meter long banner says everything is around you, but when you look around there’s nothing

an old world that holds together only thanks to those ones who still have the courage to fall in love

and some music (which) pumps blood in our veins and makes us want to wake up and get up, to stop moaning

because the only real danger is to stop feeling anything at all

a heart beat inside the chest, the passion which makes a project grow, hunger, thirst, evolution in motion

the energy which is released in a contact

I know that I’m not alone, even when I’m alone

I know that I’m not alone,

and I laugh and I cry and I fuse with the sky and the mud

Love

P