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PaleoHacks Cookbooks are created for people who would like to lose weight, stay and get fit, stay healthy and gain energy. Although some people do not believe in Paleolithic diets, the advantages of not consuming packaged foods are just too many to mention. In this PaleoHacks Cookbooks review, we will show you what PaleoHacks Cookbooks are all about, as well as the pros and cons of purchasing these guides.
What You Will Learn
What is Paleo Diet?
Paleo diet is a diet based around eating unprocessed and organic foods. Just because athletes, celebrities and fitness experts adopted it into their lifestyle, it is now considered as one of the fastest growing diet in the world.
With this kind of diet, the food is natural and fresh because in its principles, the meals avoid processed products such as industrial bakery or processed meat products or foods with high sodium content.
The Paleolithic diet defends the consumption of meat of animals raised in freedom and fed with natural pastures, and avoids eating meats with hormonal treatments. I know it sounds hard. That is why, PaleoHacks Cookbooks exists, to make your life easier.
What are the Advantages of Paleo Diet?
- Help keep you healthy and consequently thin, strong and full of vitality.
- Calories are not counted or food is weighed. It eats with hunger until it is satiated without restrictions, respecting the foods of the Origin diet.
- A maximum of 3 meals per day are made. With periods of intermittent fasting that allow our digestive and immune system to rest. Our ancestors only ate plants and animals sporadically, since they lacked constant supply of food as they are today. Therefore, the human being adapted to store fat to use it as energy in times of scarcity. Nowadays, excessive amounts of carbohydrates are consumed, storing much more fat than can be spent.
- Robb Wolf says that this diet helps fight diseases caused by our current diet, full of refined foods, trans fats and sugars that cause degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, disease of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression, infertility, pathologies that generate autoimmune diseases and other conditions such as acne, food intolerances, headaches, discomforts or inflammations. Our ancestors of the Paleolithic and at the same time the studies of the hunter-gatherers showed practically no heart attack or stroke while eating ancestral diets.
- It does not contain gluten, so it is suitable for celiac.
- All processed foods are considered poison along with soft drinks, and refined sugars. This theory is supported by the entire scientific community. By not consuming all these foods, the production of insulin is moderated.
- The necessary carbohydrates of fruits and vegetables are obtained together with essential micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, etc.).
- Reduces the appetite and increases the efficiency of metabolism without going hungry.
- It reduces the bad cholesterol and triglycerides in blood, and increases the good cholesterol.
- Prevents constipation.
- And so much more.
What are PaleoHacks CookBooks?
PaleHacks Cookbooks were created through a team effort in conjunction with numerous proponents of this lifestyle. These cookbooks are meant for people who want to go Paleo and get lean and strong muscles, flat tummies, finer digestion, youthful skin, brain clarity, and low risk of heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's.
PaleoHacks Cookbooks offer more than 125 nice sounding recipes you may not have tasted or seen before. The recipes found inside this recipe book include all kinds of food, such as snacks, main course, salads and desserts, which helps you not get bored with the same meals over and over again.
According to the book, you can enjoy virtually every health benefit under the sun if you follow its guidelines. The recipes in this cookbook are created by enthusiasts who want to help others get the incredible results that they have experienced.
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Who are the PaleoHacks Team?
The PaleoHacks Team is the single biggest online community with ten thousands of people who are actually living in the Paleo lifestyle. According to their official website, they have over 25 team members, 13 of which are writers and 6 are creators.
Their goal is to make people think of Paleo as a lifestyle, and not just a set of strict rules that they need to follow. The community was created because these Paleo enthusiasts wanted a place where they can help people make the best, healthiest choices possible.
What You Will Get
- PaleoHacks Cookbook – The cookbook that we've been talking about in this PaleoHacks Cookbook Review.
- PaleoHacks 30-Day Jumpstart – This jump start guide will get you started on your Paleo Diet journey, and make sure that you are able to actually make a permanent, positive change in your health.
- The Paleo Food Guide – With this food guide, you'll have a complete list of foods to choose from, and open up new delicious meals for you to eat! From this guide alone, you will get a complete list of healthy, delicious paleo foods, their seasonality and a Paleo shopping list.
- Eating Paleo at Restaurants – This manual will show you how to eat at restaurants and stay Paleo, sample meals you can order at restaurants which are delicious and available almost anywhere, and how to avoid foods that secretly have gluten or dairy in them.
- The Paleo 4x Cookbook – If you are not a fan of lengthy cooking in the kitchen, this cookbook is filled with delicious and paleo friendly recipes that just use 4 ingredients. In here, you will learn 65 quick and easy paleo recipes that you can cook anytime.
- One-Month Paleo Meal Plan – Planning meals help you make preparation easier. This manual will give you some ideas on how much to eat and what to eat. The meal plans included in here consists of the 125 delicious recipes that you can find in the PaleoHacks Cookbooks. All you have to do is to choose when you want to eat them!
Sample PaleoHacks Cookbooks Recipes
Let me share a delicious recipe we had recently and found in the book. Some could literally eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's that good.
Marinara Chili
- 1 Tablespoon raw, certified organic, extra virgin coconut oil
- 2 Pounds ground beef (or other ground meat of choice)
- 1 Organic onion, chopped
- 2-3 cloves organic garlic
- 1 jar of organic Marinara sauce (or make it yourself)
- Diced organic tomatoes
- 5 teaspoons organic cumin
- 2-3 teaspoons organic chili powder
- 1-2 teaspoons organic thyme leaves
- 2 teaspoons Celtic sea salt
- A couple of Serrano peppers (or jalapenos, or Anaheim peppers)
- Sauté onions & garlic until they are browned
- Add cumin, chili powder, meat and thyme
- Stir mixture in pot or pan
- Pour marinara sauce, add peppers, salt, and tomatoes. Mix.
- Simmer for at least an hour
- I've found the saltier it is the better it tastes. So, I like adding in more salt. But that's just me.
- Putting Serrano peppers on food processors to make a puree tastes amazing. You might also want to try it out.
- Instead of salsa, we use Marinara sauce. It tastes amazing as well.
If you ever want to impress someone with your cooking – this is the recipe to use.
Chili-Garlic Chicken Skewers
(Good for 2 persons)
- 2 Chicken Breasts, diced
- 6 Wooden Skewers, soaked in cold water for 30 minutes
- 1 tbsp. Olive Oil
- 6 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 4 Minced Garlic Cloves
- 1 tsp. finely chopped and seeds removed Red Chilies
- Preheat barbecue grill on high heat or Preheat oven to 350 F .
- Combine the chilies, oil, lemon juice and garlic in a bowl to make sauce. Set aside.
- Put diced chicken to skewers then place them on an oven tray with baking paper.
- Pour garlic sauce and chili over the chicken. Make sure it has coated well.
- For 30-40 minutes, bake it in the oven or until chicken is cooked. On the other hand, if you want to cook on a grill, make sure to cook chicken on each side for 5-6 minutes.
Pros and Cons
Easy To Follow
One of the most common complaints about being in Paleo Diet is that it is boring or too hard. That is the reason why PaleoHacks Cookbooks has been made with clear instructions so that anyone can follow.
Includes Quick Meal Recipes
A lot of people struggle when they start this path because they do not have the capability to cook delightful meals quickly. These eBooks promise to teach you how you can cook some Paleolithic delicious foods in just a few minutes.
Wide Range of Recipes
As I have said a while ago in this PaleoHacks Cookbooks Review, it contains more than 125 paleo recipes. You can choose from a wide range of recipes and all of them are tasty.
Great Choice of Ingredients
The ingredients used in the recipes are designed to help you feel fuller for longer, which will help you avoid eating unhealthy foods and snacks.
Perfect for People with Gluten Allergy
The recipes contained use organic foods only, which is good for people with a gluten allergy.
Paleo Community
One of the biggest advantages of purchasing this book is to become a member of the PaleoHacks community. Nothing beats connecting with like-minded people. Through getting support followers, it will be easier for you to ask for opinions from people who know better about this diet.
Free Bonuses
You will get free bonuses that are worth $135 when you purchase PaleoHacks Cookbooks . These free bonuses are the 5 manuals mentioned above which will definitely help you get better results and make your life easier.
60 Day Money Back Guarantee
Purchasing everything makes it risk-free. You can try some recipes found in this book over the weekend, and if for whatever reason you are not satisfied, you can get your money back. You just have to contact the PaleoHacks support team and you will get your full refund.
Requires Effort
Even though the team has made the PaleoHacks Cookbooks easy to comprehend, choosing to go paleo diet means giving up on modern foods that you used to have. Which means, you need to adopt to a change in lifestyle. If you are still unsure if you can do this, it may require a lot of effort on your part.
Does Not Contain Pictures
Although obviously recipes books look better with photos to make you feel excited about cooking, the recipes in the cookbook do not include pictures. However, since this cookbook is created even for newbies, the team made sure that even the most inexperienced cooks can actually do it, so that even if you feel talentless, you can still move past eggs and bacon.
Are PaleoHacks Cookbooks Worth it?
Eating Paleo can be difficult, because it's hard to figure out what to cook. Having this great cookbook means that you will have a great collection of delicious recipes that are already planned out for you.
PaleoHacks Cookbooks provides a lot of information, much more than most other eBooks. It is greatly produced and includes the basics about the Paleo diet, its numerous benefits and tips on how to adopt these healthier habits easily into your lifestyle.
So, are PaleoHacks Cookbooks worth your time and money? Well my answer is YES. If you are interested in giving the Paleo diet a try, it's a great introduction to the lifestyle and it will teach you what you need to know.
PaleoHacks Cookbooks Review
If you're searching for more Paleo recipes for dips, snacks, salad and other mouth-watering meals, lucky for you! The Paleo Cookbooks is a very much recommended solution. By getting a copy of these recipe books, you will get and learn how to cook 125 recipes in full detail, all delicious and mouth-watering, together with the bonus guides mentioned above. In addition to that, you will also learn tips that are proven to help you with your other issues in Paleo such as eating Paleo at restaurants and how to enjoy yourselves in there.
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BELOVAR 4/12/13, All Hands (10), N. of Barra Head
DORIS 21/1/14, All Hands (10), Isle of Coll
CLARA BELLA Feb 1914, All Hands (13), Iceland
FANNY Feb 1917, All Hands (10), Hebrides
SWAN 7/3/21, 6 Lost, Off Lands End
ANGLE 8/1/24, All Hands (13), Isle of Man
ANIDA 18/10/24, 9 lost, Isle of Islay
CORMORAN 12/1/26, 7 lost, Islay
SALMONBY 23/3/26, 11 lost, North Sea
GAUL 3/4/26, 7 lost, Tiree
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MALAGA, 18/10/35, All Hands(12) Irish Sea
WINOOKA, 15/3/36 3 lost, St Kilda
KODAMA, 4/12/36, All Hands (12), West Scotland
SAN SEBASTION, 10/1/37, 4 lost, Islay Sound
BOSTONIAN, Jan '38, All Hands(12) S of Barra Head
EXMOUTH, 9/3/38, 3 lost, Islay
ALCAZAR 12/8/38, 7 lost, Irish Sea
WELLVALE, September '39, All Hands(12), Hebrides(U-Boat)
CRESWELL,November '39, 6 lost, Hebrides (U-Boat)
SULBY, November '39, 5 lost, Hebrides (U-Boat)
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MERISIA, 26/1/40, All Hands (12) Isle of Man
LOWDOCK, March '40, 11 lost, Humber Estury
OONA HALL, 28/5/40, 8 lost, Irish Sea
THOMAS DEAS 6/2/41, All Hands (12), Humber Estuary
KINCORTH 12/6/4, 3 lost, Anglesey
LADY LOVE, 30/8/41, All Hands, Iceland (U-Boat)
KING ERIK 8/9/41, All Hands, (U-Boat)
NORDALE, 15/1/42, 5 lost, Mull of Galloway
GALLINULE, 14/3/42, 3 lost, Skerryvore
HONDO, 29/11/42, All Hands, Off Barra Head
LOIS, 5/1/47, 1 lost, Iceland
BENGHAZI 24/4/47, 2 lost, Firth of Lorne
DHOON, 12/12/47, 3 lost, Iceland
GOTH, 16/12/48, All Hands(21), Iceland
MICHAEL GRIFFITHS, 31/1/53, All Hands(13), Off Barra Head
HILDINA, 1/12/53, 6 Lost, Muckle Fugga
EVELYN ROSE 31/12/54, 12 lost, Sound of Mull
RED FALCON, 14/12/59, All Hands (19) Skerryvore
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I think a classic car is so much more than whether it is old or not. A classic is something that has a timeless nature to it; something that was unique from when it was brand new; or something that maintains a beauty or aesthetic that is well loved and cherished. It is a car that transcends generations in its appeal. A 1966 Aston Martin DB5, for example, is a beautiful car with a timeless design. I do not believe that anyone could argue against the fact that a 1966 DB5 is a classic car.
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There is also a physical aspect to it. To me, a classic car has always been something that sat in your garage, something that you would put your blood, sweat, and tears into improving, or restoring. Classic cars were cars that you didn't need an engineering degree to fix, restore, or maintain. Pig iron, nuts, bolts, and squeaky hinges were their attributes. But you don't see that in the "modern classic." What I mean by that is that there are cars from today that could be seen as future collectors cars, but don't meet this criteria. Supercars and special editions like the 'hellcats,' or timeless popular cars like Mustangs all come to mind. I say 'collectors' instead of classics because that is what they will be; cars collected to stay in a garage by some guy or girl who has the money to maintain them and often rarely driv them.
At some point in our history cars became more disposable than ever before. Looking at cars in the 1950's, with their pontoon style and chrome trim, even the basic cars had some style and flair to them. Thus making even the most practical car from that time now a classic beauty. But as the decades passed, basic transportation became the embodiment of plain and boring. This inevitably meant they weren't worth holding onto. I feel the heavy use of cheap plastics in the automotive world attributes to the disposibility of cars because plastic just doesn't last as long or maintain as well as metal.
Practicality with style
So where am I going with this? These are just two points for my argument that there will no longer be "Classic Cars" in the same sense as we see them today. The true "classic" car is dead and current modern cars won't necessarily be "classics" in 30-40 years. There has been a polarization in our automotive world. You have cars made of plastics that you, as the car companies would want it, trade in every 4-7 years for a newer model. Or, you have these highly special editions that are super marked up in price, just so whoever buys them can tell their friends that "they only made 1,000 of those, you know." Along with that, current cars are becoming more and more complicated to the point that the at home mechanic is starting to find difficulty in the simplest of maintenance tasks. The one reason why you see classic cars at auto shows today is because they were able to be maintained by their owners due to their simplicity. So with the complexity of new cars, people will make less effort in trying to hold on to those cars that could be "classics" because they can't do the work themselves. That, or they'll have to pay other people to do it for them, which will get expensive. The automobile hobby may one day no longer be affordable for everyone and might be reserved for those who are more well off.
The argument against this is that those who grow up with these modern cars are "smarter" and more familiar with the technology that is found in cars. So much so that many high schoolers can easily tune their car's ECU to what they want, as well as do wonders with electric work. In my previous article, I stated the 1980's holds some future, if not already, classic cars, and this is the decade where we see the early electronics and the beginnings of what modern cars are like. So in that sense, it's already happening, where "modern" cars are being maintained and showcased as classics.
I hope that, no matter what car it is, there will be some automobiles that are from my lifetime that are cherished as classics and that this hobby is still affordable to the everyday person, and not reserved for the wealthy. I hope that some of the cars we see today will be driven by the youth of tomorrow to the cars and coffee of the 2040's.


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Lots of folks think it is daunting to start home businesses, but that need not be true. If you have the commitment to work hard it can be easier than you think. If you have all the right information, you will have better odds starting up a home business. This article is a great starting point.
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Michael C. Ruppert – Memoriam.2Posted: August 6, 2014 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Andy Kravitz, Doug Lewis, James Mathers, Kristen Vigard, Michael C. Ruppert, NEW POSTS, New White Trash, Red Cloud Ranch, Venice Arts Club Music | Tags: alt music, alternative music, andy kravitz, collapse, doug lewis, james mathers, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, new white trash, nwt, post-paradigm, protest, rock and roll, social commentary, venice, venice arts club, venice arts club music, venice CA | 5 Comments
"In a campground, when a bear attacks, you don't have to be the first or fastest camper to get out, but you don't want to be the last. MCR
On July 22, 2014, the Verge.com published a post-mortem on whistleblower and uber-activist Mike Ruppert titled, 'The Unbelievable Life and Death Of Michael C. Ruppert'.
Writer Matt Stroud interviewed associates and friends of Ruppert including Wes Miller, Carolyn Baker, Jack Martin, Jessy Re and Ruppert's ex-wife from a brief two year marriage of twenty years ago. Hungry for first-hand accounts and quotes from those who knew Ruppert most personally and intimately, Stroud and The Verge chose to quote me using something I supposedly shared with Carolyn Baker during my only conversation with her immediately following Mike's suicide. From the Verge article:
Doug Lewis, Ruppert's close friend, Colorado roommate, and bandmate in New White Trash, declined to be interviewed for this story. But Baker told me: "About two weeks before Mike left Colorado to come out to California [in February, 2014], Doug confronted him and said, 'Mike you're an alcoholic.' And Mike grabbed Doug by the collar and slammed him against the wall and cursed him out. A week later, [Ruppert] gave notice that 'I'm leaving.'"
Six weeks earlier, on June 4, 2014, I was contacted by Stroud who requested an interview. His approach was casual, "…writing a long obituary…just came back from a trip out west…would love to talk with you about Mike…"
When I asked him, he said he didn't have an angle. Ruppert was a man made of many sharp angles. Not to disparage those who did interview with Stroud, but I declined the invite, not wanting to go fishing.
Until now. relative to my personal and creative relationship with my most excellent and closest friend, bandmate and creative partner Mike Ruppert, my goal, short of an initial tribute, was to keep silent and let the music of the New White Trash do the talking and to push the future forward by producing a third and final NWT album, to be a work of tribute to Mike, his memory and our friendship. NWT bandmates Kristen Vigard and Andy Kravitz agreed, and we recently set in motion a fundraiser in hopes of raising enough to produce the work.
Considering the circumstance – of being quoted out of context and wed to a storyline wildly out of sync with reality – I'm writing to set the record straight, first with Carolyn Baker and the Verge, then with the story itself.
That Ms. Baker has nothing positive to say about Mike is odd considering how he continually opened doors by promoting her works and personage including inviting her to be guest host on his popular live radio show, the Lifeboat Hour. His final offering to Carolyn Baker was to insist, in a very last breath and underscored in his suicide note, that she take over as host of the Lifeboat Hour, a position she now fills.
After reading the Verge article I contacted Carolyn Baker to remind her how the conversation we had immediately following Mike's death was private, personal and confidential, and wondered how any of what I shared with her would end up as an attributed quote. To do so is unethical and disrespectful to Mike Ruppert and to the personal and creative relationship we shared.
I reminded her also that the story she spilled to the reporter for the Verge was false on counts of timeline and how the events portrayed in the article as occurring 'two weeks before Mike left Colorado…' actually occurred in February of 2013 – at least a year previous, and under circumstances dynamically different than those described. To use for her retraction, I wanted Carolyn Baker to know how these events of February 2013 did not lead to Mike leaving Colorado, but to a positive change in Mike and in the day to day dynamics of our overall relationship. I suggested to Ms. Baker that a public apology and retraction was in order. To date there has been no response from Ms. Baker other than an email to say how she was unaware our conversation was private.
For the record, what did occur in February of 2014, about two weeks before Mike left Colorado, was a civilized conversation between us where I recounted for him my recent trials and tribulations from being immersed in a situation with a alcoholic sister while taking care of my 92 year mother who was 8 weeks in a San Francisco hospital due to a debilitating accident. That conversation with Mike, in which I recounted the difficulty and dissonance on numerous levels of dealing with an alcoholic, may or may not be considered a reason (among many) for him leaving Colorado. But to state as much, or to insinuate as much as the writer does is wrong and does a disservice to Mike and to our relationship.
Reading the Verge article and attempting to deconstruct the journalistic intent of the writer, It is unseemly how in one paragraph the article acknowledges I declined to be interviewed (quoted) and then follows this by attributing a quote to me without confirming authenticity and without seeking my permission to attach my name to my own "quote".
On July 27, 2014, I wrote to Verge Editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky and to the writer Matt Stroud to let them know the quote is false, as is the information it contains. In my letter I outlined how actions attributed to my person or my word did not take place as described, and by publishing a false and unattributed statement, I alleged how the Verge has published a libel and committed negligence. There has been no response from the Verge to my request for a retraction.
Here is what transpired between Mike and I back in February of 2013 –
Months earlier, in June of 2012, Mike sent me an email from Sebastopol. He was despondent, said he was paying too much rent, that he had grown weary of the radio show and was looking to make a move and get back to the music.
Colorado would do him good, but I knew Mike needed to convince himself so I sent a series of links to my neighborhood, the great San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado, a place I had discovered on my travels twenty-five years earlier.
I pointed out to MIke the raw and epic beauty of the valley. I emailed pictures of the Sangre de Cristo range as seen from my living room windows. I also sent him links to the rich history of the valley, geographically, geologically and through time as a sacred Native American space – known as the Big Space to those tribes. I made sure he knew about the fine well water here at my 'el rancho' and about the hot springs just a mile up the road. I also let him know about the extremely cold winters and windy springs because Mike did not do well in the cold.
And I outlined the plan to be recording Age Of Authority, the second NWT album, by mid-November of 2012.
Mike reacted positively, and on August 20, 2012 with his dog Rags riding shotgun, Mike pulled his loaded Rav4 through the front gates leading from Cosmic Highway 17 to the front door at Red Cloud at the far north end of the San Luis Valley, ten miles north of Moffat, a place similar to what the English would call a 'wide spot in the road'. We were well beyond the spot and way beyond the wide.
Red Cloud Ranch is 40 acres of quiet solitude, no TV or radio, only the sound of me picking and scratching on my guitar. In the months prior to Mike's August 2012 arrival, I was feeling a renewal of sorts, I was falling in love all over again with the overtone of sound.
Mike settled in to the master suite at Red Cloud and was on air that next Sunday live-broadcasting the Lifeboat Hour from Southern Colorado. Mike Ruppert was back in his groove and no one was more pleased than me.
Mike and I first met in late February 2008 at a dog park in Venice, Ca, We initially bonded because of our dogs. Squishy, my rough and tumble brick of a dude; and Rags, Mike's happy-go-lucky mutt full of slobber. But the two became fast and best friends, a precursor of what was in store for me and Mike.
When our conversation came around to music, and I gave him a copy of a recent project, Mike was overwhelming in his praise; he dug the bare and rough edges and heard the message thread of social commentary throughout the material.
One thing led to another, and soon Mike was invited to my place, the Venice Arts Club located in the heart of Venice.
I realized much about Mike his first night at the VAC. He was impacted by the scene, emotionally, outwardly, and in every way he was thankful and grateful for the invite. He had been lonely and in need of a scene and of company and conversation from people of all ages, including my two teenage daughters and a steady gaggle of friends. MIke hung his hat that night at the VAC, and that night a childlike quality emerged from him, like a genie escaping the prison of his bottle. There could be no doubt how Mike was in the mix to stay.
Mike and Rags became household figures. Mike was ever courteous, always a gentleman, always brought food items for the grill and wine for the evening. He would wash dishes when they needed, clean up a wine spill, whatever, he just got busy doing what had to be done.
Mike was floored with how we could record a guitar or vocal track in the middle of the room with a dozen party people within reaching distance of the mic. Occasionally we'd ask for quiet, but we weren't after quiet, we were after vibe. And we got it in spades. To quote Andy Kravitz, "we like ambient and background noise with our music." So yes, the sound of tinkling ice cubes and clinking glasses can be heard on numerous recordings put out by the VAC, including the NWT releases.
That next morning Mike rang me – woke me up – wanting to know at which dog park to meet that afternoon. And so this became our regular thing, that we would check in with each other and figure out where to meet. That same afternoon he turned over a signed copy of Crossing The Rubicon. Until then I didn't know his past, only knew he was good to his dog, he liked music and that he grew up in Venice.
So he spilled the beans – former LAPD cop, whistle blower, author, personality, the works. Impressive achievements but most of all he came across as solid of character, impeccably sincere and honest, forthright, funny, and dry with a down-twist of ironic humor.
There was a shameless quality to MIke. Relative to the music, it allowed him to 'step up to the mic', and to 'dare to suck'. Almost immediately he was itching for the opportunity to take on a musical role. He explained how, when he was out of high school and living in Venice, he would occasionally sing covers with a local bar band.
When Mike first did step up to the mic, it was with a swagger and a richness of voice, and we figured this was someone we could work with.
Andy and I had been plotting a next project and were toying with the term 'New White Trash' because it represented what was current in 2008/2009 America relative to the financial collapse and meltdown.
We explained to Mike the concept of the New White Trash and how there was a 'manifesto' being written relative to the music and the message. Mike insisted I send it to him. He sent it back with added content, polished and ready for publication, hence the foundation of the NWT would always and forever include a cornerstone bearing Mike Ruppert's name.
Other good things were happening for Mike. In early 2009, Mike called me one morning and insisted I be at a certain dog park that afternoon. "I'll be there with a filmmaker," he said, "with a camera and crew. There will be a sound guy." That was Mike when he was on a mission. Facts came first. Then second. Even third. "He's someone interested in doing a documentary about me and I want you to check him out." Mike knew and appreciated my own history in Los Angeles and in the film business.
Later that afternoon Squishy and I walked to the park and met Mike with filmmaker Chris Smith who went on to write and direct the documentary, Collapse.
There was a lot of Hollywood in Mike, a shade of flair, even a dash of savoir-faire, and occasionally a juggle of joie-de-vivre. He had graduated Venice High School, Class of 1969. Venice is Hollywood, Hollywood is Venice, even back then. The movie Grease was filmed at Venice High School. Give the man some perspective. This wasn't Kansas.
By all accounts he was beyond a model student. He was setting a precedent, he had a obligation to some higher calling, some fixed star called justice. Mike operated with a sense of purpose and a strong turn of mind – always a direction.
There are important, crucial and essential elements to consider when assessing someone as dynamic as Mike Ruppert. Here are two excerpts from Mike's self-penned biography:
"I was taken by a desire to follow in the family tradition and place myself in harm's way for a good cause – a rite of passage and an initiation."
"Buried within mainstream news sources were precious nuggets of information that if located, understood and pursued, could reveal the actual intent and direction of government actions, as opposed the glossy, slick and sterile patina of government and media spin."
As our friendship deepened, Mike shared with me his struggles with depression, anxiety, alcohol and a not altogether pretty picture of an emotionally fragmented family history. Mike could be impatient with the world, as if time was against him. You could be whip-smart, but if you didn't see what Mike saw coming then in his mind you were a fool. Mike did not suffer fools.
The recording of the New White Trash debut album, Doublewide, began mid-2009 and continued into 2010. It had grown to include 37 songs. Eventually, I cut back on the party scene to focus on mixing the material. Mike began experiencing difficulties, withdrawals from a diminished party and music scene and was growing impatient with wanting to hear finished songs.
His impatience boiled over into demands for specific songs to play on the Lifeboat Hour. I was all for the exposure but not until the material was ready for public consumption. So I told him to chill out and wait for the material to be processed. I had to remind him I was the driver and unless he was willing to risk the life of the project, don't bother the driver. He understood and backed off and our relationship resumed a seamless and respectful course. Doublewide was released January 11, 2011.
Whereas Doublewide was recorded in the laid back and bohemian atmosphere of an open-air studio in Venice, recording Age Of Authority was a whole other trip.
We were sequestered in Colorado at Red Cloud Ranch, at 8000 feet and twenty-two miles from the nearest town. Mid-winter daytime temps hovered at zero and the nights dipping down to minus 25 degrees. And then some.
By early November, 2012 Mike had made himself a staple figure in Crestone, a local town full of spiritualists, cowboys, musicians, hippies, freaks, basically an eclectic mix, a real slice of multi-flavor Americana pie. Mike's appointed mission in Crestone was to make contact with musicians and other fun people to tap into. One evening in late-November, soon after we had set up the studio, Mike rang and said he was returning with some new friends. One of those friends was Jessy Re, a thirty-something banjo playing woman with a sweet and shy voice. Over time, her and Mike evolved their friendship and their relationship became more intimate.
Mike was a soul man, he could sing and he could dance. He moved like John Belushi, would get overheated in the same way, and would make sure he had your attention. It was not only Mike's desire to be at the center of any situation, but a force of inertia, a gravitational pull that put him there and gave him the essential qualities of a frontman.
By mid November the days were short and the weather cold with snow. I had worked out the music for two dozen songs and we began recording basic tracks. Mike, an ever keen observer and listener, had become familiar with the material and kept ongoing lyric notes. Occasionally he would shout out, "what song is that?" I would shout back a song number, e.g. #4, or #24, etc.
Kristen Vigard, another New White Trash member, had moved to Taos from Los Angeles after we had completed and released Doublewide. Soon she and her husband Bryan and daughter Emily Rose began making the 2+ hour drive north from Taos beginning mid-Nov and staying for long weekends then throughout the holiday season and on for weeks through the 2013 new year.
Another NWT collaborator, the artist James Mathers, stopped off at Red Cloud late October 2012 with his girlfriend Lea Petmezas. On their third morning, Lea let us know how her and James and her four kids would be moving to the valley, just down the road from us, on the county road to Crestone.
You don't know who someone is until you see them under pressure. You also don't know who someone is until you live with them.
Kristen Vigard and I have been friends for 33 years and have been making music together for almost as long. Few can match Kristen's vibrancy and creative output. Her history is formidable – the original Annie on Broadway, Morgan Richards on the Guiding Light, singing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and as a solo recording artist. Kristen brings a unedited and unfiltered creativity. There have been numerous wild rides with Kristen.
In the pressure of the cooker we put ourselves in, blowups were inevitable, par for the course. Soon after the 2013 new year, Kristen and Mike got into it briefly over creative differences but it was over almost as soon as it began and we maintained our resolve and attention to the material.
By mid-February, 2013, recording was complete and so a shift of gears was taking place. The drinking, smoking and partying needed to cease and it became necessary for me to dive deep into the mixes, something that required a more focused, sober and less social approach.
Mike, being Mike, wanted the party to continue. He was never shy about conveying his relationship with alcohol, or about his long history in AA, or how he turned from AA. But by mid-February his intake had escalated, largely due to the come-down one experiences at the end of a highly charged creative period, especially when there is no where to go, and nothing to immediately replace the high one gets from making music.
So I called l him on it, reminded him that once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. Mike didn't appreciate the assessment and we got into it in a fairly in-your-face kind of way. There was some general bashing about and I reminded him how this was my house and if he didn't like the rules then he would need to leave. Simple.
A half hour later the situation had calmed, we gave each other a hug and that was that. To his credit, Mike took responsibility for the situation and immediately curtailed his drinking. We put it behind and life went on between us, smoother and better than before and for another year until he took his leave late February of 2014, eighteen months to the day from when he arrived.
Indeed the most positive, dynamic and endearing aspect of our personal relationship was a foundation built on Mike being at a place in his life where he was willing to surrender to the music, and the making of the music. It proves the man to be someone who was adaptable, rational and able to recognize his place in the mix, any mix, music or otherwise.
Mike Ruppert was a gentleman, a thinker, an intuitive, an Aquarian, a leader, a doer, a sayer, a man of movement, a generous man of deep passion and conviction. He was a trailblazer and an incorruptible agent for the truth. He was an evolution of being and a fool for r&b, soul and rock and roll.
Mike Ruppert wore his heart on the sleeve of his conviction – that there are two sides to every story but only one truth, and that the truth of our tangled reality is found through the looking glass. Time and again he peered in, wandered through, took notes and returned with resolve.
Mike Ruppert made a name for himself exposing aspects of investigative truth to do with large scale crime and constitutional injustice and coverup. I toast Mike Ruppert for being such a portal through which the tides of truth whipped and the winds of justice howled. He arrived into this life with a sense of purpose, a destiny of soul. I'm sure he left with the same.
Finally, in character, action and deed, Mike Ruppert was a heroic figure, an errant knight messenger who in the face of all adversity had been delivering messages and is now to be considered on his way home.
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'Brother Can You Spare A Paradigm' – A Musical Tribute To Michael C. RuppertPosted: July 17, 2014 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Andy Kravitz, ANNOUNCEMENTS, Doug Lewis, Kristen Vigard, Michael C. Ruppert, New White Trash, Red Cloud Ranch, Venice Arts Club Music | Tags: alt, alt music, alternative music, andy kravitz, collapse, demockery, doug lewis, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles music, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, music, new white trash, post-paradigm, rock and roll, social commentary, venice arts club, venice arts club music | Leave a comment
In mid-2009, Mike Ruppert began recording with the NEW WHITE TRASH (NWT), a music project launched at the VENICE ARTS CLUB (VAC) in Venice, CA. For Ruppert, playing and recording music was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. In 2007, Ruppert returned to the Venice/Culver City area and reestablished himself in the neighborhood of his youth, a place where decades earlier Ruppert had graduated from Venice High School then went on to become a LAPD cop. In early 2008, Ruppert met VAC founder DOUG LEWIS at a Venice dog park, the two became close friends and it wasn't long before Ruppert had found a home at the VAC and with the NWT, a project originally conceived by Lewis and his long-time musical collaborator, multi-platinium producer ANDY KRAVITZ. Broadway/TV actress and songstress Kristen Vigard would round out the core NWT group.
Early on, Lewis and Ruppert wrote out a NWT manifesto designed to articulate the music of the NWT. And in this video, viewers can watch a relaxed Mike Ruppert wax eloquent about his involvement with the NWT and ABOUT the importance of music in his life.
The debut album from New White Trash was DOUBLEWIDE , a 37 song double CD released January of 2011. Notable songs featuring Mike Ruppert include, AVALANCHE & EARTHQUAKE, RUNNING ON RUMOR, WEIRD KIND OF SENSE, GIRL'S GOT, THIS DAY IS DONE and BACKROAD.
Next from the NWT came AGE OF AUTHORITY, a 18 song CD released July 7, 2013. Notable songs featuring Ruppert include, LONG COLD WINTER, FOREIGN SOLDIERS, SUN OF YOUR LOVE, INNER REACH, DRIFTED, and FREE FROM.
When Ruppert passed away on April 13, 2014, plans were in place for a third and final NWT album. BEYOND THE RUBICON would complete the trilogy. The New White Trash have decided to go ahead with the production, recording and release of Beyond The Rubicon, a music project now dedicated to friend and bandmate Mike Ruppert. A campaign on STARTJOIN (www.StartJoin.com/btr) has been created as a platform for friends and fans of Mike Ruppert to fully fund the project. Additionally, the first song of Beyond The Rubicon titled, WHO I ONCE WAS, featuring Mike Ruppert on vocals, has been mixed and is now available on the NWT Bandcamp site. Who I Once Was is available as a free download, though listeners are encouraged to pay what they can – a little or a lot. All revenue from this song will go towards the production of Beyond The Rubicon.
Another opportunity for friends, fans and listeners to move this project forward is to purchase an electronic download or Sponsor Edition of Doublewide and/or Age Of Authority. Leave a short message indicating that your payment should go towards Beyond The Rubicon. Anyone doing so will in return receive a gratis copy – via electronic download – of Beyond The Rubicon before its official release.
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Michael C. Ruppert and the New White Trash – 'Beyond The Rubicon'Posted: June 13, 2014 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Andy Kravitz, ANNOUNCEMENTS, Doug Lewis, Kristen Vigard, Michael C. Ruppert, New White Trash, Red Cloud Ranch, Venice Arts Club Music | Tags: alt music, alternative music, andy kravitz, collapse, doug lewis, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles music, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, music, new white trash, nwt, poetry, post-paradigm, protest, rock and roll, social commentary, venice arts club music, venice beach, venice CA | Leave a comment
After considering the future of the New White Trash relative to the passing of bandmate and friend MICHAEL C. RUPPERT, we are moving forward with plans to record and release a third and final NWT album titled BEYOND THE RUBICON (BTR) to include unreleased material featuring Ruppert from the DOUBLEWIDE and AGE OF AUTHORITY sessions, as well as new songs written while Mike was housing with bandmate DOUG LEWIS at Red Cloud Ranch in southern Colorado. Our focus, as always, will be on releasing material relative to the original NWT manifesto – matters of head and heart, war and peace, love, longing, and social commentary/protest torn from the pages of tomorrow's news.
Beyond The Rubicon will complete the trilogy begun in 2009 at the Venice Arts Club in Venice, California. Along with Lewis, original NWT band members Kristen Vigard and Andy 'AK' Kravitz will be deep in the mix. In order to fund the project, our intention is a word of mouth campaign geared towards raising enough funds to appropriately record, produce, mix and master this final NWT album, dedicated to the life, work and memory of Mike Ruppert. Outside funding will be essential – we cannot begin this project without you lovely people – fans of Ruppert and the NWT. Our fund-raising strategy will be made public once we've settled on a course of action, either through a Kickstarter style campaign or by releasing one song on the NWT Bandcamp site and asking for double and triple digit payments for that one song to go towards BTR.
In the meantime, those inclined to immediately begin to move this project forward can purchase an electronic download of Doublewide and/or Age Of Authority. Leave a short message indicating that your payment should go towards BTR. Anyone doing so will in return receive a gratis copy – via electronic download – of Beyond The Rubicon before its official release.
Mike Ruppert
MCR & Doug Lewis
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Kristen Vigard
Michael C. Ruppert – Memoriam.1Posted: April 19, 2014 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Doug Lewis, Kristen Vigard, Michael C. Ruppert, New White Trash, Red Cloud Ranch | Tags: collapse, dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, doug lewis, george bush, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, moffat, new white trash, post-paradigm, red cloud ranch, san luis valley, social commentary | 5 Comments
In September of 2012, shortly after Mike arrived here at Red Cloud Ranch in the great San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado, and before we got busy recording Age Of Authority, we were visited by two men who pulled in along the long drive leading from Highway 17. The older, the driver, said he and his son were looking at property and did I know anything about the property in the distance, how to drive there, what it was like, etc.
I'm looking at these guys, thinking to myself, no way is this younger guy the son of the older. Meanwhile, Mike had come out of the house and made his way over. He stood behind me and to the side. Of course he was packing. Without introduction, he called out, "So, you guys government men?'
It was a tactic, a quick jab. And it worked. Caught off guard, the younger looked at the older who hesitated, fractionally speaking, and it became obvious how they were, in fact, government men.
Their recovery attempt was hilarious. The older said, "No, no, were longshoremen, we've come down from Denver."
After a beat, I said, "You're a long way from shore, men." Mike chuckled behind me. The older added, "But we're from Oakland."
It was too late. They were had.
Mike chimed in with a broad sweep of his arm, indicating the vast lone prairie surrounding us, "This used to be an ocean, once. And Dougie used to be a longshoreman. Isn't that right, D?"
As they retreated, Mike muttered, "Government men", and walked away.
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Mike Ruppert was a soul man. He could sing and he could dance. Of late, the vision I have of Mike Ruppert is one of him knocking on heaven's door. After a brief disclosure, the doors open and in he goes.
I take great pleasure knowing how Mike reached those gates before Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, or any of that host of unholy others. Upon their arrival, I imagine Mike's conversation with the Gods of High Noon going something like this…
The Gods to Mike: "Dick and Don are here. And they want to come in. It's your call, how do you want to handle this?
Mike, who has already stood up, snubbed out his cigarette, and is headed down the gangplank to meet the 'little men', looks back with a wry smile and says, "Let's see if they can dance."
My advise to Dick, Don, George and the rest of that ill-conceived ilk is this – If you're thinking of heading heaven's way, and knocking on those doors, think twice. You're going to have to get through Mike Ruppert to get there. And you're going to have show him you can dance. Good luck with that.
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Music of the Post-Paradigm – The New White Trash and the Age Of AuthorityPosted: October 5, 2013 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Doug Lewis, James Mathers, Kristen Vigard, Michael C. Ruppert, New White Trash, Wade DeVoid | Tags: alternative music, arthur barrow, collapse, doug lewis, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles music, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, new white trash, nwt, post-paradigm, protest, rock and roll, social commentary, venice arts club music, venice CA | Leave a comment
"This is dangerous music…in many ways. But Doug Lewis has always been a subtly subversive artist. So AGE OF AUTHORITY, the latest release by musician/producer Lewis and NEW WHITE TRASH, should not come as a surprise to lucky listeners who have enjoyed his previous political/philosophical/surrealistic musical journeys (especially the tour de force "Crudland" and "Tell The Time"). Those just getting into Lewis will discover a pleasingly quirky collection that shows calculated disregard for sonic tropes and clubland clichés. On Age Of Authority, Lewis pairs his truly insightful writing and lyrics with those of bandmates Kristen Vigard and Michael C. Ruppert to explore the moral ramifications of the disenfranchised masses struggling to survive in the new world order. It's not exactly a message being trumpeted by mainstream media…and for good reason — in the Age Of Authority, we are ALL New White Trash." – Michael Lynn-E Entertainment/True Hollywood Story.
A discussion with Doug Lewis:
VAC: This is the second album from New White Trash, with much the same 'cast'. How did it come about?
LEWIS: After completing DOUBLEWIDE, the first NWT album, I moved the studio from Venice (CA) to the north end of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Kristen and Mike Ruppert had moved out of Los Angeles a year before me, Kristen to Taos, NM, and Mike to Sebastopol. In August of 2012, Mike made the move to my place in CO, which was a year after I had established a base. Another NWT contributor, James Mathers, paid a visit with Lea Petmezas in Oct of 2012 and when Lea decided to move out here, James made the move as well. During the spring/summer/fall of 2012, I had worked out some songs on the guitar along with some bass lines and so making an album was a great way to spend the winter of 2012/13.
VAC: The music and vibe of Age Of Authority feels like a continuation of Doublewide, thematically anyway.
LEWIS: The big picture hardly changes – love and war, heart and head, these are the themes of the real world and of our music, so our songs are either wry love letters or views on events torn from the news of the day.
VAC: The tagline for the New White Trash is 'music of the post-paradigm'; do you consider this a genre?
LEWIS: It's more of a personal brand, in that, collectively, we encourage the music to move in 'meaningful directions', one of which, for us, is social commentary/criticism, another is the draw of our experiences in the form of – usually and ultimately – cautionary tales. The 'post-paradigm' reference came out of Mike and I drawing up a raison d'être to offer insight into the NWT in name and in musical direction.
VAC: Your bandmate Mike Ruppert is fond of quoting you – "You can't write a protest song on a full stomach." How does that relate to your work throughout the years?
LEWIS: The music of the New White Trash is the outcome of a shared and outspoken sensibility between Kristen, Mike, myself and others. We are all on the same side of the cultural fence, so to speak. And we share an appreciation for the process and the sacrifice it takes to make an art project and create a body of work like an album. Also, we've all been doing this a while and in our various different way – Mike with his activism, Kristen has been writing, recording and performing music her entire life, and me, Age of Authority is my 22nd album as a musician/producer. I've only ever made music with a cultural lean and a political pov. And I've only ever made music with those mining the same ground. Anything else, at this late stage of the game, feels pointless.
VAC: Over the course of making all this music, all these songs spread out over twenty-two albums, how has the process on songwriting changed for you, personally speaking.
LEWIS: For me, the most profound change to the process happened in 1995 when I amputated the ring finger on my left hand. My guitar playing, post the loss of that finger, continues to evolve in ways of physical dexterity and personal style. Chopping off a finger then expecting to resume playing the guitar is not something I would recommend as a career choice, but for me, over time, I have no regrets. Otherwise, playing guitar, writing melodies and lyrics, crafting a song is a task like any other; you commit to the effort and embrace the experience of tuning in, musically and creatively speaking. It's about inhabiting a world and also enjoying the creative process as a form of meditation/work. Over the years I have become particularly fond of treating the recording process as a community event, open door/open room style.
VAC: Being a guitar player with an amputated finger places you in an exclusive club…
LEWIS: Like I said, not something I would recommend.
VAC: What next for you and the New White Trash?
LEWIS: Looking forward to creating the third of the NWT trilogy, and hope to begin recording by mid-November (2013), although I've just received word that my 91 year old mother, who lives in San Francisco, needs some care, so I'm headed there now. We'll see.
MUSIC OF THE POST-PARADIGM – The New White Trash and the Age Of AuthorityPosted: June 1, 2013 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: New White Trash | Tags: alt, alt music, alternative music, art, collapse, demockery, doug lewis, james mathers, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles, los angeles music, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, music, new white trash, nwt, poetry, post-paradigm, protest, rock and roll, social commentary, venice, venice arts club, venice arts club music, venice beach, venice CA | Leave a comment
AGE OF AUTHORITY from the NEW WHITE TRASH arrives 07.07.13
AGE OF AUTHORITY – The New White Trash and 'Music of the Post-Paradigm', Volume IIPosted: May 25, 2013 | Author: Venice Arts Club | Filed under: Arthur Barrow, Doug Lewis, James Mathers, Kristen Vigard, New White Trash, Phil Maggini | Tags: alt, alt music, alternative music, andy kravitz, arthur barrow, collapse, doug lewis, james mathers, kristen vigard, lifeboat hour, los angeles, los angeles music, michael c ruppert, michael ruppert, mike ruppert, music, new white trash, nwt, poetry, post-paradigm, protest, rock and roll, social commentary, venice, venice arts club, venice arts club music, venice beach, venice CA | Leave a comment
Rough mixes of selected songs from AGE OF AUTHORITY have been playing for the past eight weeks on the LIFEBOAT HOUR, a weekly one-hour radio show hosted by MICHAEL C. RUPPERT on the Progressive Radio Network. Ruppert, former cop turned whistleblower, author of Crossing The Rubicon who was also featured in the documentary, Collapse, calls his show, "a nightclub at the end of the world". The NEW WHITE TRASH is in heavy rotation, and for good reason. Ruppert, along with Venice, CA music producer and Venice Arts Club host Doug E. Lewis, formed the NWT in 2009, soon after they met over dogs at a local Venice dog park. According to Ruppert, "our dogs bonded and so did we". Meeting Lewis allowed Ruppert to return to his roots as a singer and fulfill his dream of making music.
The result of their collaboration was released January 11, 2011. Recorded at VENICE ARTS CLUB, the album DOUBLEWIDE, a 37 song 2 CD set features a host of Venice locals including multi-instrumentalist and musical activist Wade DeVoid, former Broadway and Soap star, Kristen Vigard, artist and Warhol protege James Mathers, drummer/programmer Andy Kravitz, guitarist Michael Jost, former Shadowfax bass player Phil Maggini, among others.
Next up for the NWT is AGE OF AUTHORITY, due out July 7, 2013. Recorded over the 2012-13 winter at Lewis' new facility – RED CLOUD RANCH AND RECORDING STUDIO – located in Moffat, CO, at the base of the Sangre De Cristo range in Southern Colorado, Age Of Authority is 18 new compositions from a this time smaller ensemble of players, including Ruppert, Lewis, DeVoid, Mathers, Vigard and with bass guitar contributions from former Frank Zappa bass player, Arthur Barrow.
Says Lewis, "Out here in Southern Colorado though we're pretty much on the lone prairie, our goal was to make music in a 'Venice Arts Club' kind of way, meaning to involve the locals, to find whomever was into making music and had a desire to sing or play to come on down and step up to the mic. So we found some amazing talent in the town of Crestone, located about twenty miles from my place…just down the road. Turns out Lea Petmezas, who we met through James Mathers, is a gifted singer, as is Jessica Holopeter. We enlisted JeseRe Pulver on flute and also 'Diamond' Dave Steele, who contributed some acoustic guitar tracks."
Kristen Vigard, who now calls Taos, NM, home and has been making music with Lewis for twenty years, spent the better part of the three month recording process driving back and forth from Taos through sometimes wicked winter weather, explains that, "…it was totally worth it. Anytime I have an opportunity to record with Dougie, I'll take it. We've been doing this a long time together, him and I. He knows how to make a record and have fun doing it."
Ruppert agrees, and adds, "making this album was endearing but also enduring because, unlike being in Venice at the VAC with the back doors open and the fire pit flaming and lots of people milling and chilling, out at Red Cloud in Colorado we had a much more isolated and harsh environment – extreme cold made it difficult to remain outside for longer than a few minutes, so it was the group of us spending most of our time inside focused on the tunes. But what a great process it is to work on songs, writing lyrics and rehearsing parts…I love it!"
As a theme, Age Of Authority is a coherent followup to Doublewide. Lewis and Ruppert established early on, by way of manifesto, a musical activism built on social commentary combined with equal part exploration of heart, told primarily through a series of cautionary tales…love, loss, joy, sorrow.
Pre-release copies of Age Of Authority are available for review to music bloggers and music zines. Please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Cost of Children VS The Value of Children
Liberty Henrick
Liberty lives in Ireland although she was born in the UK and spent her growing-up years in South Africa. She's a wife, mum of two teens and two teens-in-training, writer, women's ministry worker and graphic designer. Her writing resonates with other parents because she talks honestly about her faults while looking on the funny side. Check out her blog.
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- The Cost of Children VS The Value of Children - February 26, 2018
I recently heard a couple of discussions on the radio about family sizes and the cost of children. I'm trying to figure out whether or not I chose to have my four kids (I do choose to keep them though), I certainly was clueless about how much it would cost us, financially, emotionally and physically. Sometimes people will tell me that I must have my hands full, in those moments I have to tell myself not to feel sorry for myself, being busy is definitely better than being bored. Having your hands full can mean that your heart is full too, even if your pocket is empty.
For a long time there were none
I wanted a baby about four years before we started trying for one but we waited until my husband had completed his studies as I was working full time to support us. Then after trying for a baby for another year it was discovered I had a large ovarian cyst and endometriosis. I was told after the operation that if I didn't conceive within six months my chances were very slim of ever having a baby. My friends with babies patted me on the shoulder and I smiled on the outside and we kept trying.
One plus one equals three
Ten months later I was turning my thoughts towards adoption when I finally fell pregnant. I stared in disbelief at the second stripe on the pregnancy test. For a couple of weeks I felt numb, I was reluctant to allow myself to get too excited, just in case, you know. However, my pregnancy was mostly trouble free, apart from some slight spotting, and the birth was utter hell but finally, in 2002, after all those years waiting, I held my first baby.
I thought to myself 'What on earth have I done?!' The full responsibility of what it means to be a parent dawned on me: this little baby was 100% dependant on us to sustain it, without responsible adults it would die! I had longed for this moment for so long and now I only longed to run away. My body was stitched together in places I didn't realise I had. I developed breasts that actually touched one another down the middle – my husband stared at them. My friends with babies patted me on the shoulder and gave me nipple cream. My husband burped and bathed the baby. It took me about six weeks to work through the shock and begin to enjoy being a mum.
Week by week, month by month I followed the lead of the other mums in the breastfeeding support group and eventually, after a whole year, somehow we managed to bring our baby to her own first birthday party.
Twice as easy!
Now we had two children, one girl and one boy. We were full of parenting confidence and, both being from large families ourselves, my husband and I definitely thought two kids was too few. We didn't like the thought of being normal, like everyone else, haha no packaged holidays for us, nosirree! We knew we would like another baby.
Once again I was pregnant before I really knew what was going on within a couple of months of weaning my second. My third pregnancy was fairly straight forward. But then number three was born, I have to confess we wondered what on earth we had been thinking. My memory is very fuzzy but I seem to recall this little one would not sleep more than about 20 -maybe 40 minutes at a time (and as a consequence neither did I). I had no clue what to do even though I had practiced twice already on my other two. Her feeding was all over the place and my nipples were raw (I discovered she had a lip tie when she was eight).
Simultaneously I was also trying to look after a two and four year old without resorting to allowing them all day TV access. When the district nurse visited me on about day 5 and I told her I had no idea what I was doing, she took one look at me and said 'Ah sure, you'll be grand, it's your third'. I hated her a little bit in that moment. My husband and I had also a few memorable arguments, we were frazzled – our brains fried by sleep deprivation.
Anyway we sat tight and as time passed things got better – they usually do I find with a bit of patience. Our baby became extremely cute and started to sleep at around one year old. We were now proud parents of three adorable minions.
Sometime around April 2008 we arrived at the point where we wondered whether we ought to make the same mistake all over again and find ourselves totally overwhelmed with another baby or just stay content with our three. We debated all the pros and cons of having another and finally came to the decision that we wouldn't. Three was the perfect number, more than that would be very costly: we would need a bigger car for a start. My pregnancies had become increasingly physically demanding. I was inching towards 38, I was at peace with our choice. That's it, just three, no more…
About six weeks later I discovered I was pregnant. I stared in disbelief at the second stripe on the pregnancy test. My friends with four children offered their shoulders to cry on and told me it will all work out fine, eventually. I looked at my then three children and asked myself whether I regretted having any of them. Of course I did not! Then I asked myself whether I would one day have regretted not having another baby and decided that yes, I would have. So gradually I was brought around to knowing that I was delighted to welcome another little one into our already squished house.
How many kids is a good many?
These past few weeks of school holidays our household has gone from the normal four children quota, to having no kids at home for a week (disquieting!), to another week with seven children sleeping over one night (crazy fun), and then to this week of our two youngest being the only ones at home. I have had a little taste of what is normal for other families.
With just two children the housework and food consumption has significantly decreased, as have the noise levels and arguments. But I have also realized how much these last two little children in our family have added to the joy of our household. In each child we discover different gifts and personalities, both sources of wonder for us as parents. I can appreciate those who continue to have more children in order to enlarge that wonder and to experience an increased volume in love received and given.
Not everyone has the choice over how many kids they have or whether they can have any children at all. My own journey has been filled with unexpected twists and turns, I'm leaning towards the belief that all of them were Providentially chosen for us. We know four is abundantly enough, we are grateful for these four priceless gifts.
As I mentioned, I recently heard a couple of discussions on the radio about family sizes. It appears that in the West where we have small families and huge resources, cost is one of the prime factors in a couple's decision to have a smaller family. The poorer nations value their large families as their wealth, even though having many children can become a poverty trap. In my head it's not all about the cost but about the value. Just ask any woman who has lost a child, and they would tell you they'd pay the earth to have them back.
I have seven women friends who also all have four amazing children each, they are my role models and heroes.
I think we'd agree it certainly is a busy life and there are many financial, emotional and physical sacrifices, but that there is no other busyness that would be or could be more satisfying and valuable than this.


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