Modern Native throat singer, "Animism" (video)

Crystal Quintero, Seven, Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Tanya Tagaq (Q/CBC)

The Buddha had blue eyes? It's not so rare in Central Asia extending south from Gandhara/Afghanistan north to Kalmykia/Russia to the Far East of Buddhist Siberia, North Asia

A little bird told me, and it wasn't twitter. We are all interconnected (No Strangers)

Q's Jian Ghomeshi speaks with Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq about her new album, "Animism," and how she went from being a self-taught throat singing vocalist, honing her skills in the shower, to collaborating with the likes of the Kronos Quartet and Björk. Indeed, it was her lack of formal training that attracted Björk to her, says Tagaq, adding that the Icelandic artist didn't think she was "supposed to" sound a certain way. That's a perspective Tagaq shares.

• CBC Music: First play of Tanya Tagaq's Animism (free)

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  Inuk Tagaq reclaiming Nanook of the North

  Animism? (from Latin animus, -i "animator, soul, life") is the worldview that all entities (animals, plants, inanimate objects and phenomena) possess a spiritual essence. In the anthropology of religion it is used as a term for the underlying belief system or cosmology of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the infiltration of colonialism and organized "religion." Although each culture has its own mythologies and rituals, the term "animism" is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' "spiritual" or "supernatural" perspectives -- so fundamental and taken-for-granted that most animistic indigenous people have no word in their languages that corresponds to "animism" (or even "religion"). More

Shaman medicine (thefederationoflight.com)

"I like to live in a world that's not supposed to be. Or it's just there already as it is. It doesn't have to be anything, you know, because we put a lot of constraints on ourselves everyday in this crazy society," she says, adding that she gives "zero sh*ts about what people" think about her -- even as a trendy rave dancer -- but instead respects herself, her instincts, and her emotions. "And I every day do what I can to be a good person.... That's why breath is so important; it's the common denominator."  More

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(GSS) "Tantric Choir": Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist lamas of Gyuto chant in the Mongolian style of Bön "medicine men," shamans, and nomadic reindeer herders.

Standing by her #Sealfie: Manitoba's Tanya Tagaq addresses the controversial anti-Ellen campaign. Despite the considerable backlash after posting a photo of her daughter beside a dead seal, she supports native hunting and "being a part of what you [kill to] eat" (CBC.ca).

KARMA IS A B-TCH: When the "hunter" becomes the hunted, guilty of killing then mauled for it by another "hunter" in the samsaric wheel of survival. (LOL? Schadenfreude?) Don't kill.

Zach G. beats Justin Bieber on TV! (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Zach Galifianakis "Between Two Ferns," Superstar OG Justin BieberWARNING: Things get violent as the TV interviewer begins to beat Justin Bieber on the air!

 

Bieber (right) with model (perezhilton.com)

This is the real Bieber without his agent Scooter. He appears like a deer in the headlights on comedian Zach Galifianakis' Internet interview show "Between Two Ferns," Sept. 26, 2013. Bieber now lives in a dowdy suburb of Los Angeles and is angry about his wannabe rapper friends destroying his home while he is on a world tour winning over the hearts and minds of little girls and creepy guys everywhere.

Zach goes over Justin's head with many of the veiled jokes at Justin's expense but then makes it perfectly obvious how he really feels as he proceeds to assault and batter the dancing Canadian idol (and national embarrassment) by repeatedly beating him (Min. 3:50) as most people alive on the planet today have at some time or other wanted to do.

Rihanna stays in the tabloids

He may not be the most followed person in the Twitterverse -- a distinction that rightly goes to media royalty like Lady Gaga, or the Dalai Lama, or anyone with non-bot followers -- but he sure doesn't have much to say when bombarded with the kind of questions we would ALL like to have asked the Beebs over the years as he skyrocketed to fame vomiting on stage, having sex with Rihanna (who would be his molester under state law) but not Ke$ha, abandoning a hapless monkey in Germany, endangering the lives of his neighbors, or hurting former Disney child star Selena Gomez's standing in the media. While he's peeing in buckets, smoking drugs, getting bad tattoos, insulting Holocaust victim Anne Frank... keep in mind, we are all still being spied on by the NSA, and the CIA is still promoting imperial war all over the world.

But is anyone more desperate than Miley Cyrus?

NSA defeats privacy, encryption, and Internet security (D.N.)