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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Check out this event: My First Roller Derby Bout

Hosted By: Margot Malia/Hellions of Troy
When: Sunday Dec 07, 2008
at 5:00 PM
Where The Fun Spot
1035 Route 9
Queensbury, NY 12804
United States
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Margot Malia/Hellions of Troy

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The Hellions of Troy vs. The Green Mountain Derby Dames Roller Derby Bout.
Queensbury NY
Sunday Dec. 7.
Live Music from Sugar Eater and Skeletons in the Piano
Draft Beer
Laser Tag $6 in the arcade after the bout
DJ and dancing after the bout
$10/$5 kids under 12

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Monday, November 24, 2008

American Music Awards

I caught the AMA's last night just before Coldplay went on.  I caught a little bit of it in passing, not knowing it was the AMA's and saw Miley Cirus getting a birthday cake and i thought it was really weird.  So I moved on, came back and saw Coldplay and the rest of the show.  I loved it!  Watching Coldplay made me want a huge stage and a band.  I hope that I get there some day.  I thought the lead singer looked silly just running and jumping but then I thought about the innocense of it.  I enjoyed the childlike spirit of it, colored leaves falling on them and the entire audience.             Beyonce blew me away again. I saw her perform single ladies on SNL and she is such a freakin talented dancer and beautiful!  I thought the Jonas Brothers sounded bad.  Their voices were struggling and out of tune.  I do not know their first names  like the WuTangClan don't either.

The Sarah McClaughlin/Pink duet was georgous.  made me love Pink's voice even more. 

Alicia Keys is so talented and I'm happy she got awarded.  And the performance of Wonder Woman with Queen Latifah and the mix of an opera singer also rocked my soul.  Letting the spotlight touch the individual, soaking up the heat of pure love and appreciation knowing there is enough for everyone.  Where there is no room for jealousy.  Knowing your worth without hurting another or putting another down.  Raising yourself up up up teaching others to do the same for yourselves.  Knowing your self worth.

The selection and diversity were pretty cool and it made me feel like this is a good time for music. I didn't see any spoken word or performance art so there is still a trailblazing place for talent like me.... ;)

Kanye West's performance was cool.  I liked the heart of his song. 

Rhianna was sick in her bad ass metal and silver outfit. I like her voice but Beyonce still gotz the moves. Holy pyrotecnics!

I teared up for Annie Lenox's award.  Honoring her for writing songs of the human condition.  She talked about her musical journey.  She's put her heart and fame into humanitarism and activism.  It made me think about all the years I've put into writing poetry and music.  That this is the creative journey I'm on.  I've always dreamed of being a famous performer and just because I'm 37 and not famous doesn't mean I should stop.  I juggle a few professions by working in video, film and theatre production, I think about starting my own photo. business, getting back into acting; but her little speech and their appreciation of her work, and her honoring her own life and working through the years brought me to remember to be on the journey that I've been on.  It is with music and poetry that has moved through me the most.  And it is the stage that i crave.  I have also been putting years into my photography but i think it speaks to the poetry and music. 

It was very endearing to see Taylor Swift's reaction to her award and how she appreciates the fans who like her music that she writes in her bedroom. 

It's a very personal thing to share something you've written from your heart and especially from your bedroom. It's easy to say that you should never care what other people think.  But as an artist, we need feedback.  We want to know what people like.  And when we know what people like we give it to them.  And I want to give it to you. 

 

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

The New African Aloha Face of America

The New African Aloha face of America

Margot malia lynch November 4, 2008

(for the moment it happened)

This time history is not repeating itself

the human race just evolved.

For the first time, I am proud to be an American.

Now we can breathe, now we can believe the hope

Because we don't believe the hype.

This is the signpost to our enlightenment.

This is what we came here for.

The transformative direction to advance our thinking.

Evolving as we speak.  This is freedom amplified.

We have been looking for Neo and we cracked the code.

We walked through walls On Election Day 2008.

Broke down oppressive institutions with tears of joy.

Healed injustices with this big wave on a deep cellular level, not with a band aid.

This is the Obama effect.

Love is the host in a strange land and today we became a little more familiar. 

A little more accepting.  A little less racist. 

The scales of justice are just a little more balanced.

The pendulum moved.  This is our compound moment of getting in lifetimes of fast changes in one glorious moment. Unyielding hope is our magic wand.  This is not hocus pocus or voodoo or the antichrist.  This is the righteous power of positive thought and action.   Bigger than religion, we take responsibility.  The power to change is right here.  This is our movement. This is the collective conscious.  We are taking back words and redefining them. 

Like taking back the night

we own this and it's all love. 

Taking in every overwhelming blessing.   

This is our cultural acceleration.

We are awake in the dream made real.

This is not just a new day but a new age. 

In between worlds we are shape shifters changing so fast we can only feel it and can't express it.  Seeing life before, and life after.

I am inhaling your sweet politics and now I can finally breathe.

I am gathering plumeria flowers in a lei for you. 

The people are gathering.

We will not allow apathy to take over this time.

Coming out from the woodwork, from the woods, from too many oppressive years.

I saw you dance in the street

when Rosa Parks was handing out epiphanies

shaking slavery mentalities to the ground.

We are shaking. We are quickening.  Jesse Jackson was fighting for this. 

This is love contagious

we are hugging strangers, crying, falling to our knees

this is the result of positive action. A straight arrow on fire, bullseye.

This is Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, The Dalai Lama.

We are believing our eyes and not wiping them dry because we want to feel this, we want this deeply embedded in our memory. 

This one

 is going far. 

This irreversible wisdom. 4+4 is infinity. 

We know where we came from but we are never going back.   

We are proud to bring a baby out into this world.  We are holding on to every word because this pure collective action is straight from the core. 

we are listening to a politician with our hearts on fire for the first time. 

Barack Hussein Obama

Teacher of looking past illusions.

The new archetype of the compassionate leader.

Your unyielding hope is the medicine to cure our disease

You put us at ease

We love your nature to rebuild rather than destroy.

To empower rather than attack.  

To sit down and talk with hostile leaders.

You dismiss fear with Hawaiian stability and African joy.

The fatherland is healing the Motherland.

You were the only light I could see in this strange land.  I share my birthplace with you.  My birthday is close to your nomination. My middle name is your daughter's name. I have wept in the hope for you while surrounded by the self destruction of man. We identify with you because we see our own potential in you.  We have been on the same page.  This is fertile ground for us to raise our own expectations in ourselves. 

So we can jump higher, work harder, because we have completed an impossible mission. 

Now that we have worked a miracle together we know that our dreams can be made into our reality.

The shamans are celebrating deep in the land

War is diffusing, Guantanamo bay is fading

I see your African Aloha face on the new American currency

We have dropped the masks of deception.

I see this victory story in every section of the library.

I see his full name on a school on the other side of the world

I hear flowers bloom faster than ever before

In our rebirth I saw a bat circling us.

I saw a shooting star when I blew a kiss to the sky

I see 4 rainbows in the 4 directions of an elevated direction

I have hope now because I have seen it transform an entire country.

The waves of joy circled the world.

I am hearing the songs of freedom and all the ancestors gathering

On the steps of the white house.

A woman in Hawaii is gathering flowers.

Our new leader is healing us

Unleashing the heart and soul of America.

The spirit of America is free.

She is dropping the chains forever. This time history is ours.

The people are singing, and crying, and dancing.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

aloha obama~no thanks mcpain
Category: News and Politics

I support Obama. When Hilary was in the running I was a little divided but as I learned more about him and his nature I went with him.

I've heard some crazy stuff around the idea of a Black man as president. Like some people won't vote for a black man. hmmm. crazy how superfiicial and ignorant people can be.

My birthday is around election time. This time this one is important to me. Like many people I've been hating mr. georgie boy and I think even some republicans have realized how bad he sucks. Maybe we should thank George for messing things up so badly that even the general population realizes we need serious positive change. So this is where Barack comes in.. :)

When foundations and institutions are built on greed and bad intent, they fall apart. And people fall apart at the seams. This is good for us to open up, to expand, to evolve, to progress, to talk about our issues and judgements. This also brings out radicals and idiots who think Obama is the anti christ, or an Arab, or a terrorist, or a target for the white supremists.   Some people are scared if we have a Black president then all the Black people will get mad and..... what?  Wow people are so brainwashed. .
This is good for us to at least start the process of expanding the mind and breaking down walls. So what if his name is Hussein.

Democracy is rooted in Native American ways. The wolves taught indians about democracy. The government has been murdering wolves. Indirect self destruction. We belong to the earth we do not own the earth.

I think of Kennedy.

I've noticed a couple spiritual things about him that I like. I see a person with a soul. This is the first time for me where I've agreed with what a politician is saying. Like standing up out of my chair with fist in the air saying 'yes!' He's got Aloha. I saw a couple little synchronicities I thought were cool: He was raised by his Grandmother. So was I. His daughter's name is Malia, my middle name. His Grandmother is a Dunham, Dunham is in my family tree. He visited her in Hawaii around my birthday. I really miss Hawaii around my birthday.

I'm voting for him because I support
democracy
his good and steady nature
ending the war
green jobs
thinking for the lower classes and taxing the rich
pro choice
national health care
being inspired~ look at all the people he's inspired.
a politician with an honest positive message.
not drilling but creating electric cars and alternative energy
creating HOPE not FEAR

i'm not voting for mcpain because
he cares too much for the rich
he's angry, impulsive
draws from his war experiences too much~I don't hear Obama talking about slavery. And I've got scars too doesn't mean I'm a leader. Sounds like a weird Jesus I sacrificed myself for you message.
he attracts weirdos who chant USA at his rallys
he's old and if he died an idiot would be president
he chose Palin as a tactic thinking he could steal Hillary's votes
he's giving a weird health care credit
drill baby drill~fuck that.
saying 'my friends' hundreds of times~ that's imposing and fake
He supports fear and mongering it
.......

I think Obama has a lot going for him. The general population relies on what's popular and I'm very happy with the media recently. I haven't seen Religulous yet, but I very much want to. With that movie out in our cultural subconscious and Recount it's good to get intelligent rebellions against institutions that don't work. Thank you SNL and Tina Fey for being so right on and putting the spotlight on stupidity and letting us know what's really up.
woo hoo!!

aloha Obama!
I can't wait to vote for him. To announce with excitement who I'm voting for in the polling booth.

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Monday, September 22, 2008

"circling you" spoken word music margot jeff robinson trio
Current mood: artistic
Category: Music



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WurGjF9kM

clip from the lizard lounge. September 2008. Jeff Robinson Trio. Sorry about the annoying text in the beginning. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the part when I get into "your never too late". I can hear Iyeoka in the backround, 'yeah, come on, yeah.' :) Wish i could hear the sax more. Another moment of coming up with the melody line inthemoment

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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Palin is a bad choice~could never replace Clinton
Category: News and Politics

Sarah Palin cannot replace Hillary Clinton.  Hilary is a better politician than her.  If you're on the fence and angry that Clinton is no longer in the running, please don't vote for McCain just because his vp is a woman.    I think the women that put together "women against sarah palin"  are doing whatever they can to make sure women that wanted to vote for Clinton don't have a kneejerk reaction and vote for mccain/palin.
For myself, I've been rooting for Obama and I'm excited to vote for him and Biden.
thanks, margot..........  Also there is a letter from Gloria Steinem. 
 
Check out www.womenagainstsarahpalin.org, then forward to women everywhere.

Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters:

We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce -- on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate --that has a real possibility of becoming fact.

Like us, as American women, you probably share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet.

We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and altogether devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably benefited from.

First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us.
She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women.
It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters.
We want to disagree, publicly.

We invite you to reply here:

womensaynopalin@gmail.com

With a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.

Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.

We will post your responses on a blog called "Women Against Sarah Palin," which we intend to publicize as widely as possible.

Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience -- the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.

Thank you for your time and action.

Sincerely,
Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston
New York, NY

womensaynopalin@gmail.com

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!***

If you send this to 20 women quickly, you could be surprised by
a country that takes your concerns seriously.

Stranger things have happened.Opinion
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message
Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is
Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008


Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even
the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican
Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice
president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed,
gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can
vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only"
sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there
through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a
boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and
opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been
about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for
women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too
many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way
to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares
nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive
speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than
twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is
owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much
everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still
does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody
stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."

This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on
issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job
because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say
the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the
spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero
background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37
years' experience.

Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month
about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question
until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every
day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the
war in Iraq."

She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and
she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a
$1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's
campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income
or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that
he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not
lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit,
as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God,
guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling
a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.

So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out
of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between
form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues;
the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of
reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a
woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq;
someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.
McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who
determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women
Act.

Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every
issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that
creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global
warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's
wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only"
programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and
abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot
wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school
system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs
with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in
subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in
the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the
lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle
Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does
it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels
but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just
echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade,
she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest,
she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a
human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it
also protects the right to have a child.

So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James
Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely
waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for
Palin's husband.

Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from
this contest.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most
women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority
of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the
Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government
into the wombs of women.

And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs
than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national
stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home
until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on
their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their
children.

This could be huge.

Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the
Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting
Barack Obama.
 
 

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Monday, September 08, 2008

driving with "believe in yourself" on
Category: Music



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmrN3Pbx_Xk

recorded in 06? loops and beats by kim galibert. lyrics and melodies by me. driving from vt. into ny. pretty green summertime.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Check out this event: Margot with The Jeff Robinson Trio

Hosted By: Margot Malia
When: Sunday Aug 31, 2008
at 8:00 PM
Where: The LIzard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, Massachusetts|22 02138
United States
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Margot Malia

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the power of improvisation.
i am most alive when in the moment with The Jeff Robinson Trio.
The trust of spontaneous creativity.
love going in it's 12th year.
the muse for many poets
a foundation for the revolution of poetry and music. :)

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

whatever to fakeness

thank you for being real
for looking into the human condition
for looking into a person
for seeing the spirit of a life
for not judging
for having a big heart
love
love
love
thank you for being alive and real
open
open
open
humanity wins
over the close minded souls

whatever to fakeness  yes to the real to the ethereal. to the heart. getting down to a persons level when they've fallen. no matter how hurt they are.  relating.  becoming a friend to a stranger in need.  We are so connected.   We learn from each other. 

We need each other.  We are in this together.  We are spirits inside a body.  Don't judge anyone. Actions of the heart can speak to the community in waves, days after it happens.    Angels walk the earth. 

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

she saw my aura...
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Performing for a small crowd.  Me, my guitar, songs, poems.  I’ve been bringing yoda with me.  A rubber doll that my 2yr. old niece has the same one as.  So I’ve taken it with me on adventures away from her, while I’ve been living in Florida for the winter.  I take pictures of yoda in new environments and email images to her.  So I’m enjoying the moment.  Feeling most alive, as usual while performing. 

I’m reading the people in the room.  I’m surprised by the door rushing open to 3 young girls breaking in just to say inbetween songs, "you sound great, awesome job!" (there is a speaker outside and in)  I thank them, they run away in laughter.  I tell the audience "now I feel cool."  Three women are excited about my material and are cheering me on. The poetry is in some spiritual context (who wouldda guessed) and we’re talking inbetween pieces.  Their energy encourages me to keep up with the poetry for them. I’m doing spoken word for them,instead of picking up the guitar at that moment.  So we’re vibing off each other.  A woman comes up to me after during my 5 min. break and says:" I think I can tell you this without thinking I’m weird but I saw your aura. I’ve never seen an aura before.  I’ve been skeptical about it.  It was bright yellow and white, very powerful."  She had an angel wing necklace on her chest.  I had tears in my eyes.I wanted to hug her but held back.  

I’m taking it as a very positive sign. We’re not alone in our growth.  Sometimes we need others,the right stranger to tell us we’re on the right path.  This makes me want to live in that moment forever but since I can’t I’ll just keep working hard to make that type of moment happen more often.  That I am more myself when I’m sharing song and word and I need to keep up with that work of the soul. 

This is not my ego talking.  This is an excited, the innocence part of me that is new to or getting reaquainted with cultivating and being thankful for the good things.  I’ve been on the wrong, life threatening path before for a few years so it feels great to have something like this happen.

There are awards, honors, titles, achievements that we receive.  This is a spiritual validation for me. 

I believe she reached a spiritual level within herself through an open mind and heart.  I’ve never seen auras (in an unaltered state-:) and I think a part of her was tapping into my constant search for a higher level.

i ran into her a week later and she brought it up.  She told me she saw my aura when i was doing a poetry piece.  Rad!  She spoke with someone and said yellow and white signify an enlightened person.  Wow!

I want to take this to tell myself that I’m good, powerful and spiritual just the way I am.  i can keep searching but to appreciate what i already have, and to workd it.

I’ve had other experiences of other people and myself seeing my energy or aura and i love that!  The invisible.  Believing in more than the physical.

i think being an enlightened person is mostly about being connected to the energy of the earth.  When travelling to less travelled paths, touch the earth, listen, feel.  To be able to see beyond the horizon of the WORLD and into the complete, circular EARTH.   To live with the earth more than the world.  Use your instincts.  Remember your circadian clock?  Human nature.  The human family.  I return dead flowers to the earth.  I can’t throw them away in the garbage..........

love

bright yellow and white.

 

 

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