Warning!  This entry contains nothing about health care, global warming, Michael Savage, Chris Mathews (or any other talking head, for that matter).  It is barely political.  It's about a musical discovery...all good music is political, MHO.  So read or not:  it just something I wanted to share with a anyone who's interested.

I'm a Pandora addict, and I have been for several years now.  The music genome project seems to work, at least for me.  I have about a dozen stations seeded with this, that or the other artist who appeals to me--everything from Oscar Peterson to The Weavers to J. S. Bach.  The stations present music which shares attributes with the seeds, and often I'm introduced to performers I've not heard before.

I may have been about the last person around who hadn't heard of Ben Harper.  Pandora introduced me to his music and I became an instant fan; not of all his stuff--he's practically uncategorizable, but enough to go hunting for more.  Pandora plays what Pandora chooses to play, so to get my Ben Harper fix I went prowling to YouTube, where I found lots of stuff, including the song which hooked me in the first place, Picture of Jesus, which popped up on my Ladysmith Black Mambazo station. 

There were many versions, mostly mashups with soppy sentimental pictures of the kind which do not decorate my house.

And then there was this one;



I was simply blown away by the video--I've watched it over and over.  To me, the match is perfect, and my appreciation probably explains a lot about me, including why I favor open borders and human diversity.  I think I would rather know any one of the persons in this video than any CEO of any financial institution with a hyphenated name.  I would rather have them for neighbors.  So I wanted to introduce them to you along with Ben Harper's music, if you haven't heard it before. 

(I might say also that I would answer "I use music" to the question What do you Do to Curb the Anger?)