This is not what you think! I listened to this show last night on NPR while driving home from my brother’s house. What I heard was nothing short of fascinating! I fully intend to work aspects of this into my next book.
Listen for yourself and see what I mean:
WNYC - Radiolab: Pop Music (21 March 2008)
Truly, amazing.
JMK
Buy me coffee! Sphere: Related ContentI’ve recently recorded a new song (loops + me playing bass) and decided to set my 2nd “official” YouTube trailer for my book. Enjoy!
JMK
Buy me coffee! Sphere: Related ContentThat’s right, this is the official video trailer for my book Five Years in Hawaii: A True Saga of International Adventure and the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community.
The book is curently available as an $8 download, or as a very nice jacketed hardcover for quite a bit more. In roughly 8 weeks the book will be available via Amazon.com (ISBN: 978-1-4357-6034-9) and other online retailers. Hopefully by October the book will also be on the shelves of bookstores in selected markets.
For more information on my book Five Years in Hawaii, visit lulu.com or click over to the Read My Books page of this blog—the link is just to the right there.
JMK
Buy me coffee! Sphere: Related ContentI bet, unless of course you’re one of my more loyal readers, that you’ve still never heard of the SoSan. Most Americans seem to have never heard of her, of this you can be certain. Had more of us been aware of the story of North Korean merchant vessel SoSan, we would never have allowed much of what has occurred in this nation since 9/11 to have happened.
Suffice it to say that the SoSan was secretly carrying WMD capable missiles from North Korea to Yemen (remember the USS Cole?). They were intercepted and boarded by the Spanish Navy, at the request of the U.S. Government, and then redirected to a U.S. controlled island known as Diego Garcia. Small victory, right? Wrong. A few days later the Bush Administration gave the missiles back to Yemen, even though they had signed the NPT prior to this, and despite the fact that we had been attacked by terrorists there before!
Anyway, the bottom line is that I can’t tell the entire story in a single paragraph. That’s why I’ve created the trifecta! I’ve written a song about the SoSan, called Merchant Vessel SoSan, and it seems to be doing fairly well on MySpace as well as other websites like SongVault. In the Alternative Audition charts for the latter site, the song recently moved into the top 40, making #33 after spending days at #52.
Made the top 40!
The song is entertaining and informative, but not as informative as the second piece of this triple threat. I wanted to shore up the song with a factual representation of the events that occurred with MV SoSan back in December of 2002. I also wanted a way to request accountability for the (typically) failed policies surrounding this incident. So, I produced an 11 minute video that explains who I am and then tells the story of the SoSan.
At the end I ask questions of both presidential candidates as well as of President Bush. I also admonish Mr. Bush for his tendency to lie to Americans and let him know how I feel about this nation’s Commander in Chief as a Veteran of his command. If you are a member of the Current.TV community, please help me to spread the word about MV SoSan by voting my video up!
The third piece of this trichromatic look at a historical travesty will be a theatrical (bear in mind that I have EXTREMELY limited resources) music video to go along with the song. The intention is to marry the music with the informational video in an entertaining yet still educational way. Hopefully by approaching this project in three parts I will expand my audience and broaden the base of knowledge with respect to North Korean merchant vessel SoSan.
Take a look at what I have so far and don’t hesitate to leave comments!
JMK
Good luck to all U.S. athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics!
Buy me coffee! Sphere: Related ContentI’ve been busy with some of my side projects the last few days, and so have not been able to provide my full attention to the blog. As a result I am posting things like this video. It’s just for fun, really. But it will keep my blog from drying up completely before I return to the helm! Enjoy!
JMK
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