The Cast And Crew Of "Junction 48" Discuss The Film

AQUARIUS October 2020 ⭐️ OMG! Things Are About To Go On a WHOLE NEW LEVE...

The xx - "On Hold" performed on Saturday Night Live

Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria (full documentary)

Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria (full documentary)

Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria (full documentary)

Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria (full documentary)

The Aperturist on Planet Glee

Circle Jerks - My Career as a Jerk

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video) REACTION

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush/Sex Type Thing (Live at Daytona Beach, March...

They sounded so unreal in this set, and  Scott in the dress really helps me listen to some of the words to "Sex Thing.'  It used to scare me, but seeing him in the dress lessens the macho words for me.

Je regarde Le Count Wardal TV Show

Babes In Toyland - Angel Hair

Melvins - Bullhead - 3rd Studio Full Album ��

La Chanson Nightwatch Person et des Guardes de Securite

Beyond Therapy (video edited by Jennifer Glee)

Planet Glee On Fascism, Count Wardal Guests

Economic Update: Understanding Marxism

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Race and Class

Planet Glee and the History of Racism in the USA calendar

Taylor Martinez of Not.Dracula on Planet Glee

Joy Division - Dead Souls

Song "if the People Lead" by Peter James Webster (Rande )on Planet Glee

Goodbye Racism (music video)

Shiva Shambho: Most Watched Bharatanatyam Dance | Best of Indian Classic...

Cheikh Lô - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

WE ARE ONE: A Global Film Festival

DARK SARAH - All Ears! (Official Video) | Napalm Records

Little Richard :::: Keep A-Knockin'.

the human league - almost medieval (per ntne)

Subhumans EP-LP Complete Album

Loose

Cinderella - Somebody Save Me (Official Video)

The Undertones - Family Entertainment

Delta 5 - Peel Session 1980

THE CHATS - SMOKO (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

THE CHATS - SMOKO (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Machine Gun (Live At Filmore East, 1970 / 50th Anniversary)

Public Image Ltd First Issue 1978 Full Album

Fade Away

Jawhar - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

The Queers- Love Songs For The Retarded [1993] Full Album

Not So Quiet on the Western Front (1982) (full album)

La Chanson Nightwatch Person et des Guardes de Securite

So, another May Day has passed, and there were no real demonstrations or acts of workers exemplifying their dedication to the concept of WORK, LABOR, UNITY and CARING.  But May Day week has been great otherwise!!



On Democracy Now! on May 1, 2020, the brave and socially conscious acts of UCSF Medical Staff and supporters were highlighted on today's program!  On Wednesday April 29, 2020 these UCSF workers and supporters 'staged' a 'die in' in the street and sidewalk directly facing the dwelling of the mayor of San Francisco, Ms. Breed.  They were recreating a scenario that is too frequent every day and every night on San Francisco streets; the danger that unhoused people in San Francisco not only face from being unhoused and having no possessions or shelter, to the fact that unhoused people could be housed in vacant hotel rooms in San Francisco.



If the governor of California, Mr. Newsom, is dictating that all Californians remain sheltered in place, how can unhoused people who are unsheltered comply with this rule from humble little Sacramento??  And, since UCSF provides the resources and laboratories for engaging in research to combat the Covid-19 virus, how could their reasonable and honorable demands be unheeded and unrecognized?



The best news is that the city of San Francisco seems to be waking up.  Tonight I spoke with someone who is unhoused, someone, when I was living in the upper Haight five years ago, was unhoused then, and when he would walk by The Love of Ganesha, my place of spiritual and moral urgency, we would talk with him and perhaps look at whatever piece of art he was working on.  So, tonight when I saw him in my neighborhood, and he told me his tent had been stolen, I was overjoyed to hear that the city had promised him a room.  He said he would be in the same place night and day where the city workers from the department that handles the unhoused crisis had told him to be so that they could transport him to his new shelter.



I asked him what he wanted from the store.  He said either a roast beef or turkey sandwich, and I asked him what specific drink he wanted.  I got them for him, and I was thankful to Lakshmi and all the goddesses that I could afford to buy him something.  In the beginning of the quarantine I had donated money through Safeway to mothers with children who were struggling to feed their families.  I asked the cashier if she knew whether Safeway were actually putting the money where it was claiming to do  so.  She said, :That's a good question,'



Now, I can say that I am still disappointed in the city and its handling of the 'artist grants' it claimed to be able to give.  I know, and I know, and I know that I have served the city as one of its recognized public television hosts and content creators.  I'm also a painter, a singer, songwriter, guitar player, and tabla player.  Even Dick Cavett back in the day switched to public television!!  Anyway, I know, and I know, and I know who these 'artists' are in San Francisco who receive money from the city with regard to housing and art studios and other support who are just getting off on themselves and have nothing to say.  I am not one of them, so I suppose I'm not deserving of an 'artist grant,' because I have a very deep education from UC Berkeley, I was a PhD student for two years and an undergrad, and I can read and comment on dense philosophical writing and literary criticism, but since San Francisco awards posers and people with little or nothing to say on the whole, I would rather not receive an 'artist grant,'



I know, and I know, and I know that I am an asset to the language and to other languages I read, speak and write, and therefore, if I had been given a little money from an 'artist grant,' who knows, a lot of it would have gone to feeding my unhoused neighbors on the street.  I hope when they are given rooms that they can also eat.  I also hope that humble little Sacramento defers to San Francisco and Los Angeles in deciding the next steps for handling the Covid-19 virus pandemic and its affect on the livelihood, stomachs, physical and mental health of the populace, particularly those of us who are not housed in large apartments or expensive houses.  Of course, the rest of the state should have a say as well, but the world knows two cities in California, and one of them is not Sacramento.  And, when I say San Francisco, I mean my city and the rest of the little cities around it: Oakland, Berkeley, South Bay, North Bay and the rest of the East Bay, and of course, San Jose.

Elizabeth Warren Impersonation by Connie Bryan

I needed a laugh or two after my week, being rejected for an artist's grant by the San Francisco Mayor's Office.  Do you think they might have seen the shows where I DEMYSTIFY the supposed intelligence of this mayor and her uncertain credentials for public office??  Maybe SHE got an artist's grant, huh?  Why not, nobody knows what kind of job she had before she ran for mayor!  A realtor or realtor's assistant?  A manager at Ross or Marshall's??  Where else could she find those over-sized plus X suits??  Or, maybe a clerk at Sally Beauty, specializing in taming the wave???  No, I think she was a security guard in the Westfield's Mall!!  How else could her 'office' overlook granting (lol) your humble servant on Planet Glee, Jenneefur, a well-known artist in many genres, a little grant for all the free and gratis work on raising the consciousness of the San Francisco public??  Only those who can read could consider me for a grant.  I suppose that solves the mystery; artists aren't supposed to be able to write in English, or French, or German or Spanish, like me.  Oh yeah, that must be it.  I'd rather be able to read and write than play with watercolors!!

The Clash - bbc4 documentary 2014 Quarantine on Earth Day

Another day in quarantine, another opportunity to review history, to think back on times which were hard, to know that things can change.

A New Role and on the Dole?

In the afternoon today, Friday April 17th, I'll be asked to perform for a documentary film on our coping with the Covid-19 virus.  The film is a major extension and expansion of a 3-minute short made for the Covd-19 Film Festival which was begun on instagram and aired a week ago Friday.

Amir Jaffer is the Filmmaker for this project called 'Alone Together.'  I think Amir ses that we are all connected whether we are conscious of this fact or not.  What happens to everyone is absorbed by the collective unconscious of the one and of the many.

I have spent days just dwelling on how things used to be, what kinds of music soothed me when I was feeling trapped, and how I can extend my artistic vision to other forms of art besides, music, performance, and film. 

I have been doing my public access television show, Planet Glee, for almost 13 years here in San Francisco.  It has always been a show dedicated to the expression of Love and Respect for the kindness within every human being.  Planet Glee is a platform for the expression of freedom to choose whom you will be in given situations.  Hopefully, you will inspire others to be equally free to be regardless of classism, racism and imperialism.

This metaphor for a planet yet-to-be-discovered in the universe is Planet Glee.  I remember I was a guest on French American TV here in San Francisco, and Aline the host asked me, 'c'est ton planete.'  No, it's not my planet. I am a communicator for the possibilities that a new planet might bring to the imagination of the artist that is within everyone.

So, since I have received no monetary recompense for having done Planet Glee so long, I have to apply for unemployment insurance just like many people around the world.  So, tomorrow I will do my application online.  I have been working for a formerly successful cat sitting business owned by a woman here in San Francisco.

When she takes a needed vacation, she travels to sub Saharan Africa.  She is, not surprisingly, and animal rights activist.  She goes on trecks to see the animals she loves.  I really admire her for this.

In any case, I haven't been on a vacation in a long,  My vacation from my world is performance and doing Planet Glee.  So, I'll be doing some acting tomorrow for Amir's film.  I'll also be answering personal questions about how I'm coping with the Shelter in Place.  I'll write more about this after we film some time tomorrow!!
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The Stooges' James Williamson - Guitar Moves - Episode 1

Walls Of Jericho - Virgin Prunes

Consuelas de Amor

How much I miss Scarlet Experiment

Back in 2014 to 2015, I was in a Shoegaze project, with guitarist Ian Caporali.  We both lived in the Haight Ashbury, we were neighbors, we both had cats, and we both clicked on creating something from nothing, really.
Ian had several guitars and a bass, but he didn't have drums.  So, he purchased online a computer program for creating drums and bass by plugging in the key and selecting a beat.  That done, he would play these thrilling guitar licks over the bass. 

I had more experience with being in a band, given that I lived with the London guitarist Snakefinger and had fun dancing onstage with the band at the I Beam, The Stone, The OnBroadway and other venues.  I was not stage -shy.

As talented as Ian is on guitar, he had not really played out with his guitar nor had he really any experience playing with a drummer.  I had played bass in the punk band Electric Death Poppies in the early nineties, singing and playing rhythm guitar in my band with my ex, Ron Donabedian in Martyr Mia, and playing out with my tabla in the band Bhakti.

When I and I would get together to play, however, there was no stopping us.  The ideas and melodies just came to me like divine inspiration, haha, and Ian was just wailing melodically on guitar.  All our recordings are one take only.  We would talk about what the song was going to be about, and I would think up the first few lines, and the rest just came to me like I said.

Ian wanted to call his music project Scarlet Experiment, after a meme from the American writer Emily Dickenson.  He didn't want to share the name with me, for some reason.  My lyrics might have sometimes been too political, I don't know.  But he could recognize that we had something happening, and what it was, I just know, I was able to keep the recordings, for the most part.  THe songs where I am singing are my lyrics and melody, but one could say we worked on  the songs together, and I was willing to share.

San Francisco can be a difficult place to be an artist sometimes.  There are people who would rahter see themselves on the stage and not you.  It's very sad to me.  I had been friends with an older woman artist and her husband who gave parties in their carriage house with a lovely stage and pretty packed audiences.  When I asked her if Scarlet Experiment could play the twenty-minute slot at the party, she said, "Oh no, everyone's gonna love you. I don't want that."

And then, I was very much disturbed by what was and is happening to the Palestinians in Gaza, and I wrote a song called 'Gaza City'.  Ian was not that into it, but then it appeared on our Soundcloud page with a picture of President Kennedy being shot.  This was Ian's idea, but as soon as I got to liking it, he took the song down.  I still to this day do not have a copy of this important song.  Ian put together the most sombre lead to 'Gaza Cit'y you would be a robot if it didn't move you.  This was a tragedy, in my estimation.

We started playing with be on bass and him on guitar, and we put together quite a few tracks, but again, there was a problem.  These ambient Shoegaze tracks I think Ian might have somewhere on his computer. 

I should just skip up to today.  Since bein in quarantine, I have revisited the songs and quick videos I made to them.  Today's video is for the song 'Consuelas de Amor.'  IIan's parents are from Colombia. He had expressed concern over the name Consuela bevause it seemed to always refer to the woman who does the cleaning up that no one wants to do.

We had talked about how this song was supposed to go, and he put the bass down.  Then we went for it.  Like always, I had no lyrics written down and everything is improv.  I liked to sing in Spancais, I call it, Spanish and French.  For Consuelas I wrote from the perspective of Consuela,  She says she is breathing for,  'Soy respirando para ti.'  Now that we are in quarantine, I do believe that Consuelas and all people who are doing the 'janitorial' work might have the most difficult job of all staying safe.

So today I posted 'Consuelas' on my instagram with the video of me playing Martha in Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf/'  She is a young 1990's version of the Elizabeth Taylor (who probably never appeared onscreen without eye makeup).  My Martha is young and drunk and confused.  She is not a person of the 1960's. 

In any case. I haven't written in a while, and I know I should write every day.  Today is April 14 th, so I promise to write at least 3 t0 10 paragraphs a day.

Maybe also I should try to recover the lyrics to the songs and post them, too.

Beautiful Amma moments of USA Yatra 2011

Mdou Moctar - Tarhatazed (Live on KEXP)

Amma waving oil lamp and chanting prayers, and Planet Glee is the union of Venus and Saturn, Love and Responsibility

I have been a follower, a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi, Amma of the state of Kerala in India, since 2002.  It's been 18 years of solace and inspiration from a woman who is the essence of Bhakti, the yoga of Love.  She is the essence of compassion, and she is also a staunch feminist!! This past Saturday she led the ashram in Cochin in what is arati, or a fire ceremony.  Everyone chanted, "Lokah samastah sukhino Bhavantu,' for peace and world love and compassion.



Personally, I have not seen Amma at the ashram since 2018, and I miss her terribly.  Today, having seen this short video of Amma's devoted and constant love for humanity, I am reawakened to her power and simplicity.  The darkness within the video is really telling, because the light is illuminating this darkness, just like our empathy and compassion can bring warmth and light to a  world in the USA that is overshadowed by incessant selfishness and self-seeking on the part of the country's current power structure, just like in India.



It was very disturbing for me to see the Prime Minister of India, Mister Modhi, walking around the lush gardens of his palace with the current USA president, a person that Planet Glee considers a person with a disability, actually several disabilities, and the country cannot suffer any longer from the constant disappointment that this person causes due to his deficiencies as a person, a human being, and as a 'leader' of a country as large as the USA.



Amma is said in the is you tube video to be praying for all of India.  Her state, Kerala, is doing okay.  It is, and has been, a Socialist state, however one wants to view that.  Amma has a huge teaching hospital there, and if there will be any scientists who can defy the chemical make-up of the Covid-19 virus, they will come from Kerala, or UCSF, or Paris or Cuba.



When I make food now, I think about India and the absolute lack of food for the majority of the people.  Here in San Francisco there are places for people to get free food, or to buy food at a low coast, (see the video from the Bistro SF Grill on this page). T



Today I went shopping at Rainbow Workers' Cooperative, the first and longest-lasting workers' cooperative int he country.  It is located in the Mission District where Saint Anthony's used to be.  Praise all the gods for Rainbow and the Foods Co which is half a block away from Rainbow.  I didn't buy much food, to be honest.  I usually get my vitamins there.  I did buy some vegan chips, and when I left Rainbow I was eating them while waiting for the bus.



When I got back to my neighborhood near the Castro Theatre, there were people lying on the sidewalk in sleeping bags or with just a blanket of sorts.  There was a young guy who was shaking out his blanket.  I handed him the big bag of vegan chips, and he was like, "Oh, cool.'  I said to myself that maybe I should start cooking for the people in the neighborhood that I have seen over the past few months.



I wonder what Amma would think of that.  I could make basmati rice and veggies, no dead things. like fish and meat and eggs.  Can I afford this?  The rice is not expensive.  It is easy to make.  I can get the veggies at my favorite Mexican market in the Mission.  I am concerned about people who need to keep up their immunity by eating something healthy.  My concern is that they are not able to keep themselves warm if they are starving..



Even health food chips are better than meat and fish.  Yet, when it's cold at night and there's a sandwich with meat in it, it's better to eat the sandwich than not.  I don't know.  When I think of the people in India who were interviewed by Democracy Now! and the fact that many of them said they would rather die of the virus than die of hunger, I am stumped.  How can I help?  What can Planet Glee do?



I think I have to go back and interview the owner of Bistro SF Grill again.  I want to know how their 'experiment' in community consciousness and awareness, community generosity and compassion, their dedication to providing meals to everyone, how this is still working.  I think I will go there tomorrow.  More on this later.

BLOODY MESS + THE SKABS - 6th Grade Field Trip FULL ALBUM 1990

Planet Glee SF

Shiva, Krishna, Radha and Durga!!

I'm so pissed, I wrote three good, long paragraphs in this damned blog, and didn't hit save!!  My piece of crap laptop is a pain to use!!  I used to have a Mac Mini, but now they are super expensive like all the mac computers, too bad!

Anyway, I'm going to have to clean off my desk completely and sit down and write like some people have to do.  When I get going with the writing, it comes pretty fast and fluid anyway, but I was talking about music, which is what I will stick with for a while here.

I used to write about films most of the time, because I saw them as  important creations, and I still do, but I will save that topic for another time.

Tonight I was writing about the 90's in the Mission and Haight Ashbury neighborhoods in San Francisco and some of my favorite bands, like the Sea Hags,Vain, and Celebrity Skin. I have only had two guitar lessons in my life, one from my warehouse-mate Chris Brewster from the Cinnamon Girls and Davey Vain from Vain.

More on this later.  Gotta clean off that desk!!!!

Sea Hags Full Self-Titled Album

Bistro SF Grill on Planet Glee

Planet Glee in the Mission

When I saw Eric playing bass with Polly Jean Harvey in Australia today, I knew I had to say something about Phillip Snakefinger and our warehouse in the Mission today.  More later!!

St. Patrick’s Day on Planet Glee 2020

Horslips - The Snakes' Farewell to the Emerald Isle [Audio Stream]

On the Saint's Day, I found my favorite Horslips' song!!

SLIFT • UMMON (FULL ALBUM)

Ed Sheeran - 'Thinking Out Loud' As Gaeilge!

Planet Glee goes to Jennifer's home country of Ireland for a pop song in Irish by Yorkshire pop star, Ed Sheeran!

SLIFT - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

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Party Guy in Space by Pogo Love Palace

Hello - Babes in Toyland

Mad Season - I'm Above (Live at the Moore, Seattle, 1995)

Count Federico Wardal Fellini 100 on Planet Glee

California Election Guide on Planet Glee

Federico Wardal and Marco Razo on Planet Glee

Mad Season - I Don't Know Anything (Live at the Moore, Seattle, 1995)

Pogo Love Palace, my new band, will cover a Layne Staley song, but I'm not sure which one!  Any suggestions???

25 Years Of Punk Documentary (VH1 All Access)

Bernie Sanders interviews Punks [1988]

JENNIFER GLEE interview 2/9/2020 with REV DEREK MOODY & SISTER TRACY

Federico Wardal and Marco Razo on Planet Glee

All Pier Paolo Pasolini Films Info | Part 2

Babes In Toyland | Live | Holland 1991

Alice In Chains - Again (Official Video)

Patriot Act Bonus: Hasan Sits Down With Bernie Sanders | Patriot Act wit...

Bernie, Bernie Bernie!!

Mad Season - River of Deceit (Live at the Moore, Seattle, 1995)

I have to spend some time writing in this blog about how much I love Layne Staley, just get it out, because there is no one else like him in this lifetime.

Bernie 2020 and Thanks to Iowa on Planet Glee

Fade Away

Alice in Chains Bad Dream bootleg, live in Glasgow March 3rd, 1993.

Alice In Chains - 10-28-93 Layne Staley Guest Programming Rage

Im having a Missing Layne Day!!!

Morgan Morel and Max Langenzepper on Planet Glee LIVE

Kælan Mikla - Live on WLUW 88.7fm

Count Federico Wardals Fellini 100 on Planet Glee

Jason Oliver, Animal lRights Activist on Planet Glee LIVE

Xochihua on Planet Glee

Planet Glee SF

Killing Joke- Requiem

Killing Joke - "Complication" With Lyrics in the Description from the al...

Killing Joke - "Complication" With Lyrics in the Description from the al...

Killing Joke - Requiem live Hellfest 2015

Killing Joke - Requiem live Hellfest 2015

Bruja (SF mission district) live @ Eli's 2017.12.15 (full set) Blackened...