Listen:

The M.I.A music video for "Born Free" is fucking amazing, appalling, and fucked up!

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Listen:

Your Love Means Everything Part 2 (Feat. Chris Martin) - Faultline

Listen:

Pros:
Joanna Newsom's songs have incredible instrumental construction.
Joanna Newsom's songs have great lyrics

Cons:
Joanna Newsom's songs have Joanna Newsom's voice.

Solution:
Covers! I found the most delicious cover by Final Fantasy ---- oh lawd.

South America

I went on a shopping spree today. I bought two very comfortable and light pair of woven pants (red and yellow), a bright blue FANNYPACK (called a banano here in Chile), this amazing pair of orange pants with a fanny pack built into them, and these really cool leather green sandals made in Chile (they seriously need to be broken in.. it's hard leather and I already have 3 baby blisters on my right foot)

Listen:

Le Baron.Exilio

Read:

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
by Phillipe Bourgois