solipsistic NATION No. 113: Koyaanisqatsi

Sometimes it sure feels like everything is going to hell.We’re simultaneously dealing with an economic meltdown, water shortages, the rising cost of food, peak oil, global warming, the sixth wave of mass extinction, dead zones in the ocean, islands of trash the size of Manhattan floating in the sea, terrorism, sanctioned torture, increased government surveillance and much more. It makes me reel to think of it!

Bruce Sterling once said that we’re all on the Titanic. The ship is sinking but hey, the music’s great! I put together this week’s show in that spirit. Maybe everything we’re hearing in the news is overblown, maybe we really are at the end of the world, but I got some tunes to kick out the jams!