Old Transportation learned again?

These are some ideas that have been bouncing around in my head. Old and new! Can we recreate them Paul? I think that would be dandy... My desire to revolutionize transportation still exists.

The world is turning.

sitting in San Francisco GlenPark on another sunny morning where music comes from the silence. Hammering into my I need to be productive when my product is working on divinity. Money can't buy me and my spirit will always be free for this reason. I feel sorry for anyone that has over $100,000 sitting in a bank or mutual fund, or stock right now. The ability for money to eat the soul is available as long as we choose to let outer variables of perception influence out personal universe. The entire world lies within your mind and you have the ability to be happy in any moment. Sitting in jail, working a job you don't want to work. Yes, some of these can weigh the soul over time and it is hard to stay consistent with intent when you feel far from your destiny.

For myself I have found solace in this moment, creating what I choose when I choose. Take pride in your freedom and do not let it go to waste. Act free! If you could do anything to bring yourself and your family joy, what would that be? There are many options for expression that we do not have access to in our everyday lives until we find the simplicity of the moment; and then every action after that becomes more intentful. You can teach yourself how to do anything to your best ability. You are your best teacher when you focus your thoughts.

Sending Out My updates for New Years 2011.

Merry Christmas and I hope you have an abundant new year of revelation and revolution in your life. Thank you for keeping in contact with all of these music projects and creations I have been working with. 2011 is an exciting year for me. I am focused and transforming into visions I have had a decade ago for myself. It is quite a unique experience to be in and I want to share and keep you up to date with new findings I come across in life. Please share with me yours as well, as I am finding that I am not the only one in this time being showered with fast learnings and connections. Share on my facebook.com/jancheta2 - Here is the wrap:

So many things happening. New CD in the works, Soulgraffiti.info up and running, new Band, collaborations, shows, and amazing learnings in health and sustainability. Thanks to the wide spreading and growing community of music and health innovators, I am excited to help promote the strengthening cultures onto a website dedicated to producing the best ways to keep these in the forefront of our lives. Please RSVP (justinancheta7@gmail.com) if you want to come to a gathering holistically approaching music and life on December 26^th in Auburn, California. Please bring a food to share and a donation for the great musicians that I will be gathering together.

I am abundantly blessed with so many amazing people. Thank you for being a part of this dream.

Please take a look at January schedule and come out to as many shows as possible and get involved with us! We are looking for bookers, promoters, management, and Friends that care.

Blessings,

Justin

Rant for the night...

 Do not boldly bait yourself for failure by relinquishing your deepest power to provoke your Own spirit. Cradled Duende lying sadly beneath an oak tree. Sit up right afterwards and release your inhibitions. If by any means you cannot find your spirit close by, then look harder. This moment is as special as any. The praise and excitement you find in your day is your power, your richness, your health, your LIFE. No one can say it is for sale or costs a dime. If you think your home, food, life, health, consciousness is in peril because of finding that this time is relinquishing these rights to walk freely on this earth – Then Stand Up and do something!

Make your body wiggle with excitement or glee that YOU are passion. You have been birthed on this earth and faced treacherous boundaries of the unknown to find yourself! – here. We – are – human. Stay human and lets find this moment together.

Viva La Revolucion!

I met Paul from Rock The Bike randomly over 3 times while busking in the city of San Francisco over 4 years ago. I have heard that once you run into someone over three times it is a good idea to stop and get to know that person and see what magic can come from the meeting. Since then I have been involved in multiple Bicycle Music Festivals of San Francisco, toured Utah by bicycle with Shake Your Peace, and joined the Pleasant Revolution in France and Spain. It didn’t all happen at once. I had to warm up to the idea of working my ass off to get to shows. Once I realized that it was enjoyable and there was time to talk and spend time with friends, I found myself looking forward to rides through the mission district of San Francisco, or looking forward to the next day of climbing the coastal hills by the Mediterranean Sea. Every day can be an adventure and a new chapter can be written. I sit writing this while coming back from a show in the east bay by bart, looking at the orange Mundo 500 Electric bike that has helped me transition to being one step closer to carbon neutral.

I am excited to see the future collaborations of musicians and bike culture, spreading and expanding the web of connections that help foster true health and prosperity in every age, gender, and size of a person. The advantage of using a bike for me is the ease of mobility. I always get front row parking, my overhead is literally 1/10 of an automobile, and it brings like-minded folks together to have a good time.

From the beginning stages of my involvement, being asked to play the first BMF of San Francisco 5 years ago and play the first slot at 9 in the morning at the Alemany farm, as well as doing the bike tour to Utah with Cello Joe and Gabe Dominguez of Shake Your Peace, I soon found myself finding more and more close friends in the community that were genuinely great people. I got broken in with a 50 mile ride in Utah that ended up stopping at a camp-out at 2 a.m. in the morning. I thought I’d hit hell boot camp at that moment. However, it was all gravy from there. As hard as it can get, like those days, most are filled with laughing and having a good time with friends and seeing gorgeous views of mountains, valleys, and nature; so much better then the monotonous freeway you see with cars, traffic, cement, and urban sprawl while driving anywhere in the United States. I’ll say it now: I have a vision to help create touring bike trails that can be as expansive as the automobile roads today. They would take up less room, nature would have a chance to flourish around them, and it would be Epic to enjoy such beauty with friends close by.

I remember a great moment from the Spain portion of the Pleasant Revolution. After riding up the face of the Pyrenees mountains, and then back down the south side, winding through back trails of trees, rivers, rocks, and thick forests with mushrooms growing in every nook and cranny, we came across the valley. It expanded our horizon almost as far as the Mediterranean ocean off in the far distance. The grasslands leading to the coast were here. Then all of a sudden a wooded area would appear and we would be back in the tick of a forest area, this time with a huge river rushing by on our left side. When I got to the river there were already 5 naked revolutionaries laughing and bathing in the fresh water. I quickly parked my bike and joined in the frigid dip in the rushing river. It was so cold I’d have to get out quick, but it felt so good I had to jump in two more times. These are the moments that we forget about. Our ancestors had this freedom that we so rarely experience as a culture. This I will not take for granted and protect. I will put this as a priority in my life to share with others. Viva La Revolucion!




1950 Netherlands - Can we do better?

Music & Life.

Music. Thanks so much for the continued support! The show last night at the Red Devil was sold out and I was so happy that you people came out to listen at such a venue where I haven't had that response before. Of all the CD's I had on me, are now gone thanks to you. It has been an interested year of backwards movement from Large band, to more broken down set. However, backwards is not a bad thing. It is actually inspiring me to create new sounds and ideas that I have dreamed about and finally are coming to fruition. To listen to the new stuff - go to www.justinancheta.com - where I will place some new songs very soon. The new album is being worked on as we speak and hoping to come out in 2011 and make some good tours off of it. Good times on the road ahead! Europe & Hawaii, were as unique a tour as you could possibly get (read earlier blogs for some stories on this).



Life. Live. Living to it's fullest. The sun has been amazing here in SF since I got back a week ago and finally it is looking like winter with a new rainstorm here. I am welcoming it in because it seems to ground me to write, practice, and sit meditatively in my home pondering my existence and how amazing it is that I am breathing, free still.

I am still excited about the future and the possibilities of what we can all create Together. I am also weary of the opposite; disconnect and greed seems to push us, family and friends, in the wrong direction. The idea of all for one and one for all seems to be a far off dream of once was. I am living there, feeling the weight of waiting for everyone to jump on board. Thankfully where I live has been showing many signs and teaching me new ways to live together. Here are some new ideas that we have been talking about at Conrad Beach:


Communal living in 2012:
http://sfbackyard.wordpress.com/
Some other communities working on the same efforts. Goals being to reduce overhead and increase quality of life.
If the 4 or 5 houses surrounding the Bus Stop Collective all went in on a place or a block together, with Conrad, We are looking at 40 people at least. 40 x $400 a month is $16000 - What can people have for $16000 collectively in the city? Is it enough for something such as Project Artaud? (http://www.artaud.org/).

Some ideas floating, grasping for grounding.

Joining in the fun revolution

In San Francisco, I am a part of a cultural movement towards sustainable living practices, and I would like to invite all of you to come say hello in San Francisco, or discuss online more ways we can unite a vision of sustainable living in many areas of the world. I am looking for people with open hearts and vitality and passion running through their veins, and I find it in Hawaii, SF, and pockets of cities wherever I go around the world. Barcelona had an amazing amount of counter cultural movement of growth, health, and cultural art preservation.

I am interested in changing the way we look at transportation, learning and wisdom, social evolution, and health. Transportation I see being localized by less intrusive concepts such as bikes, electric mopeds and small vehicles. Schools realizing that numbers are important, but the reasoning behind why we use numbers and symbols, the wisdom, is just as important if not the most important. This would aim society to evolve into a more ethical, less consumeristic mentality, that can foster health and positive growth from a baby to death. Health primarily focusing on the things we eat, our activity and practice of thought and intent on a daily basis. Primary interests in health would be ancient indigenous practices such as Ayurvedic Medicine and Chinese medicine, to Qi Gong, yoga and other forms of movement that deal with physical and ethereal energy transfer. Music is also another for of health for the practice of a clear mind and to clear intentions.

This is just an overview of thought to help spark ideas of Revolution that can happen at everyone's local level. Food, clothes, homes, travel, livelihood, family,... these are all examples of where the revolution begins and spreads like wildfire throughout your body, mind, and spirit, - and continues on into the people you effect in your life.

Just like Ghandi going to the ocean and teaching his people how to find their own salt to stop the injustices of relying on the corrupt system that the english were taxing on local India, we need to find ways to localize our economy so that the people can have their voice against the machine of corporate America that only cares about the top 5% wealthiest. Once the PEOPLE can sustain their own life, then we can demand our services to better reflect the ideals we want to see for future generations of society. Such ideas of a fair political system where both sides are represented with the same amount of endorsement money; where you can vote in the primaries for all parties that might continue on to become a government representative; where permitting for homes and cities is based off sustainability instead of profit. These changes will dramatically make a difference in the ways we can shape the global economy to rely less on corruption and more on accountability, sustainability, and overall health for all generations and classes.

I am fueled by the sharp contrast of amazing moments in my life with grueling long nights in jail wondering if I will be lost forever inside. The pang of injustice was revealed to me and I cannot deny the dichotomy of the first world mindset. We are one with 2nd and 3rd world countries. We are one world. I would like to act this way on a daily basis and be the change I wish to see.