City of Legends

The video is done and on YouTube: DARFUR (Jesus Wept) is my political, theological and sociological statement regarding the richest, most powerful society in the history of the world that is too busy diverting itself with wargames against imagined enemies, justified in the blood and suffering of citizens here and abroad, while real crimes against humanity take place in the Darfur region of the Sudan. You can click here to view it, go to YouTube to see it, or I will be posting it as a MySpace video later.

The images are all, I have been lead to believe, public domain images. If anyone discovers otherwise, please drop me a line so I can sort any problems out. I think this is a bigger issue than someone’s toes being stepped on, and I certainly am not doing this for money.

The song itself is on my CD NEMICORN, available at the City of Legends Bookstore or at Lulu.com.

By the way, this is the 1,502 post made to this blog by myself or E.J. This means the “Spanish Lessons” post was 1,500. Wow.

For those of you wondering when the band and I will be shuffling some of the cuts we are featuring on MySpace under our page William F. DeVault and the Gods of Love, the answer is as soon as Jaz makes up her mind on which, if any, of the tracks from last week’s podcast she’d like to see enshrined in the wonderfully easy to get to space.

My old friend Michael Burch has a marvelous site for poetry called The Hypertexts…if you go there and click on the link “For Darfur”, you will find a selection of excellent works by various contemporary authors on the subject of that human rights (and human life) kill zone, including mine own “DARFUR (Jesus Wept)” and a link to I and the band’s recording of same.