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Journal: Sayulita to Guadalajara

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

By David Kupfer
The Pleasant Revolution is all about promotion, promotion of adventure, person to person cultural exchanges, bicycle values, freedoms found by biking, bike powered music, backwoods California rock and roll. So many kids and adults were and are inspired by the music and the message and the mission that is impossible to calculate the [...]

A Day in the Life of La Paz

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

We rocked La Paz for a few days doing some bicycle-powered shows at a bar called Salsipuedes and the central gazebo on the malecon (boardwalk).  But it’s often the spontaneous performances that bring the most joy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn5Ohy72ifw

Mr. Cheney’s Video Ode is Done

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

We finished the vid. Biggest props of all to my bio-pops Ed Montgomery for producing and carrying it through over the past year.

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Cheney Really Needs Love Now

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Did he do it on purpose? Is the media over-reacting? Was he drunk? Who knows. All we know is that he needs love more than ever, now, and our upcoming video is coming along to show it.
My bio-pop has a music and video studio in Brooklyn, so we came here to film the rest of [...]

Dick Cheney Video Preview

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Since IJ is heading off to Africa for who knows how long, we figured we’d better snag footage of his parts of the upcoming video before he left. We got some great footage of him plugging his mic into the meadow yesterday and edited down a little teaser tonight. If you haven’t heard the whole [...]

Everyone Deserves Bikes, Too

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

The Xtracycle makes three brief appearances in Spearhead’s new video, “Everyone Deserves Music.” Two of the three are in under-the-scene supporting roles. All are brief, but the vid’s cool. It’s not really coincidence, since the lead singer, Michael Franti, is on Team FreeRadical.