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This week on Indieoma we consider if things might just be an awful lot better if there was no money, with an exploration of the freeconomy movement and a range of moneyless tips and tricks. Julia Indelicate talks about “no budget” D.I.Y in music, while while Artrocker’s Ric Rawlins takes a wry look at struggling as a penniless freelancer as well as checking out the other side. I review Mark Boyle’s freeconomist text; The Moneyless Man and offer advice on how to beat the

As part of Indieoma’s double-feature about money, our fiction writers take the first look at what it means to suddenly find your idea of wealth overturned. Luck, indeed, is mysterious, and these stories look at it from all angles. Karim’s two landscapers trade dreams of making it big, only to find these perceptions challenged in the face of tangible wealth. Antoine tells the story of a man on the verge of a life-altering change as he contemplates his fortune. Next is Dann and the tale of a h

by Gustavo Galindo I once went to a poetry reading and heard a poem where the author was talking about Los Angeles and how for once she would like to hear a poem about L.A. without the word “dream”. I thought that was great because this is the city where dreams are inescapable. Every waitress is an actress, every busboy is in a band, and every 2nd prettiest girl from their small mid-west town comes, in search of quenching their ambition and testing their resolve on those famous boulevards. Six

‘Nonetheless, all of our creative labors tend in the opposite direction: all human effort is object-oriented, and aims to create objects that stand apart from us with a kind of unique integrity.’ Graham Harman Open Ideas presents the second of its editions on Aesthetics as Graham Harman’s explains ‘why he likes Quai Branly’, the controversial French museum of indigineous art and cultures and Tom Gokey dialogues with Mike Watson on art’s political capacity.

Lest we forget the fire, ash, and plane delays of this spring, Indieoma seeks to commemorate Eyjafjallajökull and the havoc it brought us. Indieoma’s fiction writers take inspiration from mythology and danger, and the words behind that hard-to-pronounce troublemaker (Eyjafjallajökull is, after all, the Island Mountain Glacier—see http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/eyjafjallajokull-the-musical/ for an enlightening musical number) inspire characters to act. Farryl gives the story of vol

We are probably at an historical high point in terms of ‘Conspiracy’. Even the most rational of people subscribe to a least one shady theory, aside from the obvious one’s; Diana, Kennedy, 9/11, Roswell, etc. These days we barely expect business, government and the media to behave themselves: This edition’s team of journo’s, writers and theorists asks ‘What becomes of conspiracy, when the whole world is crooked?’

Indieoma kicks off 2010’s FIFA World Cup with our own opening ceremony. Kathleen starts off with a family and their long-held tradition, watching the World Cup each time it comes along and cheering on Italia. Next, Indieoma is excited to introduce another new fiction contributor, this time Antoine with the story of a young boy shining shoes and selling souvenirs outside the stadium. Farryl tells how World Cup soccer defines one girl’s family, while Racine returns with another installment (ill

Bonnaroo, first created in 2002, has grown from a “jam” band music festival to an eclectic international musical encounter. This year marks its first ever all “Latin Alternative” stage and tent. Curated by the folks at Nacional Records acts include Indieoma favorites such as Ozomatli and Mexican Institute of Sound. We got commentaries from Edson Sanchez of Rock en Houston() and Zuleny Garcia of Houston as well. Also La Banda Elastica guest commentator Cindy Casares, who i