Save The Chimps!!! (By Listening to Buena Vista Social Club)
As I was doing my daily perusing around the internet I stumbled upon an article that shocked me. It read
At first I clicked on the article expecting an article that would finally tell me that chimpanzees are just furry dwarves with hands for feet (something I always suspected after watching videos like this one)
But what I found out in the article was even more frightening than a chimp getting a haircut. According to scientists, via WIRED magazine, the chimp population has now reached critical levels. In recent years the number of chimps has fallen from 10,000 in West Africa to only a couple thousand. I was appalled by what I had read and immediately needed to get a hold of the situation. To help put things into perspective I listened to a band I had just discovered a band called Buena Vista Social Club. A collection of all the great Cuban artists of the 40's and 50's they joined together in the late 90s with slide guitarist Ry Cooder to form this Cuban Super group. Their afro-cuban beat helped me put things into perspective and realize that I can't do anything about the chimp population, but I can dance like an idiot in my apartment to "Candela". So to help you forget your worries I am putting the song up here for your enjoyment. Dance away.
Chimps: Not Human, But Are They People?.
At first I clicked on the article expecting an article that would finally tell me that chimpanzees are just furry dwarves with hands for feet (something I always suspected after watching videos like this one)
But what I found out in the article was even more frightening than a chimp getting a haircut. According to scientists, via WIRED magazine, the chimp population has now reached critical levels. In recent years the number of chimps has fallen from 10,000 in West Africa to only a couple thousand. I was appalled by what I had read and immediately needed to get a hold of the situation. To help put things into perspective I listened to a band I had just discovered a band called Buena Vista Social Club. A collection of all the great Cuban artists of the 40's and 50's they joined together in the late 90s with slide guitarist Ry Cooder to form this Cuban Super group. Their afro-cuban beat helped me put things into perspective and realize that I can't do anything about the chimp population, but I can dance like an idiot in my apartment to "Candela". So to help you forget your worries I am putting the song up here for your enjoyment. Dance away.