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Very best idea make rules time!
One time I watched a documentary on Philip K. Dick where Robert Anton Wilson was one of the people interviewed. This was before he was dying or whatever. In the interview, Wilson made a show of spontaneously “remembering” something called MK-ULTRA, the CIA mind control experimentation program and he wondered aloud - as though for the first time - whether or not Dick was a victim of this program. The whole thing unfolded probably in about fifteen seconds, and it rang some kind of bells for me when I watched it. I don’t know that I think Wilson was lying or anything, but there was a moment in the video where Wilson had finished talking about this subject of people being unknowing mind-control slaves, paused, and then silently touched the tip of his nose with his index finger. I have wondered about this ever since I saw it. Was Wilson’s body language accidentally conveying more than he meant it to (that he was or is a victim), or was this a classic case of my seeing what I want to see?
What do I want to see?
I have been thinking about why I smashed my cell phone with a rock in my backyard until funny smelling smoke came out of it, but I haven’t even really considered doing the same thing to my iPod Shuffle. The other night gave me an answer: an mp3 player gives me reliable and consistent access to user-selected emotional states (ie, “songs” or “music”). Whereas a cell phone gives you much more “jumpy” or “chaotic” streams of emotional information which also requires a much greater energy outlay to keep track of and respond to. I don’t think after all that in the long run it has as much to do with being accessible or “electronically chained” as I originally thought it. I think it has much more to do with predictability and control of emotional states. Otherwise my life has not been impacted much by it. I still hang out with my friends just like ever, if not even make plans a little more freely and loosely. Which is nice.
Where you are in time-space is only a reflection of what files are important to you right now. As the importance of files increases or diminishes, spatial and temporal changes occur within your field of awareness.
I have been thinking a lot lately (surprise!): why is it that “stream of consciousness” writing is considered “difficult” or “hard to follow” (or even “dangerous” by some readers?!) when it actuality it probably more truthfully reflects one’s internal processes. Because let’s face it, there’s not one of us that in the quiet of their own mind thinks in a totally clear, logical, intelligible and brilliant manner. Most of us are very chaotic inside. Perhaps the “problem” with this style of writing that some people have is that they don’t want to be reflected with how they already are inside. I’m not sure. I will leave it up to those people to figure out, as I am quite enjoying it. It feels very free and honest to me for the time being. And that’s all I can really go on. Somebody emailed me a day or two ago and said “More kind messages, less crossword puzzles.” You do know that this only makes me want to post only crossword puzzles, right?
Here are the lyrics (or part of them) to a Moody Blues song I have been really into lately:
Now you know that you are real,
Show your friends that you and me
Belong to the same world,
Turned on to the same word,
Have you heard?
James Randi is revising his famous million dollar challenge to psychics. Wired reports that the rules of the contest are being modded “to better target high-profile charlatans, and spend less time on unknown psychics, who too often turn out to be delusional instead of deceptive.” I don’t even know where to begin trying to criticize this whole fucking charade, so I will just move on.
The fundamental conflict in the universe is not between good and evil: it is between those who believe Truth can and should be communicated in words, and those who simply *know* that it cannot.
“Intelligent design” is a trojan horse by which science has finally and completely destroyed Christianity as a social movement and spiritual practice. ID theory is nothing more than a re-hashing of Deism, which was the “true” spiritual belief of most of the Founding Fathers (Masons, supposedly) of the United States. In Deist belief, God is basically seen as a watchmaker, who builds the universe, winds the gears up and then lets it function according to Natural Laws, which are then discoverable by science.
The weird black and white squares or “markers” that you see in these videos are unnecessary. They are simply concrete devices to help you understand something which is extremely abstract. They are just a stand-in, a cultural training wheel until we “grow up” enough to not need them. All technology is several years more advanced than it seems, but it is released according to what they think people are culturally, mentally, emotionally and physically prepared for. Every piece of technology you have now is nothing more than a primitive training device for what they’ve already created but which (they think) you’re too stupid to use right now as is without some training (along the lines of the first level or intro to a video game).
When you alter your location (ie, travel or move about), what you are doing is modulating what files you surround yourself with. Think of travel as memory retrieval and the speed of travel as having to do with bandwidth limitations.
I’ve been confused for a while about why there is so much secrecy in esoteric circles around certain subjects, because the closer I have come to those circles, the more I have realized that you simply cannot explain the mysteries contained therein. So the point of vows of secrecy cannot be to keep things secret, because anyone can feasibly access these things. The clues are hidden in everything that exists. There is nothing that exists that doesn’t tell you the story of how to do it. So the point must be something different: to shut you up as you get close. To diminish the strangle-hold that your linguistic consciousness has over your mind.
What argument then do science and intelligent design actually really have? None at all. It’s a phony media campaign designed to finally and irrevocably smash the pillars of whatever secret truth Christianity may have once held. But then, the Church has been trying to cover up those truths for thousands of years (Da Vinci Code? Though that’s only a phoney representation of the secrets they were actually hiding to begin with), so why should that change now that we call it “Science” instead of “Religion”?
In a few years, most of us will openly spend most of our time editing other people’s media for reconsumption. This is already happening.
The other avenue this opens up culturally has to do with the idea of designing things intelligently. That is, designing and re-designing reality (a theme popular with Rushkoff). This will become the primary theme for the rest of our lives, in case you’re not aware. They call it “augmented” or “mixed reality” depending on what regional market you fall into. Fear not though, as both those words will be replaced by new words once people can wrap their minds around the changes that will suddenly befall them because of it. I feel like I need to warn people that within maybe three-five years, you’re not going to know what’s what anymore in reality. But when I really think that through, I realize most of us really already don’t know what’s what, so what will be the difference? The difference will be that the lies will be emboldened by their physicallity.
The Illuminati are not a scientific group, but a religious group. Their many arms, such as Atheist-Humanism, seek esoterically to use Reason as a means of overcoming the ego. Their failing has been only that nobody knows what “Pure Reason” actually is anymore. They have accidentally replaced it with language games and logic rules, when what they are actually after is direct apperception of Truth.
Fundamentalist Christianity is a fraud foisted by science to bring science and religion back together within the public mind. So is the psychedelic movement, which relies in a very materialistic way on using chemicals (ie, products of science’s control over nature) to access states of consciousness. This is why you see so many psychedelic advocates who are darlings of the academic and media establishment, because they serve the purpose of the Revelators. You will see these trends play out even moreso within the culture over the coming years and months. Obscurantists will begin going haywire to combat these people who are replacing the Logos with language and Pure Reason with ordinary logic.
Science denies the elitism of people who are naturally, through their own efforts, or through the Grace of God (or some combination thereof) able to access higher spiritual states. Science is an egalitarian language game designed to diminish the cultural impact and control of people who can access these traditionally religious states on their own. Science seeks to make them accessible to everyone via technology and chemical enhancement; see: Neurotheology and Transhumanism.
You will be trapped forever in a dream world if you are not careful, if you do not do the legwork now, and do not construct a resurrection body.
Scientific luminaries like Isaac Newton who were well-known alchemists plainly prove that science is or was intended to be part and parcel of the alchemical tradition. And if we accept the historical and thematic links between alchemy and ancient gnosticism, then it follows that modern science is little more than a rigorously detailed spiritual discipline devoted to the pursuit of gnosis, which has the interesting side effect of revealing truths about Natural Law and manifesting ideas into the physical realm.
How many years this will take to happen, I can’t say. Maybe five years? But the world is going to look like this. You are going to walk around with an augmented reality device, as well as a variety of devices whose purpose is to record, sort and “index” audio, visual and other information about your experience of life. You will become the spiderbot for Google walking around and “crawling” the physical earth. You will be paid a modest amount for your data-collection efforts. We think of these technologies now as “tracking” and “surveillance” but those terms will fall away and be replaced by terms which more accurately reflect the breadth of cultural change these devices will entail. By way of analogy, you could think of your experience of life as going something like this. You walk around and perceive augmented or mixed reality through your headset.
Most people will eventually gravitate towards *only* perceiving reality through these devices because they add increased levels of richness of information. Then they will of course be implanted and you’ll experience only this world from birth. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Before that time, companies will begin to store fully immersive digital simulations of your entire life experience. Think of it in terms of the online virtual world, SecondLife. The devices which are constantly monitoring you and recording your experience will transmit this information to an engine which will parse it and use it to create a stored 4-D copy of your entire life, from start to finish. At any time you like (if you have enough money), you will be able to access your own memories and fully experience them as though they were happening to you again. You (or the government-company which graciously leases you this technology) will also be able to license content from your life to other users, and be able to directly trade experiences. People who have a certain level of shared or common experiences will form clusters of consensus reality, consensciousness. What do you think your MySpace friends are for? Social networking online? Reality clusters. Who you allow into your shared experience of life. Who you give your world key to. Watch this short instructional music video about MySpace and tell me who has been bought and sold and what we are being trained for with increasingly physical and “real life” metaphors? This reads like nothing so much as a 1950’s government propaganda film for the future of digital life:
Or you could think of it like this: your wife could log on to SecondLife and see (a sim of) you sitting at your desk at work in real-time. She could also project her own sim into your actual space, which you’ll then perceive as “real” thanks to your augmented reality devices. From that stored 4-D copy of your life, you’ll also be able to generate increasingly realistic video feeds of your life, even when no video camera is tracking you. Biometric data from the devices you carry on your person will be mathematically reconstructed and rendered to any media format: video (YouTube), text (MySpace), audio (podcasts), etc.
There will be an immediate and furious backlash against this destruction of human identity, time and space as the outer biological limits of the human mind and information-processing faculties are quickly reached. A resulting planned push towards posthumanism will be made, based upon the arguments that most of our experiences at this point are all completely stored electronically. Ghost in the machine. Uploaded consciousness will be offered to transcend these processing and bandwidth limitations of reality, at which point what we think of as a “human” would be more compatible with what we think of nowadays as a “subculture.” We will consist of language patterns and inter-locking sets of shared experiences.
That is, if you’re weathy enough to have access to all these technological “riches”. Class and status within this eventually AI-controlled technocracy (it couldn’t functionally exist in any other way) will be determined according to the resolution (parity) of your connection to signals transmitted by consensciousness. Punishment for all crimes (which by definition will be disruptions of the proper functioning of consensciousness) will amount to being cast down into a lower realm of bandwidth and resolution. You will have to make do with older hardware and more time spent in meet/meatspace. Many will choose to do this willingly. Most will have no idea what hit them, or when things changed, nor will they notice that we have been prepared for this through media throughout our whole lives.
That, at the moment, is about as far as I can see… But mind you, all I can do is speak in metaphors. And I know I am probably wrong when I try to translate the Logos into language. It is an inevitable degradation of the signal, which is why I have been dancing around things so much instead of speaking more plainly. Because the words are all lies. All of the things that I have described have already happened. It is simply the “human condition” and it only repeats itself again and again. If you want to know the challenges you will face as an authentic human in five years, you have only to look at the challenges you’ve always faced in your life. There is no reason to panic, nor is there reason to rejoice, even though a lot of this stuff seems kind of “cool.” But why do you think these things sound “cool” to you in the first place? It’s because you’ve been prepped for these developments your whole life by the cultural mythology which the AI-technocracy has been foisting on you all along. Which may also mean - if that’s “true” on some level - that the AI has also been transmitting to us the fears we have of it as well: double binds to cloud our minds, trap us in faulty logic and easily manipulable emotional states. Where is the Alien God when you need him?
January 12th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
So should we avoid having much to do with science? Should we take down our MySpace pages?
January 12th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
RAW always struck me as a little strange that way. I think a lot of the time he underestimated who he was talking to..it used to seem a bit arrogant to me but after I time I got the idea he really did think people weren’t aware of a lot of the things he was, and was purposefully downplaying what he knew. So yeah, he didn’t suddenly ‘remember,’ but I think he was trying not to come off as a know-it-all.
January 12th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Your Mind Control statements made me think of a favored site:
http://www.mcstories.com
Not work safe.
January 12th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Figure it out for yourself goddammit! Do not rely on me for anything. The work must be done yourself. I would rather you hate me and disagree with everything that I say than look to me for guidance.
January 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I know, I was just asking what your opinion was.
January 12th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I dont know how to describe it any other way than I already have. I dont think it can be reduced to the questions you asked me.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
it`s happened before……….
the next step is for everyone and everything to be linked together in a submolecular network communicating instantly with eachother (again.) and then the whole thing will start again. some bright few will discover how to expand the consciousness out into the next level of energy state and manifest it`s self into “material” state once again.
it reminds me of the books written about two dimentsional beings. flatland was what it was called. how could anyone concieve of an existance one dimension higher? or lower?
January 12th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
yeah this is what i was getting at in the last post with the ancient indian creation myths of previous worlds
January 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
So.. should I hate you and disagree with you then?!?……. kidding.
I was mistaken to be intimidated away from these stream-of-consciousness posts. And I think you underestimate how coherent your stream of consciousness is. Or maybe the process itself has been making it more so? This is the only one I’ve fully read so far. Anyway I’m still processing it. I think I need to go write till I can’t any longer, right now. Otherwise I suspect my mind will keep me up half the night.
January 13th, 2007 at 5:11 am
non guru guru
January 13th, 2007 at 7:55 am
I find it very interesting that this is about the third blog I’ve read this week mentioning the whole “Science” vs. “Religion” aspect only to realize they’re really not so polarized. The hilarious bit is that this is also brought up in my own blog post for next week on Monday morning.
Very interesting stream, though, Tim. You have a really neat insight that oftentimes helps me to see some of this stuff from a previously unnoticed angle. Good job!
January 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am
“You will be trapped forever in a dream world if you are not careful, if you do not do the legwork now, and do not construct a resurrection body.”
I think this is the most confusing thing I have ever read (here at least). I don’t know what a resurrection body is. A substantial online presence? A personality that can be expressed in digital form? Are those of us who primarily consume and rarely produce to be lain waste in this technotopia, like images on old tv’s that have only weak signals and no audience…
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by (insert your login details and password here)?
Is the era of the individual over, the image of the narcissist dead, and the hive mind rising and shaking like dust our illusion(?) of seperateness off of it’s mighty back?
Because I don’t think its finished, I still have questions and change still terrifies me even though I demand it’s appearence.
But maybe this is how we find out how everything comes from nothing…
January 13th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
yes the clues *are* virtually everwhere, in zen koans, stream of consciousness raves, divination by touch pad, fractal art…ad infinitum
the trillion dollar question is, what’s the coherent frequency, kenneth?
what can survive the impending “technological singularity”?
( hint ) you know the answer by heart
January 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
> science is little more than a rigorously detailed spiritual discipline devoted to the pursuit of gnosis
Sounds about right. All the other stuff you’ve posted here about ID and fundamentalism is a perversion, and gives us real scientists a bad name. A scientist only becomes a scientist when he or she finally realises that you can’t use scientific method to prove the validity of scientific method - to do so, you’d have to assume the validity of scientific method, which would be self defeating. No, you need a higher metaphysics. I explained this to an English student friend of mine at Uni, and the change that came over him was sudden and startling: science suddenly made sense - that was how he’d always seen it, but never how it had been taught to him. All along actually he’d seen the truth of the matter. Artists are like that, I guess.
January 13th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
And no, none of the technology sounds ‘cool’ at all. Sounds like it’s not helping me see anything but what other people are up to (which is, of course, watching other people).
January 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Tim, your quote…
… reminds me of something Eric Davis said awhile back…
I suspect this was the very point of the ancient mystery schools.
It may be what folks mean when they speak of an alchemical reaction: some things simply cannot be conveyed in words, but must be internalized & experienced for the individual to hope to, in Castanedaian terms see, that is, understand…
As always, thanks for sharing.
January 13th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Brilliant prophesising Tim! One way to think of technology is as the replacement of lost powers. Mass culture as peddled to us by this AI technocracy seems hellbent on the total simulation of reality through technology, perhaps this is the final logical extention of any ideas of management and control. Ideas born of derangement, of our humanoid tendency to believe we are separate from our world. As we progress in our global simalcrum we climb an an asympytonic curve as existance is micromanaged on molecular levels and the mass slaughter of free-living beings moves to other planets. The Virtual World created would become the embodiment of our alienation when our conciousness is fully extinguished and God would be disguised as the Universal Computer. Then the world would be reborn with a free thought and another cycle of life and death is played out on the grandest scale.
January 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Uh, no. That’s not remotely what I’m talking about. If anything it has more to do with the opposite. Check out a book by Marie Louise Von Franz: “On Dreams And Death”
I wasn’t trying quite so hard to be difficult this time!
I don’t believe in the hive mind. It has nasty connotations which I don’t think are kosher.
Then I would say that most scientists never become scientists. I am more of a scientist than they…
I’m more inclined to think that the “point” of the mystery schools was to help you practice death while you’re still alive so you don’t get trapped in the dream world when you die. But that other stuff is maybe more of a byproduct? Don’t know…
January 13th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Whoa! What the fuck! I didn’t even know that RAW had died the day before when I wrote this.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercury...rnia/northern_california/16454484.htm
January 13th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Check out this BS about a Microsoft viral marketing hoo-ha. It fairly accurately describes what I’m trying to do here nowadays:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6150036.html
January 13th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Rest in peace, R.A.W. I asked for Cosmic Trigger one year for xmas because I was into conspiracy theories and somehow happened across a cool bookstore that carried it (this was back when the Xfiles was new). I’d swiped Manly P. Hall’s big book from the school library the year before because I figured no one would miss it (the cover and the pictures were amazing, plus it was all about secret stuff and the last time someone had checked it out from my highschool was in 1982). Anyways, I didn’t get to Hall before I got to Cosmic Trigger–the parents came through for Xmas that year (if only they had known the contents!)–it was definitely something else than what I expected. In the preface where he stated that he didn’t “believe” in anything and laid out the dangers of belief that started to change everything in my brain–I didn’t even “believe” (ha ha) it was possible NOT to believe in anything (and sometimes still have my doubts…the sense afterall, hardwire their own “beliefs” in a way)…stayed up for 24 hours straight to read that book. Amazing. Then, I remembered the potential goldmine I’d swiped in Manly P. Hall’s Secret Teachings. Those guys changed a lot in my perceptions and my limitations. In your own way, you do a bit of that stuff, too, at times.
As for Vanishing Point being the first ever game that uses the “actual Earth as a resource for delivering content”…well, sorry to break it to them, but the occult beat them to that by at least 3000 years. When it’s repackaged as a “game” and “just entertainment” to be consumed, then people in these days and times more easily hop to it…that might be a good thing; then again, the packaging can prevent the same people from realizing what it is that they’re really doing and why it might matter for more than just leisure-time activity.
Out.
January 13th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Blargh.
I heard about that Microsoft campaign. I loathe helping perpetuate that viral marketing bullshit by commenting on it, ’cause that only does what they want, which is to ’spread’ the virus…
Nonetheless, I think its worth noting the chief avatar of the campaign is a female named LOKI…
Ya know, the Norse Trickser god…
Not sure the significance, but it is food for thought (at least for me)…
January 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Excellent point. I am inclined to agree.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I agree, and I was raised a Fundamentalist. You can’t convince them though. I didn’t know anybody else had noticed this about the psychedelic movement.
IMHO both movements were sincere in their desire for direct contact w/God until coopted by the PTB.
Thanks for the links, Speedbird. It makes an afternoon spent cooking fun.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Sorry, it’s Sketchmonkey with the quotes today. Too fast for my own good.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Could you elaborate on what you mean by dream world? I understand and agree with the point on mystery schools, but I’m sort of stumped on what you might mean by being stuck in a dream world. Do you mean like Hindu reincarnation into samsara, failing to “escape,” full throttle into the Whateveritisthatiseverything (and whatever that means)? It’s okay if you’re not sure how to word it (”reincarnation” doesn’t really do a good job trying to get down what I mean). I’m just wondering what your track is before I go off running down a million of mine. But it’s not really a hugely important question. I just wondered, when I read the phrase in the post.
And actually, thinking about it now, I’m remembering a ton of similar examples in different cultures/traditions…
I dunno. I see stuff like this as intensifying the individual, instead of breaking it down. I’ve been thinking about individuality a lot lately, and while personality/ego/whatever you want to call it seems like a sheet blowing in the wind, I don’t think the idea of the individual and the idea that All-Is-One are necessarily contradictory. You have many organs that serve many purposes, for example, and they’re all still “you.” Destroying individuality in a hive mindish way would be like having a body with thousands of spleens, but no brain, no heart, no lungs. Which is a good recipe for one sick little spleenmonster.
Not what you meant at all, I know. I just have to throw that out somewhere until I can word it better…
By the way, Tim, I’m really liking the new writing style. I think it “works” better for getting ideas like this across.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
I’m in this little circle of blogs centered around primitivism, most of them link to your site but for some reason most people in my group don’t even seem to acknowledge the illuminati. Or they downplay it and point out how “incompitant” elites are. They have this fantasy I guess that the crash of civilization will be this big leveler and no one will be in power anymore.
I guess you are enlightened now Tim. Now I know someone who is. It was cool to watch. I guess you are unreachable.
I feel like I can see it happening with me but I kind of hold back. I don’t consider myself enlightened, but I seem to think differently than most people, I see manipulation going on all the time. I see peoples reality being controlled.
The only opinion most people have on any given thing is the one that has been given them. I think even primitivists are part of an illuminati plan.
Ted Turner made Daniel Quinn. So now these memes are circling around according to plan. I see reality as a series of concentric circles. People see the cicles inside theirs but not the ones outside.
January 14th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Hear, hear, DarkWood! I’ll have to check out your post on the matter.
I’m so relieved you said this, Tim, because I agree with that. Oh, and sorry for being annoying.
I agree that bad science give real scientists and science a bad name, speedbird. Also, your second point intrigued me — I’d never though that you couldn’t use the scientific method as proof for the scientific method. I believe in the validity of the results obtained by the scientific method — in fact, I’d say those results are the only ones we can say constitute shared truth, as opposed to what’s just “true for me”, etc. However, I do not believe any method can give us total perfect insight into real truth, and that the scientific method cannot prove anything of a spiritual or metaphysical nature — or of an ethical nature. You’ve given me a lot to think about, speedbird.
January 14th, 2007 at 6:05 am
> Then I would say that most scientists never become scientists.
I agree. There’s a heck of a lot of charlatans out there.
> … total simulation of reality through technology, perhaps this is the final logical extention of any ideas of management and control.
This reminds me of McGregor’s ‘The Human Side of Enterprise’, in which he makes a good argument why management by direction and control will always eventually fail.
January 14th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Good. Me either.
You’re not being annoying.
I don’t know - they probably just picked an “interesting-sounding name” out of a hat and there you have it. I doubt there’s much more to it than that.
January 14th, 2007 at 9:44 am
manipulative? everything is manipulative……….just not necessarily as the manipulator would wish.
January 14th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I’ve been reading some Mark Pesce the past week. Sort of like Darkwood I’ve been noticing what seems almost like a coordinated surge in technoshamanist and science vs. spirit related content on the web in 2007. It has stirred in me a growing suspicion that it is technology and science indeed that will pull us into some sort of singularity. For in a physical universe, wouldn’t it be logical for its inhabitants to become master manipulators of the physical, to the point where we could even seed life on other planets? Just look at nanotechnology, and the evolution of information sharing. This whole anti-progress vibe Tim espouses seems like it could be an outgrowth of his Gnostic roots. In any case, to me he sounds kind of worried. Is the sky falling, or is the earth rising? It would appear that the Borg already has me in its clutches.
January 14th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
What the? Where exactly did I say that I am anti-progress? This is news to me. I do however feel that “progress for the sake of progress” is not progress at all.
January 14th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
“not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness
—electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born—pity poor flesh”
hmmm sounds like secondspacetube to me
go e.e.
January 15th, 2007 at 5:56 am
You didn’t; I was talking about the general vibe of your blog. However, a vibe is a subjective impression on my part and not something you, Tim, can “espouse”, as I incorrectly suggested. Forgive me for the false implication. My impression stands, though. Sometimes I feel like mr. Boucher has been replaced by a grumpy old man (tongue-in-cheek).
January 15th, 2007 at 6:31 am
What?
January 15th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Uranus is in Pisces and Neptune is in Aquarius…
Things will ramp up this year in a ‘we’re just about to plunge into something really big’ sort of way, the something really big will be immediately with us next year and things will be at maximum tension in mid-2010
help create the world
don’t let us destroy it
January 15th, 2007 at 7:34 am
“What?” is a puzzling query, lacking reference. Perplexity or offense; either be misplaced. Tis a mere meme I raz, not the real T.B. I’ll aim for restraint henceforth.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
“On Dreams & Death” is available used at Amazon starting at $79.63. Anyone know where I can get ahold of a copy for not quite as much?
January 15th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
What? (hehe)
January 16th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
While not advocating, necessarily, the destruction of your ipod, one should be judicious in one’s drowning out of the music of one’s surroundings. “Reliable and consistent access” is programmed access. Even when wandering around in noisy civilization, the universe is making music for you that is very likely more moving and important (if not always soothing and beautiful) than that Ween mp3 downloaded last night and recorded 15 years ago.
If you can’t hear it, John Cage can help you out. I dream of being in the audience at that first performance of 4′33″. The crowd becoming outraged at the silence, coming to a near riot and making the piece something akin to Expressway to Yr Skull. Of course you probably couldn’t even get that reaction anymore. Just some coughing, sighing and people politely walking out. Still, that has a hell of a beat, too.
Oh, and then there’s this machine that can even mediate your immediate surroundings into a beat:
I totally want one! I am definitely a programmed access junkie. Wanna borrow some of my John Cage cd’s?
January 16th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
My link didn’t come through so I’m trying again.
And here it is for pasting and copying in case my incompetence has reared its ugly head yet again:
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/12...man-that-makes-music-from-sounds.html
January 16th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I agree.
Interesting. I imagine this is one of many small steps towards a totally immersive augmented reality experience. Imagine this same thing happening with all of your senses but rendered by an AI so as to still be somewhat intelligible and to not get you hit by passing cars…