I'm no t here.: 2009

Some downloadable Watts:

Images of God -Part I
Images of God -Part II

Trey Parker & Matt Stone- Alan Watts "Prickles and Goo"

"Myth, then, is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: "Where did the world come from?" "Why did God make the world?" "Where was I before I was born?" "Where do people go when they die?" Again and again I have found that they seem to be satisfied with a simple and very ancient story, which goes something like this:"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour-hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night,waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can't have any one of these without the other, because you wouldn't be able to know what black is unless you had seen it side-by-side with white, orwhite unless side-by-side with black."In the same way, there are times when the world is, and times when it isn't, for if the world went on and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes. Now you see it;now you don't. So because it doesn't get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It's like your breath: it goes in and out, in and out, and if you try to hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It's also like the game of hide-and-seek, because it's always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn't always hide in the same place."God also likes to play hide-and-seek, but because there is nothing outside God, he has no one but himself to play with. But he gets over this difficulty by pretending that he is not himself. This is his way of hiding from himself. He pretends that he is you and I and all the people in the world, all the animals, all the plants, all the rocks, and all the stars. In this way he has strange and wonderful adventures, some of which are terrible and frightening. But these are just like bad dreams,for when he wakes up they will disappear."Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that's the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn't want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever."Of course, you must remember that God isn't shaped like a person. People have skins and there is always something outside our skins. If there weren't, we wouldn't know the difference between what is inside and outside our bodies..."~ Alan Watts from "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are"

The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

Purposelessness

Alan Watts

The Clean

One of my favorite bands from the golden era
of New Zealand Dunedin/ Christchurch Flying Nun
have an album out via Merge Records,
you can stream it and if you like it
order it here

I'll Let This Video Speak for Itself

A Dramatic Reading

of a real break up letter from a real person #7083

via

The Dude Doesn't Abide

via boing boing

"AUDIO EMBED ABOVE: Two trolls on ham radio, one identified as "G-K," the other as "Robert" or "R-J" overheard accidentally on August 29, 2009, while surfing first responder frequencies during the August 2009 Los Angeles wildfires. The two men argued with each other about various technical subjects of interest to radio ops, then discussed drugs and past jail time, then notes on an Andy Griffith show marathon, then torture they'd like to perform on each other in great detail because they hate each other so much. Stay with it.

Technical note: sorry about the audible LOLs -- a friend held the scanner in their lap, and I held my iPhone 3Gs above the scanner, using "voice memo" app to record the audio. None of us could contain ourselves."

Nice, Nice, Baby.

"I got the rag top down so the hair can blow..."

01 (3:47) K7 -Come Baby Come
02 (3:24) House of Pain - Jump Around
03 (3:45) Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince -
Boom! Shake The Room
04 (4:03) Arrested Development - People Everyday
05 (3:46) Apache Indian - Boom Shack-A-Lak
06 (4:11) A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?
07 (3:13) De La Soul - Magic Number
08 (3:46) P M Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
09 (3:29) Salt 'N' Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex
10 (3:20) Heavy D and the Boyz - Now That We've Found Love
11 (2:57) E.Y.C. - The Way You Work It
12 (4:28) E17 - House Of Love
13 (4:14) M C Hammer - U Can't Touch This
14 (4:29) Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
15 (3:23) Oui 3 - Break From The Old Routine
16 (3:38) Dream Warriors - My Definition of a
Boombastic Jazz Style
17 (4:24) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel -White Lines
(Don't Do It)
18 (3:19) Run DMC - Walk This Way
19 (3:56) Naughty By Nature -
Hip Hop Hurray
20 (4:20) N.W.A. - Express Yourself
21 (3:27) Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina

Fear of a Black Penis

You better wrap that shit up B.
(10-1 on the Vh1 Top 100 Hip-Hop Songs)
Kinda sad but I won't say Don't Worry Be Happy -
"Damn if I say it you can slap me right here"

Check out Rosie Perez
in the opening titles to
Spike Lees "Do the Right Thing"
(a truly great flick)
set to P.E. "Fight the Power"
ROPE-A-DOPE!

that's some powerful shit.

"Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
MotherFUCK him and
John Wayne..."

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

Salt N Pepa - Push It

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin & Juice

The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy

N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

Grandmaster Flash - The Message

Run D.M.C. & Aerosmith - Walk This Way

Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang

The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

Public Enemy - Fight the Power

Set ADrift on Memory Bliss...

I always rock Pumas (say what?)
never rock FILA...
I do not sniff the coke
I only smoke the sensimella...

Can I Kick it?

Deal with it.

This is missing a few but, hey, it's all
about the benjamins and I ain't makin' any
and it ain't costin' you any.
(but you can stream 'em in the player, player.)

It's All About The Benjamins
Puff Daddy & The Family (feat. Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim and The Lox -

Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now?

Tribe called quest - Check the Rhime

Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance

Ice Cube - It Was a Good Day

The BeasTie BoysHold it, Now Hit it

MC Hammer - U Cant Touch This

Fugees - Killing Me Softly

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Outkast - B.O.B

Naughty By Nature - O.P.P.

Afrika Bambatta - Planet Rock

Kanye West (feat. Jamie Foxx) - Gold Digger

Ice T - Colors

5o Ct - In Da Club

Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back

Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On

Eminem - Stan

Tupac - I Get Around

LL Cool J - I Can't Live Without My Radio

Jay Z - Hard Knock Life

10 more to go... and we outta here.

apologies to the mean query

mediafire was givin' me fits so in typical
wuss-like fashion i gave up the ghost after
a feeble number of attempts, but the hip hop
countdown will resume this afternoon...

Three Feet High and Risin'

Boogie Down Productions My Philosophy

NAS - One Love

Young MC - Bust A Move

De La Soul - Me Myself and I

Geto Boys - Mind Playin' Tricks

Method man & Mary J Blige - I'll Be There for You...

50 cent Hate it or Love it
(Hate it or Love it but I Don't Got it)
---Stream it upstairs tho.--

Roxanna Shante - Roxanne's Revenge

Tone Loc - Wild Thang

Coolio - Gangstas Paradise

Rob Base - It Takes Two

Nelly - Hot in Herre

Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love - Ladies First

Cypress Hill - Insane in the Membrane

Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads

Kick Out Tha Jamz Muthafucka$

I'll be seein' that ShimmyShimmyYa
dance in person in two weeks up in
Montucky courtesy of NastyNathAnathema
my favorite member of H.W.A. (Honkeys
With Attitude)

Ol' Dirty Bastard Shimmy Shimmy Ya

Ludacris What's Your Fantasy (Feat. Shawna)

Big Daddy Kane I Get the Job Done

Busta Rhymes Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check

Terror Squad Lean Back

MC Lyte Cha Cha Cha

The Lox ft Lil Kim n DMX Money Power Respect

Foxy Brown (feat. Jay Z) I'll Be

Doug E Fresh The Show

Lil Wayne Tha Block Is Hot

Wussy Gee (is admittedly) The New Jack.

HipHopHooray!
Tell 'em what time it is
WUSSY-G
The countdown continues...

UTFO Roxanne Roxanne

2 Live Crew Me So Horny

Chubb Rock Treat 'Em Right

Pm Dawn Set Adrift On Memory Of Bliss

Three Six Mafia It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp

DMX Ruff Ryders' Anthem

Arrested Development Tennessee

Cold Crush Bros The Cold Crush Brothers at The Dixie

Big Pun (feat. Fat Joe) - Still Not a Player

Lil' Kim (feat. Lil' Caez) Crush On You

EPMD You Gots to Chill

Black Sheep The Choice is Yours

JJ Fad Supersonic

Whodini Freaks Come Out at Night

3rd Bass Pop Goes the Weasel

Common I Used To Love H.E.R.

T.I. What You Know 'bout That

Mase Feel So Good

House of Pain Jump Around

Spoonie Gee Love Rap

The Roots What They Do

Kid n' Play Rollin' With Kid n' Play

Digable Planets Rebirth of Slick

Slick Rick Children's Story

LL Cool J I Need Love

wussyG's up!---Ho's Down

makin'muthfuckaz bounce to this...

It's kinda hard bein w-u-s-s-y- G. but
Some HOW Some WAy
I Keep Comin Up with FunkY assED Shit like every SINGle day...

NOTE: the next link is a countdown spoiler!

Actually, most of these predated the program "Yo MTV (actuallyVH1) Raps!",
came after or do not/ did not fit the rap idiom... but
whaddaya want for FreeDollaz?

Just a Friend Biz Markie

Get Low Lil' Jon & the East Side Boys

Regulate Warren G.

Who's That Girl Eve

Parents Just Don't Understand DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Cars that Go Boom L'Trimm

Make 'Em say Ugh Master P

Lapdance Nerd

You Can't Play With My Yo Yo Yo-Yo

Ridin' (feat. Krayzie Gone) Chamillionaire

They Reminisce Over You Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

Oh Boy Cam'Ron

What You Waitin' 4 Jungle Brothers

We Trying To Stay Alive Wyclef Jean feat Refugee Allstars

Now That We Found Love Heavy D & the Boyz

Definition Blackstar (Mos Def & Talib Kweli)

"Cloud Hidden Whereabouts Unknown"

(A place, if it isn't,
that sure looks a lot like Lone Tree)

One of my favorite trails on the
western slope of Mt. Tamalpais near
San Francisco is called Lone Tree.
Five years ago I was living in a town near
there called Stinson Beach in a cabin without
electricity.

I would ride over the mountain on my bicycle
or get a ride up the "hill", as the locals call it,
on the West Marin Stage(a bus) if I was feeling lazy,
to "Pantoll" campground/ ranger station
(Lone Tree starts west of there) and race down into
Mill Valley to do the laundry that was
in my backpack, get supplies, and
be social, as the cabin could seem a little
isolated at times.

I would usually take Lone Tree on my way back
home. The trail was pretty dangerous (especially
with a stuffed 3000 cubic inch internal frame
backpack with an extra compression sack tied on)
The trail is a quasi(?)legal single track that
turned into, in some places, two feet deep ruts
that were difficult to avoid going into. The
incline was so precipitous that it
was difficult to imagine any four wheel drive
vehicle, going the opposite direction, being able
to make the climb.

It was a nice long, pay-off ride down
to highway one, especially if you didn't "stack"
(California-speak for crash). The trail leg alone was
probably twenty plus minutes and once I hit
the road probably another 15 into Stinson
Beach.

I remember only "stacking hard" once. I won't go
into the details of why I wrecked; suffice it to say
that it could have been avoided had I been not doing
the "wrong thing". That's all that needs to be said
about that.

(this footbridge was a few minutes walk from the cabin)

Sometimes I would stay over night
on a friend's futon in Mill Valley
that was out on the
"three season porch" as they call them
in non-Mediterranean climates, that is
connected to the back of his house.

The futon was conveniently located
near my benevolent friends washer and dryer.

Depending on the time of year
there were pears, persimmons, plums or
apricots that I would enjoy in the mornings
before I would head back to the beach,
or before hanging out in the downtown
"square", or heading over to work in
the east bay.

Long Time Gone Crosby, Stills & Nash

At Home He's a Tourist Gang of Four

Flowers on the Wall Statler Bros.

Northern Sky Nick Drake

Games Without Frontiers Peter Gabriel

Even Better Than the Real Thing U2

Love is the Seventh Wave Sting

Modern Love David Bowie

Low Cracker

Soul Kitchen The Doors

Your Song Elton John

I'd Like That XTC

The Edge of Forever The Dream Academy

I Would for You Jane's Addiction

Just Like a Woman Bob Dylan

Wasted on the Way Crosby, Stills & Nash

...beyond belief

mere tricks of the parlor

hear wrong at sight.

Beyond Belief:

History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies the same defeats
Keep your finger on important issues
With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues

I'm just the oily slick
On the windup world of the nervous tick
In a very fashionable hovel

I hang around dying to be tortured
You'll never be alone in the bone orchard
This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel

So in this almost empty gin palace
Through a two-way looking glass
You see your Alice

You know she has no sense
For all your jealousy
In a sense she still smiles very sweetly

Charged with insults and flattery
Her body moves with malice
Do you have to be so cruel to be callous?

And now you find you fit this identikit completely
You say you have no secrets
And then leave discreetly

I might make it Californias fault
Be locked in Genevas deepest vault
Just like the canals of mars and the great barrier reef
I come to you beyond belief

My hands were clammy and cunning
She's been suitably stunning
But I know theres not a hope in Hades
All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle
So-called gentlemen and ladies
Dog fight like rose and thistle

Ive got a feeling
I'm going to get a lot of grief
Once this seemed so appealing
Now I am beyond belief

(repeat chorus)

"History doesn't repeat itself men do"

Stoned & Dethroned

Some videos from some bands that had quite
an effect on me when I first discovered them.

The Cult "Revolution"
From the Album "Love"

The Jesus & Mary Chain "Never Understand"
From the Album "Psychocandy"

Love & Rockets "No New Tale to Tell"
From the Album "Earth, Sun, Moon"

Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
From the Album "The Sky's Gone Out"

The Cure "In Between Days"
From the Album "The Head on the Door"

All Over The Place

Built to Spill In Your Mind

The symptoms of our getting older,
the problems that say we don't mind,
most of us never get over
memories mingled with lies.

Coincidence gave a confession,
that no one's allowed to forget,
I don't want to give the impression
that predestination is set.

And distance will increase the danger,
with certainties never enjoyed.

Regarded as equal yet stranger,
ignored, then embraced, then destroyed.

Observing the process will change it,
afterwards even if you
subconsciously rearrange it,
it doesn't seem any less true.

The remnants of fog disappearing,
and even transcending concern,
disturbing but somehow endearing,
conditioned to never unlearn.

And no one can tell me to listen,
and no one can tell me whats right,
cause nobody has my permission,
and no one can see in your mind,

in your mind, in your mind, in your mind.

The magnifications explore,
there slowly emerges a pattern,
and details you normally ignore,
you notice really what matters.
there isn't a time or a place,
only an ebb and a flowing.

A permanent repeating space,
occurring, connecting, and growing.

And no one can tell me to listen,
and no no one can tell me what's right,
cause nobody has my permission,
and no one can see in your mind,

in your mind, in your mind, in your mind...

Scott McKenzie
If Your Going to San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

Billy Bragg & Wilco
California Stars

Wolfe Parade
This Heart's on Fire

A.C. Newman
Miracle Drug

Def Leppard
Photograph

Foreigner
Hot Blooded

Hall & Oates
Method of Modern Love

Devo
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Be Stiff

Jerkin' Back n Forth

Uncontrollable Urge

Duran Duran
The Reflex

The Smiths
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Jolly Good Fun!

As my best mate Nathanathema will attest, New Zealand's Flying Nun Record Label is a perrenial favorite of mine. He will attest, that is, unless he's feeling a bore or a boar; one never knows with that one.

Gotcha!

A return to some of the (personal) classics
older and...
less older.

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want The Smiths

Love My Way The Psychedelic Furs

Can't Hardly Wait the Replacements

Here Pavement

Round n Round Ratt

One Thing Leads to Another The Fixx

Feel the Pain Dinosaur Jr.

Love, In Itself Depeche Mode

For Real Okkervil River

Lost in the Plot The Dears

Baby C'Mon Stephen Malkmus

Everyday is Like Sunday Morrissey

Achin' to Be The Replacements

Disappearer Sonic Youth

Stupid The Long Winters

Backwater The Meat Puppets

Touch Me, I'm Sick Mudhoney

You Are a Runner and I am My Father's Son Wolf Parade

Oh, This Old Thing?

A .Pee Dee Eff of Huxley's Heaven And Hell

In "Heaven and Hell" the companion essay to
"The Doors ofPerception"the famous sojourner
of the psyche, Aldous Huxley, refers to the
antipodes of the mind. The metaphor refers to
the regions not normally occupied during "normal"
states of consciousness by the statistically normal
person, so-called. Bringing on the "non-ordinary" states
can be achieved by meditation, mold (taken deliberately
or inadvertently) or by other drugs with psychotropic
effects or an incidental organic imbalance
of the physiology of unknown origin etc (e.g. schizophrenia).
These antipodes can be cast in a brilliant effulgence and
perhaps make manifest nirvana (heaven?) or the ersatz feeling
of the self-realized mind state, or contrariwise, a visit to
these nether regions can, in the case of a "bum trip",
make one feel as though they have entered into hell,
depending on various factors regarding the apprehension
of the inhabitants and objects, according to one's given
perception.~K.

A Flurry

Another time another blog.

"Music as wallpaper; marking time as well as
providing texture to the autobiographical.
Symbolic and nostalgic and not unlike a mild
drug that was reflexively taken, promptly forgotten
and then suddenly remembered only after
the onset of an unmistakable symptom.

Mostly enjoyed due to an association with an
event, a person, a dance or...

now only a feeling translated into,
not a particular memory, but the
inchoate estuary between now
and then..."~K.

O Shooting Star

Ride the Darker Wave- Sebadoh

Lacking Strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for
asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of spirit
is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself
untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures
it and maintains itself in it. It wins its truth, only when
in utter dismemberment, it finds itself. This tarrying with
the negative is the magical power that converts it into being.
G.W.F. Hegel "Preface" to Phenomenology of Spirit

DEATH

"There stands death, a bluish distillate
in a cup without a saucer. Such a strange
place to find a cup: standing on
the back of a hand. One recognizes clearly
the line along the glazed curve, where the handle
snapped. Covered with dust. And HOPE is written
across the side, in faded Gothic letters.

The man who was to drink out of that cup
read it aloud at breakfast, long ago.

What kind of beings are they then,
who finally must be scared away by poison?

Otherwise would they stay here? Would they keep
chewing so foolishly on their own frustration?
The hard present moment must be pulled
out of them, like a set of false teeth. Then
they mumble. They go on mumbling, mumbling . . .
.................................................

O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
Not to forget you. To endure."
R.M. Rilke

I Really Couldn't Help Myself

I know, I know...

Sara
Fleetwood Mac

Sara Smile
Darryl Hall & John Oates

be nice or I'll post the Starship one :)

Of Memes and Men

Talking to, and reminding myself here, of course,
paraphrasing a quote I once heard from Joseph Campbell
who once said, "Americans, if given the option to learn
the truth, or attend a lecture on truth, they invariably
attend the lecture."
This most probably applies to nearly everyone.

"The trick to learning a new paradigm is to set aside your
current one while you’re learning rather than attempt to
fit the new knowledge into your existing model."
Richard Brodie
Virus of the Mind

The Brain Eaters
the lexicon is very entertaining

"What the thinker thinks, the Prover proves". - R.A. Wilson

Once, a man found Mulla Nasrudin searching for something on
the ground outside his house. On being asked, Nasrudin replied
that he was looking for his key. The man also joined in the
search and in due course asked Mulla: "Where exactly did you
drop it?"
Mulla answered: "In my house."
"Then why are you looking here?" the man asked.
"There is more light here than in my house," replied Mulla.

Far Right to Toggle FullscreenPrincipia Discordia

Fuck Amazon!

One day, one of Mullah Nasrudin's friends came over and
wanted to borrow his donkey for a day or two. Mulla,
knowing his friend, was not kindly inclined to the
request, and came up with the excuse that someone had
already borrowed his donkey. Just as Mullah had uttered
these words, his donkey started braying in his backyard.
Hearing the sound, his friend gave him an accusing look,
to which Mullah replied:"I refuse to have any further
dealings with you since you take the donkey's word over
mine."

There is an ineffable common denominator
in these 80's songs that tend to make me
feel glad all over (well almost all over).
With a few exceptions I didn't actively
listen to or even enjoy most of the songs
on this list when they were current; now,
however, the circumstantial happenings,
or simple zeitgeist associated with them tends to
make me quite fond of them, as well as
even more embarrassing songs
that have been excluded (for now).

Need You Tonight - INXS (download)

Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins (download)

Only The Lonely - The Motels (download)

Keep Feeling (Fascination) - The Human League (download)

Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle (download)

Is There Something I Should Know? Duran Duran (download)

I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen (download)

A Love Bizarre - Sheila E (download)

Rock Me Tonight - Billy Squier (download)

Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung (download)

"And life is grand
And I will say this at the risk of falling from favor
With those of you who have appointed yourselves
To expect us to say something darker
And love is real
And though I realize this is not a deep observation
To those of you who find it necessary
To conceal love or obscure it, as is the fashion"
~"life is Grand"
Camper Van Beethoven

Watch Family Guy: Blue Harvest (a couple of minutes of another Family Guy episode)

download
Show Me Some Emotion - The Hoodoo Gurus

download
Tenderness - General Public

download
Careless Memories - Duran Duran

"Your Dissappearin' Act, Well, That's an old Standby"

and so is the title and quotes herein;
this hopefully does
not diminish their "meaning" and import...

On a compromised anonymity:

Relying on other's words, admittedly, serves
as bit of a prophylactic, so to say... but may
they serve that purpose, for now at least, as I
find no affinity, at present (if ever anymore)
for the gift (read: illusion) of original thought
and more particularly it's conveyance.

However feebly, half-hearted and ham-fisted
I attempt to force fit the borrowed words the,
perhaps, out of context, ambiguous metaphor here,
coyness- real, feigned or even imagined there,
the cliches, the over-riding lack of structure
throughout, and not to forget the
ambivalence masquerading as a ruse(or visa versa).
I am sure as can be, dear reader, you will not
be able to help taking all of this as you please;
including and possibly especially this admission,
in spite of, or even despite, all the might of a
forced empathy.

With this held (loosely i trust) in mind:

Second Skin The Chameleons

One cold damp evening
The world stood still
I watched as I held my breath
A silhouette I thought I knew
Came through
And someone spoke to me
Whispered in my ear
This fantasy's for you
Fantasies are "in" this year

My whole life passed before my eyes
I thought
What they say is true
I shed my skin and my disguise
And cold, numb and naked
I emerged from my cocoon
And a half remembered tune
Played softly in my head

Then he turned smiling
And said
I realise a miracle is due
I dedicate this melody to you
But is this the stuff dreams are made of?
If this is the stuff dreams are made of
No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air
Everywhere
It feels like I'm everywhere

It's like you fail to make the connection
You know how vital it is
Or when something slips through your fingers
You know how precious it is
Well you reach the point where you know
It's only your second skin"

By Way of A Postscript:
Many times do I consign these weakly held
opinions to the ether with a mere keystroke...
in favor of the words and music of others.

"...an important but partial truth was blown all out of proportion by an overestimation of the power and importance of the self...
the new-age notion that you create your own reality (actually, psychotics create their own reality)"~ Ken Wilber.

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ~attributed to Robert McCloskey (State Department Spokesman)

(But then, who could fault you, my friend.)

text message with revisions for clarity(?):

*
"By way of disclosure "he" (the author)
has an altogether not unpleasant fever
and is much disposed generally to dilletantism
and pedantry with respect to ersatz existential-
ism- exascerbated by said "petit mal"

The rest should be explained albeit
insufficiently so, in the author's
ambiguous ramblings (bespeckled with
no little amount of sophistry)and yet
other - (to my mind) more obvious meaning
still should be gleaned osmotically- if
the reader is so inclined."

"And if you want to be free, all you have to do is say so..."

(Hall and Oates.)

Anything Could Happen American Analog Set (cover: the clean)

"Went to a doctor, said I look so hard
and with a smile on his face put him into a junkyard
Look for an answer in empty doorways
Talk to a dancer, said it's out on the highway

Well anything could happen
and it could be right now
and the choice is yours
to make it worthwhile
Anything could happen
and it could be right now
and the choice is yours
so make it worthwhile

Well come on doctor, won't you gimme a shot
I'm feeling cold boy, feeling hot
Doctor said no boy you gotta learn
First don't shoot up and then it's your turn

Make the cancellation and I got numb
I haven't the motivation to get myself a gun
Look for an answer in empty doorways
Talk to a dancer, said it's out on the highway

Well here I am in the big city
I got no heart and I got no pity
Can't you see I'm on the run
can't you see I'm not having any fun

Anything could happen
and it could be right now
and the choice is yours
to make it worthwhile
Anything could happen
and it could be right now
and the choice is yours
so make it worthwhile"

Kundalini Express Love and Rockets

"This is an announcement
For the transcendental run
The train now standing
Leaves for higher planes
Due to a derailment
There will be no other train
So why not hop on this one?
Hear the porter's glad refrain

Each carriage is connected
As is every single train
The rails all form a track
Which is a link within a chain
The chain's connected to another chain now
You will need no ticket
If you wish to ride on this train

All aboard the express kundalini
All aboard the express kundalini
All aboard the express kundalini

The song is in your heart
Your heart is in the song
The song is of the earth
The song is of the sky

You are disintegrating
Into everything around
Reintegrating
The worm we dug from higher ground
You have let go of ego
Ego is no longer you
Closer to nirvana
Since the porters whistle blew

All aboard the express kundalini
All aboard the express kundalini
All aboard the express kundalini"

Are We Ourselves? The Fixx

"Lost feelings return
So now maybe I can learn
To stop the world of a lie
This time around
Are we, are we, are we ourselves
Are we, are we, are we ourselves
Because seen through these eyes
We lead a double life
No one would know
So check it out
Stepping out
Here I go
Are we, are we, are we ourselves?
Are we ourselves?
And do we really know?
Most spirit returns
Now maybe we learned
To stop this whirl of a lie
To this earth we are bound I ask you...
Are we, are we, are we ourselves?
Are we ourselves?"

What a Fool Believes The Doobie Brothers

"He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool dont see
Tryin hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life...

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
Theres nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees..."

That's What You call Dalliance?

If You were hereThompson Twins (mediafire)

Transmogrification:

"I'm trying, I'm trying (not to) drink away the part of the
day that I can't sleep away..."

and a dedication to a
Black Haired Girl - Sebadoh
Hey, little girl how long's it been?
The air is thick and you're still thin
My mind is blank so fill me in
What kind of trouble I've got myself in
Black-haired gurl, head full of lies
The truth is all up to you tonight
I read the letters that you sent
Your perfume well won't catch me again
Oooooh, hoooooooo-oh
You don't care 'til you compete
For the affection that you cheat
I read the letters that you sent
Your perfume well won't catch me again
Hey, little girl how long's it been?
The air is thick and you're still thin
My mind is blank so fill me in
What kind of trouble I've got myself in now

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