________________________________________________________{SUN -CORNER:At home there's a sun-corner where spring quietly stirs. Dripping all day long. Clear drops from the snow-rim, they reflect both good and bad in their brief fall, and are shattered. The sun is a hot cataract.In that sun-corner, where you were born - it's those drops that should mirror you, and wet your lips, pure from the snow-rim and right into your heart.It's in that faint smell of spring moisture you should fall asleep. That call you should heed. There, everything would feel right.It's all moving downhill. Everything's oozing toward a distant goal, on its way to the sea. An unknown sea inside a dream. All of spring's sorrow is heading there. All thoughts spiral there and then disappear.Your childhood sun-corner is where you are when the call sounds.-- Tarjei Vesaas -- -- - - } ________________________________________________________Ume Onigiri and Cold Green Tea. My cat and my bike.Music, Film, Art, Photography, Fashion, Theory, Altered States of Consciousness, Wikipedia.org, Sitting Around Bullshitting, Aquiring Equity, Good Food, My Health, Meditation, Momentum. Clarity. ________________________________________________________ "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." -- Rachel Carson
California Attorney General Jerry Brown ____________________________________________________________ ____________ And: Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies," "Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," and most recently, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
Alice Coltrane, Bjorn J:son Lindh, Vetiver, Jorge Ben, Masabumi Kikuchi, Nucleus (Yes, the HipHop group, but also and especially the Euro Jazz/Rock Band), Il Volo, Eric B and Rakim, Broken Social Scene, Medications, Hollertronix, Lyrics Born, LCD Soundsystem, Cut Chemist, PJ Harvey, Freakwater, Early Man, Cat Power, Earth, Blackbyrds, Murcof, Mike Ladd, Mulatu Astatque, Fela Kuti, Leon Thomas, Gary Wilson, Milosh, Telefon Tel Aviv, Blonde Redhead, Laika, Stereolab, Broadcast, Kas Product, Mum, Aterciopelados, Ugly Cassanova, Sebastien Tellier, The Floyd, Syd Barrett, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Cymande, Caetano Veloso, Lalo Schifrin, Johnny Otis, Niagara, Heldon, Gnarls Barkley, Umod, Funkstorung, Diplo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Fennesz, Kraftwerk, Gang Starr, Richard Swift, ESG, Daedalus, Amon Tobin, Dani Siciliano, Curtis Mayfield, Can, Beefheart, Dublab, Image Bulletin, Tubeway Army, Blow Up Blow, !!!, Fourtet, Automato, Project Blowed, Fila Brazillia, Marc Moulin and Placebo, Sam Prekop, Gabor Szabo, Chrisma, The Clash, Lo Borges, Radiohead, Iggy and Stooges, Miles Davis, Royal Trux, King Tubby, The James Gang, Captain Beyond, Flaming Lips, Sea and Cake, Hieroglyphics, Omega One, Pep Love, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Tony Allen, Dorothy Ashby, Annette Peacock, Tom Ze, Z-trip, RJD2, Burning Spear, Congoes, Jorge Ben, Bernard Purdie, Terje Rypdal, Cinematic Orchestra, Phoenecia, Motorsoft, Television, Melvins, Soft Machine, Debussy, Satie, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Bobbi Humphrey, Howlin Wolf, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Mos Def, The Colourfield, A Certain Ratio, Quasimoto, Madlib, Matmos, Echo and the Bunnymen, Procussions, Boards of Canada, Atmosphere, Wagon Christ, Mano Negra, Manu Chau, Manu Dibango, Lijadu Sisters, Crash Worship, Sensation's Fix, Gong, Gorillaz, Throwing Muses, James Chance, Sonic Youth, Fun Boy Three, Love and Rockets, Pixies, Sugarcubes, Yusef Lateef, Cedric IM Brooks, Mingus, Monk, Mouse on Mars, Magazine, Grant Green, Sonny and Linda Sharrock, The Meters, Medeski Martin and Wood, My Bloody Valentine, later Talk Talk, earlier Van Morrison, Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, Parliament/Funkadelic, Betty Davis, TRex, Bowie, Zappa, Zeppelin, Rush, Jandek, Grace Jones, The Slits, The Raincoats, whatever... "Life's a Bitch", by the Nas, "All is Full of Love", by Bjork and all of their remixes...
An Inconvenient Truth, Half Nelson, Fracture, The Science of Sleep, Sin City, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Fists in the Pocket, Unknown White Male, A Scanner Darkly, Batalla en el Cielo, Kingdom of Heaven, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, The Fog of War, Crazy Stranger (Gadjo Dilo), Genghis Blues, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Apocalypto, Z Channel - A Magnificent Obsession, Jesus is Magic, Thank You for Smoking, The Ground Truth, Stay, Exterminating Angel, The Aristocrats, Fania All-Stars: Our Latin Thing, Inside Deep Throat, Ong-Bak, The Protector, The Phantom of Liberty, Night Watch (Russian "Nochnoy Dozor"), Beats of the Heart: Spirit of Samba, Partner, The Passenger, Peter Jackson, Izo, Le Magnifique, I Heart Huckabees, Last Days, The Jacket, Ma Mère, Bad Timing, Fingers, The Beat that My Heart Skipped, Novo, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood, Producing Adults, Four Brothers, Reconstruction (Danish/Swedish), Gozu, Away with Words, Last Life in the Universe, Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring, Code 46, Rude Boy, Baby Snakes, Shoeshine (Sciuscia, in fact any De Sica), Sullivan's Travels, The Return ("Vozvrashcheniye"), Style Wars, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Ascenseur Pour L'Echaffaud, Amores Perros, C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous, Fantastic Planet, Zatoichi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Naked, Space is the Place, Ghost World, Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2, Ghost Dog, Bourne(s), Sex and Lucia, Rockers, Bad Habits, Miller's Crossing, Big Lebowski, Fassbinder, Antonioni, Kubrick, Crumb, Wild Style, Angel Heart, Angel Dust, Scratch, Donnie Darko, Unknown Pleasures, Dans Ma Peau, Morvern Callar, La Jettee, 12 Monkeys, 101 Reykjavik, Triplets of Belleville, Shawshank Redemption, Persona, Cinema Paradiso, Brazil, Hero, Iron Monkey, Minority Report, Microcosmos, Lost in Translation, City of God, Suicide Club, Versus, THX-1138, Don Juan (Or if Don Juan were a Woman), Almodovar, Bigas Luna, Herzog, Tinto Brass, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Tokyo Drifter, Fireworks (and anything Takeshi Kitano), Do the Right Thing, Breaking Away, Minus Man, Behind the Green Door, Mumford, Henry Fool, Catherine Breillat, Maya Deren, anything with Myrna Loy.
Planet Earth, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House MD, Samurai Champloo, Conan, Drawn Together, Cosmos, IFC, Sundance, The Science Channel, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Ali G, Chapelle's Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, Strangers with Candy, Upright Citizen's Brigade, SCTV, Lost, 6 Feet Under, Craig Ferguson, Cheap Seats, Discovery, National Geographic, History Channel.
"Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mockingbirds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds into a ten-minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art."Tom Robbins, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Paradise Burning, CrimethInc., L'Enfant De Sable, Radix, Helen Caldicott, The God of Small Things, Fast-Food Nation, Reefer Madness, A Scanner Darkly, Phillip K Dick, Autobiography of a Yogi, Joyce Carol Oates, Italo Calvino, Strange News From Another Star, Borges, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Junichiro Tanizaki, Vonnegut, A Confederacy of Dunces, Geek Love, The Fuck-Up, City of Quartz, Oliver Saks, Terry Eagleton, Baudrillard, Julia Kristeva, Content, Les Nuits Fauves, Tripmaster Monkey, 1421 The Year China Discovered America, Octavia E. Butler, T.C. Boyle, Germaine Greer, The Fermata, Stanislaw Lem, Assia Djebar, Cruddy, The Master and Margarita, Ceremony, Things Fall Apart, Red Azalea, Richard Brautigan, Kafka, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Fortunate Son, Waxpoetics Magazine, yaddee-yaddee-yaddee...ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE"I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky.I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms.I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace."--Richard Brautigan
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