World View

Too much seriousness again. So time for anothe fun quiz. What is your world view. It might make you think or throw up. Either way, it has produced something.

As for myself - Cultural Creative. But then, I rigged the game...

Power Words

Loss.
Intent.
Magic.
Expectation.
Understanding.
Present Moment.
Suffering.
Truth.
Consequences.
Pain.
Memory.
Lust.
Love.
Let Go.

These are just mine. Please add more of your own in the comments section.

The concern to fix a moment in time undermines the moment. A moment of process is that process. When fixed, the process ends. We move "downwards" through the worlds. This means the possibilities open to us close. We are left with a photograph, or a recording, but not the event. For some people, the representation has a greater reality than reality.

Robert Fripp – June 10, 2000

This is one of the reasons why I rarely consent to video-taping or photographing certain events where I would rather be a full participant. Most of my relatives are angry because I wouldn't take pictures during their wedding ceremonies, this even though they had a professional photographer and many other family members were also taking pictures or videos.

Corporate Droning Tentacles

I have a really difficult time reconciling what seems to be two seemingly opposing experiences in one body : listening to Ozric Tentacles in the car, blasting it really loudly, and being a good corporate working drone.

One seems to be a letting go of ego and the other seems to be of keeping ego in check, which is simply another way of not letting ego go.

Who's Side Are You On?

I don't think the U.S. is really on anyone's side except its own anymore (if they ever did at all).

Bash! Bam! Kapow! Splurt!

You'll never look at comics the same way again.

Dream 7

Fear of a black planet.

Then I wake.

The Ultimate Police State

"In a sense, we’re policing ourselves and that’s the ultimate police state, where people are terrified of challenge."

J.G. Ballard from an interview in the summer of 1997.

Communication Breakdown

Although I love Led Zepelin, at one time the soundtrack to lust, actually finding out about this stuff kind of puts a little damper on things. Not much really, but enough. Ah, I'm just naive.

A list of some of the songs Zep stole from other artists:

"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" - A folk song by Anne Bredon, this was originally credited as "traditional, arranged by Jimmy Page," then "words and music by Jimmy Page," and then, following legal action, "Bredon/Page/Plant."

"Black Mountain Side" - uncredited version of a traditional folk tune previously recorded by Bert Jansch.

"Bring It On Home" - the first section is an uncredited cover of the Willie Dixon
tune (as performed by the imposter Sonny Boy Williamson).

"Communication Breakdown" - apparently derived from Eddie Cochran's "Nervous
Breakdown."

"Custard Pie" - uncredited cover of Bukka White's "Shake 'Em On Down," with lyrics
from Sleepy John Estes's "Drop Down Daddy."

"Dazed And Confused" - uncredited cover of the Jake Holmes song (see The Above
Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes).

"Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" - uncredited version of Bukka White's "Shake 'Em On
Down."

"How Many More Times" - Part one is an uncredited cover of the Howlin' Wolf song available on numerous compilations). Part two is an uncredited cover of Albert King's "The Hunter."

"In My Time Of Dying" - uncredited cover of the traditional song (as heard on Bob Dylan's debut).

"The Lemon Song" - uncredited cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor" - Wolf's publisher sued Zeppelin in the early 70s and settled out of court.

"Moby Dick" - written and first recorded by Sleepy John Estes under the title "The Girl I Love," and later covered by Bobby Parker.

"Nobody's Fault But Mine" - uncredited cover of the Blind Willie Johnson blues.

"Since I've Been Lovin' You" - lyrics are the same as Moby Grape's "Never," though the music isn't similar.

"Stairway To Heaven" - the main guitar line is apparently from "Taurus" by Spirit.

"White Summer" - uncredited cover of Davey Graham's "She Moved Through The Fair."

"Whole Lotta Love" - lyrics are from the Willie Dixon blues "You Need Love."

I'm not listing covers that the band credited to the actual authors ("You Shook Me") or the less blatant ripoffs (the "Superstition" riff in "Trampled Underfoot").

Delta Of Venus

The other strange thing I've found in my travels through the blogosphere is the amount of sex blogs. You know the ones. Where bored housewives write about secret dirty encounters and bored husbands post nude photos of themselves. They're almost as scary as the hot christian chicks. But not quite.

Food Of The Gods

Just one word today: Chocolate. It's been that kind of day.

Dream 6

I'm in a Vietnamese restaurant. I'm the only non-Asian in there and I'm ordering food for take-out. Everyone is eyeing me threateningly, with avarice. The staff and patrons are looking at me with open hostility. I try to avoid eyes and concentrate on the artwork on the walls but look around very often. The food seems to be taking too long. I am feeling very paranoid and afraid. As I look around, one very beautiful girl seems to be less angry with me. But as I stare at her a little longer, I feel as if she is attempting to lull me and then put a spike through my heart. I wake.

Hot Chicks

Following up on an earlier blog, during my travels through the blogosphere I can't help but notice how many of these new-born/new-found Christian chicks are really hot...I mean, it is a far greater percentage than that of the goth chicks or sensitive poetry chicks or new soccer mom chicks. Anyway, I just found it curious is all.

Notice: If you found the above message offensive, please note that the message says more about it's utterer than it's subject. And it also says more about the offended person than the subject represented. In fact, it says almost nothing at all about it's subject. This is a reality that most of us are unable to comprehend. And if we could, there'd be lots less self-righteous anger and violence around.

Fault

Three ways to discover our faults: ask a friend; ask an enemy; recognise a fault in others.

Robert Fripp

Music Of The Spheres

Music, music, music. If only I had the talent I would be playing some weird combination of Crimson, GYBE, David Sylvian, Shakti, The Hip and Zeppelin with a hint of interstellar space or maybe early Tangerine Dream and a dash of Miles. I think I need to get me a keyboard and just start creating sounds.

An Uncommon Affliction

“…they were very cheerful and friendly and I avoided them strenuously.”

An Unexpected Light - Travels In Afghanistan by Jason Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 394.

An uncommon affliction. I seem to do the same, preferring even more so to be by myself most of the time. Or at least to be in silence even while next to someone. “I’m not afraid of your silences,” she said to me and I fell in love and married her.

The Story So Far

“…a journey was a kind of story in itself, providing one had the will to read it, just as a story too could be a journey, providing one had the experience to bring to it, and both found their mark differently in different people.”

An Unexpected Light - Travels In Afghanistan by Jason Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 290.

The Self Made Man

“He is not concerned with acquiring powers but of uncovering something already within.”

Jason Elliot on a Sufi. An Unexpected Light - Travels In Afghanistan by Jason Elliot, Picador, London, 1999 - page 270.

Guitarzan

Robert Fripp was born today (in 1946 I think).

I thank his parents (both natural and spiritual) for his music and his writings.

Happy Brithday!

Enriched

I had a conversation recently with a colleague on bringing value to our lives that doesn’t involve enriching our employer to our own psychic detriment.

Couldn't be done, we concluded.

And there, we just did it.