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before 2:10AM, JUL/18/2008 -
KSCR Los Angeles (stream): David Vandervelde - Track 02

before that-

spider with seven legs
subliminal marketing by

beverage brands (governors)

glass shards on the hardwood

floor where my elbows rest

this isn't classic rock, boys

and girls

computers for my generation

tell us the e-coli in Empire's

water has been cured, please

reality is the video game

of the brain, and in

dreams you're at the theatre

without heart-stopping butter-

bathed popcorn crunches

apply for credit on-line just

because you're bored.

must corrupt my

corruptions

to harvest

favorable

vibrations.

google is

a word

they made

up to flip

your lips

into jib jab

mode.

cigarettes

don't taste like candy

anymore, they taste better

than candy.

don't get me wrong, i like

google-ing, and i love computers.

don't get me wrong!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2:25AM!!!!!!!-

KSCR Los Angeles (stream): The Hello Sequence - All Of These Things

Before 2:25AM-

I'm just doing stuff. That's what I do.

Imagination for the Immediate

Immediately I struggle to find words to blog about. I just received a facebook message from my old friend, Ian. A link to a music project of his and a friend, called Sam Dip. The music was entertaining and I would like to hear more of their collaborations. It's strange to think about friends of the past, and whether or not you can still be friends with someone you've only conversed with through the internet for several years, not really even remembering when the last time was that you saw them in person. It has got to be at least four years since I've seen Ian in person. I like that I can still make contact, and the internet has made such contact very much a convenience.

A moth is crawling around on the wall beside me. Earlier, it was circling the top of the lamp shade, as if it was just there doing its little dance to warm up and soak in the light bulb's energy for a few minutes.

I really want to get back on top of my life. Right now that might start by going to bed and calling it quits on this blog! I've got to work at 4:00pm so there isn't much of a rush, but it will probably be best to lay down sooner rather than later. Gooooooood night!

Conversations about the nature of reality

Many times when I am in a group of people I feel there is something else being said, behind the words, that is thrown about. Right now I'm thinking about calculus type stuff like derivatives and integrals, and how what goes on in my head while talking to whomever I may be talking to really becomes quite an introverted expression of nothingness. It seems that for months now, the matters at hand become less important than the rawness of inspired communication itself. If I ask you, "What color is dominating your field of vision today?" and you respond along the lines of, "Green has been very prevalent but if you ask me in five minutes I'll probably say that it would be charcoal, because that is the color of the pavement that I will be staring down at while I walk," then the subject is still color but the idea of color may very well take on an entirely different meaning to you and myself for the rest of that day. The question somehow was derived from sources of information that are not easily identifiable, though one could possibly point out a few points in time and connect dots (completely off subject: how many dots make up a line that is 3 cm. long?). The answer integrates all of the thoughts and ideas of the person asking the question leading up to the question, and so the build up of the question is transformed and taken to a higher level (by acting as a point of connection to an outside mind).

In other randomness, I just finished tea (cinnamon), realize it is almost 11:30pm (clocks... bah!), and now feel that this post is coming to an end within the next 80 heartbeats.

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Oh yes... I sent a message to Derek Whitacre, the creative mind behind The Moscow Coup Attempt, in which I asked if I could be his apprentice! I think that would be fun. The Moscow Coup Attempt is a musical/visual project that I have been very fond of for a few years, ever since I stumbled upon the MySpace page. Go to the website for information. Go to the music page and listen, then go to the film page and watch. It's great stuff. Amazingly creative work.

The Moscow Coup Attempt (Official Website)

Photo by Sarah Frank

More books I did buy

Here's the scoop on my most recent trip to Front Street's Horizon Books:

• Bhagavad Gita (translated by Eknath Easwaran)
• all is change the two-thousand-year journey of buddhism to the west (by Lawrence Sutin)

Here's the scoop on my lack of interest in typing anything else:

I am waiting for tea to cool off

Blenders are loud distractions, but sometimes the noise is helpful. If you are mixing something good, I don't care what sound your blender is making, especially if you make extra for me! Today I'm not interested in blended eggs & such... I have already had two egg & potato burritos. That tea should be done now. I put a strawberry in the tea strainer with the "Peaceful Penninsulas" green tea.

I'm reading The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles these days. Out on the porch with tea, smoke, and book I shall be minutes from now... Following up the completion of the Jack Kerouac story, The Dharma Bums, I went over to Horizon Books and purchased The Beat Hotel, which is an account of the lives of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Bill Burroughs (along with others involved in the Beat generation) during the years 1957-1963, with much of that time spent in Paris.

(Two paragraphs of blogging a day seems like more than enough)