Nasty Prisms Good Sir

I hate to clog the blog with youtube videos but this is something special. Syd Barrett visits his accountant.




The Meth Minute 39 animations.
Also check out the James Brown one and the Bob Dylan meets The Beatles one.

Resist much, obey little

Walt Whitman, 19th Century Bard of America.
Ginsberg talks of Whitmanic Consciousness so I thought I'd check him out. I racked Leaves of Grass from Borders. I love it but it's huge, his lifework masterpiece, so I'm still close to the beginning. The most memorable quote so far is addressed to the States of America saying "Resist much, obey little".

Here's an excerpt from 'Starting From Paumanok'.

I will make the true poem of riches,
To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes
forward and is not dropt by death;
I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the
bard of personality,
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal
of the other,
And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am
determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove
you illustrious,
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present,
and can be none in the future,
And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be
turn'd to beautiful results,
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Baudelaire

Invitation to the Voyage by Baudelaire, 19th Century French poet.

Dreams! always dreams!
and the more ambitious and delicate the soul,
the farther dreams remove it from what is possible.
Every man carries within him his dose of natural opium,
incessantly secreted and renewed, and, from birth until death,
how many hours can we count that are filled with positive joy,
with successful and decisive action?
Shall we ever live, shall we ever pass
into that picture painted by my soul,
the picture that resembles you?

Those treasures, that furniture, that luxury, that order,
those perfumes, those miraculous flowers, they are yourself.
So also are those wide rivers and those calm canals...
These are my thoughts which sleep or which roll on your breast.
You guide them softly to the ocean that is Infinity,
while reflecting the depth of the sky
in the limpidity of your pure soul;
and when, wearied by the surge
and gorged with products of the Orient,
they return to their native port,
these are still my thoughts, enriched,
returning from the Infinite towards you.

Rebel, Rebel

Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching, Verse 20. Written in the 6th Century BCE!

The Sadness of Superficialities And Of The Unfulfilled Great Integrity.

It is sometimes deeply depressing
to be a rebel,
knowing that we can never share
most people's way of life,
nor can they share ours.

Schooling stuffs the brains
of our children with trivia.
The more the trivia,
the more their anxieties.
They indoctrinate the children
to believe that the consequences are grave
when they fail to distinguish
"good" from "evil",
and agreement from disagreement.
What gross nonsense!

To escape the rubbish
of all this so-called knowledge,
in the winter, people run
to the great feasts of lamb, pork and ox,
and they climb high in the mountains
to view the first signs of spring.

We are so different!
Having no desire for the trivialities,
nor for their compensations,
we are like infants
not yet knowing how to laugh!
Ever wandering, and having no home
to which we may return.

While most people are obsessed
with superficialities,
we feel empty.
While most people feel
they know so much,
we feel simple-minded.
While most people believe
they live happily
in the best of all possible worlds,
we are despaired to witness this world!

It is so painful to know
that we will always be outsiders,
endlessly moving like the ocean,
aimlessly blowing like the wind.

While we fear what others fear,
we don't treasure what others treasure.
Our treasure is the Great Integrity.
However, until it is shared,
it will not be the Universal Integrity,
for we are part of them,
and they are part of us.

Psychedelic Alienation

Terence McKenna touches on an important issue for me. How to fit into society when the society sucks. I guess that's where the counter culture comes in...

Electronic Subversion

Search EBN on youtube for more.

Counting!

Right Radio Station

209 Radio

Local community based radio station. They cover a wide range of music from out there Sun Ra avant-garde jazz stuff to roots reggae, hiphop and beyond. You can listen to archived shows online or listen live on 105fm. Awesome. Beatnik, Outer Music and Revelation2000 are what I've listened to so far.