I've been driving myself bonkers with bad company. Better company arrives tomorrow.
Nearly convinced myself I was crazy the other day. Then I realized that "throw away culture" is crazy. Disinterest in personal well-being is crazy. This obsession with consuming what is actually non-food items is crazy. The idea that we're not animals is crazy. "Ignorance is bliss" is crazy. Authoritarian values are crazy. Spending 99 units of energy for 1 unit of product is crazy. Individual packaging is crazy (UNLESS IT'S A HUSK- think corn).
I pick a fallen mac nut from my tree. I remove the husk and crack the shell. I eat the nut. I throw the husk and shell into the garden- CAUSE THAT SHIT HELPS MY GARDEN.
No, no, I'm not crazy.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
battle
You know when you're stirring a bowl of soup and nothing is spilling and then, all of a sudden, a splash of chicken noodle goes shooting up on your shirt? That's non-linear dynamics. It's the same reason water acts differently on separate scales. It's why a drop of water can hang off your nose but a gallon can't (without a bucket and a hook). The same dynamic of gravity acts differently depending on how big you are. An ant can fall from any distance because his terminal velocity will never get above the speed it takes to kill him. On the other hand, humans are one of THE ONLY animals that can die falling from a standing height. So much for evolution. *clunk*
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
zip pop and bang
So that's just it, isn't it? We're a cycle within a cycle within a cycle, and this show is playing on all channels. I get it now. And we're looking for the source code that determines why some objects go in one direction instead of another. Even if we figure that out, it won't help us with our present dilemma, besides the knowledge that we have a dilemma. It doesn't matter if you go up and down. That's the teaching of the Tao. You can't know it, but you can be it. You can't see the whole picture, but you can be part of it.
My fucking god.
Familiar kinds of music set us at ease because we know what is going to happen next. Music celebrities sing about it to keep us aware, if even subconsciously, and we reward them not with money, most of that goes to the publishing company. We reward these musicians with the feeling that they know what they are doing. They get the groupies and the music videos about them being accepted by a mass of people.
Non fucking action.
Non-action.
The sage appreciates stillness. My fucking god. I have to buy that book tomorrow.
My fucking god.
Familiar kinds of music set us at ease because we know what is going to happen next. Music celebrities sing about it to keep us aware, if even subconsciously, and we reward them not with money, most of that goes to the publishing company. We reward these musicians with the feeling that they know what they are doing. They get the groupies and the music videos about them being accepted by a mass of people.
Non fucking action.
Non-action.
The sage appreciates stillness. My fucking god. I have to buy that book tomorrow.
You are here.
Kaplow
The adversary is actually a benevolent mentor. He throws problems at you that he knows you need to focus on. He throws so many because he knows how infinitely capable you are. He knows, for a fact, that you will survive any task set before you until your time, which is something he cannot change. So you race like a mouse on a wheel with little plastic rocks rattling your cage.
Interesting.
Metamining.
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/super-empowered-individual-man-is.html
That is just a tad bit unnerving.
Interesting.
Metamining.
I don't know what it says, but I'm damn sure it has something to do with what I'm saying. Input, output, metamachine, submachine, information bank. Something like that.
http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/super-empowered-individual-man-is.html
That is just a tad bit unnerving.
twist of fate
A beautiful and talented woman may try to hide the source of her excellence but when I express it in simple terms, they don't know how to respond to it. In their world, excellence is only seen through music, or artwork, or dance. This is the mark of the people of the Rajas. Excellent in one regard and horrified to do better so they focus on this one piece and identify with it so even if they are given other pieces of wisdom, they can separate that out from the larger work of thought. They keep the embers lit so people can find there way. The sage is one of many skills and employs them often. He is the change agent and as funny as it does seem to me, Kim Jong-il is such a change agent.
Check it.
Nearly all his photos are manipulated in some way. He is almost never in the original photo and when he is, it's a doppleganger.
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/54499611.html
There is a bunch of photos of Kim just looking at stuff. You can tell the closest ring to him are his professional staff. They are experts in their own disciplines to explain to him about each thing they look at. Kim looks for deeper meanings in the interconnectedness- or what they had in common. The following crowd simply exist to jot notes of everything Kim does. He photoshops the images to re-write his image in history as his own, a defiant act of a man who knows his life is determined. He is trying to prove that he can do something other than what he must. Hot damn, Kim Jong-il is on the same continuum as any living and spectacular artist.
Check it.
Nearly all his photos are manipulated in some way. He is almost never in the original photo and when he is, it's a doppleganger.
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/54499611.html
There is a bunch of photos of Kim just looking at stuff. You can tell the closest ring to him are his professional staff. They are experts in their own disciplines to explain to him about each thing they look at. Kim looks for deeper meanings in the interconnectedness- or what they had in common. The following crowd simply exist to jot notes of everything Kim does. He photoshops the images to re-write his image in history as his own, a defiant act of a man who knows his life is determined. He is trying to prove that he can do something other than what he must. Hot damn, Kim Jong-il is on the same continuum as any living and spectacular artist.
It's a photoshopped cartoon of Kim a hundred years ago with a flock of lackys that understand exactly what he is trying to say, if only in pieces. In his mind Kim is a goddamn hero. When he told the Dali Lama that all religion was poison, what he meant to say was that any institution that does not make full use of a person's value is destructive. Kim honestly believes that he is the only one capable of leading a country but that is exactly why he does a poor job. He doesn't have diversity. I'm telling you, if Kim Jong-il allows diversity into his country- and his government, he'd be over for tea with His Holiness in India in no time.
check this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlk9Sj4Ns2k
There is a video of a young Bob Marley who looks absolutely green and terrified. He's a man who is terrified of his appeared image rather than who he really is. This is Bob as a low man; inward facing and closed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo&feature=related
Here is Bob playing in the afternoon out of fear that he'd start a riot. His eyes are closed to the audience, he disregards the lyrics at the start to tell everyone that they have the answer and he has his head tilted to the sky with a look of bliss. This is divine Marley; open to the heavens and lit from the inside. Excellent Marley.
This is why Bob Marley was so great- he taught people to believe in themselves and follow inner guidance. The same is true of art. You could look at a certain favorite painting and put yourself in an altered state. I had to learn how to do this consciously, which is why I can write about it. I know how to get to that place. Metacognative tricks that allow me to wiggle my way into any part of the machine.
Three people expressed interest in buying the first gourd I've carved. I wonder which avenue fits my expression best? Perhaps all of them if I try it.
There is a video of a young Bob Marley who looks absolutely green and terrified. He's a man who is terrified of his appeared image rather than who he really is. This is Bob as a low man; inward facing and closed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo&feature=related
Here is Bob playing in the afternoon out of fear that he'd start a riot. His eyes are closed to the audience, he disregards the lyrics at the start to tell everyone that they have the answer and he has his head tilted to the sky with a look of bliss. This is divine Marley; open to the heavens and lit from the inside. Excellent Marley.
This is why Bob Marley was so great- he taught people to believe in themselves and follow inner guidance. The same is true of art. You could look at a certain favorite painting and put yourself in an altered state. I had to learn how to do this consciously, which is why I can write about it. I know how to get to that place. Metacognative tricks that allow me to wiggle my way into any part of the machine.
Three people expressed interest in buying the first gourd I've carved. I wonder which avenue fits my expression best? Perhaps all of them if I try it.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
to generate digital life
you'd need to calculate how many bits of information in a common object. let's 25% of the ink on a postal stamp contains 25,000 bits of information. pretty easy by the standards of quantum physics. you'd need a computer with the processing power for every one of those bits, and even then you would never have an entire object because real world objects are effected by every single object around them, which is infinitely more than the single object.
and they say that just because the world is determined it makes us morally irresponsible but nothing could be farther than the truth. we're morally responsible for finding out exactly the base functions of this world. we might not be able to generate the entire universe, but we can find the string that pulls in what we want. I think it was galileo who suggested a mathematical formula for the functions of this world.
(polycarbonate)
peace out, my brothas.
burn out
with publicity in music or the arts, in general, when you get to a certain size fanbase, they'll support you. I mean, it seems inherently true because they are buying your art, but don't get it confused, it isn't the colors they are buying, it's a link to this deeper truth that they can tap into whenever they want. it's a meditation tool a the heart of it. musical shamanism where the fringe element can be part of the larger culture. creativity brought to the heart of the dull. breaking of barriers with the way you can see hip hop and country music mix or folktale reggae. music tries to explain how to be successful in your own life, inadvertently. then some schmuck decides to listen to 2pac and figures out how to cure aids.
this represents a falling into the singularity of choice. sometimes you move directly towards the circle and that is called a "breakthrough" in any discipline. you explore a variety of different methodologies, tunes, tools, weapons, tactics- and then you find the key that fits the door. this method works well. I hate to tell you this friend, but that is the mechanism of self awareness. work backwards.
you seek pattern to try new tactics to see what works best <= this is called being self aware. it's a process, just like any other, that is designed to give you more variation to improve the genetic pool. dominant traits appear faster and it explains "breakthroughs" such as the bronze age. (not aliens- genetics). <= as it is a tool of survival value, like thirst, it is governed by the same rules and factors of other survival tools <= survival tools depend on facts that exist in nature. it's cold outside thus I need a jacket. you need to 'understand' purple jackets, so you buy one to mix up your internal processes. to keep you fresh. <= these tools depend on physical systems themselves like the works of physics. your heart contains a finite amount of cells, each working like clockwork. you'll die on the same day no matter what you do.
you are a determined factor in this world. so relax. but remember, NON- ACTION isn't the same as NO-ACTION. this idea is expressed in works like the Bhagavad Gita and Tao Te Ching. taoist scripture says that things are determined but there is personal agency- there is a kind of flexibility to it. This is similar to compatabalism in logistics. This is a kind of a quarter truth. there is an absolute determinism in things (hard determinism) but we can never know it because to calculate things on that level would require a computer larger than what you're trying to calculate. a teraflop contains a trillion floating point operations per second but how many floating point operations does it take to create a computer? imagine each proton or electron is a floating point? there are three isotopes for every carbon molecule in a polycarbonate plastic bottle. so good luck with that. that's what really blows me away about the I Ching because it doesn't predict things, it gets the general view- a short peek in the 'random' underworkings and naturally, it's very simple to use.
I'm sorry, science is a ticking time bomb. we can only magnify things so much. we will never walk on the surface of a hydrogen molecule. we, as a species existing like we are in the moment, have a very short term in this universe. I'm not talking about aliens or whatever, I'm just saying that in 3.9 billion years ago some stuff happened and we called that "earth". the history of man is what, like 10,000 years? that means that in another 10,000 years we will be as different from now as we are now from the whatever we crawled from.
anyway, we'd need a computer the size of our universe to create a digital sofa. that is all.
also, the arguments for and against determinism are super weak. it's like they have no idea what they're talking about.
Dollar
Dollar Day - Mos Def
this helps me understand music better. he's singing about the natural disaster at New Orleans and how the rescue workers were surprised to find a woman wandering around in the flooded streets- expecting everyone was dead. ("oh- oh my god! where have you been? how have you survived this long?" "Where I been? Where you been?!") he ends on an interesting note. "Don't talk about it. Be about it" but he had just spent three minutes criticizing the actions of the President. like, what exactly has mos def done besides talking about it? I mean, not many rappers also do well in the movies, but that's still talk. unless he means talking about taking a stand; that makes more sense. his music mainly expresses a state of mind than a particular message. I understand what he's saying, he speaks clearly enough. I understand the references, but mainly I hear a state of mind. when the man feels crushed or anxious, I hear it. I can tell when he's had a good day before the recording or not. he speaks his mind without words- but maybe that's just me. I've been known to assume.
When he did Tell the Truth with Immortal Technique, he sang the chorus. now that I listen to it again, Tech's voice sounds rather tinny, like a computer mic or something. Eh. anyway, in Mos Def's voice you can hear the emotion of what he's expressing. "Man, you hear this bullshit they be talkin'. Every day man, it's like these motherfuckers is just like professional liers; you know what I'm saying; listen!" you can hear what he means even if you didn't understand the words. if you only spoke mandarin and knew the general subject, you'd understand his position. Open your Eyes by Immortal Technique basically lays down the emotional history of American History. living on that creative edge really gives you a way to see beyond what people say. if you don't care about the same things as everyone else, you're free to develop your own style.
but mainstream music depends entirely on fringe music. without fringe music, mainstream would never develop into anything worth hearing. it would just replay over and over the same song for the rest of eternity. it's most obvious in the movie industry. you have key staples in film; a few include the natural disaster theme (deep impact, day after tomorrow, waterworld, twister), the wacky comedy (meet the fockers, duck soup, airplane, young frankenstein, pink panther), superhero (die hard, inception, lord of the rings, terminator), romance drama/comedy (dirty dancing, gone with the wind, how to lose a guy in 10 days, sweet home alabama)... it just replays over and over. same theme, same characters, slightly different roles (one is spike, the other, max). then, you have the brainsplitting movies like the matrix (which still went on to make thousands of spinnoffs! and NOW we have an animated movie series! and a cartoon! and a little neo doll!) that seriously give you something to think about. the Coen brothers are simply in another league.
actors are trained to act a specific way so it's hard to tell what they're really feeling. it's a sign of a good actor that throws themselves into the roll completely. most commonly is in comedy, I think. in music, of course, bills must be paid, so perhaps when Lil Wayne needs cash he'll wake up, take out his bedazzled retainer and say "yeeeeaaahhh" a couple times into the mic beside his bed and sell it. they go on and on about the most trivial and destructive behaviors like inhibition and a shallow cheapness. that's why they have to dress themselves in such attire and sing about how rich they are. it's the only way for them to disguise themselves as worthy to pay attention to. (I do kind of like eminem though) Lil Wayne in the music video for Got Money, runs through a bank and jumps around on tables. the crowd doesn't start dancing, they just stare at him like he's crazy. he throws cash around and the crowd blatantly ignores him for the cash. the only time you see a party scene is with an elaborately dressed t-pain, which is obviously in his head. what a nutter.
this helps me understand music better. he's singing about the natural disaster at New Orleans and how the rescue workers were surprised to find a woman wandering around in the flooded streets- expecting everyone was dead. ("oh- oh my god! where have you been? how have you survived this long?" "Where I been? Where you been?!") he ends on an interesting note. "Don't talk about it. Be about it" but he had just spent three minutes criticizing the actions of the President. like, what exactly has mos def done besides talking about it? I mean, not many rappers also do well in the movies, but that's still talk. unless he means talking about taking a stand; that makes more sense. his music mainly expresses a state of mind than a particular message. I understand what he's saying, he speaks clearly enough. I understand the references, but mainly I hear a state of mind. when the man feels crushed or anxious, I hear it. I can tell when he's had a good day before the recording or not. he speaks his mind without words- but maybe that's just me. I've been known to assume.
When he did Tell the Truth with Immortal Technique, he sang the chorus. now that I listen to it again, Tech's voice sounds rather tinny, like a computer mic or something. Eh. anyway, in Mos Def's voice you can hear the emotion of what he's expressing. "Man, you hear this bullshit they be talkin'. Every day man, it's like these motherfuckers is just like professional liers; you know what I'm saying; listen!" you can hear what he means even if you didn't understand the words. if you only spoke mandarin and knew the general subject, you'd understand his position. Open your Eyes by Immortal Technique basically lays down the emotional history of American History. living on that creative edge really gives you a way to see beyond what people say. if you don't care about the same things as everyone else, you're free to develop your own style.
but mainstream music depends entirely on fringe music. without fringe music, mainstream would never develop into anything worth hearing. it would just replay over and over the same song for the rest of eternity. it's most obvious in the movie industry. you have key staples in film; a few include the natural disaster theme (deep impact, day after tomorrow, waterworld, twister), the wacky comedy (meet the fockers, duck soup, airplane, young frankenstein, pink panther), superhero (die hard, inception, lord of the rings, terminator), romance drama/comedy (dirty dancing, gone with the wind, how to lose a guy in 10 days, sweet home alabama)... it just replays over and over. same theme, same characters, slightly different roles (one is spike, the other, max). then, you have the brainsplitting movies like the matrix (which still went on to make thousands of spinnoffs! and NOW we have an animated movie series! and a cartoon! and a little neo doll!) that seriously give you something to think about. the Coen brothers are simply in another league.
actors are trained to act a specific way so it's hard to tell what they're really feeling. it's a sign of a good actor that throws themselves into the roll completely. most commonly is in comedy, I think. in music, of course, bills must be paid, so perhaps when Lil Wayne needs cash he'll wake up, take out his bedazzled retainer and say "yeeeeaaahhh" a couple times into the mic beside his bed and sell it. they go on and on about the most trivial and destructive behaviors like inhibition and a shallow cheapness. that's why they have to dress themselves in such attire and sing about how rich they are. it's the only way for them to disguise themselves as worthy to pay attention to. (I do kind of like eminem though) Lil Wayne in the music video for Got Money, runs through a bank and jumps around on tables. the crowd doesn't start dancing, they just stare at him like he's crazy. he throws cash around and the crowd blatantly ignores him for the cash. the only time you see a party scene is with an elaborately dressed t-pain, which is obviously in his head. what a nutter.
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