This is an actual phonograph record cover. No joke. 
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
~~~Do you see the shadows on the wall? They are as real as you. -Z
~~~Once you see the world as One you become All. -Z
~~~The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. - Albert Einstein
~~~How do you feel about the police? When you see a police officer do you do a little mental checkup on yourself to see whether you warrant any attention? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you are being oppressed. -Z
~~~Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Jack Kerouac
~~~Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
~~~Once you see the world as One you become All. -Z
~~~The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. - Albert Einstein
~~~How do you feel about the police? When you see a police officer do you do a little mental checkup on yourself to see whether you warrant any attention? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you are being oppressed. -Z
~~~Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Jack Kerouac
~~~Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Note: Z is a friend of mine. We went to Colorado together (with a few other friends) to see Sigur Ros in 2002. He is, as we speak, in the center of a spiritual renaissance that promises to shake the foundations of the world as we know it.
Here's something that's so unbelievable that, if I didn't trust the guy who told me about it, I would say it had to be bullshit.
A good friend of mine, Roger Holman, is quite an excellent musician/singer/songwriter. About ten years ago he recorded a bunch of his own songs. He picked out enough to make an album worth of demos and recorded them onto a cassette tape. Even if they didn't go anywhere he figured he would still have a record of all the work he'd done.
He didn't have much of a chance to do anything with them. His wife passed away, he moved to Branson, Missouri to do find a full time performance gig, eventually moved back to Oklahoma.
Somewhere along the line he lost that cassette tape he'd made of his best material. That kind of thing happens all the time. What are you going to do, huh? Consign it to memory, that's about all. So that's what Roger did.
But check this out.
A couple of weeks ago he went to a pawn shop in Oklahoma City for some reason or another. He was checking out the tapes when he happened upon one that looked familiar. Upon further investigation he discovered that IT WAS THE VERY SAME TAPE HE HAD LOST ALMOST TEN YEARS BEFORE!!!
I think that's incredible. The only thing I can think of that comes close to that is when I found a copy of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" in a bookstore over 20 years after I'd sold it (to a different bookstore at that).
I can just picture the surprise and delight on his face when he snatched that sucker up. It was priced at $1.00...so cheap because, to any other customer, it was little more than a curiosity. Have you ever done that? It's a lot of fun to buy these tapes and videos that were recorded by total strangers. It's like getting a small glimpse into someone else's world. Most of them don't have labels on them so you never know what you're getting. It might be a rehearsal tape from a garage band that were only in it for kicks. It might be a couple of kids goofing off. It might be a recorded lecture from a college course. You just don't know, and that's what makes it so fun. You can always record over the tape if it turns out to be nothing interesting.
I can just see Roger telling the story of the tape's disappearance and eventual recovery to the guy behind the counter.
And I can almost hear the sarcasm dripping from the clerk's voice as he says, "Congratulations on your successful music career."
A good friend of mine, Roger Holman, is quite an excellent musician/singer/songwriter. About ten years ago he recorded a bunch of his own songs. He picked out enough to make an album worth of demos and recorded them onto a cassette tape. Even if they didn't go anywhere he figured he would still have a record of all the work he'd done.
He didn't have much of a chance to do anything with them. His wife passed away, he moved to Branson, Missouri to do find a full time performance gig, eventually moved back to Oklahoma.
Somewhere along the line he lost that cassette tape he'd made of his best material. That kind of thing happens all the time. What are you going to do, huh? Consign it to memory, that's about all. So that's what Roger did.
But check this out.
A couple of weeks ago he went to a pawn shop in Oklahoma City for some reason or another. He was checking out the tapes when he happened upon one that looked familiar. Upon further investigation he discovered that IT WAS THE VERY SAME TAPE HE HAD LOST ALMOST TEN YEARS BEFORE!!!
I think that's incredible. The only thing I can think of that comes close to that is when I found a copy of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby" in a bookstore over 20 years after I'd sold it (to a different bookstore at that).
I can just picture the surprise and delight on his face when he snatched that sucker up. It was priced at $1.00...so cheap because, to any other customer, it was little more than a curiosity. Have you ever done that? It's a lot of fun to buy these tapes and videos that were recorded by total strangers. It's like getting a small glimpse into someone else's world. Most of them don't have labels on them so you never know what you're getting. It might be a rehearsal tape from a garage band that were only in it for kicks. It might be a couple of kids goofing off. It might be a recorded lecture from a college course. You just don't know, and that's what makes it so fun. You can always record over the tape if it turns out to be nothing interesting.
I can just see Roger telling the story of the tape's disappearance and eventual recovery to the guy behind the counter.
And I can almost hear the sarcasm dripping from the clerk's voice as he says, "Congratulations on your successful music career."
Monday, September 1, 2008
LARRY CARLSON
Wow. Not since the days of the Some Bizarre show and New Wave Theater have I seen and heard anything as remotely mind blowing as Larry Carlson's multi-media art. There's no way I can even begin to describe it other than to say that I DON'T reccomend that you watch/listen to it under the influence of any illegal drugs. Then again, that might not be such a bad idea...as long as you are prepared for the consequences, which might include hospitalization in a psychiatric treatment facility.
Several free albums on his website. 6 of 'em to be exact, and I may stay up all night downloading all of them.
If you enjoy the surreal, the unusual and the bizarre, trust me on this one. Larry Carlson is a modern day genius.
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