I recently watched Elem Klimov's awe inspiring & brilliant masterpiece 'Come & See' (also known as Go & Look)- Idi I Smotri.. & I was certain I spotted a familiar sight.
My friend, artist Robin Cracknell, produces incredible, one of a kind & mysterious works out of random discarded film clippings which were collected at the ICA Cinema in London. One needs to understand that each clipping has a long history & that when they were collected it was impossible for anyone to know which film they originated from, thus making each small clipping a complete mystery. You can read more about him & view more of his amazing & vital works, here at Art Volume One.
In our most recent conversation we discussed the nature of the mysterious origins of his clippings & specifically of the origin of his piece of a house on fire.
"AV: I do love the quality of the scratches, tape & debris, very much. Touched by time & again a sense of an inconceivable life lived before having been found by you.
The ‘house on fire’ work reminds me of Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror‘. Again, I wish I knew what film this is from!"
Robin watched Come & See & turns out that this particular Cine work of his, is- in fact from Idi I Smotri, the image is simply flipped. We are both in awe that it is from Idi I Smotri. I highly suggest seeing this brilliant film & I also highly suggest- getting to know Robin Cracknell's fascinating & important works.
I present here his Cine piece (it is also here- at Art Volume One) & the film itself- where one can see the image starting at 6:49 it is at 7:04, :05 etc..
our tolerance & acceptance- of heinously predatory, cruel & inhumane people- who refuse to understand the nature of all human & animal pain, suffering & loss & with such disastrous effects on the world at large. &- END CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & CRIMES AGAINST PEACE.
That is a good question, let's ask ourselves & everyone else this question while we are at it.. WHY? As in who is President Bush, who is he, really? Who are these people? Who am I & what is 'myself' ? We don't seem to really want to ask these questions, we seem to prefer shooting the crap lately.. Not EVERYTHING is a crap shoot. Understanding tomato growth, counterpoint or gestalt is not a CRAP SHOOT. There are elements of 'risk' but one should think about how to properly grow & care for tomatoes, pick up & scan Fux's Gradus & read some Derrida.
Life, art, philosophy, ideas & thought are not ALWAYS stock market crap shoots.
That's right, life can be quite metaphysical, like Bach's Cello Suite, Prelude No.1 or Ginsburg's America, or Moon Flower gardening.
More people should do some research on media saturation we are swamped with pseudo- events & media events. Really bad car crashes..
Life does have it's crap shoot moments, but isn't the art of risk something different? Isn't a crap shoot about uncertainty?
Yes I think so.. & you would think after 8 years we would have some concept- as to who George Walker Bush is & why the hell WE voted for him..
"SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, eats a lot and goes shopping a lot?
Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The business press has been quite explicit about this goal.
SPIEGEL: A while ago you called America “the greatest country on earth.” How does that fit together with what you've been saying?
Chomsky: In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. "
Photograph negative
her black arm: a diving porpoise,
sprawled across the ice-banked pillow.
Head: a sheet of falling water.
Her legs: icicle branches breaking into light.
This woman,
photographed sleeping.
The man,
making the photograph in the acid pan of his brain.
Sleep stain them both,
as if cloudy semen
rubbed shiningly over the surface
will be used to develop their images.
on the desert
the porpoises curl up,
their skeleton teeth are bared by
parched lips;
her sleeping feet
trod on scarabs,
holding the names of the dead
tight in the steady breathing.
This man and woman have married
and travel reciting
chanting
names of missing objects.
They enter a pyramid.
A black butterfly covers the doorway
like a cobweb,
folds around her body,
the snake of its body
closing her lips.
her breasts are stone stairs.
She calls the name, "Isis,"
and waits for the white face to appear..... ( the rest of the poem )"
What an insanely gifted poet.. RISK! A DYNAMIST?? Poetry!? & back to our questions... Who am I ? Who are you ? Let me tell you who I am.. THIS IS WHO I AM. 'Gasp' Oh we must cut down on greenhouse gases... RISK!
How completely awe inspiring, just the most beautiful complexity, possibility..
Yes...
Now look...
This man used to walk around naked- all day.. He STILL DOES actually...
He takes photos with an insane camera watch..
Now- one day, he was developing some photos & this old image of a lion in a side car appeared on a print of his..
BUT!!!!!! It all did not even remotely make sense until he met & photographed this amazing & bizarre little traveling goat shepherd boy.. That sounds a little too biblical.. UNCERTAINTY!
WAIT! I was not even talking about carpentry... Take a look at these images of them..
The little goat herder had a sort of tale- a story that he would tell to anyone who would listen.. It was really wild & amazing & a few people listened to him tell his tale & I- was one of them.. RISK!
What was the story??
GAH
I have a transcript, here, here it is, read it..
I AM WEALTHY, I have riches that most are blind to.. I WILL TAKE MY WHOLE TRIBE TO AFRICA. WE WILL START A WHEAT FARM IN AFRICA & A PRINTING PRESS TO PRINT BOOKS & NEWSPAPERS ON RECYCLED PAPER & WE WILL HIRE HUNDREDS & HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.
I'M SO WEALTHY THAT WHEN IT BECOMES SUCCESSFUL THE MOST TALENTED AND IMAGINATIVE EMPLOYEES WILL TAKE THE COMPANY TO SEVERAL LOCATIONS, EUROPE, BRAZIL, RUSSIA, MEXICO, ANTARCTICA, ETC & START UP...
MOST IMPORTANTLY WE WILL BE LOCATED DIRECTLY OUTSIDE THE AMAZONS WITH LAND OWNERSHIP THERE TO PROTECT & DEFEND THE LAST CONTACTED AND UN CONTACTED TRIBES THERE FROM BEING DECIMATED.
PLEASE ANALYZE & INSPECT THIS STATEMENT-
I WILL ADOPT THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE'S MENTALITIES, STATES AND CONDITIONS AND IT WILL ADOPT MINE. MUTABLE MIND OVER MATTER." ( UNCERTAINTY! RISK? UNCERTAINTY! )
I AM SO WEALTHY THAT INSTEAD OF BECOMING A PUTRID, ROTTING, RIGID CORPSE
I SHALL LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT TIME AND TIME TRAVELING.
I WILL FIND THE BRAVEST, MOST GIFTED & HUMOROUS TRACKER TO HELP ME FIND EITHER A VERY HUNGRY STARVING MOUNTAIN LION IN NORTH AMERICA, OR SOME OTHER PISSED OFF BIG CAT, LIKE A LION.
HOPEFULLY IT WILL PARALYZE ME COMPLETELY- ( RISK! )& SHRED & MUTILATE MY BODY SO FAR BEYOND RECOGNITION SO THAT I WILL FEEL INTENSE OTHERWORLDLY PAIN & TRAUMA- BECAUSE- THEN, I WILL KNOW GOD. ( UNCERTAINTY! ).
THIS WILL IN TURN MAKE ME SO SUPREMELY WEALTHY SO THAT I WILL PURCHASE ALL OF OUTER SPACE WITH MY 'SPIRITUALIZED' & MULTIDIMENSIONAL BRAIN. ( INTERESTING! ).
I WILL ADOPT THE UNIVERSE'S MENTALITIES, STATES AND CONDITIONS AND IT WILL ADOPT MINE.
THEN, TEN DIMENSIONS OF THE INFINITE
WILL ALLOW ME TO VISIT EVERYONE WHEN THEY WERE A ONE YEAR OLD NEANDERTHAL, AND WHEN WE WERE SINGLE CELL ORGANISMS IN THE ICE COLD SEA MAKING SMALL TREE HOUSES OUT OF MICROSCOPIC BITS OF SAND.
LIMITLESS BILLIONS OF 'SUPERBANGS'
WILL BANG AND POUND OUT EVEN MORE TINY EARTHS AND STARS AND PLANETS, & THINGS THAT LIVE BUT THAT WE CANNOT SEE ON THE 3D CARTESIAN PLANE.
THEN THERE WILL BE MORE ENDLESSLY BABBLING, VERBOSE, SELF ABSORBED, OVERLY PASSIONATE PEOPLE. CHILDREN OF THE DIRT. MORE IGNORANT NIHILISTS, MASOCHISTS, MORE GENIUSES AND PSEUDO INTELLECTS, CONTROL FREAKS & FRAUDS, FARMERS, PEOPLE WHO POSSESS HUMILITY BEYOND BELIEF, ETC.. PEOPLE- WHO CAN TAKE LIFE & KILL IT, GIVE LIFE & BUILD IT, IN ONLY- SO MANY DIMENSIONS.
AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO JUST GENERALLY LOVE LIFE TOO, NO MATTER WHAT GETS THEM DOWN.
THAT'S HOW INCREDIBLY WEALTHY I AM, I INHABIT THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. MOTHER FUCKING WEALTHY."
The goat herder actually said mother fucking?
Yes, I know isn't that awful?
Terrible!
What happened to the naked man?
And, the goat herder boy?
His story is amazing! The goat herder just wandered away after telling us his tale & we tried & tried to find him but never did.. The naked man was approached by a publisher with an offer to publish a book of his photographs & he declined at first.. He calls himself George Baxter after the printmaker & inventor of color printmaking.. Eventually- he took up the offer & now travels the world making portraits of people & every once in a while random images that he didn't take- appear when he develops his film. These images are in high demand by collectors..
Like the lion in the sidecar?
Yes unknown images of unknown events, places & people, just like that one..
& he's just naked most of the time?
Yes most of the time, he's been arrested many times, he gets bailed out by friends.
"This willkill that." "The press willkill the church."
An Obsessive Combination Of Ontological Inscape, Trickery And Love by Anne Sexton.
Busy, with an idea for a code, I write signals hurrying from left to right, or right to left, by obscure routes, for my own reasons; taking a word like writes down tiers of tries until its secret rites make sense; or until, suddenly, RATS can amazingly and funnily become STAR and right to left that small star is mine, for my own liking, to stare its five lucky pins inside out, to store forever kindly, as if it were a star I touched and a miracle I really wrote.
The Artist as an Old Man, by Erica Jong.
If you ask him he will talk for hours-- how at fourteen he hammered signs, fingers raw with cold, and later painted bowers in ladies' boudoirs; how he played checkers for two weeks in jail, and lived on dark bread; how he fled the border to a country which disappeared wars ago; unfriended crossed a continent while this century began. He seldom speaks of painting now. Young men have time and theories; old men work. He has painted countless portraits. Sallow nameless faces, made glistening in oil, smirk above anonymous mantelpieces. The turpentine has a familiar smell, but his hand trembles with odd, new palsies. Perched on the maulstick, it nears the easel.
He has come to like his resignation. In his sketch books, ink-dark cossacks hear the snorts of horses in the crunch of snow. His pen alone recalls that years ago, one horseman set his teeth and aimed his spear which, poised, seemed pointed straight to pierce the sun.
1) They cut him open tearing, straight black pulse & out like a plug fell his heart glinting muscle burning rose to lay waste
a young stag god killer all flying crazed body & shapeless face.
2) Artful butchers, we are.
Ripping up roots or peeling back each flipping wet skin defiling dandelions & making blow fish piss slipping bullets eluding every possible gracious electric force
to touch the night stupid.
Redemption holds a gargantua of hanging blade swift, pendulimic
Adored.
Rotations of buzzing propeller penetrate skies twenty four hours of every day to give form to more half starved & lost worlds.
You want the truth?
Eat this blade, don't stab out the eyes of your stoic leave the parade.
( 1 & 2 are excerpts from The Butchers, a poem by Amy Marina Denes )
(AUTOMATIC paranoiac method UNEDITED MYSTERY PUZZLE TALE)
The Dodo Bandits are not only meddlesome marauders, they are passe.
After all, why pose as a Dodo when one can realize that one is- a Dodo & appreciate THAT.
How great it is to empathize with Dodos, it is a space time, relativistic, issue.
Perhaps even a "time to encrust cities & suburbs in solar panels & buy that electric car" issue.
So, do try to be good to your supergalactic Dodos & Rattlesnakes, especially since the Rattlers
are still- around, REMEMBER a little observation & MEMORY goes a long, long, way. Okie dokie I'll remember that..
Our imaginary soundtrack is Patti Smith's masterpiece
LAND. There are 2, you will just have to figure out who is who.
Why always do something that you can always take a photo of, or lie about (the 'truth' is much more original),
or repeat, why be pure ego, or complete absurdity, or.... Why not try a plunge into the deep pools present among us in our world, pools of original thought, creativity, inquisition. So many realities, some more real than others, you decide, you decide. YOU. "SIGH" That was such a VAGUE OPERA!!! But I get it.... Yesterday and Today... One, Three, Five, 12 & so on.. That- that END is still unknown, my pocket watch has been broken for a month now & time is moving slower. You mean your sun dial..
No I mean my digital.
You mean your.. Pulse..
Stop.
Your end.
STOP! What is all that stuff for?? What stuff.. Your stuff, that bag & those books, your trinkets, feathers & deer skulls, a skunk tail.. What the hell are you talking about.. What are they for, those THINGS, what do you use them for, what is their function??
GEE I don't know, to think, learn, live, be in motion, make a living? BE CREATIVE, TINKER...
TINKER???
Your like some sort of small god or something.. Making a living with skunk tails. What does that make you? Just because I don't spend most of my time walking around dirty & naked does not make me less of a person.. I make a good living selling skunk tails. So what god are you anyways thou who owns nothing..
A Dodo, not a bandit Dodo, a shadow universe Dodo.. A bouncy one.. Bouncing along forgotten and sooo remembered, dead and alive..
Alright I suppose now you are going to start one of your entertaining lectures.. Yes I am.. NO ONE CAN TELL YOU NOT TO BE YOU!!!
No.. Wait, yes they do.. Assholes. The realm of the true, supergalactic Dodo is where liberation awaits. & !!! Rattlesnakes, they, warn. .. Don't tamper. Don't mess messy with the Rattlesnake, this is not some biblical/new age/ militant/ existential/imperialistic hogwash either, it's your streamlined precious mirror I am talking about. You know that one, that mirror you look into, forever, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, what else, all else.. Then it goes even deeper as in is this even my mirror is this a mirror to another mirror. IS IT EVEN ME MIRROR!! IT'S.... IT'S THE OTHER YOU THAT IS NOT YOU THAT WAS YOU BEING ME SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE I AM NOT ME EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING as me - OVER & OVER AGAIN!! That is a bit far fetched..
Or, is it the mirror of truth where for the first time you realize that you have alienated & brutalized every single person who came into your life that you actually admired!!
No I don't do that.. You don't?? No.. Really?? A lot of people do that..
I know, that's why I don't do that.
The tv watching, the gossip, the strip malls, the rude tourist, the I'll live forever complex, the allergies to actual world events, the denial we have about our negative impacts upon the world, the delusional manipulation repeatedly projected as sincerity in order to wipe out any perceived threat to one's ego aka 20th century capitalism, the obsession with boredom & nihilism, the not learning Arabic, that veiled hatred stuff called 'frienemies' or something like that, the I am too special for EVERYONE thing/disease, the pop culture influenced disappearance & degradation of our elders, the whole arbitrarily & utterly asinine nature of all male- sports teams, I could go on forever.. Living dead... EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE-- TALKING ABOUT MEDIA SATURATION, my friend..... Aw comon now- someone has to be rich & put a monopoly on every single thing including human genes in order for someone to be poor, poorly educated, suppressed, & an obedient consumer.. Thus threatening to make us all- stupid earth killers.. SO EVIL!!
But---- how can you survive without being competitive WITH EVERYONE & having absolutely no fun & never applying all your book & autodidactic knowledge, experience & creativity?? HA! I am friends with YOU right???
WOW YOU ARE A SMALL GOD!! We have fun.. Into the worm hole you go.. Dodo.. 6 billion and going strong, small gods.. Yeah but remember when we visited 1234 A.D the population was the tiniest fraction of that!!! & was it any better?? No, not, really but the air sure was FRESH!! & Chicken is sooo tasty in 1234 A.D, giant chickens the size of goats!!
Pffft... It is all getting better- the reason why the 2000's are actually interesting is that there are laws in place so that we cannot use only- our physical strength & our bodies in order to gain power, so we are increasingly seeing some fabulous brain power- the more liberated we get-- we will be in space yet!! We have to keep trying to free all of earth's 27 million slaves in the year 2008..
Don't you remember all the brutes chopping off the heads of babies & raping small children & family members in 1234 A.D??? Yes.. I do... So-- this also connects to material value- the smarter we get the smarter our values get & it's less about things & more about learning, information, the resurgence of an interest in psychoanalysis that we are having now- art, our complicity in global politics, the lives of objects, etc.. Mirror mirror on the wall... GOD!! There is no god, the human species is the only species where mental illness is hereditary & that's why we actually think- we can figure things out. The fact is- any little good we have done has come from nature & observation, imagination & non- violence. How astute. How crazy. Oh la la la.. Spit & shine Tiger..
Is this that bathroom- that is all mirror- that depending on my mood I either love or dread being in..
I love those crazy bathrooms.. DISCO TOILET!
Sure, that too. I just wish that while I would sit in one of those crazy bathrooms that everything would echo, simultaneously.. HA!!! HA!!! That would make a good short film.. Flush flush flush, burp burp then it's 9 dimensions all of a sudden "wait, was I in a bathroom??" HA HA HA... I feel pain. I don't feel pain. Both can make someone violent, too much pain can make someone angry & destructive, too little same thing.. I remember once, I was in the middle of the German / Soviet War, one soldier was beyond trigger happy & shot 5 innocent civilian men, 3 women & a small boy.. He started to walk up to another soldier who was right in front of a young Soviet woman who was injured & limping, he yelled to him, "shoot her, kill her, shoot her, now!!" the soldier lifted his gun to her forehead & she had absolutely no emotion... He was so stunned by this, that he hesitated & mr trigger happy kept on yelling "shoot her, kill her, shoot her, kill her" & in a fraction of a second, he withdrew the gun from her forehead & shot his fellow soldier in the head.. She gasped, burst into tears & fell to the ground.. He picked her up and they ran away, into the fog, disappearing into the darkness..
Oh god.. That is really powerful... My focus, has mostly been pulsing & self quartering amoebas & undersea volcanoes... Wow.. What a story..
Cannot stand the precious emotional narcissism of this- time.. We have been suckers for bullshit & pointless waste of life for too long now.. The who is drunk & who is a 13 year old millionaire & ugh, too boring to list.. I think I know what your talking about, but not completely, the whole world is not like that.. You said yourself it's changing, it is changing, dramatically..
I am so glad that your world is rid of what my world is facing.. I did not mean that...But you did say yourself it's changing.. Yes, it's changing, I guess I am saying I like mental pain. But that does not even really hurt. Oh yes it can, are you kidding? So you are into self sado masochistic mental pain. No that is something else entirely, just mental- pain individualistic stoicism, I enjoy. Do you have an example? Hmm making a 320 page book comprehensive.
You like that? Love it.
What other 'mental pains'.. I love a good challenge, I like new information. I get along with, people or individuals with some sort of decent or excellent memory, either general memory, personal history, or attention to detail, or an appreciation for memory & even accuracy & a fascination for accuracy & inaccuracy.. & to not get all emotional over the issues surrounding their memories. I like to be challenged & I don't mind failing, I learn something & if they are the same way, it's a great mental chess game to play sometimes. Gifted un bias observers are great..
Jane Goodall, wow..
Any way or how, I really admire those who have a great memory, they can sometimes do no wrong but they seem to care more about how they process their experiences. I like to be around people who really care about how they process their experiences & information. Those who are not- in denial- in any way shape or form no matter the circumstances of their life.
I think, I do understand you & I do agree.. I like that too. Less, two faced quality, or at least they can say "I am so two faced right now, because, blah blah" yes that is interesting. A certain amount of denial is important to have though.
Yes but you know what I mean!! Yes..
Ow. Ooh. Ow.. Oh. It sure is hot, what you think it's about 100.. Yes easily, a hundred degrees. Sneezing up dust storms with hiss.. That was, one pissed off Rattlesnake... Such ire, wicked crescent fangs!
We are taking about the future, the past, whatever.... Is it intentional? You forget that you are a time traveler, this gets back to the memory thing I was talking about. We forget.. We have to forget. That is why we forget. Die. WARNINGS!!!!!!!!!!!! EMERGENCIES!!! DISAGREEMENTS!!! Now that is what I am talking about, shamans, warriors, paltry frauds, machines, blood, blood, blood... Horses dragging human beings with death dreams of the internet. It's just so sad because it's just those people who should be cut loose to leave an impression on the world.
Not always.. Some of the time! Ok some of the time. WARRIORS! I choose warriors... Makes sense now. How to remember. (A RATTLESNAKE APPEARS OUT OF AN OLD DRIED UP FIREPIT & STARTS TO WIND & COIL &>>>RATTLE..)
THAT IS ONE PISSED OFF RATTLESNAKE!!!!!!!!! Ok ok I got you..Ow. Ooh.
Let's hide under a rock.
Now, generally, there is a reason for everything.
Are you sure about that?
Do you realize that there is a science to the venom that people, I mean we, carry around. ?
You mean POLITICS? Yes & No. Interesting and I agree but- what is this now stuff? Now?? Do you remember May 31st 1710?? Yes I remember when we went there-- that was some supergalactic Dodo, you did not get the Dodo thing quite yet either, but I had some things to learn from you...
Remember, "HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE"? Yes!!! You still agree with it?? OH YES!!!! If that's your reality, what do you expect. It's not ALWAYS the case, but generally if it's true then one really has no choice..
It's all this intention crap people are babbling about lately. On a simplistic level it's true. Sorry to change the subject- but do you know that the light packets that travel to & fro every single person's eyes, are as unique as snowflakes & that this means that every being that has ever been sees the world in a completely unique way??
How sentimental....
Is this the same for other species?
I hope so.
Very few people care about NOW, but soon they will start caring about NOW, much more than usual, which is good I think because it just makes us all the more interesting..
What is this reason bullshit?
REASON!! No one cares about reason. Of course they do.
Well, soon they will. "Reason for everything..." Not that reason!! But, I like that reason too.. It's true & false.
& Everything my ass! I am counter everything.. Everything is too inverted.. Rationalist or Empiricist?? Oooh that's a toughie.. How about both!!
You can't do that..
Oh yes I can, I am..
No you can't.
WE ARE TIME TRAVELERS! NO ONE CAN TELL YOU NOT TO BE YOU.
Oh yes they can...
I thought we were in a desert.....
We are in a desert..
So aren't we a bit more free out here living like lizards in 100 degree temps, as opposed to being lost in the middle of the Greek empire? Yes. But which is more fun, more 'egotastic'? It's more interesting and fun here. I am really sick of , I've had enough of 'egotastic' it's getting really old..
Yes, here you get to run around dirty, crazy and naked..
I don't have to make sure with anyone if it's OK with them if I go & piss off a cliff.. & scream into the wind " YIPEEE OI OI OI YOOKIE YOOKIE YOOK!!"
HAAAH! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHHHH! See it is better here than in the Greek empire. Not better or worse just, different. 'good lonely'. What ever you say... People pee off of skyscrapers all the time anyhow.. & they are 'LONLIER'. That word does not exist.. So I invented it?? NEAT!
I wonder if that eye packet situation we have all gotten ourselves INTO has to do with data mining or the observer.
Good question.
Or strange attractors.. Or biological hallucegens. Or nothing. Or everything..
Wait. This is the thrilling exciting part. We are- in the middle of the desert. This is the very thrilling exciting part. Wait. This is the truly thrilling exciting part.
We are in the middle of the desert.
If you repeat yourself one more time I think I will vomit on my boots.
This is the excruciating part. I knew- you had no thrills whatsoever.
We take ourselves much too seriously. It's a sham, a waste.
Oh is that it now..
Could be..
The more silly & less violent we get the smarter we become & the better our sense of humor.. AH! I see.. Strap those bone crushing boots on & prepare to fuck yourself up with the truth. "Fuck yourself up, with the truth." Ugh you are awful. A saint!!!!!! Death to Saints. Now look at that rock formation, far far away you see that small group of people? Yes.. They are leaving candles & food & flowers for the vision of a saint in the rock face.. Which saint? I have no idea, shit, I wish I knew. Me too, humanity is disgusting.
But it's not, we need ritual, those same people can easily pick a bone with us. Yes but do they have a good memory.
I am sure some of them do, and stories too, I love storytellers.. There is a great deal of truth in the stories that storytellers tell.. It's likely some of them might have a better memory.. Like a story of the cosmos, about the Uroboros.. Did you know that the ancient & culturally universal symbol of the Uroboros is an actual cosmic event, as in pelastration & tunity??
Let's get ready to get on up & climb right up that 'preventing useless acts of head chopping' flag pole. There is an idea.. I am so excited. Ok. Take yourself seriously, very very seriously.
We have company. The Dodo Bandits, see them over there?? Further on, behind the saint worshipers.. Robbing the banks & shooting the friendly fun & innovative smiling villagers & 'Townsfolk' ?
It's a party. It's not a party. It's not pretty. No.
Fuck Face & Mosquito Prick ARE THERE!
What kind of names are those??!!!!!
Are you insane? Can't you watch your language? IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT?? WHO CARES!??? We have robotics meddling with poor language. & yes, I am insane, I do believe that is what separates us from other species, the 'insane gene', very practical for some functions, disastrous for others.
That is a town of Cobblers.... Do they make good shoes. The best.. Good people, too bad, they are destroying the town. Those nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty, boring violent Dodo bandits. I find the saint worshipers much more fascinating. No no no they can also be- just as dangerous, they could slit your throat if you even dare come near that 'vision' & mess with it... I cannot BELIEVE that those are their names. Well fly a kite because those are their names and they are the Dodo Bandits..
Wait.. Just give me a moment. I am so excited. You are excited 24 hours a day, how do you do it?? Knowing I am alive, it, freaks me out, makes me excited.. Are you sure it's not because you are around small children all day at the orphanage, 3 days a week? Could be.. I am so happy you don't smoke cigarettes anymore. Smoking is a suicide wish. Appalling habit. Odd thing is I've noticed that so many great people smoke. I miss Peter Jennings, a whole lot. Oh my I as well. Tae kwon do master. Map maker. He was.. Dork. Right....
Hey we all break the mold how about that!!!! ALL OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you are in another century, I LOVE IT!! Did you know that the earth screams & shrieks & that this is a new discovery? Truly? As in fact? YES!!! Jacques Vallee must be happy!! ??? A multi - dimensional thing? Well it certainly is not a deviant thing. Oh you are so funny.. Or- a Dodo thing. It could be... Could have fooled me!! Really, I thought Earth laughed! Chuckled...HAH!
Someone as talented as you needs to die.
ALL OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL OF US BROKE THE MOLD!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! THAT IS ONE PISSED OFF RATTLESNAKE!!!!!!!!!!! We are under a rock. The bandits are trouble. They are up to no good. That one frequents strip clubs behind his wife's back, his friend could give any gossip columnist a run for their money.
They are not even weasels they are cretins, croutons, no toilet roll right when you shit.
Marriage is such an antiquity and farce. For some people o k but really. Love is extremely rare & takes great pains to find & achieve, it is the greatest achievement one can have in life however, problem is hate is older & stronger than love, so hate is so common, love takes practice, and great- sacrifice.. Great practice just like a gifted violinist- & now, when two violinists get together watch out, that is one big love storm or revolution about to happen.. Siva Kali forces ALIVE- true supergalactic Dodo forces...... Gays should be allowed to get married because it effects all our rights for the better. Agreed..
Strip clubs in the fictional year 1895? DUH! What do you expect this is a dramatic comedy in so, so many parts. IN THE DESERT??? What is their story?? .. It's a long story, one that is hard to escape because it's on repeat, it's reincarnated, it is basically a tv sitcom for those fools that sit in front of the tube & relive the sitcom. It's a universal story. It's a story I'll make short. Do not piss of supergalactic Rattlesnakes or pretend to understand THE VERY ELUSIVE NATURE OF THE TRUE DODO. You mean Shrodingers cat?? Yes & no.. What makes the Supergalactic Dodo so special? It has, Cosmic Amnesia.. WOW, ok I get it.. Go on.. The 3 Dodo Bandits.... They used to hate each other- , then one day they all pissed off a Rattlesnake, on purpose, for kicks, to get off on humiliating & harassing it.. Well they got bit, but they don't even realize it & they both walk around infested with very heavy karmic venom. They became friends & bonded over their humiliation of the Rattler.. WOAH.... & it shows... Rattlesnakes are righteous. There is a Sioux Shaman I've got to introduce you to, who has a lot to say about the cosmic complexity & great importance of the Rattlesnake spirit & how, not to get bit.. Time is not, all that we think it is, there, is more.. The 3 of them, the Dodo bandits, are dangerous, because they are annoying & they distract from the great importance of the NOW. They are not even Ow or Ooh just more dread at Yawn.
Who is the third?
Fat heart. Fat heart?? I'll be damned what a name.. Yes, Fat heart. I would think that a Fat heart would actually need venom for some reason, it seems like a heart made of fat would find venom medicinal.. Not in his case, no.. But yes snake venom can be medicinal.. Fat heart pissed off the Rattlesnake for kicks too. He attracted the Rattlesnake with his flute playing, he promised the Rattlesnake a nice cool dirt hole to safely sleep in, in exchange for the spiritual protection of the snake.. Instead, he called it out & tried to trample it to death in an effort to outsmart the spirit of the Rattler.. Fat heart is a common fool.
He is long, lean & mean, his karma is so rotten he must be puking up maggots by now.
THAT IS DISGUSTING.
Where do you get this stuff from?? Maggots was a really good album.. It was NOT a good album. People eat snakes everyday.. Yes, I know.. Even warriors eat snakes.. Is this some sort of 'special' Rattlesnake? I guess, so!!! Read up on it, or we will go back in time, or go visit the Sioux in a while & learn a thing or two from them.. They say the brighter the vegetable the stronger the cancer fighting effects. The Sioux? No, the news.. That is true.. BRIGHT VEGETABLES! I DON'T EAT MEAT OR USE Gasoline. No butchers!! Oh please, we are all butchers. Earth Butchers. Space Butchers. Snake Butchers. You are either a good butcher or a bad butcher.
As it should be. Recycling butcher. Have to give life as much as one takes life. Just try eating a live snake.. Whhhhhooooooooooooiiiiy..Youch.. No way hozay.
RATTLESNAKE!!!!!!!
Here they come, the DODO RATTLER SPIRITS to battle the Dodo Bandits..
KARMA flowing out from a giant cosmic vat in the sky, a soup of galaxies & super earths. Meaning you mean?? Yes, well eat snakes all you want but there is cause & effect. THERE IS CAUSE & EFFECT. It's the HOW & the WHY that we need to think more of too. Oh I know I should.. The two thousands are finally rolling out the red carpet.
So sharp so keen so worrisome. Ow. Ooh. Are we going to visit the Sioux Shaman? Yes, we have a lot to learn. Oh by the way, happy birthday Tiger, keep ticking, you are one of those 23's. I am? Yes 15 + 8 = 23.. Are you superstitious? I think superstition is interesting..
Look- that is now no longer one pissed off Rattlesnake. No? It's back?? It's curled up right- under your chair.. That is one peaceful caduceus. Is it a 'Spirit Rattler'? What do you think.. I won't try to eat it. What are we going to do about the Cobblers? Rebuild the whole town, I guess. Grow some Roses & hold a few funerals. & the Bandits?
They are messing themselves up, it's just a matter of time. You can't go around pointlessly flash freezing time, wiping out & destroying so much, well you can but it's not very original or rewarding.. Not, very, alive.. Curses, curses... Perhaps in a different situation we could intervene & help them, but, I would not do a thing. It's not necessary.. Hopefully they will just take responsibility, if not, oh well, but better late than never I say.. Jungle Book?? The men in the book in the treasure cave, who get so greedy that they kill each other? Yes, that's it, exactly. Really?? So it's like that? It's happening right now.. Really? Yes I can feel them fighting over everything right now.. They are even fighting for sanity.. Sanity? Yes, sanity, as in are they even human anymore, are they even capable of doing the worst in order to succeed.. Competing on who is best at doing the worst.. It's awful.. Religions, financial transactions, institutions, politics, media, the sex industry etc.. They are also fighting for their sanity because the tide has shifted & now everything is changing, as awareness is now becoming more about who is best at doing the best, who actually has integrity.. All those Dodo bandits are trouble.. There are more than just the 3 I told you about, they are a franchise..
It's confusing for them to be confronted with more & more people taking on the challenges & new knowledge that comes with responsibility & consciousness..
Now is the time to understand what it truly means, to be alive, a conscious, thinking, individual. We will actually be, much more free than ever before the use of language & communications & discussions are becoming more useful & powerful & resourceful than ever before.. This is how things change, when we face & accept our complicity, find ourselves liberated & inspired by it.
This is why we are considering banning fast food. Really?? Yes, can you believe it!?? Do IT!! Awareness, & self awareness, is so incredibly beautiful & open.
Making mistakes & failing is important.. Or ideals & intelligences are shifting dramatically in order to attempt to sustain human life on this planet. We have to be open to discussion in order to appreciate its many rewards, it's really that simple, we all have to talk more & explore all these realities & our complicity in them much more, no more exceptions no more taboos.. It will be, it is, really fascinating & interesting, global village, anthropological society-- a communications explosion.. Having an unbiased conversation is one of the most tech advanced things anyone could do, right now. I hope we make it, do you think we will make it??
I really have no idea, but I think that, as long as we keep calling ourselves out on our bullshit & keep heading in the direction of being thrilled by the variety, potential, diversity, possibilities & evolution of information.. If we keep learning from & applying what we discover of the amazing technologies of the natural world that exceeds our own.. Yes, I think so.. What do you think?? I think we are too stupid to figure all these things you outlined & that we wil crash & burn in outer space.. Ouch.. I have to say, that is, possible.. (Tiger & Owl notice something stirring atop a ridge) What is that?
Where... Over that ridge over there... To the left... What is that hopping around???
Let's take a closer look..
It's, a Dodo!! "GASP" A supergalactic Dodo... What is that in it's mouth glowing.. HOLY DUNGEREES IT'S AN ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTBULB!! What time did it come from?? August 15th 2008.. (WILL THERE BE A PART TWO FOR OUR TIME TRAVELING WARRIORS TIGER & OWL??? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE NEXT?? COULD IT BE TOO MUCH TO BEAR?? STAY TUNED!!!)
1)THE MEN FROM S.P.E.C.T.R.E
Revenge Of The Blind Man/
( Revenge Of The Blind Men )
7" Vinyl
Release Year: 1998
Label: Sheep Records, Switzerland
Tracks:
Revenge Of The Blind Man AKA
Revenge Of The Blind Men. Revenge Of The Blind Women.
Revenge Of The Blind Children.
& well of course, Revenge Of The Color- Blind Cephalopods.
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I am big on human rights & cognitive psychology. I admire, support & learn from talents in all arenas.
Hatred, instilling fear & intimidation in others, abuse & abuses of power are never- excusable ways to solve problems, these are the most damaging, limiting & presently dire- flaws in human nature.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."( Partial quote by,
N.Mandela )
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions.
Life is plurality, death is uniformity.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death.
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. By, Octavio Paz
